This the free education Afonja professor who is calling for war in place of self determination...

This is the same professor who campaigned for Buharis as against Jonathan, which has led Nigeria to its present problems.

my problem with these people is,why are they are always worked up when issues about injustices against the igbos and the deltans are brought up at the national discuss.

This is the same man that so hated Jonathan to the extent that you begin to wonder why? The man cant even hide his bigotry and stupidity...afonja are truly the problem of Nigeria.

this is the same mindset that let obasanjo to massacre innocent children and women in odi

One thing i can bet Nigeria is, if the igbos are provoked to a war, Nigeria will not have its way like before and Nigeria will not survive it. This 2017 and not 1967. With more population meaning more foot soldiers, more educated people, a strong and influential diaspora and with the power and era of social media...Nigeria should thread with caution....

In the final analysis, all i can see is jealousy...These buffoons are just jealous of NK, but they can do less because NK has divine support

shame on Afonja intellectuals, they are all cowards. That is why the less educated and qualified keep ruling them and the country keeps going backwards and these intellectual idiots cant challenge or speak out..

This is really absurdity At it's height, this or a product of free education

Did this one also benefit from Awo's free education ?

Professor Akin Oyebode is an interviewer’s delight and much more. A natural teacher who measures his success by the success of his products in the marketplace of life, STEPHEN UBIMAGO writes that the more Oyebodes of this world there are, the better for the country…
At the Faculty of Law of the University of Lagos, where he teaches Jurisprudence and International Law, the revered Professor Akin Oyebode not only evokes the image of a consummate intellectual with his bouncy hoary hair, brilliant command of the language, excellent lecture delivery, poise and all; he is also for all this greatly admired and loved by students and the faculty alike.
Thus, one could easily sense the satiation his students exude even from a distance, as it is not hard to tell its source: a sense of privilege from being taught and mentored by such a seasoned legal scholar, for whom other law faculties are willing and ready to trade their legs and arms to acquire.
Indeed, the University boasts one of the largest law faculties (teaching staff of professors and lecturers) in Nigeria, however in conversations among themselves, a student’s indication like, “I have Prof’s class today,” require no further explication as to who the curt appellation of “Prof” referred to.
Not many are aware however that part of the influences that molded him and imbued the accomplished academic with his unmistakable urbaneness and élan is the fact that he is a also the product of a middle-class background.
In an interview, he gave this indication thusly: “If you lived in the GRAs under colonialism, you don’t need anyone to tell you the type of upbringing that I had. With the friends I had, there was no serious challenge. I had all the things that young people of my type were supposed to have.
“I had good atmosphere. I enjoyed riding bicycles, playing with toys, watching cartoons, solving puzzles, painting with crayons and everything that I wanted. At that time, we lived ‘Sheltered life’. It was a different lifestyle for children who lived in the GRA. We were all of middle class potentials.
“We had television and telephone when it was introduced in Nigeria. I went to school with people from Southern Police College, Shogunle, Maboju village and from GRA.
“I don’t know what the GRA looks like now. I think it is a different thing now. In our time, there were no walls unlike now that GRA is surrounded with walls. What we had then were hedges with people’s names written on the gates of the house.
“I believe nobody will be bold enough to do that now. We just had gardens, courts, gardeners, hedges well trimmed and properly taken care of and that was the GRA of the 50s. I remember the first time, an all-night party was held in Ikoyi at late Justice Agoro’s residence and people were gassed.
“We used to have Public Works Department, PWD that changed our bulbs regularly. All the colonial structures were built for white people. The few African families that were living in the GRA were grudgingly tolerated.
“There were special shops including Kingsway in the GRA. The Europeans had their Lagos Country Club which admitted only the Europeans. The Lagos Country Club then was located in what is now called Murtala Mohammed Airport.
“My family was among the few African families who lived a sheltered and protected life during the colonial era. Those who lived in these special areas had quality of life which was superior then. I have the most fascinating experience as a child. And growing up was fun.”
Oyebode is a professor of professors; a natural teacher for whom teaching is the end-all-and-be-all, a profession for which there is no match.
