Unfortunately I was trying to highlight his contribution to education in Nigeria when I wrote about him, so I didn't write about his wealth or business (he became extremely wealthy from cocoa farming). Maybe I'll do that later.
naptu2: I was trying to remember this man's name yesterday, but I couldn't. Then today, as I'm about to go out, I suddenly remember his name.
There are many returnees that contributed to the growth of Lagos, but I'm going to use him as an example because his story is related to many of the events that I wrote about yesterday.
JPL Davies was born in Bathurst, Sierra Leone. His parents were from Abeokuta, but they had been captured and sold into slavery. They were eventually rescued by the british naval squadron and taken to Sierra Leone.
He attended CMS Grammar School in Freetown, became a teacher and eventually enlisted in the Royal Navy. He was a lieutenant on HMS Bloodhound when it bombarded Lagos in 1851. He was wounded in action during the bombardment. He retired from the navy in 1852 and became a merchant ship captain and eventually settled in Lagos in 1856.
CMS Grammar School
JPL Davies was a good friend of Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther and he provided the seed funds for the creation of CMS Grammar School (the first secondary school in Nigeria) in April 1859, when he provided £50 (equivalent of about N 1.34 million as of 2014) to buy books and equipment for the school. With the seed funding Macaulay opened CMS Grammar School on June 6, 1859 (remember that this was before Lagos was colonised. The treaty of cessation was signed in 1861).
In 1867, Davies contributed another £100 (N2.68 million as of 2014) toward a CMS Grammar School Building Fund. Other contributors to the CMS Building Fund were non Saros such as Daniel Conrad Taiwo AKA Taiwo Olowo who contributed £50. Saro contributors also included men such as Moses Johnson, I.H. Willoughby, T.F. Cole, James George, and Charles Foresythe who contributed £40. The CMS Grammar School in Freetown, founded in 1848, served as a model.
Cocoa farming
JPL Davies was also the first cocoa farmer in West Africa. He obtained cocoa seeds from a brazilian ship in 1879 and 1880 and set up a prosperous cocoa farm in Lagos.
He was married to Sarah Forbes Bonetta, who was originally from what later became Benin Republic, but was sold into slavery. She was rescued by the british and became Queen Victoria's god daughter.
The saros/protestants now had their secondary school, so the agudas/catholics also wanted their own secondary school (they already had several primary schools).
The agudas wrote several letters to Rome seeking for permission to set up a catholic secondary school. They were prepared to build it, but they wanted permission and priests and teachers who would teach in the school. In 1868 their request was granted after the usual exchange of petitions and letters between them and the home mission.
St Gregory's Grammar School was established in 1876 (St Gregory's Grammar School became St Gregory's College in 1928).
Note that the first colonial government secondary school in Lagos (Kings College) was only set up in 1909.
Henry Oloyede Fajemirokun was a prominent Nigerian businessman and one of the country's dynamic indigenous entrepreneurs who promoted West Africa's economic integration.
He was born in Ile-Oluji in Ondo State, Nigeria on July 14 1926. Between 1932 and 1936 he attended St Peter’s School in his birthplace and later St Luke’s School in Oke-Igbo, from 1937 to 1940. He had his secondary education at C.M.S Grammar School, Lagos and Ondo Boys’ High School.
In April 1944, Fajemirokun enlisted in the old Royal West African Frontier Force and in 1945 served with the 2nd Echelon at Jhansi GHQ in India. After army service in 1946, he pursued an accountancy career, joining the post and telecommunications division of the colonial civil service. He was elected president of the Post and Telecommunications Ex-servicemen’s Union in 1948 and later became president-general of the Nigerian Civil Service Union until 1956, when he left to start a business career, which at the time of his death in March 1978 spanned a whole spectrum of ventures from insurance and engineering to shipping, centred around Henry Stephens and Sons.
He started business in the 1950s by exporting hides and skin, rubber, coffee and shea nuts. In the 1960s he started a massive importation of cement from Egypt and Poland. He received funding for this particular venture from a credit facility that had been provided to him by a British bank in London. He also ventured into commodity brokerage and in 1969 he bought and held a seat on the London Stock Exchange.
