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President Bola Tinubu will on Thursday embark on a two-nation trip to Japan and Brazil, with a brief stopover in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

His Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, noting that the President’s first stop will be Japan for the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD9) in Yokohama from August 20 to 22.

With the theme “Co-create Innovative Solutions with Africa”, TICAD9 will focus on driving Africa’s economic transformation, improving business environments and institutions through private investment and innovation, and promoting a resilient, sustainable African society anchored on human security, peace, and stability.

Beyond the plenary sessions, Tinubu will hold bilateral meetings and engage with the chief executives of Japanese companies investing in Nigeria.

Initiated in 1993 by the Japanese government and co-hosted by the UN, UNDP, African Union Commission, and the World Bank, TICAD is held every three years, alternating between Japan and Africa. The last edition took place in Tunisia in August 2022.


After the Japan engagement, Tinubu will proceed to Brasília for a two-day state visit from Sunday, August 24, to Monday, August 25, at the invitation of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

While in Brazil, he will hold bilateral talks with his host, attend a business forum with Brazilian investors, and lead a delegation of key ministers and senior officials to explore new avenues of cooperation, including signing agreements and Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with the Brazilian government.

ottersberger:
According to the Punch news report, Tinubu will depart Abuja on 14 August. His first stop will be the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD9) in Yokohama, Japan, from 20 to 22 August. The question is: where will Tinubu be for the six days prior to his arrival in Japan?. I suppose France, and why is Bayo hiding the obvious fact?.

ottersberger:
According to the Punch news report, Tinubu will depart Abuja on 14 August. His first stop will be the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD9) in Yokohama, Japan, from 20 to 22 August. The question is: where will Tinubu be for the six days prior to his arrival in Japan?. I suppose France, and why is Bayo hiding the obvious fact?.

givedemwotowoto:
There’s a lot of time unaccounted for so it looks like there will be an undisclosed unofficial stopover in France

His laptop beneficiaries will be all over this thread singing praises. The type they sang for Buhari with Amaechi’s laptops

kingbee90:
This Togolese man doesn't know "jack" about leadership and good governance.

All he knows is to spread poverty and hardship with his stolen mandate.
I can bet that absolutely NOTHING will come out of this Japan/Brazil trip.
Dude is just wasting Nigerian tax payers money on meaningless foreign trips.

Burob:
man pass man, Gringory Obi, his Oga Atiku, they are only playing to the gallery of the not too enlightened masses.

Stay entertained.

kingbee90:
This Togolese man doesn't know "jack" about leadership and good governance.

All he knows is to spread poverty and hardship with his stolen mandate.
I can bet that absolutely NOTHING will come out of this Japan/Brazil trip.
Dude is just wasting Nigerian tax payers money on meaningless foreign trips.

TimeManager:
Jagaban!. $60billion light rail project connecting all the six geopolitical zones is done and dusted. Such a massive deal wouldn't have been possible if he listened to his detractors to enter the ring descending so low in replying Atiku's tantrums, Elrufai's toxicity or Obi's negativity.
He is the President, his legacy is of paramount importance and as such, wouldn't come low to their level. Every international engagement counts, every Investment matters. In two years, Mr President has attracted $50 billion worth of foreign direct investment into the country. Just a few hours ago, the Dutch PM was on the phone discussing bilateral relations with Mr President. The Nigerian President is the most sought after, with the fact that he's the most powerful President in Africa.
President Tinubu will strengthen economic and bilateral ties with willingly powerful nations in the concept of mutual respect and cordiality. The Nigerian President will never run before anyone or bow to anyone who embarrasses African Presidents and Heads of States in the White House. President Tinubu will uphold the dignity of Africa being the leader of the African continent.
God bless President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, God bless Nigeria.

