Fellow Nigerians,

Human life in Nigeria is so cheap these days and a lot of things are taken for granted. People witness horrifying spectacles, just shrug it off and move on. Our sense of shock has been numbed and our sense of outrage too has been blunted.

Are these really the end times? A Beer craft plane with four or five Nigerians on board has been missing for some days now. The people on board more likely than not are dead. It grieves my heart to think about their children, wives, husbands, brothers, sisters, fathers mothers. I can picture a family of one of the missing people, sitting with hopes forlorn by their radio sets, TVs, or phones anxiously awaiting news of their loved ones.

They will clutch to hopes however unfounded that by some miracle their precious ones could be alive.
Pray what is our dear country doing to find these people? What are the agencies responsible for things like this doing? How well equipped are they for the task at hand?

We have had a rash of air disasters in the recent past which ought to have made us alive to our responsibilities and duties as a serious nation. Honestly, this highlights our colossal failure at nationhood...

However, I know just how these people feel having recently lost someone dear to me. I am overwhelmed with grief for the families.

2 hours ago, I woke up from a troubling dream. In the dream I was in Ikeja, Lagos Nigeria and was looking up into a strange sky. It was very dark and tumultuous, but there seemed to be many planes taking off, and in the sky at once. It was as if people were fleeing on International flights out of Nigeria. These planes as they took off headed in different directions, as if any heading will suffice.

If you have an idea of what this dream might mean, please share with us. Meanwhile, I shall meditate on it and request that the Lord reveals and clarifies on the dream.

L'avion absent
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Les nigériens de camarade,

la vie humaine au Nigéria est ainsi bon marché de nos jours et beaucoup de choses sont pris pour accordé. Peuplez les lunettes horrifiants de témoin, gesticulez-juste les au loin et passez. Notre sens de choc a été engourdi et notre sens d'outrage aussi a été émoussé.

Est-ce que ce vraiment l'extrémité sont des périodes ? Un avion de métier de bière avec quatre ou cinq nigériens a été à bord absent pendant quelques jours maintenant. Le peuple à bord plus probablement que pas soyez mort. Il s'afflige mon coeur pour penser à leurs enfants, épouses, maris, frères, soeurs, mères de pères. Je peux décrire une famille d'une une des personnes absentes, séance avec les espoirs minces par leurs postes radio, TV, ou les téléphones attendant impatiemment des nouvelles de leur ont aimé ceux.

Ils saisiront aux espoirs cependant non fondés cela par un certain miracle leur que précieux pourrait être vivant.
Priez ce qui est notre cher pays faisant pour trouver ces personnes ? Que les agences responsables des choses comme ceci font-elles ? À quel point équipés sont-ils pour le charger actuel ?

Nous avons eu une éruption des désastres d'air dans le passé récent qui doit nous avoir rendus vivants à nos responsabilités et fonctions comme nation sérieuse. Honnêtement, ceci accentue notre échec colossal à la nationalité…

Cependant, je sais juste sentir de ces personnes récemment ayant perdu quelqu'un cher à moi. Je suis accablé avec peine pour les familles.

il y a 2 heures, je me suis réveillé d'un rêve préoccupant. Dans le rêve j'étais dans Ikeja, Lagos Nigéria et recherchais dans un ciel étrange. Il était très foncé et tumultueux, mais là semblé être beaucoup d'avions décollant, et dans le ciel immédiatement. Il était comme si les gens se sauvaient sur des vols internationaux hors du Nigéria. Ces avions comme ils ont décollé dirigé dans différentes directions, comme si n'importe quel titre suffira.

Si vous avez une idée de ce que ce rêve pourrait signifier, satisfaire la part avec nous. En attendant, je méditerai là-dessus et demanderai que le seigneur indique et clarifie sur le rêve.

El plano que falta
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Los Nigerians del compañero,

vida humana en Nigeria son así que barato actualmente y los muchos de cosas se toman para concedido. Pueble los espectáculos que horrorizan del testigo, apenas encójalos apagado y muévase encendido. Nuestro sentido del choque se ha entumecido y nuestro sentido del ultraje blunted también.

¿Son éstas realmente el extremo épocas? Un plano del arte de la cerveza con cuatro o cinco Nigerians a bordo ha faltado por algunos días ahora. La gente a bordo más probablemente que no sea muerto. Se aflige mi corazón para pensar de sus niños, esposas, maridos, hermanos, hermanas, madres de los padres. Puedo representar una familia de una de la gente que falta, sentada con las esperanzas desesperadas por sus sistemas de radio, TV, o los teléfonos que aguardaban ansiosamente noticias de su amaron unos.

Agarrarán a las esperanzas sin embargo infundadas eso por un cierto milagro sus que preciosos podrían estar vivos.
¿Ruegue cuál es nuestro estimado país que hace para encontrar a esta gente? ¿Qué las agencias responsables de cosas como esto están haciendo? ¿Como de bien equipados son para la tarea actual?

Hemos tenido una erupción de los desastres del aire en el pasado reciente que ought haber hechonos vivos a nuestras responsabilidades y deberes como nación seria. Honesto, esto destaca nuestra falta colosal en el nationhood…

Sin embargo, sé apenas sensación de esta gente que pierde recientemente a alguien estimado a mí. Me abruman con la pena para las familias.

hace 2 horas, desperté de un sueño preocupante. En el sueño estaba en Ikeja, Lagos Nigeria y miraba para arriba en un cielo extraño. Era muy oscuro y tumultuous, pero allí parecido ser muchos planos que sacaban, y en el cielo inmediatamente. Era como si la gente huyera en vuelos internacionales de Nigeria. Estos planos como sacaron dirigido en diversas direcciones, como si cualquier título sea suficiente.

Si usted tiene una idea de lo que pudo significar este sueño, satisfacer la parte con nosotros. Mientras tanto, meditate en él y solicitaré que el señor revela y clarifica en el sueño.

L'aereo mancante
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I Nigerians del collega,

vita umana in Nigeria è così poco costoso attualmente e le cose molto sono prese per assegnato. Popoli gli occhiali sconvolgenti del testimone, appena scrollili le spalle fuori e passi. Il nostro senso di scossa è stato intorpidito ed il nostro senso dell'oltraggio anche blunted.

Sono questi realmente l'estremità periodi? Un aereo del mestiere della birra con quattro o cinque Nigerians a bordo ha mancato per determinati giorni ora. Il più probabile a bordo della gente di non sia guasto. Si addolora il mio cuore per pensare ai loro bambini, mogli, mariti, i fratelli, sorelle, madri dei padri. Posso descrivere una famiglia di una della gente mancante, seduta con le speranze forlorn dai loro insiemi radiofonici, TV, o i telefoni che attendono ansiosamente le notizie del loro amavano ones.

Innesteranno alle speranze tuttavia non fondate quello da un certo miracolo loro preziosi che potrebbero essere vivi.
Preghi che cosa è il nostro paese caro che fa per trovare questa gente? Che cosa le agenzie responsabili delle cose come questa stanno facendo? Come dotati sono per l'operazione attuale?

Abbiamo avuti un'eruzione dei disastri dell'aria nel passato recente che deve renderlo vivi alle nostre responsabilità e funzioni come nazione seria. Onestamente, questo evidenzia il nostro guasto colossal al nationhood…

Tuttavia, so appena tatto di questa gente recentemente che perde qualcuno caro a me. Sono soprafato con il dolore per le famiglie.

2 ore fa, ho svegliato da un sogno disturbantemi. Nel sogno ero in Ikeja, Lagos Nigeria e stavo osservando in su in un cielo sconosciuto. Era molto scuro e tumultuous, ma là sembrato essere molti aerei che decollano e nel cielo immediatamente. Era come se la gente stesse fuggendo sui voli internazionali dalla Nigeria. Questi aerei come hanno tolto diretto nei sensi differenti, come se tutta l'intestazione basti.

Se avete un'idea di che cosa questo sogno potrebbe significare, soddisfarci parte con. Nel frattempo, meditate su esso e chiederò che il signore rivela e chiarisce sul sogno.

Die fehlende Fläche
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Mitnigerianer,

menschliches Leben in Nigeria ist, also preiswert werden diese Tage und eine Menge Sachen für bewilligt genommen. Bevölkeren Sie erschreckende Schauspiele des Zeuges, zucken Sie es einfach weg und bewegen Sie an. Unsere Richtung des Schlages numbed und unsere Richtung des Verbrechens auch ist abgestumpft worden.

Sind diese wirklich das Ende Zeiten? Eine Bierfertigkeitfläche mit vier oder fünf Nigerianern an Bord hat für einige Tage jetzt gefehlt. Die Leute an Bord wahrscheinlicher, als nicht tot seien Sie. Es macht sich mein Herz Sorgen, um an ihre Kinder, Frauen, Ehemänner, Brüder, Schwestern, Vatermütter zu denken. Ich kann eine Familie von einer der fehlenden Leute, Sitting mit den Hoffnungen, die durch ihre Radiosätze, Fernsehapparate darstellen verlassen sind, oder die Telefone, die besorgt Nachrichten von ihrem erwarten, liebten eine.

Sie erfassen unbegründeten Hoffnungen jedoch das zu den durch irgendein Wunder, ihre kostbaren, die lebendig sein konnten.
Beten Sie, was unser liebes Land ist, das tut, um diese Leute zu finden? Was tun die Agenturen, die für Sachen so verantwortlich sind? Wie gut sind sie für die zur Hand Aufgabe ausgerüstet?

Wir haben einen Hautausschlag der Luftunfälle in der neuen Vergangenheit gehabt, die uns lebendig gebildet haben soll zu unseren Verantwortlichkeiten und zu Aufgaben als ernste Nation. Ehrlich hebt dieses unseren colossal Ausfall an der Souveränität… hervor

Jedoch kann ich gerade fühlen dieser Leute jemand vor kurzem verlierend, das zu mir lieb ist. Ich werde mit Leid für die Familien überwältigt.

vor 2 Stunden, wachte ich von einem störenden Traum auf. Im Traum war ich in Ikeja, Lagos Nigeria und schaute oben in einen merkwürdigen Himmel. Es war sehr dunkel und tumultuous, aber dort geschienen, viele sofort startende Flächen zu sein und im Himmel. Es war, als ob Leute auf internationale Flüge aus Nigeria heraus flohen. Diese Flächen, wie sie vorangegangen in den unterschiedlichen Richtungen sich entfernten, als ob jede mögliche überschrift genügt.

Wenn Sie eine Idee haben von, was dieser Traum bedeuten konnte, Anteil mit uns gefallen. Unterdessen meditiere ich auf es und verlange, daß der Lord auf dem Traum aufdeckt und erklärt.

O plano faltante
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Os Nigerians do companheiro,

vida humana em Nigéria são assim que barato estes dias e os muitos das coisas são feitos exame para concedido. Povoe espetáculos horrorizando da testemunha, shrug apenas os fora e mova-se sobre. Nosso sentido de choque numbed e nosso sentido do ultraje demasiado blunted.

São estas realmente a extremidade épocas? Um plano do ofício da cerveja com os quatro ou cinco Nigerians na placa faltou por certos dias agora. Os povos na placa mais provavelmente do que não esteja inoperante. Aflige-se meu coração pensar sobre suas crianças, esposas, maridos, irmãos, irmãs, mães dos pais. Eu posso retratar uma família de um dos povos faltantes, assento com as esperanças forlorn por seus jogos de rádio, tevês, ou os telefones que esperam ansiosamente a notícia do seu amaram.

Embrearão a esperanças entretanto unfounded aquele por algum miracle seus preciosos que poderiam estar vivos.
Pray o que é nosso caro país que faz para encontrar estes povos? Que as agências responsáveis para coisas como esta estão fazendo? Como poço equipado são para a tarefa na mão?

Nós tivemos um rash de disastres do ar no passado recente que ought nos ter feito vivos a nossos responsabilidades e deveres como uma nação séria. Honesta, isto destaca nossa falha colossal no nationhood…

Entretanto, eu sei apenas sensação destes povos que perde recentemente alguém caro a mim. Eu sou oprimido com o grief para as famílias.

2 horas há, eu acordei de um sonho incomodando. No sonho eu estava em Ikeja, Lagos Nigéria e estava olhando acima em um céu estranho. Era muito escuro e tumultuous, mas parecido lá ser muitos planos que retiram, e no céu em uma vez. Era como se os povos estavam fujindo em vôos internacionais fora de Nigéria. Estes planos como fizeram exame dirigido fora em sentidos diferentes, como se todo o título bastará.

