WORD OF FAKOREDES

Don’t underestimate the dreams everyone has; you have no knowledge about the one that would later marry your own. Be each other’s keeper and know that beautiful dreams date only beautiful dreams ! Gud morning

Comments

What Happened On This Day – 28 March

What Happened On This Day – 28 March 1990 Jesse Owens receives the Congressional Gold Medal The African American athlete dominated the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, which were held during the reign of Adolf Hitler's racist nazi regime. 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear power plant experiences a partial meltdown and radioactive leak The coolant leak was the worst commercial nuclear accident in the United States. A continuous string of nuclear disasters, such as Three Mile Island (1979), Chernobyl (1986), and Fukushima (2011) continue to raise doubts about the security and environmental benefit of nuclear power. 1969 Greek poet Giorgos Seferis speaks out against the military junta The Nobel Prize laureate issued his now famous statement against Greece's repressive right-wing Regime of the Colonels on the BBC World Service. 1963 Alfred Hitchcock's movie The Birds is released The film about a swarm of birds wreaking havoc in Bodega Bay, California...

IBADAN EMPIRE; Still on KIRIJI WAR, longest civil war in the word

The Ibadan empire With Ijaiye disposed of, Ibadan was free to consolidate its empire in the east. Between 1847 and 1870, large areas of Ijesha, Igbomina, Ekiti and Akoko came under Ibadan control (Akintoye, 1971: 33-75). Initially, this was in response to the threat from Ilorin. Some of the Osun towns like Osogbo had willingly come under Ibadan protection. More force was used in the subjugation of the towns further to the east. The Ijesha proved difficult to control. While Ibadan was occupied with the Ijaiye war, the Ijesha attacked them from the east. They were beaten off, and the Ibadan capture of Ilesha in 1870 marked the high point of Ibadan power (Akintoye, 1971: 56-60). The subordinate towns controlled by Ibadan came to be administered through officials called Ajele, a system similar to that of the former Oyo empire (Awe, 1964). Each of the towns was the responsibility of a “babakekere” in Ibadan, who administered through an Ajele in the town it...

A WAKE UP CALL TO ALL FOSSU SENATORS

A WAKE UP CALL TO ALL FOSSU SENATORS The system of governance by our students union leaders has proved to be nothing both Dictatorship of the highest order. Democracy which is known as government of the people, by the people and for the people has now been changed by our students union leaders to government of their people, by their people and for their people. Our Unionism is now of Secret cult, is either you join the group and neglect the students interest or you stay with the students and watch while you are being played around The senate principal officers in their activities has shown to us that their Weaknesses has been an advantage for the Executives to play the Oyo state students around.Any Leadership that is built on Lobbying and Secretive governance will definitely turn to dictatorship.An example was the Courtesy Visit to Kabiyesi Olubadan of Ibadanland, i found it very difficult to understand how the Senate President and his colleagues who shows no ...

IBADANS

Search This Blog