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Taiwanese government has described President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s successful State visit to the Caribbean nation of Saint Lucia as a truly a landmark achievement in Nigeria diplomacy.

“We, the people and Government of Taiwan, wholeheartedly congratulate President Tinubu for his visions and concrete actions of extending Nigeria’s connection with the Caribbean Island state, just like Taiwan has made diplomatically with St. Lucia”, Andy Yih-Ping Liu, Taiwan’s Representative/ Head of Mission in Nigeria said in a latest statement.

In line with Nigeria’s moves, Liu noted that Taiwan and St. Lucia, as well as three other Caribbean Island nations – St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Haiti, have long established diplomatic relations with full-fledged Embassies setting in each other’s capitals.

The head of Taiwan mission in Nigeria further said that his country’s diplomatic presence of Embassies, together with Development and Technical Aid of medical, agricultural, women and youth empowering, trade and investment strengthening, sustainable development, have truly assisted St. Lucia as well as other Caribbean nations to grow well economically and socially.

Liu believed that during President Tinubu’s visit, he would have toured some facilities jointly developed by the Taiwanese government and St. Lucian authorities.

“ We’re proud to offer our helping hands that produce fruitful results, and we certainly welcome wholeheartedly that Nigeria will also be joining this humanitarian and economic collaborations in the Caribbean area.

“We are extremely delighted to witness President Tinubu graciously receiving the conferment of Knight Commander of the Order of Saint Lucia (K.C.O.S.L.) in recognition of his efforts to strengthen ties between Africa and the Caribbean.

This has showcased His Excellency’s visionary exploration and escalation of Nigeria’s ever-growing international status, and his grand movements in deepening the collaboration with the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)”.

Liu noted that Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre, whom President Tinubu met in St. Lucia, visited Taiwan in attending President Ching-Te Lai’s inauguration ceremony on May 20th, last year.

“Also, St. Lucia’s Senate President Madam Alvina Reynolds, that President Tinubu has met, visited Taiwan in attending our National Day Celebrations on October 10th, 2024. All these have demonstrated how cordially the diplomatic relations between Taiwan and St. Lucia have been, and our bilateral cooperations have truly showcased Taiwan is such an indispensable and healthy partner for St. Lucia, as well as other Carribean nations”.

He further said that Taiwan has survived the heavy pressure from across the Taiwan Strait, and flourished outstandingly in the world, democratically and economically on nation building.

Liu offered hands of fellowship saying “We the Taiwanese people are privileged to share our advanced know-how and technology to any country globally, so that we can work together in weathering through all sorts of challenges”.

While expressing his desire to strengthening of Nigeria-Taiwan relations, or in its shared diplomatic allies of St Lucia and the Carribean states, Liu said

"Taiwan remains ready to share its vast knowledge with Nigeria in various fields of comparative advantages, and we would appreciate deeply that His Excellency President Tinubu and Nigeria to view and regard Taiwan as a most advanced and developed, healthy partner, to build substantial relations, like what we have contributed and collaborated in Saint Lucia”.

esnbrutality:
ADC has come to remove APC and it's gathering of locusts and scallywags.


TINUBU is going to be exiled to St. Lucia. He is already preparing for it but RONU-bandits are still shouting mandate.

esnbrutality:
ADC has come to remove APC and it's gathering of locusts and scallywags.


TINUBU is going to be exiled to St. Lucia. He is already preparing for it but RONU-bandits are still shouting mandate.

morikee:
This kinda News can only be conveyed by the propaganda machine aka TimeManager

TheBestStudent:
Nice one. This is a sign that our president is working very hard to move this country forward. His visit to st.Lucia is yielding good fruit already.

givedemwotowoto:
The Coalition will fix the mess created by this Agbadado government of Chameleons

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
These apc guys are not just crippling our economy, pushing the masses into extreme poverty and insecurity, they are also scoring an own goal in their foreign policy decisions. Too bad.

You cannot say you abide by one China🇨🇳 and then you start conducting official and diplomatic relations with Taiwan. That's an unforced error.

TimeManager:
As they say a prophet has no honor among his own people. If you don't value the President as you should, outsiders will help you to appreciate the Jagaban, the latest Knight Commander in the world. Unfortunately a certain candidate who lacks diplomatic acumen, who during his time as a Governor deported non Anambranians from his state, who wedged a divide between the Anglican and the Catholic, under whose Labour Party fell apart and then ran away yet again to a coalition, that kind of a person would not understand what it takes to be an Ambassador of Africa.


-Kiss the truth!

TimeManager:
As they say a prophet has no honor among his own people. If you don't value the President as you should, outsiders will help you to appreciate the Jagaban, the latest Knight Commander in the world. Unfortunately a certain candidate who lacks diplomatic acumen, who during his time as a Governor deported non Anambranians from his state, who wedged a divide between the Anglican and the Catholic, under whose Labour Party fell apart and then ran away yet again to a coalition, that kind of a person would not understand what it takes to be an Ambassador of Africa.


-Kiss the truth!

EmperorIsaac:
We thank God for this outcome. He should spend more time making sure Nigeria is secure though.
However, I'm aware that the coalition is behind the renewed spate of insecurity.