Yusuf Tuggar, Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, met with Richard Mills, the United States Ambassador to Nigeria, on Monday in Abuja as both countries continue talks on deepening bilateral cooperation, with security high on the agenda.
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The United States embassy confirmed the meeting in a post on X, sharing a photograph of the two officials but offering few details of the discussion. It stated that Washington looked forward to continued engagement with Nigeria on matters of shared interest, signalling steady diplomatic momentum between the two partners.
The talks come amid renewed focus on security cooperation, following comments over the weekend by Riley Moore, a United States congressman, who said Nigeria and the US were close to finalising a strategic security framework aimed at tackling terrorism and violent extremism in West Africa’s most populous country.
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Moore recently visited Nigeria alongside other congressmen on a “fact-finding mission” to examine allegations of a Christian genocide in the country.
During the trip, the lawmakers visited some communities in Benue and met with Nuhu Ribadu, the national security adviser (NSA), in his office in Abuja, the country’s capital.
Moore said the conversations were “positive”.
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“We did have positive conversations with the Nigerian government, and I believe we are close to a strategic security framework to address both the ISIS and Boko Haram threats in the north-east, as well as the genocide against Christians by the radical Fulani Muslims in the Middle Belt,” he said.
The lawmaker is set to submit a report to US President Donald Trump to outline ways forward.
