President Muhammadu Buhari is set to receive U.S Secretary of State Antony Blinken, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Blinken is expected to arrive at the State House at about 3:30 pm local time, Thursday.
Blinken is the highest-ranking Biden Administration Official to visit Sub-saharan Africa since January.
It is expected that the two will discuss possible security assistance from the United States, given the security issues facing Nigeria, particularly terrorism in the Northeast and Northwest.
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Nigeria in July 2021, received its first six A-29 Super Tucano planes, four years after the United States agreed to sell the light attack aircraft to fight insurgents.
It is also expected that Blinken will touch on human rights issues during his visit, especially, in the wake of a judicial panel report, which indicted the police and the army, of firing on protesters in Lagos last year, in what is called a “massacre.”
The U.S had on Wednesday removed Nigeria from the black book of the violators of religious freedom.
(Editor: Ifeanyi Mark)
