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In his expanding reputation and legacy campaign, Nigeria’s immediate past president, Dr Goodluck Jonathan has taken a sharp swipe at his successor, a former military dictator, President Muhammad Buhari.
Jonathan delineated his point thus: “Underneath my watch not a single Nigerian was despatched to jail due to something she or he wrote or stated about me or concerning the administration that I headed.
“Nigeria had no political prisoners underneath my Administration and we definitely didn’t have any prisoners of conscience as a result of we ourselves ensured that we acted based on our conscience in all we did.”
Jonathan made the point “That’s the reason it doesn’t matter what any critic stated about me, I ensured that there was each freedom of speech and freedom after the speech,”
He was the keynote speaker at the annual benefit awards dinner of the Nigerian Legal professional Association of America on October 29, 2016.
He looked at the audience, and pointed out that Nigerians abroad has major roles to play: “You within the diaspora can attest to the truth that Nigeria had no political exile. Not solely did I take a stance to permit individuals categorical their opinions with out let or worry, we additionally enacted the Freedom of Info Act and by that, we tore the veil of secrecy overlaying governance.”
Jonathan — who has faced severe criticism for not fighting corruption while he was in power — was honoured at the event in New York with the proclamation as an icon of democracy.
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Forthcoming 2017 BOOK: In this engaging, uniquely insightful and first PERSON reportage book, MANDELA & ACHEBE: Footprints of Greatness, about two GLOBAL icons and towering PERSONS of African descent whose exemplary lives and friendship HOLD lessons for humanity and Africans, USAfrica Founder Chido Nwangwu takes a measure of their works and CONSEQUENCE to write that Mandela and Achebe have left “footprints of greatness.”
h Africa where Mandela was held for decades through his 20 years of being CLOSE to Achebe. He moderated the 2012 Achebe Colloquium at Brown UNIVERSITY in Providence, Rhode Island.”I’ll forever remember having walked inside and peeped through that HISTORIC Mandela jail cell (where he was held for most of his 27 years in unjust imprisonment) at the dreaded Robben Island, on March 27, 1998, alongside then Editor-in-chief of TIME magazine and later news chief EXECUTIVE of the CNN, Walter Isaacson (and others) when PRESIDENT BILL Clinton made his first official trip to South Africa and CAME to Robben Island. Come to this island of scourge and you will understand, in part, the simple greatness and towering grace of Nelson Mandela”, notes Chido Nwangwu, award-winning writer, multimediaspecialist and founder of USAfricaonline.com, the first African-owned U.S-based newspaper published on the INTERNET
, in his first book; he writes movingly from his 1998 reporting from South Africa on Mandela. http://www.mandelaachebechido.com/ •Dr. Chido Nwangwu, moderator of the Achebe Colloquium (GOVERNANCE, SECURITY, and PEACE in Africa) December 7-8, 2012 at Brown UNIVERSITY in Rhode Island and former ADVISER on Africa business/issues to the Mayor of Houston, is the Founder & Publisher of Houston-based USAfrica multimedia networks since 1992, first African-owned, U.S-based newspaper published on the INTERNET USAfricaonline.com; CLASSmagazine, AchebeBooks.com, the USAfrica-powered e-groups of AfricanChristians, Nigeria360 and the largest pictorial events megasite on the African diaspora www.PhotoWorks.TV . He was recently profiled by the CNN International for his pioneering works on multimedia/news/public policy projects for Africans and Americans.
