The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle arrived Nigeria, a country in West Africa on a three day tour to promote the Invictus games which the Prince founded in 2014 to aid the rehabilitation of wounded and sick soldiers and veterans.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in Abuja, Nigeria on their first trip to the country.

This is their first trip to Nigeria on the invitation of the Nigeria Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, and they will have the opportunity of interacting with military officials, women leaders and a visit to injured soldiers at a local military hospital.
On arrival, Prince Harry and Meghan attended an inaugural Mental health seminar at the Lightway Academy, Abuja where he addressed the students on mental health.

"Every Single person in this room, the youngest, the oldest, every single person has mental health. So therefore, you have to look after yourself to be able to look after other people. And other people have to be able to look after themselves, to look after you. That's the way it works," Prince Harry said.

"In some cases, around the world, in more than you would believe, there is a stigma when it comes to mental health.

"Too many people don't want to talk about it, because it's invisible - something in your mind that you can't see," he added.

However, the couple has been slammed by a Royal expert Richard Eden for accepting the invitation from the Nigerian government which presumably is bankrolling the cost of their travel and security.

"The security tab will be paid by the government of Nigeria, a country where an estimated 87 million people live below the poverty line," he disclosed to Daily Mail Newspaper.

With nearly two third of Nigerians living on less than $1.90 US dollar per day as of 2023, Royal author Tom Bower agreed with Mr. Eden and described the visit of Prince Harry and Meghan to Nigeria to "playing the Royal card".

"Once again, the private-seeking couple are exploiting the family they have outrageously denounced to pump up their publicity," Bower told the same Newspaper.