Having taught Law for over 40 years, most of which period was spent in Unilag, he indicated that he derives his fulfillment from watching his products ride the tide of happy exploits in the legal profession.
He explained thus: “When I came to University of Lagos, I didn’t give it a second thought to choose an academic for a profession.
“I see my success in the success of my students. I have taught over 20 Judges in Lagos State. Some of them are in the Court of Appeal, while others have either been Governors or Deputy Governors.
“There was a time I counted seven Attorneys General in this country that have passed through my class. For me, this is enough satisfaction.”
Professors Taiwo Osipitan, Imran Smith, Amos Utuama, among others are all of the Faculty; they’ve all taken silk as Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN) too.
Interestingly, they’d been Oyebode’s students at the Faculty. But Prof has no enthusiasm to take silk. He says he is very contented being an academic and attaining the apogee of his career as professor.
His students have often recalled how he’d habitually interjected his lecturers with riling excoriation of the institution of SANship and about how his former students who could make his elevation to the rank easily happen had practically begged him to apply for it so they could act as facilitators. He’d however politely declined with, “thank you” for their gratuitous solicitation.
He stated in this connection that “Some people proposed that I should become a Senior Advocate of Nigeria but I opted out.
“I don’t know what I need a SAN for. I studied hard as a professor. Professorship is the highest level of attainment in a University. Every other thing is in-between, be it a head of a department, dean or vice chancellor.
“After serving as a vice chancellor, I came back to teach. I am totally fulfilled in the job that I do. I don’t try to please anyone because I feel a sense of absolute freedom and fulfillment when I’m doing what I love doing.
“I’ve never done anything outside the academic world except when I was a radio broadcaster after my Form Six. I’ve been in the academic world either as a teacher or as a manager.”
Prof. Oyebode has never hidden his vivacious love for Unilag. Aside from the fact that he did cut his academic teeth in the University and grew to become a professor of Law in the institution, Unilag also produced the woman who later became his wife. Interestingly, too, many of his children are products of the institution.
According to him, “My wife studied in the University of Lagos but I didn’t know her then until her National Youth Service Corps, NYSC year.
“We met on a blind date and it was just a relationship made in heaven. God enabled us to come together. I met a woman who shared my pan-Africanism as well as my radical socialist sentiments and we have been married for 33 years.”
Oyebode’s may have shed much of his socialist proclivity but like old habits that die hard, he still espouses its vestiges, a tell-tale of his university training in defunct Soviet Russia.
He explains: “I was inspired to be an academic by one of my professors in Kiev State University, Kiev, Ukraine who become a member of the International Law Commission.
“He taught me to be dedicated and diligent to work. So, I thought it will be wise to emulate such a dedicated lecturer.
“My first three years were frustrating in the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos. I was not given a subject to teach. My colleagues thought all I knew was guerrilla warfare but after a while, I was allowed to teach.
“It was a funny scenario but it’s no longer the case with graduate Soviet Institutions of Economy. I was the first Soviet trained lawyer to be appointed into an academic position in any Nigerian University.
“And as a pioneer, there was a price to pay. For instance, I was denied admission to the Nigerian Law School for sixteen years because no graduate of Soviet Institutions would be admitted to the Nigerian Law School.
“But, my friend, Jelili Omotola, fought a human battle to ensure that those of us who had taught Law for at least five years could be allowed into the Law School.
“At that time, I had a ten years experience as a lecturer. That is why I have only 20 years post-call experience. I was called to the bar in 1991.
“Another challenge was getting a doctorate. I never thought that I needed a doctorate but my friend, Jelili Omotola advised me to pursue my doctorate degree.
“He said, PhD is another qualification, for without an ultimate qualification, there is certainty that people will doubt one’s competence despite one’s brilliancy.
Omotola convinced me that there is nothing to be compared with a PhD. So, I thought it wise to go to Toronto in 1981 to pursue a doctorate in Law, after obtaining a Master of Laws (LLM) from Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Born in Ado-Ekiti on December 9, 1947, Professor Oyebode hails from Ikole Ekiti.
He was the Vice Chancellor of Ekiti State University (formerly University of Ado Ekiti, UNAD) and currently a Professor of International Law and Jurisprudence at the University of Lagos.

