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iamoyindamola:
Na the same thing
They can be in opuehship

That woman that was the former NDDC MD back then said she slapped Akpabio for making advances at her in his hotel. I won't be surprised if this Natasha own too has to do with Akpabio letting his diick think for him rather than his brain.

akwesenana:
That was things fall apart. Okonkwos friend to him.

Arrows of God

Akaekpuchionwa2:
The same Achebe that worked under Ojukwu as a diplomatic envoy. Same Ojukwu who will rather fight than take order from Gowon.
Achebe will disagree with you here

How did Ojukwu's fight with Gowon end?

Didn't it lead to loss of lives on both sides? Did it not leave thousands of people who fought with Ojukwu dead?

Akaekpuchionwa2:
Stopped reading when he said he was without troops

If u were to be a man who is well read , u would’ve come across one of Chinua Achebe’s quotes in Arrows of God :

It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, my son, but sometimes it is better to be a coward.
We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live

That article simply pointed out different military men who lost their lives trying to form actor when their junior officers executed military coups ; Needless to say Ironsi was one of those people who lost his life and even the Murtala u also claimed didn’t run also lost his life in a gruesome manner .

It appears as though u are not satisfied that Ogundipe didn’t waste his life trying to wrestle power from junior officers who had control of the armory as well as different military formations .

The fact that u are soldier does not mean that u should throw away ur life when the odds are not in ur favor

iamoyindamola:
Godfatherism is the beginning of see finish in this country
Just look at Natasha and akpabio too, na see finish cause am even though akpabio is a bigger idiot but no respect for office again
Everybody is just doing anyhow as long as they have backing somewhere

I think there's more than meets the eye in the case of Natasha vs Akpabio matter sha . There's something between them they are not telling the public

izzou:
[color=royalblue]As much as godfatherism is what our politics is founded on, these godfathers should fear God small and let the governor have small powers

How can majority of the house impeach someone, godfather put am back?

Wetin Tinubu wan use Lagos do again? Ahn Ahn?

Just made a complete fool out of Sanwo-Olu.[/color]

At this point, I'm sure Sanwoolu just wants to complete his second term in peace and retire to private life. I mean look at how his principal just downgrade him by siding with Obasa and having police and other security agents doing Obasa's bidding. It's a show of shame.

It is just appalling that individuals can do as they like once they have the backing of the Tinubu-led FG

Akaekpuchionwa2:
There's no difference. Ironsi didn't run, Murtalla did not run. He assumed position, according to IBB OBJ wanted to run, but Danjuma pressured him to take over. So why did Ogundipe run? These guys are soldiers and not civilian political leaders.

This agenda you are flying has long been quashed in the Vanguard newspaper of 18th November 2017 by Emeka Obasi

This is a battle I will fight until recognition comes the way of Nigeria’s first Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters, Brig.[Gen.] Babafemi Olatunde Ogundipe. History must be fair to this man even if compatriots look the other way.

The story that he ran away from Nigeria because he was not brave enough to take over as Head of State following the assassination of Gen. Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi is not true. It is like calling a dog a bad name to hang it.

Ogundipe, with identification, N6, was right in all decisions he took after the July 1966 coup. He was the most senior officer alive, the only brigadier still standing and at the brink of execution. All those commissioned before him[ Ironsi,N2, Brig. Samuel Ademulegun, N3, Col. Raph Sodeinde,N4 and Col. Kuru Mohammed N5], but one, [Col. Wellington Bassey,N1] had been murdered.

The Yoruba had lost almost all their senior officers. Lt.Col. Adekunle Fajuyi was killed with Ironsi in Ibadan, the Yoruba headquarters. Ademulegun and Sodeinde were shot in Kaduna, regional capital of the North. Col. Adeyinka Adebayo was away while Lt.Col. Victor Banjo was in detention.

Those who killed Ironsi and Fajuyi were junior officers and non commissioned officers. Titus Numan snatched the military leader’s crocodile stick while other ranks, some accounts say Ibrahim Rabo, Tijani Maiduguri, Sabo Kwale and Clement Dabang, among others, did the damage.

So how could anybody blame Ogundipe whose orders were ignored by an NCO for not taking over government. Lt.Col. Emeka Ojukwu was being diplomatic when he expected the most senior officer after Ironsi to be named Head of State instead of Lt.Col. Yakubu Gowon.

