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@OP

Rochas okorocha’s actions in Imo State with regard to education are perpetuation of fool’s theory. Instead of engaging in actions that will build industries and factories that could provide jobs for millions of graduates in Imo State, the governor is still talking about schools which will grind out additional unemployed or unemployable graduates.

@OP


If Africans had found something good about circumcision in both male and female, I say there is nothing primitive about it. After all, female circumcision has been witnessed throughout the world. It is a mark of idiocy to arrogate such act as African.

People should also realize the ways of Europeans are not always suited for human beings. I shall prefer properly performed female circumcision as done in male to the female Core mutilation in the name of piercing. Today, females in Europe and USA had found favor in sewing up their Core parts with all kinds of metals.

The same thing goes with the silly tattoo.


By the way, if same sex marriage is part of European and USA civilization, I had happily remained primitive in Africa.

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=738183.msg8946037#msg8946037 date=1313601599]The topic title must have amaze you

On same article

What was the Igbo's foolishness?


Anywaz, thread belongs in the tribalism section, thread movement must have been a mistake. Any opinion that has to do with specific Nigerian tribes should be moved to tribalism section.[/quote]Ekiti Ikebe, If you were not drunk with sort of bigotry, you should have discovered fallacies imbedded in the useless paragraphs.

Eko Ile:
This okoro man is fast becoming a joke,

Do you think everybody is a comical joker such as Yoruba man Fashola, Olodo?

[quote author=alj_harem link=topic=729424.msg8912219#msg8912219 date=1313189191]ain't u even ashamed of urself. Look at a small boy schooling u on awo

[size=14pt]My hero[/size]

https://www.myhero.com/images/guest/g33728/g33728_u32720_portrait.jpg

used to think that a hero is a male character who acted a role of attraction throughout the story. But when our teacher told us and also discovered from the DVD and the My Hero book sent to us, I now know that a hero is not only a person who is admired by many for his noble qualities, or bravery but also one who has positively touched one’s life directly or indirectly. There is no other person that I would say is my Hero than Chief Obafemi Awolowo. He was born in Ikenne South West of Nigeria on 6th March, 1909. His father was a peasant farmer but was able to register Chief Awolowo in Anglican primary school in Ikenne. When his father died, it was difficult for him to continue his education; but being a brave man, he served many masters to continue his education.

Chief Awolowo
He registered for part time studies and after his matriculation in 1939, he completed a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1944. He co-founded the trade union congress of Nigeria in 1943. He graduated as a lawyer in London in 1947. While in London; he founded the “EGBE OMO ODUDUWA” a Yoruba tribal society. Coming back to Nigeria, he set up a legal practice and in 1950 he organized other Yoruba leaders and formed the Action Group, which won the western Region elections in 1951. He became the leader of the banned Action Group and the leader of the Yoruba’s of Western Nigeria.
My hero became the Minister of Local Government from 1951-54 and later became the prime minister of Western Nigeria with the headquarters in Ibadan. He was able to achieve the following goals, which made the Western Region developed more than other regions.
(1) He built the first stadium of international standard in Nigeria (Liberty Stadium Ibadan)
(2) He built the first skyscraper in Nigeria (Cocoa House)
(3) He created the first television station in Nigeria known as the Western Nigeria Television Station (WNTV)
(4) He established the first radio station.

He resigned the premiership of Western Nigerian 1959 to contest for federal election but failed and he became the leader of opposition in the Federal House of Representative. He consolidated the Action Group to become the “best political party south of Sahara”. After his death, Chief Ojukwu said, "Awolowo was the best President Nigeria never had"


Chief Awolowo on Nigerian currency note

Federal Government named one of the premier universities after him. Former University of Ife in South West was changed to Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria's one hundred naira currency note carries his image and a street in Federal Capital Territory is named to immortalize his name.

Chief Obafemi Awolowo

I have chosen Chief Awolowo as my hero because I am not only a living being today but an educated person. This is because he:
• Fought for free health care, which gave my father the chance to survive during a disease out break at that time.
• Fought for free education at all levels, which gave my parents the opportunity to attend school at that time.
He also fought for other things in order to benefit the masses, which made him (Chief Obafemi Awolowo) and the Federal Government to be at opposing sides. Chief Awolowo was survived by Hannah his wife and three children. He lost one child in a car accident when he was young. For these and many others, Chief Awolowo has made me what I am and I have made him my hero, which he will always be because I don’t know where I would have been if he had not helped my parents.


