₦airaland Forum

stonemasonn:
Gowon the supreme commander (still alive) is left to scale free but of course Awolowo gets the whole blame for ensuring victory.

Anyways next time plan better before going into war (Biafra) because there are many Awolowos to burst your war bubbles.

Michael004:
[s][/s]Stop lying, nobody fall to that trap again. All these victim cry can't help you. You hates yorubas and they hate you back. It is called to for tat.

EmekaMD:
Blah blah.

Lemme tell me you, Igbos does not and has never hated on the Yorubas.
It's the Yorubas has been hating the Igbos (the Awolowo hunger and indigenization policies come to mind). The phone conversation between Govs Shetima of Borno state and kunle of Ogun state (against the Igbos)
The comment Madam Kemi (finance minister) made on her Twitter handle about the Igbos being relegated on the financial sector of Nigeria.
The Oba Okiolu Lagoon comments. And many more..

I personally would love to see a sincere political collabo between the Igbos and the Yorubas because we do not see them as enemies. We see them as people whom we share common enemies with.

But they keep betraying us. They keep hating us..

They have never deemed it fit to apologise for the many defenceless Igbo children Awo killed with his hunger policy.

They thought it didn't matter to us that Awo conspired with the North and stole from us our monies in Nigerian Banks before the war and giving us only 20 pounds no matter how many millions u had there before..

They thought we shouldn't be agrived that Awo conspired with the North to deny the Igbos of their legitimate right to partake in the Indigenization policy that made Yorubas own many Nigerian industries today..

The truth is that we have legitimate reasons to be angry with the Yorubas but we chose not to be. We forgave them even without any apologies from them. But they haven't loved us back yet..

I love the Yorubas personally but I doubt if I can trust them political an otherwise..

sarrki:
Where is madridguy, next prince,omenka,jetlee and wristbangle sef

MasterKim:
now I knw u easterners re dumb. U dnt want him to go against u as a smart man but u want to destroy his fathers land while he sits and look at u ravaging it.

EmekaMD:
yes you're right..
Next time we'd make sure Yorubas are drawn in to war and attacked extensively.. we'll make sure Yoruba land becomes a battle ground also..

We'll make sure the "Awolowo" is cut and sliced into pieces before he actualizes his wicked plan on us..

We'll make sure they didn't cause a war and chicken out like a coward only to be giving satanic advises that's against an international treaty even in wars

EmekaMD:
you're the dumbest dude.. do u know that wars have rules of engagement?

Wars aside. Was the Indigenization policy done after the war or during the war?
Answer these questions if you still have some neurons left up there..

taoheedoriloye:
don't you know epl is on live now.

EmekaMD:
you're the dumbest dude.. do u know that wars have rules of engagement?

Wars aside. Was the Indigenization policy done after the war or during the war?
Answer these questions if you still have some neurons left up there..

EmekaMD:
they hate us agreed (which is my point here though), but we have no time for hates. We're more focused on hard work and other things more profitable (like coming first in waec, becoming the most successful people, making progress in all sectors despite ur hate and the hurdles u throw in our routes).
We still love u anyway. I love u especially.. maybe not u but my good Yoruba people.

Omofunaab2:
Oloriburuku, Omo Ale omo yeeboe, I bet you don't know who Tai Solarin is or that wole soyinka went to prison for supporting Biafra

gberra:
You child of a flesh eater.
You're such a dumb kid never to have heard of the exploits of Tai Solarin. Rather than a sense of history, seeds of hate & bitterness was sown in y'all.

Spit on Osu skull.

AbelDjassi:
[s][/s]

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is ~ Winston Churchill



Source: http://taisolarin..com/2013/10/the-good-that-sheila-solarin-did-lives_21.html


Image source: http://dailyglobewatch.eu, http://www.peoplesdailyng.com/delta-monarch-warns-ipob-against-infiltrating-domain/

woodcook:
Afonja the "rewriter" of history has come again.

Video testimonies or it never happened!

Customer80:
can you lot mention the names of tai solarin's benefactors

EmekaMD:
Blah blah.

