I wonder if they ever will be born in this country.
. The beautiful ones have been born but it is pathetic that our political socialization and culture won't allow them to be noticed and if even noticed won't be allowed political power to showcase the beauty in them. Nigerians must rise in one voice loud and clear to review our constitution, the political structure of the state - Nigeria and make it not lucrative etc... anything outside this , that Nigeria of the masses' dream will come into reality is an utopian dream and this is evidently so because without this our Democracy will continue to hurt, hunt the masses and remain a business for the elites.
nicolosam: . The beautiful ones have been born but it is pathetic that our political socialization and culture won't allow them to be noticed and if even noticed won't be allowed political power to showcase the beauty in them. Nigerians must rise in one voice loud and clear to review our constitution, the political structure of the state - Nigeria and make it not lucrative etc... anything outside this , that Nigeria of the masses' dream will come into reality is an utopian dream and this is evidently so because without this our Democracy will continue to hurt, hunt the masses and remain a business for the elites.
I am one of them !!!! These politicians don't really understand the true meaning of service!!!
nnachukz: Those are not hidden assets. They are the saints, they can not do wrong. If GEJ was half as wicked as Buhari, Tinubu wouldn't be walking the streets as free man and Buhari would have still remained in Daura tending to his cattles.
Indeed they can do no wrong in the corruption-fighting change chain administration of the DullardPoo. Buratai oh, Dambazau oh, Kyari oh, Abacha oh ati bebe lo. They are all saints.
Dutchboy: "The real enemy is the man that stole the city hall. The enemy is the Iragbiji upstart who seized the local government Secretariat at Glover street in Ikoyi. Our collective enemy is the greedy man who bought the old Nurses House, the Falomo shopping complex, the Lagos state Polytechnic property at Ojota, the stretches of acres at Lekki, the old Strabag yard at Alausa, the innumerable beach front properties long owned by the people of Lagos state, the billion naira Queen’s Drive mansion, the illegal Lekki Toll Gate, the First Nation Airline, the strings of media conglomerates, the Vault and Garden Cemetery, the vast Estates on the shores of Oniru beach , the endless choice hotels and high-rises, the shopping Mall in Ikeja and Lekki, and many great assets of our people this Iragbiji man has stolen with manic desperation. That is the real enemy we must chase back to Iraghiji.
With all these crazy and bewildering acquisitions , it is obvious that this Iragbiji upstart suffers from a disease called AFFLUENZA. It is an incurable malady which makes the pathetic sufferer to pursue blind, greedy, desperate and infectious craving for acquisition after acquisition. Here , the demented sufferer can never stop the craving for unnecessary endless accumulation of wealth. He does not know what is enough. Here wealth is glorified in place of the Almighty God. This is the dreadful disease Tinubu is suffering from.
Let us remove and dismantle the greedy contraption of Bola Tinubu from Lagos and the whole South West before the madness of the Iragbiji man corrupts the whole nation."
[size=13pt]Instead of selling our National Assets why don't we recover assets from thieves like Tinubu,Abdusalami,OBJ,IBB,Saraki etc[/size]
No wonder they needed to kill Engr. Funsho Williams so their LOOTING secrets in Lagos state can remain covered. Justice may be delayed but it will not be denied.
Abeg our founding fathers were nothing but a bunch of power hungry monsters. They never fought for a better Nigeria. They only negotiated with the British to replace them as our slave masters. They laid the foundation for the monumental corruption in our society today.
I like this, please we the youths need to think like this.
Izonpikin: The truth is lagosians are the most docile set of people in Nigeria. ..
They think they are smart but they are weaklings who have allowed one man suck them dry...
Cheiii...and them think say them get sense...
Make fashola by mistake try that toll gate on a federal level him go fear hum head....tibubu literally owns lagos. ...
Na so for Lagos oh. Na there you go see person wey go dey tell you "Touce me and see how I will deal with you" yet the same guy is stylishly reversing and running away from the fight scene. A man who was SQUATTING while campaigning to be governor in 1999, after forfeiting his drug money to the US authorities, now owns the entire state of "smart" people literally. What an irony!!!
