₦airaland Forum

mightyhazell:
oredo is the main crux in edo state. Dats where the population is at! Now george idah pry sch centre just came out with this whopping margin?? Apc is gone,sorry!

If this is true and confirmed, I dey wait the mumu wey go try rig out PDP.

I love this guy's guts. I just laughed when I read that the house suspended Hon Jibrin for 180 Legislative days Dogara just shot himself in the foot on this political blunder. Jibrin is right about the padding after all.

Omenkata:
power to the people

ngeneukwenu brace up winter is coming

I tell you winter is already here

modath:
Benevolent dictatorship is the "ONLY" way to go if you want to transform a country from 3rd world to a great one.... I laugh each time i see one of your compadres ( the very foolish ones though) comparing him to LKY.....

E huz you can even relate his outward mien to real life experiences, when parents are soft, their kids/wards stray and also lose respect for them, it's the natural law of nature....

The key is to strike a balance between tough love and doing the right thing for common good...

Babe you are right. Ezekwu

Julietcutie:
I can... I love it

Ladies and their unnecessary attentions Oga ooo

modath:
He probably just finished downing a bottle of premium ND spirit.

Rumour has it that the likes of Edwin Clark, Dudafa, et al even mama piss usually wait for him to be in the "spirit" (pun intended ) before broaching some issues and placing sensitive documents before him for endorsement....

They know it's quite easy then to get away with murder, literarily..

Jonathan drinks just like any man that drinks, Obama drinks alcohol and still fighting his smoking habits. I think Jonathan was too soft to be Nigeria's President. Datz all

adewumiopeyemi:
voting never finish dey don dey jubilate... In apc i trust

Are u a Nigerian at all? Why do you like suffering?

Cutehector:
Iffa hear say dat watch cost dat amount

You dey mind dem? Watch wey no go tell me when our Lord Jesus Christ will appear na im she dey call $168,000

That was the man who arrested Anini the rogue

Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

lekkie073:
PSP governors or ACN/CPC governors?

All of them

Bodexman:
This response is legendary. I'm sure Baba Awolowo did his best for him & Nigeria.......... imagine, he regrets losing him.

My brother I don't know of Awo's books I have not read, gone through or glanced through. That man is truly an enigma how I wished he was born in Ghana they will appreciate him more unlike here where even his people (Yorubas) betrayed him into the Northern leaders hands. I love everything about him. He made the Yoruba's Princes and Princesses but look at the Yorubas today? what a shame.

asamaigho:
Most of the people fighting him are from d southwest.
I know u guy will be happy to baba tinubu fail,cos he helped defeat ir heroe of thieves,bit that aint gonna happen.

On tinubu i stand.

Its not easy being a zombie, won't you agree with me? Your cross, carry it.

dexentity:
Interesting read. It was Gowon that released Awo from prison.

Yeah he was.

Pr0gressive01:
I don't know why yorubas will never learn, it beats me how they go about beating their chests shouting 'Sophistication' while everything is pointing to the contrary.

Benjamin Adekunle took his hatred for Igbos to another level during the civil war when he went about shooting women and children at the outskirts of Biafra while the hausa/fulani were watching. After using him, they disgraced him out of the army without any benefits such that he was looking for small contracts to feed himself before he died. At some point, his son was begging for donations to be made to take him to just Ghana for treatment. We are not even talking of taking him to the USA, Germany or UK oo, just to ordinary Ghana that we can trek into he could not afford it.


Obafemi Awolowo was also used by the hausa/fulani to wage the war against Igbos were he suggested that Biafran children be starved which lead to the death of so many. Awolowo was hoping that the hausa/fulani would compensate him by supporting him to become president but it only turned out he had been used and dumped. The northerners threw all their support behind their son Shagari and Awolowo was never president. As though this was not enough, Babangida was about to arrest Awolowo(which would have been the second time the northerners would be arresting him if it had happened) and to avoid this disgrace, Awolowo had to commit suicide by drinking poison(I think Ratak).

Abiola the yoruba aere onakankanfo thought that he had the north all behind him only for them to cancel his electoral victory and throw him in prison. The hausa/fulani still went ahead to serve him a very special tea which he drank and died. They went a step further by dispatching his wife Kudirat to join him in eternity.


This brings us down to Bola Ahmed Tinubu aka BAT- jagajaga borgu. Like FFK said, Buhari is the spirit clearly behind Tinubu's woes. The hausa/fulani are out to destroy Tinubu and reduce him to one of those agberos running around Lagos shouting 'owomida' at the top of their voices. Again, another yoruba leader has been used and is being dumped.

