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Wednesday 4 September 2013
Jonathan, Obama Listed Among First speakers at 68th United Nations General Assembly
President Goodluck Jonathan was
listed among the first four speakers
at the forth-coming UN General
Assembly 68th session general
debate scheduled for Sept. 24 to 28 in
New York.
The UN Correspondent of the News
Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that
Jonathan would speak along Presidents
Dilma Rousseff of Brazil, Barack Obama
of U.S. and Abdullah Gul of Turkey.
Brazil had always been the traditional
first speaker during UN General
Assembly debate sessions. This is the
very first time in the history of the UN
General Assembly session that Nigeria
would be the fourth country to address
the assembly.
In the past, Nigeria had addressed the
UN session either in the afternoon or
evening. In 2012, during the 67th
session when the president addressed
the assembly in the evening as the 29th
speaker, the hall was virtually empty.
The president is also expected to have a
lunch meeting with Nigerian
professionals with `solid achievements'
in U.S. on Sept. 22 in New York.
According to the Chairman of Nigerians
in Diaspora in America (NIDOA), Mr
Ganiyu Dada, the lunch meeting is aimed
at discussing the solutions to the
national development of Nigeria.
Dada added that the professionals
should be willing to participate in the
national development of Nigeria. He
noted that NIDOA had been asked to
submit about 500 names of `super
Nigerian professionals' with solid
achievements in U.S. from where about
250 Nigerian Professionals would be
chosen.
"They are expected to have Lunch
Meeting with President Jonathan on
Sunday Sept. 22 in New York from 1p.m.
to 4p.m. This list will be submitted next
week to the Nigerian Embassy which has
the final say on who is invited to have
lunch with the president.
"NIDOA is only to compile the list from
the 50 States of USA including the
Nigerian Professionals that are not yet
members of NIDOA.
"You can attend lunch with the President
without being a member of NIDOA, but
there are a lot of benefits to join
NIDOA,'' Dada said.
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