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Re: University Of Ibadan 2015/16 Applicants by Nobody: 10:08am On Nov 09, 2015 |
kelechiug:Hmm, dats 25questions per subject bah? |
Re: University Of Ibadan 2015/16 Applicants by thankyouJesus(m): 10:48am On Nov 09, 2015 |
Like most other countries in the world, Africa has had its fair share of leaders that seem to go a little mad with the power and turn into tyrants of the worst sort – not to mention a handful that were like that from the start! 1. Hastings Kamuzu Banda (c. March/April 1898 – 25 November 1997); Banda became prime minister of then Nyasaland, a British colony, in 1963 and took it to independence as Malawi a year later. Two years after that he declared himself president of the new Republic of Malawi and then made it a one-party state under the Malawi Congress Party. He was made President for Life of the MCP in 1970 and President for Life of Malawi itself in 1971. He was something of a split personality, however – some hailed him as a hero for improving his state’s education system and infrastructure dramatically and supporting women’s rights, while others called him a corrupt tyrant for the 6,000 (at least) people that were jailed without trial, tortured and even killed during his regime (some put the figure nearer 18,000) and for supporting apartheid in South Africa. In 1993 his one-party state was ended when international protest prompted a referendum, and he was stripped of all positions and most powers by a special assembly immediately afterwards. To give him his due, he did run for president in the following democratic elections – aged ~96 years! – but did not win. He died in South Africa three years later, in 1997. 2. Jean-Bedel Bokassa (22 February 1921 – 3 November 1996); Bokassa was born in French Equatorial Africa and served in the French colonial army for 21 years, but when David Dacko, a distant cousin, became president of the country as the newly independent Central African Republic (CAR) in 1960 he was invited to head their armed forces – and six years later ousted his cousin and declared himself president, then President for Life in 1972, and finally emperor (of the “Central African Empire”) from 1976 to 1979. His ceremony investing himself as emperor cost $20 million and nearly bankrupted the country! His rule was a reign of terror, with him taking all important government posts for himself and instituting judicial beatings and punishments such as the loss of body parts for minor convictions. He had hundreds of school children arrested for refusing to wear uniforms he had made, and is reported to have had 100 of them massacred – while he watched. He was deposed by French paratroopers in 1979, reinstating his cousin as president and the country as the CAR again, and he went into exile in France with a fortune he had embezzled. He was tried for treason and murder, convicted and sentenced to death in absentia and when he returned in 1986 this was put into effect, although the death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment – then in 1993 he was freed, to live as a private citizen in the CAR until he died. 3. Ahmed Sekou Touré (9 January 1922 – 26 March 1984); Touré, born in the French colony of French Guinea, started in politics where he was working when in 1945 he joined the Postal Workers Union (PTT), and he worked his way up to become the leader of the Guinean Democratic Party in 1952. He was instrumental in Guinea becoming the first of the African colonies to gain its independence from France in 1958 (the rest joined it in 1960), but the French were quite nasty about it when they left Guinea. In 1961 Touré was elected president for a seven-year term; having declared his party the only legal one and as its leader, he was of course unopposed; he then repeated this at the next three elections. His policy was based on Marxism and maintained by arresting and jailing or exiling any opposition – somehow this won him the Lenin Peace Prize in 1961! His tyranny developed slowly; by the end of the 1960’s people in opposition were taken by secret police to detention camps. His relations with France were sour from the start, but gradually those with the Soviet Union, United States and most other countries began to follow; he even blamed Washington and the CIA when a Guinean delegation was imprisoned in Ghana. Eventually his paranoia made life so unbearable for the Guineans (around 50,000 are believed to have been executed) that they began leaving the country in tens of thousands. Despite this, he was re-elected unopposed for a fourth term in 1982 and then things began to improve, probably because Guinea needed Western investment to develop its resources! Touré collapsed in Saudi Arabia in 1984 and was rushed to America for cardiac treatment, but died there anyway, on 26 March. |
