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The written or unwritten gentlemanly agreement of PDP on zoning of the presidency, which ironically produced Goodluck Jonathan, must be observed. If the Goodluck Jonathan does not feel comfortable with such political arrangement of zoning, why did he not kick against the modality that selected him as the Vice President? Or better still, Jonathan could join another political party without such presidential zoning agenda

Anybody who called on the Ndigbo to engage in any form of fight, even a moonlight wrestling match, because of presidency must be retarded junkie.

My preferable lineup for S. Korea is as follows:



. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Enyeama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Yobo. . . . . . . . Shittu. . . . . .Adeyele. . . . . . . . . . Afolabi

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yussuf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Odemwingie . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Uche

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N Kanu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


. . . . . . . . . . . . Utaka . . . . . . . . Martins . . . . . . . .

In order to bring back much needed sanity to Nigerian football, the coaches must field the following players against S. Korea, at least, the first 45 minutes.

Enyeama
Yobo
Shittu
Adeleye
Afolabi
Ozaze
Ayinla
N. Kanu
Uche
Utaka
Martins

Please may I call on the resident and retired international football coaches on this board to give projected super eagle’s line up for the match against S. Korea? We must quit ranting about spilt milk.

The person who thought about the silly comparison of the players needs to be shot. The dude spotting jersey #15 for Nigeria could hardly stand on his feet not to talk about kicking the ball. Haruna Lukman’s inclusion in the team explains the depth of stupidity of country called Nigeria.

Let us assume I do not know the nuances of soccer. But I believed that if all Nigerian players gave the same effort as #1, #2, #6 and #3 did, Nigerian would have been getting ready to shine in next round.

Most blunders were committed by players such as #14, #15, #20 and #8. These players have no business representing Nigeria in soccer tournament.

Nigeria is shown all over its soccer team in 2010 world cup competition. It is country not to be taken seriously

I feel there is a magic power that will enable me to destroy the jungle called Nigeria.

How did #15 get into green eagle’s squad? The dude can hardly stay on his feet talk less of playing the ball.

This is the worst team I have ever seen representing Nigeria in any tournament. If the hopelessness of the Nigeria has reached the football system, I honestly and strongly suggest Nigeria be disintegrated. There is nothing good coming out of the unfortunate union called Nigeria.

Most Nigerians are stupid bunch. It is only in God-forsaking Nigeria that presidency is regarded as a source for the elevation of social status for the section of the country or ethnic group that produced the president. Since Goodluck Jonathan became president has the social status of Ekpeye people skyrocketed to the moon? What a moronic bunch.

otawa:
You are wrong. Yorubas are moderate, what she has done does not warrant that, no king makers will support such action from the 'Kabiyesi'

If you really know your culture and tradition, you would have understood that no Olori will allegedly abort unborn royal baby and live to see another day.

tpiah:
^^ who's he?

anyway, the fact that someone could have the power to arbitrarily behead people doesnt mean he cant still lose the throne sooner or later.

no one is indispensable.

despots also get their comeuppance.

Do you not have respect for culture and tradition of our people? Or are you simply bent on trashing anything African? The Oba was/is the owner of the lands and companion of gods. In most cases, the Oba does no wrong.

If the Yoruba people have decided to junk their richly culture and tradition, which I found wonderfully fascinating, it is okay by me. But it is incredibly ridiculous to praise such throne and at the same time scorn it. It is very sycophantic to prostrate in the presence of Oba and in minutes later call on a mere state governor to dethrone the same Oba on a slightest of misstep.

I honestly believed that one of the constituent problems of Africa is the abandonment of our culture and tradition for anything European. Please do not get me wrong and jump into hasty conclusion that wife-beating is African culture and tradition. My plank of the argument is what led to the altercation. I strongly support the fact that Oba is entitle to more than one wife. Olori Balanle is a Yoruba lady and I believe she knew very well any Oba or Oba-to-be for that matter could opt for a second wife before she agreed to marry Deji of Akure.

nulldev:
@Dede1, so now the AG 'stole' independents? I taught the accusation was NCNC members mass crossing over to AG?

