₦airaland Forum

sweetjohn:
Just save this in the innermost part of your brain, Awolowo can never ever be in thesame shoe with Zik of Africa. When I went to Ghana 2010, those guys knows Zik of Africa very well and that's how they refer him as 'Zik of Africa'. I doubt if they know Awolowo. Cos I ask them which Nigerian did they know they mention Zik of Africa, Chinwe Achebe, funny enough they mention Obasanjo and Babangida. None of them, I repeat none of them mention Awolowo. Zik of Africa is a popular name in the continent.

technicallyrich:
Abeg which Yoruba that are in Delta State,abeg face your brOm roof and leave ss and se alone.
Mind you cowardd,I am an ijaw man.

Tmb78:
His mother is Yoruba

sweetjohn:
You are a big foo.l. The fact you are comparing an exconvict with almighty Zik of Africa beat my imagination. You are one of those people that cheat their way through exams right. Zik was the first president of Nigeria. The reason Nigeria is one today. Pls, tell me who is Awolowo again?

Taye4j:
Thanks for that write-up. I've tried to restrain myself every time but their level of hatred is just disgusting and if we don't give it back to them every time, they will change the narrative and think they are wise. That is why I have decided to judiciously use 2020 mostly on this platform giving it to them as e dey hot

sweetjohn:
My friend he is correct. Zik was known as Zik of Africa all over Africa. My friend go to ordinary neighbouring country like Benin and mention Awolowo, nobody will know if that name exist. Awolowo is only a popular name in SW

FuckThaMod:
You are very correct.. Foreigners no longer enjoy Nigerian movies since the time that useless tribe became more involved in nollywood.The fools are trying so hard to copy western style.. it's not like they even copied the actions from oyibo very well. They think its by that their wack cinematography and Speaking irritating phonetics. If they can't copy effectively then let's remain with our village style of movies. Afterall that's what gave us worldwide recognition in the first place.. All over Africa they know osuofia, they know aki and pawpaw. Who know bolanle niniowo or whatever?
They just scattered everything... Later they will be accusing others of inferiority complex.

FuckThaMod:
Mugu.. If they aren't why then do your amala states allow them to represent the states?

afroxyz:
Azikiwe never hated Awolowo. And the same Awolowo was pursuing a Yoruba agenda while Zik was chasing a nationalist one. Even when the Igbos said let us fight the Hausas and form.our country, Awolowo only taught of his selfish ambition. Even Zik did not support Ojukwu. And you are ranting about igbo domination. The fulani that told you Igbos wanted to dominate where are they Now? Are they not ravaging your lands in an attempt to dip the Koran into the Atlantic ocean? Your ethnic sentiments are beclouding your sense of reasoning.

FuckThaMod:
Is it our fault our women are more beautiful and brainy than the rest of the tribes?
Personally i get very angry when i see my tribe's women representing disgusting regions like that South West

Mbilla:
When you travel all most all the countries in Africa. Igbo culture, Igbo greetings like Igwe(king), Igbo movies industry ( Nollywood) and Igbo gospel music is all that you will see and hear on their TVs and radios station. Flavor song Ada Ada is a national anthem to Ghanaians , Kenyan etc weddings.

Crayonforest:
My dear Igbo brothers let us kiss the truth for once, Yorubas are ahead of us in the movies industry. Their story lines are pwerful and their cast knows how to interprete their role. Even though I don't understand nor speak Yoruba but through subtitle I love watching their films. Please my fellow Igbo Brothers, it is no doubt that we are the founding fathers of Nollywood but let us go back to the drawing board and up our game.

afroxyz:
This is what happens when history is not taught in schools. He wanted to rule? Did he not have the right to contest as a Nigerian? Was it not Awolowo and his cohorts that bungled his ambition and sowed the seeds for tribalism. Besides when he was contesting in the West, Philip Effiong was in the east and almost won. It's because of your myopic thinking that you guys were not able to decipher Azikwe's level of thinking. Because while being a nationalist, the rat poison drinker was spreading tribalism with Ahmadu Bello. That's why Africa always remembers Azikiwe and only Yorubas remember Awolowo.

dignity33:
The only thing I will said that igbo fail to know in Nigeria is tribalism, put Hausa or Yoruba in charge of anything only what you will see is there brothers but igbos failed to know this . Since Nigeria existence igbo has being fighting for one Nigeria but Yoruba and Hausa are fighting for there tribe that is why they see igbos as not being political sophisticated because they only vote for there tribe, it started back from Awolowo time.

gwafaeziokwu:
You are really a disappointment. Oya read and be educated.



