₦airaland Forum

Of course, remove VP candidates Bakare and Fola from the picture and you see Yaorabu support for their parties crumble like a pack of card. Yarobus are never to be trusted. Awo thought them that

The Nigerian stock sucks these days

Vanguard (Lagos)
Nigeria: NSE Delists Albarka, Nigercem, Okitipupa Oil, Seven Others

Michael Eboh and Providence Obuh

9 March 2011


The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), Tuesday, delisted Albarka Air Plc, NigerCem Plc, Wiggins Teape Nigeria Plc and seven other redundant companies from its Daily Official List.

With this, stocks of the companies will no longer on be traded on the floors of the NSE across the country. The other companies are: Flexible Packaging Plc, Krabo Nigeria Plc, NewPak Plc, Tropical Petroleum Plc, Okitipupa Oil Palm Plc, Foremost Diaries Plc and First Capital Investment Plc.

No comment was made by the NSE, as regards the delisting, as at the time of going to press, but Vanguard gathered that the reasons for delisting may be as a result of redundancy and failure of the affected companies to file their quarterly returns and meet up with its post-listing requirement.

Meanwhile, the declining fortune on the Nigerian Stock Exchange continued Tuesday, as the value of listed equities, represented by the Market capitalisation, dipped by N25.98 billion. In particular, the capitalisation dropped by 0.31 per cent to close at N8.043 trillion from N8.068 trillion at which it opened.

Another key performance indices, the All share index dipped by 0.27 per cent or 69.69 bases points to close at 25,174.24 points from 25,243.93 points.

This is coming on the heels of about N250 billion loss recorded by investors on their investments in the secondary segment of the Nigerian capital market in the last one week.

The continuous decline has been blamed on a number of factors, ranging from the crisis in the Middle East, the forthcoming elections, loss of confidence in the Nigerian capital market, lack of liquidity in the market and apathy of market operators and investors, especially towards the plan by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to reduce the number of stockbroking firms in the market.

UTC Nigeria Plc led on the losers table dropping by N0.04 to close at N0.76 per share, African Petroleum Plc followed with a loss of N1.24 to close at N23.70 per share and Afribank Plc dipped by N0.10 to close at N1.93 per share.

Other share price losers include: Aluminum Extrusion Industry Plc N0.58 to close at N11.20 per share, John Holt Plc N0.37, Intercontinental Bank Plc N0.08, Oceanic Bank Plc N0.10, Bank PHB Plc N0.07, Cement Company of Northern Nigeria Plc N0.54, Vitafoam Nigeria Plc N0.22, among others.

On the contrary, Ashaka Cement Plc recorded the most share price gain on the gainers table with a gain of N1.34 to close at N28.22 per share, Vono Product Plc followed with a gain of N0.16 to close at N3.42 per share and Wema Bank Plc garnered N0.07 to close at N1.58 per share.

Other share price gainers include: C and I Leasing Plc N0.06, FTN Cocoa Processors N0.02, Transnational Incorporation Plc N0.02, Law Union and Rocks Plc N0.02, Dangote Flour Mills Plc N0.54, Guaranty Trust Assurance Plc N0.04, Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc N0.17, among others.

Despite the declining trend recorded on the market indices, equity trading appreciated by 223.30 per cent as a turnover of 644.76 million shares valued at N2.11 million was recorded in 9,342 deals, compared to the previous day's turnover of 199.42 million shares valued at N1.46 billion in 5,253 deals.

The Banking sub-sector dominated the other sub-sector on the sectorial analysis accounting for 20 per cent of the market turnover with 128.96 million shares valued at N1.09 billion in 3,203 deals. Guaranty Trust Bank Plc was the most active in the sub-sector trading 16.65 million shares valued at N315.70 million in 497 deals, Zenith Bank Plc followed with the exchange of 18.32 million shares valued at N272.72 million in 450 deals and Oceanic Bank International Nigeria Plc recorded 12.86 million shares valued at N25.99 million in 111 deals.
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The Insurance sub-sector trailed on the sectorial analysis accounting for 8.22 per cent of the market turnover with 53.03 million shares valued at N58.93 million in 238 deals. Law Union and Rocks Insurance Plc enjoyed the most patronage in the sub-sector trading 11.49 million shares valued at N6.60 million in 23 deals, Cornerstone Insurance Company Plc followed with the exchange of 9.92 million shares valued at N4.96 million in three deals and Guaranty Trust Assurance Plc recorded 8.09 million shares valued at N12.94 million in four deals.

