Harry & Meghan met with cheers on day two of ‘old school royal tour’ Nigeria trip after duchess heaped praise on husband
HARRY and Meghan were met with cheers today as they visited a sports centre on the second of their three day trip to Nigeria.
Fans took selfies with the pair as they jostled their way through crowds in the capital Abuja.
After shaking hands with well-wishers they are expected to play a game of volleyball – just day’s after Prince William tried his hand at the sport.
On Thursday, Prince William also enjoyed a game of volleyball on a visit to Fistral beach in Newquay, Cornwall.
He looked delighted as he played with surfers and litter pickers after announcing plans to build 24 additional homes his own Duchy of Cornwall land at nearby Nansledan.
The development will provide temporary accommodation for local people experiencing homelessness.
Harry and Meghan touched down in Abuja on Friday morning to promote the 2025 Invictus Games in Vancouver, Canada.
The event – which sees injured servicemen and women compete in a range of athletics events – was founded by Prince Harry and is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.
The couple began their visit with a tour of Lightway Academy, a primary and secondary school in the capital.
They were greeted by traditional dancers and met some of the primary schoolchildren.
Meghan revealed dancing was Lilibet’s favourite class, adding: “Maybe it’s all the jumping around.”
In 2023, The Archewell Foundation supported girls’ education and health in Nigeria, sending school supplies and menstrual products to 2,500 girls in the region.
Harry was yesterday gifted a portrait of his mother Princess Diana by the Nigerian government, as well as a painted picture from his 2018 wedding to Meghan Markle.
He later visited a military hospital in war torn Kaduna, around 200km north of Abuja.
The region has seen horrific fighting between nomadic Fulani herdsman and farmers, as well as an insurgency by Boko Haram Islamists.
The Duke shook hands with around 50 wounded soldiers and asked one bed-ridden hero if he’d named his prosthetic leg.
While holding the hand of another man, Harry asked: “Are they helping you? Are you feeling better?”
The 39-year-old was later given a “big gown” and hula cap as a going home present from Kaduna governor Uba Sani.
Harry’s African adventure comes days after a solo whistle-stop three-day visit to London on Tuesday to promote the Invictus Games.
On Wednesday he spoke an event in St Paul’s Cathedral where he gave a Bible reading from Corinthians that stressed different people have different gifts and strengths.
Another reading from Isaiah talked of stopping “the pointing of the finger, the speaking of evil”.
As Harry’s event got underway, The King met members of the public at a Buckingham Palace garden party just over two miles away.
On Thursday, Harry was the surprise guest at a party hosted by Scotty’s Little Soldiers, a charity that supports the bereaved kids of military personnel.
The Duke’s spokesman said the King’s “full programme” prevented the pair meeting but stressed he “hopes to see his dad soon”.
The pair last came face-to-face at Clarence House in February, having not seen each other for 16 months.
Harry told the BBC it had been “great” to be back in the UK before leaving the UK on Thursday evening.
Next year’s Invictus Games will be the first to feature a winter sport element.