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I hope Nigerians win too. Each time I see news like this, I do wish that it would translate to Remi Tinubu's victory secures a future for an orphan or that Obanikoro's appointment brings a ripple of hope for a homeless man.

The truth is that the whole political drama is recycling in nature. Go read the profile of most people that led and are still leading- either blood relatives, godfathers and godchildren relationship etc. Is it now strange that again, the tenure would change but the live of the common man won't change? Same old brains, same old ways in a new tenure.

The Chibok girls will still move deeper into destination unknown tonight,
Somewhere, robbers bullet would put an end to the life of a poor man,
On the road they refused to fix, an accident would occur again and innocent men would bear the pain

But again, we won't wise up, we would still vote for the one who does not care what becomes of us in the next 4 years.

theunusualmoon:
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On a lighter note .....Oga you sef na wa for you oooo.Is that supposed to be like an atheists' quorum ? cause all those you mentioned are atheists.

At all sir. I am not even interested in their religions. I only observed that their contributions are almost always apt and laudable. After all, the proposed thread is not for the sake of religion. So, whether Christians, Muslims, atheists, pagans, believers in Janism or anything, it does not matter.

driand:
2015 is on course and the battle for power would soon won and lost, when the smoke have risen and amber die what would be left of the Nigerian youths who have been battling it out on the social media and have even earned titles on the social media(e-worriors)

now someone please tell me should we continue to watch these old men take on Rollercoaster rides?

what happened to the part where we are supposed to be the leaders of tomorrow? or is tomorrow not here yet?

There are questions that need serious and urgent answers but the youths should start answering those questions now, or we wait and continue to watch from the side lines till we have a nation that has been looted and drained of its God given wealth,

My humble proposal is we take power by the ballot come 2019

Let's meet here and discuss the possibility.


Eziachi barcanista Jarus Seun Hidentity

Friend, look out for politically informed and intelligent members on this forum. Get a worthwhile topic for a thread like A thread for Nigerian youths on Nigerian Politics, Nigerian youths thread for leadership confab or any other good topic.

Then tag people who are politically informed and sound in their submissions on different topics. I know of Mynd, Barcanista, Seun, urnaijadotcom, and immortal crown.

Without prejudice to Governor Okorocha, a picture like this reminds me of the difference between what people see you as and what you are deep inside. I wish that Nigerian politicians could actually come to the level of the common men even when these people are not there to speak for their interest.

The truth is that the friendship between our leaders and those of us being lead is almost always temporal- election time. Now, the strange thing is that as commoners, we tend to forget so fast how we cannot even slow down in the front of the government house, how the bags of rice they share only come once in 4 years, how they would pose with a petty trader to show their humble disposition only during election period. After that, the hustle, tussle and struggle begin afresh... Many hidden prospects under tattered shirts.

It is high time we asked the questions that are of the essence to our lives. When I think about the polity, the first set of people that comes to my mind is those in my constituency- the Nigerian youths. I read about how someone became a Nigerian minister before the age of 25 yesterday. Today, what do we have? A mere lip appraisal of the importance of youths in nation building.

Think about this- they would rather approach our old parents in the markets to campaign than approach universities to address us. Yet, the policies would affect us the most. Strange enough, the same youths they ignore would troop out to cast their votes for them, unleash mayhem in their support and attack others for their sake.

Truth be told, I have observed that there is a shift in the efficiency and effectiveness of our ideas and intelligence as youths. The polity has altered our reasoning skills that we no longer pay attention to the things that matter. We are busy with more important this like the match between Manchester United and Arsenal, the bet on Lionel Messi and Ronaldo. While following Amber Rose on twitter, we did not know when our welfare was 'unfollowed' by our leaders. We are busy with the latest music videos and the trending nude picture of another person. We are not interested in the matches that affect our lives the most- the match of the polity and how it is managed. From the leaders of tomorrow, we are negligently and dangerously becoming the former leaders of tomorrow. Now I ask, can a bad society birth good individuals?

Check online outfits like this, comments and topics that attract people the most are almost always worthless and of no value. Unemployment, poverty, insecurity, illiteracy and other anomalies hit our constituency the most, yet we won't just GROW up. What will be will be, but if that is to be, it is up to YOU.

