₦airaland Forum

I smell an APC Rochas dog around here...please Mr. if you v been paid some peanuts to come vomit your trash of a comedy here, better look for some other forum cos its not bought. Imolites know the truth; they are all the same people, same thieves, same looters all in disguise of a fake rescue agenda for themselves and their family. Save your strength cos come ..15 he is out.

MAYBE YOU SHOULD GO BACK TO NURSERY...I dont have that kind of time helping you with adult education okay!

LajaLaba:
What a dumb response!!!Try to read it again and tell me if u won't be feeling ashamed

I v never heard of expired certificates...

I wonder where all these latest news are coming from...with naira dropping, crude oil prize dropping, the FM declaring austerity, how can it be true

ducii:
http://businessdayonline.com/2014/11/69-countries-propel-nigeria-to-africas-financial-centre/#.VHLvojTF8wJ

I really don't bloody care, so long as you don't cheat on me. In fact don't even tell me, who careS ANYWAY...you cld be telling on those you don't appreciate so hang it there lets move on....just dont cheat thats all

do they actually send the correct figures or facts ...

so in essence the presidential invasion of the NA was wrong

sulmeza:
Try 2 jt sum up his speech..u'l av an idea of wat he's sayin...buh if u goin wit him word 4 word...u on a lng tin

haha...i ll take that for a joke

sulmeza:
lol..he actually lectures at d english school of pakistan.....

a former legislator know for his grammatical hulabaloos

Liamm:
Na madness dey worry this one. By the way who is he? We don't know him in afghanistan

"The Presidential invasion of the National Assembly which was unscrupulously executed by its Pursuivant inspector general of Police had all the trappings of an entebbe raid and executive rascality which is deservable of an acidic excoriation and corrosive pummeling. The impeachment gambit is however a frankeinstous yoyo with a potency for an erebus prone whirligig"...please if you understand this kindly interpret.

Rochas and his 'friends n family' package of governance. lol I was thinking Kiri-kiri was the worst.

I share your opinion...all the same people

mrvitalis:
even as an APC supporter i know that roaches is a thief and a failure just like ...Jonathan......
...we need to vote all this bad eggs out
...buhari will sanitize this country

History if you ask me...though not a fault of theirs cos a lot of ills in the world today started with genuine intentions

duerap:
Interesting stuff I must say.

He is not proud of it...he is a pastor now

GboyegaD:
If only he knows the pains this singular action of theirs have cost families and generations he wouldn't be proud of it any longer.

The Pyrates Confraternity, which later metamorphosed into cultism in universities was founded by seven prominent Nigerians back in their days as undergraduate students at the University of Ibadan in 1953. It was the brain child of Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, who got 6 of his friends – Nat Oyelola, Sylvanus Egbuche, Pius Olehi, AIG Imokhuede, Ralph Okwara and Prof. Bolanle Awe, involved. Prof. Awe, who is now a pastor at Fullness of Christ Evangelical Ministry (FOCEM) in Ibadan explains how it all started…

The idea was conceived by Wole himself, at least I know he was the one who talked to me. I don’t know who spoke to the other five members but we actually assembled at Teeder Hall, the second hall to be completed after Melamby. We assembled in the basement and just made merry in the evening. We were just out to be different and I saw it to be fun. None of us envisaged that we were laying the foundation of a virulent cult in that 1953/54 session, though the association insisted that it was in 1952 hence they celebrated their 50 years in 2002. At that basement we had something to drink, nothing potent, we went around the campus in unusual ways, we were well known and there was nothing like secret oath, nothing spiritual about it all.

You earlier said people doubted your new life because of what you have dipped your hands into. What were these things?
I am one of those who founded Pyrates Confraternity (PC) and I am one of those who maintained that though PC which transformed to National Association of Seadogs (NAS) truly dissociated itself from PC on campuses, it can not really separate itself from it. This was the basis of the attack of Prof. Wole Soyinka on me at their 50th anniversary where he gave an 18-page lecture, where substantial part of it was an attack on me and my ministry. That only showed me that his camp noted that someone has left them. In fact, I have just finished writing a reply to him on that.

