Foremost literary icon, Elechi Amadi of “The Concubine” fame IS DEAD - LITERATURE.

ONE of Africa’s finest novelist, poet and dramatist Captain Elechi Amadi died Wednesday 29th- 6- 2016 at the Good Heart hospital in Port Harcourt at the age of 82.  He was the foremost literary icon, Captain Elechi Amadi (rtd), of “The Concubine” fame.

Born in 1934 in Aluu in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State, Amadi attended Government College, Umuahia (1948–52), Survey School, Oyo (1953–54), and the University of Ibadan (1955–59), where he obtained a degree in Physics and Mathematics.

He worked for a time as a land surveyor and later was a teacher at several schools, including the Nigerian Military School, Zaria (1963–66). Amadi served in the Nigerian Army, remained there during the Nigerian Civil War, and retired at the rank of captain.

He held various positions with the Rivers State Government: Permanent Secretary (1973–83), Commissioner for Education (1987–88) and Commissioner for Lands and Housing (1989–90).

He was a writer-in-residence and lecturer at the Rivers State College of Education (now Ignatius Ajuru University of Education), where he also held the positions of Dean of Arts, Head of the Literature Department and Director of General Studies.

In his lifetime, he was severally honoured by institutions and writers. On May 13, 1989, a symposium was held at the University of Port Harcourt to celebrate his 55th birthday while in May 2004, a conference was also organised by the Association of Nigerian Authors, Rivers State branch, to mark his 70th birthday. MAY HIS SOUL RIP .

Kenya signs a better oil pipeline concordat with Ethiopia after Uganda‘s President Yoweri Museveni Rebuff .

Well done Mr President after your purported friend Yoweri Museveni frustrated you……you managed to strike a better deal for Kenya.

Kenya and Ethiopia have signed a deal for an oil pipeline that will run from Lamu to Addis Ababa under the Lapsset project ……we are now good to go .

President Uhuru Kenyatta and Ethiopian Prime Minister Haile Mariam Desalegn signed the pact during bilateral talks at State House, Nairobi, on Thursday.

At a joint press conference that followed the talks, Uhuru said Kenya is working closely with Ethiopia on the Lapsset project.

Is Museveni  Kenya’s  Jubilee’s ruling govt  friend  as  portrayed ?

STOP EMBARRASSING LUHYA COMMUNITY THAT IS SOLIDLY BEHIND ODM ; DEPUTY PARTY LEADER NOW SHOOTS DIRECT TO HON ABABU NAMWAMBA .

HON OPARANYA SHOTS DIRECT

STATEMENT BY GOVERNOR WYCLIFFE OPARANYA ON ODM MATTERS:


As Deputy Party Leader of the Orange Democratic Movement, I take great reservations to the utterances attributed to the party’s Secretary General Hon Ababu Namwamba to the effect that the Luhya community is being persecuted and undermined in ODM.

These utterances are unfortunate indeed and not befitting of a leader in the position Hon Namwamba holds. They are an embarrassment to the party and to the Luhya community that is solidly behind ODM.

Hon Namwamba’s utterances are dangerous to the extent that they seek to create non-existent divisions in the party along ethnic lines.

I wish to assure all ODM supporters that the party remains strong in Western Kenya and beyond and nobody should panic over Hon Namwamba’s utterances. The Luhya community is equally well represented and catered for in the party, holding key positions like that of Deputy Party Leader, Vice Chairman, Deputy Organizing Secretary and chairman of Disputes Tribunal, among others.
At the beginning of the 11th Parliament, the party was also kind enough to reward our support with the chairmanship of the powerful Public Accounts Committee, which went to Hon Namwamba and which we lost through reckless arrogance and selfishness.

It is not a secret that the Secretary General has been missing in action and failing to provide leadership at critical moments. He was missing as the party prepared to welcome its leader Hon Raila Odinga back into the country after a three month sabbatical in the US. The SG was missing throughout the Okoa Kenya pro-referendum campaign and lately he has been missing from all effort to disband and reform the IEBC. Yet reform of the IEBC is critical to ODM’s plans for ascending to power.

As we approach elections, many leaders will be seeking excuses for their failure in an effort to find their way back. ODM supporters must remain alert to such maneuvers and hold individuals to account for the positions they held.

H.E GOV. WYCLIFFE A OPARANYA

DEPUTY PARTY LEADER

ODM

22.06.2016

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