{"id":78714,"date":"2025-11-14T14:08:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T14:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78714"},"modified":"2025-11-14T14:08:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T14:08:37","slug":"nigeria-mali-renew-security-ties-at-bamex-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/14\/nigeria-mali-renew-security-ties-at-bamex-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria, Mali Renew Security Ties at BAMEX 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria and Mali have renewed their commitment to deepen bilateral cooperation and address rising security threats in West Africa.<\/p>\n<p>This followed a courtesy visit by Nigeria\u2019s Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru, to Mali\u2019s Prime Minister, Gen. Abdoulaye Maiga, during the maiden International Defence and Security Exhibition (BAMEX 2025) in Bamako.<\/p>\n<p>Badaru, who led the Nigerian delegation, described Mali as a strategic partner and conveyed President Bola Tinubu\u2019s goodwill, reaffirming Nigeria\u2019s readiness to strengthen defence collaboration. His Media Aide, Comrade Mati Ali, issued the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Maiga thanked Nigeria for its strong participation in BAMEX 2025, calling it a testament to long-standing friendship.<\/p>\n<p>He said closer cooperation remained crucial as both nations confront shared security challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Both countries signalled renewed resolve to work together, with top military officials from Nigeria and Mali present at the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Nigeria and Mali have renewed their commitment to deepen bilateral cooperation and address rising security threats in West Africa. This followed a courtesy visit by Nigeria\u2019s Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru, to Mali\u2019s Prime Minister, Gen. Abdoulaye Maiga, during the maiden International Defence and Security Exhibition (BAMEX 2025) in Bamako. Badaru, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78716,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78714\/revisions\/78716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}