Dumaknesset:
Professor Akin Oyebode is an interviewer’s delight and much more. A natural teacher who measures his success by the success of his products in the marketplace of life, STEPHEN UBIMAGO writes that the more Oyebodes of this world there are, the better for the country…
At the Faculty of Law of the University of Lagos, where he teaches Jurisprudence and International Law, the revered Professor Akin Oyebode not only evokes the image of a consummate intellectual with his bouncy hoary hair, brilliant command of the language, excellent lecture delivery, poise and all; he is also for all this greatly admired and loved by students and the faculty alike.
Thus, one could easily sense the satiation his students exude even from a distance, as it is not hard to tell its source: a sense of privilege from being taught and mentored by such a seasoned legal scholar, for whom other law faculties are willing and ready to trade their legs and arms to acquire.
Indeed, the University boasts one of the largest law faculties (teaching staff of professors and lecturers) in Nigeria, however in conversations among themselves, a student’s indication like, “I have Prof’s class today,” require no further explication as to who the curt appellation of “Prof” referred to.
Not many are aware however that part of the influences that molded him and imbued the accomplished academic with his unmistakable urbaneness and élan is the fact that he is a also the product of a middle-class background.
In an interview, he gave this indication thusly: “If you lived in the GRAs under colonialism, you don’t need anyone to tell you the type of upbringing that I had. With the friends I had, there was no serious challenge. I had all the things that young people of my type were supposed to have.
“I had good atmosphere. I enjoyed riding bicycles, playing with toys, watching cartoons, solving puzzles, painting with crayons and everything that I wanted. At that time, we lived ‘Sheltered life’. It was a different lifestyle for children who lived in the GRA. We were all of middle class potentials.
“We had television and telephone when it was introduced in Nigeria. I went to school with people from Southern Police College, Shogunle, Maboju village and from GRA.
“I don’t know what the GRA looks like now. I think it is a different thing now. In our time, there were no walls unlike now that GRA is surrounded with walls. What we had then were hedges with people’s names written on the gates of the house.
“I believe nobody will be bold enough to do that now. We just had gardens, courts, gardeners, hedges well trimmed and properly taken care of and that was the GRA of the 50s. I remember the first time, an all-night party was held in Ikoyi at late Justice Agoro’s residence and people were gassed.
“We used to have Public Works Department, PWD that changed our bulbs regularly. All the colonial structures were built for white people. The few African families that were living in the GRA were grudgingly tolerated.
“There were special shops including Kingsway in the GRA. The Europeans had their Lagos Country Club which admitted only the Europeans. The Lagos Country Club then was located in what is now called Murtala Mohammed Airport.
“My family was among the few African families who lived a sheltered and protected life during the colonial era. Those who lived in these special areas had quality of life which was superior then. I have the most fascinating experience as a child. And growing up was fun.”
Oyebode is a professor of professors; a natural teacher for whom teaching is the end-all-and-be-all, a profession for which there is no match.
Having taught Law for over 40 years, most of which period was spent in Unilag, he indicated that he derives his fulfillment from watching his products ride the tide of happy exploits in the legal profession.
He explained thus: “When I came to University of Lagos, I didn’t give it a second thought to choose an academic for a profession.
“I see my success in the success of my students. I have taught over 20 Judges in Lagos State. Some of them are in the Court of Appeal, while others have either been Governors or Deputy Governors.
“There was a time I counted seven Attorneys General in this country that have passed through my class. For me, this is enough satisfaction.”
Professors Taiwo Osipitan, Imran Smith, Amos Utuama, among others are all of the Faculty; they’ve all taken silk as Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN) too.
Interestingly, they’d been Oyebode’s students at the Faculty. But Prof has no enthusiasm to take silk. He says he is very contented being an academic and attaining the apogee of his career as professor.
His students have often recalled how he’d habitually interjected his lecturers with riling excoriation of the institution of SANship and about how his former students who could make his elevation to the rank easily happen had practically begged him to apply for it so they could act as facilitators. He’d however politely declined with, “thank you” for their gratuitous solicitation.
He stated in this connection that “Some people proposed that I should become a Senior Advocate of Nigeria but I opted out.
“I don’t know what I need a SAN for. I studied hard as a professor. Professorship is the highest level of attainment in a University. Every other thing is in-between, be it a head of a department, dean or vice chancellor.
“After serving as a vice chancellor, I came back to teach. I am totally fulfilled in the job that I do. I don’t try to please anyone because I feel a sense of absolute freedom and fulfillment when I’m doing what I love doing.
“I’ve never done anything outside the academic world except when I was a radio broadcaster after my Form Six. I’ve been in the academic world either as a teacher or as a manager.”
Prof. Oyebode has never hidden his vivacious love for Unilag. Aside from the fact that he did cut his academic teeth in the University and grew to become a professor of Law in the institution, Unilag also produced the woman who later became his wife. Interestingly, too, many of his children are products of the institution.
According to him, “My wife studied in the University of Lagos but I didn’t know her then until her National Youth Service Corps, NYSC year.
“We met on a blind date and it was just a relationship made in heaven. God enabled us to come together. I met a woman who shared my pan-Africanism as well as my radical socialist sentiments and we have been married for 33 years.”
Oyebode’s may have shed much of his socialist proclivity but like old habits that die hard, he still espouses its vestiges, a tell-tale of his university training in defunct Soviet Russia.
He explains: “I was inspired to be an academic by one of my professors in Kiev State University, Kiev, Ukraine who become a member of the International Law Commission.
“He taught me to be dedicated and diligent to work. So, I thought it will be wise to emulate such a dedicated lecturer.
“My first three years were frustrating in the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos. I was not given a subject to teach. My colleagues thought all I knew was guerrilla warfare but after a while, I was allowed to teach.
“It was a funny scenario but it’s no longer the case with graduate Soviet Institutions of Economy. I was the first Soviet trained lawyer to be appointed into an academic position in any Nigerian University.
“And as a pioneer, there was a price to pay. For instance, I was denied admission to the Nigerian Law School for sixteen years because no graduate of Soviet Institutions would be admitted to the Nigerian Law School.
“But, my friend, Jelili Omotola, fought a human battle to ensure that those of us who had taught Law for at least five years could be allowed into the Law School.
“At that time, I had a ten years experience as a lecturer. That is why I have only 20 years post-call experience. I was called to the bar in 1991.
“Another challenge was getting a doctorate. I never thought that I needed a doctorate but my friend, Jelili Omotola advised me to pursue my doctorate degree.
“He said, PhD is another qualification, for without an ultimate qualification, there is certainty that people will doubt one’s competence despite one’s brilliancy.
Omotola convinced me that there is nothing to be compared with a PhD. So, I thought it wise to go to Toronto in 1981 to pursue a doctorate in Law, after obtaining a Master of Laws (LLM) from Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Born in Ado-Ekiti on December 9, 1947, Professor Oyebode hails from Ikole Ekiti.
He was the Vice Chancellor of Ekiti State University (formerly University of Ado Ekiti, UNAD) and currently a Professor of International Law and Jurisprudence at the University of Lagos.

