NIGERIA AND UNESCO SIGN AGREEMENT ON INSTITUTE FOR AFRICAN
CULTURE AND INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING [IACIU] ABEOKUTA


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Paris, France: Wednesday 8 April, 2009: Nigeria's Honourable Minister
of Culture, Tourism and National Orientation: Senator Bello J. Gada
and Koichiro Matsuura: Director-General of United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organisation [UNESCO] signed an agreement
formally establishing the earlier approved and inaugurated Institute
for African Culture and International Understanding [IACIU] located
in Abeokuta, Ogun State - as a Category Two Centre within the global
framework of UNESCO's mandate.

For more information on this IACIU Agreement signed by Nigeria and
UNESCO, please, go to the following official web page:
UNESCO and Nigeria Sign Category 2
IACIU Establishment Agreement

Also, remarks made by Nigeria's Honourable Minister of Culture, can
be seen on the following official link from our Delegation:
IACIU Remarks by Culture Minister

Also, below, in pictures, the Nigerian Permanent Delegation to UNESCO
presents this Institute for African Culture and International Understanding
Agreement signed between UNESCO and Nigeria:

UNESCO Director-General: Mr. Koichiro Matsuura presenting the Agreement to
Nigeria's Honourable Minister of Culture, Tourism and National Orientation:
Senator Bello Jibril Gada.


Nigeria's Honourable Minister of Culture, Tourism and National Orientation: Senator
Bello Jibril Gada and UNESCO Director-General: Mr. Koichiro Matsuura, signing
copies of the agreement. They are flanked on the left by Professor Michael Omolewa;
and on the right by UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Africa, Professor
Noureini Tidjani Serpos.


Honourable Minister Gada with the Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of Kenya to
to UNESCO: Dr. Mary Mbiro Khimulu [left] during the special luncheon organized
to celebrate the event.


UNESCO Director-General: Mr. Koichiro Matsuura presenting the Agreement to
Nigeria's Honourable Minister of Culture, Tourism and National Orientation:
Senator Bello Jibril Gada.


Nigeria's Honourable Minister of Culture [2nd from left] making remarks at
the ceremony. First left is the Professor Michael Omolewa. Third from left
in order of proximity is Director General of UNESCO: Mr. Matsuura; Assistant
Director-General for Africa: Professor Serpos; and Assistant Director-General
for UNESCO Bureau of Strategic Planning: Mr. Hans D'Orville, who holds Nigeria's
National Honour of: Officer of the Order of the Niger [OON].


Professor Michael Abiola Omolewa making relevant comments at the signing ceremony.
On his right is the Honourable Minister, the Director-General, ADG Africa and
ADG Bureau of Strategic Planning.

Nigeria's Honourable Minister of Culture, Tourism and National Orientation:
Senator Bello J. Gada making his speech at the Agreement signing ceremony

UNESCO Director-General: Mr. Koichiro Matsuura making his speech at the
Agreement signing ceremony

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