FreeStuffsNG:

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.

heniford2:
All of them have nothing upstairs

FreeStuffsNG:
[s]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. [/s]

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

BassReeves:
No one has doubted the intellects, brilliances, swaggers, self confidence et cetera of the Awolowos, Azikwes, Macaulays, Aminu Kanos et al, but the fact is, Sir Tafawa Balewa, just like Shagari, not slighting them or their vocation, were both school teachers before their foraging into politics

Smh. You must be trying to be mischievous bringing Sowore into this.
Bet you dont know that Sowore used to lecture on Modern African History at the City University of New York, as well as Post-Colonial African History at the School of Art, New York.

Now please tell what really is Wakar Nijeriya about then? What language is it written in? Who are the targeted audience? KMFT.

owobokiri:
The Prime Minister sounded very intelligent tho..

owobokiri:
The Prime Minister sounded very intelligent tho..

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

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

EmptyGarden:
Chai! Aboki na Aboki!
Funny how no one seem to care.

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

naptu2:
I used to stay up late at night to watch his speeches on New Year's Eve. Years later, someone that worked at the NTA told me that they used to take smoking breaks when they were recording the speeches, so that the president could smoke.

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 FOR ME, Nigeria cannot get better FOR ME. Our sins and the atrocities we have allowed are too great

heniford2:
All of them have nothing upstairs

phemmyfour:
His diction is superb for a typical Mallam.

The one and only Nigeria prime minister eliminated in the igbo coup

omenka:
Says someone whose beings has been submerged in unbridled HATE.

Churchill used to light up his cigars in the face of pressmen, presidents, congress, etc. It was a normal back in the day, it has nothing to do with the identity of the smoke.

FreeStuffsNG:
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.

BizzBizz:
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

EmptyGarden:

So Churchill has become the standard for what is right and morally acceptable? You sound like a chimney yourself.

RiceProducers:


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

owobokiri:
The Prime Minister sounded very intelligent tho..