How NADECO was formed, by Osoba
July 3, 2019



Elder statesman and veteran journalist Aremo Olusegun Osoba, has reflected on the formation of the umbrella pro-democracy organisation, the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), saying that members of the group made enormous sacrifices for democracy.

He said the die-hard democratic fighters took a risk by rubbing shoulders with the dreadful dictator Head of State Gen. Sani Abacha, who he said, oppressed, intimidated, repressed and molested members of the organisation.

Osoba told the story of NADECO’s emergence and its titanic struggle for the revalidation of the annulled presidential election won by candidate of the defunct Social Democratic Party (SDP), the late Chief Moshood Abiola, in his 341-page memoir: ‘Battlelines: Adventures in Journalism and Politics,’ published by Diamond Publications Limited. The book will be presented to the public next Monday as part of activities marking his 80th birthday in Lagos.



The former two-time Ogun State governor recalled that as pro-democracy forces mobilised against the Abacha regime, it was realised that there was no united front or an umbrella organisation to coordinate the onslaught.

He said before NADECO was formed, he operated in a small group with former Anambra State Governor Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, his Edo State counterpart, Chief John Oyegun and Dr. Doyin Okupe, former national secretary of the defunct National Republican Convention (NRC).

Osoba noted that Abacha security goons were monitoring the activities of the pro-democracy and civil rights groups all over the country, particularly in the southwest.

He said the pro-democracy agitations climaxed when Abiola returned from the inauguration of South African President Nelson Mandela, where he reportedly received a hero’s welcome, to the embarrassment of the Nigerian delegation, led by Gen. Abacha.

Osoba recalled: “The major organization that emerged in this period, which helped to shape the anti-military and pro-democracy movement, was the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO). NADECO was roughly a product of another organization, which existed before the June 12 crisis. This was the Committee for Unity and Understanding (CUU). The overriding motive of CUU was the campaign for power shift from the North to the South.



“It was started not long after the Babangida transition-to-civil-rule programme started. Founders and key members of the CUU included Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu, Chief Sam Mbakwe, Mr. Ayo Opadokun, Chief Edward Kobani, Chief Lulu Briggs, Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe, Alhaji Abdulazeez Ude, Ambassador Tanko Yusuf and General Theophilus Danjuma.

“However, when the June 12 election was annulled, the CUU, in conjunction with such groups as the Movement for National Reformation (MNR), led by Chief Anthony Enahoro, Egbe Ilosiwaju Yoruba, led by General Adeyinka Adebayo, Afenifere, led by Chief Michael Ajasin, the Progressive Alliance for Justice and Unity (PAJU), Justice Forum and National Patriotic Front (NPF) and several other pro-democracy and human rights groups like Beko Ransome Kuti’s Campaign for Democracy came together to form NADECO in General Adeyinka Adebayo’s house, GRA, Ikeja.”

Osoba also recalled that, on May 15, 1994, the old school principal, First Republic federal parliamentarian, last President of Egbe Omo Oduduwa, and Second Republic governor of old Ondo State, Pa Ajasin, emerged as the leader of the new group, which now included politicians and activists from 49 groups, who were committed to the validation of the June 12 presidential election results.

