REUTERS - 02.11.2008 - By Hez Holland
GOMA, Congo (Reuters) - A United Nations aid convoy protected by U.N. peacekeepers will head into a rebel-held zone of east Congo on Monday to try to reach tens of thousands of civilians displaced by fighting, the U.N. said on Sunday.
The convoy will group staff and resources from U.N. agencies and humanitarian NGOs. It will leave Goma, capital of Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province, and travel north to Rutshuru, taken by Tutsi rebels on Tuesday.
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Please be informed that the meeting of the Board of Trustee of the Alex Ekwueme Foundation has been scheduled as follows:
Date: Wednesday 19th November 2008
Time: 12.00 Noon
Venue: Sokoto Room, Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja
Agenda
Opening Prayer
Minutes of the last BOT meeting
Comments/Corrections and adoption of the minutes
Matters arising from the minutes
Update from the Management Team
Review and ratification of the constitution
Secretariat and Funding of the Foundation
Biennial Peace Summit 2009
Other matters
Sign:
Dr Duke Igwilo MBBS, MSc, MRCPsych
Director General, Alex Ekwueme Foundation
BBC News, Tuesday, 21 October 2008
Zimbabwe’s main opposition party has called for new elections, after regional talks on the power-sharing deal were postponed for a week.
New polls are the “only way forward”, Movement for Democratic Change spokesman Nelson Chamisa told the BBC.
Neighbouring Botswana has also called for new elections.
The MDC and the ruling Zanu-PF agreed to share power last month but they cannot agree on the details. A BBC reporter says there is a lack of trust.
The BBC’s Jonah Fisher in Johannesburg says the atmosphere between the two parties is absolutely toxic.
A summit in Swaziland to discuss the deadlocked power-sharing agreement was postponed after the MDC insisted that its leader Morgan Tsvangirai be granted a passport.
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Guardian Newspaper Friday, October 17, 2008
SUDANESE President Omar al-Bashir has launched his “people’s initiative” for peace in Darfur with an elaborate ceremony attended by regional dignitaries but no rebels involved in fighting.
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From Ahamefula Ogbu in Port Harcourt, 10.19.2008 Thisday newspaper
President of the Economic Community of West African States Commi-ssion, Dr. Mohammed Ibn Chambas, yesterday warned parties in the various conflicts in the region to sheathe their swords, saying armed conflicts will never lead to the development of the region.
The ECOWAS boss, who identified poor resource management and exclusion from development as major causes of conflicts in the region, said hostility is antithetical to conflict resolution.
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Daily Independent 18 October 2008
Elder statesman and former Vice President, Dr. Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme turns 76 on Tuesday.
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Daily Independent - Saturday, August 23, 2008
Abacha, Abdulsalami distorted Nigerian Constitution - Ekwueme
Engaging Dr Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme in an interview is like going through chapters of a well-edited encyclopaedia of contemporary Nigerian politics. The former vice president of Nigeria has remained a factor in all major political events in Nigeria for the past 30 years, especially on the side of democracy and civilian governance.
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The Director General of the London based Alex Ekwueme Foundation, Dr Duke Igwilo would be visiting Nigeria from 12 September 2008 through 19th September 2008.
This visit is to enable the Director General acquaint himself with the progress made towards the acquisition of land for the building of the Alex Ekwueme Institute for Peace in Abuja.
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Ekwueme Seeks Devt of N’Delta
Thisday Newspaper
08.12.2008
Former Vice-President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr Alex Ekwueme, has said decades of deprivation in the Niger Delta is responsible for current crises in the region.
Ekwueme told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Asaba, that it was obvious that failure to give to the Niger Delta people what was rightly due to them, resulted in their current struggle Read More »
Why I Didn’t Abandon PDP- Ekwueme
By Emma Chukwuanukwu, Assistant News Editor
Nigeria’s former Vice President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme has finally opened up on why he remained committed to the ideals of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)despite all the humiliation he has suffered as founder and leader of the party.
He has also thrown more light on why his presidential ambition in 1999 and 2003 was scuttled, saying that a cabal in the military worked against him.
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“Let us promise to make peace not just a priority, but a passion. Let us pledge to do more, wherever we are in whatever way we can, to make every day a day of peace.” UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
It was recorded that the United Nations Security Council deployed a record number of peacekeepers to 19 peace operations around the world in 2007. At present, more than 100,000 blue berets and civilian staff are serving in the field to build and keep peace around the world.
