Commission undertakes new revenue allocation exercise
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Wednesday, January 2, 2002
Commission undertakes new revenue allocation exercise
THE Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Allocation
commission will soon begin a nationwide exercise to
determine the formula to be used in allocating funds
to states and local governments.
In a statement made available to the News Agency of
Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu, a commissioner in the
commission, Mr. John Udeh, said that the exercise
would begin on Jan. 14.
He said that the exercise was aimed at ensuring that
the revenue accruable to the federation account was
equitably, justly and fairly distributed in the New
Year.
Areas to be covered by the exercise, he said, include
primary and secondary/commercial schools enrolment,
number of beds in each of the state-owned hospitals in
2002 and 2001 and internally generated revenue of the
state for 1999, 2000 and 2001.
Other critical areas, he added, are the number of
water taps, hand pumps and boreholes in states and
local governments, and new roads built by state and
local governments, inland waterways constructed and
inaugurated in 1999, 2000 and 2001.
Udeh said that the exercise was "extremely very
important to national development" as it would lead to
equitable and fair sharing of national revenue to
states and local governments.
He advised all government departments responsible for
compiling revenue allocation indices to ensure that
the information required was properly assembled for
verification both on paper and physically in the
field.
Udeh said that failure of any tier of government to
comply would lead to lower revenue allocation to such
state or local government.
He expressed the wish that the country would have a
prosperous New Year based on the improved fiscal
policy framework, accountability and transparency.
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Jan 2, 2002
2002: Our fears (2)
THE political process in Nigeria is essentially laden
with problems and booby-traps. Some would even say
that this is a gross understatement. For, except
within the conclave of Nigerian politicians who carry
on as if nothing is amiss, most Nigerians are quite
convinced that the political ship is headed for the
rocks, if immediate rescue efforts are not embarked
upon. And this is not just because of the absolute
inability of the politicians to meet the expectations
of the people in terms of providing the democracy
dividends many had thought would accompany the return
to democratic rule in Nigeria. Rather, it is largely
due to the way and manner the game of politics itself
is conducted.
IT is difficult, for instance, to think of the
existing three political parties as real political
parties. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), even with
the advantage of being the ruling party at the federal
level and in most of the states, is yet to understand
what it takes to be a political party as its avalanche
of members are oftentimes working at cross purposes
with nothing to point to as the coherent party
position on anything; the All Peoples Party (APP) on
its own does not even now know who its members are as
only some national officers continue to pretend that
the party exists by speaking in its name, and for the
Alliance for Democracy (AD), it is better to state
that the party continues to exist even in name only
because the Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) chooses to keep its name in the register of
approved and official political parties.
YET, the functions of political parties are crucial to
the workings of any democratic political system,
especially for meaningfulness and survival, as it is
through the political parties that the citizenry can
be mobilized for effective participation in the
political process. That Nigerians have tended to feel
disengaged from the political process since the return
of democracy can, therefore, not be divorced from the
uninspiring conduct of the so-called political parties
and their members. The continuous disengagement of the
people from the political process, however, portends
serious danger as the creative and stabilizing input
of the people is needed for any political process to
survive.
WITH the platform of political parties already
malformed, it is not surprising that Nigerian
politicians have found it almost impossible to realize
that leadership, in the last analysis, is all about
service. Rather than see their preoccupation as how to
provide for the welfare of the citizens, the current
politicians in Nigeria have been concerned essentially
with how to privatize collective resources, with
Nigerians inundated with reports of ferrying of vast
sums to safe vaults abroad by politicians at all
levels of government. Within this context, legislators
have been known more for disagreements on what should
be provided for their own comfort rather than the
comfort of Nigerians, while the politicians in the
executive organs have been literally unchecked in
their ravenous exploitation of the resources that
should have been used for the collective good. In the
end, in terms of not caring for the real welfare of
the people, Nigerians are not quite sure of the
difference between the politicians and the departed
military dictators. Politics is here devoid of its
sustaining element: the utmost responsibility and
responsiveness of government officials to the needs
and welfare of the people by virtue of their being
elected by the people.
IT is part of the paradox of the Nigerian situation,
however, that while politicians do not care about the
welfare of the people, their interest in power is
unending and obsessive. Elected government officials
have been concerned, even right from their first day
in office in 1999, with how to win re-election in
2003.
It is as if the whole business of governance is how to
plot re-election strategies, policies are enunciated
and appointments made only with regard to 2003 in
view. Even the enormous corruption that goes on
through the cornering of virtually all resources by
the politicians for personal aggrandizement, is all
geared toward the 2003 project.
YET, this is all understandable. For an elective
political process that is not predicated on the people
and their interests, necessarily has to work and
function on the basis of raw power. With the people
not counting for all the politicians, it ought to be
clear that they would all approach an election not
with confidence in the power of the electorate to
determine their fortunes, but rather with the
understanding that they have to rely on any and
whatever scheme to outwit and outsmart their
opponents. This is the sense in which the late
Professor Claude Ake has said that politics in Nigeria
is “constituted as warfare,” where every means can be
deployed in order to gain victory. The turning of
collective resources into personal wealth is,
therefore, part of the armament for the war that
politics has turned into in Nigeria, for it is
difficult to contemplate prosecuting a war without a
war chest full of money. It also explains why
virtually every politician of note necessarily has a
movement in his/her name in order to have
well-prepared foot soldiers when the actual war of
elections arrives. In any case, Nigerians already have
a foretaste of what to expect with the violence and
allegations of assassination that have characterized
political disagreements since the return of democracy.
NIGERIAN politicians have, therefore, instituted the
art of subterfuge and ambush as standard
characteristics of their politicking. And this is what
has led to the virtual destruction of all the
political parties since the politicians do not have
allegiance to any principles, but are mainly
interested in jostling for power through any means.
This is the same characteristic that has just been
manifested in the enactment of an Electoral Act devoid
of even simple respect for procedure and process. It
is as if Nigerian politicians have collectively
resolved to continue with this politics of warfare.
THE truth, however, is that nobody — not even the
politicians themselves — is benefiting from the
current situation. A situation of warfare is such
that nobody is really certain or definitive about
outcomes; all Nigerians, including the politicians,
are placed in a state of uncertainty when politics is
played through ambush and subterfuge. It is,
therefore, important that Nigerian politicians take
immediate steps to ensure that politics becomes a game
of principles and values in Nigeria, one that is
essentially about lawful competition to select those
to manage the common concerns. This is the
responsibility that the politicians owe Nigerians in
order to make year 2002 a departure from the political
uncertainties and violence of the preceding years.
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Tuesday, January 8, 2002.
MTN goes to the East
By Kunle Ogedengbe
ECONOMIC prosperity of any nation usually comes to be
through perspective development especially of all
regions that make up the society. MTN Nigeria
Communications Limited is not leaving any stone
unturned in its effort at re-engineering the Nigerian
economy. The mobile telephone network has reached out
to all regions of Nigeria, as such, not only walked
its talk of taking development to Nigerians, it also
upholds the belief of greater heights for Nigeria.
The company had been in the northern part of Nigeria
as well as western part. Now, it rolled out in the
east, thereby completing the cycle of the whole nation
having been in Port Harcourt earlier. With the
additional cities of Onitsha, Enugu and Aba to the
mobile network, all parts of Nigeria have now joined
the world in the scheme of advanced socio-economic
development. This is because all Nigerian regions are
now sure of universal cellular phone anchored on
reliable network of communications and extremely
secure conversations.
Joining the western and northern parts of the country,
the eastern part in completing the cycle, courtesy of
MTN, is now to conduct businesses in minutes and 24
hours of the day as distance is no longer a barrier in
business transactions. Not only can you phone on the
network, you can also sent text messages (short
message services: SMS) thereby putting the
conversation on (text) records. You can also enjoy
answering machine, voicemail, pager, fax etc. These
reduce costs of businesses. It also bridges the gap
between people not only on communication, and status,
as drivers, mechanics, carpenters etc are now proud
owners of GSM lines.
Security network is to improve thereby checking
undesirable elements in the society and encourage
businesses.
Obviously, these lead to growth in the economy. And as
growth is the precursor of development, our economy is
on the part of development, as all regions of the
country are now covered, thereby making poverty,
ignorance, inequality, unemployment and external
dependence as well as other indices of
underdevelopment in our country things of the past:
courtesy of GSM.
In rolling out in the east, Onitsha, Anambra State was
the first point of call. The event was both symbolic
and enterprising. Everybody in the team from the CEO,
Adrian Wood, Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer,
Afam Edozie, and others were involved. The event
started with a courtesy call on the governor of the
state, Dr. Chinwoke Mbadinuju (ODERA) on Thursday,
December 13, 2001. At the meeting, Dr. Mbadinuju was
informed of the mobile telephone network's entrance
into the state through Onitsha.
He gave the company a pat on the back. On that same
day, the launch float party stormed the whole town in
a mobile stage. Throughout the nooks and crannies of
the town, it was MTN.
The yellow colour gripped the whole town. But that was
just the prologue to the introduction of the first
chapter about the Onitsha launch.
On the following day, Friday, as early as the day's
sunlight, the presence of the company was being felt
not only in the Onitsha main market, but also in the
whole town of Onitsha. In the very early hours of the
day, Marathon Events, the events' agency anchoring the
show, had painted the centre of the market yellow with
its dressing of the stage for live action.
In flagging off the live action, about 50 okada
drivers were dressed in yellow. They were in the front
of the organisation's train. The Okada were followed
by a brigade band, which entertained all, and sundry
from 80 Akwa Road to Onitsha main market. As the team
landed in the market, the model of the market changed.
Everybody, even bankers identified with the yellow
people as their quest for the yellow t-shirts and
stickers never stopped.
Before the show started with Oliver de Coque and Tony
One Week, the CEO, Adrian Wood, as usual, walked his
talk of taking MTN to the streets. He led a team of
other yellow people in touring the whole market in
their yellow t-shirts. The tour team shook hands with
the people of the market. The people were highly
excited to see them. Questions upon questions marked
the market tour. The tour stamped the organisation in
the people's minds. They all confirmed that the
company is in town. To add sugar to the tea, the team
bought packs of whistle and everywhere in the market
was whistled by the team.
In identifying with the team, the people in the market
also requested for, and got the whistle, which they
blew along with the team.
At the beginning of the market storm, the president of
all the traders gave an opening prayer. In the prayer,
he prayed for the success of MTN and the traders in
the town and in the entire state as well as the whole
of the country. This was followed by music. Now, it
was time for tradition. The music gave way for
traditional prayers with kola nut and gin drink,
anchored in the hands of God through Jesus Christ, our
Lord.
The symbolic thing that caught the Onitsha people
unaware was the eating of the kola by the Onyiocha
(white man), Adrian Wood. Wood not only ate the kola
on the stage, he also kept some in his pocket which he
ate later in the midst of the people as he was to talk
to a team of journalists during the live broadcast of
the show on Anambra Broadcasting Service. To the
people seeing the Onyiocha (white man, Oyinbo: Adrain
Wood) eating the kola was a pleasant surprise. He was
on the stage eating the kola along with Afam Edozie.
In addressing the people, Wood spoke Igbo language.
Hear him:
"Onitsha kwenu
"Anambra kwenu
"Igbo kwenu
"Nigeria kwe zu enu"
He continues: "I am of Oyinbo, you're Ibo, I am Ibo.
Together, we are all Ibo. We are from the same tribe.
That is the MTN tribe.
"We brought something new to you. It will make you
trade better and trade faster.
"With MTN, you hear true sound and true music."
He adds: "Real one is the best. MTN is number one."
At this juncture, the whole market was agog and gave
Wood a round of applause.
Immediately, the crowd that has gathered became
involved with MTN Number One renting the air.
As Wood said "MTN", the people responded with "Number
One"
Wood: "MTN"
The People: "Number One"
This took over the whole market as everybody saw the
company in its true colour: 'Number One in the GSM
industry.
In his remarks, Afam Edozie told the whole market that
the mobile telephone company apart from being the
first GSM company in Onitsha, Anambra State is also
the first and only in Kaduna. According to Edozie, the
services of the company are also available in Port
Harcourt, Abuja, and Lagos as well as its environs
including Alaba.
With the network, he told the traders that they have
instant connection from Onitsha to Alaba, Hongkong,
and anywhere across the world. Edozie ended by saying
"GSM don come o!"
Expectedly, dealers at the market had a field day.
They all smiled to the bank especially with BOGOF.
On the whole, the launch day was a day the whole of
Onitsha main market stood still for the company. The
same for the Bakkasi Boys.
Later in the day, the team hosted a team of its
dealers in the state to a cocktail party at the Grand
Hotel, Asaba, Delta State, which is separated from
Onitsha, Anambra State by the River Niger.
In Enugu at a press conference, Afam Edozie said the
company would invest about N8 billion in the state in
the next five years. Edozie also noted that the
interconnectivity problem with NITEL would soon be a
thing of the past, as NITEL would finish the expansion
of its switching capacity in no time. With this, the
capacity will effectively accommodate the call traffic
originating from GSM lines.
Launching new features on GSM, Afam noted online
accessing of e-mail systems, up-to-the-minute news,
sports information and entertainment through CNN.com
as well as dozens of other online news sites would be
made available. The same for financial information
like exchange rates on the mobile in conjunction with
Mtech. With this, subscribers to the network now have
a one-stop system where they not only made use of the
network to phone but also to use the internet. By
implication, by being on the network of the mobile
telephone company, a subscriber has all he needs on
his handset. Consequently, life is made more easy and
abundant.
MTN, Edozie said, is the first Africa's leading GSM
operators with almost four million subscribers on its
network in six countries: South Africa, Uganda,
Swaziland, Cameroon, Rwanda and Nigeria. The network,
he said, is rated in the top 10 networks of quality
worldwide. The global rating confirms the company as a
quality-driven one that cares for the interests of its
customers.
According to the chief marketing and strategy officer,
the company has a capacity for 600,000 subscribers and
this would increase to 750,000 by February 2002. The
network, he said has five times more switching
capacity than anyone else with over 75 base stations
which are twice as anyone else ensuring best coverage:
signal in more places, stronger signal inside
buildings, and a higher capacity and was the first
network to break the 50,000; 100,000; and 150,000
subscribers line as it is fast approaching 200,000
subscribers.
With the strong capacity, dropped calls on the network
become more minimal. With this, calls within the
network become smoother, and makes the company the one
with the largest capacity to absorb calls at any point
in time without hassles and making the subscribers to
enjoy its calls without breaking and without poor
reception.
On the company's products, Edozie said of business
time and pay as you go, which are pre-paid and
post-paid packages respectively. The business time, he
said, is a contract package which charges N25 per
minute of call at peak period and N20 at off-peak
period. The pay as you go product, according to the
chief marketing and strategy officer, charges N50 at
peak period and N40 at off-peak period. With booster
card, he noted that the pay as you go product charges
N25 per peak call.
At a courtesy call on the Enugu State Governor, Dr.
Chimaroke Nnamani, Afam Edozie told the governor that
his company plans to have nine base stations in the
state for its coverage. He promised His Excellence
that the company would be a responsible corporate
citizen. In his response, the governor who received
the team through his deputy, Ezenwata Okechukwu
Ifeanyi, expressed joy at the company's choice of the
state. He said the organisation's huge investment in
the state would have a great impact on the state's
economy. This, he said would be easily noticeable in
the areas of employment generation and buoyant
socio-economic activities. Equally, the state
government assured Edozie and his team of its support
and noted that the state remains a potentially large
and viable market for their services.
In helloing the state, MTN painted the state yellow
with town storm, music, banners, float party,
stickers, okada storm; all in yellow, and a live
broadcast of the event on FRCN for hours.
Aba joined the network on the last day of Year 2001 as
the seventh Nigerian city to be connected to the
network, making it the network with the largest reach
apart form having more subscribers on its network,
which as noted earlier are fast approaching 200,000.
With this, the company, as usual walked its talk of
'go where you want to go' be it north or south; west
and eastern parts of Nigeria, the network is there for
you.
* Mr. Ogedengbe is a Chartered Public Relations
Practitioner with MTN Nigeria Communications Limited.
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Educational backwardness of Ndigbo worries Gana
(Tuesday, 8th January, 2002)
Enugu —MINISTER of Information and National
Orientation, Professor Jerry Gana, has expressed
concern over the rate of educational backwardness of
Ndigbo and called for a change of the trend to avoid
being relegated to the background of the Nigerian
politics.
Speaking through the Director-General of the National
Orientation Agency, Dr. Ifeanyi Chukwuka at the
National Seminar of the Ohanaeze Youth Council, held
in Enugu, the minister noted with regret that the
quest for fast money has rocked the academic prowess
of the Igbos.
According to him, "the Igbo youth must think twice now
and act fast as they are fizzling out fast in
government service because of the craze for
materialism. This generation of Igbo youth must pursue
academic excellence to ensure that in years to come
Igbos are not eliminated in government circles."
