Ritchiee:
The son/daughter of God... literally

e ku deedé ìwòyí oo gbogbo omo-olú-ìwà-bí. orí mi n wú bí mo se n ka àwon ohun ìjìnlè wònyí lati owó àwon t'èmi.
to the question, I think 'omoluabi'- "offspring of distinct virtues", depicting that which d Yoruba culture&tradition represents; IMO
ìwà loba àwúre, ìwà rere yo gbè wa o; Àse!

MayorofLagos:
This is a Yoruba hunter walking with an animal on a leash. Appears he has domesticated the animal.

Anybody know what animal this is?

looks like a hyena, nt sure tho

mignone:

looks like a hyena, nt sure tho

Hyena ke?

I think it is either a Jaguar or a Leopard oo

Classicool:

What happened to Ajimobi was luck... Him too knew it.... That's why when he was giving his thanksgiving speech he said he couldn't believe him that he would return....

But if was the right structure why didn't Alao Akala returned in 2011 despite the fact that PDP almost swept all vote in both Senate,Reps except Gov... So there's nothing like right structure.... If it's right structure why did APC lose chunk of their reps in oke-ogun and ibadan though some later decamp...

on this, i learnt from a reliable source dt d election was 'neatly' manipulated in favour of d incumbent

Bigprozzie:

Hyena ke?
I think it is either a Jaguar or a Leopard oo

*covers face*

[size=13pt]Ogun Home Owners Charter generates employment for youths –HoS[/size]

The Ogun State Head of Service, Elder Olusola Adeyemi, has com­mended the conception of theHomeowners’ Charter Programme policy of the Senator Ibikunle Amosun – led administration say­ing it has generated both direct and indirect em­ployment for the teeming youths in the State.

Adeyemi, who made this known during the presentation of 1,000 C of O and Building Plan Ap­provals to beneficiaries at the Arcade Ground, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, noted that the youths have been engaged at various stages and benefited immensely from the programme.

“Apart from providing employment, this Pro­gramme encourages all property Owners in Ogun State to be the legal own­ers of their buildings and it has been applauded even outside Ogun State”, he said.

The HoS further as­sured all other applicants on the waiting list that they would not be denied their title documents once they are not in contraven­tion with planning regu­lations. The state Com­missioner for Urban and Physical Planning, Chief Adebola Adeife, said that the programme has pro­vided window of opportu­nity for eligible applicants to obtain title documents while all penalties and fines normally associated with illegally built prop­erty are waved and docu­mentation requirements have been relaxed.

Speaking on behalf of the beneficiaries, the Ele­kota of Kota Ekiti, HRM, Oba Emmanuel Fagbemi, said the programme was a beautiful idea which has made it easy for people to obtain C of O and Build­ing Plan Approval, urging other States to emulate Ogun State.

http://nationalmirroronline.net/new/ogun-home-owners-charter-generates-employment-for-youths-hos/

[size=13pt]Lafarge commits over N100m to develop 12 Ogun communities[/size]

Lafarge Africa Plc has committed over N100million to the development of 12 of its host communities in Ewekoro in Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State this year, according to the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Adepeju Adebajo.

Speaking at the Lafarge Ewekoro plant, while granting bursary awards to another batch of 100 undergraduate students from Ewekoro, the MD added that over 1,300 persons from the 12 communities had benefited from the company's undergraduates Bursary scheme in the last eight years.

The Managing Director who was represented by Michael Awanayah explained the said funds were deployed in executing various developmental projects touching roads construction, education, infrastructure development, empowerment and healthcare service to the communities.

She assured that the company would continue to support the growth and development of its host communities.

She said: "Lafarge Africa has spent over N100 million in 2015 on various developmental projects across Ewekoro local government area. Today, we are distributing N100,000 cheque as scholarship and bursary awards to 168 indigent students from various institutions of higher learning, who are residents of 12 communities in Ewekoro here.

"For us in Lafarge Africa Plc, Corporate Social Investment is a vital part of our sustainability drive to create positive impact in our host communities. This focuses on three cardinal areas of environment, social and economic responsibility,” she said.

"Lafarge will continue to live to its billing as a socially responsible and community focused organisation. We require the continued cooperation from all stakeholders, particularly our neighbouring communities to remain afloat and be able to deliver on our promises."

Responding on behalf of the beneficiary communities, the Onipapa of Papaland, Oba Abdul - Rasaq Jimoh, lauded the company for its gestures but asked it do more for them in the areas of building healthcare centres and town halls.

