Buhari heads to Washington DC for Monday meeting with Trump

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Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari would this Saturday, head to Washington DC, United States of America for a planned meeting with President, Donald Trump on Monday, April 30, this year, reports ITRealms.

This, ITRealms gathered from Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed that President Buhari on this visit would mark the first African president to meet US President Donald J. Trump at the White House in Washington, since emerging President in 2016.

Also commenting on this, the director of the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center, J. Peter Pham, expressed optimism the visit by Buhari is coming with good omen.

“I think it sends a very good signal that the first African head of state to have an Oval Office meeting will be the democratically elected president of Africa’s most populous country and its largest economy,” Peter Pham said.

ITRealms further gathered that the two leaders are expected to focus on security and economic issues.

On security, Nigeria has been battling the Boko Haram insurgency in the northeast of the country for almost a decade. The group was behind the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls in Chibok in 2014 as well as the abduction of more than 100 from Dapchi in February 2018.

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ITU sets agenda for digital financial roadmap

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As from tomorrow, the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) Focus Group on Digital Financial Services (FG-DFS) meets in Washington DC, to set agenda for digital financial services roadmap, reports ITRealms.

The three-day meeting slated to last between Wednesday 27 and Friday 29 April, 2016, ITRealms gathered would discuss key elements of a global roadmap it is developing to help telecom and financial services regulators and operators around the world use digital and mobile technologies to address the issues around financial exclusion.

In addition, ITRealms gathered that after months of research and investigation, each of the four Working Parties will unveil their initial findings and recommendations for the Focus Group to discuss, review and approve.

ITRealms recollects that ITU is the leading United Nations agency for information and communication technologies, driving innovation in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) together with 193 Member States and a membership of over 700 private sector entities and academic institutions.

Established over 150 years ago in 1865, ITU pride itself as the intergovernmental body responsible for coordinating the shared global use of the radio spectrum, promoting international cooperation in assigning satellite orbits, improving communication infrastructure in the developing world, and establishing the worldwide standards that foster seamless interconnection of a vast range of communications systems.

Some of the burning issues on the table for ITU, ITRealms gathered includes broadband networks to cutting-edge wireless technologies, aeronautical and maritime navigation, radio astronomy, oceanographic and satellite-based earth monitoring as well as converging fixed-mobile phone, Internet and broadcasting technologies.

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