From Dennis Mernyi, Abuja

THE Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s frequent foreign trips are mostly focused on finding solutions to the lingering energy crises in the country.

In an opinion piece published on Monday entitled, “PMB’s Foreign Trips –My Takeaway”, Fashola noted the President had assiduously engaged the countries visited in discourse on ways to end the current energy crises that have hit the country.

He said he has followed the President on at least four trips that include the G7 Summit in Germany, the Oil and Gas Summit in Iran, the Renewable Energy Conference in Abu Dhabi and the state visit and Business Forum in China.

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“And two trips that I did not attend, but whose deliberations I followed, including Paris for the COP 21 and USA for the Nuclear Energy Summit, were all in the interest of the country.

“I will limit my takeaways to four trips that I attended with the President, namely, the G7 Summit in Germany, the Oil and Gas Summit in Iran, the Renewable Energy Conference in Abu Dhabi and the state visit and Business Forum in China; and two trips that I did not attend, but whose deliberations I followed, namely, Paris for the COP 21 and USA for the Nuclear Energy Summit.

He said that G7 Summit in Germany, “is a club of eight of the most industrialised, economic and technologically advanced nations. For the benefit of those who do not follow international politics, it was originally the G8 comprising the USA, Britain, Germany, France, Canada, Japan, Italy and Russia, who were later suspended and had sanctions imposed on them to make it G7 as a result.”