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Bigprozzie:
Anonimi Agbaya ni e sir

Are those your pics they showed in one thread a few days ago on Yoruba commonwealth?

You are too old for this baba

Babasessy:
Awo Family Without An Awo By Sam Omatseye (The Offensive Article)



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The Awolowo rebirth in the Southwest has inspired gongs, songs and rhetoric of sorts. But they have missed one point.

It occurred to me in Abeokuta last week amidst the big crowds and euphoria of the swearing-in of Senator Ibikunle Amosun as governor. In all the states from Lagos to Edo, where Awo has witnessed ideological resurgence, hardly a single family member has played a role.

So we have an Awo family without an Awo. That is an irony. But history overwhelms us with this sort of twist. Obafemi Awolowo toiled for his reputation. His roots were lowly, he toiled to school both home and abroad, launched into careers in law, business, journalism and eventually politics. He carved a niche for himself, and became the first methodical and charismatic leftist in our history.  Other leftists abounded but they did not inspire comparable drama and following.

He faced tribulations, went to jail, failed in elections, won a few, but he imprinted his ideas and legacy in the country, and no single mortal has beaten him in the history of this country. His greatest achievement was in the area of ideas, and that was how he fashioned a family. Most families are born of biology but his issued from ideology. That family suffered with him.

In a spoof of Jesus Christ, these were the men who followed him in his teachings, and endured with him in his temptations. So he formed a kingdom for them in the Southwest, in the old Western Region, presiding over his projects, his legacies and people.

In all of these, the family he had was not his flesh and blood. In another spoof of Christ, who were his family anyway? Those who were with him must be counted as his family. So, I combed in the ambience of Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), and I found none. I went to Ogun, I frisked the crowd under Amosun’s bower, hardly any. Around Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Osun, I could not lay a finger. With Governor Kayode Fayemi in Ekiti, where are the forbears of Awo? Yet, I can hear the chants of Awo. Hardly in any of the inaugural speeches or any of their other public intervention would you miss the philtre and filter of Awo from these gentlemen. To parody Novelist Joseph Conrad, they are the sparks from Awo’s sacred fire, the messengers of the might within the man.

Already all of them are pursuing the legacy ideas of Awo: free education, free health services, infrastructural development, urban renewal and economic engineering.

Lagos has posted itself as the John the Baptist. The others are putting up valiant efforts, and the world of course is watching to see how well they will perform. It will call for great work, resourcefulness and cooperation. They are the real Awoists, and Awo was a man of rigour and vigour.

The Awo son that many expected to take after the father was Olusegun, who unfortunately died in a car crash. We shall never know if he could have pulled it off.  But the others have not shown much of the paterfamilias’ brio and depth. In the past decade, under this republic, they have blended with the wrong crowd. Even H.I.D, hobnobbed with Alao-Akala, who brought illiteracy to governance; with Oyinlola who turned the grace of office into a hell-hole of despots; with Daniel who could not arrest his quick fall into megalomania.

I wrote once that this woman whom Awo once described as the jewel of inestimable value has lost value to his cause. If he came back to life, he would have committed the extraordinary act of divorce after death. Even his newspaper, The Tribune, has so stumbled and fallen that it swims in Awo’s vomit.

Groucho Max, one of the funniest satirists in American history, said of a man that he got his looks from his father. Then he quipped, “He was a plastic surgeon.” That means the son is not his real son, or he did not inherit his natural looks. Ideologically, when we talk of Awo’s family, the chief inheritor is Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the leader of all the others. He was the one who stuck his neck out. He could have lost his life or ended his career in politics. The so-called real Awolowos who bear his surname cannot come up for mention. They are Awolowos but not Awoists. They stabbed their father in the back. They have committed ideological parricide.

The only person that made a real try was Awolowo-Dosunmu in the early 1990s and she lost roundly. She was accused of trying to ride her father’s coattail. Political families are good for democracies. They can exemplify the high ideals of diligence, dignity, ideas, character. We have seen these in such families as the Kennedys, the Adamses, the Roosevelts, the Ghandis. They just don’t claim family. They appeal to the high ideals that endeared the families to their societies.