My attitude is that whatever we may say today, it was the idea of PC that gave rise to these virulent cults. Even though we were not violent when we started it and we didn’t call it cult, but the cult culture began after when we started. Today, they still recognise we the founders as the Magnificent 7! The NAS does not want to agree with that. Though they decreed that no PC should not exist on campuses, but we all know that they still do. The fact is if they say they have no link to the ones on the campuses, I’ll be prepared to accept that but to say they don’t exist on campuses, I disagreed and we parted ways on that.

At the time you started, what was the criteria used to recruit members
It was solely based on friendship. My own interpretation was that at the appropriate time, Satan hijacked what we started since we didn’t know where we were going.

What were the creed of the association?
I wrote it somewhere I can not locate now. I think they were to abolish convention, revive the age of chivalry (where you show deference to the weaker sex) etc. In any case I can’t remember anything that we did to promote those creeds. The motto was; Orders Is Orders. Also, Wole did not stay long enough because he left a year after for Leeds, because he wanted to study English honours which was not available as a course in Ibadan then. I think Ralph Opara took over from him as the head. But I stayed till 1956 when I left for Britain. Three of us Wole, me and Pius Olehie, who formed the PC, were from the same class in Government College, Ibadan while Ralph Opara was a year before us.

So when would you say Pyrates Confraternity became virulent?
I think by the 1980s. The thing is that at the beginning, there was only PC and so many people struggled to be a member because it was a prestigious thing. When I returned from Britain, some students who wanted to become members needed a lecturer to sponsor their membership, those who came to me got my nod.

Up till about 1972, PC was the only association, but when there was schism over one of them who violated the law and he was not ready to subject himself to discipline, he left and started a rival organisation and that was how the Buccaneers Confraternity started. About the same time, Eye Confraternity started. You must not also forget that violence was become rife in the society. This began in Ibadan with Operation Wetie around 1964/ 65. Things became intolerable until the coup in 1967.

Violence became the order of the day and it crept into PC by the time, I had become disenchanted with the club and was ready to leave. Some of the PC members had their vision beclouded by violence and the old PC decided to form National Association of Seadogs and went ahead to register it at the Corporate Affairs. They said PC should no longer exist on campuses but there is a difference between saying and establishing it.

So the whole thing between Wole and I was the inability to establish what they proposed, and so other groups began to spring up in various universities using the name Pyrates Confraternity because nobody has any right on the name. This is the problem between Wole and I.

At what point did you renounce your membership?
I must say that I did not officially renounce until I became a Christian. I kept being less and less active because I kept seeing it as an activity for children and younger people. But when I became born-again and established this ministry, I consciously went to God and confess that we were the people who started this thing, which has become something we did not envisage. I asked Him to forgive me and forgive the rest of us and I confessed on behalf of others too. That is the only time I’ll say I renounced it. It was a private thing.

Have you done that publicly?
No, I have not bothered but I’ve told all who are concerned that I’m no longer one of them. At any public opportunity, I always say it and they know that I am no longer one of them. If Wole could take the trouble to attack me in an 18-page report, then I know it has registered that I am no longer one of them.

Did they make any effort to ask you why you were leaving?
No, we did not bond ourselves to be members forever. I think when they found out that I stopped turning up for their meetings that must have convinced them that I was no longer interested. But I didn’t make any statement concerning them until I started this ministry and got involved in the University as chairman of Anti-cultism Campaign Committee.

Did you take the cultism to a higher level like joining the Ogboni, as people believe it happens?
As I said, I was only active in it between 1953 and 1957after which I left for Britain. When I came back in 1960, I was on the staff of the University and was just an adviser to them. I didn’t know what they did at their services (meetings) I didn’t know when the oath taking, etc started or if it was actually done. However, I know it is done today. This is what the Seadogs pretend not to know.

Have you spoken about Christ to Wole Soyinka?
I have not but I will certainly welcome the opportunity. The only problem I envisage is that unless God softens Wole’s heart, it might be difficult to speak with him on Christ.

