FG Pledges Massive Security For World Economic Forum In Abuja

April 15, 2014

Bomb experts gather evidence in a crater that was caused by a bomb blast explosion at Nyanyan, Abuja April 14, 2014. CREDIT: REUTERS/AFOLABI SOTUNDE — Bomb experts gather evidence in a crater that was caused by a bomb blast explosion at Nyanyan, Abuja April 14, 2014.
CREDIT: REUTERS/AFOLABI SOTUNDE

Nigeria will go ahead with the hosting of a World Economic Forum on Africa in Abuja next month, despite a bomb attack in Abuja yesterday that killed 71 people, and leaving 124 injured.

“Our security planning for the World Economic Forum on Africa (scheduled for May 7-9) is already well under way and will be the largest security operation ever mounted in this country for an international summit,” Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said in a statement sent to forum participants.