BREAKING: President Buhari To Leave For South Korea

The Nigerian President, Buhari will be leaving Abuja for Seoul, South Korea, today to participate in the First World Bio Summit, 2022.

 

Jointly organized by the Government of the Republic of Korea and the World Health Or­ganisation (WHO), the two-day Summit (October 25-26), has the theme: ‘The Future of Vaccine and Bio-Health.’

Nigeria was invited to the summit based on her selection with five other African coun­tries by WHO and the Europe­an Union (EU) during the last EU-African Summit in Brussels, Belgium, in February this year for mRNA technology transfer and Global Training Hub for Bio-manufacturing of vaccines on the African continent.

Also expected to feature at the World Bio Summit are CEOs of global vaccine and Biologics companies who will share and shape ideas on the theme, given that, according to the organ­isers, “global health security profoundly depends on the in­novation and development in the bio-industry.”

 

The partnership between the Republic of Korea and WHO is to underscore not only the above historic truth, but also the need to launch international stage-ef­forts on the nature of creativity and innovation required to con­tain any future health pandemic.

 

President Buhari, who is ex­pected to deliver a statement at the summit, and meet separately with President Yoon Suk-yeol of the Republic of Korea, will also seek other ways of effective partnerships that impact posi­tively on the lives and safety of Nigerians during his other en­gagements and meetings while in Seoul.

Accompanying the Nigerian leader are: Governors Aminu Bello Masari and Abubakar Sani Bello of Katsina and Ni­ger States; Geoffrey Onyeama, Osagie Ehanire and Adeniyi Adebayo, Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Health, Industry, Trade and Investment respectively; and Timipre Sylva, Minister of State, Petroleum Resources.

 

Others on the delegation are: Maj-Gen. Mohammed Babagana Monguno (Retd), National Secu­rity Adviser; Amb. Ahmed Rufai Abubakar, Director-General, Na­tional Intelligence Agency; Prof. Moji Adeyeye, Director-Gener­al, NAFDAC; Dr. Ifedayo Adeti­fa, Director-General, NCDC; Bashir Jamoh, Director-Gener­al, NIMASA; Hon. Abike Dabi­ri-Erewa, Chairman, NiDCOM, as well as other top government officials.