Written by Nathaniel from Abuja
This story has been submitted by a guest user and does not necessarily represent the views of The My Hero Project or its staff.

http://www.myhero.com/go/hero.asp?hero=O_Awolowo_LC_GSSG_nigeria_06_ul


a very small innocent boy [/quote]This young boy deserves my pity. He is wrongly informed by ill-informed rumor peddlers determined to perpetuate essence of illusion and creation of phantom iconic image of Awolowo.

If ahj_harem is not a dupe or fraud, he or she would have attempted to disabuse the mind of this young fellow by editing the misinformation fed to the young boy.

For example:

Awolowo, through correspondence, completed a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1944. He co-founded the trade union congress of Nigeria in 1943. Later, he earned a law degree from London School of Economics in 1947. While in London; he co-founded the “EGBE OMO ODUDUWA” a Yoruba tribal society. Coming back to Nigeria, he set up a legal practice and in 1950 and was among Yoruba leaders who formed the Action Group. Due to carpet-crossing by Yoruba peeps in NCNC that swelled number of seats assigned to tribal political party; Action Group formed the government of western Region in 1951.

He was the leader of the banned Action Group and the leader of the Yoruba’s of Western Nigeria.
My hero became the Minister of Local Government from 1951-54 and later became the prime minister of Western region of Nigeria with the headquarters in Ibadan. Awo and Action Group were able to achieve the following goals, which made the Western Region as developed as other regions.
(1)    Western region of Nigeria built the first stadium of international standard in Nigeria (Liberty Stadium Ibadan)
(2)   Western region of Nigeria built the first skyscraper in Nigeria (Cocoa House)
(3)    Western region of created the first television station in Nigeria known as the Western Nigeria Television Station (WNTV)
(4)    Western region of Nigeria established the first radio station.

He resigned the premiership of Western Nigerian 1959 to contest for federal election, won and became the leader of opposition in the Federal House of Representative. He consolidated the Action Group to become the “tribal political party south of Sahara”. After his death, Chief Ojukwu said, "Awolowo was the best President Nigeria never had"

seanet02:
The Judge should have given it to Ibos!!
Nonsense

You have recently lost grips on reality since you started towing the same lines with the likes of drag queen known as bk.babe97y and deficient farmhand called ahj_harem. Let me make it clear to certain loudmouths on the board that if Awo was tried in a court of law presided over by an Igbo judge, the first asiwaju of Yoruba land would not have died as an ex-convict.

[quote author=alj_harem link=topic=729424.msg8909900#msg8909900 date=1313168115]LOL the first Nigerian university was UI but who renovated it when the british left the bristish or awo himself

dude schools in Nigeria started in the east with cross river and igbos having contact with white people who open missonary schools for your guys in the bid to

1. educate the eastern Nigerians, thus before the civil war the east were more educted and had more soilders etc than he west. but now they have past the east in both the military and all phases on education. (I stand to be corrected)

2. to spread Christianity which the east is still predominatly christian today. All those schools could have been renovated by Zik before they collasped , isn't it

UI was going to blazes if not for Awo who did something about it. You can deny it all u like the the white built it but why should he build another when the current one was becoming another waste like everyother projects the whites did before leaving Nigeria.

please answer

again First bank Nigeria is Nigeria first bank which started in 1894. again another bristish mis-hap that was saved by awo using oduda funds

I stand to be corrected as well

Please where is National bank today ? when compared to other banks ?

did he make investments in the name of Nigeria ?

Dude i would never put Zik achievment as awo

that is if he has any achievement we still love and fell the effect today

thanks for the education, we learn everyday and I always stand to be corrected[/quote]I guess you are starkly oblivious to JAMB results all these years. By the way, Awo has nothing to do with First Bank. Just talk about National Bank, a subsidiary of WNDC, which Tafawa Balewa government almost wrestled out of the grips of western regional government under Awolowo if not for the legal benevolence of Chief Justice Daddy Onyeama.

These loudmouths are becoming ubiquitous irritants on this board. harem boko, you have tanked intellectually.

RoadStar:
This one is a lie.
I have corrected u guys in the past and you keep pushing this lie.
UNN was the first Nigerian full fledged university.
Awo dint have a hand in UI which was the first university although of foreign affiliation.

Another lie.
National Bank of Nigeria was fully acquired by the western regional government in 1960 long after Zik had created ACB in 1944
And long after Zik was a share holder in the same (National Bank) bank.
Although there were already foreign bank operating in Nigeria, Zik created the first Indigenous bank in Nigeria. (ACB)


You are now beginning to convert Ziks achievements to Awo.
Please stop misleading people.

Bros, sometimes these fools should be allowed to drool in their inherent stupidity. You should realize that stupidity can not be fixed. Remember Awolowo gave them stadium yet CKC, Onicha travelled all the way to Ibadan and Lagos while thrashing every secondary school team that was encouraged to challenge it.