NSE 30 which measures the performance of blue chips in the market dropped by 0.50 per cent, NSE Banking lost the highest points by 1.04 per cent, NSE Oil & Gas declined by 0.45 per cent, NSE Food & Beverages dipped by 0.31 per cent and NSE Insurance dipped by 0.14 per cent.

The problem with Igbo entrepreneurs is their unwillingness to go to the stock market. They want to enjoy their money alone, answering Obi and Sons, Ibeto and Brothers, etc. ABC Transport is about the only difference. Even Coscharis is still dithering, not wanting to get listed. That way, they can never be known globally except specifically from their foreign partners. A yoruba will open a 100,000 worth company and run to the stock, making them known throughout Nigeria even though the company is as unviable as the word unviable. Thus, it is possible that Ibeto is richer than Dangote (we have to put all the facts down to arrive at a conclusion, though). But that remains unofficial until his companies become public, and therefore accessible to raters, like Dangotes? BTW, we all know that Dangote is a front for ex military men.

The Punch

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Transformer donation averts protest in Hausa community

Ozioma Ubabukoh, Enugu

A member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Dr. Chimaroke Nnamani, has has averted a planned protest by donating a transformer to the Hausa community in New Artisan Market, Enugu State.



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Nnamani, who is a senatorial candidate and leader of the People for Democratic Change, gave out the transformer on Tuesday, during the party's campaign rally in Enugu.

Before the donation, the Hausa community had concluded plans to protest on Wednesday (today) its exclusion from the stable power supply enjoyed in most parts of the state.

While giving out the transformer, the former Enugu State governor stated that he felt bad that the Hausa community encountered several challenges in trying to earn a living due to non-availability of power in the market and some parts of Enugu.

He said, "When we built the New Artisan Market, the idea was to empower the Hausa cattle rearers, who had little or no space at their former site in the Railway Quarters."

Meanwhile, the leader of the Hausa community, Alhaji Ibrahim Hassan, has said that the planned protest would no longer hold. Speaking in Hausa dialect, Hassan said the former governor had revived their business and no longer needed to protest.

He said, "This is what a responsive government should do for its residents and indigenes. We saw Enugu as our home but at a point we were getting frustrated because our only means of income was threatened by the absence of power supply to the market."

PhysicsRND:
What university?

Remember, this is a 17th century date (1643).

So unless we can find Kanuri or Fulani who had graduated at that time from a Sahelian or North African university, the Itsekiri would be earlier.

Is he a black person or a white Portuguese who colonized itsekiris?

seanet02:
I provided a link asserting her as the First Nigeria's PH.d holder. If you have any link to counter that Abeg provide it. We are all learning everyday

She is the first Nigerian to obtain a PhD? Or she is the first Nigerian woman to do so? What the bleep? Are you for real? Have you read my posts up there?

Seanet02 = Alj Uche

^^^^
You are free to claim her if you wish, but please prove first that she is indeed Yoruba
Like I said, Alele has no place in the questions I posed. She is not the first in any of my queries.

In 1950, Professor Dike (first Nigerian VC of U.I) was already a prof. So may have obtained his PhD even earlier than Chike Obi
http://www.answers.com/topic/kenneth-dike

www.archivesofibadanmedicine.com/KennethDike.htm+Kenneth+Dike&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a&source=www.google.com">http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NskmYRdwJqcJ:www.archivesofibadanmedicine.com/KennethDike.htm+Kenneth+Dike&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a&source=www.google.com

Eni Njoku (first VC of UNN), PhD, 1954

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eni_Njoku
Lets gather as much as the pioneer PhDs as we can, and from there determine who came first

^^^^^^
http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/williams.htm
Please no misinformation here. Alele Williams is either ishekiri or Urhobo. She is not Yoruba. Unless you imply a geneological relationship between Yoruba and one or both of those Delta ethnic groups.
By the way, she is not the first PhD holder in maths in Nigeria. She is likely the first female though.

