Babagana Monguno

The National Security Advisor retired Maj Gen Babagana Monguno doesn't hold back on the depth of the crisis and last month advised communities to do more to defend themselves from Islamist militants and bandits...

Boss Mustapha Secretary to the Government of the Federation and General Babagana Monguno National Security Advisor previously marginalised are trying to pick up the slack along with an informal network of aides advisers and relatives...

They are using his campaigning as a pretext to ramp up security as other senior officials such as National Security Advisor Gen Babagana Monguno and top politicians are trying to fill the vacuum at the Presidency...

Another problem is the poisonous relationship between Buhari's National Security Advisor General Babagana Monguno and the service chiefs (AC Vol 61 No 5 Aides leak north-east burns)...

After a week in which suspected insurgents burnt dozens of civilians alive in their vehicles outside of Maiduguri two memos from the National Security Advisor retired General Babagana Monguno accused Abba Kyari Buhari's Chief of Staff of hampering the security effort meddling in procurement and interfering in military operational matters...

UncoordinatedGeneral Babagana Monguno National Security Advisor had spoken at length on the need for better coordination between the armed forces overlapping security agencies and vigilante groups such as the Civilian Joint Task Force in Borno State...

Incumbent Babagana Monguno a former intelligence chief and Brigade of Guards commander has feuded with several senior government aides and Buhari supporters and was neither reinstated nor replaced when Boss Mustapha and Abba Kyari the two other key appointments were retained on 5 July...

However the National Security Advisor General Mohammad Babagana Monguno disagrees and energetically defends Magu...

Oil Minister Emmanuel Kachikwu the National Security Advisor Babagana Monguno and State Security Service Director Lawal Musa Daura head a special team whose task it is to end the crisis...

Mohammad Babagana Monguno will remain a key figure in shaping strategy both on the Islamist fighters of Boko Haram in the north-east and on rumblings of renewed militancy in the Niger Delta and efforts by pro-Biafran secessionists to push their case in the south-east (AC Vol 56 No 22 The cauldron boils again)...