maj007:


The most intelligent and eloquent Nigerian leader so far.

He was nicknamed THE GOLDEN VOICE OF AFRICE.

Check online for his speeches.

What makes him the most intelligent leader?
Operation wetie??

FakeUnity:


He was a teacher and was taught by the British just like all the first genetation nigerians like Zik, Awo, Nzeogwu, Ojukwu, Bello, etc.

They are all had very nice English accent unlike truant and illiterate buhari and his incoherent fulani accent.

I once read a book by Ojukwu my dad owned. I had to make use of a dictionary otherwise I would not have made it past the first five pages.

EmptyGarden:
Chai! Aboki na Aboki!
Funny how no one seem to care.

because no be beer or spirit an, if not ba

ibietela2:


Go and study your history you will know. Start with WHY WE STRUCK

Bros I probably read that before u grew up (1985) and it never gave any reason worthy of killing these men,it was youthful exuberance

Smart Man. He is flanked by Jaja Wachuku and TOS Benson.

BizzBizz:
A viral throwback video shows the moment Former Nigeria's President, Sir Shehu Shagari Lights up a cigarette while Nigeria's first and only Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is addressing an audience


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpX2f4qBszc

owobokiri:
The Prime Minister sounded very intelligent tho..

Wisdom is the principal thing....

bolayei:

Oga Christians smoke too

Christians never said smoking and drinking Alcohol is HARAM.. Muslims did

bolayei:
This man was worth being PM. He didn't deserve to be killed.

His government enabled the platform that led to chaos and many deaths in the Western region!

Mikecold:
Is cigarettes not supposed to be Haram to Muslims?


Is it not morally unrighteous as an habit?

Is it not an intoxicant/stimulant that changes ones behavioral pattern?

Is it not primarily a western culture?

Does it not harm the health of a smoker?


So why do Muslims feel cool with cigarettes but condenm alcohol

Religious Hypocrisy!

amuwo1980:

Bros I probably read that before u grew up (1985) and it never gave any reason worthy of killing these men,it was youthful exuberance

Then you didn't read it properly, read it again.
Ok 1985 born.

RiceProducers:


Not necessarily intelligent. Good diction. Good basic and secondary education. English secondary school teachers

cos na northerner myopic dingbats

Beancounter93:


The January 1966 coup was not an ibo coup.

Infact Nzeogwu who was not the leader of the coup but the main face was more culturally Hausa than ibo

More like a leftist coup organised by idealists. Of the five one was Yoruba. It is thanks to the Yoruba guy that we have a detailed account of the aims of the coup.

And did you also read ...Why they struck... by a Northern Author as well? Writers most often wrote from their own point of view. So one has to be very careful before drawing any conclusion for objectivity.

FarahAideed:


Well cigarettes on it's own can't cause cancer but that's another discuss for another day

My dear it can, I know what I am saying. Theirs a reason why every cigarette says every young smoker is laible to die young. Tobacco smoke contains a deadly mix of more than 7,000 chemicals. Hundreds are toxic. About 70 are known to cause cancer.

FreeStuffsNG:
They were intellectuals who are well grounded and brilliant, teaching job those days is more prestigious than today and the teaching jobs were taken by smart people like them for strategic reasons.

Imagine these leaders, especially Sardauna, getting our neighbouring countries then as far back early 60s when we were barely a republic o, to agree not to dam the River Niger so we can build ours and these countries, they all signed up to it!. This is a task current day Ethiopia could not achieve with Egypt and Sudan that it's been taken to UN with Egypt threatening grave repercussions if Ethiopia still plans to fill the grand renaissance dam in Ethiopia with water from the blue Nile river.

Below's a textbook authored by late Shehu Shagari but most people don't know that these guys are intellectuals as well . How many teachers those days or present day politicians like Sowore et al write textbooks for students? Yet the same late Shehu Shagari smoking in the video wrote probably more than one educational textbook and published, this one below is a textbook on Geography and History of Nigeria in Verse that was published just after Nigeria's civil war.
https://www.abebooks.com/signed/Wakar-Nijeriya-Shehu-Shagari-Jean-Boyd/30804939786/bd

Our heroes past shall not be in vain. God bless Nigeria.

they just assumed a northerner is good for nothing...

EmptyGarden:
Chai! Aboki na Aboki!
Funny how no one seem to care.

Funny or sad
Is that why we are always borrowing money and everything else from the whites and now the chinkos?

HenryDion:
He sounded intelligent, coherent, and exercised great mental and emotional understanding of the discuss at hand.

Sad the good ones had to be assassinated, leaving us with dumb looters.

Hmmm... I wonder why the good ones were killed and yet, people like buhari were left behind to rule this country again.
It is a national calamity for someone like buhari who ruled my grandfather when I was not born to still rule me now... not that he did anything special for Nigeria as a military head of state.

owobokiri:
The Prime Minister sounded very intelligent tho..

There must be a reason why sound is not the same as works.

seguno2:


There must be a reason why sound is not the same as works.

I feel you.?

bolayei:
This man was worth being PM. He didn't deserve to be killed.

but igbo aguiyi ironsi Johnson killed him and turned the country into a unitary system of government

HenryDion:
He sounded intelligent, coherent, and exercised great mental and emotional understanding of the discuss at hand.

Sad the good ones had to be assassinated, leaving us with dumb looters.

