President Muhammadu Buhari will today host an Extraordinary Summit of the Economic Community of West African States Authority of Heads of State and Government (ECOWAS), in Abuja.
According to a statement issued by the Senior Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, “the main item on the agenda of the summit is the current political situation in Burkina Faso.”
Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari addresses the 70th United Nations General Assembly at the global body’s headquarters in New York this week.
The UN General Assembly, which comprises all 193 members of the global organisation, provides a unique forum for multilateral discussion of the full spectrum of international issues covered by the Charter.
During the summit, UN member states will adopt the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which includes a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and tackle climate change by 2030.
The SDGs, otherwise known as the Global Goals, build on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight anti-poverty targets that the world committed to achieving by 2015. The MDGs, adopted in 2000, aimed at an array of issues that included slashing poverty, hunger, disease, gender inequality, and access to water and sanitation.
It was learnt that the President is also scheduled to unveil Nigeria’s final status report on the implementation of the MDGs. There is also to be a side-event hosted by Nigeria on Health, HIV/AIDS and Strengthening the Implementation of the SDGs during the General Assembly.