 President Mohamede Bohari has described the visit of his South African counterpart, Syria Ramaphosa, as successful despite the scare of the new COVID-19 Omicron variant. President Bohari made the comment at a joint press conference with President Ramaphosa at the State House in Abuja. The president equally expressed optimism that establishment of the Youth Dialogue Initiative will promote peace and development between both countries. Today's inauguration of the joint ministerial advisory council on industry, trade and investment will enable the private sector of the two largest economies in Africa to further promote economic cooperation and development. We appreciate that we need to do much more to achieve further integration of our two economies and take full advantage of the African continental free trade agreement. Once again, I wish to thank my brother, present and members of the South African delegation for their visit and wonderful friendship, cooperation and solidarity. On his part, the South Africa leader thanked the Nigerian government for showing solidarity with this country, calling for the lifting of the travel ban imposed on his nation over the Omicron variant. These new agreements between our two countries broaden the scope of our cooperation on issues of common interests and mutual benefit, and we will continue to work together to ensure their implementation. At present, our countries have signed approximately 32 agreements, and today we have added other agreements. They are an MOU in the field of youth development and agreement on audiovisual cooperation and a program of cooperation on arts and culture. The youth development agreement will be key to improving people-to-people relations and to capacitating the young people of our two countries in exceeding to higher levels of development as well as progress. South Africa and Nigeria both have rich cultural, vibrant arts and flourishing sports sectors of all of which will be greatly enriched through greater collaboration through the program of cooperation between the two countries. The agreement on audiovisual cooperation will be a boost to the film production industries in our respective countries, and we as South Africa stand to benefit greatly from cooperation with the world-famous Nollywood that has really emerged very strongly here.