Chike Obi, PhD 1950 (b. April 17, 1921, in Zaria, Northern Nigeria, d. March 13, 2008) was a Nigerian politician, mathematician and writer.

The African Mathematics Union suggests that he is the first sub-Saharan African to hold a doctorate in mathematics.

Obi is the author of several books and journals on mathematics and Nigerian politics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chike_Obi

Alj Uche:
first nigerian medical doctor

The first Nigerian medical Doctor is Nathaniel King. In 1861, a medical missionary to Nigeria, Dr A.A. Harrison of the church missionary society (CMS) selected four cleverest boys in Abeokuta to train them as Assistant doctors. Only one of them, Nathaniel King graduated, and became personal assistant to Dr Harrison. In 1866, Nathaniel king was sent to Sierra Leone where he studied the preliminaries of medicine under Dr. Bradshaw of the Colonial Hospital, Freetown. King later went to England where he graduated as a doctor in 1874; thus becoming the first Nigerian qualified Medical Doctor. He returned to Lagos to serve the CMS on a salary of 50 pounds sterling a year.


first maths phd

Grace Lele Williams became the first Nigerian woman to earn any doctorate when she got her Ph.D. in Mathematics (University of Chicago).
race Alele Williams received her education at Queens College in Lagos, University College at Ibadan, and the University of Vermont, before receiving a Ph.D. in mathematics education from the University of Chicago in 1963. She made history as the first Nigerian woman to be awarded a doctorate. She returned to Nigeria for a couple of years' postdoctoral work at the University of Ibadan before joining the faculty of the University of Lagos in 1965.

Dr. Williams' ongoing interest in mathematics education was originally sparked by her stay in the US, which coincided with the Sputnik phenomenon. Working with the African Mathematics Program in Newton, Massachusetts, under the leadership of MIT professor Ted Martins, she participated in mathematics workshops held in various African cities from 1963 to 1975. Highlights included writing texts and correspondence courses covering basic concepts in mathematics, working in concert with leading mathematicians and educators. She taught at the University of Lagos from 1965 to 1985, and spent a decade directing the Institute of Education, which introduced innovative non degree programmes, with many of the certificate recipients older women working as elementary school teachers.

Appointed the first female Vice Chancellor of a Nigerian university in 1985, Professor Williams believes her appointment at the University of Benin, which ended in 1992, was a test case to demonstrate a women's executive capability. She is now Professor of Mathematics Education at the University of Lagos. Among her honors are those of Fellow of the Mathematical Association of Nigeria and of the Nigerian Academy of Education; Merit Award Winner of Bendel State in Nigeria; and Regional Vice President for Africa of the Third World Organization for Women in Science" (Science in Africa: Women Leading from Strength AAAS, Washington, 1993, p.174). It may be added that Professor Williams is also the Chairwoman of AMUCWMA, the African Mathematical Union Commission for Women in Mathematics.

DR. Grace Alele Williams is also a Vice President and member of the Executive board of The Third World Organization for Women in Science (TWOWS).


first phd holder in nigeria

Dr Joseph Olusola Akinyede, born (1952) and living in Nigeria, is a very special man: he is ITC’s first PhD student ever. “ITC is one of the best education institutions in the world,” he immediately replies to my question concerning his considerations on continuing education at ITC. “It was a great privilege. ITC is unique.”
Joseph got the opportunity to conduct research at ITC through a four-year scholarship granted by the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1986. A year earlier, an EEC scholarship had enabled him to follow a postgraduate course in applied geological survey − also at ITC. In February 1990, Joseph received a PhD degree for his thesis Highway Cost Modelling and Route Selection Using a Geotechnical Information System from Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. ”My PhD research equipped me with the skills to independently understand a problem and quickly define ways of solution,” says Joseph. “Let me give you a recent example. The Fulani people move their cattle from the north of Nigeria to the south in the dry season, and in the reverse direction when the rainy season comes. Their movements cause friction with the settled farmers. Who is causing the problem: the nomads or the farmers? To answer that question, I recommended mapping the Fulani track routes from satellite images captured over the last 20 years. Using GIS technology, changes over time can be identified and also the areas of infringement. The study has been approved and is ongoing.”

http://www.itc.nl/Pub/alumni/Interviews_and_testimonials/Interview_with_alumnus_Dr_Joseph_Akinyede.html

Thanks, but did Alele earn her PhD in maths before Chike Obi? Not sure about that

Dr Joseph Olusola Akinyede, born (1952)[/b

But how can somebody born in 1952 be the first to earn a PhD?

