President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has urged world leaders at the G20 Summit to adopt a global framework that guarantees value addition at the source and shared prosperity for communities hosting critical minerals in Africa. Represented by Vice President Kashim Shettima, he stressed that resource extraction must be governed by fairness, transparency, and accountability. The President also emphasized that decent work must anchor global green and digital transitions, ensuring that economic progress uplifts rather than excludes.
President Tinubu reaffirmed Nigeria’s support for global ethical standards for Artificial Intelligence, insisting that AI must remain a servant of humanity. He called for partnerships between nations and sectors to ensure AI promotes empowerment, job creation, and inclusive development while mitigating systemic bias and managing emerging risks responsibly. He urged the G20 to deepen collaboration on technology transfer, capacity building, and investments that prioritize human dignity over profit.
On global financial reforms, the President warned that outdated multilateral frameworks and rising debt burdens are dragging developing nations into cycles of fragility. He called for bold reforms to the international financial architecture to ensure fairer management of global financial flows and sincere solutions to recurring debt crises. Tinubu urged the G20 to place debt sustainability and responsible resource utilisation at the heart of its agenda, stressing that Africa cannot realize its development aspirations without equitable global systems and sustainable financing.