Call any iPod intellectual to meet this consummate egg head, if they will not be nuked. Best things Iife are often free.

He is a quota system professor. He should be sacked.

hornyofife:
This the free education Afonja professor who is calling for war in place of self determination...

This is the same professor who campaigned for Buharis as against Jonathan, which has led Nigeria to its present problems.

my problem with these people is,why are they are always worked up when issues about injustices against the igbos and the deltans brought up at the national discuss.

This is the same man that so hated Jonathan and you begin to wonder why? The man cant even hide his bigotry and stupidity...afonja are truly the problem of Nigeria.

One thing i can bet Nigeria is, if the igbos are provoked to a war, Nigeria will not have its way like before and Nigeria will not survive it. This 2017 and not 1967. With more population meaning more foot soldiers, more educated people, a strong and influential diaspora and with the power and era of social media...Nigeria should thread with caution....


In the final analysis, all i can see is jealousy...These buffons are just jealous of NK, but they can do less because NK has divine support


shame on Afonja intellectuals, they are all cowards. That is why the less qualified keep ruling them and they cant challenge it..

Who knows prof Oyebode? He is just seeking relevance riding on NK's back.
Lie lie professor.

Dumaknesset:



Call any iPod intellectual to meet this consummate egg head, if they will not be nuked. Best things Iife are often free.

Didn't you hear that the source of his argument is a thesis researched by an Igbo professor even though he read the thesis upside down.

potent5:

Didn't you hear that that source of his argument is a thesis written by an Igbo professor even though he read the thesis upside down.

Have you read the thesis, tell how you know it was read upside down.

lagos born n bred...u make ppl like us proud.u dnt need to be a nigerian to be a lagosian

Afonjas are worst than the devil

No wonder their ancestor was cast out of heaven

Chai Oyebode cheapening himself, using his Prof title to hustle

Such intellectual dishonesty makes it almost impossible to ever take him serious again. Shame...

Who is surprised he is an Afonja? No matter highly placed they are, even afonja medical doctors, one thing is common...They all think about Igbos/Biafraa 24/7. Gives them sleepless nights!

Professor of savagery! Fight or kip kwaiet in PJ 's voice. Bloodied lips.

free education is not always the best approach to some certain level.

We are not afraid of war. .Nigeria army that runs from Boko Haram boys ..and Niger delta bombs

Hi Tit, what an usual name for a lady.

Dumaknesset:



Have you read the thesis, tell how you know it was read upside down.

Because he misrepresented the usefulness of referendum. He claimed referendum is only necessary when a colony decides whether to stay colonized or be independent. But you and I know that Nigeria and other African countries did not have to do any referendum to gain independence.

Again events clearly show that the opposite of Oyebode's position is the case. Eg Scotland, Brexit, Catalonia, etc. These countries have resorted to referendum in recent times to decide whether to be break away or not.

potent5:
Because he misrepresented the usefulness of referendum. He claimed referendum is only necessary when a colony decides whether to stay colonized or be independent. But you and I know that Nigeria and other African countries did not have to do any referendum to gain independence.

Again events clearly show that the opposite of Oyebode's position is the case. Eg Scotland, Brexit, Catalonia, etc. These countries have resorted to referendum in recent times to decide whether to be break away or not.

