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ONE OF HIS EDITED WORKS
Celebration Of
The Life And Times Of Late Prof. Bade Onimode
Newsdiaryonline
Tue Nov 15,2011
The Prof. Bade
Onimode Memorial Colloquium Committee
will on the 10th of December 2011 hold an
international colloquium in honour of the former Deputy Vice –
Chancellor of Nigeria’s premier university, the University of
Ibadan, Professor Bade Onimode.
The event, scheduled to hold in Lokoja, Kogi
State will bring together scholars, activists, students and
government officials from different parts of the world to honour
one of Africa’s most prolific development economists who died at
the National Hospital, Abuja on 28th of November
2001, after a brief illness.
The late professor, who was born in November
1944 studied economics at the University of Ibadan between
September 1963 and September 1967 when he got his first degree
and proceeded immediately for his masters degree in economics in
the same university.
Prof. Onimode later got another masters
degree in 1969 at the University of Chicago and PhD at the Ohio
State University in 1972.
The development economist was the Chairman
of the then Association of University Teachers (now Academic
Staff Union of Universities), University of Ibadan Branch
between 1977 and 1978 during the
Ali Must Go mass
protest by Nigerian students against the anti poor education
policies of the General Obasanjo military government. He was
indeed one of the several lecturers that were victimised as a
result of their active participation in the protests.
Prof. Onimode was Chairman of the London
based Institute For African Alternatives (IFAA) from 1986 to
1996; served as member of the Eminent Persons Committee of the
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS); one time
member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the African Centre
for Development and Strategic Studies; and Vice Chairman for
west Africa on the Board of the African Economic and Social
Research Forum of the defunct Organisation of African Unity
(OAU).
Between 1997 and 1999, Professor Onimode was
the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academics) of the University of
Ibadan and member of the Governing Council of the University of
Lagos from 2000 until his untimely death.
A
Life Fellow of the Nigerian Economic Society, Prof. Onimode
was also a member of the Research Review Committee of the United
Nations Institute for Development Planning (IDEP) from 1992 to
1998.
He was a consultant to several local and
international organisations, including the International Labour
Organisation (ILO), the United Nations Economic Commission on
Africa (ECA), the defunct International Confederation of Free
Trade Unions (ICFTU), the Organisation of African Trade Union
Unity (OATUU), and the Nigeria Labour Congress, among others.
The late professor was a prolific author
with several books to his credit. Prominent among books written
by him are : Imperialism
and Underdevelopment In Nigeria(1983); A Political Economy of
The African Crisis(1988);
The IMF, the World Bank and the African Deb(1989)t; A
Future for Africa – Beyond the Politics of Adjustment(1992);
Issues in African Development(1995); Africa in the World of the
21st Century(2000).
The memorial colloquium with the theme:
Contemporary Socio –
Economic and Political Issues in Nigeria and Africa,
will have the Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and
the Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola as Guest
Speakers. Other speakers are the Secretary General of the
Organisation of African Trade Union Unity and pioneer President
of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Comrade Hassan Sunmonu; the
Chief Economist of the Nigeria Labour Congress; Dr. Peter Ozo –
Eson, a former President of the Academic Staff Union of
Universities, Dr. Dipo Fasina; Prof. Etannibi Alemika of the
University of Jos; a Vice President of the Nigeria Labour
Congress, Comrade Issa Aremu; a former Executive Director of
Union Bank, Alhaji Hamid Taju, President of Campaign for
Democracy, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin and Cordinator of Community
Life Project, Mrs. Ngozi Iwere.
Several other scholars, activists, students,
federal and state legislators, representatives of national and
international organisations, government functionaries, etc have
been invited to the colloquium, which will hold at the
Conference Hall of the Confluence Beach Hotel, Lokoja on the 10th
of December 2011.
Dr. Remi Medupin
Denja Yaqub
Chairman
Secretary
Th
This is the document referred to in the Witness
Statement on Oath of Clifford O. Kokogho as
“Exhibit
COK.2”
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