The announcement came despite widespread warning that an invasion could plunge sun-Sahara Africa into turmoil.
“We must engage all parties involved, including the coup leaders, in earnest discussions to convince them to relinquish power and reinstate President Bazoum,” Mr Tinubu said.
President Bola Tinubu and other leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are meeting on Thursday in Abuja.
The newly appointed prime minister, Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine, will lead 21 new ministers forming the new government.
The Sahel, as it is now, is one huge tinderbox waiting for the next mismanaged conflict to explode.
“That’s why we’re here, and our able leader and president accepted the offer that he wants us to intervene and to talk to our brothers over there in Niger Republic.”
EMA asked the court to invoke ECOWAS protocols to stop the planned military attack on Niger.
Food distributions are underway in Diffa, which hosts internally displaced people, refugees, others.
Mr Lamine Zeine was formerly the minister of economy and finance for several years in the cabinet of then-President Mamadou Tandja, ousted in 2010.
Mr Tchiani is the former head of the president’s security guard.
