UN Sec-Gen arrives Abuja

United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon arrived Abuja yesterday on a two-day visit.
Ban arrived Abuja from, his first trip to Nigeria since he took office in 2007, from Ivory Coast where he attended the inauguration of President Alassane Ouattara last Saturday. He will leave Abuja for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia tommorow.

The UN chief was met on arrival in Abuja by Foreign Affairs Minister, Odein Ajumogobia and other officials and was due later to visit a hospital in the city, a project of the UN Population Agency, UNFPA, the World
Health Organisation and the UN Children Fund, UN officials said. Ban is, today, scheduled to visit Dutse Makaranta Public Health care facilities on the outskirts of Abuja, also funded by the UN. Ban had meetings lined up with President Goodluck Jonathan and his ministers, as well as with the head of the country’s electoral agency and governors from the 36 states of the federation.

His trip comes less than a month after Nigeria concluded parliamentary, presidential and governorship elections judged to be the fairest since a return to civilian rule in 1999. Ban’s trip aims in part to promote women and children health under an initiative he launched in September, UN officials said. Nigeria has one of the highest maternal death rates in Africa.

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