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^^^. . . check that one out too at 64. . . . mu he he he he. . . You should have seen "mama bakassi" at this age too in Dele Giwa's arms.  Touche! Beat Bianca Ojukwu hands down! Hmmm!

I already have one of those. . . 

Gbawe:
[size=16pt]Olboy, unless you are one of the "young studs" in the picture I really don't see how their presence near Ita Giwa supports your argument.[/size]



In clubs folks dance with strangers and go seperate ways afterwards . Not so ?  In any case good-looking young men servicing revolting old women is not exactly a rare occurence in a Nation ravaged by poverty and youth unemployment.

Man mi, na my prerogative . On this occasion , I am happy to remain "baffled". As a good looking guy who has never had problems attracting tight,fine and head-turning nubians I must wonder why some folks find fat, ancient and over-texturized women ,who are old and look old , as fantasy objects. Perhaps it is the aphrodisiac quality some ascribe to power . Afterall ,we worship those in Power in Nigeria.

Some like 'em young. . . some like 'em old.

We are in agreement here but "old" does not have to look like Ita Giwa. Ita Giwa is simply not attractive IMO.
Iman is another fine "old" lady (55 years) whereas Ita Giwa simply is not. Unless dis na another "only in Nigeria"
thing where our standards has to be dumbed down compared to others.


https://www.jamati.com/online/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/iman222.jpg

Yes, we are in agreement.
Aren't you being a little myopic and superflous? You act like you have not aged yourself(pot-belly, wrinkled balls and all) or you have stopped loving your 'wrinkled' parents and grand parents. What is this drama about 'getting old'?
Do you think she was born 'old'? You should have seen this woman in her 'Makeba' days. . . !!!
Your name alone says it all. . . you are a 'bush' man!

Mon dieu!

justise:
@Blazay

I get it
You prefer her to your 'Z"

Now go bust a nut with her pic, hope you feel good afterwards

I did not say or imply that.
I only admire her charm and role as a strong woman in Nigeria that's all.
She knows how to take care of herself without a husband in Nigeria?
Not many would survive that rugged terraine of Nigerian politics. . . Mariam Abacha was also a widow remember? Oh! I forgot. . . Sharia territory, poor North.

You have to meet her in person to understand son. . .

There are women and there are women!!!!

I appreciate only women who have made quite an impression on me. . . .of ALL ages. . . "Mama Flo" is just one of them.
No problem there.

You go mama!!!

http://www.naijarules.com/vb/news-current-affairs-politics/19416-no-apologies-florence-ita-giwa.html

[size=16pt]No Apologies-Florence Ita Giwa
No Apologies
I feel no need to apologise for my life[/size]

By Ijeoma Ogwuegbu ijogwuegbu@sunnewsonline.com
Saturday, November 11, 2006

Encountering Senator Florence Ita Giwa is not at all what you expect it to be. Her media image goes before her and depending on who you are, you’ve probably put her in your own little descriptive box; Mama Bakassi, Obasanjo loyalist, Dele Giwa’s wife, political juggernaut and if you’re one of those millions whose only prism of viewing her is through the pages of the soft-sell media, as a mama calabar-style party lover.

But none of these descriptions fully captures the essence of this woman.

Meeting her and listening to her talk makes you realise that Florence Ita-Giwa is probably one of those rare and complex characters who, rather than exist by the definition of others, live their lives exactly the way they themselves want to live.
“Why do you have to apologise for your life? I don’t feel the need to do that,” she says, as the cameras paused at the recording of a recent New Dawn with Funmi Iyanda’s appearance.

“Why do you have to let the judgment of other people determine how you live your life?

Some people, especially women, because of the kind of relationship they are in, they can’t be successful or they are afraid to be successful because there are some men who are afraid of successful women. So you feel you have to apologize for wanting to achieve success. This person will rather than support you, make you feel that you should not have that success.

[size=16pt]You should not allow anyone judge you or make you apologize for your life.[/size]

You need to leave such a relationship and find someone who’ll support you rather than want to bring you down.”

