Buhari Plays Down Nigeria Terror Warnings | General News

Nigeria's president is urging folks to "avoid panic" and "remain calm" within the wake of warnings by a number of Western international locations of doable terror assaults within the capital, Abuja and elsewhere within the nation.

The US, UK, Canada, Ireland and Australia have suggested their residents in opposition to touring to Nigeria, and the US has gone a step additional by ordering all non-essential diplomatic workers to go away.

In an announcement on Friday, President Muhammadu Buhari downplayed the risk - saying safety forces and residents ought to keep "vigilant and careful" however that Nigeria was "no exception" on this regard, as a result of the US and UK additionally warn of the "high likelihood of terror attacks in many Western European nations".

He added that Nigerians' security stays the "highest priority of government" and that "security agents are proactively rooting out threats to keep citizens safe – much of their work unseen and necessarily confidential".

Nigeria is grappling with a number of safety challenges together with violence by extremist teams and kidnappings for ransom by armed gangs.

"Unfortunately, terror is a reality the world over," and these newest alerts by Western international locations don't imply "an attack in Abuja is imminent... security threats are real and have been with us for a long while," Mr Buhari stated on Friday.