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I feel sorry for whoever doesn't understand business law because the are likely to get cheated.

This world is a jungle and you may have to devour someone to climb the food chain. However, you must protect yourself from getting devoured by ALL MEANS NECESSARY. This is the reason for a business contract.

Let's hear what Aboderin has to say before making a decision

Obviously, whoever brought up the idea of firemen to bear arms doesn't belong to a human society of modern era and should be sent to the forest to eat grass for 7 years like Nebuchadnezzar

Northerns really believe strength is better than intelligence

When I win, I'm British
When I lose, I'm British of Nigerian descent

This is the story of recent generation of migrants playing for England

And so what?

I have seen men from defunct CPC, APC, PDP, etc poke at the incompetency of this Buhari led government, so what is the big deal if Adeyemo is (or was) a PDP member choosing to stay with Ladoja his political father?

These kind of post are grasping at straws, Buhari is incompetent security-wise, if otherwise, Sunday, just like Civilian JTF in Borno wouldn't have arisen

And Northern Governors are behaving like Fulani Bandits and Boko Haram.

They pay amnesty to "repentant" Fulani Bandits who then return back to their kidnapping ways since there will be no government backed consequences. I want to pity the Hausa, Kamberi and others they are maiming, but they don't deserve my pity.

Also, they are behaving like Boko Haram because of their forceful imposition of the Sharia enforcement in a multi-religious country.
There's a blurred line between Boko Haram and Northern Governors, so I don't know the difference

Igboid:
Stop writing nonsense.
There is no evidence that Igbos blew up Casino Cinema.
The most plausible narrative is that the FG in alliance with Awo decided to blow up that Cinema to rile up Yorubas who were undecided to side FG against Ndiigbo.

Igbo march towards Lagos was logical since Gowon and Northern soldiers were sitted there and Awolowo had given Ojukwu the impression that the reason Yoruba couldn't declare independence is because of presence of Northern Soldiers in Lagos and Western region.

LMFAO

Your narrative is hilarious. Both paragraphs.
Chief Awólówò was in prison to be sentenced to death for treason when the war broke out. His imprisonment was a result of an alliance between Northern & Eastern region (& Ladoke Akintola). So you mean he colluded with one of his enemies to fight the other? Then what happens afterwards? Fight the other enemy alone? Yòrùbás don't calculate like that.
We know those who blew up Casino Cinema. And I hope Lagos State Government leaves it as a relic & monument.

Second, Obáfémi Awólówò, an imprisoned CIVILIAN couldn't have struck ANY military deal whatsoever with Odumegu Ojukwu because he has zero control over the military, unlike Ojukwu who had the Eastern Region military under his command. Don't you think a brilliant mind like Ojukwu would've thought about this?
When twisting narratives to favour one's bias, one has to think deeply and not be quick to spew words gambling if it will make sense.
Furthermore, Yòrùbás has experienced over a century of civil war that got so bad that we came under British colonisation. A deep thinker like Obáfémi Awólówò would never have struck a military deal with Ojukwu to come into any plot of core Yorubaland in the name of liberation which would come along crippling Yòrùbáland's peace & infrastructure. (This is the issue I'm having with Nnamdi Kanu).

I rest my case.
You'll get no further replies from me on this thread

Emperormartin:
1968! That was during the war.

Does it mean when biafrans were fighting for secession in Nigeria, Oduduwa republic was agitating for same secession Faraway in London.

Then why were they fighting on Nigeria side during the war?

Anyway, 1967 is not 2021

The Yòrùbás didn't officially support Nigeria during the civil war until the Biafran side chose to attack core Yorubaland which was checkmated at Òrè (in modern day Ondo State).
The attack happened after Biafra captured the Mid-West (Edo & Delta).
Some Igbos already blew up Casino Cinema at Yábà, Lagos before traveling to the East but we let that one slide.

We weren't interested in the war or any other war. We believe in negotiations.
(But some people mistakes the Tiger's yawning for cowardice)

Below is a photograph from Oduduwa Republic Agitators taken in 1968.

