The Nigerian federal government has said U.S. President Barack Obama has given his words that he would soon visit Nigeria, the Lagos based Thisday newspaper reported on Friday.
According to the report, the Nigerian government has said Obama's forthcoming visit is to underlined the importance of Nigeria as a very strategic African country.
Ojo Maduekwe, the Nigerian minister of Foreign Affairs, disclosed this at a book launch written by the southeast Nigeria's Imo State Governor Ikedi Ohakim, in Lagos, Xinhua reported.
President Obama's visit to neighboring Ghana last week caused indignation across the most populous African nation.
In recent past, newly elected U.S. presidents visiting Africa for the first time had almost made it a tradition to put Nigeria on their African tour.
But Obama, who was said to have been excited by Ghana's democratic progress and saddened by Nigeria's poor electoral credentials, proved an exception.
Obama visited Ghana from July 10 to 11 and he delivered a keynote speech to the country's Parliament, which was widely seen as his administration's foreign policies toward Africa.
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