PAUL UGAH, BENUE ANA CHAIR RELEASES A NEW BOOK

PAUL UGAH, BENUE ANA CHAIR RELEASES A NEW BOOK

Paul Ugah, the Benue State Chairman of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), who authored four books, has released a new book titled "The Holiday Camp" to be presented to the general public on the 10th March, 2021 at NUJ Hall Makurdi, Benue State.

The book praised by literary giants, the likes of Professor Zainab Alkali, Professor Idris Amali, Professor Moses Tsenungo, Dr. Camilus Ukah, Mrs Hope Idani and etc. The authobiographical work in nature is about a journey like no other. It follows little Oche, from Zaki–Biam to 6001ft above the sea level, Mac and Magog hill in Shere, Jos zoological garden, and the expanse NASCO Group of company.

A book reviewed by Regina Achie–Nege is densed with intrigues and awe from the very beginning to the end, Mr. Paul Ugah keeps one in suspense and weaved the four stories interchangeably together with a thread of flybouyant suspense.

The book will be available for purchase after public presentation and launch, at NUJ Hall, Makurdi, Benue State. RSVPS: 08032901901, 08104474900, 08146639222

ANA National Re-affirms Edward Oviawe Led Exco In Edo

 

ANA NATIONAL RE-AFFIRMS EDWARD OVIAWE LED EXCO IN EDO

 

The National body of the Association of Nigerian Authors has warned members of the public, corporate organizations, eminent politicians, ANA Members in Edo State to be vigilant of another deviant, unelected and unconstitutional "ANA Edo EXCO" setup and imposed by one Goodluck Osama Ogbeide whose tenure as ANA Edo Chairman was full of financial misappropriation and deceitful extortion of money from politicians in the name of the Association.

In a press statement issued and signed by the National Publicity Secretary (South) of the Association, Wole Adedoyin, indicting the immediate past Chairman and his imposed, unconstitutional ANA Edo EXCO led by one Mrs.  Christy Omorogbe of using the name of ANA Edo to engage in all sort of unauthorized and illegal activities that would drag the name of ANA in the mud.

According to the Statement, “A High Court in Abuja recently waded into the crisis which has been rocking the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) for many months. The judge, Peter Affen, in a ruling on January 12, ruled against Ahmed Maiwada, another illegal and self appointed President of ANA in whose camp Goodluck Osama Ogbeide and Mrs.  Christy Omorogbe belong to, who sought the upturn of the processes which brought in his rival, Camillus Ukah on July 17th, 2020.”

The ruling was after a preliminary objection by the defendants on, challenging the jurisdiction of the court to hear the matter on the grounds that the suit was incompetent as the ”required consent was not obtained from the proper authorities of the claimant”.

The defendants had also said the suit was intended to ”embarrass and annoy the defendants and was mischievous, malicious, frivolous, vexatious and an abuse of court process”.

“Confidant Edward Oviawe was part of the struggle while the case was in court. He represented ANA Edo before and after the ruling of the Abuja High Court. There is no doubt that the election which took place on Saturday, 31^st October, 2020 which brought in Confidant Edward Oviawe  as the duly elected ANA Edo Chairman was not only legal and constitutional but also got the approval of the National Executive Council led by Camillus Uka, ANA Board of Trustees (Chaired by Professor Ernest Emeyonu) and ANA Advisory Council (Chaired by Professor Femi OSofisan).”

The statement also asked the newly elected ANA Edo EXCO ably led by Confidant Edward Oviawe to look into the financial records of the Association in the state which some ANA Edo members alleged is shrouded in secrecy since the inception of Goodluck Osama Ogbeide’s ANA Edo leadership about four years ago.

 

“We are aware of how Mrs.  Christy Omorogbe and her illegal EXCOS are attempting to fraudulently impose themselves as leaders of the Association in Edo State without being elected as provisioned in the ANA constitution and now parading themselves “new ANA Edo EXCO".

We are also aware that Goodluck Osama Ogbeide imposed Mrs.  Christy Omorogbe in order to cover up his illegal and shoddy deals perpetrated while he was in office four years ago.

The statement further recalled how the National arm of the Association had received different complaints by some members of ANA Edo which raised certain integrity issues against the former Chairman. The Camillus Ukah's led ANA administration is resolute in its commitment to purge the Association of some serious organizational anomalies noticed in some chapters of the Association across the country.

Adedoyin, finally urged members of the public, governments, corporate organizations and ANA Members in Edo State to abstain and stop dealing with this imposed, illegal, self-appointed and unconstitutional group led by Ahmed Maiwada, Goodluck Osama Ogbeide and Mrs.  Christy Omorogbe and warned that whosoever transacts any business with them do so at his or her own risk.

