President Muhammadu Buhari has scheduled to travel today Monday, to the United Kingdom to participate in the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021-2025 and for medical checkup.
He will be expected back in Nigeria by second week in August, 2021.
The Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity),
Femi Adesina, Presidential Spokesman, made the disclosure in a statement early Monday morning.
Those in the President’s entourage for the trip include 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.
Adesina explained that the Summit, to 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,” Nigeria’s presidential spokesman said.
Deliberations at the Summit will,according to the press release, 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, Adesina said.
The Presidential Spokesman also revealed that “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.”
It could be recalled that Buhari recently suspended a medical trip to the UK.
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