-Kiss the truth!

ottersberger:
According to the Punch news report, Tinubu will depart Abuja on 14 August. His first stop will be the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD9) in Yokohama, Japan, from 20 to 22 August. The question is: where will Tinubu be for the six days prior to his arrival in Japan?. I suppose France, and why is Bayo hiding the obvious fact?.

Penguin2:
They finally found an excuse to fly him out for medicals 🤓

TimeManager:
Jagaban!. $60billion light rail project connecting all the six geopolitical zones is done and dusted. Such a massive deal wouldn't have been possible if he listened to his detractors to enter the ring descending so low in replying Atiku's tantrums, Elrufai's toxicity or Obi's negativity.
He is the President, his legacy is of paramount importance and as such, wouldn't come low to their level. Every international engagement counts, every Investment matters. In two years, Mr President has attracted $50 billion worth of foreign direct investment into the country. Just a few hours ago, the Dutch PM was on the phone discussing bilateral relations with Mr President. The Nigerian President is the most sought after, with the fact that he's the most powerful President in Africa.
President Tinubu will strengthen economic and bilateral ties with willingly powerful nations in the concept of mutual respect and cordiality. The Nigerian President will never run before anyone or bow to anyone who embarrasses African Presidents and Heads of States in the White House. President Tinubu will uphold the dignity of Africa being the leader of the African continent.
God bless President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, God bless Nigeria.

-Kiss the truth!

givedemwotowoto:
There’s a lot of time unaccounted for so it looks like there will be an undisclosed unofficial stopover in France

His laptop beneficiaries will be all over this thread singing praises. The type they sang for Buhari with Amaechi’s laptops

chisomkachy:
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu’s first supplementary budget includes a fleet of SUVs for himself and his wife, a presidential yacht and the renovation of his villa amid a cost-of-living crisis for some of the poorest people in the world.

The proposal — which seeks additional funding beyond the annual budget approved by Tinubu’s predecessor — comes as the government asks Nigerians to persevere through pain caused in part by a raft of economic reforms ushered in by the new president. Africa’s most populous country faces rampant unemployment, soaring food prices and a plummeting currency.

Federal lawmakers approved the president’s request for extra spending on Thursday, but eliminated the provision of 5 billion naira ($6.01 million) to buy a presidential yacht. Instead, they doubled the allocation to a student loan fund to 10 billion naira, according Abubakar Bichi, chairman of an appropriations committee in the House of Representatives.

The lawmakers approved 1.5 billion-naira proposed to purchase SUVs for the office of First Lady Oluremi Tinubu — an amount larger than that allocated to many individual federal colleges. The supplementary budget also proposes almost 6 billion naira to purchase SUVs for the presidency — more than the amount initially allocated to fund a student loan program for poor families.


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-02/nigeria-budgets-for-suvs-and-yachts-amid-economic-hardship

helinues:
Which of your family members are ordinary councillor of your ward?

kingbee90:
2. Don't abuse, bully, deliberately insult/provoke, fight, or wish harm to Nairaland members

kenbee:
And I heard he will stop at Dubai to drink table water.
Safe Trip to Jagaban

fergie001:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5v-F81hNTs

The Permanent Secretary, Office of Drainage Services and Water Resources in Lagos State, Mahmood Adegbite, has said that people drilling borehole in the Lekki axis of the state is probably drinking ‘’shit water.”

While speaking at a stakeholders meeting in the state recently, Adegbite noted that contaminated boreholes in Lekki pose health risk and added that treatment of waste water would eradicate any form of disease that may arise from it.

He said, “On waste water treatment, I will say that everyone digging borehole within the Lekki axis is probably drinking what I will call ‘shit water.’

https://punchng.com/video-everyone-digging-borehole-in-lekki-is-probably-drinking-shit-water-lagos-govt/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwMABDJjbGNrAwAEK2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEewOd7728C0FSKQJNWar4yKRxNpNKt1owSlw47y57FKAux2QxvQL24Iu18rtw_aem_3kB5Sd2GjpdqjN6zFuIs7w