Nigeria’ll strengthen ties with UK to fight insecurity – Badaru

The Minister of Defence, Muhammed Badaru, says Nigeria will strengthen her bilateral relationship with the UK (UK) to fight insecurity.

Mr Badaru stated this when a UK delegation led by the Minister for Armed Forces and Veterans, James Heappey, paid him a courtesy go to in his workplace.

That is contained in an announcement on Thursday in Abuja, by Victoria Agba-Attah, Director, Press and Public Relations of the ministry.

Mr Badaru stated that Britain had been supportive in making certain the protection of Nigerian waterways, including that safety was a dynamic difficulty which had its personal challenges.

He added that the Nigerian and British Navy should work collectively to fight the Boko Haram risk, and pressured that the West wanted to offer extra assist to Nigeria, simply because it gave to different nations.

Equally, in his remarks, the Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, stated that Nigeria and the UK have had good bilateral relationship.

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Mr Matawalle reaffirmed the federal authorities’s dedication to ending insurgency and banditry within the nation.

He added that each international locations wanted to work carefully in areas of capability constructing, coaching of navy personnel, expertise switch in addition to the availability of contemporary gear to battle Boko Haram.

Earlier in his opening remarks, Ibrahim Kana, everlasting secretary within the ministry, stated that Britain topped the record on Nigeria’s worldwide mates, including that Nigeria cherishes the connection between the 2 international locations.

Mr Heappey, earlier in his remarks, stated that the aim of their go to was to regulate and develop their assist to the Armed Forces of Nigeria primarily based on the wants and notion of the altering threats.

(NAN)