July 26, 2021

Beyond attending the announced Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021-2025, President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to hold serious security talk with the UK government, Political Economist has confirmed.

The president is expected to be away for three weeks to attend the summit as well as spend a few days for an earlier scheduled medical check-up. He is due back by second week of August, 2021.

Aso Rock insiders told our reporter that issues of security are top on the president’s agenda as he tries to contain wide-ranging insecurity in the country now defined by insurgency, kidnapping for ransom, armed herdsmen killing with impunity and in some cases massacre of innocents in communities.

Buhari was said to have been sufficiently embarrassed by the growing insecurity in the nation which has placed a tag of ‘incompetence’ on his administration. “And he is determined to wear his regalia as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.

The Summit, which will be co-hosted by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, and the President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, will bring together Heads of State and Government as well as stakeholders and youth leaders, and provide a platform for partners to chart a way forward towards transforming education systems in partner countries, through 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.

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 by Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, Minister of State Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, National Security Adviser, Maj. Gen. Babagana Monguno (rtd) and Director General of National Intelligence Agency, Amb. Ahmed Rufai Abubakar”, a statement by his spokesman, Mr. Femi Adesina, said.