Darui:
So because I dislike what he did in that pic, I must support the extreme opposite?
Now listen, do you know what it means to have a unmodernised leader? Just ask the poor almajiri everywhere.
The refusal of their leaders to modernize infrastructure,social and physical brought them where they are.
Me too would like to have a humble , modernized simple leader than greedy, corrupt idiots. We just disagree on what modernity, dignity mean. I am correct judging by the remains of the poor people he so well represented.
Btw, I do not agree he was an exceptional leader.

Leyelyzo:

So according to your myopic sense of reasoning, Tafawa Balewa is unmodernize? The man that spends a good years of his life abroad, schooled abroad, speaks good English, understand English life style and culture, travelled far and wide and meets with a large number of world leaders, is unmodernize because he sat on the floor with his children? What he did is called being proud of your own culture and norms.
Btw how modernize is your father?

Abubakar Balewa was born in Bauchi, the son of a Bageri Muslim district head in the Bauchi divisional district of Lere. He started early education at the Koranic School in Bauchi and like most of his contemporaries, he studied at the Katsina College for further education and soon acquired his teaching certificate. He returned to Bauchi to teach at the Bauchi Middle School. In 1944, along with a few learned teachers from the north, he was chosen to study abroad for a year at the University of London's Institute of Education. Upon returning to Nigeria, he became an Inspector of Schools for the colonial administration and later entered politics. He was elected in 1946, to the colony's Northern House of Assembly, and to the Legislative Assembly in 1947. As a legislator, he was a vocal advocate of the rights of northern Nigeria, and together with Alhaji Ahmadu Bello, who held the hereditary title of Sardauna of Sokoto, he founded the Northern People's Congress (NPC).

Leyelyzo:

So according to your myopic sense of reasoning, Tafawa Balewa is unmodernize? The man that spends a good years of his life abroad, schooled abroad, speaks good English, understand English life style and culture, travelled far and wide and meets with a large number of world leaders, is unmodernize because he sat on the floor with his children? What he did is called being proud of your own culture and norms.
Btw how modernize is your father?

ismhab:
His father is there licking ashawo's azz.

torkaka: leadership in nigeria started on the right footing till the infamous five majors and the indecisive ironsi(Igbos) scattered everything!

torkaka: leadership in nigeria started on the right footing till the infamous five majors and the indecisive ironsi scattered everything!

BIGER BOY: http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=video+of+Tafawa+balewa+visit+to+us&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CGIQtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DYT5m9Fn9RBg&ei=-S-tT6e7Icij6gHk67D_DA&usg=AFQjCNFW2nnhRQQaTyjJo4JXut1eYK_Mlw

Here is a link of his visit to the US. Compare the respect given to Nigerian then (without oil) and now. SMH

9jadelta:

did anybody watch this video?....men i dont think there will be any Nigerian president that will be so honored like this...i feel like crying..... God punish those that started the first coup and destabilize this nation

Darui: How is sitting on the floor dirtying your babariga simple and humble?
It is good and humble that he decided to spend his vacation in his village but not the sitting on the floor. Those sort of traditions then should have been frowned upon. Modernization was lacking in his mindset. Its the truth.

ismhab:
MAY GOD PUNISH IRONSI WITH HELL FIRE.

nagoma: In the same year 1963 the eldest son of the Prime Minister ( Baba A.T.Balewa) a form 3 student in Barewa College Zaria with his friends organized an independence anniversary party. ( 1st October 1963) in the school. The noisy boys went on until beyond bed time ( lights out). This was reported to the school authority and the boy Baba A.Tarawa Balewa, the son of a serving prime minister of Nigeria was expelled from the school. Balewa accepted this displine , without complain and would never undermine the authority of a secondary school principle.

But the same Balewa with the humble looks and simple ways of life(hic) was fraudulent and criminal enough to conspire with Akintola to organise the mass rigging of elections in the Western region in 1964 that saw Obafemi Awolowo loss out completely.The jan 1966 coup and the subsequent civil war was a testimony to tafawa balewa's misrule and incompetence


The boy was later on actually and I mean actually sponsored by some friends of Balewa ( not all of them were northerners) to a school in UK. ( all initial arrangement was done in secrecy so that the father would not block it).
Your blind hatred would not allow you to see humility and service , even in people who are no longer living.

Abegi, tell that to the birds jo! Blind hatred ke? Tafawa balewa was not fit for that job and he made a complete mess of the task involved and is why we are where we are today-still perambulating after 5 decades of self-rule!

owobokiri:

One moment you are lambasting Balewa/Sarduana for their warped policies while in government, the next moment its the turn of the 5 majors who tried ending Balewa/Sarduanas "northernisation" policy through a pustch that you riducle to no end on these pages. . You cant win it both ways you know? If Balewa was that bad, those who tried ending his terror especially in the western part of the country may have been motivated by good intentions. No? Pretty simple to see unless you view every issue with a tribal lens. .
@ Op, if you consider Balewa a humble man for rolling himself on a dirty dusty floor , what sayeth thee when Osama approaches from a cave wearing wooden sandals?

nagoma:

This is not true and if it was true it's not people like u that should complain. An Igbo prime minister would move his entire village to London.

nagoma: In the same year 1963 the eldest son of the Prime Minister ( Baba A.T.Balewa) a form 3 student in Barewa College Zaria with his friends organized an independence anniversary party. ( 1st October 1963) in the school. The noisy boys went on until beyond bed time ( lights out). This was reported to the school authority and the boy Baba A.Tarawa Balewa, the son of a serving prime minister of Nigeria was expelled from the school. Balewa accepted this displine , without complain and would never undermine the authority of a secondary school principle.
The boy was later on actually and I mean actually sponsored by some friends of Balewa ( not all of them were northerners) to a school in UK. ( all initial arrangement was done in secrecy so that the father would not block it).
Your blind hatred would not allow you to see humility and service , even in people who are no longer living.

ismhab:
MAY GOD PUNISH IRONSI WITH HELL FIRE.

zaboy: Islam teaches simplicity and modesty. Balewa was a devout muslim, hence the simplicity.

T9ksy:

My brother, two wrongs will never make a right. They were both WRONG. Balewa/sardunna govt wasn't a nigerian govt but rather a northern govt with policies being made to favour one region to the exclusion of all others. This was WRONG hence the western region went up in flames with hundreds of nigerians, albeit mainly yorubas killed.
The majors didn't have to kill anyone to correct this wrongdoing as there are more than one way to skin a cat. But when the coupist made it a point to murder leaders from other regions whilst sparing theirs then their wrongdoing was on par with those politicians and fellow army personnels (inc. their wives),they murdered. The coupists were just opportunists hiding behind the incompetence of the central govt to unleash their own sectional hegemonic ambition.

sir-p2007:
When are we going to learn to address issues without insult.
Why will somebody insult an entire tribe just because he/she disagree with that person`s view?
At times l wonder d kind of ppl we have here.Cant u just state ur opinion nd leave?
how l wish seun can check intending member`s IQ b4 been allowed to register here.