Is there a clause on referendum within the Nigerian constitution? If you believe there is, then kindly cite it here, quoting the relevant sections. Prof. Oyebode has just told you guys, the position of the Nigerian law as it is, with respect to the UN clause on self-determination, not the position of the law as it ought to be. And you are still here comparing Scotland, Brexit, Catalonia etc., with the Nigerian situation. Scotland has provisions for referendum in its laws, Nigeria does not! Your focus should be how to get your own international law experts and constitutional lawyers to give you advice on how to insert a clause on referendum into the current constitution!

potent5:

Because he misrepresented the usefulness of referendum. He claimed referendum is only necessary when a colony decides whether to stay colonized or be independent. But you and I know that Nigeria and other African countries did not have to do any referendum to gain independence.

Again events clearly show that the opposite of Oyebode's position is the case. Eg Scotland, Brexit, Catalonia, etc. These countries have resorted to referendum in recent times to decide whether to be break away or not.

you people's problem is hate. inability to listen to opposing views. you dont know the depth of that interview. trust me. just keep to shouting afonja. its the best your brain can come up with right now.

hornyofife:
This the free education Afonja professor who is calling for war in place of self determination...

This is the same professor who campaigned for Buharis as against Jonathan, which has led Nigeria to its present problems.

my problem with these people is,why are they are always worked up when issues about injustices against the igbos and the deltans are brought up at the national discuss.

This is the same man that so hated Jonathan to the extent that you begin to wonder why? The man cant even hide his bigotry and stupidity...afonja are truly the problem of Nigeria.

this is the same mindset that let obasanjo to massacre innocent children and women in odi

One thing i can bet Nigeria is, if the igbos are provoked to a war, Nigeria will not have its way like before and Nigeria will not survive it. This 2017 and not 1967. With more population meaning more foot soldiers, more educated people, a strong and influential diaspora and with the power and era of social media...Nigeria should thread with caution....

In the final analysis, all i can see is jealousy...These buffoons are just jealous of NK, but they can do less because NK has divine support

shame on Afonja intellectuals, they are all cowards. That is why the less educated and qualified keep ruling them and the country keeps going backwards and these intellectual idiots cant challenge or speak out..

bro, before you say i'm yoruba that is why im supportting someone but i am not. However, what caught my eyes is the below........

One thing i can bet Nigeria is, if the igbos are provoked to a war, Nigeria will not have its way like before and Nigeria will not survive it.

So you think NIgeria is selling groundnut in the UN abi? These days, allies fight war and not just the countries involve. In both, both parties suffer loss but i still see Nigeria having an edge. Britain will forever fight alongside Nigeria. Usa and Britain are brothers and Isreal can't even involve despite biafrans claiming to be jews because Israel and the USA are like brothers. China has very good relatiosnhip and bi-lateral trade with Nigeria and i doubt they will fight against her. Nigeria have very good relationship with most European nations. That leaves us with Russia among the world power. In the African union, Nigeria is like their father and west Africans will fight with her. This is not 1967 o! Today world na padi, padi. what you said is just based on asumption but me don give you fact and majority of this allies will either fight, supply weapon and military intelligence. There is even no way igbos can out number the entire Nigeria. they can't out number hausas alone sef. Majority of the soldiers today are hausa and are trained. How many soldiers can igbo produce? This is not village wrestling o! In the NIgerian Army, hausa, yoruba, edo, calabar, benue etc indigenes are there and they will fight together. How can Igbo now out number Nigeria? you sabi exagerate.

The disapora you claim are under U.S and British government aren't they? bro look, lets not wish for war because the out come is something nobody can tell.

cheers.

By the way i'm from Delta (Anioma) and i believe in a unity Nigeria even though every tribe have their issue. our leaders are the problem we have. look at kanu today, he is a leader but his approach is beating the drum of war. no wisdom.

laudate:


Is there a clause on referendum within the Nigerian constitution? If you believe there is, then kindly cite it here, quoting the relevant sections. Prof. Oyebode has just told you guys, the position of the Nigerian law as it is, with respect to the UN clause on self-determination, not the position of the law as it ought to be. And you are still here comparing Scotland, Brexit, Catalonia etc., with the Nigerian situation. Scotland has provisions for referendum in its laws, Nigeria does not! Your focus should be how to get your own international law experts and constitutional lawyers to give you advice on how to insert a clause on referendum into the current constitution!

You sound like a lawyer, my friend, though one bereft of sound knowledge of international law in contradiction to domestic legal instruments. Make further findings so you can know the reach of basic human rights and discover if domestic legislative deficit can be a ground to rob it its due expression.

