By Ayomide Otitoju
The Nigerian government has confirmed that President Bola Tinubu approved US military strikes against terrorists in the country’s Northwest region.
Foreign Affairs Minister Yusuf Tuggar made the disclosure on Friday, hours after the US Department of Defense and President Donald Trump announced that American forces had conducted the strikes.
“Now that the US is cooperating, we would do it jointly, and we would ensure, just as the President emphasised yesterday before he gave the go-ahead, that it must be made clear that it is a joint operation, and it is not targeting any religion nor simply in the name of one religion or the other,” Tuggar said on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily.
The minister added that Nigeria, as a multi-religious country, is working with international partners like the US to combat terrorism and protect the lives and property of its citizens.
Addressing concerns that the strikes could be seen as a violation of Nigeria’s territorial integrity, Tuggar assured that the Federal Government would not take any action that compromises national sovereignty. “It is a collaboration, it is what we have been calling for,” he said.
More details are expected to follow.
