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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are expected to champions teen mental health during the visit.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have arrived in Nigeria for
their 72-hour tour to promote the Invictus Games.
They arrived on Friday after boarding the British Airways
overnight flight to Abuja which was slightly delayed after the scheduled pilot
went sick, and a replacement had to be quickly arranged.
Some Nigerian officials met them on arrival, just before 5
am, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja. Afterward, they were
taken out of a side door onto the jetty, and into a waiting blacked-out
minibus.
“They will be tired after their journey, so they will rest
and then the first engagement is at midday at the Defence Headquarters,”
defence spokesperson Brigadier General Tukur Gusau told the Daily Mail.
“After that, they will travel to Kaduna to meet wounded
soldiers at a military hospital there before returning to Abuja for other
engagements.”
In 2022, the Duchess of Sussex revealed that she had
discovered via a genealogy test that she was 43% Nigerian.
The visit primarily to promote the Invictus Games comes
after Harry met the Nigerian team and the Chief of Defence Staff General
Christopher Musa at last year’s competition in Dusseldorf, Germany.
It was there that he told the audience Meghan was ‘rooting
for Team Nigeria’, after discovering she had heritage from the West African
nation.
The couple is due to visit a school before the duke meets
injured service members at a military hospital.
They will also attend a training session for the charity
organisation Nigeria: Unconquered which collaborates with the Invictus Games,
as well as a reception where military families will be honoured.
On Saturday, the couple will attend a training session for
the organisation, Nigeria: Unconquered, and a reception hosted by the Chief of
Defence Staff in honour of military families.
In the afternoon, Meghan will co-host an event of Women in
Leadership with Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director General of the World Trade
Organization.
On Sunday, the couple will attend a basketball clinic with
Giants of Africa, a cultural reception, and a polo fundraiser for Nigeria:
Unconquered.
In 2022, the Duchess of Sussex revealed that she had
discovered via a genealogy test that she was 43% Nigerian.
Talking about it in her Archetypes podcast, she told
comedian Ziwe, “I’m going to start to dig deeper into all this because anybody
that I’ve told, especially Nigerian women, are like ‘What!’ ”
“This is huge for our community. No, honestly, you do look
like a Nigerian, you look like my Aunt Uzo. So this is great,” Ziwe, 30, said.