If he was so good, please why would he surround himself with buffoonss like Shagari lighting a cigarette while he is talking

Sholaco:
but igbo aguiyi ironsi Johnson killed him and turned the country into a unitary system of government

Was it Aguiyi-Ironsi or the five Majors that included Yorubas

Carlyscales:

Nope

Alcohol instead!

including marijuana sativa

bolayei:
This man was worth being PM. He didn't deserve to be killed.

u are right but I don't really know why ifeajuna and co had to kill him

Saifullah01:

Abeg how do you "dislike" a comment?

Dude was right. They have nothing upstairs and are only after spending of oil p4oceeds to impress. All of them practised witchcraft economics.

BizzBizz:
A viral throwback video shows the moment Former Nigeria's President, Sir Shehu Shagari Lights up a cigarette while Nigeria's first and only Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is addressing an audience


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpX2f4qBszc

Truly, everyone is coloured. Black is colour and so is white. And I shouldn't feel bad or inferior cos someone says I am coloured. We are all coloured one way or another. I am black and I super proud of my colour.

Are you proud of your colour?

FreeStuffsNG:
As at then, public smoking is normal and permitted. In fact, the most popular ads on Tv and Radio then were by Tobacco companies. You will hear on radio ads like "Cigar Target o!Na wa!".
But a lot has changed now so much that even cigarette packs now carry warnings that you are liable to die from smoking. Late President Shehu Shagari at that age, is not different from most of his age mates then ,he was probably in his late 20s or early 30s in the video and he's still looking charismatic. So it's not a big issue.

The late Prime Minister's clearly brilliant and knowledgeable about the subject he is talking on as this was a big issue then to discuss because of the civil rights movement in the US , so here he's throwing Nigeria's big national pride and international clout against racism considered then such sensitive international debate. Wow!! No one will believe he is the leader of a country that was barely 5 years old with such aura and authority of power & influence he was oozing ; he went as far as stating categorically what he told the US political leaders while in Washington against racism. His diction and command of English is topnotch and his trademark baritone voice is so Presidential and reminds me of the voice of late Dr. Martin Luther King.

Up till now, I still wonder why this man and others like Chief SL Akintola and Premier Sardauna Alhaji Ahmadu Bello had to be assassinated. Unlike their peers in other regions who lived long enough to reproduce more of their followers, these two Leaders of Northern extraction were killed in their prime and did not live to do that for the North and till date, sets the North back so much that they are yet to recover. May we never experience such calamitous national loss again. God bless Nigeria. Our heroes past shall not be in vain. @ OP , thank you for sharing this.

Yeah that's why the north and the west will never trust that particular tribe

FreeStuffsNG:
As at then, public smoking is normal and permitted. In fact, the most popular ads on Tv and Radio then were by Tobacco companies. You will hear on radio ads like "Cigar Target o!Na wa!".
But a lot has changed now so much that even cigarette packs now carry warnings that you are liable to die from smoking. Late President Shehu Shagari at that age, is not different from most of his age mates then ,he was probably in his late 20s or early 30s in the video and he's still looking charismatic. So it's not a big issue.

The late Prime Minister's clearly brilliant and knowledgeable about the subject he is talking on as this was a big issue then to discuss because of the civil rights movement in the US , so here he's throwing Nigeria's big national pride and international clout against racism considered then such sensitive international debate. Wow!! No one will believe he is the leader of a country that was barely 5 years old with such aura and authority of power & influence he was oozing ; he went as far as stating categorically what he told the US political leaders while in Washington against racism. His diction and command of English is topnotch and his trademark baritone voice is so Presidential and reminds me of the voice of late Dr. Martin Luther King.

Up till now, I still wonder why this man and others like Chief SL Akintola and Premier Sardauna Alhaji Ahmadu Bello had to be assassinated. Unlike their peers in other regions who lived long enough to reproduce more of their followers, these two Leaders of Northern extraction were killed in their prime and did not live to do that for the North and till date, sets the North back so much that they are yet to recover. May we never experience such calamitous national loss again. God bless Nigeria. Our heroes past shall not be in vain. @ OP , thank you for sharing this.

]His government enabled the platform that led to chaos and many deaths in the Western region!
His government kept shifting the legal goalpost in order to falsely convict and jail Awolowo.
Their actions seriously undermined Nigeria's young democracy.
P.S. The situation in the country now is a terrible multiple of the corruption and impunity in the first republic....The Lord's judgement will also come swiftly in this generation!

Mikecold:
Is cigarettes not supposed to be Haram to Muslims?


Is it not morally unrighteous as an habit?

Is it not an intoxicant/stimulant that changes ones behavioral pattern?

Is it not primarily a western culture?

Does it not harm the health of a smoker?


So why do Muslims feel cool with cigarettes but condenm alcohol

Anythjng the Koran doesnt go against is a goal

StreetFight:


Sebi the betrayer died with his accomplices.

I have said it severally, traitors and betrayers die miserably

As if you already know how you also will die abi? Be always objective in your view as you don't know tomorrow. I wish you all the best in life.

bolayei:
This man was worth being PM. He didn't deserve to be killed.

Then who does?

owobokiri:
The Prime Minister sounded very intelligent tho..

yes, he was. I like his accent too

heniford2:
All of them have nothing upstairs

Lol... Did you hear the PM speak? Learn to STFU sometimes man