President Muhammadu Buhari is to attend the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington DC in three weeks’ time.

A preliminary list of delegates shows that he will be accompanied to the three-day event, to be hosted by President Barak Obama between March 30 and April 1, by three governors and six Ministers.

Also on the preliminary list prepared by the presidency are 11 principal officers and a 23-member Advance team that includes a medical doctor, Protocol officers, State House media, bodyguards and a cook.

The final list is expected to be higher when technical experts from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as other Ministries, Departments and aides of relevant political office holders are added.

An average presidential trip costs Nigerian taxpayers between half a million and $1.2million in travelling expenses alone. The last visit by President Buhari, to Saudi Arabia and Qatar, gulped over $3m at a time when the exchange rate was nearly N400 to $1.00.

President Buhari had also been scheduled to pay a state visit to China this month, but that has been postponed until further notice.

The 2016 Nuclear Security Summit will be the fourth to be hosted by President Obama, the first of them in 2010. They are aimed at addressing the threat of nuclear terrorism to global security through international cooperation to secure vulnerable nuclear materials, break up black markets, and detect and intercept illicitly trafficked materials


http://saharareporters.com/2016/03/09/president-buhari-attend-nuclear-security-summit-washington-end-march

If i may ask,do we have any i mean nuclear weapon??


*modify* So after 5yrs on nairaland, i don hit the jackpot of the FTC syndrome................ hardwork really pay oo....

so seun no go pay me for dis achievement??




Nothing is so special abt it after all

Dem never invite am e Don dey plan to go,

Nomadic president.

Buhari went to Qatar and negotiated $49 per barrel world oil price.if Buhari attends this nuclear Summit,Nigeria will magically generate and transmit 50000mw of electricity to Nigerians via body language.

OilGas:


See this aboki.
By the way in case u are from North, what gives fulanis the hunger to kill?

It is same base animal instincts in man which cuts across every tribe religion and creed.

Waka waka. Must he attend every summit convened on earth? What are his ministers and the so-called vice president doing?

SleekMallam:

Same is in most world major religions. Check your history and educate yourself.

Ok.

TIC...traveller in chief

Another one

Is he going there to stabilize the nuclear reactors?

Useless man. Dem never even invite you, nyash don dey scratch you to go. For goodness sake, can't you send your freaking Minister of Science and Technology to attend this one?

Umm, wetin consign Nigeria with Nuclear security

Ajala is off again.

're we invited or Nigeria s planning to start building a nuclear weapons?

Will he learn anything

repogirl:
Umm, wetin consign Nigeria with Nuclear security

we need am na..

see North Korea and co.

buh where dem go situate our first Nuclear plant? N, S, E or W

another tribal confusion loading

Mr Jonny Walker is jetting out again... This man should sit his a*s back in Nigeria & fix the country's mess.

He keeps traveling everywhere on our expense. What kind of nonsense is this? What business does bubu has with nuclear?

Terrible Minister of traveling affairs wasting our gas on irrelevant trips when we can't even find fuel to buy. Mtcheew!

another reason to junket, mumu president

Stay in your country!

Presidiot federal republic Nigeria

Hmmn....Now it would have been a totally different scenario if the educated and highly exposed vice-president travels round the entire equator. Honestly, I do not know how to react to this.

The annoying part is that he wont contribute anything to the meetings o. He just goes there to stay away from all the madness going on in this country. Its also an avenue for him to make friends with fellow attendees shikenan!

Nomad

Nigeria has uranium deposits that's why he's attending the summit. I'm sure the US don't want such deposits falling into the hands of the bad guys now that we are looking for dollars right, left and centre.

Is SR now officially a WAILER?

I hope he will warn North Korea to stop all nuclear weapon production.

Kenai:
Is he going there to stabilize the nuclear reactors?

Useless man. Dem never even invite you, nyash don dey scratch you to go. For goodness sake, can't you send your freaking Minister of Science and Technology to attend this one?

Abeg no kill me with laff