₦airaland Forum

The irony of it is that those that hated these men will end up hanging their pictures on the wall of their offices

Wow I joined this forum 2014 officially after many years as a guest and it has been a jolly and eventful experience. A big thanks to all the past and presence Moderators and the innovator himself Mr Seun Osewa for bringing this wonderful family together.

Though still need to put a strict measure on tribal bigots post and comment so as to bring sanity back to the forum.....


Once again, thanks for everything Mr Seun

This is the most useless post ever read.

It belong to trash 🗑

BurialGround:
Thief of staff to a thief.

Been laughing my ass out comrade...

Nairalanders are full of comics relief

Why some people are still contesting the winning, the winner is already setting up his team for the big task ahead

My suggestion is that Labour Party should transition from a normal Nigerian political Party to a REVOLUTIONARY Political Institution with a single mandate to Cause a Radical National Transformation in the country - nicknamed the Overhauling Party.

LP should study other R3VOLUTIONARY Political movements across the world and bring such level of politics to Nigeria.

The new LP senators and HOR members should not be "OH YES" Members in the National Assembly.

They should never get into that pressure of building toilets in their Constituencies... No. Legislators are not elected to build infrastructure but to hold the executive accountable, make laws and interface between the citizens and the government. They should focus on doing the job of a legislator and put pressure on the executive to build and maintain infrastructure.

Labour should have a functional Political Education Directorate - PED.
The political education directorate shall be responsible for indoctrinating new members with the ideologies of the party. Political ideology is lacking in Nigerian politics. People join the "winning party" or the one they think can win. Enough of that. Every member of Labour Party should go through LP's political school, subscribe to their political ideologies and be able to evangelize the same ideologies to others. Everything LP stands for including Manifestos should be established on the party's ideologies - not solely on candidates personal desires/ideas. Nobody should be allowed to run on the platform of LP until they have gone through the LP political foundation School.

The Labour Party should have huge control over its elected officials. If you win an election on the platform of LP, you cannot suddenly become more powerful than LP. The Party should charge a compulsory percentage of the salaries of her elected officials which should be paid into the party's account monthly.
This will discourage Political money gamblers from running on the party's platform.

And lastly, labour party should hold rallies quarterly - not just during election campaign seasons.
Labour Party should be seen on the streets campaigning for a better Nigeria, protesting against bad government and relating with the common Nigerian on the street. The chairman should do house to house visits once every week. It should be on his weekly routine to visit at least 5 Nigerian families every week, interact with them and document their experiences.

To be the game changer, Labour Party can no be just another BIG PARTY like PDP and APC... No. They should organise a Diaspora political interface where Nigerians in Diaspora can help shape politics in Nigeria for the benefit of Nigeria.

Labour Party can do so much starting from now until Peter Obi reclaims our mandate through the courts.

My name is Charles Awuzie and I always offer my 2 cents on National issues. Unfortunately APC is always the first to copy and implement my ideas. This is a sad reality I've observed over the years.

Lalasticlala

This is too tribalistic

Honestly. I am happy for casting my vote for Peter Obi, either he wins or not.

With Zero votes buying this election next will be a record

I vote for Peter Obi.

Unit 36

I just want new breed in Power

Na Tinubu send them to dispose the PVCs...
wait they will soon say that

The same Osinbajo una crucify and called all manners of names?

Even though I don’t support Tinubu candidacy but I don’t think he’s supporting Ekpa

We all know that he’s the best but Age is no longer friendly to him so he should step down and allow agile body to steer the affair of this nation

Obi’s mega rally is in Lagos
Obi’s mega residence is in Lagos
Obi’s mega business is in Lagos
Obi’s Fidelity Bank is headquartered in Lagos
Obi’s billions are in Panama, according to Pandora Papers

Yet, Obi and Obidients claim Peter Obi transformed Anambra. Then why does he not reside, rally and invest in Anambra?

Look at Tinubu. My only issue is that he is a known drug lord. Besides that, he built ports, railways, roads, bridges and industries. Most importantly, he also built individuals, who went on to be leaders in their own right. The man even built a whole new city from the scratch, from land reclaimed from the Ocean. Meanwhile, Peter Obi could not even reclaim land that was taken over by erosion in Anambra. And what does Obi even boast of as his signature achievement in Anambra? A failing beer brewery? Tufiakwa!