By the way, the Ibadan peoples party members like S. O. Lanlehin and Akinloye were original founders at the AG! Their names are on the minutes for the inaugural AG meeting.

Do not force me to doubt the validity of the Awolowo’s so-called free educational program. Granted you can be a party member today and by tomorrow you are wearing a different party identity. I shall be hard pressed to believe that IPP founders were signatories at Owo on March 21, 1951 during the formation of AG and three months later in Ibadan forming another political party. It appears like all Yoruba people are unequaled magicians.

The crux of the matter was the IPP candidates contested the election under the platform of NCNC as IPP was not registered as a national political party. There were members of SL Akintola’s UPP who contested under the platform of AG. If S. O. Lanlehin and Akinloye were original founders at the AG as you would want us to believe, what stopped them from contesting election under the platform of AG?

hercules07:
Which Okiro, the one that was in Osun state and Armed Robbery ballooned, please Ribadu is ten times the man Okiro was.

It is very shameful that most Nigerians will go to any length to support mediocre. I am not sure about this Osun State and Okiro crap. Simply being appointed as State CP or even IG will not eradicate armed robbery in Nigeria.

However, it is quite unconscionable to compare the services of a police officer who had fought crime as an active duty officer to another police officer who has never arrested a mere trespasser.

The office of the chairman of EFCC is not exclusive duty of active police officer. The current chairman of the EFCC is retired police officer. Anybody could be appointed as the chairman of EFCC.

In my book, Nuhu Ribadu is an embodiment of fraud.

^^^^

Thus on 15th June 1951 representatives of the interest groups in Ibadan met and decided to set up a party. They called this party the Ibadan Peoples Party, IPP. Its founding chairman was Chief A. M. A. Akinloye. The other leaders of the IPP were: S. A. Akinyemi, S. O. Lanlehin, Moyo Aboderin, Samuel Lana, D. T. Akinbiyi, S. Ajunwon, S. Aderonmu, R. S. Baoku, Akin Allen and Akinniyi Olunloyo. The IPP gave the leaders of the Egbe Omo Oduduwa its first shock during the 1951 regional elections, where the AG had expected that as the “party of the Yorubas” it would sweep the elections clean, and with ease, at all levels to form the regional government. When the election into the Western Region House of Assembly was completed in November 1951, the Action Group won only 29 out of the 80 seats contested. In fact, the AG lost in all the constituencies in Ibadan, the capital city of the Western Region and in Lagos, the capital of Nigeria.
In Ibadan, the IPP won all the six seats, with the following as the elected members: Chief Adisa Akinloye, Mr. Moyo Aboderin, Mr. S. O. Lanlehin, Alhaji Adegoke Adelabu, Mr. D.T. Akinbiyi and Mr. Samuel Akinwale Akinyemi. In Lagos NCNC won all the five seats with the following as the elected members into the Western Region House of Assembly: Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Dr. Ibiyinka Olorun-Nimbe, Prince Adeleke Adedoyin, Haruna Popoola Adebola and T.O.S Benson. Leading members of the AG like Chief Rotimi Williams, Dr. Maja and Chief M. A. Ogun were defeated.
Faced with this situation, the Egbe Omo Oduduwa moved out swiftly to get 20 elected members on the ticket of the smaller parties and independent candidates to join the Action Group, to tilt the balance in favour of the party, against its primary opponent, the NCNC. Some of the leaders of the small parties were offered ministerial appointments to join the AG without the approval of their constituencies. One of them was Chief Adisa Akinloye who was appointed Minister of Agriculture and Natural Resources when he swayed four out of his five colleagues in the IPP to join the AG. The only IPP member who refused to join the AG was Alhaji Adegoke Adelabu, who, instead, joined the NCNC.
But the Ibadan electorate did not take kindly the defection of its elected representative on the platform of IPP to the Action Group. They used the opportunity of the 1954 Federal elections and the 1956 regional elections to express their dislike of the Action Group. In the 1954 Federal elections, the electorate in the Western Region voted for the NCNC against the Action Group; the NCNC won 22 seats into the House of Representatives and the AG secured 19 seats. In Ibadan, the capital city of the Western Region the ruling party AG secured just one out of the five federal seats in the area. The victory was however marginal in terms of the votes cast. For example the AG candidate Gbadegesin Adeniran obtained 1,713 votes while his NCNC opponent got 1,587 votes, giving a victory margin of just 126 votes. This contrasted with the margin of not less than 50% given to the AG candidates by the NCNC. For example, in Ibadan South Federal constituency, the NCNC candidate Alhaji Adegoke Adelabu polled 5,485 votes against AG's Mr. S. O. Ladipo's 1,256 votes, thus giving a huge margin of 4,229 votes. (P.172)
This dislike of the AG by Ibadan electorate was further demonstrated in the 1956 regional elections, which was held on Thursday 26th May 1956. This election was held after the AG was in office for five solid years, when it said it had implemented significant social programmes, particularly in education. From the results of the election, the AG lost one seat in 1956 as compared to 1951. The results for 1956 were: 48 seats to the AG and 32 for the NCNC. But if you examine the actual votes cast, the margin between the AG and the NCNC was just 39,270 votes; the AG got 623,826 votes (48.3%) while the NCNC got 584,556 (45.3%).
What astonished the AG in 1956 was the devastating defeat it received in the hands of the NCNC in key Yoruba cities of Ibadan and Oyo. While in Oyo the AG managed to secure 2 out of the five seats against NCNC's 3 seats, in Ibadan the story was different. Ibadan had eight seats into the Western Region House of Assembly. The AG got just one seat. In this case the victory margin was just 267 votes; in Ibadan West regional constituency, O. A. Adedeji of AG secured 5,010 votes to defeat I. A. Akinyele of NCNC who polled 4,743 votes. This was the smallest margin of victory in the election, in Ibadan. Chief Adisa Akinloye, who moved over from IPP to AG and got appointed a minister also contested in his Ibadan North-East constituency on the platform of the AG. He was defeated with a wide margin of 2,734 votes by Lekan Salami of the NCNC.


