President Bola Tinubu has implored African leaders to make more strategic and deliberate efforts in addressing the migration of skills and talent from Africa.
Speaking at a dinner held in his honour on the invitation of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, at the People’s Palace in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, on Wednesday night, President Tinubu said research and development must be encouraged with the provision of appropriate rewards.
Our Correspondent, Raliat Adenekan reports that Tinubu also emphasized the importance of peace, stability and unity as key to Africa’s development, while charging African leaders to take charge and shun external expectations of conflicts and manipulations.
In his remarks earlier, the President of Equatorial Guinea thanked President Tinubu for honouring his invitation. President Mbasogo said the momentum and dynamism in the bilateral relations should be strengthened while highlighting previous mutual agreements in the areas of education, mining, defence, security, and agriculture.
Before the dinner, President Tinubu and President Mbasogo signed an agreement on the Gulf of Guinea Gas Pipeline Project.