The United States State Department has approved a possible Foreign Military Sale to Nigeria of munitions, precision bombs, precision rockets, and related equipment valued at an estimated $346 million.
This is coming after U.S. lawmakers had put a hold on sale of weapons to Nigeria over concerns about possible human rights abuses by the Federal Government.
The U.S. had in 2022 approved nearly $1 billion weapons sale to Nigeria by the Joe Biden administration after initial pause by President Donald Trump in his first term in office. This is as a result of concerns over the series of accidental bombings by the military air and land forces in their bid to clear terrorists from their enclaves which also affected some villagers in Nigeria.
