The media itself must therefore be educated to be able to educate. It must be enlightened to be able to enlighten others, and it must be informed to be able to inform the society
Browsing: Obafemi Awolowo
Dabiri-Erewa made the assertion while delivering a lecture she delivered at the Obafemi Awolowo University Muslim Graduates’ Association 2018 National Reunion Conference in Ile-Ife.
Femi Adesina, the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, made this known in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday.
Buhari’s congratulatory message is contained in a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina in Abuja on Monday.
What is going on there are not clashes but carefully orchestrated mass murder, ethnic cleansing and genocide of the indigenous Christian population by well-armed and well-supplied Muslim Fulani militias, which are being supported and funded by very powerful people
This situation may be summarized this way: From the 1979 general election onwards the genuinely Leftist parties could participate in electoral contests in Nigeria only by liquidating themselves as they were and as they presented themselves
Chukwu made the claim at the opening ceremony of the 2017 Faculty of Clinical Sciences 10th Faculty Week & Scientific Conference, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State on Tuesday, with theme: “Medical Tourism in Nigeria.”
The government said artworks can be subjected to several interpretations.
That would not be necessary in this instance because Obafemi Awolowo, never died. His works thunder across the landscape of the Western Region in the architectural prominence of pioneer accomplishments. His words speak to the thought systems of mankind and echo to the future the paths lit yet uncharted. Awolowo engaged all the philosophers who contributed to modern knowledge in formulating the principles which guide his politics, culture and economics. Popular democracy from Plato. Dialectics from Hegel. Democratic socialism from Marx and Engels. Metaphysics from Aristotle and the theologians. Public finance from Maynard Keynes.
Babatope, a former Director of Organisation in the defunct Obafemi Awolowo’s Unity Party of Nigeria, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that he was fully in support of George’s ambition.
Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola was a Federalist in a pluralist society and had always requested the National Government to reflect all shades of opinion even whilst as the Editor of the Daily Service
What those that continuosly threaten others with violence and carnage fail to appreciate is as follows: for every mujahadeen there is a crusader. For every tyrant there is a deliverer. For every oppressor there is a freedom fighter. For every globalist there is a nationalist
Most important of all we must find it in our hearts to display and express a high degree of regret and contrition for what we did to the Igbo, pay them compensation and make restitution for what we subjected them to before, during and after the civil war. God demands it and justice requires it
Now is the time to regard public office as an avenue to serve. As the resources are vanishing, governments are likely to rely increasingly on taxes. As a consequence, the citizens will demand, and rightly so, more say on how the state is run and how their state treasury is managed
Meanwhile, I have also realised that the only person that could be sure of not going to be detained either in cell, house-arrest or prison must surely be the dead person in the grave
If Yoruba must regain and retain its pride of place, if Nigeria must triumph over its today’s woes and travel beyond the socioeconomic boundaries that fetters it, such as those given above, we must begin to prevail on citizens to start to discourage fielding grandparents for political offices, a trend anti-clockwise to the emerging new world
He said: “The news of the passage of one of our foremost leaders in Yorubaland and a national icon, Sir Olaniwun Ajayi, on Friday, November 4, 2016 left me distraught. He was one of the very few we had left to guide our path with wisdom
Until the roof was taken down, I had always believed that the houses of the Odumakins, Adebanjos, Omisores, Mimikos, Georges, Onigbindes, Fasorantis, Arogbofas and others in the double whammy train to Abuja are full of fluorescent light
Kadiri Obafemi Hamzat is currently the Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure in Lagos State. He had served as Commissioner for Science & Technology. Obafemi, the brilliant son of Pa Olatunji Hamzat, an influential politician in Lagos, in this interview with FUNSHO AKINWALE, spoke extensively on his ambition to rule Lagos State
The Awolowos, the Tafawa Balewas and Azikiwes fought for what they became. It was never handed to them on a platter