PHOTO CREDIT: Michael Stroud (Getty Images)

The following are the final excerpts/minutes from a Chief Obafemi Awolowo interview after the Nigerian Civil War. I will post the video link once I come across it.

ABANDONED PROPERTY (in Lagos &
South West)

"...And then finally, I saw to it that the houses owned by the Ibos in Lagos and on this side, were kept for them. I had an estate agent friend who told me that one of them collected half a million pounds rent which has been kept for him. All his rent were collected, but since we didn’t seize their houses, he came back and collected half a million pounds.
So that is the position. I’m a friend of the Ibos and the mass of the Ibos are my friends, but there are certain elements who want to continue to deceive the Ibos by telling lies against me, and one day, they’ll discover and then that day will be terrible for those who have been telling the lies."

END

My Addition:
Otunba Subomi Balogun, the founder of First City Monument Bank (FCMB), speaking on how he got his banking licence said he got them through Alex Ekueme, the then vice president of Nigeria.
The favour he did Ekueme was that during the civil war, he came to his house at Apapa, Lagos only to see that his neighbour's house is now occupied by hoodlums since the Igbo neighbour had travelled (to the East possibly).
He then chased away the hoodlums, renovated the house to put it back in decent order, then rented it out.
The civil war ended (probably 2 years later) and this Igbo neighbour came back only to see his house occupied.
Otunba Subomi Balogun then handed over the collected rents to this neighbour and that was the beginning of their relationship.
That neighbour is Alex Ekueme who later went to become the Vice President of Nigeria during Shehu Shagari's tenure.
I'm still looking for the abandoned property of the Igbos in the South West (Yorubaland) that the true owners never got back.

What Chief Obáfémi Awólówò said about Igbos and The Nigerian Civil War https://www.nairaland.com/6616989/obafemi-awolowo-interview-igbos-nigerian

The following are the continuation of excerpts/minutes of a Chief Obafemi Awolowo interview. What he said on Civil War, Twenty Pounds Policy, Starvation Policy are on my previous threads. I'll post a link to the video when i find it

CHANGE OF CURRENCY

And it is on record that Ojukwu admitted that two things defeated him in this war, that’s as at the day he left Biafra. He said one, the change of currency, he said that was the first thing that defeated him, and we did that to prevent Ojukwu taking the money which his soldiers has stolen from our Central bank for sale abroad to buy arms. We discovered he looted our Central bank in Benin, he looted the one in Port Harcourt, looted the one in Calabar and he was taking the currency notes abroad to sell to earn foreign exchange to buy arms.
So I decided to change the currency, and for your benefit, it can now be told the whole world, only Gowon knew the day before, the day before the change took place. I decided, only three of us knew before then- Isong now governor of Cross River, Attah and myself. It was a closely guarded secret, if any commissioner at the time say that he knew about it, he’s only boosting his own ego. Because once you tell someone, he’ll tell another person. So we refused to tell them and we changed the currency notes. So Ojukwu said the change in currency defeated him, and starvation of his soldiers also defeated him.
These were the two things that defeated Ojukwu. And, he reminds me, when you saw Ojukwu’s picture after the war, did he look like someone who’s not well fed? But he has been taking the food which we send to civilians, and so we stopped the food.

What Chief Obáfémi Awólówò said about Igbos and the Abandoned Property Policy After The Civil War
https://www.nairaland.com/6617746/obafemi-awolowo-interview-abandoned-property

Christistruth00:

If this is true, Zik put his self interest ahead of his ethnic group.
If that was to enjoy the independence from Britain he recently got, I wouldn't know.
If it was as a result of embitterment that his government was toppled off, I also dunno.

Doradorwa:
Hmmm.... The wound of 58 years is still yet to heal up.

Bandages don't fix bullet holes
Anybody that thinks wounds heal is just being naïve.
All parties need their weapons drawn all the time, even in the midnight. Any party caught napping will lose fast in this 21st century, unless if rescued by providence.