Self-confidence
Her self-confidence is evident in every thing she does; from the fact that she seems to have faith in her own ideas and is more than ready to share them with you.
“I think it is important for everyone to have that self confidence, other wise you can’t move in life. My late journalist mother, who was the first female journalist from the south, imbibed this in me. To have that self-confidence has a lot to do with your upbringing and what you do. I’m a politician and address people to win elections.

Naturally, I’m a very shy person. I enjoy being on my own a lot. But when I have to perform, I don’t hold myself back. But I like my privacy, I like my quiet. For instance, I don’t keep guests in my house because I want to be able to come back home from all that hype and show and acting to be on my own.”
As you listen to her, you struggle to situate the person she’s turning out to be next to the image you’ve carried around in your head. But don’t worry that she might be surprised to hear you’re doing this; she’s used to it.

Misconceptions
“I’ve faced a lot of misconceptions about me, especially with how people expect you to talk or dress, or how they expect a virtuous woman to be. You can still be a virtuous woman and pursue whatever career you want to. It all depends on who you are as a person. I’m a politician, I’m in public life. The good thing is I come from one of the most civilized areas in this country.

[size=16pt]I’ve contested four elections and I’ve won four elections.[/size]

There’s this wrong notion of what a woman should be like, they expect you to be an Iro and Buba, and cover yourself up. I’ve brought out that as a woman at any age or stage, you can come out in your jeans or trousers and your shirts and come out and campaign. The most important thing is what you have in your head and what programs you have for your people and how serious you are as a woman. I have a home, and I believe my home is almost pathologically clean and holy. I’ve also brought what I believe are some of the most brilliant and well-behaved children. So it’s only for people to be able to separate what you really are from what they expect you to be.”

“I’ve always worked hard. I used to run two pharmacies in Lagos, one in Ikoyi and one in Apapa. I also ran two hospital equipment supply shops, also in Lagos,” she says. “At the same time, I was supplying wholesale equipment to hospitals, and also selling wholesale pharmaceuticals from Idumota. So I was running at that speed. In fact, because my friends used to erroneously say because of the speed with which I moved and did every thing, that I was crazy. But my mother used to say, if the way you do things well, means that you’re crazy, please let the madness continue. They are the ones that are mad because they are not focused.”

Sweet mother
Her mother seems to figure a lot in the tenets that have moulded her core. Even her hard work can be traced back to watching her mother at work.
“I preach to the girls growing up around me that no matter how pretty you are, you must strive to succeed as a person. You must set out your goals in life and pursue them. I saw my mum as a working woman, striving hard for success, at one stage with a broken home and it was because of her career. I saw this lady who was running three newspapers for Zik at the time, she was running West African Pilot, Guardian and Morning Post then. Then she was also trading, taking goods from Nigeria to other countries and also bringing goods from there in. I grew up with a woman who was doing so many things at the same time and yet could run her home confidently, and yet could go into the kitchen and cook. She always carried that happy, fulfilled look on her face. So if you grow up in that kind of environment, you have no choice but to succeed.”

“I’ve very important thing is for a woman to have her own money,” she adds. “It goes back again to the issue of confidence. When you have your own money, you know you don’t have to beg anyone for things you need, you can do things for yourself.” But in no ways does this sentiment mean she endorses feminism. “You have to separate that from feminism though, which I’m totally against. I’m a woman, if there’s anything like re-incanartion, I want to come back as a woman. I love the fact that you can be a woman and still succeed at anything you want to do in life. I find it fascinating. I don’t believe because you want to succeed, you have to turn yourself into a man, or be colourless. I’m a woman, a Calabar woman, with everything intact.”

Influential politician
As one of the most influential politicians of either gender in Nigeria at the moment, it’ll do any female politician a world of good to take notes from her. She has some pearls of wisdom to share.
I’ve gone for very tough elections. I’ve never won elections with the ruling party. I’ve gone for elections where I face men and they don’t find it funny that a woman is running against and defeating them. As a woman politician you have to have the ability to convince people and also have your own money. I don’t have a godfather or mentor so I did everything with my own money for every election. When I was in the senate, I was the only senator from the APP from the South-South. I think you have to take away the word fear from your dictionary if you want to be a female politician because politics is all about intimidation.