In Africa, most countries within the continent have witnessed a fair share of violent conflict since independence. Read More »
BY HIS EXCELLENCY CHIEF (DR) ALEX EKWUEME
FIRST CIVILIAN VICE PRESIDENT
A PAPER DELIVERED AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE DEMOCRACY IN NIGERIA: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS
ORGANISED BY THE FOUNDATION FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE AND DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA
HELD AT IMPERIAL COLLEGE, LONDON, SOUTH KESSINGTON CAMPUS
ON SATURDAY 25TH JUNE 2005
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Introduction
Distinguished ladies and gentlemen:
We assemble here this afternoon in celebration; we assemble for an exhibition in celebration of Christopher Okigbo. This morning we had a literary feast; this evening we shall have a cultural feast; this afternoon-now-we will be having a visual feast. All these three sessions constitute the celebration Christopher Okigbo for today. But this celebration does not end today. It will continue in our homes, in schools, in every gathering wherever the poetry of Christopher Okigbo is read.
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Well-thought Out Provisions Of The 1995 Constitution: By Alex Ekwueme
May 29, 2005
I was an elected member of the 1994-1995 National Constitutional Conference, which sat exactly for one year (June 26 1994 -June 26 1995) and had reasonable time to discuss and ponder over many thorny issues that concerned the Nigerian polity. We were anxious that the military should disengage as soon as possible and hand over to elected civilian governments at all levels. At one time we passed a resolution, later rescinded, setting January 1996 as the date for hand over. The work of the National Constitutional Conference culminated in a two-volume report, Volume 1 of which was report of the constitutional conference containing the draft constitution 1995.
In December 1995 we held a very successful “All politicians summit” At Eko Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos which I had the privilege to chair. I describe the summit as “very successful” notwithstanding its disruption by agents of the government. It was obvious that General Abacha was in no hurry to disengage. We then formed the Institute of Civil Society, which again I had the privilege to chair, one of whose objectives was to sensitize the Nigerian public on the need for an early return to democratic ethos as we considered military rule which is imposed on and not elected by the populace, a vicious form of colonialism. It eventually materialised that Abacha set October 1, 1998 as the date for the transition from military to civilian government. But it was soon clear, judging by the decisions of all the five registered political parties to nominate him as the sole presidential candidate that it was his wish to hand over from Abacha as a military head of state to Abacha as civilian president. Some of us did not think that this was the right thing for Nigeria and at a meeting of the “G34″ in April 1998, we decided to advise Abacha by a well considered memorandum not to countenance the prompting by sycophants that he should succeed himself. Within two months of the G-34 memorandum, Abacha was dead and so the question of self-succession also died a natural death.
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Written by Anayo Okoli
Umuahia—Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State, has immortalized some eminent Nigerians by naming some buildings and roads on the campus after them.
The university said the gesture was in recognition of their contribution to the development of education in Nigeria. Read More »
By Obi Adimora
This was the tribute my late father, Justice Okechukwu Adimora, paid to Dr. Alex Ekwueme to mark his 60th birthday at his Oko country home.
Hyperbole comes easily at such moments, but the judgement would be endorsed by many who have worked with Dr. Ekwueme in the course of the different facets of his career.
Dr. Ekwueme will be 70 tomorrow. I could not have asked for a finer friend than him. I love him not only for the extreme richness of his intellectual itinerary, but above all for his courage and the constancy in his conviction and political choices, which have remained unchanged even when they were in contradiction with the main stream of opinion and fashion. Read More »
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Chuks Okocha in Abuja, 04.03.2008
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Former Vice President and Chieftain of the PeoplesDemocratic Party (PDP), Dr. Alex Ekwueme has called onthe federal government not to name institutions and monuments in Nigeria after individuals that are beyond 70 years of age.
Speaking in Abuja yesterday when the Board of Trusteesof the Alex Ekwueme foundation was inaugurated, the former Vice President said when such institutions are named after individuals and later changed by new administrations, it becomes a source of embarrassments to the individuals concerned. Read More »
Please be informed that the inaugural meeting of the Board of Trustee of the
Alex Ekwueme Foundation has been scheduled as follows:
Date: Wednesday 2nd April 2008
Time: 12.00 Noon
Venue: Sokoto Room, Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja
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He was on 17 March 2007 installed the first chancellor of Ebonyi State University, Abakiliki
Fellow of Akanu Ibiam Federal Polytechnic, Unwana
Fellow of Federal Polytechnic, Nekede
Fellow of Federal Polytechnic Oko
Fellow of Federal College of Education (Technical) Umunze
Fellow of St. Paul’s University College, Awka
Distinguished Fellow of the Nigerian Law School
“Those who serve the society selflessly and give their best for the good of the people deserve a befitting legacy, worthy of their work. It behoves on future generations to emulate and continue their good deeds.”
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