Vice President Kashim Shettima has left Abuja for Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), to attend the inauguration and naming ceremony of a $315 million oil production and storage complex.
Shettima will represent President Bola Tinubu at the facility’s inauguration, which is a 100% Nigerian-owned oil and gas business bought by Oriental Energy Ltd.
According to a statement issued Friday by Stanley Nkwocha, senior special assistant to the president for media and communications, the facility will be commissioned on December 14.
Nkwocha stated that following the ceremony in Dubai, Shettima will travel to Saudi Arabia to do a minor hajj (Umrah) at the holy sites of Madinah and Makkah from December 16-19.
He added that the vice president will meet with the head of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) in Jeddah on December 20.
The discussions, he said, will centre on co-financing arrangements for the special agro-industrial processing zones (SAPZ phase II) and improved coordination of IsDB projects in Nigeria.
Nkwocha stated that the co-financing agreements were intended to improve the country’s agricultural and economic development.
According to the spokeswoman, Shettima is expected back in Nigeria on or around December 21.