President Bola Tinubu on Saturday evening arrived in Bissau, the capital city of Guinea Bissau, ahead of the ECOWAS summit scheduled to kick off on Sunday.
The summit will be the 63rd Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS.
Similarly, the summit will be the first international engagement of the president on the African continent since his swearing-in on 29 May.
While in Guinea-Bissau, the Nigerian leader is scheduled to hold bilateral meetings and have other engagements on the summit’s sidelines.
According to a statement signed by Dele Alake, Mr Tinubu’s special adviser on special duties, communications and strategy, and made available to journalists on Saturday, the president, upon his arrival, visited the Nigerian Troops under the ECOWAS Stabilisation Force in Guinea-Bissau.
The statement noted that President Tinubu appreciated the troops’ dedication and loyalty to Nigeria and their host country.
The president was accompanied on the journey by the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, and the acting CBN Governor, Folashodun Shonubi, among others.
