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Presidency explains benefits of Buhari’s visit to Egypt

By Alifa Daniel, Abuja Bureau Chief
23 February 2016   |   2:49 am
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari’s 24-hour visit to Egypt was not just any trip, but it was meant to promote investment and job creation in Nigeria and West, Central and East Africa, the Presidency has explained in a statement yesterday in Abuja. The statement tagged: “Seven Takeaways from President Buhari’s Visit to Egypt” one of his spokesmen,…
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PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari’s 24-hour visit to Egypt was not just any trip, but it was meant to promote investment and job creation in Nigeria and West, Central and East Africa, the Presidency has explained in a statement yesterday in Abuja.

The statement tagged: “Seven Takeaways from President Buhari’s Visit to Egypt” one of his spokesmen, Mallam Garba Shehu, recalled that in the difficult moments during the civil war, Egypt proved to be a strategic partner helping to train Nigeria’s military and supporting with equipment and aircraft maintenance.

“In the course of his bilateral meeting with the Egyptian leader, Abdul Fattah El-Sisi, President Muhammadu Buhari recalled that in the course of his service in the army, he too received military training in Egypt.

“This 24-hour visit to the Red Sea resort of Sharm Al-Shaikh was not just a ‘trip to Egypt’ as it has been wrongly portrayed, as if it were primarily bilateral in nature or a ritual courtesy call on President Sisi. The purpose was to promote investment and job creation in Nigeria and throughout West, Central and East Africa, together with other African leaders.

“The Sharm el-Sheikh ‘Africa 2016’ conference aimed at tearing down trade barriers between North and sub-Saharan Africa – a partnership anchored by the continent’s biggest and third-biggest economies, Nigeria and Egypt by the injection of life into a 26-nation free-trade pact signed by half the number of countries on the continent a year ago.

“The organisers brought together more than 1,200 delegates to Sharm el-Sheikh, including eight presidents and prime ministers, ministers of trade and investment, representatives of global financial institutions, businessmen and investment executives.

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