The UK arms services and the Nigeria arms services really understand each other and since the creation of Nigeria, we have had very warm defence relations
and in the past two, three decades, we have really been conscious of Nigeria as one of the biggest contributors of peace-keeping forces, its role in ECOWAS, as well as the AU.
It has its headquarters in N’Djamena, the Chadian capital and is mandated to bring an end to the Boko Haram insurgency. “In relation to the bilateral defence engagement, at the moment, we have a British military adviser in a training team well established in this country for decades. “This is quite a broad umbrella that provides the platform for our various agencies to work together.“In the UK, the National Security Office is civilian. You may have officers posted in the offices of the Security Advisers in both our countries to try to liaise.
“And we have a lot of very unfortunate experiences from Afghanistan and Iraq where we faced campaigns of improvised explosive devices and I think this is quite a moving practical training.
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