After a six-day official visit to Seoul, the capital of South Korea, where he took part in the World Bio Summit 2022, President Muhammadu Buhari flew back to Abuja on Friday morning.
Two governors, senior government officials, and security chiefs greeted the President when he landed at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja at around six in the morning.
The governors of the states of Katsina and Niger, Hon. Aminu Bello Masari and Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello, respectively, the minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mohammed Musa Bello, and the president’s chief of staff, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, were present at the airport to greet the president.
Usman Alkali Baba, the Director-General of the Department of State Service (DSS), Yusuf Magaji Bichi, and a few other high military and security officials were also present.
While in Seoul, President Buhari made a statement to the Summit, had a number of high-level discussions and bilateral meetings, including one with Yoon Suk-yeol, the president of South Korea, and Mr. Kim Jin-Pyo, the speaker of that nation’s National Assembly.
The President also saw the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the restoration of the Kaduna Refinery between the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) and the South Korean investors while meeting with Suk-yeol and meeting with several South Korean businesspeople.
He also spoke with representatives of the Nigerian community there, urging them to do their best to represent Nigeria well in the nation where they were living.
Nigeria was selected, along with five other African nations, at the most recent EU-African Summit in Brussels, Belgium in February of this year to participate in the Summit as the Global Training Hub for the Bio-Manufacturing of Vaccines on the African Continent and to transfer mRNA technology.
The Governors of the states of Katsina and Niger, Aminu Bello Masari and Abubakar Sani Bello, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Health, Industry, Trade, and Investment, Geoffrey Onyeama and Adeniyi Adebayo, as well as the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, traveled with the President.
Maj-Gen. Mohammed Babagana Monguno (Retd), National Security Adviser, Amb. Ahmed Rufai Abubakar, Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, Prof. Moji Adeyeye, Director-General of NAFDAC, Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa, Director-General of the National Center for Disease Control, Bashir Jamoh, Director-General of NIMASA, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman
