A TRIBUTE TO PRINCE NAZIR ADO IBRAHIM
My dearest brother Prince Nazir Ado Ibrahim of the Royal House of the Atta's in Ebiraland, Kogi state has passed and it has hit me hard.
We grew up together, shared an eventful and rich childhood with many remarkable experiences and went through thick and thin together for 60 years!
I thought we would grow old together and share the memories of our childhood whilst in retirement.
I thought we would comfort each other in old age whilst the world quietly passed us by.
I thought so much and planned so much but alas you are gone!
You were one in a million brother. Always putting smiles on everyone's faces.
I remember the days of Atta Lodge in Yaba, Lagos, your dear father, the late Ohinoyi of Ebiraland, His Royal Majesty Dr. Abdulrahman Ado Ibrahim's private house, where we all used to meet with friends and have a great time in the late 1970's and early 1980's.
I remember our days in the United Kingdom, at my apartment in Pier House, Chelsea, my fathers "Tower House" in Temple Gardens, Brighton and your father's massive mansion in Belgrade Square, Belgravia.
I remember the days of Lagos Polo Club, Ikoyi Club and Apapa Club where we used to gather and move around in our fearsome and daring "gang" of wild and adventurous friends!
I remember the boxing and karate lessons we used to have and what a great warrior and courageous fighter you were.
I remember how we were at JB' s house in a place called Bourdillon near the National Stadium in Surulere, Lagos and police raided the place!
I remember how we fought back to back and shoulder to shoulder together against our assailants whenever either of us was attacked or threatened.
We never lost brother and they never had us down! That is what made our relationship so special. Nothing and no-one could come between us.
We spoke a strange language to one another and we communicated in code and with our eyes.
We walked the dark side together and, by the grace of God, we both survived.
I remember how we learnt to ride horses together and play polo and how we used to both love marking the streets and treading the paths of the rougher sides of old Lagos in flashy cars whilst flexing our hard and crazy muscles.
I remember the rivalries we all had over the girls, I remember the fights with the white boys and the locals, I remember the squabbles we all used to have over the most insignificant things, I remember the love that our band of brothers shared, I remember the numerous controversies we got into, I remember the numerous punishments that we jointly faced from our respective parents for our many wild outings and I remember how we used to go to night clubs like Legends, Tramp, Main Squeeze, Monkberrys and others in London, Studio 54 and Xenon in New York and Princes in Federal Palace Hotel Lagos which was owned by the Dan Princwill brothers.
I remember visiting you in a place called Geneva in upstate New York where you went to University and how we drove to meet our brother Des Braithwaite in a place called Syracuse, where he was at University, again in upstate New York!
I remember your Porsche 928 S and his and mine and I remember how, in the various cities in the world, the police would stop and ask us how we could afford such cars at such a young age.
We laughed them to scorn because they did not know who and what we were and more often than not we served them with hot words and left them with teary eyes and red faces!
That was in the early-1970's to the mid-1980's and my goodness we had fun!
Do you remember the wild teenage years that we shared?
Do you remember when we stormed the home of the Adeyeye brothers in large numbers in the dead of the night in a strange place called Catford for daring to make a pass at one of our girlfriends?
Do you remember Layeni Fagbayi, Tonye Amachree and those we fondly called the Kentucky Fried Chicken gang?
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Patrice Lumumba’s last letter to his wife after the coup backed by the CIA and Belgium:
“Neither brutality, nor cruelty, nor torture will ever force me to ask for mercy…I prefer to die with my head held high, with unshakeable faith and profound trust in the destiny of my country, than to live in submission and contempt of sacred principles…
History will one day have its say, but it will not be the history taught in Brussels, Paris, Washington or the United Nations. Africa will write its own history, and it will be a history of glory and dignity.”
(1) My speech at the Celebration of Life service of Mrs. Greth Arendine Fayose-Boulhuis, Prince Isaac Fayose's wife.
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It is clear to everyone in the Black/African world, that something bad is happening in South Africa, and believe me they do not like what they are seeing, and I can guarantee you,that this will not help South Africa in any way, shape or form.
