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A viral throwback video shows the moment Former Nigeria's President, Sir Shehu Shagari Lights up a cigarette while Nigeria's first and only Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is addressing an audience


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpX2f4qBszc

Lol

Chai! Aboki na Aboki!
Funny how no one seemed to care.

The Prime Minister sounded very intelligent tho..

This man was worth being PM. He didn't deserve to be killed.

All of them have nothing upstairs

Shagari lived till his 90s yet some people will come and say cigarettes killed Davidos PA

owobokiri:
The Prime Minister sounded very intelligent tho..

Not necessarily intelligent. Good diction. Good basic and secondary education. English secondary school teachers

This country was never headed anywhere

heniford2:
All of them have nothing upstairs

Abeg how do you "dislike" a comment?

Is cigarettes not supposed to be Haram to Muslims?


Is it not morally unrighteous as an habit?


Is it not primarily a western culture?

Does it not harm the health of a smoker?


So why do Muslims feel cool with cigarettes but condenm alcohol

Mikecold:
Is cigarettes not supposed to be Haram to Muslims

Nope

Alcohol instead!

As at then, public smoking is normal and permitted. In fact, the most popular ads on Tv and Radio then were by Tobacco companies. You will hear on radio ads like "Cigar Target o!Na wa!".
But a lot has changed now so much that even cigarette packs now carry warnings that you are liable to die from smoking. Late President Shehu Shagari at that age, is not different from most of his age mates then ,he was probably in his late 20s or early 30s in the video and he's still looking charismatic. So it's not a big issue.

The late Prime Minister's clearly brilliant and knowledgeable about the subject he is talking on as this was a big issue then to discuss because of the civil rights movement in the US , so here he's throwing Nigeria's big national pride and international clout against racism considered then such sensitive international debate. Wow!! No one will believe he is the leader of a country that was barely 5 years old with such aura and authority of power & influence he was oozing ; he went as far as stating categorically what he told the US political leaders while in Washington against racism. His diction and command of English is topnotch and his trademark baritone voice is so Presidential and reminds me of the voice of late Dr. Martin Luther King.

Up till now, I still wonder why this man and others like Chief SL Akintola and Premier Sardauna Alhaji Ahmadu Bello had to be assassinated. Unlike their peers in other regions who lived long enough to reproduce more of their followers, these two Leaders of Northern extraction were killed in their prime and did not live to do that for the North and till date, sets the North back so much that they are yet to recover. May we never experience such calamitous national loss again. God bless Nigeria. Our heroes past shall not be in vain. @ OP , thank you for sharing this.

RiceProducers:
Not necessarily intelligent. Good diction. Good basic and secondary education. English secondary school teachers

Actually he does. It takes Intelligence, confidence and deep understanding to deconstruct "established" realities especially considering that period of time and the fact that they were just coming out of colonialism.

On a lighter note it seems the confidence in Nigerians (and for which most Africans hate us) is "factory fitted"

Is that not Akintola the betrayer siting on the right side of the prime minister

FreeStuffsNG:
[s]As at then, public smoking is normal. In fact, the most popular ads on Tv and Radio then were by Tobacco companies. You will hear on radio ads like "Cigar Target o!Na wa!".
But a lot has changed now so much that even cigarette packs now carry warnings that you are liable to die from smoking. Late President Shehu Shagari at that age, is not different from most of his age mates then ,he was probably in his late 20s or early 30s in the video and he's still looking charismatic. So it's not a big issue.

The late Sardauna's clearly brilliant and knowledgeable about the subject he is talking on as this was a big issue then to discuss because of the civil rights movement in the US , so he's throwing Nigeria's big national pride here on such sensitive international debate. His diction and command of English is topnotch and his trademark baritone voice is so Presidential and reminds me of the voice of late Dr. Martin Luther King.
I still wonder why this man and others like Chief SL Akintola and Premier Althaji Ahmadu Bello had to be assassinated. Unlike their peers in other regions who lived long enough to reproduce more of their followers, these leaders did not live to do that for the North and till date, sets the North back so much that they are yet to recover. May we never experience such national loss again. God bless Nigeria.[/s]

talking dumb trash as usual.

always trying to raise ethnic division!

Mikecold:
Is cigarettes not supposed to be Haram to Muslims?


Is it not morally unrighteous as an habit?

Is it not an intoxicant that changes ones behavioral pattern?

Is it not mostly a western culture?

Does it not harm the health of a smoker?


So why do Muslims feel cool with cigarettes but condenm alcohol

Oga Christians smoke too

What on earth made those boys kill this man ?

FreeStuffsNG:
As at then, public smoking is normal. In fact, the most popular ads on Tv and Radio then were by Tobacco companies. You will hear on radio ads like "Cigar Target o!Na wa!".
But a lot has changed now so much that even cigarette packs now carry warnings that you are liable to die from smoking. Late President Shehu Shagari at that age, is not different from most of his age mates then ,he was probably in his late 20s or early 30s in the video and he's still looking charismatic. So it's not a big issue.

The late Sardauna's clearly brilliant and knowledgeable about the subject he is talking on as this was a big issue then to discuss because of the civil rights movement in the US , so he's throwing Nigeria's big national pride here on such sensitive international debate. His diction and command of English is topnotch and his trademark baritone voice is so Presidential and reminds me of the voice of late Dr. Martin Luther King.