Se você tiver uma idéia de o que este sonho pôde significar, para satisfazer a parte com nós. Entrementes, eu meditate nele e pedirei que o senhor revela e esclarece no sonho.

Det saknat hyvlar
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Med- Nigerians,

människoliv i Nigeria är, så billigt pris dessa dagar och saker för en radda tas för beviljat. Bemanna skräckinjagande anblickar för vittne, den rättvisa axelryckningen det av och flyttningen på. Vår avkänning av chockar har numbed, och vår avkänning av övergreppet för har avtrubbats.

Är dessa egentligen avslutatiderna? Ett ölhantverk som är plant med fyra eller fem Nigerians har varit ombord, saknat för några dagar nu. Folket ombord troligen, än inte var död. Det grieves min hjärta till funderare om deras barn, fruar, makor, bröder, systrar, fäder fostrar. Jag kan föreställa en familj av ett av det saknade folket, radiosände ringer sammanträde med hopp som var forlorn vid deras, uppsättningar, tv:er eller angeläget att vänta på nyheterna av deras älskade.

De ska kopplingen till hopp emellertid som var ogrundada det vid något mirakel, deras dyrbara som kunde vara vid liv.
Be vad är vårt kära land som gör för att finna dessa folk? Vad är byråansvariga för sakernågot liknande detta göra? Hur den utrustade brunnen är de för uppgiften på räcker?

Vi har haft ett överilat av att lufta katastrofer i den nya förflutnan som ought att ha gjort oss vid liv till våra ansvar och arbetsuppgiftar som en allvarlig nation. Honestly markerar detta vårt kolossala fel på nationhooden…,

Emellertid vet jag hur precis dessa bemannar känselförnimmelsen ha som för en tid sedan är borttappad någon raringen till mig. Förmiddag som I förkrossas med sorgen för familjerna.

2 timmar sedan, vaknade jag upp från en besvära dröm. I drömmen var såg jag i Ikeja, Lagos Nigeria och upp in i en konstig sky. Det var mycket mörkret och tumultartat, men där verkat för att vara många hyvlar att ta av, och i skyen strax. Det var som, om folket flydde på landskampflyg ut ur Nigeria. Dessa hyvlar, som de tog av hövdat i olika riktningar, som, om någon ska överskrift suffice.

Om du har en idé av vad detta dröm- styrkamedel, behar aktie med oss. Under tiden mediterar ber jag på det och att lorden avslöjer och klargör på drömmen.

Пропавшая плоскость
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Собрат Nigerians,

человеческая жизнь в Нигерии поэтому дешево these days и множество вещей принято для после того как оно дарено. Населите зрелища заверителя horrifying, как раз shrug оно и двиньте дальше. Наше чувство удара было онемето и наше чувство надругательства слишком было притуплено.

Будут эти реально конец времена? Плоскость корабля пива с 4 или 5 Nigerians на борту пропавша на некоторые дни теперь. Люди на борту вероятее чем не будьте мертво. Оно горюет мое сердце для того чтобы думать о их детях, супругах, супругах, братьях, сестрах, матях отцов. Я могу изобразить семью одного из пропавших людей, усаживание с упованиями forlorn их radio комплектами, TVs, или телефоны тревожено жда новостей их полюбили одни.

Они схватят к упованиям однако unfounded то некоторым чудом их драгоценные, котор одни смогли быть живы.
Помолите будет нашей дорогой страной делая для того чтобы найти эти людей? Агенства ответственные для вещей как это делают? How well оборудованы они для задачи под рукой?

Мы имели сыпь бедствий воздуха в недавнем прошлом ought сделать нас живо к нашим ответственностям и обязанностям как серьезная нация. Честно, это выделяет наш колоссальный отказ на nationhood…

Однако, я умею как раз как чывство этих людей недавн теряя кто-то дорогое к мне. Я overwhelmed с печалью для семей.

2 часа тому назад, я wake up от беспокоя сновидения. В сновидении я находился в Ikeja, Lagos Нигерии и смотрел вверх в странное небо. Оно было очень темно и tumultuous, но там после того как оно показано для того чтобы быть много плоскостей take off, и в небе сразу. Оно было если люди исчезали на международных полетах из Нигерии. Эти плоскости по мере того как они take off после того как они возглавлены в по-разному направлениях, если любая рубрика будет достаточным.

Если вы имеете идею, то это сновидение могло намереваться, угодить доле с нами. Между тем, я meditate на ем и спросить что лорд показывает и уточняет на сновидении.

Het ontbrekende Vliegtuig
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Mede Nigerianen,

het Menselijke leven in Nigeria is deze dagen zo goedkoop en heel wat dingen worden genomen voor verleend. De mensen getuigen met afschuw vervullende bril, haal het op enkel weg en beweeg me. Onze betekenis van schok is geweest numbed en onze betekenis van verontwaardiging is ook afgestompt.

Zijn dit werkelijk het eind tijden? Een de ambachtvliegtuig van het Bier met vier of vijf Nigerianen heeft aan boord voor enkele dagen nu gemist. De mensen aan boord van waarschijnlijker dan niet dood zijn. Het grieves mijn hart om over hun kinderen, vrouwen, echtgenoten, broers, zusters, vadersmoeders te denken. Ik kan een familie van één van de ontbrekende mensen voorstellen, die met hoop forlorn door hun radioreeksen, TVs, of telefoons zitten die angstig op nieuws van hun gehouden van degenen wachten.

Zij zullen koppeling aan ongegronde hoop nochtans dat door één of ander mirakel hun kostbare degenen in leven zouden kunnen zijn.
Bid wat ons beste land dat is deze mensen doet vinden? Wat doen de agentschappen verantwoordelijk voor dingen als dit? Hoe goed uitgerust worden zij voor de dichtbije taak?

Wij hebben een uitbarsting van luchtrampen in het recente verleden gehad dat ons zou moeten levend gemaakt hebben aan onze verantwoordelijkheden en plichten als ernstige natie. Eerlijk, benadrukt dit onze kolossale mislukking bij nationhood…

Nochtans, weet ik enkel hoe deze mensen onlangs hebben verlorend iemand beste aan me voelen. Ik word overweldigd met zorg voor de families.

2 uren geleden, ontwaakte ik van een verontrustende droom. In de droom was ik in Ikeja, Lagos Nigeria en keek omhoog in een vreemde hemel. Het was zeer donker en tumultuous, maar er schenen vele vliegtuigen te zijn die, en in de hemel meteen van start gaan. Het was alsof de mensen op Internationale vluchten uit Nigeria vluchtten. Deze vliegtuigen aangezien zij geleid in verschillende richtingen opstegen, alsof om het even welke rubriek voldoende zal zijn.

Als u een idee hebt van wat deze droom zou kunnen betekenen, gelieve met ons te delen. Ondertussen, zal ik meditate op het en verzoek die Lord openbaart en op de droom verduidelijkt.

الطائرة مفقودة
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رفيقة نيجيريّ,

حياة إنسانيّة في نيجيريا لذلك بثمن زهيد [ثس دس] وأخذت [ا لوت] الأشياء ل يمنح. عمّرت شاهدة يروّع مشاهد, فقط اقشعرّت هو باتّجاه آخر وتحرّكت فوق. أخدر إحساسنا الصدمة يتلقّى يكون وإحساسنا الهجوم أيضا يتلقّى يكون تثلّمت.

يكونون هذا حقّا النهاية أوقات? جعة حرفة قد كان طائرة مع أربعة أو خمسة نيجيريّ [أن بوأرد] مفقودة ل بعض أيام الآن. الالناس [أن بوأرد] أكثر محتمل من لا ميّتة. هو يحزن قلبي أن يفكّر حول أطفالهم, زوجات, أزواج, إخوان, أخوات, آباء أمهات. أنا يستطيع تمثّلت أسرة من واحدة من الالناس مفقودة, جلسة مع أمل يائسة بمجموعتهم لاسلكيّة, [تفس], أو أحبّ هواتف بقلق يترقّب أخبار من هم أحد.

هم سيتشبّثون إلى أمل مهما مسندة أنّ ب بعض معجزتهم ثمينة أحد استطاع كنت حيّة.
صلّيت ماذا يكون بلدنا عزيزة يتمّ أن يجد هذا الناس? ماذا يكون الوكالات مسؤولة لأشياء مثل هذا يتمّون? [هوو ولّ] يجهّز يكونون هم للمهمة [أت هند]?

نحن قد تلقّينا طفح جلديّ من هواء كوارث في الماض أخيرة أيّ ينبغي أن يتلقّى جعلتنا حيّة إلى نا مسؤوليات وواجب رسم كأمة جدّيّة. بنزاهة, يركّز هذا إخفاقنا ضخمة في كيان وطنيّ…

مهما, يعرف أنا فقط كيف هذا الناس إحساس يتلقّى مؤخّرا يخسر أحد ما عزيزة إلى ي. أنا قهرت مع حزن للأسرات.

2 ساعات [أغو], أفاق أنا من يكدّر حلم. في الحلم كان أنا في [إيكجا], لاغوس نيجيريا وكان نظر فوق داخل سماء غريبة. هو كان جدّا مظلمة ومشاغبة, غير أنّ هناك يبدو أن يكون كثير طائرات [تك وفّ], وفي السماء فورا. هو كان [أس يف] هرب الناس كان على [إينترنأيشنل فليغت] من نيجيريا. هذا طائرات بما أنّ هم [تك وفّ] [هدد] في اتّجاهات مختلفة, [أس يف] سيكفي أيّ ترويسة.

إن أنت تتلقّى فكرة من ماذا هذا حلم أمكن عنيت, سررت سهم مع نا. في الوقت نفسه, سيعتزم أنا سوفت على هو وسيرجو أنّ اللورد يكشف ويوضح على الحلم.

The US government has announced the establishment of a new Centre for Genomics and Health Disparities to be headed by a Nigerian-born US-based scholar, scientist and researcher, Dr. Charles Rotimi, Empowered Newswire, a US-based Nigerian news agency has reported.

The announcement, made last week by the US-government owned National Institutes of Health in a statement, said the centre would be known as the NIH Intramural Centre for Genomics and Health Disparities. It said ti would be a venue for research about the way populations were impacted by diseases, including obesity, diabetes and hypertension.”

NIH is the US government‘s major medical research agency with 27 institutes and centres.

It is part of the US government‘s Department of Health and Human Services, an equivalent of Nigeria‘s Federal Ministry of Health.

Under Rotimi‘s leadership, the centre is also expected to provide ”training opportunities for students and established scientists from developing countries and from minority groups in the United States.

Rotimi, who was described as the ”internationally renowned genetic epidemiologist,” is based in the state of Maryland in the US, where the new centre is also located.

He is a graduate of the University of Benin where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1979 in Biochemistry, before travelling to the US to do a Master‘s Degree in Epidemiology at the University of Mississippi, 1983, and a second Master‘s degree-in Public Health, that is, -M.P.H. from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1988.

In 1991 Rotimi completed his PhD. in Epidemiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

With over 80 published papers, Rotimi is known as a leader globally in his specialised area of Genetic research.

In 1992, a year after his PhD, he became an Assistant Professor at the Loyola University in Chicago, where he later rose to become Associate Professor.

In 1996, the US government recognised him and appointed him a Grant Reviewer at the NIH, where he rose to become a Senior Investigator and the acting director four years ago.

Rotimi‘s rise at the US government-owned NIH in Maryland coincided with his relocation from Loyola University to Howard University in Washington, DC, which borders Maryland immediately to the South. Howard is regarded as the best US black controlled university.

He became Director of Genetic Epidemiology at Howard in 1999 and a full professor at the same university in 2003.

The Nigerian-trained scientists was elected Co-Chairman of the American Diabetic Association in 2001 and the President of the African Society of Human Genetics in 2004.

According to the statement, ”a key focus of Rotimi‘s research is understanding the triangular relationship between obesity, hypertension, and diabetes, which together account for more than 80 per cent of the health disparity between African Americans and European Americans.”

It was added that the genetic epidemiology models developed by Rotimi and his group were now ”helping to address whether high disease rates are the result of exposure to environmental risk factors, genetic susceptibility, or an interaction between the two.”

Besides, Rotimi is currently ”engaged in the first genome-wide scan of an African American cohort, with the goal of identifying genes associated with obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome. More than 2,000 participants from multigenerational African American families are enrolled in this large-scale genetic epidemiology study.”