He said the 49 signatories to NADECO treaty were: Chief Michael Adekunle Ajasin, Mallam Lawal Dambazzau, Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe, Chief Anthony Enahoro, Major General Adeyinka Adebayo (rtd.), Chief Bola Ige, Commodore Dan Suleiman, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, Prof. Anya O. Anya, Col. Yohanna Madaki, Rev. Fr. Moses Adasu, Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti, Rev. Tunji Adebiyi, Chief Ade Ojo, Chief Ralph Obioha, Chief Empire Kanu, Chief Michael Anyiam, Dr. Sola Soile, Vice Admiral Akin Aduwo, Chief E. Duru, Mr. Nick Dazzang, Mr. Labaran Maku, Dr. A. A. Akingba, Mr. Babas Eko Oyekanmi, Mr. Alex Ayatolla, Mrs. Sarah Jubril, and Alhaji Ganiyu Dawodu.

Others were Mr. O. P. Edodo, Mr. A. Barber, Otunba Olabiyi Durojaiye, Chief Olusegun Osoba, Chief John Odige-Oyegun, Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi, Alhaji Mohammed Siraj Hamza, Dr. Wahab Dosunmu, Otunba Aboyade Cole, Major General Olufemi Olutoye (rtd), Chief Sobo Sowemimo, Dr. Steve Achema, Chief Olaniwun Ajayi, Chief Olu Falae, Brigadier-General Jonah Jang, Chief Abraham Adesanya, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, Mr. Alao Aka-Bashorun, Mr. Emmanuel Njiwah, Chief Vincent Nwizugbo and Dr. Uma Eleazu.”

Osoba said NADECO later invited Abiola to a meeting where he was asked to confirm if he was ready to actualise his mandate and lead the struggle.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain said, following the formation of NADECO, he was arrested by the police, adding that he called the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) correspondent on his mobile phone to announce it to the world.

Narrating his ordeal in detention, Osoba said: “My arrest which was immediately relayed live on the BBC Radio World Service as I was being driven to the Police Headquarters in Kam Salem House, Lagos where I would be detained. The security agents were everywhere looking for other NADECO leaders to arrest.

“The man in charge of my interrogation was one Auta, a deputy commissioner of police. I was left in very humiliating condition in a large, rat-infested office where about twenty policemen had their desks. Once the policemen closed for the day, the big rodents took over. A combination of four desks served as my orthopaedic bed.

“However, I was lucky that one of the commissioners of police at Kam Salem House, then Prince Rilwan Babatunde Akiolu, who later became the Oba of Lagos, gave me the key to his office and asked me to sleep there every night. I was grateful for this but was apprehensive that I could put Akiolu in trouble if found to be aiding and abetting an “enemy” of the regime. He asked me not to worry. I also used his office phone to contact my colleagues in the struggle.

“Later, Commodore Dan Suleiman and I were charged to court for forming an “illegal organization called National Democratic Coalition (NADECO).” Interesting enough, the man who led our defence in court was Chief Abraham Adesanya, himself a leading member of that ‘illegal organization.’ Others like Chief Enahoro and Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti of the Campaign for Democracy were also arrested. Former Governors Bola Ige and Balarabe Musa were also detained with us briefly.

“Justice Tajudeen Odunowo eventually granted us bail, but the government appealed. At the appeal, Justice Babatunde Mahmood Belgore, the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, upheld the decision to grant us bail and we were subsequently released on bail while the case continued.” Osoba also reflected on the famous Epetedo declaration by Abiola on June 11, 1994, saying that he did not participate because it was when he was either in detention or in hiding

He said as tension engulfed the country, Abacha arrested, harassed and killed many protesters.

Osoba said following the Epetedo declaration, Abiola went into hiding.

He stressed: He first sought refuge in the house of Late Prince Supo Adetona, a leading member of the Hope Family, led by the late Chief Debo Akande. The members of the Hope Family were highly placed professionals who were not politicians, but were, nonetheless, committed to supporting credible people to secure public office.

gwafaeziokwu:
Out of the 48 signatories to NADECO formation 10 were Igbos. While the rest of Nigeria shared out the other slots. Igbo political activists pulled all their machineries together with other progressives to fight for democracy in Nigeria. Today, ignorant Yorubas are denying them. I hope "Nnamdi Kanu will deny Ndigbo presidency " crew are watching.

gwafaeziokwu:
You are really a disappointment. Oya read and be educated.



