PERMANENT DELEGATION OF NIGERIA TO UNESCO

UNESCO DIRECTOR-GENERAL VISITS NIGERIA

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Below, in pictures, the Nigerian Permanent Delegation to UNESCO
presents the visit of 1999 to 2009 UNESCO Director-General Koichiro
Matsuura to Nigeria from 6 to 9 January, 2009.

News on the Director-General of UNESCO's activities in Nigeria can
also be seen on our site by going to the following link:
News, Events and Links

And also, on the subsequent French report from the Director-General's
official UNESCO web page at the following link:
Official Visit of the Director-General to Nigeria

Koichiro Matsuura, UNESCO Director-General [Right] with President of the Nigerian Senate: Senator David Mark [Left]
and Alhaji Shehu Shagari: former Prsident of Nigeria [Centre], after being conferred with honorary doctor of letters degree
by the National Open University of Nigeria [NOUN] during the University's first convocation ceremony.

The above photo and the following four photos below features UNESCO Director General: Koichiro Matsuura [In red tie],
His Eminence, Alhaji Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar III, CFR, MNI, LLD, the Sultan of Sokoto [in white head turban] and Dr.
Sonny Folorunso Kuku [In white and blue tie] - during a ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of
King’s College, Lagos: Nigeria

The photo above features UNESCO ADG for Africa: Professor Nureni Tidjani Serpos [Left], with Nigeria's Minister of Culture,
Tourism and National Orientation: Senator Bello Gada [Middle] plus Governor Ọlagunsoye Oyinlọla of Osun State, Nigeria [Right].

Above and below, UNESCO Director-General: Koichiro Matsuura [5th from left] in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria with
dignitries; including former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo [6th from left, above; and 7th from left, below] -
during the opening of the Institute for African Culture and International Understanding [IACIU].

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