You can help yourself with above bit of history.

The posted article accredited to one Chief Alex Akinyele is an arrant nonsense. In the referenced Yoruba culture and tradition, Deji of Akure would have ordered Olori Balanle to be beheaded for desecrating the land and no eyelid would have bated.  Dr Nathanial Akinremi Fadipe must be turning in his grave.

^^^^
Do not waste your time with these punks. There is no force that can stop an inherent loudmouth. It is astonishment that most of these peeps could not discern an unpardonable flaw in the alleged Time Magazine’s article.

evil666:
Seven days after he returned from a 17-month exile, the immediate past Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, has revealed that his aspiration before he was prematurely retired from the Nigeria Police Force was to become the Inspector General of Police.



Ribadu, who disclosed this in an exclusive interview with our correspondents in Abuja on Thursday, also said that he would not reject an offer from President Goodluck Jonathan to serve in his government, because doing so would amount to disrespecting the President.



Commenting on his retirement from the police, Ribadu said that he was saddened by the development, adding that he had committed 25 years of dedicated service to the police as an avenue for societal development and had nursed what he called “a natural aspiration to become the Inspector General of Police.”



He dismissed the argument in some quarters that the restoration of his rank was causing disenchantment in the force because his mates were still Deputy Commissioners of Police.



Ribadu said it was inconceivable for anybody to suggest that rewarding hard work in an organisation was wrong, arguing that if the former Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mike Okiro, could be promoted from the rank of a Commissioner of Police to the position of a Deputy Inspector General of Police, there was nothing odd in his own promotion to AIG.



Although he stated that he had not received an offer to serve in the Jonathan administration in any capacity, the pioneer EFCC boss said that he was ready to serve his fatherland.



Even before one of our correspondents could finish asking him if he was ready to work in the new government, Ribadu said, ”That is not a fair question. I don‘t think I would even allow you to finish, because I have not been given (an appointment) yet. And what do you expect me to say now? That if the Federal Government gives me a job, I will say no? I am not that disrespectful. And for me, I am not begging for any job, and I don‘t want to show any sign of disrespect.”



