Omololu Ogunmade in Abuja
President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday in Abuja received with excitement information about the willingness of the United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, to co-chair a special session to raise $50 billion to fund the inter-basin water transfer from Central Africa to revive the Lake Chad.
The president who expressed his delight while receiving the response of the Secretary-General to his earlier letter through the President of the African Development Bank, (ADB), Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, at the State House, said such a special forum was necessary in view of the size of the capital needed for the project by the Lake Chad Basin countries.
According to a statement by Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, the president while addressing issues directly relating to the ADB, was happy about the successes recorded in these four years of Adesina’s tenure at the continental bank.
Source: Thisday Newspaper