[quote author=alj_harem link=topic=729424.msg8903536#msg8903536 date=1313084577]LOL, so are kenyans senegla etc people priasing Nigeria of Zik now

are they calling him Zik of Africa now or are we just decieving ourselves. Moreover Zik NEVER NEVER GAVE any country the ablity to each 3 square meals. I STAND TO BE CORRECTED U lair. chai dede1 u too dey lie too much. well

and who's fault is that?

is it not Zik that force us to be together Or was Zik not working FOR the british

[/quote]You could have known better if not for the deceitful free education floated by the regional government of western Nigeria under Awolowo. You could stand for a long time because we from the eastern region who had quality education had no business correcting waste pipes chunked out by western region of Nigeria.

volasunkan:
^^^pls tell us zik's acheivement,abeg!!

You might have claimed to have access to free western-styled education, via Awolowo. May I suggest to you that Google is also free? Please Google Azikiwe and Awolowo. You could get real education which is free too.

[quote author=alj_harem link=topic=729424.msg8903155#msg8903155 date=1313081842]how bros dede1

please teach me i stand by the truth and stand to be corrected

if i am wrong prove facts to your claims[/quote]When Zik, through his personal efforts, enabled many Africans from Kenya to Senegal and from Libya to RSA to afford a three square meal, Awolowo was still struggling to pass his law class quizzes. Nigeria shall remain an imperial accident of British suzerainty.

It is an incalculable insult on humanity to refer to Nigeria as a nation. Nigeria is a deepest cesspit man has ever created.

[quote author=alj_harem link=topic=729424.msg8902234#msg8902234 date=1313074989]although my brother this does not relate to the topic but i NEVER THOUGHT you as well can be lying like dede1 and co

ok

1. Awolowo fought tooth and nail for southern nigeria, It was zik that fought for 1 Nigeria which I love now

2. Awolowo called Zik to form southern Nigeria but Zik instead betrayed awolowo and imprisoned him, then formed a unity government with us of which he was the president in spit of awolowo and his region and Bellow was the PM

3. Zik made unrest in the western region and SE soliders were beating and arresting the SW leaders,

http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//ITN/1962/11/13/FS131162001/?s=nigeria+&st=0&pn=35&sortBy=date

you can use that video to comfime while the SE professionals were working in suit in lagos as if it is there land

4. Zik divided the west to west and mid-west which marked the beginning of the division of southern nigeria and Nigeria at large

ZIK IS THE CAUSE OF OUR PROBLEM TODAY IN NIGERIA, NORTHERN NIGERIA AND SOUTHERN NIGERIA

ZIK IS THE PROBLEM OF HE WEST, EAST, AND NORTH

ZIK MARKED THE BEGINNING OF BETRAYAL IN NIGERIA

SHAGARI AND NORTHERN LEADERS KNEW THIS AND CALLED HIM A HARLOT BEFORE HE DIE

AWOLOWO KNEW HE WAS WORKING FOR THE BRITISH AND TRIED TALKING TO HIM, INSTEAD HE IMPRISONED HIM AND THE MID-WEST LEADER THUS ALSO DIVIDING THERE REGION KNOWING FULL WELL OF WHAT HE IS DOING

Dem-people Zik of onitsha is better or better still Zik of eastern Nigeria NOT AFRICA

stay blessed my brother[/quote]All I can say about you for now is you are politically and culturally useless.

Vallo57: List the achievements(both personal and collective) or shut your trap.

It is funny to read about the free western-styled education allegedly introduced by western regional government of Nigeria under the leadership of Awolowo. Yet the manner of few posters had spurred me to question the essence of the so-called free education when the self-arrogating beneficiaries of such phantom legacy could not use “google” which is coincidently free.

Granted that the few trolls who tend to impugn the integrity of Azikiwe were the chips from old blocks noted for transforming anthill into mountain, one wonders what went wrong when one sentence was employed to describe the achievements of the first asiwaju of Yoruba land.

I have honestly tried to locate iota of Awolowo’s achievements baring western regional government and useless government of Nigeria under Gowon but all my efforts have proved futile.

In fact, I refused to upload Azkiwe’s achievements and Awolowo’s legacy as presented in their profiles by Wikipedia because I did not intend to support the idiotic frenzy being displayed by few overfed dullards on this board.

It is a case of incurable madness that anyone will conjure the idea of questioning the personal achievement of Dr. Nnmadi Azikiwe. I guess Nigeria is a celebrated jungle which provides habitat for certain mor.ons that had the effrontery to doubt the achievement of Great Zik of Africa.