Ogundipe had no troops. Those who should have come to his defence were not there for him. The Army was made up of the First Brigade, Lagos commanded by Lt.Col Hilary Njoku and the Second Brigade, Kaduna under Col. Bassey. The former was with Ironsi and escaped with bullet wounds while the latter did not react at all.

Please let us get this right. When Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was killed in January 1966, President Nnamdi Azikiwe was out of the country. Acting President, Dr. Nwafor Orizu, did not have the power to fight. He invited Ironsi to take over.

When Gowon was sacked in 1975, the next in command, Admiral Edet Wey, did not challenge Brig. Murtala Mohammed and his boys. The most senior Army officer, Gen. David Ejoor, did not fire a shot. They all went into retirement. No one blamed them for not taking over.

I will tell the Obasanjo story. We have to thank the duo of Gen. Alani Akinrinade and Brig. Godwin Alabi-Isama for being there for Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo when Murtala was killed in 1976. OBJ was marked for death but escaped and went into hiding, yes, for good.

Possibly, Gen. Yakubu Danjuma, would have stepped in if his pals, Akinrinade and Alabi-Isama did not play smart. Akinrinade as GOC, First Division, Kaduna held on firmly and told the plotters to go to hell. Alabi-Isama was handling Danjuma in Lagos. Col.Sani Abacha’s Brigade in Port Harcourt faulted the coup just like Col. Mamman Vatsa in Calabar.

There was no such bold action by anyone to support Ogundipe. He was left alone. A general without troops is as good as an eunuch. He would not perform even if you presented him with seven virgin from tropics.

When President Umaru Yar’adua passed on, it took the whole nation to take Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to the top, in spite of the Constitutional provisions. We began to hear about ‘Doctrine of Necessity.’

Ogundipe relocated to the United Kingdom where he became High Commissioner. Gowon, two ranks his junior,was Head of State. Wise decision. Ogundipe did not want to serve in Nigeria under Gowon. Others did it. He died in London on November, 20 ,1971.

Ogundipe was right. The Yoruba have never been favoured in any coup. They lost Ademulegun and his wife Feyi; Col. Sodeinde, Maj. Samuel Adegoke and Sgt. Daramola Oyegoke on January 15, 1966. In July, Fajuyi, Maj. Ayodele Ogunro, Lts. S.E. Idowu and A.O. Olaniyan died.

The February 1966 coup consumed Col. Ibrahim Taiwo, Lt. Akintunde Akinsehinwa, Majs. Ola Ogunmekan and Kola Afolabi. Murtala’s wife is Yoruba. The Vatsa plot of 1985 took Maj. Idowu Bamidele and Squadron Leader Martin Luther King.

The Gideon Orkar coup of 1990 cost four Yoruba lives. Okar was married to an Ogbomoso woman. All seven men condemned to death after the coup against Abacha in 1998 were Yoruba.

It is in this vein that I call on all Yoruba to stand up today and honour Ogundipe. Monday, November 20, 2017 will be 46 years since he departed. I expect to see full page ads in at least three major national newspapers.

It is ignorance to refer to him as a coward. A man who fought in Burma, the land of the Wa, expert head hunters, saw action in India and spent three years in the Congo fighting, deserves all respect. Between the Awujale of Ijebu land and Chief Olusola Ogundipe, something must be done to immortalize this officer.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/11/in-defence-of-babafemi-ogundipe/

Ibime:
Yes it can. Half bottle of sniper will kill tinnitus instantly.

😂😂😂

Why u no want swiz drink water drop cup na ?

Salebo:
You have confirmed that you are CONFUSED...Here we go again :

You are such a CONFUSED foooool...after claiming he was removed by President Bola Tinubu because he wanted to be Governor of Lagos in the place of Seyi Tinubu..

They already said you are a bot programmed to repeat the same gibberish over and over again; and u have rightfully confirmed that.

It must feel really bad to be a bot.

badoh:
But you people said Obasa was removed to pave the way for Seyi Tinubu.Why are you backtracking now?

Which people?

Where did me and u sit to have that discussion?

yewit37486:
The Salebo bot you quoted is pasting the same comment everywhere to reply anyone he perceives is against Obasa, he is a jobless guy who can't even reason at all. Don't waste your time with him.

Thanks.

