The Governor of Anambra State, Chukwuma Soludo, has said Igbos need to rethink their stance on claims of marginalisation.<\/p>\n
He argued that Igbos must ascertain whether the clamour for secession is right or wrong.<\/p>\n
Soludo stated this on Tuesday when he delivered the 6th Biennial Adada Lecture organised by the Association of Nsukka Professors at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN).<\/p>\n
He insisted that universities generally have lowered the bar for critical thinking.<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cThe Nigeria-Biafra war was literally declared from this hall (UNN), and the justification or otherwise of that declaration should have been interrogated by the university community.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWe are producing thousands of papers that never leave the shelves, while the country struggles for real solutions.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cNigeria is drowning in more noise but less light. We must condemn the growing gap between classroom ideas and government action. Knowledge that does not shape policy is as good as useless.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe future of the Igbo lies in a united Nigeria. Igbo intellectuals must lead the debate, not leave it to street rhetoric.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cStop standing arms akimbo while the nation drifts, the silence from the intellectual class could cost Africa dearly. Talent is not enough; if you don\u2019t act, you\u2019re part of the problem.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Citing global icons like Isaac Newton, Nnamdi Azikiwe and Kwame Nkrumah, Soludo reminded scholars that history favours thinkers who act, not those who only write.<\/p>\n Soludo challenged lecturers to look inward, insisting that intellectualism without action is sterile.<\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Governor of Anambra State, Chukwuma Soludo, has said Igbos need to rethink their stance on claims of marginalisation. He argued that Igbos must ascertain whether the clamour for secession is right or wrong. Soludo stated this on Tuesday when he delivered the 6th Biennial Adada Lecture organised by the Association of Nsukka Professors at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":242660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Chukwuma-Soludo.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}