Re: University Of Ibadan 2015/16 Applicants by thankyouJesus(m): 10:55am On Nov 09, 2015 |
4. Robert Mugabe (21 February 1924 –present); Good things came to Mugabe late in life, but he seems to taking full advantage despite his advanced age – he became Prime Minister of Zimbabwe at 56, President at 63 and is still going strong in office in 2013, having been re-elected six times, at the age of 89! His political career first came to the world’s notice when he became Secretary General of the Zimbabwe African National Union during its conflict with Ian Smith’s white minority conservative government in the 1960s; and he became a political prisoner in Rhodesia 1964-1974. Once released he, with Edgar Tekere, fought in the Rhodesian Bush War until it ended in 1979, becoming a hero to many Africans – and stood in the 1980 general elections, to become the first Prime Minister of the newly independent Zimbabwe. He has generally been a force for peace, intervening in various local wars to help settle them (although some have called this a tactic to control the areas’ natural resources and thereby bolster Zimbabwe’s economy), but since the turn of the 21st century his government has been forcefully correcting the inequitable distribution of land between the white minority and black majority that was a legacy of the years of colonial rule. This program was enforced more and more firmly, including economic sanctions, and the policies have (predictably) been condemned both nationally and internationally by those on the losing side, whilst being praised by other African nations with similar inequities … 5. Idi Amin Dada (c. 1925 – 16 August 2003); Another notorious but famous African dictator was Idi Amin Dada.Amin served in the British Colonial army in Kenya and Somalia from 1946, rising to be a Major General in Uganda’s army, and then its Commander, after Uganda gained its independence. In January 1971 he deposed then President Milton Obote and seized power in a military coup (promoting himself to Field Marshal a while later). Amin was very much a tyrant, with estimates of people killed during his regime ranging between 100,000 and 500,000, and nepotism, corruption, economic mismanagement, ethnic persecution and human rights abuse being rife throughout. He finally ‘shot himself in the foot’ when he tried to annex a province of Tanzania in 1978 and this, along with growing dissent within Uganda, led to the Uganda-Tanzania War and caused the downfall of his regime the following year. He was forced to go into exile, first to Libya, then to Saudi Arabia where he died. |
Re: University Of Ibadan 2015/16 Applicants by thankyouJesus(m): 10:57am On Nov 09, 2015 |
6. Mobutu Sese Seko (14 October 1930 – 7
September 1997)
Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa Za
Banga was born as Joseph-Desiré Mobutu in
the Republic of the Congo, which he
renamed Zaire in 1971. He was installed and
supported by the West, mostly Belgium and
the US, because of his strong stance against
communism, but once in, the power
apparently went to his head and his regime
became notorious for the usual corruption,
human rights abuse and nepotism – and
also, in his case, amassing an enormous
personal fortune, partly through
embezzlement of US funds, that led some to
nickname his rule a ‘kleptocracy’. Eventually
in 1997, after six years of promising to help
stop economic deterioration and unrest by
sharing power with opposition leaders
while at the same time using the army to
prevent anything changing, Laurent Kabila
and a rebel army forced him out of the
country and took power, leaving him in exile
in Morocco, where he died three months
later from prostate cancer.
7. Laurent Kabila (27 November 1939 – 18
January 2001)
Having studied political philosophy in France
and Yugoslavia, Laurent Kabila no doubt
seemed a much more likely prospect to lead
Zaire, now newly renamed the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, out of the dark days
of Mobutu’s reign of terror and into the light
of the modern world in, but unfortunately
things didn’t work out quite that way. When
the Congo gained independence in June
1960,Kabila was an officer in the youth
wing of the Balubakat (the General
Association of the Baluba People of Katanga)
, aligned with the first democratically elected
President, Patrice Lumumba, and continued
to support that side of the political forum
even after Lumumba was assassinated in
Mobutu’s coup mere months later. He helped
to organise a revolutionary army in eastern
Congo, but despite some support from Che
Guevara the rebellion failed.
