Between today and tomorrow, Nigeria and Brazil will sign crucial business agreements to create direct flights between the two countries and generate massive livestock investment inflow.
In other areas of agriculture, the Green Imperative Partnership (GIP), which kicks off after the visit, is to generate not less than 100,000 direct jobs and more than five million indirect jobs.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is on a two-day state visit to Brazil on invitation of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to improve on their relationship in trade.
This is President Tinubu’s third visit, and the most important, to Brazil in the last one year. His first visit was to attend the G-20 meeting, on November 18 and 19, 2024.
The second was as an observer at the BRICS Summit on July 6 and 7. Brazil’s Vice President Geraldo Alckmin visited Nigeria in June and signed some agreements with Vice President Kashim Shettima.
Tinubu flew to Brasilia from Japan where he attended the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD).
