President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday tasked the leadership of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) to intensify efforts to mobilise and deploy the continent’s vast human, financial and natural resources for the collective economic advancement of Africans, stressing that Africa’s drive to industrialisation cannot remain a subject of theoretical discussion.

President Tinubu stated this during a visit by a delegation from Afrieximbank, led by its President and Chairman of the Board, George Elombi, to the State House, Abuja.

The President charged the African Export-Import Bank, which has been in existence since 1993 as a premier Pan-African multilateral financial institution, to drive food security in Africa

He told his visitors that his administration has turned the longstanding conflict between farmers and herders into an economic opportunity for citizens through the introduction of the Federal Ministry of Livestock Development.

The bank, amongst other things, champions trade-enabling infrastructure and African industrialisation to foster regional

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