The US Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Beth Leonard, has highlighted seven areas where the US and Nigeria can improve collaboration.
The areas are health, education, climate change, space exploration, security cooperation, humanitarian assistance and cultural preservation, she said.
She highlighted this in an exclusive interview with PREMIUM TIMES to mark the end of her posting as ambassador to Nigeria.
Ms Leonard described the 60-year relationship between both countries as one which always seeks to improve itself.
“To think about how we make it better, it is a question of looking at where we intervene and then what is the next step that we need to do,” she said.
On health, Ms Leonard noted that the next step for the US support to Nigeria is to make such support a better or more predictable part of Nigeria’s health systems and health systems delivery.
Additionally, “since we are very close to epidemic control, how do we go about finding those last people? What is the…
