After the US warned that more strikes may follow its surprise Christmas Day attack on suspected terrorist targets in Nigeria, officials in the West African nation suggested they’d be open to continued intervention.

Nigeria secured about $1.2 billion in funding from the United Arab Emirates to help build part of a new freeway, the West African nation’s presidency announced Friday.

Suspected Boko Haram insurgents detonated an explosive device at a mosque in Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state, killing at least five people, police said.

Nigeria is in advanced talks with Alphabet Inc.’s Google for a new undersea cable to strengthen the West African nation’s digital resilience, a senior government official said.

Nigerian inflation eased more than expected in November and — aside from an anticipated blip next month — is likely to continue slowing next year, strengthening the case for policymakers to resume interest-rate cuts when they meet in February.

Nigeria has granted permits to 28 firms to buy gas currently being burned off by the oil industry, as the West African nation seeks to cut emissions and earn revenue from a resource otherwise going to waste.

Nigerian authorities have secured the release of 100 students who were among those kidnapped from a Catholic school in the country’s north last month.

Nigeria set an ambitious three-year growth target that leans heavily on the non-oil sector in Africa’s biggest oil-producing nation.

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu named a former intelligence chief as his top envoy to the US, seeking to ease tensions after Donald Trump warned of possible military action over claims that Christians are being systematically killed by Islamist militants in the West African nation.

Nigeria’s central bank held interest rates steady to maintain downward pressure on inflation, defying widespread expectations for a cut.

Nigeria said the US is ready to help it tackle violent extremism that President Donald Trump has characterized as targeting Christians in the West African nation.