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Paul John: That part is incorrect. I was in Ikirun yesterday and I'll say those officers tried. They faced those robbers even with their sub standard guns.
If you know the type of guns those peeps were carrying you wouldn't have typed what's up there.

john paul wetin dey naw? Hope u were nt affected

liar! Cleverly affliated to any of the nigerian deity? U should have used sango...., ogun. . . , amadoiah. . . . .
If na public holiday for traditional worshippers, na every day go b public holiday for ile-ife cos dm gat 401 deities each worshipped in different days.

a ti toje bo oloosa lowo, o ku baba eni ti yio bo.
Ti owo eni ba ti te eku ida ni a ma n bere iku ti o pa baba eni!

NOBEL Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has emerged the first recipient of the prestigious Obafemi Awolowo Prize for Leadership after days of careful screening of the numerous nominees by both the selection and technical committees for the exercise.

Former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, who is also the chairman, Selection Committee for the award, made the announcement Wednesday at a press conference at the Obafemi Awolowo Foundation office in Gbagada, Lagos, which was attended by traditional rulers and eminent Nigerians, including Sir Olaniwun Ajayi, Prof. Ladipo Adamolekun and Olorogun Felix Ibru.

Two traditional rulers, the Olu of Saga Obalayan Ife, Oba Oladejo Oyeyinka 1 and Obawara of Ife, Oba Layi Adereti, represented the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade.

Unveiling the recipient, Anyaoku stated that Soyinka won the award having met, in large measure, the attributes listed for the prize, which he said had characterised the leadership style of the sage, Chief Awolowo. Anyaoku said that Soyinka beat numerous other nominees from across the country.

According to him, the criteria included integrity, credibility, discipline, courage, selflessness, accountability, tenacity of purpose, visionary and people-centred leadership as well as respect for the rule of law and press freedom.

“It gives me immense pleasure to announce that, after very careful consideration, the selection committee came to the unanimous conclusion that, of all the nominees presented before it, the individual adjudged to possess to the highest degree the attributes for the award, and is, therefore, the first ever recipient of the Obafemi Awolowo Prize for Leadership, is Prof. Wole Soyinka,” Anyaoku said.

“Suffice it to say at this point, however, that Prof. Soyinka has, in various ways, demonstrated many of the core values that have been associated with Chief Obafemi Awolowo, and which this prize is meant to encourage and reward.”

Anyaoku disclosed that the winner, in his reaction, described the award as “crème de la crème of all the awards that I have received.” The former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, while speaking on the process through which the winner eventually emerged, said: “This prestigious biennial national prize is structured to follow a rigorous process of nomination and subsequent screening by a selection committee made of the most outstanding Nigerians.”

He disclosed that the process also had the involvement of a technical committee consisting mainly of eggheads, among others, stating that a series of meetings were held between the time the nomination closed by August ending and when the winner eventually emerged.

Members of the committee included former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Muhammed Lawal Uwais, Prof. Akin Mabogunje, Sir Olaniwun Ajayi, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, Olorogun Felix Ibru, Prof O. O. Akinkugbe, Bishop Emmanuel Gbonigi and Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah.

Others were Prof. Adetokunbo Lucas, Prof. Ladipo Adamolekun, Prof. Anya O. Anya, Mr. Bola Akinkugbe, Prof. (Mrs.) Funmi Soetan and Mr. Niyi Adegbonmire.


http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=108200:soyinka-emerges-first-awolowo-leadership-award-recipient&catid=1:national&Itemid=559

Billyonaire: Chinua Achebe - Congratulations for telling your personal truth about Biafra. My father told me his own account of losing all businesses and source of livelihood to the needless massacre. Others tell accounts of losing all when Obasanjo led the last battalion that decimated my people in the East. I forgive him, cos it was war, a senseless one. Today, Chinua Achebe has put those moments in an everlasting account in history. Thank you for telling the painful truth once again Achebe. My kids and grand kids and the kids of others worldwide will see the foolishness of betrayal by the Western Awo, the arrogant use of commonwealth to decimate fellow humans by the Northern Gowon and the Selfish pursuit of Egotism in the name of Freedom by the Eastern Ojukwu. But to move on as a nation, we all need to buy the book, read it thoroughly and learn from our collective weaknesses, to continue as one or not, this is a decision we will continue to face until we make.

thank u! The only igbo with a sensible comment on this topic.
Our leaders had succeeded in creating enmity and retrogression base on there egoism and selfish interest. But that doesn't mean we should now continue to dwell on them.

na everybody dey escape?
Me self escape the crash cos had i been a pilot of the chopper or a passenger in it, i would also have died.
Glory be God.

well!
Olympic is not to win but to participate

ya, around 5pm yesterday, my friend just called me when she was comming from her school, osun state polytechnic, iree that she was in the bus in ikinrun and things were brutal there cos of the armed robbers robbing a newly built first bank and another bank around it. She told me the time diffrence between where they are and the scene is not up to a minute explaining haw people were shot and the ensued commotion.
But thank God nothing happened to her. And i sympathize with the victim

[quote author=Yeske!]Improve on your written English before commenting on a forum like this.[/quote]improve on ur sense of reasoning when trying to make a contribution and moreover, point out the blunder.

[quote author=Yeske!]Improve on your written English before commenting on a forum like this.[/quote]improve on ur sense of reasoning when trying to make a contribution and moreover, point out the errors.

who is decieving who! Birds of a feather.
What a nigerian political way of making a cover up for a thiefin politician.

hmm!
Why those gurls dey vex anytime we try press the thing with style for secondary school then self? E be like say them no know say we dey help them to prevent breast cancer.
Ope o! opportunity don show cos we don gat medical reason to dey press dey go

centje: waste, unimportant,and worthless

chaff is a waste but not worthless because it can be given to animals as feed like you are feeding on it.
Continue eating it, it is yours!

