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Japanese plastic surgeon Katsuya Takasu made history on the sideline of the just concluded Rio Olympics when he made good his promise to reward the Nigerian Olympic football team with the sum of $390,000 after the team won bronze in Brazil. Takasu, a medical doctor had promised to support the team after hearing about their financial difficulties before the tournament.
When Nasarawa state’s Accountant General slumped and died recently, I was in the state capital, Lafia, and couldn’t help but be struck by the irony of it. And although my heart went to his grieving family, I find myself day-dreaming about how things might have played out were the educationally disadvantaged state not further paralysed by an on-going strike.
Tokyo International Conference on African Development, “TICAD 6” just ended in Nairobi, Kenya and in attendance were several African Presidents and Prime Ministers including our own Muhammadu Buhari and the co-convener of the conference, Shinzo Abe, the head of the Japanese government. The TICAD seeks a win-win partnership between Japan and Africa. A key objective of the conference is to build up African ownership of its own vision of growth and development.
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