The case of Abacha v. Fawehimi; Nigeria v. Cameroun will give you some insight. Happy reading.

Was it not this same idiocrat that was insulting GEJ in an afonja gathering?

Let me check for the video

potent5:
You sound like a lawyer, my friend, though one bereft of sound knowledge of international law in contradiction to domestic legal instruments. Make further findings so you can know the reach of basic human rights and discover if domestic legislative deficit can be a ground to rob it its due expression.

The case of Abacha v. Fawehimi; Nigeria v. Cameroun will give you some insight. Happy reading.

Sir, you are the one bereft of sound knowledge of international law. You chaps are insulting the professor for telling you the law as it is, if the UN clause on self-determination is reviewed within the context of the Nigerian constitution. Are you aware there is also a UN article that recognises sovereignty and territorial integrity? If you go to a Nigerian court today, to file a case asking for self-determination based on the UN Charter, how do you think the judge would rule?

Go back & study the ICJ ruling on the Nigeria vs. Cameroun case before you come in here to start misyarning. Did the Bakassi people of South Cameroun go to the court asking for self-determination? Gowon had ceded the portion of Bakassi that was in contention to Cameroun when he was Head of State, so from boundary delineation, colonial maps and the agreement Gowon made earlier, the ICJ ruled in favour of Cameroun. Documents released by the Camerounians, also clearly placed Bakassi under Cameroonian Territory as a consequence of colonial era Anglo-German agreements. Get your facts straight! :

Please go and read the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People. It contains several articles that are in favour of the Indigenous People and their rights. But in Article 46, that same declaration includes a caveat:

Article 46 - | United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples |
1. Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, people, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act contrary to the Charter of the United Nations or construed as authorizing or encouraging any action which would dismember or impair, totally or in part, the territorial integrity or political unity of sovereign and independent States. http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/DRIPS_en.pdf

hornyofife:
This the free education Afonja professor who is calling for war in place of self determination...

This is the same professor who campaigned for Buharis as against Jonathan, which has led Nigeria to its present problems.

my problem with these people is,why are they are always worked up when issues about injustices against the igbos and the deltans are brought up at the national discuss.

This is the same man that so hated Jonathan to the extent that you begin to wonder why? The man cant even hide his bigotry and stupidity...afonja are truly the problem of Nigeria.

this is the same mindset that let obasanjo to massacre innocent children and women in odi

One thing i can bet Nigeria is, if the igbos are provoked to a war, Nigeria will not have its way like before and Nigeria will not survive it. This 2017 and not 1967. With more population meaning more foot soldiers, more educated people, a strong and influential diaspora and with the power and era of social media...Nigeria should thread with caution....

In the final analysis, all i can see is jealousy...These buffoons are just jealous of NK, but they can do less because NK has divine support

shame on Afonja intellectuals, they are all cowards. That is why the less educated and qualified keep ruling them and the country keeps going backwards and these intellectual idiots cant challenge or speak out..

Ojukwu is a coward

The professor has made valid points just because some people don't want to hear his words don't mean he is wrong, he has dared ipob to the challenge, the evidence is out there for everyone to listen, the only sane thing ipob should do is give it a shot, dare the will of the armed forces, & be met with 'shock & awe' because u cannot declare an entity in itself, with the hate & strife Kanu has built up, I hope he remains in the south east, & doesn't reserve the right to go to other parts of the country.

laribari:


bro, before you say i'm yoruba that is why im supportting someone but i am not. However, what caught my eyes is the below........

One thing i can bet Nigeria is, if the igbos are provoked to a war, Nigeria will not have its way like before and Nigeria will not survive it.

So you think NIgeria is selling groundnut in the UN abi? These days, allies fight war and not just the countries involve. In both, both parties suffer loss but i still see Nigeria having an edge. Britain will forever fight alongside Nigeria. Usa and Britain are brothers and Isreal can't even involve despite biafrans claiming to be jews because Israel and the USA are like brothers. China has very good relatiosnhip and bi-lateral trade with Nigeria and i doubt they will fight against her. Nigeria have very good relationship with most European nations. That leaves us with Russia among the world power. In the African union, Nigeria is like their father and west Africans will fight with her. This is not 1967 o! Today world na padi, padi. what you said is just based on asumption but me don give you fact and majority of this allies will either fight, supply weapon and military intelligence. There is even no way igbos can out number the entire Nigeria. they can't out number hausas alone sef. Majority of the soldiers today are hausa and are trained. How many soldiers can igbo produce? This is not village wrestling o! In the NIgerian Army, hausa, yoruba, edo, calabar, benue etc indigenes are there and they will fight together. How can Igbo now out number Nigeria? you sabi exagerate.

