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“It is safer and wiser to cure unhealthy rivalry than to suppress it.” Awolowo

Quotes by Obafemi Awolowo

One way to determine a man’s character is by checking out his words—effectively reading his mind. The list below contains quotes by the late sage Obafemi Awolowo, one of Nigeria's founding fathers.
· “Any people that is starved with books, especially the right type of books, will suffer intellectual malnutrition, stagnation and atrophy”

· “After rain comes sunshine; after darkness comes the glorious dawn. There is no sorrow without its alloy of joy; there is no joy without its admixture of sorrow. Behind the ugly terrible mask of misfortune lies the beautiful soothing countenance of prosperity. So, tear the mask!”


· “... my wife, Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo (nee Adelana) has been to me a jewel of inestimable value. She is an ideal wife…”

· “It is, I think, enough for me to say that life itself is, from the cradle to the grave, a series of unbroken risks. I make no boast about this, but those who know me intimately will testify to the fact that I have never, at any time, shrunk from taking my full share of the risks which life, with its unending opportunities and vicissitudes, offers.”

· “I will, more than ever before, subject myself to severe self- discipline. Only men who are masters of themselves become easily masters of others. Therefore, my thoughts, my tongue, and my actions shall be brought under strict control always.”

· “Those who desire to reach, and keep their places at the top in any calling must be prepared to do so the hard way.”

· “Those of us placed in a position of leadership must be prepared to grasp the nettle If we unite in doing so, and if, in addition, we set a worthy example and a marat on pace in probity, unselfishness, and self-sacrifice, the people will follow, all too readily, in our footsteps.”

· “Any system of education which does not help a man to have a healthy and sound body and alert brain, and balanced and disciplined instinctive urges, is both misconceived and dangerous.”


· “In order to attain to the goals of economic freedom and prosperity, Nigeria must do certain things as a matter of urgency and priority. It must provide free education (at all levels) and free health facilities for the masses of its citizens.”

· “Let us make no pretense about it, every human being loves power; power over his fellow men in the state, or in business enterprises; or failing that; power over his wife and children, and over his brothers, sisters, and friends, or, in the case of children, power over his playmates. Of these categories of power, the desire for power over one's fellow men is the strongest.”

· “The Blackman shall be absolute and undisputed master in his own home, and shall enjoy unaffected and unpatronising equality with the other races of the world.”

· “Africa has produced more self-seeking leaders than public-spirited ones. But, thank goodness, the masses of the people remain largely unspoilt and uncorrupted, and are developing fast the technique of differentiating gold from lead and real metal from dross. What is more, they have begun to show their preparedness for very rough action against any political leader who may be caught in the game of public trickery and fraud.”

· “It is safer and wiser to cure unhealthy rivalry than to suppress it.”

· “Nigeria is not a nation. It is a mere geographical expression. The word Nigerian is merely a distinctive appellation to distinguish those who live within the boundaries of Nigeria from those who do not.”

· “The seed for a future minority problem in the North has been sown by the Government. It will grow with growing political consciousness on the part of those who settle permanently in the North.”

· “The creation of the Mid-West State will be the beginning of a journey which may be short or long but which will irresistibly bring Nigeria to the goal of true federalism and more States, and of individual freedom and happiness for all our people.”

· “Under my proposals, Police is a residual subject, because the immediate problem of maintaining law and order can only be properly and more effectively tackled by the State Government.”


· “It appears to me that the causes of the last Civil War lie embedded in the nether realms of such degrading and depraving evils as unemployment; mass ignorance; endemic and debilitating diseases; low productivity; abuse and misuse of power, bribery and corruption; favoritism and nepotism; ethnocentricity and tribalism; much poverty and much discontent.”

superstar1:
Who was the wife of Zik? I am sure she was so inconsequential that nobody even remembers her name.

Zico was gay.. he never liked women. He died without a legacy that was why Ojukwu the coward became the hero of yanmiris.

funkybully:
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Ur cream rubbing, ashaaaawo mother, just finished servicing my bingo dog now for 100 naira.

Ur feeding money is on d way. Ewa agoyin 30 naira ati breadi 50 naira.

Wretched bastard!

That's what your tribe is known for.. Prostitution. I could assist you and your mother if you want to advance your trade abroad. Low class slot.

funkybully:
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Yolobasterds are world champion in rape, incest, ritual, juju, assasination, ashaaawo and agberoism

Your mum is still on our street looking for customer this night..

CSTR2:
Zik has blazed his name in the pantheon of african greats like kwame nkrumah, mandela, sankara and the likes.
He has never been known to play in local bigoted waters, not even during the civil war.
He is spoken of with respect throughout Nigeria, something that awolowo can never get.
Give the zik of africa his due respect. Your awolowo will never be that respected in this world or the afterlife.

