BOKO HARAM: President Jonathan Helds Meeting With Security Chiefs

President Goodluck Jonathan has on Monday held a closed door meeting with security chiefs and heads of security agencies to discuss the worsening security situation in some parts in Nigeria.

President Goodluck Jonathan during a security meeting with political and military chiefs, April 24. Credit: ISSOUF SANOGO / AFP

The president and security chiefs discussed the strategies that had been put in place to rescue more than 200 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram from a secondary school in Chibok, Borno State, This Day has gathered.

This meeting comes two days after Jonathan came back from Paris where he participated in a Regional Security meeting on Boko Haram organised by French President Francois Hollande.

The decision agreed at the Paris summit were also discussed today, Premium Times reports. These includes regional cooperation to defeat the Boko Haram insurgents, and the establishment of an international centre in Chad to coordinate the efforts to tackle the militants.

The meeting lasted for several hours. Those in attendance were the Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Badeh; Chief of Army Staff, Kenneth Minimah; Chief of Naval Staff, Usman Jibrin; and Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Ademola Amosu; the Inspector General of Police, Muhammed Abubakar; and the Director-General of State Security Service, Ita Ekpeyong.

It's been more than a month since nearly 300 girls were abducted by the Islamist insurgents. Jonathan has been heavily criticised for his failure to visit the affected village.

On Saturday, May 18, scores of people were killed and injured when suicide bomber exploded in predominantly Christian area of Sabon Gari, Kano State.