The following is the continuation of the excerpts/minutes of a Chief Obafemi Awolowo interview from the previous threads i posted

STARVATION POLICY

"Then, but above all, the ending of the war itself that I’m accused of, accused of starving the Ibos, I did nothing of the sort.

You know, shortly after the liberation of these places, Calabar, Enugu and Port Harcourt, I decided to pay a visit. There are certain things which I knew which you don’t know, which I don’t want to say here now, when I write my reminisces in the future I will do so. Some of the soldiers were not truthful with us, they didn’t tell us correct stories and so on.

I wanted to be there and see things for myself, bear in mind that Gowon himself did not go there at that time, it was after the war was over that he dorn himself up in various military dresses- Air force dress, Army dress and so on, and went to the war torn areas. But I went and some people tried to frighten me out of my goal by saying that Adekunle was my enemy and he was going to see to it that I never return from the place, so I went.
But when I went what did I see? I saw the kwashiorkor victims. If you see a kwashiorkor victim you’ll never like war to be waged. Terrible sight, in Enugu, in Port Harcourt, not many in Calabar, but mainly in Enugu and Port Harcourt.

Then I enquired what happened to the food we are sending to the civilians. We were sending food through the Red Cross, and CARITAS to them, but what happen was that the vehicles carrying the food were always ambushed by the rebel soldiers. That’s what I discovered, and the food would then be taken to the soldiers to feed them, and so they were able to continue to fight. And I said that was a very dangerous policy, we didn’t intend the food for soldiers. But who will go behind the line to stop the soldiers from ambushing the vehicles that were carrying the food? And as long as soldiers were fed, the war will continue, and who’ll continue to suffer? And those who didn’t go to the place to see things as I did, you remember that all the big guns, all the soldiers in the Biafran army looked all well fed after the war, its only the mass of the people that suffered kwashiorkor.
You won’t hear of a single lawyer, a single doctor, a single architect, who suffered from kwashiorkor? None of their children either, so they waylaid the foods, they ambush the vehicles and took the foods to their friends and to their collaborators and to their children and the masses were suffering. So I decided to stop sending the food there. In the process the civilians would suffer, but the soldiers will suffer most.

What Chief Obáfémi Awólówò said about Why Nigeria Changed Its Currency Pounds To Naira During The Civil War
https://www.nairaland.com/6617298/obafemi-awolowo-interview-change-currency

This is a continuation of the excerpts/minutes from a Chief Obafemi Awolowo interview on my previous thread.

TWENTY POUNDS POLICY

"That’s what I did, and the case of the money they said was not given back to them, you know during the war all the pounds were looted, they printed Biafran currency notes, which they circulated, at the close of the war some people wanted their Biafran notes to be exchanged for them.
Of course I couldn’t do that, if I did that the whole country would be bankrupt.
We didn’t know about Biafran notes and we didn’t know on what basis they have printed them, so we refused the Biafran note, but I laid down the principle that all those who had savings in the banks on the eve of the declaration of the Biafran war or Biafra, will get their money back if they could satisfy us that they had the savings there, or the money there.
Unfortunately, all the banks’s books had been burnt, and many of the people who had savings there didn’t have their saving books or their last statement of account, so a panel had to be set up.

I didn’t take part in setting up the panel, it was done by the Central bank and the pertinent officials of the ministry of finance, to look into the matter, and they went carefully into the matter, they took some months to do so, and then make some recommendation which I approved. Go to the archives, all I did was approve, I didn’t write anything more than that, I don’t even remember the name of any of them who took part. So I did everything in this world to assist our Ibo brothers and sisters during and after the war.

And anyone who goes back to look at my broadcast in August 1967, which dealt with post-war reconstruction would see what I said there"

What Chief Obáfémi Awólówò said about The Starvation Policy During The Nigerian Civil War
https://www.nairaland.com/6617222/chief-obafemi-awolowo-interview-starvation

These are minutes/excerpts of a Chief Obáfémi Awólówò interview I just came across. I'll post the link to the video when I come across it

CIVIL WAR

MODERATOR: Yes Mr…….Mr. Oparadike.

