The United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, arrived in Nigeria on Tuesday for a two-day official visit.
According to the United Nations information center in Nigeria, Guterres will visit Borno state in northern Nigeria, which has been ravaged by a decade-long insurgency.
Guterres is scheduled to meet with the Borno State governor, Babagana Zulum, in Maiduguri, the state capital before embarking on a field mission where he will meet families affected by the Boko Haram conflict ravaging the region for more than 12 years.
The UN Scribe is expected to evaluate the impact of climate change on vulnerable communities and assess progress made as well as the challenges to the COVID-19 recovery.
He is also scheduled to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osibanjo and other top cabinet officials in Abuja.
Guterres is also expected to officiate a wreath-laying ceremony for victims of the 2011 bombing at the United Nations House in Abuja and meet with young people’s delegates, women, religious leaders and diplomatic communities and journalists.
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