Tuggar commends Kuwait for bolstering economic development across global south

Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Yusuf Tuggar, has commended the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) for bolstering economic and social development across the Global South, including Nigeria.

Tuggar disclosed this in a statement issued on Monday by Alkasim Abdulkadir, his Special Assistant on Media and Communications Strategy.

The statement is against the backdrop of his receiving the Director-General of the KFAED, Dr Waleed Al-Bahar, in Abuja, for a high-level bilateral meeting focused on deepening development cooperation between Nigeria and Kuwait.

He stressed that the historic and cordial relations between both countries had flourished since the 1960s.
According to him, KFAED has played instrumental role in advancing economic and social development across the Global South, including Nigeria.

Discussions during the meeting centred on expanding cooperation in priority sectors aligned with President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.

The minister highlighted Nigeria’s development priorities, including infrastructure renewal, human capital development, poverty reduction, youth empowerment and economic diversification.

Also was emphasis on education, with both countries reflecting on success of the Reaching Out-of-School Children initiative in Kaduna State.

It was described as an impactful project supported by KFAED in partnership with UNICEF, while stressing the urgency of scaling similar interventions nationwide, to tackle Nigeria’s education gap.

On food security, Tuggar proposed enhanced collaboration in agricultural modernisation, including irrigation, agro-processing and technology transfer, as areas Kuwait’s import reliance offers a shared incentive for innovation and cooperation.

He further proposed new infrastructure projects in transportation, power and digital connectivity, and called for continued concessional financing and technical assistance from the Kuwait Fund.

The minister reaffirmed Nigeria’s commitment to hosting the inaugural session of the Nigeria-Kuwait Joint Commission for Cooperation later this year to institutionalise dialogue and fast-track mutually beneficial projects.

Highpoint of the meeting was pledge by both parties to translate goodwill into tangible outcomes that would strengthen the strategic partnership and deliver real benefits to the people of Nigeria and Kuwait.