President Muhammadu Buhari will on Sunday (today) depart Abuja for Seoul, South Korea to participate in the First World Bio Summit, 2022.
Jointly organized by the Government of the Republic of Korea and the World Health Organisation (WHO), the two-day Summit (October 25-26), has a theme titled : ‘The Future of Vaccine and Bio-Health.’
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, stated this in a statement made available to TheIdeal in Abuja on Saturday.
Adesina added that Nigeria was invited to the Summit based on her selection with five other African countries by WHO and the European Union (EU) during the last EU-African Summit in Brussels, Belgium in February this year for mRNA technology transfer and Global Training Hub for Bio-manufacturing of vaccines on the African continent.
He also said that those expected to feature at the World Bio Summit are CEOs of global vaccine and Biologics companies who will share and shape ideas on the theme, given that, according to the organisers, “global health security profoundly depends on the innovation and development in the bio-industry.”
The statement reads in part, “The partnership between the Republic of Korea and WHO, is therefore, to underscore not only the above historic truth, but also the need to launch international stage-efforts on the nature of creativity and innovation required to contain any future health pandemic.
“President Buhari, who is expected to deliver a Statement at the Summit, and meet separately with President Yoon Suk-yeol of the Republic of Korea, will also seek other ways of more effective partnerships that impact positively on the lives and safety of Nigerians during his other engagements and meetings while in Seoul.
“Accompanying Buhari to the Bio Summit in South Korea are State Governors: Aminu Bello Masari (Katsina) and Abubakar Sani Bello (Niger) ; Ministers: Geoffrey Onyeama (Foreign Affairs); Osagie Ehanire (Health); Adeniyi Adebayo (Industry, Trade and Investment); and the Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva.
“Others on the delegation are the National Security Adviser, Maj-Gen. Mohammed Babagana Monguno (rtd); Director General, National Intelligence Agency, Amb. Ahmed Rufai Abubakar; Director-General, NAFDAC, Prof. Moji Adeyeye; Director-General, NCDC, Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa; Director-General, NIMASA, Bashir Jamoh; Chairman, NiDCOM, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, as well as other top government officials”.
Buhari is expected back home after the Summit.
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