U.S. Vice President Mike Pence. [Phtoo credit:
The Hill]
Vice President Yemi
Osinbajo has arrived in New York on a four-day visit to the United States.
Mr Osinbajo and members
of his entourage arrived the Sheltair wing of the John F. Kennedy International
Aiport at 12.38 a.m. local time (5:38 a.m. Nigerian time) and was received by
the Nigerian Ambassador to the U.S., Sylvanus Nsofor.
Other Nigerian officials
of the country’s missions with Mr Nsofor included Nigeria’s Permanent
Representative to the UN, Tijani Mohammad-Bande; and the Consul-General of
Nigeria in New York, Mr Ben Okoyen.
The vice president is
scheduled to meet with his U.S. counterpart, Mike Pence, in Washington on
Wednesday, according to presidential spokesman, Laolu Akande.
Mr Akande said in a
statement on Saturday that both leaders would discuss matters of mutual
interests between Nigeria and the U.S.
Ahead of his meeting with
Mr Pence, Mr Osinbajo would be the guest speaker at a forum tagged “A Conversation
With Vice President Yemi Osinbajo: Nigeria’s Economic Prospects”.
The event would be hosted
by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), an independent and nonpartisan think
tank established to help Americans better understand the world.
The vice president is
expected to speak on Nigeria’s economic recovery, investment and growth
opportunities, and the recent general elections.
(NAN)