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...
Ribadu and senior Nigerian military intelligence officers met US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine on 20 November...
Such operations are much easier since Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth unpicked rules requiring White House approval for strikes outside war zones...
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...
Targeting high-value Al Shabaab targets was also made easier by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth signing a directive easing the rules of engagement for drones on 28 February...