Queen Elizabeth 11visits Nigeria -adds more shots, comment

(4 Dec 2003)
Pool - Abuja, Nigeria - December 3, 2003
1. Pan from guard in uniform to plane taxiing
2. Wide shot of guard of honour
3. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip climbing down stairs
4. Guards
5. Queen with Nigerian President Obasanjo
6. Guns
7. Wide shot of Queen walking past guard of honour
8. Close up Queen
9. Queen and Obasanjo entering ceremony
10. Cutaway audience
11. Cutaway of Prince Philip
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigerian President
"Her Majesty's visit to Nigeria is indeed, very significant and it is a momentous occasion for every Nigerian."
13. Audience
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Queen Elizabeth II
"My country particularly applauds the leading part the Nigerian government and people are playing in the new partnership for Africa's development and the international communities developments to bring peace and stability to Liberia, Sierra Leone and other nations wracked by conflict in West Africa. It is fitting that Nigeria should host the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting this year (CHOGM)."
15. Obasanjo and Queen meeting and greeting
APTN - Abuja, Nigeria - December 3, 2003
16. Welcome to Abuja sign
17. CHOGM 2003 on sign
18. Security
19. Various of summit building
20. Flags of Commonwealth member nations
APTN - Abuja, Nigeria - December 3, 2003
21. SOUNDBITE: (English) Penny Russell-Smith, Queen's Press Secretary
"The Commonwealth is very much a voluntary association and voluntary means precisely that so it is very much a decision for President Mugabe and the Queen would certainly see it that way."
APTN - Karu, near Abuja, Nigeria - December 3, 2003
21. Wide shot of people by sign for local government building
22. Various of dancers practicing ahead of Queen's visit on Wednesday
STORYLINE:
Queen Elizabeth II returned to Africa's most populous nation on Wednesday for her first visit in nearly a half-century, leading heads of government to the West African giant of Nigeria for a 52-nation summit of Britain and its former colonies.
Conspicuously absent among arriving leaders was Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe - his nation suspended from Commonwealth leadership councils, and Mugabe himself specifically banned from the summit.
Commonwealth organisers said they want the four-day gathering to promote what they called the "twin engines" of society - democracy and development - even in countries like repressively governed Zimbabwe, and heavily militarily influenced Pakistan.
It was the queen's first visit to Nigeria since 1956, when she was just four years into her reign.
Nigeria - then Britain's most-crowded remaining colony - still stood four years away from independence.
On Wednesday, traditional singers and dancers with faces painted white greeted Elizabeth's arrival at Abuja's airport.
President Olusegun Obasanjo, whose 1999 election closed 15 years of military rule and Nigeria's own shunning by the Commonwealth, welcomed the queen and her husband, Prince Philip.
The 77-year-old British monarch will open the summit on Friday, after a two-day state visit.
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[@olupaul]

Nigeria keeps declining over the years tbh... Nigeria 2003 is alot better than it is today

[@ifeoluwapraise_]

God will renew it again

[@DonatusOkechukwuOkoli-zc7nz]

I was 12 years old and in second year of junior high school when the late British monarch her majesty Queen Elizabeth II came to Nigeria for the second time. The first was in January/February 1956 when Nigeria was still under the British empire, her majesty Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip the Duke of Edinburgh visited the country and spent 20 days touring the country from Jan. 28 to Feb. 16 1956. The visit was called THE ROYAL TOUR OF NIGERIA. On 3rd Dec. 2003 Queen Elizabeth II arrived Nigeria, this time as an independent nation to attend the CHOGM in her role as the head of the commonwealth of nations. She left Nigeria on 6th Dec. 2003, unfortunately the second and last time she will visit Nigeria. God bless the soul of her late majesty Queen Elizabeth II and may God strengthen her son and successor his majesty King Charles III.

[@rogersutton-ps8mn]

I was an 8 year old when my school watched her Majesty arrive at Lagos airport, her plane was guided to its berth by my father

[@mayfieldnorris4280]

Interesting!

[@chidounegbu7245]

obasanjo said that , that visit cost nigeria 11 million dollars, the poor woman didnt even drink any water not to talk about eating food

[@Laneykl4lyf]

Was this when Prince Philip told the Nigerian president he looked like he was ready for bed?

[@Grizzlyx9]

😂😂😂🤣😅

[@samsonadeyemi2169]

That was in 1956

[@DonatusOkechukwuOkoli-zc7nz]

@@samsonadeyemi2169 I have encountered you before. No it was in 2003.

[@samsonadeyemi2169]

@@DonatusOkechukwuOkoli-zc7nz sorry but I wasn't even born then

[@stevenharry4839]

She was not there on a personal vist but for an anual commonwealth of Nations gatterings

[@jamesborg1573]

She did a personal visit in 1956, just a couple of years after she was crowned Queen.

[@ayatollahayo1568]

@@jamesborg1573 yeah, when she was a little girl almost 70 years ago. has she done a personal visit ever since?

[@jenniiferpiiter8868]

tes is very proud to be a Nigerian! tes Jenniifer piiter singer songwriter.

[@jenniiferpiiter8868]

wow !welicome oh !the queen and the prince you are welicome oh!

[@JohnKing-do2yc]

Elizabeth the Eleventh looks quite like Elizabeth II.

[@bismark5809]

WHO knows how much they spent just for one person a day visit...

[@jenniiferpiiter8868]

#jenniiferpiiter . wow ! welicome oh!X3 the queen and the prince you are welicome oh!I say welicome oh! to Nigeria welicome oh! 2022 (c) tesseOGHENEmusic word and music Jenniifer piiter