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Selah

My sentiments entirely. May you live long my dear brother and if any Yoruba boy, girl, man or woman go against you on this noble truth, may he or she forever remain a slave to these Northern monsters. Well done bro

"I am, therefore, obliged, morally and for the purpose of keeping Nigeria united, to take part, as fully as I can, in any measure designed, in particular, to keep the Ibos as a constituent ethnic unit in the federation of Nigeria, enjoying equal and identical status and benefits with other ethnic units, and in general, to preserve Nigeria as an economic and political entity.”

Even the great sage attested to the fact that the Igbos deserve "equal and identical status and benefits with other ethnic units" but what do we have today?

Goke7:
This your smooth talk sounds interesting I must admit but its not as straightforward as you think, I don't think tinubu will move to pdp. He is likely to form a new party and may be the disgruntled folks in pdp will team up with him and then go on from there. Remember lots of disgruntled folks from pdp also moved to the APC. So we may have a situation where disgruntled folks from both the pdp and APC teaming up with tinubu on a new platform.

These are all assumptions bruv

Wrong bro, he won't form another party but APC will be fragmented and Tinubu may likely pull ACN out of it on the long run. It is the CPC elements within that are paying Tinubu back in his own coin.

Your outstanding performance as this government’s Commissioner for Finance during one of the most critical and turbulent periods of our history will always be remembered. You demonstrated, consistently, great courage, forthrightness, leadership, and a spirit of understanding which helped us to get out of our financial disaster.

That we did not succumb to the temptation to devalue our currency during the crisis and were able to win the war entirely out of our own resources and face resolutely the immediate post-war problems of rehabilitation, reconstruction and reconciliation was due, in no small measures, to your skill in the management of our finances.

I am aware that your position in this government, particularly as Commissioner for Finance, will be difficult to fill. However, I have a consolation in the fact that during your tenure of office, you laid a sound foundation on which your successors could build and carry on the good work.

This is one area of this post, Buhari and Osibanjo needs to read very well. The flimsy excuses being peddled around now will not fly. Nigeria met with stiffer circumstances during the post Civil War era and it was tending towards Depression but it took the efforts of the brilliant minded trained lawyer, Chief Obafemi Awolowo to steer Nigeria out of Financial Collapse. Once no excuse will be tenable, Buhari should learn from the stable of the greats.

Cc: Seun, Lalasticlala this is frontpage worthy.

salabscholar01:
Use condom, una no dey gree use,

without condom, 1+1=3,

There is no simpler ways to prevent that intruder than this.... I mean wear it like agbada


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Maddest man in the building

If true, then Buhari will fail.

GENERAL YAKUBU GOWON'S REPLY:

My dear Chief,

I wish to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated June 3, 1971, intimating me of your decision to relinquish your appointments as the vice-president of the Federal Executive Council and Federal Commissioner for Finance with effect from July 1, 1971.

For some time, there have been rumours about your leaving the government, but I was sure, however, that if there was such an intention you would have not hesitated to notify me.

Since I know that you must have taken your decision after the most careful consideration, no useful purpose would be served by any attempt to make change your mind.

It is, therefore, with the greatest regret and reluctance that I have to concede to your request.
In accepting your decision, I would like to place on record my personal appreciation of your most valuable contribution to our achievements during the last four years.

You have earned for yourself respect from all of us who have seen you at close quarters, for your patriotism, coupled with a strong well-meaning conviction on issues of national importance.

I respect your maturity, objectivity, and sagacity, all of which you placed at my disposal; above all, for your advice and co-operation at all times.

Your outstanding performance as this government’s Commissioner for Finance during one of the most critical and turbulent periods of our history will always be remembered. You demonstrated, consistently, great courage, forthrightness, leadership, and a spirit of understanding which helped us to get out of our financial disaster.

That we did not succumb to the temptation to devalue our currency during the crisis and were able to win the war entirely out of our own resources and face resolutely the immediate post-war problems of rehabilitation, reconstruction and reconciliation was due, in no small measures, to your skill in the management of our finances.

I am aware that your position in this government, particularly as Commissioner for Finance, will be difficult to fill. However, I have a consolation in the fact that during your tenure of office, you laid a sound foundation on which your successors could build and carry on the good work.

I have no doubt that, at this moment, you will have the feeling that you have done your best. I share your feelings, too; and wish to extend my appreciation of the contribution of your dear wife who had had to bear more than her share of domestic burdens as a result of your public assignment.

I am glad to note and to accept your offer to hold yourself in readiness for assignment which the Federal Government may consider necessary to give you even when you will no longer be directly associated with public life.