The minister further announced that his ministry has
concluded arrangement to launch with the National
Orientation Agency what he called k "Creative
Productivity Programme" where all the youth of the
federation are mobilised and taught how to be
self-employed.
He maintained that no nation, no matter how highly
endowed, can toy with the future of its youth, noting
that time has come for the youth to take over the
affairs of the nation in general and Igboland in
particular.
Prof. Gana charged the Nigerian youths to jealously
guard against cantankerous elements who tend to
destroy the image of the youth and reduce them to a
group of irrational vandals and non-conformists with
propensity for barbarism and destruction.
However, Gana accused the old generation Nigerian
politicians of manipulating the youth to be involved
in crises, regretting that the youth had always been
victims of such crises. Said he: "The youth are the
bedrock and leaders of tomorrow. They are enormously
endowed with vitality and vivacity needed to sustain
all economic, political and social work load of any
nation."
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Was Dr Chukwuka reading a script prepared by Jerry
Gana for Jerry Gana, or was the Vanguard newspaper
editors deliberately credited the personal statements
of Dr Chukwuka to Jerry Gana? Either way, the phrase,
EDUCATIONAL BACKWARDNESS OF NDIIGBO, is way too
malicious a phrase to use by a non-Igbo to describe
the educational state of Ndiigbo (an onye Igbo can use
it benignly to push Ndiigbo to greater heights).
The phrase was not only untrue but also portrayed a
biligerent or jealous mind on the part of the person
who editorialized the report. Imo state alone has
consistently topped the rest of the states in
university education for at least the last five years.
This is followed by Anambra State, another Igbo
state. And closely by Delta, Rivers, Abia, Edo; a
pool that is significantly Igbo. So how could this
translate into "educational backwardness"?
-K.O.
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otasco otanda <ota...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<200201081836...@web14601.mail.yahoo.com>...
> Vanguard
> Educational backwardness of Ndigbo worries Gana
> (Tuesday, 8th January, 2002)
>
> Enugu ?MINISTER of Information and National
otasco otanda
Date: Mon Dec 17, 2001 10:43 pm
Subject: Re: [igboleague] Re: Literacy Rates Among
Adults 15 yrs and Above in Nigeria
Nwannaa,
The way they index or catalog their statistical
abstracts/surveys in nigeria is a bit different from
what we have in the U.S. If you cite "Federal of
Office of Statistics" with the Year, usually that is
enough.
Other corroborating citations such as the annual UME
(JAMB) Applications into universities from the various
states in nigeria, can also be used for added support.
UME(JAMB) statistics has high positive correlation
with the Literacy rates such as the one displayed in
the table. For example, here is a newspaper clip on
this year's UME(JAMB):
“A widening gap between the North and South:
Examination malpractice's. Gender imbalance. Under
funding. Inadequate opportunities for students seeking
admission. Those are some of the issues in Nigerian
education right from independence to date. The results
of the University Matriculation Examination (UME) for
the 2000/2001 session released last Wednesday indicate
that three decades after independence those issues
remain unresolved. For instance, a study of the
application by states shows that six states had the
highest number of applications. All these six states
are in the southern part of the country. On the other
hand, the six states with the lowest number of
applications are all in the north. The states with the
highest applications are Imo with a total of 78,495 or
10.25%, Delta 66,211 or 8.67%, Anambra 56,159 or
7.35%, Edo 54,368 or 7.735%, Ogun 50,101 or 6.56% and
Ondo 37.346 or 4.8%. Those states with the lowest
request for admission are Borno 3,076 or 0.37, Katsina
2,449 or 0.31%, Kebbi 2,190 or 0.28%, Taraba 2,149 or
0.28% Yobe 1,330 or 0.17% and Zamfara with just 523 or
0.06%. All the requests for admission from all the six
states with low demand cannot even add up to the
demand by Ondo State students. Yet the demand by Ondo
State is far lower than that of Imo. It thus means
that Imo State alone is making demand for university
admission, which is probably equal to the whole demand
for the whole of Northern Nigeria.” In re: “UME
results mirror issues in Nigerian education”,
Vanguard, Thursday, 26th July, 2001.
If you overlay the above listed numbers with the 1995
annual statistical abstract on secondary school
enrolment by states for the top 6 six states, you will
immediately observe a high positive correlation with
the 1993/1994 literacy rates:
National Summary of Sec. School Enrolment By State
1995
State Schls Enrollmnt Teachers Classrms UME %
Imo ... 320 186076 .... 8751 .. 5792 .. 10.25
Delta . 301 244376 .... 7965 .. 7544 .. 8.67
Anambra 294 155293 .... 7447 .. 4032 .. 7.35
Edo ... 397 212016 .... 7369 .. 5751 .. 7.25
Ogun .. 232 194361 .... 6305 .. 4396 .. 6.56
Ondo .. 307 174088 .... 7511 .. 5293 .. 4.80
Source: Compiled from the Annual Abstract of
Statistics 1997 Edition, Federal Office of Statistics,
Abuja, Table 132, P.183. The UME% column collated
from data in the Vanguard, Thursday, 26th July, 2001
publication.
Ndeewo.
-K.O.
From: "nobiorah" <nobiorah@h...>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 10:44:25 -0000
Otasco,
I would like to cite these statistics but I am a
little puzzled about the origin. Please excuse my
ignorance of statistics. It described as from Fed.
Office of Statistics, National Agricultural Survey -
does the survey relate to the agrarian/rural
population?
Ndubisi
--- In igboleague@y..., otasco otanda <otasco@y...>
wrote:
I am reproducing below the Literacy Rate in Nigeria,
to help many of us have an online quick reference,
for a rough sketch/understanding of the events in
Nigeria as they unfold. Things like violence and
destructive activities, readership/catchment area of
many newspapers in nigeria, etc.
Note that in the table the worst performer in the
East with respect to male literacy (Enugu) is far
better than the best performer in the North - Benue.
Moreover, the worst performer in the whole of the
south, Oyo, is better than the best performer in the
North. It is important to note also that the states
in the south with highest literacy rates have
significant Igbo indigenous population or citizenry.
States like Ekiti and bayelsa states that were not
created before 1994 were not shown in the table.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Literacy Rates Among Adults 15 yrs and Above, Nigeria
By State and Sex, 1993/94 (In %)
_______________________________________________
State Male Female
________________________________________________
Abia 85.1 71.4
Adamawa 53.99 31.35
Akwa Ibom 85.24 71.38
Anambra 83.11 72.34
Bauchi 39.59 27.41
Benue 69.32 38.70
Borno 21.31 11.65
Cross Riv 82.58 65.27
Delta 87.54 68.90
Edo 85.64 72.64
Enugu 72.10 52.86
Imo 82.86 67.09
Jigawa 18.82 5.21
Kaduna 61.51 37.10
Kano 36.59 12.04
Katsina 29.11 13.86
Kebbi 23.68 9.01
Kogi 68.88 36.52
Kwara 58.43 38.05
Lagos 93.65 85.46
Niger 34.27 16.04
Ogun 70.72 52.85
Ondo 71.46 57.33
Osun 73.53 51.64
Oyo 69.37 51.34
Plateau 59.10 36.48
Rivers 87.00 68.95
Sokoto 21.43 9.71
Taraba 45.02 19.56
Yobe 15.22 7.43
FCT 65.29 46.84
Nigeria 58.22 41.03
____________________________________
Source: Federal Office of Stat: National Agric
Sample Survey 1993/94
__________________________________________________
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otasco otanda
just consult your library in nigeria nearest to you,
and check any of the statistical abstracts or
registers published annually by the federal bureau of
statistics. Below is one of the things we have seen
here in the past; it is the published graduates of the
Nigeria Bar, year 2000. Check the archives for more;
I believe I occasionally populate these foras with
data and statistics that come my way, so people can
easily scoop them up at times such as this.
-K.O.
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 07:41:18
From: "+ +" <ebony...@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Nigerian Bar: Where Are Atiku et al?
Umunnaa,
For a long time we have been harangued by
mealy-mouthed commentators from sundry sources
purporting to show that Ndiigbo have lost interest in
education. Indeed, the term "igbo traders" is now
employed by the Ngbati press to give the impression
that Ndiigbo are a nation of illiterate businessmen
with no interest
in learning. The funny looking Atiku Abubakar even
went further to claim (without evidence) that Northern
women were more educated than the South-east!
Now we have the empirical evidence to evaluate these
claims. Table one shows the final results of the
Nigerian Bar Final Exams as published by the
Guardian-NG [year 2000].
Question 1: Which single ethnic group predominates in
this list?
Answer: Igbo
Question 2: Which single ethnic group constitutes over
50% of those who made 2:1?
Answer: Igbo
Question 3: Which major ethnic group is least
represented in this list?
Answer: Have a guess!
Conclusion.
If this sample is representative of completion of
tertiary education in Nigeria, then all those who
squawk endlessly about falling school enrollment in
Igboland should now shut up. The least these people
can admit is that that Ndiigbo in addition to being
well represented in commercial activities are also the
predominant group in the educational sector in terms
of student numbers and completion rates making them
the largest and most educated ethnic group in Nigeria.
Truth is bitter. Moaning, groaning or sweeping this
robust statistical evidence under the carpet will
change nothing except massage the bruised ego of some
very funny people somewhere who wallow in self-deceit.
Okwu agwu!
Mz Ani.
Nigerian Bar Final Exam Results:
Source:Guardian-NG
First Class
NIL
Second Class (Upper Division)
Exam. No. Name
284 ARIFAYAN, Olusola Olufisayo
476 EHIZUENIEN, Angela Uayemen
668 IGWENEME, Ugonna Izuchukwu
782 LAWAL, Kudirat Adebola
810 MBA, Osita Victor
827 NMEKAM, Theophillus Chibuike
845 MOROCCO. CLARKE, Susan Ayodele
1006 ODINKONIGBO, Jirinwayo Jude
1059 OGUNLANA, Opeyemi Temitope
1198 OMODU, Ihuda Oroma
1226 ONUORAH, Benardine Ifeoma
2200 IMO, Stanley Chidozie
2532 OFUASE, Awele Cynthia
2643 OKOYE, Ngozi Vivian
2686 OLUMIDE, Sina
NIGERIAN BAR EXAMINATION , JULY, 2000 RESULT
SECOND CLASS (LOWER DIVISION)
Exam. No Name
>12 ABDULKAREEM, Sulaiman Hassan
>23 ABDULSALAM, Gambo
>26 ABIMBOLA, Adefolake Olanike
>30 ABONYI, Willams Obiora
>37 ABUBAKAR, Muhammed Tahir
>42 ACHIFE, Chukwudi Paul
>57 ADEBAYO, Williams Adewumi
>64 ADEGOKE, Olumide Adewale
>98 ADOKONIYI, Elizabeth Ladun
>105 AFOLABI, Emmanuel Ayodele
>107 AGABA, Hakeem Obafemi
>115 AGBO, Christopher Sunday
>127 AGUNBIADE, Imran Adelumola
>151 AJAYI, Oluwadamilola Ayoteleola
>153 AJETUNMOBI, Olumide Kehinde M.
>160 AJOKU, Angus Chiduziem
>162 AKABOGU, Emeka Okwuchukwu
>166 AKAPO, Omotunde Moyosore
>175 AKINFUNMILOYE, Bolanle Oluwatoyin
>186 AKINWOLE, Abayomi Adebola
>188 AKINYEMI, Olayinka Odunmide
>192 AKPAMA, Eta Leko
>195 AKPAN, Mfon Ekereke
>197 AKPOJARO, Aherhe
>204 ALABI, Olayinka Oluwole
>216 ALIMASUNYA, Francis Ikhemo
>262 ANIMSHAUN, Oyesola Olufemi
>274 ANAYANECHI, Nnaemeka Kingsley
>277 ANYIKWA, Obiora Bede
>297 ASO, Larrys Peters
>301 ASUELIMEN, Iretekhia (Miss)
>307 ATILOLA, Felix Bimbo
>311 AWA, Elendu Ojukwu
>314 AWI, Golden Leson
>322 AYODELE, John Alade
>326 AZUBIKE, Nkechi Ethel
>346 BANKOLE, Nurudeen Fayistan
>349 BASHUA, Abisoye Jubril
>372 BWALA, Jijah Helni
>374 CHARLES< Samson Idiowa
>418 DAWI, Kennedy Sambo
>430 DURA, Magdalyne Mbadzendan (Mrs)
>447 EDEGWARE, Gladys Eseoghene
>452 EDOH, Victor Rukewve
>466 EGBUNU, Zacharias Nda
>471 EGWUAGU, Chukwunonso Emmanuel
>478 EIGBOBO, Benehitale
>480 EJEH, Ezekiel Arnold Ogaji
>485 EJIOFOR, Emmanuel
>488 EJUWA, Utieyin Micheal
>495 EKHATOR, Douglas Iyobosa
>514 EMERIBE, Okechukwu Mathias
>517 EMOEFE, Mavis Inyang
>535 ERIATA, Uwoze Kingsley
>561 EZEANA, Ijezie Sunny
>562 EZEANI, Elimma Cynthia
>563 EZEANKWALA, Jude Oseloka
>567 EZEIBE, Kingsley Kenneta
>578 EZUMEZE, Ngozi Bryan
>579 FABIYI, Yvonne Folake
>588 FASHOLA, Olanrewaju Alaba
>596 FRANK-IGWE, Uzodinma
>608 GIWA, Medinat Ibironke
>609 GOBIR, Temitope Abosede
>619 HAROUN, Mubashiru Adebayo
>632 IBEKWUTE, S. M. Harrison
>639 IBRAHIM, Abdulaziz
>649 IDAIYE, Owabije Ibrahim
>651 IDHIARHI, Samuel Ebiye-Khimi
>654 IDAIYE, Muritala Afayeme
>660 IFEMENAM, Kanayo Vincent
>669 IHAZA, Imuetinyan Valentine
>677 IJOMAH, Clementina Nkoye
>686 IKWUT-UKWA, Awhor Henry
>690 ILOABACHIE, Pamela Chinelo
>719 ISIOLU, Chijioke Ogwuma
>730 IWUAGWU, Ndidi O. Noble
>737 IZUGBOKWE, Ijeoma Felicia
>746 JIMOH, Rukayat Oziama
>761 KEKE, Kelechi Kenneth
>779 LAMILISA, Adetoun Olajumoke
>809 MBA, Chinyelu Chinazo
>814 MBAJIKA, Christian Chukwuemeka
>822 MGBEAFULUBA, Odinaka Nehemiah
>842 MONDE, Perebo Patience
>843 MONEKE, Gabriel Udoka
>871 NDUBUIZU, Onyeinye Ekeoma
>876 NGENE, Igwenagu Ogbodo
>878 NGOESIONWU, Eric Onyebuchi
>881 NJOKU, Emeka Abednigo
>925 NWAODUAH, Linda Ifechukwude
>930 NWEKE, Chizobam N.
>956 NZEWWA, Innocent Atulegwu
>968 OBI, Akunna Edith
>973 OBIALOR, Machabeus Ifeanyi
>974 OBIANWU, Chike Louis Olisaeloka
>984 OBOMANU, Godwill V.I.
>998 ODEJIDe, Olutomi Olajumoke
>999 ODENIYI, Olubunmi Martin
>1003 ODIBE, Adaeze Obiageli
>1004 ODEIGIE, Omoyemen Airobomagbon
>1010 ODO, Hilary Ikechukwu
>1013 ODU, Dorcas Oghome
>1015 ODUM, Osemedua Andrew
>1022 OFEN-IMU, Gabriel Uzwanje
>1033 OGBEGIERE, Osemmegie Patrick O.
>1034 OGBODO, Osinachi Jude
>1056 OGUNDIPE, Olaniran Modupe
>1057 OGUNDIRAN, Olusola Olubunmi
>1065 OGUNSUYI, Adebayo Olabanji
>1070 OHAMUO, Chigozie M.
>1080 OJINNAKA, Chinenye Kayode
>1094 OKANY, Nwamaka Rosemary
>1109 OKEZIE, Uzoamaka Onyinyechukwu
>1114 OKOH, Gilbert Emmanuel
>1127 OKONTA, Chidi
>1131 OKORO, Edwin Odinakachi
>1138 OKOYE, Basil Nnamelue
>1141 OKPALEKE, Olivia Ngozi
>1145 OKPE, Mike Agebe Barnabas
>1149 OKRAKPO, Augustine Tchavwuka
>1153 OKWARA, Kennedy Stan
>1156 OKWUOSA, Nwafili Mark
>1159 OLADIPO, Sunday
>1187 OMABU, Chikaodili Rosemary
>1190 OMAKUN, Abel Ayodele
>1193 OMENE, Mudiaga Onoyerhime (Miss)
>1196 OMIRIN, Ezekiel Oludele
>1202 OMOKRI, Bemigho Ogbareno
>1252 ORAGWU, Nnamdi K.
