Blair House: Buhari first Nigerian President to stay at the 190 year-old guest house

President Obama instead of the prestigious White House chose the quiet Blair House, a guest house to host President Muhammadu Buhari, next week when the Nigerian leader arrives for a three day official visit to Washington.

Located across from the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue, Blair House has served as the President’s Guest House since its purchase by the U.S. government in World War II. Under the stewardship of the Department of State, it welcomes visiting heads of state, ambassadors, and other notables in gracious, secure surroundings in the heart of the nation’s capital.

Built as a private home in 1824, Blair House has played an important role in nearly 190 years of American political, diplomatic and cultural history—from Andrew Jackson’s “Kitchen Cabinet,” to private chats with Abraham Lincoln, to Harry S. Truman’s crucial leadership as World War II ended and the Cold War began. Now, as then, U.S. Presidents continue to rely on Blair House as a significant foreign policy tool.

Deeply ingrained in the US history, Blair house has served as a guest house for the president for over 190 years, some of the dignitaries hosted at the guest house include, the late Nelson Mandela, King Mohammed VI of Morocco, Charles De Gaulle, Queen of England.

According to the state department , an invitation from the President of the United States to occupy this historic residence is an honor of the highest significance.


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it is quaint and recommended for old people.. why not

Nigerians won't like the outcome of the visit to 190yr-old house.

An invitation in disguise... Obama has some secret agenda..

Wow! That's great.

Make dem no organize Gay CIA dudes to rape him sha.

Cuz dese peeps can really be funny.

Yea, big deal. Hope staying there would help reverse his senility and lethargy.

i smell desperation of APC trying to sell us buhari as been a well respected Nigerian president but his first few gape in securities and corruption and the economy says otherwise of a senseless president that prefer to travel abroad to see the USA president while as of this moment people are still been killed since his inauguration till date and the economy is in a free fall and what APC CYBER WARRIOR want to sell to placate this suffering is "HEY DBBOY YOUR PRESIDENT IS BEING QUARTERED IN A 190YEAR OLD BUILDING BY THE WESTERN PRESIDENT, I SURE DO HOPE THIS NEWS ALLEVIATE YOUR SUFFFERING, CIAO" OH WHAT A RESPECTED PRESIDENT INDEED.

What sort of idiot do we have as politician and the masses. Am starting to believe Nigeria is indeed a Zoo, people are killed and no one is held accountable and the CHANGE that ought to be the CHANGE has so far eluded Nigerian that we now hold on to nothing in the midst of plenty just to delude our-self that the change is indeed materializing were it is indeed a MIRAGE. IN FELA OWN WORD "AM SORRY FOR NIGERIA", AND IF I AM TO ADD, WE ARE LIVING IN DENIAL.