Please use your head a little and check history. Even your Zik admitted That Pa Awo was living years ahead of them at the time. In terms of Intelligence, idea, foresight and so on it's an insult to even compare Pa Awolowo with Zik. Pa Awolowo was his mentor.

adekunle0000:
RIP MAMA but please tell Chief Awolowo that the Free Education for the mass production of schools attendees, Genocide through food blockage he helped championed, 20 pounds and Indigenization decree has done nothing to put we Omo Odua ahead of other tribes. Tell him that the Southeastern are at the top of their game again. Adieu Mama. We will miss your counsel.

Yes oh, Igbo are on top of criminality , prostitution, drugs and armed robbery.

OfoIgbo:
RIP HIV Awolowo

That's what will wipe out your family..

egift:
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What a country! This criminal still bold enough to grant interview..

Saraki should pray against competent Falana from becoming AGF soon with Prof. Osinbajo at the corner other wise he would have to book a space in Kirikiri prison.

Igbos don't have history , so you don't expect them to appreciate a job done with deep research of the past as Kunle does. Epic movies are movies you watch and keep in your archives for your children. Not home video that entertain jobless house wives.

No judgement for igbos in heaven, it's gonna be direct visa to hell for the cursed tribe.

BishopMagic:
Yoruba gods are hungry.

Ask any osunite.

I feed them one fowl and they will worship me

Beware of the next rain and thunder . Your tongue just made you a corpse.

yorubatic:
my fetish sophisticated yoruba people logic, benin republic is deluded for not merging with Nigeria, Togo is deluded for not merging with nigeria, even ghana, niger, chat and etc are all deluded for not merging with nigeria. ...and Biafrans are deluded for wanting to part ways with nigeria, But
Yorubas are wise for pepertual servitude to the Hausa / Fulani. ...truly my fetish people are born clowns and Hausa / Fulani slave ...

To my fetish yoruba people, Igbo are a threat, but hausa fulanis are loving masters. ...my diabolical cowards people are confused clowns .....my evil people constantly having sleepless nights because of igbo giants

Since this change, change mantra started , I have found out that my fetish yoruba people who chant the change mantra loudest are still the same evil people protesting and crying because of hunger. ...what is wrong with my evil yoruba people...my yoruba people are truly cursed to be slaves of Hausa-Fulani forever ...

Another criminal talking..South east is dead and buried, the criminal tribe of Biafrauds only live on information from Southwest . Today is Wednesday and no news whatsoever from the mud land. The homeless idiots.

Before the end of Buari's administration more than half of these hard working red cap thieves would have been eating white beans in jail.

saintkel:
We never asked to be appointed, d Igbo needs noting frm any Government. Just allow them do dia business in peace

Fake people.. Then why are your agama red caps crying and wailing all over the media including CNN?

slap1:
Aunty Ngozi how can you be 24 na?

She's from the South B-east , she has to cheat.

Editor1:
Nice Move.


In football.
In politics.
In finance.
In business.
In Healthcare....


They always take the lead.

God really blessed the Ibo race!

That's why Okechukwu Dangote is the richest in Africa ..

uselessgoat:
[b]There is a popular saying that to keep Nigeria one is a task that must be done. We need ourselves more than ever. There is strenght in our diversity and if properly utilized we can build a stronger Nigeria. The Igbos really need to drop this idea of Biafra because it is dead on arrival. Secession is not the solution to the high poverty rate in the south east neither will it eliminate greedy politicians who have refused to let the SE thrive. The igbos need to look inward and look for ways they can develop their region within the Nigerian context. We the Yorubas are not bothered about breaking away. We worked so hard to develop Lagos and the South west so everyone can thrive and this is why the igbos and other tribes keeps flocking to the SW to tap from the potentials and opportunities Yoruba land has to offer. This is the kind of mentality the Igbos need to develop. South sudan broke away from sudan and still nothing has changed because they remain poor and depend on aids to survive. The igbos need to work together with every section of Nigeria so they can be relevant in the Nigerian system instead of calling we the Yoruba's slaves to Hausa-fulani. The igbos are the real slaves here because they are the ones in bondage and yearning for freedom.The igbos should remember the last civil war and never allow Nnamdi Kanu to lure them into another blood bath. Biafra is a dream that cant be realized. We will support the Hausa-Fulanis to resist any form of secession. We will defend the unity of One Nigeria just like we did in the late 60's. A word is enough for the wise.


SAY NO TO BIAFRA

GOD BLESS OUR UNITED NIGERIA.[/b]

If you want the population of Igbos to reduce by half within a year, give them Biafra and you will see them devour each other mercilessly.

drberry:
If Amaechi passes that screening ehn, then I'll doubt the fact that Buhari really wants to bring change. However seeing Donald Duke in that list gives me so much joy.

PS: No matter how much change Buhari would cause, Obj, Tinubu and Gen. TY Danjuma MUST still have some influence in this government. #FACT

Southerners always pulling themselves down only to cry of maginalization later. How many Northerners have petitions written against them?

