Browsing: Ahmadu Bello

Kaunda was the last of the titans, the African nationalists that fought for independence from colonial rule, which included the likes of Kwame Nkrumah, Julius Nyerere, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Obafemi Awolowo, Ahmadu Bello, Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Nelson Mandela and others.

If Yoruba must regain and retain its pride of place, if Nigeria must triumph over its today’s woes and travel beyond the socioeconomic boundaries that fetters it, such as those given above, we must begin to prevail on citizens to start to discourage fielding grandparents for political offices, a trend anti-clockwise to the emerging new world

Governor Ahmed said this in a message to the opening ceremony of a capacity building workshop in emergency trauma/blast care skills for doctors and health workers from the North Central Senatorial District, organized by Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital