MadamExcellency:


Because of corruption and mismanagement.

They wanted Obafemi Awolowo instead.

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.

tolguy:
hahahahahah are u smoking cigarette?

Beancounter93:


1.Rare is the picture of Mr Churchill without his cigar

Saifullah01:

Abeg how do you "dislike" a comment?

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

heniford2:
All of them have nothing upstairs

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

aycorporat:

Thanks for bringing this up.
I was actually born in Sokoto and grew up there though a Yoruba boy and I must say I got good knowledge on the life times of Alhaji Shehu Shagari as I often visited his house at Sama road.
I visited Rabah at one time and discovered that the house of the Sardauna has been converted to a Local Government Secretariat. Good old times!
It's a pain that the security and homely feeling then might not be there again due to the incessant insecurities in the north as I left Sokoto over ten years ago.
We need more history on this great men from the northern region and their achievement.

By the way, I discovered that name Jean Boyd is almost on every Hausa publication. Was he a colonialist with good knowledge on the Hausa language?

HenryDion:
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.

TheRealestGuy:


The north never had much senior officers at the time. The military, just like the civil service was dominated by southerners cos of the educational advantage.

You are now suddenly knowledgeable but won't talk about who foiled the coup?

If it was an Igbo coup then there's no way a Yoruba man would have been one of the masterminds, no?

Anyway, the officers involved clearly stated their reasons for the coup but people will always fall for cheap propaganda. Also, are you aware that at least two Igbo army officers were killed in that coup?

Talking about Igbo amaka is meaningless because it is normal for Igbos to be happy that harm befell those who hate and have been killing them for no reasons even pre independence.

All these rigors you're going through so as to justify the 1967 pogrom is the kind of heartlessness that defines the average Nigerian anyway.

It is why we are where we are.

Carlyscales:

Nope

Alcohol instead!

Okoroawusa:

Christians don't condemn what?


Are you sure you are a Christian?

einsteine:


Only one Igbo army officer was killed and it was a mistake as he was never slated to die. No politician from the east was killed. Not one. Were they saints? Meanwhile, almost all senior army officers of northern extraction were wiped out. One was even killed with his wife. A pregnant wife, for that matter.

I am not justifying any pogrom, you are the one trying to justify a needless coup. Even the coup was not a problem. The people were willing to accept the authority of Ironsi. Guess what, he totally mismanaged the situation.

As for cries of Igbo Amaka being meaningless, your reason is quite silly. How did Northern leaders kill them pre-independence? They were killing them while having them work in the northern civil service and use northern slots in the military? They were killing them at a time the North and East were political allies? Or you think it's an accident that many prominent Easterners (Ojukwu, Azikiwe, Cyprian Ekwuensi) were born in the North?

TheRealestGuy:


The north never had much senior officers at the time. The military, just like the civil service was dominated by southerners cos of the educational advantage.

You are now suddenly knowledgeable but won't talk about who foiled the coup?

If it was an Igbo coup then there's no way a Yoruba man would have been one of the masterminds, no?

Anyway, the officers involved clearly stated their reasons for the coup but people will always fall for cheap propaganda. Also, are you aware that at least two Igbo army officers were killed in that coup?

Talking about Igbo amaka is meaningless because it is normal for Igbos to be happy that harm befell those who hate and have been killing them for no reasons even pre independence.

All these rigors you're going through so as to justify the 1967 pogrom is the kind of heartlessness that defines the average Nigerian anyway.

It is why we are where we are.

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

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.

einsteine:


Only one Igbo army officer was killed and it was a mistake as he was never slated to die. No politician from the east was killed. Not one. Were they saints? Meanwhile, almost all senior army officers of northern extraction were wiped out. One was even killed with his wife. A pregnant wife, for that matter.

I am not justifying any pogrom, you are the one trying to justify a needless coup. Even the coup was not a problem. The people were willing to accept the authority of Ironsi. Guess what, he totally mismanaged the situation.

As for cries of Igbo Amaka being meaningless, your reason is quite silly. How did Northern leaders kill them pre-independence? They were killing them while having them work in the northern civil service and use northern slots in the military? They were killing them at a time the North and East were political allies? Or you think it's an accident that many prominent Easterners (Ojukwu, Azikiwe, Cyprian Ekwuensi) were born in the North?

Quitam:

Yes. Jean Boyd must have been proficient with the Hausa language. The most notable white personality in terms of contribution to early Hausa literature was Rupert East. It was he who recruited Abubakar Imam(author of the popular Magani Jari Ce) to translate books in Hausa for school children.

einsteine:


Only one Igbo army officer was killed and it was a mistake as he was never slated to die. No politician from the east was killed. Not one. Were they saints? Meanwhile, almost all senior army officers of northern extraction were wiped out. One was even killed with his wife. A pregnant wife, for that matter.

I am not justifying any pogrom, you are the one trying to justify a needless coup. Even the coup was not a problem. The people were willing to accept the authority of Ironsi. Guess what, he totally mismanaged the situation.

As for cries of Igbo Amaka being meaningless, your reason is quite silly. How did Northern leaders kill them pre-independence? They were killing them while having them work in the northern civil service and use northern slots in the military? They were killing them at a time the North and East were political allies? Or you think it's an accident that many prominent Easterners (Ojukwu, Azikiwe, Cyprian Ekwuensi) were born in the North?

TheRealestGuy:


You are funny and it's obvious you have something against Igbos and it's fine tbh.

Just own it with your chest and stop trying to be politically correct

I guess the 1953 Kano Riots was a joke to you?

Btw terming an unfortunate military interference in 1966 as an Igbo coup tells me all I need to know about you.

And saying I'm trying to justify the coup is baseless. Justify it how? That I insist, and rightfully, that it is not an Igbo coup is justification of the coup?

There is no logic or inference from our discuss so far that points to such a far-flung conclusion.

As I said earlier, the coup plotters clearly explained why they struck in their historical accounts yet you're here shilling same propaganda that culminated in the pogrom of 1967.

You can repeat that it was an Igbo coup a million times but the facts and historical accounts are there to prove you wrong.

It would do you well to be more objective and clearheaded when thinking cos it's thought processes like yours that brought Buhari into power.

Learn to distill facts and see things for what they factually are. Learn to think for yourself young man.

Bye.

heniford2:
All of them have nothing upstairs

amuwo1980:
What on earth made those boys kill this man ?

Soso990240:
Oga, Christians don't condemn alcohol, they condemn too much of it(drunk). Christians don't condemn smoking, they condemn too much of it. Don't quote if you don't know anything about Christians.

Femmyfestus:

Sometimes i think about that too.
60% of muslim in abuja smokes like crazy. Sometimes I ask myself why they don't drink but smoke.

Beancounter93:
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

Beancounter93:
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

traihit:
He wasn't just a school headmaster. If I'm not mistaken, he studied at Cambridge or UCL. That was when studying in the UK had meaning.

traihit:
... He, Awolowo, Zik, Akintola, Ojukwu etc all had topnotch education.

owobokiri:
The Prime Minister sounded very intelligent tho..