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By Isaac Obasi
TODAY July 20, 2022, marks the 80th birthday anniversary of Professor Ladipo Adamolekun, one of Nigeria’s and Africa’s outstanding scholars who is still standing strongly and reverberating with great ideas.
Thanks to the Almighty God that made this possible by sustaining him over the years.
Prof Adamolekun is an ideas man par excellence who is not tired of writing and publishing great ideas to make Nigeria assume its rightful position as the Giant of Africa. An ideas man is “a person who is particularly good at thinking of new or original ideas”. As a man destined to be rich in great ideas, he adopted at a young age two personal mottos, one of which was precisely at age 13. The first was “per ardua ad astra”, meaning: “through struggle to the stars”.
The second motto adopted within a year or two after was: “The heights that great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight; but they, while their companions slept, were…
Source: Vanguard Newspaper
