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Lt. NEO Deji was also charge for treason in defend of the Yoruba people and for fight and believe that Yoruba are human and should not be cheated. Lt. NEO Deji was charge for treason was arrested by northerner and jail.

Lt. NEO Deji was one of the arrow head of the major Gideon Orkar liberation coup.

Lt. NEO Deji was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

Yoruba hall of fame. only the bold and fearless need to apply

WO Afolabi Moses was also charge for treason in defend of the Yoruba people and for fight and believe that Yoruba are human and should not be cheated. WO Afolabi Moses was charge for treason was arrested by northerner and jail.

WO Afolabi Moses was one of the arrow head of the major Gideon Orkar liberation coup.

WO Afolabi Moses was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

Yoruba hall of fame. only the bold and fearless need to apply

L/Cpl Emma Oyemolan was also charge for treason in defend of the Yoruba people and for fight and believe that Yoruba are human and should not be cheated. L/Cpl Emma Oyemolan was charge for treason was arrested by northerner and jail.

L/Cpl Emma Oyemolan was one of the arrow head of the major Gideon Orkar liberation coup.

L/Cpl Emma Oyemolan was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

becomerich is a terrorist

Funmi you cannot be certain who murdered uncle Bola without a sattelite image of the murder scene.

This is funny,man!

why not ask the FBI who are terrorist in nigeria. the FBI knows the north have terrorist  militant camp. So stop the nonsense.


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L/Cpl Idowu Azeez was also charge for treason in defend of the Yoruba people and for fight and believe that  Yoruba are human and should not be cheated.    L/Cpl Idowu Azeez  was charge for treason  was arrested by northerner and jail.

L/Cpl Idowu Azeez   was one of the arrow head of the major Gideon Orkar liberation coup.

L/Cpl Idowu Azeez   was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

Northerner murder Bola ige. Omisore was only frame .


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Ex. Pvt CP Wasiu Lawal was also charge for treason in defend of the Yoruba people and for fight and believe that Yoruba are human and should not be cheated. Ex. Pvt CP Wasiu Lawal was charge for treason was arrested by northerner and jail.

Ex. Pvt CP Wasiu Lawal was one of the arrow head of the major Gideon Orkar liberation coup.

Ex. Pvt CP Wasiu Lawal was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

Underestimate the satellite prowess of Becomrrich at your own peril!
Let just give him some time, he may dig it up from his archives, afterall it hasn't been too long

Youngies you no go kill me with laughter
chei!

the fbi, know the north have camp in nigeria.

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Signal Man Fatai Daranijo was also charge for treason in defend of the Yoruba people and for fighting and believe that Yoruba are human and should not be cheated. Signal Man Fatai Daranijo was charge for treason was arrested by northerner and jail.

Signal Man Fatai Daranijo was one of the arrow head of the major Gideon Orkar liberation coup.
Signal Man Fatai Daranijo was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

Yoruba hall of fame. only the bold and fearless need to apply

Sgt. Lawrence Ademola was also charge for treason in defend of the Yoruba people and for fighting and believe that Yoruba are human and should not be cheated. Sgt. Lawrence Ademola was charge for treason was arrested by northerner and jail.

Sgt. Lawrence Ademola was one of the arrow head of the major Gideon Orkar liberation coup.
Sgt. Lawrence Ademola was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

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L/Cpl David Oke was also charge for treason in defend of the Yoruba people and for fighting and believe that Yoruba are human and should not be cheated. L/Cpl David Oke was charge for treason was arrested by northerner and jail.

L/Cpl David Oke was one of the arrow head of the major Gideon Orkar liberation coup.
L/Cpl David Oke was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

Yoruba hall of fame. only the bold and fearless need to apply

L/Cpl Mike Odeniyi was also charge for treason in defend of the Yoruba people and for fighting and believe that Yoruba are human and should not be cheated. L/Cpl Mike Odeniyi was charge for treason was arrested by northerner and jail.

L/Cpl Mike Odeniyi was one of the arrow head of the major Gideon Orkar liberation coup.
L/Cpl Mike Odeniyi was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

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Corp Olanrewaju Ogunshola was also charge for treason in defend of the Yoruba people and for fighting and believe that Yoruba are human and should not be cheated. Corp Olanrewaju Ogunshola was charge for treason was arrested by northerner and jail.

Corp Olanrewaju Ogunshola was one of the arrow head of the major Gideon Orkar liberation coup.
Corp Olanrewaju Ogunshola was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

Yoruba hall of fame. only the bold and fearless need to apply

Sgt. Ojo Adegboyega was also charge for treason in defend of the Yoruba people and for fighting and believe that Yoruba are human and should not be cheated. Sgt. Ojo Adegboyega was charge for treason was arrested by northerner and jail.

Sgt. Ojo Adegboyega was one of the arrow head of the major Gideon Orkar liberation coup.
Sgt. Ojo Adegboyega was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

Yoruba hall of fame. only the bold and fearless need to apply

Corporal Lateef Awolola was also charge for treason in defend of the Yoruba people and for fighting and believe that Yoruba are human and should not be cheated. Corporal Lateef Awolola was charge for treason was arrested by northerner and jail.

Corporal Lateef Awolola was one of the arrow head of the major Gideon Orkar liberation coup.

