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By Nkiruka Nnorom
Despite Nigeria’s reported prosecution of hundreds of terror suspects and recruitment of 50,000 police officers, the United States said continuing challenges remained in the fight to remove Nigeria from its Country of Particular Concern, CPC, list.
The US noted that the federal government’s efforts in supporting and returning the internally displaced persons, IDPs, to their ancestral homes were inadequate and also flagged the rising civilian deaths from terrorism as part of the challenges that would possibly constrain removal of Nigeria from the CPC list.
The admission came at the end of the second US-Nigeria Joint Working Group, JWG, meeting in Washington on Tuesday, where both sides reviewed progress so far in the counterterrorism efforts since the first meeting in Abuja in January 2026.
