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Adieu, Alex!

Chris Adetunji
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on Friday, 25 November 2011 in Radio Hosts

Alex Ibru (1945 - 2011) It's hard to believe Alex Ibru is gone! Wish I'd made a return visit to the massive international ecumenical centre in Agbarha-Otor, near Ughelli, where he lived, and from where we brewed the contents of the centre-spread Guardian on Sunday. Yes, I was proudly a pioneering Editorial member of the Committee of Resource Persons for the Ibru International Ecumenical Centre. The magnificence and the aura of paradise in the Centre was better experienced than imagined.

A truly  genuine Philantropist who never acted for the sake of publicity,  Alex had a genuine heart for people, values and charity.  Above all, he feared God and was unbelievably humble. We all interacted with him as pals. The values of true and conscientious leadership shared by him lingers on. "Conscience nurtured by Truth"!

Alex Ibru was a constant target of the Abacha-led military junta. The ghastly gunshots he sustained during Abacha's reign of terror may have culminated in his eventual demise.

Publisher of the most potent and most widely circulated National Daily Newspaper in Nigeria (The Guardian), Alex Uruemu Ibru  (March 1945 – November 2011), Adieu!

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