Later in the decade, as the chairman and largest shareholder of the Henry Stephens group of companies, he became a major shareholder in some leading companies in Nigeria. Following a decision to withdraw the wealth of the country from foreign nationals that was taken in 1972, an “indigenisation” decree was promulgated by the Federal Government. Henry Stephens capitalized on the euphoria of the contemporary nationalism of the period and acquired or represented major foreign operations in the country. It became the sole distributor for Xerox after the Daily Times, a company Fajemirokun had failed to acquire a stake in, left negotiations. Henry Stephens also acquired stakes in Johnson Wax and Fan Milk. The company was a pioneer in the Nigerian maritime industry and was one of the first Nigerian companies to own an interest in a shipping line
In 1970 he was appointed president of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry; in 1972 he became president of the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry and Mines; the same year he was elected the first president of the Federation of West African Chambers of Commerce, followed in 1974 with the vice presidency of the Federation of Commonwealth Chambers of Commerce. Henry Fajemirokun was one of the two co-presidents of the Nigeria-British Chamber of Commerce and also a member of the Board of Governors of the Nigerian-American Chamber of Commerce.
Henry Fajemirokun was not only a successful businessman; he was also a respected man in Nigeria. In 1968, in appreciation of his own contributions to the development of his province, the Jegun of Ile-Oluji conferred the chieftaincy title of Yegbato of Ile-Oluji on him. In 1971 he was given the title of Asiwaju of Okeigbo and the University of Ife conferred on him the honorary degree of Doctor of Science. A few days before his death – in Abidjan, while leading a trade mission to the Ivory Coast – he presented a cheque for N 15,000 to help build a town hall in Ile-Ife.
Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu was an extremely successful Nigerian businessman and politician from the Ojukwu family of Nwakanwa Quarters Obiuno Umudim Nnewi south east of Onitsha in modern Anambra State. One of the most illustrious citizens of Nigeria, he had remarkable success as a businessman and also rendered distinguished public service in several fields. He was also associated with several philanthropic and cultural organisations to which he made generous material and tacit contributions.
He was born in 1909 in Nnewi and attended a primary school in Asaba and the Hope Waddell Institute. After formal schooling he joined the Produce Inspection Service as produce examiner in 1928 and later worked as a clerk with the large West African trading company of John Holt. It was here that the self made man who later became one of Nigeria’s foremost business tycoons and a multi-millionaire developed his business interest. He incorporated a textile company in Onitsha to supplement his income during this period, already exhibiting a little bit of his entrepreneurial spirit. While at John Holt, he noticed the severe strain a lack of adequate transportation had on Eastern textile traders He resigned from John Holt in 1934 to start a transport business with one second-hand truck that later grew into a vast transport enterprise. As a transporter he was a tireless worker and meticulous to detail; he was usually the first to inspect his transport vehicles for oil and leakages. His transport company (Ojukwu"s Transport Company) was the first major transport company to move the easterners to Lagos from the Asaba end of the Niger river after they might have crossed over from Onitsha on a boat.
He entered politics in 1951 as a member of Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe’s National Council of Nigerian Citizens (NCNC) which included him in the delegation to the London Constitutional Conference in 1951. Four years later Odumegwu Ojukwu was elected to the Federal House of Representatives in Lagos, but resigned in 1956 to become chairman of the Eastern Region Development Corporation.
Apart from his work ethic, his success was also oiled by the economic boom after World War II, working with the West African Railway Company and the newly inaugurated produce boards, he provided his fleet for commodity transportation and for other traders use. During the 1950s, he diversified his interest, bought some industries and invested heavily in the real estate sector.
His success, drive and ability led him to a host of other business appointments as chairman of the Eastern Nigerian Marketing Board, chairman of the Nigerian Shipping Line, chairman of the Nigerian Cement Company, first and founding President of The Nigerian Stock Exchange and director of a number of business concerns including Shell-BP. He was also a member of the board of Nigerian Coal Corporation. His last public engagement was as chairman of the Eastern Nigeria Marketing Board. He resigned from this position and also from office as chairman of the African Continental Bank, in May 1966 as a result of ill health.
