STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE
SECURITY, WAR AGAINST TERRORISM, TRADE AND ECONOMIC RELATIONS TOP AGENDA OF PRESIDENT BUHARI'S VISIT TO WASHINGTON DC
President
 Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja Sunday to Washington DC  on a 
four-day official visit during which he will hold high-level talks with 
President Barack Obama and other senior officials of the United States 
government.
Topmost
 on the agenda of  President Buhari's talks with President Obama and 
United States Government officials will be measures to strengthen and 
intensify bilateral and international cooperation against terrorism in 
Nigeria and West-Africa.
President
 Buhari who will meet  with President Obama at the White House on 
Monday, July 20, will later hold further discussions with the Chairman 
of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey and 
the Deputy Secretary of Defence, Robert Work  on military and defence 
cooperation.
The 
President will also meet with Vice President Joe Biden and confer with 
the US Attorney-General, Loretta Lynch,   the US Secretary of Treasury, 
Jack Lew, the US Secretary of Commerce,  Penny  Pritzker and the US 
Trade representative, Michael Froman on United States support for his 
administration's war against corruption as well as fresh measures to 
boost Nigeria-United States trade relations.
The 
President, who will be received by the United States Secretary of State 
at the State Department in Washington DC, will later hold meetings with 
the United States  Senate and Congressional Committees on Foreign 
Relations, as well as the Black Caucus of the United States House of 
Representatives.
Before 
leaving Washington DC, President Buhari  will address the United States 
Chamber of Commerce and Corporate Council for Africa.
The 
President, who will be accompanied by the Governors of Imo, Nasarawa, 
Edo, Borno and Oyo States as well as the Governor of the Central Bank of
 Nigeria and Permanent Secretaries of the Federal Ministries  of 
Defence, Foreign Affairs, Industry, Trade and Investment, will also host
 an interactive session with Nigerians in the American Diaspora.
The US 
trip will also afford President Buhari the opportunity of a reunion with
 members of the American War College Class of 1980 in which he was a 
distinguished participant.
He is  due back in Abuja on Thursday, July 23.
Femi Adesina
Special Adviser to the President
(Media & Publicity)