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  • Boko Haram Crisis Began With Police Error, Says Ex-Army Chief Dambazzau

    Ex-Army Chief Dambazzau says police error in killing Boko Haram founder Mohammed Yusuf triggered insurgency, warns insecurity needs governance solutions.   A former Chief of Army Staff Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau (Retd), has provoked a fresh controversy o

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  • US Using ‘Christian Genocide’ Claims to Justify Military Presence in Nigeria — Dambazau

    US Using ‘Christian Genocide’ Claims to Justify Military Presence in Nigeria — Dambazau A former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (retd), has warned that the recent remarks by former United States President Donald Trump, threatening mili

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  • US Exploring Opportunity To Site Military Base In Nigeria –Dambazau

    Ex-Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lt. Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (rtd) has accused the United States of plotting to establish a military base in Nigeria, using the Christian genocide claims to achieve the target.   He made the claim yesterday at the 7th Annual Lecture

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  • Genocide Allegation: US Has Ulterior Motives – Dambazau

    Former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Abdulrahman Dambazau (rtd), has accused former United States President Donald Trump of harbouring ulterior motives in his decision to designate Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) and in the alleged plan to declare wa

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  • Ex-COAS Dambazau: U.S has hidden agenda for seeking military base in Nigeria

    Former Chief of Army Staff and ex-Minister of Interior, Lt. Gen. (Rtd.) Abdulrahman Dambazau, has accused the United States of pursuing a self-serving agenda in Nigeria, claiming Washington’s recent warnings over alleged Christian persecution are a pretext to establish a ne

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  • How police error sparked Boko Haram insurgency: Ex-Army chief Dambazua reveals

    Former Chief of Army Staff and ex-Minister of Interior, Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau (rtd), has attributed the rise of the Boko Haram insurgency to a critical policing error made in 2009.  Speaking on Tuesday in Abuja during the 7th Annual Lecture of the Just F

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  • Insecurity: Military Solution Alone Grossly Inadequate -Gen. Dambazau

    General Dambazau, spoke on Tuesday in a Keynote Address at the 7th Annual Public Lecture of the Just Friends Club of Nigeria (JFCN), held at Bolingo Hotel, Abuja, with the theme, “Nigeria’s Security Challenges and the Quest for National Cohesion: A New Paradigm for

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  • Lack of National Cohesion Worsening Nigeria’s Security Crisis, Says Dambazau

    Former Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (rtd), has blamed the country’s worsening security crisis on lack of national cohesion, which found expression in weak governance, corruption, and poor coordination among security agencies.   Damba

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  • CPC: US has a personal agenda- Ex-COAS, Lt. Gen Dambazau

    Former Chief of Army Staff and ex-Minister of Interior, Lt Gen (Rtd) Abdulrahman Dambazau has said the United States threat of attack over alleged genocide will in no way benefit Nigerians as Americans do not protect anybody’s interest. Dambazau who was guest speaker

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  • Boko Haram crisis caused by police error – Ex-Army chief Dambazau

    Former Chief of Army Staff and ex-Minister of Interior, Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau (rtd), on Tuesday traced the origin of the Boko Haram insurgency to a police misstep in 2009. He said the insurgency ravaging the North-East today began as a loc

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  • Nigeria’s Security Challenges and the Quest for National Cohesion: A New Paradigm for Internal Security Architecture

    Introduction It is with great honour and a profound sense of responsibility that I address this distinguished gathering at the 7th Annual Public Lecture of the Just Friends Club of Nigeria. I feel honoured and privileged to deliver this keynote address, drawing upon six

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  • Dambazau: Christian persecution claims part of US ploy to site military base in Nigeria

    Abdulrahman Dambazau, former chief of army staff, says claims of targeted Christian killings in Nigeria is simply “propaganda.” Dambazau was chief of army staff from 2008 to 2010 and minister of interior from 2015 to 2019. read more

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  • Annual Lecture of justfriends Club of Nigeria in Abuja

    It is with great honour and a profound sense of responsibility that I address this distinguished gathering at the 7th Annual Public Lecture of the Just Friends Club of Nigeria. READ MORE

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  • Lt.General Abdulrahman Dambazau(rtd), former Chief of Army Staff, was the Guest Speaker at the 7th JFCN Annual Lecture which held in Abuja on November 4, 2025

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  • Amaechi Aloke Emerges New JFCN President

    Just Friends Club of Nigeria(JFCN) has elected Chief Amaechi Aloke, a retired director at the Bureau of Public Enterprises(BPE), as its new President. He will serve a three-year term, with the possibility of renewal for one additional term. Bringing in a wealth of experience in

