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Saifullah01:
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"

why do THEY hate us?

Just look at d people d British handed d helm of affairs to

owobokiri:
The Prime Minister sounded very intelligent tho..

Sir the quality of education then was topnotch. Their comprehensive ability and spoken English was without flaws during that era.
Unfortunately the system is so corrupted now

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

Kaduna nzogu. The grt betrayal of the north.

Saifullah01:
Abeg how do you "dislike" a comment?

Like the comment first....then click "unlike"

owobokiri:
The Prime Minister sounded very intelligent tho..

He actually is. Most of them back then we're sound!

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

your Lord Ojukwu smoked on press too. Stop all this nonsense!

[quote author=heniford2 post=103514563]All of them have nothing upstairs [/quot grt leaders from the north but their life was cut short by those haters from the south east

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

body composition differs.. Una no dey hear word

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

He deserved.

Its nothing ...

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

That is how most Nigerians would have been speaking, had the British held on a little longer.

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

He deserved.
Beneath the fluency lays a demon. He was a demon.

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

1.Back then it was a lot harder to get into university
When even around 1958 less than 10% of British youngsters were in university self.
So a lot of our intelligent people ended up in professions that we may consider beneath them nowadays

2. A lot of intelligent people in those days chose teaching as a profession or were made teachers after they graduated largely because the teacher numbers were still low. Balewa was one of those people.

Now intelligent folks are pushed into university.

Am not surprised

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Unlike the Fulani in power now

owobokiri:
The Prime Minister sounded very intelligent tho..

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. @ OP , thank you for sharing this.

God bless you for this unbiased truth. God bless our country!!

owobokiri:
The Prime Minister sounded very intelligent tho..

That was Tafawa Balewa I’m sure.

heniford2:
All of them have nothing upstairs

what do you have upstairs

Make sense. D normal life iz borin

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

No, this prime minister (Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa) was intelligent.

Saifullah01:
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"

Saifu just leave that guy alone. He is a biased and sentimental lad!

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

Too sad the 5 naira note is becoming fast useless

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

what part of Islam dont u understand...haram is for the poor...female education.. female driving...drinking...smoking...womanising...if u are poor and do these things Allah will nerver forgive u and u will go to hell..it was reserved for only d rich

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

Their were thousands other Shagaris that couldn't reach their 90s due to smoking. It depends on body tolerance, if it's good for your body then continue.

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

Smoking publicly was a very common habit back then and it was not limited to abokis

I recall watching a replay of one interview with a young British actress aired in 1969 . The lady was smoking throughout the interview

Also saw a documentary on a famous American broadcaster which had footage from an interview he gave late in his life ( he died in the 1960s) where he smoked visibly throughout the interview.

Smoking was a lot common back then. Probably Shagari"s colleagues did not notice it because they were used to it, and because most of then were chronic smokers themselves.

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

Wetin bring religion for all these now.

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