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Re: Joel Savage: Driving Obafemi Awolowo Through The Principal Streets Of Calabar by SeriouslySense(m): 11:34pm On Sep 09, 2018
I hope all is well, we can start doing what we need to move to where we want, if we act together and know what we want, I hope we find what we need.

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Re: Joel Savage: Driving Obafemi Awolowo Through The Principal Streets Of Calabar by Bestattitude(m): 11:42pm On Sep 09, 2018
Otutu okwu adighi n'uka ngbede biko.


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Re: Joel Savage: Driving Obafemi Awolowo Through The Principal Streets Of Calabar by Bestattitude(m): 11:43pm On Sep 09, 2018
Otutu okwu adighi n'uka ngbede biko.

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Re: Joel Savage: Driving Obafemi Awolowo Through The Principal Streets Of Calabar by kokomilala(m): 11:46pm On Sep 09, 2018
Awo, the finest of his time, straddling 3 to 4 generations, still unequalled. He was the greatest resource, human capital, this wasted generation wasted.

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Re: Joel Savage: Driving Obafemi Awolowo Through The Principal Streets Of Calabar by SarcasticGenius(m): 11:47pm On Sep 09, 2018
A post from March? Better late than never. It's not a snake post, so we know lala is not behind it.

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Re: Joel Savage: Driving Obafemi Awolowo Through The Principal Streets Of Calabar by grandstar(m): 11:48pm On Sep 09, 2018
ashjay001:



Did u, by any chance, read up to where he said, d mom comes from?

grin grin grin grin Savage

I enjoyed the article

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Re: Joel Savage: Driving Obafemi Awolowo Through The Principal Streets Of Calabar by Nobody: 12:59am On Sep 10, 2018
Anyway I don't celebrate traitors, betrayer and saboteur...

So I wonder what this Op found in awolowo that iss worth celebrating.....??

Or is it the awoooooo!!! People are shouting that give him such impression?

All these lagos-ibadan express magazine sef.

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Re: Joel Savage: Driving Obafemi Awolowo Through The Principal Streets Of Calabar by Dollabiz: 1:12am On Sep 10, 2018
hmm
Re: Joel Savage: Driving Obafemi Awolowo Through The Principal Streets Of Calabar by Laple0541(m): 1:54am On Sep 10, 2018
Kestolovee95:




What if my comment was a kind of confirmation of what the man is telling us?

BTW why do you think I owe you an explanation. Do you know how much I detest dumboharists and anti-Igbos?


You need deliverance...

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Re: Joel Savage: Driving Obafemi Awolowo Through The Principal Streets Of Calabar by Kennydoc(m): 2:03am On Sep 10, 2018
Throwback:

He is telling you politely to stop asking a foolish question when you have already been told the ethnicity of the mother to the son.
Kestolovee95 post=65926440:
Your son look Igbo/ Efik.

1. He didn't ask a question. He only made a statement.
2. That the author met his wife in Calabar doesn't confirm the woman is Efik. If the woman writes her autobiography tomorrow and mentions that she met her husband in Calabar, will you also assume the man is Efik? She might have moved Calabar from any other part of the country after getting a job there.
3. Saying that the son looks Efik/Igbo is just like confirming that he has the facial looks of people from the Old Eastern Region. It's just d same way you look at some faces and you're sure they must be Yoruba.

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Re: Joel Savage: Driving Obafemi Awolowo Through The Principal Streets Of Calabar by SexTin(f): 2:04am On Sep 10, 2018
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Re: Joel Savage: Driving Obafemi Awolowo Through The Principal Streets Of Calabar by raymytech1: 2:08am On Sep 10, 2018
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Re: Joel Savage: Driving Obafemi Awolowo Through The Principal Streets Of Calabar by IsraelPlus(m): 2:28am On Sep 10, 2018
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Re: Joel Savage: Driving Obafemi Awolowo Through The Principal Streets Of Calabar by safarigirl(f): 2:37am On Sep 10, 2018
Throwback:


He is telling you politely to stop asking a foolish question when you have already been told the ethnicity of the mother to the son.
thw guy never asked a question though, except you see a question mark, that cannot he a question. It was a statement and all of you failed to comprehend it, but we're quick to harass the guy.

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Re: Joel Savage: Driving Obafemi Awolowo Through The Principal Streets Of Calabar by madjune(m): 2:38am On Sep 10, 2018
Fake man.

If I drove Awo, I would have driven him into the Bush for sabotaging the efforts of the Easterners on the Biafran war.
Re: Joel Savage: Driving Obafemi Awolowo Through The Principal Streets Of Calabar by Mujtahida: 3:32am On Sep 10, 2018
Throwback:


He is telling you politely to stop asking a foolish question when you have already been told the ethnicity of the mother to the son.
In Calabar I fell in love with a beautiful lady...

Location is stated but not the ethnicity of the lady though one can presume that the lady in question might be a Calabar lady since its not stated in the write up, one can think otherwise.