So he's one of those bots? No wonder! I was confused and wondering what he was waffling about.

iamoyindamola:
https://www.nairaland.com/8353827/lagos-lawmakers-reject-obasa-insist

PROBLEM e no they finish
Blueraydick, what does the law say in this situation
The issue is that we always try to outsmart the law in this country

Even law go confuse for this matter . Na Lawmakers sef dey scatter the head of law

Salebo:
You are such a confused foooool...after claiming he was removed by President Bola Tinubu because he wanted to be Governor of Lagos in the place of Seyi Tinubu..

Where did me and u have that discussion?

Some of u will just open ur rotten mouth like pit latrine and maggot will come out.

The whole drama is funny and at the same time shameful.

It is funny that a single individual wants to impose himself as the leader of a 40-man group and he actually thinks he has every right to do so.

It is shameful because the powers that be actually supports his line of reasoning and are willing to make available to him every instrument/machinery of the state for him to achieve such inglorious goal .

Now he will be presiding over members who don't want him on the seat. How will they be able to legislate properly in the best interest of the state when they don't even agree ?

TrebleChamp:
Is Tinubu and Sanwo-Olu having a battle we are not aware of? The new speaker is supported by Sanwo-Olu, while Obasa allegedly have the support of Mr President...

I honestly don't know.

But the way Obasa is moving ehn, he's moving like he has all the GAC members and Tinubu's nudes

https://www.nairaland.com/8353704/resumed-remain-speaker-lagos-assembly

Obasa said he's back like he never left

I just can't imagine how they will legislate in the Lagos state house of assembly for the next years before 2027.

I mean almost all the members of the house bar himself, and one other member voted against him and ousted him. So, for the next two years he will sit at the top of the table presiding over those same members who said they don't him to be their head.

Na wa o.

I think one major problem we have in this country is caring too much about the tribe/ethnic group of a criminal/suspected criminal than the actual crime the person committed.

If Nigeria were to be a working country, criminals are to be apprehended and tried solely based on the crime they committed without anyone caring to know what ethnic group the criminal "represents".

For example, if an individual makes a statement that can be classified as being inciting/promoting hate, such individual should be dealt with by law officers irrespective of what part of the country he's from, but sadly that's not the case in Nigeria.

That is why it appears as if some people will defend a criminal who happens to come from their region and further proceed to challenge the government to first prosecute suspected criminals from other region before coming for their own region's criminal.

No country will grow when there is no equity and fairness in the justice system.

iamoyindamola:
With APC anything goes

Another angu!

Obasa has gone to the house of assembly with armed security operatives to recover "his stolen speaker seat"

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/02/just-in-obasa-armed-men-break-into-lagos-speakers-office/

This country is a joke!

iamoyindamola:
Omo that's a big slap on sanwoolu's face
Which brings us back to seyi as obasa running mate for governor of lagos

Lolz.

If Obasa ever runs, Seyi won't run cos now it is obvious Obasa will only run with Tinubu's blessings. And If Obasa runs, Seyi will definitely not be his running mate.

iamoyindamola:
I saw the news, the Lagos police have removed security aids attached to the woman because she doesn't want to hand over the position back to obasa.
In as much as I like it when politicians are vulnerable especially without security aids, they did the woman dirty.
Someone is definitely backing obasa and it's a powerful force I just hope it's not emilokan

Lolz.

Who get power to make DSS invade the house ? Who get power to withdraw the new speaker's security details?

Is it not the president ? That's the only powerful force that can pull such stunt off.

Theflint1:
Obasa won't come back. From what I hear, is the resolution is that some other person steps in as speaker, Obasa and Miranda would lose out. I guess this gra gra that Miranda is doing is for her to get some cushy landing down the road, as regards speaker, she's good as gone.

If Obasa won't come back, the explain why his security details were restored the same time Miranda's was withdrawn.

Has the events of the recent months not shown you enough that nothing is impossible inside APC ?

BlueRayDick:
If dem wan commot this woman as speaker for Obasanjo to come back , make dem commot am make everybody rest .

This one they are exposing her to attack after already making her the number 3 (wo)man in the state no make sense sha .

It’s just funny that the so called arms and ammunitions allegedly found in Obasa’s office will be swept under the carpet and everybody will just move on.