The new US institute headed by Rotimi will employ a Genomics approach, collecting and analysing genetic, clinical, lifestyle and socio-economic data to study a range of clinical conditions that have puzzled and troubled public health experts for decades.

By Agency reporter

Les USA nomment le scientifique nigérien au centre principal de recherches
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Le gouvernement des USA a annoncé l'établissement d'un nouveau centre pour que la génomique et les disparités de santé soient dirigées par un disciple, un scientifique et un chercheur basés aux EU Nigérien-soutenus, Dr. Charles Rotimi, Newswire autorisé, une agence de nouvelles nigérienne basée aux EU a rapporté.

L'annonce, faite la semaine dernière par le Nous-gouvernement a possédé les instituts nationaux de la santé dans un rapport, a dit que le centre serait connu comme centre intra-muros de NIH pour la génomique et les disparités de santé. Ce ledit Ti serait un lieu de rendez-vous pour la recherche au sujet de la manière que des populations ont été effectuées par les maladies, y compris l'obésité, le diabète et l'hypertension.  »

NIH est l'agence principale de recherches médicales du `s de gouvernement des USA avec 27 instituts et centres.

Ce fait partie du département du `s de gouvernement des USA des services de santé et humains, un équivalent du ministère du `s du Nigéria de la santé fédéral.

Sous la conduite du `s de Rotimi, on s'attend à ce qu'également le centre fournisse des » possibilités de formation pour des étudiants et des scientifiques établis des pays en voie de développement et des groupes de minorité aux Etats-Unis.

Rotimi, qui a été décrit en tant que » épidémiologue génétique internationalement renommé, » est basé dans l'état du Maryland aux USA, où le nouveau centre est également localisé.

Il est un diplômé de l'université du Bénin où il a gagné un licencié en degré de la Science en 1979 en biochimie, avant le déplacement aux USA pour faire un degré principal du `s en épidémiologie à l'université du Mississippi, 1983, et d'un deuxième `s de maître degré-dans la santé publique, c'est-à-dire, - M/H. de l'université de l'Alabama à Birmingham, 1988.

En Rotimi 1991 accompli son PhD. en épidémiologie à l'université de l'Alabama à Birmingham.

Avec plus de 80 papiers édités, Rotimi est connu en tant que chef globalement dans son domaine spécialisé de recherche génétique.

En 1992, une année après son PhD, il est devenu un professeur auxiliaire à l'université de Loyola Chicago, où il plus tard s'est levé pour devenir professeur d'associé.

En 1996, le gouvernement des USA l'a identifié et l'a nommé un critique de Grant au NIH, où il s'est levé pour devenir un investigateur aîné et le directeur temporaire il y a quatre ans.

L'élévation du `s de Rotimi aux USA NIH de propriété de l'Etat dans le Maryland a coïncidé avec sa relocalisation d'université de Loyola à l'université de Howard à Washington, le C.C, qui encadre le Maryland immédiatement aux sud. Howard est considéré comme la meilleure université commandée noire des USA.

Il est devenu directeur de l'épidémiologie génétique chez Howard en 1999 et d'un plein professeur à la même université en 2003.

Les scientifiques Nigérien-qualifiés ont été élus Co-Président de l'association diabétique américaine en 2001 et le président de la société africaine de la génétique humaine en 2004.

Selon le rapport, » un centre principal de recherche du `s de Rotimi est arrangement le rapport triangulaire entre l'obésité, l'hypertension, et le diabète, qui expliquent ensemble plus de 80 pour cent de la disparité de santé entre les Américains africains et les Américains européens.  »

On l'a ajouté que les modèles génétiques d'épidémiologie développés par Rotimi et son groupe maintenant » aidaient à adresser si les taux élevés de la maladie sont le résultat de l'exposition aux facteurs de risque environnementaux, susceptibilité génétique, ou une interaction entre les deux.  »

En outre, Rotimi » est actuellement engagé dans le premier balayage génome-large d'une cohorte américaine africaine, avec le but d'identifier des gènes liés à l'obésité, à l'hypertension, au diabète, et au syndrome métabolique. Plus de 2.000 participants des familles américaines africaines de multigenerational sont inscrits dans cette étude génétique à grande échelle d'épidémiologie. »

Le nouvel institut des USA dirigé par Rotimi utilisera génomique s'approchent, rassemblement et analyse génétique, clinique, style de vie et données socio-économiques pour étudier une gamme des conditions cliniques qui ont embarassé et les experts en matière préoccupés de santé publique pendant des décennies.

Par le journaliste d'Agency

Los E.E.U.U. designan a científico nigeriano al centro de investigación principal
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El gobierno de los E.E.U.U. ha anunciado el establecimiento de un nuevo centro para que Genomics y las disparidades de la salud sean dirigidos por un erudito, un científico y un investigador Nosotros-basados Nigeriano-llevados, el Dr. Charles Rotimi, Newswire autorizado, una agencia de noticias nigeriana Nosotros-basada ha divulgado.

El aviso, hecho la semana pasada por el Nosotros-gobierno poseyó a institutos nacionales de la salud en una declaración, dijo que el centro sería conocido como el centro intramuros de NIH para Genomics y las disparidades de la salud. Ti dicho sería un lugar para la investigación sobre la manera que enfermedades afectaron a las poblaciones, incluyendo obesidad, diabetes y la hipertensión. ”

NIH es la agencia principal de la investigación médica del `s del gobierno de los E.E.U.U. con 27 institutos y centros.

Es parte del departamento del `s del gobierno de los E.E.U.U. de los servicios de salud y humanos, un equivalente del ministerio federal del `s de Nigeria de la salud.

Bajo dirección del `s de Rotimi, se espera que el centro también proporcione las” oportunidades de entrenamiento para los estudiantes y los científicos establecidos de países en vías de desarrollo y de grupos de la minoría en los Estados Unidos.

Rotimi, que fue descrito como” el epidemiólogo genético internacionalmente renombrado,” se basa en el estado de Maryland en los E.E.U.U., en donde el nuevo centro también se localiza.

Él es un graduado de la universidad de Benin en donde él ganó a soltero del grado de la ciencia en 1979 en bioquímica, antes de viajar a los E.E.U.U. para hacer un grado principal del `s en epidemiología en la universidad de Mississippi, 1983, y de un segundo `s del amo grado-en salud pública, es decir, - M.p.h. de la universidad de Alabama en Birmingham, 1988.

En Rotimi 1991 terminado su PhD. en epidemiología en la universidad de Alabama en Birmingham.

Con sobre 80 papeles publicados, Rotimi se conoce como líder global en su área especializada de la investigación genética.

En 1992, un año después de su PhD, él hizo profesor auxiliar en la universidad de Loyola en Chicago, adonde él se levantó más adelante para hacer profesor de asociado.

En 1996, el gobierno de los E.E.U.U. lo reconoció y lo designó un revisor de Grant en el NIH, adonde él se levantó para hacer investigador mayor y el director temporario hace cuatro años.

La subida del `s de Rotimi en los E.E.U.U. NIH gubernamental en Maryland coincidió con su relocalización de la universidad de Loyola a la universidad de Howard en Washington, la C.C., que confina Maryland inmediatamente al sur. Miran a Howard como la mejor universidad controlada negra de los E.E.U.U.

Él hizo director de la epidemiología genética en Howard en 1999 y un profesor lleno en la misma universidad en 2003.

Eligieron a los científicos Nigeriano-entrenados Co-Presidente de la asociación diabética americana en 2001 y el presidente de la sociedad africana de la genética humana en 2004.

Según la declaración,” un foco dominante de la investigación del `s de Rotimi está entendiendo la relación triangular entre la obesidad, la hipertensión, y la diabetes, que de junto explican más de 80 por ciento de la disparidad de la salud entre los americanos africanos y los americanos europeos. ”

Fue agregado que los modelos genéticos de la epidemiología desarrollados por Rotimi y su grupo ahora” ayudaban a tratar si las altas tarifas de la enfermedad son el resultado de la exposición a los factores de riesgo ambientales, susceptibilidad genética, o una interacción entre los dos. ”

Además, Rotimi” se contrata actualmente a la primera exploración genoma-ancha de una cohorte americana africana, con la meta de identificar los genes asociados a obesidad, a la hipertensión, a la diabetes, y al síndrome metabólico. Alistan a más de 2.000 participantes de las familias americanas africanas del multigenerational en este estudio genético en grande de la epidemiología.”

El nuevo instituto de los E.E.U.U. dirigido por Rotimi empleará un acercamiento de Genomics, recogiendo y analizando genético, clínico, forma de vida y dato socioeconómico para estudiar una gama de las condiciones clínicas que han desconcertado y los expertos preocupados de la salud pública por décadas.

Por el reportero de Agency

Gli Stati Uniti nominano lo scienziato nigeriano al centro di ricerca capo
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Il governo degli Stati Uniti ha annunciato l'istituzione di nuovo centro per Genomics e le disparità di salute da dirigere dall'Nigeriano-sopportato Noi-hanno basato l'erudito, lo scienziato ed il ricercatore, il Dott. Charles Rotimi, Newswire autorizzato, a Noi-ha basato l'agenzia di notizie nigeriana ha segnalato.

L'annuncio, fatto ultima settimana dal Noi-governo ha posseduto gli istituti nazionali di salute in una dichiarazione, ad esempio che il centro sarebbe conosciuto come il centro Intramural di NIH per Genomics e le disparità di salute. Ti detto sarebbe una sede della riunione per ricerca circa il senso che le popolazioni sono state avute effetto su dalle malattie, compreso l'obesità, il diabete e l'ipertensione. „

NIH è l'agenzia principale di ricerca medica del `s di governo degli Stati Uniti con 27 istituti e centri.

Fa parte del reparto del `s di governo degli Stati Uniti dei servizi umani e di salute, un equivalente del ministero della sanità del `s della Nigeria federale.

Sotto direzione del `s di Rotimi, il centro inoltre si pensa che offra„ le occasioni di addestramento degli allievi e degli scienziati stabiliti dai p#si in via di sviluppo e dai gruppi di minoranza negli Stati Uniti.

Rotimi, che è stato descritto come„ l'epidemiologo genetico internazionalmente renowned,„ è basato nel dichiarare di Maryland negli Stati Uniti, in cui il nuovo centro inoltre è individuato.

È un laureato dell'università de Benin in cui ha guadagnato un Bachelor del grado di scienza in 1979 in biochimica, prima di viaggiare negli Stati Uniti per fare un grado matrice del `s in epidemiologia all'università de Mississippi, 1983 e di un secondo `s del padrone grado-nella sanità pubblica, cioè - M.p.h. dall'università de Alabama a Birmingham, 1988.

In Rotimi 1991 completato il suo PhD. in epidemiologia all'università de Alabama a Birmingham.

Con oltre 80 carte pubblicate, Rotimi è conosciuto come capo globalmente nella sua zona specializzata di ricerca genetica.

In 1992, un anno dopo il suo PhD, è diventato un professore di aiuto all'università del Loyola in Chicago, in cui più successivamente è aumentato per diventare professore di socio.

In 1996, il governo degli Stati Uniti lo ha riconosciuto e lo ha nominato un critico del Grant al NIH, dove è aumentato per diventare un ricercatore maggiore ed il direttore sostituto quattro anni fa.

L'aumento del `s di Rotimi agli Stati Uniti NIH di proprietà dello stato in Maryland ha coinciso con la sua rilocazione dall'università del Loyola all'università del Howard in Washington, DC, che borders immediatamente Maryland al sud. Howard si considera come l'università controllata nera degli Stati Uniti migliore.

È diventato direttore dell'epidemiologia genetica a Howard in 1999 e ad un professore pieno alla stessa università in 2003.

Gli scienziati Nigeriano-addestrati sono stati scelti Co-Presidente dell'associazione diabetica americana in 2001 ed il presidente della società africana della genetica umana in 2004.

Secondo la dichiarazione,„ un fuoco chiave di ricerca del `s di Rotimi sta capendo il rapporto triangolare fra l'obesità, l'ipertensione ed il diabete, che rappresentano insieme più di 80 per cento della disparità di salute fra gli Americani africani e gli Americani europei. „

È stato aggiunto che i modelli genetici di epidemiologia sviluppati da Rotimi e dal suo gruppo ora„ stavano contribuendo a richiamare se gli alti tassi di malattia sono il risultato di esposizione ai fattori di rischio ambientali, predisposizione genetica, o un'interazione fra i due. „

Inoltre, Rotimi attualmente„ è agganciato nella prima esplorazione genome-larga di un gruppo americano africano, con l'obiettivo di identificare i geni connessi con l'obesità, l'ipertensione, il diabete e la sindrome metabolica. Più di 2.000 partecipanti dalle famiglie americane africane di multigenerational sono iscritti a questo studio genetico su grande scala di epidemiologia.„

Il nuovo istituto degli Stati Uniti diretto da Rotimi impiegherà un metodo di Genomics, raccogliente ed analizzante genetico, clinico, lifestyle e dato socio-economico per studiare una gamma di circostanze cliniche che hanno imbarazzato ed esperti disturbati di sanità pubblica per le decadi.