Kabila then turned to running a bar in
Tanzania, with the occasional bit of
smuggling on the side. In 1967 he and his
supporters founded the People’s
Revolutionary Party (PRP) and formed a
secessionist Marxist state west of Lake
Tanganyika in South Kivu province. Over the
next twenty years he amassed considerable
wealth through extortion and robbery, then
suddenly disappeared in 1988, believed to
be dead – and reappeared in 1996, no
longer a Marxist, to begin the First Congo
War. This culminated a year later in his
taking over the country, but unfortunately
he behaved just as badly as Mobutu had,
and within months he was being
denounced as “another Mobutu”. Not
surprisingly, therefore, he was assassinated
by one of his own bodyguards just four
years later, and succeeded by his son,
Joseph, who is still president of the DRC at
the time of writing (2013). |
Re: University Of Ibadan 2015/16 Applicants by thankyouJesus(m): 10:59am On Nov 09, 2015 |
8. Colonel Gaddafi (c. 1942 – 20 October
2011)
Libyan Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-
Gaddafi became interested in politics while
still at school before attending a military
academy and then joining the military itself
– and once there he formed a revolutionary
cell and, in September 1969, took over the
country from then-king Idris in a bloodless
coup at just 27 years of age! He immediately
dissolved the monarchy, declared a republic
and began ruling by decree, with the intent
of making his country an Islamic socialist
one. Both in 1973’s ‘Popular Revolution’,
which included the start of the General
People’s Committees (GPCs), and in 1977,
when he dissolved the Republic in favour of
Jamahiriya (a ‘state of the masses’, part-
governed by the GPCs), he retained personal
control of the major decisions.
He claimed to rule by his ‘Third International
Theory’, as detailed in his publication ‘The
Green Book’. His hostile attitude to other
countries (and alleged blame for the
Lockerbie bombing) got Libya labelled an
‘international pariah’, and his relations with
the UK and US eventually caused economic
sanctions to be imposed. Then, when civil
war broke out, NATO gave military support
to Gaddafi’s opponents, finally bringing
down Gaddafi’s rule in August 2011. He
retreated to Sirte where he was captured
and killed by some of the anti-Gaddafi rebels
that had just defeated him. He ruled Libya,
mostly as “Brotherly Leader and Guide of the
Revolution of Libya”, for 42 years.
9. General Sani Abacha (20 September
1943 – 8 June 1998)
Born in Nigeria, Sani Abacha was destined
for a military life; he attended a Military
Training College (in Nigeria) and the Mons
Officer Cadet School (in England) before
getting his commission as a 2nd lieutenant
in 1963. He helped plan the July 1967
countercoup (and possibly the 1966 phases
too) and over the next three decades he
was a prominent figure in most of the major
coups in his country (of which there were
several), in the process becoming Chief of
Army Staff in 1983 and in 1990, Minister of
Defence. Finally , in November 1993, after
General Ibrahim Babangida annulled the
June 1993 elections (because he didn’t win),
Abacha took over the interim government –
then the following year gave his regime
absolute power and effectively became the
country’s dictator.
However, Nigeria didn’t stand for the human
rights abuses and corruption that came
with his government for as long as some
had – and when it became obvious that
although he’d announced elections would
be held in August 1998 he had no intention
of letting the votes be counted honestly,
unrest started to build up. Then things got
weird – a paster asked the people not to
demonstrate over the elections, saying that
Abacha would not benefit from them – and
a few weeks before the elections Abacha
died mysteriously, out of the limelight, and
was buried immediately, without autopsy,
per Muslim tradition. So the pastor was
right, but exactly how Abacha died will
never be known. Best guess is thought to be
that he was poisoned by political rivals via
the prostitutes with whom he was keeping
company; but officially it was merely a
sudden heart attack. After his death it came
to light that he had embezzled some USD 3-4
billion during his short rule – most of which
the family eventually agreed to return … but
not all!
