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desmond2pk:
We were sold to buhari by tinubu

I just wonder what Tinubu will be thinking at Bourdillon right now.

Maybe how he used lies and cunning to punish himself and Nigerians.

At least men have no more love illusion now.

No money, no love.

Though money guarantees no love. But at least it can make the woman pretend to love you. And will respect you & be very careful about misbehaving.

Lol. Ok.

ScotFree:
Let her go bro. You're not financially ready. Plus you still think it's not time yet. Another point is, she has found someone. Or her family has intoduced a man to her and she has given in to her parent's pressure. This is a fact. That's the only reason she is shying away from you now. You can't hold her back, don't try to. She will hate you for it if you try to spoil things for her when you aren't ready yourself.

Lesson to learn: Don't invest unwisely in a business that doesn't have a future. The wise ones know what i mean

Sharp guy.

@OP,
For no good reason, a girl will not just quit a long relationship. If there was nobody else, she'd be mounting pressure on you to marry.

Slowly, due to the economic situation and time/age, she has now agreed to heed her parents' advice.

Whatever you spent on her or how long you have both been together is sadly irrelevant right now. She sees no good future with you. It might be myopic on her part but that is the reality now.

Move on with your life & pray for your fortune to change for the better.

GavelSlam:
FFK was probably 7 years old at the time.

I guess, he had informants at the meetings that took place.

Or maybe he simply read a few memoirs so he could deduce what the truth is.

There are many memoirs out there and the truth is well-known.

Only Col. Katsina of the North kinda disagreed with the Accord from the beginning. The late Oba of Benin, Oba Erediauwa was among those at Aburi. As the permanent secretary of the cabinet office (the bureaucracy that ran FG seat of power then). It is in his memoir too.

Gowon was simply ill-prepared. While Oxford-educated Ojukwu was meticulously prepared. The Cambridge-educated Prince Solomon Akenzua (later Oba Erediauwa) could see it clearly. Ojukwu ambushed and floored Gowon cleanly.

All the Southern military governors as members of SMC who went to Aburi with Gowon to negotiate liked the accord because it gave them more power. Only Katsina was unhappy about the decentralisation of power it meant.

But when crucial decisions were to be taken, the well-educated civil servants that had years of experience in colonial civil service were asked to leave the room. Only to return and be given minutes of decisions reached. The FG civil servants would each time be horrified by the sheer amateurism of Jack Gowon.

By the time the Accord was to be officially ratified in an FG-Biafra meeting in the then Ultra-modern conference hall of NIFOR HQ near Benin City, Gowon under pressure from the North had realised his error in Aburi. They came with a watered-down version.

Meanwhile Igbo/Anioma sources in Midwest/FG already knew the content of the new FG version. So Ojukwu despite visiting Benin a day or so earlier refused to attend NIFOR meeting. Gowon & FG waited in vain and returned to Lagos.
So the war became inevitable.

Ghana govt has never disputed the Aburi Accord version that Ojukwu released.

Gowon was just too young & inexperienced.

Gen. Femi Ogundipe who was 10 years older than Gowon and far senior in the military, should have become HoS as deputy to Ironsi and would have handled the crisis far better. In fact Ojukwu was partly angered by sidelining of Ogundipe for Gowon to be HoS.

History is all there to read and learn.

chloride6:
Choi see fashola life....

Fashola just played into Fulani hands. He went and accepted an impossible job. Now his credibility is finished.

Fashola can't solve the problem because the Northern Cabal is not done using the electricity issue to slow down the growth of the South.

How can all parts of Nigeria have electricity at once?

Imagine if you passed a law saying MTN must roll out it's infrastructure in equal strength all over the country.

Or that all banks must have equal branches all over the country.

Yep! He WAS the most credible Southern politician until 2015. With age on his side. And a Muslim from a major ethnic group. So the North knew his potential to get very far in the next decade. So they decided to cut him short. Rubbish his hard-earned credibility and use him against SW political big shots like Tinubu.

They also began manipulating Amosun & Fayemi against Tinubu. Today those younger guys though they show outward respect to Tinubu, they have seen his weakness looking down from Abuja. Any of them would even fancy himself taking over as the most influential/powerful SW politician in a few years. The division the North wanted is already there simmering.

Well in pregnancy one should be always careful. No two pregnancies are same. Let alone two pregnant women being same in their experience of it.

Pictures please. Says more than a thousand words.

It is it dry or waterlogged land?

Pavore9:
A fugitive reinstated and promoted under PMB's watch....comedy in high places!

Even Mr Ibu will not show this funny comedy sef.

It is really beyond absurd and ridiculous now in 9ja.

kennygee:
She married an irresponsible man, I'll advice separation, not divorce tho.

When she has another man already? Why not just divorce? Adultery is a good reason for divorce.

