tafrica: Seun, I'm surprised you don't know this message has been long or you just intentionally made it look recent. The video trended those times. NL is gradually becoming noted for fake and twisted news. You should have captioned this topic as a throw-back. I don't really subscribe to Oyedepo's message though
I think this is what they are referring to (note the date on the thread).
Nigeria severed diplomatic relations with Taiwan in 1971! The Nigerian government then established diplomatic relations with the Peoples Republic of China in February 1971 and General Gowon visited Beijing in 1974. Nigeria has not reestablished diplomatic relations with Taiwan since then.
Taiwan established a trade and cultural office in Lagos in 1991. It was moved to Abuja in 2001. That office has been passing itself off as an embassy since c2013, despite the fact that there is no diplomatic relations between Nigeria and Taiwan.
The Chinese government protested the activities of the Taiwan Trade Office to the Nigerian Government in 2016, but the Nigerian Government replied that the trade office is not an embassy.
The Nigerian Government has now ordered the Taiwanese to move their trade office to Lagos to make the distinction clear.
(Most countries of the world operate a similar system. Eg, the US does not have an embassy in Taiwan, neither does Taiwan have an embassy in the US. The US broke off diplomatic relations with Taiwan in 1980.
The US has a trade office in Taiwan and Taiwan has a trade office in the US.
The UK broke diplomatic relations with Taiwan in 1950 and recognised China in the same year.
The United Nations stopped recognising the ROC in 1971 and instead recognises the Peoples Republic of China).
Nigeria severed diplomatic relations with Taiwan in 1971! The Nigerian government then established diplomatic relations with the Peoples Republic of China in February 1971 and General Gowon visited Beijing in 1974. Nigeria has not reestablished diplomatic relations with Taiwan since then.
Taiwan established a trade and cultural office in Lagos in 1991. It was moved to Abuja in 2001. That office has been passing itself off as an embassy since c2013, despite the fact that there is no diplomatic relations between Nigeria and Taiwan.
The Chinese government protested the activities of the Taiwan Trade Office to the Nigerian Government in 2016, but the Nigerian Government replied that the trade office is not an embassy.
The Nigerian Government has now ordered the Taiwanese to move their trade office to Lagos to make the distinction clear.
(Most countries of the world operate a similar system. Eg, the US does not have an embassy in Taiwan, neither does Taiwan have an embassy in the US. The US broke off diplomatic relations with Taiwan in 1980.
The US has a trade office in Taiwan and Taiwan has a trade office in the US).
Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa took his only annual leave in 1963, which he decided to spend in his village. A British photojournalist came down to Lagos to interview the Prime Minister, but was told that the P.M was on vacation. He asked to which country, but was shocked to hear that the P.M was in his village. On getting to the village, there was no evidence or paraphernalia to show that a “big man” was there; everyone was busy with their chores. He met a farmer with his donkey, carrying bales of sugarcane for the P.M’s home and he was utterly speechless when the farmer said, “I just left him. You will see him sitting on the floor with his kids, eating the sugarcane that I just gave them”. He met them like that and took this picture.
I forgot to add that one of the saros that encouraged the British to end the slave trade in Lagos was Samuel Ajayi Crowther.
He met Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle and urged her to bomb Lagos. He told the queen about the evil effects of slavery (remember that he was once a slave), told her that Lagos under Kosoko had become a haven for slave traders and that it was having a devastating effect on the entire West African coast. He told her that the only way to stop it was to bomb Lagos and remove Kosoko.
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.
Oba Idewu Ojulari was advised by the chiefs of Lagos to commit suicide (according to tradition) in 1832, because he was seen as an avaricious king who was too concerned with the trappings of power. Ojulari did not have children, so his younger brother, Prince Kosoko, expected that he would be crowned king. However, the Eletu Odibo of Lagos (traditional prime minister) who is the chief that is responsible for crowning the oba, did not like Kosoko, so he crowned Oluwole as king instead.
Kosoko was furious and led his warriors to invade Lagos Island. Kosoko's forces were defeated by the forces of Oba Oluwole and the Eletu Odibo. Kosoko fled and went into exile in Whydah in present day Benin Republic.
When Oba Oluwole died, Prince Akitoye was crowned as the Oba of Lagos in 1841.
Akitoye brought a lot of changes to Lagos. He banned the slave trade and encouraged Lagosians to trade in other goods. He also abolished the practice of paying tributes to Benin (the Benin lineage of obas had died out by this time and the obas of Lagos were yoruba. Oba Akinsemoyin had no son when he died and he also had no brother, only a sister, Erelu Kuti. So it was decided that Erelu Kuti's son, Ologun Kutere should inherit the throne, thus ending the Benin line of Oba of Lagos in 1749. Ologun Kutere's father was Alagba, an Ijesha priest from Ilesha).
