President Muhammadu Buhari is scheduled to depart for London, the UK, today, he would be participating in the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021-2025.
Buhari will also undergo a medical check-up while in the United Kingdom after attending the summit.
Britain’s Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, and his Kenyan counterpart, President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya will co-host the summit.
The summit will be attended by several heads of state and government, including stakeholders and youth leaders.
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According to a statement released on Monday by the presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, noted that the summit will “provide a platform for partners to chart a way forward towards transforming education systems in partner countries, through the 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,” the statement reads.
“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.
“After the Summit, the President will spend a few days for an earlier scheduled medical check-up. He is due back by second week of August, 2021.”
The President will be accompanied on the trip by his cabinet members which include; the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama; Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba; the National Security AdviserBabagana Monguno; and the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ahmed Rufai Abubakar.
