President Bola Tinubu’s G-20 summit visit to India, on the special invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is coming almost exactly 61 years after the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, visited Nigeria.
Since that historic September 1962 visit, hosted by the first (and only) Prime Minister of Nigeria, Alhaji Tafawa Balewa, in Lagos, Nigerian and Indian leaders have exchanged several visits, and presided over a bilateral relationship that has grown in leaps and bounds.
It is auspicious that this latest visit by a Nigerian President is happening not only against the backdrop of India’s presidency of the G20 but in a season of inspiring breakthroughs in space exploration by India. In my time here I have seen how much of a thing of pride these feats have been for the Indian people. Successes of this nature are especially significant because they rekindle national hope and optimism, and fuel the collective ambition to achieve even more.
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