Dal reporter dell'Agency

US ernennen nigerischen Wissenschaftler zum Hauptforschungszentrum
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Die US Regierung hat die Einrichtung einer neuen Mitte verkündet, damit Genomics und Gesundheit Verschiedenheiten von einem Nigerisch-getragenen Uns-gegründeten Gelehrten, von einem Wissenschaftler und von einem Forscher, Dr. vorangegangen werden können Charles Rotimi, bevollmächtigtes Newswire, eine Uns-gegründete nigerische Nachrichtenagentur hat berichtet.

Die Ansage, gebildet letzte Woche durch die Uns-Regierung besaß nationale Institute der Gesundheit in einer Aussage, sagte, daß die Mitte als die NIH Intramural Mitte für Genomics und Gesundheit Verschiedenheiten bekannt. Es besagtes Ti würde ein Schauplatz für Forschung über die Weise, die Bevölkerungen durch Krankheiten ausgewirkt wurden, einschließlich Korpulenz, Diabetes und Bluthochdruck sein. “

NIH ist die US Regierung `s medizinische Forschung hauptsächlichagentur mit 27 Instituten und Mitten.

Es ist ein Teil des US Regierung `s Ministeriums für Gesundheitspflege und Soziale Dienste, ein äquivalent Nigeria `s des Bundesministeriums der Gesundheit.

Unter Rotimi `s Führung wird die Mitte auch erwartet, um“ Ausbildungsgelegenheiten für Kursteilnehmer und hergestellte Wissenschaftler aus Entwicklungsländern und von den Minoritätgruppen in den Vereinigten Staaten zur Verfügung zu stellen.

Rotimi, das als der“ international berühmte genetische Kenner der epidemischen Krankheiten beschrieben wurde,“ basiert im Zustand von Maryland in den US, in dem die neue Mitte auch lokalisiert wird.

Er ist ein Absolvent der Universität von Benin, in der er einen Bakkalaureus der Wissenschaften Grad 1979 in der Biochemie erwarb, bevor er in die US, zum eines Vorlagen`s Grads in der Epidemiologie an der Universität von Mississippi, 1983 zu tun reiste, und des zweiten Meister`s Grad-im öffentlichen Gesundheitswesen, das heißt, - MPH. von der Universität von Alabama in Birmingham, 1988.

Rotimi 1991 durchgeführt seinem PhD. in der Epidemiologie an der Universität von Alabama in Birmingham.

Mit über 80 erschienenen Papieren bekannt Rotimi als Führer global in seinem fachkundigen Bereich der genetischen Forschung.

1992 ein Jahr nach seinem PhD, wurde er ein behilflicher Professor an der Loyola Universität in Chicago, wohin er später stieg, um Teilnehmer-Professor zu werden.

Vor 1996 erkannte die US Regierung ihn und ernannte ihn einen Grant Rezensenten am NIH, wohin er stieg, um ein älterer Forscher und der verantwortliche Direktor vier Jahren zu werden.

Rotimi `s Aufstieg an den US staatliches NIH in Maryland stimmte mit seiner Verschiebung von Loyola Universität zu Howard Universität in Washington, DC überein, das Maryland sofort zum Süden einfaßt. Howard wird wie die beste US schwarze kontrollierte Universität betrachtet.

Er wurde Direktor der genetischen Epidemiologie an Howard 1999 und an einem vollen Professor an der gleichen Universität 2003.

Die Nigerisch-ausgebildeten Wissenschaftler wurden Co-Vorsitzenden der amerikanischen zuckerkranken Verbindung 2001 und den Präsidenten der afrikanischen Gesellschaft der menschlichen Genetik 2004 gewählt.

Entsprechend der Aussage“ ein Schlüsselfokus Rotimi `s der Forschung versteht das dreieckige Verhältnis zwischen Korpulenz, Bluthochdruck und Diabetes, die zusammen mehr als 80 Prozent der Gesundheit Verschiedenheit zwischen afrikanischen Amerikanern und europäischen Amerikanern ausmachen. “

Es wurde addiert, daß die genetischen Epidemiologiemodelle, die von Rotimi und von seiner Gruppe entwickelt wurden, jetzt“ halfen zu wenden, ob hohe Krankheitrate das Resultat der Aussetzung zu den Klimagefahr Faktoren, genetische Anfälligkeit oder eine Interaktion zwischen den zwei ist. “

Außerdem, nimmt Rotimi z.Z.“ an dem ersten Genom-breiten Scan einer afrikanischen amerikanischen Kohorte, mit dem Ziel des Kennzeichnens der Gene teil, die mit Korpulenz, Bluthochdruck, Diabetes und metabolischem Syndrom verbunden sind. Mehr als 2.000 Teilnehmer multigenerational von den afrikanischen amerikanischen Familien werden eingeschrieben in dieser großräumigen genetischen Epidemiologiestudie.“

Das neue US Institut, das von Rotimi vorangegangen wird, setzt eine Genomics Annäherung ein und sammelt und analysiert genetisch, klinisch, Lebensstil und sozioökonomische Daten, um eine Strecke der klinischen Bedingungen zu studieren, die und gestörte Experten des öffentlichen Gesundheitswesens für Dekaden verwirrt haben.

Durch Agency Reporter

Os E.U. apontam o cientista Nigerian para o centro de pesquisa principal
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O governo dos E.U. anunciou o estabelecimento de um centro novo para que Genomics e os Disparities da saúde sejam dirigidos por um scholar, por um cientista e por um investigador Nos-baseados Nigerian-carregados, Dr. Charles Rotimi, Newswire Empowered, uma agência de notícia Nigerian Nos-baseada relatou.

O anúncio, feito última semana pelo Nos-governo possuiu institutos nacionais da saúde em uma indicação, disse que o centro estaria sabido como o centro Intramural de NIH para Genomics e Disparities da saúde. Ti dito seria um venue para a pesquisa sobre a maneira que as populações foram impactadas por doenças, including o obesity, o diabetes e o hypertension. ”

NIH é a agência principal da pesquisa médica do `s do governo dos E.U. com 27 institutos e centros.

É parte do departamento do `s do governo dos E.U. dos serviços de saúde e humanos, um equivalente do Ministry do `s de Nigéria de saúde federal.

Sob a liderança do `s de Rotimi, o centro espera-se também fornecer de” oportunidades treinamento para estudantes e cientistas estabelecidos dos países tornando-se e dos grupos do minority nos Estados Unidos.

Rotimi, que foi descrito como” o epidemiólogo genetic internacional renowned,” é baseado no estado de Maryland nos E.U., onde o centro novo é encontrado também.

É um graduado da universidade de Benin onde ganhou um celibatário do grau da ciência em 1979 no Biochemistry, antes de viajar aos E.U. para fazer um grau mestre do `s no Epidemiology na universidade de Mississippi, 1983, e de um segundo `s do mestre grau-na saúde pública, isto é, - M.p.h. da universidade de Alabama em Birmingham, 1988.

Em Rotimi 1991 terminado seu PhD. no Epidemiology na universidade de Alabama em Birmingham.

Com sobre 80 papéis publicados, Rotimi é sabido como um líder global em sua área especializada de pesquisa Genetic.

Em 1992, um ano após seu PhD, transformou-se um professor assistente na universidade de Loyola em Chicago, aonde se levantou mais tarde para se transformar professor de associado.

Em 1996, o governo dos E.U. reconheceu-o e apontou-o um revisor de Grant no NIH, aonde se levantou para se transformar um Investigator sênior e o diretor ativo quatro anos há.

A ascensão do `s de Rotimi nos E.U. NIH government-owned em Maryland coincidiu com seu relocation da universidade de Loyola à universidade de Howard em Washington, a C.C., que limita Maryland imediatamente ao sul. Howard é considerado como a mais melhor universidade controlada preta dos E.U.

Transformou-se diretor do Epidemiology Genetic em Howard em 1999 e em um professor cheio na mesma universidade em 2003.

Os cientistas Nigerian-treinados foram elegidos Co-Presidente da associação Diabetic americana em 2001 e o presidente da sociedade africana do Genetics humano em 2004.

De acordo com a indicação,” um foco chave da pesquisa do `s de Rotimi está compreendendo o relacionamento triangular entre o obesity, o hypertension, e o diabetes, que esclarecem junto mais de 80 por cento do disparity da saúde entre americanos africanos e americanos europeus. ”

Adicionou-se que os modelos genetic do epidemiology desenvolvidos por Rotimi e por seu grupo agora” estavam ajudando se dirigir se as taxas elevadas da doença são o resultado da exposição aos fatores de risco ambientais, susceptibility genetic, ou uma interação entre os dois. ”

Adicionalmente, Rotimi” é acoplado atualmente na primeira varredura genome-larga de um cohort americano africano, com o objetivo de identificar os genes associados com o obesity, o hypertension, o diabetes, e o syndrome metabolic. Mais de 2.000 participants das famílias americanas africanas do multigenerational são registrados neste estudo genetic em grande escala do epidemiology.”

O instituto novo dos E.U. dirigido por Rotimi empregará uma aproximação de Genomics, coletando e analisando genetic, clínico, lifestyle e dados socio-economic para estudar uma escala das circunstâncias clínicas que confundiram e peritos incomodados da saúde pública por décadas.

Pelo repórter de Agência

US bestämmer den nigerianska forskare till head forskning centrerar
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Us-regeringen har meddelat etableringen av ett nytt centrerar för att Genomics och vård- olikhetar ska vara hövdad vid enfödd US-baserad forskare, forskare och forskare, Dr. Charles Rotimi, bemyndigade Newswire, enbaserad nigeriansk telegrambyrå har anmält.

Meddelandet som gjordes den sist veckan av US-regeringen ägde medborgareinstitut av vård- i ett meddelande, sade att den skulle centrera är bekant som den Intramural NIHEN centrerar för Genomics och vård- olikhetar. Det skulle said ti är en venue för forskning om befolkningarna ficks effekt långt av sjukdomar, inklusive fetma, sockersjuka och högt blodtryck. ”

Är centrerar NIH USEN som regerings- `s ha som huvudämne medicinsk forskningbyrån med 27 institut, och.

Det är delen av avdelningen för `s för US den regerings- av vård-, och människan servar, en motsvarighet av det federala departement för Nigeria `s av vård-.

Under ledarskap för Rotimi `s förväntas centrera också för att ge” utbildningstillfällen för deltagare och etablerade forskare från ett u-land och från minoritetgrupper i Förenta staterna.

Rotimi, som beskrevs som” den internationellt berömda genetiska epidemiologisten,” baseras i det statligt av Maryland i USEN, var de nya centrerar lokaliseras också.

Han är en kandidat av universitetar av Benin var han tjänade en ungkarl av vetenskapsgraden i 1979 i Biochemistry, innan resa till USEN för att göra en ledar- grad för `s i Epidemiology på universitetar av Mississippi, 1983 och en ledar- `s för understödja grad-i allmän hälsa, som är, - M.p.h. från universitetar av Alabama på Birmingham 1988.

I Rotimi som 1991 avslutas hans PhD. i Epidemiology på universitetar av Alabama på Birmingham.

Med över 80 publicerade legitimationshandlingar är Rotimi bekant som en ledare globalt i hans specialiserade område av genetisk forskning.

I 1992 ett år efter hans PhD, han blev en Assistant professor på den Loyola universitetar i Chicago, var honom mer sistnämnd ro att bli den förbundna professorn.

I 1996 US-regeringen kände igen honom och det bestämt honom en anslags- granskare på NIHEN, var honom ron att bli en hög utredare och den tillförordnade direktören fyra år sedan.

Löneförhöjningen för Rotimi `s på USEN government-owned NIH i Maryland sammanträffade med hans förflyttning från den Loyola universitetar till den Howard universitetar i Washington, DC, som gränsar Maryland omgående till syd. Howard betraktas, som de bäst USNA svärtar den kontrollerade universitetar.