Corporal Lateef Awolola was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

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This would continue it is just to show you the yorubas still have men with honour and since the senate and rep have refuse to be honourable. we need to change them.

chief Ayo Akinsanya was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

chief Samuel Taiwo Oredein was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

chief Simeon Oyeshile was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

chief Samuel Adesanya Otubanjo was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

chief Josiah Oladiran Lawanson was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

chief Muri Badmus was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

chief Joshua Olatunde Akinropo Akamo was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

chief Alex Tunde Awuwo was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

chief James Olubunmi Aluko was pick up [/b]and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

chief Alfred Ogbeyiwa Rewane [b]was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

chief Gabby Sasore was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

Lt. AE Akogun was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

Lt. NEO Deji was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

WO Afolabi Moses was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

L/Cpl Emma Oyemolan was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

L/Cpl Idowu Azeez was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

Ex. Pvt CP Wasiu Lawal was pick up [/b]and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

Signal Man Fatai Daranijo [b]was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

Sgt. Lawrence Ademola was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

L/Cpl David Oke was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

L/Cpl Mike Odeniyi was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

Corp Olanrewaju Ogunshola was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

Sgt. Ojo Adegboyega was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

Corporal Lateef Awolola was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

Mr. was pick and jail, do you have a life at all? What is the meaning of all this nonsense you keep typing? Who is looking to join your infantile and indulgent nonsense? In these days of economic recession, an aged ninny is talking of fighting for the right of Yoruba people .

You are sick upstairs, and may the devil that is firing you, keep on firing you till you rot in hell. What a senile idiot.

Too much time on your hands. . . . . .

Make we no dismiss this Mr Becomericch just like that o
he may be our future head of state
You heard it here

mr become abeg remember me
Minister of women and child welfare
Lolo Osisi Virginia Odinkenmelu

chief Ayo Akinsanya was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

chief Samuel Taiwo Oredein was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

chief Simeon Oyeshile was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

chief Samuel Adesanya Otubanjo was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

chief Josiah Oladiran Lawanson was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

chief Muri Badmus was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

chief Joshua Olatunde Akinropo Akamo was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

chief Alex Tunde Awuwo was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

chief James Olubunmi Aluko was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

chief Alfred Ogbeyiwa Rewane was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

chief Gabby Sasore was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

Lt. AE Akogun was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

Lt. NEO Deji was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

WO Afolabi Moses was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

L/Cpl Emma Oyemolan was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

L/Cpl Idowu Azeez was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

Ex. Pvt CP Wasiu Lawal was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

Signal Man Fatai Daranijo was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

Sgt. Lawrence Ademola was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

L/Cpl David Oke was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

L/Cpl Mike Odeniyi was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

Corp Olanrewaju Ogunshola was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

Sgt. Ojo Adegboyega was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

Corporal Lateef Awolola was pick up and jail by northerner for fighting for the right of the Yoruba people.

Can you provide a pictorial evidence of where they were picked up?

Letter to My Darling Mama Segun

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Excerpt from "Adventures in Power Book One: My March Through
Prison" by Obafemi Awolowo; 1985; Macmillan Nigeria.


Page 227 ff

In the midst of my psychological fluctuation, I thought about the
future. If my appeal was allowed, there would be no problem. If my
appeal was dismissed, there would be problems.

One of such problems might be an attempt by my adversaries to murder
me, and put out a false story that I had committed suicide. I am of
the settled view that only a coward commits suicide. And I was
anxious that my honour and memory should not be stigmatised in this
way. (I shall speak more about this in the next Chapter.) I,
therefore, decided to write to my wife and disburse my mind
completely to her as to what I thought she might do if certain
eventualities occurred. The letter speaks for itself. Here is the
text.


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My Beloved Mamma Segun,

I learnt that you had been ill. I was upset. But I am happy to hear
that you have improved considerably. Your health and your life mean
almost everything to me. I must say categorically that life would mean
nothing to me without you and our children and grandchildren, and
without an opportunity to serve the people of Nigeria in particular
and mankind in general. I pray most earnestly and always, therefore,
that you my Darling as well as our children and grandchildren may be
blessed by Almighty God with robust health, long life and prosperity
— Amen.

As you will remember, three weeks or so ago I decided not to write
again until we meet in flesh. Then I had no doubt for reasons which I
had given in some of my previous letters, that my appeal would be
allowed and that judgment would be given within four weeks at the
most after the conclusion of arguments. I want to assure you, Darling,
that I still trust in God that the verdict will be in my favour. But
I am writing this in case the worst happened, which God forbid. In
that event, it would not be easy for me to communicate with you as I
had done when my appeal was pending.

During the past week, rumours have been circulating that my appeal
would be dismissed and that, at the very best, my sentence might be
reduced. I do not believe these rumours myself. Unfortunately, my
suspicions have been aroused by the undue delay in delivering
judgment. It took five clear weeks to argue the appeal. And last
Friday it was exactly six weeks since the Appeal Court reserved
judgment. We are now in the seventh week! It is as if the history of
this case as it was enacted last year is repeating itself!! I hope
not.

But should the worst happen, I want you to take it like a brave
woman that you are. That would not be the end for me. The best is yet
to be, as long as my life is spared.

I hope that, in that event, the Prison Officers would continue to take
care of me as they had done hitherto, and to protect my life against
the plan of evil-doers. I will do my very best to look after myself.

My faith in my destiny remains unshaken. If the A.G./N.C.N.c.
Alliance wins the next Federal elections, 1 will be out of here
whether my enemies like it or not. That is what we must work for.

You remember the first letter I wrote you from this Prison, last
year. If the worst should happen, I would like you to refer to it.
There are only FOUR points I wish to add to the instructions I gave
in that letter.