>1275 OSIAKO, Grace Kehinde
>1292 OTU, Francis Ikabor
>1295 OTUOKPAIHIKAN, Ofure Yvonne
>1296 OTUONYE, Queen Chinecherem
>1308 OYEGUN, Peju Ehimwenma
>1314 OYETUNDE, Elizabeth Oyedoyin
>1315 OYEWOLE, Olumide Olugbenga
>1316 OYIBO, Amos Erhire
>1325 PLUMPTRE, Adeyemisi
>1326 POPOOLA, Olatunde
>1333 RUNSEWE, Olubunmi Ibidunni
>1338 SADOH, Marian Allenomen
>1339 SAIDU, Balkisu
>1360 SHAJI, Babatunde Adebowale
>1364 SHINDI, James Hemen
>1374 SOMORIN, Micheal Adewale
>1975 SOWE, Gaye
>1388 THOMAS, Eucharia Ugochukwu
>1389 TITILOYE, Charles Oladipo
>1416 UDOGARANYA, Amechi Nesley
>1420 UFOMADU, Harriet Ogechi
>1421 UGBECHIE, Jude Dele
>1444 UKOJI, Constance Orji
>1445 UKPE, Eno
>1460 UMOLU, Joseph Odion
>1463 UNACHUKWU, Stephen Chuka
>1464 UNAKA, Nkechinyere Ogbonne
>1476 UZOEGWU, Francis Onweluche
>1485 WATHANAFA, Nana
>1487 UBA_OSIGWE, Chizor
>1490 WEST, Soalabo
>1513 ABARI, Jonah Oori
>1525 ABADLIAHI, Ibrahim
>1532 ABDULWAHAB, Tokunbo Sule
>1536 ABIOLA, Nurudeen Babatunde
>1550 ABUTU, Adakola
>1561 ADEBANJi, Olubunmi Olufunke
>1562 ADEBAYO, Adewole Ebenezer
>1566 ADEBIYI, Adebola Kazeem
>1573 ADEGUNLE, Kikelomo
>1587 ADESANOYE, Tolulope Temitayo
>1596 ADEWUSI, Olubukola Yemisi
>1609 ADUGH, Tivkaa
>1610 AERGA, Emmanuel Kersha
>1625 AGBOGWU, Victor Chukuka
>1627 AGENMONWEN, Isi Vivian
>1637 AGUWA, Agbonma Egonnaya
>1673 AKANDE, Babatunde Ayodeji
>1687 AKINADE, Adedotun Oluyinka
>1693 AKINWANDE, Olabisis Ozanike
>1696 AKIOYAMEN, Emmanuel Omon-Bho
>1702 AKPAN, Enobong Victor
>1704 AKPOBASA, Francis Ogheneochuko
>1708 AKUMA, Ekenma Oti
>1745 AMAEWHULE, Kinika Olivia
>1764 ANENE, Anthony Onyibo
>1777 ANUHWIN, Tejiri Rapheal
>1794 ARTHUR, Andrew Seweniowor
>1795 ARUBAYI, Omonigho Muhammed
>1796 ARUWAJI, Solomon Emilere
>1800 ASENOGUAN, Osamuede Isobomuka
>1830 AYOOLA, Clement Ilesanmi
>1845 BAKO, Abdul Salam
>1846 BALA, Wilson
>1847 BALOGUN, Akeem Ayorinde
>1886 CHIMA, Abba Emmanuel
>1902 CHUKWUMA, Cellistus Nnamani
>1951 EDE-NWEKE, Ogechukwu Ozioma
>1969 EGBUCHE, Vivian Ngozi
>1971 EGBUNA, Kenechi Mauraine
>1982 EHROMA, Oviebatarhe Moses
>2013 ELEBHOSE, Godday Ayemere
>2014 ELELU, Kabir Folorunso
>2018 EMEMBOLU, Azuka Chizoba
>2019 EMERHIRHI, Caroline Omochavwe
>2032 ENENDU, Austin Emenike
>2044 ESAN, Babatunde Adeyemi
>2056 EWUOLA, Oluwafemi Rufus
>2081 EZEUDU, Martin-Joe Ejikeme
>2125 HARUNA, Bilkisu Ismaila
>2152 IBRAHIM, Samuel Adeiza
>2153 IBRAHIM, Unekwu (Miss)
>2157 IDIAKE, Ebanehita Irene
>2166 IFESI, Adaeze Chinweogo
>2167 IGALAWUYE, Charles Onyeka
>2170 IGEH, Albert Ojodale
>2176 IHENACHO, Innocent Chibueze
>2179 IJALANA, Emmanuel Folayan
>2180 IJELU, Ismail Olalekan
>2188 IKOLODO, Emmanuel Ezenwa
>2197 ILORI, Solape
>2206 INWANG, Effiong Okon
>2274 KONKWO, Nathan Uchechukwu
>2232 IWEGBULAM, Chibuzo Ijeoma
>2234 IWUNO, Christiana Chibuogwu
>2287 LAWAL, Tajudeen O.
>2300 MAGAJI, Oba Abdulkadir
>2511 MARIERE, Samuel Oghenevwogaga
>2340 MOHAMMED, Salamatu Umar
>2361 MUSA, Ali Adam
>2381 NGIM, Okpan Ewezu
>2385 NJOKU, Chinedu Titus
>2387 NKOLO, Cyril Ezechi
>2404 NWACHUKWU, Dhalia Ijeoma
>2405 NWACHUKWU, Henrietta Oluchi
>2415 NWAGU, Uche Godswill
>2429 NWANYANWU, Daniel Daberechukwu
>2430 NWAOGU, Chinyere Akuwueze
>2438 NWOBO, Emmanuel Ikey
>2445 NWOKEUKWU, Chinedu Christian
>2453 NWOSU, Ngozi Christie
>2456 AKPABIO, Offonmbuk Charles
>2465 OBASEKI, Francis Osagie
>2476 OBIALOR, Chinedu Joseph
>2490 OBU, Osai Justina
>2491 UJA, Uzoma
>2492 OBUKA, Beatrice O.
>2493 OCHAI, Okoriko Godwin
>2504 ODENYI, Chinedum Sebastine
>2510 ODIRI, Cheryl Ogochukwu
>2311 ODIWE, Veronica Ngozi
>2513 ODO, Everastus Okechukwu
>2517 ODU, Olurotimi Adegboyega
>2518 ODUFUWA, Comfort Olusola
>2535 OGAR, Edward Eneji
>2552 OGOH, Clement Uzoma
>2555 OGUDE, Thomas
>2583 OJIGHO, Anthony Hanson
>2598 OKARDI, Tarinabo Lovelyn
>2624 OKOLIE, Victoria Ijeoma
>2641 OKOYE, Azuka Ebere
>2671 OLAYEMI, Olatunde Olawale
>2683 OLUFOKUNBI, Oyinlola Yewande
>2688 OLUSINDE, Ibrahim Olutunji
>2708 OMONIJO, Abiodun Omotokunbo
>2711 OMOEOGIE, Hope Izekor
>2713 OMOTIBA, Olaiya Joseph
>2755 ORABUEZE, Florence Onyebuchi
>2775 OSHIKANLU, Olatolujobalo Tolulope
>2787 OSUNDAIRO, Abosede Gbonjubola
>2789 OTAMERE, Ovenseri
>2795 OTTO, Aghoghophia
>2796 OTU, Imowo Robert
>2813 OYELEKE, Moshood Mobolaji
>2821 OZOANI, Emeka Onyemechi
>2827 PETERS, Otoruibuemi
>2831 RAJI, Folorunsho Rasak
>2864 SHANKYULA, Samuel Tersoo
>2865 SHEHU, Garba Abukakar
>2887 TAKERHI, Ogbodu Philip
>2896 TOM-LAWYER, Godwin
>2906 UCHE, Uchechi Ucheoma
>2927 UGURU, Uchechukwu
>2930 UGWU, Cosmas Obeta
>2935 UGWUOKENBAH, Sabena Oduagu
>2936 UJA, Obiajulu Hansel
>2943 UKEJE, Eloche Philip
>2969 USMAN, Fati
>2970 USMAN, Sulaiman
>2977 UZOECHI, Uzoma Beatrice
>2980 UZOKA, Benjamin
>2981 UZOMA, Morrison Uche
>END OF SECOND CLASS (LOWER DIVISION).
>J.K. JEGEDE
>DIRECTOR-GENERAL.
>01 ABASI, Bright Ekieso
>02 ABANUM, Okwudili
>07 ABBO-Jimeta, Fatima Suleiman
>08 ABDUL, Salamatu
>15 ABDULLAHI, Bashir Ibrahim
>16 ABDULLAHI, Hauwa
>18 ABDULLAHI, Mamunetu Iniboku
>21 ABDULLAHI, Zainab Musa (Miss)
>24 ABE, Oluwafemi Benjamin
>25 ABHULIMEN, Augustine Aigbiremo
>29 ABOLARIN, Olufunke Adekunbi
>38 ABUBAKAR, Salifu Eggas
>40 ABUDU, Rasaq Olufemi
>43 ACHIMUGU, Akoji Williams
>46 ADAKO, Makanjuola Abiodun
>48 ADAMS-ALIU, Orumwense Ese
>50 ADAMU, Peter Alumbugu
>52 ADANU, Samuel Ochoche
>53 ADEBANJO, Olumide Austin
>54 ADEYABO, Alex Udulishe
>55 ADEBAYO, Khadijat Kubura
>58 ADEBIYI, Faderera Adejoke
>63 ADEGBOLA, Omolola Ibiyemi
>65 ADEJOBI, Adedayo Oluyemisi
>66 ADEJUMO, Modupe Folasade
>67 ADEKANMI, Thompson Abayomi
>68 ADEKOGBE, OWOLABI ADESOJI
>69 ADEKOYA, Oluwakemi Bosede
>70 ADELAKUN, Yusuff Hamdallah
>72 ADENAIYA, Olatunbosun (Miss)
>77 ADEREMI, Abideen Adetoye
>79 ADESANYA, Opeoluwa Olubukunola
>80 ADESINA Bernard Femi
>81 ADESOLA, JOB ABIODUN
>84 ADEWARA, Tajudeen Zubair
>85 ADEWOYIN, Ahmed Aderoju
>87 ADEWUNMI, Jumoke
>88 ADEWUSI, Oluwaseun Oluwatosin
>86 ADEWUMI, Aderinsayo Adegbenga
>91 ADEYEMI, Olufemi Adekunle
>92 ADEYEMO, Kazeem Debo
>94 ADIE, Linus Etalong
>95 ADIGWE, Ngozi Francis
>96 ADISA, Anbali
>97 ADO, Maaji Sanusi
>100 ADU, Victoria Bolanle
>101 ADUM, Ter Alexander
>102 AFAGHA, Peter Oku
>114 AGBIGBI, Grace Lola
>116 AGBODIKE, Norbert Onyebuchi
>118 AGBOTI, Obinna Oliver
>123 AGIE, Kingsley Osabuohen
>124 AGORO, Adedolapo Eniola
>125 AGOSON, Isaac Omorago
>130 AGWU, Ikechi Valentine
>131 AGWUNOBI, Azuka Connie
>133 AHANONU, Victor Chukwuemeka
>134 AHIAIWE, Chinyere Ugochi D.
>139 AHMED, Mahmoud El-Haji
>143 AIGBOJE, Theophilus
>144 ALLERU, Ismail Bolarinde
>147 AIYEPEKU, Eyitayo Adeola
>149 AJAKAIYE, Ade Christopher
>154 AJIBOLA, Babatunde Olu
>157 AJIE, Chukwuma Orike
>156 AJIBOYE, Olaniyi
>159 AJINAMO, Umma Hanni
>161 AKA, Onwughara Ugochi
>163 AKALAZU, Virgilius Chinagorom
>165 AKANDE, Gbadegesin Emmanuel
>167 AKASSA, Ereseifa Linda
>174 AKINBOTE, Agustinaa OLUWATOYIN
>182 AKINSULERE, Barnabas
>183 AKINTAYO, Matemilola Asake
>185 AKINWALE , Olubunmi Sylvaria
>187 AKINWUMI, Wahab Gbade
>194 AKPAN, Emem Nana
>196 AKPAN , Udeme Willie
>199 AKPOYOWARE, Margaret Oghene
>201 Akumagba, Ete Francis
>202 AKWITTI, Richmond Onyekachi
>203 ALABI, Benjamin Folorunsho
>206 ALADE, Seyio Femi
>207 ALAKA, Olakekan Muka
>220 ALIYU, Adamu Jummai
>221 ALIYU, Amina Hussein
>228 ALUKANTA, Peace Ugochi
>229 ALUMONA, Innocent Chibueze
>235 AMADI-SHODEINDE, Ifeoma Ann
>AMALU, Paul Okechukwu 315
>243 AMEH, Margaret Iyabo
>244 AMINU, Junaidu
>247 AMUKA, Alero Pehllipa
>248 AMURE, Afolabi
>249 AMUSAN, Mutiat Fadeke
>252 ANAGBOGU, Zelinjo Afamefune
>255 ANEKE, Christiana Nneka
>256 ANEKWE, Rapheal Zelibe
>264 ANKAMA, Rosecana Galadima
>267 ANSA, Theressa Oqua
>268 ANTE, Affiang Nukak
>270 ANUMUDU, Remigius Uche
>271 ANWUCHA, Nsima Mark
>272 ANYA, Nnenna Nkiru
>276 ANYATANG, Brian Fed Ikonshulu
>278 APANISILE, Alli
>279 APUYE, EUNICE AGBEDE
>287 ARUA, AUGUSTINE OKO
>289 ARUOGU, DIRIONYEMMA CHIDIEBERE
>293 ASHINWE, UGOH EDWARD
>294 ASHIWAJU, Binta Amina
>298 ASOGWA, Onyebuchi Godwin
>294 ASHIWAJU, Binta Amina
>298 ASOGWA, Onyebuchi Godwin
>299 ASONYE, OLILEANYA IHE
>300 ASSAYOMO, TUESDAY TONY
>302 ASUZU, NICHOLAS EMEKA
>304 ATASIE, NKASIOBI AHUNNA
>305 ATEKEBO, OPUENE THOMPSON
>310 AVBORAYE, NOSA EMMANUEL
>312 AWATT, AWATT OKON
>313 AWE, OLUREMI OLUFUNMILAYO
>315 AWOMOLO, FOLASHADE OLUBUKOLA
>318 AYADI, ERIC
>319 AYALOGU, WINFRED UZOMAKA
>321 AYERITE, TAM JONATHAN
>323 AYOMIKE, HORATIO ORITSEJOLOMI
>329 AZUNNA, UZUNMA
>330 BABA, ANDREW
>333 BABTUNDE, ADEBAYO GEORGE
>337 BAKARE, RAFIU ADELEKE
>340 BAKPA, OGHENERUME AHERORE
>341 BALARABE, MAHMOUD
>342 BAMIGBAIYE, WALE OSEINI
>345 BANJOKO, ODUNAYO VICTORIA
>348 BASAMBO, BOLAKALE
>351 BASSEY, MARY OKOI
>352 BASSI, PAUL AHMED
>353 BAWA, HABIBAH LADI (MISS)
>354 BELLO, ABUBAKAR
>360 BENSON, GLAD
>361 BEREBON, DONATIUS BARINEM
>362 BIBIRESANMI, GBENGA
>364 BLUE-JACK, ISHMAEL
>365 BOCO, JOSEPHINE EBI
>367 BOLARINWA, EBENEZER
>368 BRAIMAH, ABU YAKUBU
>369 BRISIBE, SAMANYHA DOUEYE
>370 BROWN, TOM OLUBUNMI
>376 CHIAHA, MAXIMUS IKECHUKWU
>378 CHIEZE, ADAOBI NWANNEKA O.
>381 CHIMA, BONIFACE. N. UTHULOR
>383 CHIMA-ODUKO, UZOMA LYANN
>385 CHINEMELU, JOY NAMALUBIA
>388 CHUKU, CHIJIOKE CHUKU
>390 CHIKURA, NGOZI
>391 CHUKWU, KAREN NKECHI
>392 CHUKWU, STANLEY UGOCHUKWU
>394 CHUKWUEKE, NGOZI MARTHA
>398 CHUKWUOCHA, RICHARD NDUKA NNAMDI
>399 COKER, FOLAGADE A.