 

ANA Unveils project to mark 40th Anniversary, plans to setup ANA Literary Creativity Centres across the Country

 

ANA UNVEILS PROJECT TO MARK 40TH ANNIVERSARY, PLANS TO SETUP ANA LITERARY CREATIVITY CENTRES ACROSS THE COUNTRY

 

Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) plans to flood Nigeria’s reading space with forty thousand creative literature books from twenty select titles belonging to members of the association.  The books will be used as basic materials to set up forty ANA literary creativity centres in secondary schools across the country. The project will run as part of the Ten-City event already programmed to mark the anniversary. Four secondary schools are targeted with one thousand books each in the ten cities. ANA Literary Creativity Centre is a literati outfit designed to facilitate A BOOK-A CHILD-A WEEK PROJECT- one of ANA’s frontline literary campaign projects designed to encourage every Nigerian school child to read at least one general interest and character-defining creative literature text every week.

 

Yusuf Ali Literary Campaign Grant: Utilization of the Funds by ANA since 2012 Till Date

 

YUSUF ALI LITERARY CAMPAIGN GRANT

UTILIZATION OF THE FUNDS BY ANA SINCE 2012 TILL DATE

 

 

2012 -2014

In 2012, all state chapters of the Association received sub-grants, at various times, between 2012-2014, for local literary awareness campaigns involving secondary schools across the country.

2015

In 2015, the grant was applied by the then National Executive Council of ANA to host a workshop on fiction writing in Abuja in which about 25 students, drawn from tertiary institutions across the country via a competitive process, participated.

2016

In 2016, the Denja Abdullahi-led National Executive Council of ANA took the literary awareness campaign a notch further by focusing on innovative literary awareness campaign among tertiary institutions across the country through the state chapters.

2017

The grant was used in 2017 to publish three children’s literature titles under the Nigerian Writers Series (NWS), which have been distributed to chapters of ANA nationwide to power ANA ‘s A-Book-A-Child nationwide project that was flagged off at the association’s 36 th International Convention, which held in Makurdi, Benue State, in October, 2017, and the Phase 2 of it launched by the wife of the Governor of Ekiti State, Erelu Bisi Fayemi, at the 37 the International Convention of the Association held in Ikeja, Lagos, last year.

2018

The 2018 grant was deployed to facilitating a comprehensive media supplement on the projects executed with the yearly grants over the years and an intensive workshop for 15 selected chairmen of ANA chapters focusing on “Innovations in Contemporary Literary Awareness Campaigns” to deepen the execution of the project in the coming years.

2019

The association under the national leadership of Mallam Denja Abdulahi has devolved the fund to some selected state chapters of ANA to carry out innovative and cutting edge literary awareness campaigns in their domains as contained in the capacity building workshop held in Ilorin in 2018

 

ABOUT YUSUF OLAOLU ALI SAN

 

Yusuf Ali Esq.; SAN started his early life by been enrolled in a local Quranic school and in a formal school in 1960. After his primary education, he went to a secondary modern school for three years, he worked briefly before he gained admission to Ibadan Boys High School, Ibadan, where he passed his school certificate with grade one. He was the labour prefect .

He again worked briefly as a clerical officer in the old Oyo state Ministry of Finance as a tax officer posted to Igboora in 1977.

He gained admission to the University of Ife, now (Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife) in 1978 and graduated with a 2nd Class Upper Division for his Bachelor of Laws degree.

He was a winner of the prestigious Federal Merit Award for undergraduates and a University Scholar while an undergraduate at Ife. He attended the Nigerian Law School, where he also passed with a 2nd Class Upper Division

About a decade after graduation, Yusuf Ali went back to his alma mater for his Masters programme which he completed with flying colours in 1991 when he bagged his LLM. He was appointed by the Chief Justice of Nigeria in 1989, as a Notary Public

He attained the highest professional honor at the Nigerian Bar in 1997, when he was conferred with the prestigious and honorable title of Senior Advocate of Nigeria , S.A.N. Yusuf Ali has been in active legal practice for over three decades.

He joined the law Firm of Adegboyega Awomolo & Co in 1983 and rose to become a partner before he left to found his own law firm in June 1994.

He is the Principal and Founder of the Law Firm, Yusuf O. Ali & Co, Ghalib Chambers, with offices at ILORIN, Lagos and Abuja with Ilorin as the head office .

Yusuf Ali SAN is a member of many professional bodies such as:

1. Nigerian Bar Association
2. International Bar Association
3. American Bar Association
4. Commonwealth Lawyers Association; among others.

He has won and conferred with many fellowships such as:

1. Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, (FCIArb) (UK).
2. Fellow Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) (Nigeria)
3. Member Chartered Institute of Taxation Nigeria (CITN)
4. Fellow Society for Peace Studies and Practice (FSPSP).
5. Fellow Dispute Resolution Institute (F. DRI)
6. Honourary Fellow, Nigerian Minning And Geosciences Society.

