President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Nigeria from Nouakchott, the Mauritanian capital, where he attended the third forum of the African Conference for Peace.
This was is first foreign trip in 2023 which saw him honoured by the Abu Dhabi Peace Forum with the ‘Award for Strengthening Peace in Africa’.
The President, at the conference called for intensified efforts towards curtailing and preventing the circulation of small arms and light weapons, and curbing the influx of foreign fighters into the African continent.
He also asked that the next summit of the African Union take a holistic review of the challenges that continue to fester in Libya with the aim to find a pragmatic African approach to resolving the over-a-decade-old instability in the country that has become a safe haven for all kinds of weapons and foreign fighters.
He bemoaned that Nigeria’s security and that of the Lake Chad Basin remain unstable, owing to lingering conflicts in Libya, the Central African Republic and Russia’s aggression in Ukraine.
He further said a number of people disguise under the cover of religion to advance their economic and political agenda.
He therefore called for continuous education to urgently enlighten the larger populace.