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Thursday, December 16, 2010

Author Of The Fugitive Offender: The Story Of A Political Prisoner Has Passed On


Chief Anthony Enahoro, (22nd July 1923-15th December 2010)

The author of the Fugitive offender: The story of a political prisoner and one of the greatest leaders of democracy in modern Africa, Chief Anthony Enahoro passed away yesterday. He was 87.

Chief Enahoro’s record as the youngest Editor of a mainstream Nigerian newspaper Southern Nigerian Defender at the young age of 21 in 1944 remains unbroken even in the computer age of the 21st century. The Southern Defender was published by the great African leader and Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, the first President of Nigeria. He was also the Editor of Dr. Azikiwe’s Comet in Kano from 1945-49, Associate Editor, West African Pilot, Lagos and Editor-in-Chief Morning Star, 1950-53.

Chief Enahoro joined the great Chief Obafemi Awolowo and other nationalists to form the Action Group party and was the Chairman and Secretary in Ishan Division Council; member Western House of Assembly and later member of the Federal House of Representatives in 1951. He was appointed the Minister of Home Affairs in the old western region. He was the Opposition spokesman on Foreign policy and Legislative Affairs in the Federal House of Representatives, 1959-63. In 1953 he attempted the first motion for the independence of Nigeria in the Nigerian Parliament.

Chief Enahoro was accused of treason as an accomplice of Chief Awolowo, but he escaped to the United Kingdom in 1963. He was extradited from the UK and joined Chief Awolowo in prison, but he was released by the Military Government in 1966.

His memoirs Fugitive offender: The story of a political prisoner chronicled this period of his colourful life.

His last herculean battle was against the tyrannical dictatorship of the despotic General Sani Abacha as the Chairman of the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), the frontline pro-democracy group that protested against the military junta of the Abacha from 1994-1998.

Chief Anthony Enahoro will be remembered as one of the founding fathers of the Republic of Nigeria and one of the heroes of Nigerian democracy.


~ By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima





Monday, March 1, 2010

Andrew Jaffe, Noted Journalist-Author and Former Editor of Adweek Magazine (1938-2010)

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Andrew Jaffe, Noted Journalist-Author and Former Editor of Adweek Magazine (1938-2010). (PRNewsFoto/Jaffe & Co., Inc.) NEW CANAAN, CT UNITED STATES

26 Feb 2010 20:38 Africa/Lagos

Andrew Jaffe, Noted Journalist-Author and Former Editor of Adweek Magazine (1938-2010)

NEW CANAAN, Conn., Feb. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Andrew Jaffe, a noted foreign correspondent for Newsweek, editor of Adweek Magazine, head of the international advertising Clio Awards, and finally a consultant to the advertising and marketing industries, died today after a courageous ten year battle with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow. He was 71.


(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100226/LA61715)


Fresh out of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Jaffe began his career as a newsman for the Associated Press where he won notice for his coverage of the 1965 Watts Riot. He then joined Newsweek Magazine, first as a domestic correspondent in Atlanta covering race relations, and then in 1969 as a correspondent and later bureau chief for its Africa bureau in Nairobi, Kenya. While there, he covered the Biafran civil war, the end of Haile Selassie's rule as emperor of Ethiopia, and Idi Amin's rule in Uganda, as well as the end of Portuguese colonialism in Mozambique and Angola. In 1975 he accepted a post back in the U.S. as bureau chief in Miami. He left Newsweek in 1977 to become business editor for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner.


In 1984, he set off for New York, where he worked as marketing director of the international travel firm, Special Expeditions. In 1986 he was hired by Adweek Magazine as editor of a regional edition based in Atlanta. And in 1988, he moved to New York to become editorial director of the magazine's six editions.


Jaffe spent the next 15 years immersed in advertising. In 1992 he was made a vice president of Adweek responsible for starting Adweek Conferences and other brand extensions; and, in 1997, he managed its acquisition of the Clio Awards. He headed the Clios for the next six years, until he retired from the company in 2003 and set up his own consultancy in Norwalk, Connecticut.


Before going to Columbia Journalism, Jaffe was a student at Phillips Exeter Academy and then Pomona College. From 1960-1962 he served on active duty in the U.S. Army in Korea and Alaska, with the rank of First Lieutenant.


