The Chief of Staff to the President, Malam Abba Kyari, today met behind closed-doors with service chiefs over the Boko Haram insurgency.
In attendance were the Chief of Defence Staff, General Gabriel Abayomi Olonisakin and the Chief of Army Staff, Major-General Tukur Yusuf Buratai
Buratai and Olonisakin were sighted leaving the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja at about 9.00am.
The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, was among other top government officials who attended the meeting which was held at the Office of the Chief of Staff.
A Presidency source told State House correspondents that meeting discussed the humanitarian crisis caused by the Boko Haram insurgency in the northeast.
The source, who craved anonymity, said the meeting was convened to discuss ways of ending the crisis as quickly as possible.
He explained that the Chief of Air Staff, AVM Sadique Abubakar and the Chief Of Naval Staff, Rear Admiral Ibok-Ete Ekwe Iba, could not attend the meeting because they were not around.
