Your Excellency, the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

Honourable Minister of Education and other Ministers

Your Excellencies, Members of the Diplomatic and Consular Corps

Vice Chairman of Council

Leaders of Delegation and Chief Government Nominees of Council 

Chairman of the West African Examinations Council,

Distinguished Senators here present,

Members of the Federal Executives Council here present,

Your Excellencies, High Commissioners,

Ambassadors and Members of the Diplomatic Corps,

The President and Commander-in Chief of the Armed Forces

Of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,

Madam Chairman of the West African Examinations Council,

Distinguished Senators here present,

Members of the Federal Executives Council,

Your Excellencies, High Commissioners,

It is my honour and privilege to welcome, on behalf of the Secretariat and on my personal behalf,the Chairman, Vice Chairman, Leaders of Delegation and distinguished Delegates from The Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Liberia and Sierra Leone to Accra, Ghana for the series of meetings of the International Committees of Council which will be held at the Conference Room of the West African Examinations Council, Accra from Monday, January 16 to Tuesday, January 24, 2012. AKWAABA!