Governor Fayose is a typical example of a product of a troubled society. One keeps wondering how a person of his kind would be what he is all in the name of being a grassroot politician.

As a people, we need be educated on how WHO we are cannot be considered in isolation from WHAT we are or what we want to be. Ironically, in Nigeria we do not assess people on the grounds of decency, credibility, integrity, dignity, decorum and leadership traits. You see people with comments like 'oh, he ate at a local restaurant? he won my heart.' Nigerian politicians make the best of actors in the political stage, give them the role and see how they mess up the polity.

This is a man who would rather slander and publish libelous things about another candidate than face his role as the leader of a highly respected state. Yet, you see YOUTHS with fists up celebrating his 'incredibility' on the street. MY FEAR: Why our equals inherit a sound system based on incredible ideologies in other parts of the world, we are left at the mercy of a failing state.

The bridge between OPTIMISM and PESSIMISM is REALITY. An optimist believes he would fly one day, a pessimist sees that as practically impossible. A realist strikes the plausible balance- he knows the optimist can fly, but not literarily, it could be by achieving that feat by being an authority in a chosen field. Majority of us queue on the platform of pessimism and optimism- we either 'overdream' or refuse to dream. Seeing things beyond the lenses of Ethic groups, religion, sex, social status and other sentiments would liberate us from the mental slavery and primitive mentality that the man who buys roasted corn by the road side won't forget those he met at the road side.

googlepikin:
I was on a bike yesterday and the Abokii guy asked me who did I vote for, buhari or GEJ , I said buhari. I asked him who is he going to vote for in Lagos governorship election, he said all okada association and northerners have had a meeting that they can't be deceive by APC for the third time. that they have agreed to vote for JIMI AGBAJE. it's amazing that Lagos state presidential vote was 700 and something to 600 and something thousand mind you half of those who voted for buhari have plans to vote for JIMI AGBAJE. So imagine the North, SS and SE voting for JIMI AGBAJE in dis kinda free and fair elections, then I'm sorry for tinubu , fashola and co. there will be shock in Lagos state in few days time.1,000,000 vote for JIMI AGBAJE dis coming election. am pleading to all Northerners , southerners and Easterners to come out in our millions to vote for the rightful man for Lagos state. let's all vote for JIMI AGBAJE because he's the right man. LIKE IF YOU WILL VOTE FOR JIMI AGBAJE and share if you will vote for ambode.

Friend, must you flood every single topic with this post? Agreed, you are working for your daily bread, but be sensitive to the attitude of others towards this unsolicited and unappreciated self-coined opinion.

I do not like taking on people for any reason. However, I've seen this on close to 5 topics now. Why? Let us be diplomatic and sensitive as we scramble for a few thousands during this time.

Marvin67:
I never understood what people meant whenever they said GEJ never loses a battle until I saw the outcome of the elections. The 2015 presidential election wasn't just a battle between GEJ and GMB, it was also a battle between GEJ and OBJ.
Everyone who knows Nigeria well, knows that OBJ spent his time in office, trying to create a name for himself in Africa. Eventually, he left office and became one of Africa's most respected former leaders. GEJ however had more issues on his neck while he was Nigeria's president, and I'm sure he almost had no time to think of Africa. But after losing the elections, GEJ performed an act that made him leap frog OBJ to being one of Africa's greatest. His singular act of congratulating the winner, made the whole world and all of Africa respect him. In some quarters he's been described as the father of modern democracy in Nigeria.

Even the APC which I never thought would ever use the name Jonathan and commend in the same sentence has this to say through Alhaji Lai Mohammed by that
singular act, which went a long way in dousing post-election tension, the President had snatched victory from the jaws of defeat.
It also noted that Jonathan had written his name in gold in the annals of Nigeria’s history and catapulted himself to a statesman.

Also, Mo Ibrahim a man who has never said anything about OBJ had this to say about GEJ; Thank you Mr President. If you are seeking a legacy, you have definitely achieved
it.”
If GEJ eventually wins the Mo Ibrahim award for 2015, then he'd definitely be smiling all over Africa, far more than OBJ is smiling. When the UN, AU, Commonwealth, etc looks for an African democrat to use an example, they'd definitely use GEJ, while OBJ falls into the category of so many former presidents.


Lastly, as my warri friend said "who God don bless, God don bless, Jona no dey ever lose. Him lose Aso Rock, but him win Africa".