Oba Jimoh also urged the company to hasten the relocation of the two communities of Oke - Sekoni and Oke - Oko that are sitting on limestone belts to safe haven and thus, protect them from the hazards of limestones extraction.

http://worldstagegroup.com/index.php?active=news&newscid=26260&catid=30

Onreflection/Shymm3x new projects to track

[size=14pt]Economic hardship is over in Osun, says Aregbesola[/size]



From right, Managing Director (Construction), RATCON Construction Co.
Limited, Engr. Fouad Howayek; Permanent Secretary Ministry of Works
State of Osun, Engr. Nerudeen Adeagbo; Member State House of Assembly,
Hon. Biodun Awolola; Governor Rauf Aregbesola; Deputy Speaker of the
House of Assembly, Hon.Akintunde Adegboye and Secretary to the State
Government, Alhaji Moshood Adeoti, during the flag-off of
reconstruction of Olaiya Junction-Asubiaro-Ita Olokan Road, Osogbo,
State of Osun on Friday 27-011-2015Asubiaro-Ita

As the present administration in Osun enters its 6th year in office, the Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has said that the economic hardship in the state has come to an end.

The ‎governor stated this during the official commissioning of the new Ife/Orile-Owu 33KV feeder line at Orile-Owu, Ayedaade Local Government Area.

Aregbesola noted that his administration is committed to making life meaningful and abundant to the people of Osun hence the infrastructural development in the nooks and crannies of the state.

The governor commended the people of Orile-Owu and its environs for their patience over the years before electricity was restored back to the communities at a total cost of N225 million.

He held that his administration decided to assist the service providers by rehabilitating the Gbongan-Ikire 33KV feeder line, making it to end at Araromi-Owu, Odeyinka and three farm settlements of Mokore, Oyere-Aborisade and Ago-Owu.

Aregbesola stressed that it is quite clear that the new 33KV relief feeder line will ensure stable power supply to the farm settlements thus stemming rural/urban drift by encouraging the teeming populace to return to farming in the farm settlement.

“I want to use this opportunity to admonish us to return to the farms, what we used to rely on as a country and state is no longer there. Oil has now dipped seriously, it is now at about 41 dollars per barrel from over 100 dollars and Nigeria still cannot sell her oil in the international market.

“Anyone who doe‎s not want to starve must return to the farms, I want to assure you that more people will be coming from the cities to this place, please try and get enough place for them to stay, everybody must return to agriculture to survive.

“Our administration recently gave hectares of land to IITA for farming and with the electrification of Orile-Owu and other farm settlements, there will be boost in agriculture around these areas, we all need to take this advantage to take to massive farming for the growth of our state.

“There is no town or village in Osun that has not been touched in terms of infrastructural development by our administration. I want to implore us to pay our taxes for us to continue to enjoy government,” the governor stated.

‎Speaking earlier, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Water Resources, Rural Development and Community Affairs, Engr. Oriolowo commended Aregbesola for his ingenuity in creating the ministry in Osun.

He noted that the isolation of some settlements from the national electricity grid is now addressed with the construction of the new 33KV outdoor bay at 132/33KV transformer stations in Ajebandele in Ile-Ife.

He noted that the project cost the state‎ government N225, 065, 749.92 and was constructed with fibre cross arms and conductor size of 150mm2 on reinforced concrete poles.

“I want to thank Mr. Governor for his strong support to our Ministry which has enabled it to complete a total of 193 electrification projects and CSDP at the cost of N1,487, 015, 127. 18.

“Currently, three other feeder lines namely: Gbogan/Ikire, Osogbo/Ila, Ibokun/Osunjela and Iwo/Ejigbo are being rehabilitated while another new one is being constructed to link the 132/33KV transformer stations at Ilesa to Fadahunsi injection station in Ilesa”.

http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/economic-hardship-is-over-in-osun-says-aregbesola/

mignone:

e ku deedé ìwòyí oo gbogbo omo-olú-ìwà-bí. orí mi n wú bí mo se n ka àwon ohun ìjìnlè wònyí lati owó àwon t'èmi.
to the question, I think 'omoluabi'- "offspring of distinct virtues" depicting that which d Yoruba culture&tradition represents; IMO

You are also right...my adorable,brother.It depicts goodness...