How NADECO was formed, by Osoba
July 3, 2019



Elder statesman and veteran journalist Aremo Olusegun Osoba, has reflected on the formation of the umbrella pro-democracy organisation, the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), saying that members of the group made enormous sacrifices for democracy.

He said the die-hard democratic fighters took a risk by rubbing shoulders with the dreadful dictator Head of State Gen. Sani Abacha, who he said, oppressed, intimidated, repressed and molested members of the organisation.

Osoba told the story of NADECO’s emergence and its titanic struggle for the revalidation of the annulled presidential election won by candidate of the defunct Social Democratic Party (SDP), the late Chief Moshood Abiola, in his 341-page memoir: ‘Battlelines: Adventures in Journalism and Politics,’ published by Diamond Publications Limited. The book will be presented to the public next Monday as part of activities marking his 80th birthday in Lagos.



The former two-time Ogun State governor recalled that as pro-democracy forces mobilised against the Abacha regime, it was realised that there was no united front or an umbrella organisation to coordinate the onslaught.

He said before NADECO was formed, he operated in a small group with former Anambra State Governor Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, his Edo State counterpart, Chief John Oyegun and Dr. Doyin Okupe, former national secretary of the defunct National Republican Convention (NRC).

Osoba noted that Abacha security goons were monitoring the activities of the pro-democracy and civil rights groups all over the country, particularly in the southwest.

He said the pro-democracy agitations climaxed when Abiola returned from the inauguration of South African President Nelson Mandela, where he reportedly received a hero’s welcome, to the embarrassment of the Nigerian delegation, led by Gen. Abacha.

Osoba recalled: “The major organization that emerged in this period, which helped to shape the anti-military and pro-democracy movement, was the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO). NADECO was roughly a product of another organization, which existed before the June 12 crisis. This was the Committee for Unity and Understanding (CUU). The overriding motive of CUU was the campaign for power shift from the North to the South.



“It was started not long after the Babangida transition-to-civil-rule programme started. Founders and key members of the CUU included Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu, Chief Sam Mbakwe, Mr. Ayo Opadokun, Chief Edward Kobani, Chief Lulu Briggs, Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe, Alhaji Abdulazeez Ude, Ambassador Tanko Yusuf and General Theophilus Danjuma.

“However, when the June 12 election was annulled, the CUU, in conjunction with such groups as the Movement for National Reformation (MNR), led by Chief Anthony Enahoro, Egbe Ilosiwaju Yoruba, led by General Adeyinka Adebayo, Afenifere, led by Chief Michael Ajasin, the Progressive Alliance for Justice and Unity (PAJU), Justice Forum and National Patriotic Front (NPF) and several other pro-democracy and human rights groups like Beko Ransome Kuti’s Campaign for Democracy came together to form NADECO in General Adeyinka Adebayo’s house, GRA, Ikeja.”

Osoba also recalled that, on May 15, 1994, the old school principal, First Republic federal parliamentarian, last President of Egbe Omo Oduduwa, and Second Republic governor of old Ondo State, Pa Ajasin, emerged as the leader of the new group, which now included politicians and activists from 49 groups, who were committed to the validation of the June 12 presidential election results.

He said the 49 signatories to NADECO treaty were: Chief Michael Adekunle Ajasin, Mallam Lawal Dambazzau, Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe, Chief Anthony Enahoro, Major General Adeyinka Adebayo (rtd.), Chief Bola Ige, Commodore Dan Suleiman, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, Prof. Anya O. Anya, Col. Yohanna Madaki, Rev. Fr. Moses Adasu, Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti, Rev. Tunji Adebiyi, Chief Ade Ojo, Chief Ralph Obioha, Chief Empire Kanu, Chief Michael Anyiam, Dr. Sola Soile, Vice Admiral Akin Aduwo, Chief E. Duru, Mr. Nick Dazzang, Mr. Labaran Maku, Dr. A. A. Akingba, Mr. Babas Eko Oyekanmi, Mr. Alex Ayatolla, Mrs. Sarah Jubril, and Alhaji Ganiyu Dawodu.

