Politics
Puzzle as Buhari jets out to UK
President Muhammadu Buhari is scheduled to leave Abuja on Monday April 9, 2018 for an official visit to Britain.
According to a statement by Garba Shehu, his Senior Special Assistant on Media & Publicity, Buhari is due to hold discussions on Nigeria – British relations with Prime Minister Mrs Theresa May, prior to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings scheduled for 18th to 20th April, 2018.
The President will also meet the Chief Executive Officer of Royal Dutch Plc, Mr. Ben van Beurden in connection with Shell and other partners’ plan to invest $15b in Nigeria’s oil industry.
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Shehu state’s that these investment ventures will lay the foundation for the next 20 years production and domestic gas supply, bringing with it all the attendant benefits both to the economy and the wider society.
President Buhari is due to renew discussions with the Archbishop of Canterbury, The Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Justin Welby, a good friend of the President on inter-religious harmony in Nigeria and World-wide.
Further meetings have also been scheduled for the President to see some prominent British and Nigerians residing in Britain.
It is unclear if the scheduled meetings will hold for the duration of nine days which the president will be in the UK before the start of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings.
Shehu did not also specify when the president is expected to return to Nigeria.
It would be recalled that on previous visits to the UK, Buhari had stocked controversies when his whereabouts and health status had become a mystery, and issue of national discourse.
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