Who was the first Ph.D. degree holder in Nigeria? In what field was the Ph.D. obtained?
Who was the first Ph.D. degree holder in Mathematics in Nigeria?
Who was the first medical Doctor in Nigeria?

Thank you for your FACTUAL, VERIFIABLE response.

Notice the word deny (or its connotation) runs common in these news
Tinubu dies
Bankole denies
Fasola denies
So who is not denying?

Fashola denies pact with LP, vows to overrun opposition parties
By OLUWOLE FAROTIMI
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola
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Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, on Monday denied the rumour that he had a pact with the Labour Party at the national or state level before his endorsement as the sole candidate for Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) .
Fashola, who dispelled the rumour at the commissioning ceremony of Digital Mapping and Geographic Information System project at the Eko Hotel and Suites in Lagos said he never had misunderstanding with his predecessor in office, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to warrant him contemplating to seek re-election to office through the Labour Party, noting that he was a strong member of ACN and would remain in the political fold.

The governor vowed to overrun any candidate from the opposition parties, saying the flag-off of his campaign in the state at the weekend confirmed his popularity and acceptance by Lagosians, who he said had thrown their weight behind him.
Fashola also denied rumours that he was fronting for some Labour Party (LP) candidates, contesting elections into the state House of Assembly, adding that those spreading the falsehood had mischievous intentions to malign his name.

There have been speculations that Fashola was sponsoring some of the members of the House of Assembly who were denied a return ticket to the House at the primaries for backing Fashola in the heat of the reported rift between the governor and Tinubu last year.
His words: “The event at the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) rally on Saturday has proven to our opponents that we are the party in control of the state and as a result of that they are scheming, saying some Labour Party members are supporting Fashola.”

“I dissociate myself from anybody using my name to campaign for anybody, who is not a card-carrying member of the ACN. We are going all out there to defeat all the parties, anybody who is voting for Labour Party is voting against the ACN and is voting against me.
“We are going all out there to defeat them. Anybody who votes for the Labour Party in the guise that he is supporting ACN is voting against us but hiding under the guise that Fashola is supporting Labour Party, using my name to gain access to people.”

Dwelling on the imperatives of the Lagos Geographic Information System, he said the system would transform the way things were done in the state, using the best technology available to manage land and plan the growth of the state.
“This project, like every other one that we have embarked upon, created work for diverse persons of different ages and skills, Professors, land surveyors, pilots, boatmen, young persons, who acted as enumerators, all got employed and rewarded during the project,” he said.

Bankole denies Wikileaks story
From JAMES OJO, Abuja
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
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.Speaker of the House of Representatives, Oladimeji Bankole yesterday described as untrue, reports quoted from the controversial media, Wikileaks that he alleged that Supreme Court Justices took bribe to validate Yar’Adua/Jonathan election, as well as describing EFCC as “not worth a penny.”

Special Adviser to the Speaker on Communications, Kayode Odunaro, in a statement said the reports had no iota of truth.
“We deny in strongest terms that Speaker Bankole ever made such allegations or statement against respected Justices of the Supreme Court and the anti-corruption agency, EFCC in any meeting with the then US Ambassador, Ms. Robin Sanders.
“The official meeting Ms. Sanders had with Mr. Speaker was in the presence of the leadership of the House and did not last more than 20 minutes. It is a lie that Mr. Speaker had a two- hour private meeting with Ms. Sanders.

“The office of the Speaker challenges US officials to authenticate this wild allegations that strike at the integrity of Nigeria’s judicial institution and its foremost anti-corruption agencies.
“It is an open secret, the cordial relationship that existed between the late President Yar’Adua and the Speaker, aside the fact that he wass part of the Yar’Adua government.
“He could not have made an allegation against the Justices which impugned on the Yar’Adua government.”
The statement added that the office of the Speaker noted with surprise that any Nigerian medium could give credence to and publish what in essence could be mere gossip and unconfirmed summary of diplomats trying to get a grip of issues on-going in their host countries for their home government.