It is probable that I might be transferred from Lagos to a Prison in
the East or the North. If they tried to transfer me, I would protest
as strongly as I ever can. Because my transfer from Lagos especially
to the North would suggest that my enemies want to engage in some foul
play against my life. Under no circumstances will I commit suicide;
because it is cowardly in the extreme to do it, apart from the fact
that it is a sin against God, and wickedness of the worst order
against your Dear Self, our children, grandchildren, and other
members of our family. If I was transferred, you would be duly
informed of my destination. This much I want you to bear in mind; if
you heard that I died you could be sure that my enemies had killed
me. I say this, because after committing this heinous cnme, these
evil people might issue a release that I committed suicide, or that I
died or was killed when I was trying to escape from lawful custody.
In the latter connection, I want to emphasise that under no
circumstances would I attempt to escape. I have great hopes for the
future, and I am determined to live.

So if the news reached you that I died, you should get all our lawyer
and doctor friends to kick as much row as they can kick. The rank and
file of the Party should also kick a row. This portion of the letter
should be photostated and published. I am a warrior by nature. I am
not afraid of death. But I don't want my memory to be blackened, or
your good name to be tarnished by enemies who, after murdering me,
would like to exonerate themselves by accusing me of killing myself.
It is essential — absolutely essential — to fight this issue if it
ever arose, firstly in order to clear my good name and that of our
family, and secondly in order that you might be able to claim the
sums (which must be about £6,ooo by now) which I assured with
Prudential Life Assurance, and Gresham Life Assurance. If it was
established that I committed suicide, not a penny of this money would
be paid. In the interest of my children, and particularly of Motunde,
these assured sums must be collected.

If after my death, my enemies did not stigmatise my name and memory,
and they merely announced my death, it would still be necessary for
you to organise for the cause of my death to be probed and
ascertained.

Once more, I want to assure you that I would do my best to take care
that the evil-doers don't reach me with their poison. If I suspected
any fishy business, I might go on hunger strike or subsist only on
fruits and tinned foods (if the latter are available).

I do not want you to be sad about the contents of this letter at all.
I know you will be upset by what I have said, so much so that you
might shed tears. As you will have seen, I do not lose hope at all. I
am confident about the future; and I have no doubt that, by the Grace
of God, before this year is ended, I shall hold you once again in my
arms in affectionate embrace. We all believe that God answers
prayers; but we must realise that He answers them in His own good
time and when He knows such answers will be most beneficial to us. So
let us wait on the Lord, and renew our strength. Whilst I am still
hoping that my appeal will be allowed, it occurs to me, in view of
the machinations of my enemies, that I should write in this way when
I have the opportunity. To be forewarned is to be forearmed. It may
be that the opportunity for writing you would still be open; in which
case I would write occasionally, not weekly as before. It all depends
on how often Falade is allowed to see me.

If the worst happened, which God forbid, you should direct your
prayers to the success of the A.G./N.C.N.C. Alliance at the next
Federal Elections. These will take place, latest in December this
year, that is less than six months from now. In this connection I am
writing to some A.G. leaders to urge them to remain firm until
victory is ours.

As regards our children and grandchildren. Tola does not present any
problem. She can fend for herself. I only pray that it may please God
to bless the union between her and Kayode with undying love and with
children, and to bless the two of them and their children with
health, happiness and prosperity — Amen.

Wole is a problem; I leave it entirely to you to tackle the problem,
since there is not much I can do from behind the bars. I do pray
fervently that it may please God to direct him aright and help him to
make a success of his life — Amen.

Ayo's and Tokunbo's problems are simple. It should be possible for
you to arrange admission for Ayo to Lagos University this year, and
for Tokunbo to Ibadan University next year.

Motunde does not present much problem yet. Kayode and Tola are
capable of looking after Feyi. May God grant to all these children and
grandchildren and others who will come after them long life,
prosperity and happiness — Amen.

Abah presents a problem. I think she should be assisted to go abroad,
and then we should finish with her once and for all.

In your own case, I strongly appeal to you to have courage, and to
keep good health. In addition I want you to concentrate on your
business and Church duties. You should also be as active as you can in
Party work. Because, if this appeal failed, my next Court of Appeal is
the Electorate. In order to bring about my early release, you should
try and help in the organisation of the Women's Wing of the A.G. in
Yorubaland including Lagos. If you organise a Conference of A. G.
Women at any time, it will be largely attended. You will not
necessarily be the Leader of the Conference or even its Convener. But
you should be the moving spirit of such a Conference. All you need do
is to invite a few women to discuss arrangements for the Conference,
and then get the A.G. Secretariat to issue the invitations.

Falade and Co. will continue in our employ as usual. Just now, there
is enough money to pay him and others up to the end of October this
year. Maybe, before then God will provide further means of
maintaining the skeleton staff which we now have. I have not discussed
the contents of this letter with him, except that I have asked him to
help to organise the Women's Conference, and to keep a schedule of
rents on our properties, so that he may remind you whenever they are
due.

If all goes well with us at the Federal Elections, then the problem
of keeping Falade and others on the Party's staff will be solved.

Finally, this week will go down in History as `The Week of Decision'.
It will be a week of decision not only for us but also for the entire
people of Yorubaland in particular and of Nigeria in general.
Whichever way the decision goes, only God knows what will be the
consequences.

It is our ardent wish that the appeal should be in my favour; so be
it. If not then God's will be done; and as true Christians we have no
right to murmur, complain, or show resentment against God's will.

Let us, therefore, wait patiently and calmly for the Will of God to be
done.

I take this opportunity to renew to you, my only Darling Wife, my
vow of undying love. In God's good time we will meet again in a most
happy reunion, and that before very long.

Give my most affectionate regards to Tola, Kayode, Wole, Ayo,
Tokunbo, Motunde and Feyi; and my good wishes to my sisters, their
children and grandchildren, our Mothers, and all our relatives and
friends.

