Jonathan, Mark, Soyinka, others for Benin monarch’s book presentation OBA of Benin, Oba Erediauwa would today play host to President Goodluck Jonathan, Senate President, David Mark, former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon and other prominent Nigerians at the public presentation of a compendium of his speeches and writings titled “Cradle of Ideas”. Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, who wrote the forward to the book, will also present the book, according to Professor Greg Iduorobo Akenzua, the monarch’s younger brother. Also expected at the event is Speaker, House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal while Governor Adams Oshiomhole is the Chief Host. In the book, edited by Dr. Osarhiemen Benson Osadolor of the University of Benin, the royal father attempted to demonstrate how the constitution of knowledge emerges as ideas in separate spheres of intellectual activities and influences through the construction and definition of meaning. Osadolor told The Guardian yesterday that Oba Erediauwa had worked tirelessly at exploring the revealing viewpoint of his voice of discourse to develop his ideas in such a remarkably logical and thoughtful approach in grasping the changes in Nigeria in its historical movements. Court strikes out Ukwuoma’s name in suit against The Guardian, others By Bertram Nwanekanma JUSTICE Chukwujekwu Aneke of a Federal High Court, Lagos on Tuesday struck out the name of the late Assistant Health Editor of The Guardian, Mr. Ben Ukwuoma from a suit instituted by the former Registrar of Pharmacy Council of Nigeria, (PCN), Alhaji Ahmed Tijani Mora against The Guardian Newspaper and three others. The suit filed through a writ on April 26, 2010, has The Guardian, Ukwuoma, and the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) as respondents. But at the continuation on Tuesday, counsel to The Guardian (first respondent) and Ukwuoma (second respondent), David Olusoga Fayemi, appearing with Amaka Anierobi, had informed the court of the death of Ukwuoma and asked that his name be struck out from the writ. The counsel also prayed the court for the substitution of the deceased sole witness in the matter, Late Mr. Ben Ukwuoma with Mr. Chukwuma Muanya, a senior health reporter in The Guardian. They also requested for the leave of the court to file an additional statement on oath. Justice Aneke granted the applications after parties in the matter did not raise any objection to the applications. The judge, however, adjourned further hearing on the matter till February 11 and 12, 2014 due to sudden power failure in the courtroom as well as request by the plaintiffs for two additional dates to enable parties conclude the trial. According to the writ, the libel suit initiated against the respondents was predicated on a news report carried by The Guardian and written by the late Ukwuoma on the delisting of Tijani Mora, (the first plaintiff) from the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) as contained in a press statement issued by the society.
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