₦airaland Forum

Ayed44:
the fresh election is actually the electoral process that started last year. No new primaries. No substitution of candidates. The same candidates that participated in the cancelled election will participate in the fresh election. APC has no candidate.

always tag NgeneUkwenu

NgeneUkwenu:
He is not right, this PDP Man!

It ordered fresh election...

They would be fresh nominations...

Everything starts Afresh...

lies lies lies
supreme Court remains supreme
a tribunal cannot override it
APC does not have candidate

kiss the truth

Cyberterror:
That's what I am also saying. Mary Odili is all about injustice.

what about criminal tanko and Hope Ozodimgba of imo state?

cc. NgeneUkwenu

friday2011:
The sitting governor remains the governor untill the case gets to the Supreme Court and the Supreme court uphold d the judgement...

The next stage is appeal court anyway... And if the judgement of the appeal court states otherwise... Case closed.

tell them

NgeneUkwenu you don hear?

NgeneUkwenu:
Stop attaching my name to an ignorant post..

The court ordered Fresh Election... Everything starts Afresh....Bloodykiller leave me alone!

I won't leave you alone ogboo
you're the ignorant one here just to feed your fantasy.

till appeal court and supreme court rules
Diri remains the authentic governor of Bayelsa

God bless Diri.
God bless Obaseki
God bless Wike
thunder scatter buhari Insha'Allah amin

chloedogie:
That is very funny. The party(I don't want to mention a name) that is behind this just elected some supreme judges. And to think they will allow the legal process to drag is day dreaming for you. I'm sure you didn't see the phrase ''conduct another election within 90 days''. That alone will make this process to speed up just watch it.

Also how long did it take the present governor to get his case to the supreme court? It got to the supreme before the APC governor was sworn in. So what will make this different?

that's tribunal judgement.
wait for Appeal which will drag

Ameko4ever:
The reason is so stupid. The Governor will appeal and will still remain the Governor till Appeal sits. Development in Bayelsa will be delayed.

I Pity Bayelsains
these politicians are selfish
what happens to allowing the governor to finish first term?
I smell apc hand here

well till appeal court to supreme court
Diri remains the governor
he just found excuses to incompetence

Ayed44:
There would be room for fresh primaries or substitution of candidates. These same candidates that participated in the previous election would participate in the fresh election. APC has no candidate.

tell them ooo
NgeneUkwenu come here now!

seunmsg:
This is a welcome development. Hopefully, the good people of Bayelsa will have another opportunity to elect a governor of their choice.

yes but not apc

APC is bokoharam.

till appeal court and supreme court
Diri remains the governor

Ategberoson:
until appeal and supreme verdict validate the tribunal judgement before the sitting Governor can vacate the office


the incumbent will challenge the case and the worse that happened to Nigeria judiciary system, the Governor might have finished his tenure before it will even reach supreme court

all Nigeria system is polluted with a lot of discrepancies

NgeneUkwenu needs to hear this.
he's feeding his ignorance

yeroba Muslims will oppose them as usual

this people wan convert phones to PC ni

Honestly these days your laptop do lesser jobs for you

Onijagidijagan:
80% indeed based on what statistics? September 19 will decided.
The voice of the Edos will count not those that has empathy on Obaseki without any positive conviction

yeroba Muslims always against the people's will
stick to your Osun state

Edo no be Eko

post=92909630:
If you throw stones at every dog that bark on you on the road, you will never get to where you are going in life.

mynd44 lalasticlala seun oam4j
rule 1 and 18

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Simplyleo:
Even me, I urge them to fight for it.

The whole concept of "we should be given" is nothing but a heap of dogshit, it is an imposicant.

Moreover, I don't think pdp will deny them the opportunity to contest on its platform in view of the fact that they have been visibly loyal to the party for over 2 decades.

I'm done talking.

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balderdash and claptrap
Tinubu is a bastard drug dealing vagabond
get used to the truth!