Popo Aguda, Saro, etc.
It was also around this time that many slaves that had been freed returned to Lagos. Many of them could remember where they came from. Some chose to return to their original home towns, some remembered Lagos as the last place that they were in before they were put on the slave ships, while some did not remember at all, but chose to stay in Lagos.
The Popo Aguda were slaves that returned from Cuba and Brazil. Most of these returnees had been stone masons and builders in Brazil and Cuba and they built most of the gothic and latin houses you see in Lagos.
They settled in the Campos and Popo Aguda area of Lagos (Campos Square is named after G. Hilario Campos, a cuban returnee).
Some of the returnees changed their names to african names (eg, Adeyemo Alakija who was originally name Placido Assumpcao), while many also chose to retain their portuguese names (eg the Santos, Pereira, Pinheiro, Emanuel, da Rocha, Dasilva, Marquis, Fernandez and other such families of Lagos).
The Popo Aguda brought elements of brazilian culture to Lagos. They introduced the carnival to Lagos in the 1800s. They were also staunch catholics and they built many catholic institutions like St Mary's Private School, St Gregory's College and Holy Cross Cathedral.
The saros are former slaves that served in british colonies. Most of them were educated and worked in the service sector (law, surveying, education, etc). They were mostly protestants (particularly anglicans and methodists). They settled in the Olowogbowo area of Lagos (near the Elegbeta Channel). Many of took on african names, but some of them also retained their english names and so you have families like the Nelson, MacGregor, Paine, Savage, etc.
Return of Kosoko
In the interest of peace, Akitoye also sent Chief Oshodi to search for Kosoko and bring him back to Lagos. This was a grave mistake.
There were many businessmen and women who did not like Oba Akitoye because he abolished the slave trade. Business people like Madam Tinubu had become very wealthy from the slave trade. Prince Kosoko was also a renowned slave trader.
These business people encouraged Prince Kosoko to stage a coup and overthrow Oba Akitoye in 1845. Kosoko had been furious that he was overlooked a second time when a new oba was being crowned.
Oba Akitoye fled to Badagry. The Lagos Civil War had begun. Some of the cannons that were used during the civil war are on display at the Iga Idungaran (Oba's palace) today.
The slave trade flourished in Lagos while Kosoko was Oba.
The british asked Oba Kosoko to sign a treaty that he would ban slave trade, but he refused. They also approached Akitoye (who had previously banned slave trade) and he accepted to sign the treaty.
The british were also lobbied by many former slaves (especially the saros) to end the slave trade in Lagos.
Bombardment of Lagos
On November 25th, 1851, the British Consul for the Bight of Benin, John Beecroft arrived the Elegbeta Channel and the Lagos Lagoon at the command of four warships and 180 marines. They opened fire on Lagos with their cannons, but were not able to take control of the city from Kosoko's forces (Kosoko's forces also had their own cannons and they returned fire).
Then on the 26th of December, Commodore Henry William Bruce (later Admiral, Sir Henry William Bruce) arrived with a much larger force including the warships HMS Penelope (a frigate and Commodore Bruce's flagship), HMS Bloodhound, HMS Teazer and many attack boats.
They bombarded Lagos and set fire to many parts of the city. The british deposed Kosoko and exiled him. Akitoye arrived Lagos at the head of warriors from Badagry and was able to reclaim his throne.
On January 1st, 1852, Oba Akitoye went aboard HMS Penelope to sign the great Lagos - Britain treaty, banning slave trade in Lagos and establishing a british consulate (embassy) in the city. The treaty also guaranteed military protection for Lagos.
Kosoko's forces tried unsucessfully to retake the city in August 1853. Oba Akitoye died in September 1853 and his son, Prince Dosunmu, suceeded him.
wizard007: I'm still wondering why this useful information is not on FP yet.
I mean if I hadn't surfed now I wouldn't be privy to this, Lalasticlala why you like this na?
The information is false, that's why. It's been debunked by the FRSC. This thread was on the front page, but it was removed because the information is false.
Sunnynwa: Op, do you have a problem with comprehension? Kachikwu said they are "looking to do a roadshow to the US with Donald Trump coming in". It means they want to do a roadshow in the US and they expect Trump to attend, not Trump coming to Nigeria.
I've told him on the other thread that he created, but he said that I should go back to school. So I've reported both threads for breaking rule 8.
The title of your thread does not agree with what the minister said.
