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President's wife Turai Yar'Adua arrives Vienna for atomic energy conference

Posted by Jane Okinedo on September 14, 2009 at 9:30pm
What does an Atomic Energy Conference have to do with Turai Yaradua ? Dont we have Atomic Physics professors in Nigeria ? O sorry, they are on strike . Send the presidents wife instead . na wa o !The wife to Nigeria's president, Turai Yar'Adua, on Monday arrived in Vienna to attend the 53rd Session of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), scheduled to hold from September 14 to September 18.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent in Vienna reports that Mrs. Turai was received at the airport by the Nigerian Ambassador to Austria, Jerry Ogokwe, and other top embassy officials.While in Vienna, Mrs. Turai will have separate meetings with the IAEA Director General, Muhammed El-Baradei, and the Secretary General of the OPEC FUND, Suleman Al-Herbish. She would also meet with the IAEA Director General designate, Yukiya Amano; the Director General of the UN Organisation in Vienna (UNOV), Antonio Costa; and the Director General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), KK Yumkellah.Similarly, she will have private meetings with the First Lady of Austria and that of Slovakia, Silvia Gasparovicova.Mrs. Turai would also hold discussions with officials of the IAEA on the agency's Programme of Action Against Cancer Theraphy (PACT) on behalf of her International Cancer Centre, Abuja (ICCA as well as inaugurate the Nigerian Embassy's website, before meeting the Austrian chapter of the Nigerians In Diaspora Organisation (NIDO).
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