Lemme tell me you, Igbos does not and has never hated on the Yorubas.
It's the Yorubas has been hating the Igbos (the Awolowo hunger and indigenization policies come to mind). The phone conversation between Govs Shetima of Borno state and kunle of Ogun state (against the Igbos)
The comment Madam Kemi (finance minister) made on her Twitter handle about the Igbos being relegated on the financial sector of Nigeria.
The Oba Okiolu Lagoon comments. And many more..

I personally would love to see a sincere political collabo between the Igbos and the Yorubas because we do not see them as enemies. We see them as people whom we share common enemies with.

But they keep betraying us. They keep hating us..

They have never deemed it fit to apologise for the many defenceless Igbo children Awo killed with his hunger policy.

They thought it didn't matter to us that Awo conspired with the North and stole from us our monies in Nigerian Banks before the war and giving us only 20 pounds no matter how many millions u had there before..

They thought we shouldn't be agrived that Awo conspired with the North to deny the Igbos of their legitimate right to partake in the Indigenization policy that made Yorubas own many Nigerian industries today..

The truth is that we have legitimate reasons to be angry with the Yorubas but we chose not to be. We forgave them even without any apologies from them. But they haven't loved us back yet..

I love the Yorubas personally but I doubt if I can trust them political an otherwise..

mightyhazell:
good question,..




Cos I can also get up one day and claim my great uncles were present in the ilorin invasion and actually saved a whole yoruba village from total anihilation by marauding fulanis.

DaniDani:
Interesting article I must say. I got cracked up when I read "Finally, he prayed to God to abstain from his next
Mathematics exam. He said he practised with
several past question papers and he passed without
God’s involvement. Since then, he regularly prayed
to God to remove His hand from whatever he
wanted to do, and most of the time, he said he
recorded success".

Anyway, I am an Igbo man, and sincerely, I don't like the beef between Igbos and Yorubas. The two regions are the pillars of this country. In Education, Sports, entertainment, economy etc. We ought to be in harmony and use our high IQs to cooperate and prosper.

MasterKim:
Awolowo only saved the country from unnecessary spendings.
He showed the North and the east that war isn't always won by the strongest but the most intelligent

sarrki:
We have seen ipobs that have made billions from our great country calling it zoo

sarrki:
Dr Wale Omole
Twenty-three years after his demise, friends and admirers of the late educationist and critic, Dr Tai Solarin, still speak about him glowingly. One of his staunch apostles and former student, Dr Wale Omole, tells part of the untold story of the life of the activist, in this interview by KUNLE ODEREMI.





WHAT is so remarkable about the life of Dr Tai Solarin, who died 23 years ago?

Tai Solarin lived and died for the Nigerian child, the poor, the uninformed and the downtrodden as a whole. His life was remarkable in words, actions and deeds.He gave Mayflower School to Nigeria with education for self-reliance. The school has produced more scientists in various disciplines than most of its contemporaries as there has been no second Mayflower since 1956. He educated several Biafrans, South Africans and Liberians free in their days of crises without discrimination. During the Biafran Civil War, Dr Solarin went on a hunger strike for weeks to protest against the malnourished children of Biafra, who were dying in their thousands. He starved himself so much that he looked like one of those children. He went to the East several times with lorry loads of food. He took some children out of the war front to educate them from primary school till they became university graduates. Many of them are professionals. Today, these people are blessings to Nigeria. He gave scholarships to indigent but brilliant students.

He wore his battle dress of khaki shirt and a pair of shorts till death and he was buried in his battle dress.

He fought a lost battle on free education for all Nigerian children. Who is fighting for them now? No one. As the Acting Principal of Molusi College Ijebu Igbo in 1955 he promoted himself to the post of full Principal and the Ministry of Education, Western Region approved it. He was the only Nigerian leader who had the gut to resign as a commissioner after being found guilty of driving a car without carrying his licence with him. He resigned his appointment in order to remain honourable. He also resigned his appointment as the Peoples Bank Chairman because of uncontrollable corruption. Only few Nigerians could resign from these exalted offices.

Today, dead bodies litter our streets. In his days, he was the only one picking corpses from the streets to avoid epidemics. No one is being arrested today for drinking or being in possession of locally produced gin called ogogoro. He had to surrender himself to police for arrest and prosecution to prove a point. Today, it is legal to produce or drink ogogoro.