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Re: Joel Savage: Driving Obafemi Awolowo Through The Principal Streets Of Calabar by classicfrank4u(m): 3:36am On Sep 10, 2018
Kennydoc:



1. He didn't ask a question. He only made a statement.
2. That the author met his wife in Calabar doesn't confirm the woman is Efik. If the woman writes her autobiography tomorrow and mentions that she met her husband in Calabar, will you also assume the man is Efik? She might have moved Calabar from any other part of the country after getting a job there.
3. Saying that the son looks Efik/Igbo is just like

confirming that he has the facial looks of people from the Old Eastern Region. It's just d same way you look at some faces and you're sure they must be Yoruba.

So u didn't see where he said something abt "calabar lady" towards dy ending?

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Re: Joel Savage: Driving Obafemi Awolowo Through The Principal Streets Of Calabar by AreaFada2: 3:50am On Sep 10, 2018
OK. Interesting.
Re: Joel Savage: Driving Obafemi Awolowo Through The Principal Streets Of Calabar by IamaNigerianGuy(m): 4:10am On Sep 10, 2018
Throwback:


He is telling you politely to stop asking a foolish question when you have already been told the ethnicity of the mother to the son.

Ouch, that hurts .....! grin

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Re: Joel Savage: Driving Obafemi Awolowo Through The Principal Streets Of Calabar by AMADE01(m): 4:25am On Sep 10, 2018
Nigerians lost glory must surely come back in jesus name thanks sir
Re: Joel Savage: Driving Obafemi Awolowo Through The Principal Streets Of Calabar by omoelerin1: 5:41am On Sep 10, 2018
Yoruba, the blessed tribe in Africa and indeed in the world. No tribe associate themselves with Yoruba and will not be blessed.
The haters and intolerants in the other side of the river have to come to their right senses.

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Re: Joel Savage: Driving Obafemi Awolowo Through The Principal Streets Of Calabar by technicallyrich(m): 6:14am On Sep 10, 2018
Juliusmalema:
Anyway I don't celebrate traitors, betrayer and saboteur...

So I wonder what this Op found in awolowo that iss worth celebrating.....??

Or is it the awoooooo!!! People are shouting that give him such impression?
The mod are just looking for trouble since they know most ss / se hates these cowward with passion.so why cause another ethnic war.
Belive me if ss/se had gotten biafra the entire africa would had been better,as we would have set the pace.
Ojukwu sacrificed all,including his personal properties to see our live better.
All these lagos-ibadan express magazine sef.
god bless u,awo was an ingrate.
But last last,rat poison dealth badly with his lungs as he died crying like an ibadan girl about to be disvirgined.
They say we are trouble makers for fighting for our own country,but i think is because we belive so much in our selves.
Ss\se is the true giant of africa

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Re: Joel Savage: Driving Obafemi Awolowo Through The Principal Streets Of Calabar by Follygunners: 6:15am On Sep 10, 2018
Kestolovee95:


I knew that..

No, you don't.

You need both mental and Psychiatric evaluation asap! angry You're NOT normal at all!
Re: Joel Savage: Driving Obafemi Awolowo Through The Principal Streets Of Calabar by fratermathy(m): 7:42am On Sep 10, 2018
Kennydoc:



1. He didn't ask a question. He only made a statement.
2. That the author met his wife in Calabar doesn't confirm the woman is Efik. If the woman writes her autobiography tomorrow and mentions that she met her husband in Calabar, will you also assume the man is Efik? She might have moved Calabar from any other part of the country after getting a job there.
3. Saying that the son looks Efik/Igbo is just like confirming that he has the facial looks of people from the Old Eastern Region. It's just d same way you look at some faces and you're sure they must be Yoruba.

Are you aware that Igbos DO NOT look like Ijaws, Efiks, Ibibios, Ogonis, and other groups in the Old Eastern region? In fact, not all Igboid ethnic groups look like mainstream Igbos.

The average Efik person does not look or act Igbo in any way. Only an ignorant person would make blanket statements like this.

This is not to negate your initial assessment that the Calabar lady may be Igbo since ethnicity is not specified. Although, I think the context of the post implies that the lady is Calabar and the phrase "Calabar lady" is almost limited in its usage. I've never seen any instance or heard where Igbo ladies, even though resident in Calabar, are called "Calabar ladies". Besides, Calabar is used to refer to the people, as well as the city.

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Re: Joel Savage: Driving Obafemi Awolowo Through The Principal Streets Of Calabar by brenister10: 8:35am On Sep 10, 2018
Juliusmalema:
Anyway I don't celebrate traitors, betrayer and saboteur...

So I wonder what this Op found in awolowo that iss worth celebrating.....??

Or is it the awoooooo!!! People are shouting that give him such impression?

All these lagos-ibadan express magazine sef.

Another bad belle ethnic bigot spotted

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Re: Joel Savage: Driving Obafemi Awolowo Through The Principal Streets Of Calabar by Nobody: 8:40am On Sep 10, 2018
brenister10:


Another bad belle ethnic bigot spotted

U not noticed.
Re: Joel Savage: Driving Obafemi Awolowo Through The Principal Streets Of Calabar by olufisayo547: 9:04am On Sep 10, 2018
ashjay001: Did u, by any chance, read up to where he said, d mom comes from? Yes I did. Any probs..J

Re: Joel Savage: Driving Obafemi Awolowo Through The Principal Streets Of Calabar by Arkmanbuddy(m): 9:21am On Sep 10, 2018
technicallyrich:

god bless u,awo was an ingrate.
But last last,rat poison dealth badly with his lungs as he died crying like an ibadan girl about to be disvirgined.
They say we are trouble makers for fighting for our own country,but i think is because we belive so much in our selves.
Ss\se is the true giant of africa


Na wa for you o, why you come dey for SW, you for dey live for your state/region now.

