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EZEJIOFO SUNNY UDEH espudeh@gmail.com May 24, 2020. Perhaps, most discerning observers have quietly wondered the reason behind Ugwuanyi’s indomitable and rising profile.  Others, especially those of us in the skeptical camp, are not in a rush to judgment for we ascribe the unseen popularity to a phenomenon worthy of closer scrutiny. Going by the events of the reelection of former governors, Nnamani and Chime, such acceptance of an incumbent is indeed alien to the political annals of Enugu State or even in Nigeria. Our search for an answer brought us to close reexamination of the popular maxim in the political lexicon that "Vox populi; vox dei", which translates to "the voice of the people is the voice of God".  However, an early reference of the expression was in a letter from Alcuin, an English scholar to King Charlemagne where he wrote, “And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since t...

May 4th, 2020 The Coronavirus and its Covid-19 pandemic ravaging the world calls for a moment of charity and giving to our own people who by no fault of theirs were summoned to stay off work and stay at home to curb the spread of the deadly virus. Despite government intervention there is a growing need for us to do more for ourselves and our people.  There is a strong need for us to close rank irrespective of our political cleavages or inclination.  Hunger knows no such but descends on any and all human beings with the same weight of anguish.  For these reasons, barely two weeks ago, without lengthy discussion the COVID-19 Quartet in the names of Hon. Chuka Akunne, Hon. Stanley Anyadi, Dr. KUK Ekwueme and Dr. Eze Sunny Udeh joined hands and launched EGEDE COVID RELIEF FUND and started raising money to buy food items for our beloved Egede people.  As at today, we are chasing our third million as Umu-Egede world over have responded in kin...

Oboriadaka@gamil.com Egede, Nigeria April 19, 2020 It was one of the Shakespearean popular quotes, what is in a name, and a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.  These are good and interesting quotes of their time.   However in our good old Umezenevo part of Egede a name is one of the most important attributes of a man and a woman.  The name is important and the sweetness of the name is as great. The name you were given at birth bears deep meaning in anticipation of the vision your parents have for you.   When you get older, become a man,  marry, and take a name for yourself, it comes with a much deeper meaning of what you have done and a compendium of your aspirations, plan and strategy for the future. Such series of names guide your actions and activities as you strive to live up to the name you have bestowed on yourself.  Such is the case with His Royal Majesty Igwe Dr. Ikenna Okwesili who prior to asce...

March 29, 2020. Egede’s quest to solve the water problem dates back to the 1950s and 1960s and even 1970s but to no avail.  Not until an Italian Construction Company Bartolotti dug a sizable borehole in the course of their construction of Makurdi - 9th Mile road at New Site Primary School and handed it to Egede did we start to see light at the end of the tunnel .   Indeed, it was a breath of fresh air for Egede and the adjoining communities who previously were trekking miles to fetch water from Awhum and Affa. This piece will briefly discuss Egede Community Association of America Inc. also known as Egede-USA, it’s goal to provide water to the people of Egede and the controversial mode of implementation adopted unconstitutionally by the so called 12 unstoppables. It ends with recommendations.  Egede-USA’S Goal is Water for Egede! As many Egede indigenes find themselves in the United States from the early 1970s and 1980s the singular developmental goal ...

                        Precisely December 28th, as my Delta flight from New York City was making the last announcement before landing at Murtala Mohammed Airport Lagos, in my sixth trip to Nigeria in 2019, my mind zoomed off to the realities of Nigeria, the ills, the uglies and the few goods in the horizon. I imagined what will become of Nigeria in the next decade if radical change and transformation is not implemented. I wondered how 2030 Nigeria will be for the our teaming young population and our rural poor. Apart from the much needed rest and recuperation from the grueling journey (combination of flight plus rough road) from Lagos through Asaba to Enugu, socializing topped it all as my Umuezaboshi Umunna hurriedly scheduled emergency meeting the moment they heard about my return. Before you know it we were meeting, discussing and we ended the evening with plenty to eat and drink in preparatio...

oboriAdaka@gmail.com      January 17, 2020 It was Idowu Koyenikan author of Wealth for all, who rightly said that even though your time on the job is temporary, if you do a good enough job, your work there will last forever. In the same vain, one of the famous founding fathers of America, Benjamin Franklin added that if you don’t want to be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about.  President Obama in his book, The Audacity of Hope added that every man is trying to live up to his father’s expectations or make up for his father’s mistakes. Perhaps, the inspirational author,  Shannon L. Alder put it more succintingly when she stated that  she did not really care if people forgets her. Her legacy wasn’t about her rather it was about everything she could do for another. She admonished for you to carve your name on the hearts, not tombstones for legacy is etched into the minds of other...