Nigeria and EU To Elevate Defense and Security Collaboration – Nigeria’s Defense Minister
By Lynn Adda
Nigeria’s Minister of Defense, Hon Mohammed Badaru Abubakar has said Nigeria and the European Union, EU need to work deeply on security and defence collaboration and relationship.
The Minister was speaking when Mr Casmin Dirban, the Director Peace Partnership and Crisis Management Department of the European External Action Service in Brussel, paid him a courtesy visit in Ship House, Abuja .
According to the Personal Assistant to the Minister on Media and Publicity, Mati Ali, the meeting discussed on ways to improve cooperation on security to fight terrorism and banditry.
Badaru called for deliberate efforts to explore more areas of collaboration with Nigeria on defence and security matters.
Earlier, Mr Casmin Dirban accompanied by the European union Ambassador to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Ambassador Gautier Mignot, noted the existing bilateral cooperation between the two countries and expressed the desire for stronger relations.
