CLINTON COMES TO NIGERIA
Aug 9th, 2009 by admin
The United States Secretary of state Hillary Clinton will be in Nigeria on Tuesday, this is the second African country she is visiting, she is shedulled to visit seven African Countries. The visits which started last Thursday at the university of Nairobi in Kenya, between Hilarry Clinton and the people of Kenya will be repeated in Nigeria.
According to sources a town hall-style meeting between the top US diplomat and Nigerian NGOS in Abuja is seen as a major avenue for the Obama administration to demonstrate its support for electoral reforms and anti-corruption issues in Nigeria.
Top on the agenda include the Boko Haram crisis and Nigeria’s role in international peacekeeping and regional leadership in West Africa.
Her visit according to some sources is to soothe frayed nerves in the sence of the defeat with which Nigeria met the visit of President Barak Obama to Ghana.