Nice opinion OP. Well coined but please it is not just okay to call GEJ the father of modern democracy. He is not near it. Just leave it at that.

Airforce1:
I believed n president buhari and that was why I voted for him

How far Airforce1? Our album

WARNING: This piece has the tendency of raising the blood pressure of any career Jonathanian- young or old. Doctors of literature advised that such people should stop at this point...

I have come to realize that nothing in life is an exception to the law of diminishing return. That law is a stubborn one, and one may not appreciate it if he did not follow how the law of diminishing return will return President Jonathan to Otuoke in a matter of weeks. Not just that, it is unrepentantly determined to bury President Jonathan- from the polity, from the good side of history, from taking another shot, from making the first impression the second time. It will bury him in the glare of the public- the highs and the lows. Even in the faces of those whose many crimes were pardoned to give him a chance to live again. Before the law does that, I have come to bury President Jonathan!

President Jonathan is an ingrate and he has reaped the dividend of being one. He bit the fingers that fed him and insulted the same cup that gave him a taste of power. Like most of his predecessors, he dined and wined at the expense of the ordinary people, but unfortunately, unlike his predecessors, he broke his spine.

For the purpose of simplifying this argument, let us forget everything that happened when Goodluck Jonathan was Deputy Governor under Governor
Diepreiye Alamiesegha or when he was the governor of Bayelsa State following the impeachment of Alamiesegha for corruption - including the arrest of Mrs. Patience Jonathan for money laundering (redacted and deleted from the memory of Nuhu Ribadu and the EFCC). Let us forget all that happened when he was Vice President under President Musa Yar’Adua or Acting President following his death. Let us not even address the several misfortune that envelopes the polity. Let us just identify where and how he started digging his grave for this funeral we have gleefully come to grace.

Let me not dignify impunity on the altar of statistics and online surveys. Those who felt the scourge of Jonathan's insensitivity and irresponsible government the most do not even know what survey or statistic means. They know things were harder than it used to be, so I should not rub salt on their injuries by any development index. The day I vowed never to embrace statistics again, at least for the little time left till Jonathan zooms to Otuoke was when a survey revealed Nigeria is the largest economy in Africa and it makes no difference in the lives of the ordinary man.

President Jonathan's problem did not start the day he forgot the cries of the common men, it started the day he could not curb the excesses of his Mrs. In an ideal nation, people like Patience Jonathan are enrolled in a private tutorial for a space of two to three years. Yes, it will take that long because she deserves to be polished in many aspects- public speaking, public carriage, human relations and composure. It could extend to four years or more because a close observation reveals that her type is not teachable. Unfortunately, President Jonathan did not do this and the devil has banked on that to attend his bouffe- he must dance to stupor! Truth be told, in the just concluded election that called for this burial message, both critical and shallow analysts cannot underscore how much damage our comic first lady did to the dream of Mr. President. Is it the insensitive insult on the person of drivers and conductors? Is it the disgrace the elites felt because their contemporaries in other parts of the world mock them because of their eccentric first lady? Is it the unconstitutional and morally reprehensible rancour she ignited with the governor of Rivers state? Is it about how 'loyal' executive governors of states were seen kneeling before her at rallies? Is it about the abusive words on the Northerner which governor Kwankwaso frowned at? Or the desperate plea to the Oyo populace that prison is inevitable if Buhari should emerge victor? Think about it! This is not a criticism of her meddling in the affairs of the government, it is a criticism of her unfit status to do that.

As if that was not enough clog on the wheel of Jonathan's second term ambition, an inconsiderate campaign committee of Jonathan pushed a person like Fani, the never repenting undoing of the nation to the campaign's most sensitive part. Since then, he had wrecked more havoc with words than the good he claimed his ancestors did to our nation. Like Fayose, the typical example of a national worry, Fani-Kayode created more enemy for President Jonathan than one can imagine. This is the Fani that insulted a whole integral part of the nation by making an issue out of his affairs with Bianca. He is the proverbial disappointed hunter that settled for lame ducks. He opened his mouth and polluted the polity. Fani-Kayode's decorous moment lies in his awareness of a possibility of an impartial panel, that would reveal to him that the walls of the prisons are not decorated. In conjunction with Fayose who disgracefully sold out the integrity of his state, they donated a giant plank for the construction of Jonathan's political coffin. They earnestly promoted the politics of hatred and ethnicity, it ricochetted like a bullet and hit the principal right in the most delicate part. Easy, they fought the good fight that would reveal where they belong- nowhere.

