Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are currently in Nigeria to honor an invitation sent to them by the Chief of Defence Staff, Christopher Gwabin Musa.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were pictured arriving at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja on Friday 10, 2024.
Afterwards, they made their way to the Lights Academy in Abuja, where they interacted with the students.
According to a report in the Daily Mail, the couple who no longer carry out official duties for the British Monarchy was invited to participate in “cultural activities”.
They are also here to champion the Invictus Games, which Harry founded to aid the rehabilitation of wounded and sick servicemembers and veterans.
They will meet service members and their families and participate in ‘traditional cultural activities’.
Harry and Meghan’s acceptance of the invitation, their first visit to Nigeria as a couple is said to have left the country’s defense headquarters feeling ‘honored’ and ‘delighted’, according to local newspaper reports.
Meghan revealed in 2022, that she found out she is 43 percent Nigerian after doing a genealogy test years ago.
Speaking on her podcast, Archetypes, to Nigerian-American comedian, Ziwe Fumudoh she said: ‘I’m going to start to dig deeper into all this because anybody that I’ve told, especially Nigerian women, are like ‘What!”
