{"id":42409,"date":"2015-09-29T21:40:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T20:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=42409"},"modified":"2015-09-29T21:40:15","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T20:40:15","slug":"delta-speaker-mourns-onosode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/delta-speaker-mourns-onosode\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta Speaker Mourns Onosode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The death of foremost technocrat and boardroom Czar, Deacon Gamaliel<br \/>\nOnosode, has deprived Nigerians, particularly the people of Delta State of<br \/>\nthe services of one of the most consistent administrators of this age,<br \/>\nsays Delta State House of Assembly Speaker, Rt. Hon Ovwigho Igbuya.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnosode was a family man that radiated the best of family values\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Igbuya who also described the death of the former chairman of Dunlop<br \/>\nNigeria Plc, Cadbury Nigeria Plc and Zain Nigeria as sad and painful,<br \/>\nnoted that the boardroom guru proved to Nigerians and the international<br \/>\ncommunity that there was everything to gain from being principled.<\/p>\n<p>A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Speaker, Mr. Henry Ebireri<br \/>\nurged the younger generation of Nigerians to take a cue from the ideals<br \/>\nthat Onosode lived for- building a better Urhobo nation, Delta State and<br \/>\nNigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Nigeria, Onosode stood out. He was a rare gem and a visionary leader<br \/>\nwith the knack for identifying talents. As the head of then NAL merchant<br \/>\nbank of Nigeria, he brought together bright young men and women, some of<br \/>\nwhom are today in top banking position in the country and abroad. As a<br \/>\npresidential adviser to President Shagari and a former president of the<br \/>\nNigerian Institute of Management, he demonstrated exceptional<br \/>\nadministrative prowess.<\/p>\n<p>He urged Onosode\u2019s immediate family and the Urhobo people at home and<br \/>\nabroad to take solace in the belief that God\u2019s will is unquestionable and<br \/>\nmust always prevail,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe prays that God Almighty will comfort them all and grant the late<br \/>\nboardroom player in Nigeria\u2019s corporate environment\u2019s soul peaceful<br \/>\nrepose,\u201d Ebireri stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will certainly miss he former chairman of the Niger Delta<br \/>\nEnvironmental Survey, Global Missions Board of the Nigerian Baptist<br \/>\nConvention and the Nigerian Baptist Theological Seminary, Ogbomoso. We<br \/>\nwill certainly miss this quiet and unassuming man on so many fronts\u201d the<br \/>\nstatement added.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death of foremost technocrat and boardroom Czar, Deacon Gamaliel Onosode, has deprived Nigerians, particularly the people of Delta State of the services of one of the most consistent administrators&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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