ABUJA, July 3 (Xinhua) -- Visiting French President Emmanuel Macron and Nigerian leader Muhammadu Buhari held a closed-door meeting upon his arrival in the capital city of Abuja on Tuesday.
Macron and Buhari were engaged in bilateral talks bordering on security and terrorism, according to the official News Agency of Nigeria.
The meeting was "quite brief," presidency sources told Xinhua. It is Macron's first visit to Nigeria since his election as French president last year.
Macron had earlier met with the Nigerian leader on Monday in Nouakchott, the capital city of Mauritania, during the closing ceremony of the African Union summit.
The French leader will proceed to the commercial city of Lagos later on Tuesday where he will meet Governor Akinwunmi Ambode and visit the Afrika Shrine, a music and entertainment center originally set up by the late Nigerian music legend Fela Anikulapo-Kuti.
The French president is also expected at the official opening of the Alliance Francais building in highbrow Ikoyi area of Lagos before departing the city on Wednesday.
The Alliance Francais, a global cultural organization founded in July 1883, is supported by grants from the French government.
Macron lived in Nigeria some years ago when he worked as an intern at the French Embassy in Abuja, according to French envoy Denys Gauer.