[quote author=re@lchange]i am asking a simple question
show me a yoruba minister or public servant that you miss
or yoruba private company that is putting nigeria on the world map in manufacturing[/quote]irrelevance! Nonsense is even an understatement.

salam001: if you know what this man has achieved,you would wish to be crippled and senile

health is wealth!

salam001: and if I may ask,what have you achieved in your entire life apart from spraying acute ignorance all over Nl,what else?

at least, he is not crippled and senile. Glory be to God

ve been here and
we have kept these people
waiting for one hour and
incidentally the Inspector General
of Police is not here.
“The Senate under the leadership
of the Senate President issued a
warrant of arrest and directed
the IGP to present and compel
Maina’s appearance before this
committee by 12 O’clock today.
“We have been waiting here for
more than one hour and we
have not seen him.
“Today we are not going to
waste your time and since we
have promised we want to make
sure we give him fair hearing.
“After due consultation with
members of this committee, we
have decided to adjourn this
sitting indefinitely.”
The Co- Chairman of the
committee, Senator Kabiru Gaya,
also expressed frustration.
Gaya said, “I have information
from the police that Maina is at
the gate addressing his
supporters instead of coming
here.
“We wanted him to be here. So
the committee will decide what
to do.
“One thing is that we have been
honest and sincere. We want to
put it on record. God knows we
have tried. We leave him to God.”
http://thenationonlineng.net/new/news-update/pension-we-leave-maina-to-god-senate-panelists/

FSU: I ask again, if you see junk can you recognize it?

stop asking the same question all in the name of wanting to make many comments and generate traffic

phantom: so much for free education! ......... **its funny how even the apparently educated ones end up sounding like dauda my vulcaniser **

just like too much of free akpu and fiction can turn one to a drug pusher to malaysia.

Baby mama:
Wole Soyinkas achievements are commendable
If this was a thread about Wole Soyinka,I will be all over it congratulating him
besides his Nobel,he is one of the few men that have suffered for the cause of Nigeria.
Prof Soyinka was imprisoned for the cause of Biafra and has written on the injustice of Biafra
Perhaps one of the few Yoruba men in that category
Igbos love Wole Soyinka
For you or anyone to try to peg Soyinka against Igbos is ludicrous
He won't even be on your side in this argument,he will be happy for Achebe
Soyinkas successes however does not take away one bit from Chinua Achebes
Prof Achebe has continually enjoyed world wide recognitions through out his career and is the author of the most widely read Book by an African author ever,published in over 50 languages
If it makes you or anyone uncomfortable ,tough!
Deal with it!
No apologies!
This thread is about Achebe not Soyinka
So even if you were taught from childhood to hate and be fearful of Igbos,you can change your perception by educating yourself and broadening your horizon.you will be better for it
Your parents ignorance does not have to be yours
You and the other fellow are sounding pathetic here

exactly what you are supposed to do concerning false and fiction achebe and your elders are telling you.

Prof Corruption: You are not bright. Re-read my comment and tell me what part of Half you don't understand.
Idiots on the list include but not limited to: Ngozi Okonjo Iweala and Chinua Achebe.

that is exactly her problem.
There is a dichotomy between her and brightness

ezeagu: And Malik Shabazz, Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Ghandi, Nat Turner, Nanny of the Maroons, etc all got their "azzz kicked", yet your friends are quoting them as "real heroes", for what? Dying for what they believe in.

https://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m67hmuRoOs1qk659fo1_250.gif

Under-believable!

those people u mentioned are men of class when it comes to political, civil and colonial liberation of their people. Count achebe out cos he is not in their class.

ezeagu: And how does a Noble prize increase or decrease the impact of an author?

there is universal impact and there is a local impact.

FSU: Can you recognize junk when you see it?

this is a typical example

ezeagu: What should an African writer care more about, spreading his message and his history and his culture around the world for millions to see absorb and be influenced by, or being dashed a title by a village committee in Sweden?

https://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mduhxjucDL1rxr06g.gif

title by a village committee in sweden?
Messi, world footballer of the year by a village committee in Switzerland?
Bakassi peninsula was ceeded to cameroun by a village committee in Holland?

centje: you know chaff

Ambiguous!
Chaff(countermeasure)
chaff(dry part covering seed)

ANOTHER NAIRALAND AUTOSELECT MALFUNCTIONING.
The autoselect lives tonto dikeh mehn

centje: could list the indicator(s) that biafra was 'meant' to fail even before the war started?

the last time i heard a boy winning a man was several B.C ago when David won Goliath.

sessydoo: How do we benefit as shareholders Seun?

. Exactly what am saying in this topic https://www.nairaland.com/1136644/seun-arent-going-organise-get.
It calls for celebration naw.

pharmacy in oau cos ko ye ki emi baba jiya ki omo mi tun je(it is not proper for me to suffer and my children to also carry the sufferings.
OAU Pharmacy dey drill!

centje: would you have said so if biafra was a success

satan is meant to go to hell, no remedy about that. Death is inevitible. Biafra was meant to fail before the war cos boys couldn't withstood men.
My brother! We dont need to assume.
UNWARRANTED ASSUMPTION!

slimghost: You obviously have a low IQ. I can list a number of renowned authors that never won a nobel prize, so making a fool of yourself.

but u definitely have no IQ!
Of course there are many good and sound writters like achebe but there will be few outstanding writers like soyinka.
There are gods and there is a God, out of many people standing, there will be an outstanding man. Many were called and few will be chosen.
An example of the above is the situation of u with no IQ and I with low IQ. At least i senior u and i no carry last.