Born the eldest of twelve children in Uromi in Edo State of Nigeria on the 22nd of July, 1923, Enahoro remains one of Nigeria’s foremost anti-colonialist and pro-democracy activists. Educated at the Government School Uromi, Government School Owo and King’s College, Lagos, Chief Enahoro became the editor of the Southern Nigerian Defender Newspaper, Ibadan, in 1944 at the age of 21, thus becoming Nigeria’s youngest editor ever. Apart from being the youngest editor of a national newspaper at such a tender age – a record which remains unbroken in the history of Nigeria’s journalism – the history of Nigeria’s match into independence is also not complete without a mention of Enahoro. Continue reading “Enahoro, Exit Of A True Patriot”
The Enahoro I knew at King’s College
I WELCOME you to this August occasion to celebrate the passing into glory of our distinguished and accomplished personality and old boy of Kings College, Lagos. Okotako Enahoro, the father of Tony Enahoro and his younger siblings believed very much in education as a traveling teacher and supervisor of schools in the Owo area in those good old days. Continue reading “The Enahoro I knew at King’s College”
Enahoro’s final journey begins
LAGOS- From the lips of eminent Nigerians, associates, faithful and former classmates came torrents of eulogies and tributes for late elder statesman and frontline nationalist, Chief Anthony Eromosele Enahoro, whose seven-day burial programme began Monday in Lagos. Continue reading “Enahoro’s final journey begins”
Keep vision of Enahoro alive, Adegbite Olusola tell Nigerians
The Secretary General of Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs, Dr Lateef Adegbite and Ambassador Segun Olusola have urged Nigerians to keep the vision of a united Nigeria which the late Chief Anthony Enahoro and others laid nursed.
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Ilenre: Enahoro, victory in death
THE elder statesman, Chief Anthony Eromosele Enahoro, one of the eminent Nigerian nationalists who died on December 15, 2010, will be remembered for the many roles he played in the cause of the struggle for Nigerian independence. At 30, he moved the 1953 crisis motion for independence. The colonial administration jailed him three times in 1946, 1947 and 1949. At age 40, in 1963 he was a fugitive offender extradited from exile in Britain to face a false charge of treason. Continue reading “Ilenre: Enahoro, victory in death”
Elder Journalists want holiday for Enahoro
BENIN – VETERAN journalists in Edo state have appealed to the state government to declare Friday February 4, 2011 as public holiday in honour of the elder statesman, late Chief Anthony Enahoro who would be buried next weekend. Continue reading “Elder Journalists want holiday for Enahoro”
The Tony Enahoro I Knew
THE mere mention of his name and the knowledge that he was around sent shivers into us. We were pupils of St. David’s Anglican School , Akure. Our teachers literarily trembled with fear. Even our amiable and most respected headmaster, Mr. Abiodun, was visibly nervous. Pa Enahoro, (for who dared call or recall his first name?) was the supervisor of schools in the early forties at Akure and its environs. Not the now familiar “Pa Tony Enahoro”; but his father. Tony Enahoro’s father was a stern disciplinarian; stricter than most of his peers, then entrusted by the British colonial masters with the responsibility of moulding our young minds, in those days, in the early forties. Pa Enahoro (Snr). belonged to that rare and privileged breed of Nigerians, who dared stand shoulder by shoulder, and looked at the white man, right straight in the face.
Lives remembered: Chief Anthony Enahoro
Geoffrey Rutter writes: I read with interest and some sadness your obituary for Chief Anthony Enahoro (Jan 4). Please allow me to expand on the UK political scene that existed in 1962 when the Chief was imprisoned at Brixton Prison pending his return to Nigeria on an extradition warrant. At the time I was a young solicitor acting with my late father on the Chief’s behalf. His request for political asylum was turned down notwithstanding the Chief’s fear of execution if he returned to Nigeria.
Where are our heros?
“Some people are so good that nothing a leader can do will make them better; others are so incorrigible that nothing be done to improve them. But the great bulk of the people go with the moral tide of the moment. The leader must help to create that tide”- Anonymous Continue reading “Where are our heros?”
Enahoro emerges Ijaw group Man of the Year
The Ijaw Monitoring Group, IMG, has named the late Chief Pa Anthony Enahoro as the 2010 man of the year.
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