“We want to counsel media organizations that such sensational allegations bordering on crime against the highest judicial officers of the land and its foremost anti-corruption agencies should be handled more responsibly with full and verifiable authentication from all parties in the interest of protecting the institution of judiciary, the last hope of the common man.”

Bode George needs help -Tinubu
By OLA AGBAJE
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
•Chief Bode George
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National leader of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, yesterday urged those who love Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Chief Bode George, to prevail on him to keep silent and stop embarrassing himself in public.

Tinubu, who was reacting to an interview in Daily Sun in which George claimed that the former Lagos governor was responsible for his imprisonment, described George’s allegation as a product of “post-prison and pre-reintegration dementia.”
In a statement, signed by his chief press secretary, Olakunle Abimbola, Tinubu noted that notwithstanding George’s present misfortunes, the PDP chieftain still owed his fatherland a decent public conduct commensurate to his status as an elder statesman, former military governor and retired naval chief.

The statement said George’s claim of Tinubu’s involvement in his travails was absolutely illogical since the former Lagos governor was already two years out of office when the PDP chieftain ran into trouble. Tinubu wondered how George could claim that he was “convicted by Lagos State Government headed by Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu.”

The statement reads: “In Yoruba tradition, and indeed in the tradition of any decent society, you do not kick who is already down. But what if he who is down viciously kicks you to force just any reaction? That is what Chief George is doing. But if he expects Asiwaju Tinubu to gloat over his misfortune, then Chief George has a long time to wait because he will not,” he said, adding: “But the moral in all of this is simple: those who crave to destroy others often end up destroying themselves.”

“The scandalous statement by Chief George, the indecorous language he deployed (‘It was made by Tinubu and his gang’), the ludicrous living in denial (‘It is a politically motivated conviction’), not to talk of the claim that Lagos State made a law to entrap erring federal officials, would appear to have issued from bitterness. For the sake of what is left of the George Family name and honour, Chief George should be prevailed upon to let himself go so as to earn a second chance. He fell into a prison ditch he, from the way he spoke, would have wished others would fall into. He should learn his lessons and realise that evil thoughts and actions eventually come back to destroy those who harbour or do them.

“Instead of trying to lay ridiculous charges on his perceived enemies, therefore, he should thank God for having saved him from his enemies. It is his so-called friends he must contend with. One of them, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, thought nothing of rubbing the face of a fallen George in the mud. Did Chief George realise how ridiculous he sounded when he said some ‘cabal’ wanted to ‘create fiction between Obasanjo and I’, only to realise that Obasanjo had already gone public with disowning George’s carnival-like reception?

“Another, a nameless collective that simply called themselves ‘Friends of Olabode George,’ launched into a tirade against Justice Joseph Oyewole, who tried the case, referring to the judge as one of Bode George’s ‘persecutors.’ Why a judge doing his work would want to ‘persecute’ a fellow citizen beggars belief. But it would appear a continuation of the dangerous trend by some elements in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to discredit the judiciary, each time a case goes against them. With all their wild allegations, they discredit no one but Chief George himself, after all they are an anonymous group hiding behind his face!
“Let those who dearly love Chief George prevail on him to stop these embarrassing tantrums, warts and all; he is an elder and, but for his prison stain, something close to an aristocrat in the Nigerian establishment, having been a military governor before. He was also not your run-of-the-mill naval officer, having earned a degree in engineering before enlisting in the Nigerian Navy, from which he retired as Air Commodore.

“Despite his current misfortune, he owes his country a lot – least of which is public decency. He can best achieve this by keeping a golden silence. After all, as the Yorubas say, if you crave not to be disgraced and you are, you pray for long life so that you can rectify the disgrace. Golden and dignified silence is what Chief George needs, not wild tantrums.”

Those are definitely Yoruba chiefs (obas and kabiyesis)

So Joe Igbokwe is now licking Tinubu's arse? This is what an unwary Igbo man turns into when he lives all his life in Lagos. Soon, Joe will begin to dobale like
Yorubas

I hope Tinubu does not send assassins after Ijeoma, if she lives in Lagos too.

