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Tribute To Nigerian Heroes Past by Nobody: 7:11pm On Jan 09, 2013 |
This thread is dedicated in memory of Nigerian men and men who achieved greatness and made a difference in their various fields Some may not be well known in today's Nigeria I dedicate this to them all Please tell us of any you know about. |
Re: Tribute To Nigerian Heroes Past by Nobody: 7:13pm On Jan 09, 2013 |
From my earliest recollection in elementary school,there was always a mention of his name Chike Obi His name was synonymous with Mathematics in Nigeria and as a kid,I thought he was already dead Professor Chike Obi deserves a place in the Nigerian history. [size=18pt]Chike Obi (1921-2008).[/size] 1 Like 1 Share
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Re: Tribute To Nigerian Heroes Past by Afam4eva(m): 7:14pm On Jan 09, 2013 |
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Re: Tribute To Nigerian Heroes Past by Nobody: 7:24pm On Jan 09, 2013 |
Anyone who has read me know the men I consider heroes in Nigeria and this next man is certainly in the top 3 [size=18pt]late Gani Fawehinmi[/size] IMHO this is the best President Nigeria never had This man stood for all things nice He was a voice forthe downtrodden He stood against injustice He spoke against corruption He defended the defenseless They imprisoned him but he could not be silenced Nigeria may never have a lawyer like this again,ever. I still remember where I was in 2009 when it was announced that he had passed on Besides his service for humanity in general,he also touched me personally A close family member of mine graduated medical school on Gani's scholarship and I am grateful to him Thank you and sleep well sir BRB with a full write up Chief Abdul-Ganiyu "Gani" Oyesola Fawehinmi (SAN) Gani Fawehinmi was born on April 22, 1938 into the prominent Tugbolo Fawehinmi family in Ondo. His father, a timber magnate, was fully responsible for his education and welfare. His hope of becoming a lawyer was almost dashed when he lost his father while he was a law student in London. All efforts to raise a loan to enable him to complete his university education proved abortive. So he had to fend for himself. Although he eventually succeeded in becoming a lawyer, Gani decided to dedicate his entire life to struggle for the establishment of a society where every needy child would be educated at the expense of the State. Chief Fawehinmi and his estates have given scholarship to many indigent undergraduates on an annual basis since 1976. Having identified law as a tool of oppression in the hands of the ruling class Gani provided legal services, on pro bono publico basis, to thousands of workers, students and other victims of social injustice, abuse of power and oppression. Gani made most of his money from publishing the Nigerian Weekly Law Reports (NWLR). Before his revolutionary intervention in law reporting only a handful of privileged lawyers who had access to cyclostyled copies of the judgments of the appellate courts were winning cases in our Courts. Chief Fawehinmi sent his lawyers to courts around the country to obtain such judgments but decided to popularise legal knowledge by embarking on regular publication of law reports. Upon the completion of his legal education in London Gani returned home and was called to the Nigerian Bar in January 1965. Barely a year later, the first republic was sacked by the armed forces. The Constitution was suspended while draconian decrees were imposed on the Nigerian people. In 1969, he took up the case of a factory worker whose wife had been snatched by a powerful permanent secretary in the service of the Benue Plateau State Government. Not withstanding that he was a rookie lawyer, he defeated the late Chief Rotimi Williams, QC, who was the counsel to the permanent secretary. For daring to challenge the corrupt establishment the Yakubu Gowon regime arrested and detained him without trial for several months. Instead of cowing him into submission, the brutal experience strengthened him as Gani resolved to wage a decisive battle against injustice in all its ramifications. For instance, in the Garba v. University of Maiduguri (1986) 2 NWLR (PT 18 ) 559, the fundamental right of students to fair hearing before rustication or expulsion was upheld. The injustice in the Legal Practitioners Act which made the Attorney-General of the Federation the accuser and the prosecutor with respect to allegations of misconduct involving lawyers was highlighted by the Supreme Court in the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee v. Fawehinmi (1985) 3 NWLR (PT 7) 300. The decision led to the amendment of the Act. The dismissal of the case of Fawehinmi v. Nigerian Bar Association (1989) 2 NWLR (PT 107) 558 by the Supreme Court on the ground that the respondent was not a juristic personality led to the registration of the Nigerian Bar Association under the Companies