@fkeyamo Unacceptable by us and if you reapply same, they will still repeat same. They should stop killing businesses for those of us in the tourism business. UAE is the destination most of our clients / holiday makers and business people love to go. Please kindly take a good look at this
@fkeyamo Please sir, enough of the reep-off from the UAE Government. If they know they won't be issuing out visas to Nigeria, let them stop taking our visa application, why will one apply for like a 20 visas and hardly they approve 3 out of it after meeting the requirements. This is
Was the January 15, 1966 Coup An Awolowo Coup As Some Revisionists Now Claim?
Some revisionists claim that Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna plotted the coup to make Chief Awolowo the Prime Minister. That attempt to revise history does not hold water because when the coup appeared to be succeeding, Ifeajuna made no moves to free Chief Awolowo. He neither sent soldiers to Calabar prison nor made any calls.
Moreover, Major Ifeajuna was from the same village as Nnamdi Azikiwe, then a political archrival of Chief Awolowo and one of those who instigated the treasonable felony trial that sent him to prison. He was close to Nnamdi Azikiwe, a regular visitor to his house and a friend to his son.
It was considered strange that Azikiwe went on a Caribbean cruise for his leave and very conveniently refused to return to Nigeria after the leave. His ADC Orho Obada, who later rose to become a Major General, kept asking Chief Azikiwe when they would return to Nigeria as his leave was over. He eventually abandoned Chief Azikiwe in Haiti and returned to Nigeria.
The actions of Chief Azikiwe left some people feeling he was aware of the coup. But that is conjecture. Nobody really knows. But that suspicion became even more heightened when Haiti provided support for Biafra when war broke out.
Chief Awolowo remained in jail until Colonel Gowon freed him from Calabar prison on August 2, 1966. He was thereafter flown to Lagos, where he was picked up by Lt. Colonel Murtala Muhammed and driven to Dodan Barracks to meet with Colonel Gowon.
Lt Colonel Emeka Ojukwu did not release Chief Obafemi Awolowo. Colonel Ojukwu was Military Governor of the Eastern Region, and Chief Awolowo was convicted and later imprisoned by the Central Government in a federal prison in Calabar on September 11, 1963, for charges of conspiring with the Nkrumah administration in Ghana to overthrow the democratically elected government of Nigeria.
He was ordered released by the Gowon-led Federal Military on August 2, 1966 (the release took effect the next day). Gowon had become Head of State on August 1, 1966.
How could Ojukwu have released Awolowo when he was still a military Governor under Nigeria? Common sense dictates that that would have been impossible.
Because I know that Radio Biafra has deceived so many Nigerians with this lie, I will later share a video of the day Chief Awolowo was released. You will see him being driven to Dodan Barracks by Lt Colonel Murtala Muhammed, to be received by Colonel Yakubu Gowon.
I hope the video evidence dispels any lingering doubt!
These guys are professional gaslighters. They have more experience in gaslighting than any group of people in Nigeria. If we allow them, they will revise history, whitewash themselves and demonise everyone else.
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@SimoncoleB @_iOlatunde Yes she talked about her experience but never rubbished the country. Even after her experience she never stop serving the country to the best of her ability, and she still defend the country till tomorrow.
@Asakemijimi @_iOlatunde She's just a bloody party leader in class of Apata of Labour Party and Ganduje of APC not yet a Prime Minister, and she will never be one
Ademola Lookman Showed Davido and Kemi Badenoch That Wisdom Is Not By Age
Recently, the singer David Adeleke was given a global stage to do whatever he wanted and deliver any message.
Sadly, Mr. Adeleke used the opportunity to speak in an American accent. Not only that, he used that American accent to talk down on Nigeria and tell the world not to invest in Nigeria because, as he put it, Nigeria's "economy is in shambles".
Coincidentally, a month after his faux pas, Kemi Badenoch, probably inspired by Davido, used her British accent to talk down Nigeria, calling us "a very poor country" where the police rob citizens.
But the interesting thing about her own case is that the next day, the BBC featured a panel of Conservative Party big shots, and one of them, Albie Amankona, a party chieftain from Chiswick, who is also a celebrity broadcaster, said, and this is a direct quote:
"If you are a Brexiteer, and you are saying we need to be expanding our global trade beyond the European Union, we want to be looking at emerging markets for growth, don't slag off one of the fastest growing economies in Africa."
Is it not strange that it took the BBC and a British politician to promote Nigeria as one of the fastest-growing economies in Africa?
And just when we thought it was all bad news, God gave us a breath of fresh air in the youthful Ademola Lookman, who used the global podium granted to him by his winning the 2024 African Footballer of the Year award to promote and project Nigeria and the Lukumi Yoruba language to the world.
