Ajay Banga, World Bank president, will commence a three-day
visit to Nigeria on Wednesday.
According to a statement on Tuesday by the Bretton Wood
institution, Banga will arrive in the country after a two-day visit to Ethiopia
and will be joined by Ritu Banga, his wife.
The bank noted that Banga’s visit is the next step of a
global tour that is at the centre of a mission to write “a new playbook for the
78-year-old institution”.
“Banga will focus his time in Nigeria on identifying opportunities to create jobs for young people and women, addressing energy needs and renewable energy, and further exploring the potential for digitisation,” the statement reads.
“As part of these
efforts, he will visit a World Bank financed mini-grid power plant that is
providing solar energy to an entire community, and a woman-owned business that
has generated more than 1,500 service-sector jobs for young Nigerians.”
Banga will also meet with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and
Vice-President Kashim Shettima while in Nigeria, the bank added.
In addition, the World Bank said it will “convene
discussions with representatives from the private sector and civil society”.
Banga’s scheduled visit follows earlier trips to Peru,
Jamaica, and India.
In June, the World Bank had said Banga’s global tour will
last until December 2023.
“Over the course of the tour, Banga will visit small island
states in the Pacific as well as countries in Latin America and the Caribbean,
the Middle East and North Africa, West and East Africa, Europe, and Asia,” the
bank had said.
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