Nigerian President Bola Tinubu arrived in the UK on Tuesday for a two-day state visit hosted by King Charles III, images broadcast by Nigerian television outlets showed.

The first such visit by a Nigerian head of state in nearly four decades will include a banquet hosted by Charles at the historic Windsor Castle, west of London.

Nigeria is part of the Commonwealth, while Britain is home to a massive Nigerian diaspora.

Tinubu touched down at London Stansted Airport shortly before 4:00 pm UK time (1600 GMT).

His trip comes a day after Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri was hit by coordinated blasts by suspected suicide bombers, killing 23 and wounding more than 100 others.