Tuggar also had limited room to manoeuvre because relations with the juntas and defence against jihadist attacks came under the purview of National Security Advisor Nuhu Ribadu a veteran ally of Tinubu's...
But deft footwork by National Security Advisor Nuhu Ribadu and Defence Minister General Christopher Gwabin Musa helped defuse the tension (Dispatches 3/11/25 Tinubu pushes back as Trump threatens military action over ‘killing of Christians' & AC Vol 66 No 24 Deepening security crisis threatens Tinubu's re-election plans)...
Feeling betrayed El Rufai defected to the ADC accusing National Security Advisor Nuhu Ribadu of orchestrating his travails...
National Security Advisor Nuhu Ribadu is assessing such demands as failure to meet them could prove costly...
In February the first meeting of a ‘defence and security dialogue' was co-chaired by Charles Fries the Deputy Secretary-General of the European External Action Service the EU's diplomatic arm and Nigeria's National Security Advisor Nuhu Ribadu...
Until now President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had managed to stave off the worst threats from Washington by a combination of pushing back diplomatically against the most egregious claims and dispatching National Security Advisor Nuhu Ribadu to negotiate a new security cooperation pact with Secretary for Defense (aka War) Pete Hegseth and pushing through sales worth US$346 million of US bombs and rockets for Nigeria's military...
Tinubu dispatched his National Security Advisor Nuhu Ribadu to negotiate new military aid and arms-supply agreements with US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (AC Vol 67 No 1 Pentagon strikes on Sokoto will speed sale of $345 million of US rockets and missiles to Abuja & Vol 67 No 2 Tinubu and Biafra lobbyists join war for Trump's ear over Christian genocide claims)...
2-19 November: Abuja National Security Advisor Nuhu Ribadu's team opens discussions with the Department of Defense and other Trump-affiliated officials in Washington...
20 November: Nuhu Ribadu and Nigerian military intelligence officers meet US Secretary for Defense Peter Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine in Washington...
Publicly he pushed back against Trump's claims of a Christian genocide; more discreetly he sent his national security advisor Nuhu Ribadu with military intelligence officers to meet US Secretary of Defense Peter Hegseth in Washington DC...
Delivery of these US weapons to Abuja will be cast as a victory for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his National Security Advisor Nuhu Ribadu...
