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@warrenweste, OCTAVIO and other great minds in here you guys rock for dedicating this thread to a music icon and legend of our time Aunty Funmilayo Adams I pray we shall come to the final lap of this long search of her whereabouts she is such a songbird of matchless grace and talent especially with her sweet golden voice feeling emotional already with those nostalgic feelings this thread evokes!

Fatoyinbo is still behaving like an ex axeman () to me, he doesn't appear like a True Pastor to me from day one

jurisdiction:
And your answer is?? We ain't taking about MANY but YOU..**winks*

OK then, I am in provided YOU ARE THE ONE ONLY DONT BE SHY!

Now these are the real ballers not Naija Mumu polithiefcians that will siphon the whole lot. Thumbs up Chinese government

It depends on the level of love between us. Live is too deep to be explained away. Yes many will still go ahead with the marriage if true LOVE is involved.

At least Osinbajo is in charge

Its a pity this man still talks when he should cover his face in shame. Its a pity too that Biafra has come to stay and not even 1,000 Obasanjos can stop it.

Pushas:
Why are you this ignorant?

Why can you do a simple fact check before saying what you don't know. All most everyone on the frontpage of this thread is quite ignorant and misinformed. Just because FFK said something then it must be true? Please try and be informed.
Nigeria not being invited to the G-20 is not about the cabal or Buhari health. The G20 is a very strategic meeting hence not just anyone can be invited.
For your info, FFK lied the President of Ivory Coast was not there.
Jacob Zuma was invited for obvious reasons.
President Sally of Senegal was invited because he is the president of the New Partnership for Africa Development (NEPAD)
President of Guinea, Alpha Conde was also invited because he is the current chairperson of the African Union.
The African presidents invited currently hold strategic continental/administrative position in Africa. Not everything is about Buhari's health/cabal/Osibanjo.

I forgive your ignorance and not smelling the coffee as expected. As far as Africa is concerned Nigeria holds the ace and we should be calling the shots. The image this APC government had given thus Country since their inception in 2015 has made us a laughing stock in the comity if Nations hence the more reason little countries in Africa are now relevant above us. Nigeria is currently bleeding as a result of lapses in governance and this is the picture FFK is painting which you clearly missed. Be wiser bro!

This is indeed deep. May God continue to bless the soul of the Saint, Arch Bishop Benson Idahosa for imparting the lives of many souls, rewriting their crooked history and future for brighter ones. I am so happy for the Fayose's family.

kolafolabi:
Stop being childish abeg.. You were once a Minister of Aviation.

You are one of the major reasons the Yoruba Nation is still wallowing in abject poverty and intellectually backward.

Is it not a stark irony that FFK is hated more by his tribesmen and tribes women for no unjustifiable cause this man has been at the forefront confronting the evil in the land, speaking against injustice (almost in the mould of Gani Fawehinmi), daring the dreaded cabal in this funny flip flop government of propaganda right from its inception yet common sense is uncommon in the heads of these miserable haters against this great son of Africa!

It is quite unfortunate that Nigeria as we speak now is held at the jugular by the cabal trying hard to hijack the heart of this government from Osibanjo just because Buhari is incapacitated hence the state of lawlessness we currently found ourselves! As it stands no Nation will take us serious and this has started playing out going by the neglect of Nigeria in the ongoing G-20 Summit going on in Germany!

Respect to you sir, Chief Femi Fani Kayode!

todayboy:
The president should thread with caution he is new in the game he should be very careful, the acting president is trying to prove that he is loyal to Buhari not knowing his boss have lost control of his government.

their three arms of government that can impeach a president the legislature, governors, and state house assembly


The president has zero influence and control of the legislature they can get 2/3 votes in the legislature easily now

for the state house of assembly, the governors control them 100% and osinbanjo is having issues with governors forum by supporting magu who is harassing governors so getting 2/3 votes from the state it's also very easy.

How can osinbanjo survive by fighting the senate, governors and crack among Buhari ministers in Aso rock

off late Tinubu is not talking its seams tinubu his also looking for a replacement for osinbanjo


Yorubas tell osinbanjo to reduce his aggression until he becomes president

You really made lots of sense my brother that only the wise can pick!

Stylishly preparing for the battles ahead with the executives especially going by the sudden reshuffling in order to appease the aggrieved sides.