Han blev direktören av genetisk Epidemiology på Howard i 1999 och en full professor på den samma universitetar i 2003.

Deutbildade forskarna valdes Co-Ordföranden av den diabetiska anslutningen för amerikanen i 2001 och presidenten av det afrikanska samhället av människagenetik i 2004.

Enligt meddelandet” fokuserar ett nyckel- av forskning för Rotimi `s är överenskommelse det triangulära förhållandet mellan fetma, högt blodtryck och sockersjuka, som redogör tillsammans för mer än 80 procent av den vård- olikheten mellan afrikansk amerikan och européamerikaner. ”

Det tillfogades, att den genetiska epidemiologyen modellerar framkallat av Rotimi och hans grupp var nu” portionen som huruvida tilltalar kicksjukdomen klassar är resultatet av exponering till miljö- riskerar dela upp i faktorer, genetisk mottaglighet eller växelverkan mellan tvåna. ”

Dessutom, är Rotimi för närvarande” förlovad i den första genom-sned boll bildläsningen av en afrikansk amerikancohort, med målet av att identifiera gener som är tillhörande med fetma, högt blodtryck, sockersjuka och metabolic syndrom. Mer än 2.000 deltagare från multigenerationalafrikansk amerikanfamiljer skriva in sig i denna storskaliga genetiska epidemiologystudie.”,

Det nya US-institutet som är hövdat vid ska Rotimi, använder en Genomics att närma sig och att samla, och analysering som är genetisk som är klinisk, livsstilen och samhällsekonomiska data till studien som en spänna av kliniskt villkorar, som har förbryllat och besvärade allmän hälsaexperter för årtionden.

Vid den Byrå reporter

США назначают нигерийского научного работника к головной исследовательскийа центр
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Правительство США объявило установку нового центра для Genomics и неравноценностей здоровья, котор будет возглавлять Нигерийск-принесенными Нас-основанными эрудитом, научным работником и исследователем, Др. Charles Rotimi, Empowered Newswire, Нас-основанное нигерийское агентство новостей сообщал.

Объявление, сделанное последняя неделя Нас-правительством имело национальные институты здоровья в заявлении, сказало центр будет известен как центр NIH интрамуральный для Genomics и неравноценностей здоровья. Это сказанный ti было бы venue для исследования о дороге, котор населенности были плотно сжаты заболеваниями, включая тучность, мочеизнурение и гипертензию. »

NIH будет агенством медичинское исследования `s правительства США главным с 27 институтами и центрами.

Будет частью отдела `s правительства США здоровья и людских обслуживаний, эквивалента министерства `s Нигерии федерального здоровья.

Под водительством `s Rotimi, ы, что обеспечивает центр также» возможности тренировки для студентов и установленных научных работников от развивающаяся страна и от групп несовершеннолетия в Соединенных Штатах.

Rotimi, которое было описано как» международно renowned генетический epidemiologist,» основано в положении Maryland в США, где новый центр также обнаружен местонахождение.

Он будет студент-выпускником университета Бенина где он заработал бэтчелора STEPENи науки в 1979 в биохимии, перед перемещать к США для того чтобы сделать мастерский STEPENь `s в эпидемиологии на университете Миссиссипи, 1983, и второго `s оригинала градус-в общественном здравоохранении, that is, - m.p.h. от университета Алабамы на Birmingham, 1988.

В завершитом Rotimi 1991 его PhD. в эпидемиологии на университете Алабамы на Birmingham.

С над 80 опубликованными бумагами, Rotimi известно как руководитель гловально в его специализированной зоне генетического исследования.

В 1992, через год после его PhD, он стал ассистентским профессором на университете Loyola в Chicago, куда он более поздно поднял для того чтобы стать профессором сподвижницы.

В 1996, правительство США узнало его и назначило его рецензентом Grant на NIH, куда он поднял для того чтобы стать старшим исследователем и acting директором 4 лет тому назад.

Подъем `s Rotimi на США government-owned NIH в Maryland совпал с его перестановкой от университета Loyola к университету Говард в вашингтоне, DC, который граничит Maryland немедленно к югу. Говард сосчитано как самый лучший университет США черный controlled.

Он стал директором генетической эпидемиологии на Говард в 1999 и полном профессоре на таком же университете в 2003.

Нигерийск-натренированные научные работники были избраны Co-Руководителем американской диабетической ассоциации в 2001 и президентом африканского общества людской генетики в 2004.

Согласно заявлению,» ключевой фокус исследования `s Rotimi понимает триангулярное отношение между тучностью, гипертензией, и мочеизнурением, которая совместно определяют больше чем 80 процентов неравноценности здоровья между африканскими американцами и европейскими американцами. »

Было добавлено что генетические модели эпидемиологии начатые Rotimi и его группой теперь» помогали адресовать будут ли высокими тарифами заболеванием результатом подвержения к относящим к окружающей среде факторам риска, генетической подверженностью, или взаимодействием между 2. »

Кроме того, Rotimi в настоящее время» включено в первой геном-широкой развертке африканской американской когорты, с целью определять гены связанные с тучностью, гипертензией, мочеизнурением, и метаболически синдромом. Больше чем 2.000 участников от семей multigenerational африканских американских зачислены в этом широкомасштабном генетическом изучении эпидемиологии.»

Новый институт США возглавленный Rotimi будет использовать подход к Genomics, собирая и анализируя генетическо, клиническо, lifestyle и socio-economic данный для того чтобы изучить ряд клинических условий которые озадачивают и побеспокоенные специалисты общественного здравоохранения на декады.

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De V.S. stellen Nigeriaanse wetenschapper aan om onderzoekscentrum te leiden
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De overheid van de V.S. heeft de oprichting van een nieuw Centrum voor de Ongelijkheden van de Genomica en van de Gezondheid die door een Nigeriaans-Geboren US-based geleerde, een wetenschapper en een onderzoeker, Dr. moeten worden geleid aangekondigd. Charles Rotimi, machtigde Newswire, heeft een US-based Nigeriaans nieuwsagentschap gerapporteerd.

De aankondiging, die vorige week door de ons-Overheid bezeten Nationale Instituten van Gezondheid in een verklaring wordt gemaakt, zei het centrum Intramural Centrum NIH voor de Ongelijkheden van de Genomica genoemd worden en van de Gezondheid. Het zei Ti een trefpunt zou zijn want onderzoek over de manier de bevolking door ziekten, met inbegrip van zwaarlijvigheid, diabetes en hypertensie werd beïnvloed. “

NIH is het agentschap van het de overheids`s belangrijkste medische onderzoek van de V.S. met 27 instituten en centra.

Het maakt deel uit het de overheids`s Ministerie van de V.S. van Gezondheid en Menselijke Diensten, een equivalent van het Federale Ministerie van Nigeria `s van Gezondheid.

Onder de leiding van Rotimi `s, zou het centrum ook moeten“ opleidingsmogelijkheden voor studenten en gevestigde wetenschappers van ontwikkelingslanden en van minderheidsgroepen in de Verenigde Staten bieden.

Rotimi, die als“ internationaal renowned genetische epidemioloog werd beschreven,“ is gebaseerd in de staat van Maryland in de V.S., waar het nieuwe centrum ook wordt gevestigd.

Hij is een gediplomeerde van de Universiteit van Benin waar hij Bachelor van de graad van de Wetenschap in 1979 in Biochemie verdiende, alvorens naar de V.S. te reizen om een Hoofd`s Graad in Epidemiologie bij de Universiteit van de Mississippi, 1983, en een tweede Hoofd`s graad-in Volksgezondheid te doen, namelijk - MIJL/UUR. van de Universiteit van Alabama in Birmingham, 1988.

In 1991 voltooide Rotimi zijn PhD. in Epidemiologie bij de Universiteit van Alabama in Birmingham.

Met meer dan 80 gepubliceerde documenten, is Rotimi globaal gekend als leider op zijn gespecialiseerd onderzoeksgebied Genetische.

In 1992, een jaar na zijn PhD, werd hij een HulpProfessor in Loyola University in Chicago, waar hij later om Verwante Professor toenam te worden.

In 1996, erkende de overheid van de V.S. hem en benoemde hem een Recensent van de Toelage bij NIH, waar hij om een Hogere Onderzoeker en de waarnemende directeur toenam te worden vier jaar geleden.

Stijging van Rotimi `s bij de V.S. staatsNIH van Maryland viel met zijn verhuizing van Loyola University samen aan Howard University in Washington, gelijkstroom, welke grenzen Maryland onmiddellijk aan het Zuiden. Howard wordt beschouwd als beste zwarte gecontroleerde universiteit van de V.S.

Hij werd Directeur van Genetische Epidemiologie bij Howard in 1999 en een volledige professor bij de zelfde universiteit in 2003.

De Nigeriaans-Opgeleide wetenschappers werden verkozen Medevoorzitter van de Amerikaanse DiabetesVereniging in 2001 en de Voorzitter van de Afrikaanse Maatschappij van Menselijke Genetica in 2004.

Volgens de verklaring, een“ zeer belangrijke nadruk van het onderzoek van Rotimi `s begrijpt het driehoekige verband tussen zwaarlijvigheid, hypertensie, en diabetes, die samen van meer dan 80 percent van de gezondheidsongelijkheid tussen Afrikaanse Amerikanen en Europese Amerikanen rekenschap geven. “

Men voegde toe dat de genetische epidemiologiemodellen die door Rotimi en zijn groep worden ontwikkeld nu“ hielpen te richten of de hoge ziektetarieven het resultaat van blootstelling aan milieurisicofactoren, genetische gevoeligheid, of een interactie tussen twee zijn. “

Bovendien, Rotimi is momenteel bezig geweest“ met het eerste genoom-brede aftasten van een Afrikaanse Amerikaanse cohort, met het doel om genen te identificeren verbonden aan zwaarlijvigheid, hypertensie, diabetes, en metabolisch syndroom. Meer dan 2.000 deelnemers van multigenerational Afrikaanse Amerikaanse families worden ingeschreven in deze genetische epidemiologiestudie op grote schaal.“

Het nieuwe instituut van de V.S. dat door Rotimi wordt geleid zal een genetisch, klinische benadering van de Genomica, verzamelen en analyseren, een levensstijl en een sociaal-economisch gegeven aanwenden om een waaier van klinische voorwaarden te bestuderen die volksgezondheidsdeskundigen voor decennia in verwarring hebben gebracht en verontrust.

Door de verslaggever van het Bureau

[أوس] يعيّن عالمة نيجيريّة إلى رئيسيّة بحث مركز
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ال [أوس] قد أعلن حكومة الإقامة من مركز جديدة ل [جنوميكس] وصحة تباينات أن يكون [هدد] ب [نيجرين-بورن] [أوس-بسد] طالبة, عالمة وباحثة, [در.]. قد أفاد شارلز [روتيمي], يفوّض [نوسوير], [أوس-بسد] وكالة أنباء نيجيريّة.

امتلك الإعلان, يجعل أسبوع متأخّرة ب ال [أوس-غفرنمنت] معاهد وطنيّة صحة في بيان, قال المركز كنت عرفت ك ال [نيه] مركز ضمن الجدران ل [جنوميكس] وصحة تباينات. كان هو يقول [تي] مكان حادث لبحث حول الطريق السّكان كان صدمت بأمراض, بما في ذلك بدانة, داء سكّريّ وارتفاع ضغط. "

[نيه] ال [أوس] حكومة `[س] كبريات طبيّة بحث وكالة مع 27 معاهد و [سنترس].

هو جزء من ال [أوس] حكومة `[س] [دبرتمنت وف هلث ند هومن] خدمات, معادلة من نيجيريا `[س] [مينيستري وف هلث] فيديراليّة.

تحت [روتيمي] `[س] قيادة, توقّعت المركز أيضا أن يزوّد" [ترينينغ وبّورتثنيتي] لطالبات ويؤسّس عالمات من [دفلوب كونتري] ومن أقلية مجموعة في الولايات المتّحدة الأمريكيّة.

أسّست [روتيمي], الذي كان وصفت ك ال" عالم وباء مشهورة وراثيّة دوليّا," في الدولة مريلاند في ال [أوس], حيث المركز جديدة يكون أيضا حددت.

هو متخرجة من الجامعة بنين حيث هو كسب أعزب من علم درجة في 1979 في كيمياء حيويّة, قبل يسافر إلى ال [أوس] أن يتمّ رئيسيّة `[س] درجة في علم وباء في الجامعة ميسيسبّي, 1983, وثاني سيد `[س] [دغري-ين] [بوبليك هلث], [ثت يس,] - [م.ب.ه.]. من الجامعة ألاباما في برمنغهام, 1988.