The disapora you claim are under U.S and British government aren't they? bro look, lets not wish for war because the out come is something nobody can tell.

cheers.

By the way i'm from Delta (Anioma) and i believe in a unity Nigeria even though every tribe have their issue. our leaders are the problem we have. look at kanu today, he is a leader but his approach is beating the drum of war. no wisdom.

Your too sensible to reply people like that
I've had this same argument instilling knowledge, sharing fact but same mfs come back to write the same thing


They believe they are above everybody else

Some even claimed nk has purchased nukes

How is it that a Professor of Law does not know anything about self determination?

How is it that he does not know that Nigeria is signatory to to the UN and African charter of self determination?

He is rather telling Kanu to go to war

Funny thing is that it is charlatants like these that some people look up to

attackgat:
How is it that a Professor of Law does not know anything about self determination?

How is it that he does not know that Nigeria is signatory to to the UN and African charter of self determination?

He is rather telling Kanu to go to war

Funny thing is that it is charlatants like these that some people look up to

What exactly does that UN Charter say? And what precise section of the UN Charter are you referring to? Please go and read the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, as well. It contains several articles that are in favour of the Indigenous People and their rights. But in Article 46, that same declaration includes a caveat:

Article 46 - | United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples |
1. Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, people, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act contrary to the Charter of the United Nations or construed as authorizing or encouraging any action which would dismember or impair, totally or in part, the territorial integrity or political unity of sovereign and independent States. http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/DRIPS_en.pdf

Don't forget that Nigeria is a sovereign and independent state or country.