Since there will be occasions soon for me and your colleagues in government to state our assessment of your contribution to the service of this nation in the last four years, I now merely wish to say how sorry I am to lose your services. We will miss your great sense of humour, your debating ability and useful suggestions at all times.

On behalf of myself, your colleagues on the Federal Executive Council, and the people of our great country, I wish you many more years of useful life.

My wife and Ibrahim join me in wishing you every success in your next sphere of life.

Yours most sincerely,
MAJOR-GENERAL YAKUBU GOWON
Head of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

CHIEF OBAFEMI AWOLOWO'S RESIGNATION LETTER FROM THE FEDERAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL DATED JUNE 3, 1971 TO GENERAL YAKUBU GOWON

June 3, 1971.

My dear Commander-in-Chief,

You will recall that in a statement made by me and published in the SUNDAY TIMES of March 30, 1969, I declared, among other things, as follows:

“Even at the federal level, I have no desire whatsoever, and I certainly cannot be tempted or induced to develop one, to head, or participate in an unelected or even an electoral-college elected civil administration in a military or any setting. At the moment, I am participating in the activities of the military government because I have been invited, and I also think it is right, so to do.
I am, therefore, obliged, morally and for the purpose of keeping Nigeria united, to take part, as fully as I can, in any measure designed, in particular, to keep the Ibos as a constituent ethnic unit in the federation of Nigeria, enjoying equal and identical status and benefits with other ethnic units, and in general, to preserve Nigeria as an economic and political entity.”

I should have, in accordance with this declaration, relinquished my present offices soon after the end of the civil war in January last year. But one main matter decided me against such an immediate course of action. As you know, before January 1970, the four-year development and reconstruction plan had been under active preparation, and it had been hoped that it would be launched early in the 1970/71 fiscal year. It was my strong desire to participate in the consideration of this plan. As it turned out, however, the plan was not actually considered until August 1970.

By that time, three other factors had supervened. First, the capital estimates for 1970/71 had been delayed until the launching of the four-year development plan, which did not take place until November last year. At this late stage, I decided that the capital estimates of 1970/71 should be incorporated into those of 1971/72.

Second, by November 1970, the time for the introduction of the 1971/72 budget was only some four months away.

Third, as from September 1970, our foreign exchange position had started to undergo an unusual rapid deterioration. It occurred to me, in all these circumstances:

-that it would be untidy for me to leave without completing the budget for 1970/71;
-that it would be hardly fair to my successor for me to leave at a time when preparations for the 1970/71 budget had actively begun under my direction, and;
-that it might be interpreted in some circles as an act of bad faith for me to leave at a time when our foreign exchange was in such a bad state, and no sensible formula had been found for arresting its deterioration.

Now with the peace and unity of our great country fully restored and firmly re-established; with the four-year development plan already considered and launched and the capital estimates for 1970/71 completed; with the 1971/72 budget done and a reasonable solution devised for our acute foreign exchange, I feel free to act in accordance with one of my fundamental beliefs, referred to in paragraph 1 above, and publicly declared on March 10, 1969-EIGHTEEN CLEAR MONTHS before the military government’s political programme was announced by you on October 1, 1970.

I would, therefore, like to notify you that, with effect from July 1, 1971, I am no longer willing to continue in the offices of federal commissioner for Finance and vice-president of the Federal Executive Council.

Supplementary to the forgoing, there is another important reason for my present action. After four truly (I hesitate to say exceedingly) exacting (though thoroughly stimulating and educative) years in the Federal Ministry of Finance which, throughout the period, was incessantly beset with fiscal and monetary problems of unprecedented dimensions, and of peculiarly complex and tantalizing nature, I deem it to be in the interest of my continued good health to have a complete change of full-time occupation.

As to my future plan, I have decided to go back to legal practice. I also want to seize the opportunity, which the military government’s six-year political programme provides, to write, if my professional engagement permit, three books which have always been very much on my mind.
The research connected with two of these books will take me to selected developing countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, as well to ECA and OAU secretariats in Addis Ababa, the offices of some United Nations agencies in New York, and London University.

I would like to state that though, by this resignation, I am leaving your government and literary activities as mentioned above, it does not mean that I am completely relinquishing all public services to our country and people.

On the contrary, it is my resolve to continue, in all circumstances and until my life’s end, to see the best interests of our fatherland, and promote the welfare and happiness of our people, in every way possible.

In this connection, I would like to assure you that I shall always be willing, on a purely AD HOC basis and providing my professional commitments permit, to render, at your request and without any remuneration whatsoever, any particular service which is within my competence to give.