The lady seems to attract irresponsible men. First the wimp that allowed his family to ruin his marriage, then the kaikai chimney that cannot hustle for his family. Seems like birds of a feather matter.

The woman should look at herself and her life choices carefully.

Nice one.

Oh boy, daddy will be very proud of you. Congrats.

You sabi better thing,

adenine02:
Rotary club is a non-govermental organization

With all the education you said you have over there you still think it northern agenda SMH

I am not the one running from vaccination. My kids get their vaccines from the best medical facilities there are. I need no rotary club or Man-O-War people to do it. By whose permission do Rotary club people dish out vaccines? Or you mean any group, cult group, NGO or whatever can just go about given out vaccines?

You need to understand the people on ground. Across Nigeria. Be it Akure, Benin or PH. Their worries, daily life & rumours making the round.

That is the problem with the elite and those who feel they are educated. They become very distant from the masses. Like the governors building vanity projects and statues.

Well, to know Northern agenda, read up on Ahmadu Bello. There are still videos of his interviews on youtube. Then compare it with the sequence of events in Nigeria since 1960s. Because indomie and facebook generation might not know.

adenine02:


I see polio resurfacing in the South

So I'm now wondering who's​ doing who

Polio vaccines are not given in market places in Benin. Most people are well informed and most women of childbearing age now had at least secondary school education.

They largely follow the vaccination protocol advised by their midwife/nurse/doctor.

The govt needs to tackle insecurity issues. With herdsmen killing and raping people in Ologbo area and other parts of the state and no action taken, the fear of Northern agenda is real. We have a very divided country right now.

If the govt & MoH led by Prof. Adewole cannot inform people properly, engage trusted healthcare workers and perhaps youth corpers too, they can expect more of this.

Hunger & recession have reformatted the brains of some zombies.
By Christmas more will follow.

But wailers forms are now gold dust. No new members please.

Please stay in Zombidom.

cstr1000:
A first class in law is something I somehow don't value too much. Maybe it is because it is in the humanities where talent is more often than not is verbally expressive and skill can be coached.
I hold a first class in the sciences with far more esteem.

All are intellectually challenging. Science combines both theory & practical. But law is actually one of those courses that has a practical base. Following rules to argue cases according to the constitution, be it the penal code, tort, corporate law, etc. And also following precedents. Same way a mechanical engineer, a genetic engineer or a chemist has to rely on empiricism and basic principles in guiding his work.

Sure, the extra time the scientists spends in the lab can be used by the arts person to read up massively.

We need to remember too that people of the arts, like the philosopher John Locke, were among those who promoted physical experience through experimentation as the best way to do science.

OKUCHI11:
Sir I am very grateful for this enlightenment........thank you.... concerning your last statement... George Orwell remarked that the. most effective way of destroying people is to obliterate their own understanding of their history.... please if may ask....why is history no longer taught in secondary schools....

Well I can only speculate. It is taught but very poorly & superficially. Standards have declined seriously. Like in all facets of life in Nigeria. You can now even "sort" than read widely on your own. If you have the money.

Many years ago I bumped into a young female Canadian professor in a European eatery. She was touring Europe. As we got acquainted she declared that her origin was Newfoundland in Canada. Then I began asking her questions about the area, the Gulf of Saint Lawrence/St Lawrence Seaway. Unable to properly answer the questions (she grew up in Ontario), she wondered how I even knew about the area. I explained that we covered all that in Regional Geography in 9ja around the age of 14. She was stunned. An African kid learning about waterway transportation in Newfoundland? And the economic importance of it in North America? And remembering it many years later?

I told her that if you wanted to get top grades, you needed to digest quite voluminous books. Be it in Geography, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, History or whatever. In secondary school. And we read to understand, not just to regurgitate. Our teachers told us then that if you passed your WAEC well, you could walk into any university in the anywhere world and do well. And So it came to pass.

It is a shame things have gone down badly in 9ja.

Zodiac61:
Do you know the information you have given to be the truth?
Because as far as I know, it is all made up propaganda.
There is name for people like you - 'Liars for Christ'. Those are people who just make up stories, regardless of the truth, because it furthers the kingdom of Christ.

Lol.

Well if you want to know about a religion you consult the holy book of that religion. And the acts/life of early adherents written down.
Nobody is forced to believe it. It is an individual choice. At least in the case of Christianity in modern times.

We then have the choice to doubt and castigate those who believe it (assuming adherents the said religion do not see it as a duty to kill such open opponent) or simply respect others' right to believe whatever they want.

What authoritative source/power makes you omniscient about things that were written down in antiquity?
What is the true version in your solomonic wisdom?

Please can you bpoint out anything that I fabricated that is not biblical or recorded by contemporaries or near contemporaries?