Opening his own consultancy, Compass Consulting, in 2003, he worked for various New York agencies and for the One Club, helping it introduce the first awards show for branded entertainment, One Show Entertainment. He also served on the board of the Brandcenter, a graduate program at Virginia Commonwealth University that offers a masters degree in the creative side of advertising. As a board member, he helped establish its executive education program for mid-career professionals. In 2003, he authored a book, "Casting for Big Ideas," published by John Wiley & Co.


Jaffe was a member of the Cornell Club, the American Society of Magazine Editors and the Overseas Press Club. He was chairman of the Neal Awards program, sponsored by American Business Media to recognize excellence in business-to-business journalism.


His hobbies included fly fishing, travel and experiments with fiery cooking recipes. Jaffe was married to communications executive Eileen Ast in 1994. Their home is in New Canaan, Connecticut. Jaffe is survived by his wife, his son, Christopher, a computer executive, Chris' wife Katie and a granddaughter, Stella, all of whom live in Burlingame, California; a stepson, Nicholas Ast, a student at Eckerd College; and two brothers, Steve, a crisis PR expert in Beverly Hills, and Bruce, a computer specialist and photographer in New York City.


The family requests that in his memory people consider a charitable contribution to the Andrew Jaffe Scholarship Fund at the Brandcenter, Virginia Commonwealth University or to the Whittingham Cancer Center at Norwalk Hospital. Memorial services are pending.


For more information contact: Steve Jaffe, Jaffe & Co., Inc., public relations (310) 275-7327, info@stevejaffepr.com; ekharrington@vcu.edu for Brandcenter


Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100226/LA61715
PRN Photo Desk, photodesk@prnewswire.com
Source: Jaffe & Co., Inc.

CONTACT: Steve Jaffe of Jaffe & Co., Inc., Public Relations,
+1-310-275-7327, info@stevejaffepr.com; or ekharrington@vcu.edu for
Brandcenter


Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Nigeria / CPJ condemns police harassment of Desert Herald editor

15 Feb 2010 17:43 Africa/Lagos



Nigeria / CPJ condemns police harassment of Desert Herald editor

ABUJA, February 15, 2010/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on police and prosecutors in northern Nigeria to withdraw the threat of arrest and prosecution of Mallam Tukur, the editor-in-chief and publisher of the independent weekly, Desert Herald, based in Kaduna State.


Two plainclothes police arrested Tukur on defamation charges at his office in Kaduna on February 8 and took him to a police station in Bauchi State. He was released on bail the following day, the Nigerian Union of Journalists told CPJ. Police then withdrew the charges against Tukur at the Bauchi Magistrate Court on February 10 in order to re-arrest him under new, unspecified charges and take him to neighboring Yobe State, according to local news reports. Tukur told CPJ that the Yobe State judiciary staff has been on strike for the past four months, which would ensure he remains under police detention for a long time period if detained there.


According to defense lawyer Mahmoud Moussa, police attempted to re-arrest Tukur outside the Bauchi courtroom today without an arrest warrant or closure of the original case against him, but lawyers intervened. The initial defamation charges will be officially withdrawn on Monday, Moussa said. Police will then be legally able to arrest him under the new charges.


Local journalists told CPJ they believe police are trying to arrest Turkur because a recent edition of the Desert Herald had accused Yobe State Governor Ibrahim Geidam of rapidly acquiring several housing properties illicitly. The Desert Herald is considered one of a handful of critical independent newspapers still printing in northern Nigeria, local journalists told CPJ.


“We call on Nigerian authorities to cease harassing Mallam Tukur immediately and allow him to work freely without further threat of prosecution,” CPJ Africa Program Coordinator Tom Rhodes said.


The deputy governor of Yobe State, Danlami Bello, initially attained a warrant to arrest the critical editor for a September 2009 story in which the governor was alleged to have escaped a conspiracy to poison him, according to Tukur. Governor Geidam had publicly stated last year that there had been a plot to assassinate him, and the matter was widely covered by national newspapers.


Tukur is now in hiding and said he fears the police may arrest him without a warrant at any time. This is his third arrest in the past year, Desert Herald Assistant Editor Umar Abubakar told CPJ.


National police spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu did not answer repeated phone calls by CPJ.



Source: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

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