Nigeria working with ‘foreign partners’ to counter terror threats – Onyeama

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama said Nigeria is working with its foreign partners to quell the security and terror threats in the country.

Onyeama said this when he addressed the press in Abuja on Monday.

The minister who was in company of the National Security Adviser, Retired Major-General Babagana Monguno, and the Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor, noted that there were ongoing efforts to neutralise security threats.

“There is a foreign dimension to this (security) issue as alerts were obviously issued by foreign countries with missions here in Nigeria,” he said.

“Now, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as the Nigerian Intelligence Agency have been working very closely to fully get on top of the situation but also to engage with our foreign partners, first of all, to mitigate and blunt any threat that there could be from outside the country, but also working and engaging with the foreign missions within the country to ensure that whatever we do or say is constructive and should not, in any way, cause unnecessary alarm and destabilize the country.”

According to him, the Federal Government is in full engagement with foreign partners with Nigerian security personnel and agencies fully on top of the situation.

“As they (security chiefs) have said, there is really no cause for alarm. We want to push more for greater coordination and synergy with our foreign partners and make sure that cooperation with them is a constructive one and not an alarmist one,” Onyeama stated.