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Re: Joel Savage: Driving Obafemi Awolowo Through The Principal Streets Of Calabar by Nobody: 10:20am On Sep 10, 2018
Awolowo thought he could poke igbos without consequences, he died regretting his actions.

Cc
technicallyrich
Re: Joel Savage: Driving Obafemi Awolowo Through The Principal Streets Of Calabar by jagorinho: 10:39am On Sep 10, 2018
Juliusmalema:
Awolowo thought he could poke igbos without consequences, he died regretting his actions.

Cc
technicallyrich
Go and sit down!!! you and your people are inconsequential to say the least, you fought a needless war and you paid for it, the way you people always rant about this war, one would think the igbos did not touch any soul during the war

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Re: Joel Savage: Driving Obafemi Awolowo Through The Principal Streets Of Calabar by meccuno: 10:46am On Sep 10, 2018
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JoelSavage:
Driving Chief Obafemi Awolowo Through The Principal Streets Of Calabar By Joel Savage

Early February 1980, I left Accra, Ghana, for Lagos, the populated city in the Federal Republic of Nigeria. It was then the era when every young man wanted to go this oil-rich country. It was like the Exodus, the mass departure of the Israelites to the Promised Land. The oil boom had improved the economy, giving rise to employment in every field.

Walking around daily in the city, I got a job in a roofing company as a roofing technician. The nature of the job was to mend leaking roofs. Among other workers, I climbed up tall buildings. At times it is very frightening and dangerous. Under the scorching sun, accompanied by the heat from the gas burner we used to melt the prime felt, one could feel like leaving the job the same day.

We usually grouped every day at the premises of the company to be driven to where we were to work. One morning, the driver who was to take us to the site to commence work, failed to report. He was a driver who was never punctual, thus; always late at work. But that fateful morning, he didn’t show up.

Mr. Adebayo, the transport manager in charge of the company’s vehicles asked the workers in the bus if anyone knows how to drive. I quickly responded. All the workers in the bus were asked to descend and I sat behind the steering wheel to be tested. Few yards from the company’s building, I noticed a number of faults on the vehicle, while driving.

When I told the transport manager the problems on the vehicle, of which he was aware, he quickly had the impression that I was an experienced driver. From that day, I ceased to be a roofing technician and I was employed as a driver. Driving in Lagos, is very difficult, because of lack of rules. Without an accident in my driving career, I was promoted to drive the managing director of the company.

Chief Ambe Bassey, the managing director of the company was a famous politician who contested as a governor under Unity Party of Nigeria in 1979 but lost to Clement Isong in Cross River State. As the leader of the UPN branch of the party in Cross River State, I had the opportunity to meet the great man and presidential candidate of Unity Party of Nigeria, Chief Obafemi Awolowo.

You can read about great people in the newspapers, but it’s always different when you see them personally. Chief Awolowo was a handsome humble and soft-spoken gentleman. Behind the Mercedes Benz with my boss, the crowd at each side of the road bellowed thunderously. “Awoooooooooooo!” with a victory sign.

I drove Chief Awolowo through the principal streets of Calabar for over forty minutes, answering and waving to the frenzied crowd. I was playing reggae, something I purposely did to avoid listening to his conversation with my boss, yet Awo kindly told me to turn down the volume of the music.

I had a great time with the Unity Party of Nigeria and visited almost all the states in Nigeria. I met Chief Ebenezer Babatope, the UPN Publicity Secretary. In Calabar, I fell in love with a beautiful lady and we had a child. Today, my son lives with me in Belgium. Every time, I see his face, it reminds me of those great times with Chief Obafemi Awolowo and Chief Ambe Bassey.

Comparing Nigeria those years to now, one can feel miserable over the position of the country now, yet I believe as a great nation, with all the resources, the country can stand once again on its feet through a very good leader.

Photo 1: Chief Obafemi Awolowo.
Photo 2: My son, Jesse Savage, whom I had with the Calabar lady with his wife in Belgium.
Photo 3: My life story in Europe :

MY LIFE STORY IN NIGERIA, SIERRA LEONE, AND OTHER PARTS OF AFRICA: The Road Of Agony- https://www.amazon.com/Road-Agony-Joel-Savage-ebook/dp/B013L99T44


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Re: Joel Savage: Driving Obafemi Awolowo Through The Principal Streets Of Calabar by Nobody: 10:47am On Sep 10, 2018
jagorinho:

[s]Go and sit down!!! you and your people are inconsequential to say the least, you fought a needless war and you paid for it, the way you people always rant about this war, one would think the igbos did not touch any soul during the war[/s]

I only discuss with ethnicity who had went war and fought to know what war means not some petty cowards.

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