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Buhari Regards Soyinka’s Advice, Agrees To Hold National Economic Conference Barely a week after Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, urged Nigeria’s supreme leader to summon an emergency economic conference to brainstorm solutions to the problem facing the country, President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the convocation of a national economic conference. A presidency official in Abuja on Thursday, while speaking to pressmen, said NEC members had in their deliberations called for a major conference, where the current economic situation of the country could be thoroughly discussed by all the states and the Federal Government. Soyinka, who made the disclosure known during a courtesy visit to the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in Abuja last Thursday, had said; “The President should call an emergency economic conference with experts to be invited – consumers, producers, labour unions, university experts, professors, etc. I think we really need an ...