For Innocent Chukwuma; for Nigeria, By Chido Onumah
I miss Innocent with whom I often talked endlessly about the challenges of Nigeria and shared a good laugh and dinner on many occasions.
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I miss Innocent with whom I often talked endlessly about the challenges of Nigeria and shared a good laugh and dinner on many occasions.
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) - A human rights organization, Civil Rights Realization and Advancement Network (CRRAN) has expressed shock over the sudden demise of a founding member and Board of governors of the Civil Liberties organization CLO, Comrade Dr. Amdife Danjuma Gambo, who is also a member of its National Advisory Council. The human Rights Activist who
Auwal Ibrahim Musa is the Executive Director of Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), Head, Transparency International (Nigeria) and
Innocent Chukwuma, or Innoma, as I called him, was 55, and the immediate past Regional Director (West Africa) of Ford Foundation. He was full of life and ideas. His death was devastating in many ways. It depleted the ranks of civil society and human rights activists in Nigeria, which has suffered severe blows in the last two decades from the death of the inveterate organizer and leading democracy activists, Chima Ubani, in 2005, to the consummate scribe and Principal Private Secretary to former Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, Olaitan Oyerinde, in 2012, to lawyer and human rights ...
We hope the National Assembly will continue to appropriate the required funding to enable INEC embrace the required technology.