[size=13pt]Ondo Trauma Centre Begins Kidney Transplant[/size]

Ondo state Government has announced that its Trauma centre will begin kidney transplant in the new year as part of the measures to make the centre live up to its billing as the best medical centre in the country.

The centre is also expected to take off in the new year, with its Cardiac Intervention Centre, Radiotherapy and Cancer institute as well as what has been described as a purpose built Opthamological hospital.

The state Commissioner for Information, Kayode Akinmade, while speaking with newsmen in Akure at the weekend on new services that will be available at the centre from the first quarter of next year, said the emergency surgical intervention in the country is being transformed with the state taking a leading role.

He offered that the Trauma centre is a level 1 trauma centre with personnel across all surgical specialists, adding that about 3,000 surgeries have been carried out in the yet-to-be-unveiled Trauma and Surgical Centre, with 2,400 dialyses done at the kidney Care Centre since March 2014, when the facility became operational.

Akinmade mentioned that 1,000 new cases have been received, adding that the centre has so far performed 50 spine surgeries, 350 plastic surgeries, over a thousand Ophthalmology, 800 Ortho, 100 ENT, 100 neuro and over 400 general surgeries among others.

The commissioner said the Dr. Olusegun Mimiko-led administration, was from inception determined to make Ondo State the best administered state in Nigeria and the cynosure of all eyes, of which its citizens shall be proud of and to mobilise the people to harness all her God-given resources, create and use wealth for the ends of individual happiness.

To achieve this, he said, government considered the health of the citizens of the state as a priority since health is wealth.

Also at the weekend, national president of the Nigerian Orthopaedic Association (NOA), Prof. Mike Ogirima predicted that Ondo state would continue to be a medical destination with its attendant effect on qualitative healthcare services.

He said the facilities at the University of Medical Sciences, Ondo, particularly the trauma centre, are the best in Nigeria as well as in line with global best practices.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/ondo-trauma-centre-begins-kidney-transplant/226631/

How Obafemi Awolowo became the Leader of the Yoruba and its lesson for today. By Dr. Ibiyinka Solarin

A simmering undercurrent of disaffection is brewing within the Yoruba polity, blown open and exacerbated by the assassination of Chief Ajibola Idowu Ige. This undercurrent was there when Ige was alive.
This article is an attempt to offer some suggestions as to how it can be resolved so we [the Yoruba] do not end up in mutual recrimination and socio-political cannibalism. We owe it a duty to our common and much cherished patrimony, the Nigerian commonwealth and the world at large to cultivate, promote and sustain a culture of decent and civil contention and disputation in our politics.

Each nationality that make up the Nigerian federation must have peace in its own domain before it can contribute meaningfully in resolving the contradictions of the federal republic. It behooves us all as stakeholders to do all we can to promote peace and concord within our nationalities and the Nigerian family at large.

The choice of the topic is deliberate because the problem centers around the role and place of the holder of the title of the ‘Asiwaju of the Yoruba’ in political partisanship in ‘peace time’ Nigeria. The title, Asiwaju, [the one in front, the Leader ] is an exigency of ‘war times’, ‘abnormal times’ or ‘crisis times’ in the Nigerian federation, when the Yoruba, fearing discordant voices, lest others took advantage of their history of fierce political contestation, elected to speak with one voice. All chroniclers of human events and affairs, suggest that the study of a social phenomenon begins with the study of its history , thus to the source, we must go.

Before August 12, 1966, the only universally- acclaimed Leader of the Yoruba was Oduduwa, their venerated progenitor. No Alafin or Ooni commanded universal acceptance; the Yoruba were engaged in ruinous self-destructive wars, [the Ijesas, Ibadan, Ijebu, Oyo], pitting brother against brother, leading to betrayal and loss of territory [like in Ilorin]. even during the slave trade until the British colonialists came.
The Yorubaland had, incrementally beginning with Lagos in 1861, been incorporated into what ultimately became the British colony of Nigeria in 1914. Whatever the British might have designed the Nigerian federation [ a forced amalgam of disparate peoples] to be, events came to a head on January 15th 1966. Of the events of this day, and others deriving therefrom, there is not much dispute, though to this day, the motives, speculations and opinions are fiercely contested.
A seismic rupture had occurred. Two of the biggest nationalities of Nigeria, the Igbo and the Hausa in tandem with their Fulani overlords were at each others throat, the future of the Nigerian federation looked grim, dim and precarious indeed. This is not the place to do a rehash of the events of Jan 15 1966, for which the aggrieved staged a revenge in July of the same year.
On July 29th 1966, elements of northern Nigerians in the army led by Yakubu Danjuma had surrounded the government house in Ibadan, the political capital of the Yoruba, murdered Adekunle Fajuyi, the military governor and his guest, the head of state, J T U Aguiyi- Ironsi. For two harrowing days, Nigerians did not know who was in charge. Nobody knew what could happen.

