The second meeting of the Eminent Persons Group (EPG), a high level advisory body of internationally recognised persons brought together by Nigeria’s reformist Minister of Agriculture, Dr Akin Adesina to advise President Goodluck Jonathan on how to make the administration’s agricultural transformation agenda work, has ended in New York, United States of America. The eminent persons including Founder of Microsoft Corp, Bill Gates, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Dr. Kanayo Nwanze, former Secretary of the United Nations, Kofi Annan are bringing their expertise, experience and even money (Bill Gates) to bear in assisting the Nigerian government on the actualisation of its transformational agricultural agenda. Following, are pictures of the group (EPG) held on Monday, September 23, 2013. More on our Photo page:
Adesina (left), Bill Gates, President Jonathan, Kofi Annan, and Dr. Kanayo Nwanze, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) at the Eminent Persons Group
Left to right, Permanent Secretary Ibukun Odusote, Adesina, Gates, Sani Dangote
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