Ribadu‘s comments followed the growing speculations that President Jonathan had concluded arrangements to appoint him as a Special Adviser on Anti-Corruption, as part of the efforts of the Federal Government to strengthen the fight against corruption in the country.



It was gathered that the appointment would put the retired Assistant Inspector General of Police in a position to supervise the EFCC, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission and related agencies in the country.



Although the former EFCC boss, whose earlier dismissal from the police was converted to retirement recently, refused to assess the state of the campaign against corruption, he bemoaned the slow pace of development at the foremost anti-corruption agency, stressing that the tempo of improvement he initiated was not sustained by those who took over the reins of leadership at the agency.



For example, he decried a situation whereby a good number of the things that were put to test and which delivered results were subjected to systemic reversal, explaining that some of the best operatives of the commission who were exposed to the best trainings and were among the best in the world, and who were indeed adequately prepared to prosecute the assault on corruption were thrown out.



”I feel sad when all the things that worked, that delivered results, are systematically and gradually being undermined and reversed. We spent so much money to train these chaps and they were some of the best you can get, not in Nigeria alone, but in the world, because we really have that chance to learn the best.



”We brought in the best instruments and tools. We got them the best training and they were fully prepared to continue with the job and majority of them were taken out of the system. That is very, very sad,” he said.

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20100612454490

Nobody has slightly suggested that the rewarding a hard work is wrong in any organization. However, there is everything wrong about promoting a lazy police officer such as Nuhu Ribadu to DIG. It is very silly of this hypercritic and sycophant called Ribadu to compare his unmeritorious promotion as AIG to the promotion of Mike Okiro as DIG.

When Mike Okiro was the Lagos State police commissioner, he is reputed to have led Anti-Robbery team in patrols and engaged in fire fights with armed robbers. It is very uncommon to see police officers of the caliber of CP in anti-robbery patrols. Mike Okiro’s promotion from CP to DIG was meritorious due to his selfless service to Nigerian society as a police officer.

In the other instance, Nuhu Ribadu has never arrested a common trespasser during his questionable tenure as a Nigerian Police Officer before his nepotistic appointment as chairman of EFCC. Baring his state of origin, it would have been hard for this typical hero of Nigeria to make DCP.

SEFAGO:
Thank God they did not tell you to make any of the banners for the world cup. You would have misspelled every country's name. Anyhow let us thank God, for our founding fathers today when Argentina sees the might of Nigeria.

I hope you do not embark on drinking spree for being able to understand the connotation of an English word.

Ibime:
Dede1 is an amusing fellow. . . . always enjoy reading his write-ups cos its packed with witty humour.

Bros. you known as well as I do that truth is witty.

babapupa:
As asserted by Time magazine, Zik was a tribalist and demagogue. The article was not written by a Yoruba man, not by a Nigerian, but by an independent writer and body thousands of miles away from the shores of Nigeria.

Like I said before, when they talk about African leaders, they mention and acknowledge Awolowo while Zik gets labeled a tribal leader and a corrupt demagogue.


And regardless of your meaningless regurgitation and spin, the pilot article solidly confirmed the Time magazines demagogue assertions and contentions, write on point.

Pleas go find some other BS to peddle,

You are known on this forum as a wily slowpoke. I am of the view your blind obstinacy due to tribal pressure does not permeate to other human endeavors. The moronic gauge of the author of the alleged article published by Time Magazine is beyond the pale of comprehension.

It does not occur to you the author of the conjectural crap foolishly drew blank on the chronicle order of events in the amalgamated Protectorates. Anyway had your miserable life depended on sniffing out the literary blunders committed on the aforementioned Time Magazine’s article, your poor parents would have been grieving for loss of a child.

nulldev:
Nigeria did not exist? your special

I guess you wanted me to believe that the so-called Awolowo’s free education was an immaculate hit. It does not look good on you judging from your perceived historical knowledge of the amalgamated Protectorates and Nigeria.  I must add that whoever wrote the alleged Time Magazine's article is a blatant idio.t

nulldev:
Here is a quote unedited from Awos Biography written prior to independence on he's rivalry with Zik which should shed a lot more light on the politics of the time and put it in its proper context:

An article written by Zik himself, published on the front page of the Pilot, and entitled: "'Football Iliad, 1940 Edition'", shocked many people. It was a big step forward in an insidious campaign which had gone on for more than two years on the pages of the Pilot. A football team composed of students of the Christ the King's College, Onitsha, came to Lagos to play a 'Win the War' football match against St Gregory's College. The CKC team from Onitsha defeated St Gregory's team by 5 goals to 4. To the ordinary man in the street, let alone the highly sophisticated elements, there was nothing extraordinary or unusual in one school or college defeating another in a game of soccer. But not so with Dr Azikiwe. He saw in the sporting exploits and triumph of the team from Onitsha the inherent superiority of the easterners over their opponents, and he went to very great pains to establish this fact, by means of careful choice of words and emphasis. These extracts from the article are relevant: And then to think of the great combination of the Spartan heroes who crossed the lordly Niger, journeyed through the good earth of Benin, hurried across the domains of the Oshemawe of Ondo, of the Atanla of Owo, of the Owa of Ilesha, of the Oni of Ife, of the Alake of Abeokuta in their invasion of these islands!
Who, but heroes of mighty brawn and exceptionally developed brain would have dared to make this invasion and to succeed in carrying to their River Niger home, the Golden Fleece of InterCollegiate Soccer Championship of the Eastern and Western Provinces?
Yet they came to Lagos, they saw the irresistible defence put up by their opponents, and they conquered impressively, convincingly, and were graceful even in victory!
Could their achievement be paralleled?
Would it not be better for me to leave the answer to the laps of the gods?

On 24 August 1940, however, the same CKC team played in Ibadan against the Olubadan XI in another 'Win the War' match. The CKC were beaten 3-2 by the Olubadan XI which were an undiluted Yoruba team. Apart from sending the news to the Daily service myself, I also saw to it that it was wired to the Pilot. It was after there had been clamours in the Daily service, in form of letters to the editor, that the news of this Ibadan match was published some two weeks later in the Pilot. Even then, it was a small item on the back page, and it was explained in it that the CKC team were already tired and that some of them were in fact limping, before they went into the field against Olubadan XI. This was of course untrue.
I said before that the CKC episode was a big step forward in an insidious campaign which had gone on for more than two years on the pages of the Pilot. One or two more instances will be given. By the time the Pilot had published for a year, an important feature of the paper had become manifest. The Igbos in particular were given inordinate publicity on the pages of the paper. Perhaps this was as it should be. The Igbo had never had a share in newspaper publicity before the advent of the Pilot. But equally so, no Yoruba man of the class of the Igbos publicised in the Pilot ever had a share of publicity in any paper either. In those days one had to be an outstanding politician, a big shot in society, or a well-connected person, for one's name to appear in the Nigerian Daily Times, Nigerian Daily Telegraph andLagos Daily News. Of course if you had a friend working in the news or composing section of a paper, no matter who you were, you might be slipped in. Names of people like myself appeared in the papers simply because we were agitators or free-lance journalists. All the same, it was generally agreed that the Igbos needed all the boosting they could get.But Dr Azikiwe went about it in a manner which disgusted those of us who were used to describing citizens of Nigeria as Nigerians or Africans, and regarding their achievements as reflecting credit on Nigeria, indeed Africa, as a whole. The following are typical of the titles of front page news items and of editorial articles in the Pilot.


1. ' Ibo Young Man to Sail to U.K.' is the heading of a frontpage story and picture on September 23, 1938. The young man is Mr Jaja Wachuku, now Speaker of Nigeria's House of Representatives.
2. '14th West African Student, 10th Nigerian, 8th Ibo in U.S.A.' Another front-page story on January 28, 1939. The 8th Ibo is Mr Nwafor Orizu, now Senator in Nigeria's Upper House.
3. 'Ibo Medical Student Passes Exam In First Class Honours.' Yet another front page story, on June 26, 1940, of the brilliant success of Dr S. O. Egwuatu.
4. Editorials:
i. ' A Model Union' ( August 8, 1938) in praise of the Ibibio State Union.
ii. 'One Year Ago' ( August 18, 1938) celebrating the first anniversary of the call to the Bar of the first Ibo lawyer, in the person of Mr Justice Louis Mbanefo, now Chief Justice of the Eastern Region High Court.
iii. 'The Ibo Are Coming' ( December 31, 1938) -- The very title is sufficiently indicative of the contents.