Wisdom is not by age. If not, Ademola Lookman, who is just twenty-seven, will not have displayed greater wisdom than David Adeleke, who is thirty-two, and Kemi Badenoch, at forty-four.
Mr. Lookman proved that the age of Methuselah has nothing to do with the wisdom of Solomon.
And it is not as though other ethnicities with global icons do not also project Nigeria. They do.
Dr. Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala spoke Igbo on the podium of the WTO in Geneva. In terms of prestige, she is FAR above Lookman.
My campaign is not for the Lukumi Yoruba alone. It is for all sub-Saharan Black Africans to learn to speak their language and not use ability to speak English or another colonial language as a measure of intelligence.
Besides Lukumi Yoruba and Hausa, every other Nigerian language, including Fulfulde, is gradually dying out.
General Buhari is half Fulani and half Kanuri. Yet, he cannot speak either Fuifulde or Kanuri. But he speaks Hausa and English.
Fact-check me: In 2012, UNESCO declared Igbo an endangered language.
However, the Lukumi Yoruba are to be commended for their affirmative actions to advance their language and culture.
Let me give you an example. All six Governors of the Southwest bear full Lukumi names: Jide Sanwa-Olu, Seyi Makinde, Dapo Abiodun, Ademola Adeleke, Abiodun Oyebanji, and Orighomisan Aiyedatiwa.
No other zone in Nigeria has all its governors bearing ethnic Nigerian names as first and second names. They either bear Arabic or European names as first names or even first and second names.
If we truly want to be the Giant of Africa, we must take affirmative steps to preserve our language and culture so we can have children like Ademola Lookman.
Teach your language to your children before you teach them English. They will learn English at school. Being multilingual is scientifically proven to boost intelligence.
Fact-check me: In the U.S., Latino kids do not speak English until they start school. They learn Spanish as a first language.
Even if you relocate to the UK, the best you can be is British. You can never be English. And if your choice of Japa is the U.S., the highest you can be is an American citizen. You will never become a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant WASP.
Your power lies in balancing ancient and modern, Western and African, English (or other colonial languages) and your native tongue.
That is the way to reverse language erosion, like the Lukumi Yoruba.
@AdaAnambra2023 My sister God Bless you abundantly. For standing by the truth.
I sometimes don't know how some people reason and why they make pure hate blind their sense of Reasoning
Why would one, in the throes of electoral defeat, find gratification in casting aspersions upon their nation, its president, and the revered homeland that cradled their identity?
Where is the love you claimed, you had for Nigeria?
Haven’t you done enough of ridiculously pushing negative energy against our motherland?
Such actions betray a profound disregard for the sanctity of democratic values and the collective will of the people; Instead of indulging in divisive rhetoric, a true patriot (regardless of political affiliation)
recognizes the strength in unity and the nobility in resilience.
They understand that the essence of democracy lies in its ability to harmonize divergent voices, forging a path forward even amidst disagreement. By choosing to uplift rather than undermine, they pay homage to the enduring ideals of freedom, justice, and solidarity that our ancestors fought to preserve.
Celebrating this nation, even when it yields personal disappointment, reaffirming your unwavering commitment to the progress and prosperity of our beloved motherland as you claimed to love her!!!
Don’t be a bittered soul!!!!
You can’t build and maintain what you don’t love!!!
This is our Nigeria, our only nation, our motherland, our fatherland!!!
#AdaSpeaks
#RenewedHope
#ProudNigerian
@tayoainafilms Be part of those people.
Be a good ambassador of your country and use your platform to promote the Nation.
To make Nigeria great again, it's our collective responsibility.
Do your parts and I do my own part and wait for a great positive results.
GOD BLESS NIGERIA
@tayoainafilms Have been globally before getting this new one wouldn't have been possible. Also remember, it is not the green passport you are carrying that makes you gets the kind of treatment you get, but some few Nigerians who have bastardized the opportunity given to them.
Please do not
@tayoainafilms Tayo, am really disappointed you with your sarcasm on the Nigerian passport. You are expected to be an Ambassador of this great nation and remember before anyone gets to know you globally, this is the passport that shoot you to limelight because without it, all the country you
@levelz202@EleluAyoola@Alpha_Yom@NLCHeadquarters@gsbabatunde@RealArije National Grid must be arrested and tried at the law court because it's criminal and against the. Law of the land.
Yes I agreed wages must be increased but not that outrageous of almost N500k as minimum wage, do they want to run the country down? At least N80k to N100k is ideal