Dignitaries, others Mourn the Passing of Ikukuoma Nnewi, Eugene Chidiebele Anachebe

A host of Businessmen, academics, industrialists, custom Brass, royal fathers, and other individuals from other walks of life gathered at the Golden Tulip Hotel Amuwo Odofin, Festac Link Road, Lagos , on Tuesday 12^th November 2013 to honour  IKUKUOMA NNEWI, EUGENE CHIDIEBELE ANACHEBE ,MD Denca  services limited , who died recently in Lagos .

CHAIRMAN, EKULO GROUP OF COMPANIES, CHIEF(SIR) EMMA BISHOP OK0NKWO, OFR WITH HIS FRIENDS.

AREA COMPTROLLER OF CUSTOMS AND REPRESENTATIVE OF COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF CUSTOMS CAC. EZIKE COMMISERATING WITH CHIEF DENNIS OKAFOR, CHAIRMAN DENCA SERVICES LTD.

CHIARMAN MIDDLE POINT NIG LTD, CHIEF JOE OBIJIAKU AND A GUEST.

 CHAIRMAN FANO SHIPPING AGENCIES, SIR(AMBASSADOR) DAMAIN OBIANIGWE SHARING BANTERS WITH SENIOR CUSTOM OFFICERS PRESENT

 CHIEF CHARLES ODUNUKWE(OKEMMIRI).

 MR JOSEPH OKONKWO, GENERAL MANAGER EKULO GROUP OF COMPANIES.

MR INGRAM OSIGWE, MR HYCAINTH OSUCHUKWU(OKPATA) AND MR ANTHONY EZEUDU.

 COMMITTEE OF FRIENDS FOR LATE EUGENE ANACHEBE/

CATHOLIC BISHOP OF MINNA DIOCESE, REV DR MARTINS IGWE UZOUKWU DELIVERING HIS SERMON.

BIG CHI NGONADI AND CUSTOMS OFFICIALS AT THE WAKE -KEEP/

UMUDIM NNEWI WOMEN GROUP.

 MRS UZO JOE OBIJIAKU.

WIFE OF LATE CHIEF EUGENE, MRS NONYE ANACHEBE.

 LADY NGOZI BISHOP OKONKWO.

CHORISTERS AT THE EVENT.

 ICHI NA ICHI, OSSY OKONKWO.

 FRIENDS OF IKUKUOMA.

 ARRIVAL OF THE CLERGY.

 BARR PAT OKOYE AND FRIENDS.

CHAIRMAN OF DENCA SERICES LTD, CHIEF DENNIS OKAFOR EULOGISING HIS LATE MD.

The event was organized by his committee of friends, business associates, maritime community, his family and entire Nnewi community resident in Lagos.

 MR. EMEKA ORAMADIKE, MARKETN MANAGER, EKULO GROUP OF COMPANIES.

 SIR AND LADY JOE CHINWEZE.

 MR TONY OKOYE, PA TO CHIEF (SIR) EMMA BISHOP OKONKWO.

 SIR ISREAL EGWUONWU.

FATHER OJENAMUO CONSOLING MRS NONYE ANACHEBE.

The chairman of Ekulo Group of companies, Chief (Sir) Emma Bishop Okonkwo OFR, said he was hit hard by Chief. Anachebe’s death.

 FAMILY MEMBERS AND HIS WIDOW.

“We shall all miss EUGENE ANACHEBE. The family will miss a very loving and responsible father; friends will miss a reliable friend, who is loyal, frank and unpretentious; Nigeria and indeed Igbo land will miss another great son who is selfless and large hearted. Associates saw in him a responsible maritime mogul who always enjoyed adding value to peoples’ lives until he breathed his last”, Sir Okonkwo said.

VENUE OF THE WAKE KEEP.

Late Chief Eugene Anachebe will be interred to mother earth on Thursday 28^thNovember at his residence, Umudimunkwa, Nnewi, Anambra State.

~ By Mr. Ingram Adichie Osigwe

MD/CEO Fullpage International Communications Limited.

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Nigerian Times Blog Makes Top 200 Blogs for Film on Technorati

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Nigerian Times is still the most popular and most authoritative Nigerian news and information blog for reports on the motion picture industry and now on the top 200 blogs reporting the film industry on Technorati, the number one Internet search engine for searching blogs. By June 2008, Technorati was indexing 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media.

