President Donald Trump is set to host leaders from five African countries on the 9th of July, 2025.
The United States leader will meet with the presidents of Gabon, Liberia, Senegal, Mauritania and Guinea-Bissau in Washington to discuss commercial opportunities.
Speaking during an interview, a White House official confirmed that Trump is scheduled to discuss with the African leaders over lunch at the White House.
According to the official, Trump is of the opinion that African nations provide amazing commercial opportunities which would better the lives of Americans and potential African partners.
“President Trump believes that African countries offer incredible commercial opportunities which benefit both the American people and our African partners,” he said, citing some of the reasons why the meeting was arranged.
Recall that Africa Intelligence and Semafor recently said that the Trump government would hold a summit for the five countries in Washington from July 9-11.
Noticeably, Nigeria failed to make the list of nations set to meet with the American president, and this has sparked a lot of questions among Nigerians.
The so-called giant of Africa currently appears crushed under the weight of the APC’s weak leadership, and while other nations on the continent keep forging crucial economic ties, Tinubu prefers to jet off on a vacation in St. Lucia to collect ceremonial titles, amid the increasing level of insecurity and hunger back home.
Since the current APC administration assumed power, Nigeria has gone from being one of the fastest-growing economies globally to the present pitiful state of our economy.
Tinubu has reportedly travelled to 40 countries as president, but has only managed to attract less than $3 billion in foreign direct investment, which is not up to $15 for every Nigerian in a country of more than 200 million people.
Meanwhile, America recently imported a whopping $136 billion in goods from Vietnam, despite importing just $32 billion from the whole of Africa. Nigeria, the continent’s largest economy, has stayed unproductive and unstable in recent years.
Until our electricity problems and the election of corrupt politicians become a thing of the past, Nigeria will continue to be the laughing stock of Africa.
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