A statement attributed to Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, yesterday confirmed that the US Secretary of State, would be in the country on Thursday.
Mr. Abati said that he had already received request from the American Embassy seeking for accreditation of the members of her entourage.
Mrs Clinton is to meet with President Jonathan on August 9 in Abuja and later with her counterpart, Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr. Olugbenga Ashiru.
Sharpedgenews.com, a web-based news service revealed that Clinton and her Nigerian counterpart, Mr. Olugbenga Ashiru, would discuss the elevated status of US relations with Nigeria, the areas of possible cooperation in terms of challenges being faced in Nigeria.
Ashiru and Clinton, the news service added, would unveil the new regime of a five-year multiple visas for the two countries’ non-immigrant travellers in the first instance.
Mrs Clinton is currently on a 10-day working visit to Africa, but up till now Nigeria has not been listed on her itinerary.
This present African tour has seen her visit Senegal, South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya and Malawi.
She will end her African visit with a final stop in Ghana to attend the burial of the late Ghanaian president Atta Mills on August 10 before heading back to the states.