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Re: SIMPLICITY AND HUMILITY! (pic Of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa On Annual Leave In 1963) by jpphilips(m): 9:51pm On May 12, 2012 |
Darui: How is sitting on the floor dirtying your babariga simple and humble? and you wonder why the country refused to sit up |
Re: SIMPLICITY AND HUMILITY! (pic Of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa On Annual Leave In 1963) by Nobody: 12:58am On May 13, 2012 |
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Re: SIMPLICITY AND HUMILITY! (pic Of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa On Annual Leave In 1963) by nagoma(m): 8:30am On May 13, 2012 |
The first ever military coup in Nigeria was planned by Igbo Soldiers Was viciously and mercilessly executed by Igbo soldiers on 15 th Jan. 1966. That was the bloodiestt coup in history of all coups in Nigeria It was actually genocidal and attempt at ethnic cleansing as no Igbo officers or politicians were targeted or affected. The right Honorable gentleman Balewa was one object of their hatred. They murdered him in cold blood. The hatred still persists after 46 years , the sons and daughters of these murderers are still insulting this great man. Here on NL. Why would i want to live in the same country with such evil and wicked people? Divide the country fast , north for NORTHERNERS and south for SOUTHERNERS . 1 Like |
Re: SIMPLICITY AND HUMILITY! (pic Of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa On Annual Leave In 1963) by T9ksy(m): 1:52pm On May 13, 2012 |
nagoma: The first ever military coup in Nigeria was planned by Igbo Soldiers @ bolded, I wonder too! I also concur to an extent with your closing line but when we split, everyone goes their own way. We yorubas do not want to share a country with these "evil, wicked" and ungrateful people. |
Re: SIMPLICITY AND HUMILITY! (pic Of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa On Annual Leave In 1963) by Concept(m): 1:57pm On May 13, 2012 |
Darui: If you live in a glass house, please resist the temptation to launch attack. Do not be the first to throw stone. I regard my father I will never rubbish anyone's father. |
Re: SIMPLICITY AND HUMILITY! (pic Of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa On Annual Leave In 1963) by Nobody: 5:51pm On May 13, 2012 |
Concept:You better know what slander means. He was my country prime minister , I can criticize any action that he did involving my country and my future I don't agree with. I did not insult him nor call him names. Look at the posts properly and tell me when I insulted him as someone's father. I regard my father too unlike some people here |
Re: SIMPLICITY AND HUMILITY! (pic Of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa On Annual Leave In 1963) by xstudios(m): 1:16pm On May 14, 2012 |
I suggest you take a second look at the pix again. The man is sitted on a mat with his shoes off and properly placed neatly on the floor. I remember serving in katsina and used the mat rooms at the restaurants . I got to make most of the links i use today doing business that way. |
Re: SIMPLICITY AND HUMILITY! (pic Of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa On Annual Leave In 1963) by Nobody: 5:34pm On May 14, 2012 |
I suggest you take a proper look at my post when I gave the example of far eastern countries. I pray(salat) on my mat. I m very sure you won't sit on the outside floor in front of your house to accept one of your important business guest. Imagine the shock,other people will feel to see the prime minister( leader) of the most populous black African country with the biggest potential sitting on the floor like THAT. That's one of the reason we are yet to shake off the primitive african stereotypes. Note- there's nothing wrong with sitting on the mat or rug in your house or atleast a respectable place and Its even more important for a PRIME MINISTER to project the correct image to the world! |
Re: SIMPLICITY AND HUMILITY! (pic Of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa On Annual Leave In 1963) by Fornorth(m): 11:19pm On May 14, 2012 |
To All those HATERS, can you pls tell me how mouch of our country money this GREAT AND HUMBLE GENTLEMAN stole?, among all our past and present leader's who can you say pass this gentleman, i think you will say GEJ,OBJ OR OJUWKU couse they are from your own tribe, SHAME ON YOU FOR HATING WITH OUT PROFER REASON, AS FOR MY DEAR GENTLE LATE PRIME MINISTER MY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE. |
Re: SIMPLICITY AND HUMILITY! (pic Of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa On Annual Leave In 1963) by nagoma(m): 9:38am On May 15, 2012 |
Darui: I suggest you take a proper look at my post when I gave the example of far eastern countries. I pray(salat) on my mat. I m very sure you won't sit on the outside floor in front of your house to accept one of your important business guest. And what correct image is your Mumu president Jona presenting , a fleet of jets for the president of a country that cannot even manufacture a bicycle , a billion naira for his feeding, the greatest ever corruption in the oil subsidy scandal, brazen abuse of electoral practice and shameless nepotism and patronage and cluelessness in governance and problem solving. Let me have a competent president, transparent and honest and ready to move the country forward a person who abhors the primitive accumulation of wealth from the country's resources and believe me he can sit on bare ground at his spare time - any time , and I have no problem with that. |
Re: SIMPLICITY AND HUMILITY! (pic Of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa On Annual Leave In 1963) by PhysicsQED(m): 1:37pm On May 15, 2012 |