With divine love,
I remain,
Your Ever Devoted and Affectionate Husband,
Femi

Under no circumstances will I commit suicide; because it is cowardly in the extreme to do it, apart from the fact that it is a sin against God, and wickedness of the worst order against your Dear Self, our children, grandchildren, and other members of our family.

----chief obafemi awolowo

i will give you A anytime for your efforts. And thats coming frm your no. 1 enemy.

BecomURich, the president elect for the New Republic of Benin, kai, just when I thought homeboy took a break he hits us with the nuclear bomb!!
This guy is on a role today oooo!!

Yoruba hall of fame.  only the bold and fearless need to apply. YORUBA HONOUR OR NOTHING ELSE.




When the north  said a Yorubaman can not be president , Kudirat support for her husband was important to the movement. She was killed in daylight by the North .

Kudirat Abiola, wife of the President-elect of Nigeria, Chief Moshod Abiola, was born in 1951, in the northern Nigerian city of Zaria, where she also had her early education. Testimonies of her times at Muslim Girls High School, Ijebu Ode, indicate the evolution of a powerful mind that married the qualities of hard work with the diligence of an achiever, becoming the Head Prefect in her final year.

At 21, she married Chief Moshood Abiola in a union that produced seven children. Partly in response to the circumstance of her own history, Kudirat adopted many social causes, and was to become a prime supporter of the educational programs of the Ansar-Ur-Deen movement in Nigeria. Kudirat was also a successful businesswoman, building a pharmaceutical company, amongst many other businesses, into a notable name in Nigeria.

Ordinarily tuned to private life, the military’s annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, which her husband had won, brought Kudirat into the pro-democracy movement. The movement had its costs: in 1994, Moshood Abiola was incarcerated and kept in solitary confinement for claiming his presidential mandate. Despite the clear danger, Kudirat provided clear leadership in this period of general confusion. She stepped forward, convinced that the military’s actions amounted to a violation of the fundamental right of Nigerians to elect their government.

Her participation inspired new levels of activism in Nigeria’s pro-democracy movement. In the summer of 1994, Kudirat was actively involved in moving and sustaining the oil workers twelve-week strike against the military. The strike, which succeeded in isolating and weakening the government, was the longest in African history by oil workers. In December of 1995, when the pro-democracy groups decided to march for freedom in Lagos, Kudirat joined such esteemed nationalists as Chief Anthony Enahoro at the forefront of the march, braving the bullets of government forces sent to intimidate them.

On June 4th 1996, a few days to the anniversary of the June 12 commemorative date when Nigerians resolved to vote out the military dictatorship, Kudirat’s life on earth ended, extinguished by assassins’ bullets. Her spirit lives on in the name and work of KIND.

why are all of dem looking like monkeyS?, xcept awo,

Yoruba hall of fame.  only the bold and fearless need to apply. YORUBA HONOUR OR NOTHING ELSE.





As a child i visited Chief Gani fawehinmi father house, a place they call "oke Lisa", I did not know i was sleeping in the house of the father of one of the great son of Oduduwa. He went to jail several time fighting for what he believe.

Abdul-Ganiyu "Gani" Oyesola Fawehinmi (born 22 April 1938) is a Nigerian author, publisher, philanthropist, social critic, human and civil rights lawyer and Politician.

His supporters have called him "the scourge of irresponsible governments, a thermometer with which the blood pressure of dictators is gauged, the veritable conscience of the nation and the champion of the interests and causes of the masses".

Fawehinmi, popularly called Gani, was born on 22 April 1938, into the Fawehinmi family of Ondo, in Ondo State.

His father, Chief Saheed Tugbobo Fawehinmi, the Seriki Musulumi of Ondo was a successful timber magnate, a great philanthropist, an opponent of excessive taxation of the poor and a deeply religious muslim leader. He was reported to have brought Islam to Ondo Town. Chief Saheed Tugbobo Fawehinmi died on 5 February 1963 at the age of 89 years. He was a polygamist.

Gani's grand father was the Late Chief Lisa Alujanu Fawehinmi of Ondo, who engaged in several successful battles for and on behalf of the Ondo people in the nineteenth century. Hence, the appellation the 'Alujanun', which means spirit. He died at the age of 92.

Gani's mother, Alhaja Muniratu Fawehinmi, nee Akinnibosun, is also a devoted muslim. She is the Iya Olori Egbe Adini of Ondo Central Mosque. Gani is her first child and the only son of her six children. She was aged 89 years at her death. Her father was Chief Yesufu Akinnibosun and her mother was Madam Rabiatu Akinnibosun, who died at the age of 96 years.

Gani had his early education at Ansar-Ud-Deen Primary School, Iyemaja - Ondo from 1947 to 1953 and his secondary school education at Victory College Ikare, a Christian School from 1954 to 1958, under the leadership of the Late Rev. Akinrele where he sat for and passed his West African School Certificate Examination in 1958.

On 8 December 1958, he was given a letter to his late father by the principal of the college, Rev. Akinrele. In it, the principal advised that Gani must be encouraged to study Law as a profession.

While in college, he was popularly known as "Nation" because of his passionate interest in national, legal and political affairs. He was an avid reader of Daily Times and West African Pilot, the most popular newspapers at that time.

In January 1959, he headed for Lagos to stay with his uncle, the late Mr. Olu Akinfe.He got his first job as a Clerk in the High Court, Lagos.

On 29 April 1961, he left the shores of Nigeria by sea on the M. V. Aureol Passenger Ship for the United Kingdom. He arrived in Liverpool on 12 May 1961. He travelled by train to London, arriving at Victoria Station in the evening of that day.

