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PassingShot:
Warning: Let no wailer see this as an opportunity to wail uncontrollably. This article is in line with my personal resolve to call the president to order on this forum whenever he missteps. Besides, GEJ was not an option in the last election. So, please keep your sermon of “we told you”, “we warned you”, “Buhari is incompetent” and other bla bla blas to yourself.
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Dear PMB, you have a chance to prove to Nigerians that we did not make a mistake in electing you president. If you however choose to do as it pleases you even in the face of sufferings of the common man, 2019 is not far away.

May God Bless Nigeria!

texazzpete:
Abeg, all the 'transformation' you people claimed GEJ did, which one did he do in the first 6 months of his administration?

You need to let go of this bitterness

examhall:
The Federal Government has ordered a probe into an allegation that the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, illegally diverted about N1 trillion, being proceeds of corruption that was recovered by the agency.

‎FG, through the Federal Ministry of Justice, directed the commission to open investigation into ‎a petition dated September 18, 2015, which was forwarded to the Solicitor-General of the Federation, Mr. Abdullahi Yola, by ‎the Chief Executive Officer of Panic Alert Security Systems, Mr. George Uboh.

The commission was ordered to forward the outcome of its investigation to the Federal Ministry of Justice for consideration and possible follow-up action.

The FG had also in a letter with reference number, DPPA/PET/EFCC/006/2008,‎ signed by the Director of Public Prosecution, Mr. M.S. Diri, notified the petitioner that it has sanctioned investigation into the allegation against Lamorde.

“I refer to your letter dated the 28th September, 2015, in respect of the above mentioned subject matter,” the letter read in part.

“I am directed to inform you that your petition has been sent to the EFCC for their response to the allegation contained therein. The commission has been directed by the Solicitor-General of the Federation and Permanent Secretary to forward the result of its investigation as soon as it is completed.

“Accept please, the assurances of the highest regards of the Solicitor-General of the Federation and Permanent Secretary.”

In his petition, Uboh had requested that Lamorde be investigated and that the Justice Ministry divest the EFCC under Lamorde of the Fiat to prosecute criminal suspects.

He also sought an immediate issuance of “fiat for the prosecution of EFCC’s past and present leadership and their known and unknown co-conspirators via the 22-page preliminary criminal charges the undersigned has prepared.”

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http:///fg-orders-probe-of-lamorde-over-alleged-diversion-of-n1trn-recovered-loot/

omofunaab:
Rip mama awolowo.... But to be sincere I have not seen someone buried like this before in my life.. Even OGTV news is dedicated to covering this entire burial... Golden caskets, lots of the state resources being diverted to her burial and still the government is owing salaries of lecturers.... So I decided to make little findings on my own about mama awolowo, what she has achieved to nation building to warrant such type of burial... I could say I was disappointed because other than her being the wife of the premier of the Western region( late obafemi awolowo) , she was just a normal businesswoman.. Yes she was with her husband campaigning during the days of UPN and AG, but that is expected of her as a loyal wife to the husband...
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Rest in peace mama

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

Mamatee07:
Everyone is there

tunex23:
I blame Buhari for this

kings009:
Black is beautiful! Rep your colour babe...don't mind the shallow minded conformists that sell their PRIDE for slavery.

PassingShot:
Faleke should become the next governor of Kogi state.

theoctopus:
This is what is currently happening in Lagos West Senatorial district featuring Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Honourable Solomon Olamilekan Adeola alias YAYI.

On 6th of Feb 2014, YAYI Adeola in Ilaro, Yewa South LG of Ogun State, registered to contest for senate, Ogun West.
All of a sudden, with the help of his in-law Tinubu, YAYI surfaced in Lagos West after losing out in the APC primaries in Ogun West.

There are three senatorial districts in Lagos and Tinubu’s family members are jostling for two of those. It's on record that Solomon Olamilekan Adeola - YAYI married from Tinubu’s family. I'm also aware that Tinubu’s wife is the incumbent senator for Lagos Central.

Are there no other candidates the APC can come up with. Why must they be from Tinubu’s family? Do we need a confused YAYI in Lagos West? Has Lagos become the waste dump of Ogun state?

It is obvious YAYI is after his personal interest and those of his godfather Tinubu. ‪#‎LagosWestDeservesBetter‬ than him and APC

Now you can understand when they say APC is Tinubu's business enterprise




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Edifyer:
Is a welcome development.. while BBC Hausa Service Celebrated 50th Anniversary
There is also VOA Hausa, Radio France International RFI Hausa and German DW Radio Hausa.

tope24:
My 2 cents sir, take the multinational coy job then work at getting your Msc and PhD. This will equip you to become a better lecturer cos of the experience you will gets. Believe me if only some of our lecturers have relevant work experience in the department they function.

Bigprozzie:
Good one. Yorubas are highly respected

When will the world take Igbos seriously?

kingthreat:
You no get papa, uncle or relative wey get money? If you like wait for government to wipe your bumbum when you finish using the toilet.

kingthreat:
You are one of those children on the rocks right? Better deliver yourself from poverty

400billionman:
Summary of the story is that some yoruba looters and polithiefcians are buying properties in UK.

UK has every right to be happy for their economy.

But these nairalanders here have every reason to cry..

CUMPOLICE01:

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yoruba been respected everywhere.. ...

- hiking LASU fess from N25,000 to N250,000.
- boasting of 2,000 government schools out of 14,000
- using NYSC Corpers instead of recruiting professional QUALIFIED teachers thus increasing youth UNEMPLOYMENT
- owing salaries to workers.

egift:
Re: Buhari To Move Against Pension For Ex- Governors

Make it rain

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lagdmark:
This incompetent Baba go slow must step down ASAP before he destroys the economy.

gurunlocker:
Lol.. . they think it was bed of roses when GEJ was there, now you see it ain't easy.

henryhemon:
Yes we need solutions we don't need excuses joor, am a lover of Pmb but we have to tell him the truth unlike gejites supporters, when its time to criticize him we will but he is still better than gej 500 times.

godwin120alex:
D same problem Nebo was complaining of (sabotage) and pple never taught he was serious.Now d know he was not lieing. God is watching that's d much I can say

egift:
Re: Buhari To Move Against Pension For Ex- Governors

Make it rain

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