Nigerian on AU’s COVID-19 team
The African Union has named Nigeria’s Coordinator/Chief Executive Officer of the African Union Development Agency-New Partnership for Africa’s Development/African Peer Review Mechanism , Princess Gloria Akobundu, as a member of the AU-APRM Taskforce Committee on governance response to COVID-19 and other pandemics.
The AU-APRM committee is expected to generate ideas on how member-states can mitigate the impact of COVID-19, other pandemics, and avert future emergencies in the continent. The inaugural meeting held on April 27.A statement by Akobundu’s media aide, Abolade Ogundimu, said the meeting held online, was chaired by committee’s chairperson, Prof. Fatima Karadja , who is also the Chairperson of APRM Panel of Eminent Persons. It was also attended by Prof.
Akobundu noted that the committee has potentials to alleviate problems associated with research and its validation; industrialisation, data generation and analysis, food production, strategic partnership, among others.
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