>401 DADA, Abiodun Ebenezer
>402 DADA, JAIYEOLA ADESODUN
>406 DANGOGO, ATIKU USMAN
>407 DANJIDDA, SALISU HAMISU
>408 DANJUMA, MOHAMMED
>409 DANKUWO, ADEBOYE ODUNAYO
>414 DAUBRY, EMOTANHAN EMMANUEL
>417 DAVIES, OWANATE CHRISTIE
>420 DIALA, CANICE IFEANYI
>423 DIKE-OKORAFOR, CAROL BALUEKAR
>424 DIRISU, ANNTOINETEE OSHIOKE
>426 DOHO, MOHAMMED ABUBAKAR
>427 DOLOR, BEATRICE IMENE
>428 DOSUNMU, AJOKE RASHEEDAT
>429 OULARE, REMILEKUN FATIMAH
>431 DUROJAIYE, ADEREMI ABIODUN
>432 DURU, DESMOND CHIDOZIE
>438 EBITU, AKFADIAHA SUNDAY
>439 EBOKA, BETTY ELIEMENYE
>442 ECHEFU, IKECHUKWU JOHN
>446 EDEANI, NELSON SUNDAY
>448 EDEKI, FESTUS OGBEWE
>450 EDET, EMMANUEL OSONG
>451 EDOGIAWERIE, FESTUS EREMWANARUE
>453 EDOKI, FAITH NWAYEMOGHO
>454 EDOR, EWOMAZINO FELIX
>455 EDU, JOBENE
>457 EFEURHOBO, GODFREY OVIE
>464 EGBUCHIWE, Uche Benson
>468 EGERUKA, C. ANULI
>470 EGWABOR, CHARLES EKIOMANDO
>473 EGWUONWU, ONYEMAECHI NKEMAKOLAM
>474 EHIOBU, SOLOMON EHIEYEM
>475 EHIWUOGWU, GODWIN EFIENIM O.
>481 EJEMBI, ABA AHOLA
>483 EJESIEME, ALEXANDER CHUKWUDI
>484 EJINDU, IFEANYICHUKWU MATTHEW
>486 EJIOFOR, SYLVESTER IFEANYI
>487 EJUEYITCHIE, ARITEIJOMA OMAWUMI
>490 EKE, EMMANUEL ONYEANUNA
>491 EKE NDIDI BARBARA
>492 EKEH, MARY-ELIZABETH CHINYERE
>493 EKENG, ROSEMARY ITU
>496 EKOM, NOBLE PENNINGTON
>497 EKPE, MICHEAL CHIDOZIE
>499 EKPEROBE, FEMI OHI
>501 EKPO, MERCY EFFIONG
>503 ITUN, ENO-OBONG JOHN
>506 ELMAINARI, MUHAMMED UTMAN
>507 ELEBE, GIDEON ZEBULON BROWN
>508 ELEBIYO, JULIE ANUOLUWAPO YETUNDE
>509 ELEMI, EVAL MATTHEW
>510 ELONU, IKECHUKWU PETER
>512 EMEM, CHETACHUKWU A. MANDA
>513 EMENAKA, IFEOMA CHRIST
>518 EMONI, CLEANSMAN WILLIAMS
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>524 ENEDUANYA, IFEOMA BERNADETTE
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>555 EZE, CELESTINA NDIDIAMAKA
>556 EZE, DANIEL UGWO
>557 EZE, FIDELIS UGO
>558 EZE, HYGINUS ANIEGBUNAM
>559 ENEMUOH, OGECHUCHUKWU JULIE (MRS.)
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>EXAM NO. NAME EXAM NO. NAME
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>1323 PETERS, ADEDAYO OLAKUNLE
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>1327 POPOOLA, OYEBOLA OLUFEMI
>1329 RAJI, WASIU OLUSEGUN
>1337 SADIQ, AbdulRasheed
>1340 SAKA, Rafiu Gbenga
>1344 SALEWON, Bamidele C.
>1348 SAMINU, Nasiru
>1351 SANI, Hafsat YAhaya
>1352 SANNI, Mufutau MabokunrinjE A.
>1363 SHEHU, Muhammad Shamsuddeen
>1365 SHITTU, Tajudeen Olanrewaju
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>1373 SOLAHUDEEN, Ahmed Solih
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>1378 SULEIMAN, Adesina Abdulfatai
>1381 SULU, Omotosho Saliu
>1386 TEBU, Victor
>1393 TRUMAN, Danladi AfuwaI
>1397 UBA-NJOKU, Ijeoma Chinedu
>1399 UBANI, Ngozi Henrietta
>1400 UBE, Oliver Okoye
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>1404 UCHE, Okorie
>1405 UCHEGBUE, Nathaniel Chidi
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>1425 UGORJI, Emmanuel Ikechukwu
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>1432 UGWUMADU, Udoezi Uchenna
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>1435 UJEH, Bridget
>1436 UKAEGBU, OkechukwU Sunday
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>1438 UKANDU, Ndudilachi Benedict
>1439 UKATTAH, Adaku Ahunna
>1440 UKAUMUNNA, kelechi Christian
>1446 UKWU, ElekwachI Chukwudi
>1447 ULU, Collins Chikezie
>1452 UMAR, Ramatu Asabe
>1455 UMEHAM, Clement James
>1456 UMEOBIKA, John Maduanusi I.
>1457 UMEOKANNE, Basil Okechukwu
>1458 UMO, Kingsley Friday
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>1462 UMUKORO, OKiemute Agnes
>1466 USIFOH, BrighT
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>1474 UWUAH, Ben Oscar
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>1479 UZOKA, Christopher OnyekwelU
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>1489 WEGHYINA, Edward Hanger
>1492 WODI, GIdeon Chigoziri
>1494 WOSA, Celestine N.
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>1505 YUSUF, Olatunji Abdul Kareem
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>1508 ZACHARIAH, Sunday
>1509 ZAKARI, Tanko Mohammed
>1512 ABANG, Lawrence Abua
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Ezisi Udu II
I have been reading things about school dropout rate
of Igbo's, none enrolement, high rate of male dropout
etc. and this worries me a lot. I get more picked
because I know that for the past ten years that Imo
State has topped University admissions and graduands
list. Anambra and other Igbo states are not doing
badly too. Ebonyi and Enugu may have some problems but
I don't think that it is as bad as is being portrayed.
So, from whence did this haunds get their data?
Please if anyone has data on school enrolment,
graduation, drop out etc. in Nigeria let him share
with us so that people like me will know where we
stand for sure on this.
Ezisi Udu II
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Looking at the literacy statistics (though dated), I am
unable to correlate the data with the statements we often
read and hear from the western part of nigeria as the
most educated, sophisticated etc. Lagos is not all Yoruba!!
As you pointed out, Rivers and Delta have a large proportion
of Igbo people and the statistics from those two states
correlate well with most other Igbo states. Interesting data
indeed.
Egwu
> Osun 73..53 51.64
> Oyo 69.37 51.34
> Plateau 59.10 36.48
> Rivers 87.00 68.95
> Sokoto 21.43 9.71
> Taraba 45.02 19.56
> Yobe 15.22 7.43
> FCT 65.29 46.84
> Nigeria 58.22 41.03
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Di Grand Emperor
for 1993/94 why all di yeye Abacha states wey dem create for 1996 go
dey for dere? If you wan sabi di true tory today, go Abuja go collect
di recent statistics - if dem even get am at all at all. Di ting talk
say people wey dey literate from 15 years and above. Na lie? How many
adults for Nyamiri land sabi speak pidgin oyibo, not to talk about
weder dem sabi write or even sabi read. Di same wahala wey Nyamiri get
for communication na im Ngbati people even get. Dis two noise makers
whit dem yeye Igaba people no even get up to 60% of adult wey dey
speak pidgin. Na so so "vernacular" dem dey knack. But if you go for
Rivers, Delta, Edo, Akwaibom, Cross River, and di rest of Mmbamiri
place, you go see real grand pa and grand ma wey dey knack better
pidgin. Make I remind una again - di statistics no talk say di people
wey sabi book pass ("educated"), di ting dey talk say di people wey
sabi read and write pass ("literacy"). Kalu Nta, you hear?
http://www.akwaibomstate.com/prosper.htm
Don Tempest Prospero, Di Grand Omega One - DrPH Biostatistics &
Epidemiology from Harvard-Europe (Who no know go know)
Eric Kalu <ek...@wombat.eng.fsu.edu> wrote in message news:<2002010919...@taz.eng.fsu.edu>...
> > ?A widening gap between the North and South:
> > for the whole of Northern Nigeria.? In re: ?UME
> > results mirror issues in Nigerian education?,
> > State Male Female
> > Source: Federal Office of Stat: National Agric
> > Sample Survey 1993/94
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
Egwu Kalu
graduates from nigerian universities in the past five years?
If we use the number of applicants into the universities as an
indication of "educated" or literate in a community, then
Mr. Gana's ethnic group and all of nigeria must be in the
early hours of the dark ages with respect to educational backwardness.
We should note that the absence of Ndiigbo in the civil
service is not an indication of their educational backwardness.
It is an indication of the discriminatory practices, instituitonalized
quota system and non-existence of meritocracy in the service.
Shall we now say that the Hausa/Fulani are now more educated
than Ndiigbo because they occupy all positions within the civil
service? Their numbers applying into higher institutions do not
suggest so. So, Mr. Gana should worry about his ethnic group,
let Ndiigbo worry about Ndiigbo. We did bridge the gap of more
than 70 years head-start that the Yoruba had on us within 30
years and we can do it again - when meritocracy is restored in the
system. Until then, Ndiigbo will be fine.
Egwu Kalu
otasco otanda
Wednesday, January 23, 2002.
Don calls for decentralisation of economy
THE 2001 Nobel Prize Winner for Economics, Professor
Joseph E. Stiglitz, has warned that central control of
the resources of the nation encourages unbridled
corruption and undermines a sense of unity.
Besides, it also suppresses minority rights. He
advised Nigerians to "strike a balance" between the
centre and peripheral states and local councils to
avoid what he called the abuse to which centralisation
of authority is prone.
Stiglitz, who was chief economic adviser to former
United States president, Bill Clinton, spoke as guest
lecturer at the maiden memorial lecture organised in
honour of foremost Nigerian economist, late Dr. Pius
Okigbo.
The lecture, held at the Nike Lake Hotel, Enugu, was
attended by the Senate President, Anyim Pius Anyim,
Finance Minister, Malam Adamu Ciroma, Aviation
Minister, Dr. Kema Chikwe, Senator Mike Ajegbo,
Senator Fajinmi, Donald Duke, governor of Cross River
State, Sam Egwu, governor of Ebonyi State, Enugu State
Deputy Governor, Ezenwata Okechukwu Itaniyi and the
world's best Robotics engineer, Professor Bartholomew
Nnaji, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT), among others.
Stiglitz who said that if he had had the opportunity
of meeting Dr. Okigbo, both of them would have shared
much in common, warned Nigeria against centralising
economic power at the centre, citing Russia as a test
case of the dismal failure which economic
centralisation portends.
He contended that nations have moved from the
centralisation of economic and political power to its
decentralisation, having realised the gross dangers of
abuse of power, corruption, injustice, suppression of
rights, especially those of minorities, and the
fanning of embers of disunity and crises which
economic centralisation portend.
While making a case for Nigeria to embrace economic
decentralisation or the delegation of economic powers
to the periphery, Stiglitz argued that states and
local governments, being nearer to the people, have
better information on problem areas of constituents
and where or how best resources could be allocated for
best results to be achieved.
According to the world-renowned economist, there is
tenacious problem that "when money is spent at the
central level, it is other people's money that is
wasted."
But economic decentralisation, he argued, leads to a
"better sense of accountability, better governance,
better incentives, better information and therefore
better resource allocation.
Such virtues and advantages of economic
decentralisation, Stiglitz argued, only leads to
"positive competition" whereby he said, "people strive
to do better and better".
According to him, such healthy competition fires
nations into economic greatness, as in his expert
view, competition among component communities can be a
very important tool for a nation's economic growth and
enables each component community to realise its
potential.
Using China as an example, he said the country's per
capita income increased eight folds in the past few
years due to flourishing competition among its
component communities.
Stiglitz, however, pointed out that for competition to
yield positive result in a nation's growth and
development, it has to be based on a system of equal
opportunity.
Healthy competition based on equity, he emphasised,
can lead to vibrant economic growth while recognising
the diversity of a nation.
Posing the question as to why economic
decentralisation has proved to be very successful in
some countries and yet not very successful in others,
Prof. Stiglitz said success or relative success has to
do with the ability to adapt well to the demands of
change from centralised economic administration to the
decentralised type.
He, however, maintained that only corruption can
truncate the success that economic decentralisation is
capable of achieving.
The Nobel Laureate stated that only access to
information can solve the problem of corruption in
decentralised economics as, according to him, Yoweri
Museveni's administration has demonstrated with the
lower tiers of government in Uganda where he said the
central government ensures that the people under the
lower tiers are made to have access to information
relating to fiscal allocations for their well being
from the central government in Kampala.
He counselled that Nigeria should adopt that method,
which he said is also in use in the United States
where the freedom to information relating to
governance, has continued to be the hallmark of its
democracy.
"Nigeria should adopt that principle of the right to
know, build it into the constitution, practice it.
Citizens should reserve the basic right to know as is
done in the United States where the Freedom of
Information Act empowers citizens to demand to know
what goes on in government, how decisions are taken.
It acts as a check on the government.
"Even in the US it is a very important aspect of
democratic governance and I recommend it to Nigeria.
"Somehow, it makes people feel more responsible. With
money coming out of their pockets, people are more
responsible but not responsible with money from
somebody else's pocket", Stiglitz said.
He warned that unless Nigeria develops its abundant
human resources, its development might remain a
mirage, noting that an abundance of natural resources
does not in any way guarantee development.
Rather than develop, he said countries with enormous
natural resources have either been engulfed in crises
as is the case with war-torn Sierra Leone or simply
unable to harness such resources as Russia has shown.
The natural resources of a people, he said, is the
people's endowment and should not be squandered.
He pointed to Switzerland and Singapore as countries
without natural resources that have grown rich because
they developed their human resources, urging Nigeria
to follow suit and develop its abundant human
resources. Stiglitz urged that those in authority must
imbibe the culture of transparency if Nigeria is also
to develop.
He, however, disagreed with the concept of belt
tightening, which multilateral agencies like the World
Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) often
recommend for developing countries, describing such
measure as "a mystery" the rationale of which he is
yet to understand.
__________________________________________________
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otasco otanda
Corporate Council on Africa
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Former U.S. Export-Import Bank Head to Chair Corporate
Council on Africa
Corporate Council on Africa (Washington, DC)
PRESS RELEASE
January 23, 2002
Posted to the web January 23, 2002
Washington
James Harmon, who served from 1997 until 2001 as
chairman and president of the Export-Import Bank of
the United States (Ex-Im Bank), has been elected to
chair the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA). CCA is a
nonprofit grouping of nearly 200 American businesses
dedicated to promoting trade and investment ties
between the United States and Africa. CCA's members
represent nearly 85 percent of total U.S. private
sector investments in Africa. Harmon's election took
place during a meeting of the CCA Board of Directors
on January 17.
Commenting on his election, Harmon said, "Africa needs
more than ever the public and private sectors of the
world's wealthiest nations who, in turn, need more
than
ever a stable and prosperous Africa. This is one area
where I believe CCA can make a real difference."
Under Harmon's leadership, Ex-Im Bank business in
Africa rose from $50 million in 1998 to nearly $1
billion in 2000. In July 2000, Ex-Im Bank launched an
unprecedented $1 billion lending program to help
eligible African countries purchase anti-AIDS drugs
from U.S. pharmaceutical manufacturers.
CCA President Stephen Hayes described Harmon as having
unparalleled experience in international banking and
finance, and a genuine deep-seated commitment to
the continent. Harmon is chairman and chief executive
of New York-based Harmon & Co., an international
investment bank founded in 2001 to provide strategic
advice to major corporations and governments.
Harmon succeeds Maurice Tempelsman, who had chaired
CCA since April 1999 and chose not to seek
re-election. Tempelsman remains on the Board of
Directors
as chairman emeritus. A complete list of CCA's Board
of Directors Executive Committee is attached.
Before entering government in 1997, Harmon served from
1986 to 1996 as chairman and CEO of Schroder Wertheim
& Co., a global investment banking firm. He is a
member of the Board of Directors of Africare and the
World Resources Institute and trustee emeritus of
Brown University and Barnard College. He is a former
member of the Advisory Committee on International
Capital Markets and the Nominating Committee of the
Board of the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. and a
former member of the Board of Directors of the
Securities Industry Association.
Corporate Council on Africa Board of Directors
Executive Committee 2002:
Mr. James Harmon
Mr. Ken Evans
Chairman
At-Large
Harmon & Co.
ExxonMobil
Mr. Frank Fountain
Ms. Sharon Pratt
Vice Chairman
At-Large
DaimlerChrysler A.G.
@theCentre, Inc.
Mr. Donald McHenry
Mr. Jack Edlow
Vice Chairman
At-Large
The IRC Group LLC
ERL
Mr. James Andrews
Mr. Maurice Tempelsman
Secretary
Chairman Emeritus
Halliburton
Lazare Kaplan International Inc.
Mr. Larry Bailey
Mr. Stephen Hayes
Treasurer
President
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Corporate Council on Africa
Ms. Anita L. Henri
Legal Counsel
Corporate Council on Africa
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otasco otanda
Thursday, January 24, 2002.
