Obasanjo Urges Stronger African Economies to Lead as Growth Stalls Across the Continent. Obasanjo has warned that Africa’s major economies must grow first before weaker states can achieve shared prosperity. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Thursday said African countries must collaborate to realise their economic aspirations, noting that growth had retarded in the continent in recent times. He spoke at the 2025 Annual Meetings of Afreximbank, with the theme, “Building the Future on Decades of Resilience”, in Abuja. Obasanjo said for Africa to achieve economic prosperity, its leading economies including Nigeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and South Africa among others, must first grow as expected before helping weaker economies such as Morocco, Kenya and Senegal to grow. He alluded to the fact that economic prosperity cannot be realised in isolation – as stronger economies needed to pull the weaker ones along to achieve an all-round growth that will be inclusive. But he expressed worry that the so-called major economies have themselves experienced slower growth, talk of assisting smaller countries. Referring to them as “lions and cubs”, the former president said stronger and weaker nations must work together to clear economic obstacles and trade with one another. Yet, he declared that there are “country’s that must make it (grow) for Africa to make it together.”

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The Federal Government has destroyed 3,867 Small and Light Weapons. “Today, a total of quantity 3,867 different types and calibres of SALW will be destroyed by the initial burning process and subsequently, smelting of the remnant metal parts. “It is pertinent to state that the National Centre has in its custody some recovered/captured illicit SALW still undergoing tracing as well as investigations and legal processes. “These include the illicit weapons smuggled into the Country and intercepted at Onne Port and NAHCO shed at the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos by the Nigeria Customs Service. “These categories of weapons would be destroyed on completion of the proceedings during subsequent routine destruction exercises,” he said. transparent documentation and destruction of decommissioned, unserviceable, captured, surrendered, and recovered illicit firearms. This, he said, is in line with the provisions of Article 17 of the ECOWAS Convention on SALW and the UN Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in SALW. The NCCSALW boss said the centre would continue to push in the direction of generating ingenious strategies to reduce, if not completely eradicate, the availability of illicit arms in society. He expressed appreciation to the Service Chiefs and heads of other arms-bearing security and intelligence services for releasing the recovered weapons for the destruction exercises. “I am assured of your continued support to the Centre as we work together towards our shared vision of an illicit arms-free society,” he added.

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