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Nigeria: Yar'Adua Seeks Partnership With Red Cross


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This Day (Lagos)

9 May 2008
Posted to the web 9 May 2008

Lagos

President Umaru Yar'Adua yesterday called on Nigerians to partner with the Red Cross in addressing the humanitarian needs of society.

Speaking at his investiture as the Grand Patron of the Nigerian Red Cross Society, Yar'Adua said that the society had confronted human sufferings frontally.

"The Nigerian Red Cross Society and the Red Crescent Society are the leading organisations that have come out with great compassion to confront human challenges frontally," he said. The investiture is part of activities to mark the World Red Cross Day. Yar'Adua said that the two societies worldwide had earned for themselves dignity and honour by addressing human challenges.Yar'Adua assured the society of assistance toward addressing the increasing humanitarian needs of society.

Earlier, the President of the Nigerian Red Cross Society, Chief Rochas Okorocha, said that the investiture had become a tradition as every Nigerian head of government since 1960, had served as its Grand Patron. Okorocha said that the society had introduced Mercy House to receive donations of clothes and to sell medicines at subsidised cost to needy Nigerians."The society will also assist Nigerians who are stranded abroad to return home," he said.

The World Red Cross Day is marked to create awareness on the increasing need to address the humanitarian needs of distressed people.



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