Community Relations Agenda for the Incoming LASU VC, By Tunde Akanni 5 min read
Still wondering on the idea which the Lagos State University (LASU)’s current and potential stakeholders, as well as visitors may be consensual about? It’s the spiraling, seemingly insurmountable failure of community support for the University. This challenge is quite unmistakable that one might simply conclude that it doesn’t seem like LASU is anyone’s pride; the ubuquitous LASU Radio blaring benefits to the adjoining communities notwithstanding. This sharply contrasts the new popular lines of LASUITES that: “We are LASU/We are proud”. To conclude that this is disorienting is an understatement.
By Peter Okutu, Abakaliki
The two-time Senator who represented Ebonyi South zone at the National Assembly, Senator Sunny Ogbuoji, Friday counselled the leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Ebonyi State to be discreet and diplomatic in handling party affairs as the 13 Local Government Areas of the State do not have the capacity to give Governor David Umahi the Presidential ticket, if he (Umahi) decides to run for the position of the President in 2023.
This is coming on the heels of alleged intimidation of the opposition political party by the APC in some LGAs in the State.
Ogbuoji who received in audience the State Acting Chairman of the Party, Chief Stanley Okoroemegha in Afikpo-South LGA of the State stressed that: “We must not be seen as a party that is highly repressive”.
TODAY
January 1, 2021
The two-time Senator who represented Ebonyi South zone at the National Assembly, Senator Sunny Ogbuoji, Friday counselled the leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ebonyi State to be discreet and diplomatic in handling party affairs as the 13 Local Government Areas of the State do not have the capacity to give Governor David Umahi the Presidential ticket, if he (Umahi) decides to run for the position of the President in 2023.
This is coming on the heels of alleged intimidation of the opposition political party by the APC in some LGAs in the State.
Ogbuoji who received in audience the State Acting Chairman of the Party, Chief Stanley Okoroemegha in Afikpo-South LGA of the State stressed that: “We must not be seen as a party that is highly repressive”.
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Dr. Arthur Agwuncha Nwankwo
With the passage of Chief (Dr.) Arthur Nwankwo, Nigeria has lost one of our foremost voices of reason, modern-day griots, and patriots. True to his traditional title ‘Ikeogu’, he was a tireless fighter on the side of truth and justice, until he answered the call from heaven, and now takes a well-deserved rest.
I first learnt about the dear departed through his works, during my days as a student in the department of History, University of Lagos in the early 1980s. As an author and publisher, he was one of the most prodigious contributors to the body of knowledge on the history of the Biafran war. His short history of Biafra titled ‘Biafra: The Making of a Nation’ was published in 1969, even before the war ended. By 1970, he collaborated with the late renowned writer Chinua Achebe and others to establish Nwamife Publishers, which provided a platform for publishing many critically acclaimed works by authors such as Dr. Alex Ekwueme, Prof. Ben Nwabue