Vice President, Kashim Shettima Returns To Nigeria After UNGA In New York

Vice President, Kashim Shettima has returned to Nigeria after the 79th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting in New York, the United States.

Kashim Shettima landed in Abuja, on Sunday. The Vice President, who represented President Bola Tinubu, presented Nigeria’s National Statement at the General Debate, as well as engaged in several bilateral meetings and numerous sideline events at the General Assembly.

According to his spokesman, Stanley Nkwocha, “he will proceed to join President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to mark some events put together as part of activities commemorating Nigeria’s 64th Independence anniversary.”

Naija News reported that at the 79th UNGA, Nigeria Secured $600,000 for flood relief and $5 million for agricultural reforms from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Specifically, the Foundation pledged $600,000 for flood relief in Borno State and other health sector initiatives, with an additional $5 million grant approved for Lagos Business School and partners to develop the agricultural economics of industrial cassava.

Speaking, Shettima told the Foundation’s Global Development Programme Director, Dr Christopher Elias that Nigeria “recognizes the critical importance of food security and industrial agricultural development. The Cassava Accelerator programme, in particular, holds immense potential for our economy.

“We are pursuing a whole-of-government approach to digitisation and data exchange systems, which we believe will revolutionize our public services.”