 Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defence says it's working with the Foreign Affairs Ministry to interface with the U.S. and U.K. governments to ensure all sensitive information, like the recent security alerts issued responsibly in the future. The Minister of Defence, who also defended the ministry's 2022-2023 budget before the House Committee on Defence. The House Committee on Defence, Honour Wubaba Jimmy Benson, in his welcoming remarks tasks the Defence Ministry to take the security alerts issued by the U.S. and U.K. embassies seriously. Honour this report's achievements, which is a proof of the level of professionalism often displayed by military in the discharge of their duties. However, this Committee requests that the Armed Forces of Nigeria should take note of the recent security alerts in Nigeria by the U.S. government. We urge you to effectively collaborate with sister security agencies to ensure that all security threats are completely neutralized and Nigerians can live peacefully. But the Minister is confident that the military and other sister security agencies are on top of the situation. The Security Council met and we discussed this threat and it was believed that we will not take it lightly. We tried to verify the source of the threat of the pronouncement made by the U.S. government. We tried to identify countries that are also interested in the same remarks made by the U.S. government and we would opinion that the best way to go about it is to continue aware possible beef up security in Abuja and its contagious states, that is Nassarawa, Niger and the rest of them. However, we believe that there is no smoke without fire and in that regard we were able to subject the details to our intelligence organizations and they have provided answers to those areas which the government is in doubt. An envelope system budgeting for the ministry. The ministry says a more vertical budgeting system for the military would have a more effective for a more robust armed forces. As it is now, it has its advantages and of course several other advantages which the government has been discussing with relevant authorities. We perhaps have the opportunity that the government has been given also to share the view for this. While operating now in the era of joint operations, you know joint operations from the armed forces from the test academy, joint operations at the level of junior course, joint operations at the level of senior course, joint operations at the level of strategic courses and of course joint operations at the field level. Therefore, it only means sense that the country operates one armed forces, especially at the professional level and that should also be reflected or rather reflected at the budgetary level which of course we all know will reduce wastages and also enhance opportunities for armed forces and also be better used for resources, especially now that we have drilling resources in the country. The committee goes into an executive session to address security details arising from the budget. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.