#TableShaker

Lalasticlala
Mynd44
Nlfpmod

Chai! See wetin I miss o... Who tell me make I leave Alaba today go do tatatata for Festac. What kpekus cannot do does not exist. Welcome Presido🙌

This is how you play politics not in violent and hateful way

Their problem is that they are so desperate to make statement in Lagos.. They really want BAT to loose in Lagos.................... my only concern is that they should allow eligible voters among them to cast their vote without any form of harassment

‘Between Peter Okoye & Seun Kuti’

Only one of these is an actual musician.
In the way music and musicians are rated, you have to have proficiency in at least one instrument. Otherwise, you may be more appropriately called a performer, or an entertainer.

In that sense, only one of the two men has been known to perform live on an instrument, even since childhood.
In particular, the globally acclaimed ensemble of other professional musicians, who had earlier played instruments for Fela, called Egypt 80, elected Seun Kuti as its bandleader, when he was just 14 years old.

I have had the good fortune, at several different times, to see P Square, the duo that includes Peter Okoye, and Seun Kuti, outside Nigeria.

I must confess, that the audiences that attend both types of events are different, one from the other.
I will not say much more than that.

What differentiates the two audiences may be the different ticket costs charged, hence the social class of those who may attend.
Elite venues are associated with one of these 2 artistes in particular, not the least, the premises of the Swedish committees for the Nobel Prize ceremonies.

One has observed that only one of these 2 artistes regularly graces such exclusive venues where people of rare and refined tastes adjudge what is music, and what is a little less.
And that artist is not, Peter Okoye.

In fact, in these sophisticated gatherings, patrons might be forgiven for believing only one of the two artists is a musician,
and the other mistaken for an aspiring mathematician probably seeking mentorship about finding square roots.

In 2019, Seun Anikulapo-Kuti was nominated in the ‘World Music Award’ category of the 61st Grammy Awards. As Grammy magic goes, he was not the winner: but he was a featured performer on the usually tight roster, and the only Nigerian artist to perform.

It is not known whether the Grammy organizers are aware that P Square or Peter Okoye exist. On the other hand, Seun Kuti’s current single African Dreams is already charting worldwide on at least 5 US & UK radio stations.

On a final note.
It has been alleged that Seun Kuti has fallen far from the footsteps of his father.
Nothing could be farther from the truth.
Unlike some other artists who only perform for politicians, the Kuti family perform against politicians.

They go one step further: the Kuti family is not collecting money from politicians, but spending money on politics.

Let’s go back 3 generations.

In 1944, Seun’s grandma, a sophisticated schoolteacher & businesswoman named Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti organized the first feminist political party: a group of 20000 young girls and women into the Abeokuta Women’s Union.
Under ruthless colonial rule, the new party challenged colonial rule, opposed price controls and imposition of direct taxation.
They engaged in press campaigns and mobilized public opinion.

By 1947, Seun’s grandma was arrested by the British forces as she led the Abeokuta Women’s Union in laying down plans for a systematic programme of mass protest.

Tear gassed and beaten, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti began teaching women how to protect themselves from the effects of tear gas and how long they had to throw the canisters back at the authorities.
Kuti’s fearlessness emboldened more women to join, and doubling her movement, Seun’s grandma led 50, 000 women to the palace of Alake of Egba, Oba Ademola, who was a colonial stooge.
She confronted the dreaded all-male Ogboni cult, and deposed the King.

By 1947, Ransome-Kuti had outlined the AWU’s aims and objectives in a document, called The AWU’s Grievances, one of the sub-headings in which was “Stripped Naked”.

Seun’s grandma often spoke to British district officials with the AWU slogan “no to taxation without representation”.
At the meetings, she would speak in the Yoruba language, leaving officials scrambling for an interpreter.
Under Ransome-Kuti’s leadership, the AWU snowballed into a more national Federation of Nigerian Women’s Union (NWU).

Then, Nnamdi Azikiwe of the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC), who would later become Nigeria’s first president, invited Ransome-Kuti to travel to Britain to meet the secretary of state, Sir Arthur Creech Jones.
She was the only woman in the seven-person delegation on board the Almanzora, which set sail from Lagos on June 26.

The British wanted voter suffrage to be a male-only affair, and their Executive Council was populated with British officials, excepting only one Nigerian, who was an unofficial member.
But under Kuti’s leadership, the right to vote, which we now take for granted, was expanded to women in the MacPherson Constitution, and to her credit, only applied in southern Nigeria.

Seun’s grandma was the only woman to deliberate on the proceedings at the provincial level of the General Constitutional Conference that produced the 1951 MacPherson Constitution.

On the eve of independence, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti stood in the primaries for a federal parliamentary seat and won, to the chagrin of the authorities.