Others were Mr. O. P. Edodo, Mr. A. Barber, Otunba Olabiyi Durojaiye, Chief Olusegun Osoba, Chief John Odige-Oyegun, Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi, Alhaji Mohammed Siraj Hamza, Dr. Wahab Dosunmu, Otunba Aboyade Cole, Major General Olufemi Olutoye (rtd), Chief Sobo Sowemimo, Dr. Steve Achema, Chief Olaniwun Ajayi, Chief Olu Falae, Brigadier-General Jonah Jang, Chief Abraham Adesanya, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, Mr. Alao Aka-Bashorun, Mr. Emmanuel Njiwah, Chief Vincent Nwizugbo and Dr. Uma Eleazu.”

Osoba said NADECO later invited Abiola to a meeting where he was asked to confirm if he was ready to actualise his mandate and lead the struggle.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain said, following the formation of NADECO, he was arrested by the police, adding that he called the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) correspondent on his mobile phone to announce it to the world.

Narrating his ordeal in detention, Osoba said: “My arrest which was immediately relayed live on the BBC Radio World Service as I was being driven to the Police Headquarters in Kam Salem House, Lagos where I would be detained. The security agents were everywhere looking for other NADECO leaders to arrest.

“The man in charge of my interrogation was one Auta, a deputy commissioner of police. I was left in very humiliating condition in a large, rat-infested office where about twenty policemen had their desks. Once the policemen closed for the day, the big rodents took over. A combination of four desks served as my orthopaedic bed.

“However, I was lucky that one of the commissioners of police at Kam Salem House, then Prince Rilwan Babatunde Akiolu, who later became the Oba of Lagos, gave me the key to his office and asked me to sleep there every night. I was grateful for this but was apprehensive that I could put Akiolu in trouble if found to be aiding and abetting an “enemy” of the regime. He asked me not to worry. I also used his office phone to contact my colleagues in the struggle.

“Later, Commodore Dan Suleiman and I were charged to court for forming an “illegal organization called National Democratic Coalition (NADECO).” Interesting enough, the man who led our defence in court was Chief Abraham Adesanya, himself a leading member of that ‘illegal organization.’ Others like Chief Enahoro and Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti of the Campaign for Democracy were also arrested. Former Governors Bola Ige and Balarabe Musa were also detained with us briefly.

“Justice Tajudeen Odunowo eventually granted us bail, but the government appealed. At the appeal, Justice Babatunde Mahmood Belgore, the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, upheld the decision to grant us bail and we were subsequently released on bail while the case continued.” Osoba also reflected on the famous Epetedo declaration by Abiola on June 11, 1994, saying that he did not participate because it was when he was either in detention or in hiding

He said as tension engulfed the country, Abacha arrested, harassed and killed many protesters.

Osoba said following the Epetedo declaration, Abiola went into hiding.

He stressed: He first sought refuge in the house of Late Prince Supo Adetona, a leading member of the Hope Family, led by the late Chief Debo Akande. The members of the Hope Family were highly placed professionals who were not politicians, but were, nonetheless, committed to supporting credible people to secure public office.

gwafaeziokwu:
Finally they got this one.

He do not understand that Almajiri do not know the meaning of truce. The worst thing you can do to yourself is say please when the Jihadists threaten you. My dear you have signed your death warrant be that.

Now listen nwokem, Nnamdi Kanu is not the reason presidency will not come to the east in 2023.He was still a struggling youth in 1998 during Jos convention when the delegates treated Ekwueme 's candidacy as Biafran Agenda. Presidency was instead handed to Obasanjo on the platter despite the fact that for years Igbos has been building political bridges and structures all over Nigeria.

It is the same reason that Peter Odili was not considered as the running mate to Umaru Yar'Adua by Obasanjo because he made a promise to the generals who gave him power,many of whom participated in the July 1966 coup that triggered the pogrom and consequently civil war. Ijaw president was far "swallowable" than any one of Igbo extraction.