You have to pray to God to take away fear from you so that you can do whatever needs to be done. I contested with a man and everyday, they would be shooting bullets into my premises and ordinarily, this is something that would make you pick your bags and run. But I went and made a miniature fake coffin, draped his posters around it, and it took it to his doorstep and asked him to come out. They had to run away. There might be shock that a woman can do that but my mother always told me that life is rough. Because if you’re weak and easily frightened, you’ll not be able to face life.”
You would think as a female politician, she would support any laws that might seem to be in the favour of other women like herself. But there’s one bill that Ita Giwa would be glad to see the back of; 35% representation.

“ I personally don’t support the 35% representation for women in all positions. Why don’t we just go out and fight for it on the same platform as the men? First of all, how are you sure that where you come from, the people there want you to represent them? So now you want to force them. That is weakness, as far as I’m concerned. Why do you want to present yourself as weak? Another problem with some women politicians is that once they hear that there’s an election, they want to be heard, even though they’ve not paid their dues, they say, I want to be governor, I want to be president, maybe they make noise and at the end, maybe they get one or two things and after elections, they disappear.”

The real leaders
Ita Giwa is very proud of the current crop of women leaders which she is part of. She even let you into on an open secret.
“I would say with all modesty that women are virtually running this country right now. In very key positions in government, you’ll find women holding the forte. I’m in the national assembly. You can’t run this country if you don’t have a peaceful National Assembly. Benadi is in Finance, Ngozi was there and she did very well. Oby is in education, he has just gone and brought Joy Ogwu to head the foreign ministry. All the strategic positions in the country are currently held by women, not men. The president is very good at talent hunting.

He goes around looking for women who are successful in whatever field they are in. everyday, he sees my picture on the cover of one fashion magazine or the other. He’ll say, look at my special adviser. But he never holds that against me. That is not an issue as far as he is concerned. What he is concerned with is what you have in your head, whether if he wakes you up with a phone call at 5.30 am to discuss important issues that affect the country, are you mentally alert to contribute?”

The Dele Giwa connection
Looking back at her past, it’s evident that her gusto has come at a very high price. You wonder if you could have the same outlook if the same things happened to you.
“Some horrible things have happened to me in life. I was once married to a man that was blown up with a letter bomb. I knew a handsome young man, and the next thing I went to the mortuary and half of his body had been mutilated and almost turned to mince meat. These things you take with dignified strength and silence. But you also along the line build your own natural defences and natural shock absorber. For now, there’s very little that can shock me, I just take it that it was not meant to be.”
The man in question was of course assassinated journalist, Dele Giwa. It’s clear that he still holds a spot in her heart.

I loved Dele Giwa a lot. Then we were going for a party and some journalist friends of mine brought him to my house to pick me up and I was star-struck because I couldn’t believe that this person I had been reading was in my house. We started talking and from there went to the party. We sat on the floor at the party and continued talking about journalism, his column and so many other things. We talked all night and we never left each other’s side until we got engaged three weeks later and got married six weeks later.”

Since his death, she has not remarried. But she insists this has not affected her adversely.

[size=16pt] “People have eventually come to accept the fact that I have a lot of male friends.[/size]

I don’t have any problems, I have a lot of very good male friends, and they are excellent human beings that do not take advantage of women, some people who even came before their time. These are people who think like me, that men and women can have relationships that are not physical because a lot of Africans, Nigerians don’t know that. So I’m very pampered and spoiled because I have friends who do things for me. So I haven’t missed out on not remarrying because whenever I needed things to be done, there are always people there to do them.”