She was later knocked out at the intermediary level by the controversial, northern dominated three-level electoral college.

She contested a second time but was thwarted by the NCNC party’s male dominated caucus.

Defiant, she quit the NCNC that same year and registered her own party, the Commoners’ People’s Party.

Following her prodigious footsteps, Funmilayo’s famous son Fela, formed his own political party, The Movement of the People, or M.O.P, in 1979.

Fela’s party was the first Nigerian left-wing pan-African political movement, rallying indigenous principles of Nkrumahism and Africanism. For Nigeria's first elections after the deadly civil war, the MOP nominated Fela as its candidate, with wide grassroots support, but the powers that be refused his candidature.

And, while some other artists sang songs from the comfort of their studios, the scion of the 100 year old Kuti tradition, Seun Kuti, recently revived MOP to support the Nigerian End SARS protests in October 2020.
Since then, Seun’s MOP has rallied both local and continental recognition, among its target population of ideological active youth, even allying with the similarly designed Economic Freedom Front (EFF) in South Africa.

This is a present day historical reality that people who talk what they can’t back up need to provide counter receipts for or take several seats and mind their music.

Seun Kuti puts his money and time where his mouth is, and where the mouth of every Kuti has been since his great grandfather Josiah Jesse Ransome Kuti, under Warner Music Group, became Nigeria's 1st Recorded Artiste in 1925,
or since his Uncle Professor Olikoye Ransome-Kuti publicly diagnosed the first case of HIV and AIDS in Nigeria, in a 13-year old girl in 1986,
and since his other uncle Dr Bekolari Ransome-Kuti, resisting military dictatorship, helped form Nigeria's first human rights organisation, the Campaign for Democracy, in 1993.

But Seun doesn’t rely any of these credits: he is easily recognized on a first name basis, even though as he himself said, there are thousands of other Seuns in his locality.
One seriously doubts whether the contender can lay solitary claim to the name Peter.

One has often been reminded that there are at least 3 Nigerians you mustn’t talk anyhow to: Daddy Freeze, Bobrisky and Seun Kuti.
Anyone who incites their ready answers will likely have themselves to blame, and retire in shame.

On the other hand, where Seun comes from, the revered cultural ideology of omoluabi demands us to engage debate with deep thought and ready answers.

To be Ọmọlúàbí means asserting Ọ̀rọ̀ Sísọ, that is, spoken word, the predilection for intelligent and expert use of language, as well as ọpọlọ pípé, or erudition as expressed by sharp wit.

The classy factor is how we are able to be witty without being rude, countering brash sentiment with factual point after factual point, unlike some others who actually have the word ‘rude’ in their brand as a moniker.

Intelligent rọ̀fọ̀rọ́fọ̀ is the hallmark of a true Kuti, and Seun has never fallen far from the oak, whence Grandma Funmilayo once clapped back at a sitting monarch:
“Aláké! for a long time you have used your penis as a mark of authority; you say that you are our husband.
Today we shall reverse the order and use our vagina to play the role of husband!”

Because I share the Kuti family preference for clear ideology and thorough consideration of difficult systemic issues, I am willing to concede that the Labour Party candidate is not ideologically distinct from the APCPDP class he seeks to replace.

Peter Obi is the least wasteful, and most prepared member of a long standing capitalist elite. I can tell what the standard for African politics ought to be, & still vote for him, as a practical bridge to a possible future where our politics has matured to take on structural changes & ideological positions.

Forever and ever one thing will distinguish Seun Kuti above any traducer:
Ideology.

Tried & tested, unwavering & consistent in a clime where the predominant brand of politics is bread & butter, volatile partisanship, dense machismo & hunger-exploiting sentiment.

When the one-dance wonder is ready with an enlightened answer, not one retrieved from the low vibrations & dizzy gyrations of their base chakra, let them bring it on, and return to the ring, intentionally, professionally, and personally.

Author: Ayo Adene

Lalasticlala
Mynd44

So you as a person common sense didn’t tell you that you can’t registered twice?

Is it INEC officials that will be bombarded with a lot of registrations that will have the luxury of time to be asking that?

You know our people has no tolerance, they want quick registration now....

SmartPolician:
I blame INEC for this.

I knew this was going to happen someday.

If someone comes to register, the first question they are meant to ask them is if they had registered somewhere before so that their details would be transferred.

Unfortunately, nobody asks probably because they intentionally want to disenfranchise people. It takes an enlightened Nigerian who listens to news all the time to know the difference between transfer and fresh registration.

