President Muhammadu Buhari has
returned to Abuja after five-day official visits to Malabo (Equatorial Guinea),
Katsina and Kaduna State.
The president had on Nov. 28
departed Abuja to participate at the 5th Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF)
Summit in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.
In his address at the opening of
the 5th Gas summit, the president revealed that the Federal Government would soon
commence the construction of the 600-kilometre Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano gas
pipeline which would move gas from the Southern part of the country to the
North.
The president added that the
viability of extending the gas pipeline to North Africa was also under
consideration
The idea of the GECF was first
mooted in 2001 when the First Ministerial Meeting was held in Tehran, Iran,
while the First GECF otherwise called Gas Summit, took place in Doha, Qatar in
2011 with Nigeria represented at the highest level.
Other members of GECF, who
accounted for between 70 per cent and 80 per cent of global gas reserves and
production include Algeria, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Libya, Bolivia, Iran,
Qatar, Russia, Trinidad and Tobago, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, Kazakhstan
and Norway.
Buhari also held bilateral
meetings with President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea and
Iranian Vice President for Economic Affairs, Mohammad Nahavandian, on the
sidelines of the summit.
The president was accompanied on the
Malabo trip by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama; Minister of
State, Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva; Minister of Mines and Steel
Development, Olamilekan Adegbite; and the Group Managing Director, Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mele Kolo Kyari.
The president left Malabo after
the summit on Friday and headed to Daura, Katsina State, on another official
assignment where he performed the groundbreaking ceremony for the University of
Transportation, Daura, and inaugurated the Kwanar Gwante (Shargalle Road.
Before returning to Abuja, the
president visited Kaduna where he unveiled Made-in-Nigeria Mine Resistant
Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles for Nigerian Army’s counter-terrorism
operations and other exercises.
The vehicles, named Ezugwu MRAP,
were produced by the Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria, an indigenous
firm.
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