₦airaland Forum

BoboKush:
Apm

Na Woli agba IPM u go see no be only Apm

ojex004:
no be only uzor kalu. why not uche kalu so you will be playing apc continuos like football and people will not understand better plans apc has again. the one saraki do don wise us i beg not u ipod pple that already shown us yoir hatred toward the president. we xan not accept your opinion. oju yin gbudo foton ni( your eyes must go completly blind

Bros I be Yoruba from Osun state, Ada precisely Boripe LGA. I just wan a hobby that will Favour all

They will only Sidon look even though APC doesn’t have the two third. The last rubbish they did that produced Saraki as Senate president can’t happen again.
I hope they will give the East (Orji Uzor Kalu) the senate president slot to balance the equation.

stephleena:
See this one..come and pick ur 5%ter form.. don't famz,with Buhari.. for he knows u not..He was made president by the north.. did u vote count? No!

U guys,think Buhari will forgive u for betraying in the southwest? hahaha, you are on a long thing .

Once again welcome to the 5% club..

People will think u are in sifia pains the way u are talking. Aunty where is your own pop to complete am

All is WELL!!!

Most people on Nairaland don’t want something good for the country. Once they hear the country is progressing they always have negative replies.
I wonder if they themselves are moving forward in their private lives. All the want is Atiku, lazy citizens that like free money. We must all work for any kobo we earn.
I have never collected anything from any politician or there people and I don’t want to, what I want is development that we benefit us all.

Na only you Dey do birthday or bothe of una abi u are trying to tell the guys sliding into ur pm u are married.

Happy birthday �����

Ooo

That’s good.
Meanwhile.....

Ewwwh
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PDP don yeye no be today

This election is between Buhari, Atiku and others. This is one of the “And other”.
Wait till 2023.

And they say Buhari no go do another 4 years. Some people just hate progress, they are ok with the N5000 dem Dey receive from politicians while their infrastructures remain an eyesore. Na dem Dey support the politicians the Kenyan man was talking about.

raquel97:
that if I even have someone to tel me he wants to bleep and pay. Guys trying to avoid me cos I look so aggressive.

Aggressive When the smile on your profile is killing. In fact I Love it

I was holding a copy of Wole Soyinka’s IBADAN – The Penkelemesi Years. I didn’t notice that the elderly man beside me was looking at the book. Suddenly he nudged me slightly and asked in an unmistakable Ibadan accent: “You know Penkelemesi?” I nodded.

Of course, like most young people who grew up in the Western part of Nigeria, ‘Penkelemesi’ was a familiar word. It was the word attributed to the genius of one man, Adegoke Adelabu. He had described the Western House of Assembly as being in a ‘peculiar mess’.

“But do you know EBULLITION?”
What is EBULLITION? According to my new friend, Ebullition was another word contributed to the English Language by Adegoke Adelabu. Baba went on to inform me that Adelabu even wrote a book on EBULLITION!

That marked the beginning of my quest for the mysterious book. Did I find it?

Adegoke Adelabu! He was an almost mythical figure. He was flamboyant, dashing, sharp, witty, smart and suave. From my researches, Adelabu came before his time. The profundity of his thoughts, the depth of his reasoning, and his mastery of politics was first class.

Adegoke Adelabu was born in 1915 at Oke-Oluokun, Ibadan. His father, Sanusi Ashiyanbi Adelabu, belonged to the extended family of the Oluokun Chieftaincy Ruling House who are direct maternal descendants of the Alaafin Ruling House in Oyo. Pa Sanusi Adelabu was a weaver and a textile merchant. He was one of the first people to put up a 2-storey house in the whole of Ibadan!

Adelabu’s mother, Awujola Ajoke, hailed from the Igbaro/Oparinde/Olokunesin families of Isalejebu and are kinsmen of Abasi Okunola Aleshinloye, the first Olubadan of Ibadan.

He attended the St. David’s CMS Elementary School, Kudeti between 1925 and 1929. In 1930, he moved on to the CMS Central School, Mapo where he completed his primary education. He was admitted to the Government College, Ibadan in 1931 and left the school that produced the likes of Professors Wole Soyinka and Ladipo Akinkugbe with flying colours in 1935.

It was at Government College that the seed of his nationalism as an African was planted. One of the teachers at GCI was a white man whose “easy assumption that England was the hub of the Universe…exasperated and infuriated me. It ignited the glowing ember into a burning flame.”

He later attended Higher College, Yaba for one year in 1936.
Adelabu had a brilliant scholastic career, earning accelerated promotions on three occasions. Adelabu was anything but modest. He knew he was brilliant and he flaunted it. “Despite this (my accelerated promotion), I never took the second position throughout my school days. Instead, I was always several laps ahead of my runner-up and, not infrequently, saved tutors from tight holes.” What an ego!

Mind you, he was a self-admitted showoff. According to him: “Anybody reading me and exclaiming in justifiable wrath, ‘this fellow is an impossible egotist’ will be paying me just the kind of compliment I delight in!”