Jacinta calls for the old Apartheid Law that our people fought so hard to abolish—requiring people to carry an ID document wherever they go.
People died to abolish this law and she wants to bring it back.
Our Ancestor must be shaking from their graves, ayikho lento 💔🤦🏾♂️
Where is Herman Mashaba to respond to this serious allegations.
Some of we knew way back that March and March, MKP, ActionSA they all funded by Israel 🇮🇱
🚨 Captain Thomas Sankara’s Testimony About The Behavior of South Africans.
This is a rare interview of Sankara that you might have never seen before. Here is what Sankara witnessed in South Africa in his own words:
“A bit like a slave who doesn’t want his freedom, because he has been so attached to his master, because he has been so shaped. In South Africa 🇿🇦, I saw back in the day in South Africa, black people attacking us black people who were just passing through who were being treated by the airline to have the right to the same treatment as the other passengers.
But it was our Black African brothers like us who spat on us because they could not understand how we dared to measure ourselves against white people. It wasn’t because they suspected that we were compromised with white people, no, because they felt that we were showing an inestimable, unacceptable pride.
Well, those black people have been dominated too long, they can’t understand that a black person can sit at the same table with a white man.”
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🇿🇦🇳🇬 A Nigerian shop owner has reportedly been shot dead outside his business in Witbank, Mpumalanga.
According to reports, he was legally documented and operated his shop with the required authorization.
Once we are isolated by the African countries, the only people who will benefit from that is the white establishment. Thanks to Jacinta and the Zulu tribalists gang.
I was humbled and honored to have been the Special Guest of Honor at the Celebration of Life of Mrs. Grethe Arendine Fayose-Bolhuis, the wife of my very dear aburo Prince Isaac Fayose, last saturday in Abuja.
Grethe, an Australian national who was fondly referred to as "Oyinbo" by her husband, passed on in her native Australia on May 16th after a brief illness and was laid to rest there on May 28th.
She had lived in Abuja with her husband for many years and is survived by a brilliant and handsome young son by the name of Daniel.
The well-attended Celebration of Life that was held in her honor by her husband, family members, loved ones and friends was poignant and moving and reflected the depth of love and affection that so many had for her.
She was a kind-hearted, compassionate, humble, humane, noble and virtuous woman, a faithful wife, a devout Christian and a strong and fearless Daughter of Zion.
May God comfort and strengthen her husband and my aburo Isaac Fayose, their son Daniel and all their family members and loved ones for this irreparable and irreplaceable loss and may Grethe's beautiful and precious soul rest in peace.
(FFK)
Happy birthday to my dear friend & brother Hon. Femi Gbajabiamilla, the Chief of Staff to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu & the former Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives.
We grew up together with the likes of Folabie Caxton Martins, Wole Atunrase (both of whom lived just round the corner from you in Surulere), Deremie Ajidahun and so many others in those heady yet great days of the 1970's and 1980's in Lagos and London and have been closer than brothers for at least 50 years.
In all that time you have never let me or any of us down & you have always displayed nothing but loyalty & sincerity to those you grew up with & your childhood friends.
I remember your scathing criticism of the late & great Chief Bola Ige when you & I first started politics in 1990 & after he ran down the concept of "newbreed politicians" which the Government of that day introduced & promoted.
I remember the day you came back from America in 2004 with your beautiful wife Saa after many years of living abroad & your visit to President Olusegun Obasanjo at the Villa to tell him that you & her were back & that you would be living in Abuja.
I remember the restaurant and bar you and madame opened in Abuja a few years later where all those that mattered used to gather and make merry.
I remember when you were first elected into the House of Representatives and, even though we belonged to different political parties at the time, how elated I and all your other old friends and brothers were that you had won.
I remember watching the great loyalty & commitment you displayed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu from 1993, through the NADECO days, through the time he was Governor of Lagos state & up until the time he was elected President & how you stuck with him through thick & thin.
I remember the unadulterated & rare display of love you always displayed & still display towards your dear mother, our Mama (who was my late mother's friend & a great politician in her own right) & towards your dear wife.
