President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday agreed to address the House of Representatives on the security challenges across the country.
On Tuesday, the House of Representatives summoned the president over the recent killing of 43 farmers in Zabarmari community in Borno State.
The lawmakers took the decision while adopting a motion of urgent national importance by Satomi Ahmed.
The attack on Saturday on mostly rice farmers in Zabarmari, a community in Jere Local Government Area, saw at least 43 farmers killed. More than a dozen more are missing.
The victims were buried on Sunday.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, who visited Buhari on Wednesday to brief him on the development, disclosed this to State House correspondents after meeting Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
He said the date of the address would soon be made public.