I remain grateful to Gbenga Daniel – Tinubu dismisses rift rumors
A national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has cleared the air on the alleged enmity between him and a former two-term Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel.
Tinubu, who spoke through Mr. Wale Edun at the 25th anniversary celebration of Otunba Gbenga Daniels’ Kresta Laurel, said there is no truth in the stories that he has been fighting with Gbenga Daniel, adding that they are still good friends.
Edun said: “I am here representing Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and my presence is to show that there is no friction between Asiwaju and Otunba Gbenga Daniel”
Mr. Edun went on to explain that whenever Tinubu drives past the Kresta Laurel building in Maryland, Lagos, he remembers the enormous contributions Daniel made to the take off of his administration in 1999 and was immensely grateful.
He revealed that the Peoples Democratic Party chieftain was very gracious to donate the Kresta Laurel building to Tinubu’s campaign team at the time it was just being completed.
“The Daniels also made a section of their home available to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu whenever he worked too late and could not go home. After the election, he also allowed us to use it for the Transition Committee where he was a member”
Na so for Lagos oh. Na there you go see person wey go dey tell you "Touce me and see how I will deal with you" yet the same guy is stylishly reversing and running away from the fight scene. A man who was SQUATTING while campaigning to be governor in 1999, after forfeiting his drug money to the US authorities, now owns the entire state of "smart" people literally. What an irony!!!
Lagosians are arrogant because they think they are the most sophiscated people in the country and look down on people from other states.We now know they are nothing but sophiscated and docile slaves under the colonisation of Tinubu.
Dutchboy: Tinubu is the colonial master of Lagos and Lagosians are his slaves.
That is why the Jagbajantis was so fool of himself that he cursed and abused Pa Awo and his entire family. After he won the 1999 elections PRETENDING to be Awo's political heir.
Awo Family Without An Awo By Sam Omatseye (The Offensive Article)
The Awolowo rebirth in the Southwest has inspired gongs, songs and rhetoric of sorts. But they have missed one point.
It occurred to me in Abeokuta last week amidst the big crowds and euphoria of the swearing-in of Senator Ibikunle Amosun as governor. In all the states from Lagos to Edo, where Awo has witnessed ideological resurgence, hardly a single family member has played a role.
So we have an Awo family without an Awo. That is an irony. But history overwhelms us with this sort of twist. Obafemi Awolowo toiled for his reputation. His roots were lowly, he toiled to school both home and abroad, launched into careers in law, business, journalism and eventually politics. He carved a niche for himself, and became the first methodical and charismatic leftist in our history. Other leftists abounded but they did not inspire comparable drama and following.
He faced tribulations, went to jail, failed in elections, won a few, but he imprinted his ideas and legacy in the country, and no single mortal has beaten him in the history of this country. His greatest achievement was in the area of ideas, and that was how he fashioned a family. Most families are born of biology but his issued from ideology. That family suffered with him.
In a spoof of Jesus Christ, these were the men who followed him in his teachings, and endured with him in his temptations. So he formed a kingdom for them in the Southwest, in the old Western Region, presiding over his projects, his legacies and people.
In all of these, the family he had was not his flesh and blood. In another spoof of Christ, who were his family anyway? Those who were with him must be counted as his family. So, I combed in the ambience of Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), and I found none. I went to Ogun, I frisked the crowd under Amosun’s bower, hardly any. Around Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Osun, I could not lay a finger. With Governor Kayode Fayemi in Ekiti, where are the forbears of Awo? Yet, I can hear the chants of Awo. Hardly in any of the inaugural speeches or any of their other public intervention would you miss the philtre and filter of Awo from these gentlemen. To parody Novelist Joseph Conrad, they are the sparks from Awo’s sacred fire, the messengers of the might within the man.
Already all of them are pursuing the legacy ideas of Awo: free education, free health services, infrastructural development, urban renewal and economic engineering.