If achievement is free education which every rat can provide to fellow rats on philanthropic bases through the coffers of a regional government, I detest and dismiss it with a wave of the hand.

Zik stood head and shoulder above his peers when personal achievement viewed from goods and services rendered to the people of West Africa in general and Nigeria in particular. .

Plutarch:
@Dede
This is just to put d records straight.
Awo also floated a newspaper company known as 'TRIBUNE' and FYI the newspaper is still surviving 24yrs after his demise.
Awo is a great leader that only a bigot will deny.

He introduce free and qualitative education wh has made SW d hub of educated people.
He built the tallest building in Nig n other infrastructures with money frm an organized agriarian economy.
How will you forget d first television station in Nigeria now known as NTA.
He blazed d trail in everything then.
Nigeria is still in need of a leader like him. Little wonder Ojukwu himself wrote regretfully in Awo's condolence register that he was the best president Nig never had.

You have succeeded where fellow disingenuous posters failed by informing us that Awo achieved practical nothing besides the government of western region. There was no Awo without western regional government and delusional government of Nigeria under Gowon.

If you believed Awolowo floated Tribune when Awo landed in the Protectorate between 1948 and 49, then you can knock yourself out with any conjectural crap. Poor Awo did everything other than commit suicide to graduate from law school.

Pal, I do not give a ratarse if Awoolowo shared the all the cocoa revenue accrued by western regional government to every Nigerian family or what Ojukwu wrote about him. Only fools will arrogate whatever government showers to the people as personal achievement by individuals elected or appointed to oversee such governmental benevolence. 

I am not surprise dreamers from western region of Nigeria would stop at nothing to create a phantom iconic image in Awolowo. In fact, Awolowo created Nigeria. If I did not know better, I could have believed the goofy stuff that Awo built Lagos.

Awo did not achieve anything in life except the one-room office law firm and the land he deceitfully acquired in Moroko.

Zik built news media house that stretched from Lagos to Accra and employed Africans of multi-nationalities so that they could put food on the table for their families. Hence, the notion of Zik of Africa stuck with his name.

He stood up football club in Lagos that won a title later known as challenge cup. There are many other achievements that could be credited to Zik but I never regarded anything initiated by individuals through government fund or peoples’ money while such individual occupies top position in government.

Andre Uweh:
^^^But when is he going to conduct LG and councillorship elections in the 27 LGA's?.

Rochas Okorocha does not have such powers to conduct such election in Imo State. By the way, a court in Imo State has ruled that Rochas Okorocha does not have any constitutional pedigree to suspend LG authority in the state. The court also ordered the Governor Okorocha to refrain from issuing such orders.

@OP

The loafer who wrote the inconsequential piece of crap had the same mindset of few Igbo politicians and military officers of yesteryears who literally slept on their responsibilities to Ndigbo by not luring economic infrastructures or mega city to Igbo land while time ticked. They sat on the apex of political position of the cesspit called Nigeria while locked in a delusional euphoria about silly One-Nigeria.

[quote author=alj_harem link=topic=729218.msg8869021#msg8869021 date=1312651786]well said gbamm

@Onlytruth

Our first president was from the SE (Nnamdi)

our first head of state was from the SE (Ironsi)[/quote]What a cow-dung. I suggest you shut your putrid and cow- disease infested mouth.

ezeagu:
Since when did Igbo people beg? I don't give a shit about Igbo presidency, I don't give a shit about a next able bodied man "re-integrating" another able bodied Igbo man, and if they like let them hug the presidency chair into River Benue.

PS. Anything that happens to an Igbo person (unnecessarily) resident in Sharia states is no fault but theirs.

You beat me to the post. I sincerely believed the author was born after Nigeria/Biafra civil war and had become deluded with stinking presidency of Nigeria. I had accepted a teething Biafra over jaundice-jointed old hag called Nigeria that is capable of nothing.

erico2k2:
I know what Im on about,I was not defining NigerDelta in respect to Oil production,I was definning it geographically and the states which fall under theses zones are the four mentioned.

Again intellectually or geographically, there is no Niger Delta. Niger Delta is a misnomer. When you have time to waste, I urge you to visit Atlas and sort out the visual and geographical expression called Nigeria. You would find that River Niger and River Benue merged to form River Niger-Benue. In actual physical geography, the delta erroneously referred as Niger Delta is formed by Rivers such as Niger, Benue, Imo, Anambra, Urashi and Utamiri. Now the actual states situated in this delta are Abia, Anambra, Bayelsa, Imo and Rivers.

All the blind arrogations of Niger Delta at certain political quarters in Nigeria remain political shenanigans best described as foolish.