Nigeria, Dec. 26 -- The Nigerian government has confirmed that President Bola Tinubu approved US strikes against terrorist camps in the country's North-western region on Thursday.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, disclosed this on Friday, hours after the US Department of War and President Donald Trump announced the coordinated military action.

Some observers have raised concerns that the strikes infringe on Nigeria's territorial integrity. However, Mr Tuggar insisted that the federal government would not permit any action that violated the country's sovereignty.

"It is a collaboration, it is what we have been calling for," Mr Tuggar said on the breakfast show of Channels TV, monitored by PREMIUM TIMES.

"It was Nigeria th...