NIGERIA, May 7, 2018. The Cuban Ambassador Carlos Trejo Sosa, gave a press interview to television Nigerian Television Authority (NTA, for its acronym in English).
The exchange allowed moving targets messages about Cuba and its reality and denounce the permanence of the economic embargo and financial embargo imposed by the United States against the Cuban people, illegal occupation of the territory of the Guantanamo Naval Base, changing Cuban government through the general elections, as well as the legacy of the Commander in Chief, Fidel Castro.
The existing relations with Africa and with Nigeria were mentioned. For the second "are blood ties," the Ambassador, as many Cubans have their origins in the land of the Nigerian Yoruba ancestors, because of the forced migration of slaves who arrived in the Caribbean in the eighteenth century.
The Nigerian Television Authority is the National Television Network for the Nigerian people. Its key function is to provide independent and impartial television broadcasts for the reception of the country. It is a tool for national integration, so it has great scope in the federal territory.
(Embassy of Cuba in Nigeria)