Tai Solarin would also be remembered for his literary work. He maintained columns in Nigerian Tribune and Daily Times for well over 40 years. His work on agriculture, if copied, maintained and sustained by other leaders, would have, by now, bailed Nigerians completely out of hunger. Today, how many social critics have the guts to challenge the civilian government when they misrule? In his days, he challenged the most treacherous military juntas and spit fire to their faces while waiting for the consequences. He was courageous, dogged and rugged. He was arrested and locked up in prisons several times not for crimes but for saying his mind.



What would you consider as the major the missing link in the nation’s education sector today, with the hindsight of the ideas and ideals he propagated on education?

Honest Nigerians know that the quality of education in Nigeria has grossly declined when compared with what we had in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s Nigeria had one of the best educational systems in the world. Foreign students were found in our universities like Ibadan, Lagos, Ife (OAU), Benin and Zaria. Only those candidates, who were not qualified for university admission into Nigerian universities were the ones going to foreign universities. Certificates from Nigerian universities then were highly respected. The were gold! Today, our certificates do not qualify for the worth of bronze. Tai Solarin’s preaching on education for self-reliance; education to use hand and brain, education for all, free education for all Nigerian youths at all levels, government grants and scholarships for indigent students in higher institutions, educating parents to bear fewer number of children, and so on, are completely lost. What is the nation’s budgetary vote on education now? Who cares whether or not a Nigerian child goes to school or hawks groundnuts on the streets? Who is going to wear his battle dress to protest that there must be free education at all levels? Who is going to fight the corruption in the education sector and other areas? For a long time to come, Tai Solarin’s crusade on education will be missed.



He wrote the article, The beginning of the end in 1974. Given the subject matter, corruption among public officials, he sounded like a Prophet. What could have been his response now that corruption has almost destroyed the fabrics of Nigeria?

Blaming the present-day corrupt officers without blaming their ‘fathers’ is partiality. The corrupt officers are practising what they inherited. Unless something is done today, the level of corruption tomorrow would be worse. The aim of every Nigerian is to be rich. Unfortunately many people do not believe that they can be rich without being corrupt. In July, 1974, exactly 20years before he died, (he died on July 27 1994), Tai Solarin wrote the article. He believed that the level of corruption in the government then was enormous to crash the country into pieces. The article was prompted by the action of the military regime that it would no longer hand over power to the civilians. That nation infuriated Tai Solarin and other honest Nigerians. They alleged that the military regime was very corrupt. But when events started to unfold after the change of guard, he realised that in comparison, the then administration was more angelic than Satanic they all thought it was. Then he wrote another article The Beginning of the Beginning, meaning that the worst corruption was just beginning. He predicted the current level of corruption in the country. This is what Nigeria is facing today as corruption is now a way of life in Nigeria. Youths see it as normal and they are already warming up for their turn. The whole world acknowledges this fact. In all his years till death, Tai Solarin’s blood pressure never rose above normal. I am sure if he were to be alive today, Solarin would be nursing high blood pressure for the present level of corruption in the country. The quest for money coupled with insatiable wealth is bedeviling the nation. If corruption has to stop in Nigeria, the first place to start the battle is in the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.



As one of those that were very close to him and his family, why do you think Dr Tai Solarin chose to be an atheist?

Dr Tai Solarin was born into a good Christian home. He attended Christian schools in Iperu, Ilesa and Ibadan. He lived with his uncle, an Anglican priest, Rev A.S. Solarin, who also trained him. He was trained and partially sponsored by Rev W.F. Mellor, an English missionary, who lived, died and was buried in Sagamu, Nigeria. Tai Solarin was a regular church goer. In fact he was a worker in the church. He studied the Bible. He did some Bible courses and became a qualified Lay Reader. He read the Holy Bible from Genesis to Revelation several times. He knew and quoted the Bible passages. He was prayerful. He loved Christian hymns. He was always happy singing Christmas carol with his students in December. I think his atheism began when he started to read books on other religions like Judaism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Grail messages, and so on, and especially when he thought that his prayers were not being answered. He admired natural forces as they control things. He studied books written by great authors on religions. He visited all the continents of the world. He was versatile. He offered prayers for certain things and he believed the prayers were not answered and came to a conclusion that there was no God. But he believed in nature. He noted that there were some forces controlling certain things. He appreciated the chronological sequences of things. He studied animal and plant behaviours. He studied how a grain of corn germinates and gradually grows to fruition. He studied behaviors of termites, bees and ants and gave kudos to the nature for the organized lives these insects live.

