Nigerian lawmakers call on President Bola Tinubu to review military intervention in Niger before exhausting all diplomatic options
Those concerns were shared by the country's largest opposition grouping, which denounced the potential military operation in Niger as"absolutely thoughtless".
Besides insurgency groups in the northeast, Nigeria's security forces are battling organised crime gangs in the centre and northwest, and separatist groups in the southeast. "Nigeria, in its current socioeconomic state, cannot afford such a costly intervention," the coalition argued.
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