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  • Amaechi Aloke emerges president of Just Friends Club of Nigeria

    Just Friends Club of Nigeria(JFCN) has announced the election of Chief Amaechi Aloke, a retired director of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, as its new President. Chief Aloke will serve a three-year term, with the possibility of renewal for one additional term.Bringing a

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  • Retired BPE Director, Amaechi Aloke Emerges New JFCN President

    A retired director at the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Chief Amaechi Aloke, has been elected the new President of one of the nation’s foremost social clubs – Just Friends Club of Nigeria (JFCN)).   JFCN is a social organisation committed to prom

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  • Former BPP director Amaechi Aloke elected president of Just Friends Club of Nigeria

    The Just Friends Club of Nigeria (JFCN) has elected Amaechi Aloke, a retired director of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), as its new president.   Aloke, who will serve a three-year term with the possibility of renewal, was elected on Saturday during the clu

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  • Just Friends Club of Nigeria elects Aloke as president

    Just Friends Club of Nigeria (JFCN) has elected Chief Amaechi Aloke, a retired director of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), as its new President. Chief Aloke will serve a three-year term, with the possibility of renewal for one additional term.   Bringing a

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  • JFCN Elects Chief Amaechi Aloke President

    Just Friends Club of Nigeria (JFCN) has announced the election of Chief Amaechi Aloke, a retired director of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, as its new President. Chief Aloke, who was elected at the weekend, according to a statement by the JFCN’s Spokesperson, Efe Awhi

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  • Amaechi Aloke Emerges New JFCN President

    Just Friends Club of Nigeria(JFCN) has elected Chief Amaechi Aloke, a retired director at the Bureau of Public Enterprises(BPE), as its new President. He will serve a three-year term, with the possibility of renewal for one additional term. Bringing in a wea

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  • Amaechi Aloke emerges president of Just Friends Club of Nigeria

    Just Friends Club of Nigeria(JFCN) has announced the election of Chief Amaechi Aloke, a retired director of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, as its new President.   Chief Aloke will serve a three-year term, with the possibility of renewal for one additional term.

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  • Amaechi Aloke emerges new JFCN President

    Just Friends Club of Nigeria (JFCN), has elected Chief Amaechi Aloke, a retired director at the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), as its new President.   He will serve a three-year term, with the possibility of renewal for one additional term.   Bri

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  • Chief Amaechi Aloke Elected New President Of Just Friends Club Nigeria

    Just Friends Club of Nigeria (JFCN) has announced the election of Chief Amaechi Aloke, a retired director of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), as its new President. Chief Aloke will serve a three-year term, with the possibility of renewal for one additional term. &nb

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  • Chief Amaechi Aloke elected president of JFCN

    The Just Friends Club of Nigeria (JFCN) has elected Chief Amaechi Aloke, a retired director of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, as its new President. Aloke, who will serve a three-year term with the option of renewal for one additional term, was elected alongside other me

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  • Ex-NERC chair calls for improved productivity

    A former Chairman, Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Dr. Sam Amadi, has called for improved productivity in both the private and public sectors of the economy. He gave the advice in Abuja as Guest Speaker at the sixth Annual Lecture of Just Frien

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  • A Functional Public Service will Drive Down cost of Governance – Dr. Amadi

    It will be impossible for Nigeria to succeed in bringing down its high cost of governance if it continues to maintain a dysfunctional public service. That was the position of Dr. Sam Amadi, Director of Abuja School of Social and Political Thought in his keynote address at

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  • Why Nigeria’s poor rating in corruption index should concern those in power

    Nigeria’s poor rating in corruption perception index and other indicators of public probity should be cause for concern to government officials because they are stagnating the country’s growth, a former chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NE

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  • High Cost of Governance Stunts Nigeria’s Development, Experts Warn

    Experts at the 6th Annual Lecture of the social club, Just Friends held today at Bolingo Hotels in Abuja asserts that the escalating cost of governance is a major obstacle to Nigeria’s development.  The event convened professionals and stakeholders across variou

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  • Nigeria’s Poor Rating In Corruption Perception, Others Cause For Concern -Dr. Amadi

    Nigeria’s poor rating in corruption perception index and other indicators of public probity is a cause for concern, according to Dr.Sam Amadi, a former Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission(NERC.) Read More

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  • Sam Amadi says Nigeria's poor rating in corruption index cause for concern

    NIGERIA’s poor rating in corruption perception index and other indicators of public probity is a cause for concern, according to Sam Amadi, a former Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission(NERC.)  He added that Nigeria is also very poor in the rat

