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PRESIDENT BUHARI SET TO EMBARK ON FIRST FOREIGN TRIP IN 2020

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Friday leave Abuja for London to participate in a one-day inaugural United Kingdom-Africa Investment Summit on Monday, January 20, 2020.

He is to participate in the inaugural UK-Africa Investment Summit, while in London.

The summit itself opens on Monday, January 20, but Buhari jets out of Abuja on Friday. Buhari is expected back to Nigeria on Thursday, next week.

It will be his first foreign trip this new year.

The Presidency, in a statement by Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, explained that the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, would play host to the summit.

African leaders, business owners and heads of international organisations are billed to be in London for the summit to engage in discussions to create new partnerships that will deliver more investments and jobs.

Both the UK and Africa are expected to benefit from the outcomes of the talks

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