Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Jimoh Ibrahim, has urged the international community to adopt a global debt-for-education swap framework that would allow developing countries to invest more in education while continuing to meet their debt obligations.
According to a statement issued by his media office in New York, Ibrahim made the proposal at the UNESCO Conference on System Transformation and Resilience for Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) in Paris, France, where ministers, development partners, multilateral institutions and education stakeholders met to discuss sustainable financing for quality education.
Speaking at the conference, the envoy said the rising debt burden on…