Same was the outcome of the Ibori case where he was discharged of the over 126 counts of money-laundering and other charges...only to be found guilty by a crown court in UK of over 26 counts...what a mess of our judiciary. What are we fighting, to your tents oh Nigeria. Only a proper revolution can set us free

just checking you out to be sure you are worth the sacrifice

Amen my brother...We shall get it right soon.

Remarkable:
This is something they don't understand. They think that stoking the polity with violence will make people want a change in government, it would end up make people supporting the government, because who wants to vote for a man or party that refuses to condemn violence, but keeps using it as a tool for politics... one can only imagine what would happen to the country should such people come to power.

May Nigerians never witness such in Jesus name...

you set the polity on fire and then ask the president to resign...you chop winch!!! the fire will surely consume them alongside their entire generations. its good we condemn evil, BH did not start its operations recently with GEJ in power. If the APC continue in this roadmap, they will only force the electorates to vote GEJ out of pity rather than ideological reasons

Amii oooooo...the casah, the kudi, the naira, the ego, the lalas

briantext:
#akwaibomite

I pity you...no wonder your name is tit; am not surprised.

tit:
all these men are losers.
as a man you are supposed to cook, clean, pay rent and take care of your house-hold.
you are supposed to bath and dress-up your children by yourself.
your wife is only a helper, a servant.
if you leave your wife to do all those things, and tomorrow she does coup and takes over the house,
you start crying.
DO NOT LEAVE YOUR HOUSE FOR THE HELPER/THE SERVANT.
DO NOT BE LAZY AND DO HOUSE WORK.

am no fan of any Nigerian politician but I dont understand the reason for the incessant backlash on the president at any move or decision. Whats wrong with the BF trip...the BH insurgency has been around since 2009 AD so should the president remain in the country that long all because the terror group metamorphosed into a political tool used to witchhunt the polity. His office demands his presence there...we need to set our priorities right. Our problem is us the people who can change things in a democratic setting but we are yet to understand that fact. Its election time again and many are waiting to be given peanuts to mortgage another 4 years of our lives. Even the youths who complain of unemployment are given as low as 2,ooo Naira as hire to present themselves as supporters for selfish politicians which they accept.....we all know what our problem is, there is poverty in the land of plenty. These politicians want the masses to remain poor so they can use them as tools whenever they want. If things get better, there will be no one to use for their selfish ends and they know that. The ball is in our court once again for another 4 years, what we play of it determines what the next 4 years will look like both at the state and federal level... Nigeria must be better

Atimes when I read such I feel like shedding tears for my country...so if a president is not supporting the legislative arm in their ambitions, they move for impeachment. is that tenable or are we just masquerading ourselves as practicing democracy. Its quite unfortunate thats all!!

na waa o!!! Ooooshe! I was just taken aback when I saw the pics cos I know Nairaland could do better by going through a process of screening

Gracy295:
Are you new here? These are the beauties that are confident and courageous by registering themselves.

with that kiss I will sure close my eyes and vote all 14 contestants ...but first I ll vote the third judge, she's really the kind of beauty we need to contest.

Kachisbarbie:
Please Sir, we would appreciate if you don't speak of our contestants in such manner.
Comments like this may affect their votes.
Lets appreciate them___ it isn't easy to be a contestant.
Vote for one or 12 outta the 14 beautiful ladies

Thanks

jeeezzz...are these contestants or passer-bye.wow!!! Nairaland dey fall hand o. So does it mean these are the best beauties here.

He made a good point though we all know that already...gay clubs in Nigeria is associated with fame but the day of judgment is coming for the righteous shall live by faith

While the thugs were beating him, policemen attached to the venue of the meeting refused to intervene, as one of them said they were handicapped because of the personalities involved.
However, the policemen joined the thugs to chase away rival politicians who were said not to be members of Wike’s Grassroots Democratic Initiatives....I weep for my country Nigeria

try this in Nigeria and it will be the official car of the police chief