President Muhammadu Buhari has decried the new trend of security challenges in the country, despite efforts by his administration to secure the people and their properties. Read This: NUPENG Suspends Planned Nationwide Strike Hestated this in his speech as the special guest of honour at the graduationceremony of the National Defence College Course 27 which held in Abuja. Ina statement signed by the president’s media adviser, Femi Adesina,buhari said Inspite of the commendable progress, the Nigerian state is still beset with someexistential and fundamental challenges. The President was quoted as saying that TheBoko Haram, having lost their insurgency campaign, now factionalised andmutated into a new form of terrorist threat. Armed banditry and vandalism,kidnapping, pastoralist-farmers conflicts, cultism, and political violence havebecome new threats. Buharisaid Other issues such as the proliferation of small arms and light weapons,drug trafficking, drug and substance abuse, and communal conflict, all add upto the security mix.