By BASHIR ADEFAKA
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived London ahead of Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021-2025 same day on Monday 26th July 2021.
After the event, he will spend a few days in the UK for an earlier scheduled medical check-up, his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, had disclosed in a statement sent to The DEFENDER earlier.
The President’s Nigeria Air Force 1 aircraft departed Abuja, the Nigeria’s capital, Monday evening and arrived in London hours later, where the summit is scheduled to take place.
The President, who was accompanied by Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, Minister of State for Education, Hon. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, among others, was welcomed to London by the Nigeria High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, His Excellency Ambassador Sarafa Tunji Isola, accompanied by some British officials namely Her Majesty the Lord Lieutenant of Sussex, Mrs Jennifer Tolhurst, and Mr David Pearey, among others.
According to Mr. Adesina, the summit will be co-hosted by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, and the President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta.
It is expected to 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 the exchange of best practices.
The event will also offer the opportunity for leaders to make five-year pledges to support GPE’s work to help transform education systems in up to 90 countries and territories.
President Buhari, his media adviser noted, was accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama; the Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba; the National Security Adviser, Major General Babagana Monguno (rtd), and the Director-General of National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ambassador Ahmed Rufai.
Highpoints of the President’s departure and arrival are captured in the photos below:
President Muhammadu Buhari alighting from Nigeria Air Force 1 plane upon arrival in London on Monday 26 July 2021.
President Muhammadu Buhari greeted by Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, and Minister State for Education, Hon. Chukwuemeka Nwanjiuba, upon arrival in London on Monday 26 July 2021.
President Muhammadu Buhari while departing from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on Monday 26 July, 2921.