For those who believe that Jonathan's irredeemable knock out was self induced, you have a point. The President himself never acted different from his reward triggered team of followers- he admitted his generation failed the nation right on the podium of his soliciting for another chance. He devoted more time destroying his key opponents than he did in building himself. Publicly, he did admitted that 'throwing every corrupt leaders in prison would leave us with no leader.' President Jonathan, I am here to bury you!

President Jonathan flaunted his endurance at the gymnasium, but Nigeria needed that endurance in his fight against corruption. Sadly, Okupe never informed the President that the next election has nothing to do with muscle flexing. President Jonathan budgeted almost a billion annually on feeding, but Abati did not remind him the masses who sleep in hunger will determine how long the meal will last. President Jonathan shielded Alison Madueke from the searchlight of truth, but he could not shield himself from a shameful exit from the Aso compound. President Jonathan did not cease in his campaign against bias on the ground of religion and ethic group, yet the vice president openly charged the North against the opposition based on religion.

Before I submit, it is worthy to do a brief review of how Jonathan met the policy less than five years back and how he would leave it. I have my opinion and assessment of this administration- it has been archived to tell a tale of a man who rose from grass to grace and then shamefully to irrelevance. Grab your pen and paper; access him on security, education, employment, poverty alleviation, youth empowerment and other areas that affect our lives. Then you will be proud that you played a role in burying Jonathan.

Before now, President Jonathan was lucky that Nigerians were too busy with more important things – fighting over Chelsea and Manchester United fixtures.  Placing a bet on Arsenal and the decision the coaches of each team make each Saturday and how the European league referees perform on the pitch. Before now, Nigerians have abandoned their own team, their own coaches, their own referees, their own pitch and the matches that affect their lives the most. Before now, Nigerians are busy following Iyanya and Amber Rose on twitter, they did not follow how their welfare has been unfollowed.

Before President Jonathan is made to rest and shut his eyes to the reality of the political life, let all man learn a salient lesson- that there is no limit to where one can reach or what one can be in life. However, importantly, that there is also no limit to how low one can sink if he should turn his ears against the cries of those who pushed him up.

Today, Jonathan’s luck ran out because Nigerians just grabbed a calculator and added up these billions, trillions, insults, pains, unkept promises and impunity. Wait! Is that to say Reuben Abati would go back to being an ordinary columnist that he was? Will President Jonathan go to Otuoke with Fani-Kayode and Okupe? Can you now see that the funeral the nation unified to organise is worth it? Then, is it mere exaggeration when I say; I come to bury Jonathan?

Author: Hidentity
Acknowledgement: Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo

Brymo:
Whoever said the pen is mightier
than the sword obviously never
encountered automatic
weapons.

Please acknowledge the author of this. It is not okay to just be credited for another person's work. Let me help you, Douglas MacArthur said it.

buygala:
why would the young man insist on seeing the result sheets? .... Was he planning to run away with it, tear it, or butcher everyone in sight if he couldn't find it?

Is he a party representative, Inec Staff, or Attahiru Jega himself?

The Dude was acting like someone who had a death-wish, so the impatient Police-man promptly obliged him... End of story


This is the first situation this year, where I feel that the police-man who gunned the dude down deserves a medal ....

The dude should have quietly cast his vote and gone home to pray that his favorite candidate emerges the best rigger, instead of forming Rambo and testing the patience of trigger-happy policemen who can't differentiate between concerned honest citezens and Political thugs

Ordinarily, I see replying a post of this nature as investing in folly. However, a child who grows In the midst of hostile relatives may grow wild, but a neighbourhood that tolerates such is unfair. Thus, the need to call weeds among flowers like you to order. I hate to trade words but then, I am afraid that you are a potential father of crooks because a dirty bottle can't birth a clean wine. So, for the sake of your unborn children, may I address you in a manner slightly crude.

Buygala, when does standing for due procedure become a crime? When does calling for transparency call for a reply with bullet? I am thinking you were joking but then, it means you are insensitive. A man who does not use reasoning is a tamed beast, a man who abuses it is a wild one. Read your post again and determine where you belong.

