Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with (a) his Nigerian counterpart and (b) the President of Nigeria on suicide bomb attacks in that country.

Nigeria’s new President Muhammadu Buhari was inaugurated on 29 May. He has not yet appointed any Ministers. We regularly engage with Nigerian politicians and officials on security and the fight against terrorism, particularly the threat posed by Boko Haram. The Prime Minister discussed this when he met President Buhari on 23 May and the Foreign Secretary raised the matter again when he met President Buhari on 29 May, at his inauguration in Abuja, Nigeria.