ITALY: United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation awards Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo a gold medal for his prominent position in the fight against hunger

The United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation has awarded Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo a gold medal for his prominent position in the fight against hunger. Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo was honoured for his stance on fighting poverty and hunger on Monday (March 12) at the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) headquarters in Rome. Attending a special meeting to discuss climate change and its repercussions FAO's Director-General Jacques Diouf presented Obasanjo with a Gold Medal of World Food Day that had been awarded to him last year but not yet presented. Obasanjo was also presented with a special scroll, as a token of respect by FAO for the President's contributions in the fields of agriculture and natural resources in order to reduce poverty and ensure food security in Nigeria. "I'm confident that with strong and positively dashing, effective and sustained political will, productive partnership with our development partners and active involvement of our communities, the challenges of global food insecurity and poverty can be surmounted," Obasanjo said after receiving the awards. "We should never rest nor relax until this is achieved" he added. Nigeria is preparing for landmark elections in April as the country prepares to elect their president, state governors and state and national legislators in what should be the first fully democratic transition in Africa's most populous country. President Obasanjo, who cannot stand for a third term, has been rebuked by the country's lawmakers over his role in attempts to disqualify mainly opposition candidates.

ITN Source | March 15, 2007

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