SAN FRANCISCO, May 15, (THEWILL) – Nigeria and France have over the weekend signed five bilateral agreements on Cultural, Scientific Education and Technical Cooperation.
This was disclosed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, to State House correspondents, adding that the agreements were signed in a closed-door meeting between President Muhammadu Buhari and the visiting French President, Francois Hollande.
The Minister stated that the agreements included three with government agencies and two for the private sector.
“There was an MoU for the cultural, scientific education and technical cooperation and this was between the French government and Nigerian government,” he said.
“There was MoU between the French Development Agency and the Federal Ministry of Finance.
“There was another agreement between the Finance Ministry and this was with the National Power Training Institute of Nigeria.
“So, those are the three agreements with government’s institutions and there were two private sector agreements.
“There was one again with the French Development Agency and Zenith Bank, which was represented by its chairman, among other.”
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