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President Buhari, Vice President Osinbajo Go Out Of Nigeria Tomorrow

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President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will tomorrow, Wednesday, leave Nigeria for engagements in other countries at various levels.

While President Buhari will head for Chad and Niger to engage in finding solution to the scourge of Boko Haram, Vice President Osinbajo will lead a delegation of government officials to the World Economic Forum on Africa (WEFA), holding in Capa Town, South Africa.

Information reaching us showed that Professor Osinbajo will give a talk on issues related to youth employment and job creation at the three-day forum which is expected to be attended by about 1,250 persons, made up of leaders, government officials, notable public and private sector players, people from the academia and civil society groups.

The focus at the forum will be on infrastructure development, financing for the region, economic growth, entrepreneurship, safeguarding Africa’s democratic dividend, Africa’s mobile technology, data revolution and designing of smarter cities among others, a programme on the WEFA website showed.The forum will also discuss how best to tackle the issues facing the continent, including attention to terrorism.

Agriculture is another sector that most African countries have not fully explored and it will form part of the talks at various meetings.

The immediate past Minister of Finance in Nigeria, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and Mr. Uche Orji of the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority are also attending the forum.

It is hoped that at the end of the three-day meeting, some realistic ideas and practical solutions to Africa’s numerous challenges would be evolved.

Africa has become a hotbed for investment, as it has continued to record good growth potential despite the challenges facing some of its economies.

Conversation will start on Wednesday, June 3 and the forum would try to come up with practical ways of combating the different challenges facing the continent. [myad]

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