The Federal Government of Nigeria and the government of Germany have made a new announcement stating commitments to deepen bilateral ties, meet the energy transition target, tackle climate crises and strengthen collaborations across all sectors.
The announcement was made on Tuesday during a bilateral meeting in Abuja that had both Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama and his German counterpart, Annalena Baerbock, in attendance.
Onyeama said that the focus of the meeting was to discuss strengthening bilateral ties, people-to-people relations, strengthening partnerships in the energy, and economic sectors, tackling climate change, and insecurity, and strengthening collaborations across all sectors.
He said that the meeting was also coming on the heels of the reparation of 22 pieces of artefacts from Germany to Nigeria which was beyond aesthetics but a symbol of the culture and spirituality of the Nigerian people.
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“Regarding Energy transmission, it is something that we want to see as the transition to Fossil Fuel by 2060,” he said. “Hydrogen of course is one of the options and strategies that are still in place. And we are very opened to engaging with our partners such as Germany to further develop this”.
Speaking further, he said, “We have fully committed to Climate Action and it is a whole-of-government approach,’’.
On her part, the German Minister, Baerbock, said Nigeria and Germany, the European Union and the African Union needed to strengthen collaborations for economic and mutual benefits in many ways.
She commended Nigeria for how well the country was able to fight and resist terrorism and rebuild areas previously captured by Boko Haram.
The minister said that the challenge of global challenge of Climate change crises and other challenges which are peculiar to respective regions and countries can only be tackled through a solid collaboration
Story was adapted from Environnewsnigeria.
