The new Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu Ojukwu, has said she is fully committed to the foreign policy thrust of President Bola Tinubu’s administration
Speaking to State House correspondents after her swearing-in ceremony, Bianca who once won the “Most Beautiful Girl” pageant in Nigeria, said that the country will be leveraging on the African Continental Free Trade Area to encourage and harness its economic potentials.
Asked what she would be bringing on the table based on the fact that she had served on foreign mission before, she promised to strengthen democratic institutions all over Africa.
According to her, “In this respect, I am fully committed to keying into the foreign policy thrust of this government.
“The President has actually made things much easier by building the foreign policy thrust of his administration. The 4Ds comprise of democracy, development, demographic engagement, and diaspora collaboration.”
She said, “We must leverage the African Continental Free Trade Area to harness our economic potentials.”
The Minister also said she would be looking at the nation’s demography, adding, “we have a huge youth population in Nigeria. 70 percent of the population is under the age of 43, so that’s a huge demographic.
“We intend in this administration to leverage on the creative potentials, on the skills on the huge capital that these young people have to bring to the country, and of course the diaspora.
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