It’s also an irony that these families are falling into twilight. Some of them have vanished. Enoch Powell, a British MP, once gave us the famous line: “All political lives, unless they are cut off midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure because that is the nature of politics and human affairs.”

Columnist Ambassador Dapo Fafowora adverted to this idea in a recent outing, and I debated it with him afterwards. I don’t believe that a political life should be judged by how it ends but what it means. The quote is often missed by many who mistake “careers” for “lives.” A political life should be judged by its legacies. If we judged Awo by how he ended, we would look at him only as the loser to Shagari. That is why I see an intrinsic mischief in Enoch’s quote. But I would agree that political families end also in failure if you judge how they peter out and not the legacy.

Awo’s legacy is alive and well. Members of other families in flesh and blood can carry on. Immediate families tend to suffer from what an author, Noemie Emery, describes as dynastic curse. The children tend to be intimidated by the standards set by the fathers. So they just don’t want to try. They feel they cannot match them or come even close.  The problem probably comes from the fathers themselves. The Adams, who produced important presidents, later gave birth to moral vagrants and drunks. The Bush daughters showed themselves as party girls when their father was contesting the political battle of his life.

But Joe Kennedy groomed his sons assiduously, and they excelled in politics. They also had a fair share of tragedies. Ted Kennedy regained his sobriety and voice in America after a season of debauchery. In Nigeria, we are seeing the Sarakis fade. A Saraki – Bukola - is wiping out the Sarakis from politics. It is a classic case of oedipal tragedy, something I predicted earlier this year on this page.

It is not late though for the flesh-and-blood Awolowos to join their father’s fold. But they must be genuine. Awo was the most important Yoruba personage in history after Oduduwa. They had stellar men like Oranmiyan, Balogun Latosa, Lisabi, Sodeke, et al. None of them had the unifying vision and organisational acumen that Awolowo gave the race. The wife, children and grandchildren should not watch others glow in his jewel without them.

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/columnist/monday/sam-omatseye/index.1.html

Babasessy:
Awo Family Without An Awo By Sam Omatseye (The Offensive Article)


The Awolowo rebirth in the Southwest has inspired gongs, songs and rhetoric of sorts. But they have missed one point.

It occurred to me in Abeokuta last week amidst the big crowds and euphoria of the swearing-in of Senator Ibikunle Amosun as governor. In all the states from Lagos to Edo, where Awo has witnessed ideological resurgence, hardly a single family member has played a role.

So we have an Awo family without an Awo. That is an irony. But history overwhelms us with this sort of twist. Obafemi Awolowo toiled for his reputation. His roots were lowly, he toiled to school both home and abroad, launched into careers in law, business, journalism and eventually politics. He carved a niche for himself, and became the first methodical and charismatic leftist in our history.  Other leftists abounded but they did not inspire comparable drama and following.

He faced tribulations, went to jail, failed in elections, won a few, but he imprinted his ideas and legacy in the country, and no single mortal has beaten him in the history of this country. His greatest achievement was in the area of ideas, and that was how he fashioned a family. Most families are born of biology but his issued from ideology. That family suffered with him.

In a spoof of Jesus Christ, these were the men who followed him in his teachings, and endured with him in his temptations. So he formed a kingdom for them in the Southwest, in the old Western Region, presiding over his projects, his legacies and people.

In all of these, the family he had was not his flesh and blood. In another spoof of Christ, who were his family anyway? Those who were with him must be counted as his family. So, I combed in the ambience of Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), and I found none. I went to Ogun, I frisked the crowd under Amosun’s bower, hardly any. Around Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Osun, I could not lay a finger. With Governor Kayode Fayemi in Ekiti, where are the forbears of Awo? Yet, I can hear the chants of Awo. Hardly in any of the inaugural speeches or any of their other public intervention would you miss the philtre and filter of Awo from these gentlemen. To parody Novelist Joseph Conrad, they are the sparks from Awo’s sacred fire, the messengers of the might within the man.

