On Monday President Muhammadu Buhari met behind closed door with Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, Chief of Army Staff, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the agenda of the meeting between the president and Buratai was unknown at the time of filing this report.
However, it was gathered that theLt. Gen. Tukur Buratai would use the opportunity of the meeting to update the president on his recent mission to the battlefields in the North East.
Recall that in April Buratai had relocated to the North-East to coordinate the ongoing war against the Boko Haram and the Islamic State West African Province terrorists by the Nigerian troops.
Buratai, who lost his biological mother while battling the Boko Haram insurgents at Sambisa forest, returned to Abuja on Sunday to brief the president on the progress report so far.