JasonScoolari:
Truckload of bullshit coming from the Vice President of Strippers.

Humility017:


Obi is business guru...
I am not surprised to read osibanjo write up...I even shared it on Facebook...he is a lawyer.
lawyers are known to be good fiction writers.

but comparing him to Obi is suicidal...because when it comes to business and managing economy...Obi will surely floor him....

for someone who have managed numerous businesses and a commercial bank and investment firm...like futureview securities etc...with numerous degrees in harvard and other English business school...
abeg talk wetin go enter ear
Obi is a renowed technocrat

franchasng:
The Love Story of a Midget That Found Love in Royal Palace - written by Midget Prof Osinbandele

How I Fell in Love with a Midget - by Awolowo's granddaughter

How the lying midget lied his way into the heart of a rich man's daughter and also lied his way into Nigeria's presidency! - an undercover story by Jarfaru Jarfaru

The story of a lying lawyer turned Pastor cum Vice President, shocking revelations

"Dinning with The Pharisees: The Political Journey of a Midget Pastor and The Unholy Devils" - by Killian Presty

I loved these books and documentaries, get a copy and read to know more about Osinbajo

Lordofthewest:
Hehehe

Hotfreezer:


Young boys in Nairaland importation section have done better than Obi in business with the little resources they have.

Osinbajo as AG of Lagos personally supervised the rewriting of the Laws of Lagos. The FG copied the law verbatim and it became the laws of Nigeria. Just an AG of a state o!

The blockheads supporting Obituary can't mention a single achievement of Obi. Ask them and they'll be telling you that Obi saved money. Money that wasn't earned but was dashed by the FG. Meanwhile, Anambra pays less than the present 18k as minimum wage o!

Obi is an uninspiring, unintelligent trader brought to rule a state of illiterate traders. He can't give a speech like this in the presence of literary geniuses like Soyinka, he'll simply run mad.

sholatech:
Why I don't agree with prof on his current political association and comments, I must still admit he is brilliant!

buhariguy:
Is this kind of fiction and fantasy that make the jobless aggressive lazy idiotic pigs of bia-fra terrorist are confusingly thief atikulating.

Opinionated:


So much hate. The man says it is fiction and you are still dragging issues.

chuckjonesbaba:


Lol! And yet he is a CEO of banks and other financial firms. Wow!

Opinionated:


So much hate. The man says it is fiction and you are still dragging issues.

Hotfreezer:


He was the Chairman not CEO of a tier-3 bank. Any idiot can function in that capacity.

Opinionated:

By Professor Yemi Osinbajo SAN

When I was 10 years old, there was a girl in my class who I was quite certain at the time that I could give my life. So I wrote her a lovely poem over a weekend; I wrote the poem on Friday and finished it on Saturday. And it was, if I may say so myself, a work of sheer genius. It ended with the dramatic words; “your warm embrace may be the last desire of my heart before I die!”

I tucked it in my school bag and looked forward with a heart filled with love for Monday, to present to the object of my affections.

My mum, while cleaning out the bag, found the letter, and all hell broke loose. Needless to say, she beat the poetic genius out of me that terrible afternoon.

But that’s not the end of the story. True love as you know, will survive even the worst brutality. So, I bore my injuries as a worthy suffering for my beloved. On Monday morning, I found the best opportunity to give her a freshly written version of the poem. I turned away as she took the letter, I didn’t want to behold the sheer pleasure as she read it, but as I turned around, I noticed that she had actually handed the poem over to the teacher and she was pointing at me!

While my physical bruises have healed from that experience, from as you can imagine, what happened with the teacher, my capacity for writing romantic poetry had been greatly diminished.

Fantastical Futures is the audaciously inspirational theme of this iteration of the Ake Arts & Book Festival. Why do we in today’s world, dare to hope for a future so fantastic that it is described as fantastical? The reason it is, if I may offer one, is that there is for those who have cast this great vision; Lola, her friends and collaborators, they’ve have not allowed their vision to be beclouded by the cataracts of discouragement that so easily beset us. Two of those cataracts to our vision are worthy of mention.

The first is a disdain for introspection, which has just come over time, that capacity for deep thought, and making that the basis of planning and action. It is a disdain for introspection that causes our elite to spend or embezzle all the cash and opportunities of the present and make it the burden of a leaner future to pay for our corruption and carelessness.

A failure to interrogate the past, coupled with a reluctance to explain the benefit of deferring gratification. Is the creative sometimes, unable to stick to a cause because it may no longer be popular?

Niyi Osundare, the poet I’m sure we’re all familiar with, captures this elite inability to defer gratification in the provocative poem titled “Eating Tomorrow’s Yam”.

And I quote a portion of it, he said: “There is only one left in the village barn, the prodigal calls for a knife ‘what shall we eat tomorrow’, the people ask, ‘if we finish all the yam today just how shall we feel when the dunghill has relieved stomachs of their improvident burden? And says the prodigal: ‘tomorrow will take care of itself, how can we know the next day if we die of hunger today?”

The recursive one step forward two steps backwards of our histories, especially in Africa, has caused Prof. Tanure Ojaide, and I’m sure you’re all familiar with him as well, in his angry style, to ask “What poets do our leaders read?”

Again, Tanure Ojaide in his poem, “No longer our country”, remonstrates, and I quote him; “We have lost it, a country we were born into, we can now sing dirges of the commonwealth only of yesterday. We have a country that is no longer our own.”

But even he, that is Ojaide, will agree that men and women, not spirits build societies. Which leads me to the second cataract that blurs our vision. Imagine the failure to recognize the responsibility of the individual, especially the gifted individual.

Does the artist have a responsibility to society beyond that of the ordinary citizen? Is there a civic tax payable on talent? Does the fact of your genius place upon you, a moral burden to attempt to use the powerful voice of your art to fight for the soul of the land, especially to fight for the soul of the land from whence you came?

To take moral positions, are you by virtue of your intellect and creativity a moral agent? Or are you not? Can you or not be neutral? Can you be politically neutral? Can you in the face of so much that needs to be done, poverty, deprivation, and injustice, stay politically neutral? Can Africa afford to have its best talents wearing halos of political innocence and saying “let us leave politics to the scoundrels?”

There is a growing impatience of the deprived millions of our people with the elite, which includes all of us in this room; the bombs tied to the 11-year-old body of Safiaru a malnourished girl, who has never been to school, cannot distinguish between a lawyer like Yemi Osinbajo or a writer like Molara Wood. The bomb does not discriminate!

Two things

Earlier this year, the government established the Technology and Creativity Sector Working Group: a policy committee of Federal Government Ministers and Heads of Agencies with Creatives, Tech and Entertainment business owners.

The group meets to work on policy, including rules and regulations regularly. So, we do have now, a policy group, who takes into account the sorts of views that Creatives may want especially in formulating policy and that is so for persons of technology as well. So, I think there is plenty of room for expression, especially the way we want to see policies shaped that could affect our Creatives and could affect those involved in technology.

The last thing, did you enjoy the story I told earlier? It was fiction. I wish us all a fantastical future!

Source: Read Vice President Osinbajo’s Love Story that has People Talking