EKINE LISTED ALONGSIDE POPE FRANCIS ON LIST OF TOP 100 GLOBAL THINKERS

Rev Mrs Adefunke Ekine, who pastors the Ibadan centre of Christ Chapel International Churches (CCIC) with her husband Rev Elekima Ekine, is one of only two Nigerians listed on The LSDP TOP 100 GLOBAL THINKERS OF 2013. Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, Governor of Lagos State is the other. LSDP, which stands for Lo Spazio della Politica in Italian, is a policy think-tank based both in Italy and Brussels. It sees the list of global thinkers as “an opportunity to identify some of this year's trends in politics and the global economy, and it highlights some key aspects of the way we work”. According to a statement by the body known in English as Space Policy, the list, which began in 2009, was inspired by the Foreign Policy (magazine) list of 100 global thinkers but it differs from it “because we apply a simple rule: we do not include any person who appeared in the FP ranking of the previous year, unless the person has been previously included in one of our rankings. Mrs Ekine who was listed as Number 33 is being recognised “for her experience of teaching and directing schools in Africa; in particular, for the promotion of science among young female students”.