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Anyaoku, Sanusi, Soyinka, Sultan, others discuss saving Nigeria from collapse

Anyaoku, Sanusi, Soyinka, Sultan, others discuss saving Nigeria from collapse
“The country (Nigeria) is no doubt in a serious crisis. We cannot sit by and allow the situation to continue.
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A catalogue of Nigeria’s grievances found outlet, Saturday, at the 2021 Obafemi Awolowo Lecture, when prominent national voices including Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, former Commonwealth Secretary-General, Emeka Anyaoku; the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar, and public intellectual Odia Ofeimun traded arguments in defining the nation’s current state of anomy and how to save it from the brink of tragedy and state failure.
Mr Anyaoku, former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, speaking as guest of honour, focused on the nature and the management of Nigeria’s federalism which he said was in urgent need of evidence of “equity, justice and fairness for all ethnic groups” as well as the guarantee for the economic freedom of citizens. ....

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The lost president and a nation in grief: Remembering Chief Obafemi Awolowo

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Famed as the president who never ruled Nigeria, or in the much-cited words of Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu,”the best president Nigeria never had,” Chief Obafemi Jeremiah Oyeniyi Awolowo was born in the town of Ikenne in the southwestern part of Nigeria on March 6, 1909.And in the same location, he was transformed to the world beyond onMay 9, 1987. Like the proverbial elephant, he wasdifferent things to different people, having explored various fields of knowledge and areas of public engagement.He was known as a statesman, a nationalist, pro-independence fighter, committed activist, reputable journalist, graduate economist, a trained lawyer, and above all, a politician and a Yorubaist. Awolowo was a well-educated man and an ideologue with independent and innovative ideas about leadership that is perhaps unparalleled to any of his contemporaries and the latter actors in Nigeria’s political scene.The legendary statesman came through as the modern-day Oduduwa,andf ....

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