Meanwhile, Obasa's security details have been restored!

https://www.nairaland.com/8353517/lagos-assembly-police-restores-mudashiru

So Obasa won Sawoolu in this round of fight or what do we say to this ?

cc:iamoyindamola

If dem wan commot this woman as speaker for Obasanjo to come back , make dem commot am make everybody rest .

This one they are exposing her to attack after already making her the number 3 (wo)man in the state no make sense sha .

It’s just funny that the so called arms and ammunitions allegedly found in Obasa’s office will be swept under the carpet and everybody will just move on.

Theflint1:
Bought MRS fuel since the whole Dangote fuel burns less saga, and I'd even argue that particular fuel burnt faster than what I usually get from MOBIL and NNPC.

I regularly buy from Ardova (AP) that also sells Dangote PMS just like MRS and I don’t see any difference in the burning rate of their PMS and that of NNPC .

I think people are just confirming their bias when they claim one fuel burns faster than another ni jare.

I also disagree very strongly with the notion that a certain fuel burns faster than the other at 40% difference.

Great analysis by this professor from Portharcourt 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽.
pic.twitter.com/iXSAmNjoua

— Wale Adedayo 🌍🔰 (@Mario9jaa) February 26, 2025

An expert debunking the propaganda that Dangote PMS burns 40% slower than PMS from other sources as claimed in the viral video

Things Dey happen !

https://x.com/bin_gbada/status/1894815396294803752?s=46

Akaekpuchionwa2:
Lagos-Ibadan express media at it again.
Dangote and BUA also attended IBB book launch. They also donated massively even more than Arthur Eze n' Ukpo. They also praised IBB for the role he played in their lives.

These propaganda media singled out only Arthur Eze, criticising him of sycophancy. Why can't they extend the same attack to Rabiu & Dangote??
It on record how all their monarch went on a Royal pilgrimage to IBB, even the City boy too is not left out.

https://thenationonlineng.net/babangida-and-his-1966-non-igbo-coup-epiphany/

Can u please share link to Aliko Dangote and Rabiu Abdulsamad's speeches at the IBB's book launch ?

RevFrEbuka:
So in this age some of you still believes that Catholic priests dont have sex😁😁

If you know what goes on in parish houses and also behind those tinted glass cars, you will understand that these men knacks like everyone else . Infact, you won't even be ordained a priest if you are tested and your preek no dey work.

Wow !

The bold is news to me . 👀

Na so e Dey be ?

Ibime:
From Chukwudi Iwuchukwu


Herbert Wigwe's extended family and the kids he left behind are on a warpath.

The war started immediately. Herbert, the benefactor of the warring parties, was buried last year.

What is at the heart of the war is the vast wealth that Herbert left behind.

What are the issues behind the fight between the two parties, and what are the lessons we can learn from the infighting between the two parties?

It is story time.

1) In 2013, Herbert drafted his will and deposited it with a court in the US.

The will was later reviewed in 2015, 9 years before his actual death.

But he did more than a will.

2) A family office called Tengen Family Office was set up in 2017.

What the finance professionals that work for the family office Tengen Family do is simple.

To manage the wealth of the founders of Tengen: Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede and Herbert Wigwe.

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede is the chairman of Access Bank and the co-founder of Access Bank.

AIG and Herbert founded Access Bank together.

Speaking of Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, Herbert made him a trustee of the will he drafted in 2013 because he trusted his friend, brother and business partner to manage and protect his interest when he is no more

And AIG has been doing that since Herbert died.

But the conflict is more than AIG and being an enforcer of Herbert will

3) Before he died, Herbert was a wealthy man, a billionaire in naira and a millionaire in dollars.

He was the largest individual shareholder of Access Bank with a 9% shareholding of the bank.

His shares in the bank are worth 125 billion.

To buttress the kind of wealth that Herbert left behind

After his death, his estate received 1.1 billion in dividends last year for the 2024 dividend from Access Bank that would have gone to Herbert if he were to be alive, but the money will now go to Tochi and her younger siblings, and this payment will continue to the estate as long as Access Bank is in existence and profitable.

But he was wealthier than this.

He owns a vast real estate portfolio scattered all over the country.

He also owns the popular Wigwe University.

He built a palatial mansion at Queen Drive, Ikoyi, a palatial house that Herbert did not get to enjoy before he died.

