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BREAKING: President Buhari Departs Nigeria For London
- President Buhari will today depart Nigeria for London.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that President Muhammadu Buhari will on Monday (today) depart Abuja for London to see his doctors and participate in the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education 2021-2025.
The latest development was made known by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, via a statement in the early hours of Monday.
Adesina noted that President Buhari will be back in the country by the second week of August 2021.
EKO HOT BLOG recalls that President Buhari had on March 30, 2021, undertaken a similar trip, which kept him in the United Kingdom for about two weeks.
“President Muhammadu Buhari will today Monday, July 26, 2021, travel to the United Kingdom to participate in the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021-2025.
“The Summit, which will be co-hosted by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, and the President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, will bring together Heads of State and Government as well as stakeholders and youth leaders, and provide a platform for partners to chart a way forward towards transforming education systems in partner countries, through exchange of best practices.
“It will also offer the opportunity for leaders to make 5-year pledges to support GPE’s work to help transform education systems in up to 90 countries and territories.
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“Deliberations at the Summit will focus on: The Power of Education –A Conversation between Global Champions; Transforming Education for Girls; Financing for Impact and Recovery and; What Now? Priorities for Transforming Education in the Coming Five Years, among others.
“President Buhari will also hold a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
“After the Summit, the President will spend a few days for an earlier scheduled medical check-up. He is due back by second week of August 2021.
President Muhammadu Buhari
“The President will be accompanied by Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, Minister of State Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, National Security Adviser, Maj. Gen. Babagana Monguno (rtd) and Director General of National Intelligence Agency, Amb. Ahmed Rufai Abubakar,” the statement read.
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