Group to resist ban on tokunboh vehicles,
refrigerators
By Sylvester Ebhodaghe, Staff Reporter
WORRIED by the possible implications the proposed ban
on imported vehicles and refrigerators above five
years would have on their business, the Igbo have said
they will resist any move to implement the decision.
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) had after an
exhaustive deliberation on the report and
recommendations of the Presidential Panel on Port
Decongestion taken the decision that "as from January
1, 2002, all imported used buses, cars and motorcycles
should be within the approved quota for the year and
should not be more than five years old."
The FEC, in a sprinted defence of its decision said:
"There are abundant statistics to show that the
importation of very old vehicles has increased the
rate of accidents on our roads due to mechanical
faults."
Also, many of the vehicles were said by the FEC, to be
"death traps, some of which had been declared as
scraps before they are dumped in Nigeria."
But the Igbo under the aegis of Igbo Peoples Movement
have vehemently condemned the decision saying: "All
Igbo across the country and in diaspora will rise
against the ban on the importation of fairly used
vehicles and refrigerators if the Federal Government
carries out the economic oppression against Ndigbo."
The planned resistance is sequel to a decision reached
at the end of an extra-ordinary executive council
meeting of the group in Lagos.
In his address, the group's president, Chief Uche
Njoku alleged that the President Olusegun Obasanjo
administration has "mapped out a clear agenda against
the Igbo race despite the contributions of Ndigbo to
his government and nation building."
He said: "When we said that Obasanjo was anti-Igbo,
people who did not know his military antecedents
defended him, but he had never hidden this through his
actions and utterances against the Igbo."
Already, speaker, House of Representatives, Alhaji
Umar Na'Abba in a response to President Obasanjo,
expressed concern over "the impact and the ripple
effects of such a policy on the generality of our
compatriots and the Nigerian economy."
According to him, since the decision was made public,
his office has been inundated with complaints and
representations from the public, including a large
number of the House members.
He argued that second hand cars have provided all
classes of Nigerians cheaper and yet effective means
of transportation.
"Given the present wage level in both the public and
private sectors, 'tokunbo vehicles are the only means
of private ownership of vehicles for a larger number
of the citizenry," he asserted.
Reviewing the reason of "safety of lives of Nigerians"
adduced to by President Obasanjo as the underlining
factor behind the planned ban, the IPM president
questioned Obasanjo's preference for the ban instead
of addressing the embarrassing issue of insecurity of
lives and property which has brought the country back
to the anarchic era of the military regime.
The Igbo Peoples Movement, according to Chief Njoku,
has mapped out a number of strategies to fight back
the Federal Government which include intensive mass
protest rallies across the country, a call for the
withdrawal of Igbo political office holders as well as
a campaign for the impeachment of President Obasanjo
on grounds of economic sabotage against the country.
They however, noted that so much come to government as
revenue from the imported vehicles and refrigerators.
The IPM president said: "If you check the volume of
vehicles and refrigerators that are imported into this
country, then you can estimate the huge revenue earned
by the government which Obasanjo wants to deny the
country of on concocted reasons of safety of lives and
environment."
The position of IPM, it was learnt, bears from the
fact that Igbo occupy a vast majority interest in the
business of importation of tokunbo vehicles and
refrigerators and "it is an economic oppression
against a self-made people of Igbo extraction which
has unbearable consequences on the Igbo population.
Chief Uche Njoku expressed surprise that President
Obasanjo has failed to recognise the role of public
opinion in a democratic society but warned that; "any
leader who ignores public opinion does that at his own
peril because the voice of the people is the voice of
God."
__________________________________________________
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January 24, 2002
News Release 02-011
Inv. No. 332-415
ITC RELEASES SECOND ANNUAL REPORT ON U.S. TRADE AND
INVESTMENT WITH SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) today
released U.S. Trade and Investment with Sub-Saharan
Africa, the second report in a series of five intended
to assist the President in developing a comprehensive
trade and development policy for the countries of
Africa.
The ITC, an independent, nonpartisan, factfinding
federal agency, conducted the investigation for the
United States Trade Representative (USTR). As
requested, the ITC's study is limited to the 48
countries of sub-Saharan Africa. The current report
provides an update for 2000 on U.S.-Africa trade and
investment flows in major sectors; an identification
of major developments in U.S. trade and economic
policy and commercial activities that significantly
affect bilateral trade and investment with the region;
information on changing trade and economic activities
within individual countries; and an update on progress
in regional integration in Africa. The report also
contains an economic profile for each of the countries
of sub-Saharan Africa. In addition, the ITC posts
updated data from the report periodically on the ITC
website. Data on quarterly U.S. trade with sub-Saharan
African countries as well as sectoral trade with those
countries can be accessed at
www.usitc.gov/tradereports/africa/. The website
contains trade data relating to the new African Growth
and Opportunity Act (AGOA).
Following are some highlights of the report:
In 2000, a very large increase in U.S. imports from,
and a small increase in exports to, sub- Saharan
Africa resulted in a 97.8 percent increase in the
long-standing U.S. trade deficit with the region. The
2000 deficit measured $16.7 billion, with much of its
increase due to an 88 percent increase in U.S. imports
of oil and energy-related products. Excluding trade in
petroleum, the U.S. trade deficit with the region
increased by 134 percent from $1.6 billion in 1999 to
$3.8 billion in 2000.
U.S. merchandise exports to sub-Saharan Africa
increased from $5.3 billion in 1999 to $5.6 billion in
2000. The largest U.S. exports to sub-Saharan Africa
were transportation equipment (32.4 percent share),
electronic products (12.6 percent), agricultural
products (13.8 percent), and chemicals and related
products (12.8 percent). The largest increases in U.S.
exports to the region were in transportation equipment
($101 million) and chemicals and related products
($99.6 million). U.S exports of electronic products to
the region decreased by $64.6 million in 2000.
Total U.S. merchandise imports from the region
increased 61.5 percent to $22.2 billion. This increase
was mainly due to a $7 billion (87.7 percent) increase
in U.S. imports of energy-related products from the
region. Nigeria alone contributed $5 billion to the
increase in U.S. imports with a 134 percent increase
in sales of Nigerian oil and energy-related products
to the United States.
Major U.S. import sectors from the region include
energy-related products (67.6 percent share), minerals
and metals (14.4 percent), and chemical and related
products (6.5 percent). Total U.S. imports from the
region increased in all major categories, with the
exception of footwear, transportation equipment, and
miscellaneous manufactures.
Imports from sub-Saharan Africa that entered the
United States under the Generalized System of
Preferences (GSP) increased by 45.2 percent in 2000 to
$3.9 billion. The largest share of GSP imports from
the region came from Angola (72.4 percent share, or
$2.8 billion) in part due to a measure implemented in
1997 that made crude oil imports from least developed
beneficiary countries GSP-eligible. Angola especially
benefitted from this change. In 2000, GSP imports also
increased 29.8 percent from South Africa and 52.7
percent from the Democratic Republic of the Congo
(DROC).
The first U.S. imports the AGOA were in January 2001.
During the first half of 2001, the U.S. imports
covered under AGOA totaled $3 billion. The principal
suppliers under AGOA were Nigeria ($2.3 billion),
Gabon ($448.5 million), and South Africa ($135.5
million). Other AGOA suppliers imports in the first
half 2001 included Ghana ($18.9 million), Cameroon
($16.2 million), and Kenya ($16.1 million).
U.S. imports under AGOA consisted primarily of
energy-related products. U.S. imports of
energy-related products during the first half 2001
totaled $2.8 billion, 94.2 percent of the AGOA total.
The remaining AGOA imports consisted of much smaller
quantities of textiles and apparel, minerals and
metals, agricultural products, transportation
equipment, and footwear.
U.S. direct investment flows to the region totaled $77
million in 2000, or less than 0.1 percent of total
U.S. direct investment abroad. In 2000, U.S. direct
investment flows to sub-Saharan Africa decreased by
92.3 percent. The decline is mainly due to a 91.6
percent decrease in flows to South Africa, and a 73.9
percent decrease in flows to Nigeria. The largest
recipients of U.S. direct investment in sub-Saharan
Africa in 2000 were Angola (32.5 percent) and South
Africa (20.7 percent). U.S. holdings are principally
in the petroleum sector in Angola and Nigeria, and in
the mining and manufacturing sector in South Africa.
U.S. Trade and Investment with Sub-Saharan Africa
(Investigation No. 332-415, USITC Publication 3476,
December 2001) will be available on the ITC's Internet
server at www.usitc.gov. A printed copy may be
requested by calling 202-205-1809 or by writing the
Office of the Secretary, U.S. International Trade
Commission, 500 E Street SW, Washington, DC 20436.
Requests may also be faxed to 202-205-2104.
ITC general factfinding investigations, such as this
one, cover matters related to tariffs or trade, and
are generally conducted at the request of the U.S.
Trade Representative, the Senate Committee on Finance
or the House Committee on Ways and Means. The
resulting reports convey the Commission's objective
findings and independent analyses on the subjects
investigated. The Commission makes no recommendations
on policy or other matters in its general factfinding
reports. Upon completion of each investigation, the
ITC submits its findings and analyses to the
requestor. General factfinding investigation reports
are subsequently released to the public, unless they
are classified by the requestor for national security
reasons.
otasco otanda
Date: Sat Feb 9, 2002 9:38 am
Subject: RE: nigeria fears possible violence in north
Yinka omo Adeyemi:
If you mean what you state, that you have only met
four OPC members/apologists - and that includes me -
then what you have demonstrated is that you are the
most IGNORANT person in the world, and you may not be
worth discussing with on this particular matter. It
would be a bloody waste of time.
But again - what you may need is education - or
re-education.
I don't know where you go to in Yorubaland, but go to
EVERY nook and cranny in Yorubaland, and you will be
AMAZED at the pervasiveness of the OPC. A Yoruba
fellow who had been hearing about "OPC, OPC" left
Texas to visit Nigeria, and attended one of the OPC
meetings. He came back saying "Eru a ba e!" - ie "you
will be frightened" - at the numbers of ordinary folks
that attended the meeting. He was also AMAZED at the
number of women who were members! Another person -
this time in his village in Oyo State - stated that
even some of his Uncles, including two mild-mannered
ones were OPC members. He asked his uncles: "Ehn,
eyin na?" and they said, "Ehn, awa na!" Yes - we too!
Let me tell you another story: there was the burial of
an important person in Akure, who was a great
supporter of the OPC. My father attended the burial.
He told me that every attendee of the burial was
AMAZED at the number of OPC members - in their OPC
white top attire - who attended, and stood guard both
inside and outside the service. They virtually took
the service over, and everybody just quietly let
them alone. My father also remarked about the
membership: "Ati obinrin paapaa - even women!"
That was his own first initiation into the size and
phenomenon of the OPC. He still does not like the OPC
- at least not the caricature of the OPC - but he has
a son who knows better in that particular instance!
What some of you don't know will hurt you. Abacha's
regime RADICALIZED the grassroots Yorubaland more than
it radicalized those of us who can write on the
Internet and have Yoruba names, who speak English and
ride in cars. And live in New York and Washington DC.
Yes - there are MANY who fear the OPC in Yorubaland
because quite a number of people have built a
caricature of OPC. Particularly among the non-Yoruba,
they fear that the OPC, for example, wants to push
non-Yoruba out of Lagos and Yorubaland - but that is
absolutely false. True, the OPC talks of a Yorubaland,
of autonomy, of a minimal and maximal position (Yoruba
independence), but it says that primarily Yorubaland
should be safe for ALL people on it - AND CERTAINLY
FOR THE YORUBA! Is that an unfair demand, that NOBODY
in Yorubaland should be oppressed, CERTAINLY NOT THE
YORUBA? If the Yoruba can be oppressed by others
within Yorubaland, then where can they not be
oppressed? If the Igbos can be oppressed by non-Igbos
in Igboland, then where can they not be oppressed?
Are there not single-issue pressure groups in any
democratic society?
And so on! Come on guys! OPC does not act OUTSIDE
Yorubaland, because of what it has defined as its
agenda. It simply says that within Yorubaland, it
wants the Yoruba and ALL its residents to feel safe
from oppression. It does not say that that should not
happen in Igboland or Hausaland, but it has defined
its own sphere of influence!
The caricature of OPC that is being portrayed - for
various reasons - by the media and people like you is
out of SHEER IGNORANCE at what is happening on the
ground.
The OPC is neither a terrorist organization or a hate
group. It does not rob banks, blow up buildings or go
out on an orgy to kill non-Yoruba. As a Christian, I
would NEVER have ANYTHING to do with such an
organization - NEVER! In any case, the government
should go after members that do that, and proscribe
the organization if that is part of the charter.
Rather, it is a SOCIAL MOVEMENT in reaction to years
of injustice and hegemony in that Nigeria, excerbated
by military rule in that country. It is a genie which
cannot be put back into the bottle.
To that extent, it is an extension of the
pro-democracy movement in Nigeria, which my Christian
conscience commits me to. On a personal level, one
interacts with God through Christ. On a social level,
JUSTICE FOR ALL must be instituted.
Jobs, justice, infrastructure, local control of
political governance, education, security for etc. -
these will be what will make the role of groups like
OPC become less and less. I am FULLY convinced of
that.
Those who think otherwise are in a fool's paradise.
Best wishes, but educate yourself out of your
ignorance of the OPC.
Bolaji Aluko
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I heard you, but pray, where were you writing from?
Did you write
from Lagos?
Regardless of where you wrote from, if truth is to be
told, it is that Igbos were not spared in the recent
two tragedies in Lagos. How could they; after all,
they are everywhere in nigeria in large numbers.
But it is a shame that in this age and multitude of
sad experiences of Igbo in the past, especially the
1966-1970 sadistic pogroms, Igbos still fall victims
to things that completely belong to other ethnic
groups, like the bloody rancor between hausas and
yorobas at Idi-Araba, Lagos.
Experience, as they say, is the best teacher, but
where is the evidence of this on the Igbo who had had
very sordid and bloody experiences in the past?
If the so-called apex Igbo organizations such as
Ohanaeze is worth much at all, surely one of the
barometers it should welcome its "apexness" is the
number of Igbo lives and properties in nigeria
it helped to safeguard days or even weeks in advance
of any violence in any part of nigeria.
But it cannot even boast of trumpeting Igbo casualties
after the fact, talkless of helping to avert the loss
of even one single Igbo life caught up in the middle
of any of these totally non-igbo ethnic violence.
That is a big problem, and a serious one at that.
It is only a tree that stands still in the face of
emminent danger. I used "tree" metaphorically in
that saying to refer to the idioticy of Ohanaeze in
its inability or sheer timidity to act pre-emptorily
to save the lives and properties of Igbos. Surely
there are many signs and signals that ring some bells
days ahead of these violence in which Igbos pay heavy
prices and losses. An intelligent apex organization
for Igbos should by now, and considering the ocean of
sad experiences of Ndiigbo in the hands of other
ethnic groups in nigeria, be able to have a handle on
these signals and pre-emptorily alert Igbos weeks in
advance. Ohanaeze does not do that; it is a shame. Woe
unto that leprous outfit!
-K.O.
From: ngozi ogugua <ekad_diamond@y...>
Date: Fri Feb 8, 2002 12:22 pm
Subject: Re: killing and displacement of igbo at
idaraba lagos clash
ndi igbo
i wish to inform you of the killing of igbos and their
displacement at the above crisis . hundreds of them
lost their homes and shops, apart from those that lost
their life.
the govt, will not do any thing for them if we do not
state to shout till they hear us.this not the fisrt
time , when the bomb blast took place alot of igbo
people lost their life in the isolo swamp, and yet all
we hear is that lagosian lost their life , without
makind people understand that greater numbers were
igbos,bout young and old.
unless we stand and shout these things will keep
happening again and again
yours
oguguah emma
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have now increased their momentum at the Guardian
since Reuben Abati was made the ultimate big Oga
there. But why all these revisions and distortions in
this period of high ethnic tension and friction in the
country?
-K.O.
The Guardian
Sunday, February 10, 2002.
A Reflection On Failed Party Mergers
BY BEN LAWRENCE
THE generation of Nigerians who made political history
in the colonial days has fast dwindled. Hardly will
there be up to 10 of those pioneer members of the
Nigerian houses of assembly in 1952 still alive. Chief
Safia L. Edu has recently died. Apart from Chief
Augustus M. A. Akintoye, Chief Theophilus O. S.
Benson, Chief Anthony Enahoro, Alhaji Shehu Shagari,
Alhaji Ado Bayero, and a few others, there are hardly
up to 10 left of the men of that epoch in Nigeria.
The same goes for young men and women who stuck their
necks out to free this country from colonial clutches.
The painful thing is that many of them have died
unsung and unnoticed even by their peers. How will the
present youths be patriotic when nationalists before
them passed away unnoticed because they were not
wealthy? Nigerians now worship unearned wealth.
A very painful case is that of the death of Mr.
Valentine Edobor-Osula, a former national vice
president of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).
The union did not issue any condolence message nor did
newspapers, radio and television stations announce his
obituary.
