President Bola Tinubu has arrived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the 2025 BRICS SUMMIT.
The presidential air plane, which departed Saint Lucia five hours earlier landed at the Rio International airport at about quarter to nine, Friday night.
The president was received on arrival by the Secretary for Africa & Middle East and Secretary for Innovation and Commerce.
In Rio De Janeiro, President Tinubu is one of the four African leaders attending the 17th BRICS summit.
Presidential spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, in a statement stated that president Tinubu is attending the summit at the invitation of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil, on the strength of Nigeria’s status as a ‘partner country’- a membership category short of full status.
He explained that the Partner status is higher than that of a guest country, as has been the case in the past.
South Africa, Egypt and Ethiopia are African members of BRICS.
At this year’s summit, BRICS Leaders from countries identified as the world’s fast-growing economies converge on Rio de Janeiro, promising to strengthen trade and technology exchange within the bloc against the background of US President Donald Trump’s tariff threat.