The title of your thread reads, "BREAKING: Donald Trump To Visit Nigeria", while, according to your article, the minister said, "We are looking to do a roadshow to the UK, we are looking to do a roadshow to the US with President Donald Trump coming in", which means that Nigerian oil industry officials are going on a roadshow to the US and hope to meet Donald Trump there.
They said that they instructed their officials not to dwell too much on booking people without fire extinguishers during the Christmas and new year season (they should only caution them), but that they should instead focus on ensuring that traffic is flowing freely.
However, lack of fire extinguishers, caution signs, etc remain bookable offences.
Happy birthday to the great Jimmy Johnson (Okoromadueke).
I was so happy when I turned on my tv set sometime in December and saw him reading a story to kids. That's the first time I've seen him on TV in many years.
Lagos- based lawyer, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa has likened the controversy surrounding the resignation of the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye to the Gambia controversial election, urging the man of God to clear the confusion surrounding his new title.
Recall that Adeboye had on Saturday announced he was stepping down as the overseer of the church in Nigeria.
He immediately named Pastor Joshua Obayemi as his replacement.
News, however, surfaced the same day, claiming Obayemi was only appointed as the head of the church in Nigeria and that Adeboye will continue as the General Overseer of the church worldwide.
But Adegboruwa, in a statement sent to DAILY POST on Sunday called for caution because he sees “signs of confusion brewing.”
The activist lawyer and a self confessed follower of the former lecturer turned Pastor, urged Adeboye to clear the confusion for the sake of his integrity.
Commending Adeboye popularly called Papa G.O. for doing “what no pastor has done before,” the activist lawyer however urged the clergyman to be fair to inquisitive Nigerians.
The statement titled “As in Gambia, As in RCCG?, reads:
“The emerging trends of events in The Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, in the past 24 hours, is beginning to give cause for serious concern.
“Very recently, elections were held in The Gambia and the opposition was declared the winner. The incumbent President called to congratulate the winner and conceded defeat. But before the President-elect could be sworn in, President Jamel recanted and has now thrown the West African nation into crisis.
“On Saturday, January 7, 2017, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, told all ministers gathered at the Annual Ministers Conference, that the Church now has a new General Overseer, but before the end of the day, information emerged that Pastor Adeboye had only stepped down as General Overseer for Nigeria and would still continue to function as General Overseer of Rccg Worldwide.
“When it was pointed out that the Constitution of Rccg does not recognize that title, then we were informed that Pastor Adeboye will now be known as Global Missioner and Spiritual Leader of the Church. When the illegality of that title was revealed, then we have now been told that Pastor Adeboye will now retain his title as General Overseer, while Pastor Obayemi is National Overseer.
“I have taken the pains to check the Constitution of the church and I can see signs of some confusion brewing, if not carefully handled.
“In all my time that I’ve known Pastor Adeboye, integrity has been his watchword and the trends emerging from the inconsistent pronouncements from the church since yesterday, do not support the personality of our dear Daddy GO, and he himself has to act quickly to douse the tension being generated.
“From a church of just about 40 parishes in 1981 when Pastor Adeboye took over as General Overseer, the Rccg is now present in about 192 countries all over the world. Rccg has become one of the most influential churches worldwide and we cannot afford to give the impression that Daddy GO is unwilling to retire or hand over to somebody else. That is certainly not the Pastor Adeboye that we all know.
“In his succession plan, Pastor Adeboye has done what no pastor has done before and he should follow it through and mentor the people that God has led him to chose as his successors.
“We his followers are pained with the development but as things are now, there is little we can do about it.
“The Codes of the Financial Reporting Council are not new. They were implemented seamlessly for Banks when their Managing Directors who had been in office for ten years were asked to hand over. This has now been extended to non-profit organizations like churches and there is nothing strange about this.
“These codes were contested at the Federal High Court and the court decided against us. They are meant to achieve transparency in these organizations.
“I therefore humbly appeal to Daddy GO to follow through his plan and avoid the temptations of The Gambia.”
RoyalBlak007: Why do most Cars have speedometers that go at least 130 when you legally can't go that fast on any road?
Lalasticlala Seun
Autobahns previously had no speed limit. Now the sections that go through built up areas have a recommended speed limit of 130, while rural sections have no speed limits (you can even drive at 200 kmph).
(I've had this book since 1993, but I haven't read this quote since c2000. It's always so difficult to find it. So I'll post it here so that I can easily find it in future).
I remember the speech for another reason as well. I was full of admiration that he seemed to have delivered it without a single note.
"I congratulate you on your actor's memory", I said.