Seun:
Ask her to try again

thanks boss

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Cosbyrich:
Okay Akindele that owns fairgate group in UK worth more than a billion pound sterling might buy Igboland and give to Cameroon for proper tutelage.

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trash trash trash

4+4 torgba!

Edo no be Eko

cc
lalasticlala

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Cosbyrich:
YORUBAS HAVE BEEN DOING REAL BUSINESS BEFORE IGBOS OPEN EYE .



It is not difficult to imagine that the richest man in Africa, Aliko Dangote, wakes up in Africa, has his breakfast in Asia, lunch in Europe, dinner in America and sleeps in Australia.

You may also conjure the image of the richest woman on the continent, Folorunso Alakija, attending a conference in North America, meeting with female entrepreneurs in Africa, signing a multimillion-dollar deal in South America, going shopping in Asia, and attending a wedding party in Antartica.

The duo may be the richest man and woman on the continent today, but Nigeria’s ability to create billionaires did not start today. Before Dangote and Alakija, the likes of Da Rocha, Ojukwu, etc. were known for their fame and fortune.

Just for this thread, I am picking out only the Yoruba business people because they have the largest number.


Candido Da Rocha (1860 – 1959)

Candido Da Rocha was a Nigerian born in Brazil. Upon his return to Nigeria with his father, Esan Da Rocha, he made a fortune that has today become the subject of fact and fiction.

Da Rocha was unlike Evander Wall – both were born in 1860 – who became a millionaire at 18 and a multimillionaire at 22, when he inherited a million dollars from his father and grandfather respectively.

An extravagant showman, Wall bought 5,000 neckties and 300 pairs of gloves. He was the first man in America to wear a tuxedo. He was reported to have changed his outfit 40 times in a single morning.

Considered a millionaire, Da Rocha too had dozens of clothes and he could afford to send his dirty clothes to the laundryman in the United Kingdom – which he did for many years.

Shrewd and forthright, the first Nigerian millionaire was not given to unnecessary platitudes and politicking.

“His friend Herbert Macaulay persuaded him to join politics. On a particular day when he was addressing would-be voters, he simply told them that he was seeking their votes to represent them. He made it clear that he would not use his wealth to get their votes.


At the end of the day, he didn’t win,” his 90-year-old granddaughter, Mrs. Angelica Oyediran, told SUNDAY PUNCH.

How wealthy was Da Rocha?

“I can’t put a figure to it. However, I can tell you that Papa was so rich that he assisted many people in the society. He supported the government during the Second World War. He also supported the Catholic Church. When the Holy Cross Cathedral was built, he paid for the building of three chapels. The British respected him a lot. He was highly respected; a disciplined man who hated dishonesty and lying. I lived with him in this house for three years. I was very close to him. He loved me and I was fond of him,” the granddaughter explained.



Describing Da Rocha’s generosity, she said, “People would come to him, crying, requesting financial assistance; from the balcony, asking how much they needed, he would throw down the money to them.”

Da Rocha became a water merchant, selling water from the house (he inherited from his father, Esan Da Rocha) – famously called Casa d’Agua or water house. Da Rocha would later venture into real estate and the hospitality business. He opened The Restaurant Da Rocha, Bonanza Hotel, and Sierra Leone Deep Sea Fishing Industries Ltd. He also went into a partnership with two other businessmen, J. H. Doherty and Sedu Williams, to establish the Lagos Native Bank.


Timothy Odutola (1902-1995)

On March 25, 1943, the man who later became arguably the most respected politician and strategist in Nigeria, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, requested a loan of £1,400 from Timothy Odutola.

The loan, according to Awolowo, would be fully paid in 12 years. He did not get the loan. But, the duo would later form a strong political alliance in the old Western Region.

Stupendously rich, Odutola was the first president of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria. He was reported to have established a multimillion-dollar business, including three factories, a retail franchise, a cattle ranch and a sawmill before 1960.

Before his breakthrough, he worked as a clerk in various departments of the Lagos Colony and in the Ijebu Native Administration between 1921 and 1932.