Already all of them are pursuing the legacy ideas of Awo: free education, free health services, infrastructural development, urban renewal and economic engineering.

Lagos has posted itself as the John the Baptist. The others are putting up valiant efforts, and the world of course is watching to see how well they will perform. It will call for great work, resourcefulness and cooperation. They are the real Awoists, and Awo was a man of rigour and vigour.

The Awo son that many expected to take after the father was Olusegun, who unfortunately died in a car crash. We shall never know if he could have pulled it off.  But the others have not shown much of the paterfamilias’ brio and depth. In the past decade, under this republic, they have blended with the wrong crowd. Even H.I.D, hobnobbed with Alao-Akala, who brought illiteracy to governance; with Oyinlola who turned the grace of office into a hell-hole of despots; with Daniel who could not arrest his quick fall into megalomania.

I wrote once that this woman whom Awo once described as the jewel of inestimable value has lost value to his cause. If he came back to life, he would have committed the extraordinary act of divorce after death. Even his newspaper, The Tribune, has so stumbled and fallen that it swims in Awo’s vomit.

Groucho Max, one of the funniest satirists in American history, said of a man that he got his looks from his father. Then he quipped, “He was a plastic surgeon.” That means the son is not his real son, or he did not inherit his natural looks. Ideologically, when we talk of Awo’s family, the chief inheritor is Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the leader of all the others. He was the one who stuck his neck out. He could have lost his life or ended his career in politics. The so-called real Awolowos who bear his surname cannot come up for mention. They are Awolowos but not Awoists. They stabbed their father in the back. They have committed ideological parricide.

The only person that made a real try was Awolowo-Dosunmu in the early 1990s and she lost roundly. She was accused of trying to ride her father’s coattail. Political families are good for democracies. They can exemplify the high ideals of diligence, dignity, ideas, character. We have seen these in such families as the Kennedys, the Adamses, the Roosevelts, the Ghandis. They just don’t claim family. They appeal to the high ideals that endeared the families to their societies.

It’s also an irony that these families are falling into twilight. Some of them have vanished. Enoch Powell, a British MP, once gave us the famous line: “All political lives, unless they are cut off midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure because that is the nature of politics and human affairs.”

Columnist Ambassador Dapo Fafowora adverted to this idea in a recent outing, and I debated it with him afterwards. I don’t believe that a political life should be judged by how it ends but what it means. The quote is often missed by many who mistake “careers” for “lives.” A political life should be judged by its legacies. If we judged Awo by how he ended, we would look at him only as the loser to Shagari. That is why I see an intrinsic mischief in Enoch’s quote. But I would agree that political families end also in failure if you judge how they peter out and not the legacy.

Awo’s legacy is alive and well. Members of other families in flesh and blood can carry on. Immediate families tend to suffer from what an author, Noemie Emery, describes as dynastic curse. The children tend to be intimidated by the standards set by the fathers. So they just don’t want to try. They feel they cannot match them or come even close.  The problem probably comes from the fathers themselves. The Adams, who produced important presidents, later gave birth to moral vagrants and drunks. The Bush daughters showed themselves as party girls when their father was contesting the political battle of his life.

But Joe Kennedy groomed his sons assiduously, and they excelled in politics. They also had a fair share of tragedies. Ted Kennedy regained his sobriety and voice in America after a season of debauchery. In Nigeria, we are seeing the Sarakis fade. A Saraki – Bukola - is wiping out the Sarakis from politics. It is a classic case of oedipal tragedy, something I predicted earlier this year on this page.

It is not late though for the flesh-and-blood Awolowos to join their father’s fold. But they must be genuine. Awo was the most important Yoruba personage in history after Oduduwa. They had stellar men like Oranmiyan, Balogun Latosa, Lisabi, Sodeke, et al. None of them had the unifying vision and organisational acumen that Awolowo gave the race. The wife, children and grandchildren should not watch others glow in his jewel without them.

