Pan-Atlantic University calls for a borderless Africa
By Ajibola Osungbohun
As the drive for the African Union Agenda 2063 is domesticated across member countries, in a media roundtable workshop organised on Thursday, 20th, 2025, by Pan-Atlantic University at the Lagos Business School, Lagos State, Dr Tayo Aduloju has called for an African institution of transparency, accountability, freedom and borderlessness.
Dr Aduloju, who is the keynote speaker, while speaking at the 3rd Media Roundtable workshop 2025, with the theme AU Agenda 2063, the media as a catalyst for action in Nigeria, raised the continuousness of the African leader, most especially Nigeria, to live up to institutional transparency and accountability that will lift many of her people out of poverty.
“That after 50 years of the union, of the organisation of African unity, African leaders are reflecting that we have spent 50 years coming together to think about Africa, and we are still not where we need to be. Our political institutions do not still deliver value, our economies have not lifted our people out of poverty, and our social organisation has left many people behind.”
Speaking further, he also said that the continent is not yet there when it comes to the aspiration of what Africa wants; he therefore pushed for an Africa where everyone has a single passport and where Africans can travel within Africa with a visa.
“The idea of an African passport – we’re still on our way to that one. Some of us already have African passports, but I think if African passports were still there, it’d be easy.
Well, all of us are supposed to, when we are done with this agenda, have one African passport and travel anywhere in Africa without visas.”
The CEO of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group said that the investment with countries from other continents has been easier than with sister African countries due to heavy policies and travel restrictions; he therefore called for an all-integrated Africa system.
“Whilst Africa claims to be one continent, we are very politically, economically, and socially integrated and fragmented. It is easier to travel to Europe than it is to travel across Africa.
“It’s easier to trade with China than it is to trade with our brothers in Africa.”
