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INTEGRITY MATTERS: MEN OF HONOUR IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE

Integrity Matters: Men of Honour in the Public Square contains short biographies of Christian men who have lived visibly public lives, and thus approaches ethical issues from a concrete (not theoretical) standpoint. These include the life stories of Engr. Rumberger, whose invention of the Flex Ring made the V-22 Osprey (a plane that takes off and lands as a helicopter but flies with the speed of a turboprop aircraft) possible; Dr. Dunn, who gives life to countless children through organ transplantation; Hon. Justice Ogebe, whose landmark judgments helped steer Nigeria’s nascent democracy off the path of dictatorship and anarchy at the turn of the new millenium; Gen. Agwai, who defied all odds, not the least being falsely accused of coup plotting, to rise to the pinnacle of the Nigerian military and beyond; and Dr. Kolade, whose wise decision helped Cadbury Nigeria avert a dangerous World Bank debt trap in the dark days of the late 1980s. It has brought to the fore, among many other issues, the unparalleled significance of the family and good upbringing as prime factors for building virtuous societies. Similarly, the book has brought to light the often unnoticed impact of a truly Ch

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