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/columnist/monday/sam-omatseye/index.1.html

fuzek:
THE General Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly and running mate of Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) during the April 16 presidential election, Pastor Tunde Bakare, declared that it would be fool-hardy for “any bastard and the son of a concubine” to assume the leadership mantle of the Yoruba.

While preaching in his church in Lagos on the topic: “It is time to speak”, the fiery cleric said: “Look at the madness going on in Yoruba land. slowpoke, nincompoop, people without family background causing problem because of money, ill gotten wealth. If a town or settlement is at peace, the bastard there is yet to grow up.

“If you are a bastard, there is nothing you can do to cover up with money. Where is your father’s compound? A bastard pretending to be a patriot. We are proud of our heritage because we have goodly heritage. There are those who call themselves nobles who are under the influence of Jezebel. Until they drink kainkain, they cannot function. They pretend to be larger than life,” he added.

He likened the person angling to take over the leadership of the Yoruba to the Biblical Abimelech who forcefully took over a kingdom that did not belong to him and was eventually destroyed.

http://news2.onlinenigeria.com/headlines/100458-pastor-tunde-bakare-of-the-latter-rain-assembly-a-bastard-cant-rule-the-yorubas.html

nairayouthcom:
bro check d last image wch on the post

Bigprozzie:
Papa you are almost 60.

Act you age sir

Will your wife be proud of your behavior on Nairaland sir

Gboliwe:
Didn't you read that he disguised himself? What other disguise do you want when you see convoy? Try and be reasoning before hitting the "reply" button.

arsenal33:
so what should happen to Kanu who said he needed ARMS AND AMMUNITION to fight his nigeria?

Bigprozzie:
Daddy please act your age sir

You are causing distractions with all these images

Stick to the topic papa

lawbabs:
Yes they did and showed his latest transactions

lawbabs:
Didn't you see when they posted his latest transactions. He still operates the account...

Edunwa302:
Well I didn't notice that before now but we still need to commend their effort

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2W9iuKYbFc


Uploaded on Oct 30, 2011
This is a mobile phone video of the announcement of PDP as winners of the Badagry Central Local Government Elections with over 7000 votes. LASIEC Chairman, Justice Adeyinka later announced a different result. The lady speaking in the video is the LASIEC Returning Officer for Badagry Central on Saturday 22nd October, 2011.

Edunwa302:
This sahara guys are really more efficient than our so called security agents

calebo101:
Body language repairs does not last for long. Just as electricity is generated by megawatts and not body language. Blame the mass illiterates in Nigeria that voted in their ancestors to take them into the future,

drss:
...and sai baba disciples ^^^ are still blaming PDP for their failures.

egift:
We need our refineries. Also building smaller modular ones is needed. 16yrs was more than enough for PDP to build at least one.

Fuel Subsidy Scam: Senate Releases Names Of Cabal
DEC 02, 2011

Oando Oil, CONOIL, African Petroleum and MRS Oil are among the powerful players in the petroleum sector that have shared over N3.655 trillion between 2006 and September 2011 in pursuit of importation of refined petroleum products.


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Dahveydson:
You're just reshowing pre-election propaganda.

Mikkyboy008:
Abeg which one of you mods got high on something last night and decided to put this stuupid topic in FP.A topic thats been in existence since nov 11 and was forgotten.Either the guy SEE una or you guys are just out of story.
Peace out

Mills

ideylaff:
It's such a backward practice to wait to welcome the President back.

If they are really busy all these old age protocol bull sh*t should be fazed out of our system.

I'm privy to them waiting for at least 2 to 3 hours for the President to arrive .

We are not proactive in nature. Set in old ways.

Such a pity and crying shame.

tiredface:
JUNKETER IN CHIEF ARRIVES NIGERIA? HOW LONG IS HE STAYING?

butanep:
My Husband Is In London To Rest - Mrs Buhari

Aisha Buhari, wife of Muhammadu Buhari, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC has debunked rumours that her husband is ill and being hospitalized in a London hospital; DAILY TIMES reports.

