Nigerians
from all works of life gathered at the embassy of the Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea located close to the United Nations Regional Headquarters in
Abuja to celebrate the sixty - seventh founding of the nation in 1948.
The
commemoration ceremony was attended by some Federal Permanent Secretaries,
Director Generals of Federal Government Parastatals, senior officials of the
Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, members of the Nigeria/DPRK Friendship
Association, Nigerian National Committee on the Study of Kimilsungism and
Kimjongilism, members of the print and electronic media and adherents of Juche
Idea in the Federal Capital Territory and Nasarawa State.
The
reception hall and the garden were filled to capacity.
In
a joint meeting of the Nigeria/DPRK Friendship Association and Nigerian
National Committee on the Study of Kimilsungism and Kimjongilism, the National
Chairman of the Nigeria/DPRK Friendship Association, Dr Ibrahim Nasiru Mantu
who was represented by former Federal House of Representatives msmber, Hon
Yilkes Barmines extolled the virtues of the founding father of the DPRK H.E
Comrade Kim Il Sung defeating the imperial Japanese forces, establishing the
greatest socialist state and holding forth against the United State.
In
his address, the National Chairman of the National Committee on the Study of
Kimilsungism and Kimjongilism, Prof. Alhassan M. Muhammad, eulogised the
founding father of the DPRK and chronicled events leading up to the
establishment of the DPRK and the efforts made to advance and sustained the
progress made so far.
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