President Muhammadu Buhari will leave Abuja today for London
to see his doctors and participate in the Global Education Summit on Financing
Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021-2025.
Buhari was initially scheduled to go to the UK last month,
but called it off.
In a statement by media adviser, Femi Adesina, Buhari will
spend a few days, after the education summit for an earlier scheduled medical
check-up.
He is due back by second week of August, 2021.
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.
It will also provide a platform for partners to chart a way
forward towards transforming education systems in partner countries, through
exchange of best practices.
It will 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.
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.
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.
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