Sadly, no matter the amount of violence anyone applies, it won't change anything. The law is clear - if you register twice, you won't get a PVC; it's as easy as ABC. INEC made that clear several times last year.

Why are these people not decamping to Labour Party?

Crowd like this means they have been bought according to some quarters but remain to remove ethnicity, padi padi, etc when voting

Good initiative

Hmmmm this is deep

We go bank to submit old notes, we go to the ATM and withdraw the same old notes🤣🤣🤣🤣 after placing 31st of this month as the deadline date. In mathematics, we called it simultaneous equation😎😎😎😎

In philosophy, we called it what goes round comes around😅😅😅😅😅

In accounting, we called it principle of double entry 😂😂😂😂😂

In economics, we called it point of equilibrium 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

In physics, we called it Newton's third law.😀😃😃😃 Action and reaction are equal and opposite😄😄😄😄😄

In chemistry, we called it chain reaction🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

In Christianity, we called it back to sender😈😈😈😈😈

In Nigeria, we call it expect the expected.🙄🙄🙄🙄

In pidgin, we called it nothing spoil😎😎😎🙈

God bless Nigeria!


Lalasticlala
Mynd44

Worthy is the Lamb!

Hallelujah

Can’t wait to see the outcome of the election

A New Nigeria Is Possible

Dangote, a pride of the Nation

Dey Play

Marking my birthday with FTC

To BIAFRANS...
Please read this and receive ancient wisdom...

AZIKIWE'S OPINION OF OJUKWU

"Yes. I played a prominent role in Biafra for the unity of the country in order to restore peace and bring about unity of the country. That’s the role I played. I advised Ojukwu. I said well look, you have declared secession. What we should do is to get the elder statesmen and women of the nation to reconcile you and Gowon. I said by declaring secession, you get so many people who do not believe you to remain there. You see all of us were interned. As we were interned then, we couldn’t express our own views as we see it because, he made Decree Number 5 which vested absolute powers in himself and if you were against his views, it then constituted an act of subversion and the penalty was death by shooting. Well, it was a war-time measure and that is understandable. So, I advised him. I said go to the conference table and iron out your differences. Allow elder statesmen and elder stateswomen to bring the two of you to the conference table and settle this matter so that there will no more be civil war and the country may be united. He agreed. But Gowon was advised by the Ministry of External Affairs to insist on pre-conditions. That is that before he could negotiate with the secessionists, that they must accept certain terms; accept the 12-state structure and all. So, it was quite obvious that the Federal Government wanted Biafra to come to the conference table with their hands tied and their feet tied. But they won’t be free agents. That was the diplomatic mistake on the part of the Federal Government. So, when they did that, then Lt- Col. Ojukwu told me, “How can I go to the conference table based on these ultimatums?”
Still I advised Ojukwu to go to the OAU and ask them to use their good offices to settle the dispute and that we should avoid loss of lives. He accepted my advice in good faith. Then he said, ‘Now, you have some heads of state in Africa who are your friends, would you mind going to appeal to them to use their good offices so that the Nigerian civil war could be an item on the agenda for OAU summit in Kinshasa?’ I said I would gladly go. So he sent me to Monrovia as a peace envoy. I went there and met my friend, President Tubman. Tubman expressed his willingness to use his good offices. He told me he would see another mutual friend, the late Haile Sellassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, and both of them would see that the civil war was placed as first item on the agenda of the OAU Summit in Kinshasa.
I returned and broke the news to Ojukwu. He was very pleased. Then, when the OAU summit opened, Chief Awolowo, as Vice-Chairman of the Federal Executive Council and Commissioner for Finance, led a strong Nigerian delegation to Kinshasa and raised a very strong objective on the Nigerian civil war being placed as an item on the agenda on the grounds that according to the OAU Charter, this was a domestic affairs and member states were precluded from interfering in the domestic affairs of each other, which was really sound according to international law. But we wanted to solve it in the African way, to use mediation and conciliation to bring two warring brothers together.
The OAU accepted the submission of Chief Awolowo and so it was not put into the agenda. Well, history will show now between Chief Awolowo and myself, who actually accentuated the war. I was trying to get the OAU to settle the dispute so they could go to the conference table and he was thinking of legalism, that it would amount to interference in the domestic affairs of a member-state. But meanwhile here you have two brothers killing each other.

