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The Digest:

Senate President Godswill Akpabio has unveiled Nigeria’s new Counter-Terrorism Strategic Plan (2025–2030), a comprehensive framework designed to transform the country’s security architecture. The plan, developed by the National Counter-Terrorism Centre, aims to address an insecurity crisis that has stifled the economy, closed schools, and eroded public hope.

Key Points:
  • The five-year strategic plan was developed by the National Counter-Terrorism Centre.
  • It aims to modernise security institutions and strengthen national resilience.
  • Akpabio stated that insecurity has driven away investors and forced farmers from their fields.
  • The plan adopts a "Whole-of-Government and Whole-of-Society" approach.
  • It follows recent mass abductions in Kebbi, Kwara, and Niger states.
  • The 10th National Assembly has passed key laws on defence and cybersecurity.
  • NSA Nuhu Ribadu aims to make the centre a regional counter-terrorism hub.
This blueprint represents a vow to replace reactive struggles with a proactive vision—a promise that the foundation of peace must be laid not just with laws, but with lasting institutional will.

Sources: Premium Times, The Cable