The Yoruba were in disarray, their military governor murdered, their kinsman Babafemi Ogundipe, a Brigadier who ordinarily ought to take command of the army on the assassination of Ironsi, fled when confronted with the murderous reality of the mutineers in Lagos, led by Murtala Mohammed. The Nigerian army has become the armed wing of the northern political establishment with a thirty- two year old Lt.-Colonel [Yakubu Gowon] calling himself the Supreme Commander, when there were Brigadiers, Colonels and even Lt-Colonels who were his superior officers.
Political and military power over the Nigerian federation was now in their hands. Northern troops were in Yorubaland, supremely confident. If they turned on the Yoruba, as they did on the Igbo in May, who would speak for them? What weighty voice was there to give people hope, in case of anything untoward, indeed any eventuality?.
The original plan of the northern establishment in July 1966, was to secede from Nigeria once they exacted their pound of flesh in what Yakubu Danjuma called their ‘revenge coup’. Once their British mentors pointed out to them the folly and bankruptcy of this position, [land-locked and the most economically backward region of Nigeria] they made a dramatic volte face. Yakubu Gowon released Obafemi Awolowo from incarceration and told him ‘we will need your experience’at their very first meeting. The Leaders of Thought of the four regions, northern, eastern, mid-western and western began to meet preparatory to a national conference.
And the Yoruba gathered at Western Hall in Ibadan on August 12, 1966, summoned by the new military governor of the region, Adeyinka Adebayo. Now in such a volatile and unpredictable climate that Nigeria has found itself, and looking more and more like ‘To thy tents Oh Israel’, who would speak for the Yoruba? In attendance were the Obas and leaders of all the defunct political parties and different shades of opinion in western region [the Yorubaland].
If Nigeria were to suffer an implosion, the fate of the Yoruba would be in the hands of those that are assembled here, but who is THE LEADER sans partisan politics? Adebayo gave an opening address and left.
By acclamation Obafemi Awolowo was selected to preside over their deliberation. The question of the Leader of the Yoruba immediately came up which Awolowo ruled out of order but members persisted., many of these were his former political adversaries in the National Council of Nigerian Citiizens [the NCNC] and the Nigerian National Democratic Party [the NNDP].
A motion was moved, seconded by cheering acclamation and Obafemi Oyeniyi Awolowo was unanimously elected the Leader of the Yoruba. Whatever moral imprimatur and authority deriving from this title, no one, least of all Awolowo himself, was ever under any illusion that this position can be sustained once partisan politics is resumed under any guise. This was a title for extra-ordinary times when the Yoruba are rudderless or under siege.
And Awolowo himself made that clear to his colleagues. Thus the profile of the Leader of the Yoruba, in peace time Nigeria, becomes mute where partisan politics flourishes, as the Yoruba like any free citizen of Nigeria can seek affiliation and membership with and in any political party of his or her choice.
Thus, in 1978, once partisan politics commenced, leading Yoruba personalities like AMA Akinloye, OsuOlale Akinjide, Toye Coker, Adeleke Adedoyin and MKO Abiola were in the National Party of Nigeria [the NPN], Adeniran Ogunsanya, TOS Benson, AreOye Oyebola were in the Nigerian Peoples Party [the NPP] while Obafemi Awolowo, Adekunle Ajasain, and J.A.O Odebiyi were in the Unity Party of Nigeria [the UPN]

Aareonakakanfo:


Hmmmn interesting! E don tey oo Those zones were rough maaan.As per Shymm3x, I think he has deleted the Shymm8x account.It was probably banned by this new mod.There's a strategic ploy to kill off the thread and Its by banning key posters.Both my Aareonakakanfo and CabbieAC accounts were banned.I don't even want to talk about the mod.Lets just leave that one aside

Loool.

So that heifer, afam4never/balkan/kaycid77 banned you as well? - hysterical.

I was actually posting on the thread - then kaboom, my handle was banned for 25 years, for no reason. Then I checked and saw that it was the biafran phaggot. I just laughed, deactivated the account, and moved to other things. Was gonna come back tomorrow when my real handle comes back live.

