Buhari Holds Bilateral Talks With Prime Ministers Of Ireland, Greece

President Muhammadu Buhari at bilateral talks with Prime Minister of Ireland, Micheal Martin, said with the renewed efforts of the Nigerian military, insecurity in Nigeria would soon be a thing of the past.

The President’s media aide, Mr Femi Adesina, in a statement on Saturday, quoted the Nigerian leader as saying:

“In the past few months, with new platforms and boosted morale among the security forces, Nigeria is moving steadily in the direction of overcoming its insecurity.

”We will continue to partner with nations across the globe, especially in the use of technology so that Nigeria can learn something useful.”

President Buhari told the Prime Minister that with the experience during the COVID-19 pandemic, ”it is better for the world to work together rather than independently for enhanced progress for humanity”.

He expressed the hope that the lessons that came with the pandemic would impact on other areas so that Nigerians and indeed the world could have sustainable peace.

Buhari assured his guest that Nigeria would continue to do its best to sustain the relationship with Ireland if not improve on it, especially on the level of education, knowing that many Nigerians are doing well in Ireland, schooling and working there.

Martin had told the Nigerian leader that Ireland was looking for ways to increase the level of relations with the country, even as Nigeria had remained Ireland’s largest trading partner in Africa.

He expressed hope that his country would move into other areas like the deployment of technology, to help Nigeria overcome its challenges in health and security.

He added that Europe and the world now needed to look elsewhere for sources of energy as the war in Ukraine had highlighted.

In a separate meeting with the Prime Minister of Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Buhari urged for a closer partnership with Nigeria in education, health, security as well as  non-oil and gas sectors.

While stressing the importance of education and knowledge, Buhari said the time had come to begin to look at practical ways of tackling health.

Mitsotakis told the President that “Greece possessed the technological know-how in security, surveillance, as well as  intelligence gathering and utilisation and was in a position to assist Nigeria.

”Though technology is not cheap, it is the best way to go as there is no alternative to peace.”

He added that he would put together a business delegation with experts in health, education as well as oil and gas to visit and interface with the private sector in Nigeria to look at parameters under which they could come in.

The Prime Minister extended an invitation to President Buhari to visit Greece before the end of his tenure.