Lagos has posted itself as the John the Baptist. The others are putting up valiant efforts, and the world of course is watching to see how well they will perform. It will call for great work, resourcefulness and cooperation. They are the real Awoists, and Awo was a man of rigour and vigour.
The Awo son that many expected to take after the father was Olusegun, who unfortunately died in a car crash. We shall never know if he could have pulled it off. But the others have not shown much of the paterfamilias’ brio and depth. In the past decade, under this republic, they have blended with the wrong crowd. Even H.I.D, hobnobbed with Alao-Akala, who brought illiteracy to governance; with Oyinlola who turned the grace of office into a hell-hole of despots; with Daniel who could not arrest his quick fall into megalomania.
I wrote once that this woman whom Awo once described as the jewel of inestimable value has lost value to his cause. If he came back to life, he would have committed the extraordinary act of divorce after death. Even his newspaper, The Tribune, has so stumbled and fallen that it swims in Awo’s vomit.
Groucho Max, one of the funniest satirists in American history, said of a man that he got his looks from his father. Then he quipped, “He was a plastic surgeon.” That means the son is not his real son, or he did not inherit his natural looks. Ideologically, when we talk of Awo’s family, the chief inheritor is Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the leader of all the others. He was the one who stuck his neck out. He could have lost his life or ended his career in politics. The so-called real Awolowos who bear his surname cannot come up for mention. They are Awolowos but not Awoists. They stabbed their father in the back. They have committed ideological parricide.
The only person that made a real try was Awolowo-Dosunmu in the early 1990s and she lost roundly. She was accused of trying to ride her father’s coattail. Political families are good for democracies. They can exemplify the high ideals of diligence, dignity, ideas, character. We have seen these in such families as the Kennedys, the Adamses, the Roosevelts, the Ghandis. They just don’t claim family. They appeal to the high ideals that endeared the families to their societies.
It’s also an irony that these families are falling into twilight. Some of them have vanished. Enoch Powell, a British MP, once gave us the famous line: “All political lives, unless they are cut off midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure because that is the nature of politics and human affairs.”
Columnist Ambassador Dapo Fafowora adverted to this idea in a recent outing, and I debated it with him afterwards. I don’t believe that a political life should be judged by how it ends but what it means. The quote is often missed by many who mistake “careers” for “lives.” A political life should be judged by its legacies. If we judged Awo by how he ended, we would look at him only as the loser to Shagari. That is why I see an intrinsic mischief in Enoch’s quote. But I would agree that political families end also in failure if you judge how they peter out and not the legacy.
Awo’s legacy is alive and well. Members of other families in flesh and blood can carry on. Immediate families tend to suffer from what an author, Noemie Emery, describes as dynastic curse. The children tend to be intimidated by the standards set by the fathers. So they just don’t want to try. They feel they cannot match them or come even close. The problem probably comes from the fathers themselves. The Adams, who produced important presidents, later gave birth to moral vagrants and drunks. The Bush daughters showed themselves as party girls when their father was contesting the political battle of his life.
But Joe Kennedy groomed his sons assiduously, and they excelled in politics. They also had a fair share of tragedies. Ted Kennedy regained his sobriety and voice in America after a season of debauchery. In Nigeria, we are seeing the Sarakis fade. A Saraki – Bukola - is wiping out the Sarakis from politics. It is a classic case of oedipal tragedy, something I predicted earlier this year on this page.
It is not late though for the flesh-and-blood Awolowos to join their father’s fold. But they must be genuine. Awo was the most important Yoruba personage in history after Oduduwa. They had stellar men like Oranmiyan, Balogun Latosa, Lisabi, Sodeke, et al. None of them had the unifying vision and organisational acumen that Awolowo gave the race. The wife, children and grandchildren should not watch others glow in his jewel without them.
kolaish: THIS IS THE CASE OF A THIEF WHOSE TIME HAS PASSED/EXPIRED, EXPOSING A REIGNING THIEF WHO IS STILL IN POWER. LET US ALL WAIT AND SEE THE OUTCOME.