Well, Ojukwu told me, I have done my best. You see, Nigeria was relying on law and we are relying on humanity. What’s next? I said why not try other heads of states and see what could be done to bring about peace? He then said he left the initiative with me. I suggested going to some heads of state and see what can be done. But his advisers led by Dr. Nwakama Okoro suggested recognition. That if we can get other states to recognize Biafra, maybe the hands of Nigeria may be forced to go to the conference table.
Well, I thought that was a sound idea and I placed my services at their disposal so as to meet my friends. We had in mind President Senghor of Senegal, President Houphouet Boigny of Ivory Coast, President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, President Milton Obote of Uganda, President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia and of course Francois Bongo, he is now Omar. He now has become a Muslim. He was then a Christian. The long and short of it all was that I and these great African statesmen agreed that if Gowon persisted with pre-conditions, then they would accord recognition to force the hands of Gowon to go to the conference table and bring about peace. That was one.

Two, Gowon had already predicted that the war would end on March 31 and as far as these African statesmen were concerned, these killings and atrocities did not do any credit to the image of Africa and as such what should be done was to stop it as soon as possible. Therefore if the war didn’t end by March 31, then the propaganda of ‘Biafra’ that it was an act of genocide would be justified. And they didn’t want to accept that.
I went on this mission and succeeded in persuading these heads of state to agree to give recognition just to force the hands of Nigeria, diplomatically speaking, to the conference table.
President Senghor said he couldn’t because the majority of his supporters were Muslims and rightly or wrongly they felt it was a religious war. And he said well, if he granted recognition, then his government would fall. But he supported the idea of forcing the hands of Nigeria to the conference table. Houphouet Boigny was prepared, provided his people backed him. Ditto for the others except Milton Obote who told us that Prince Mutesa and the Bagandans wanted to secede and he couldn’t support secession when his own state was confronted with similar problems. It left four of them. That is, President Nyerere, Houphouet Boigny, Kaunda and Bongo. They agreed on the understanding that the war did not end by March 31, 1968 and pre-conditions would be removed to make it easy for both Ojukwu and Gowon to go to conference table.
So they granted recognition and it worked like magic because immediately after this, Dr. Okoi Arikpo, who must be presumed to be responsible for this diplomatic blunder (he was the Commissioner for External Affairs]---a good man no doubt, but he is a very poor diplomat in my own humble opinion - announced to the outside world that Nigeria would no longer insist on pre-conditions and that he was prepared for conference table but the war did not end on March 31 and so, they left the impression, you see, that Nigeria wanted to annihilate the Ibos. You noticed the Soviets gave Nigeria more arms and Nigeria used those arms to destroy the secessionists. Here, I came in again and I advised Ojukwu. I said look since Gowon has withdrawn the pre-conditions, go to the conference table and argue the points so as to pave way for a peace conference. It was agreed that they should meet in Niamey. I advised Ojukwu to go. Again Gowon was ill-advised so he couldn’t come.
At Niamey here was Ojukwu. I was on his side. Gowon wasn’t there but Haile Sellassie, Hamani Diori, Tubman and General Akran were there representing OAU. So, I told Ojukwu, I said now you have an upper hand. These respected leaders of the OAU were there. I had briefed Ojukwu. I said ‘look your line of approach is to express appreciation for what the OAU was doing in order to maintain peace in Africa but you were prepared to co-operate and you are leaving the whole matter in the hands of the OAU to see what could be done to bring an earlier cessation of hostilities. I said just say that and thank them and sit down.
Now Gowon didn’t attend. He sent a junior man, I think Alhaji Femi Okunnu or so, to represent him. And they didn’t even attend this conference at which the four heads of state presided. It was only the Biafran side. So Ojukwu won a diplomatic victory and you know Ojukwu is a very good speaker if you give him all the facts. He was a good public relations expert and he won. He said, ‘well if Gowon was sincere why did he spite such great men and didn’t attend?’ That worked.
They agreed that Nigeria could be contacted so that we have a peace conference in Addis Ababa. It was a diplomatic victory for Biafra and so we returned to Biafra highly elated. And Ojukwu insisted that I should accompany him to Addis Ababa.

Then something happened. Some of his advisers felt that I was becoming a victim of compromise and that I was a bad influence. That all I was trying to do was to make Biafra impotent. They told Ojukwu that Biafra was holding its own militarily. And why should we want a peace conference? That he should be very, very careful with me, especially as an Onitsha man because they thought that I was using him as a means to give publicity for myself internationally and that time will come when people will look more to me than to himself.
Well, as a young man, human, he fell for such flattery. I don’t want to mention all the names, but particularly influential in swinging his opinion at that material time was Mr. C. C. Mojekwu, who was based in Lisbon. Then Mr. Matthew Mbu was our Commissioner for External Affairs and he himself did as much as possible, but then he realized that he was having someone who has power of life and death over everybody. So, we went to Addis Ababa and on the night before the conference, Matthew came to my bedroom at about 10 in the night. He said, “Do you know that all we have done, this man is going to undo them tomorrow?’ I said ‘No’. Then he brought out a printed version of a long speech. The world press said it lasted for 90 minutes.

