Nigeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has pledged to encourage collaboration between China and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security to advertise agricultural know-how and improve meals safety.
She made the pledge when the Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Yu Dunhai, paid her a courtesy go to in her workplace.
In a press release by her media aide, Busola Kukoyi, the First Lady counseled China’s curiosity in Nigeria’s agricultural sector, significantly its promise to collaborate on the usage of know-how to enhance meals safety.
According to her, stronger cooperation between each international locations would additionally help efforts to elevate weak Nigerians.
“We are looking for how the vulnerable ones would be lifted; we know this will help us a lot,” she mentioned.
Tinubu described the rising relationship between Nigeria and China as encouraging, noting that the advantages of their longstanding friendship had been turning into evident.
“When friendship has transcended this long, it begins to yield results, and we are beginning to see the results now,” she mentioned.
Earlier, the Chinese ambassador expressed his authorities’s appreciation for President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda and the First Lady’s Renewed Hope Initiative.
He mentioned China was concerned with exploring additional areas of cooperation with Nigeria, significantly in well being, training and meals safety.
Dunhai additionally mentioned commerce quantity between Nigeria and China had reached $18 billion within the first half of the yr, including that Nigeria’s exports to China had elevated considerably during the last three years.
He expressed China’s readiness to deepen funding in Nigeria, stating that his nation would prioritise high-quality investments and the usage of native human capital.
Nigeria and China elevated their bilateral relations to a complete strategic partnership in 2024 throughout President Tinubu’s state go to to China.
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