If these mofos could be this petty over a simple thread on the internet - only God knows how folks mess up one another in naij cos of tribal differences. Bruv, Nigeria is doomed. Trust me, that country can never make progress with all the hate and madness going on there.

[size=14pt]Ondo Trauma Centre Performs 1,000 Surgeries, 1,739 Dialysis, Says Mimiko[/size]


Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, has announced that no fewer than 1,000 major and minor surgeries including brain surgeries have so far been carried out in the Trauma and Surgical Centre, in the state.


The governor said 75 new patients, 292 admitted patients and over 1,739 sessions of dialysis were done at the Kidney Care Centre.

The centre became operational about 15 months ago.

Addressing a stakeholders’ meeting in Akure on Thursday, Mimiko mentioned that the emergency medical service initiated by his government replete with state-of-the art ambulances and highly trained personnel was set up to provide prompt medical attention to victims of road traffic accidents.

His said: “At the inception of this administration, we were determined to make Ondo State the best administered state in Nigeria and the cynosure of all eyes, of which its people would be proud of and to mobilise the people to harness all our God-given resources, create and use wealth for the ends of individual happiness.
“To achieve this, we considered the health of the citizens of Ondo State as a priority since it is a well-known fact that health is wealth.


“You will recall that basic health indices of Ondo State were considered the worst in the entire South-west at the outset. We have since instituted unprecedented, bold and ambitious health care development programmes aimed at reducing the burden of diseases and mortality among the good people of the state.”

To this end, Mimiko said his administration embarked on the Abiye Safe Motherhood initiative, which provides free access to quality health care services for pregnant women and under five children, with the globally-acclaimed mother and child hospitals as the apex referral centres among the network of other health facilities dedicated for the programme.

The governor affirmed that the Mother and Child Hospitals in Akure and Ondo remain the busiest and the most effective in terms of outcome maternity centres in the country in just over five years of its operations.

He stressed that thousands of pregnant women and children had continued to benefit from what he referred to as his government’s people-centred programmes already being sign-posted as World Bank benchmarks for Africa on maternal child health care.

The governor posited that his administration had also invested massively in a wholesale health human capital development through continuous facilitation of the recruitment of key personnel to bridge the gaps at the hospitals and basic health centres across the state.


“From the only five consultants in the entire health care delivery system initially, the state now has more than 72 consultants in various fields of medicine. Many of these health personnel are sent for various training programmes both within and outside the country,” he noted.

He explained that due to the brain drain of health workers as they move to explore further career opportunities within and outside the country, the state government commenced residency programmes for post graduate training in some aspects of Medicine in the state.

The governor stated further that “our quest to sustain and retain our health professionals, led us among other reasons, to establish Ondo State University of Medical Sciences, which is the first of its kind in Nigeria.”

He reiterated the determination of his administration to move the health sector to the next level.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/ondo-trauma-centre-performs-1-000-surgeries-1-739-dialysis-says-mimiko/225504/




My governor deserves a big round of applause

tupacshakur:



Aare baba, I tried quoting Shymmex but he seems to have deactivated his account.

Why na? The thread is back to the Politics section, after all.

Shymmex, no try am o. Come back to this thread sharp sharp!

Abi na Shymmex be TreyQ?

Nah, that's not me.

The only "trey" I know is Trey from Boyz N Da Hood.

TreyQ looks like a snitch/snake posting under alternate handle. I think I know who the person is.

Aareonakakanfo:
[size=13pt]Lafarge commits over N100m to develop 12 Ogun communities[/size]

Lafarge Africa Plc has committed over N100million to the development of 12 of its host communities in Ewekoro in Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State this year, according to the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Adepeju Adebajo.

Speaking at the Lafarge Ewekoro plant, while granting bursary awards to another batch of 100 undergraduate students from Ewekoro, the MD added that over 1,300 persons from the 12 communities had benefited from the company's undergraduates Bursary scheme in the last eight years.

The Managing Director who was represented by Michael Awanayah explained the said funds were deployed in executing various developmental projects touching roads construction, education, infrastructure development, empowerment and healthcare service to the communities.

She assured that the company would continue to support the growth and development of its host communities.

She said: "Lafarge Africa has spent over N100 million in 2015 on various developmental projects across Ewekoro local government area. Today, we are distributing N100,000 cheque as scholarship and bursary awards to 168 indigent students from various institutions of higher learning, who are residents of 12 communities in Ewekoro here.