When his General Manager at UAC, E. H. L. Richardson blurted out in a moment of utter exasperation: “Look here, Adelabu, you are a confounded intellectual snob!” Adelabu’s day was made! He was just 22 at the time!

On leaving school, he worked for about four years with the United African Company Limited. He held managerial appointments in various departments of the company’s extensive undertakings – Produce, General Goods, Singlet Factory and the Welfare Section.

He later left UAC to join the Civil Service in 1938. He worked as an Inspector in the Cooperative Department. In the course of his public service duty, Adelabu toured the Western province and even did a short spell of six-month European relief duty in the British Cameroons.

He resigned from public service after seven years and became a private entrepreneur. He was engaged in produce buying, transport proprietary, cocoa farming, textile merchandising, real estate holding, journalism and political activism.

In 1946, the young politician paid a half-guinea into the NCNC London Delegation Fund. That humble milestone marked the beginning of an auspicious political life.

In 1951, Dr. Nnamdi Azikwe, the legendary Zik of Africa, led NCNC Delegates to Ibadan. Zik needed a formidable interpreter for his Queen’s English. Who else? Adegoke Adelabu confidently stepped onto the podium and with effortless ease, translated the memorable speech into Yoruba, to a standing ovation. Zik nodded with approval!

In 12 months, he steadily climbed from being Assistant General Secretary, Ibadan Branch to General Secretary, Ibadan Grand Alliance; and then General Secretary, Western Working Committee.
With the emergence of Action Group on the political landscape, Adelabu was confronted with a dilemma. He had to decide whether to stay with Zik in NCNC or move with his Ibadan People’s Party to the new party led by its charismatic leader, Obafemi Awolowo.

It was an agonizing time for the young politician. He had many sleepless nights. In his words: “I was torn between two loyalties. The Ibadan People’s Party is dear to my heart. It is the child of my creation. But Nigeria is dearer to my heart. She is my mother. If my child dies and I live long enough I may bear another. If my mother dies, I shall go through life a wandering orphan. My mind was made up.”

On a wet Saturday evening, without warning his family, Adelabu left Ibadan for Lagos. The Lone Star from Ibadan was ready to stand alone! He was in his early 30s.

In Lagos, the mercurial young man made two campaign speeches at Campos and Isalegangan. With his colourful mastery of both Yoruba and English, he captured the imagination of the masses as the ‘Strong Man of Ibadan and the Authentic Voice of the West’.

What followed the 1951 elections had been documented in many other places. A new expression was added to the political vocabulary; ‘Cross Carpeting’. But the principled Adelabu stood firm. He was resolute. He would sail or sink with the Zik of Africa.

Adelabu was a Nigerian to the core. He abhorred tribalism and detested appeal to religious and tribal sentiments. “”My Yoruba birth is an accident. I shall always love the Igbos, the Ibibios, the Hausas, the Ijaws, the Kanuris, the Jukuns, the Nupes, the Bakweris, the Edos… as much as I love the Yorubas, the Eguns, the Ibarapas, the Aworis and all other kinsmen nearer home. I shall never be a party to laying claims to special privileges, exploiting circumstantial advantages or enjoying preferential treatment on the part of my tribe. That will be unfair, unjust, immoral and in the end suicidal and prejudicial.”

Notwithstanding his devotion to his Islamic faith, Adelabu was not a religious bigot. “Any sentimental appeal to my Oduduwan ancestry or subtle attempt to exploit my religious susceptibilities is doomed to failure. Christians, heathens and atheists will always have my political confidence, respect and support.”
Penkelemesi was a committed democrat.

When Action Group emerged and his party men cross-carpeted, Adelabu was not concerned about the loss of his political base or grassroot supports. To him, democracy without a thriving opposition was a mere farce. He, therefore, considered the emergence of the Action Group as “a happy augury for the democratic way of life in post-freedom Nigeria. I have seen so much of human nature in practical life that I would not confer the interminable control of the State Apparatus on any one man or group however brilliant or well-meaning.”

One thing I found intriguing about the personality of Adegoke Adelabu is his ability to forensically analyse issues from sociological, political and historical perspectives. Behind the façade of his flamboyance, Adegoke Adelabu was a thinker and a philosopher.
To Adelabu, an individual is a product of his society and his time. An Igbo baby adopted at birth by a couple from Kano would grow up as a Muslim Hausa man. This baby if adopted by a couple from Ile-Ife would probably grow up as either as a Yoruba Muslim or Christian. He, therefore, regarded appeal to tribe, religion, colour of skin as not being convincing enough.

He illustrated this dynamism with the following vivid imagery: “Politically, as a West African in 1952, I am a radical socialist and a fanatical nationalist. This means that in other circumstances, I could have been other things. If I were an Englishman, I would be a Conservative. If French, a De Gaullist. If Russian, a Communist. If Indian, on the left wing of the Congress. If German, a Nazi. If an American, an incurable capitalist, and if South African, a racial bigot.” What a deep man! And he was just 37!

