JUST IN: Mission Revealed As Osinbajo Departs Nigeria For US Days To Tinubu’s Swearing In

JUST IN: Mission Revealed As Osinbajo Departs Nigeria For US Days To Tinubu’s Swearing In

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will leave Nigeria today for the United States, where he will deliver a Special Lecture at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) in Philadelphia.

UPenn, one of the eight private universities in the United States known as the Ivy League, was founded in 1740 as a charity school.

It was later transformed into an academy in 1751 by Benjamin Franklin, a future founding father of the United States and the first president of the University’s Board of Trustees.

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According to a statement by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, Mr Laolu Akande, Osinbajo’s lecture on Monday will be themed around Climate Change and a Just Transition, and is hosted by the University’s Center for Africana Studies.

It was founded through the merger of the Afro-American Studies Program and the Center for the Study of Black Literature and Culture at the University of Pennsylvania in 2015. The Center is hosting the Vice President’s Special Lecture in partnership with other faculties of the University such as PennCarey Law, Perry World House, Wharton Business School, Coalition for Equity and Opportunity and Perelman School of Medicine.

Besides the lecture, the VP will also participate in an interactive session with students and faculty coordinated by Prof. Wale Adebanwi, Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Prof. Osinbajo, a leading voice and strong advocate for a Just Energy Transition for Africa and the developing world, is currently spearheading efforts aimed at creating the African Carbon Market as one of the pathways of a just and sustainable transition.

Osinbajo is expected back in Abuja right after his engagements in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania.

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