في 1991 [روتيمي] يتمّ [فد] ه. في علم وباء في الجامعة ألاباما في برمنغهام.

مع على 80 ينشر أوراق, عرفت [روتيمي] كزعيمة على نحو شامل في ه يختصّ منطقة من بحث وراثيّة.

في 1992, سنة بعد [فد] ه, أصبح هو [أسّيستنت بروفسّور] في [لوولا] جامعة في شيكاغو, حيث هو فيما بعد ارتفع أن يصبح [أسّوست بروفسّور].

في 1996, ال [أوس] ميّزه حكومة وعيّنه [غرنت] مراجعة في ال [نيه], حيث هو ارتفع أن يصبح محققة كبريات والمديرة نائبة أربعة سنون [أغو].

[روتيمي] `[س] صادف إرتفاع في ال [أوس] [نيه] [غفرنمنت-ووند] في مريلاند مع تغيير موضعه من [لوولا] جامعة إلى هوارد جامعة في واشنطن, [دك], أيّ يجاور مريلاند فورا إلى الجنوب. هوارد اعتبرت بما أنّ الجيّدة [أوس] جامعة سوداء مراقبة.

هو أصبح مديرة من علم وباء وراثيّة في هوارد في 1999 ويشبع أستاذة في ال نفسه جامعة في 2003.

انتخبت ال [نيجرين-تريند] عالمات كان [ك-شيرمن] من الجمعية أمريكيّة مصاب بالسّكّريّ في 2001 والرئيس من المجتمعة [أفريكن] من علم وراثة إنسانيّة في 2004.

وفقا ل البيان," يفهم بؤرة أساسيّة من [روتيمي] `[س] بحث العلاقة مثلّثيّة بين بدانة, ارتفاع ضغط, وداء سكّريّ, أيّ معا يعلّل أكثر من 80 نسبة مئويّة من الصحة تباين بين أمريكيات [أفريكن] وأمريكيات أوروبيّة. "

أضفت هو كان أنّ الوراثيّة علم وباء نماذج يطوّر ب [روتيمي] ومجموعته كان الآن" ساعدوا أن يخاطب ما إذا عال مرض معدلات النتيجة الانكشاف إلى [ريسك فكتور] بيئيّة, متأثّريّة وراثيّة, أو تفاعل بين الاثنان. "

فضلا عن ذلك, شبكت [روتيمي] حاليّا" في المسح أولى [جنوم-ويد] من جماعة [أفريكن] أمريكيّة, مع الهدف من يعيّن مورثات يصحب مع بدانة, ارتفاع ضغط, داء سكّريّ, وتناذر أيضيّة. أكثر من 2,000 سجّلت مشتركات من [مولتيجنرأيشنل] أسرات [أفريكن] أمريكيّة في هذا ضخمة وراثيّة علم وباء دراسة."

الجديدة [أوس] سيستخدم معهد [هدد] ب [روتيمي] [جنوميكس] مقاربة, يجمع ويحلّ وراثيّة, سريريّة, أسلوب حياة ومعطيات [سسو-كنوميك] أن يدرس مدى من شروط سريريّة أنّ قد أربك ويكدّر [بوبليك هلث] خبيرات لعقود.

ب [أجنسي] مراسلة

By Ademola Adegbamigbe

During break time at Ansar-Ud-Deen Primary School, Yemoja, Ondo, Gani Fawehinmi and his friends would gather to wolf down their lunch of gari, dry fish and moi moi. One day, his mates started shouting and running in different directions. What happened? A huge snake, coiled on a bough, had stretched beyond Fawehinmi’s neck and was putting its tongue into his gari. The boy did not panic. Rather, with the deftness of a snake charmer, he just flung the reptile off, an action that made his peers to believe that he had supernatural powers.

That action on a hot

• Gani Fawehinmi

afternoon in 1949, showed Fawehinmi’s fearlessness, a trait he exhibits till today and which has made various Nigerian governments, on many occasions, to put him in jail. In other words, he has spent his life fighting all vermin, both military and civilian, without minding the consequences.

Fawehinmi, popularly called Gani, in most cases uses the courts to fight his cause. This, however, did not come out of a vacuum. Fawehinmi’s revolutionary nature, wealth, brilliance and philanthropy took a long and tortuous period of gestation.

He was born on 22 April 1938 in Ondo to Chief Saheed Tugbobo, a timber merchant and Seriki Musulumi of the city, whose own father was Chief Lisa (Alujonu) Fawehinmi, a warrior of great repute. The Alujonu in his name means ‘spirit’, an acknowledgement of his great exploits.

Gani started elementary school at Ansar-Ud-Deen Primary School, Ondo in 1942. At the age of 16, he gained admission to Victory College, Ikare, Ondo State where his Principal, Archdeacon Akinrele noticed his knowledge of current affairs and great ability to debate, and advised him to study law. The young boy got his ideas from Daily Times, which he subscribed to with his pocket money.

After leaving Victory College in 1958, he came to Lagos the following year, working as a clerk at the High Court, Igbosere and later as a tally clerk at the Nigerian Ports Authority.

On 29 April 1961, he sailed to England and enrolled at Holborn College of Law as a part-time student. He was having a swell time with his studies when, in 1963, his father, his source of support, died. Life suddenly became a bed of thorns for him.

Different ideas of survival started whirling in Fawehinmi’s head. First, he got a job as a toilet cleaner at Russell Square Hotel. He wrote 136 letters, begging many individuals for help. None replied. Then he made a beeline for the Nigerian High Commission in London, seeking enlistment into the Army. The recruitment officer saw the book that Fawehinmi clutched, The Free Officers’ Revolt, and wondered whether revolt was what the young man wanted to pursue in the force. He promptly rejected Fawehinmi’s application.

Undaunted, Fawehinmi continued with his cleaning job, schooling as a part-time student and reading voraciously about great public figures like Fidel Castro, George Washington, Karl Marx and others.

He finished his programme in 1964 but, because of poverty, could not proceed to the Inner Temple in London. When he heard that Dr. Teslim Elias, the  Nigerian-born jurist who later became President of the World Court at the Hague, Netherlands, had established the Law School three-month programme in Lagos, Fawehinmi returned home. He carried a small bag holding a pair of shoes, two pairs of socks and one jacket, which made people wonder whether he was still expecting bigger luggage at the ports!

He was finally called to the bar on 15 January 1965. The same year, after a brief stint at a relation’s chambers, he established his practice at 108 Herbert Macaulay Way, Yaba, Lagos.

Since 1965, Fawehinmi has instituted over 5,000 suits at the Supreme, Appeal, High and Magistrate courts.

After the 3 June 1993 election was cancelled by former military president, Ibrahim Babangida, an election won by Chief MKO Abiola, Fawehinmi founded a human rights group, the National Conscience, in 1994, to fight the cause. On 26 August the same year, six security men invaded Fawehinmi’s chambers when he travelled to address a rally in Port Harcourt. Security men did not allow him to go beyond the Port Harcourt airport; they sent him back to Lagos. In December 1995, when the National Democratic Coalition, NADECO, organised a rally in Yaba, Lagos, Fawehinmi dared the police that wanted to stop it to shoot him.

Fawehinmi also stood against General Sani Abacha, a former head of state, when some fairweather politicians were advocating that all government registered political parties should adopt him as a consensus candidate. He waved them off as “ungodly charlatans playing with treason.”

For his pro-democracy activities, Fawehinmi, in 1998, was elected the first head of Joint Action Committee of Nigeria, JACON, by 55 kindred bodies that constituted it. The Gani-led JACON demanded that the General Abdulsalami Abubakar regime set up a government of national unity, headed by Abiola. The senior advocate, in July 1998, called for mass action.

When Abubakar did not yield but announced his own transition programme, JACON published a book, Way Forward: Revolution Not Transition, in which he proposed the scheme as a way of opposing “the process and system of the exploitation and repression of the masses under a new form of oppressive government.”

When Abiola died in detention, Fawehinmi filed a suit at the Federal High Court, Ikeja, praying that Abubakar be compelled to explain the deaths of Abiola, his wife Kudirat and even Pa Alfred Rewane. After the exit of the military, Fawehinmi took the new President, Olusegun Obasanjo, to court over the N350,000 and N250,000 allowances to former presidents, heads of state etc.

The human rights lawyer, in May 2002, dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to the Federal High Court in Abuja. He wanted the court to compel INEC not to conduct any election based on the 2001 Electoral Act. His party, National Conscience Party, NCP, was among the 30 political groups seeking registration to participate in the August 2002 local government polls.

Section 80(1) of the act says political parties seeking registration “must win 10 per cent of the councillorship and chairmanship positions throughout the country.” Fawehinmi said it was illegal, unconstitutional, null and void, because it was not passed by the National Assembly “and it was not part of the harmonised bill sent to the President on 5 December 2001 and assented to by the President on 6 December 2001”. Gani took the matter as far as the Supreme Court and won. As a result, over 30 political parties were registered by INEC.

When Obasanjo set up the Oputa Panel, Babangida and retired Brigadier-General Haliru Akilu, erstwhile director of Military Intelligence, sought a Federal High Court order that the panel report should not be implemented, Fawehinmi filed a motion to be joined in the suit. The duo were apprehensive over portions of the panel’s report concerning the death of Dele Giwa, former Editor-in-Chief of Newswatch magazine, through a parcel bomb on 19 October 1986.

Apart from consistently condemning Obasanjo’s incessant increase of petroleum products’ prices, Fawehinmi opposed the former president’s elongation of tenure bid, threatening that the “pro democracy groups will resist it and we will ask Nigerians to revolt. No amount of rigging, amendment of the constitution, misuse of public funds will achieve that result.”

For his advocacy, he was arrested more than 36 times and, beginning with his first detention in 1969 when he defended a less privileged Nigerian whose wife was defiled by a top government personnel, has suffered detention more than 15 times. All these, however, have not blunted his resolve to fight for justice.

Among the various forms of persecution he suffered was the denial of conferring the title of Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, on him for more than 21 years. It was not until the International Bar Association, consisting of 40 million lawyers in over 190 countries, honoured Fawehinmi that Nigeria deemed it fit to give him the title.

Fawehinmi’s has been the leading voice against oppression and military dictators like Babangida, who annulled the 12 June 1993 presidential election; Sani Abacha, who set up assassination squads and wanted to transmute into a life president; and Abdulsalami Abubakar, under whose regime Abiola died. Will he quit activism? Absolutely not. In his words: “The question of retirement or quitting the struggle does not exist so far things remain the same. I will not quit until I see a better society.”

By Tayo Odunlami

Some 28 years ago, a 35-year-old top hand at Grant Advertising concluded he was no longer getting any challenges at the then third leading advertising agency in Nigeria. Biodun Shobanjo, erstwhile Deputy Managing Director at Grant, felt its employers were lacking the ambition to topple the two market leaders, Lintas and Ogilvy, Benson & Mather. Which was unacceptable. To Shobee, as Shobanjo is called, “winning is not everything; it is the only thing.”

Shobanjo would not be contented with being No 2, or even the Chief Executive Officer at a third rate ad agency. He was focused on only one direction; the acme. So focused, the advert agent realised there was only one way to attain that height. In December 1979, he left Grant. On 2 January 1980, Shobanjo, together with five aides he poached at Grant, founded a new agency, Insight Communication Limited, at 1 Calabar Street, Lagos. Insight’s pioneer staff totalled 18 and had a billing of only N15,000.

Shobanjo had identified his destination in the industry before he set up shop and was determined to get there. The beginning was rough but he trudged on. He decided he had to carve an image for Insight that would distinguish it from the old pack. A departure from the dull, laid-back advert executive, Shobanjo emerged an unconventional, brash, aggressive, daring and innovative advert sheikh. To Shobanjo, it was advertising unusual.

His style of doing business initially attracted odium from rival advert agencies which frowned at what they perceived as his somewhat unusual extent to win accounts. Insight’s philosophy has been “thinking global, yet acting local.” Within one year in business, the company had firmly announced its presence. Its billings had shot up to N1.5 million. The following year, Shobanjo put into effect the “thinking global” vision when Insight was affiliated with Ted Bates, an advert agency that later became a part of Saatchi and Saatchi Worldwide.

