President Muhammadu Buhari has been invited to attend the first World Bio Summit in South Korea.
He will today, Sunday October 22, 2022 depart Abuja for South Korea.
The two day summit which is jointly organised by the Government of the Republic of Korea and the World Health Organisation will hold between October 25 and 26.
The theme is The future of Vaccine and Bio Health.
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Nigeria was invited to the Summit based on her selection with five other African countries by World Health Organisation and the European Union during the last EU-African Summit in Brussels, Belgium in February this year for technology transfer and Global Training Hub for Bio-manufacturing of vaccines on the African continent.
Also 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,
According to the organisers, global health security profoundly depends on the innovation and development in the bio-industry, they believe The partnership between the Republic of Korea and WHO, will underscore the need to launch international stage-efforts on the nature of creativity and innovation required to contain any future health pandemic.
President Buhari, is expected to deliver a Statement at the Summit, and meet separately with President Yoon Suk-yeol of the
During his other engagements and meetings while in Seoul, President Buhari will also seek other ways of more effective partnerships that will impact positively on the lives and safety of Nigerians.
A statement signed by Femi Adeshina, the special adviser to the president on media and publicity says the Nigerian leader will be accompanied on the trip by Governors Aminu Bello Masari and Abubakar Sani Bello of Katsina and Niger States respectively, Geoffrey Onyeama, Osagie Ehanire and Adeniyi Adebayo, Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Health, Industry, Trade and Investment respectively; and Timipre Sylva, Minister of State, Petroleum Resources.
President Buhari is expected back to the country after the summit.
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