He replied, "I read the whole speech from those two perspex screens" - referring to what we had taken to be some security device. "Don't you know it? It's a British invention". And so it was that I made my first acquaintance with Autocue
Margaret Thatcher, "The Downing Street Years", Harper Collins, London (1993), p258
Mrs Thatcher was referring to President Reagan's address to both houses of Parliament at the Palace of Westminster in 1982.
Nigerians have always debated about whether politicians write their own speeches, whether they are speaking extempore or whether they are reading from a prepared speech. Personally I've always been more interested in the obvious cues, skills and errors that they make (I know that politicians do not write their speeches alone. They [of course] work with experts, such as security, economic and political experts, depending on the theme of the speech).
The first thing that's necessary when using a teleprompter, is to practice. The teleprompter needs to be calibrated to match the speed of the speaker and to set the right tone. This was the theme of a hilarious scene on the 1980s sitcom Yes Prime Minister. The prime minister was going to deliver a televised address to the nation, but Sir Humphrey and the tv producer made a mess of the preparations. Sir Humphrey said that the pace was too fast, so they slowed the autocue down until it seemed like the prime minister was talking in slow motion. Then the producer got them to speed things up, to the extent that the prime minister looked like a jack-in-the-box. His head was bobbing up and down and his lips were moving at the speed of light as he tried to keep up with the words on the screen.
Bill Clinton was masterful at using the teleprompter. You would not believe that he was reading his speeches. What makes it even more amazing is that, according to George Stephanopoulos, on some occasions they only worked on his speeches in the limo, just before getting to the venue. That means that on those occasions he didn't have much time to practice before delivering his speeches.
President Bush wasn't as good as Clinton. It was obvious to me that he was reading his speeches. The obvious give away is the movement of his head while reading his speeches. He would look towards a specific point on his right, then look straight ahead, look to a specific point on his left and then repeat the process. He only looks at these exact same three places all through his speeches. He never looks at the spaces in between. That's obviously because he is looking at the teleprompters in front of him, to his left and to his right.
President Obasanjo once tried to use a teleprompter. He looked very funny. First off, he was squinting at the teleprompter, so it was obvious that he couldn't see the words clearly. That's why practice is important. They should have adjusted the font to suit his eyesight while prepping him. Secondly, he seemed amused by the teleprompter and he had this funny smile on his face. It looked very funny.
President Jonathan also tried to use teleprompters on two occasions, but it's either they hung or they were too slow, because he abandoned them on both occasions and picked up the hard copy of the speech and read from that instead. On one occasion (I think it was during his 2010 declaration), you could clearly see his frustration with the machine. He also had to squint and lean forward to see what was written on the screen (but it wasn't as bad as Obasanjo's case. Jonathan could see what was written, he just couldn't see it clearly. Obasanjo could barely see what was written).
I thought that President Buhari would also have problems with the teleprompter (because, like Obasanjo and Jonathan, he wears glasses), but he didn't have any problem seeing what was on the teleprompter. He speaks very slowly, so he didn't have any problems with the speed of the teleprompter. His problem was more like President Bush's problem. Buhari stared directly at the teleprompter in front of him and it was obvious that he was reading the speech. His head barely moved and NTA took too long to change camera angles, so it was very obvious that he was reading from a teleprompter that was in front of him.
Entertainers also use teleprompters, especially at award shows. Most of the jokes and comments that are said on stage at the Oscars, Grammy Awards, etc are scripted. I always suspected that Tiwa Savage wears glasses and it became obvious at the MTV Africa Music Awards, when she presented an award. She had difficulty reading the words on the teleprompter and had to squint and lean forward to see them.
President Obama is also very good with the teleprompter. He cleverly avoids making President Bush's mistake by occasionally pausing in the space between the teleprompters, so that he doesn't always stare at the same place.
Despite this, Obama was the butt of vicious jokes and criticism from his opponents (in 2009) because of his use of teleprompters. There's a cartoon on Youtube that depicts Obama at the dinner table at home. His daughters kept asking him questions, but he couldn't answer because there was no teleprompter to tell him what to say. Another video depicts Obama as a robot with no brain who has to depend on teleprompters to tell him what to say.
I thought that the criticism of Obama was harsh, especially since all US presidents since Reagan have used teleprompters, but Obama's case was not helped by two incidents. On one occasion his teleprompters froze, leaving him without anything to say. Then, in the video below, one of the teleprompters came crashing down as he was speaking.
Donald Trump's teleprompter stops working while he is speaking at a campaign rally, so he takes it apart and says that he doesn't need it.
(I wonder if there was really an issue with the teleprompter or if it was staged to provide a contrast with President Obama. Kind of like saying, "Look, Obama needs a teleprompter in order to deliver a speech, while I'm natural. I'm a regular guy, not one of those politicians". )
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