Shobanjo was only too glad to take Insight to the Saatchis whose business philosophy perfectly dovetails into his. To both Shobanjo and the Saatchis (Charles and Maurice), “the first position is wonderful, second is terrific, third is threatened and fourth is fatal.”

The association has been rewarding. Insight leads the local marketing communications industry which has flourished since Shobanjo showed the way that indigenous ownership can flaunt a quality that can match foreign competition. By the time Insight celebrated its 10th anniversary in 1990, its billings had leapt up to N53.9 million. The figures have since multiplied and Insight is credited with being the first Nigerian ad agency to cross the N400 million mark in billings. By the end of last year, the figure was estimated to be over N800 million, with more than 30 blue-chip companies in its books.

Shobanjo has since diversified to build a business empire, the Troyka Group. The body includes The Quadrant Company, a public relations outfit; MC & A, an advertising agency; Optimum Exposures, an outdoor advertising company; All Seasons MediaCom, a media buying company; African Barter Company, a television marketing distribution firm and Halogen, a security company. The Troyka Group is worth about N20 billion in assets.

In December 2004, he stepped down as Managing Director of Insight Communications after handing over to his successor, Jimi Awosika, a long-time associate since the Grant days. He remains Chairman of the Troyka Group.

Shobanjo was born on 24 December 1944 in Jebba, Kwara State where Joseph, his father, worked with the Nigeria Railway Corporation. He had primary education at St. Patrick’s Catholic School, Jebba, Kwara State; St. George’s Anglican School, Zaria and finally, Ijero Baptist School, Apapa Road, Ebute-Metta, Lagos. He attended Odogbolu Grammar School, Ijebu-Odogbolu, Ogun State.

He was employed by the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation, now the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, in 1964 as a Studio Manager and left in 1971 as a producer. Shobanjo is a member of the Institute of Public Relations, London; Chartered Institute of Marketing, England and International Advertising Association. He is also a fellow and former member of the Governing Council of the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria; fellow of the Commonwealth Journalists Association and a past president of the Association of Advertising Practitioners of Nigeria.

Bayo Onanuga, Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief of TheNEWS, spoke to ADEMOLA ADEGBAMIGBE and ERNEST OMOARELOJIE on the history of the magazine

Q: When exactly was TheNEWS first published?
A: The first publication came out on 8 February 1993. Any other thing we did before then was just like preparing for the birth of the baby. The actual birth was 8 February 1993.

Q: What prompted the birth of the magazine?
A: It’s a story we have told and retold. When we left African Concord in April 1992, some of our colleagues (Dapo Olorunyomi, Kunle Ajibade and Seye Kehinde) joined the African Guardian. There was a problem of what the rest of us – myself and Babafemi Ojudu – would do. We were two of the founding members of TheNEWS who didn’t find where to go initially. We all thought of abandoning journalism and going into other things. In fact, we toyed with the idea of going into fish business. Ojudu actually plunged into it, but regretted doing so because it was not his calling. I still stayed a little in journalism, reporting for Gemini News, which is like a news agency based in the UK at that time.

But the money was not so good and it was not a regular job. At a stage, people started telling us that there was nothing else we could do but to stick to journalism. That prompted us to call ourselves and decide that we needed to start our own publication. We started meeting in April and by July or so of 1992, we started meeting again. And by September, we had registered a company. That same month, we actually tried to open an account. The others were just preparations–recruiting staff, getting an office, doing the preview edition, seeking the help of shareholders and calling people to join our team and the rest of them.

We found out that many Nigerians were willing to at least, put their money into what we were trying to do. Some of them heard about what we were trying to do and actually called us, saying they were ready to help. I remember Chief Femi Adekanye of the defunct Commerce Bank. That was what he said. He told us that anytime we were ready, we should just call him. People like our current Chairman, Tayo Adesanya, and Asiwaju Bola Tinubu did the same thing. I did not have any direct contact with Tinubu. It was a friend of ours who told him and he didn’t even see the feasibility report or any other thing for that matter to be convinced. He just said he would support our dream and that was it. There were a lot of people like that who shared in the passion we had about our country and were ready to assist us.

Q: How were you able to find like minds to start with? Were the founders childhood friends?
A: We all worked as colleagues in African Concord . The defining thing was that those of us who came together resigned together. I resigned first and the others just put their resignation letters in as well. It was as if their editor was being pushed out of the place, since they all took part in the story that led to his stepping aside, as Babangida said. They also felt ‘we were all part of the thing’ and resigned.

Q: Was it true that MKO Abiola asked you to apologise to Babangida?
A: It was true. I didn’t lie against him (Abiola). He called me and I went to meet him in the house and he said something which, ironically, later happened to him. He said: ‘Look, you are a young man, this country is not worth dying for.’ He was trying to persuade me, saying I should just write a letter that he would take to IBB and his security chief, Haliru Akilu, that we were recanting and apologising. Ironically, about five years after, the same man died for the same country. He never denied that he asked me to apologise to IBB. I didn’t lie against him. I just told him that I would think about it and let him know my decision.

Q: Within the period, you started thinking about setting up a magazine and when it finally took off, you must have faced a lot of challenges. What were those challenges?
A: We didn’t face any challenges. No, we didn’t. I was quite surprised by the outpouring of support by fellow Nigerians. I got a lot of letters from Nigerians from all parts of the country saying, ‘you have done us proud, your position is correct.’ And they were urging us to provide more services for our fatherland. A lot of letters like that got to me from across the country. Prominent Nigerians were asking where they could get in touch with me. They wanted to see me and some gave me a lot of gifts, unsolicited gifts, just to say that they supported what we did and what we were planning to do. In fact when you have such words of encouragement from fellow countrymen, you can only say let’s try this thing out. On our part, we knew that there were going to be problems. It’s like you stepped on the tail of a tiger and you are just able to hang on a tree. The tiger would be there waiting to pounce on you. That was what happened to us. We knew that we were going to have that problem. As we were going about talking to people to invest in the company and so on, we kept asking if the government would allow us survive. That was the recurring thought on our minds. We resolved that we would try to do our best within the limits of our laws. Just two weeks after we started, we had a problem with Justice Moshood Olugbani, who committed us to prison.

Q: Then you had a problem with IBB…
A: No. It was his government. I think we published a story on Babangida’s methods and tactics, about the way the man operated and ran the country. We were going to publish a story Help! Nigeria is Dying, but before then, he ordered that they should go and lock up the place.

Q: What were your lowest moments over the period in review?
A: My lowest moment was the time I had to run out of Lagos. I had to escape from Lagos to my home town, Ijebu Ode. It is a place I had not visited for some years. Here was I under serious threat and I felt the best place for me to hide was my town. I ran away from Lagos and I was in Ijebu Ode for more than a month.

Q: Was that under Abacha?
A: It was under Abacha. That was in 1997. That was my lowest moment. Shortly after that, I had to also run out of the country.
The other one was when I was in the US and I was getting to know what’s going on at home, only to be told then that they had shut down all our offices and about 13 to 14 people were arrested the same day and locked up. For me it was very shattering. Well, by the grace of God, we all survived it. These are the things that really made us to rethink whether we could go on or survive.

Q: Is there anything you learnt from those experiences?
A: The experiences really made one to be stronger. As a person, when many people see me they say, this man is a gentleman but they know that the spirit behind the gentleness or the gentlemanliness is a spirit of steel. I am not afraid of any human being. The only person I am afraid of is God, if you call God a person.
But the experiences have only made one stronger, to believe in what we are doing because I believe journalism must not be for journalism’s sake. It must be for making a statement. Journalists should be agents of change wherever they operate. That is the kind of journalism we are practising–to see how we can impact on our society, to see how we can goad governments to do better for the people. This is because we believe that if you don’t get it right at the centre, we are wasting our time at every other level. If Nigeria gets the right leadership at the centre, the problem in our country will be solved. But as of now, we have still not got it right. We very much believe what we are doing and that is what keeps us going.

Q: Was there a period when the company faced real financial challenges?
A: All through, financial problems are what we keep facing.

Q: Was there a time it became very critical?
A: It became very critical under Abacha, especially when we floated AM News. At that time, we stretched the company to the limits financially. We nearly went under, under that man. But of course, we got a lot of support from many Nigerians who believed in what we were doing. They may be government contractors, government businessmen or something, but they had interest in what we were doing. But because of the nature of their businesses, they could not come out in the open. But when they see journalists trying to change the society for the better, they also support. People from the Northern part of Nigeria and even some from within the Abacha government supported us! That was one of the things that made us survive. We had advertisements from even military governors who, though were serving under military high command, still gave us adverts because we are Nigerians doing what others ought to do. That was how we were able to wade through.

Q: Tempo was a major part of the struggle but you rested it at some point. What led to that action?
A: When Babangida banned TheNEWS three or four months after we started, we had no other option than to bring out this title we had registered to continue the roles of TheNEWS. But Tempo was caught in a web of political crusade because at that time, there was the issue of June 12, an election we believed was free and fair had been annulled by Babangida. We felt that justice ought to be done, not because the man was our Yoruba brother but because we felt he was a Nigerian and he had been injured. It was an injustice and we felt it must be corrected. That was why Tempo came out; not for Abiola but in order to continue the role of TheNEWS. But it was caught in that crusading spirit and for the three or four years Tempo was publishing, it continued to perform that role.
So we felt after the coming of the civilian government that Tempo had succeeded in its role because it came out to champion a cause. Even though it didn’t succeed in that cause, at least that cause led to the birth of democracy. So we felt fulfilled and felt the best thing was to allow it rest in peace, since  TheNEWS had returned, it should continue to do its job.

Q: In many instances, problems arise where partners are involved. In your case, there appears to be a strong bond. What makes your partnership strong?
A: I think the unifying force is that all of us in this company, I mean the founding members, have made sure that we have mutual respect, and then we run the company as a committee. There are a lot of things I cannot do even as the Managing Director without carrying the rest along. If they disagree, I will not do it. It’s like a socialist kind of thing and if we don’t do it that way, the partnership will collapse.
If one person is the embodiment of the company, the company will not survive. So we put up a system where if I am not here, like the situation recently for seven months, and the company did not collapse. It even waxed stronger while I was away. That shows you the kind of arrangement we have in place, where we have respect for each other.

Q: Many would say TheNEWS has come of age after 15 years. In a few years, where do you see the magazine?
A: I see us getting stronger. I see TheNEWS embracing the digital or e-publishing age which we are pursuing vigorously to make our news portal the most attractive place to visit. We are doing that and I see us diversifying because the trend we see all over the world is that the media business in its narrow sense is having a lot of problems. All over the world, the media are trying to diversify. For instance, Washington Post makes more money from its non-media business than it makes from newspaper sales. That is what we are trying to do to make sure we increase our streams of income.

Here are details of how the Independent National Electoral Commission rigged the 2007 governorship election in Ondo State

By Francis Ottah Agbo/Akure

In Ondo State, disclosures before the Election Petitions Tribunal have been quite stunning. As testified by Adrian Forty, a British handwriting and finger print expert who Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, the Labour Party governorship candidate for the state in the 2007 general elections commissioned to analyse the ballot papers used for the exercise, certain irregularities in the voting materials used for the governorship election suggested massive fraud. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, declared Dr. Olusegun Agagu of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, winner of the election. Mimiko is challenging the result before the tribunal.

According to Forty’s forensic findings, INEC registered minors, inanimate objects, foreigners and prominent Nigerians who were not resident in Ondo State as registered voters. But these voters were certified by INEC to have voted for Agagu.

In Ayetoro registration area in Akure North, for example, the following Nigerians who are neither resident nor indigenes of the sunshine state were registered. They are: Vice President Goodluck Jonathan (Bayelsa State), Senator Ahmadu Ali (Kogi), Governor Peter Obi (Anambra), Senator Musiliu Obanikoro (Lagos), General Oladipo Diya (Ogun), Professor Charles Soludo (Anambra), Chief Justice of the Federation, Justice Idris Kutigi; Oceanic Bank Managing Director, Mrs. Cecilia Ibru (Delta) and former Minister of Health, Prof. Eyitayo Lambo (Kogi). Others are former presidential candidate, Mrs. Sarah Jubril (Kwara), Fuji star, Wasiu Ayinde (Ogun); The Nation columnist, Professor Segun Gbadegesin; chairman of The Nation editorial board, Sam Omatseye (Delta); INEC chairman, Maurice Iwu (Imo); Professor Niyi Osundare; Oba Otudeko, chairman, Honeywell Group and Governor Raji Fashola of Lagos State.

