Evening of tributes for late Prof Elaigwu holds Friday, October 10
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By Chris Ochayi
The National Burial Committee has announced October 10th, 2025 as the evening of tributes for a renowned academia, late Prof Jonah Isawa Elaigwu.
According to a statement issued by Dr. Adagbo Onoja, on behalf of the Chairman, National Planning Committee, Professor Sunday Ochoche, said the event will hold at AIB Events Centre, Wuse 2, Abuja, the nation’s capital.
The event will offer late Elaigwu’s colleagues in academia, civil society, former students and legatees, military
commanders, politicians, community leaders and other layers of the Nigerian elite opportunities to gather to say on and about him.
The statement noted, “Prof Elaigwu was a leading Nigerian expert in
comparative federalism and civil – military relations, a domain in which he has published much of his research works.
“As the pioneer Head of Department of
Political Science at the University of Jos, he attracted an array of scholars with global name, most notably his legendary Kenyan colleague, the late Prof Ali Mazrui.
“Additionally, Prof Elaigwu was not only a member of the Presidential Advisory
Council (PAC) under the Ibrahim Babangida regime, he was also the pioneer Director-General of the defunct National Council on Inter-Governmental Relations (NCIR).
“The NCIR was Nigeria’s foremost think tank on federalism.
“Outside academia and the state sector, he founded the Jos based Institute of Governance and Social Research (1GSR), a civil society-oriented trainer and think tank.
He was the President of the IGSR till his death.
Prof Elaigwu passed on July 22nd, 2025 in Jos, the city in which he was
based as a Political Science academic at the University of Jos for a long time.