On arrival in England, Gani received the result of his General Certificate of Education (G.C.E) Advanced Level which he took shortly before he left Nigeria. He passed very well. He then enrolled in the Holborn College of Law for the LLB degree of the University of London (External) in September 1961. He was in part II of the three year degree programme when his father died on 5 February 1963 and the source of his finance dried up. All efforts to secure financial help failed. He was forced by financial circumstance to drop out of the Holborn College as a full time student. He took a full time job as a Toilet Cleaner in Russell Square Hotel in Southampton Row, London. He did other cleaning jobs which included working as a sweeper in the old Gatwick Airport between February 1963 and August 1964.

He literally taught himself Law for parts II and III of the LLB degree course and sat for and passed all his examinations. He came back to Nigeria in early September 1964 carrying a small suitcase containing: 2 pairs of trousers, 3 shirts, 1 pair of shoe (apart from the one he was putting on), 2 pants, 2 singlets, 2 pairs of socks and 2 black suits, all of low quality which he bought at rock bottom prices in general sale at Caledonia Road, North London.

On his arrival in Lagos, he enrolled in the Nigerian Law School at No. 213A, Igbosere Road, Lagos for the compulsory three months course which he successfully completed.

In 1993 Fawehinmi was awarded the biennial Bruno Kreisky Prize. This prize, named in honour of Bruno Kreisky, is awarded to international figures who advance human rights causes. In 1998, he received the International Bar Association's Bernard Simmons Award in recognition of his human-rights and pro-democracy work. In 1994 he and some other notable Nigerians formed the National Conscience Party of Nigeria which exists till today and he stood for a presidential election in 2003 under the umbrella of the National Conscience Party.

Gani Fawehinmi became a holder of the Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) the highest legal title in Nigeria in September, 2001.

Gani is not everything to everybody. You either like him passionately or you hate him intensely. This is because of his boundless and sometimes suicidal energy with which he tenaciously and uncompromisingly pursues and crusades his beliefs, principles and ideals for the untrammelled rule of law, undiluted democracy, all embracing and expansive social justice, protection of fundamental human rights and respect for the hopes and aspirations of the masses who are victims of misgovernance of the affairs of the Nation.

As a result of his activities along these lines, he was arrested, detained, charged to court several times. His international passport was seized on many occasions. His residence and Chambers were crudely searched several times. He was beaten up many times and was deported from one part of the country to another to prevent him from being listened to by the masses. Some of his books which the Federal Military Government did not like were confiscated and one of his houses at Surulere where the books were kept was about to be set ablaze when the would be perpetrators were caught and apprehended by neighbours. Even his Chambers at Anthony Village, Lagos State, was violently attacked and invaded by persons suspected to be government security men on 26 August 1994 and they shot at the Chambers guard, seriously wounding two of them.

Consequent upon his crusades for the rule of law, the hopes and aspirations of the poor and the oppressed, he fought many battles against the military dictatorship as a result of which he had been arrested several times by the military governments and its numerous security agents. He had been dumped in many police cells and detained in several prisons between 1969 and 1996.

It is believed by many that Gani had been long overdue for the Senior Advocate of Nigeria award, but the jealousy of many powerful Nigerians in the Legal profession and outside stood against him. Many of Nigerias masses call him the people's president

Eventually, he got the award in 2003 i.e. the Senior Advocate of Nigeria.

Yoruba hall of fame. only the bold and fearless need to apply. YORUBA HONOUR OR NOTHING ELSE.


They call him Capo, jail is like second natural to him prof Wole Soyinka .



Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka (born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, the first African to be so honoured. In 1994, he was designated United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Goodwill Ambassador for the promotion of African culture, human rights, freedom of expression, media and communication.

Soyinka was born into a Yoruba family, specifically, a Remo family in Isara-Remo in 1934. He received a primary school education in Abeokuta and attended secondary school at Government College, Ibadan. He then studied at the University College, Ibadan (1952-1954) and the University of Leeds (1954-1957) from which he received an honours degree in English Literature. He worked as a play reader at the Royal Court Theatre in London before returning to Nigeria to study African drama. He taught in the Universities of Lagos, Ibadan, and Ife (becoming Professor of Comparative Literature there in 1975).

Soyinka has played an active role in Nigeria's political history. In 1967, during the Nigerian Civil War he was arrested by the Federal Government of General Yakubu Gowon and put in solitary confinement for his attempts at brokering a peace between the warring parties. While in prison he wrote poetry which was published in a collection titled Poems from Prison. He was released 22 months later after international attention was drawn to his imprisonment. His experiences in prison are recounted in his book The Man Died: Prison Notes.

He has been an outspoken critic of many Nigerian administrations, and of political tyrannies worldwide, including the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe. A great deal of his writing has been concerned with "the oppressive boot and the irrelevance of the colour of the foot that wears it". This activism has often exposed him to great personal risk, most notable during the government of the Nigerian dictator General Sani Abacha (1993-1998). During Abacha's dictatorship, Soyinka left the country on voluntary exile and has since been living abroad (mainly in the United States, where he was a professor at Emory University in Atlanta). When civilian rule returned in 1999, Soyinka accepted an emeritus post at Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) on the condition that the university bar all former military officers from the position of chancellor. Soyinka is currently the Elias Ghanem Professor of Creative Writing at the English department of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the President's Marymount Institute Professor in Residence at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California, US.[1]

In 2005, he became one of the spearheads of an alternative National conference - PRONACO.