Osula was not just a journalist, he was one of the
final year of King's College, Lagos, who were
conscripted into the Royal West African Frontier Force
(RWAFF) to fight for the Union Jack for challenging
British injustice in 1944.
He served in North Africa from where Allied General
Montgomery drove away German General Rommel (alias
Desert Fox). There, Osula passed his Senior Cambridge
School Certificate in the trenches. Among those
conscripted with him were the late Justice Dapo
Aderemi, the Ife prince; Bendelite Joe Achuzia of
Biafran fame, an Asaba prince; Professor Okonjo, an
Ogwashi-Ukwu prince who later became principal of
Ibadan Boys' High School; Sratt, the late Ayo Yon
Dakolo and some other gallant pupils of that college.
One of the conscripted pupils, Okparanta, died during
the campaigns in Burma. Osula was just 18 plus when
the British authorities forced him to fight enemies he
did not make. Born into the Bini royal family, a
handsome six-footer, he attended Government School,
Benin City, before he proceeded to King's College, his
father's alma mater, in October 1938.
On his return from the war, he worked briefly with the
Nigeria Customs Service before he opted for a life in
journalism, which suited his extroversive bearing and
literary flair. He worked with the Daily Times before
he moved to Benin to be the first organising secretary
of the young Action Group party (AG) in 1952. Even
then, he was the correspondent of the Daily Service
and he became the pioneer modern newspapers'
distributor there, his elder cousin, the late Chief
Alfred B. Osula, then the first Nigerian manager of
the Daily Times, having revolutionised newspaper
marketing in this country in 1949.
Osula later joined the Western Nigeria Information
Service at inception and became one of the pioneer
editorial staff of the first television station in
Africa, WNBS/WNTV. Apart from his tenure as public
relations manager of the UAC of Nigeria, he served all
his active years in the press. He was one of the
leading members of the NUJ in those embryonic years
and became its national vice president after being
chairman of the Mid West Council for years, succeeding
Peter Modupe Ayeni, former NUJ president and Johnson
Rabor Newton Abaide, one of the best newsmen Nigeria
ever produced. As a sportsman, he was one of the
leading billiards players in Nigeria.
The story of Osula is that of the chain of events that
climaxed their draft to the Army, one of which was the
birth of the first nationwide political party in
Nigeria. Thanks to the irrepressible Rev. Israel O.
Ransome-Kuti, who engineered the protest against the
conscription that led to the formation of the National
Council of Nigeria and the Camerouns (NCNC) in 1944.
Rev. Ransome-Kuti, principal of Abeokuta Grammar
School, unleashed his boys, led by the late Chief
Adewale Fashanu, the late Chief Ogoegbunam Idise Dafe,
Senator David Dafinone and others on the Lagos
authorities, joined by Baptist Academy, Lagos pupils
led by the late Chief Olu Akinfoshile. Most of them
were in their teens but were politically mature and
articulate, as it was wont to be in those Zikist
years. The youths and labour, especially with the
presence of Alhaji Haroun Popoola Adebola (alias
Horsepower), a former Abeokuta student leader among
the workers, led the organisation of a mass rally to
denounce the King's College episode. It was presided
over by Dutse Mohammed, an Egyptian, Oxford Scholar
and editor, from whom Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe baught over
the Daily Comet newspaper. There, Mr. Herbert Heelas
Macaulay (alias Wizard of Kinsten Hall) was elected
president of the new party and one Coker the general
secretary. Coker declined and Zik was unanimously
asked to take over the position. Among Osula's
schoolmates at K. C. were Justice Ovie-Whiskey,
Justice Adenekan Adetokunbo-Ademola, the late Chief
Abel Y. Eke, Professor Tiamiju Bello-Osagie, the late
Layinka Akpata and others who also rose to great
heights in Nigeria. But Osula died with no comets seen
because he passed away at an ungrateful age in
Nigerian's history, his outstanding career,
notwithstanding. Osula's story is being told to
correct the misinformation by some ignorant writers
that the great Zik formed the NCNC. Zik never, all
through his illustrious and enviable life, made such a
claim nor was the NCNC an Igbo party. Give credit to
the Yoruba for foresight.
Even then in 1951, only a few NCNC members won
election to the Eastern House of Assembly on their
party's ticket. In the old Calabar Province, for
instance, the NCNC won two out of 13 seats. The two
went to Professor Eyo Ita and an ally in Calabar
Division, the famous Mazi Mbonu Ojike, NCNC top brass
and deputy mayor of Lagos, was beaten by Chief
Ezerioha, an Independent, to whom with Chief Kingsley
O, Mbadiwe (alias K. O.) tactically tagged to win a
seat in Orlu Division. Reuben J. Uzoma, an
Independent, also won from Orlu Division. So no NCNC
man was elected from there, although they all later
cast their lot with the party. In Onitsha, the
hometown of Zik, the NCNC was floored. Justice Louis
Mbanefo, an Independent defeated NCNC candidate to the
Eastern House and subsequently to the Central House of
Assembly. Most of the Eastern victors swung to the
NCNC to form the government because of the respect
they had for Professor Eyo Ita, founder of the West
African People's Institute (WAPI) Calabar, in the
East. The Western Region was more politically
organised on party basis and general franchise. The
NCNC and its supposed allies thought they had 51 seats
and that the Action Group and allies had 29 seats. But
on that day of judgement at the inauguration of the
Western House, the Action Group had 45 seats and the
NCNC 35.
As for the Northern People's Congress (NPC), it had
not been formed as at the time of the elections. The
Northern Elements Progressives Union (NEPU) won all
the seats at the ward level. But at every stage during
the Electoral College progress, the Native Authority,
teleguided by British interests, injected local
officials until those nominated outnumbered elected
councillors. The British authorities feared that the
NCNC and NEPU constituted a "red danger" and should be
crushed. So in 1952 when the Northern House of
Assembly was inaugurated, no NEPU member got there,
they all having been eliminated in the electoral
college process though they won the elections at the
ward level in the North.
In the case of Western Nigeria, the people never
yielded to being cheated. In the 1954 first general
elections to the federal house, the NCNC defeated the
AG with 23 seats to 18. It also overwhelmingly won in
the East even though it lost seats in Calabar Opobo
Ngwa divisions. Dr. Jaja Wachukwu returned as
Independent candidate, having earlier left the NCNC
with Eyo Ita, Udo Udoma and others. Co-incidentally,
Eyo Ita, the first Nigerian to lead government
business in the East, also led Biafra out of this
country after the 1966 pogrom, literally speaking. He
was a moral and political force. Udoma was back in the
federal parliament as a UNIP member. Dr. Okor Arikpo
was defeated in Ogoja; so also were Alfred Chukwu
Nwapa, Professor Eni Njoku, all former central
ministers. The 1954 federal elections frightened White
Hall because the NCNC won two regions, which gave it
six ministerial places. As the results from the North
were being awaited, the governor, Sir John Macpherson,
was in panic because he thought that if the NCNC could
win just 30 seats more from there it would
overwhelmingly control the House of Representatives.
So they used all sorts of guile to ensure that it
never happened. They had used the Nigerian Citizen, a
colonial newspaper in the North, to warn of the "Red
danger".
So in the federal cabinet, there were six NCNC
ministers to NPC's three. Yet, in 1957, Sir James
Robertson hoodwinked members to get Alhaji Abubakar
Tafawa Balewa to be made prime minister in a carefully
contrived grand coalition of all parties. There were
secret correspondences to the Colonial Office,
plotting a merger of the NPC and the AG, with the NPC
producing the party leader and AG, the parliamentary
leader in 1953. But those British rulers
underestimated the progressive currents in the AG,
like the leader, Chief Obafemi Awowolo, Chief Anthony
Enahoro and a few other politicians who had used the
party merely as a secure base to launch a more dynamic
radical role of liberation.
As the British plotted, Enahoro had raised a private
member's motion asking for self-government, which the
NCNC supported. The two parties proposed a merger and
formed an alliance in 1953. Still as that session was
on, the AG played its trump card; it said it was
irrelevant in government in the West because the
lieutenant governor there reserved the executive
rights. The AG threatened to withdraw from the
government and called its central ministers to resign.
The NCNC supported it but its central ministers defied
their party and a constitutional impasse arose with
the NCNC and AG in the same boat. A motion was
successfully raised in the Eastern House by party
loyalists to dissolve the house, with all the
ministers, except Dr. Michael Okpara, voting against
it. It was dissolved.
The renegade NCNC central ministers lost their seats
in the eventual election because it was from there
they were elected members of the Central House of
Assembly. Even though Eyo Ita, Jaja Wachukwu, Udo
Udoma, Marcus Ubani Ukoma Uzoma were re-elected, they
went into opposition as UNIP. Most of the ministers in
the Eastern House, most of them former secondary
school principals, except Professor Eyo Ita, lost
their seats. That was when the West African Pilot, in
sheer journalistic sarcasm, renamed Merchant of Light
College, Oba, whose proprietor and principal E. D. Oli
was one of the dissenting ministers in the East as
Merchant of Darkness. The NCNC from thence largely
controlled the East, short of the old Calabar
Province.
That incident also set in motion the departure of the
Southern Cameroun from Nigeria. It was part of Eastern
Nigeria with the late Dr. Emmanuel Endeley,
representing the NCNC. In the Central House of
Assembly. Before him, Paul Kale was the prominent
politician from that part. Endeley won election to the
Eastern House with his new party Kameroon National
Congress (KNC), but agitated for a separate region for
Southern Cameroun, which was granted in 1954. He
became the Premier of that fourth region. While
Endeley was satisfied with the status quo as it then
was one political upstart and headmaster of a school
who earlier represented the KNC, Mr. John Foncha,
formed a new party, the Kameroon People's Party (KPP),
a separatist group that demanded re-union with French
Cameroons, in a subsequent regional election in
Southern Cameroun. He defeated Endeley's party in 1959
and he became premier as at 1960. He forced a
plebiscite in 1961, which led Southern Cameroun out of
Nigeria, while Northern Cameroun which was part of the
North, now part of Adamawa and Taraba, stayed. The
politics of that plebiscite will be told in another
issue.
The Action Group never had it easy in the West as some
ignorant commentators now misinform people there were
always close to call. Neither did the NCNC in the
East, especially after the Forster-Sutton Commission,
have a free ride. The NCNC lost Onitsha, Port
Harcourt, Aba, Enugu and Calabar many times. Could
there have been more painful losses? Even Dr. J. O. J.
Okezie gave Okpara a good run for his money all
through that period. Chidozie ruled Enugu until
Christian C. Onoh punctured it.
If the Sardauna of Sokoto and premier of the North was
so powerful, why did his equally powerful lieutenant,
Alhaji Shettima Kashim Ibrahim, lose his seat in Bornu
to a bicycle repairer and member of the Bornu State
Movement, an ally of the Action Group, in the 1954
federal elections? And Kashim Ibrahim was a central
minister. Despite all the repression and oppression,
why did Alhaji Wada Nas, a 21-year-old teacher of NEPU
defeat a giant NPC politician in Zaria? Some of these
new commentators of Nigerians history build
larger-than-life pictures of Zik, Awo and Alhaji
Ahmadu Bello, Sardauna of Sokoto in their writings,
presenting Nigerians as moron.
Really, it was the treasonable trial of Awo that
thrust him as the unquestionable leader of the West
because Westerners are always with the oppressed. Awo
used to be amused by those who built such flattering
picture of him because he knew he was only a simple,
jovial intellectual hardworking and purposeful person
who believed in results. He hated to be spoon-fed and
the British realised that mid-stream and transferred
their support upcountry. They saw that he was more
dangerous to their course than Zik, who was an
intellectual extrovert, not giving to fighting to the
last; a humble blackman whose focus was pandemic, but
who was very much the urbane Lagosian who liked the
good things of life.
Zik never exalted himself. He was only a master of
stagecraft. The Sardauna was not the all-powerful the
new commentators make of him. True, he liked the North
and northerners, yet some of his colleagues, like
Alhaji Inuwa Ribadu, challenged his actions many
times, saying they were teleguided by the British.
Twice he survived being removed as party leader and
had to earnestly seek compromise. The Lagos wing was
very knowledgeable about the world and was radical.
Had the Sardauna not agreed to their request for
self-government for the North and a Nigerian, Kashim
Ibrahim, as governor, he would have been replaced as
NPC leader in 1959. If the Sardauna were alive today,
he would have been amused about the flattering
comments being made about him. If he were that
powerful, the incident about to be narrated would not
have occurred.
Once, Sardauna returned from one of the pan-Islamic
meetings and told reporters that no state like Israel
existed in the world. Alhaji Abubakar also was
returning from a trip overseas and reporters asked him
whether Nigeria recognised Israel. He told them that
Israel had an embassy in Lagos. The message was clear.
And nothing happened in Lagos. In the 1956 Western
regional elections, though the incumbent AG won
narrowly, all the ministers who crossed carpet from
the NCNC lost their seats and their divisions. Thus,
Akinloye, Chief F. O. Awosika, Chief Babalola, Chief
Awokoya (he had left AG to form the Nigerian People's
Party) Chief Samuel Ighodaro and many parliamentary
secretaries lost the race for re-elections. So money
buys nobody in the West. The East, Kano and Zaria used
to be politically faithful to progressive forces.
This drags one to events after the federal elections
in 1959, which have been misrepresented many times by
pseudo-analysts. It is true that the Action Group
marginally beat the NCNC in the West in the 1959
federal elections. The Action Group had tactlessly
allied with Mbadiwe's Democratic Party of Nigeria and
Camerouns (DPNC) in that election. The DPNC got no
seat in the elections, giving rise to what became a
popular Hausa term, "Ba ko daya." The NCNC in the
West, with men like Chief Odeleye Fadahunsi, the
Ijesha leader; Chief Humphery Omo-Osagie (alias B2),
the Edo leaders, Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, the
Itsekiri leader, Chief Theophilus O. Shobawale Benson,
Chief Bademosi, the Ondo leader; Chief Gabriel B.
Akinyede, the Ekiti leader, Pa Afolabi, Oyo leader and
maternal grandfather of Archbishop Anthony Okogie, was
formidable and was no pushover.
The cleavage between Zik and K. O. did not make any
dent in the party's followerships in the West and the
East. Only acolytes of K. O. like Chief Kola Balogun,
Chief Mathias Ugochukwu, Chief L. Obioha and a few
others suffered for blindly following him.
The NCNC almost tied with the AG in the seats won in
the West and had the West parliamentary wing of that
party agreed to team up with the Groupers, they would
have had a majority of 182 to NPC's 134. Other parties
had 16. But the British government and its agents
foiled such a progressive alliance. True, there were
entrenched conservative interests both in the NCNC and
the Action Group that did not want such a coalition to
come to pass.
It is necessary to correct a statement in an interview
by Chief Melo C. K. Ajuluchukwu that elders in the
Eastern NCNC, like K. O. preferred the NPC to the AG
in 1959 and that they, the youths, were for the A.G.
The fact was that the Eastern wing supported the AG
while the Western wing opposed it. K.O. was of no
reckoning then because he had been expelled from the
NCNC and he had the luckless DPNC as at the time of
the 1959 federal elections K. O. could not have a say
in a party to which he did not belong. It was his
friend, Balewa, who rehabilitated him a day after
independence by appointing him adviser in African
affairs. Asagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkruma, K.O's friend and
colleague in America, later reconciled him with Zik,
who was always forgiving, from where he played another
ace to scheme himself to the federal parliamentary
leadership of the NCNC and also a ministerial
appointment.
First, the West parliamentary wing of the NCNC swore
not to have anything to do with the AG while its
Eastern wing, led by Dr. Michael I. Okpara, spoiled to
go with the groups. Akinfoshile was about the only
person from the West who supported coalition with the
AG. On the A.G's side, there were conservative
interests who termed themselves "fathers of the party"
with whom Akintola schemed an alliance with the NPC.
Awo was at Onitsha with Zik thrashing out terms of
NCNC-AG coalition. While they met a telephone call
came from the Sardauna, asking if Zik was still
interested in coalition with the NPC because Akintola
and Chief Ayo Rosiji (A.G's general secretary) were
with him to talk about coalition with their party. Zik
was racked; he asked Awo if he knew his men were
discussing coalition with Sardauna in Kaduna. Awo was
shocked and asked to speak to SLA. The man in the
Kaduna end replied that they were sent by the "fathers
of the party."
According to sources close to Zik and Awo, the older
nationalists had often warned the younger man about
the duplicity of some of his lieutenants for many
years before that incident. Awo was too direct and
busy to harbour any room for underhand political
deals. In that 1959, he was ready to serve Zik as
finance minister so that they could build a powerful
country. But the West parliamentary wing of the NCNC
and the conservatives of the AG, who then were the
real"Afenifere," thwarted that dream for selfish
reasons. They later abandoned Awo in his time of
trial.