He [Ojukwu] went back on everything we discussed. He attacked the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union - all the nations of the world and the OAU, and said that they were misleading us and that the sovereignty of ‘Biafra’ was not negotiable. We went to the conference. I sat next to him. I thought that he was going to speak in accordance with the spirit of Niamey. But he spoke for 90 minutes and he just got the whole place upside down.

Naturally Tony Enahoro - he led the Nigerian delegation - replied in kind and so we were back to square one. So, when we returned, I advised him. I told him that I was surprised at what he did but it was not late. He said, ‘The sovereignty of Biafra is not negotiable and if anybody should try to compromise that sovereignty, then it will be an act of subversion.’ Well, that was quite clear to me so I said, ‘Your Excellency, you still have Port Harcourt and you can still bargain from position of strength - after all, the main issue in the civil war is oil and they say that in international politics, oil is combustible and as you have a combustible situation you can begin from the position of strength’. He said, ‘No, Port Harcourt is impregnable.’ ‘Very well, Your Excellency,’ I said. I went back to Nekede where I had been in protective custody since February, 1968. Two weeks later, Port Harcourt fell.
He sent for me. I said, ‘Well, Your Excellency, I did warn you. You cannot now negotiate from a position of strength but having received recognition from four states, we can still use them to see what we can do to appeal to the outside world.’ He said, ‘Very well, I think you should go to the United Nations to seek for recognition.’ I said, ‘Your Excellency, let us wait until after OAU summit in Algiers and find out what Africa thinks.’ In the meantime, I went to Tunisia to see my friend Habeeb Bourguiba of Tunisia. He wasn’t quite well, so we moved from Carthage to Hermit where he stayed. Ojukwu had always said the civil war would be won on the battlefield and not on the conference table, and Bourguiba didn’t take kindly to that. He said don’t you people advise this young man? I explained to him that I have done everything I could to advise him, but he insists on going to the battle field.
So we crossed our fingers awaiting the verdict of Algiers. You know it was decided by 33 to 4 in favour of Nigeria. I advised Ojukwu that to go to the United Nations to seek recognition would be unrealistic since Africa had decided by 33 to 4 in favour of Nigeria. I said Nigerian envoys, the Nigerian delegations, would just percolate the membership of the United Nations and they would frown at the whole thing. He insisted. I was then in Paris. I wrote him a letter. I said, ‘Since you refuse to go to the conference table to negotiate for peace, since you prefer that the civil war should end on the battle field and not on the conference table; since you said that the sovereignty of Biafra is not negotiable, I am afraid I cannot continue as a peace envoy because you have destroyed all the vestiges of any optimism for peace. Therefore I am relieving myself of my services as a peace envoy. I cannot continue as a peace envoy. I cannot continue as a peace envoy because you have let me down. You left me under the impression that if I succeeded in getting recognition you will go to the conference table. You got four recognitions; you did not go to the conference table. I am therefore going to London on exile.’
I went to London in voluntary exile and the British government granted me asylum. I do not see how anybody could say that I ran away from my country. I crossed the Atlantic 46 times, trying to negotiate with various heads of state so that they could grant recognition or make OAU to settle the dispute. How could the head of state turn round now and accuse all those who were politicians in pre-1966 and post-1966 as being responsible for the downfall of the republic? I did my best to preserve the unity of Nigeria and also to preserve the lives of old men, able-bodied men and women and children but I failed. What could I do? I went on free exile and they keep saying that I was among those responsible for the downfall of the republic. I plead not guilty".
Excerpts from the interview he granted to New Nigerian Newspapers, 1979, as Presidential aspirant under the platform of Nigerian People's Party."

Me: Please share this. History should not repeat itself.

Copied from Charles Awuzie Facebook page

Lalasticlala
Mynd44

Ahead of this year’s Soundcity MVP award scheduled to take place in Lagos on February 11, the show organisers have announced the nominee list and the Nigerian music industry was duly represented. Nigerian Grammy award winner Burna Boy had the highest number of nominations which was eight in total.
He was nominated in the ‘African Artiste of the Year’, ‘Listener’s Choice’, ‘Viewer’s Choice’, ‘Digital Artiste of the Year’, ‘Best Male MVP’, and ‘Song of the Year’ categories. He was also nominated twice in the ‘Best Collaboration Category’ for his feature Second Sermon by Black Sheriff and Sungba remix by Asake.

