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1. The document discusses Everyman Ezenna Eleanya's background and experience studying law at the University of Ibadan while also being involved with music, singing in the student choral ensemble and directing a law student choir. He is currently a magistrate in Abuja. 2. It describes the ACE music ensemble in Abuja as being made up of highly trained musicians and instrumentalists from diverse backgrounds, including different tribes, nations, religions and creeds. ACE functions as a training ground for musicians. 3. Producing high quality music in Abuja is expensive due to costs associated with logistics and renting good performance halls. ACE relies on sponsorship and recommends clients understand expenses when booking performances

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Gazette Interview

1. The document discusses Everyman Ezenna Eleanya's background and experience studying law at the University of Ibadan while also being involved with music, singing in the student choral ensemble and directing a law student choir. He is currently a magistrate in Abuja. 2. It describes the ACE music ensemble in Abuja as being made up of highly trained musicians and instrumentalists from diverse backgrounds, including different tribes, nations, religions and creeds. ACE functions as a training ground for musicians. 3. Producing high quality music in Abuja is expensive due to costs associated with logistics and renting good performance halls. ACE relies on sponsorship and recommends clients understand expenses when booking performances

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QUESTION 1:

My name is Everyman Ezenna Eleanya, if you like… E.E.E., though a lot of people don’t know
me by my middle name. I studied law at the University of Ibadan between 1997 and 2002
where I “cut my teeth” under the tutelage of renowned and relevant musicians today. I sang
in the UI students choral ensemble under the baton of the then artiste-in-residence; Pa
Christopher Oyesiku (now in his 90s). Despite my love for the judiciary of which I am still
actively involved till date, music had always been my thing. During my time as an
undergraduate also, I was privileged to be choirmaster at St. Cecilia’s choir, St….. Catholic
chaplaincy, where coincidentally my father, Sir Emma Eleanya was choirmaster over two
decades prior to my arrival at UI for studies. I went on to law school in 2003 where I was
instrumental to pioneering the law student’s choral ensemble that featured at the 40 th
anniversary of the Nigerian Bar Association, same 2003. I’m currently a magistrate at the
customary court, Abuja.
QUESTION 3: (Diversity)
ACE is made up of trained musicians who are expert on vocals and instrumentalists who
have gained very good mastery of their craft. If you will make music to the listening pleasure
of the cognoscenti, you should be at the top of your game. As to inclusion, we have opened
our doors as wide as to accepting anyone who can meet up with the rigours it takes to be a
member of the ensemble. We believe anyone with keen interest to becoming a fine
musician must key into the very hard and arduous task of both commitment and practice.
ACE is not just a place where we rehearse music, ACE is a training ground. So far we have
drawn members from various tribes, nations, religions and creed. We are just as diverse as
Abuja itself.
QUESTION 4:
“Expensive adventure!” you rightly brought those words out of my mouth. Apart from Abuja
being an expensive city, making music of this sort in a city of its kind costs an arm and a leg.
Logistics! Logistics!! Logistics!!! And more logistics. To stage concerts will require not just
any hall but a good hall (for acoustics you know), and of course you know as much as you
want a good hall, the vendors want so much money and because we won’t settle for less,
we always seek for sponsorship from well-meaning individuals. We have patrons who
always listen to our cry whenever we shed as much as a drop for sponsorship, however we
always have to seek for extra funds.
Only few individuals understand this, hence, the need to constantly reiterate to our clients
during bookings, you know as we say in Nigeria “beta soup, na money cook am” and we
always deliver and get recommendations.
QUESTION 8:
In his book The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership’s Law of Legacy, which states, a leader’s
lasting value is measured by succession, John Maxwell quoted the great management guru
Peter Drucker who once said, “There is no success without a successor.” Clearly pointing to
the truth that “lasting achievement is really only achieved if it continues after we’re gone”.
One of the most famous quotes by John Maxwell, a star leadership expert goes… “If
you think you're leading, but no one is following, then you are only taking a walk.”
Leadership in ACE is paramount and has been placed with great value. We train and support
our own for further training whenever opportunities arise. Making good music is good but
training musicians is better, for posterity sake.
It has always been in our tradition to “catch them young.” I told you earlier how we started
to rehearse under a mango tree. Those kids at the time are now working class citizens and
those who still reside in Abuja and very active with the group and a younger generation of
musicians troop into the group every now and then. ACE has a very bright future, I tell you
emphatically, considering the generation of musicians currently bred at the moment.

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