The Independent National Electoral Commission says attacks on its facilities are threatening the conduct of elections that are expected to take place soon.
Since the last general election two years ago, INEC said it has recorded forty-one attacks on its offices, including eleven by the so-called unknown gunmen in the South-East and South-South.
INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmoud Yakubu said items lost by the commission include one thousand, one hundred and five ballot boxes due to attacks, and eighteen vehicles.
Professor Yakubu, made the revelations during a meeting in Abuja with representatives of security agencies in the country.
The National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno, and the Acting Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, were present at the meeting.
They security chiefs expressed the hope that decisions adopted at the end of the meeting would help to tackle the security challenges in the country.