President Muhammadu Buhari has traveled to the United Kingdom to join in the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021-2025. This was disclosed in a statement by the special adviser to the president (media and publicity), Femi Adesina, revealing that the summit will be co-hosted by the Prime Minister of UK, Boris Johnson, and the President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta. The statement revealed that the summit would bring Heads of state and government as well as stakeholders and youth leaders, and provide a platform for partners to chart a way forward towards transforming education systems in partner countries, through exchange of best practices. It will also offer the opportunity for leaders to make 5-year pledges to support GPE's work to help transform education systems in up to 90 countries and territories. Adesina noted that the deliberations at the summit will focus on: The Power of Education –A Conversation between Global Champions; Transforming Education for Girls; Financing for Impact and Recovery and; What Now? Priorities for Transforming Education in the Coming Five Years, among others. Furthermore, President Buhari will hold a bilateral meeting with PM Boris Johnson. He will after the summit be spending a few days for an earlier scheduled medical check-up, and is due to be back by second week of August, 2021. The president will be accompanied by Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, Minister of State Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, National Security Adviser, Maj. Gen. Babagana Monguno (rtd) and Director General of National Intelligence Agency, Amb. Ahmed Rufai Abubakar.
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