President Buhari Now In Nairobi For The International Conference on African Development


President Muhammadu Buhari has landed Jomo Kenyatta International Airport Nairobi, Kenya, to attend the Sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI), slated for August 27th – 28th.

The president was received at the airport by the Kenyan Minister of Internal Affairs, Joseph Nkaissery. Others at the airport to receive him counted Nigeria’s acting High Commissioner to Kenya, Friday Okei, and other Nigerian embassy officials in Kenya.

On Mr president’s entourage are the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geofffrey Onyeama; Minister of Trade and Investment, Okechukwu Enelemah; Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udu-Udoma and the Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole.

On the autharity of an earlier statement signed by the president’s Special Adviser on Media, Femi Adesina, related that the conference would focus on promoting structural economic transformation through diversification and industrialisation; promoting resilient health system for quality life and promoting social stability for shared prosperity.

Adesina diclosed that  President Buhari would participate in plenary sessions in alignment with African Development in the course of the conference, the Dialogue with the Private Sector, as well as the Global Launch of the Second Africa Human Development Report. While stating that the president will also hold a bilateral meeting with the Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe.

The summit is being co-organised by the Government of Japan, the United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on Africa, the United Nations Development Programme, the African Union (AU) and the World Bank.

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