Oh! By the way, I found the book. Its title is AFRICA IN EBULLITION - a Handbook of Freedom for Nigerian Nationalists. Contrary to what my old friend told me, ebullition was not another word formed by the redoubtable Adelabu. It was first used in 16th century. It is derived from the Latin word ‘ebullire’, meaning to boil. What Penkelemesi did was to adopt the word and used it to describe the momentum of Nigerian nationalism which was boiling like a cauldron in 1950s.

You know PENKELEMESI! And now you know EBULLITION!

http://www.because.tv/features/you-know-penkelemesi-but-do-you-know-ebullition


Cc: Mynd44
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hfg

These politicians self.

Meanwhile....

BUHARI IN 3 YEARS!- Abdulmalik Baba Hassan.

https://theexplicitnews./2018/10/22/buhari-in-3-years-by-abdulmalik-baba-hassan/

Monday 22nd October, 2018

Three years ago Buhari didn't use 25 years old pension to campaign but today he is paying them in folds...

Three years ago Buhari didn't use railway construction to campaign but today he is constructing them

Three years ago Buhari didn't use Building of affordable houses for citizens to campaign but today he is building them houses

Three years ago Buhari didn't use bailing out states to campaign but today he is bailing states out

Three years ago Buhari didn't tell us he will work on Mambilla Power Plant but today he is working on it

Three years ago Buhari didn't use Niger Bridge to Campaign But today he is constructing it

Three years ago Buhari didn't tell us he won't interfere with the affairs of the senate and judiciary but today their affairs is none of his business

Three years ago Buhari didn't use rice revolution to campaign but today he has made us to believe in our 'Oh God Rice'

Three years ago Buhari didn't use devolution of power to his vice to campaign but today he has shown the world how useful a vice could be

Three years ago Buhari didn't use the implementation of TSA to campaign but today he has implemented it

Three years ago Buhari didn't use Yuan swap deal to campaign but today he has eased the stress of Nigerians doing business in china

Three years ago Buhari didn't campaign that he will chase 50 000 ghost workers away but today he is saving billions of naira for chasing ghost workers outta system

Three years ago Buhari didn't campaign with Npower, TraderMoni, Primary school feeding, Loan without interest, conditional cash transfer and so but today he is so magnanimous to the masses

You see failure of his promises in three years but I see successes in his three years in office.

Mrchippychappy:
No be Ya.riba man na Aboki man

show me the aboki u see wey dey chop pepper

ChiefAzubuike:
Na for this kind place you go see Yoruba people. Fight wey no involve blood. If na fight wey involve blood dem go run forget their pikin behind.

Come say this rubbish in Mobile, Iwo road, Ibadan.

DkJay:
Nice story. One of the few stories on nairaland that doesn't follow the stereotypical kinda plots.

For those criticizing his writing style, you know nada about writing so keep mum.

His approach to the narrative is as unique as they come.

Personally, I like the engaging way with which he tells his story. He makes you feel like you've been a part of it, like you can relate. He makes it easy to create images in the mind's eye, to see what he's talking about like you were there.

The pictures are a nice touch too.

Ride on, bro.

God bless you for this comment. What lots of people look at is your grammatical errors and these set of people are yet to do something meaningful with their lives

I have been waiting to hear what ffk will say and I'm surprised this is what the fool has to say after posting it months ago that KANU is on a warship.
That post is enough to put a country in crises. He knows Kanu has thousands of followers and he posted that rubbish.

Now see what he posted, no apologies or anything and some people will still call him their Hero. They will come online even nairaland to hail him. Educated people o or will I call them educated illiterates.
No be only book man must learn for school.

mamawin:
Since when? Not again oo

wow

mamawin:
Since when? Not again oo

wow

escodotman:
Elections are around the corner. If this report is true, then the NBS has totally lost it. The same NBS that was shamefully publishing that inflation rate was going for 11 consecutive months, whereas prices of commodities are still the same or even rising in the market. Interestingly, Kogi, that hasn't paid salaries for over 2 years is not the purpoted list, Osun that has been paying half salary is absent on the list! Meanwhile, virtually all the states listed are PDP states!! Buhari wouldn't mind destroying all institutions for propaganda and election.

Bros I don't know about other states but you can live fine with a salary of 15k in Osun. while I was schooling there in ede, I can cook soup of N300

Donald3d:
Kpele

bros it is Pele no kpele....you are welcome

She is not even happy they remember say she dey exist.

What pained her pass is the aunty at the balcony that called her upcoming CELEB

abeg who is the make up artist

Wetin some guys do during NYSC ehn, if govt know dem go stop am

Teacher with Corper self dey fight over student

I watched that Keita match live and i'm sure na enemies from his father's and mother's house do collabo for his matter

The Yakubu own before e reach where he miss fire, NEPA took the light

But Ighalo or wetin be his name, i trekked miles to watch ur mactch cos there was traffic, i even leave office early that day and this guy just decided to to to.....well i have forgiven you sha.
Go and Sin no More

WHat does she have abeg, what is she ready to sacrifice apart from brainless head and yansh......well omo see yansh