These are but a few examples of the publicity given to Igbos as a group. But as against these, the achievements of Yorubas and, in particular, the academic laurels of their scholars received, if at all, inconspicuous notice in the Pilot. When an Igbo did or was about to do something praiseworthy, he was invariably given a two-column headline and report in the Pilot, and was always described by his ethnic origin in the headlines. But when the Ph.D. degree of London University, indeed of any university for that matter, was conferred on the first Nigerian ever, the historic news was given a small singlecolumn space in the Pilot, and the headline read: 'Nigerian Economist Passes Ph.D. London.' The scholar concerned was Dr Fadipe, a Yoruba. As late as 1945, two Nigerian law students of Cambridge University, one Yoruba and one Igbo, passed the Law Tripos Examination. The Yoruba passed with second class honours (upper division), and the Igbo also passed with second class honours but in the lower division. The latter got front page publicity in the Pilot, but the former got a small space given to him on the back page a few days after the report of his Igbo colleague had appeared. As for outstanding Yoruba public men, they were all of them daubed as 'imperialist stooges' and ' Uncle Toms'.

The incessant acts of chest besting by Yoruba peeps about their imaginary academic superiority and inconsequential political encomiums lavished on anything Yoruba did not start at the advent of Internet.

I guess Azikiwe tried to contrarily elucidate the erroneous tales of greatness of Yoruba ethnic group that was being propagated by erratic politicians and frustrated juju musicians of that era.

Is there any better way to sarcastically debunk such conjectural and nonsensical claims of greatness than citing superior academic achievements of the kids from the eastern region of the Protectorates including the trashing of St. Gregory College, Lagos soccer team by the visiting team of Christ the King College, Onitsha?

The bolded part is another crap meant to deceive undiscerning onlooker. When the aforementioned article was written, there was no real estate called Nigeria. Pilot could not have committed such journalistic blunder to caption a headline with “Nigerian”.

What the author of above posted article purposefully omitted was West African Pilot ran full page obituary of Dr. Nathanial Akinremi Fadipe for four consecutive editions when he suddenly died in 1944.

babapupa:
This senseless and pointless rubbish is an obvious reflection of the level of insecurities and lack of self worth and assurance prevalent within the Igbo community.

Are you trying to deny the fact there is rudimentary gauge of level of academic achievements in Nigeria? Are you not one of the loudmouthed prophets who had preached the greatness of Awo and how he academically uplifted Yoruba over and above other ethnic groups in Nigeria?

Look punk, you can accuse Ndigbo of many things but insecurities, lack of self worth and assurance are not part of them.

I still maintain that Nigeria should be disintegrated in order to allow seed to germinate where it may. I have to blame the freedom to play stupidity on Internet that provided avenue for moronic imbeciles to grow unfounded conjectures on the web.

Thank goodness there exist some rudimentary pointers in Nigeria that reveal the level of education or lack thereof in certain section of the country. If Ndigbo in particular and eastern region in general had been found floundering in area of academic, few loudmouths would have posited that Awolowo offered to help Ndigbo and eastern region of Nigeria in academic through the worthless free education but Azikiwe or Ojukwu slept on such wonderful proposal.

Awolowo was a first class political opportunist. He only operated in a situation either were tribalism is paramount or where the opportunity presented him with dirty military boys’ arse to lick. Nonetheless, I still will take him over certain members of his political contemporaries.

The British M15 was at the tails of Azikwe and Awolowo in order to render them politically insignificance in Nigeria. Unfortunately for Awolowo whose main stock in political trade was tribalism did not see the hand writings on the wall and eventually was slammed into the jail by government of Tafawa Balewa in cohort with few renegade Yoruba peeps.