QUESTION: Chief Awolowo, your stand on the civil war, however unpopular it may have been to the Biafran people…
Your stand on the civil war, however unpopular it may have been to the Biafrans or Igbo people, helped to shorten the war. Today, you’re being cast as the sole enemy of the Igbo people because of that stand, by among others, some of the people who as members of the federal military government at that time, were party to that decision and are today, in some cases, inheritors of power in one Nigeria which that decision of yours helped to save. How do you feel being cast in this role, and what steps are you taking to endear yourself once again to that large chunk of Nigerians who feels embittered.


AWOLOWO: As far as I know, the Ibo masses are friendly to me, towards me. In fact, whenever I visit Iboland, either Anambra or Imo, and there’s no campaigning for elections on, the Ibo people receive me warmly and affectionately. But there are some elements in Iboland who believe that they can maintain their popularity only by denigrating me, and so they keep on telling lies against me. Ojukwu is one of them. I don’t want to mention the names of the others because they are still redeemable, but….Ojukwu is irredeemable so I mention his name, and my attitude to these lies is one of indifference, I must confess to you.

I’ve learnt to rely completely on the providence and vindication of Almighty God in some of these things. I’ve tried to explain myself in the past, but these liars persist. Ojukwu had only recently told the same lie against me. What’s the point in correcting lies when people are determined to persist in telling lies against you, what’s the point. I know that someday the Ibos, the masses of the Ibo people will realize who their friends are, and who their real enemies are. And the day that happens woe betide those enemies. The Ibos will deal with them very roughly, very roughly.

That has happened in my life. I have a nickname now, if you see my letterhead you’ll find something on top, you’ll find a fish done on the letterhead. Some people put Lion on theirs, some people put Tiger, but mine is Fish. And Fish represents my zodiac sign, those of you who read the stars and so on in the newspapers; you’ll find out that there’s a zodiac sign known as pieces, in Latin pieces mean Fish.
So I put pieces on top, that’s my zodiac sign being born on the 6th of March,….er well, the year doesn’t matter, it’s the day that matter. And then on top of it I write Èébúdolá. All of you know the meaning of that. You know I don’t want to tell a long story but………………Awólówò school, omo Awólówò, the…… started in Urobo-land, in mid-west in those days.
They were ridiculing my schools, I was building schools – brick and cement, to dpc level, block to dpc level and mud thereafter. And so the big shots in the place.. ” Ah what kind of school is this? Is this Awolowo school? Useless school ” and when they saw the children..” ah this Awolowo children, they can’t read and write, Awolowo children ” that’s how it started, with ridicule, and it became blessing, and now they say “ Awolowo children, they are good people ” no more ridicule about it, that’s how it started, so the Eebu [insults] becomes honor, the abuse became honor.

And so when I look back to all my life, treasonable felony, jail, all the abuses that were heaped on me, to Coker Inquiry, all sorts, and I see what has happened to the people who led, who led all these denigration campaign, where are they today? Those that are alive are what I call Homo Mortuus- dead living, òkú ènìyàn, that’s what they are, those that their lives have gone.
So when I look back, I come to the conclusion that all these abuses which have been heaped on me all my life for doing nothing, for doing good, they have become honor, and so Eebudola is one of my nicknames. So I’ve cultivated an attitude of indifference, I’ve done no evil to the Ibos.

