Instability in Lake Chad, Sahel worsening Nigeria’s insecurity — COAS

The Chief of Army Staff, Olufemi Oluyede, has attributed Nigeria’s increasing information challenges to instability successful the Lake Chad Basin, the Sahel portion and the Gulf of Guinea, informing that developments successful neighbouring regions proceed to substance home threats.
Oluyede made the reflection portion delivering a lecture astatine the Nigerian Army Day Celebration, NADCEL, 2026 successful Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

The Army Chief said Nigeria’s information scenery has go progressively complex, with the state confronting insurgency, terrorism, banditry, cybercrime, transnational organised transgression and resource-related conflicts.

According to him, the proliferation of tiny arms, porous borders and the exploitation of taste and spiritual divisions person further analyzable efforts to tackle insecurity.

“Beyond Nigeria’s borders, instability wrong the Lake Chad Basin, the Sahel Region and on the Gulf of Guinea continues to power and exacerbate the home menace environment,”...