{"id":5945,"date":"2010-02-16T13:04:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T18:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=5945"},"modified":"2010-02-16T13:04:17","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T18:04:17","slug":"new-nigerian-leader-others-welcome-president-koroma-to-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=5945","title":{"rendered":"New Nigerian leader, others welcome President Koroma to Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Republic of Nigeria\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Acting President His Excellency Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has welcomed Sierra Leone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s President Ernest Bai Koroma to Abuja, and said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I am here to pay you a courtesy call and to formally welcome you to Nigeria again.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<em>(Photo: President Ernest Bai Koroma and Major General Rtd. Abdul Salami Abubakarr shaking hands, witnessed by H.E. Henry O. Macauley)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Accompanied by Nigeria\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Foreign and International Cooperation Minister Chief Ojo Maduekwe, Acting President Good Luck Jonathan was received by Sierra Leone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Minister Madam Zainab Hawa Bangura and Sierra Leone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s High Commissioner to the Federal Republic of Nigeria H.E. Henry O. Macauley, before being led into the presidential suite at the Hotel Nicon Hilton in central Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the outgoing President of the Economic Community of West African States Commission Dr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas, accompanied by his aides, visited President Ernest Bai Koroma and had a briefing with him at the same hotel suite.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5947\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/sem.lamtech.sl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/From_Rt_Pres_Koroma_Dr_Ibn_chambas_Dr._Richard_Konteh_and_H.E._Henry_O._Macauley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5947\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5947\" title=\"From_Rt_Pres_Koroma_Dr_Ibn_chambas_Dr._Richard_Konteh_and_H.E._Henry_O._Macauley\" src=\"http:\/\/sem.lamtech.sl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/From_Rt_Pres_Koroma_Dr_Ibn_chambas_Dr._Richard_Konteh_and_H.E._Henry_O._Macauley-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"R-L Pres Koroma Dr Ibn Chambas, Dr. Richard Konteh, and H.E. Henry O. Macauley\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5947\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">R-L Pres Koroma Dr Ibn Chambas, Dr. Richard Konteh, and H.E. Henry O. Macauley<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Soon after his arrival, President Ernest Bai Koroma, Foreign Minister Madam Zainab Hawa Bangura, and H.E. Henry O Macauley visited his Colleague President Blaise Campoare of Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n<p>Former Nigerian Leader Abdul salami Abu Bakarr also paid a courtesy call on President Koroma Monday evening.<\/p>\n<address>Pasco Gerald Temple, Information Attach\u00c3\u00a9, Sierra Leone High Commission, Abuja, Nigeria, &amp; Sheka Tarawally Presidential Press Secretary<\/address>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Republic of Nigeria\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Acting President His Excellency Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has welcomed Sierra Leone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s President Ernest Bai Koroma to Abuja, and said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1221,1],"tags":[2314,2302],"class_list":["post-5945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","category-uncategorized","tag-koroma-in-nigeria","tag-nigeria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}