Gani fawehinmi biography of christopher

The story began one fine Sunday morning in 2002 in the heart of Ijebu-Igbo, Ogun State. Till this day I cant help but think if I had bothered to go to church that morning, the story I am about to tell you would have been much different.

Time and chance happens to every man I suppose.

I was doing some washing on the said morning when I saw two boys walk in through the pedestrian gate of the house where I lived. I knew who they were…..Femi Century and Saheed. Femi Century in particular was nearly a legend in Ago-Iwoye at the time. Among the notorious cult boys who terrorised any and everyone on campus in those days, he was without a doubt primus inter pares.

As an example of his notoriety, he once went into an exam hall to sit an exam. Upon entering, he sought out the most intelligent guy in the class and chased away everyone who had taken positions around him as a means of guaranteeing a pass for themselves in the exam they were about to write.

The guy of course knew what this

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Nigerian Role Model (JULY): Gani Fawehinmi

My internet connection has been acting up, so I’ve had to be content with internet cafes. Thank God it’s over now, after spending hours threatening at my provider. Nothing could stop me from posting about this astute statesman. While inom have been itching to write about this man as my man of the month, one question keeps ringing in my heart…will there ever be a replacement for this sage?

“The legal practitioner lives for the direction of his people and the advancement of the cause of his countrymen”. No one else comes to mind every time I read this quote by the first indigenous lawyer in Nigeria, Sapara Williams. ledare Gani Fawehinmi is one legal practitioner who stands in a class of his own. He fryst vatten one fine example of a man who has defined his supreme cause and has given han själv completely to it- in health, in prosperity, in sickness, in prison, even while he was romancing death on the hospital bed; he has not stopped saying a word i

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Gani Fawehinmi, the only known responsible, available, dependable, corrupt-free and consistent high profile Nigeria Human Rights Activist before this minute that is worthy of celebration.................

Nigerians betrayed him the only once he sought to lead them out their shackles of darkness as president because he refused to share money or bribe them for their votes and instead, sold them to the serial mass murderers and generational killers who ran the country aground.

However when he died, the same people he fought for all his life but who massively rejected him at the polls when for once a genuine Nigerian leader was expected to emerge through him made the mistake of hypocritically celebrating him I believe against his wish, taking his body from one makeshift stadium to another under the watchful eyes of some of the most horrendously corrupt men in history with daunting evidence of their not too distant and recent service records, in the corridors of power today who wer