Awo at that Onitsha meeting then, opted for the AG to
go to opposition but promised Zik that he would give
him all the backing he ever would need. Thus, Awo
penned that powerful and revealing article in the
Daily Express of November 16, 1960, pledging absolute
loyalty to Zik, when he was being made
governor-general. The NCNC-NEPU scored the highest
popular votes in the 1959 elections with 2,592,629.
The NPC came second with 2, 027, 194 votes and the AG
and its allies, 1,980,839. Others scored a total of
578,893 and 16 seats. NCNC-NEPU had 89 seats and AG
and allies, 73.
Even with the advantage Zik and Awo had, the British
government did not wait for their talks to mature. As
they discussed alliance in Onitsha, Sir James
Robertson, the governor-general, called on Tafawa
Balewa to form a government even if it was going to be
a minority in the house.
The two nationalist leaders read through the plot of
the British and allowed it because any disagreement
would have led to a constitutional crisis and would
have delayed the granting of independence to Nigeria.
So to say that the Igbos and Yorubas never agreed in
1959 is false; they were the entrenched interests in
the West that made the union of NCNC and AG
impossible. The late Chief Adeniran Ogunsanya, though
he won Ikorodu division as Independent, confirmed what
is revealed here in a Lagos Television interview. He
was one of the objectors in NCNC West parliamentary
wing. The same with Benson.
When in 1979 tongues wagged that Zik and Awo were not
together again and that it was a replay of 1959, one
shunned such talks because they were unreasonable. The
Republican Constitution that was being operated did
not give such allowance because it was
winner-takes-all as it still exists. And this is very
odd and destabilising for a multi-national country
like Nigeria.
In fact, it is the cause of the endless blood-letting
in Nigeria. Anybody conversant with the building of a
nation knows that centralised dictatorship is
temporary and a precursor to fragmentation. In a
relaxed federation, the different units develop at
heir own pace. What is really wrong in the core North
running a Sharia republic, the East Central, a
republican republic; the South-West, a
semi-monarchical republic; the Mid-West,
semi-monarchical system, the Middle Belt, a republican
system; the COR, semi-monarchical and the North-East,
Sharia one in the Federal Union of the Republics of
Nigeria (FURN)? All the republics in the union will
raise their taxes, control their own resources, run
their own educational systems and contribute to the
defence, external affairs and trade and communication
of the union.
If Josip Tito had done this, there would still have
been a Yugoslavia today. Many states in India use
their languages up to university level. What is wrong
in the North-East and North-West using Hausa or Arabic
up to university level? Those aspiring for jobs in the
federal union, like in India, will then strive to
acquire proficiency in English. We are entangled in a
mission impossible of building one nation from some
incongruous multi-cultural units. It is a task that
cannot be accomplished. It is necessary to go this
length to recall events of the past because the
younger ones, some of them even university professors
teaching history and political science, have no
knowledge of the tortuous tactical journey to
independence. They even know very little of what
caused the Nigerian civil war. If the truth must
vanquish, it must be told as it is.
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Feb 12, 2002
Obasanjo’s historical revisionism
By Ezeh E. Ezeh
I am writing with the Daily Champion editorial of
February 6, 2002 as reference point. The editorial
itself being a response to a statement credited to the
President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, that the late Rt.
Hon Nnamdi Azikiwe was the originator of Ethnic
politics in Nigeria. I wish, through this medium, to
further put the records straight using the ultimate
judge of human conduct on earth-history.
For those who did not witness the politics of the
1950s or have no privilege of knowing the truth
through other means, the verifiable sequence of events
as per Nigeria’s constitutional history is as follows;
*NCNC was to form the Government of Western Region in
Ibadan in 1952.
*Overngiht, the members of the NCNC majority "crossed
carpet" to the Action Group camp thus making the
majority, the minority.
*Zik remained in Ibadan as leader of opposition and in
the process, driving the movement towards internal
self government forward with speeches/activities which
were altogether ineffectual in view of NCNC minority
status.
*As he was not getting enough mileage with his
political crusade, Zik left for Enugu in 1953 to
continue the struggle against the limitations of the
1951 constitution.
*In Enugu, he spearheaded the movement for the
constitutional crisis which later became national and
gave rise to the 1954 constitution - the first real
move towards internal self government for the regions
instead of being in the apron strings of the
lieutenant governors at the Regions.
*In the process of provoking the fall of the 1951
constitution, members of the NCNC in the government
with Prof. Eyo Ita as head of government business
refused to resign en-mass as directed by the party -
NCNC.
*Their refusal gave rise to the concept of six
"sit-tight ministers" out of nine who continued the
conduct of Government business even with the refusal
of the Eastern Region parliament to approve the
appropriation bill after which the Lt. Governor
overrode their veto.
*For party indiscipline, Prof. Eyo Ita and the
"sit-tight ministers" were expelled from NCNC.
*Taking a cue from the NCNC in 1953, the AG, through
Anthony Enahoro moved a motion in the Federal House of
Nigeria to attain self government in 1956.
*The motion was supported by the NCNC but was opposed
by the NPC which preferred "as soon as practicable" to
"in 1956" to the delight of the Colonial secretary -
Sir Oliver Littleton.
*Prof. Eyo Ita left and formed the Nigeria
Independence Party.
*It is noteworthy that it was only in the Eastern
Region that a non-majority became the head of
government throughout the history of Regional
government in Nigeria.
(a) Was Zik’s NCNC’s call for the resignation of NCNC
members from the government targeted at Prof. Eyo Ita?
(b) Was the object of asking them (NCNC Regional
Minister) to resign aimed at moving Nigeria away from
internal self government and independence?
(c) Was the 1951 constitution worse for Nigeria than
the 1954 constitution?
(d) Should party indiscipline be the ideal in
representative democracy?
(f.) Did Eyo Ita comply with party directives,
remained in the party to have conclusive evidence that
Zik came for him because of his ethnic group before
moving away to Calabar - Ogoja - Rivers axis?
If the answers to these questions are "no", then the
level of deliberate misinterpretation of the sequence
of events by Obasanjo and thus the motive for the
misinterpretations becomes self-evident. Consequently,
I will implore the youths of Nigeria especially from
the South-East and South to refrain from swallowing
what their fathers, grand-fathers, uncles and auntie’s
tell them without proof of evidence. It is only this
attitude of asking logical questions that will help
bridge the gap between facts and fiction being peddled
by those who benefit from this Nigerian system founded
on falsehood, injustice, inequity and lack of fair
play.
To Champion newspapers, I am of the opinion that such
a serious subject was treated with kid gloves in the
editorial. You even went ahead to join Obasanjo in
committing historical malapropos by saying Zik "fled"
the West in 1952 instead of 1953. Moreover he left
Ibadan, not Lagos, for Enugu.
And to Obasanjo:
God delivered you out of the valley of the shadows of
death to midwife democracy for Nigeria; make it
difficult if not impossible for any dictator to treat
any Nigerian the way Abacha treated you; make it
impossible for a dictator, either military or
civilian, to lord it over Nigerians again; give hope
to the hopeless like the prisoners you met while in
jail; alleviate the suffering of the common man as the
voice of the people, not the voice of the political
elite who have distanced themselves from the people
only to come back soon to shake hands mechanically
with fake toothy smiles etched on their blank and
bland faces, is the voice of God.
To accomplish these requires your discriminating
between truth and falsehood; strategic and tactical
issues; mundane and sublime matters; long, short and
medium terms and the relationships between them; cause
and effect relationships in nature; effectiveness and
efficiency; peace, social order, justice, equity and
fair play and their relationships; symmetry and
asymmetry; it also requires equilibrium and
disequillibrium; real development and artifacts of
development; laws of man and laws of nature/God;
structure and content; centralization and
decentralization; checks and balances; optimization
and suboptimization; quality and quantity;
marginalization and commonwealth; reason and excuses;
mediocrity and meritocracy; democracy and
dictatorship; reactivity and proactivity; good and
bad; duplicity and diplomacy; etc.
In all, you have to bear in mind that no condition is
permanent and that no empire (read emperor) has ever
lasted forever especially when not build on justice or
atonement for injustice.
As you can see, this is a tall order for any one
person no matter how ingenious. It then calls for
division of labour within a structure that is not
dysfunctional and unwieldy as you are superintending
over at the moment. The structure does not produce
synergy or encourage healthy competition talkless of
ensuring unity and harmonious co-existence among
Nigerians.
In short, our situation calls for the practice of true
political and fiscal federalism which cannot be
attained peacefully without a roundtable conference of
stakeholders. History is replete with those who made
peaceful change impossible thereby making violent
revolution inevitable. For as the saying goes: It is
better to jaw-jaw than to war-war. An earlier victory
does not always guarantee a subsequent one moreso
since no nation in history has ever survived two civil
wars.
In conclusion, I wish you could rise above the mundane
to be a visionary leader, not a mere ruler; think
strategy, not tactics; give quality leadership, not
quantity; restructure Nigeria into self-propelling
components - so that history will judge you favourably
as a philosopher, statesman and another Mandela.
It is not too late to amend your ways knowing full
well that the buck stops at your table.
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You have put up a convincing argument; I remember you
did the same regarding Gov Chicago of Lagos State
during his yeye university of chicago days.
People should read this excerpt from yoruba lawmakers
and compare its ramifications with the kernels of your
argument below:
“Senator Sunday Fajinmi (AD), ... contended that
Ajiboye was noted and recommended by the retiring
auditor-general as ‘a highly experienced, dedicated
and hardworking person’ and implored members not to
jettison professionalism for mediocrity. Fajinmi, who
was also supported by Adebayo Salami and Wahab Dosunmu
said Osun, the state of origin of the nominee, was
under-represented in the Federal Civil Service.” in
re:
Senate rejects govt nominee for auditor-general,
Guardian, Friday, January 25, 2002.
Note who recommended Ajiboye. Also note the automatic
co-equation of rejection of Ajiboye with acceptance of
mediocrity, by the yoruba. Arrogance is indeed a
terrible disease; no one else is qualified for the job
except yoruba. Pitiful.
Stay well, my good friend.
-K.O.
Subj: RE: Ajiboye And The Senate: A Mistake Of
Identity?
Date: 2/12/02 9:59:52 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: NatC...@aol.com
Folks:
I have read some of the discussion of this appointment
and also the Senate's reason for rejecting Ajiboye
etc. As one involved in the Accounting profession and
being a Fellow of ICAN I think Obasanjo's choice of
Ajiboye to be the Auditor General of a country like
Nigeria is absurd and borders on ridiculous from a
professional standpoint. From facts available to us,
this man could only have been a Deputy for a very
short time, maybe maximum 3 years. This is because
according to ICAN records, as of 1998, he was just a
regular staff of the Office of Auditor General . Since
we are not privy to the circumstances that led to his
promotion to a deputy, we can only limit our comments
to what we know. Some have argued that it was not
based on merit but that it was based on you know what?
Considering the fact that it appears Naiyeju was the
former Auditor General (?).
Secondly, Ajiboye in terms of experience is not even
close to the likes of Sanusi. I think Nigeria deserves
better than Ajiboye in all respects. Compare Ajiboye
in terms of how long he has been involved in audting
and ccounting in total and you will see that he is not
experienced enough for that position. This time in
Feb. 1992, Ajiboye was still an accounting student and
Articled Clerk struggling to pass the ICAN exam and he
finally did later that year and was admitted to ICAN
membership August of 1992. As a qualified professional
he has only had just about 9 years plus
post-qualification experience working in the same
place. No depth or broad experience. Compare him to
the likes of
Sanusi that has over 30 years of post-qualification
experience in different organizations. I hope folks
see that in terms of breath and depth of experience
they are not in the same league. Based on the facts
available to me, the depth and breath or quality of
Audit Experience that Ajiboye has is mostly limited to
working since 1974 as an articled Clerk in the Auditor
General Office. Had he had other strong auditing
experience elsewhere to complement this, I would have
reluctantly think he might be qualified enough just to
be a Deputy! but Alas he is a deputy already. That
could tell us something, does it not? However, based
on his limited post qualification experience and the
time, he should not at this time, be Nigeria' Auditor
General. Nigeria deserves someone more experienced to
be the Auditor General of Nigeria.
So, all these talk about ethnicity should take a back
seat and look at the man’s experience. Ajiboye is a
qualified Chartered Accountant all right, but if we go
strictly on merit, he is not experienced enough in my
judgment to be the Auditor General of Nigeria where we
have abundant of talents with superior experience for
this very important position. For goodness sake! This
man is still only an Associate of ICAN. We need
someone that for starters is a Fellow (i.e. 10 years
as an Associate) as a minimum in addition to having a
well rounded and deep experience to be the Auditor
General of a country like Nigeria with too many
complex issues to be handled and experience would play
a big role in this position.
Ajiboye's appointment was not well thought of and
should be rejected by the Senate, because a country
like Nigeria deserves better.
Nat Cole
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2002
Inflation rate 18.9% in Dec. –Kpakol
By Austine Odo
An inflation rate of 18.9 percent was recorded at the
end of last year. This followed decreases in the
prices of mainly staple food items, after an initial
hike during the middle of the year, the Chief Economic
Adviser to the President and chief executive officer
of the National Planning Commission, Dr. Magnus
Kpakol, has said.
Speaking on the inflation rate and other macroeconomic
indicators at in a news briefing in Abuja on Friday,
Dr. Kpakol said the Consumer Price Index (CPI) which
declined by 2.9 per cent in November last year, also
dropped by 0.4 per cent between November and December.
This represents a 16.5 per cent increase in the CPI in
December, which according to the chief economic
adviser, is lower than the 17.4 per cent increase
recorded in the recording months.
Dr. Kpakol pointed out that the Gross Domestic Product
(GDP) of the country rose to 3.89 in 2001, a situation
he attributed to a conducive economic climate
engineered by the efforts of the present
administration in instating investor confidence in the
economy.
He said unemployment, which had posed a serious
macroeconomic problem in the country had thrived due
to unequal growth with the GDP.
“As at same time 2001, the composite unemployment rate
stood at 13.6 per cent. By educational level, the
percentage of unemployed secondary school leavers was
24 per cent and those with post–secondary education
amounted to 6.7 per cent. It is also shown that more
males were unemployed than females,” he said.
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division at Asaba,
hundreds of able-bodied males were ALLEGEDLY lined up
and summarily
executed, Nazi style, for "collaborating with the
enemy." - Nowa Omoigui.
Ikhide Ikheloa:
The keyword that betrayed Nowa Omoigui's deep
igbophobism is the "ALLEGEDLY" that I highlighted or
emphasized above. The guy does not believe that that
nazi murtala mohammed, the hitler and butcher of
Asaba, ever committed such holocaust against humanity.
He could not even write out his name fully; he
referred to some entity as "the main spearhead", and
thus certainly opportunities to absolve the nazi and
evil man, murtala mohammed.
What can I say? I guess the Igbos allowed such
posturing by omoiguis when the Igbos tolerate or are
tolerating all kinds of nonsense against them in the
nigerian polity. Had the Igbos been as serious and
unforgiving as the Jews of Israel, these rantings or
insults over their painful experiences, such as done
by Omoigui in his write-up, could never have been done
so easily. Yes, my vision (and desire) of a modern
Igboman after those genocides and holocaust, in my
mind or opinion, is a race that does not tolerate or
take any nonsense from any non-Igbo in nigeria.
Definitely a more difficult to please or satisfy race;
definitely a very serious race; certainly a very
calculating and highly very careful race; certainly a
race that takes the fortification of Igboland a MUSt
and non-negotiable anywhere anytime; definitely a race
that takes "looking INWARDS" to Igboland as a religion
and an article of non-negotiable nationalism.
But all of these lacking in the Igbo has given all
kinds of ants a certainty and an insurance to rant
all they can on the painful Igbo experience and
holocaust.
But my generation is set to change it all!
-K.O.
From: "osajele" <izuma@n...>
Date: Tue Feb 19, 2002 11:36 am
Subject: Re: Dr. Nowa Omoigui: General Murtala
Muhammed (1938-76)
--- In naijanet@y..., Aloy Duru <ijele2001@y...>
wrote:
>
> Town Crier Ikhide Ikheloa,
Yes? Na wa O! Do you people see how those exiles at
kpo-kpogarri.com have been assuming fake email
accounts and re-entering Naijanet? Na wa O! There is
nothing to be ashamed of! Use your papa name! That is
why I like people like Yinka Adeyemi, and Steven
Kueberuwa, they have no shame! They came back and we
accepted them!
> If you think that all this lies and
> mis-representations by Nowa Omoigui will change
> anything, then you really need to have your head
> checked.
OK, Check my head!
> Nowa talks
> about Muhammed, but he did not mention his ordering
> the massacre of thousands of Igbomen, women, and
> children in Asaba by soldiers under his control, an
> issue that annoyed the British government when they
> threatened to stop sending arms to Lagos.
Not true. You obviously did not read what Nosa wrote.