and Allied Matters Act. In Balarabe Musa v. INEC (2003) 10 WRN 1, the political space was liberalised when the Supreme Court struck down the stringent conditionalities imposed by INEC on new political parties. In Fawehinmi v. Akilu (1987) 2 NWLR (PT 67) 767 the Supreme Court relaxed the anachronistic doctrine of locus standi so as to permit the private prosecution of criminal offences by concerned individuals on the ground that “we are all our brothers’ keepers”. Since the Attorney-General of the Federation has never sued the Federal Government as a defender of public interest, the locus standi of Gani to challenge the violations of the Constitution and other illegalities was upheld in the case of Fawehinmi v. The President (2007) 14 NWLR (PT 1054) 275. In Abacha v. Fawehinmi (2001) 51 WRN 29 the Supreme Court held that since the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights has been domesticated by the National Assembly, our domestic courts have the jurisdiction to construe and apply its provisions whenever there are allegations of human rights infringement. In Fawehinmi v. Inspector-General of Police (2002) 23 WRN 1 it was declared by the Supreme Court that the public officers covered by the immunity clause in Section 308 of the Constitution can be investigated while in office. However, one of Gani’s post-humous rewards for his contribution to the legal system in Nigeria is the enactment of the Fundamental Procedure Rules 2009. Under the new human rights regime in Nigeria, concerned individuals and public spirited organizations can now file actions in courts challenging the violation of the human rights of other citizens. In 1986, while Chief Gani Fawehinmi was Dele Giwa's Lawyer, the latter was killed in a bomb blast under suspicious circumstances. Again, in 1995, Chief Fawehinmi served as counsel to Ken Saro-Wiwa when Saro-Wiwa was being tried for murder, but Fawehinmi withdrew from the case, branding the tribunal a Kangaroo court. As a result of his activities chief Gani Fawehinmi had been arrested, detained and charged to court several times. His international passport was seized on many occasions and his residence and Chambers were searched several times. He was beaten up time after time and was deported from one part of the country to another to prevent him from being able to effectively reach out to the masses among whom he was popular. His books were confiscated by the Federal Military Government and his library at Surulere, a suburb of Lagos, were set ablaze. His law Chambers at Anthony Village, Lagos State, were invaded by persons suspected to be agents of the government. The guards were shot, two of them seriously wounded. Gani died in the early hours of 5 September 2009 after a prolonged battle with lung cancer. He was 71 years old. His arrests,detainments and incarcerations * Police Headquarters, Kaduna , 1969. * Jos Police Station, 1969 * Ilorin Police Station, 1969 * Police Headquarters, Lagos, 1969 * Police Headquarters, Lagos 1972 (twice) * C. I. D. Alagbon, Lagos, 1978 * Inter-Centre Detention Outpost, Lagos, 1978 * Ikoyi Police Station,1978 * Panti Police Station, Lagos, 1987 * Panti Police Station, Lagos, 1988 (three times) * Police Station Ikeja, 1988 * Panti Police Station, Lagos, 1989 (twice) * Ikoyi Police Station, 1989 * State Security Services (SSS) Cell Maiduguri, 1989 * State Security Services (SSS) Cell Awolowo Road, Ikoyi 1991 * C. I. D. Police Station Ikoyi, 1992 * Police Station Wuse Abuja, 1992 * Inter-Centre Cell, Lagos 1993 * State Security Services (SSS) Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, 1993 * C. I. D. Police Station Ikoyi, 1993 * Police Station Wuse Abuja, 1993 * Police Headquarters, Abuja, 1993 * Panti Police Station, Lagos, 1994 * F. I. I. B. Alagbon, Ikoyi, Lagos 1994 (Once) * Panti Police Station, Lagos, 1995 (Twice) * State Security Services Shangisha Cell Lagos, 1995 (Once) * State Security Service Shangisha Cell Lagos, 1996 (Once) In all these arrests and detentions, he was treated sometimes cruelly, sometimes crudely and sometimes with some civility. He had also been detained in the following federal prisons by various Military Governments from 1969 to 1996: * Kaduna Prison, 1969 * Gombe Prison, 1969 - 1970 * Ikoyi Prison, 1978 * Gashua Prison, 1989 * Nigerian Prison Ikoyi, 1990 * Nigerian Prison Kuje, 1992 * Nigerian Prison Kuje, 1993 and * Nigerian Prison, Bauchi 1996 By Ogaga Ifowodo 1 Like 1 Share
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Re: Tribute To Nigerian Heroes Past by oilyngbati1: 7:27pm On Jan 09, 2013 |
Sorry OP, don't wanna derail your thread, but I just have to bring that up....carry go 1 Like |
Re: Tribute To Nigerian Heroes Past by joeyfire(m): 7:31pm On Jan 09, 2013 |
