Table 1: Summary Pledge/Redemption Table
| S/N | Item | Number Of People | Amount US$ | Amount Naira | Comment |
| 1 | Pledged | 92 | 10,785 | 1,617,750 | About 62% above N1 million target |
| 2 | Redeemed | 19 | 2,175 | 326,250 | 20.2% of pledged amount 20.7% of pledgers |
Names of latest pledgers since last Update:
Ojeranti, Olatunji; Awojoodu, Oloye
We continue to hope that others will be generous and continue to make their pledges.
To Pledgers
We are all doing good so far. Please continue to redeem your pledges by sending a check or money-order made out to "The Zik Legacy Project", and mail to either one of the following two Co-conveners' addresses:
Ms. Azuoma Anugom, PO Box 881352, Los Angeles, CA 90009, USA
or
Prof.. Mobolaji E. Aluko, PO Box 343, Burtonsville, MD 20866, USA
Kindly email BOTH of us PRIVATELY ( adaejiagamba08@yahoo.com , AND alukome@gmail.com ) when you actually send your pledge forth. We will rely upon your integrity. Pledge receipts will be updated periodically. Your money will be in good hands.
For those who have expressed preference for payment via PayPal option, please be patient since that cannot be activated until NAFA is fully registered (with all appropriate official documentation) and a bank account is established. (Post 9/11, PayPal is pretty strict about these things). Work is going on – but until then, we will still be happy to receive your checks and money orders.
We hope to have redeemed N1 million by November 1, in time for November 16, which would have been Zik's 106th birthday. If preferably we can raise N1 million by October 1 (50th Independence Anniversary), then it could be a great opportunity to highlight our appreciation for Zik's role in Nigeria's Independence struggle - among other things. We might even get some matching funds from Nigeria.
To those who have pledged, we urge you to sign up for a discussion group, if you wish, by clicking the following URL (or copying it onto your browser):
http://groups.google.com/group/zikproject/
where instructions for joining will be found. Let us know if you have any problems.
We thank you all in advance.
News Item – NAFA is born
On Saturday September 4, following a teleconference attended by about 21 individuals, a decision was made to formally establish the Nnamdi Azikiwe Foundation for Africa (NAFA) to move the present cause forward on a formal basis. A 15-member Board of Trustees* was also tentatively established, with room for expansion.
We congratulate ourselves for this move, and hope that you will join hands with us.
We have therefore moved beyond the recent scurrilous attempt by some agents of discord to tar the fund-raising effort as fraudulent in an effort to dissuade us. We have made full disclosures throughout this exercise – about the condition of the Zik statues and mausoleum at Onitsha, about our fund-raising aims and goals, etc. - and hedged where we were not sure of all of the information. In this 50th Year of our Independence and beyond, the Zik project will go on – nothing else has been contemplated - despite all divisive antics against peaceful co-existence in Nigeria.
*Tentative Board of Trustees of NAFA
1. Ms. Azuoma Anugom
2. Dr. Bolaji Aluko
3. Mr. Ibukunolu Alao Babajide (IBK)
4. Elder Fred Umunnakwe
5. Dr. Folu Ogundimu
6. Mr. Victor Okafor
7. Mrs. Noyo Edem
8. Dr. Stella Nwokeji
9. Ms. Adamazi Adanna Okoro
10. Mazi Aduba Obiajulu
11. Dr. Ernest Ndukwe
12. Dr. Ola Kassim
13. Mr. Simon Iberosi
14. Marcel Ezeoke
15. Dr. Chima Ahanotu
Table 2: Detailed Pledge/Redemption Table
