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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