The little life in him would have been extinguished before the start of Nigeria/Biafra civil war in Nigerian Prison in Bauchi but the timely intervention of Igbo chap who was a Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Lagos moved him to the Nigerian Prison in Calaber. The government of eastern region of Nigeria made sure that nobody played a trick on Awolowo’s life while in jail. But guess what, a pig shall always remain a pig as Awolowo turned against the people who gave him a second chance to live.

cyblez:
@ DEDE 1, i am not happy with some of your replies, if it is really a taboo according to Yoruba tradition  for Olori to leave the  palace from all indications here, it is also a taboo for the Oba to fight in a public.So why are u seeing things only on the side of the Olori or is it because she is a slave woman. No matter the Olori's offence, ( if there is any) must he create a scene ? Does it mean that other Obas don't have domestic problems? and yet they handled it in a matured way, must he wash his dirty Linen outside?.His actions has it given him an ovation and kudos he deserved as Oba.?. I don,t know that using acid  in Nigeria is now, lawful and traditional. The treatment meted to Olori is barbaric, in-human and should not be supported.if we are so much into our tradition, we should also go back into our tradition of going unclothed or rather wearing leafs. pls lets not support evil.

I am afraid your post exposed you as a transgressor of the teachings of our culture and tradition and a stark ignorant. I really do not expect you to be happy with posts. Of course, Obas do have problems and their Olori have never desecrated the symbol of culture and tradition because Oba wanted a second wife.

How could you insinuate that the tradition of Africa exclusively dictated that Africans go unclothed and wear leafs? Europeans went unclothed and wore leafs before the advent of industrial revolution. Before the arrival of Europeans in Africa, some section of the continent had gone beyond the act of unclothed and wearing of leafs as they wore weaved materials. It is very unfortunate ignorance has beclouded your brain and you can not fathom that going from unclothed to clothed is a process of human development and it is not an exclusive domain of any culture or tradition.

I had rather err on the part of our culture and tradition than the silly counter-culture most contributors seemed to suggest. I shall take wife-beating over wife-killing that is rampant in Europe and North America.

Awolowo had no equal and was the greatest politician Nigeria had ever produced in fanning the embers of tribal politics.

olafolarin:
During the Civil war,One Colonel Victor Banjo(Yoruba man) fought on the Biafra side and led the battalion that fought the hardest part of the war-The Ore invasion,

So also Col Adegboyega led the Middle Belt attack.


Most people supporting Ojukwu should read Col Nzefili's account of the war and how Ojukwu was fooled by the French.Ojukwu led his people to destruction and should be tried for aggravated manslaughter amongst other offences

Was he not the same punk who denied his ancestral lineage hoping such dubious and sacrilegious behavior would earn him favor from Nigerians, the enemies, who fostered war of attrition on Biafra?

Katsumoto:
What ethnic line are you talking about? There is no need to imagine things. As a Nigerian, I don't mind anyone from any tribe being president AS LONG AS THEY ARE QUALIFIED but as a Yoruba person, I am less inclined to accept a non-yoruba as my state governor or regional premier. The outsiders must be more qualified than my tribes person for me to consider him. In this case, Zik was not more qualified than Awo.That is just nature. Why did it take America over 200 years to elect a black? [size=20pt]While we are on the subject, how many non-easterners have been elected in the East? Any one who accuses the Yoruba of bigotry for not accepting Zik as leader of the Western region is a bloody fool. Why did the East not elect a non-eastern regional premier? Afterall, there were many Yoruba people in NCNC. It is on record that the most accommodating region was the western region as it had many non-yorubas in its house.[/size]

[size=20pt]FACE AND EZEUCHE, Since you are so liberal, when are you going to sponsor a non Igbo for the governorship of your states?[/size]

I am out, it appears I am debating with people who want to eat their cake and still have it. In an era of uncertainty and nascency you are asking for political maturity from others when you were not extending same to others.

This is unlike you showing signs of emotional rascality. If Yoruba or non-easterner had contested for a seat from any constituency in eastern region and contestant’s party won the majority of the seats during the polls, the non-easterner would have been elected regional premier without qualms.