His own company, founded on the Ojukwu Transport Company in 1934, had at the time of his death in 1966 spread its activities into construction and other areas, growing into a multi-million-naira group and employing thousands of workers.
In 1953, he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal; he was knighted in 1960. In 1963 the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Law, becoming the first to be so honoured by that university. He died on September 13th 1966 at Nkalagu in his home state, at the age of 57.
Ojukwu’s death came a few months after the first Nigerian civilian government was ended by a military coup d’etat which saw his son, Lieutenant-Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, ascend to office as Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria. Lieutenant-Colonel Ojukwu later declared the region, which he renamed Biafra, independent of the Federation of Nigeria, but secession was ended after a three-year bitter civil war in 1970.
The states around the sahel region of west Africa have for long been involved in international trade and international relations. Indeed, before the advent of the white man to west Africa, the area presently known as northern Nigeria had greater access to European and Asian markets than the area presently known as southern Nigeria. This was because the Sahara desert served the purpose that the Atlantic Ocean would later play; that is the role of an international trade route. At that time, people in southern Nigeria did not know how to sail across the oceans, could not build ships that could sail across the oceans, neither did they possess such ships. The northerners on the other hand, knew how to travel long distances across the Sahara, using camel caravans. With these they were able to trade with states in North Africa, Europe, Asia and with other states in the West African Sahel region. For example, Mai Dibbalemi (c1400) of the Kanem-Bornu Empire built a hostel (known as riwag or madrasa) in Cairo where pilgrims and students from Kanem could reside. He also established an embassy in Tunisia. He fought the Fezzan, for example, to secure the trade route to Cairo.
Borno was important in the trans-Saharan caravan trade. Slaves were imported from the south and North African traders visited Borno. The fame of Borno stretched far and wide and was even mentioned by a Portuguese cartographer in the fifteenth century. Mai Mohammed also sent an embassy to Tripoli in 1512. Likewise Mai Idris Alooma sent an embassy to Tripoli and received musketeers for his army.
Lugard and Hausa traders
In the field of trade, there were three possible agents of modernisation whose activities, if wisely fostered, would have speeded up the introduction of the cash economy, of currency and of cash crops and the end of the old economy of barter, slave-raiding and slavery. These were: the trader from the coastal areas, the European trader and the Hausa trader (This excludes the Arab trader plying between Tripoli and Kano, the Levantine trader on the west coast and the flourishing trade between the northern part of the Gold Coast and Northern Nigeria; these trading systems were less susceptible to administrative controls).
Lugard’s antipathy to traders from the outside, whether white or black, might considerably have been redeemed by active encouragement of the Hausa trader. But here again the old Adam of his “instinct” seems to have got the better of him and his chief concern was to see that they and their “caravans” did not go untaxed. In the areas where there was sufficient security of life and property to permit the trader to take the risk of travelling alone and not in convoy, he could avoid the caravan toll-stations by striking off the road.
This made the Hausa trader a criminal and legitimate quarry. According to Lugard’s way of thinking, every Hausa trader was one toiler less in the fields; he deplored the Hausas’ “keen trading instinct” which brought about “an undue tendency to desert the paths of productive industry and to go to and fro through the country carrying goods on their heads for the pleasure of making a profit by barter. The problem is, how can this class be taxed except by tolls”
Nmeri17: Naptu2, it's been said countless times but not from me yet: you are a blessing to this forum. How does one pronounce your moniker?
Kindly share some of these financial lessons
But did he really, though?
So this dude used his savings (from begging on The streets) to sponsor business trips from the northern protectorate to Ghanaian cities, buy goods (kolanut o) in quantity. And the profits from selling kolanut were enough to make him "relatively wealthy". Erm, is there a modern day equivalent of kolanuts? Was there a time it was justified to have some kind of boutique/showroom for it? If no, how do you go from literally selling peanuts b2b to branching out into various foray of enterprise? Doesn't add up to me. The chronology is a joy to read but something undocumented happened along the line.
