Nigeria Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN), Ambassador Tijjani Bande has commended the Nigerian minister of Defence Mansur Dan-Ali on the successes recorded so far by the Armed Forces of Nigeria in the fight against insurgency in the Northeast.
He also commended the efforts of the Muhammadu Buhari government towards restoring law and order in other parts of the country and under the United Nations.
Ambassador Tijjani Bande, who received the defence minister in his office in New York, the United States of America, thanked the minister for finding time after the UN General Assembly meeting to visit him in his office.
He described the relationship between diplomacy and defence as a major strength of any great Nation.
This was even as the minister praised the good working relationship between the Nigerian missions abroad and the defence sections of the ministry.
He also hailed the quality of leadership and staff of the defence section in the UN mission in New York even as he he congratulated the Permanent Representative for his well deserved appointment and promising him of the full support of his ministry towards discharging his mandate at the United Nations.[myad]