Buhari jets out to London for summit, medical vacation

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Monday depart for the United Kingdom for a three-week medical vacation as well as to attend the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021-2025, to be co-hosted by the  British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, and the President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta.

A press statement by the Special Adviser to the President(Media & Publicity), Femi Adesina, said the summit would 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.

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.

Thereafter, the president will spend a few days undergoing a previously scheduled medical check-up.
 He is due back by the second week in August 2021.

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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