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  • Dr. Sam Amadi Delivers 6th JFCN Annual Lecture

    Nigeria’s poor rating in corruption perception index and other indicators of public probity is a cause for concern, according to Dr Sam Amadi, a former Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC). He added that Nigeria is also very poor in the ratin

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  • To reduce cost of governance in Nigeria, government must have a strong and coherent vision

    A former Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Dr. Sam Amadi has weighed into the debate about the high and unsustainable cost of governance in Nigeria. Dr. Amadi, Director of the Abuja School of Social and Political Thought was

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  • High Cost of Governance as an Impediment to Development, By Dr. Sam Amadi
    November 5, 2024

    Guest Speech at the 6th Annual Lecture of the Just Friends Club of Nigeria on Tuesday, November 5, 2024 at Bolingo Hotels Abuja, Greetings and Compliments. First, let me express my deep appreciation to the leadership of the Just Friends Club for the honour of choosing

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  • Nigeria: MDAs, Bureaucracy’s Lack Of Clear-cut Ideas On Reinforcing Development Drives High Cost of Governance – Sam Amadi
    November 5, 2024

    The high cost of governance challenge in Nigeria is not just because we have too many Ministries, Departments, Agencies (MDAs) as much as the fact that there are multiple agencies without clear-cut idea of how each reinforces the concept and project of development of the country,

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  • SERVICE TO FATHERLAND: PRESENTATIONS BY JFCN GUEST SPEAKERS AT ITS ANNUAL LECTURES

    SERVICE TO FATHERLAND: PRESENTATIONS BY JFCN GUEST SPEAKERS AT ITS ANNUAL LECTURES                                &nbs

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  • ROSTER OF HOSTS FOR MEETING OF JCFN 2024 -2025

    ROSTER OF HOSTS FOR MEETING OF JUST FRIENDS CLUB OF NIGERIA (6th Edition)     S/NO NAME DATE   1 Chukwuma Akabuike February 10, 2024   2 Aloke Amaechi

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  • Why Corrupt Nigerians Go Into Politics

    The former chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Dr Chidi Odinkalu, has said the country’s system grants corrupt Read More

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  • We must reset our political values to restructure Nigeria -Prof Odinkalu

    The former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Prof. Chidi Anslem Odinkalu, has called for a resetting of the country’s value system which, according to him, will culminate in a restructuring of Nigeria. Read More

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  • Discrimination has become institutionalized in Nigeria – Odinkalu

    Despite the firm prohibition against it in the constitution, discrimination has become institutionalized in Nigeria and the immediate past administration of Muhammadu Buhari showed how deeply unsettled the notion of equal citizenship in Nigeria is, Professor Chidi Odinkalu has

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  • Chidi Odinkalu: 2023 polls is proof that Nigeria needs reset on coexistence, citizenship

    Speaking on Wednesday at the 10th anniversary annual lecture of Just Friends Club of Nigeria (JFCN), with the theme ‘Resetting Nigeria’, Odinkalu said the nation’s inability to treat its citizens equally is a problem that needs to be tackled. Read More

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  • Nigeria in need of radical change — Odinkalu, Ohwahwa, others

    Prominent individuals, including Prof. Chidi Odinkalu, a former Chairman of Nigeria’s National Human Rights Commission, have called for radical systemic change in Nigeria, citing the nation’s issues with corruption, impunity, mal-governance, and instability. Read M

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  • Nigeria inching towards genocide, ex-NHRC boss Odinkalu warns

    Former National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chairman, Prof. Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, has warned that current level of ethnicity and tribalism could threaten Nigeria’s corporate existence. Read More    

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  • Nigeria needs resetting for growth, says Odinkalu

    A former chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, Prof. Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, on Wednesday, raised concern over the state of the country and warned that Nigeria is a genocide theatre waiting to happen. Read More

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  • Group advocates resetting of Nigeria’s economy, infrastructure, others

    An NGO, Just Friends Club of Nigeria (JFCN) says there is an urgent need to reset Nigerian economy and infrastructure, given current realties in the nation. Read More

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  • Ethnicity and tribalism are setting Nigeria up for genocide -Odinakalu

    Ex Chair of the National Human Right Commission, Prof. Chidi Anselm Odinikaku has cautioned that Nigeria might be on the brink of genocide following the threatening level of ethnicity and tribalism in the country. Read More

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  • Resetting Nigeria, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

    Text for 10th Anniversary Lecture of Just Friends Club of Nigeria (JFCN), NAF Conference Centre, Abuja, August 2, 2023 Read More

