President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Abuja after joining world leaders in making firm commitment to increase funding for education sector at the recent Global Education Summit in London, United Kingdom.
The Nigerian leader also used the opportunity of the trip to also spend a few days for his medical check-up.
The Global Education Summit, co-hosted by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, successfully generated about four billion dollars out of the targeted five billion dollars for the transformation of the education sector in low income countries, including Nigeria.
Buhari appeared on a panel of discussants with a live audience alongside his counterparts from other African countries, including President Kenyatta, President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana, President Faure Eyadema of Togo and President Lazarus Chakwera of Malawi.
At the summit, Buhari pledged to increase the budget for the education sector in Nigeria by as much as 50 per cent over the next two years.
The president also held bilateral meetings with Mr Johnson and the Commonwealth Secretary-General, Baroness Patricia Scotland.
Before departing London, Buhari on Thursday visited national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu who is believed to be on medical trip to London.
Those at the presidential wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja to welcome the president included the president’s chief of staff, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari; minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Muhammad Bello, security chiefs as well as some presidential aides.
