President Goodluck Jonathan is going to the United States to meet President Barak Obama and become the first Nigerian leader to ring the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on September 23. In his mission, he will be accompanied by a range of Nigerian ministers led by the Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.


The Nigerian Ambassador to the US, Prof. Ade Adefuye, said that the Ministers would arrive at Washington on September 20, to further underscore the positive changes the government had made.

He disclosed that Jonathan will meet with key industry players in agriculture, power and infrastructure during his visit. Adefuye added that investors would be provided with information on the steps that the government had taken so far to attract foreign investments.

The ministerial delegation includes Minister for Trade, Industry and Investment, Segun Aganga; Minister for Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke; Ag. Minister for Foreign Affairs, Prof. Viola Onwuliri; and Director-General, Nigeria Stock Exchange, Arunma Oteh.

A reliable source disclosed to DailyPost that Jonathan in New York would hold meetings with top executives of companies doing business in Nigeria such as Coca Cola, General Electric, Procter and Gamble, and Chevron.

Jonathan and Obama, will meet next week in New York. Both leaders will also address the annual United Nations General Assembly next Tuesday.

Last month, a top US Government official, Ms. Wendy Sherman, leading the American delegation to a US-Nigeria Bi-National Commission in Abuja, had presented to Jonathan a letter from his American counterpart, reviewing the diplomatic relationship between both countries and inviting the former to a meeting in New York.

The meeting between the presidents is to calm nerves in the wake of Obama's snub of Nigeria during his recent trip to Africa.

agbameta: Ringing bell at the NYSE is beneath the president of Nigeria or any president, but to the dullard, anything is good to go. I bet they paid some NY firm millions of dollars to lobby for this silliness.

Just picture this joker at the NYSE with his goofy smile, halloween uniform and undertaker hat...


This odeshuku don suffer...lmao

agbameta: Ringing bell at the NYSE is beneath the president of Nigeria or any president, but to the dullard, anything is good to go. I bet they paid some NY firm millions of dollars to lobby for this silliness.

Just picture this joker at the NYSE with his goofy smile, halloween uniform and undertaker hat...


This odeshuku don suffer...lmao

berem: Una president wan go ring bell for America! LOL!!

aletheia:
He is your present too, mörön!

Ringing the opening bell of the NYSE is a symbolic art and an honor. If the news is true, then President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan belongs to such notable company as Nelson Mandela who were also given the honor of ringing the bell of the NYSE.

You really need to get an education.

eGuerrilla: Jonathan is not the first Nigerian to be given this honour.

Aruma Oteh ringing closing bell at NYSE 26 Sept 2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcxBaXCABMQ

he will be
accompanied by a range of
Nigerian ministers led by the
Coordinating Minister of the
Economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-
Iweala.
The Nigerian Ambassador to
the US, Prof. Ade
Adefuye, said that the
Ministers would arrive at
Washington on September 20,
to further
underscore the positive
changes the government had
made.

eGuerrilla: Jonathan is not the first Nigerian to be given this honour.

Aruma Oteh ringing closing bell at NYSE 26 Sept 2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcxBaXCABMQ

Even Professor Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke rang the closing bell at NYSE sometime in 2008.

agbameta: lmao @ symbolic art and an honor.. are we not talking about the NYSE?


These laptops no go kil pesin today I swear..



lmao

solomon111: you are an inbred moronn.
Check out the list of those given the honour and see if they were ordinary personalities.
GEJ was given the honour of closing the day of the most powerful stock exchange in the world,alongside holding talks with the american president.
So you are telling me buhari would have rejected such request?
Lol.
He would automatically hold the honour of being the most stupidd president in the world.

solomon111: you are an inbred moronn.
Check out the list of those given the honour and see if they were ordinary personalities.
GEJ was given the honour of closing the day of the most powerful stock exchange in the world,alongside holding talks with the american president.
So you are telling me buhari would have rejected such request?
Lol.
He would automatically hold the honour of being the most stupidd president in the world.

PvtParts:

you are obviously suffering from delusion due to severe hunger


what you just posted is not objective in any way but resonates personal hatred that is so much recycled and old here on nairaland

For your own good i will suggest you go out there and get somebody to buy you a meal.

hungry man

agbameta:

I just hate when Dullards quote me with their silly cries and senseless rubbish..


Is this meaningless honor going to get our student back to school or end ASUU strike? Is it going to stop oil theft or any of our pressing issues?

solomon111: Me hungry?
You must be delusional.

Italiano1: Jona does not even have the slightest knowledge of what goes on at the NYSE not to talk of understanding the reason for ringing the bell- he will just subconsciously assume he is ringing the bell for the start of the consumption of copious amount of Ogogoro in his backward village

Italiano1: Jona does not even have the slightest knowledge of what goes on at the NYSE not to talk of understanding the reason for ringing the bell- he will just subconsciously assume he is ringing the bell for the start of the consumption of copious amount of Ogogoro in his backward village