Photos: Tinubu Receives AFRICOM Commander, US Charge D’affairs at State House

President Bola Tinubu received Dagvin Anderson, the general in charge of US Africa Command (AFRICOM), and Keith Heffern, chargé d’affaires of the US embassy in Nigeria, at the State House, Abuja, on Sunday.

Also present at the meeting were Peter Vrooman, AFRICOM foreign policy adviser, and Garric Banfield, AFRICOM senior enlisted leader.

The delegation was received by the president alongside Nigerian security chiefs, including Nuhu Ribadu, national security adviser (NSA); Mohammed Mohammed, director-general of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA); Tosin Ajayi, director-general of the Department of State Service (DSS); Christopher Musa, minister of defence; Olufemi Oluyede, chief of defence staff (CDS); Waidi Shaibu, chief of army staff (COAS); and Emmanuel Uandiandeye, chief of defence intelligence.

The meeting comes days after Anderson disclosed that the US has dispatched a “small team” of troops to Nigeria following recent security cooperation between both countries.

Anderson said the move followed his meeting with Tinubu in Rome, Italy, late last year.

Weeks ago, Allison Hooker, under-secretary of state, led a US team of eight federal agencies to Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, for a bilateral working group meeting with Nigerian security officials.

The national security adviser headed the Nigerian delegation.

Here are photos from the meeting.