The Armed Forces of Nigeria and the Egyptian Armed Forces are major players on the African continent.
He spoke as representative of the Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor, at the opening of the second Joint Military Cooperation Committee meeting of both forces at Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters.
Jolasinmi said that the two armed forces had demonstrated the willingness to further strengthen existing diplomatic and defence collaboration mooted during the maiden meeting in Cairo in 2021.
According to him, Nigeria and Egypt have nurtured cordial diplomatic relationship and shared experience in the fight against insurgency and other forms of crimes bedevilling the two.
He said that agreement reached at the first meeting including training of special force personnel, air defence, defence industries and military museum, had been fully achieved.
In his remarks, Major General Mohammed Salah, Egyptian Assistant Minister of Defence for International Relations, said the conference would further improve the objective of military cooperation between the two countries.