When asked if that nature was God, he said people always give different names to nature depending on where they are born in the world. He said all religions are based also on faith; not on what we see or experience alone, but on what we hear, see, experience and believe. He compared the level of development in irreligious nations with religious nations and arrived at the conclusion that many of the irreligious nations were even doing better. He prayed to God to make him pass his Mathematics examination several times but he failed each time. Finally, he prayed to God to abstain from his next Mathematics exam. He said he practised with several past question papers and he passed without God’s involvement. Since then, he regularly prayed to God to remove His hand from whatever he wanted to do, and most of the time, he said he recorded success. All these experiences culminated into his atheism and declaration that “there is no God.” He said in practice, there are many atheists, who go to church not because they are convinced that there is God but to avoid alienation by the people.



http://tribuneonlineng.com/solarin-picked-igbo-kids-warfront-trained-omole/

Smoothie01:
Imagine a case of giving 10 coins to Mr. A, while indirectly getting a hundred coins out of him.

While you yapped about how generous you were with ur 10coins, Mr A soon realises you just made him 90coins poorer. He starts to despise you and ur only defense is ur 10coins generosity

And to the topic, RIP to you Sir Tai Solarin , continue to rest peace

Obdk:
[s]Cocck and bull story designed by afonjas to deceive unsuspecting readers and meant to rewrite history and portray afonjas in good light...

Imagine d ignorant writer had d guts to say he took truck loads. How did he do dat. Something red cross and caritas couldn't do..

D ignorant mofo forgot about d food blockade initiate by rat poison legend finance minister....




Shame on afonja history revisionists[/s]...

gberra:
Go ask your great grandfathers at the corner of the nearest part of the plane. They would recount the selfless efforts & sheer sacrifices of Dr.Tai during the war.
It was a fact that Ojukwu diverted to himself truckloads of food & relief materials meant for the dying civilians... dumbo.

Chemcrown:
... And he (AWOLOWO) never suggested restriction of food distribution to the civilians but to the soldiers but the savagery soldiers will not allow the food to get to the civilian. Check how the warlord and soldiers are growing fat while the civilian are dying of hunger.

EmekaMD:
yes you're right..
Next time we'd make sure Yorubas are drawn in to war and attacked extensively.. we'll make sure Yoruba land becomes a battle ground also..

We'll make sure the "Awolowo" is cut and sliced into pieces before he actualizes his wicked plan on us..

We'll make sure they didn't cause a war and chicken out like a coward only to be giving satanic advises that's against an international treaty even in wars

EmekaMD:
Blah blah.

Lemme tell me you, Igbos does not and has never hated on the Yorubas.
It's the Yorubas has been hating the Igbos (the Awolowo hunger and indigenization policies come to mind). The phone conversation between Govs Shetima of Borno state and kunle of Ogun state (against the Igbos)
The comment Madam Kemi (finance minister) made on her Twitter handle about the Igbos being relegated on the financial sector of Nigeria.
The Oba Okiolu Lagoon comments. And many more..

I personally would love to see a sincere political collabo between the Igbos and the Yorubas because we do not see them as enemies. We see them as people whom we share common enemies with.

But they keep betraying us. They keep hating us..

They have never deemed it fit to apologise for the many defenceless Igbo children Awo killed with his hunger policy.

They thought it didn't matter to us that Awo conspired with the North and stole from us our monies in Nigerian Banks before the war and giving us only 20 pounds no matter how many millions u had there before..

They thought we shouldn't be agrived that Awo conspired with the North to deny the Igbos of their legitimate right to partake in the Indigenization policy that made Yorubas own many Nigerian industries today..

The truth is that we have legitimate reasons to be angry with the Yorubas but we chose not to be. We forgave them even without any apologies from them. But they haven't loved us back yet..

I love the Yorubas personally but I doubt if I can trust them political an otherwise..