Barely forty-eight hours to New Year celebrations, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, has ordered the deployment of additional ten thousand personnel to beef up security during the .

This is in addition to the thirty thousand personnel deployed earlier for the Christmas festivities.

According to Commandant-General, Abdullahi Muhammadu, the deployment is to ensure effective coverage, guarantee security of lives and property and hitch-free celebrations.

Muhammadu said the exercise also involved sniffer dogs and specialised units such as Counter Terrorism Squad, Special Force, Surveillance team, Emergency and Rescue Team and Ambulances.

He said these would be stationed in strategic places such as highways, airports, praying grounds, parks, recreation centres and other designated areas.

The commandant-general had also ordered the immediate deployment of 2,700 personnel to the North-East in addition to the 2,300 earlier deployed to the liberated areas and IDPs camps to reassure the people of their security.

He charged state Commandants to re-strategise and beef up security in and around the Nation’s infrastructure and strategic places perceived to be soft targets for insurgents, vandals and mischief makers.

Muhammadu assured the Military and other security agencies of the commitment of the corps to synergise with them in sharing Information and Intelligence as well as general operation to ensure the security of the Nation.