The major sin of Jonathan was that he aligned with Igbos in a way too close for comfort. He break many unwritten rules. For the first time since the end of the civil war an Igbo man in Azubuike Ihejirika was given the key to the Armoury,the engine room of our defence. Then to worsen the matter he lifted the air blockade that was placed on igboland since the civil war by granting Enugu Airport an international status. And many more sins.

If you had to be subservient before being entitled to inheritance in your fathers house then you are not a true born son. In fact you do not belong to that house.True born sons demand their entitlement especially if they did not offend neither man nor God.

Stop crying over what was never lost. The only people that moved on after the civil war were the Igbos. The rest of Nigeria are still under the self imposed cage of fear, guilty consience and uncertainty of what an igbo revenge mission would look like.

Awol1:
If that will prevent Tinubu's mouth odour from desecrating Aso Rock, I'm in.

But pair a northerner with Peter Obi, Okwute Ndi Igbo with agreement he would succeed the northerner.

And it has to be PDP.

APC is a terrorist and cursed party of mauruding herdsmen.

peacettw:
Let me rephrase, how do you explain the markedly low incidence and prevalence of this disease in blacks?

peacettw:
I would have agreed with you completely except for the glaring fact that our brothers and sisters in foreign countries are not getting sick as well.

geosegun:
The hot weather and body sweat because of the humid nature of regions around the equator. only very few germs can survive salty solution like body sweat. Hence, Sunlight was said to be one of the most effective disinfectant and Africa has more than enough sunlight. Its not our fault its Nature's, but I would say, It is God's blessings. You can take those words to the Bank.

Awol1:
The question you should ask yourself is, why does it seem that all those who fought GEJ are biting dust one after another?

Are they just mere happenstances to you?

Martinez39s:
Messi has always been a dribbler in the order of Maradona and Ortega. Ronaldo too was a good dribbler but he was never better than Messi or even Neymar. Ronaldo's dribbling declined and his goals increased until recently, but Messi maintained his dribbling skills and goal scoring, and his shooting and free kick technique has reached god level in recent time. Mind you, when Ronaldo started playing, Messi was still at Barça's youth team. Messi got his debut in 2005.

emmaodet:
When i tell people that messi is better than ronaldo, they will think am saying rubbish.
If you want to really know the truth, just cancel out goal scoring from both players and see outside that.
Even without goals, messi is entertaining, interesting to watch, the way he moves with ball, dribbling, giving up-through passes, splitting passes are all amazing.
You won't feel as if you wasted your ticket going to the stadium but without ronaldo regularly scoring, going to the stadium to watch him will be like a waste of time.
So also players like Okocha, Zidane, Ronaldinho, Maradona, they don't need to score before you enjoy their games.

Martinez39s:
Truth is bitter. I am a known Man Utd fan on this forum. Whether you like it or not, Messi is better than Ronaldo.

Badmod:
Rolls Royce over Bentley anyday...
RR Wraith or Dawn.
This is just $250,000.00 yet far better than any Bentley.


I too sabi better thing...Baba God ,I beg you no let me die without living my desired life ooo....

GraGra247:
I've never seen a car that costs more than $1 million dollars that's worth it.

Car has to be literally indestructible for me to appreciate it.


There's nothing too fantastic a $1m dollar car can do that a $100,000 car can't do even much better.

Americas grand deception.

Shibaraba:
Where will the devil end eventually? Hell. How do you look at a person who is destined for hell? Without hope of salvation. With pity.

Mr garri dey your dey. Don't use me to score cheap points. I made my comments without quoting make yours. I'm entitled to my opinion. So are you. You say all sort of bullshit I read and ignore. Because it's what's expected of an odd toed ungulate. You can do likewise and stop behaving like a microcephalic baboon.
Have a nice day

Inspectorsuga22:
Igbo amaka...
Unlike a region that all they could offer to Nigeria is terrorism...

membranus:
Ajue, odigbo, igba and the likes are former Ondo town farmlands that developed into townships. That's understandable. But Araromi Obu is a typical Ikale land, Ondo people were just allowed as settlers there.

As per Ikale people being land grabbers, that's a lie from the pit of hell. We are too peaceful and accomodating for that.

Or do you have any history of Ikale grabbing your Ilaje land?