₦airaland Forum

Awoo88:
Nadal at his best have no rival especially on clay. Federer great but Nadal is best if he is inform

Bro, to be the best, you have to be good all round. Of all Nadal's 14 slam titles, 9 came for clay court (Roland Garos). He has 1 Aussie, 2 Wimbledon titles, and 2 US open titles. As for Roger, he has 1 Roland Garos, 7 Wimbledons, 5 Aussies, and 5 U.S open titles. If not for Rafa, Roger would have won more than 4 French Opens.

The greatest is not determined on just on surface. You have to be all round like the Swiss maestro. ROGER that?

Roger that! It was really a great match. I wish to see both players play tennis again. That was a worthy final.

18th slam for Roger, that's so magnificent.

I don't know where Federer got his strength from in the last last set. After being broken in the early stage of the set, I predicted an easy last set victory for Nadal. But, I was wrong. Roger showed us why he is d G.O.A.T (Greatest Of All Times).

The Fed express!

Lalasticlala, show tennis some love.

Roger at his best is better than any tennis player. Great one from Nadal also. Unfortunately, there's no draw in tennis.

bigfrancis21:
What if the DNA test was a mistake? Shouldn't he have tried, at least, to get a second opinion?

Seriously, you can't just trust all laboratories in Nigeria.

highrise07:
with time every classified information will be declassified. i trust premium times. wind go blow we go see foul yansh

You can trust premium times when the news is against Tinubu but call for their heads when it's against your hero.

Jagaban!!!

I think Muslims should stop reiterating this. It has been said times without number. They know the truth but they won't just accept.

Now, the tribal war starts.

UNILORIN Protest? Wow!

It's only in Africa you can't jubilate after hearing news like this. May God help us in this continent.

Ugwuoke347:
IPOB is doing what it should peacefully. It is Nigeria the zoo that perpetrates violence against Biafrans. Take your sermon to the Murderer-in-chief of the Armed Savages of Nigeria.
You talk of things being done "legally", was Lugard's amalgamation done legally?

I thought you guys want an argument devoid of hate talks and sentiment. How on earth will you call someone's country a zoo and you expect people to take it lightly with you?

And you said you have been peaceful throughout your protest, can you tell me what led to burning of mosque in Onitsha during on IPOB protest?

See bro, all the protests of IPOB should have been directed towards southeast legislators. If this present crops of legislators won't do what you want, wait till 2019, vote those who believe in creation of Biafra, then tell them to push for a referendum. Your argument that the amalgamation was illegal can't work here. You might believe in the Nigerian state or not, the fact still remain that you are a Nigerian. And if you want an exit out of Nigeria, you must pursue that using the Nigerian law.

I am not against any secession. However, any group that wants secession should do so legally. Not by calling a country zoo or making inciting statements. The Igbo folks have representatives in the house of assembly. They should tell their reps and senators to push for referendum. Things can't be done violently again. We should learn from history.