Your mentality and orientation is dangerous for an ideal environment. Wanted to suggest that you are put under surveillance but then, it would amount to an exercise in waste. The frustration let into the air by the government of the day has affected you psychologically- you can hardly reason like normal men. On few occasions when you do, it is unfortunate that people don't take you serious. Need I say you are lost in the world of illusion which you reached by walking the bridge of hatred?

...

Taylor184:
Hidentity is an African.....

winks

After the 2015 General elections, Nigerian youths should have a rethink. Survey reveals that we cover 70% of the population, but in relevance we amount to almost nothing. We feel the consequence of a bad government the most- we lament unemployment, we are the perpetrators and receivers of criminal acts, our population suffers the most due to poor infrastructures, majority of victims of terrorism are either youths or intending youths...

Yes, there is power in number, but the power in our number is reflected in political thuggery, illiteracy and crime.

From the provision(s) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended in 2011), one can say that the modern oracle, which is the LAW already spoke in our favour. Section 106 (b) stipulates that a person vying as a member of the State House of Assembly must be at least thirty years (30). Section 65 (1a & b) provides the thirty five years (35) minimum age requirement for a member of the National Assembly. Section 177 (b) provides for the minimum age of thirty five years (35) also for the state governor. For the President, Section 131 (b) provides for forty (40) years age requirement.

Looking at these provisions, 30, 35 and 40 years are ages that should have afforded serious minded individuals all it takes to make a good leader. However, we settle for the offices of the President, National Association of Nigerian Students at age 40! Secretary National Union of Road Transport Workers at age 40 and other unions that are already politically chained. I am not looking down on these unions, but even most of them do not have what it takes to give us the nation we deserve. Are we intellectually poor or lacking in leadership traits to dare?

Way forward?

After the 2015 Election, let Nigerian youths come together and look beyond the lenses of ethnic groups, tribes, religion and sex to create a formidable political party. Let us go to the next poll and challenge the overgrown children of political anomalies that we CAN! That alone will show them that we have a strong stake in the running of the 1960-born nation. Let the said party see beyond pushing a candidate forward. Let it be a training ground for younger youths between the ages of 20 to 30. A person trained in leadership in such a setting would most likely not make a 'yeye' leader. Let the party challenge our leaders to debate on public affairs.

Whether 54 or 72, they should be relegated to the role of elder statesmen, mentors, confidants and advisors. We have been modified by the advancement and the sophistication in the world, we should apply that to the modern problems.

This election is a gamble, the next should not be. The era of intellectual revolution and politics based on issues knocks at the door. Won't you rather answer before the consequences of a failed state give our generation a memory erasing knock on the head?

The kind of political party suggested above na him go do o. Na him go pay us so tey CHANGE wey go TRANSFORM us come take broom sweep poverty and carry umbrella cover us from terrorism go come.

By the way #vote, not fight!

Airforce1:
Happy birthday banky

Airforce1, how far with your album now?
I've promised my friends heaven on earth when it comes out. Please don't fall my hand.

Signed: the biggest fan of your yet to be sang song.

Airforce1:
you see
This the kind of life I want to live

Sleeping and waking up in a big house owned by me

I'm really putting lotsa efforts to make my album a success


I want my album to be the talk of the town

I want my album to fetch me lotsa money that would be enough to buy a mansion at banana island

I want my name to be on everyone's lips

I want to be a Mega super star

I want my name to go international

I want Obama to know I exist

I want president barrack Obama to invite me over at the white house for dinner with his family

I just might drop out of school to pursue these dream

Yes!
I CAN

Trust me, on any post about celebrities, I always look out for you. In fact, you are popular among my friends who are not on this forum at all. And yes I mean popular- you are known and liked. There is a way you present it that eases tension and create a sophisticated hilarious environment.

If you are actually working on an album, you shall get there and please talk on your years of patiently waiting.

If you are just making a joke with it, I like it. You are laughing gas personified.