So, what happened to the other merchants who led the vanguard on the new route? Mismanagement of funds? Cowardice to expand into unfamiliar territory? He monopolized/ neutralised them? Nobody is asking. This story doesn't tell me how to go from being a common civil servant to an international business mogul. I'm not saying he was a fraudster or drug dealer. Maybe luck played a large role. I feel years eventually obscure dents on income strategies. 50/70 years from now, nobody will care what hotel was built with Yahoo money.
Whatever he did sha clearly wasn't mainstream knowledge. He was ahead of the curve in some way he could capitalize on and climb above everyone else. I imagine if someone has a rough idea of a modern day equivalent of what transpired, they'd have been dollar millionaires by now too, but let me ask anyway. Please PM me if you need to.
TL;DR: Alhassan Dantata was the plug who performed some magic and got excess capital to trade with. Used it to dig his hands into multiple income streams until he got noticed by the feds. They awarded him a bunch of contracts and he really blew up. His sons were Aminu and Sanusi , who is now late. Sanusi whose bro, Abdulkadri, lent his nephew, Dangote, seed funding when he was 24. Dangote's mommy, Mariya, is still hale and hearty; married her grandfather's business associate and is the daughter of Sanusi. At each generation, members of this family are at the helm of the most critically demanded products in the country. They live for attending to a large scale of consumers — oil, flour, cement, groundnuts, electricity, slightly real estate. Strategic endeavors the populace depends on.
Surprisingly, they have no investments in telecom, automobiles, transportation. Probably the next generation's mandate. These guys can afford to banish all the deficiencies we're suffering today. They're everywhere they want to be, do whatever they wanna do. But that'll make the future of the empire insecure
Err, there are a couple of things here.
1) They are and were heavily involved in transportation. In fact, transportation is one of the businesses that they were very famous for (multiple members of the family were very famous for that). Alhassan was a director in the Nigerian Railway Corporation, Aminu Dantata had a haulage company, Sanusi Dantata had a haulage company, Aliko Dangote had a haulage company and in fact, in the 1990s, he convinced the Central Bank (CBN) to allow him manage their transportation needs (he managed CBN's fleet of Coaster staff buses and they all had "Dan" written on them). Sayyu Dantata was once the chief executive officer of Dangote Transport and that's when he realised that he could make a lot of money from diesel because it was difficult to get diesel for their fleet). My mum used to say (a long time ago when she was still alive) that people like Aminu Dantata and Ibrahim Dasuki destroyed the Nigerian Railway Corporation so that their haulage businesses would thrive (I don't agree with her, but her theory is evidence of how popular and big Dantata and Dasuki's haulage businesses were).
2) They were also involved in telecommunications. Tajudeen Dantata was on the board of Starcomms, which was once the biggest CDMA network in Nigeria. Aliko Dangote also has investments in telecoms (through Alheri Engineering). Tajudeen Dantata was also on the board of Virgin Nigeria Airways. [img]http://naijachronicles.files./2020/01/tajudeen2.jpg[/img]
3) They also had investments in automobiles. Aminu Dantata was once one of the biggest distributors of Mercedes Benz.
Read the posts again, you'll find references to all these businesses.
4) There are some goods that once provided huge profits, but are no longer as profitable as they once were, so the younger generation might not understand how big these things once were. There are many of them in this story. Grounduts, cocoa, etc were once Nigeria's major source of income, equivalent to the crude oil of later years. (Pinson Labulo Davies in Lagos became incredibly wealthy from cocoa around the same time and he provided the funds with which CMS Grammar School, the first secondary school in Nigeria, was built).
When I wrote that Dantata traded with UAC, it might not mean much to some, but UAC was once the biggest company in Nigeria and many of the people who are very wealthy today (the Abebes, the Murray-Bruces, etc) trace the source of their family wealth back to UAC. In 1986, a friend of mine said that being chairman of Shell (the largest oil company in Nigeria) or UAC (the largest non-oil company in Nigeria) was equivalent to being president of Nigeria (coincidentally, the chairman of UAC at that time, Ernest Shonekan, went on to become head of state of Nigeria many years later).