Ratello:
From all feelers and thorough research done by me I can now declare that in the face of disintegration of this contraption, Nigeria, going by the agitations and protests from different quarters it is obvious Lagos will be declared a "no man's land"!

OGBAKHA EDO
CHIEF SAM IGBE,
IYASE OF EDO KINGDOM
BENIN CITY
NIGERIA
TEL: 803 687 0037


The Origin of Eko (Lagos)



There is a lot of traditional history at both Benin and Lagos ends relating to the origin of what is now Lagos, its ruler and it's connection with Benin. But perhaps to avoid inadequacies and controversy which the academics claim surrounds traditional history, we may like to hear what some modern historians have to say on this subject. Robert S. Smith, in his book of some principal Yoruba owns, especially in and around Oyo, and the westward expansion in the 17th century of Benin Kingdom with it's number of subject towns on or near to the coast, which included Lagos, went on to say this about Lagos in particular:

"It's name reflect it's past to the Yoruba it's Eko, deriving probably from the farm (Oko) of the earliest settlers, though alternatively-or additionally-it may be the Benin word (Eko) for a war-camp...We say Eko is a Benin word that means camp"

After describing the activities of the armies of Benin under Oba Orhogbua, culminating in his arrival at what is now Lagos, Smith went on to add:

"Sometime later the Oba appointed a ruler for Lagos to represent the interest of Benin and to forward tribute there. The man chosen is named in both Lagos and Benin Tradition as Ashipa"

Smith says that by Lagos account this Ashipa was an Isheri Chief, while the Benin account says Ashipa was a grandson of the Oba of Benin. We shall come to this later. Smith was, however, satisfied that Benin had established it's ascendency in Lagos and had founded a dynasty there at some period before 1700.The dyansty's dependence on Benin, Smith found, was emphasized by the appointment of another Chief, the Eletu Odibo, who alone had the right to crown the Oba and who in early times probably maintained close connection with Benin,.(Eletu Odibo is a corruption of the Edo equivalent Olotu Odibo)

"G.T. Stride and C. Ifeka, in their book titled Peoples and empires pf West Africa have this to say on the same subject:

Oba Orhogbua was clearly a strong warrior for he enforced tribute payments from all parts of the empire and in the middle 1550s conquered all the coastal lands up to Lagos where he left a permanent garrison. Tradition in Lagos says that their first Oba, the Eleko of Eko, was a son of the Oba Orhogbua of Benin"

It will be seen, therefore, that even if we were to disregard traditional history there is enough material from modern historians to confirm the fact that what is now Lagos was founded by an Oba of Benin who also gave it it's first ruler. But we really cannot disregard traditional history. In Benin tradition, and we believe the same of Yoruba and other ethnic groups in this country, one way to establish that an event in traditional history did occur is by the type of anecdote or adage that evolves from that event . Thus, for instance, We Edo people say that "Orhogbua gb'Olague,ona y'ukpe abekpen z'umwen rie Edo, meaning that Oba Orhogbua defeated Olague and used sword to bring his salt to Benin, This is in allusion of to the exploits of Oba Orhogbua while in his camp (Eko) from where he over-ran the place known as Mahin with it's ruler whom the Benin People nicknamed Olague. There Orhogbua discovered the common rock salt and brought it to Benin who thereby tasted it for the first time.

Now the name "Ashipa has featured quite prominently (and rightly too) in the history of Lagos. After the Oba Orhogbua returned to Benin from Eko, he appointed a commander or an administrator, who was called Aisikpa to look after the skeleton troop left in the camp(Eko) until he returned again from Benin. He could no longer return having seen the situation at home. The name "Aisikpahienvoborre" which means "people do not desert their home-land. "This is how Aisikpa, whom the Yoruba now call Ashipa, came into the Lagos (Eko) history. Eko is still there as the traditional Benin name for Lagos; Ashipa has been retained as a senior traditional chieftaincy title while his descendants now retain the modern name of Oba of Lagos. The interaction of Edo people with others in distant lands must have inevitably resulted in cultural exchanges.


