The name M.T Mbu is synonymous with dedication, transparency, accountability and honesty. In Nigeria today, I cannot think of someone else who will engender greater respect or affection across ethnic nationalities and ideological barriers. He was very diligent and self disciplined. He exhibited the highest integrity and honesty in the conduct when on official or personal dealings. He demonstrated ..
Meeting Fela: Benjay recalls in a recent interview: "Fela and I met sometime in 1963 shortly after his studies in the U.K. even though his famous mother, Mrs Funmilayo Ransome - Kuti had previously told me about him when she brought me Fela's initial, recorded highlife music singles - for air play - in 1962. On arrival, Fela himself came to meet me in the studio while I was presenting NBC Ja..
Dreams From My Father is a refreshing, revealing portrait of a young man asking big questions about identity and belonging. The son of a black African father and a white American mother, President Obama recounts an emotional odyssey. He retraces the migration of his mother's family from Kansas to Hawaii, then to his childhood home in Indonesia. Finally he travels to Kenya, where he confronts ..
Robert
M Gates served as secretary of defence from 2006 – 2011. He also served as an
Officer of the United States Air Force and worked for the Central Intelligence
Agency before being appointed director of the agency by President George H.W
Bush. He was a member of the National Security Council staff in four
administrations and served eight presidents of both political parties.
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Emeka is the dramatic, powerful and moving life-story of CHUKWUEMEKA ODUMEGWU OJUKWU. It is the story of a rebel, general, head of state, governor, philosopher and Igbo leader. A story never told before about Emeka's youth, his army training, the civil war, his exile of more than twelve years and his return home on 18 June 1982. The writing was authorised by Ojukwu and writ-ten by his close friend..
In this book, Anthony Kila evokes memories of the extant Letters of Paul, the Apostle of Jesus Christ, credited with the authorship of 13 books of the New Testament. This calculated artistic methodology underscores a thinly veiled intention of the writer to awaken the masses of Nigeria to demand the best from their leaders. Where it is clear that the people themselves are complicit in some occurre..
Seventy per cent of Nigerians were born after the civil war and have no memory of it. Why then are Nigeria's politics and public debate still marked by the sectarian rancour and tribal animosity of the generation that saw the war? Why does that generation continue to shape our sense of Nigeria and her prospects? Is the world's biggest black nation only "a mere geographical expression" or is it som..
The Nigerian federal character principle was first introduced in the 1979 Constitution (and retained in the 1999 Constitution) as practical solution of Nigeria's perennial ethnic conflict. Unfortunately, the good intentions of the makers of the 1979 Constitution regarding the provision of federal character were misunderstood, abused and thwarted over the years by military regimes and largely also ..
This book is a compendium of some of the articles written by the Author. It consists of articles about Leaders & Leadership, Politics and Politicking, Nation & Nationhood, Democracy & Development, Economy & Economics as well as some of his most popular articles. ..
In 41: A portrait of my father, George W Bush, the forty third president takes us through the life and leadership of his father, George H.W Bush, the forty first president and one of the most significant American politicians of the twentieth century. Intimate, heartfelt and illuminating, 41 tells George Bush's story in a book only a son and a President could write. ..
With an ever increasing number of young Africans diving into the unknown each year, in search of a better life abroad, Segun Adeniyi's From Frying Pan to Fire could not have come at a better time. Through their often heart rendering tales of woe, Adeniyi weaves a powerful and compelling narrative , made all the more intense by the poignant, personal account of one of these dream seekers, the autho..