I am the murderer, I am not the suspect, I will tell you the truth, I killed my mum because she is a witch," said 26-year-old Olubukola Adefisayo, who is in police custody for allegedly killing her 62 year-old mother, Adedoyin Adeife.

The suspect was arrested by the Aguda Divisional Headquarters Area C Surulere on August 21, after report reached the police that she had killed her mother at their Number 2/4 Bola Bumi crescent, Aguda, Surulere.

The suspect is a graduate of Accountancy from the Oklahoma University in the United States of America. She confessed to being a cocaine addict from the age of 9 and was sexually abused by her uncle at the age of 3.

"I have two children age 3 and 2, but I gave them up for adoption. When I came to Nigeria, I started working for my mum as an estate agent. But she will not pay me well. I got angry because she is very rich. I see her writing cheques in million to her sister, but anytime I asked her for money she will not give me.

"I am sane and I am the murderer, I killed my mum after I discovered that she is a witch and had been sleeping with our 12 year old house help, Segun," Miss Adefisayo said.

She said she was jailed in the US for attempted murder. "I was living in the US and one of my neighbours had an issue with me over the laundry machine. After that issue, I went to jail and I decided to come back to Nigeria."

Miss Adefisayo indicted her mother for her drug addiction. "My mum introduced me to cocaine at the age of 9 and since then I have been an addict. After taking my cracked cocaine one day, I had a flash back on how my uncle violated me when I was 3 years old. I began to cry and I asked our house help, Segun, if anybody had touched him in a way he does not like. Segun told me that my mum did and my mum had also given him cocaine.

"I said why should mum have sex with Segun and it got me mad, we used to be poor and suddenly, we became rich because my mum used Bunmi, my sister for money rituals."

The suspect said she used a sledged hammer to kill her mother. "Segun told me that my mum also initiated him into witchcraft. I got really angry. I used white clothes to cover the entire mirror in our house; I lit seven candles and waited for 9.45pm which is spiritual time. When my mum came in that night, I asked her if she was a witch, but she was reluctant. I threatened to kill her with the hammer and then she said yes she is a witch and she killed my sister.

"My mum tried to collect the hammer from me and we started fighting. I overpowered her and hit her with the hammer on the head, she just slumped and died," she said.

When the suspect saw that her mother had died, she said she told the house help to pour acid on the body.

Police spokesperson, Frank Mba confirmed the incident.

Mr. Mba said: "After committing the crime on August 19, the suspect took the house help and they went to lodge in a hotel. She put a call to her sister in the US telling her that she had killed their mother.

"The case was reported to the police two days later and they went to their house and saw the lifeless body of the victim.

"From her confession, it is a combination of many factors. She need a psychiatrist and we need to decide if she committed the crime in her lucid period or as a result of the drugs she has been taking.

"Meanwhile, the case is been handled by the homicide department in Panti."


http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/Metro/5448671-147/Daughter_kills_mother___.csp

I thought Awo was dead; I did not know he is still clocking years. It looks like this reporter is a ghost, or he is English-language challenged

Awo clocks 102 Sunday

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Written by Friday, 04 March 2011

THE founder of African Newspapers of Nigeria (ANN) Plc and first Premier of the defunct Western Region, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, will clock 102 years on Sunday, March 6.

To mark the day, a post-humous birthday thanksgiving service will be held at the family chapel in his residence, at  6, Yeye Oodua Street, Ikenne Remo, Ogun State, between 7.30 a.m. and 9.00 a.m.

All roads are expected to lead to the town, where eminent Nigerians, associates and political disciples of the sage will celebrate the annual event with his Jewel of Inestimable Value, Chief (Mrs) HID Awolowo and the children.

The foremost nationalist, it will be recalled, was born on March 6, 1909 in Ikenne Remo and died on May 9, 1987, at the age of 78 years.

The legendary achievements of Chief Awolowo have continued to elicit warm and superlative encomiums, even in death.

He was a consummate and caring politician, astute lawyer, brilliant journalist and administrator, who  etched his image on people’s minds with his welfarist, masses-oriented programmes.

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/18431-awo-clocks-102-sunday