Nigeria Is Pleased With Relations With Ghana - Abukakar

The Former Head of State of Nigeria, General Abduslami A. Abukakar says his country is content with the cordial relations existing between Ghana and his country. Gen. Abubakar said this when he led an 11-member delegation to pay a courtesy call on Vice President Aliu Mahama, at the Castle Osu on Monday. He stressed that Nigeria is happy that the relations that started in the early 1960s is getting stronger. Gen. Abubakar is in the country to deliver the 4th R.P. Baffour Memorial lectures to mark the Golden Jubilee Anniversary of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).

The three-day lectures would focus on Urban Infrastructure, Planning, Development and Management in Sub-Saharan Africa; Challenges for KNUST and others in facilitating the reform and Challenges of Science and Technology in the development of ECOWAS. He commended the authorities of KNUST for the invitation, saying that, he is grateful for participating in the activities of a University of the status of KNUST.

Vice President Mahama described KNUST as one of the finest universities in the world adding that, it was his Alma Mater and that of Secretary General Kofi Annan, Finance Minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo and several other leaders.

Speaking in an interview later, the Pro Vice-Chancellor of KNUST, Professor Ebenezer Yaw Safo said Gen Abubakar was chosen because of his experience in managing national affairs. He said “the past three lectures were delivered by academicians, however, this time we decided on a noble personality, who has had wide experience in governance and is not actively involved in politics”.