NIGERIAN PERMANENT DELEGATION TO UNESCO

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Senator Bello J. Gada is Nigeria's Honourable Minister of Culture
Tourism and National Orientation. Accordingly, he is a UNESCO
Partner Minister.

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.

Notably, 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 the Ambassador plus
Permanent Delegate of Nigeria to UNESCO: 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
on 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 Ambassador plus Permanent Delegate of Nigeria
to UNESCO: 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].

Nigeria's Ambassador plus Permanent Delegate to UNESCO [1st left], His
Excellency: 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

Also, below are more pictures of the Honourable Minister's recent visit to
UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France:

Senator Bello J. Gada, Nigeria's Honourable Minister of Culture, Tourism and National
Orientation with Ambassador Koichiro Matsuura, UNESCO Director-General [Right].

UNESCO Director General: Ambassador Koichiro Matsuura [Right], welcoming the
Honourable Minister of Culture, Tourism and National Orientation: Senator Bello
J. Gada to his office at UNESCO headquarters, Paris, France. Behind Senator
Gada is Nigeria's Ambassador and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO: Professor
Michael Abiola Omolewa

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