My liposuction
One facet of her life that is very much in the public domain is her style and love of looking good. In fact, she’s rumoured to have done some liposuction on her thighs. [size=16pt]She assures you it’s no rumour.[/size] “I don’t see anything wrong with it, if you have the courage, if there’s some part of your body you don’t really like, do something to change it if you can. The only part of my body I didn’t like were my thighs. I got these very broad hips from my mother. I made my friends laugh when I had my liposuction, I told them I was going to take the fat to my mother’s grave and say, “ Ma Beatrice, take your thing.” I just decided to go and take out that part of my hips that were sticking out that I didn’t like and since then, it has added to my confidence,

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpage, 1-2006-001.htm

^^^

So?

Why should that bother you or me?

Tell the 2 hunks she is 'frollicking' with up there bro. . .

Clearly, mama bakassi is too much for 2 and some change. . . .

Remember she pays? The boys do it all. . . .she does not have to lift a thigh.

Florence Ita Giwa
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Florence Ita Giwa

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Senator for Cross River South
Incumbent
Assumed office
29 May 1999
Succeeded by Bassey Henshaw

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Born 1946
Cross River State, Nigeria
Florence Ita Giwa (born 1946) was elected Senator for the Cross River South constituency of Cross River State, Nigeria at the start of the Nigerian Fourth Republic, running on the All People's Party (APP) platform. She held office from May 1999 to May 2003.[1]

Ita-Giwa was born in 1946, and attended the Kilburn Polytechnic in London, United Kingdom.[2] She became a nurse, then a representative for the Beecham pharmaceutical, and then moved to Standall Pharmaceutical where she represented Lagos State.[3] [size=16pt]She married Dele Giwa, the founding editor of Newswatch magazine.[2] Her husband was killed in late 1986 with a parcel bomb.[/size] [4]

Ita-Giwa was elected a member of the federal House of Representatives 1992-93, and was a member of the committee on devolution of power constituent assembly 1994-95.[2] She became involved in Bakassi affairs, and earned the nickname "Mama Bakassi".[3] Ita-Giwa was elected Senator for the Cross River South constituency in April 1999 and was appointed to committees on Rules and Procedures, Environment, Foreign Affairs, Women, Niger Delta and Drug & Narcotics.[5]

After leaving the senate in 2003, she joined the People's Democratic Party PDP, and became [size=16pt]President Olusegun Obasanjo's Special Adviser on National Assembly Matters.[/size][4] In May 2010 there were rumors that funds were missing from the account of the Bakassi Resettlement Committee, chaired by Ita-Giwa, who asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to investigate the matter.

Gotta give it to the man. . . Dele Giwa knew a dann good thing too.
Even OBJ! Who else would know, but the shiner of all shinable congos huh?
Eat ya hearts and souls out fellas. . .

^^^

The picture in the opening page speaks for itself and you are still having doubts?
Might be Jesus coming and you will still have doubts.
Free your mind bro. . . nobody cares what float your boats.
The two young studs in the picture do not share your sentiments.
Stay baffled for ever.

Some like 'em young. . . some like 'em old.

Mama has been having the young dudes since Dele Giwa. . . . Mu he he he he

Nigeria is still a primitive society indeed.
These comments would not be seen in any part of the civilized world.
Just as tribalism reigns surpreme, so does sexism.
A woman decides to exercise her alienable, God-given rights at 64. . . not married, single and free to mingle.
What do we have here?

Insults from traditional minded bigots and sexists.
Will you all mind your businesses. . . just for once?
What a country!

No wonder women still get married off at 13 years old.

Go Mama Ita. . . .4k 'em!

Do ya thaaang and let them eat shiaat!

oyb:
insert tribalist joke

is blazay aboki?

i thot abokis liked em young, not old

I love mine old and well seasoned and uninhibited. . . .You may have all the frustrated, secondary/tertiary sexual virgins on NL, Face Book and Nigeria at large.

I love my women full of soul and sin. . . . old too. I have no use for local, sanctimonious, moralistic virgins who call upon the holy spirit to bless my 'last supper' at every turn.

