Nigeria, Dec. 1 -- In a move that lawmakers described as unprecedented in recent years, the House suspended all routine legislative business and dedicated a three-day special session to interrogate the national security situation. It also attended to other national issues. Here are some of the issues:

The 360-member House set aside three legislative days to mirror the nation's security challenges and made some recommendations on how to overcome the menace.

Opening the session on Tuesday, Speaker Abbas Tajudeen said the last few weeks had exposed deep vulnerabilities in Nigeria's security architecture. He pointed to coordinated attacks on rural communities, targeted killings, highway abductions and the displacement of entire settlements ...