President Bola Tinubu on Sunday departed Abuja for Rome, the capital of Italy, to participate in the Aqaba Process heads of state and government level meeting.
Co-chaired by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the Italian government, the Aqaba Process focuses on strengthening global and regional collaboration against terrorism and transnational threats.
Tinubu’s spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, in a statement, said the Aqaba Process meeting is a counter-terrorism initiative launched by King Abdullah II of Jordan in 2015.
“The meeting, which will begin on October 14, will bring together heads of state and government, senior intelligence and military officials from African countries, and representatives of intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations to discuss the evolving security challenges in West Africa,” Onanuga stated.
“It recognises the complex security challenges confronting West Africa, including the expansion of terrorist networks, the growing crime-terror nexus and the increasing overlap between land-based terrorism in the Sahel and the maritime piracy in the Gulf of Guinea.”