T9ksy: T9ksy: @ bolded, oh yeah? So we should be glad then that TB only sent his son to finish primary education at a private school in london at our expense. You thought processing is definately amazing! T9sky, this is the second time I've seen you make this claim/insinuation that Balewa was looting the country by sending his son to a private school in the UK. I took the time to look into it and there is not a single shred of validity to this claim. Balewa may have been somewhat naive, may have been used by the Sardauna (The Sardauna referred to Balewa as one of his "boys", which Balewa countered by saying that he brought the Sardauna into politics, which may be true), and obviously supported the wrong side in the Akintola-Awolowo dispute, but we don't have to start blaming him for things which never he did. In reality, he had several children (19), of which only two ever ended up going to school in the UK, although the other children went to school (in Nigeria) and went on to various careers. He first sent one of his sons to Epsom College, a public (not private) school in the UK, in 1965, one year before he was killed. There's no question that he could afford to pay the costs of that school on the prime minister's salary, especially when the Nigerian pound would have had value, so there is no issue or question about looting or theft that's relevant there. To possibly put things in perspective on why Balewa would send his (favorite?) sons to the UK, consider what Ken Wiwa (Ken Saro-Wiwa's son) wrote in his interesting article "Shaping a son of Africa": My father never lost faith in me despite all the evidence that I was never going to fulfill my academic potential. He had high, high hopes for me - that I would attend Eton or Harrow, then go on to Oxford or Cambridge to study law. I would then return to Nigeria and sign up to his lifelong ambition to bring the plight of our people to national and international attention. That was his plan for my life when he decided to send me, aged ten, to Stancliffe Hall prep school in England in 1978. http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=151668 You can get some idea of Balewa's personal feelings on financial corruption from this little mention of him here: http://books.google.com/books?id=ITr8LeWdcdoC&pg=PA215 For more on Balewa, see Trevor Clark's biography of him. I haven't read the whole thing (it's 888 pages!) and I probably never will, but I read enough to specifically try and find out about this claim about him sending his son to a private school. The costs of his two sons' education at Epsom College were later covered by the Gowon administration. Balewa made mistakes, but he didn't steal. Just thought I should clear this up. Peace. 2 Likes |
Re: SIMPLICITY AND HUMILITY! (pic Of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa On Annual Leave In 1963) by T9ksy(m): 10:41pm On May 15, 2012 |
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Re: SIMPLICITY AND HUMILITY! (pic Of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa On Annual Leave In 1963) by Nobody: 5:39pm On May 25, 2012 |
nagoma:Did I tell you I support any of GEJ anti-people policies? See that's the problem. If he's not supporting our own then he must be rooting for the other side. You seem to think I m defending GEJ. I don't like GEJ. We want a better leader. But I still maintain TAFAWA BALEWA should not have given that image to the world. I am not saying he must get billion dollar jets or be corrupt. Notable and reasonable presidents don't go buying jets all the time neither are they extravagant. But don't tell me, the only way to avoid extravagance is by imbibing unnecessary ascetic way of life. His tradition of doing things on prayer mats is respectable but he SHOULD NOT HAVE SAT ON THE FLOOR. |
Re: SIMPLICITY AND HUMILITY! (pic Of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa On Annual Leave In 1963) by Nobody: 1:32am On Jan 16, 2013 |
Babzilla: /if he sat in a rolls royce or on a golden throne the same f00ls will still castigate the memory of the man. Bros you get sense die! Thank U |
Re: SIMPLICITY AND HUMILITY! (pic Of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa On Annual Leave In 1963) by Nobody: 1:41am On Jan 16, 2013 |
obo_man: Mahatma Gandhi, one of the greatest the world has even seen wore only white ropes, shorts and slippers everywhere he went.How I wish a quarter of Nigerians had your insight. God bless U |
Re: SIMPLICITY AND HUMILITY! (pic Of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa On Annual Leave In 1963) by Nobody: 2:03am On Jan 16, 2013 |
nagoma: The first ever military coup in Nigeria was planned by Igbo Soldiers Seconded |
Re: SIMPLICITY AND HUMILITY! (pic Of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa On Annual Leave In 1963) by ashson: 11:51pm On Jan 26, 2013 |
The good people always have alot of haters and bad belle people... |
Re: SIMPLICITY AND HUMILITY! (pic Of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa On Annual Leave In 1963) by Ibrahimmrfish(m): 9:39am On Jan 27, 2013 |
T9ksy: |
Re: SIMPLICITY AND HUMILITY! (pic Of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa On Annual Leave In 1963) by Ibrahimmrfish(m): 9:41am On Jan 27, 2013 |
T9ksy:u mean d way dis jona dog gov't is also a regional one,but do u see our soilders puting a bullet in his skull |
Re: SIMPLICITY AND HUMILITY! (pic Of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa On Annual Leave In 1963) by Nobody: 7:34am On Jul 29, 2015 |
T9ksy:You don't at all know what you are saying. I refuse to lie in your bed of lies! |
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