 The National Security Advisor Nuhuru Badu on Thursday met with the Zamfara state governor Dawda Lawal and his United States counterpart Mohamed Umar Bago over the current security challenges in the two states. The Chief Press Secretary to the Zamfara state governor Suleyman Balai Idris, who confirmed the meeting in a statement in Gussau, said the forum was aimed at finding a lasting solution to the banditry and other criminal acts in the two states. The NSA requested to meet the governor to attend the meeting. It just shows the proactiveness of this administration to say, let's discuss issues robustly and let's engage with the states. Unlike before, the NSA's office never engaged directly with the states, so this is a good development and briefing us on security within the country and the context and how to engage better with the National Security Advisor's office, communication-wise, capacity building between the Office of the National Security Advisor and Chief Security Officers and Security Advisors in the state. So it's much more about robust engagement and setting a new agenda for security in Nigeria. The NSA did tell us well about the meeting that he brokered between the frontline states, the Niger Republic and the president, which we also saw in the media as well. But as a forum, the issue of Nigeria was not discussed. Notified about fresh news updates