10. Charles Taylor (28 January 1948 – )
Liberian politician Charles McArthur Ghankay
Taylor was a slightly more civilised dictator
than some – rather than simply killing loads
of people as and when he felt like it, he
merely committed ‘war crimes’ and
embezzlement … He started out working for
the Liberian government straight from
college, but was chucked out for
embezzlement; he subsequently went to
Libya, trained as a guerilla soldier and
returned to Liberia at the head of a Libyan
resistance group to start the First Liberian
Civil War. He overthrew the current
administration headed by Samuel Doe and
executed him (it was the same
administration that had fired him years
earlier) then ruled large chunks of the
country as a warlord until a peace deal
ended the war and he coerced the country
into electing him president in the 1997
general election.
Then accusations of war and humanitarian
crimes began to surface while he was in
office, eventually causing the start of the
Second Liberian Civil War and finally forcing
his resignation in 2003. He went into exile
in Nigeria, but in 2006 was extradited back
to Liberia and held in the Hague until 2012,
when he was tried for various charges,
including terror, murder and rape, and
sentenced to 50 years in prison, where he
remains to this day.
Maybe crime doesn’t pay, after all. In the end,
anyway. 1 Like |
Re: University Of Ibadan 2015/16 Applicants by cassyrooy(m): 12:25pm On Nov 09, 2015 |
horpeyemmi66: I get it bro why the Schedule of fees never comot?, You suppose get Idea. Honestly, i've no idea and it shouldn't be strange na. Though it hasn't been confirmed but maybe next month. And how come I saw you on Whatsapp{not necessarily you; it's a lady's pic} and you vanished without a trace, not good. ![]() ![]() Well i got really deep into stuff so i had to shed off the group, time and chance haven't been friendly lately. And you know the other tori na, it has been a big fight too. Sorry for dissappearing like i did, i don't have your whatsapp contact, just PM with it. Forgive me sir. And did Tunji tell you something, something 'bout having butterflies fluttering in one's belly?I think i'm having another haze, so i'm unable to decipher your labrinth. |
Re: University Of Ibadan 2015/16 Applicants by cassyrooy(m): 12:34pm On Nov 09, 2015 |
ThankyouJesus talk about the Nigerian set of these guys ^^up^^ there please. During ministerial screaning someone used "i've never collected bribe in my life" another said "i've never signed a cheque before in my life". Let us know about the Iboris, the Achike Udenwas and others notorious with an act or the other. BTW! I'm enjoying and loving your stuff with each ticking second 2 Likes |
Re: University Of Ibadan 2015/16 Applicants by cassyrooy(m): 2:07pm On Nov 09, 2015 |
To anyone hoping for anything from UI this week should check back next week. Her convocation ceremony runs thru this week starting from wednesday and as such expect almost nothing from them. |
Re: University Of Ibadan 2015/16 Applicants by kelechiug: 2:16pm On Nov 09, 2015 |
Thankyoujesus.....i am enjoying and learning from these write-ups....keep it up 1 Like |
Re: University Of Ibadan 2015/16 Applicants by Haryanfe7(m): 2:43pm On Nov 09, 2015 |
LamiHandsome: add me up ; 08140449844 |
Re: University Of Ibadan 2015/16 Applicants by cassyrooy(m): 3:49pm On Nov 09, 2015 |
FrancisTony:Francis long time? Whats up? Here is the thing, when less creativity is prevalant, what do you expect? We have more 'ghost readers' than actual 'members'. Cos they don't want to seem jobless and immature by posting regularly here on this thread. Na ITKs? I might be one of them o, but it scares away people with tangible lots to offer. Lacklustre attitude of "it ain't my/your biz" too. The divisive tendencies for platforms of info dissemination was a core reason for this thread being dull as it duplicates the thread and renders it 'unneeded'. Well to me, this thread has performed every function to which i joined. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: University Of Ibadan 2015/16 Applicants by cassyrooy(m): 4:05pm On Nov 09, 2015 |