After my appointment in 1967, I submitted to you a STATEMENT OF AFFAIRS (i.e. OF MY ASSETS AND LIABILITIES) as at June30, 1967. In keeping with the code of conduct to which I subscribed, I am obliged to send you my statement of affairs as at June 30, 1971. It is, however, not possible to send the statement along with this letter. But my accountants are already working on it and as soon as it is finalized up to June 30, 1971, I shall forward it to you.

In closing, I would like, in all sincerity, to say two things:

Firstly, I have tremendously enjoyed working with you; and it is not without considerable reluctance, therefore, that I have to take this step.
Secondly, I will always remember with deep gratitude, your kindness to me in releasing me from prison, and in giving me, within a year of my release, an opportunity to serve our people of Nigeria once again in a ministerial capacity, and at a time when the very existence of our fatherland was in grave peril.

With best wishes to Victoria and your good self, and love to Ibrahim.

Yours very sincerely,
OBAFEMI AWOLOWO

Dubai indeed! even Lagos with all her wealth and influence is no where near Durban in South Africa let alone Dubai clowns everywhere

You did an expository research on this subject @TonyeBarcanista, however I think Tinubu remain his own enemy because he wanted to have it all. He contributed more in cash and kind to the merger unfortunately, he failed to learn from history (Afonja/Gere Alimi, S.L Akintola/Ahmadu Bello, M.K.O Abiola/Shagari, IBB, Abacha romances) that it will end up in short changing. The Northern Elite class are naturally megolamaniacs politically. Too late for Tinubu as he will be cut to size soon.

Fumiex:
My dear sis don't ever feel bad abt telling him d truth. D next guy u are going to meet, also tell him d truth from d onset n ask if e is ready to accept u. U r worth more Dan u think. U might hv ask God for forgiveness n he has forgiven u but a virgin may b commiting other sins n may not Mk heaven. It's not abt wat pole think here abt u it's abt wat God thinks abt u. Don't feel bad abt anything its in d past. Look toward to d future.it might not b easy but u wil surely scale through. If am to advice u I wil say don't accept yr fiancée if e cums bk to u. Someone who truly loves u wil come. Just b prayerful n draw closer to God

Perfect! This is how daughters of God reason and help one another. God bless you, your family and household together.

Sanusi dares not stoop this low. I know he is blunt but he does it with sense.

fullofregrets:
hmmm , this comments makes me wow , so its a crime to speak my mind , you don't know my pains , so I beg you not to judged me , before you judge ask yourself if you have the courage to open up your flaws to people , its been done , no one should crucify me , we are all humans in flesh , in one way or the other , we have succumbed to the flesh, I am telling you that the unwise decision I took was something I regretted , I am not proud of my pasts , I am sober and feel bad , and I have mend my ways ever since , we should all learn to forgive , and pls those who judge me don't forget you are still in the race , the life and flesh in you can still mislead us in one way or the other , who are you all to play God the judge , I only need advice , not to crucify someone who's dejected right now , peace out

My dear read my posts on this thread and you will find succour to your soul. Leave your "judges" here yo wallow in their ignorances that should not be your problem. They are bloody hypocrites but you are being sincere and also indirectly helping other ladies who might fall victim, well done lady.

IyfeNamikaze:
Your daughter is surely going to end up like this, now shout a big AMEN

I can only pray for you to be CAREFUL what you indirectly wish for yourself. You can bookmark this post of yours except you repent. A woman was caught in adultery in the very act yet Jesus refused to judge and condemn this same woman but asked her accusers to judge her themselves if only they did not commit even worst sins, well you know the story, they left the woman alone while feeling guilty themselves.(John 8: 3 - 11) and who are you to judge another humans probably you are not better than (Matthew 7; 1 -5). Be careful when ranting online and please take your pills regularly.

Peacetemi:
And why is the Groom wearing handglove??


Ibadan people sef

He may be imitating Michael Jackson

pyyxxaro:
Make una nor believe am o

This guy na World people o

E want make rapture meet una for Onitsha bridge

Clown on a lighter note I think Clinton did well in this debate hut Trump can still do better being a newbie unlike Hillary who has been in the system since 1993.

pyyxxaro:
If you de 9jaa and you de support Donald Trump

You are on ur own o

Cos if e Win, una nor go come yankee again o

Na for 3rd mainland bridge Rapture go meet unaa

Lies lies lies, blacks going to live in USA is beyond what Trump can block Trump's position is simple: "come into my Country on genuine business and legit way".

Trump is hot this morning (Nigerian time), he is really firing from every burner. I love the part he said, "African-Americans and Hispanics are living in Hell. You go to Chicago, you may get shot. A stylish and smart way to win these minorities to his side. He just proved that he is a caring President. My favourite quote from Trump, "Secretary, you have no plan" that was harsh Trump