Fidelia njeze ambassador5/17/2023 ![]() The aim is to re-engage the country office and sensitize Nigerians on NEPAD activities. Mrs Njese said to this end, a think tank was constituted upon her assumption of office, which worked assiduously with a technical support team from NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency (NPCA) in South Africa to develop a six-point strategy for repositioning NEPAD Nigeria for effectiveness. ![]() The poor implementation of NEPAD programmes in Nigeria was due to total disconnect from the continental process. “If after over a decade, questions are still being asked and doubts expressed about the role of NEPAD in Nigeria, it means that its relevance is being whittled down, which should not be the case when non-NEPAD initiating member countries who contribute less are benefitting so much from NEPAD programmes,” she said. Mrs Njeze, who until recently was Nigeria’s Ambassador to Switzerland, expressed regret that NEPAD “dwindled into a state of oblivion” in Nigeria to the extent that an average citizen was asking whether NEPAD still existed. NEPAD, an economic development programme of the African Union, was adopted at the 37th session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government in July 2001 in Lusaka, Zambia, to provide an overarching vision and policy framework for accelerating economic co-operation and integration among African countries. Towards implementation of a new National Programme of Action, Special Adviser to the President on NEPAD, Ambassador Fidelia Njeze, met with NEPAD coordinators in the 36 States of the federation and Federal Capital Territory and focal point officers in Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) where she unveiled the focus of the new programme.Īt the meeting held in Abuja on Monday, she stressed why Nigeria must continue to play a leadership role in the actualization of NEPAD objectives. May his soul rest In peace, I also wish the family the fortitude to bear the loss.” Adeniyi added.Nigeria says it is set to re-launch active reintegration of the ideals of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) into its national development agenda in line with the original dreams of the founding fathers of the concept. “He was a perfect gentleman, I met him in 1992 and we have maintained a cordial relationship since then. Similarly Mr Tajudeen Adeniyi, Special Assistant to Nigeria’s High Commissioner to the UK, expressed shock at the news. Mr Olayinka Aje, the Head of Protocol, at the commission said: “He was hardworking, amiable and very reliable, we joined the foreign service together and I have known him for 30 years”. Reacting to the news of his demise, his colleagues described him as a fine diplomat. Musa, who was appointed ambassador in 2012, had previously worked at the Nigerian High Commission in London. NAN reports that plans are under way to take his remains home. “Members of the Nigerian community have been here on condolence as well as the diplomatic corps and the Swiss government.’’ She added that a condolence register had been opened at the embassy. “He was quite an easy going person who was committed to his job, and a nice family man too. “I worked with him closely for a short period we were both appointed about the same time last year,” Njeze said. Musa, who died on Tuesday in Bern following a brief illness, was 56. Mrs Fidelia Njeze, Nigeria’s Ambassador to that country confirmed the development in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) on Thursday in London. Nigeria’s Deputy Ambassador to Switzerland, Mr Bashir Musa, is dead.
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