I do not even want to go into my

Oluwabusobomi:
Buhari is the worst thing to have happened to Nigeria!

I can see some programmed zombies above

2019 is the final bus stop for the Dullard of Daura

Twice. No coincidence.

RIP.

sirBLUNT:
OBA too dey go church?

Oba is head of Benin traditional church like Queen Elizabeth is head of the Anglican church. The Holy Aruosa is probably one of the oldest cathedrals in West Africa. Centuries old. Oba Orhogbua of Benin (reigned from 1550 to 1578) was trained in Portugal and became a Christian. His father Oba Esigie even joined his ancestors when he (Orhogbua) was in Portugal. Upon returning and becoming king, he wanted to make it a purely Christian monarchy like Portugal. But the powerful nobles/chiefs of Benin resisted.

Aside the King of Axum/Ethiopia, he became one of the earliest Sub-Saharan African Christian kings.

Yes, our education system sucks. It teaches hardly any proper history.

Nothing new. A few priests do return to laity.

In France, the Catholic church has been recruiting priests from Burundi & other francophone countries for years. Young French men are not taking up priesthood that much nowadays.

bentlywills:
The said white guys do hv small joysticks

How will the lady cope

Myth.

Asians generally have smaller ones but their women also have a smaller corresponding "apparatus". Nature is not foolish.

The whole sexual prowess thing being race dependent is a myth. It depends more on individuals.

pocohantas:
When oyibo man wan marry Nigerian woman. They'll come to our land, wear our dress, respect our culture, dobale for us, buy drinks...do whatever we want.

...but when lefulefu brothers want to marry oyibo granny, they'll be hiding in Ikoyi registry. They won't stop there o, they will still marry homebased wife...Naija men and low foreign exchange rate

HML to them

Only for another Nigerian lady to come and enjoy the paper your so called lefulefu brothers had to marry oyinbo ancestors to get. Direct to the West. Men hardly ever get any recognition for their sacrifice.

For every "lefulefu" marrying oyinbo granny now, there is one slay mama still flexing sugar daddies at school that will come and do chairwoman.

Zodiac61:
Morons like you turn every tragedy into an atheist bashing passion.
If God does exist, why did he allow two pastorsto die in a car crash?
What did he punish them for?
slowpoke.
I am sorry that they died in a crash. What an awful way to die.

Actually in Christianity, people were never promised easy life or total protection from tragedy.

Almost all apostles of Jesus died painfully. Many early Christians were fed to lions and other beasts. It is about faith till the end and hoping on God's grace to merit a place in the book of life. Not this earthly flesh here. I guess prosperity preaching of recent decades has selected a few verses from the Bible to promise the suffering masses lofty things here on earth. When in fact Jesus instructed those who are wealthy to give all they have to the poor.

Now many will not find embracing hardship and possibility of anything bad while being a good Christian as logical.
But if you want to rely on logic, you will have to try philosophy.

Rip. Life is mysterious.

Nice one...but dangerous.

adegeye38:
na gay party?

This must be fake news.

Osun with all its financial wahala?

Most airports in 9ja are under-used. Airline business is hardly viable in 9ja because of too many huddles.

Where will passengers be flying from & to? UK, USA, SA, Canada, France or where?

This is one of the problems of creating states anyhow. A superb upgraded Airport in Ibadan should serve Osun & beyond very well.

Asaba also built an airport when a nice mixed passenger-cargo airport at Onitsha (with two or three nice bridges over the Niger) & an upgraded Benin Airport would be enough.

Poverty is the main issue here.

Just one extra room could have prevented this.

Dandsome:
I weak.

People just didn't like Jonathan mostly because of tribalism.

Most of the things leveled against him were just lies

God bless you.

Those who believe they own Nigeria could not bear to have "an inconsequential minority" person rule without taking instructions from them. Worse still he appointed Igbo into good positions on merit. To them an Igbo should not hold positions unless the owners appoint him or her. Not a minority person.

Many who had food in the belly to curse & protest during GEJ time are going hungry now. Many cannot pay kids' school fees.

But we who expected Buhari to fail again like he did in 1983-85 prepared to it.

Vutseck:
where he they work abeg

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Prior to becoming king, he was a successful businessman, and Nigerian ambassador to Angola, Italy & Scandinavia (accredited to several countries there).

Now he hears cases of inheritance, land, family, communities, chieftaincy disputes, etc. Sometimes sitting till over 8pm! Also promotes tradition/culture/custom, wades into disputes between politicians to bring peace, tells govt/politicians of all parties the bitter truth about their performance or lack of. Obas are some of the busiest and most hardworking people. Just get close to the palace and see.

Every citizen with a dispute that cannot be resolved locally has the right to be heard by the palace. The Oba is so busy within the palace that there is no time for frivolous travelling everywhere.