{"id":79956,"date":"2025-12-10T06:20:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T06:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79956"},"modified":"2025-12-10T06:20:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T06:20:33","slug":"nigeria-saudi-arabia-sign-five-year-defence-cooperation-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/10\/nigeria-saudi-arabia-sign-five-year-defence-cooperation-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria, Saudi Arabia Sign Five-Year Defence Cooperation Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria and Saudi Arabia have signed a five-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), to deepen defence and military cooperation, marking a significant boost to bilateral security ties.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement, signed by Nigeria\u2019s Minister of State for Defence, Dr. Mohammed Matawalle, and Saudi Arabia\u2019s Dr. Khaleed Al-Biyari, covers military training, intelligence sharing, defence production and joint operations aimed at strengthening regional security.<\/p>\n<p>Vice President Kashim Shettima, speaking during a visit by participants of the Executive Intelligence Management Course (EIMC), 18 to the Presidential Villa, reaffirmed President Bola Tinubu\u2019s commitment to tackling Nigeria\u2019s security challenges.<\/p>\n<p>He said the administration is taking decisive steps to support security agencies and expand partnerships across Africa.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement from Ahmed Dan Wudil, media aide to the Minister of State for Defence, the pact represents a major step in Nigeria-Saudi relations and aligns both countries in tackling emerging threats.<\/p>\n<p>Matawalle expressed confidence that the collaboration would help address security issues in affected regions.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, NISS Commandant Joseph Odama presented the EIMC 18 report titled \u201cNon-state Actors in Security Management in Africa\u201d, which called for better integration of local security initiatives into national and continental peace frameworks.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the 10-month programme produced 78 senior officers from Nigeria and five African countries, bringing the institute\u2019s total graduates to 1,130.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata Nigeria and Saudi Arabia have signed a five-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), to deepen defence and military cooperation, marking a significant boost to bilateral security ties. The agreement, signed by Nigeria\u2019s Minister of State for Defence, Dr. Mohammed Matawalle, and Saudi Arabia\u2019s Dr. Khaleed Al-Biyari, covers military training, intelligence sharing, defence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":79957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,1756,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-economy","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79956","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79958,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79956\/revisions\/79958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}