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...
His National Security Advisor and close ally Nuhu Ribadu subsequently flew to Washington to meet Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth along with other Intelligence and Congressional officials to establish a US-Nigeria Joint Working Group on national security...
Two staunch Tinubu allies appear secure for now: National Security Advisor Nuhu Ribadu and Inspector General of Police Kayode Egbetokun...
It named a lieutenant colonel recently returned from China and working in the office of National Security Advisor Nuhu Ribadu as being the ringleader...
When Nigeria's National Security Advisor Nuhu Ribadu announced the arrest of two senior fighters affiliated with Al Qaida on 17 August officials cited it as another success for President Bola Tinubu...