President Muhammadu Buhari has got back to Abuja from a six-day official trip to Seoul, the capital of South Korea, where he attended the World Bio Summit 2022.
Around six in the morning, the President landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, where he was welcomed by two governors, senior government officials, and security personnel.
Governors Aminu Masari (Kastina) and Abubakar Sani-Bello (Niger) as well as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mohammed Musa Bello, and the President’s Chief of Staff, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, were present at the airport to greet the President.
Usman Alkali Baba, the Director-General of the Department of State Service (DSS), Yusuf Magaji Bichi, and a few other high military and security officials were also present.
While in Seoul, President Buhari addressed the summit, conducted a number of high-level consultations and bilateral/diplomatic meetings, including one with Yoon Suk-yeol, the president of South Korea, and Mr. Kim Jin-Pyo, the speaker of that nation’s National Assembly.
The President met with Suk-yeol, met with some South Korean investors, and witnessed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the rehabilitation of the Kaduna Refinery between the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) and the Daewoo Group. He also took the opportunity to call for an expansion of trade relations between Nigeria and South Korea.
He also spoke with representatives of the Nigerian community there, urging them to do their best to represent Nigeria well in the nation where they were living.
Nigeria was selected, along with five other African nations, at the most recent EU-African Summit in Brussels, Belgium in February of this year to participate in the Summit as the Global Training Hub for the Bio-Manufacturing of Vaccines on the African Continent and to transfer mRNA technology.
The Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Health, Industry, Trade, and Investment, Governors Masari; Sani- Bello Geoffrey Onyeama, Osagie Ehanire, and Adeniyi Adebayo, and the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, traveled with the President.
Others on the delegation were Maj-Gen. Mohammed Babagana Monguno (Rtd), National Security Adviser; Amb. Ahmed Rufai Abubakar, Director-General, National Intelligence Agency; Prof. Moji Adeyeye, Director-General, NAFDAC; Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa, Director-General, NCDC; Bashir Jamoh, Director-General, NIMASA; Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman, NiDCOM as well as other top government officials.
