isale_gan2:

Chief, please forgive them.

Yeah, after I f*** 'em up, then I forgive their sins n trespasses.

Katsumoto:

Yeah tribalist when he was sneaking into Biafra and then spending 26 months in prison.

Tribalist when he became a spokeman for MEND.

Who asked him to sneak into Biafra before?
Chameleons.

And when exactly did he speak for MEND?

Dudu_Negro:

Yeah, after I f*** 'em up, then I forgive their sins n trespasses.

O ga o. Anyway, I no dey look for Chief's trouble.

Katsumoto:
Isn't she a permsec in Rivers State?

And as a first lady, wasn't she trying to spend 4 billion building a nonsense first lady's shepopotamus lodge?

I did hear about GEJ putting her in some unofficial ceremonial position, but wasn't sure the level of responsibility that comes with it. If she occupies (policy-making) positions way above her capabilities, all the more reason to direct our ire towards her husband. After all, he is the one who imposed her on the people in a capacity for which they didn't consent. A president's spouse doesn't normally occupy any government position other than the CEREMONIAL First Lady or First Gentleman.

She seems to be more readily labeled the financially corrupt party, but the Governor-now-President would be the guiltier party in my book. Lookit! We all know Madoff's wife was a money-hungry J.A.P., yet, Grandpa Bernie alone is rotting away in prison.

isale_gan2:

O ga o. Anyway, I no dey look for Chief's trouble.



I did hear about GEJ putting her in some unofficial ceremonial position, but wasn't sure the level of responsibility that comes with it. If she occupies (policy-making) positions way above her capabilities, all the more reason to direct our ire towards her husband. After all, he is the one who imposed her on the people in a capacity for which they didn't consent. A president's spouse doesn't normally occupy any government position other than the CEREMONIAL First Lady or First Gentleman.

She seems to be more readily labeled the financially corrupt party, but the Governor-now-President would be the guiltier party in my book. Lookit! We all know Madoff's wife was a money-hungry J.A.P., yet, Grandpa Bernie alone is rotting away in prison.

Isale, I am sorry but I am not buying these excuses. They are both greedy. She, in addition is power hungry.

^^^^Kats - I find the excerpt below under the title, "Beware of the Snakes in the Grass" very interesting.

Always be on the lookout for your enemies being close to you. Now, I am not saying that all of your friends, associates, and close friends are your enemies, but I am recommending that you be watchful of the people who you allow to enter into your circle of friends and associates. Although you may be the type of person who is so trusting of people, you have to keep a certain level of resistance to telling people everything. Of course, in a perfect world, you would like to think that you can tell people secrets and confidential things and not have those things told to others. Unfortunately, we don’t live in a perfect world. In this less than perfect world, we have to be smart enough to know that everyone we talk to is not our friends, and everyone who we call a “friend” is not our real friends. Your “friends” can be some of the most jealous, envious, and uncaring people you will encounter in this human experience.
http://revolutionarypaideia.com/2010/10/15/beware-of-the-snakes-in-the-grass/

shymexx: ^^^^Kats - I find the excerpt below under the title, "Beware of the Snakes in the Grass" very interesting.

Always be on the lookout for your enemies being close to you. Now, I am not saying that all of your friends, associates, and close friends are your enemies, but I am recommending that you be watchful of the people who you allow to enter into your circle of friends and associates. Although you may be the type of person who is so trusting of people, you have to keep a certain level of resistance to telling people everything. Of course, in a perfect world, you would like to think that you can tell people secrets and confidential things and not have those things told to others. Unfortunately, we don’t live in a perfect world. In this less than perfect world, we have to be smart enough to know that everyone we talk to is not our friends, and everyone who we call a “friend” is not our real friends. Your “friends” can be some of the most jealous, envious, and uncaring people you will encounter in this human experience.
http://revolutionarypaideia.com/2010/10/15/beware-of-the-snakes-in-the-grass/

hmmmmmm

Thanks for looking out.