It's similar to the way that, probably in 100 years crude oil might have lost its value and people might wonder how people got wealthy from oil.
(When I wrote that members of this family were on the board of Mentholatum, it might not mean anything to people today, but Mentholatum was once the biggest brand of vapour rub in Nigeria, followed by Vicks and Robb. It's the same way that it might not mean anything to people today if you tell them that Chief Abiola once owned Berec, but Berec was once the biggest brand of batteries in Nigeria).
5) The other merchants were wealthy, but they did not manage their wealth in the same way. Dantata understood English and accounting, something that the other merchants did not understand.
However, someone on this thread has stated that Umar Sharabutu's company is still in business, but they operate mainly in Northern Nigeria.
Secondly, the other merchant's children were not able to continue the business in the way that Dantata's children did. This is similar to what has happened to the Abiola Family. In fact, there are many similar families in which their patriach was once one of the wealthiest men in Nigeria and while the children are still wealthy, they are no where near as wealthy as their patriach. Look at the Fajemirokun and Ojukwu families for example.
Nigerianization: What defines a religious terrorist organization is their ideology... Boko Haram, ISIS etc are 'fighting for the cause of ALLAH'
Yes, the membership of the Lord Resistance Army might be Christians, but are they killing in Christ's name?? Do they seize territories for Christ?? Do they quote the Bible to justify beheading their captives?? Did Jesus Christ ever shed a single blood?? Who is their role model??
The answers to these questions will help you know whether they are Christians who are fighting political battles or Christians fighting religious battles...
Originally known as the United Holy Salvation Army and Uganda Christian Army/Movement, its stated goals include establishment of multi-party democracy,[11] ruling Uganda according to the Ten Commandments,[12] and Acholi nationalism.[13]
In practice "the LRA is not motivated by any identifiable political agenda, and its military strategy and tactics reflect this".[14] It appears to largely function as a personality cult of its leader Joseph Kony,[13] a self-declared prophet whose leadership has earned him the nickname "Africa's David Koresh".[15]
The LRA was listed as a terrorist group by the United States,[16] though it has since been removed from the list of designated active terrorist groups. It has been accused of widespread human rights violations, including murder, abduction, mutilation, child-sex slavery, and forcing children to participate in hostilities.
PRESS RELEASE: MURIC SLAMS BOKO HARAM FOR KILLING CLERIC
The chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Michika Local Government Area of Adamawa State, Rev. Lawan Andimi, has been killed by the Boko Haram terrorist group. The cleric was declared missing on 2nd January, 2020 but was later discovered to have been kidnapped by Boko Haram. A video clip later confirmed that Rev. Andimi was kidnapped by the insurgents.
Meanwhile, an Islamic human rights body has expressed consternation and bewilderment at the killing. The group, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) described the incident as horrendous, ungodly and barbaric. MURIC spoke through its director, Professor Ishaq Akintola on Tuesday evening, 21st January, 2020.
“We are at a loss for words. This killing is horrendous, ungodly and barbaric. We condemn it in the strongest terms possible. We reiterate our earlier declaration that Boko Haram is not an Islamic group. Rather it is a group of misled zealots. Any group that kills at will and sheds the blood of innocent people cannot represent Islam.
“What is the crime of Rev. Andimi? Being a Christian is not a crime. There are thousands of honest, hardworking, law-abiding and God-fearing Christians in this country. Every individual is free to follow any faith of his or her choice because the Qur’an forbids compulsion in religion (Glorious Qur’an 2:256) while the Nigerian Constitution guarantees freedom of religion in Section 38 (i) & (ii).
“It is crystal clear from the antics of Boko Haram that the group is keen on igniting a religious war. They are deliberately targeting Christians for attacks in order to provoke the Nigerian Christian community. But they have failed. They have failed because Nigerians understand what Boko Haram is doing. We will not fall into Boko Haram’s trap. We call on all Nigerians regardless of religious background to unite against Boko Haram. We must stand up together to fight the evil in our midst.
