Ambassador Isola elected chair accreditation committee of Commonwealth …bags national honour

.  Ambassador Sarafa Tunji Isola 

By John Ogunyemi

Nigeria’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Ambassador Sarafa Tunji Isola, has been elected as chair of the Accreditation Committee of the Commonwealth for the 2022/23 financial year.

In a statement issued by the Nigeria High Commission in the United Kingdom, obtained by News Contact Online, on Saturday, had it that Isola was unanimously elected during a virtual meeting of the committee comprising four members from the eight largest contributors namely; Australia, India, New Zealand and Nigeria as well as four Regional Representatives comprising Ghana for Africa, Bangladesh for AsiaEurope, Grenada for Caribbean-Canada, and Fiji for Pacific, held last Wednesday.

He will be chairing the committee for the financial year 2022/23, while he chaired the inaugural meeting of the Committee.

The statement said that Nigeria provided guidance to the committee on the application processes for the Commonwealth Accredited 

Organisations seeking accreditation and reaccreditation, revision 

of the accreditation guidelines as mandated by Heads of 

Government at CHOGM in Kigali, and provided a window through which other matters were discussed.

Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari, has approved the conferment of the Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (OFR) on the Ambassador.

The national award will be bestowed on him and other distinguished Nigerians on Tuesday in Abuja.