 Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished delegates, I would like to have a small award ceremony today. I would like to recognize today two individuals who have been very active in ITU over the past years. I would like to first invite Mrs. Kereja Geriani, Secretary-General of AICTO, the Arab Information and Communication Technology Organization. Here we are recognizing her for her excellent contribution to information and communication technologies in the region. She has been very active in her own country, Tunisia, but today we are recognizing her for her role for the whole Arab region and for Africa and for the ITU. I would like to present to you Mrs. Kereja Geriani, the ITU Gold Medal and the certificate for your achievement. In the name of God, I would like to first address my thanks to Dr. Hamadoun Thouré for this distinction, which I am very honored. We are lucky, Dr. Hamadoun, as you say, to work in a sector that develops at a fast pace. And therefore, some numbers announced during this conference, we are approaching 7 billion mobile subscribers, 3 billion internet subscribers, are numbers that we have not even dreamed of a decade ago. Today, it is a reality, the merit of all this development comes back to a lot of people, but I believe that it comes back to the builders of this world, of this internet company, who are those who contributed to the numbering of networks, to the development of the GSM, to the development of the internet. Of course, the role of the International Telecommunications Union is not to be shown under the benevolent direction of my brother, Dr. Hamadoun Thouré, with a dynamic team of directors from the three sectors, and the whole team, by the way, who denotes a qualitative evolution and a change in the world, and particularly in the world of development, which has allowed me to reduce this numbering and to reach these numbers. My modest contribution was possible only thanks to the teams I had to work with, because they convinced that intelligence is a group intelligence. I would like to share this distinction with the members of the ECTO and my country of Tunisia, their heads, and members of the private sector, as well as all my team. I can not finish without thanking and putting the accent on the fruitful collaboration with the Arab Organization of Information Technology and Communication, with the International Telecommunications Union, with these three sectors. Thank you once again. I am very, very honored and thank you for your attention. I ask you to stay to understand the family photo after the second part of our ceremony. I would like now to invite my very good friend, Dr. Ernest Nduque. Ernest was a former CEO of the Nigerian Communication Commission. We all know him in this circle. We're very proud of his achievements. Dr. Nduque, we are honored to present to you the ITU Gold Medal and certificate for your long years of dedication and hard work to the benefit of the ICT community. Thank you again, my brother. I know that Dr. Nduque is a lovely wife. Prime Rose is a university here in this room. And I can tell you, you can be very proud of your husband. He is a true fellow. Thank you very much. Good afternoon, everyone. I wish to start by thanking the Secretary General of ITU, our visionary leader and head of the ITU, Dr. Hamadun Ture, for this honor. This is yet perhaps another call for even more effort in helping to catalyze the growth of ICT in Africa. And because broadband is critical to socioeconomic development of nations, we have recently founded a new project called Broadband Rights Advocacy Network Africa. This is to preserve the rights of everyone in Africa to broadband access. In Nigeria, we are also lucky that our president and the honorable minister of communications technology definite advocates of the expansion of broadband in Nigeria. And I'd like to thank them for the opportunity given me to serve the nation in various respects and perhaps also by extension a few other organizations like the ITU. I wish to commit to continue to support them and the ITU in the drive to make digital citizens of everyone in the African continent. Thank you very much for listening and God bless you all.