Speaking to newsmen at the Westminster Plaza Hotel, in Waterloo, Mrs Buhari said, ''He’s just come here to rest. He’s just here to have a rest, at least a few days rest before he goes back to business''.

''When asked if her husband was in hospital, she said, ''I’m hearing it for the first time''.

Dahveydson:
Funny how he only travels to see other world leaders.

Oyegun, El-Rufai and Lai step in as Buhari fails to show up at London meeting again
Wednesday, 25 February 2015


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ALL Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate General Muhammadu Buhari disappointed thousands of his UK supporters again yesterday by failing to show up for an interactive session organised in southeast London. This is the second time within a week that General Buhari has failed to show up at meetings organised in London and it is certain to fuel talk about the state of his health and whether he is in the UK for medical reasons.

To ameliorate the effect of his absence yesterday, party chairman Chief John Oyegun, publicity secretary Alhaji Lai Mohammed and Kaduna State gubernatorial candidate Mallam Nasir El-Rufai stepped in to address the party faithful. Hosted by Nigerian evangelical church Everlasting Arms Ministries on Old Kent Road in south London, yesterday's interactive session offered members of the APC's UK chapter the opportunity to ask their leaders several questions. Thousands had thronged to the venue hoping to see General Buhari himself was Chief Oyegun apologised for his absence saying the general was tied up elsewhere.

Last Saturday, General Buhari similarly failed to attend an interactive session held in central London and his wife Hajiya Aisha Buhari had to stand in for him alongside Mrs Dolapo Osibanjo. Despite being in the UK for almost a week now, General Buhari has not been seen in public or addressed any meetings, prompting speculation that he is here on a health visit or simply to rest from the traumas of the recent election campaign.

Chief Oyegun said, however, that General Buhari is in good health and will be available on Thursday when he is billed to speak at Chatham House. He added that the general is in the UK to take his message outside Nigeria and intimate the international community about his plans for the country. Mallam El-Rufai added: "What Nigeria is going through at the moment is similar to what South Africa faced at the end of apartheid and what China faced after the death of Mao Tse Tung. When nations go through that, they need an older leader who can calm things down and I think General Buhari will do this for Nigeria. "He is one of the few people who can guarantee that not a penny will go missing under his watch and also has the maturity to deal with the problems he will inherit. A younger leader would probably lock up all the Jonathanians but an older man will handle it with maturity and Buhari as we all know is not a vengeful man who will want to settle scores with anybody."

Alhaji Mohammed added that the APC is the only party that can address Nigeria's plethora of socio-economic woes as it conducted a national survey before drawing up its manifesto. He added that this survey showed that three in one Nigerians saw unemployment as the main problem facing the country, while 54% of Nigerians were worried about corruption and 52% wanted security addressed. Outlining a series of policy initiatives, Alhaji Mohammed and Chief Oyegun talked about what the party would do to revive agriculture, ensure stable power supply, diversify the economy, reduce corruption, combat insecurity and address housing shortages. After the party leaders spoke, members asked questions which were addressed by the trio. One party member who had hoped to see General Buhari in person said he was disappointed that the general did not show but having party leaders step in ameliorated the effects a little. He added that he looked forward to Thursday when General Buhari will be at Chatham House, so he could put some questions to the party's presidential candidate. "It was disappointing not to see our general today but it helped that the party leaders stepped in and answered some of the questions we wanted to put to him.

At least this is a vast improvement from Saturday when hundreds of party members turned up in central London and many of them were not even allowed in to what became a first ladies exclusive jamboree. "I had to wait outside and when I went to the organiser Austin Ogaga Amaechi to be let in, he was rude, uncouth, arrogant, condescending, and vulgar and acted in a manner similar to a thug. This time around though, we got to see the party leaders and I look forward to meeting General Buhari on Thursday." Alhaji Mohammed pointed out that Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) planned to hold a demonstration outside Chatham House when General Buhari appears there, so the APC will be ready with its own placards. Chief Oyegun called on party members to be vigilant as the PDP will be looking to postpone the elections again further, pointing out that it intended to bribe members of the National Assembly to extend the postponement for six months.