Old enough to do it all and pay handsomely too, not indigent house maids or unemployed, desperate singles of 30-40 somethings. Engaging a 20 something not to talk of a teen would be beneath me for sure.

Levels please.

mens dept:
And why is she a senator?

She was and is no longer one. . . she has passed on the shoes to a worthy apprentice.
What a question.
I'm blusssshin'.
Her legislative 'prowess' I believe.
The cougar of all cougars. . . 

Hmmm!

Very spiritual.

Jakumo:
Ha ha it ain't no thang Blazay.  Some men prefer Bambi, while some will only settle for Godzilla.    

Just take my word on this one, buddy.   I feel no emotion at all, with respect to how old women spend their time and money, since I will NEVER be part of that equation.  

Thank you Jeeeesus.

Fair enough then. . . .My do not disturb sign is always up. . .

Thou protestest too much with the name calling. . .

Bambi's still got teeth. . . watch out! Beware of 'castration' or have a gun under your pillow always. . . in case you fail to pay up or you tick her off.

Mama's only got 'falsies' and gums. . . play safe buddy.

Don't let the 'bugs' bite.

Jakumo:
Without question, that old woman is WAY past the age when any man would find her attractive for any reason other than money, but hey, she is ENJOYING her time on earth by PAYING for sex, much like those pot-bellied Nigerian men do when they charter the services of hot young university girls for the purpose of sexual healing.

By way of example, Hugh Hefner, the 85-year-old billionaire founder of the Playboy empire, loves to bone young 20-something blond beach girls so much that he retains THREE of them in his Holmby Hills mansion.   For this reason old Hugh is LOATHED by older women because he will NEVER hire one of them for anything beyond house-cleaning duty, while on the other side of the coin most red-blooded men would give a right arm to trade places with that uber-playboy for just one night.

Go on Senator Ita Giwa.  Physically, you are as ugly as sin, and that won't ever change, BUT, you can still get yourself properly serviced by young muscle-men to your heart's content - by being generous with the cash you looted from the national treasury.

Praise the Lord.

May I please remind you that Chidi Mokeme was her faithful companion for over 10 years. . . and Ramsey Nouah is her current companion. . . I don't mean 'seeing eye dogs' either. Well, call it money or whateva. Men like myself actually find her very sexxy. Ugly as sin?

This smacks of jealousy. . . why the vernom?
Feeling a little chanced by the younger dudes seen in her company?
Would you like to trade places/spaces with me for a night?

Hell hath no fury than a younger man scorned. . . .by an even younger?

We all have to pay for 'sex' and other 'sexual' commodities at one time or the other. . . even to our wives.

Get used to it buddy. . . young. . .old. . .whatever works. You will have to pay.
'
Economically-speaking. . . I'd rather be paid than pay some spring chicken who won't perform as "expediently" as mama flo. . . I would hate to disgrace my wife in such a fashion by hanging out with economical liabilites.

I never!

Bianca Ojukwu never complained about sucking an ol co*rk. . . however respectfully married huh?

No discrimination please. . . this is the 21st century.

Let's roll 'mama'. . . I say, "I will die for ya". . . .

justise:
oh yeah, leave matter my guy

The oldest I ever did was a 60 yr old white lady
But I have seen 80 yr olds on video that are doable.

However, I have never seen any black lady > 40 that I would do

Geriatric por-n?
Or did you work in a nursing home to pay for your 'Princeton' education by chopping all those 60 year old white congos?

Irony of life. I am gonna resist the temptation to make this an ethnic comparative analysis in criminology. . . .  I have stories to tell I tellya. . .
You will rarely catch an aboki stealing as your 'security agent'. . .All the other tribes have done just that. . . even despoiled and killed their madams and masters or their children. See the latest case of missing 'sharon'?

I think it is more than 100% of the Northerners as security details in the south. No other tribe can survive in those huts. . . or run around those mansions opening and shutting gates from dusk till dawn.

Irony of life I say.

