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Kemi Adeosun, minister of finance, met with Gabriel Olonisakin, chief of defence staff, and Tukur Buratai, chief of army staff, at the presidential villa in Abuja on Friday.

A source said issues around the humanitarian crisis in the north-east were discussed at the meeting.

The meeting was called a day after a United Nations (UN) report said children in the north-east region were brutalised as a result of the activities of Boko Haram in the region.

Virginia Gamba, UN secretary-general’s special representative for children and armed conflict, said the report captured the impact of the insurgency on children and the humanitarian situation in the country between January 2013 and December 2016.

“With tactics including widespread recruitment, abductions, sexual violence, attacks on schools and the increasing use of children in so-called ‘suicide’ attacks, Boko Haram has inflicted unspeakable horror upon the children of Nigeria’s North East and neighbouring countries,” the report read.

It was not clear if it was President Muhammadu Buhari that presided over the meeting or Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo.