Tillerson to spend few hours in Nigeria
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he is also expected to discuss how to advance peace and security promote good governance and spur mutually beneficial trade and investment with the president2 on saturday while visiting nairobi tillerson 65 canceled his scheduled events because he had been feeling unwell1 tillersons travel plans have changed so that he can return to washington early on tuesday morning instead of late that night the spokesman told reporters traveling with him1 the secretary departed the kenyan capital of nairobi on monday morning1 he will visit chad and nigeria both oil-producers struggling to contain the islamist boko haram insurgency on monday afternoon and evening1 he was billed to spend monday night in the nigerian capital abuja before flying back to washington1 a spokesman for the top u.s. diplomat said tillerson had cut short his first trip to africa to return to washington about one day ahead of schedule to deal with urgent work there1 tillersons week-long five-country visit to africa came amid other urgent foreign policy developments including thursdays announcement that u.s. president donald trump will meet north korean leader kim jong un1 nan reports that tillersons visit to the horn of africa just days after he announced a new 533m aid package for africa out of which 128 million dollars was earmarked for nigeria and countries of the lake chad region1 when tillerson meets buhari both men are expected to discuss counter-terrorism efforts and humanitarian issues in nigerias north-east and the lake chad basin1 u. s. secretary of state rex tillersonhas changed his schedule so that he will spend only a few hours in nigeria before leaving late monday evening to washington dc1 during his trip he is expected also to meet with the u.s. embassy personnel and participate in events related to u.s. government-supported activities. reutersnan1