Nigeria said Friday it provided the United States with intelligence on extremists before the Christmas Day strikes by US forces against what President Donald Trump said were ISIS militants in the northwest of the country.The US strikes come after Abuja and Washington were locked in a diplomatic dispute over what Trump characterized as mass killings of Christians amid the west African country’s myriad armed conflicts.For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.“It’s Nigeria that provided the intelligence,” Nigerian Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar told broadcaster ChannelsTV, saying he was on the phone with US State Secretary Marco Rubio. “We spoke twice. We spoke for 19 minutes before the strike and then we spoke again for another five minutes before it went on,” Tuggar said.He added that they spoke “extensively” and that President Bola Tinubu gave “the go ahead” to launch the strikes.The strikes would be an “ongoing process” that would also involve