These are memories that I have of you & few know that behind your sometimes stern & officious look lies a very soft, kind & caring heart.
I remember the great and fiery speech you made at my 47th birthday dinner party at in Lagos in 2007 when I was Minister of Aviation & how you spoke so well of me whilst at the same time & in the same speech you courageously criticised the President & Government that I served!
I remember the equally fiery speech I made at your birthday dinner party a few years later in Abuja in 2011 when you were a member of the House of Representatives and just after the election of our old friend Hon. Aminu Tambuwal as the Speaker of the House.
I remember saying on that day that your time would come to be Speaker & to go to even greater heights in our nation & my words proved to be prophetic.
Most important of all I remember your sheer humanity & your extraordinary courage when it comes to speaking your mind & the bitter truth even to your closest friends.
You are a profoundly good man Femi and you know that I am not one that speaks lightly or is given to paying compliments unless I mean them.
Most importantly you have done a great job in public office and in service to our country over the years and I marvel about how far we have come together and how far you have gone.
We both grew up in Lagos and today we are neighbours in Maitama, Abuja! Whoever thought that this would be? God has been good to us all.
I have no doubt that there is still so much more that lies ahead for you my brother &, as always, my prayers are for & with you.
May God grant you many more years of peace, joy, good health, prosperity & service to our fatherland & may He continue to lead, guide & protect you & yours.
You have done us proud & by God's grace you shall continue to go from strength to strength.
Have a great day my brother & know that you are loved, cherished & appreciated by many.
(FFK)
@femigbaja@officialABAT
So are you not going to threaten the DA?? Woow so it’s okay now because a white man is saying it?? Crazy right!!😳😳Must be nice to have white privilege..
Leader of DA makes it very clear where they stand!! Nizothini kengoku??
Agents of the criminal U.S. regime should answer for their own acts of brutality instead of interfering in the internal affairs of independent countries.
Being Non-Aligned means precisely that one should not side with American bullies.
Out of respect and diplomatic protocol, we don’t make comments on South Africa’s relations with other countries. Likewise, we oppose envoys of other countries publicly commenting on relations between China and South Africa.
The assertion that my friend and brother Senator Abdul Aziz Yari, the Marafan Sokoto, had any connection with the gold that was intercepted at Kano airport is pure falsehood. Worse still it is asinine and nonsensical. There is nothing new in trying to pull a good man down and it rarely works. Nothing can change a man's destiny or prevent him from achieving God's purpose for his life. Those that are behind this fake news are vicious and malicious: they should bury their heads in shame.
(FFK)
"We have given others till June 30th to leave SA BUT we held a meeting yesterday and agreed that NIGERIANS must leave on June 24th. Any Nigerian business that opens from 24th, we will take over the shops"
@HeIsJayjam@realFFK will treat your fuck-up. You guys don't know the storm that is coming your way. Touch Nigerians and we will mess you up for good. Zulu monkey!
It was an honor to receive my brother, Mr. Temitope Ajayi, the Acting High Commissioner and Charges D'Affaires of the Nigerian High Commission in South Africa in my Abuja home yesterday.
We had a fruitful & productive discussion and he briefed me fully on the unfolding events in South Africa, the situation with our returnees, the ongoing efforts to bring the rest of them home safely, the state of our bilateral relations with the South African Government, the challenges that our nationals are facing over there & the details & situation concerning the Mission itself.
I appreciate his efforts & commitment & that of his entire team including our Consul-General in South Africa, Mrs. Nini Okey-Uche, & I look forward to assuming my duties, working closely with them & taking over the affairs of the Mission at the soonest.
I am very proud of their efforts & together we shall build the bridges of love & mutual respect between our great nation & the Republic of South Africa.
(FFK)
Do you know why this Ethiopian Prison swap(Filled with Igbos) is not being treated as a propaganda
1. It happened in Ethiopia.
2. Minister of Foreign Affairs is Igbo.
3. The prisoner were singing Igbo songs.
4. They are all Igbos.