Sango-Ota, Ogun State And Environs

21/02/2025

21/02/2025

21/02/2025

Did General Gowon Do Anything That Needs "Forgiving" As Peter Obi Alleged?

Yesterday, on Sunday, October 20, 2024, Peter Obi, the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, faced with a mass revolt by his IPOB base of supporters, was forced to give an explanation for his congratulations to the former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, who his base view as public enemy number one.

However, in his explanations, Peter Obi made some claims that are not historically accurate. He said that General Gowon is an enemy that needs to be forgiven. And that betrays the fact that even Peter Obi himself has bought into the propaganda about the cause and origins of the Nigerian Civil War and its aftermath.

So that Mr. Obi's lies are not taken as fact and history, public intellectuals like myself must set the record straight.

First of all, the fact that someone of Peter Obi's calibre can twist history so brazenly exposes us as people who are not aware of our history. Because we are not aware of our own history, we have distorted it, such that propaganda and pseudo-history have been orally passed down from one generation to the other, feeding unfounded bitterness that is destroying those who harbour it and having no effect on those against whom they are embittered.

That is why some people believe they were just sitting down minding their business, and Hausa people came to fight them (all Northerners are Hausa to some people) because they hate them. There was absolutely no provocation or igniting events that preceded the Nigerian Civil War. Hausa people just woke up on the wrong side of the bed and, for some strange reason, decided to pounce on the people of Eastern Nigeria.

But, of course, that is not what happened. However, because we do not write our history, and even worse, we have refused to teach it in our schools, millions of people believe this version of events. In fact, they swear by it.

We cannot keep holding grudges as if other people do not have their own

18/12/2024

PRESENTATION BY HIS EXCELLENCY, PRESIDENT BOLA AHMED TINUBU, GCFR

OF

THE 2025 BUDGET OF RESTORATION: SECURING PEACE, REBUILDING PROSPERITY

TO

A JOINT SESSION OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
ON WEDNESDAY 18TH DECEMBER, 2024

PROTOCOLS:
-- The Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima
-- Senate President, Distinguished Senator Godswill Akpabio
-- Right Honourable Speaker, Tajudeen Abbas
-- National Chairman of our great party, Excellency, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje
-- State Governors here present
-- Distinguished Leaders and Members of the National Assembly
-- Senior Government Officials here present
-- Gentlemen of the press,

My Fellow Nigerians,

1. In fulfilment of one of my constitutional duties and with unyielding commitment to rebuilding Nigeria towards ensuring that we remain steadfast on the journey to a prosperous future, I hereby present the 2025 Budget to the Joint Session of the 10th National Assembly.

2. On this day, before this hallowed chamber, I present to you the 2025 Budget at a time when our country is at a crucial point in its development trajectory.

3. The 2025 Budget Proposal again reinforces our administration's roadmap to secure peace, prosperity, and hope for a greater future for our beloved nation. This budget christened, “Budget of Restoration: Securing Peace, Rebuilding Prosperity,” strikes at the very core of our Renewed Hope Agenda and demonstrates our commitment to stabilizing the economy, improving lives, and repositioning our country for greater performance.

4. The journey of economic renewal and institutional development, which we began 18 months ago as a nation, is very much underway. It is not a journey of our choosing but one we had to embark on for Nigeria to have a real chance at greatness. I thank every Nigerian for embarking on this journey of REFORMS and TRANSFORMATION with us.
By President Bola Tinubu the president of Nigeria.
Reporting by Ekeminiobong Udoh the national coordinator of president Bola Tinubu People APC.

24/11/2024

A man told me that the Tax reform Bill before the National Assembly is aimed at increasing Taxes on Nigerians, Impoverishing the North and enriching Lagos.

I got a hard and soft copy of the Bill from NASS.

I invited him for breakfast and I gave him the copy of the Bill to show me where those issues are factored or written.

He couldn’t.
Then he said he just overheard people saying it and that’s why he also said it.

Now that is the danger of reading nothing but social media.
Many people nowadays don’t read anything that is more than one page wether it’s an article or a document.

*Senator Shehu Sani*
Wrote on his facebook wall.

