Chief of Defence Staff reacts to reports of France establishing military base in Nigeria

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The Chief of Defence Staff , General Christopher Musa, has refuted reports suggesting that Nigeria has granted France permission to establish an expeditionary military base on its soil.

He addressed the speculations after President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s recent visit to France, where several bilateral agreements were signed.“No foreign body will establish any foreign military base in Nigeria—not in the north, not in the south, not anywhere,” General Musa declared. “Mr. President has made it very clear. Whatever he was signing is a bilateral agreement on trade, culture, tradition, cooperation, and economy. Nothing like foreign military bases was included,” Musa said.

“The President knows the implication. He knows that he must protect Nigeria, and he will never allow any foreign body to establish a military base here,” he noted.

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