President Bola Tinubu and former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, called for the strengthening of regional economic communities
to drive integration, strengthen trade ties among nations, deepen democracy and accelerate development across the continent.
Tinubu urged regional bodies to prioritise minimising trade barriers, promoting sustainable and inclusive economic growth, human capital development as well as value addition in agriculture and agro-allied sectors. Earlier in his keynote remarks, Obasanjo, said the answer to the myriad of challenges confronting democracy in Africa was in re-examining the model of democracy passed on to countries in the continent by their colonial masters.
On his part, the former President of the Nigerian Bar Association and member of the Board of Directors, Shehu Musa Yar’adua Foundation, Abubakar Mahmoud, said the focus of the summit, which is “the state of democracy in Africa”, aligned with the cornerstone of the Foundation’s mission and vision. Federal Government has said it is unacceptable and unsustainable that Nigeria spends over $2 billion out of its meagre foreign reserves on health tourism, stressing that it is in a hurry to reposition the health sector to bring it at par with what obtains in other countries.One year into the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led administration, the Federal Government said it had accomplished so much within the short period.
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