Dumaknesset:
Professor Akin Oyebode is an interviewer’s delight and much more. A natural teacher who measures his success by the success of his products in the marketplace of life, STEPHEN UBIMAGO writes that the more Oyebodes of this world there are, the better for the country…
At the Faculty of Law of the University of Lagos, where he teaches Jurisprudence and International Law, the revered Professor Akin Oyebode not only evokes the image of a consummate intellectual with his bouncy hoary hair, brilliant command of the language, excellent lecture delivery, poise and all; he is also for all this greatly admired and loved by students and the faculty alike.
Thus, one could easily sense the satiation his students exude even from a distance, as it is not hard to tell its source: a sense of privilege from being taught and mentored by such a seasoned legal scholar, for whom other law faculties are willing and ready to trade their legs and arms to acquire.
Indeed, the University boasts one of the largest law faculties (teaching staff of professors and lecturers) in Nigeria, however in conversations among themselves, a student’s indication like, “I have Prof’s class today,” require no further explication as to who the curt appellation of “Prof” referred to.
Not many are aware however that part of the influences that molded him and imbued the accomplished academic with his unmistakable urbaneness and élan is the fact that he is a also the product of a middle-class background.
In an interview, he gave this indication thusly: “If you lived in the GRAs under colonialism, you don’t need anyone to tell you the type of upbringing that I had. With the friends I had, there was no serious challenge. I had all the things that young people of my type were supposed to have.
“I had good atmosphere. I enjoyed riding bicycles, playing with toys, watching cartoons, solving puzzles, painting with crayons and everything that I wanted. At that time, we lived ‘Sheltered life’. It was a different lifestyle for children who lived in the GRA. We were all of middle class potentials.
“We had television and telephone when it was introduced in Nigeria. I went to school with people from Southern Police College, Shogunle, Maboju village and from GRA.
“I don’t know what the GRA looks like now. I think it is a different thing now. In our time, there were no walls unlike now that GRA is surrounded with walls. What we had then were hedges with people’s names written on the gates of the house.
“I believe nobody will be bold enough to do that now. We just had gardens, courts, gardeners, hedges well trimmed and properly taken care of and that was the GRA of the 50s. I remember the first time, an all-night party was held in Ikoyi at late Justice Agoro’s residence and people were gassed.
“We used to have Public Works Department, PWD that changed our bulbs regularly. All the colonial structures were built for white people. The few African families that were living in the GRA were grudgingly tolerated.
“There were special shops including Kingsway in the GRA. The Europeans had their Lagos Country Club which admitted only the Europeans. The Lagos Country Club then was located in what is now called Murtala Mohammed Airport.
“My family was among the few African families who lived a sheltered and protected life during the colonial era. Those who lived in these special areas had quality of life which was superior then. I have the most fascinating experience as a child. And growing up was fun.”
Oyebode is a professor of professors; a natural teacher for whom teaching is the end-all-and-be-all, a profession for which there is no match.
Having taught Law for over 40 years, most of which period was spent in Unilag, he indicated that he derives his fulfillment from watching his products ride the tide of happy exploits in the legal profession.
He explained thus: “When I came to University of Lagos, I didn’t give it a second thought to choose an academic for a profession.
“I see my success in the success of my students. I have taught over 20 Judges in Lagos State. Some of them are in the Court of Appeal, while others have either been Governors or Deputy Governors.
“There was a time I counted seven Attorneys General in this country that have passed through my class. For me, this is enough satisfaction.”
Professors Taiwo Osipitan, Imran Smith, Amos Utuama, among others are all of the Faculty; they’ve all taken silk as Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN) too.
Interestingly, they’d been Oyebode’s students at the Faculty. But Prof has no enthusiasm to take silk. He says he is very contented being an academic and attaining the apogee of his career as professor.
His students have often recalled how he’d habitually interjected his lecturers with riling excoriation of the institution of SANship and about how his former students who could make his elevation to the rank easily happen had practically begged him to apply for it so they could act as facilitators. He’d however politely declined with, “thank you” for their gratuitous solicitation.
He stated in this connection that “Some people proposed that I should become a Senior Advocate of Nigeria but I opted out.
“I don’t know what I need a SAN for. I studied hard as a professor. Professorship is the highest level of attainment in a University. Every other thing is in-between, be it a head of a department, dean or vice chancellor.
“After serving as a vice chancellor, I came back to teach. I am totally fulfilled in the job that I do. I don’t try to please anyone because I feel a sense of absolute freedom and fulfillment when I’m doing what I love doing.
“I’ve never done anything outside the academic world except when I was a radio broadcaster after my Form Six. I’ve been in the academic world either as a teacher or as a manager.”
Prof. Oyebode has never hidden his vivacious love for Unilag. Aside from the fact that he did cut his academic teeth in the University and grew to become a professor of Law in the institution, Unilag also produced the woman who later became his wife. Interestingly, too, many of his children are products of the institution.
According to him, “My wife studied in the University of Lagos but I didn’t know her then until her National Youth Service Corps, NYSC year.
“We met on a blind date and it was just a relationship made in heaven. God enabled us to come together. I met a woman who shared my pan-Africanism as well as my radical socialist sentiments and we have been married for 33 years.”
Oyebode’s may have shed much of his socialist proclivity but like old habits that die hard, he still espouses its vestiges, a tell-tale of his university training in defunct Soviet Russia.
He explains: “I was inspired to be an academic by one of my professors in Kiev State University, Kiev, Ukraine who become a member of the International Law Commission.
“He taught me to be dedicated and diligent to work. So, I thought it will be wise to emulate such a dedicated lecturer.
“My first three years were frustrating in the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos. I was not given a subject to teach. My colleagues thought all I knew was guerrilla warfare but after a while, I was allowed to teach.
“It was a funny scenario but it’s no longer the case with graduate Soviet Institutions of Economy. I was the first Soviet trained lawyer to be appointed into an academic position in any Nigerian University.
“And as a pioneer, there was a price to pay. For instance, I was denied admission to the Nigerian Law School for sixteen years because no graduate of Soviet Institutions would be admitted to the Nigerian Law School.
“But, my friend, Jelili Omotola, fought a human battle to ensure that those of us who had taught Law for at least five years could be allowed into the Law School.
“At that time, I had a ten years experience as a lecturer. That is why I have only 20 years post-call experience. I was called to the bar in 1991.
“Another challenge was getting a doctorate. I never thought that I needed a doctorate but my friend, Jelili Omotola advised me to pursue my doctorate degree.
“He said, PhD is another qualification, for without an ultimate qualification, there is certainty that people will doubt one’s competence despite one’s brilliancy.
Omotola convinced me that there is nothing to be compared with a PhD. So, I thought it wise to go to Toronto in 1981 to pursue a doctorate in Law, after obtaining a Master of Laws (LLM) from Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Born in Ado-Ekiti on December 9, 1947, Professor Oyebode hails from Ikole Ekiti.
He was the Vice Chancellor of Ekiti State University (formerly University of Ado Ekiti, UNAD) and currently a Professor of International Law and Jurisprudence at the University of Lagos.

There is nothing good about Nigeria including silly and so-called Professor Akin Oyebode. The question I like to ask the so-called Professor Akin Oyebode is Nigeria a colonial master? What is vested interest of Nigeria in AlaIgbo and Biafra? The IPOB has every right under the Sun to part ways with Nigeria with even insinuation of war as the silly and so-called Professor Akin Oyebode seemed to suggest. What type of international law does this goofy professor teach? The absolute lack of sincerity in Niger-Area is the reason there exists agitation for Biafra.

Privileged to have interviewed him and studied under him a fascinating lecturer who is always ready to answer questions


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