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The first secondary school had to wait until the setting-up of Okri's alma mater, Urhobo College, in the late 1940s. Independence made little immediate difference to this pattern of appropriation and naming. Warri was now part of the Western Region of the country, dominated by the Action Group Party under the Yoruba panjandrum, Obafemi Awolowo.

Three momentous experiences warned us that independence was on its way for Nigeria. First was the building of a primary school in the village by Awolowo's Action Group government. To have a school a community had to guarantee a registration of about 30 pupils. Our village, Esaba, was quite small, it still is, and so finding the number was not easy. So the community congress issued a decree urging all parents to repatriate any child living away. That law was what forced me to leave Ilaje area of Ondo Province where I had gone as a baby-tender for an elder sister. By the time the community "come home" order came, I was already making progress as an apprentice in the life of a fisherman, looking forward to owning a house and several wives. I left with some fluency in Ilaje, Itsekiri and Ijaw languages. Thanks to Awolowo and independence, I would have been a fairly successful illiterate and polygamist.

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dayokanu: It makes o. Do me I do you God no go vex

dayokanu: Those people that Igbo soldiers kill were they not innocent civilians as well?

orufe: @HE ELECTORAL TEAM. I suggest you you include non Igbos in the electoral team come oct/nov 2013. This will really eliminate partiality. Am sure nairalanders like Gwawe, Ekt bear, Ibime, Edoyad, Ndu chuks, Gbawe Jarus or Physics QED will do a good job if called upon.
The electoral team next year must not be entirely Igbo.

dayokanu: Congrats to Odumchi.

Igbos dont need a rogue like Onlylies to lead them

May your reign be peaceful Odumchi, As a start find a way to prosecute and Jail Onlytruth for abuse of office and bringing the post of Ezeyibo Wuruwuru on nairaland to disrepute

I Dayokanu and the [size=14pt]Operation wetie, Alayes, Agberos, OPC, and other progressive[/size] pay our homage to Eze Odumchi

Meet me for beer parlour and collect one bottle of Alomo on my head. you would need it vs Ogugua who is a strong black woman

nku5: The chameleon strikes back

Shugamania: All thanks 2 Allah for keeping us alive 2 witness dis glorious day of double blessings...
Eid Mubarraq, Barka Jumah..

Paul John: The Op has just edited it

OYINBOGOJU: Some people are just shy away from the topic.

The progress is ours while we try as much as possible to represent Nigeria in a good manner.

SlyIg: My dear, its a thing of joy for the Yorubas'. While others are being caught and reported for one crime or the other on daily bases,here is a good news for them. Do you think its easy? Abeg,give respect to whom respect is due and rejoice with those who rejoice so that the next point of joy can locate you.
Can anything good come out of this nation. Thanks to this guy. He has made our weekend here on nairaland.
Long Live Lagos state
Long Live the Yorubas
Long Live Nigeria!
By d way,im not a Yoruba o. Thank you.

advocate666: don't worry. We know our enemies.

advocate666: See Yoruba snake. As soon as he is defeated starts seeking reconciliation.
STAND UP AND FIGHT FOR YOUR TRIBE.
STAND UP AND FIGHT LIKE A MAN.

vicenzo: Hehe! Betrayal is in these people's blood. so fajuiyi actually betrayed ironsi to save his Yoruba skin. ojukwu,ironsi,ribadu, the list of men who have fallen victim of yoruba's lengendary treachery keeps increasing. Buhari beware!

advocate666: I watched the video. Like I said before, some people need to be excommunicated from igboland.

advocate666: you really are full of it.
here.




You can see from the first bolded that Fajuyi betrayed Ironsi by ordering a junior officer to take the murderers to Ironsi. Maybe he thought he coud save his azs by giving them Ironsi.

jason123: Try to understand my point. Lagos ISLAND was the capital not the STATE!

tunnytox: Sometimes i just want to expose their stupeedity, omo irankiran l'omo yen! Ododo oro ni pe won o ni itiju se ni won ranju kale bi eja oku eko.

advocate666: yes there is an objection as there are conflicting reports by other officers present during the murders. i just linked to one. read it. https://www.nairaland.com/1076677/real-story-how-lt.col-fajuyi

advocate666: Where did I lie?
Alj harem said fajuyi died for ironsi, i showed post that proves fajuyi was arrested by aboki, beaten up by aboki and shot by aboki. nowhere did he die for ironsi's sake.

The killing continued through to early May when people realised that the pogrom had arrived. Ironsi hurriedly convened a conference of all the Emirs, which are Moslem leaders throughout the Islamic North. The conference was held at Ibadan, capital of the Western Region It began on the 24th of July. Ironsi attended the conference by living with the governor of the Region. Major Fajuyi with whom Ironsi had served in the British Army in India. The Governor's residence called The Governor's Lodge was a heavily guarded building. Its guards numbering thirty well armed troops included Moslem troops. The idea of including Moslem troops among the guards was to demonstrate that, no animosity against Moslems existed in Ironsi's policy. So both Ironsi and Fajuyi felt quite safe. However, on the 25th of July, a contingent of heavily armed troops, all of the Northerners, speeded from a nearby Barracks to The Governors Lodge Ibadan. The time was about 8pm. Fajuyi was entertaining his guest, General Agui-Ironsi. The troops easily got access to the sitting room. [size=14pt]Without being announced, they forced themselves into the sitting room. They knew their victims. Without any ceremony, they ordered General Ironsi to stand up and be searched. With no struggle from Ironsi, he obeyed. One of them began to handcuff Ironsi. Fajuyi could not comprehend what was happening. "You can't do that” he bellowed. "Why? You keep away “The most senior officer of the troops ordered Fajuyi. “He is my guest, and you can't do that to him right in my house” "We've come to take him away” Responded one of the officers. "Take him away to where?” "That's none of your business; you keep away and sit down”, ordered the most senior of the rebel officers. But Fajuyi continued " I am a Yoruba; and we Yorubas do not allow gangsters to kidnap our guests from our home I can't let you hurt him “Fajuyi insisted. “Very well; Yoruba man; we'll teach you a lesson. We'll take both of you, “said the senior officer as he administered a hard blow on the face of Fajuyi. Then the troops pushed him and Ironsi into a waiting Land Rover.[/size]

Both men were then driven to a nearby bush and shot. The time was only nine o’clock. But Ibadan was like a ghost city in darkness. There were very few or no night life. Fear still gripped every one in the South. The end of Ironsi and Fajuyi was never published for a very long time, more than two months. Only gossips prevailed all over the country.