10 Northern Govs Hosted in White House, Meet Rice, Kerry in Washington

Date: 2016-10-21

Ten governors from Northern states in Nigeria were yesterday hosted at the White House, America's seat of power, in Washington DC, during which they held a closed-door meeting with President Barack Obama's National Security Adviser, Ambassador Susan Rice.

The governors, led by Borno State Governor and Chairman of the Northern States Governors' Forum, also held a closed door meeting with the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, at the State Department also in Washington. The governors also a held meeting with Gayle Smith, the administrator of the multi million dollars United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

The meeting was held at the Ronald Reagan building, headquarters of humanitarian and development agency in Washington.

The three meetings focused on deepening collaboration on conflicts elimination, prevention, humanitarian aide and partnerships on the solving development factors responsible for recurring ethno-religious violence in northern Nigeria.

The symposium is being attended by Governors Darius Ishaku (Taraba), Mathew Dalong (Plateau), Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara), AbdulAziz Yari (Zamfara), Bindo Jibrilla (Adamawa) and Muhammad Abdullahi Abubakar (Bauchi).

Others are: Abubakar Sani Bello of Niger, Kashim Shettima (Borno), Aminu Waziri Tambuwal (Sokoto) and Deputy Governor of Kano State, Professor Hafiz Abubakar, who is representing Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State.

Meanwhile, the governors on Tuesday, began a three-day symposium organised by the US Institute of Peace which is an agency established and funded by the US government with headquarters in Washington DC.

The symposium which focuses on addressing conflicts and under-development in Northern Nigeria is a follow up on an earlier one hosted in March, 2014 under the Goodluck Jonathan administration when the US invited Northern Governors for a security symposium which dwelt on finding solutions to the Boko Haram insurgency and it's spread from the northeast to other parts of Northern Nigeria.

Scheduled to end today, the symposium has had different panels of discussant including top US government officials, the governors, development experts from Nigeria and the US who worked together to identify areas of expanding collaboration to improve the "pervasive poverty, acute girl-child education, maternal and infant mortality" amongst other key under-development elements more prevalent in Northern Nigeria in comparison with the rest of the country.

Speaking through Shettima, the Northern governors had on the first day of the symposium demanded practical benefits of their invitation, noting that travelling to Washington at a time of recession was a tough choice they made with high expectations.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Arik     Yekini Adio     Afonja     Unilorin     Hamidat Sulyman-Yusuf     Yusuf Abdulkadir     Elerinjare     Just Law Forum     Muslim Media Watch Group Of Nigeria     Kanu Agabi     Funke Adedoyin     Olatunde Jare     Ajike People Support Centre     Umar Yakubu Jaja     Wasiu Odewale     Saliu Tunde Bello     Galadima     Simeon Sule Ajibola     Ebola     Rotimi Samuel Olujide     Christopher Tunji Ayeni     Olupako     Ilorin Like-Minds     Salman Alada     Gbenga Awoyale     Yahya Mohammed     Funmilayo Oniwa     Presidential Election     Yahaya A Paniyaro     Oluwole Dupe     Siraj Oyewale     Elekoyangan     Abdulazeez Arowona     A.O. Belgore     Raji AbdulRasaq     Moses Adekanye     Sulaiman Gado     Elelu     Simon Sayomi     Joseph Offorjama     Abdulrauf Yusuf     Offa Descendants Union     David Oyepinola Adedumoye     Isaac Aderemi Kolawole     Atiku     Lawyers Unite Against Corruption     Senate President     Solomon Edoja     Mazars Consulting     11th Galadima     Moses Salami     Government Girls’ Day Secondary School Pakata     Ayodele Olaosebikan     Sunday Otokiti     Ahmad Lawan     Odo-Owa     Www.Kwarareports.com     Adebayo Salami     AbdulGafar Tosho     Olokoba Sulyman     Kawu Baraje     Buhari     Alfa Belgore     Mohammed Ghali Alaaya     CACOVID     Oyedun Juliana Funke     Saliu Mustapha     Ilorin Descendants Progressive Union     Abdulganiyu AbdulAzeez     Aisha Ahman-Pategi     Bilikisu Oniyangi     Ileloke     Federal College Of Education (Special), Afon     Saheed Alakoso     Amos Bajeh     Sa\'ad Alanamu     Kwara State Football Association    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Dasuki Belgore     Baba Issa     Arca Santa     Coronavirus     AbdulQowiy Olododo     Muhammad-Mustapha Suleiman     Olusin Of Ijara Isin     Babata     KWAFFA     Yahya Mohammed     Mufutau Gbadamosi Esuwoye     Mumini Ishola Hanafi     Admiralty Villa     Age AbdulKareem     Segun Abifarin     Kwara State Printing And Publishing Corporation     Sarafadeen Kayode Akorede     Abubakar Atiku     Kwara Consultative Forum     Ifelodun     Code Of Conduct Bureau     Ishak Mohammed Sabi     Babatunde Idiagbon     Ahman Pategi University     Sulyman Atolagbe Alege     Yekini Adio     Olatunji Bamgbola     Lola Ashiru     Kwara Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board     Saeedat Aliyu     Lawal Olohungbebe     Wahab Agbaje     Communication Network Support Services     AGILE Programme     Mohammed Jimoh Faworaja     Amuda Musbau     Elekoyangan     Raliat AbdulRazaq     Shuaib Boni Aliyu     Olaitan Adefila     CKNG     Ahmad Lawan     Olayinka Jelili Yusuf     Shaaba Lafiagi     Curfew     Kazeem Gbolagade     Bola Magaji     Opobiyi     Umar Danladi Shero     Nurudeen Muhammed     Isiaka Yusuf     General Hospital     IHS Towers     Taofik Abdulkareem     Markaz Arabic And Islamic Training Institute, Agege     Garba Dogo     Biliaminu Aliu     Saidu Isa     Abdullahi Adisa Akodudu     Elerinjare     Imodoye Writer’s Enclave     Trade Lenda SME Fair     Vasolar-Kwara Company Ltd     Oyun     Muhammed Akanbi     Abdulmalik Bashir Mopelola Risikatullahi     Tunde Kazeem     Pacify Labs     Olushola Saraki     Jumoke Monsura Gafar     Bello Taoheed Abubakar     Aishatu Ahmed Gobir     Isiaka Saka Opobiyi     Oluronke Adeyemi     Riskat Opakunle     Afonja     Iyeru Grammar School