Contents [hide]
1 Biography
1.1 Early life
1.2 Studies abroad and at home
1.3 Civil war involvement and imprisonment
1.4 Release and literary productivity
2 Bibliography
2.1 Plays
2.2 Novels
2.3 Memoirs
2.4 Poetry collections
2.5 Essays
2.6 Movies
2.7 Awards and honors
3 Trivia
4 See also
5 References
6 Further References
7 External links



[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life
Soyinka was born on 13 July 1934, in the town of Isara-Remo,Ogun State in Western Nigeria (at that time a British dominion), as second of six children of Samuel Ayodele Soyinka and Grace Eniola Soyinka. His father, whom Wole often refers to as S.A. or "Essay" in literalized form, was the headmaster of St. Peters School in Abẹokuta. Wole's mother, dubbed "Wild Christian" by Wole, owned a shop in the nearby market and was a respected political activist within the women's movement in the local community. She followed the Anglican faith, although among his father's family and in the vicinity, there were many followers of the indigenous Yorùbá religious tradition. Soyinka since the beginning had grown in an atmosphere of religious syncretism, which has had a great influence on his yet forming personality, because as a little boy he had contact with the traditional Yorùbá beliefs as well as Christianity.

In 1939 when Wole was barely five years old, World War II erupted. The home of the Soyinka family had electricity and radio (chiefly thanks to his father), so little Wọle listened with curiosity to the news from war-torn Europe. This information was almost completely dominated by Adolf Hitler, leader of Nazi Germany.

In 1940, after attending St. Peters Primary School, Soyinka went to Abẹokuta Grammar School, where he won several prizes for literary composition. In 1946 he was accepted by Government College in Ibadan, at that time Nigeria’s most elite secondary school. Upon completion of his studies there, Soyinka moved to Lagos where he found employment as a clerk. During this time he wrote some radio plays and short stories that were broadcast on Nigerian radio stations. After finishing his course in 1952, Soyinka began studies at University College in Ibadan, connected with University of London. During this course he studied English literature, Greek, and Western history.

In the year 1953-1954, his second and last at University College, Ibadan, Soyinka commenced work on his first publication, a short radio broadcast for Nigerian Broadcasting Service National Programme called "Keffi's Birthday Threat," which was broadcast in July 1954 on Nigerian Radio Times. Whilst at university, Soyinka and six others founded the Pyrates Confraternity, the first confraternity in Nigeria. He then moved to Leeds, England to attend the University of Leeds.

Soyinka gives a detailed account of his early life in Aké: The Years of Childhood, which chronicles his experiences until about the age of ten.


[edit] Studies abroad and at home
Later in 1954 Soyinka relocated to England, where he continued his studies in English literature, under the supervision of his mentor Wilson Knight. He became acquainted then with a number of young, gifted British writers. Before defending his B.A., Soyinka successfully engaged in literary fiction, publishing several pieces of comedic nature. He also worked as an editor for The Eagle, an infrequent periodical of humorous character. In a page two column in The Eagle, he wrote commentaries on academic life, often stingingly criticizing his university peers. Well known for his sharp tongue, he is said to have courteously defended, affronted and insulted female colleagues.

After completing his studies, he remained in Leeds with the intention of earning an M.A. Influenced by his promoter, Soyinka decided to attempt to merge European theatrical traditions with those of his Yorùbá cultural heritage. In 1958 his first major play emerged, titled The Swamp Dwellers. One year later, he wrote The Lion and the Jewel, a comedy which garnered interest from several members of the London Royal Court Theatre. Encouraged, Soyinka left his doctoral studies and moved to London, where he worked as a play reader for Royal Court Theatre. During the same period, both of his plays were performed in Ibadan.

However, by 1960, Soyinka had received the Rockefeller Research Fellowship from his alma mater in Ibadan, and returned to Nigeria. In March he produced his new satire The Trials of Brother Jero, which established his fame as Nigeria’s foremost dramatist. One of his most recognized plays, A Dance of The Forest, a biting criticism of Nigeria's political elites, won a contest as the official play for Nigerian Independence Day. On 1 October 1960, it premiered in Lagos as Nigeria celebrated its sovereignty. Also in 1960, Soyinka established an amateur ensemble acting company which would consume much of his time over the next few years: the Nineteen-Sixty Masks.

In addition to these activities, Soyinka published various works satirizing the "emergency" in the Western Region of Nigeria, as his Yorùbá homeland was increasingly occupied and controlled by the federal government. This had usurped the democratically-elected, Yorùbá-based Action Group (AG) political party by installing the Nigerian National Democratic Party (NNDP), an amalgamation of conservative Yoruba interests backed by the largely Northern-dominated federal government. The increasingly militarized occupation of the Western Region eventually led to a disequilibrium in power, placing the more left-leaning Action Group and the Igbo-centric National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC) in tenuous positions, as national politics began catering exclusively to more conservative interests. This imbalance eventually led to a coup by military officers under Major Kaduna Nzeogwu.

With the money gained from the Rockefeller Foundation for research on African Theater, Soyinka bought a Land Rover and began traveling throughout the country as a researcher with the Department of English Language of the University College in Ibadan. In an essay published at this time, he criticized Leopold Senghor's Négritude as a nostalgic and indiscriminate glorification of the black African past that ignores the potential benefits of modernization. "A tiger does not shout its tigritude," he declared, "it acts."

In December 1962, his essay "Towards a True Theater" was published, and he began working for the Department of English Language at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ifẹ. Soyinka discussed current affairs with "negrophiles," and on several occasions openly opposed government censorship. At the end of 1963, his first feature-length movie emerged, Culture in Transition. In April 1964, his famous novel The Interpreters was published in London. That December, together with other scientists and men of theater, he founded the Drama Association of Nigeria. This same year he resigned his university post, as a protest against imposed pro-government behavior by authorities. A few months later, he was arrested for the first time, accused of underlying tapes during reproduction of recorded speech of the winner of Nigerian elections, but he was released after a few months of confinement, as a result of protests by the international community of writers. This same year he also wrote two more dramatic pieces: Before the Blackout, the comedy Kongi’s Harvest, and a radio play for London BBC called The Detainee. At the end of the year he was promoted to headmaster and senior lecturer in the Department of English Language at Lagos University.