Yusuf Ali SAN also served and is still serving on boards of many Companies and Institutions. He was the Chairman Kwara State Law Reform Committee. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Al-Hikmah University Ilorin. He was the pioneer Chairman, Council of Public Defenders Kwara state. He is the Chairman Board of Directors Apex Microfinance Bank Ltd

Yusuf Ali SAN held and still holds many professional offices including but not limited to :

1. Sole Judge of the Kwara State Local Government Election Petition Tribunal 1996
2. Member Kwara State Local Government Election Appeal Tribunal 1997
3. Life Member, Body of Benchers
4. Member National Executive Committee, Nigerian Bar Association
5. Former Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Nigerian Bar Journal
6. Former Chairman of the NBA Committee on the Rule Of Law
7. Pioneer Chairman, Nigerian Bar Association Section on Legal Practice (SLP)
8. Pioneer Chairman of the NBA Anti-corruption Commission.
9. News Letter Editor International Bar Association Committee on Damages and Negligence.
10. Member of Council, Commonwealth Lawyers Association.
11. Member Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee of the Body of Benchers.
12. He is the Vice Chairman of the International Bar Association committee on Damages and Negligence.
13. He is a member of the NBA ILORIN Council of Elders.
14. He was co opted into the Council of the University of ILORIN in 1995 to probe the bursary of that university.
15. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the ILORIN Central Mosque.
16. Chairman Alanu Trust Fund of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital.

Mr. Yusuf Ali SAN is a Patron and Legal Adviser to many professional and socio cultural groups all over Nigeria. He is also an Associate Lecturer, at the Faculty of Law, University of Ilorin. He has delivered more than Two Hundred papers on different and diverse topics at various foray, including the International Bar Association Conferences, Commonwealth Law Association conferences , Annual Conferences of the Nigerian Bar Association, among others.

He had contributed more than 17 Chapters to various legal books and has to his credit more than 40 published learned articles in learned journals in the field of litigation, Commercial Law, jurisprudence , practice and procedure, constitutional law in local and international law journals. He had represented many state governments, high net worth Individuals, Corporate and Institutional Clients before all the superior courts of record from the high court to the Supreme Court in many landmark cases.

Yusuf Ali has been awarded more than 100 honours from within and outside of Nigeria. He is listed in the American Biographical Institute's Who is Who, as well as in Nigeria's Who is Who.

A few of the over 100 awards conferred on him are:

1. Lifetime Achievement Award by the Governing Board of Editors of the American Biographical Institute
2. West Africa International Golden Award for Excellence in Enterprise
3. Award of Excellence presented by AIESEC ILORIN
4. Award of Excellence as a Doyen of Legal Luminary in Nigeria by Nigerian Vogue
5. Special Award by FIDA KWARA
6. Award of Excellence by the National Association of Muslim Law Students, National Headquarters, Abuja.
7. Distinguished Personality Award presented by the Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan
8. Merit Award by the Nigerian Institute of Management, Kwara State Branch
9. Award of Excellence by the National Association of Polytechnic Students
10. Award of Excellence by the Students' Union of the University of Ilorin
11. Award of Exemplary Leadership and Service by Rotary Club, Ilorin
12. Merit Award by the Ibadan Boys High School Old Boys Association
13. Merit Award by All Nigeria Confederation of Principals of Secondary Schools, Osun State Branch
14. Kwame Nkrumah Leadership Award of 2010 Africa Legal Icon by All Africa Students' Union
15. Award by the NBA Women Forum for Immense Contribution and Activities to the Forum
16. Police Friendly Award 2009 by the KWARA State Police Command
17. Kwame Nkrumah Leadership Award on Education Per Excellence/Icon of Societal Development by the West African Students' Union
18. Commander of Great IFE , (COI) by the OBAFEMI Awolowo university national Alumni.
19. Honorary Degree of Doctor Of Letters (Honoris Causa) of Al HIKMA University .

He is very passionate about philanthropy and using the vehicle of YUSUF ALI FOUNDATION of which he is the Founder and sole Financier so far, had intervened in many public institutions by donating:

1. A Twin Dormitary to the University of ILORIN.
2. An Eighty bed Hostel to the OSUN State University.
3. A Ten Bed Advanced Trauma Centre to the University of ILORIN Teaching Hospital.
4. Thirty unit ICT center to the Faculty of Law OBAFEMI Awolowo university ILE IFE.
5. Thirty unit ICT center to the College of Law, Crescent University ABEOKUTA OGUN state.
6. Endowment of the Crescent University College of Law Building.
7. Forty unit ICT center to the KWARA state polytechnic , ILORIN.
8. A brand new Kia Rio 2014 Model to the University of Ibadan for the use of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies of the university.

In the recent past, in order to enhance the work of the KWARA state police command, he donated a well equipped patrol van and some units of motorcycles .

The Yusuf Ali Foundation does a lot of other charity work like award of scholarships to indigent students in secondary and tertiary institutions both in Nigeria and outside, provision of wells and boreholes to communities, medical financial assistance to patients both within the country and outside and the development of literary awareness in secondary schools all over the country by entering into an annual sponsorship with the Association of Nigerian Authors.

Yusuf Ali is a well travelled man and has visited all the continents of the world for professional and educational purposes.

He has published many learned articles in learned journal and contributed chapters to many books.