Mandeyy:
First of all, go back to school. Your reasoning is poor. Besides, your grammatical blunders are unacceptable. I see you're a tou.t.

Typical Igbo loser lol, that wouldn't change the fact that you came from the Biggest loser, traitor and coward tribe in History

sparog:
We were too young for independence then, Nigeria would have been better if independence had been delayed till much later when the Brits had fully developed the country. We got our independence without war on a platter of gold and we ran the beautiful country that was gifted to us to the ground.


What a shame

The people that champion that course had a vision that was truncated by vision less hausafulani.

Sirjamo:
Zik was a great man who believed in strategic alliance and deployment of intellect to pursue a course and achieve a goal. Ojukwu and Kanu would have gone to such a place with sub - machine guns and RPGs.

Nigeria declared war on Biafra and not Biafra declare on Nigeria.

You were murdering us as you did, so we said we are leaving.
Then u declared war on us.

Kanu simply said becos of the killings, he wants us out of Nigeria.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55PajIFvnNI

Women in Nigeria were not allowed to vote or occupy clerical positions in administrative offices in colonial Nigeria. This woman gave liberty and pioneered changes that gave right to women to vote and to have equal right to positions previously considered male gender specific.

May her soul rest in peace.


This picture says a lot. Yorubas were the trailblazers. While North and East were still learning how government worked, Yorubas were already representing government back then.

Kdon2:


The people that champion that course had a vision that was truncated by vision less hausafulani.

And we were sold off to them by Azikiwe the biggest traitor in History!

Elemosho478:


Typical Igbo loser lol, that wouldn't change the fact that you came from the Biggest loser, traitor and coward tribe in History

When they label people coward Ibo should hush. The landscape is littered with stories of Ibo making so much mouth when his opponent is far away....but soon as he smells the approaching enemy okafor don gass, cross border dressed as harlot.

One of their leaders in Onitsha during coup was in such a rush to escape when he heard Hausas are in Asaba that he abandoned the house and his two yr old behind, and fled in his disguise.

I dont know if you are aware but it would over an hour for a man in Asaba to get to Onitsha at that point of chaos in East....but this minister don gass, no even look back to grab hin pikin. . Talk about a coward race, Ibo carry the award.

johnie:

This was the NCNC delegation led by Azikiwe (Igbo) that visited London to protest the Richards Constitution of 1945, the two men, Prince Adeleke Adedoyin (Ijebu Yoruba) and Dr Abu Bakar Ibiyinka Olorun-Nimbe (Ilorin Yoruba), were members of the delegation. Others were Malam Bukar Dipcharima (Kanuri), Chief Nyong Essien (Ibibio), P M Kale (Bakweri Cameroonian), and Mrs Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (Yoruba).


They were also relatively young then

She was 47

Zik was 43

Prince Obafemi Adedoyin was 35


Abubakar Olorun-Nimbe  was 39

Nyong Essien, probably the oldest, was 55

I find it amusing that the people accusing Awo have not once mentioned the intra-party squabble between Zik on one hand and Adedoyin and Olurunnimbe on the other hand.

These two were the principal actors in Zik's failure to clinch the central seat.

Adedoyin and Olorunnimbe (both members of the 1947 delegation in contention here) were eventually expelled from the NCNC.

Zik himself went back to the east to dislodge Chief Eyo Ita,. leader of government business in the east (but from a minority ethnic group and likely a protege of Chief Essien of the 1947 delegation).

This was majorly an intra-party affair that had national consequences.

The closest contemporary analogy is to blame Jonathan for Saraki's emergence as Senate President in 2015 when it was majorly an APC intra-party issue.

FRK was often in conflict with Azikiwe and the rest of the party leadership because she felt women were not as well-represented as men. She herself was eventually expelled from NCNC.

"There are no permanent friends is politics, only permanent interests" , so they say.

MetaPhysical:


When they label people coward Ibo should hush. The landscape is littered with stories of Ibo making so much mouth when his opponent is far away....but soon as he smells the approaching enemy okafor don gass, cross border dressed as harlot.

One of their leaders in Onitsha during coup was in such a rush to escape when he heard Hausas are in Asaba that he abandoned the house and his two yr old behind, and fled in his disguise.

I dont know if you are aware but it would over an hour for a man in Asaba to get to Onitsha at that point of chaos in East....but this minister don gass, no even look back to grab hin pikin. . Talk about a coward race, Ibo carry the award.

The funniest thing is that they Keep accusing others of what they are guilty of, they started all the trouble then began to play Victims, they blame Everyone else except themselves as if they are all saints when it was even them that started Everything

johnie:


I find it amusing that the people accusing Awo have not once mentioned the intra-party squabble between Zik on one hand and Adedoyin and Okurunnimbe on the other hand.

These two were the principal actors in Zik's failure to clinch the central seat.

Adedoyin and Olorunnimbe (both members of the 1947 delegation in contention here) were eventually expelled from the NCNC.

