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Despite his standoffishness, in a day of communication technology and social media, hundreds of accolades, and felicitations on this 91st birthday have come from world leaders...
Retelling Nigeria’s Diplomacy Story As Ambassador Ba Clark Clocks 91 Years Retelling Nigeria’s Diplomacy Story As Ambassador Ba Clark Clocks 91 Years On Friday, April 16, 2021, one of the fathers of Nigeria’s Diplomatic Service, and early crafters of the country’s Foreign Policy, Ambassador Blessing Akporede Clark, marked his 91st birthday. Sandwiched between elder statesman, Chief EK Clark and his immediate younger brother, late playwright, Prof JP Clark, “BA” as his peers around the world know him, was born on that date in 1930 in Kiagbodo, which at the time was in Warri Pro...
The Oghara Development Union, (ODU) Lagos Branch, has called on the Federal Government to insist that every single penny that has been forfeited by Chief James Onanefe Ibori’s associates in the London trial, be returned to Nigeria.
the loot forfeited by the associates of James Ibori, former governor of Delta state, is £6.2 million — and not £4.2 million. Advertisement On Tuesday, the UK signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU)with the Nigerian government to return £4.2 million recovered from Ibori and his associates . But the union, in a statement by Sunday Agbofodoh, its general secretary, said it had followed the case “diligently” and knows that the forfeited sum was £6.2 million. Advertisement The union said Nigeria “should oppose UK’s hypocrisy” and insist that the entire sum be returned to the c...
Vanguard News SIRA gets new President, Lakemfa On Owei Lakemfa Leading foreign relations Think Tank in Africa, the Society for International Relations Awareness, SIRA, has elected human rights activist, labour leader and author, Mr Owei Lakemfa as its new President. Lakemfa, who for over two decades has run two weekly columns on Nigeria and international affairs in the Vanguard Newspapers, succeeds Professor Nuhu Yaqub, former Vice-Chancellor, University of Abuja and Sokoto State University. The new Vice President is Colonel Wilson Ijide (retd), former Training Team Leader, Nigerian Army ...