He also owns substantial dollar savings running into millions of dollars in his dollar domiciliary account.

He also owns a private jet as well.

For a man who was this wealthy, he was intentional about his family and their welfare in the event of his passing.

5) In the will that he wrote in 2013, which was reviewed in 2015, he was very clear with what he wanted.

In the event of his death, his wealth should be managed by his estate and the family office, and the profit from the investment should be enjoyed solely by his kids alone.

Not his father, mother, or siblings.

His kids alone and he was clear with this instruction

When the family office was set up in 2017 to manage his wealth and that of his business partner AIG

The same instructions were left by Herbert to the manager of his wealth.

6) In his lifetime, Herbert had a cousin who is a lawyer, Uche Wigwe, and because Uche enjoys his confidence and trust, he made Uche and AIG, his business partner, the trustee of his will.

7) Herbert died last year; he did not see his death coming and was not ready for it.

But he was prepared.

Herbert was a meticulous man in his lifetime and so had a will and a family office to protect his kids regardless of their age and gender.

It is irrelevant that the only remaining heir is a female.

As long as she is Herbert’s kid, acknowledged by him in his lifetime, she is entitled to enjoy the wealth made by her dad.

8. After his interment last year at Isiokpo, his extended family had a brainwave.

Since Herbert, our benefactor, is no more, we can’t allow the kids to enjoy this vast wealth alone.

They're too young to enjoy such a vast wealth, and besides, the oldest of the surviving kids is a 26-year-old, Tochi.

Tochi is a woman, and in their thinking, too young to control what his late dad left behind.

The rest of Tochi‘s surviving siblings are younger than her and they are in secondary schools.

The Herbert Wigwe family is accusing Tochi of living a champagne life, which they believe she is too young to enjoy.

Tochi is living alone with the house servants in the palatial mansion on Queen Drive, Ikoyi, that her dad built, which he did not enjoy before he died.

They also accused her of flying private jets and using the private jet that the dad left behind for her local travel.

To regulate this extravagance and more, they are demanding 20% ownership of the estate (wealth) left behind by their late son.

They also demand joint custody of the kids under the supervision of their 90-year-old dad.

9) When the family could not prevail on AIG and Uche Wigwe, the two trustees that are managing Herbert's wealth, to dance to their tune, the case proceeded to the Lagos High Court last year.

Just last week, the case was thrown out by the court for lack of merit.

To the shock of many following the drama, the Wigwe family went to Appeal court to appeal this verdict by Lagos high court.

10) The biggest lesson to take home from this Wigwe soap opera is simple.

Nobody knows when death will come, but as a rich man or woman living in Nigeria, put a proper structure in place to protect your family from the greed of your family who wants to reap where they did not sow.

Write a will.

Establish a family office to manage your wealth.

Appoint trustworthy people you trust as trustees and enforcers of your will.

This is the debt and the duty you owe your kids.

And this is what Herbert has taught us and is the best exemplifier of this.

1. Illiteracy is a disease

2. Ignorance is a big cancer .

It is only legal illiteracy and full blown ignorance that will make them think they can contest their son’s legal instruction as to how his wealth is to be shared after his demise .

I really don’t know why they will expect their son to will his assets to them and not to his own immediate family .

The good thing is Aig is a worthy adversary that will use their meat rub ground very well in this contest . Even if dem wan go World Court , dem go meet Aig there

afrodoc2:
100% not sorry.


She expects and prefers some drama, either the guy lying and denying his wife OR the guy attacking and abusing her.

This one that the guy is penitent and confessing all his sins and is too ashamed to face her, is not something she was equipped or ready to handle.

Na next man wey enter the lady hand go suffer Tomiwa sins

iamoyindamola:
Tomiwa is not picking calls baba they confess🤣
I won't blame him the lady is calm and it's scary
She wrote tomiwa pick my calls I deserve every right to an explanation, I want to see your face while explaining

Omo if na me I won't pick too😄😄

The girl is hurt and is finding it hard to believe what just happened to her. She is in a state of shock and wants to see him saying the words for her to believe what is happening is reality and that she isn't caught in a bad dream .

Tomiwa supposed dey look well before he cross road for London going forward. Even if traffic light show red to motorists, Tomiwa no supposed cross zebra crossing once he sees a lady on the steering of a car in front of traffic light o.

E get reason why.