Zik himself went back to the east to dislodge Chief Eyo Ita,. leader of government business in the east (but from a minority ethnic group and likely a protege of Chief Essien of the 1947 delegation).

This was majorly an intra-party affair that had national consequences.

The closest contemporary analogy is to blame Jonathan for Saraki's emergence as Senate President in 2015.

FRK was often in conflict with Azikiwe and the rest of the party leadership because she felt women were not as well-represented as men. She herself was eventually expelled from NCNC.

"There are no permanent friends is politics, only permanent interests" , so they say.

Many more dumped NCNC after the famous Akintola audio broadcast. It awakened Yorubas who previously thought Azikiwe shared their views of nationalism. While they viewed nationalism from a liberal approach, Azikiwe saw it as opportunity to install his ethnic Ibos. The Yorubas in NCNC were blind to see what Zik was doing....it took that broadcast for them to wake up. Their exit killed NCNC. Proof that Yoruba was the life and backbone of NCNC and when they dumped it, Zik had no strategy or tactics to save and sustain the party.

seunmsg:
Wrong! The coup succeeded in effecting a change of government. The only downside was that the primary coup plotters didn’t form the new government. Personally, I’m not convinced things would have been done differently if the original “revolutionaries” had taken over the government after the fall of the Balewa government.

Lol... what are u saying? Kaduna et al planned to deal with Ironsi. That didn't happen. So how can u say the coup was successful. The plan was to make Awolowo the leader. They didn't plan to take over anything.

If FRK had maintained her popularity and leadership position in politics by the time the country became independent, Fela most likely would have ended up being a politician and not a musician.

It is no surprise he floated his own party in 1978.

thatareaguy:


Lol... what are u saying? Kaduna et al planned to deal with Ironsi. That didn't happen. So how can u say the coup was successful. The plan was to make Awolowo the leader. They didn't plan to take over anything.

You can only deceive yourselves not others, keep lying to save face

It should also interest us that the 1947 delegation did not include anybody of the Hausa/Fulani stock.

It essentially comprised Zik, two yoruba men, and representatives of minorities- Women representative, a Kanuri man, an Ibibio man and a Cameroonian.

This is instructive in terms of the national and gender outlook of the NCNC, something only the NPN, PDP and lately the APC have able to achieve.

It was easy to bury ethnic differences when fighting the colonialists under the likes of Herbert Macaulay. Immediately independence was achieved. those differences became very obvious.

It is just like CPC, ACN and ANPP buried their differences to fight and defeat their common enemy - PDP - in 2015.

The differences became apparent once power was achieved, culminating in intra-party squabbles of national proportions.

Most political parties in Nigeria have had ethnic/sectional origins which always worked to their disadvantage eventually.

Unfortunately, NCNC lost that national outlook and became a regional party.

Elemosho478:



The funniest thing is that they Keep accusing others of what they are guilty of, they started all the trouble then began to play Victims, they blame Everyone else except themselves as it they are all saints when it was even them that started it

You dont yet understand Yoruba.

There is a key in the human spirit, we use it to unlock self-improvement. By nature the environment makes us indolent and spoils us, makes us comfortable to remain attached to the material world...a beastly state of existence! Yorubas are never accepting this attachment and so we keep probing until we find the key to unlock self-improvement and reveal the inner divinity. Its very important for you to understand that this key opens the conscience to know, innately, the separation between human and beast. Yoruba continues to evolve along the continuum of human civilization. Those who hate Yoruba are on the opposite side of this awareness, they remain attached to the low, beast nature. They are content with the crude acts and unrefined nature, self-reflection means nothing.

Yoruba will think ahead and test the outcome in his mind before carrying out his thoughts. ....but thats Yoruba, a civilized and divine being. The opposite is where you will find others.

Elemosho478:
You can only deceive yourselves not others, keep lying to save face

Who's face? Lol. I'm not even Igbo or from the South... that's if that's whom u were referring to.
Go and read history ... a book like
Max Siollun's Oil, Politics and Violence: Nigeria's Military Coup Culture 1966-1976 I'm not just saying random stuff.

johnie:
It should also interest us that the 1947 delegation did not include anybody of the Hausa/Fulani stock.

It essentially comprised Zik, two yoruba men, and representatives of minorities- Women representative, a Kanuri man, an Ibibio man and a Cameroonian.

This is instructive in terms of the national and gender outlook of the NCNC, something only the NPN, PDP and lately the APC have able to achieve.

It was easy to bury ethnic differences when fighting the colonialists under the likes of Herbert Macaulay. Immediately independent was achieved. those differences became very obvious.

It is just like CPC, ACN and ANPP buried their differences to fight a d defeat their common enemy - PDP - in 2015.

The differences became apparent once power was achieved.


Most political parties in Nigeria have had ethnic/sectional origins which always worked to their disadvantage eventually.

Unfortunately, NCNC lost that outlook and became a regional party.

The ethnic differences were known and played on the surface. The colonial masters had a solution for it. They gave each section its independence in order to avoid a political inferno.