"For us in Lafarge Africa Plc, Corporate Social Investment is a vital part of our sustainability drive to create positive impact in our host communities. This focuses on three cardinal areas of environment, social and economic responsibility,” she said.

"Lafarge will continue to live to its billing as a socially responsible and community focused organisation. We require the continued cooperation from all stakeholders, particularly our neighbouring communities to remain afloat and be able to deliver on our promises."

Responding on behalf of the beneficiary communities, the Onipapa of Papaland, Oba Abdul - Rasaq Jimoh, lauded the company for its gestures but asked it do more for them in the areas of building healthcare centres and town halls.

Oba Jimoh also urged the company to hasten the relocation of the two communities of Oke - Sekoni and Oke - Oko that are sitting on limestone belts to safe haven and thus, protect them from the hazards of limestones extraction.

http://worldstagegroup.com/index.php?active=news&newscid=26260&catid=30

Onreflection/Shymm3x new projects to track

I'm not from Ogun, though I can claim the state via my mum.

I rep Lagos.

MayorofLagos:


Is this not Fidipote?

Shyyyytte...Duke, hurry, come and identify this Awujale for me. Fidipote is high like a kite...

Ijebu Alare, Ewe so o!

www.nairaland.com/attachments/3129976_images_jpeg_jpegeb6c065c105cfe1af50da1aeadfb7a99

Real nyggah messing with that Mary J.

Darn!! Real G right there, in Ionosphere after overdosing on zoot.

He's most likely Fidipote.

Ritchiee:
You are also right...my adorable,brother.It depicts goodness...

e dakun arakunrin mi, obirin ni mi o

CONTD...

To buttress this point, the Yoruba have only come up with this title when there is a need for a Leader to speak for and articulate the political line of the Yoruba nation [like in 1966] or when they are under siege like during the reign of terror of the late happily departed depraved slowpoke.
Hence Adekunle Ajasin filled that role and after his passing, the Apamaku Aderibigbe Adesanya was also so elected. All the three men who have held this title earned it strictly on personal merit and in recognition of service to and defence of the cause of the Yoruba nation. Obafemi Awolowo himself was only fifty-seven years old when the title was conferred on him and there were people who were far older than him at the assembly.
So, age which is revered among the Yoruba is not necessarily a major criterion. The integrity, extra-ordinary courage and personal merit of the holder of this title is evident to all regardless of political partisanship. Here is Adeyinka Adebayo, former military governor of Western region and a leader of the NPN in the second republic, [Vanguard Dec 19th, 201], on Awolowo, ’we lost our bearings since Chief Obafemi Awolowo left western region premiership to contest the seat at the federal house of representatives……if Chief Awolowo had stayed as premier of western region…..the Yoruba would not have been relegated to the background in the country’ Chief Ayotunde Rosiji, the General- secretary of the Action Group, [later deputy leader to Chief S.L Akintola in the Nigerian National Democratic party [NNDP] [ who was removed from his position at the unforgettable Jos congress of the party in 1962 that precipitated the crisis that eventually led to the January 1966 coup d’etat, expressed the same views about Awolowo as contained in his biography by Nina Mba [1992], ‘Rosiji regrets that the AG did not win more seats in the 1959 elections so that Awolowo might have been made prime minister. Of all the leaders he was the most qualified by education, by intellect, and by organizational ability.


Had he been prime minister and Azikiwe governor- general, Rosiji feels they would have made an unbeatable team for Azikiwe’s charisma and humaness would have have complemented Awolowo’s single-minded dedication and thoroughness’ OsuOlale Akinjide, easily one of the most inveterate and implacable critic and political opponent of Awolowo told Nigerians in [ThisDay, 2001] that his regret in Nigerian politics was that he was not able to be ‘in the same political party with Chief Obafemi Awolowo’. Adekunle Ajasin was already in his eighties when he took on Sani Abacha and remained unbought and unbowed till the end of his life.

Aderibigbe Adesanya earned the sobriquet ‘The Apamaku’ [the one who refused to die] when he faced down the murderous goons of Sani Abacha as testified to by the leader of the assasination squad himself Sergeant Barnabas Jabila Msheila [a.k.a. Sergeant Rogers] on the street of Lagos, and by the grace of God, walked out of his bullet- riddled car unscathed.

