President Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday received United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, at Aso Rock, Abuja, Nigeria.
Blinken is an official visit to the country.
He would depart to Angola, after his meeting with Tinubu.
Blinken who arrived at the State House at about 06:53 pm local time was received by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, ushered into the President’s diplomatic room for a bilateral meeting.
Although the senior US official is visiting Tinubu for the first time since the latter assumed the Presidency eight months ago, it would be his second visit to the seat of power since November 2021 when he met President Muhammadu Buhari.
Nigeria is Blinken’s third destination in his week-long whistle-stop tour which began in Cabo Verde through Ivory Coast and is scheduled to end in the Central African state of Angola.