According to the ballot papers admitted by the Ondo State Election Petitions Tribunal, Fashola voted for the PDP candidate in Town Hall 1 and II polling unit in Akure North Local Government Council. Iwu, Otudeko, Osundare, Diya, Jonathan, Ali, Obi, Obanikoro, Gbadegesin and Omatseye were certified by INEC to have voted in this polling unit for Agagu, while Kutigi, Lambo, Ibru, Soludo, Jubril and Ayinde voted for PDP in Motor Park III Ajegunle polling unit.

But the names that held the breath of many analysts are two black American former world heavyweight champions - Mohammed Ali and Mike Tyson. They allegedly voted for Agagu. While Ali, who was registered in Ayetoro, voted at the Town Hall I and II polling unit, Tyson voted in Motor Park III Ajegunle. The most bizarre of them all was the name of late Apostle Ayo Babalola who voted in Apoi Ward in Ondo LGA. Babalola, by INEC records, voted for the ruling party. In Okitipupa Local Government Area, where Agagu hails from, children below the age of 12 years voted, as against provision of the Electoral Act which allows only adults from 18 years to be registered. INEC ballot papers deposited at the tribunal, sitting in Akure, showed that such children registered in Ilutitun I registration area and voted for the PDP.

Yinka Adeyosoye, an Akure-based legal practitioner, said by virtue of the provision of the Electoral Act, minors are neither supposed to be registered nor allowed to vote. “It is established in our relevant laws that minors are not supposed to vote or be voted for. But in INEC’s desperation to rig elections for favoured candidates, it registered minors to pave way for multiple voting,” Adeyosoye rued.

Forty, while submitting his reports before the tribunal, agreed with Adeyosoye. He disclosed that 84,814 ballot papers out of 183,219 papers examined were multiple votes. He told the tribunal that 37,053 papers were poorly scanned while 61,352 papers had no impressions, which made it difficult to ascertain whether there were multiple votes. “The magnitude of the evidence gathered, in my opinion, conclusively proves that operation of systematic multiple voting had been conducted on a large scale across those parts and areas of Ondo State that I have examined,” the Briton declared.

Surprisingly, Agagu’s lawyer, Lateef Fagbemi, a senior advocate, did not cross-examine Forty. Fagbemi simply said the report was “deemed as read”.

Analysts had expected Fagbemi to subject the fingerprint expert to rigorous cross-examination the way INEC and PDP counsel did at the Ekiti tribunal. The thinking is that such a drill would have triggered a Freudian slip from Forty that could work in favour of PDP.

It is on the strength of these irregularities, according to Pastor Ranti Akerele, publicity secretary of LP, that the party is asking the tribunal to annul Agagu’s election and declare Mimiko as the duly elected governor of Ondo State. Led to the witness box by his lead counsel, Chief Wole Olanipekun, Mimiko asked the Justice Garba Nabaruma-led five-man tribunal to declare him the winner because, to him, he scored 84,635 valid votes in excess of Agagu’s.

“Agagu was illegally declared winner and unduly returned by the state Resident Electoral Commissioner despite the fact that the total number of votes lawfully scored by him (Agagu) was only 108,999 of the 368,532 lawfully cast votes at the election. I scored 193,634 lawful votes, meaning that I had 84,635 votes more than Agagu,” Mimiko declared.

The petitioner told the tribunal that the PDP connived with INEC to manipulate the election in 69 of the 203 wards in the 18 Local Government Councils that make up Ondo State. Out of the 18 councils, the LP asked the tribunal to cancel the election in four councils - Okitipupa, Irele, Ese-Odo and Ilaje local governments. The LP is challenging the election results of some wards in six councils. The wards include five in Odigbo, four in Ile-Oluji/Oke-Igbo, five in Akure North, eight in Akoko North-East, one in Akoko North-West and one in Ose local governments.

Mr. Ogundeji Iroju, certified accountant and figure expert on election matters who was permitted by the tribunal to inspect materials used for the election, submitted that government officials signed form EC8B as polling agents of the PDP. Form EC8B is a summary of INEC election results at ward level. Iroju disclosed that Prince Oluwole Oguntade Toyin, Agagu’s Special Assistant, served as agent in Akure North Local Council and signed the results of four wards. Chief R.A. Akinfemi, Supervisory Councillor in Odigbo Council, also allegedly signed form EC8B for three wards simultaneously.

The implication of this, Iroju contended, was that Akintemi was agent for the three wards in an election that held the same day. Mr. Ola Oguntimehin, Special Adviser to the governor on Legislative Matters, allegedly signed as party agent in Okitipupa LGA; Yemi Alao, Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General of the State, in Akoko Northwest and Mr. Ifayo Funmi Ayo, Commissioner for Land in Irele LGA, among others.

Quoting copiously from section 46 subsection 2 of the Electoral Act 2006, Iroju said it was illegal for government officials to be party agents. The section, he averred, prohibits government officials who have not resigned to be agents. “I also discovered that 85 per cent of 1,072 polling units in dispute have names of eminent personalities who do not live in Ondo State. Foreigners and inanimate objects such as window blinds and trees were also registered as voters in Ayetoro ward in Akure North and Agagu’s ward, Iju-Odo. What really shocked me was that the late Apostle Ayo Babalola, founder of Christ Apostolic Church, CAC, who died in 1959 voted for PDP in Apoi ward,” Iroju told the tribunal.

Used thumb-printed ballot papers in Okitipupa, Ilaje, Ese-Odo, and Irele local government councils, Iroju continued, were stamped with the stamps of the defunct National Electoral Commission (NEC) and the National Electoral Commission of Nigeria (NECON), an act he said contravenes the Electoral Act.

In Ilaje LGA, for example, Iroju found out that 114,500 ballot papers were issued but only 57,300 papers were returned as votes cast, while 16,454 were returned as unused. The implication of this was that INEC could not account for the remaining 40,813 ballot papers. Similarly 2,769 ballot papers, TheNEWS learnt, were unaccounted for in Irele LGA, while 6,893 ballot papers were unaccounted for in Ese-Odo LGA. In Okitipupa, 6,002 papers developed wings, fuelling speculation that they might have been taken to unofficial places for thumb-printing.

In a letter admitted by the tribunal as affidavit, an INEC Returning Officer for Okitipupa, Tope Aina, complained of how ballot boxes were snatched during the election. Mr. R. Oladoyin, INEC Returning Officer for Ilaje, also wrote to the Ondo State Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, on the hijack of electoral materials on 14 April. He wrote: “Sequel to the series of hijacking and damage of ballot boxes cum attack on electoral personnel during the gubernatorial election of 14th April 2006, a total of 60 ballot boxes are found missing. Some of these boxes and registers were either burnt or thrown into the river.”

In the same vein, Mr. O. H. Achgun, the Returning Officer for Akure North, complained that 25 units of ballot boxes were either destroyed or hijacked by politicians. In his letter addressed to the Ondo State REC, Achgun said the burnt boxes were in police custody in Ogbese Police Station in Akure North. Aside this, Mr. A. A. Aderibigbe of Ese-Odo LGA and his Akoko North East LGA counterpart, Alhaji W. O. Ganiyu, also lodged similar complaints. Yet the Returning Officers collated results for the affected wards. In fact, many copies of the form EC8A had entries of votes returned in which the PDP led with wide margins. EC8A form is a summary of election results from polling units.

TheNEWS also gathered from the form EC8A deposited at the tribunal that results from Okitipupa, Irele, Ese-Odo, Ilaje and some polling units in Akure, Odigbo and Akoko LGA bear the same serial numbers. In Okitipupa, Irele, Ese-Odo and Ilaje LGA, the form EC8A has entries of votes returned in 100 per cent for PDP.

The implication of the entries, analysts argued, meant that all the voters voted and no invalid vote was recorded. It also meant that no voter died and nobody voted for another party.

This magazine’s investigation showed that there was over-voting in 300 polling units out of the 1072 units being disputed by the Labour Party. The bulk of the polling units were in Okitipupa, Irele, Ese-Odo, and Ilaje LGA.

Igbekele Daodu, a medical practitioner who was commissioned by Mimiko to inspect INEC materials used during the election, told the tribunal that in some cases, votes cast in some wards were more than the registered voters. He also said total votes cast were in some cases either more than what were recorded, or less.

In Ode Erinje ward, in Okitipupa LGA, for example, it was discovered that 3,898 votes were counted but 3,675 were recorded for PDP. The reason for this was not clear to Daodu, but there are indications that the results may have been hurriedly collated to beat the deadline of announcement of results. He also accused INEC of signing the result a day after election. He gave example of Mahin ward II in Ese-Odo LGA as a ward whose result was signed on 15 April 2007, a day after the governorship election.

The question on the lips of election tribunal analysts is: is the welter of evidence of rigging before the Akure tribunal substantial enough to warrant the sack of Governor Agagu? Pastor Akerele believes so. “If the invalid votes are sorted out from the 69 wards whose results we are contesting, we shall have over 25 per cent of the lawful votes cast in 13 Local Government Councils and this automatically satisfies the constitutional requirement of declaring Mimiko winner. The evidence is so substantial that no tribunal will ignore Mimiko’s pleadings,” the LP spokesman said.

When TheNEWS contacted the Ondo State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Eddy Olafeso, he declined to comment on the tribunal. He, however, beat his chest that his boss, Agagu, would triumph at the tribunal. There are indications that Agagu has commissioned a team of experts to puncture Forty’s report this week when the governor is expected to open his defence at the tribunal.

By Bamidele Johnson

In a country where it is fashionable for traditional rulers to cosy up to the government of the day in exchange for economic patronage, Oba Sikiru Adetona, the Awujale of Ijebuland, is  an aberration–a pleasant one, that is.

Over the years,

• Oba Sikiru Adetona

the paramount ruler of Ijebuland has built a reputation for voicing his convictions, even when such nettles the government of the day.  Former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s use of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to hound Chief Mike Adenuga in 2006 drew vitriol from the Awujale. Adenuga, an Ijebuman, became a quarry for the anti-corruption agency, which was desperate to link him to some financial misdemeanours allegedly perpertrated by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.

Obasanjo was determined to shred Atiku’s reputation, in a bid to keep him out of the 2007 presidential race.

Other royal fathers, for various reasons, kept quiet. But with his reputation for straight talk, the Awujale could not. He described Adenuga’s ordeal as a witch-hunt and slated the Federal Government for giving blanket support to the commission’s activities. He explained that the unrestrained powers of the EFCC was inimical to the nation’s drive for investments “That (Adenuga’s ordeal ) is very unfortunate. But all I can assure you is that Mike Adenuga is a serious businessman. He does his business in a way that is not criminal, such that contributes to the socio-economic development and progress of this country. What is happening to Adenuga is a passing phase. We leave everything to God. The only regret is the way EFCC is conducting itself and carrying out its operations by harassing people and the Federal Government is watching. This is very unfortunate,” he said.

It was a bold attack on budding tyranny by a democratically elected leader, who had forced many prominent figures, including traditional rulers, into acquiescence or muted discontent.

At about the same time, he expressed his dissatisfaction with Obasanjo’s scheme to get the constitution amended, with a view to elongating his term in office. Awujale’s position was in tune with that of the generality of Nigerians, who considered the tenure elongation plot immoral. It made him popular with the people, but unpopular with the former president.

It was a situation he was familiar with, having spoken against the cruel annulment of the 1993 presidential election won by the late Chief MKO Abiola.  Oba Adetona’s opposition to the annulment as well as his support for the process set up to seek de-annulment was remarkable in the face of the connivance of many prominent traditional rulers with the military establishment of that era. It was a dangerous path to tread, given the feral nature of Nigeria’s military rulers, especially the late General Sani Abacha. Indeed, when the Abacha regime tried to use traditional rulers from the south west to affirm the role Gen. Diya and others played in the 1997 coup, Oba Adetona refused to be used, whereas a fellow Oba after watching the video of the alleged coup shot by Abacha’s agents declared that Abacha was ‘‘talking sense.’’

Born in 1934, Oba Adetona ascended the throne of his ancestors on 2 April 1960. He variously attended Baptist School, Ereko, Ijebu Ode; Ogbere United Primary School, Oke Agbo, Ijebu Igbo; and Ansar-Ud-Deen School, Ijebu Ode. For his secondary education, he attended Olu-Iwa – now Adeola Odutola – College, Ijebu Ode from 1951 to 1956.

Between 1957 and 1958, he worked with the then Audit Department of the Western Region, Ibadan. He later resigned his appointment to study Accountancy in the United Kingdom.