Tinubu arrives Rome for Aqaba Process Meeting

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru

ABUJA — PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu connected Sunday evening, arrived Rome, the superior of Italy, to enactment successful the Aqaba Process Heads of State and Government Level Meeting, with peculiar absorption connected the information situation successful West Africa.

The meeting, expected to statesman connected October 14, volition bring unneurotic Heads of State and Government, elder quality and subject officials from African countries, and representatives of intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations to sermon the evolving information challenges successful West Africa.

The Aqaba Process Meeting is simply a counter-terrorism inaugural launched by King Abdullah II of Jordan successful 2015. It is co–chaired by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the Italian Government.

It recognises the analyzable information challenges confronting West Africa, including the enlargement of violent networks, the increasing crime-terror nexus and the expanding overlap betwixt land-based coercion successful the Sahel and the maritime piracy successful the Gulf of Guinea.

At the meeting, participants volition speech assessments of the existent information scenery successful West Africa and foster collaboration betwixt determination and planetary partners to code cross-border information challenges. Participants volition besides make strategies to antagonistic the panic menace connected onshore and the sea.

A connection issued successful Abuja connected Saturday nighttime by the Special Adviser to the President connected Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, explained that the gathering volition sermon ideas connected however to coordinate efforts to combat online radicalisation and disrupt integer networks that facilitate violent propaganda and recruitment.

According to the statement: “In summation to attending the plenary sessions of the Aqaba meeting, President Tinubu volition clasp bilateral talks with different leaders to research ways of addressing the rising information challenges crossed the subregion.”

The President volition beryllium accompanied by the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu–Ojukwu, the Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ambassador Mohammed Mohammed, and different elder authorities officials.

The station Tinubu arrives Rome for Aqaba Process Meeting appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.