NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec.10, 2019/ACP/: Tony O. Elumelu, CON, Founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation and Chairman, Heirs Holdings and United Bank for Africa Group, urged African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Heads of State to improve the business environment in their countries to drive industrialisation and wealth creation in ACP member states.

He said this while presenting the keynote speech on the theme "Industrialization and Private Sector Engagement for Economic Transformation of ACP States" at the Presidential Dialogue of the ACP Business Summit in Nairobi, Kenya.

Nairobi, 9/12/2019/ACP: The 9th Summit of ACP Heads of State and Government was officially opened by Kenyan President H.E. Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta today at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) in Nairobi, Kenya. President Kenyatta, as the Head of State of the host country, assumed the presidency of the ACP Group, accepting the gavel from outgoing president, the Hon. Davis Madava Steven, Deputy Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea.

Highlights of Day Two of the Ministerial Meetings and Side Events

* Ambassador Georges Rebelo Pinto Chikoti named as Secretary General Designate

Highlights of Day One of the Ministerial Meeting

Ambassador Macharia Kamau, Principal Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kenya paid a courtesy visit to the ACP Secretariat of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States to give an update on the progress being made on the planning of the 9^th Summit of ACP Heads of State and Government, which will shortly be taking place at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) in Nairobi, Kenya.