[b]During the war I saw to it that the revenue which was due to the Iboland- South Eastern states they call it, at that time..East Central State, I kept it, I saved the money for them. And when they….was liberated I handed over the money to them- millions. If I’d decided to do so, I could have kept the money away from them and then when they took over I saw to it that subvention was given to them at the rate of 990,000 pounds every month. I didn’t go to the executive council to ask for support, or for approval because I knew if I went to the Executive Council at that time the subvention would not be approved because there were more enemies in the Executive Council for the Ibos than friends. And since I wasn’t going to take a percentage from what I was going to give them, and I knew I was doing what was right, I wanted the state to survive, I kept on giving the subvention – 990,000 almost a million, every month, and I did that for other states of course- South eastern state, North central state, Kwara and so on.[/b]

But I did that for the Ibos, and when the war was over, I saw to it that the ACB got three and a half million pounds to start with. This was distributed immediately and I gave another sum of money. The attitude of the experts, officials at the time of the ACB was that ACB should be closed down, and I held the view you couldn’t close the ACB down because that is the bank that gives finance to the Ibo traders, and if you close it down they’ll find it difficult to revive or to survive. So it was given.
I did the same thing for the Cooperative Bank of Eastern Nigeria, to rehabilitate all these places, and I saw to it as Commissioner For Finance that no obstacle was placed in the way of the ministry of economic planning in planning for rehabilitation of the war affected areas.

What Chief Obáfémi Awólówò said about Why He Implemented The Twenty Pounds Policy During The Nigerian Civil War
https://www.nairaland.com/6617192/obafemi-awolowo-interview-twenty-pounds

This same Ronaldo helped Portugal win the last EURO tournament against all odds. Losing one match against GERMANY suddenly means haters can start comparing him to Messi on national level

Do to others what you will like them to do to you.
If you cheat on your wife, be prepared to get paid back.
There's no excuse for not wanting to get paid back in your own coin. Monogamy being unAfrican is bullshit.

My wish to every father out there is that their children should know, understand and appreciate all their sacrifices to build them into becoming a better person.

Sacrificing your time just to make sure they lack nothing (I hope they don't say you were never there for them).
Sacrificing your talent just so you get a guaranteed means of earning so they won't starve (I hope they don't compare you to other fathers seemingly doing better)
Starving yourself just to make sure they are not hungry (I hope they don't say they never had fancy food while growing up).
Paying school fees every 3 months from kindergarten till higher institution (I hope they understand how uneasy this is)
Staying legally clean so they don't inherit a bad name which could jeopardise their chances of making it in life

Fathers, I hope your children understand your efforts on time while you're still alive because sometimes, when I read about people's (especially female's) tributes to their dad, they mostly never had the chance to thank their dad before he died, but they worship their mom so bad.

Pondering over this sometimes makes me want to stay away from birthing children

NwaAmaikpe:




One time I visited an Ifa Priest in the Canary Islands and this was part of his ebo.
You can imagine my shock entering his shrine to see Opele, Ikin, some of these sea glasses on his Opon Ifá.

I was still very young and was eyeing one very influential man's wife so I wanted this baba to give me the same grace Arata had to be able to seduce Sango's wives Arugba and Omolegbe.

Well long story short, upon my return to Nigeria; the same woman who had been giving me greenlight stopped talking to me to this day.

That was how I stopped serving Ifa and became a Christian.

The Babalawo did you no wrong.
You wanted to hurt another man who did nothing wrong to you and that's against their ethics.

Now that you've converted to Christianity, are the pastors helping you land other people's wives?

This isn't bigamy, so it's not against the constitution

Gmajor:
Most Americans don't believe the Moth man story so what is your point?

My point is that I'm disgusted at the hypocrisy of Sub-saharan Africans.
If you report an unusual story, maybe a metaphysical one that happens in the West for example, and twist the same story in another post as if it happened in Africa, their reaction will differ with them derogating Africa in the African story, and be marvelled at Western one.

It's racism to me, and it's not natural, it has been inculcated in them at school, and at home

I swear to God in the heavens, the youths of Nigeria are mostly toothless bulldogs when it comes to voting. Especially in Southern Nigeria.

There's no politician that's worth the name that will take their political threat seriously.

Ever8090:
Nawaooo...afonja don get mind, hope him no go jakpa like Awolowo when stage don set?

"Jakpa like Awolowo"??

You mean jápa like Odumegu Ojukwu to Ivory Coast??