Senate President Announces Comprehensive Counter-Terrorism Strategy for 2025–2030

Senate President Godswill Akpabio has formally unveiled Nigeria’s Counter Terrorism Strategic Plan 2025-2030, describing it as a defining moment in the nation’s journey towards peace and stability.

The plan, developed by the National Counter Terrorism Centre in the Office of the National Security Adviser, aims to transform institutions, modernize security architecture, strengthen national resilience, and expand partnerships across government, industry, civil society, and the international community.

Akpabio emphasized that the plan is a response to the question of how to secure Nigeria, safeguard its people, and set the country on the path of peace, growth, and stability.

He noted that insecurity has weakened the nation’s development, driving away investors, closing schools, and abandoning farms, and urged stakeholders to invest in people, technology, training, and strategic partnerships to implement the plan.

The Senate President assured that the 10th National Assembly has taken its responsibility to provide the legal, oversight, and budgetary backbone for security institutions seriously, enacting laws and strengthening agency mandates.

National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, represented by Major General Adamu Laka, said the plan is a product of extensive research and consultations, with a vision to establish the National Counter Terrorism Centre as a regional centre of excellence in countering terrorism and violent extremism in West Africa and the Sahel.