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Ohanaeze Ndigbo Leadership: In Professor Chidi Osuagwu, Igbo past great leaders truly come back alive
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By Chris O. Maduka
“Professor Chidi Osuagwu is one of the best brains of Igbo extraction and has quite a bit of record of Igbo-centrism in his kitty” Law Mefor.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Show me your friends or the company you keep and I will tell you who you are, an expression many may not have truly reflected upon as it is a very profound remark.
By Busayo Onijala
Lagos, Nov. 7, 2020 The Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr Abhay Thakur, on Thursday in Lagos commended the “long standing relations’’ between his country and Nigeria.
Thakur, who spoke at an official reception to mark the 60th anniversary of formal diplomatic relations between the two countries, said that India and Nigeria have a “unique age-old, long standing relations based on mutual respect and goodwill’’.
He said that both countries were multi-ethnic pluralistic societies with foundations built on tolerance, inclusiveness and socio-cultural harmony, achieving significant progress and emerging as large economies.
“Our first contacts were during the British colonial period, which saw the migration of indentured labourers from India to colonial ventures in Nigeria, followed by traders and capitalists.