Up till now, I still wonder why this man and others like Chief SL Akintola and Premier Alhaji Ahmadu Bello had to be assassinated. Unlike their peers in other regions who lived long enough to reproduce more of their followers, these two Leaders of Northern extraction were killed in their prime and did not live to do that for the North and till date, sets the North back so much that they are yet to recover. May we never experience such national loss again. God bless Nigeria.

Was this guy the sarduarna?

amuwo1980:
Was this guy the sarduarna?

No. He is Prime Minister Tafawa Bello. He is the one speaking. It's fixed now. A typo, pardon me.

Shagari and Shehu Yar'adua... Chain smokers!

Tafawa Balewa sounds intelligent...

Hausa too like siga

He sounded intelligent, coherent, and exercised great mental and emotional understanding of the discuss at hand.

Sad the good ones had to be assassinated, leaving us with dumb looters.

FreeStuffsNG:
As at then, public smoking is normal and permitted. In fact, the most popular ads on Tv and Radio then were by Tobacco companies. You will hear on radio ads like "Cigar Target o!Na wa!".
But a lot has changed now so much that even cigarette packs now carry warnings that you are liable to die from smoking. Late President Shehu Shagari at that age, is not different from most of his age mates then ,he was probably in his late 20s or early 30s in the video and he's still looking charismatic. So it's not a big issue.

The late Prime Minister's clearly brilliant and knowledgeable about the subject he is talking on as this was a big issue then to discuss because of the civil rights movement in the US , so here he's throwing Nigeria's big national pride and international clout against racism considered then such sensitive international debate. Wow!! No one will believe he is the leader of a country that was barely 5 years old with such aura and authority of power & influence he was oozing ; he went as far as stating categorically what he told the US political leaders while in Washington against racism. His diction and command of English is topnotch and his trademark baritone voice is so Presidential and reminds me of the voice of late Dr. Martin Luther King.

Up till now, I still wonder why this man and others like Chief SL Akintola and Premier Sardauna Alhaji Ahmadu Bello had to be assassinated. Unlike their peers in other regions who lived long enough to reproduce more of their followers, these two Leaders of Northern extraction were killed in their prime and did not live to do that for the North and till date, sets the North back so much that they are yet to recover. May we never experience such calamitous national loss again. God bless Nigeria. Our heroes past shall not be in vain.

... and to think he was a school teacher/headmaster.
No looking down on either school teacher/headmaster or demeaning but it's was what it was

BassReeves:
... and to think he was a school teacher/headmaster.
No looking down on either school teacher/headmaster or demeaning but it's was what it was

They were intellectuals who are well grounded and brilliant, teaching job those days is more prestigious than today and the teaching jobs were taken by smart people like them for strategic reasons.

Imagine these leaders, especially Sardauna, getting our neighbouring countries then as far back early 60s when we were barely a republic o, to agree not to dam the River Niger so we can build ours and these countries, they all signed up to it!. This is a task current day Ethiopia could not achieve with Egypt and Sudan that it's been taken to UN with Egypt threatening grave repercussions if Ethiopia still plans to fill the grand renaissance dam in Ethiopia with water from the blue Nile river.

Below's a textbook authored by late Shehu Shagari but most people don't know that these guys are intellectuals as well . How many teachers those days or present day politicians like Sowore et al write textbooks for students? Yet the same late Shehu Shagari smoking in the video wrote probably more than one educational textbook and published, this one below is a textbook on Geography and History of Nigeria in Verse that was published just after Nigeria's civil war.
https://www.abebooks.com/signed/Wakar-Nijeriya-Shehu-Shagari-Jean-Boyd/30804939786/bd

Our heroes past shall not be in vain. God bless Nigeria.

Buhari was also a chain smoker, same as late Yar'Adua

Wow.

@op thanks for sharing.

It was a delight to hear Tafawa Balewa speak. His dictation, command of english and even the issue he was speaking on in such a year, such a brilliant sound man.

Where did it all go down hill for the North and Nigeria, that we started allowing animals into power

Looking at this I have no doubt that it cannot be well with Nigeria, Nigeria cannot get better. Our sins and the atrocities we have allowed are too great

Harddiskng:
Wow.

@op thanks for sharing.

It was a delight to hear Tafawa Balewa speak. His dictation, command of english and even the issue he was speaking on in such a year, such a brilliant sound man.

Where did it all go down hill for the North and Nigeria, that we started allowing animals into power

Looking at this I have no doubt that it cannot be well with Nigeria, Nigeria cannot get better. Our sins and the atrocities we have allowed are too great

The land, Nigeria, will never bless those who curse it. Don't be surprised when you reap only bad luck from the land because of your curse. That you're even making such a curse around this time of the day has spiritual implications on you too. You don't start your day with a curse, it comes back to you. Everything in life happens for a reason. Mistakes were made and lessons learnt. That explains why every patriot keeps praying for the country. These patriots did not die in vain. Some countries never recovered, from Pakistan to Libya to Afghanistan to India/ Bangladesh and even some European countries that make up the old Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia etc. Nigeria is blessed. God bless Nigeria more.

FarahAideed:
Shagari lived till his 90s yet some people will come and say cigarettes killed Davidos PA

The lifestyles is quite different

They eat good food! No be all these processed foods these days