Excerpts From a Lecture on the Evolution of Traditional
rulership in Nigeria given under the auspices of the University of
Ibadan, Institute of African studies on 11th September,1984 by Omo
N'Oba N'Edo Uku Akpolokpolo Oba Erediauwa.



https://ihuanedo.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-origin-of-eko-lagos

maupe:
We were operating on a parliamentarian system, when this was done. In 1963 we became a republic, and in 1989 we began operating a three tier federal governing system

I thought we started three tier federal governing system under Shagari in 1979. Correct me bro if I am wrong.

From all feelers and thorough research done by me I can now declare that in the face of disintegration of this contraption, Nigeria, going by the agitations and protests from different quarters it is obvious Lagos will be declared a "no man's land"!

modath:
How ya doing?

Hey my own e-wifey itsxbeen long ooo, how u doing dear and howz life with u?

onatisi:
Osinbajo is surrounded, there is nothing he can do but to play and count on the masses support. Politically his support base is weak and that is why you see the tinubu faction of the apc in the south west closing ranks with fayose and other yoruba politicians from pdp and other parties. And they are trying to woo kanu unto their side in order to gain more clout. Saraki controls the senate with iron hands and no senators messes with him. When the real fire works starts ,you will see how osinbajo will invite saraki for dialog

As much as I share your sentiments here I don't see the bolded sentence happening

onatisi:
Lols
Just watch what happens. Politics isnt always 2+2= 4
in politics 2+2 can be equal to 22

I believe you bro but I have a feeling that Saraki is about to kiss the canvas just watch out bro.

Hmmnnn......this is deep! It's a pity those Buhari monkey chanters couldn't smell the coffee. Where is Gbawe and Koboko69 sef?

This is too much from Aregberascal

Now that's some display of balls from Osinbajo I kinda like that. It's time for EFCC to pursue the Saraki's case to a logical conclusion now that Magu is sure!

RIP dearest soul

facelessangel:
The ones you know nah. St. Columbus Amimo. In Ikeduru Imo state now
Amaimo high school 1938

Wao that's good to know

Horrifying moment villagers cut open a giant python and discover their missing friend inside who had been swallowed whole after being crushed to death 
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT

Akbar Salubiro, 25, went missing after setting off to harvest palm oil in Indonesia
Friends found a python in his back garden and feared he had been swallowed 
Local used 18-inch hunting knife to slice open the snake and found Akbar inside
People 'heard cries' night before he was found inside seven-metre long python

By Ekin Karasin For Mailonline

This is the sickening moment a dead man was cut out of a seven-metre long python's stomach after being swallowed whole.

Akbar Salubiro, 25, went missing on Sunday night after setting off to harvest palm oil in a remote village on the island of west Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Concerned friends and relatives found a giant python sprawled out in Akbar's own back garden the next evening - and feared he had been suffocated and swallowed.

Akbar's lifeless body was found inside the serpent after horrified locals sliced open its belly using a 18-inch long hunting knife. 


This is the sickening moment Akbar Salubiro, 25, was cut out from the stomach of a seven-metre long python after being swallowed whole in Indonesia


Concerned friends and relatives found the giant python sprawled out in Akbar's own back garden the next evening - and feared he had been suffocated and swallowed

Horrifying footage shows the corpse being slowly removed from the killer reptile as the leathery skin is peeled away.


Neighbour Satriawan - who knew Akbar - said: 'He was found in the location of the garden.

'Initially Akbar set out from his home to go to harvest palm. After not returning to his home, people looked for him.'

Akbar's wife, Munu, was away at the time and only found out when pictures and video emerged in the news, local media reported.


 Locals gathered round as one man used an 18-inch long hunting knife to slice open the serpent - and found Akbar inside still in tact


Horrifying footage shows the corpse being slowly removed from the killer reptile as the leathery skin is peeled away

Village secretary Salubiro Junaidi said: 'People had heard cries from the palm grove the night before Akbar was found in the snake's stomach.

'When the snake was captured, the boots Akbar was wearing were clearly visible in the stomach of the snake.

'Resident cut open the belly of the snake and Akbar was lifeless.'

Reticulated pythons are boa constrictors that suffocate their victims before swallowing them whole.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4356866/Villagers-man-swallowed-inside-giant-python.html#ixzz4lmP295Rk

Messi is da bomb

ScotsReferendum:
You are the one who don't understand what I wrote


God gave Nigerians enough time to act like human beings towards the Biafrans but they failed. Therefore, God has resolved to resurrect Biafra.


