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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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 At one time we passed a resolution, later rescinded, setting January 1996 as the date for hand over.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 »
Alex I. Ekwueme
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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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