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Bola Tinubu's state visit to UK: major steel deal agreed with British PM

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomed Nigerian President Bola Tinubu at 10 Downing Street in London during the first state visit by the leader of Africa's most populous nation in nearly four decades.

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00:00Nigerian President Bolotinubu continued his historic state visit of the UK on Thursday
00:06and met with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at 10 Downing Street.
00:11During their meeting, the two leaders focused on trade discussions
00:15and agreed on a record-breaking steel trade deal.
00:20We have a lot of work that we already do on the economy, on defence and security,
00:26but today is the opportunity to take that to another level.
00:29With the agreements that we've been able to reach on exports and on business exchange,
00:36and I think that shows that our ambition is to go even further than we've already gone with our two
00:46countries.
00:46And we need too much of the trade agreements, you know,
00:56stimulate more economic relationship that we build our two nations.
01:04The Nubu state visit to the UK is the first time in nearly four decades
01:09that a Nigerian head of state makes an official visit to the UK.
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