Soyinka's political speeches at that time criticized the cult of personality and government corruption in African dictatorships. April 1965 brought a revival of his play Kongi’s Harvest at the International Festival of Negro Art in Dakar, Senegal, where another of his plays, The Road, was awarded the Grand Prix. In June, Soyinka produced his play The Lion and The Jewel for Hampstead Theatre Club in London.


[edit] Civil war involvement and imprisonment
The coup led by Major Chukwuma K Nzeogwu in January 1966 was counteracted by another coup in July of the same year, this time led by a cabal of largely Northern officers, placing General Yakubu Gowan in the position of head of state. Immediately following the coup, sectarian violence erupted as many Igbo living outside of their homeland in the southeast were subjected to violent retaliatory action, which many considered to be of genocidal proportions. Droves of Igbos were forced to return home, where calls for secession from the Nigerian state increased under military governor Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu.

After becoming chief of Cathedral of Drama at University of Ibadan, Soyinka who had gained considerable respect within Nigeria would involve himself in the destabilizing political situation. In August 1967, he secretly and unofficially met Ojukwu in the Southeastern town of Enugu, with the aim of averting civil war. For his attempts at negotiating a peaceful solution to the conflict, Soyinka was forced to commence living underground.

However, his involvement in the developing national crisis did not end here. Wọle returned to Ẹnugu to meet with one Victor Banjọ, a Yorùbá who had been swayed to the Biafran side. Banjọ intimated to Soyinka a message of critical importance in regards to Biafra's goals, which he claimed were "national liberation" for the whole of Nigeria. For these efforts, Banjọ sought the support of Western military leaders; in particular, he delivered Banjo's message directly to Lieutenant Colonel Olusegun Obasanjo, who had recently been appointed to commanding officer for the Western Region. Four evenings after Soyinka returned to the West, Biafran forces invaded the Midwest region, an area which previously maintained de facto neutrality; this altered the terms and conditions of the war drastically, as the Biafrans had turned into both secessionists and expansionists.

Following the occupation of the Midwest, Soyinka met Obasanjo face-to-face to relay the goals of the Biafrans to the man in control of the West. Unfortunately Ọbasanjọ's decision to side with the Nigerian federation had already been made. The invasion of the Midwest eventually sparked counter-attacks into the Midwest by federal government forces, signaling the commencement of civil war. Ọbasanjọ disclosed his meeting with Soyinka to his superiors, who declared Wọle a traitor and convened search parties to obtain Soyinka for arrest, which they eventually did. Soyinka was then incarcerated until the end of the unfolding civil war.

He endured imprisonment for 22 months as his country slid into civil war between the federal government and the Biafrans. Though he was refused basic materials, such as books, pens, and paper, for continuing his creative work during much of his imprisonment, he did manage to write a significant body of poems and notes criticizing the Nigerian government. Despite his imprisonment, in September 1967, his play The Lion and The Jewel was produced in Accra, and in November The Trials of Brother Jero and The Strong Breed were produced in the Greenwich Mews Theatre in New York. He also published a collection of his poetry entitled Idanre and Other Poems. Idanre, considered by many to be a masterpiece, was inspired by Soyinka’s visit to the sanctuary of the Yorùbá deity Ogun, whom Soyinka regards irreligiously as his companion deity, kindred spirit, and protector.

In 1968, also in New York, the group Negro Ensemble Company showed Kongi’s Harvest. While still imprisoned, Soyinka translated from Yoruba a fantastical novel by his compatriot D.O. Fagunwa, called The Forest of a Thousand Demons: A Hunter's Saga.


[edit] Release and literary productivity
In October 1969, when the civil war came to an end, amnesty was proclaimed, and Soyinka was released from prison. For the first few months after his release, Soyinka stayed at a friend’s farm in southern France, where he sought solitude after the period of mental stagnation. From this experience emerged one of his most prominent masterpieces, “The Bacchae of Euripides”. He soon published out of London a tome of his poetry based on his experience in prison, Poems from Prison. At the end of the year, he returned to his office of Headmaster of Cathedral of Drama in Ibadan, and cooperated in the founding of the literary periodical “Black Orpheus”.

In 1970 he produced the play “Kongi’s Harvest”, while simultaneously creating a film by the same title. In June 1970, he concluded another play, called “Madman and Specialists”. With the intention of gaining theatrical experience, along with the group of fifteen actors of Ibadan University Theatre Art Company, he went on a trip to the famous Eugene O’Neil Memorial Theatre Centre in Waterford, Connecticut in the United States, where his latest play premiered. In 1971 his poetry collection A Shuttle in the Crypt was published. While “Madmen and Specialists” was exposed afresh in Ibadan, Soyinka took the lead role as the murdered first Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo, Kinshasa, in the Paris production of "Murderous Angels". His powerful autobiographical work The Man Died, a collection of notes from prison, was issued the same year. In April, concerned about the political situation in Nigeria, Soyinka resigned from his duties at the University in Ibadan, and began a few years of voluntary exile. In July, in Paris, fragments of his famous play “The Dance of The Forests” were performed.

In 1972 he was declared an Honoris Causa doctorate by the University of Leeds. Soon thereafter, another of his novels, Season of Anomy, came out, in addition to his Collected Plays, published by the Oxford University Press. The same year National Theatre of London, which actually commissioned the play, put on a performance of “The Bacchae of Euripides”. In 1973 the plays "Camwood on the Leaves", and "Jero's Metamorphosis" were first published. From 1973-1975, Soyinka devoted himself to scientific activity. He underwent one year probation at Churchill College of Cambridge University, and gave a series of lectures at a number of European universities.

