Nigeria Senate decides to keep a safety summit to face insecurity, economic tension, food crisis

Nigeria Senate decides to keep a safety summit to face insecurity, economic tension, food crisis

Abuja (basic reporter) was a brainstorming session on the Senate floor on Tuesday 6 May 2025, while the Nigerian Senate decided to organize a two -day national security summit to explore urgent solutions to the levels increasing food insecurity, food deficiency and economic difficulties across the country.

The resolution followed a motion sponsored by Senator Jimoh Ibrahim (Ondo South).

Driving the debate, Senator Ibrahim has connected the deterioration of Nigeria’s security to global instability, with the war of Russia-Ukraine, the growing tension between the North and the global South and the tariff war in progress in the United States. He said that these developments deepened food insecurity and derailled progress on sustainable development objectives (SDG).

“The high level of global insecurity has instilled local insecurity,” said Ibrahim. “The insurrection is like hot water: the perimeter that is increasing is the same perimeter that will cease.”

It has observed that the world order in evolution is evident in strengthening immigration policies, the cancellations of visas by new regimes and the sale of citizenship by countries looking for revenue, all which feed the economic conflict and threaten global cooperation.

Senator Ibrahim, affirming the commitment of President Bola Tinubu in restoring peace throughout Nigeria, invited the Senate to support the president’s efforts with impossible intelligence and strategic commitment.

According to him, “President Tinubu is serious for the peace of Nigeria,” he said. “As Such, there is a need for some fact-FT-Finding Intelligence Support for Mr. President’s Efforts— Even As Most Military Strategies and Terminologies Such AS Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliet, Kilo, Lima, Mike, Oscar, Pope, Pope, Quebec, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whiskey, X-Ray, and Yankee is no longer exclusive for the military.

He underlined the importance of developing alternative communication strategies in military operations and asked for improved funding to preserve the professionalism and traditions they expected from future military.

“No country allows its citizens to experiment with safety by living with insecurity,” he added. “The ideology of peace for everyone, as indicated in the executive policies of the renewed agenda of hope, must be supported and promoted”.

He concluded by urge the Senate to organize an empirical summit of national security based on the facts that would have offered a platform for exhaustive resolutions and vast decisions to trace a way to follow.

After a lot of debate in favor and against the summit of national security, the president of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, after putting the motion at a voice vote, decided in favor of the summit, but abbreviated it from the three days to two originally proposed. An ad hoc committee was in charge of organizing the summit in Abuja.

The summit should include delegates from all levels of government and traditional institutions. The Senate also urged the federal government to review and strengthen the country’s security policies in line with the recommendations that emerge from the summit.