S/N Donor Amount US$ Comment Status of Pledge Redeemed Amount 1 Aluko, Mobolaji 300 *Rec'd $300 8/27/10 300 2 Ojo, Valentine 50 **Rec'd $50 8/27/10 50 3 Ojedokun, Olu 50 Used to be BP25 0 4 Nwakanma, Obi 100 0 5 Madu, Abraham 50 0 6 Kolawole, Suji 200 *Rec'd $200 8/27/10 200 7 Ogundimu, Folu 100 *Rec'd $100 8/30/10 100 8 Edosomwan, Charles 100 *Rec'd $100 9/7/10 100 9 Igietseme, Joe 200 0 10 Chief Gemologist 50 0 11 Ekechi, Felix 50 0 12 Aina, Tade 100 0 13 Udogu, Ike 150 *Rec'd $150 9/7/10 150 14 Zakari, Aisha 100 0 15 Raji, Taju 75 *Rec'd $75 8/27/10 75 16 Kuforiji, Kayode 50 0 17 Anonymous (Muba) 67 N10,000 0 18 Mensah, Edward 50 0 19 Gyasi, Kwabby 50 0 20 Onyegbula, Festus 100 0 21 Mustafa, Salihu 100 N15-20,000 0 22 Garba, Lawal 100 *Rec'd $100 9/7/10 100 23 Olajide, Saheed 50 0 24 Adeniyi, Michael 100 0 25 Kassim, Ola 250 Doubled original pledge from $125 Since last update 0 26 Viscount Slim 103 0 27 Nwosu, Okenwa 250 0 28 Egbo, Benedicta 100 0 29 Osunsan, Rotimi 100 0 30 Williams, Dapo 160 BP100 0 31 Aghadiuno, Eric 150 0 32 Babajide, Ibukunolu 100 0 33 Dawodu, Segun Toyin 100 *Rec'd $100 9/8/10 100 34 Akuechiama, Jude & Ebere 200 0 35 Anugom, Azuoma 100 Rec'd $100 9/7/10 100 36 Irozuru, Julius 50 0 37 Okafor, Victor O. 100 0 38 Frempong, Sandra 50 *Rec'd $50 9/1/10 50 39 Oyedeji, Kale 50 *Rec'd $50 9/7/10 50 40 Abegunrin, Layi 50 0 41 Enweze, Obi 100 0 42 Omoigui, Nowa 200 0 43 Adam, Baba 100 0 44 Adeboye, Adeniran 100 0 45 Adeyeye, Sola 100 0 46 Ibe, Kevin 50 0 47 Awofolaju, Akin 100 *Rec'd $100 8/27/10 100 48 Adesanmi, Pius 100 0 49 Okala, Emeka, R. 100 0 50 Dada, Ganiyu 100 0 51 Odusanya, Adeola 100 *Rec'd $100 8/30/10 100 52 Oviawe, Joan O. 50 0 53 Okojie, Paul 100 *Rec'd $100 9/1/10 100 54 Aduba, Obi 200 0 55 Okeke, Okwy 200 **Rec'd $200 9/1/10 200 56 Raheem, Ade 100 0 57 Akindana, "Matto" 100 0 58 Nwabuzor, Steve 100 0 59 Iberosi, Simon 100 0 60 Omeaku, Cyriacus 100 0 61 Aniedobe, Chris 100 0 62 Ezeoke, Marcel 100 0 63 Okoye, Gabe 100 0 64 Umeweni, Uchenna 100 0 65 Anetor, Lucky & family 100 *Rec'd $100 9/2/10 100 66 Umunnakwe, Fred 100 0 67 Edem, Noyo 50 0 68 Isama, Ike 230 0 69 LaCrown Adeyemi 100 0 70 Anonymous (Pbid) 150 0 71 Anonymous (Soom) 200 0 72 Adeyemo, Florence 100 0 73 Okeke, Alex Ike 100 0 74 Onyeani, Chika 300 0 75 Ndukwe, Ernest 100 0 76 Okorufor, Augusta 100 0 77 Nwokeji, Emmanuel & Stella 100 **Rec'd $100 9/8/10 100 78 Egbe, Tony 100 0 79 Ugochukwu, Basil 100 *Rec'd $100 9/7/10 100 80 Enemchuku, Chinwe 50 0 81 Adekunle, Philips 100 0 82 Oghereore, Otitigbe 100 0 83 Ikheloa, Ikhide 100 0 84 Ihediwa, Chiwuikem 50 0 85 Aniebonam, Manny 1000 0 86 Eke, Paul 100 0 87 Olawole, Dele 50 0 88 Ogunsuyi, Rotimi 100 0 89 Ogbonna, George 100 0 90 Obiamalu, Raymond 100 0 91 Ojeranti, Olatunji 100 0 92 Awojoodu, Oloye 50 0 Total 10785 2175
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SOME BACKGROUND
Timeline:
1. November 16, 1904 - Zik is born in Zungeru
2. January 1, 1960 - Zik becomes President of the Senate of Nigeria (under British Colonial Rule)
3. October 1, 1960 - Nigeria becomes an independent country
4. November 16, 1960 - Zik becomes Governor General of Nigeria
5. October 1, 1963 - Zik becomes President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
6. November 16, 1963 or thereabout - Zik's life-size statue in Onitsha (near DMGS) unveiled by sculptor Prof. Ben Enwonwu in commemoration of then President Zik's 59th Birthday
7. May 11, 1996 - Zik dies in Onitsha
8. 2003? - head of Zik's Statue removed by unknown (?) person(s).
9. November 7, 2005 - large portion of Inisi Onira Retreat (home of Zik) in Onitsha destroyed allegedly by MASSOB;
10. January 1, 2007 - statue at Zik Retreat restored
11. August 2010 - Photographic status of statues and state of mausoleum are in.
Note: The date that Zik's life-size statue near his Inisi Onira Retreat home was unveiled is not known at this time.
Compiled by Bolaji Aluko
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