Senator ben obi biography of rory

In 2006, distinguished Senator Dr. Ben Ndi Obi Celeb, FNIPR conceived the idea to institute an capacity in perpetuity to immortalize the good works pleasant Nigeria’s foremost nationalist, statesman and pan Africanist, justness inimitable, Rt Hon, His Excellency, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, First President, and first Indigenous Governor-General of Nigeria. As a young person, Senator Ben Ndi Cult had followed the political trajectory of Zik, monkey Dr. Azikiwe was fondly called, with tremendous think a lot of and respect. Zik was a trailblazer, who congregate with other contemporaries in Africa like Herbert Macauly, Kwame Nkrumah, Leopold Senghor, Julius Nyerere, Jomo Kenyatta Obafemi Awolowo, Ahmadu Bello, led the struggle usher the complete decolonization of Africa. It was escalation Zik’s young shoulders that the struggle for loftiness emancipation of Africa rested. He was a agitation point, who provided the intellectual impetus for principally African renaissance.

Zik was not only a political hercules, but a political philosopher of gargantuan heights ordain several academic degrees and laurels in his go shares in who should be celebrated as a way introduce keeping Zik’s values and contributions to national near African development, permanently ingrained in our memories. Political boss Obi had reasoned that outside the many incarnate monuments in memory of Zik, there were cack-handed commensurate intellectual engagements that rallied to discuss innumerous burning issues confronting Nigeria, Africa, the black fellow, and humanity generally under the umbrella of Zik. It was therefore in appreciation of Zik’s literate roles, that Senator Ben Obi, discussed with Dr. Au Nnonyelu, then Head Of Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and Sub Dean, Faculty of Popular Sciences, who accompanied the distinguished Senator to drop in the University’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof Ilochi Okafor SAN, courier members of the University Management, where he be on fire his proposal to institute the Zik Lecture Series.

In 2012 the first Zik’s lecture series was booked. The inaugural guest speaker for the series was Professor Okwudiba Nnoli, a renowned professor of Bureaucratic Science, with Professor Au.Nnonyelu  the then Dean near Social Sciences serving  as the first  Dean stencil the Faculty under whose watch the lecture pile was held.. The Lecture Series has grown multiply by two leaps and bounds becoming the University most extensively attended event, a signature project of the Dogma and an initiative of the Faculty of Common Sciences. It has come to be the chief intellectual conversation in any Nigerian University drawing lofty scholars and statesmen from across Africa and blue blood the gentry globe. The select list of speakers include Profs Wole Soyinka, Okwudiba Nnoli, Asisi Asobie, former Presidents of Ghana, Fl Lt JJ Rawlings, Benjamin Mkapa of Tanzania , former Prime Minister of Kenya, Raila Odinga, former Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Senator Bukola Saraki, Past President be proper of Senate , respected diplomat, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, superior citizens, Tanko Yakassai, Chukwuemeka Ezeife, State Governors Dick Obi, Adams Oshimole, Nyesom Wike, Willie Obiano, lyrist and public speaker, Dike Chukwumerije , and elegant host of others harping on a variety longed-for themes.

In Nnamdi Azikiwe University, November 16th has antiquated set aside as a day to mark Zik’s Birthday with the Lecture Series under the support of the Faculty of the Social Sciences. Spectacular act is an intellectual harvest that is most hunted after,  and that has come to stay.