Jay Sleek

Today, nearly 60 years after this representative was "sleeping at war", Norway has the world's largest sovereign wealth fund derived from oil earnings majorly and what do you say about Nigeria?

Governors in Nigeria "sued" all the way to the Supreme Court at some point to share the monies meant for the country's Sovereign Wealth basket

We never had a country

And when it looked like we had a country, the elected officials were asleep whenever it mattered most.

And that is the case, even today!!!
Updated!!!

He was not sleeping, I read the story years ago, he had a disagreement with the Norwegian over an issue, he wanted to state Nigeria's stand but the Norwagian kept muting his mic wanting him to listen first, after doing it thrice, Jaja Nwachukwu damned him and pretended to be sleeping.

That guy has remained one of the best diplomats to come out of Nigeria, and ofcourse the most globally recognised and honoured. He is regarded as the man who saved Mandela in 1963 when the South African government wanted to hang him. Few years ago, his alma mater Trinity College University of Dublin mounted a giant sized portrait of his at their Law Department's Hall where he graduated with First Class in 1944.
Kuti Sofumade the true story was told by Prof. George Obiozor during a dinner I attended at the Nigerian Embassy in Washington DC. He was eulogizing Jaja Wachukwu's achievements and how he became Nigeria's Permanent Representative through a twist of fate.

He said that Wachuku was appointed Minister of Economic Development and Member of the First Nigerian Delegation on the admission of Nigeria to the United Nations.

But at the UN he made several brilliant presentations to the amazement of Tafawa Balewa, so on the eve of his departure from New York, the Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa invited Wachuku to his hotel suite and told him that he was leaving him behind as Leader of the Delegation and Ambassador plus Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations. Wachuku protested to Prime Minister Balewa – saying that he did not join the Delegation with the intention of staying in New York, and that he told his wife, Rhoda, that he would

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