misspresident:No wonder my neighbour almost killed his boy cos 'he was forming odeshi to him'. ![]() Kontinu, i'm learning. |
Re: University Of Ibadan 2015/16 Applicants by cassyrooy(m): 4:33pm On Nov 09, 2015 |
misspresident:Yes, but complete details are yet to be known, from the SU Facebook page, all that can be deducted are blames and accusations as to who started the 'fight'. Idiates accused Zikites of starting the fights, Zikites also blamed Idiates for their hostility towards them during their rally. Until an official investigation and prosecution is carried out, what we tend to believe will be 'just' speculations as no one is willing to accept responsibilities. It was also claimed that the girls that lost consciousness was of the result of teargas being shot to disperse and cajole the pandamonium. The number of girls that was said to be hopitalized were 5, and of which 1 is yet to be discharged. |
Re: University Of Ibadan 2015/16 Applicants by winner95(m): 5:08pm On Nov 09, 2015 |
LamiHandsome:Much more interested. Add me: 07061068819 |
Re: University Of Ibadan 2015/16 Applicants by Nobody: 5:18pm On Nov 09, 2015 |
cassyrooy: okay, i understand better now. thanks for explaning ![]() |
Re: University Of Ibadan 2015/16 Applicants by beejayodus(m): 6:02pm On Nov 09, 2015 |
cassyrooy:Please, do you have an idea about UI pre-degree programme? |
Re: University Of Ibadan 2015/16 Applicants by cassyrooy(m): 6:26pm On Nov 09, 2015 |
beejayodus:Please FrancisTony help out. |
Re: University Of Ibadan 2015/16 Applicants by cassyrooy(m): 6:27pm On Nov 09, 2015 |
misspresident:You're welcome. How was your day? |
Re: University Of Ibadan 2015/16 Applicants by Nobody: 7:03pm On Nov 09, 2015 |
cassyrooy:UI doesn't offer pre-degree. |
Re: University Of Ibadan 2015/16 Applicants by cassyrooy(m): 7:12pm On Nov 09, 2015 |
beejayodus: FrancisTony:Hope his reply satisfy you. |
Re: University Of Ibadan 2015/16 Applicants by taiocol: 8:09pm On Nov 09, 2015 |
FrancisTony: niqqa which levels you der. any admission yet? |
Re: University Of Ibadan 2015/16 Applicants by taiocol: 8:12pm On Nov 09, 2015 |
Just 468 pages ![]() ![]() ![]() here dull pass Unilag thread |
Re: University Of Ibadan 2015/16 Applicants by Nobody: 8:13pm On Nov 09, 2015 |
Re: University Of Ibadan 2015/16 Applicants by taiocol: 8:22pm On Nov 09, 2015 |
Re: University Of Ibadan 2015/16 Applicants by kelechiug: 8:34pm On Nov 09, 2015 |
adebayor1490:yeah.... hello everybody, how is the preparation towards resumption going ?, resumption is still far abi, dont worry, just sleep tonight, tomorrow's gonna be 13th february ![]() ![]() |
Re: University Of Ibadan 2015/16 Applicants by beejayodus(m): 9:31pm On Nov 09, 2015 |
cassyrooy:Well, it did. Is there no diploma programme or any pre-admission programme that one can undergo? |
Re: University Of Ibadan 2015/16 Applicants by dearpiriye: 9:39pm On Nov 09, 2015 |
beejayodus: They have diploma and it is available in some depts. |
Re: University Of Ibadan 2015/16 Applicants by Nobody: 10:08pm On Nov 09, 2015 |
Re: University Of Ibadan 2015/16 Applicants by beejayodus(m): 10:39pm On Nov 09, 2015 |
dearpiriye:Please, could you be kind to throw more light on this? I want to study Law or Political Science or Philosophy. Is any of these courses available at Diploma level? If yes, is the form still out? |
Re: University Of Ibadan 2015/16 Applicants by cassyrooy(m): 11:06pm On Nov 09, 2015 |
beejayodus:Someone is helping out already. |
Re: University Of Ibadan 2015/16 Applicants by cassyrooy(m): 11:09pm On Nov 09, 2015 |
misspresident:It was just another day per say but it could still pass for a day you know. ![]() ![]() |
Re: University Of Ibadan 2015/16 Applicants by beejayodus(m): 11:20pm On Nov 09, 2015 |
cassyrooy:Yeah. Thanks! |
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