SAN FRANCISCO, April 21, (THEWILL) – The United Kingdom has promised to provide counter-IED kit worth £1m to Nigeria in order to boost the fight against insurgency.
This was revealed by UK’s Minister of Armed Forces, Mark Lancaster, when he met with Nigeria’s Defence Minister, Mansur Dan-Ali, in London on the sidelines of the just concluded Commonwealth meeting.
The gift is part of the collaboration between the two nations to combat terrorism with the hope that the kit would be helpful in foiling bomb attack by Boko Haram on innocent Nigerians.
“It’s in both the UK and Nigeria’s interest that we tackle the issue of terrorism in Nigeria,” Lancaster said.
The Defence Minister, who has returned to Nigeria with President Muhammadu Buhari, said talks were held about terrorism, training of the Nigerian military and other global security issues.