I might agree with you that he is an expired thief......but the problem we have in Nigeria is that we live to attack the messenger not the message. Shouldn't you have first wondered how true the accusations of owning these assets and properties by one man who is supposed to be a pension collecting former Governor. These properties and investments are worth billions of dollars. So it's obvious you love Bola Tinubus kind of theft because u are probably APC or Yoruba. We should be ashamed of ourselves. Supporting thieves weda PDP, APC, APGA, IGBO ,Hausa, Yoruba, Niger Delta. These men have stolen our collective wealth and they find a way to conflict us talkn about them by making ehnic, political or religious divides for us to fight on. Again shame on us.
Who will really be in charge of the proposed sale of National oil Assets such as NLNG,Joint Venture Equity,Refineries and Airports. Will it be Vice President Osibanjo, Head of the economic team in the Presidency or Tinubu?I will leave you with this picture to decide
I might agree with you that he is an expired thief......but the problem we have in Nigeria is that we live to attack the messenger not the message. Shouldn't you have first wondered how true the accusations of owning these assets and properties by one man who is supposed to be a pension collecting former Governor. These properties and investments are worth billions of dollars. So it's obvious you love Bola Tinubus kind of theft because u are probably APC or Yoruba. We should be ashamed of ourselves. Supporting thieves weda PDP, APC, APGA, IGBO ,Hausa, Yoruba, Niger Delta. These men have stolen our collective wealth and they find a way to conflict us talkn about them by making ehnic, political or religious divides for us to fight on. Again shame on us.
....dem be yeye people my broda...dem laik fiction like fish and water...is this the way to mount opposition?...rubbish and nonsense...u think Yoruba people come from zoo laik some yeye tribe from Gabon?...did u care for Lagos when ebele gave more than half of the Nigerian Commonwealth to some oloriburukus from your side?...keep making useless noises as usual...ko le werk lailai as my broda said...olodos...oloju ejas...
Dutchboy: "The real enemy is the man that stole the city hall. The enemy is the Iragbiji upstart who seized the local government Secretariat at Glover street in Ikoyi. Our collective enemy is the greedy man who bought the old Nurses House, the Falomo shopping complex, the Lagos state Polytechnic property at Ojota, the stretches of acres at Lekki, the old Strabag yard at Alausa, the innumerable beach front properties long owned by the people of Lagos state, the billion naira Queen’s Drive mansion, the illegal Lekki Toll Gate, the First Nation Airline, the strings of media conglomerates, the Vault and Garden Cemetery, the vast Estates on the shores of Oniru beach , the endless choice hotels and high-rises, the shopping Mall in Ikeja and Lekki, and many great assets of our people this Iragbiji man has stolen with manic desperation. That is the real enemy we must chase back to Iraghiji.
With all these crazy and bewildering acquisitions , it is obvious that this Iragbiji upstart suffers from a disease called AFFLUENZA. It is an incurable malady which makes the pathetic sufferer to pursue blind, greedy, desperate and infectious craving for acquisition after acquisition. Here , the demented sufferer can never stop the craving for unnecessary endless accumulation of wealth. He does not know what is enough. Here wealth is glorified in place of the Almighty God. This is the dreadful disease Tinubu is suffering from.
Let us remove and dismantle the greedy contraption of Bola Tinubu from Lagos and the whole South West before the madness of the Iragbiji man corrupts the whole nation."
nnachukz: Those are not hidden assets. They are the saints, they can not do wrong. If GEJ was half as wicked as Buhari, Tinubu wouldn't be walking the streets as free man and Buhari would have still remained in Daura tending to his cattles.
So its true our president last job was cattle rearing before he became president, hmmm no wonder his aides said he is ruling by body language. Really wonder how the experience in cattle rearing can apply to managing human beings.
!!!! These politicians don't really understand the true meaning of service!!!