- See more at: http://www.nigerianwatch.com/news/6455-oyegun-el-rufai-and-lai-step-in-as-buhari-fails-to-show-up-at-london-meeting-again#sthash.4l203daD.ypt2MPOo.dpuf

Dahveydson:
This man is agile!

It's ok to criticise his travelling. But i'll like to acknowledge his strength and agility in travelling all over the globe and meeting other world leaders.

Reminder: PDP told us Buhari was sick and dying.

A sick and dying man doesn't go travelling all over the globe.

Buhari Returns From Foreign Medical Treatment, Receives Speaker Tambuwal

Former military Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari has returned from his overseas visit to his Kaduna base, and from where he has been receiving guests.



https://saharareporters.com/sites/default/files/styles/normal_medium/public/page_images/news/2012/buhari_tambuwal.jpg?itok=_tTs9iJi


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GMB‬ Speech While Addressing Nigeria Community In The United Kingdom.


I Will Maintain a modest lifestyle as President -Muhammadu Buhari.

“One of the major killers of our economy apart from corruption is waste. Our scarce resources are being plundered away very carelessly and unnecessarily wasted. Let me give an instance, presently, there are more than 6 aircraft in the presidential fleet. What do you call that? Billions of naira is budgeted every year for the maintenance of these aircraft not to talk of operational cost and other expenses.

You may want to ask what a Nigerian President is doing with so many aircraft when a Prime Minister of Britain fly around using the same public aircraft like an ordinary Briton.

Go and check and compare with that of any developed country in the world, the office of the Nigerian President is a very expensive one inspite our high level of poverty, lack and joblessness. Despite all these, you still find a Nigerian Minister spending about N10billion to charter an aircraft for just one year. Now, for me, when we come into office, all these waste will be blocked and properly channelled into our economy. We intend for instance, to bring back our National carrier, the Nigerian airways. [size=14pt]We shall do this by bringing all the aircraft in the presidential fleet into the Nigerian airways[/size] and within a year increase the fleet into about 20.


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andyjwe:
Pray and put angels in action, better still make this a request to God on Shiloh ground (kicking off on tuesday 8 dec. 2015, 7pm) and let God take over, for surely she will be found. #from glory to glory

younghartz:
girls no dey lost...op give her sometime,she will come bck.
Dey no dey use wetin dem dey rub for nyash dey rub for eyes

Adatob:
Op tak a chill p,u no dey watch nollywood?? She wil come back to abuja wit a rangerover tellin u ppu dah shez now 'clearing and forwarding agent' dat d work made her not to av time

lasisi69:
She will come back... She went to see her Facebook boyfriend.. .

CARLOSZ:
My sister Chioma Nkechi Daniel left Abuja to Lagos on November 14, 2015. Ever since then her phones has been switched off, all efforts to locate her whereabouts proved unsuccessful. According to one of her friend (Favour Amarachi Okorie) who came with her to Lagos, Chioma received a call requesting her to come to Ikorodu area in Lagos State. Since then she has been missing. Contacting Favour Okorie, she refused to give full details of their trip to Lagos. Now Favour is back to Abuja while Chioma is nowhere to be found.

PLEASE CLICK SHARE AS SOON AS YOU RECEIVE THIS TO HELP IN FINDING HER.

God bless you as you do this.

If you have any details on her whereabouts, please call 08158276677

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=970255316344855&id=100000811883329

Cc Lalasticlala

Freemanan:
Chai.....
Dont bother....

BlaqCoffee109:
it represents my persona,where I am from and I am a light/torch bearer..

Love Machine:
The importers should be the one to be interrogated not the innocent traders who didn't know whether the rice they bought were contraband or smuggled.I know govt want to generate revenue by all means,but this is not the way to go about it.