Buhari has high respect for Prof. Osinbajo's integrity he is counting on him for sound nominations. So dont be surprise to see more academicians on the list expecially from the SE.

You cant expect people that did not benefit from Fashola to be singing his praise like you re doing. life is like pendulum and the world rotates. It's turn by turn so do good while its your turn because it will be another person's turn tomorrow.

deadZONE:
very soon we would be seeing cows in ASO ROCK...
buhari please call ur brothers to order...
anyway is this same buhari that wasted billions building a
helipad just to be going to visit his cows..

Billions for Helipad! do you know what helipad is?

Truluvguy:
bro i helped to make your likes 100

What an irony, Igbos are not sorry but are all over the place crying and begging for appointments. Went as far as crying to CNN. Igbos are toddlers when it comes to politics as only fools put all their eggs in one basket. Fake lives

idowuswap:
Igbo people can only promotes their culture in prison yard,that where they belong to criminal descendant.thief arm robber.ritualist.kidnapper.drug pusher.419........'Kudos to a yoruba man the hero benjamen adekunle that killed igbo people with no mercy during war..............thank God ooooooooooooooooooooooOooo

Mind you bro, Pa Adekunle has thousands of young boiling red scorpions on ground waiting for .....

truefact:
Fetish cowards. ..very diabolical set of people. ..ritualistics Scratchfaceds with coneheads. ...Always carrying outdated talking drums here and there...Even with their jujustic rituals, they are not any better than others, rather they even worse if I may say...is brown roofs development? Ritual-killers everywhere

Yorubas it is not by juju...Even with your juju and rituals, you are still cowards

The genertion of Igbos are cowards and even Ojukwu demonstrated this during the civil war when Obj chased the fool out of Nigeria. History has it how gallant Yoruba soldiers like the black scorpion and others tormented our slaves from the east. Same yoruba soldiers help Ojukwu to capture Benin before Oju-eku with his tribalism installed igbo medical doctor as Gov. of mid west region which infuriated Victor Banjo.
SE is now the worst place to settle in Nigeria, erosion, dirts and even human remains are all over their drainage system(gutter).

Yorubas are speaking out and in fore front of making sure the present govt. seat up to solve problems facing Nigeria but our COWARDSs from the East are crying behind the walls and begging to be giving slots in govt. COWARDs
Biafrauds are quick to accuse others what they are guilty of. calling others oil soap lickers while the bastards prepare a whole pot of soup with no other ingredient beside palm fruits. chopping palm fruits like squirrel. South B-easts are expert in fraud, drugs, prostitution, armed robbery name any evil you can think of. I belive the tribe has been handed over to satan.

Gov. Fayose (yoruba) is now Biafra's role model because he's bold enough to speak out while the weak red caps are groaning in silence. Pretentious cowardice always thier way..

lurther:
Tinubu has no option, even though Buhari has dumped him long time ago.

Guess, he knows that Buhari is not GEJ, so he has to continue to praise Buhari, if not, he risk what Afonja, Awolowo and Abiola went through and ended their life miserably with shame.

Knowing history is always bound to repeat itself, Tinubu is being carefull not to finish his path to historic end like his predecessors Awolowo, Afonja and Abiola. Atleast he has started with the alliance and he has been dumped. It has always been the normal process in their relationship with the Hausa-Fulani.

The final stage is where Tinubu is now, which is protest the dumping Stage and get the result. Tinubu knowing fully well that if he protest, he is fulfilling the final stage of their historic alliances with the Hausa-Fulani, so, he is trying all his possible best to avert this stage of their historic relationship. He knows the stage he is in now... after Dump, Protest and activism... after protest and activism...Clampdown and arrest... after clampdown and arrest... history is made. Tinubu will now enter history like his predecessors... then the yorubas begin to groom another yoruba man to continue in the fulfilment of this avoidable historic path of the so-called sophisticated people.

Tinubu, even if Buhari takes Nigeria to the doldrums of total destruction, you dare not
cough so as to avert repeat of history.

Idiot, worry about your nonentity nature and stop killing yourself over Tinubu and Yorubas . When Yorubas speak you baboons make it song. We always put you in line of reasoning you guys are dumb.

The flat heads should learn not to put all their eggs in one basket and stop following each other sheepishly to vote a candidate.

A group of foreign companies came together to discuss and agree on biz of intrest, carried out feasibility study of the project, chose the best location for them. And sought the assistance of the FG for land aquisition and so on. Then we have some idiots protesting the location.

They dont want their biz to be distrupted by lazy and myopic youths. This project includes the constuction of a mega port where giant vessels with higher metric tons of cargo will be able to berth conviniently with minimum annual dredging activities. So dear activists, pls check your facts, this is not only about NLNG alone, NLNG will only be there to provide services to power companies and others invoved in the joint project.

Pride comes before destruction.

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