Godknows Boladei Igali

LIFE OF PROFESSIONALISM, ACTIVISM AND MOTHERHOOD: A PRECIS ON HON (AMB) BOLERE KETEBU, MD, OON (1954-2021)

Godknows Boladei Igali Feb 20, 2021

The city of Abuja, Nigeria’s capital gathered on Tuesday,16th February, 2021 to celebrate the life and times of one of the country’s all-time amazon and great patriot, Hon (Amb) Bolere Elizabeth Ketebu. When she passed exactly one month ago on 16th January 2021 at the age of 66, an avalanche of tears and lamentations came […]

“LESSONS OF FIFTY-ONE YEARS AFTER THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR”

Godknows Boladei Igali Jan 27, 2021

(Protocol) INTRODUCTION Let me start by appreciating the organizers of this conference for creating this forum to enable us parley and exchange ideas on the journey which we have embarked upon during the last half century and also chat a way forward for our children. I specially would like to appreciate the Nzuko Umunna (the […]

A PAINFUL ODE TO AN EXCEPTIONAL NIGERIAN: ALBERT OKUMAGBA (1964-2020)

Godknows Boladei Igali Jan 13, 2021

More poignantly, day-to-day, the crimson truth sinks deep, that “no man knows the day or the hour”. None! So the date 19th November 2020 may not elapse nippily in the memory of many Nigerians of present day. If for nothing, for the fact that one of the nation’s most fanatical patriots, Albert Egbaroghene Okumagba, suddenly […]

NIGERIA’S LAST REBEL-HERO TAKES A FINAL SALUTE: THE STORY OF CAPTAIN SAM OWONARO (1944-2020).

Godknows Boladei Igali Dec 10, 2020

For an Armed Forces ranked as 42nd in global military strength and considered the largest standing army in Black Africa, the passing of a “mere” Captain, in the midst of so many decorated Generals in Nigeria would normally be titling. However, the death of Captain Samuel Timinipre Owonaro at the age of 76 on 16th […]

THE AMAZING ACTIVISM AND NATIONALISM OF DR. M. T. AKOBO AND PROF. KIMSE OKOKO

Godknows Boladei Igali Oct 16, 2020

In what is obviously one of the greatest moments of cold chills which any human community could have felt, the Niger-Deltans and Nigerians are, this season, reminded of man’s pitiable duel with mortality as they set to lay to final rest, Nigeria’s first Minister of Petroleum Resources Dr Mofia Akobo, and leading leftist intellectual Professor […]

LAW, MORALITY AND NATIONAL SERVICE: THE JUSTICES CHUKWUDIFU OPUTA AND ADOLPHUS KARIBI – WHYTE CONNECTION

Godknows Boladei Igali Oct 04, 2020

The closing days of the month of September each year will, for a long time to come, be moments of perpetual memorial for the Nigerian Supreme Court as an institution and its members, past and present. This is understandably so, as the lives and times of two of Nigeria’s most eminent jurists, moralists and pathfinders, […]

HOW GENERAL IKE NWACHUKWU USED ECONOMIC DIPLOMACY TO SALVAGE NIGERIA’S GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

Godknows Boladei Igali Sep 01, 2020

One of Nigeria’s most outstanding military-diplomats, General Ike Omar Sanda Nwachukwu, turns 80 years today, 1st September, 2020. Born in the “Garden City” of Port-Harcourt, this urbane-debonair-cavalier and gentlemanly former military officer, stands tall and celebrated as the man with the mida’s touch, who brought aggressive economic engagement to define Nigeria’s foreign policy. A SOLDEIR […]

GLOBAL PANDEMICS, GLOBAL DISASTERS AND THE NEW GLOBAL REALISM

Godknows Boladei Igali Jun 06, 2020

The progressive march of human civilization, especially in science and technology in the last two centuries had seemed to make the world in which we live fairly foreseeable and predictable in almost all spheres. As a matter of fact, humanity, at certain times, had been tempted to crow, quite deafeningly about already living in the […]

Reminiscence On President Umar Musa Yar’adua (1951-2010) And The Quintessence Of Patriotic Martyrdom

Godknows Boladei Igali May 14, 2020

It is simply implausible but real, that ten odd years have passed, exactly on last 5th day of May, 2020, since Nigeria found itself in the deep melancholy of laying to rest its 13th President, Umar Musa Yar’Adua. He was overtly pious, humble and was rather beatific. He called himself a Servant Leader, a euphemism […]

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala As The Veritable Celebration Of African Womanhood

Godknows Boladei Igali Mar 13, 2020

The 2020 celebration of the March 8 International Women’s Day in Nigeria had an added significance and flavour, as the country was awakened to the news of the appointment of one of its highly valued daughters, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as a member of South Africa’s Economic Advisory Council. Considering the sophistication and global standing of […]

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