Better pikin

I TOOK no Philosophy course in my undergraduate days in the University of Ife – now Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, – but I got to know Dr. Oladipo Fashina quite well. My introduction to him 38 years ago, was indirect. One day, I ran into two of my course mates in the Drama department. They were in a hurry for a class. “We have Jingo” they announced. I wondered what course was called ‘Jingo.’ I was to discover that Jingo, was the affectionate nickname students called Fashina; so all the courses he took from 100 to 400 Level were called ‘Jingo.’
He was so accessible, simple and open, that to many students, he was the familiar elder brother or uncle. He was a lecturer with no airs whom you could stop anywhere and he would be ready to listen with compassion and even explain issues. Fashina speaks softly, logically, simply and so convincingly, that even if you do not accept his worldview, it is difficult to disagree with the workaholic who some students vowed could be found any time in his office. Students who missed him in his office, sometimes headed for the Sports Centre where he could be found playing beautiful football with students. He is ever willing to defend the weak especially victimised students.
Fashina is a rounded human being and an inspiration to generations of Ife students. He is also, an identity. One day in 1990, I got into conversation with a rising journalist who has now become a top politician. She bet I didn’t know her, so I mentioned her name and the medium she worked. She seemed disappointed I didn’t know her earlier than her journalism profession. I drew a blank: “I was Jingo’s student!” she said with pride. Needless to say, we worked closer as journalists as we belonged to the Jingo ‘fraternity’.
Fashina is from the Ashogbon family of Isale Eko, the part of Lagos that produces its kings. He attended St. Peter’s Faji School, Ajele, Lagos. At 12, Fashina was admitted into the prestigious Kings College, Lagos and in 1963 and proceeded to the Federal Government College, Apata, Ibadan for his Higher School Certificate, HSC. He gained admission into the University of Ibadan to read French on Western Nigeria scholarship, but opted to study in the then Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR.
Fashina, a polyglot, speaks Yoruba, English, French, Russian, Ukrainian, reads and translates German and Spanish. He moved to the University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA, United States, where he got his Doctorate in Philosophy. He had got to the same Philosophy Department in UCLA in 1971, the year after the famous Angela Davis had been forced out for being a communist. Fashina joined the Movement and worked with the Black Panthers led by Bobby Seale, Huey. P. Newton and Eldridge Cleaver. It was his involvement in the Black Movement that radicalised him.
For his doctoral thesis, he disproved the hypothesis that Karl Marx had only a theory on functions and change in social systems, but not on individuals. The title was A Theory of Individuals in Karl Marx. He got his Ph.D in 1979; that was at the height of Afro-American nationalism with a strong “Back-to-Africa” theme; so he decided to return to Nigeria immediately and join the movement for the emancipation of the country. That was how he came Ife.
Fashina used the Socratic methodology of teaching; leading the student to discover his or her faculties and applying this critical thought process to all he is taught, and does. He frequently uses the fictional Jingo as an example because he does not want to be accused of maligning anybody. But if he had to use more examples, he merely invented other names like Bongo, Bamanga, Bambara. Jingo has stuck on him and he willingly accepts this. To him, his students are his life.
Fashina was the founding coordinator of the Philosophy Department of the Ogun State University (now Olabisi Onabanjo University) where he directed that his honorarium be used to establish the departmental library. Despite his prodigious learning, academic output and producing professors like Femi Taiwo, Akinyemi Onigbinde and Yinusa Salami, Fashina is not a professor. When some new universities were established and they offered him professorship, he declined. He simply does not think professorship is crucial to his goal of producing good citizens and good scholars, and using his talents and knowledge to midwife a just society.
It was inevitable that his activism would come to the attention of the authorities; in 1986 he was detained by the Babangida regime. In later years, he was elected National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, during which he led one of the longest strikes by academics in Nigerian history; it rolled on for some eight months. The very quiet Fashina once had an altercation with President Olusegun Obasanjo in the Presidential Villa and the latter walked out.
In order to strengthen the Labour Movement, pro-labour civil societies and organisations in 2003, established the Joint Action Front, JAF. Since 2006, there has been virtually no major mass struggle in the country the Fashina-led JAF had either not engineered or been a major part. These include the Minimum Wage struggles of 2010/2011, Anti-Fuel Price Increase protests of 2007, 2012 and 2016, the primary and post-primary teachers battle for the implementation of the Teachers Salary Scale, TSS, the fight against privatisation, campaign for credible elections in the country and the protests that sacked House of Representatives Speaker, Patricia Etteh, for corruption. They also include the protests against arbitrary increase in school fees and the street protests of taxi drivers and commercial motorcycle (okada) riders for which Fashina and other JAF leaders were detained by the police in December 2012.
When I was the acting General Secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress during the nine-day nationwide fuel protests in January 2012, we entered into difficult negotiations with the government and reached the conclusion that we needed to strengthen the Labour team. We turned to the Lagos-based JAF to release Fashina to join us in Abuja. It took some persuasion because he was a central figure in the mobilisation of millions of Lagosians who had taken over the country’s commercial capital during the protests.
Fashina thinks the formation of a Workers Party is possible despite the betrayals and opportunism in the Trade Union Movement. He draws inspiration from the life and struggles of outstanding Nigerians like Michael Imoudu, Mokwugo Okoye and Wahab Goodluck who was his uncle. As he turns 70 today, January 23, 2017, I pay homage to the great Dr. Dipo Fashina, one of the most selfless, committed, principled and intellectually-endowed Nigerians in contemporary history.


www.vanguardngr.com/2017/01/trinity-dipo-fashina-intellectual-humanist-revolutionary/

Cc: Fynestboi

PigMeat:
No, he is an ambassador of truth, not those with sold conscience like the zzombies.