Now, this is paranoiac.

@topic.

Soyinka, for those who follow his activism, has warned in the past he was "tired". He has stated implicitly and without equivocation that he will retire from lobbying on behalf of Nigerians because he believes he has played his part and that Nigerians should all be up and doing to get the leadership we want rather than expect the same old 'war horses' to continue battling for us.

I personally want the old man to go and rest. He does not deserve the disrespect he will get from a nation now so viciously divided to the extent hordes are ready to uncouthly tear apart those who would be deified elsewhere.

^^^

I agree with the man jare. Heaven helps those who help themselves.

JMOI: Forget that old tribalist.

what will you call your late Achebe

My CPB!
Baba is chilling jare.
It is best WE let other tribes fight for what they need rather than WS/West championing the struggle for ingrates.
Left to me, I would have said yoruba should stay aloof with this Oduah situation since certain people are blinded by emotion. Afterall she's looting the whole nation - I hope when such posts are occupied by other tribes and used as a chance to milk they won't rabblerouse.
We should just focus on regional integegration and development in all aspects. Like baba, we should stay aloof and mum really.

shymexx: ^^^^Kats - I find the excerpt below under the title, "Beware of the Snakes in the Grass" very interesting.

http://revolutionarypaideia.com/2010/10/15/beware-of-the-snakes-in-the-grass/

Katsumoto:

hmmmmmm

Thanks for looking out.

Me too, bros Shymexx. I'm gonna watch out for those green snakes in the green grass. Thanks. We're still cool, blood!

^^^^^Bwahahahahahahahaha - I need to steal your gif for that one. You may help me out by posting it.

This is what my pops told: "Friends come in disguise like snakes but no matter how a snake hide itself inside in an area, it can never hide itself from view."

Never under-estimate street-smartness and the cognitive skills that comes with the experience of being about that life at one point or the other in an individual's life. There are just certain things you can't learn in the classroom.

Katsumoto:

hmmmmmm

Thanks for looking out.

Gbawe: @topic.

Soyinka, for those who follow his activism, has warned in the past he was "tired". He has stated implicitly and without equivocation that he will retire from lobbying on behalf of Nigerians because he believes he has played his part and that Nigerians should all be up and doing to get the leadership we want rather than expect the same old 'war horses' to continue battling for us.

I personally want the old man to go and rest. He does not deserve the disrespect he will get from a nation now so viciously divided to the extent hordes are ready to uncouthly tear apart those who would be deified elsewhere.

Wow! I love this. Thanks Gbawe!

Katsumoto:

Yeah tribalist when he was sneaking into Biafra and then spending 26 months in prison.

Tribalist when he became a spokeman for MEND.

Wole Soyinka is far from being a tribalist. Only those who don't know his pedigree say he's a tribalist!.

shymexx: ^^^^^Bwahahahahahahahaha - I need to steal your gif for that one. You may help me out by posting it.

You mean the Beavis & Butthead one? lol. I don't know if I wanna post that again. It's on this page below.
https://www.nairaland.com/1491322/ojude-oba-2013-ijebu-ode-pictures-video/12

joseph1832:
Wole Soyinka is far from being a tribalist. Only those who don't know his pedigree say he's a tribalist!.

Hope you know my comment was laced with sarcasm.

isale_gan2:

You mean the Beavis & Butthead one? lol. I don't know if I wanna post that again. It's on this page below.
https://www.nairaland.com/1491322/ojude-oba-2013-ijebu-ode-pictures-video/12

Out!

Katsumoto:

Hope you know my comment was laced with sarcasm.

I figured! Just saying my mind.

shymexx:

Out!

Oh! I didn't know you meant the Yahoo Rolling-On-The-Floor smiley.

All the Yahoo smileys:
http://messenger.yahoo.com/features/emoticons/
http://messenger.yahoo.com/features/hiddenemoticons/

Soyinka has seen his ears with his own eyes.
he free talk again?