See the full list below

BEST NEW MVP
1. VICTONY (NG)
2. AYRA STARR (NG)
3. YOUNG JONN (NG)
4. SEYI VYBEZ (NG)
5. FAVE (NG)
6. RUGER (NG)
7. BLACK SHERIF (GH)
8. COSTA TITCH (SA)
9. PHINA (TZ)
10. WAKADINALI (KE)

AFRICAN ARTIST OF THE YEAR
1. BURNA BOY (NG)
2. WIZKID (NG)
3. DIAMOND PLATNUMZ (TZ)
4. KIDI (GH)
5. MSAKI (SA)
6. ASAKE (NG)
7. REMA (NG)
8. KIZZ DANIEL (NG)
9. TEMZ (NG)
10. ZUCHU (TZ)

BEST COLLABORATION
1. PHEELZ & BNXN FKA BUJU – FINESSE (NG)
2. FIREBOY & ED SHEERAN – PERU (REMIX) (NG)
3. BLACK SHERIF & BURNABOY – SECOND SERMON (GH)
4. CAMIDOH – SUGARCANE (REMIX) FT. MAYORKUN, KING PROMISE & DARKOO (GH)
5. COSTA TITCH – BIG FLEXA FT. C’BUDA M, ALFA KAT, BANABA DES, SDIDA & MAN T (SA)
6. ASAKE – SUNGBA (REMIX) FT. BURNA BOY (NG)
7. KIZZ DANIEL & TEKNO – BUGA (NG)
8. DALIWONGA – ABO MVELO FT. MELLOW & SLEAZY (SA)
9. MAYORKUN & VICTONY – HOLY FATHER (NG)
10. MAVIN ALL STARS (NG)

BEST HIP-HOP
1. BLACK SHERIF – KWAKU THE TRAVELLER (GH)
2. BLAQBONEZ – BACK IN UNI (NG)
3. M.I – THE GUY (NG)
4. KALIGRAPH (OG) JONES X DAX – HIROSHIMA
5. NASTY C & AKA – LEMONS TO LEMONADES (SA)
6. PSYCHO YP – BANDO DIARIES FT. ODUMODU BLVCK (NG)
7. LADIPOE – RUNNING FT. FIREBOY (NG)
8. WAKADINALI – GERI INENGI FT. SIR BWOY (KE)
9. CHYN – HOSANNA FT. FXTUNE (NG)
10. VECTOR – CLOWNS FT. LADI POE (NG)

LISTENER’S CHOICE
1. OXLADE – KU LO SA (NG)
2. KIZZ DANIEL & TEKNO – BUGA (NG)
3. BURNA BOY – LAST LAST (NG)
4. CH’CCO & MELLOW & SLEAZY – NKAO TEMPELA (SA)
5. DALIWONGA – ABO MVELO FT. MELLOW & SLEAZY (SA)
6. REMA – CALM DOWN (NG)
7. MAVIN ALL STARS (NG)
8. CAMIDOH – SUGARCANE (REMIX) FT. MAYORKUN, DARKOO & KING PROMISE (GH)
9. BLACK SHERIF – KWAKU THE TRAVELER (GH)
10. PATORANKING – KOLO KOLO FT. DIAMOND PLATNUMZ

VIEWERS CHOICE
1. ASAKE – PBUY (NG)
2. TIMAYA – COLD OUTSIDE FT. BNXN FKA BUJU (NG)
3. KIZZ DANIEL & TEKNO – BUGA (NG)
4. COSTA TITCH – BIG FLEXA FT. C’BUDA M, ALFA KAT, BANABA DES, SDIDA & MAN T (SA)
5. KIDI – TOUCH IT (GH)
6. BURNA BOY – LAST LAST (NG)
7. REMA – CALM DOWN (NG)
8. CAMIDOH – SUGARCANE (REMIX) FT. MAYORKUN, DARKOO & KING PROMISE (GH)
9. BLACK SHERIF – KWAKU THE TRAVELER (GH)
10. AYRA STARR – RUSH (NG)

DIGITAL ARTIST OF THE YEAR
1. CKAY (NG)
2. WIZKID (NG)
3. REMA (NG)
4. BURNA BOY (NG)
5. DAVIDO (NG)
6. DIAMOND PLATNUMZ (TZ)
7. OMAH LAY (NG)
8. 1DA BANTON (NG)
9. ZUCHU (TZ)
10. TEMS (NG) AFRICAN