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  • Nigeria Must Restructure Her Core Values”- Human Rights Activist, Odinkalu

    Nigeria’s leading Human Rights Activist and former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission,Prof. Chidi Anselm Odinkalu has said Nigeria in her current state is plagued with assorted challenges that require resetting. Read More

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  • 2023: Election is not war, politicians told

    FOLLOWING the recent upsurge in violent attacks on campaign rallies of political rivals and properties of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, a former Financial Secretary of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, Mr Fred Ohwahwa has urged politicians in the country to se

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  • Nigeria Is Teetering On The Precipice, Its Time For Critical Dialogue, Mobilisation For Change, Says Rev. Fr. George Ehusani

    Nigeria as a national entity is on the verge of collapse. All the indices of state failure are in place. There is an unprecedented level of impunity, and a never-before witnessed orgy of violence across the land. Read More

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  • Grassroots Political Emancipation Key To Salvaging Nigeria – Ehusani

    Nigeria must invest in civic education and grassroots political emancipation to salvage the country from total collapse. Read More

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  • Insecurity: Nigeria on the verge of collapse, says Catholic priest

    George Ehusani, a catholic priest and an author, says Nigeria as a national entity is on the verge of collapse. Ehusani said this on Friday while delivering a keynote address at the annual lecture organised by the Just Friends Club of Nigeria (JFCN) in Abuja. Read Mo

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  • Photos: Reminiscences

    Some members of Just Friends Club Of Nigeria photo reminiscences  Fred Ohwahwa Emeka Ozumba James Aziegbe Kennedy Uwagboe Godfrey Obinabo Chika Okeke Efe Awhinawhi Chukwuma Nwokoh Chigbo Anic

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  • Birthday of JFCN Members

    BIRTHDAY OF JUST FRIENDS CLUB OF NIGERIA MEMBERS S/NO MEMBER DATE 1 J.N Green-Amakwe January 18 2 Paul Ikpokili January 28

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  • PHOTOS: JFCN visits Old Peoples Home

    Just Friends Club of Nigeria visited Amazing Grace Foundation Old Peoples Home, Kado Estate, Abuja for its annual felicitation with the less privilege on 30th of November, 2018.

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  • PHOTOS: JFCN members visits Mr & Mrs Samuel Okeke

    Just Friends Club of Nigeria visited the family of Mr & Mrs Samuel Okeke to felicitate with them over the birth of their twins. See below for some photos from the visit.

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  • PHOTOS: Wedding of Sir Isaac Chukwudi's daughter

    Former Miss Adaobi Chukwudi and Mr David Chika Obani wedded December last year in Enugu. See below for some pictures from the wedding ceremony.

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  • JFCN Provides Succour For Less Privileged

                                     In Abuja, various clubs, associations and nongovernmental organisations have taken up the challenge of putting smiles on the faces of the less privileged mem

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  • JCFN Donates To Children’s Home

                                             Just Friends Club of Nigeria, a non-governmental organisation has donated food items and toiletries to the Children’s Ho

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  • Okiemute graduates from Queen Mary University of London

    Miss Okiemute Ohwahwa, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ohwahwa, graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (B.L) degree from Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom on Tuesday, December 6, 2016.                         &

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  • Obiora Conferred with Doctorate Degree

    In August, 2015, Obiora Obiagwu was conferred with a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree from the London Graduate School in the United Kingdom. His thesis was on “factors militating against the achievement of accountable corporate governance”.      

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  • Akabuike Elevated to Fellow of NIESV

    On February 18, 2016, Mr. Chukwuma Akabuike was made a Fellow of the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers. Mrs. Chinyelu Akabuike, Mr. Chukwuma Akabuike, Dr. Patunola-Ajayi, first Vice President  and Olorogun James Omeru, President of Nigerian Institu

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  • Afure Obtains a Master’s degree from London varsity

    In November, 2016, Miss Afure Obaro, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Osauzo Obaro, obtained a Master’s degree in international business management from Sheffield Hallam University, London.                         &

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  • PHOTOS: kanayo Obiagwu graduates from Sheffield Hallam University

    Dr. Obiora Obiagwu's son, Mr. Kanayo Obiagwu, graduated in the United Kingdom from Sheffield Hallam University with a Second Class Honours (Upper Division) Degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering in November, 2018.

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  • Onaedo Called to the Nigerian Bar

    Miss Onaedo Chukwudi, the daughter of Sir Isaac Chukwudi, was called to the Nigerian Bar on Tuesday, November 29, 2016.                                             &

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