Prof is a great man. Not retarded, brilliant and exceptionally accurate.

My father needs some rest, he is 79.

I think he's more like the direct opposite of a tribalist.

JMOI: Forget that old tribalist.

JMOI: Soyinka is just a local champion. He cannot be mentioned in the same breath as the greats of Africa.

Is this "local champiaon" not more popular than your berret wearing scout boy professor, whose "neice", Chimamda Adichie, rubbished the Nobel Laureate Prize because her uncle could not get it?

ndu_chucks: One hopes that Soyinka's error of making the following, frankly unbecoming statement, “People said I call her a domestic appendage, what’s the problem with that? What’s the problem with Madam Shepopotamus?” has not done him in.

He belittled himself by getting into a public fight with the first lady. It is likely that the shame of the whole affair has made him go into hibernation.

Did he also belittle himself when he stood against the Civil War to the extent this was viewed by the FG as tilting in support of Biafra? Indeed WS was right when he said our problem is "recurrent cycle of stupidity."

Dudu_Negro:

Wow! I love this. Thanks Gbawe!

My brother, you are welcomed. Kongi, I can tell you all, has been really discouraged by the vitriol directed towards his person by a people his lofty ideals would never allow him to discriminate against when he fought for the collective good of all Nigerians non-stop for decades now. I don't brag or name-drop but Ogun prominent sons are really one big happy family. If you are in the mix then you know who you know and you know what you know. Would Buhari have gone near Tinubu 15 years ago? Big no. Yet look at them today to understand the "road to Damascus" epiphany that has transformed Buhari to make him realise what and who matters.

We love Soyinka and I personally support his withdrawal into the background. Some of my greatest heroes (Marcus Garvey, Gani Fawehinmi, Kwame Nkrumah, Thomas Sankara and Patrice Lumumba for example ) have been men who were too far ahead of their time to be anything other than what transpired whereby their influence and importance was far less than what it should have been given their innate greatness and ultra-special rarity. Some of those guys, even with flaws, were the closest thing to God's angels on earth. I think Soyinka is in that category.

Anyone who truly loves and values Soyinka, plus knows his worth, will wish he bows out now. Nigeria is now an unrepentant cauldron of hate and an example of almost all that is bad about humanity and I want Uncle Wole, in his late years, to be spared prolonged association with that vileness when he is a man who is goodness personified.

Katsumoto:

That is it in a nutshell.

It is time for Yoruba folks to stop standing up for all groups because you can do right by them for 99 times but one wrong by them makes you a demon.

I hope Soyinka NEVER speaks about Nigerian issues any longer. It is time for him to lend his voice towards regionalism and other pertinent structural issues.

Honestly Im glad for what happened to Soyinka and those so called pseudo intellectual Yorubas who would be speaking English all over defending others

Carrying other peoples load on their head

When the naive Soyinka was carrying his leg to go defend Biafra he should have looked at the sort of snakes he was befriending

The "that's the way of the world" song, from Earth wind and fire, is a subliminal eulogy to the likes of Soyinka. The man has a "heart of fire" yet, as the lyric goes, "child is born with a heart of gold the way of the world makes his heart grow cold" .


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=CWcATuuZAxs

cKaiser:

Honestly Im glad for what happened to Soyinka and those so called pseudo intellectual Yorubas who would be speaking English all over defending others

Carrying other peoples load on their head

When the naive Soyinka was carrying his leg to go defend Biafra he should have looked at the sort of snakes he was befriending

It is unfair to characterise Soyinka as naive.
The man's virtues should not be mistaken for ignorance or weakness.

ngozievergreen:

Who asked him to sneak into Biafra before?
Chameleons.

And when exactly did he speak for MEND?

You speak like the peacock that refuses to alter its dignified manner of walking just because the forest is on fire.
Continue burning up your bridges, and there may come a time when the only crutch you have left is your own ethnocentrism.