Nigeria gave US intelligence for strikes on militants: FM
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Lagos: Nigeria said Friday it provided the United States with intelligence on jihadists before the Christmas Day strikes by US forces against what Pre...
Lagos: Nigeria said Friday it provided the United States with intelligence on jihadists before the Christmas Day strikes by US forces against what President Donald Trump said were Islamic State militants in the northwest of the country.
The US strikes come after Abuja and Washington were locked in a diplomatic dispute over what Trump characterised as mass killings of Christians amid the west African country's myriad armed conflicts.
"It's Nigeria that provided the intelligence," Nigerian Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar told broadcaster ChannelsTV, saying he was on the phone with US State Secretary Marco Rubio.
"We spoke twice. We spoke for 19 minutes before the strike and then we spoke again for another five minutes before it went on," Tuggar said.
He added that they spoke "extensively" and that President Bola Tinubu gave "the go ahead" to launch the strikes.
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