Nice one! The late Chima Ubani. A fearless hero of our democracy hima Ubani Dedicated campaigner for Nigerian reform Shola Adenekan Chima Ubani, who has died in a motor accident aged 42, was a leader of the pro-democracy movement in Nigeria and a former Amnesty International prisoner of conscience. Since 2003, he had been executive director of the country's Civil Liberties Organisation. Born in eastern Nigeria, Ubani was the son of a Seventh Day Adventist pastor. Charismatic and intelligent, he became a student leader in the 1980s. He graduated in crop science at the University of Nigeria Nsukka in 1988, and took an MA in mass communication at Leicester University in 2002. He joined the Civil Liberties Organisation in Lagos as a researcher in 1990 after completing military service. Ubani came into his own in 1993, when the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida annulled a presidential election that was to return Nigeria to civilian rule. He helped to bring various human right organisations together under one umbrella group, the Campaign for Democracy. He also joined the campaign against oil companies in the Niger delta, supporting such activists as the writer Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was executed in 1995. In February 1994, Ubani's house and office were raided by security agents, and a report on women and children in Nigerian prisons which he had co-authored was confiscated. He went on the run, but was arrested and imprisoned in 1995, after which his case was taken up by Amnesty International. The following year, he was released and came to Britain for medical treatment, before returning to Nigeria. After the death of General Sani Abacha in 1998, Ubani worked to ensure a return to civilian rule. But he refused to accept the election of President Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999 as a genuine return to democracy, and lampooned what he saw as a corrupt government which disregarded human rights. In July 2000, in a case he brought against the Nigerian police, he was instrumental in the abrogation of a decree that allowed state security agents to detain people indefinitely. He also campaigned against extra-judicial killings by the Nigerian police and the use of capital punishment. At the time of his death, he was campaigning against fuel increases. He is survived by his wife, Ochuwa, and four children. · Chima Ubani, campaigner, born March 22 1963; died September 21 2005 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Tribute To Nigerian Heroes Past by Nobody: 7:33pm On Jan 09, 2013 |
joeyfire: Nice one! OMG How can we forget? Please post something on him 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Tribute To Nigerian Heroes Past by joeyfire(m): 7:34pm On Jan 09, 2013 |
babyosisi: Yup.just amended my post 1 Like |
Re: Tribute To Nigerian Heroes Past by Nobody: 7:38pm On Jan 09, 2013 |
@ babyosisi, thanks for this wonderful biography of Chike Obi. I was trying to think what relationship he has with Mustapha Chike Obi the DG of AMCON. I remember few years back on AIT when his house in anambra was shown on TV. It was a shameful thing that such a man lived in a house which was almost collapsing. I don't know if something was done to renovate his house. Sadly, kids of nowadays don't really know much about this legend. A man who made nigeria proud should not be forgotten at all. 1 Like |
Re: Tribute To Nigerian Heroes Past by joeyfire(m): 7:40pm On Jan 09, 2013 |
Ubani knew that our "return to democracy" was a scam by a handful of generals and their boys 1 Like |
Re: Tribute To Nigerian Heroes Past by Nobody: 7:49pm On Jan 09, 2013 |
Please make una post more heroes I need to milk my cows |
Re: Tribute To Nigerian Heroes Past by Nobody: 11:42pm On Jan 09, 2013 |
Great thread..... Certainly didn't know Mustapha was Prof Obi's son. I thought he was one of those few Igbo muslims. |
Re: Tribute To Nigerian Heroes Past by Nobody: 3:11am On Jan 10, 2013 |
The first female to grace this thread truly deserves her place in Nigerian history. If you are a woman and believe that women should have equal rights then You should know about Margaret Ekpo I just learned something today. I always thought she was from Calabar.Didn't know her father was Igbo,mother was Efik and husband was Ibibio. [size=18pt]Margaret Ekpo was a Nigerian Women’s Rights activist and social mobilizer. She was born in 1914 and died in 2006 at the age of 92.[/size] 1 Like 1 Share
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Re: Tribute To Nigerian Heroes Past by Nobody: 11:05am On Jan 10, 2013 |
Fully subscribed |
Re: Tribute To Nigerian Heroes Past by aventura: 7:52am On Jun 09, 2015 |
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Re: Tribute To Nigerian Heroes Past by Yujin(m): 11:40am On Jun 09, 2015 |
Babyosisi come and give more flesh to your thread. We're interested to know who our real heroes are and not the thieves and murderers that are brandished as heroes of Nigeria. Prof. Chike Obi check Gani Fawehinmi(San) check Margaret Ekpo check Fela Anikulapo Kuti check |
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