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odizzy: Nawa o, e get wetin person no go see 4 dis NL? Which kind post be dis, e be like say mumu people dn dey plenty 4 dis NL even Sheun sef follow dey jonz, tufiakwa

deeplow: I was about to respond to your post and reveal y u are the illiterate.I just decided to read again n I thought "why waste your time"
1) What u wrote is senseless
2)how you wrote it....Oh my lord.
"no HEART feelings" anyways.
Don't always jump to post,u are not that qualified.

lilvonz: FU..CK YOU VERY MUCH

What do you think about your son Charlyboy today?

Point of correction, Charlyboy is not my Son. I think Charlyboy is a character. I don’t have any child as Charlyboy, I have Charles Oputa. I don’t allow Charlyboy into my house, but I have a caring son called Charles. Maybe, you will need to rephrase your question again.

What do you think of Charles today, what kind of child is he?

He has his own will, he has been doing what he likes, he has been happy with what he is doing and that is the aim of life. If you are satisfied, contented with the day to day existence, then you are considered a happy man. You may be very rich and happy but not satisfied, but if you are in an atmosphere you like and you have a wife who agrees with you like Charles, then you are lucky. My son is very understanding, loving and shows so much concern and respect for me and her mother. That’s all we need from him at this age.

He has lofty visions seemingly impossible to actualize. He pursues those visions with a single-minded doggedness, exhibiting an amazing capacity to build a team and drive them relentlessly toward the realization of his dreams. His advice to the youths to never let anybody kill their dreams is his personal mantra which rules him. I salute that.

What is it that you respect about your son?

He has his own will and if you try to bend him and discover that it is not easy, then all you need to check is to see whether what he wants is for good or not. If you do, you will see the sense in it, and then you will probably join him. Most importantly, I respect him for who he is today. Having told me that he was going to get me to like his own kind of profession, and he did it, is what everybody must emulate.

Will you say he has accomplished more than you have?

Life is an ongoing struggle and you don’t judge until the end of the struggle, obituary usually portrays what we have been while we were alive and then says whether you have succeeded or not. Normally, you don’t have an obituary of the living, so it is at the end of the journey that you can assess what and what have being his contribution, input. We are all expected to contribute something to life. If you have contributed nothing to life then it is too bad. Charles has tried, but you can only assess our achievement when you read our obituaries.

Do you think he is living before his time?

Every revolutionist lives before his time; otherwise you are not a revolutionist. If you want a change from what used to be to what you think will be, you are a revolutionist. Life is not stationary. Life is moving and if you don’t move with time, time won’t wait for you; it will move on and leave you behind. So in this dynamics of change, our part is to see if we can interpreted the course of events, see if we can tread safely on this or that or that part to see if we can reach the goal which we all want to achieve. He is a revolutionist, hence he sees past now. He is ahead of many of us. I think I know where he is going.

What was he like as a child?

Well as a child he had his own will, as I said every father wants a son to be like him, but he did not want to be anybody, he wanted to be himself, and he showed that early in life. You choose a school for him; he will go to the school he wanted to go to and not the one you wanted him to go to. You choose a career for him but no, he wanted what he wanted for himself, otherwise a son of a lawyer now a musician is not something to easily comprehend, but that is what he wanted because of his will power. Truly, he is living up to it.

What are the similarities between you both?

Well, every child takes part of the father and part of the mother. It is difficult to see a child who is just himself, what he does will be part and part of what he learnt from his father or what he inherited from the father. Blood is very precious; you can’t beat blood once you have the same blood running in people. Part of me is in him, that may or may not be the dominating part, what people see is the dominating part, they see him as a musician but he is playing a role like a character in a field, when he comes home he is different. It is no longer the Charly boy you used to see, he becomes Charles Oputa not Charly boy. So we are all playing roles on the world stage, Shakespeare said, “the entire world is a stage and all the men and women are players, we are all playing a role. All we ask is that you play an honorable role so that when you exit, when you have ended playing your role, you will be remembered. Charles is so hard working, and that was a big concern for me until I recalled what I used to do in my younger days and even until I retired from active professional life and service. Hard work and tremendous focus are certainly our common traits. He is also just like me; a man with a strong attachment to his family. He just does not joke with that. I am also very proud to note that like me, he has zero tolerance for injustice of any kind. That is again related to a deep compassion for the less privileged and down trodden.

Why do you live with him?

I live with him because I relax better with him. I rest better here. I think my house is his house, and his house, mine.

emekatimsu: Weldone Mr Abati for ur detailed information on the person of the president.
One thing i know for sure is that most people who abuse the president daily on Facebook,twitter or BBN are the clueless people, some don't evn knw why they abuse the president.{maybe access to the internet is a major factor}.

Let haters continue to hate themselves, GEJ may God continue to lead u through the right path. I won't stop praying for you.
Long live GEJ, Long live FRN.

naptu2: I'm searching for an interview Fela granted in which he described what happened on that day (I'd be happy if anybody can find it on Youtube and post it here).

There's also a detailed newspaper interview with one of Fela's girls who was present on the day this happened. According to her, it all started from a traffic dispute between Femi (who was learning to drive) and a soldier or policeman.

BizBooks: Naptu2 has identified him as Major General Joseph Garba. Also the man in suit beside OBJ is
Andrew Young a former secretary general of the United Nations. He is now in his 80s and still
an OBJ buddy. He recently visited him at Otta farms along with the comedian Chris Tucker.

bittyend: I tried cooking beef stew and I finished all the beef before the stew was ready.

I've learnt my lessons, next time, I'll tape up my mouth.

Obasanjo Farms Ltd. is a success story. Yet, it is not an ordinary success story in the sense that it does not follow the normal patterns of rags to riches; the staple from which typical success stories are made. Elendureports.com was reliably informed that Gen. Obasanjo's pet project as Head of State, "Operation Feed the Nation," was set up as a front to divert resources for the funding of Obasanjo Farms, Ltd. Obasanjo Farms, Ltd., is listed as being engaged in poultry and pig farming, which employees about 3,000 people.

Elendureports.com was [b]authoritatively informed [/b]that Obasanjo deposited checks worth millions of Naira meant for his Presidential campaign into various company accounts. There are claims that he did not make this money available to his campaign. As at the time of filing this story no audit of his 1999 campaign organization account has been conducted. A source very close to Pres. Obasanjo said, "Money just flowed in and Baba was just using it as he wanted."

berem: [b]but eh! This theophilus danjuma is damn wicked and brutal! Wasn't he the same guy that killed aguiyi ironsi and adekunle fajuyi?

M M M: Autopsy AIDS

floriana: It should be Abubakar Shekau and Asari Dokubo 2015 ticket.

rotman91: What a joker u are. Guess it was mistaken for palm kernel oil all dis northern illiterates. This is evidently far from possible