By 1932, he opened stores where he sold damasks and fish in various cities in the Western Region; and later, he began trading in cocoa and palm oil.

An enterprising man, he also dealt in sawmilling and gold mining. By 1967, he had begun production of tyres and tubes which did so well that he added a $1,700,000 plant, with the plan to harvest his own rubber from his 5,000-acre plantation.

“The time is coming when we will produce more than we can consume and we will have to look outside Nigeria for markets,” Odutola had once said.

Prior to his death, however, he might have been less optimistic, as he watched Nigeria’s political and economic growth take a turn for the worse under the jackboot of maximum ruler, Gen. Sani Abacha.



Sir Mobolaji Bank-Anthony (1907-1991)

Businessman and philanthropist, he was a former council president of the Lagos Stock Exchange. He was also a minority investor in Aero Contractors and at a time held the distributional rights to cars manufactured by Rootes Group.

Between 1923 and 1930, he worked as a junior clerk in the correspondence section of the Post and Telegraphs Department. By 1931, he went into business, travelling to Germany and England to study how to make palm oil. Following that, he established M. de Bank Brothers, to trade in palm oil and patent medicine.

After sometime, he began importing watches, clocks and pens – at a point, becoming the third largest seller of fountain pens in Nigeria after UAC and the United Trading Company. He also owned a tanker fleet and a charter airline.

He was one of the earliest Nigerians to become chairman of a European company in 1950 – he was the chairman of the Italian Construction firm, Borini Prono and Company. He was also a director of Mobil Oil and Friesland Foods back then.



Shafi Edu (1911–2002)

In 1965, TIME magazine named Shafi Edu one of Nigeria’s richest men. Along with Talabi Braithwaite, he co-founded the first indigenous insurance company in the country. He had shares in big companies like Bata, Alumaco, Wiggins Teape, BP (formerly British Petroleum), Lever Brothers and Nigerian Breweries.

Edu was the first president of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and the Lagos Rotary Club.

At 54, he had built a fleet of eight oil tankers. He was also on the boards of Blackwood Hodge Nigeria, Haden Nigeria, Glaxo Nigeria and the Federal Industrial Loans from 1954 to 1959.

He was elected into the old Western Region’s House of Assembly in 1951, and was later nominated to represent Epe at the Federal House of Representatives.




Ade Tuyo

Born in 1902, he was described as Nigeria’s most prominent baker in the mid-1960s. Featured in Time magazine’s list of millionaires in Nigeria in 1965, Tuyo at the time had four outlets and was making 115 products. According to the magazine, he was running a business that would have “first priority in people’s spending.”

“The firm’s unusual name – De Facto Works Ltd. – was shrewdly chosen by Tuyo to impress Nigerian bankers with the fact that he was seriously in business,” it said.

Trained as a teacher, Tuyo left the profession to work for 24 years in the Nigerian Railway Corporation, the British Bank of West Africa and the Ministry of Commerce. He retired in 1953.

The bakery was started by his wife. After his retirement, he took over the catering business. By 1969, his bakery service was the largest in the country.

Talabi Braithwaite (1928–2011)

Regarded as one of Nigeria’s youngest businessmen of his time, Talabi Braithwaite left a British insurance company to found a firm that would write life insurance on Nigerians which the British underwriters avoided like the plague. So successful was he that his African Alliance Insurance Co. Ltd occupied a six-storey office and had 300 bush-beating agents. Braithwaite lived in an elegant house in Ikoyi.

He was the first African to pass the examination to become an associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute, London in 1951. Braithwaite, in 1960, advised the government of the Western Region as a risk consultant when it formed the Great Nigeria Insurance Company. Between 1963 and 1966, he served as the first indigenous president of the Insurance Institute of Nigeria. He was also first president of the Nigerian Corporation of Insurance Brokers for 16 years, starting in 1963.

In 1969, he became an underwriting member of Lloyd’s of London, and from 1970 he started underwriting on the Merrett Syndicate.




https://punchng.com/old-money-10-super-rich-men-of-independence-era/

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