That God is not interested in Restructuring and Presidency

I got your point now almost sharing my sentiments here. Well donr

ScotsReferendum:
It is God that is telling you that it is too late

Most people don't know that the Spirit behind Biafra seeks not Restructuring or Presidency but outright disintegration

You clearly miss the point of this analysis which states that the 3Rs (Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Reintegration) initiated by the Gowon Administration were not fully implemented to calm nerves and prevent future holocaust but were neglected for other frivolous activities within the time frame of the 3Rs implementation which now makes Biafra a case study now.

Ab initio , there was an amalgamation in 1914 that unified a Southern Protectorate to a Northern Protectorate and the end result was a Country called Nigeria. Divide and rule was successful in the Northern Protectorate while unsuccessful in the Southern Protectorate yet the British went ahead with the marriage of inconvenience on these two strangers and make sure they are one by force.

They lived amidst us trying to study the nature of these two strangers and came to a conclusion that when its time to return to Britain, power must be consolidated into the hands of the more subservient stranger of the two and there came the Independence date of October 1st, 1960 power left the British government on paper but not in reality and was transfered to a young man, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (a Northerner) however the seed of tribalism was sown as a result of regionalism system of government that was in vogue then. Three regions were created namely; Western Region headed by a Premier (Chief Obafemi Awolowo); Eastern Region headed by a Premier (Chief Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe) and Sir Ahmadu Bello, Premier of the Northern region.

There was joy all around because of the joy of a new Nation birthed in freedom. Unfortunately the joy of Nationhood turned out to be a curse as ethnic violence, political motivated arsons and wanton killings as a result of a rigged electoral process. The resultant effects brought in the khaki boys (then Nigerian Army) that were hitherto relegated to the barracks by some group of revolutionary-minded young officers of mainly Eastern region extraction and many casualties were recorded.

However, when the record of the fallen leaders were taken it was observed that few Eastern region leaders were spared while those of the other regions were killed this made the media of the time to brand the military putsch an "Igbo Coup".

Eventually their was a retaliatory coup from the Northern officers to avenge for their slain leaders in the first coup which spread to the streets where Igbo civilians residing in the North were massively killed for a length of 4 months which leave the question: could this purge of these innocent civilians be part of the coup by the northern officers? This scenario prompted the Igbo officers, with their professionals and politicians to sit down and deliberate whether Nigeria is still home to them or they should leave to chart a new course for their future, which they named Biafra.

Nevertheless, after much ado to be considered as law abiding citizens in a Country that is now looking beyond killing Igbo officers as a result of the retaliatory coup by northern officers but still killing innocent Igbo citizens then Biafra was officially born and secession was not negotiable. Despite the series of meetings to pacify the Igbo representatives to see reason to stay fell on deaf ears, Nigeria headed by a 32-year old Yakubu Gowon and Biafra headed by a 33-year old Odumegwu Ojukwu decided to test their military might at the battle field.

The battle started in 1967 and ended January 1970 with the land locked core igboland bombarded and destroyed beyond human imaginations by the Nigerian troop but the coastal part of the Eastern region then was not as battered. Three million casualties went with the war and now its time for reconciliation to pacify the vanguished side. The premise of my title to this thread lies on The Marshal Plan drafted to integrate Biafra and Biafrans into the Nigeria family so that we can be put back in the pre independence unification spirit. This Plan came about with the 3Rs; Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Reintegration. The truth is if the tenets of the 3Rs were duly implemented within the framework of time it was programmed to run, we won't be talking of another Biafra today, another young Turk, Nnamdi Kanu wouldn't have bothered Nigerians with his Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) again. However, Gowon failed the Igbos in not inplenting fully the programme of the 3Rs to make our Biafran brothers feel at home once more and somehow the psychological trauma of what transpired during the war which was pure genocide started taking its toll on generations to generations and here we are 50 years after the war, the Igbo's cannot boast of ruling over the Country we made them believe they have a stake in.

Truly, our leaders waited too long in fixing the polemics and mending fences when the time was ripe for it (between 1970 - 1975). That moment of grace to show love towards the vanquished passed us by and like the proverbial ostrich, we buried our head in the sand, wishing it away? No, it won't go away. Its a pity we (Nigerians) planted and watered Biafra to maturity. I hope its not too late, but something keeps telling me that it's too late. The truth is, WE (VICTORS) WAITED TOO LONG after the war!.

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