“MURIC calls on the Federal Government to intensify and expedite action on uprooting the last vestiges of Boko Haram. We charge the Nigerian military to leave no stone unturned in its efforts to eliminate the insurgents.
“Our hearts are heavy as we remember the bereaved family. But we are assured in the global reach of God’s divine umbrella. Only Him can console them. Only Him can heal. We pray that the Almighty God will give succour to members of the deceased’s family, his friends and associates.
“We commiserate with the leadership of CAN in particular and the Nigerian Christian community in general. In times like this, it is only patience, maturity and statesmanship that have kept Nigeria going. We must remember that both sides have lost key figures to Boko Haram attacks. Many Imams and high profile Shaykhs have been killed by these same insurgents. We are all losing our loved and respected clerics, friends and family members. We are all victims. Let us console ourselves and strengthen our position with prayers instead of resorting to blame game.”
Professor Ishaq Akintola, Director, Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC)
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has condemned the murder of Lawan Andimi, chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) on Wednesday in Michika local government area of Adamawa.
In a statement issued and signed in Lagos, the MURIC director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, who described the killing as horrific, ungodly and barbaric, said that anyone who kills innocent people does not represent Islam.
“We condemn it in the strongest terms possible. We reiterate our earlier declaration that Boko Haram is not an Islamic group, rather it is a group of misled zealots’’.
Prof. Ishaq Akintola, who sympathized with the leadership of CAN in particular and the Nigerian Christian community, urged all Nigerians regardless of religious background to unite against Boko Haram.
He called on the Nigerian military to leave no stone unturned in its efforts to eliminate the insurgents.
The comments on this thread are a perfect example of what Nairaland has become. People only comment based on the political party or ethnic group that they support. The very enlightening and objective commentators that we had in the past are all gone.
Several things were mentioned in the first post, but most commentators had selective blindness. They only saw what they wanted to see.
The known PDP supporters only saw the contracts for street lights and airport towers. They didn't see that Savannah Petroleum will invest £315 million in the acquisition and investment of ingas assets in Nigeria.
The APC supporters only saw Savannah's investment. They didn't see the airport and streetlight contracts.
Four British companies Monday signed business deals with Nigeria on the sidelines of the inaugural UK-Africa Investment Summit in London.
The deals were among the several others sealed between UK companies and their African partners.
In the case of Nigeria, Low Energy Designs won an export contract to install street lighting in Oyo State while Savannah will invest £315 million in the acquisition and investment of ingas assets in Nigeria.
Another British company Tex ATC is expected to install five airport control room towers worth £2 million in different parts of Nigeria while Trilliant got a deal to install £5 million of Smart Metering for Abuja DisCo.
Several other deals were expected to be signed throughout the day, with African and UK businesses committing investments expected to reach into the billions.
“Africa represents a huge opportunity for UK businesses, so it’s brilliant to see so many British firms paving the way in trading and investing in the region today to drive growth, create jobs and boost vital infrastructure,” Secretary of State for International Trade, Liz Truss MP said.
“We want the UK to be the investment partner of choice for African nations, and our world-leading expertise in finance, tech, and innovation, makes the UK and Africa natural partners for prosperity.”
Before the opening of the summit on Monday, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari lobbied the British community to invest in the Nigerian economy.
“For my country, greater UK engagement in its economy would bring jobs to under-tapped sectors, such as agriculture and manufacturing,” Buhari said in an opinion published in The Guardian ahead of the UK-Africa Investment Summit in London.
“Millions of highly skilled, English-speaking but underemployed young people, are eager to work but without the opportunities that foreign investment can bring to create jobs and build businesses.”
The UK said the deals signed on Monday show how “we are building on that to secure a lasting commercial partnership of mutual benefit.”
Lagos State Government gives 2 weeks ultimatum to illegal occupants of old Jankara Market
The Lagos State Govt @followlasg
The Lagos State government has given two weeks ultimatum to the illegal occupants of the old Jankara market site, earmarked for modern development in line with the plan to regenerate the Lagos Island.
The Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Dr. Idris Salako gave the ultimatum during the assessment tour of Lagos Island on Monday.
He explained that the Ministry of Physical Planning had served all occupants notices to leave the premises as the government renewal plan for Lagos Island was about to commence.
Salako, reiteraited that the clearing of the market was in agreement with the T.H.E.M.E.S. agenda of the State Government administration of making Lagos clean and for a total redevelopment of Lagos Island.
The Commissioner said that the redevelopment of the area would usher in infrastructure renewal, adding that the people should expect modern health, recreational and road infrastructure among others
He urged the illegal machanics, traders and occupants of illegal settlement on Adeniji Adele street to vacate before Friday, while directing the sealing of distressed buildings and schools built without planning permit in the area.
He added that it was inappropriate for residents to violate the State planning laws by not building according to the rules, stressing that it was imperative for government to do the needful to avert danger to lives and property.
He reiterated that the Lagos State Government would continue to maintain its zero tolerance policy on illegal building construction and enjoined Lagosians to always build right and by the rules.
In the same vein, Dr Salako also monitored sites of the Coastal road and regional road in Oniru and Lekki axis of the State respectively, where he directed the removal of structures on the alignment of the regional road.
pongwa: looking over the pictures carefully, this is what I deduced: The throne Buhari sat on was the same one Oba Akiolu sat on when he hosted Emir of Kano. The seat the Emir occupied was the same one with that of the VP too. It means the throne has significance. My question now is whether the throne in the middle (first picture) occupied by Oba Akiolu has more significance than that of Buhari. That's what I need to clarify. The ooni of Ife's case is well explained
Like I said, the monarch sits on the biggest throne in the middle. Look at the height of the throne that the Oba sat on (the gold throne) and compare it with the throne that Buhari sat on. Also compare the size of the throne that the Oba sat on in 2015 with the size of the throne that Buhari sat on (that picture is further down in the thread).
pongwa: I read the post already. In fact that was why I typed that comment. Oba Akiolu vacated his throne for Buhari. It shouldn't be in Yoruba parlance except they wanna say Lagos is not Yoruba
Then you didn't properly get the gist of the post. There are many of those kind of chairs at the palace. There was a rumour that the Oba vacated his throne for Buhari, but he didn't. He sat on the biggest throne.
There are usually 3 large chairs in palaces in Nigeria. This is so because the president of Nigeria might visit the palace. When this happens, the monarch sits on the throne in the centre, the president sits on a large chair at the side and the governor sits on another large chair at the other side. That's what happened.
Similarly, some people said that the Ooni of Ife vacated his throne for Adeboye, but that's not what happened. Go back to that thread and look at the pictures.
The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Imo State has directed its members to support the new All Progressives Congress (APC) government in the best interest of the state.
At the meeting in Owerri which had in attendance the APGA Chairman, Henry Okafor, its governorship candidate, Senator Ifeanyi Araraume and other top officials, the party said following the recent development in the state, it is collapsing its structure into the APC in the state to form a coalition.
Araraume noted that the people of the state have suffered hence the need for the people to help the current administration in its quest for good governance.
“Our people have suffered over time. We need to make the government succeed because we need good governance in Imo. We need to make our contributions.
“The whole idea to aspire to be governor is to offer selfless service to our people. Somebody has emerged through the verdict of the Supreme Court, which is the highest court of the land. Therefore, we need to sensitise our people from the grassroots to the state level to support him,” he said.
Araraume’s remarks come five days after the apex court nullified the election of Emeka Ihedioha as the governor of Imo state.
The seven-man panel led by Chief Justice Tanko Muhammad unanimously declared Senator Hope Uzodinma of the All Progressive Congress (APC) as the winner of the March 19 governorship election.
Immediately after the verdict, Araraume congratulated Uzodinma and promised to support his government.
Business › Re: The Dantata/Dangote Story: How To Create A Dynasty Of Billionaires (2020) by naptu2(op): 4:49am On Jan 23, 2020
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