17/11/2024

CHAIRMANSHIP RESULTS

ODOGBOLU
APC: 12’207
PDP: 4’234
LP: 19
Winner: Babatunde Diya

ODEDA LG
APC: 20’517
PDP:2’773
LP: 527
Winner: FOLASADE ADEYEMO

OBAFEMI OWODE
APC: 89’597
PDP: 8’349
LP: 2’778
Winner: Ogunsola Olanrewaju Adesina

IPOKIA LG
APC: 20’887
LP: 552
PDP: 4’059
Winner: Avoseh Johnson Akohomeh

IMEKO AFON LG
APC: 10’275
PDP: 2’800
LP: 09
Winner: Olorode Theophilus Aremu

IKENNE LG
APC: 13’127
PDP: 1’713
LP: _
Winner: Ashimi Mohammed Jamiu

IJEBU ODE LG
APC: 37’713
PDP: 17’879
LP: 5’012
Winner: Alebiosu Damilare Sikiru

IJEBU NORTH EAST LG
APC: 7’299
PDP: 1’396
LP: 197
Winner: Foluso Joseph Badejo

IJEBU NORTH LG
APC: 17392
PDP: 1589
LP:
Winner: Bolaji Odusanya

IJEBU EAST LG
APC: 11’005
PDP: 6’717
LP: 985
Winner: Kehinde Oluwadare

IFO LG
APC: 26’450
PDP: 4261
LP: 396
Winner: Kusimo Idris Olalekan

EWEKORO LG
APC: 26’450
PDP: 3’057
LP: 137
Winner: Sikiru Adisa Adesina

YEWA SOUTH
APC: 14’731
PDP: 3’264
LP: 53
Winner: Abraham Babatunde Ogunsola

YEWA NORTH
APC: 12’538
PDP: 3’774
LP: 72
Winner: Akinbode Olusola

ADO-ODO OTA
APC: 46’214
PDP: 5’416
LP: 1’172
Winner: Adewale Wasiu Lawal

14/11/2024

'Not too young to kill': Another perspective

By Bola BOLAWOLE
[email protected] 0807 552 5533

As usual, last week's "Not too young to kill..." drew an avalanche of response. Once the hand that writes writes and moves on, what readers make of it is entirely their own making. But we can all learn from such responses and rejoinders; which is why I am printing this piece here today. Dripping with sarcasm and titled "TOO YOUNG TO DIE, BUT NOT TOO YOUNG TO KILL", it is written by a prolific writer, Moses Oludele Idowu. Excerpts:

"I must salute Bola Bolawole, notable journalist and editor, for having the courage to go against the grain of popular opinion in his piece on this issue. We have a problem on our hands (because) everyone runs away from the problem, pretending it does not exist. Everyone avoids (asking) the right questions for fear of public backlash and loss of friends and platforms. But wrong questions won't bring the right answers!

The arraignment of some teenagers (we do not have access to their birth certificates and cannot, therefore, confirm whether they are teens or not) unleashed knocks on the government and police alike, forcing them to quickly retrace their footsteps. The publicity it drew from the media (both local and international) and the public forced government to hurriedly discontinue with the trial!

These were "children" arrested in connection with the last protest on bad governance. Let me make myself clear from the beginning. I take it to be self-evident that every citizen has the right to protest against the government and its policies. It is a fundamental right and woe betides that government in a democracy that seeks to abridge that right! But the fundamental right to protest or express personal feelings and grievances has its limits. It does not confer on the protesters the right to deny other citizens their own right to stay away from such protest. Neither does it confer on the protesters the right to deny other citizens their own

13/11/2024

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13/11/2024

Please take time to read.
Reflections... Sad Reality.

At the end of a cold afternoon, I received an unexpected visit from my two sons, one is a doctor, the other an engineer, both successful in their professions.

Less than a week ago, I lost my beloved wife.
I still feel devastated by this loss that changed the course and meaning of my life.

Sitting at the table in the living room of my simple and modest house, where I now live alone, we began to talk about my future.
A chill runs down my spine.
Soon, they are trying to convince me that the best thing for me is to live in a nursing home.

I reacted.
I argue that the shadow of loneliness does not scare me and old age even less but my sons insist, "concerned".
They lament that the rooms in their spacious apartments by the sea are occupied and therefore, I cannot stay with either one, according to them.

Moreover, my sons and daughters-in-law are very busy, so they would not have time to see me.
Not to mention my grandchildren, who study almost all day; it is impossible.

On my behalf, I argued, already without much conviction, that they could help me pay for a caregiver.
In front of me, the doctor and the engineer say that it would actually require "three caregivers in three shifts, all with contracts".
Which would be, in times of crisis, a small fortune at the end of each month.

I refuse to accept the proposal to live in a nursing home.
And here comes another suggestion… They told me that I should sell the house.
The money will serve to cover the expenses of the home where I will go for a long time so that no one will worry, neither they nor I.
I give in to the arguments for not having the strength to face such ingratitude and coldness.
I close my lips and do not speak of the sacrifices I made throughout my life to finance their studies.
I did not say that I gave up traveling with the family, going to good restaurants, going to the theater or changing cars so that they would lack nothing. See more

13/11/2024

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10/11/2024

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10/11/2024

Once You Learn This, You Will Never Throw Avocado Pit Away