Back to topic. . . I think the Jos 'pirates' should also be on the Federal Government's payroll too.
Even Osisi Kan Nkwu should be given a state burial posthumously.

buzugee:
you would actually fork an 80 year old white woman ? geezzzz thats downright nasty and appalling

Can you imagine. . .?
Something like Prince Charles' mother's kootchie . . .stinking up the ecosystem like an Afghan poultry. . . all the way from the UK across the Atlantic ocean, without respect for plants, animals or humans? 


That fstranger of a dude is sick I swia.
Compared to my sexxy momma Ita-Giwa. A whole Mama "I will die for you" Africa?

An 80 year-old white butt stinking of 'Bengay' and  'Icy hot' combined? Crapping from both ends of the butt too. . .

Search me o. . . broda search me.

Imagine the konkon-bi-Ri-ty!

This is ridiculous.
One of the reasons I soooooooo want Atiku to win.
This Jonathan is a disgrace.

Alaibe said since the inclusion of the group, his office had been working hard to ensure they benefitted from the programme and that indeed arrangement had been put in place for a decentralised payment of the stipend in all the states of the region.

Say what?

His words: “Given that proper bank accounts are yet to be opened for these new entrants, the Amnesty Office working closely with the Joint Military Task Force, JTF, arranged for the payments to be done directly to the 6,166 ex-militants in pay-parade format at designated locations and this arrangement was promptly communicated to the leaders of the ex-militants who excitedly welcomed it.

Hmmmmmm!
Nigeria is finished!

According to the group, it was protesting their non-inclusion in the benefits of the amnesty programme, especially the N65,000 stipend and feeding allowance paid to their colleagues on a monthly basis.

What a pity.
Who are their colleagues?

The attackers who damaged the gate of the premises and disputed activities in the amnesty office, were part of the last group of 6,600 ex-militants who got presidential approval only last month to be included in the programme, more than one year after the expiration of October 4, 2009 deadline for them to surrender.

Unbelievable. Amnesty to terrorists? Only in Africa. . . !!!

^^^
Do you blame them"
Why you nor wait for dia huh?

First, we had dead whales. . . . now pirates.

What next?

Mammy wotas?

Or Jisos floating around with his 12 disciples?

Disu Fashola is working wonders in disu Lagos o!

Chai!

Mu he he he he

Or could they be 'Dutch' slave merchant ships. . . ?

Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
ho ho ho and a bottle of rum!


Chips ahoy!

Nigerian press na wah!

Which wan be pirates again?

Pirates. . . fancy word for 'terrorists'?
Treasure Island does not come to mind.
Never knew we had "pirates" in Lagos waters. . .

Are these "Nigerian" pirates or illegal pirates?

Or do we mean 'area boys'?
Or 'youth'. . .

UP PDP!!!
Scatter the enemy camp.
May their paths be dark and slippery!

^^^

All 24 of them huh?  Dem for ku ku ma make am 40 now(24 is too small a number for the desired effect). Ali Baba and the 40 thieves from Bayelsa State looks a whole lot more appetizing. . . Alamie wonder will be there for sure.

alj harem1:


no murder me ooo kai!

Quite hilarious my broda. . . quite hilarious. . .

But the secretary of the PDP in the state, Chief James Angaye, yesterday, said the party has not been formally informed of the intention of Alaibe and Kubor to abandon the party and will not stop anyone interested in seeking political interest in another party in 2011.

Did Dora the fish give any formal notice. . . within 24 hours of the rumor she was in her OKJ zip code and Sahara Reporters. . . distributing congo to all the chiefs in her local government area. . .as formal notice.

Huh!

So "Jonah" cannot control the affairs of his own state huh?
Ho ho ho
Merry Xmas.

So lemme get this.
Adamawa cannot go to Atiku. . .?
Bayalsa cannot got to Goodluck. . .?

Signs and wonders.

“A list of 24 aspirants from the governor has been sent to Abuja and the governor directed that everybody should be disqualified. We are leaving the party to pursue our aspirations elsewhere. We are not participating in their primaries.

Very democratic methinks. . .