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Nigeria: Yar 'Adua Condoles With China, Myanmar
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Vanguard (Lagos)
15 May 2008
Posted to the web 16 May 2008
Adekunle Aliyu
PRESIDENT Umaru Yar'Adua yesterday in Abuja offered his condolences to the Republic of China and Myanmar over the recent natural disasters in the two countries.
The president's condolences were contained in letters he sent to the Chinese President, Mr Hu Jintao, and the Myanmar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
"Your Excellency, I am greatly saddened by the unfortunate earthquake disaster that has resulted in the loss of lives and properties in the Sichuan Province of the Republic of China on 12th May 2008.
"The government and the people of Nigeria are highly grieved by the magnitude of the loss," Yar'Adua said in the letter to Hu. Yar'Adua prayed that God would give China and Myanmar, especially the families of the deceased, the fortitude to bear the losses.
Yar'Adua's wife counsels African politicians
Politicians across the African continent have been advised to accept the decisions of the electorate so as to avoid preventable clashes which turn women to widows and slow down the pace of development across the continent.
These were contained in the views of the First Lady, Hajia Turai Yar'Adua when she played host to the wives of Heads of African Missions in Nigeria at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
In her views, "in those countries outside Africa where we always refer to when we talk about development, when elections are conducted, those who win take office, while those who lose congratulate them and they plan on how to develop their societies.
"In their places, we don't hear of people going to election tribunals, they work together and forget their differences after elections are conducted.
"But the case is very different in Africa where long after elections are conducted, those who were in the office before would stay put in office even when it is obvious that they should not be in the office anymore.
"I want to implore you to get ready for a time that I will invite some of you to come with me as the Chairperson of the African Peace Mission so that we go together to demonstrate and speak against the disturbances that are abound all over Africa.
"We are most concerned because when there is trouble, we are the ones that are turned to widows, and it is our children that are being co-opted into the armies that fight in the needless wars started by our politicians.
"It is time that we rise up and speak against all these ugly incidences so that our continent can know peace," she charged.
The First Lady who spotted white attire invited her visitors to help in search of peace in the continent by wearing "white every Thursday so we can create awareness and draw attention to the fact that there is nothing like living in peace.
"I wear white every Thursday to symbolize peace and I believe that if we all imbibe peace, the continent would be a better place all of us and our children to live in.
Earlier in her address, leader of the women and wife of the Ghanaian Ambassador to Nigeria, Mrs. Forstina Kumi said the women were at the Presidential Villa to express "solidarity with the pet project of Her Excellency Hajia Turai Yar'adua and solicit for assistance in our drive for creating awareness for the projects we engage in to make life meaningful to the women and children of Nigeria.
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"We recently donated the sum of two hundred thousand naira towards the course of a boy who was diagnosed to have cancer, but unfortunately, he passed on, but we have also paid the sum of one million naira into the account of another child to finance the education so that even when we are not around, the payment can continue and the education can be completed.
The People's Republic of China and The Republic of China are two different concepts
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