Airforce1:
you see
This the kind of life I want to live

Sleeping and waking up in a big house owned by me

I'm really putting lotsa efforts to make my album a success


I want my album to be the talk of the town

I want my album to fetch me lotsa money that would be enough to buy a mansion at banana island

I want my name to be on everyone's lips

I want to be a Mega super star

I want my name to go international

I want Obama to know I exist

I want president barrack Obama to invite me over at the white house for dinner with his family

I just might drop out of school to pursue these dream

Yes!
I CAN

Trust me, on any post about celebrities, I always look out for you. In fact, you are popular among my friends who are not on this forum at all. And yes I mean popular- you are known and liked. There is a way you present it that eases tension and create a sophisticated hilarious environment.

If you are actually working on an album, you shall get there and please talk on your years of patiently waiting.

If you are just making a joke with it, I like it. You are laughing gas personified.

Ahmed4002:
you got no problem.
You good to go

Thank you sir. God bless you.

Good evening friends. Please, I just did my online registration this night and I got my call up number immediately. However, there are three (3) fundamental errors of which two (2) were not so while filling my biodata online but reflected in the print out.

1: The title Chief, Miss, Mrs and Dr. are the only ones available online. None suited me because I expected to see something like Mr. I later settled for the safest I.e Dr.

2: My date of birth got modified from October 2 to October 1.

3: My gender got modified from male to female.

Is there someone with similar challenges? Is there a way they can be rectified? What is the possible consequence(s) when I get to camp? What could be the cause of the problems? Any suggestion?

Thank you.

JackBaueress:
Igbos are now used to pursue a political propaganda? The level of hate Igbos are building on Buhari,I just dey laff o!
I can't wait for Buhari to win the election. Honestly!

My dear friend, please just ignore the insult on your person and all that. Those who feel that dividing us in the line of shallow propagandas knew it would work and it is working.

It is a reflection of why we may not get it again this time. I am neither for Buhari nor Jonathan but I think a good candidate has better things to use in campaigning than things like this. Was it not a key spokesperson of the same PDP that went on insulting the woman folk by talking about his affairs with Bianca? To me, I was born a Nigerian before the categorization of tribe or religion further sets me apart. However, that first stage is what matters to me the most. I am Yoruba but I do not see anyone as Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa; I see all of us as Nigerians. That matters than any other thing. But if we lack the tolerance, foresight and strength of unity to appreciate that, I am afraid for us as a nation. I shudder at what the dungeon of divide we are digging will fetch us all. The loss won't be strict, it will be vicarious. It will outlive us and knock our children hard on the head.

I am certain that generations to come won't forgive us for choosing based on this petty propaganda at the expense of our nation. Circumstance has changed people more than sermon has.

Insightful. I actually hold the view that the low self esteem of the Nigerian Police is responsible for their unprecedented aggressiveness. Come to think of it, they traded their own respect and pride for shares of things that would not last: bribe, bootlicking and all.

A body, organisation or unit that knows his salt and onion won't take to violence in any instance. The decorum and deftness at their calling won't allow that. You see most of these policemen in dirty uniforms and 'punished shoes' threatening the common men. The Nigerian Police needs rebranding. Standard educational requirements, examination of past records, proper discipline and training are few of the things suggested to ensure they go back to the policing task and stop this city hunting of men.

Policing should not be a profession for people who just need to 'get a job' to make a living. It demands more.

Intellectually stimulating and worthwhile.

I doubt it. Read the report carefully, you will observe grammatical errors that are too cheap to come from such respected body in the leading country I.e 'while the insurgents sleeping,' 'that this terrorists has acquired.'

My take though.

iamtheprincipal:
She doesn't need to waste her precious life. More so, the life she has the privilege of living out isn't hers, it belongs to GOD and as such, make her understand just that.
She can commence a PGD but this time with a firm decision to make amends academically before proceeding for a masters programme.
Remind her also that successful men like Prof. Wole Soyinka made a 3rd Class. It's not about the '3rd' in the 'class' but the resolute determination to make it in life that counts

Nice one brother. I see a great sense in your well thought-out words. However, baba did not make a third class sir. He had an upper. Just for the sake of information.

Ogbenijhybo:
You are welcome un d name if the lord!!! you can see all over you the glory (Myself, Sodiqyinka and other guys) of the lord. U are welcome in d name of God!

Thank you sir. God bless you.

ctman:
. Which law School did u attend?

Abuja

Hello friends.

Hidentity

University of Ilorin

Law

2013

Lagos

Thank you friends.

With the way things are going, dear Lord, please forbid a day men will have to make do with skirts or wrappers. Amen.