Nigeria, Dec. 18 -- The Senate on Wednesday asked the federal government to establish a dedicated fund to address corruption, porous borders, and religious extremism, which are identified as major drivers of Nigeria's insecurity.

This followed the adoption of the interim report of the Senate ad hoc committee on the National Security Summit during the plenary session.

The report was presented by the committee's chairperson and Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele, and adopted through a voice vote.

Mr Bamidele said the proposed fund should tackle the root causes of insecurity, including unemployment, poverty, corruption in governance, cultism, drug abuse, porous borders, illiteracy, hunger and radicalisation by religious extremists.

"The fed...