The truth however is that people sculptured in the mold of Udoma hardly grow old in the imaginations of their admirers.
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That means that Chief Ndutimi Alaibe doesn’t only talk about the difficulties. He is more interested in solutions.
Inoyo absorbed the news in silence and left not a few people confused. His few public appearances ended
One day in the mid-1970s, an audacious young man walked into the South Eastern State Library in Calabar and had his destiny redirected.
Something dramatic happened when ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo nominated Fani-Kayode for a ministerial appointment.
The weight, the complexity and the impact of those two words can still be felt, even now. We are glad we said them
Reluctantly, I grabbed the television remote control, tuned away from the sports channel and moved to Channels TV.
Occasionally, he sneaked out into the city during break time; on a walk through the streets, with a classmate.
Focusing on the American model which had already reached maturity at that time, he observed that the press was in a marriage of mutual benefits with democracy.
Once again, I commend Akpandem and Sam for this great idea of documenting the experience of the 2014 National Conference, including the intrigues, schemings, interests and the side attractions that formed part of the activities that produced the beautiful document we have as the report of the Conference.
The discourse was on the media – journalism in particular. No, nobody mentioned brown envelope. It doesn’t seem to be fashionable any longer.
Poets talk and write with inspirations from certain tangibles and intangibles — from within and without.
But before we could go far, an instinct prompted me to make sense of her responses – a revealing friendly chat.
But even that book is written with the touch of poetry. What does poetry mean to you? It was a question she probably knew I would ask
When I woke up this morning to realise that this great thinker and diplomat, Prof. Akinwande Bolaji Akinyemi, is 80 years old, I could only shout: Wow!
I even suggested, silently, that the execution of the award should be delayed till 2022. I had my reasons.
When passed into law, one of the bills granted full operational autonomy to the Federal Inland Revenue Service.
In order to fulfil his five-point agenda, Udom ignited an endless applause when he announced an ambitious, already-packaged, mouth-watering industrial programme. He told the people: “The thrust of our administration is industrialization. In driving this, we have revitalized and re-commissioned Peacock Paints. We have performed ground-breaking ceremonies for a car assembly plant in Itu LGA by a leading Israeli auto manufacturing company, Mimshac Merkavim; as well as the Low Energy Display (LED) manufacturing plant at Itam.”
Specifically, what many people remember about Kennedy’s historic speech is the portion that says Americans should, instead of thinking about what their country should do for them, focus on what they could do for their country. However, that was just an aspect of a speech that set the agenda for sending people to the moon; and building a bridge to connect the future.
The theme of the Week was: “Akwa Ibom State, the Legal Profession and the Emerging Global Economy.” A few days to the event, the National Bureau of Statistics released a stunning report to the effect that Nigeria’s unemployment rate has hit 33.3 per cent. This implies that more than half of the country’s labour force is jobless. Or put alternately, less than half of the labour force is fully employed.