In 1957 West had its own destiny to be managed by Yorubas. East had its own destiny to be managed by Ibos and North had its own destiny left in the hands of Hausa/Fulani.

January 1966 is a milestone! It destroyed regional independence.

sarrki:


Nop

The 1966 coup messed up the whole thing

The dishonesty and lack of foresight of our leaders / politicians from inception grossly attributed to our fall because even after the coup if we had purposeful leadership we would have repaired the damage.

johnie:
If FRK had maintained her popularity and leadership position in politics by the time the country became independent, Fela most likely would have ended up being a politician and not a musician.

It is no surprise he floated his own party in 1978.

Her popularity did not diminish in West, even past Independence. Study the Kuti's family history to understand how she became outspoken. They are Egbas and her husband was a Baptist Minister.

Abeokuta was a citadel of political and missionary pioneers. Madam Tinubu was also Egba and a model for Mrs Kuti.

MetaPhysical:


Her popularity did not diminish in West, even past Independence. Study the Kuti's family history to understand how she became outspoken. They are Egbas and her husband was a Baptist Minister.

Abeokuta was a citadel of political and missionary pioneers. Madam Tinubu was also Egba and a model for Mrs Kuti.

In 1951 she ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the regional assembly as the candidate of the NCNC.

The NCNC rejected her bid for a second candidacy for the assembly in 1959 so she ran as an independent candidate which split the NCNC vote and ensured the opposing party’s victory. She was subsequently expelled from the NCNC and formed her own party, the Commoners’ People’s Party, which was disbanded a year later.

That marked her downward spiral in Nigerian politics.

She lost her relevance as a national political party leader and then allied with international bodies.

When she became world vice-president of the Women’s International Democratic Federation, her alliances with the East in the Cold War days (culminating in vists to China and USRR as well as winning the Lenin Peace Prize) made things worse as she was seen as a threat by the West.

johnie:



In 1951 she ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the regional assembly as the candidate of the NCNC.

The NCNC rejected her bid for a second candidacy for the assembly in 1959 so she ran as an independent candidate which split the NCNC vote and ensured the opposing party’s victory. She was subsequently expelled from the NCNC and formed her own party, the Commoners’ People’s Party, which was disbanded a year later.

That marked her downward spiral in Nigerian politics.

She lost her relevance as a national political party leader and then allied with international bodies.

When she became world vice-president of the Women’s International Democratic Federation, her alliances with the East in the Cold War days (culminating in vists to China and USRR as well as winning the Lenin Peace Prize) made things worse as she was seen as a threat by the West.

In 1959 there was no Nigerian politics. There was regional politics. Politics was very local to the point that NCNC successes were limited to Lagos and West. North had their own local politics. Politics in East dictated by default of NCNC in Lagos.

To say her popularity diminished in Nigerian politics suggests she was popular in local politics in North and East, which were not the case. Her base remained West.

In West many parties failed, NCNC being one of them. By the time the coup took place in Jan 66, NCNC had lost steam. So it is a compliment to her that she even floated a political party in the West, the hot spot of politics.

Many people had their fortune changed from Jan 66 forward, Mrs Kuti was not an exception.

Culturally too her social role in the Yoruba community was expected to change once she entered into her 50s. I doff hat to her for her braveness, leadership and pioneering spirit.

Misleading topic from an afonja newspaper

What do you mean by smiling to the bank? What had your own senator done so far?

It is sad this woman suffered and goes she say did.

crestedaguiyi:


That would have saved us from foreigners from Sudan and Cameroon.

The Yorubas and igbos that championed the independence are foolishly at loggerhead today while the Fulani that played no role is calling the shots on all front and smiling to the bank

ednut1:
May God punish the british for granting us independence. Ogun fire them

Ogun does not fire. Sango does with lightning and thunder.

Nice

sarrki:
The year 1947 when Olufunmilayo Kuti (Fela Mama) led an entourage of Yoruba Kings, Royals and Chiefs plus Nnamdi Azikwe to London on a major quest for independence from British colonial rule. Fela was right when he said "She is the only mother of Nigeria.

Afonjass changing the narrative since 1900.kuti did not lead anybody anywhere...

adeniyi65:



It's like we share same opinion on what really course setback for us in this country.unripe Independence and our culture.

Yes bro

Sadly it doesn't look like there is anything that can be done to save the country from itself right now

Who remembered them telling us in SCHOOL ZIK, AWOLOWO and CO BROUGHT AMALGAMATION..... When I REALISED its all lie I GAVE UP ON THE JUNKS YOU PAID TO BE FEED EVERY TERM ON SEMESTER....




ZOMBIE REPUBLIC

she was there escort

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Gandollar:
How many times have you masturbated today with that picture? Why not use Tiwa/wizzy sex video instead?

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sparog:
We were too young for independence then, Nigeria would have been better if independence had been delayed till much later when the Brits had fully developed the country. We got our independence without war on a platter of gold and we ran the beautiful country that was gifted to us to the ground.


What a shame

Thats why Biafrans are seeking independence
And certainly not on a platter will we get it
It will be hard fought and treasured