In 1974 “Collected Plays, Volume II” was issued by Oxford University Press. In 1975 Soyinka was promoted to the position of editor for “Transition”, a magazine based in the Ghanaian capital, Accra (where he moved for some time). Soyinka utilized his columns in Transition to once again attack the “negrofiles” (in his essay “Neo-Tarsanism: The Poetics of Pseudo-Transition”), and military regimes, protesting against the military junta of Idi Amin in Uganda. After the political turnover in Nigeria, and the subversion of Gowon's military regime in 1975 he returned to his homeland and re-assumed his position of the Cathedral of Comparative Literature at the University of Ife.

In 1976 the poetry collection Ogun Abibiman appeared, and a collection of essays entitled Myth, Literature and the African World, in which Soyinka explores the genesis of mysticism in African theatre and, using examples from the literatures of both continents, compares and contrasts European and African cultures. At The Institute of African Studies at the University of Legon in Ghana, he delivered a series of guest lectures and became a professor at the University of Ife. In October, the French version of “The Dance of The Forests” was performed in Dakar, while in Ife “Death and The King’s Horseman” premiered.

In 1977 one of his greatest plays, an adaptation of Bertold Brecht's "Three Penny Opera" called “Opera Wọnyọsi”, was staged, and in 1979 he both directed and acted in Jon Blair and Norman Fenton's drama “The Biko Inquest”, a work based on the story of Steve Biko, a South African student and human rights activist beaten to death by Apartheid police forces. In 1981 Wọle Soyinka’s first autobiographical novel Ake: The Years of Childhood was released.

Soyinka founded another theatrical group (after Nineteen-Sixty Masks), called Guerrilla Unit, its aim being to cooperate with local communities analyzing their actual problems and then responding to some of their grievances in dramatic sketches. In 1983 the play “Requiem for a Futurologist” had its initial performance at the University of Ife. In July one of Soyinka's musical projects, the Unlimited Liability Company, issued a long-play record titled “I Love My Country”, where a number of famous Nigerian popular musicians play songs composed by and provided with lyrics by Wọle Soyinka. In 1984, he directed his new movie "Blues for a Prodigal", which premiered the same year as a new play, “A Play of Giants”.

The years 1975-1984 were for Soyinka a period of increased political activity. During that time he was among the authorities at The University of Ife; among other duties, he was responsible for the security of public roads. He continuously criticized the corruption in the government of democratically-elected President Shehu Shagari, and often found himself at odds with his military successor, Mohammadu Buhari. In 1984 a Nigerian court banned The Man Died and in 1985 the play "Requiem for a Futurologist" went into print in London.

In the midst of several violent and repressive African regimes, Soyinka was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, as one “who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence” becoming the first African laureate. His Nobel acceptance speech was devoted to South African freedom-fighter Nelson Mandela. Soyinka's speech was a humane and characteristically outspoken criticism of apartheid and the politics of racial segregation imposed on the indigenous population by the Nationalist South African government. In 1986, he received another award - the Agip Prize for Literature.

In 1988, his new collection of poems Mandela's Earth, and Other Poems was published, while in Nigeria another collection of essays entitled Art, Dialogue and Outrage: Essays on Literature and Culture appeared. The year 1990, the second portion of his memoir called Isara: A Voyage Around Essay was released. In July 1991 the BBC African Service transmits his radio play “A Scourge of Hyacinths”, and the next year (in June 1992) in Siena (Italy), his play “From Zia with Love” has its premiere. Both the performances are very bitter political parodies, based on events which took place in Nigeria in the 1980’s. In 1993 Soyinka was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Harvard University. The next year appears another part of his autobiography Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years (A Memoir: 1946-1965). The following year brings the publication of the play “The Beatification of Area Boy”. On 21 October 1994 Soyinka is appointed UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for the Promotion of African culture, human rights, freedom of expression, media and communication. In November 1994 Soyinka flees from Nigeria through the border with Benin and then to the United States. In 1996 his book The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis is first published.

In 1997 Wọle Soyinka was charged with treason by the government of General Sani Abacha. In 1999 a new volume of poems of Wọle Soyinka entitled Outsiders was released. His newest play, released in 2001, "King Baabu" is another strong, political satire on the theme of African dictatorship. In 2002 a collection of his poems Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known is printed by Methuen. And in 2004 Bankole Olayebi publishes A Life is Full, an illustrated biography of Wọle Soyinka, with more than 600 photographs dating from 1934. In April 2006, his memoirs, titled "You Must Set Forth at Dawn", were published by Random House. In 2006 he cancelled his keynote speech for the annual S.E.A. Write Awards Ceremony in Bangkok to protest the Thai military's successful coup against the government.[2]

In April 2007 Wole Soyinka called for the cancellation of the Presidential elections held two weeks earlier in his native Nigeria because of the widespread fraud and violence that characterised the process.

In 2009, "The Literary/Political Philosophy of Wole Soyinka" was published by Yemi D. Ogunyemi. This book is dedicated to him for his literary, political and philosophical contributions to the Africans in Africa and Africans in Diaspora. The book is also an edifice celerating his 75th Birthday in July 13, 2009. One of the chapters in the book, "Telephone Conversation," which he had with his London landlady in 1962 reveals that the political philosophy of Wole Soyinka actually began in 1962.


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Youngies you no go kill me with laughter
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Osisi, I have come to realise that becomerrich should always be given a benefit of doubt.
When you think you have seen and heard it all, he throws an 'ace' to the table.

I have never seen someone with a high dose of delusion and stupidity all roled into one all my life