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Catholic Church of the Visitation in Festac Celebrates Harvest of Faith Building

 Catholic Church of the Visitation 1st Avenue Festac Town, Lagos, on Sunday 10th November held her Harvest Thanksgiving and Bazaar. The harvest titled "Harvest of Faith Building" afforded the parishioners an ample opportunity to brand and showcase their products.

~ From Mr. Ingram Adichie Osigwe MD/CEO Fullpage International Communications Limited.

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Christian Association of Nigerian-Americans Hail US Designation of Boko Haram As A Foreign Terrorist Organization

NEW YORK, Nov. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AT LAST, the United States government has done the right thing, and members of the Christian Association of Nigerian-Americans, CANAN, with about 1000 local churches in the US, are grateful to the LORD for answered prayers. We commend the US President Barack Obama and the State Department for this forthright decision. The designation and labeling of Boko Haram and Ansaru terror groups which was announced today in twin statements from the White House and State Department are a gratifying response to the demands of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, and the Christian Association of Nigerian-Americans. On behalf of CANAN, Dr. James Fadele, the association's President commends the US government for rising up eventually "to call a spade a spade." According to him, "since CANAN was formed in September last year, our major request to the American government is for the designation of these terror groups, especially Boko Haram, in the belief that at the very least such a designation would send a clear message to all concerned that the US government will not be handling these matters with kid gloves. We are delighted today that this has happened even if it took over a year of active advocacy." It is also our hope that with this significant turn by the US government today, a greater American involvement in the fight against these terror groups would ensue, because there is still a lot more work to be done. We want to specifically commend the new Assistant Secretary of State for Africa in the State Dept., the Honorable Ms. Linda Thomas-Greenfield and also White House Presidential Assistant for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, Ms. Lisa Monaco for their diligence and forthrightness. We note that since both said officials took office, a certain change in perspective of the US government over the Boko Haram issue became noticeable. Ms. Thomas-Greenfield in one of her early press conferences immediately made it clear that the US considers Boko Haram a terror group, while Ms. Monaco had been supportive of the call for Boko Haram designation since she served at the Justice Department, even at a time the previous leadership of State Dept. balked at the idea of designation of this despicable terror group. CANANUSA.ORG SOURCE Christian Association of Nigerian-Americans (CANAN) CONTACT: Pastor 'Laolu Akande, 516 819 4355, Executive Director, Christian Association of Nigerian-Americans, CANAN Releases displayed in Africa/Lagos time
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Farewell Festus Iyayi, Hero of Justice and Truth

Prof. Festus Iyayi. President of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) from 1986 to 1988. He was born in 1947, in Ugbegun, Ishan, Edo State.

Comrade Festus Iyayi, the first African writer to win the Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best Book Overall for his classic Nigerian civil war novel Heroes in 1988 has died with his boots on in active service for justice and truth in Nigeria.
He paid the supreme price in supreme sacrifice to secure the future of the poor masses of his socialist cause for true democracy and governance in the most populous country in Africa.


The issues he raised and addressed in his sociopolitical novels and essays have finally cost him his illustrious life as he was killed on Tuesday November 12 in an auto-crash in Lokoja when his vehicle was hit by a Nigerian Police escort truck (Toyota Hilux) in the the convoy of Kogi State Governor, Captain Idris Wada (retd.) The Kogi Sector Command of the Federal Road Safety Commission blamed the driver of the police escort truck for reckless driving by overtaking another vehicle in the convoy and then ramming into the Toyota Hiace bus belonging to the University of Benin's chapter of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in which Mr. Iyayi and two others were travelling in the opposite direction. Eye witness accounts reported that Iyayi's vehicle somersaulted three times before hitting a big tree in the bush. He died on the spot.

This tragedy is not unlike the other numerous preventable tragedies in Nigeria that made Iyayi to write Violence, one of his fantastic novels, which include The Contract and Awaiting Court Martial.
Festus Iyayi will be remembered as a highly principled African writer and one of the fearless champions and heroes in the nation building of a New Nigeria in the leadership of Africa.
May his great soul rest in peace.
Amen.

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