Nigeria's top general Wednesday said the military did not have enough resources to win its war against jihadist groups and called on the country to strengthen its police force.

Lieutenant General Olufemi Oluyede, tapped by President Bola Tinubu as the next chief of defence staff, was addressing the National Assembly in the capital Abuja as part of the Senate's screening process before his expected swearing-in Thursday.

"We all know that resources are not enough," Oluyede told the Senate, saying that "makes it very difficult... to prosecute the war against terrorism, banditry".

Amid media reports of a recent coup plot, Tinubu reshuffled his top military brass last week.

The Tinubu administration and the military have officially denied reports that at least 16 officers were arrested over

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