Are you so blind with hatred that you will be reading
Nowa's great stuff without your bifocals, enh? This is
what he wrote in the piece that you obviously did not
read:
ON THE MASSACRE AT ASABA
==========================================
Upon arrival of the main spearhead of the Second
division at Asaba, hundreds of able-bodied males were
allegedly lined up and summarily executed, Nazi style,
for "collaborating with the enemy". At least one
authority opines that the delay occasioned by this
exercise may have resulted in a missed opportunity by
Muhammed to take Onitsha from the disorganized and
retreating Biafran forces without a fight. This
terrible incident was, however, never officially
investigated by a Board of Inquiry nor did it lead to
a court-martial, although General Gowon has since
apologized for it many years after the war.
==================================================
Feel better now? Are you now going to apologise to a
great son of the great empire of Benin, the great Dr.
Nowa Omoigui, enh? Oya, apologise O! The man will
accept it, we don't hold grudges unlike some people!
Hmmmmmm!
- Mazi tc
otasco otanda
administrations of the Anglican Church a.k.a CMS in
nigeria will readily admit that there is a marked and
steady deterioration in the Anglican Church in the
east or the old Niger (Delta) Diocese. During the
1967-1970 genocidal war, the Yoruba southwest connived
with the Canterbury and took complete control of all
the Anglican Church dioceses in nigeria, which
included the lone Diocese, Niger (Delta) Diocese of
Republic of Biafra, after the war in 1970. The Niger
Diocese CMS played active role in weaving or supplying
the musical spirituals (there were tons and tons of
them) that sustained Biafran soldiers and civilians
alike spiritually during that painful period; it was
also the best in organization, management, and growth
in the eastern region, compared to the Catholic Church
a.k.a RCM, for the periods before 1970. All these
great qualities or attributes of the Niger Diocese of
CMS started to die or disappear after the war, which
was the time the Diocese started taking orders from
the yoruba. In contrast, the Catholic which retained
some degree of its authonomy in the east free of the
yoruba, has faired better in terms of progress and
organization. Today, the great CMS Niger Diocese of
Biafra or eastern region is practically death, if you
ask me.
The article below gives some hints on the possible
causes of the collapse of CMS in the Eastern Region or
Biafra.
-K.O.
The Guardian,
Sunday, February 24, 2002.
Church Of Nigeria (Anglican Communion): 23 Years After
BY SAMUEL AJANI
TODAY, the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion)
marks the 23rd year of its inauguration, having been
carved out from the Church of the Province of West
Africa. We may just use this opportunity to highlight
some of the remarkable points in the Church's life,
from cradle to date:
Early Beginnings
The growth of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican
Communion) since the end of the Slave Trade has been a
very rapid one.
It is interesting to know that within two centuries,
Christianity and indeed Anglicanism, which started
like child's play in Badagry and Abeokuta has spread
like wild fire to all nooks and crannies of our
country Nigeria.
Christianity came into Nigeria in the 15th century
through the efforts of Augustinian and Capuchin monks
from Portugal. However, it was not until 1842 that
Henry Townsend of the Church Missionary Society sowed
the seed of Anglicanism properly when he landed in
Badagry from Freetown, Sierra Leone.
After their ordination in England in 1842, the Revd.
Henry Townsend and the Revd. Samuel Ajayi Crowther (a
Yoruba ex-slave) returned to Abeokuta. With the
untiring efforts of these evangelists, Nigerians began
to believe in Jesus as the Lord and Saviour of the
entire world. And so, on December 25, 1842 in
Abeokuta, Nigerians were able to celebrate for the
very time the glorious annunciation that the Saviour,
who is Christ the Lord, was born. They gave glory to
God Almighty, experiencing the peace and joy of the
Lord; Anglicanism had been born in Nigeria.
In 1846 the Revd. Samuel Ajayi Crowther, the Revd.
Henry Townsend, in company of the Revd. Colmer and Mr.
Phillips worked together to consolidate the CMS Yoruba
Mission.
In 1857, the Revd. Samuel Ajayi Crowther led the CMS
Niger Mission to Onitsha and environs to found a
formidable native pastorate. He was elected Bishop
(The Revd. Samuel Ajayi Crowther) in 1864 and posted
to the sea of the Niger.
Anglicanism soon had a secure base in Lagos, which
became a Diocese on December 10, 1919 with F. Melville
Jones as Bishop and Isaac Oluwole, Assistant Bishop,
Retired Bishop H. Tugwell acted as the Bishop on the
Niger before Bishop Lasbrey's consecration in 1922.
When Leslie Gordon Vining succeeded Jones as Bishop of
Lagos in 1940, the Anglican Church in Nigeria had a
new vista opened. By 1955 when he died at sea, Vining,
the last "white" Bishop of Lagos and the first
Archbishop of the Province of West Africa (inaugurated
in 1951) had taken giant stride to expand the
frontiers of the Anglican Church and training scores
of young and dynamic Nigerian priests.
The Niger Delta Diocese was inaugurated on January 1st
1952, Lagos Diocese gave birth to the Dioceses of
Ibadan on 25th January 1952, Ondo-Benin on 24th
February 1952. Northern Diocese on 27th January 1959.
Between 1962 and 1977, further dioceses were created
as follows: Benin (3/1/62), Ekiti (29/10/66), Enugu
(16/8/70), Aba (9/1/72), Kwara (1/11/74), Ilesa
(2/11/74), Egba/Egbado ((3/8/76), Ijebu (8/8/76) and
Asaba (10/8/77).
Thus, it was that after due process, the sixteen
dioceses in Nigeria were constituted into the province
of Nigeria on the Feast of St. Mathias, February 24,
1979 with the Bishop of Ibadan, the Rt. Revd. Dr.
Timothy O. Olufosoye as the Archbishop, Primate and
Metropolitan.
Under Olufosoye, eight dioceses were created. These
were Kano (8/1/80), Jos (10/1/80), Akoko (28/2/83),
Owo (1/3/83), Akure (2/3/83), Orlu (6/11/84), Remo
(4/3/86, Awka (6/3/86) and Osun (3/8/87).
With the election of the Rt. Revd. J. Abiodun
Adetiloye, Bishop of Lagos, as the second Archbishop,
Primate and Metropolitan of Nigeria on April 14, 1988
and his presentation in June, the Church of Nigeria
(Anglican Communion) was launched on the growth fast
lane.
The Diocese of Abuja (covering the new Nigeria Federal
Capital Territory) was inaugurated on November 26,
1989 with the Rt. Revd. Peter J. Akinola, erstwhile
Missioner, as Bishop.
Decade of Evangelism
Then with unsurpassed missionary zeal, Archbishop
Adetiloye initiated deft moves that culminated in the
unprecedented consecration of eight missionary Bishops
and the Diocesan Bishop of Kano on April 29, 1990 at
St. Michael Anglican Cathedral, Kaduna. The missionary
Bishops' core remit was the fast evangelism of the
predominantly Muslim Northern Nigeria.
To the glory of God, the eight missionary Dioceses
were inaugurated in September 1990 as follows: Minna
(3rd), Kafanchan (5th), Katsina (6th), Sokoto (9th),
Makurdi (24th), Yola (26th), Maiduguri (28th), and
Bauchi (29th).
The Diocese of Egbado (now Yewa) was inaugurated on
November 2, 1990 and Ife, two days later (4/11/90).
Two more missionary dioceses of Calabar (20/12/90),
Uyo (27/11/92), followed.
By now the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) had
been proclaimed by the Archbishop of Canterbury as
"the fastest growing church in the Anglican
Communion!"
Living up to its billing, Nigeria under Adetiloye
created the Diocese of Oke-Osun (25/1/93),
Sabogidda-Ora (27/5/93), Okigwe North (7/1/94), Okigwe
South (8/1/94), Ikale-Ilaje (6/2/95), Kabba (12/2/96),
Nnewi (14/2/96), Egbu (16/2/96) and Niger Delta North
(16/5/96).
Then in December 1996, five more missionary Dioceses
were inaugurated in the North; Kebbi (4th), Dutse
(6th), Damaturu (8th) Jalingo (10th) and Oturkpo
(11th). The Diocese of Wusasa and Abakaliki followed
on (2/12/97) and (4/12/97) respectively. The
autonomous Diocese of Ughelli was inaugurated on
January 8, 1998 and Ibadan North (14/12/98).
Definitely the golden year which produced the largest
number of dioceses was 1999 when in the month of July
four dioceses were inaugurated, namely Oji River
(11th), Ideato (12th), Ibadan South (13th), and Offa
(14th), and then November bore eight dioceses!...
Lagos West (29th), Ekiti West (22nd), Gusau (24th),
Gombe (25th), Niger Delta West (25th), Gwagwalada
(26th), Lafia (29th), and Bida (30th). The year ended
with Oleh on December 21.
Three Provinces One Church
Considering the sheer vastness of the Church of
Nigeria (Anglican Communion), it was split into three
Provinces on 20th September 1997 for effective
management.
Province One, consisting of the Dioceses in the West,
was headed by Archbishop Adetiloye who remained
Primate of All Nigeria; Province Two consisting of the
Eastern Dioceses had the Rt. Revd. Ben Nwankiti of
Owerri and after his retirement in 1998, J. A.
Onyemelukwe, Bishop on the Niger, as Archbishop, while
Province Three consisting of the Northern Dioceses had
the Bishop of Abuja, the Rt. Revd. Dr. Peter J.
Akinola as Archbishop.
Forging Ahead Vigorously
There can be no organisation as large and complex as
present day Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion)
without problems.
But problems do not worry the new Primate, who, since
he was presented on 25 March 2000, has made several
efforts in pursuit of peace.
Archbishop Akinola has, together with the entire
leadership of the Church, evolved a Vision for the
Church of Nigeria, which by the grace of God and the
co-operation of all will take us to our "Eldorado" in
a record time.
The Vision is clear. In summary, it is to the effect
that the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) shall
be Bible-based, spiritually dynamic, united,
disciplined; self-supporting, committed to pragmatic
evangelism, social welfare and a church that
epitomises the genuine love of Christ.
The machinery for achieving the set goals and
establish a CARING CHURCH is in motion already with
Twelve Committees working tirelessly in the service of
God.
Revd. Canon Ajani is the Primate's Administrative
Assistant, Abuja.
otasco otanda
Abakaliki Rice Mill, has been razed by fire, even as
property worth several millions of naira, were
destroyed.
Reputed to be the largest Rice Mill cum market in
Africa, the mill was burnt on Tuesday.
When The Guardian visited the mill owners of the mill
and sympathisers were seen trying to salvage machines
and goods.
Chairman of Rice Mill Owners Industrial Association,
Mr. Tony Muoneke, said that the fire started on Monday
night, about 8.00 p.m.
An explosion in the building, according to him, led to
the destruction of 12 Black Stone Milling machines and
several bags of rice waiting to be milled.
He said that the entire building housing the machine
was burnt down.
He added that efforts by sympathisers and concerned
individuals to put out the fire failed because the
fire service did not respond to their distress signal
saying that nobody was in the station when he visited
the place.
Among early callers at the mill, was Ebonyi State
Commissioner for Information, Dr. John Otu expressed
shock at the level of destruction of the market.
Otu said the spate of fire outbreak at markets across
the country, is a source of concern to government,
promising that government would assist the victims.
Mr. Muoneke thanked the commissioner for the visit,
which he described as a show of concern and solidarity
by government and appealed for rehabilitation of the
victims.
It would be recalled that similar fire incident in
January, razed the commodity section of Eke-Imoha
Market in Onueke, a major satellite town in the state.
Goods and property worth millions of naira were
destroyed during the inferno.
Meanwhile, Governor, Sam Egwu has suspended the state
Fire Officer, Mr. John Nwokereku over the fire
outbreak.
Egwu who announced the suspension during a sympathy
visit to the rice mill, also announced that a judicial
commission of enquiry will be constituted to look into
the immediate and remote causes of the fire disaster.
END QUOTE.
The Guardian
Saturday, February 23, 2002.
Police Uncover Illegal Arms Factory In Ebonyi
FROM KENNETH OFOMA, ABAKALIKI
FRESH onslaught by the police on men of the
underworld, whose nefarious activities have been on
the rise in recent period, received a huge boost at
the weekend, with the smashing of an illegal arms
manufacturing syndicate.
The syndicate, operate at an illegal arms factory,
located on a farmland in Umuezekoha Ezza North Council
Area of Ebonyi State. The factory is allegedly owned
by a 82-year-old man.
Various items such as blacksmith equipment, locally
fabricated pistols which were at various stages of
manufacture, one live catridge and two expended ones
were recovered at the illegal arms factory.
Parading the suspected gun manufacturer and his tools
before reporters on Wendesday, the State Commissioner
of Police, Mr. Ben Oghomone, said that men of the
Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) of his command, on
February 8, stumbled on a vital information that
suggested that the blacksmith fabricates guns which he
supplies to hunters, armed robbers and student
cultists.
"The Police quickly located the blacksmith's factory
and house and placed it under surveillance.
Subsequently, the factory located in a farm land was
raided and thoroughly searched," Oghonome added.
On interrogation according to the Police Commissioner
the suspect admitted that he repairs damaged firearms
and manufactures both double and single barrel short
guns.
He disclosed further that he and his accomplice
manufacture and supply double and single barrel guns
to student cult members and armed robbers.
Mr. Oghomone said that police investigation shows that
the boy in question (name withdheld) is a student of
one of the secondary schools in the area.
The police chief said that so many of the guns must
have passed into unauthorised hands, adding that there
could be other illegal gun manufacturing factories in
the state, stressing, however, that the police would
spread its dragnets to discover the source of such
illegal factories.
The Police Commissioner said that his men at Ohaukwu
Division in the state recently arrested two robbery
suspects who were aged between 18 and 24 years.
He said the suspects were operating at Amike Ezzamgbo,
when police got a distress call from the victims. One
of the robbers was shot in the leg while the two
others escaped into the bush.
Meanwhile, the Abakaliki Rice Mill, has been razed by
fire, even as property worth several millions of
naira, were destroyed.
Reputed to be the largest Rice Mill cum market in
Africa, the mill was burnt on Tuesday.
When The Guardian visited the mill owners of the mill
and sympathisers were seen trying to salvage machines
and goods.
Chairman of Rice Mill Owners Industrial Association,
Mr. Tony Muoneke, said that the fire started on Monday
night, about 8.00 p.m.
An explosion in the building, according to him, led to
the destruction of 12 Black Stone Milling machines and
several bags of rice waiting to be milled.
He said that the entire building housing the machine
was burnt down.
He added that efforts by sympathisers and concerned
individuals to put out the fire failed because the
fire service did not respond to their distress signal
saying that nobody was in the station when he visited
the place.
Among early callers at the mill, was Ebonyi State
Commissioner for Information, Dr. John Otu expressed
shock at the level of destruction of the market.
Otu said the spate of fire outbreak at markets across
the country, is a source of concern to government,
promising that government would assist the victims.
Mr. Muoneke thanked the commissioner for the visit,
which he described as a show of concern and solidarity
by government and appealed for rehabilitation of the
victims.
It would be recalled that similar fire incident in
January, razed the commodity section of Eke-Imoha
Market in Onueke, a major satellite town in the state.
Goods and property worth millions of naira were
destroyed during the inferno.
Meanwhile, Governor, Sam Egwu has suspended the state
Fire Officer, Mr. John Nwokereku over the fire
outbreak.
Egwu who announced the suspension during a sympathy
visit to the rice mill, also announced that a judicial
commission of enquiry will be constituted to look into
the immediate and remote causes of the fire disaster.
Dekeuye
of questions though,especially as the writer purports to be telling us the
'truth' and putting ' the records straight' about the
1952/53 crises in the government of the Eastern Region of Nigeria. I am writing
this rejoinder particularly because of the admonishment contained in the piece
to south eastners not to swallow what their father may have told them....The
writer clearly implies that these southeastern fathers did not know what their
political interest was during the crises, and that their children are incapable
of interpreting events for themselves.
The fallacious piece did not say how the resignation of the eastern regional
government would have brought about the 'fall' of the 1951 constitution. Was
there any such provision? The writer indirectly alludeded to the tribalism that
fueled the crises by his emphasizing the fact that Prof. Eyo Ita was the
only minority leader of government business. The 'truth' and 'straight record'
I am getting from this piece is that:-
1. The NCNC initially won in Ibadan but later lost out in power play.
2. The leader who was an idgineous easterner (from the so called majority)
decamped to his home region.
3. Then it became necessary, and an audacious demand was made for the
resignation of the government in his home
region.
4. Despite the two-thirds support of his ministers the government and its
leader who just happened to have been a minority was forced out.
What happened in the eastern region at the time were so noble and decent to
Otasco Otanda that he stands ready to defend them before "the ultimate judge
of human conduct".
Now, I hold no brief for Obasanjo and his in-ept leadership or his
mis-leadership. But the late Owelle of Onitsha ,a man many of us revered openly
advocated tribalism , according to him as a weapon of national unity. To my
knowledge, no other leader has made this argument.