Sergeant Msheila was led to Adesanya’s home by Lateef Sofolahan, the Abacha spy and informant who was masquerading as an assistant to Kudirat Abiola and was in her employ. We have gone this length to explain the extra-ordinary circumstances that threw up this title and pedigree of its holders. Indeed, one cannot but wince in disappointment on reading the works of some Nigerian commentators and writers who characterize the politics of the Yoruba as inward-looking or ‘tribal’.

These writers betray a gross ignorance of Nigerian political history. What Awolowo and his followers have reaped from 1979 till date, are the fruits of their revolution of 1952-59; when children in western region [comprising today of Oyo,Ondo,Osun, Ogun, Ekiti, Edo, Delta, including much of what is Lagos state today] had free medical service from birth to the age of eighteen and free primary education. It was the beneficiaries and products of these schemes in their millions and their children now, whose lives had been transformed by the meticulous planning and social engineering of Awolowo’s government that made him the paramount leader of the Yoruba, partisan politics or not..

For their parents though, Awolowo had to prove himself and this he did by dint of hard work and unflinching commitment to the welfare of the people of western region when he was the premier. Awo did not believe that you come into public service to ‘come and eat’; for him, a political party is made of ideological compatibles who share same ideas about the role and place of government in people’s life, have come up with a political platform about what they intend to do with the power they are seeking through the vote of the people. Hence, they have a covenant with people who had voted for them and have to deliver what had been promised during electioneering campaign.


Thus, he would say that one should not enjoy in government what one could not provide for oneself in private life, so you would not develop a sit-tight syndrome. He also believed in the supremacy of the party where all ideas are fiercely debated before a decision is reached. As premier, his party faced fierce and unrelenting opposition in critical divisions of western region; Ijesha, Ibadan and even in Ife whose monarch Oba Adesoji Aderemi, the late Ooni was the governor.


The Action Group was the government in power but every vote was contested and there was no place for complacency. The National Council of Nigerian Citizens [NCNC] was strong in western region and infact won the election of 1956. In 1952, Awolowo as leader of government business and later as premier faced a hostile colonial government that viewed him with suspicion and his party’s program with scorn and derision; worse, he faced a skeptical people to whom he had to prove himself and earn their trust.

Untested, this was the advent of self-government in Nigeria; could he really lead his party to make ‘life more abundant’for the people of this region? To the extent that he did, and was acknowledged to have done so by friends and foes alike, was testified to on August 12 1966, nine days after he was released from gaol, the Yoruba people turned to him to lead them as they faced an uncertain future in a convulsing Nigeria.

Aareonakakanfo:


I'm telling you I was shocked.I went through my posts looking for any offensive comment and I couldn't find anyone other than saying I hate the character who came here to troll me.Maaan everything is messed up trust me.Even offline and that's why I'm very serious about that stuff we spoke about.We'll keep having these issues.I won't even be surprised If I get banned for these comments I've made

Looool.

I didn't even post on any other thread, apart from this one, with that handle. So there was nothing offensive in my post and I was just messing about on the thread yesterday with videos.

That biitch arse banned the both of us and started posting comments on the Enugu and Anambra threads.

Darn! Nigeria/Nigerians are fcvked up.

mignone:

e ku deedé ìwòyí oo gbogbo omo-olú-ìwà-bí. orí mi n wú bí mo se n ka àwon ohun ìjìnlè wònyí lati owó àwon t'èmi.
to the question, I think 'omoluabi'- "offspring of distinct virtues", depicting that which d Yoruba culture&tradition represents; IMO
ìwà loba àwúre, ìwà rere yo gbè wa o; Àse!

Alright, it took me about 4 hours to decode what you wrote up there using my trusted CDs, learning aids and a dictionary, but it was well worth the effort. E seun pupo.

Aareonakakanfo:
Without any doubt,I believe Ondo state has done the most in the health sector.That's our medical capital.They should do more so our people will stop going abroad to treat themselves when they can easily do that at home

∆ You are right. in fact, there's a newly built tertiary institution in ondo state ; university of medical sciences (unimed).

http://unimed.edu.ng/


they just need to do more and they will be free to take the award of SW medical capital home.

Aareonakakanfo:


Ahan you no be Ijebu man again? You know the funny thing ? I saw that same troll making comments earlier despite the fact that we were probably banned at the same time.smh

I'm Ijebu but not Ogun Ijebu - Lagos Ijebu.

But my mum is Remo/Egba - so I can claim the state as well.