Jonathan, Obama to meet in New York

President Goodluck Jonathan who arrived in New York early yesterday ahead of the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) will meet United States President Barack Obama today. The 2015 election, the energy sector and Boko Haram crisis in Nigeria will top the agenda of the meeting. Jonathan was received by the supervising Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prof. Viola Onwuliri, the Nigerian Permanent Representative to the UN, Prof. Joy Ogwu and the Nigerian Ambassador to the United States (U.S.), Prof. Ade Adefuye. Dr Jonathan was later received at the city centre by the Minister of State for Works and the supervising Minister, National Planning Commission, Alhaji Bashir Yuguda, the Minister of Agriculture, Mr Akinwumi Adesina and Ondo State Governor Olusegun Mimiko. He is expected to hold five bilateral meetings that will cover the EU, Slovenia, Sri Lanka, Lebanon, and Trinidad and Tobago. President Jonathan
will be among the four world leaders and the first African leader to address the UN General Assembly. He will speak after the leaders of Brazil, U.S. and Turkey. After the President’s address, Yuguda will chair the side event, organised by the Leading Group of Innovative Financing for Development, a global body which has 63 member-nations and several international non- governmental organisations (NGOs).