Chude jideonwo biography of mahatma
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Seun Akinlosotu: The Generation That Makes a Difference
Towards the end of the Christmas\New Year holiday, inom was hanging out in my friend’s house just gisting as usual and somehow the conversation veered into the state of our home country Nigeria. A particular statement seconded by others at the lunch table particularly got my antennas up. We were talking about schools and someone mentioned students going to school barefooted in certain areas of Lagos. I felt like someone doused me with a bucket of cold water. Wait….WHAT? In 2015 students are still going to school barefooted especially in a major metropolis like Lagos? If this is the case, what then is happening in very remote areas of Nigeria? Of course I know about half of the country live in poverty – specifically 46%, according the World Bank; but for some reason inom felt I had been hearing and seeing for years how people are struggling to man ends meet but for the first time I was actually hearing and seeing what had been in fr
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RED Managing Partner Invited as a Panellist at the HP ‘Be Original Conference’ on April 18, 2012.
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A STATUE AND THE INEPTITUDE OF GOOD GOVERNANCE
The tenets of good governance rest on conducting policies, actions, and affairs of people in a beneficial way for the governed. The democratic struktur of governance also ensures that the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation. Therefore, staying in tune with the demands and needs of the people by the government is crucial in ensuring that benefits are accrued to the people who gave the mandate to those in power in the first place.
It came as a shock on October 14th, 2017 when Nigerians, especially ‘imolites‘ woke up to a massive bronze statue of Mr Jacob Zuma, the South African president. The statue was erected bygd Governor Rochas Okorocha to honour the 4th president of South Africa. If that was not surprising enough, Mr Zuma was also decorated with a chieftaincy title of ‘ochiagha imo’ (literarily meaning warlord) by the Eze Imo, HRH Samu