President Muhammadu Buhari will leave Abuja for Paris on Monday to begin a three-day official visit to France. The presidential visit was at the instance of President Francois
Hollande of France, during which they will discuss security and economic
issues, among other things. The President Buhari will be
accompanied on the visit by the National Security Adviser, Maj.Gen.
Babagana Monguno (retd.); the Permanent Secretaries in the Federal
Ministries of Defence, Finance, Agriculture, Foreign Affairs, Industry,
Trade and Investment as well as the Chief Executives of the Nigerian
Investment Promotion Commission and the Nigerian Export Promotion
Council.
A statement by the Special Adviser on Media and
Publicity to the President, Femi Adesina, on Sunday stated that Buhari’s
talks with Hollande and other senior French government officials will
focus on the further strengthening and consolidation of ongoing
bilateral cooperation between Nigeria and France in the areas of
defence, security, trade and investments.
Apart from his
scheduled meeting with the French President at the Elysee Palace on
Monday evening, Buhari and his team would also confer with the French
Minister of Defence, Mr. Jean-Yves Le Drian; the French Minister of
Finance and Public Accounts, Mr. Michel Sapin; the French Minister of
Economy and Industry, Mr. Emmanuel Macron; and the French Minister of
Foreign Affairs and International Development, Mr. Laurent Fabius.
“The President will visit the headquarters of MEDEF, France’s largest
federation of investors and employers, where he will participate in a
France/It said that Buhari would also confer with the chief executive officers of leading French multinational companies, such as Total and Lafarge, on their current and future investments in Nigeria.
The President’s other scheduled engagements in Paris include a meeting with African ambassadors to France and an interactive session with members of the Nigerian community.
He will conclude his visit to France on Wednesday and return to Abuja the same day.
Credit: Punch NG
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Governor Progress PeeJay Johnson and 2 others like this.
Yvonne Onaibe
Loooool
Government of travelers fah
Government of travelers fah
Emayomi Milkmelly
Useless man na so so travel you they travel,
Jesse Osayande Vucinic Ehiagwina
Will there be a discussion on France to stop collecting "colonial tax" from their former colonies? Just asking ni ooo
Endy Edeson
@emayomi: this foreign govts keep milking us and promising things they can't and won't do.
Mazi Uche Chimadaada
Safe journey my president. I pray his journey to paris will ever bring success to Nigeria.
Endy Edeson
@jesse:
you just said my mind: i remember when i was in primary school. There
was a particular song that RADIO RIVERS PORTHARCOURT kept playing all
the time. It goes this way """ NEO-COLONIALISM
Jesse Osayande Vucinic Ehiagwina
Endy,
you know one of the problems with that? We ourselves. Africans aren't
patient. I don't think they even wana get out of it. The West have
successfully imbibed the culture of individualist over collectivism in
most. Very few know the African history and how the continent have been
raped. Take Burkina Faso for example, Campaore in collabo with
France+others had Sankara killed cos the Nation was progressing. What
have the people don since then? NOTHING. Campaore still rules. Too many
African leaders selling out and the citizens towing the path.
Mazi Uche Chimadaada
I
see nothing wrong in our president travelling to different countries
for our dear country. Travelling is part of leadership if many fail to
know.
Isiaka Musa Benue
Mazi Uche Chhimadaada 52 gun salutes to your comments.
Endy Edeson
@mazi:
I know it’s for bilateral betterment. But at times, the outcomes of the
journeys are not made known to the masses which makes it a
SELF-INTEREST Journey. @jesse: I think some of the colonial countries
are aware of the evil deeds they carried out in Africa, I heard in the
news over the weekend that Britain has tendered apology to Kenya for
killing thousands of people in Kenya during Mau Mau uprising in
Pre-colonial era. The apology came after over 50 years.
1Jesse Osayande Vucinic Ehiagwina
Endy,
oh these countries know alright but our people have forgotten. What
reparations have been given back? The Jews still collect "holocaust"
money for what was questionable. Colonialism and slavery was far worse
and it was REAL. No apologies, no reparations, no price paid. We don't
know our history. Or we choose to forget them thinking its best left
that way. That's a mistake. A big one. South Africans celebrate Mandela
forgetting Steven Biko's fight. A man who didn't conform.
Jesse Osayande Vucinic Ehiagwina
The
atrocities Belgium committed in Congo still lives on. African people
still watch on with the continued rape cos they've stupidly let
themselves been pitted against each other in the name of "tribe"
Nwigwe Chinweikpe
These
white men understands that Buhari is nt Educated so they keepon
inviting him to make fool of him and make mockry his country.
Jesse Osayande Vucinic Ehiagwina
Nwigwe, that your comment is such a downer.