Wife of the President, Senator Oluremi Tinubu has invited members of the diplomatic community to enjoy the richness of Nigeria’s culture, fashion, cuisine and tradition.
She said these have remained unrivaled as the nation possesses a rich and diverse scope of the aforementioned.
The First Lady, in a release issued on Friday by her Media Assistant, Busola Kukoyi,
spoke while receiving in audience the Representative of the Taipei Trade Office (Taiwan) in Nigeria, at the Andy Yih-Pin Liu at the State House, Abuja.
Welcoming the representative back to Nigeria after his first stint in 1993, Mrs Tinubu praised the enthusiasm of both Nigeria and Taiwan to scale up trade and cultural relations.
On his part, the representative, Andy Yin-Ping Liu explained that Taiwan has renewed its willingness to collaborate with President Bola Tinubu in achieving his desire to turn the SouthEast into a technological and industrial hub, dubbed ‘Taiwan of Africa’.
He said even without formal diplomatic relations between Nigeria and Taiwan, the both have leveraged a Memorandum of Understanding, signed in 1990 to facilitate trade exchange, which stood at about 400 million dollars at the end of the first quarter of year 2024.
Liu pointed out that Taiwan is eager to expand the trade volume between Nigeria and Taiwan especially in health, education and technology.
He said that with no natural resources, Taiwan intended to leverage its advantage in modern technology and education to acquire deeper partnerships with Nigeria. There was also the exchange of gifts.
Deji Elumoye
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