Speaker, Kwara state House of Assembly, Dr. Ali Ahmad has disclosed that efforts were on top gear to facilitate students exchange programme between the state and Japan.
This, he noted, would expose the students to various technologies in the Asian country and in turn have positive impact in the state and the country as a whole.
A press statement issued by the speaker’s Special Assistant on Media, Shuaib Abdulkadir, quoted the speaker as saying that while hosting the Japanese Ambassador extraordinaire and plenipotentiary to Nigeria, Yutaka Kikuta, to a dinner in his house in Ilorin at the weekend.
Ahmad expressed the 8th Assembly’s commitment and dedication under his leadership to do whatever it would require legislatively to ensure the realization of the programme.
Noting that Japan is adjudged as one of the best countries in technology, he added that such programme would ultimately improve Kwara technologically and strengthen the ties between Nigerian and Japanese government.
“We will look at the way of collaborating and we have already been discussing about students exchange programme and how we will have more Kwarans to study in Japan. You know that it is an opportunity for Nigerians, but we will want to make Kwara students to be in the forefront.
“The Nigerian Ambassador is from Kwara, so we look forward to a more robust relationship between Kwara and Japan. Kwara is your home and when you think Nigeria, think Kwara,” the speaker said.
While describing the Ambassador’s visit to the state as one of the best things to have happened to Kwara, the Speaker said it was the first time a Japanese Ambassador would visit the state and was glad to receive him.
Also speaking, the Nigerian Ambassador to Japan, Professor Mohammed Gana Yisa, thanked Kikuta for the visit in spite of several efforts to discourage him, saying that there was no how as an Ambassador he could know what was happening in other parts of the country while residing only in Abuja.