DJ OF THE YEAR
1. DJ TARIQO (MZ)
2. DJ OBI (NG)
3. DJ TUNEZ (NG)
3. DJ BIG N (NG)
4. UNCLE WAFFLES (SA)
5. DJ MAPHORISA (SA)
6. DJ DIPS (NG)
7. BLACK COFFEE (SA)
8. DJ VYRUSKY (GH)
9. DJ 4KERTY (NG)

BEST MALE MVP
1. BURNA BOY (NG)
2. WIZKID (NG)
3. ASAKE (NG)
4. DAVIDO (NG)
5. DIAMOND PLATNUMZ (TN)
6. FOCALISTIC (SA)
7. KIDI (GH)
8. OMAH LAY (NG)
9. REMA (NG)
10. KING PROMISE (GH)

BEST FEMALE MVP
1. TEMS (NG)
2. AYRA STARR (NG)
3. GYAKIE (GH)
4. TIWA SAVAGE (NG)
5. BOOHLE (SA)
6. NINIOLA (NG)
7. NKOSAZANA DAUGHTER (SA)
8. TYLA (SA)
9. ZUCHU (TZ)
10. MSAKI (SA)

AFRICAN PRODUCER OF THE YEAR
1. BLAISEBEATZ (BIG FLEXA)
2. ANDRE VIBEZ (CALM DOWN)
3. MAGICSTICKS (ORGANISE)
4. PHEELZ (FINESSE)
5. NIPHKEYZ (I’M A MESS)
6. TEMPOE (SOWETO)
7. REWARDBEATZ (XTRACOOL)
8. CHOPSTIX (LAST LAST)
9. P.PRIME (WOMAN)
10. S2KIZZY (KWIKWI)

BEST GROUP OR DUO
1. BLAQ DIAMOND (SA)
2. SHOW DEM CAMP (NG)
3. AJEBO HUSTLERS (NG)
4. MAJOR LEAGUE DJZ (SA)
5. CAVEMEN (NG)
6. MELLOW & SLEEZY (SA)
7. DOPENATION (GH)
8. BURUKLYN BOYZ (KE)
9. YABABULUKU BOYZ (MZ)
10. NSG (UK, GHANA & NIGERIA)

BEST POP
1. FIREBOY – PERU (REMIX) FT. ED SHEERAN (NG)
2. REMA – CALM DOWN (NG)
3. YOUNG JONN – XTRA COOL (NG)
4. KIDI – TOUCH IT (GH)
5. DIAMOND PLATNUMZ – MTASUBIRI FT. ZUCHU (TZ)
6. RUGER - DIOR (NG)
7. OMAH LAY – WOMAN (NG)
8. AYRA STARR - RUSH (NG)
9. CRAYON – IJO LABA LABA (NG)
10. LASMID – FRIDAY NIGHT (GH)

SONG OF THE YEAR
1. OMAH LAY – I’M A MESS (NG)
2. OXLADE – KU LO SA (NG)
3. WANITWA MOS, MASTER KG & LOWSHEEN – SOFA SILAHLANE FT. NKOSAZANA DAUGHTER (SA)
4. BIEN X AARON RIMBUI – MBWE MBWE (KE) 5. BURNA BOY – LAST LAST (NG)
6. CAMIDOH – SUGARCANE REMIX FT. MAYORKUN, KING PROMISE & DARKOO (GH)
7. KIZZ DANIEL & TEKNO – BUGA (NG)
8. ASAKE – ORGANISE (NG)
9. ZAKES BANTWINI X KASANGO – OSAMA (SA) 10. MAYORKUN & VICTONY – HOLY FATHER (NG)

VIDEO OF THE YEAR
1. REMA – CALM DOWN (NG)
2. FIREBOY X ASAKE – BANDANA (NG)
3. COSTA TITCH – BIG FLEXA FT. C’BUDA M, ALFA KAT, BANABA DES, SDIDA & MAN T (SA)
4. ASAKE – PBUY (NG)
5. CAMIDOH – SUGARCANE REMIX FT. MAYORKUN, KING PROMISE & DARKOO (GH)
6. KIZZ DANIEL & TEKNO – BUGA (NG)
7. ZAKES BANTWINI X KASANGO – OSAMA (SA) 8. DIAMOND PLATNUMZ – MTASUBIRI FT. ZUCHU (TZ)
9. BLAQBONEZ – BACK IN UNI (NG)
10. OMAH LAY – SOSO (NG)



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Peter Obi President will surely give a breath of fresh air and hope to Nigerians