The Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, on Thursday, in Abuja, said Nigeria and the United States should collaborate more, considering the need for concerted efforts to tackle the spread of terrorism, especially in the Sahel region.

According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, Osinbajo said this when he received at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, the visiting Undersecretary for Political Affairs, US State Department, Victoria Nuland, alongside a US delegation, including its Ambassador to Nigeria, Ambassador Mary Leonard.

Highlighting the need for a more comprehensive approach to tackling terrorism in the region and the Sahel, the VP noted that the spread of terrorist organizations, such as ISWAP and Boko Haram, should be tackled ‘firmly and permanently.’

While commending the US government for providing support to Nigeria in its fight against Boko Haram and terrorism, with the delivery of the first batch of Super Tucano jets and the proposed purchase of 12 AH-1Z Cobra attack helicopters to Nigeria, Osinbajo stated that the cooperation between the two countries had been “extremely fruitful and rewarding, especially for us.”

Osinbajo added that Nigeria was committed to conducting free and fair elections next year.

“So far, we have seen peaceful elections in the primaries…and as we go along, we will get a firmer grip of the security issues; we must thank you for the cooperation of the American government that we see so far,” he said.

In her remarks, the US Under-Secretary for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland, acknowledged Nigeria’s advocacy for using gas as a transition fuel.

Nuland said, “You are absolutely right about gas. I’ve worked a lot on the response to Russia’s war in Ukraine and the Europeans now understand as they try to cut their dependence on Moscow that they need alternative democratic sources of gas, and they are waking up to the fact that Nigeria and others countries can fill that gap needed.”

Quest7777:
Let USA just come & colonise us.

kaymart:
He's a talker and nothing more.
Truly, he would have made a bad president.
He seems only good on paper.

Yankee101:
Drones drones drones!!!

EjehDtiger:


With all your intelligence you still think Nigeria's problem is the president and vice? My brother Nigeria's problem is her laws and legislators.
No president wants to fail, they all want to leave a standing legacy behind. Even If you bring Jesus plus all the angels in heaven to come and be president one after the other, Naija no ho change with the Kain laws and law makers we dey elect.
Good morning!

TheRareGem1:
I think FG is trying her best to reinforce our military people, the result isn't forthcoming. If this is strengthened, it will yield positive results

EjehDtiger:


With all your intelligence you still think Nigeria's problem is the president and vice? My brother Nigeria's problem is her laws and legislators.
No president wants to fail, they all want to leave a standing legacy behind. Even If you bring Jesus plus all the angels in heaven to come and be president one after the other, Naija no ho change with the Kain laws and law makers we dey elect.
Good morning!

Yankee101:


Is this ogogoro or what?

MikoB:
I love you oo jare, Mr VP, you have done your best and your movement will never stop now until that country is liberated, those castigating you will not even have the opportunity to live in aguda house talkless of aso rock, we will all be here by God's grace to witness their disgrace with the real voters not the corrupt induced delegates. Who laugh last always have the best laugh.

Zoharariel:
This short-devil bastard & so-called Pastor really has nothing in his cranium.

In 2015, when he was busy jumping from one BRT bus to another during his campaign and drinking 40Naira Milo Sachet at Eko Hotel with his calamity of a master, we thought as a professor, Nigeria was indeed going to be transformed through their change mantra.

Now, 7 years down the line, rather than taking Nigeria to the promise land, he & his fura-da-nono-drinking master destroyed all the meaningful gains we recorded during the previous administrations and took Nigeria 500years backward.

And to think that some bastards still advocated for this empty-vessel to continue at the helm for another season of incompetence & excuses is just mind-boggling.

You’re calling on Amerika in helping you douse the scorge of ISWAP & Boko Haram when you & your master keep giving them amnesty.

How many Terrorists have you seen Amerika given amnesty? You take two steps forward & twenty thousand steps backward.

This asshole should just retire quietly to his village in Ikenne to enjoy his loots and lick his wounds quietly.

No be only Amerika, na Iraq - Arindin!

Zoharariel:
This short-devil bastard & so-called Pastor really has nothing in his cranium.

In 2015, when he was busy jumping from one BRT bus to another during his campaign and drinking 40Naira Milo Sachet at Eko Hotel with his calamity of a master, we thought as a professor, Nigeria was indeed going to be transformed through their change mantra.

Now, 7 years down the line, rather than taking Nigeria to the promise land, he & his fura-da-nono-drinking master destroyed all the meaningful gains we recorded during the previous administrations and took Nigeria 500years backward.

And to think that some bastards still advocated for this empty-vessel to continue at the helm for another season of incompetence & excuses is just mind-boggling.

You’re calling on Amerika in helping you douse the scorge of ISWAP & Boko Haram when you & your master keep giving them amnesty.

How many Terrorists have you seen Amerika given amnesty? You take two steps forward & twenty thousand steps backward.

This asshole should just retire quietly to his village in Ikenne to enjoy his loots and lick his wounds quietly.

No be only Amerika, na Iraq - Arindin!