The British Deputy High Commission in Lagos says Mrs Vicky Ford, the UK Minister for Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, will visit Nigeria from Feb. 21.

The Press and Public Affairs Officer of the Commission, Miss Ndidiamaka Eze, in a statement in Lagos , said the visit would be Ford’s first visit to Nigeria.

Eze said the visit would build on the UK-Nigeria partnership and strengthen strong security, anti corruption and economic ties.

She said that the minister would hold meetings with the Federal Government, state governors, faith leaders, civil societies and business leaders.

Eze said the minister would announce new UK investments in support of small and medium enterprises and signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in relation to anti-corruption.

She quoted the minister as saying: “I am looking forward to being in Nigeria for the first time as Nigeria is a valued friend and partner of the UK, a country with whom we want to forge closer ties including on trade, development, economic, environmental and security issues.”

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ford became the Minister for Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean in December 2021.

She was first elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament in 2017. (NAN)

https://thenationonlineng.net/uk-minister-vicky-ford-to-visit-nigeria/

E don happen.

Jubrin in deep shiit.

UK is sending Vicky Ford to come arrest Jubrin for the extraordinary rendition of lamidi kwanu.

Choi, Jubrin, e don be for you.

God bless ohamadick lamidi kwanu.

Insecurity: UK to send advisors on community policing to Nigeria

The government of the United Kingdom says it will send advisors to Nigeria to share knowledge on community policing towards tackling insecurity in the West African country.

Vicky Ford, UK Minister for Africa, disclosed this in an interview with AriseNews on Sunday.

Ms Ford said: “What we know in UK and in Nigeria is that to keep civilians safe, you need to have effective, accountable, transparent community policing and that is part of the work that we would be doing through sending advisors to share experiences to help the Nigerian police forces adapt so that they will be able to respond to incidents in a more timely and more effective manner.”

She said this will also help the Nigerian police roll out community policing especially in areas that have seen conflict.

“These are areas Nigerians have identified issues that they would like help with and we can then bring in that support and share experiences,” Ms Ford said.

She said this is not the UK telling Nigeria how to do things but Nigeria identifying areas the UK can support them.

“The UK has a strategy across Africa to work with countries to form partnerships, to help create freer; safer; greener; more prosperous culture and we see Nigeria as an absolutely key partner in that,” she said.

According to Ms Ford, “Nigeria is really important for its own stability and also for the work they are doing for regional stability and security.

“Insecurity in Nigeria and West Africa also impacts security which is why we want to work with Nigeria as a trusted friend and partner,” she stated.

She said officials are already working together on issues of terrorist threats and how to share UK’s lessons on community policing to improve security across Nigeria.

Ms Ford also said the security partnership is not a financial deal when Arise correspondent asked if the intervention was paid for.

Commenting on the #EndSARS white paper issued by the Lagos State government, she noted that the white paper raised more questions than answers.

“Obviously the white paper raised lots of questions, it raised questions on the role of the federal police and that of the military and those are questions that the federal government needs to look at and address.”

She said the UK believes in the importance of transparency and accountability and would love to see that reflect.

“It is really important that civilians have the right transparency to understand when things have gone wrong, what has gone wrong and that people can be held to account if there has been situations where the police or other forces have not acted in a way that they should have,” Ms Ford said.

She added that the UK is watching closely to see that this happens.

Nigerian National Security Adviser (NSA), Babagana Monguno, two weeks ago, engaged his United Kingdom counterpart, Stephen Lovegrove, in a dialogue on a range of issues, including counter-terrorism, serious and organised crime, civilian policing and human rights.

Also, Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, Lucky Irabor, and the UK Chief of Defence Staff, Tony Radakin, held separate talks on military cooperation.

According to a statement from the British High Commission, titled “Nigeria-UK hold Security and Defence Partnership Dialogue in London this week”, the dialogue, is taking place at the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office headquarters at King Charles Street, London.

The three days-long dialogue was the first of its kind since both countries formed the ‘UK-Nigeria Security and Defence Partnership’ in 2018.

The partnership signed between President Muhammadu Buhari and former British Prime Minister, Theresa May, was aimed at helping Nigeria end the Boko Haram and the Islamic States West Africa (ISWAP) insurgency that has lasted over a decade.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/511356-insecurity-uk-to-send-advisors-on-community-policing-to-nigeria.html

Beautiful woman

Make she bring Tom Ford wen she come mak our president wear...

Nigeria is beyond repair, even if you like bring the whole world powers to Nigeria, things will even get worse, our politicians have indirectly sold the country as slaves to the outside world.

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LeoDeKing:
E don happen.

Jubrin in deep shiit.

UK is sending Vicky Ford to come arrest Jubrin for the extraordinary rendition of lamidi kwanu.

Choi, Jubrin, e don be for you.

God bless ohamadick lamidi kwanu.

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I tell you, the African is not ashamed of himself. Constantly needing the white man/woman to come and tell you how to run your country. What was the essence of getting independence from Britain then? I sometimes ask myself, is the black man really capable of ruling himself and his society?

Do you know it was Britain that trained SARS? And we all know what SARS did to the Nigerian populace. This paternalistic/white savior role that these oyibos have taken on over we Africans leaves me feeling irritated. Are we saying that as a people, we cannot solve our problems except we get oyibos involved?

You know, oftentimes, I am ashamed to be a member of the African race. I have never seen a more docile, conquered set of human beings in my life like the African. Do you think China and the other Asian tigers would be were they are today if they just sat there and took orders from oyibos and allowed them to interfere so much in the running of their country?

I don't know when we will stand on our 2 feet as Africans. Are we not tired of being a conquered people? No wonder we Africans are not respected anywhere in the world as a group. Everyone looks down on us. Such a shame.

US, China, UK etc are all interested in the survival of this country call Nigeria but our politicians are by their actions or inactions, not interested in the survival of the country.
Some people imported dirty fuel, put the entire nation into hardship yet no one is cooling off in police custody but my country has already set aside billions to clean the mess.
Well, let the woman come first make I know whether them need our help to fight Russia, then I will go and buy form. who knows, we could land in UK today and Putin change his mind the following day, guy man don turn UK guy be that. No coming back home