Truth? For telling us GEJ was invited for Trump's inauguration? Seems the truth has another definition.

Explorers:
Vice President Biden also shed a few tears as Obama calledhim 'his brother'.

Biden is seen above with his wife Jill in the audience.

Still don't know why VP Biden refused to contest for President.

Explorers:
'Don't assume the worst': Obama tells world leaders in Peru 'to give Trump a chance' because 'how you campaign is not always how you govern' November, 19 2016.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3952784/US-demands-immediate-halt-airstrikes-Syria-bombings-hit-medical-facilities-Aleppo-including-children-s-hospital-incubated-babies-evacuated.html

Now, that is politics. Unlike the one we play here

Explorers:
The President having dinner in a public restaurant in Hanoi, Vietnam. May, 2016.


This can never happen in some countries.

Like Nigeria?

SIRmanjar:
Even if he wasnt..Whether he was invited ooh or not ..why wasn't thy president d chief durllard of Africa invited.
Itz a national,regional ad continental embarrassment dat a hole Nigerian president the so called best country in west Africa wasn't invited.
And I sure say im go dey pain de mumu presido say im no travel go Yankee wherever im dey right now.

Was Jonathan invited for Obama's 2012 inauguration?

Una no dey wear jeans?

Great Ife, my Great Ife

So hilarious. But wait, guess it's all mums that hate football.

Too dangerous for him.

If only M.K.O was as smart as this guy. Abiola might still not be president, but there is high tendency for him to be alive.

Ojoo barrack alone should be able to finish them

"The cost of renting a flat in Ibadan is about 250,000 NGN."

Guy, I can authoritatively tell you that you can rent a flat as low as #120k in Ibadan.

rgee:
then u must call Islam religion of paedophiles

it all depends on your own definition of paedophile

teddybear16:
was he saying God is great (Allah arkbar) eh??

Is Yahya saying so too?

Ten12:
Islam and tyranny are like 5&6.....cheos and violence are like bread and butter to them...tell me am a religious bigot nd I invoke amadi oha to crush ur manhood

Laurent Gbagbo is a Muslim, right?

smogup:
do you even knw what Islam teaches? Maybe you don't ve a Qur'an, if you do, I can give lots of verses that will teach about Islam if you want.

In Islam we make judgement based on the words of Allah (Quran) and the way of life, sayings and the silent approval of prophet Muhammad (Hadith). If you read a verse in the Qur'an that seems controversial to you, the best way to interpret it is to go into the hadith and seek how the prophet of Allah made use of the verse.

mzzhavilah:
most tyms the d holy book is read b4 an execution,ve u not seen isis's video and even that of d Boko haram.i tink Muslims ain't terrorist but all known terrorist around d globe are Muslims (not my word but I beliv it)trace all terrorist attacks around d world and u will see dey ve one tin in common. Theyareallmuslims.

All known terrorists are Muslims? It all depends on the definition you gave terrorism. Terrorism, by dictionary definition is "the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims".

Going by that, the white men, who are Christians, that came to enslave Africans and kill thousands of people in the process are terrorist. Adolf Hitler killed more than boko Haram, Isis and Al- Qaeda combined. The last time I checked Adolf Hitler was a catholic. Do you know that the person that attacked and kill many Blacks in a black church in U.S was addressed as A SUPREMASIST not a terrorist. If he is a Muslim, the story will definitely be different. So, it's all about double standard.

Funlordjnr:
That one is your bloody business! I did not create christianity so I can never be pained about how you feel towards it! But the fact that you would agree with me that a lot of _stupid crimes are committed all in the name of your own religion is enough for me in this particular discourse!



A lot of your fellow head butting brothers are crazy _mongs! Ask Donald Trump and after that Kiss the truth!

so, Christianity is to be blamed for this too,right?

www.dailypost.ng/2014/06/20/get-prophetic-messages-impregnate-church-members-enugu-pastor/