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EliteStriker:
front page is sure

Glink2018:
Trust my Igbo brother. Some of the truck go enter Alaba market or oshodi mechanic village

LarrySun:
Life is vain.

Ajibel:
Will you shut up anonimi. You're very notorious around here for posting trash on any Lagos related threads. You're just as annoying as musiwa. You never see anything good with any policy they come up with. I wonder how much joy or orgasm you get from all these tinubu's pictures you always use to spam any Lagos related thread.

Elxandre:
Just confused.
What else does constituted authority mean?

Pierced:
Is this really necessary?
U that's mocking the governor......think u are immune?

satowind:
Some people live in hell and are always rebuking Satan and hell. Nigeria is hell

angrykids:
Finding it hard to understand this people in the mist of the world epidemic,you are still increasing light tariff, where people never even see food chop,not that the light is even constant, black man is a problem to his fellow black man

Imarnuel08:
What kind of Crass insensitive beings do we have in Nigeria?
Rwanda is planing to give free electricity, water and food items to reduce the effects of the lockdown.
Nigeria is a laughing stock

StagethemTVee:
That would be so insensitive of the goverment. When others are putting palliative measures, stopping interest rates and payments on loans, we are doing the opposite.

loveliveshere:
Come back here you bag of shit.
All of a sudden you don't wanna trade insult, but you had the guts to insult a whole ethnic group.
I'll just pretend like your stupidity isn't oozing, I will take a walk, but next time, watch your back.
Omo Iran kiran

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

iammo:
Even your pics clearly showed Bulion Van of Tinubu's money he was willing to dash out to people in front of his gate, and he also pledge 200m.. what has any of your Governors who served ibo land done with their lifes after.

Goke7:
you are so ignorant. Lagos state has a database with the lasra stuff, you just come online and post what don't know. Many Lagosians have their lasra card including me. Pls stop displaying your ignorance

Illusioneffect:
Is this only for those born in Lagos?

iammo:

God Bless Bola Ahmed Tinubu
God Bless babatunde fashola
God bless Ambode
God bless Sanwo olu

This relief material would get to Ipobian dunce who migrated from the backward Aba and they would finish eating it and come online to insult Tinubu's legacy as the ingrate yamree that they are, they would insult yorubas with the food we fed them, while all their Audo billionaire from Sad Yeast wont donate a kobo.

toffyz:
Wow! commendable.

Ajibel:
Lagos State Government has confirmed that the SMS messages forwarded to residents of the State who are sixty years old and above was part of the measures put in place to reach the aged and vulnerable residents for whom the stimulus food package unveiled by the State Government on Friday 27th March, 2020 is meant for.

9jatrendz:
Too much money

kheart:
Trust this woman at your own peril. Ask Npower guys

toluzealous:
Who are those poorest ooo.... Fools

helinues:
What is the definition of single forever? Not living with a woman?

naptu2:
Laws of the Federation 2004. Ask yourself why it's in plural.
All the laws that existed in 2004 were codified into a single document for easy access. It does not mean that that was the year that the law was passed.
A similar thing was done in 1990.
For example, this is the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990. You can see the date that it was enacted (2nd January 1990).
However, you can continue entertaining me with your ignorance. It's very funny.

nwasteve:
Only in Nigeria
We dey God's hand

Yankee101:
And the free 1million test kits from Jack Ma?
We don start again for naija

toluzealous:
Trump flexing muscle , thought no entertaining of flight in the country

Despite the temporary closure of Nigeria international airports, a chartered flight from the United States of America, USA, Monday landed at the Muritala Muhummed International Airport, Lagos with 35 persons aboard. The passengers aboard the flight are Americans working with the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.

Eriggs:
This is not about flexing muscles, make una learn dey type with sense. Dem no born any country well to land for Naija without prior notice to the Government, especially at this pandemic period. Only if there is war or the country is called Iran or Iraq. Get your facts right.
And Nigeria is not the first or fifth country America went to evacuate their citizens.

SweetCunt97:
Aswear if this wasn't online, the kinda uppercut wey I for done woooze that your long mouth eh, you go get sense by force.

SweetCunt97:
Pleaaaassseee this Country has tired me. I am depressed, life is hard! Who will save me? Promise to be loyal and humble. I won't grow wings and fly once my feet touch the free world.
I'll do anything please, just get me out of here!

safarigirl:
His size alone, put him at a disadvantage medically.
All that cholesterol, will work against anybody. He was a health risk to himself.
Many people have had this virus and stayed home to treat themselves. Hydrate, take lots of vitamins, humid baths, honey, paracetamol, this is what has helped a lot of people.
The Hospitals are overworked and overcrowded, they cannot treat everyone. You have to treat yourself
Rest In Peace to him