Members of the All Soludo Support Group Birthday Committee have
announced that there will be no celebration for Soludo as he turns
sixty on twenty-eighth July 2020.

The chairman of the committee, Chief Jude Emecheta, who unveiled this
during a press briefing in Awka, said that the celebrant, Professor
Charles Soludo, wishes that his friends, associates, and all support
groups channel such resources to the poor, the down trodden and less
privileged persons in the society.

Chief Emecheta noted that the celebrant appreciated the efforts ofextended family members, friends, colleagues, associates, organizations and support groups have been making to participate in
sharing with him and his family the joy of attaining this landmark
age.

The Secretary of the Committee, Dr Nelson Omenugha listed the
Committee’s activities for the commemoration to include, thanksgiving
at various churches, endowment of one million naira price money to the
best graduating students in Economics Department at Chukwuemeka
Odumegwu Ojukwu University and Nnamdi Azikiwe University.

Dr Omenugha further explained that the endowment, which will last for
a period of five years, will see each best graduating student in both
schools go home with one hundred thousand naira only.

He noted that the Committee will on Tuesday twenty-eight July 2020
make another endowment to the tune of two million naira to the Anambra
State Health Insurance Agency for the enrollment of one hundred and
sixty-six selected inmates of motherless babies’ homes and physically
challenged persons.

Dr Omenugha noted that gesture tends to capture, the education and
health sectors, which according to him are the key areas Soludo is
very passionate about .