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The time for Beginning and Ending the Fast

Date: August 18, 2014 Author: busari Categories: Ramadan

Praise be to Allaah, we seek His help and His forgiveness. We seek refuge with Allaah from the evil of our own souls and from our bad deeds. Whomsoever Allaah guides will never be led astray, and whomsoever Allaah leaves astray, no one can guide. I bear witness that there is no god but Allaah,…

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Chief Awo Speech Feb. 1970

Date: August 18, 2014 Author: busari Categories: Chief Awolowo

Full text of the Lecture on ‘The Economic Well-being of the Individual delivered by Chief Obafemi Awolowo at the Christ Church Cathedral, Lagos on Sunday, 8th February, 1970, at 10.30 a.m. under the auspices of the Christian Laity of Nigeria. I feel highly honoured by the Christian Laity of Nigeria for inviting me to give…

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Awo, Best Leader to Ever Emerge – Nigerians

Date: August 18, 2014 Author: busari Categories: Chief Awolowo

THE sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, has been named by Nigerians as the greatest leader to ever emerge in the country. In a nationwide survey conducted by the Daar Communications, owners of Africa Independent Television (AIT) and Raypower FM, Chief Awolowo was rated as the Nigerian Leader of All Time. Awo, who all through his political…

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Chief Obafemi Awolowo And Chief Ladoke Akintola

Date: August 18, 2014 Author: busari Categories: Chief Awolowo

Yoruba ‘Power House’

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Chief Awolowo Posthumos Lecture March 2010

Date: August 18, 2014 Author: busari Categories: Chief Awolowo

Chief Awolowo Posthumos Lecture March 2010

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Tribute to Chief Awolowo

Date: August 18, 2014 Author: busari Categories: Chief Awolowo

Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s birthday celebration and lecture represents a great opportunity to bring together disparate parts of our nation in a dialogue aimed at helping to breach our differences and promote our mutual understanding. This office will be forwarding various speeches, lectures, quotes and essays written by Chief Awolowo and those written by individuals and…

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1952-1959

Date: August 18, 2014 Author: busari Categories: Chief Awolowo

Chief Obafemi Awolowo: “An Accounting of My Achievements in the Western Region from 1952-1959″ Taken from “Awo: An Autobiography of Chief Obafemi Awolowo”, Cambridge University Press, 1960   Pp 272 ff. In my view, therefore, democracy exists only when the people are free, periodically and at their will, to re-elect or remove those who have…

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