Bola Tinubu becomes Tatalo’s mistress
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The scholar and researcher had taken a trip to an open market. There, he met a female fishmonger. Attracted by the casual attention this researcher paid to a croaker fish on display in her stall, the lady attempted to win this potential buyer. So, she began to dish out a mesh of adulations and panegyrics of the buyer. “Aguntasoolo, okoo mi, e wa ba mi raa,” she chanted. The researcher translated the chant thus: “Dapper-and-gracefully-tall-one, my husband, please buy from me.” The marketing gambit won and the researcher branched by to haggle the price of the fish.
In the process, however, he underpriced the fishmonger’s croaker by more than half. Enraged, the woman immediately withdrew and then went blank. Her praise of the potential buyer immediately turned into dispraise. Looking sideways as if talking to no one in particular, the woman muttered: “Sawa pile l’eja a yin, ohun nuun!” translated to mean, “Cheap sardine is what you are worth anyway, that’s it up there!” The researcher made to leave nevertheless, oblivious to what he saw as a trifle. As he did, a fruit seller nearby noticed the fishmonger’s grumpy countenance and demanded what made her irritable. The fishmonger began, pouting her mouth towards the man as a gesture to the man who annoyingly over-haggled her croaker. (In Yorubaland, pouting of the mouth towards someone is a gestural insult). Then she said, “awon nuun, Daginnidooro! E wulo nle lee ran’yawo yin wa!” The researcher translated this scorching riposte to mean, “That’s him, lanky lout! If you had been such a good husband, your wife would be here instead!”
That was the encounter of scholar and researcher, Ayo Adeduntan. As he found out, praise can morph into dispraise in a twinkle of an eye. Anyone who had haggled prices with a woman in a Yorubaland marketplace would probably have had a similar encounter. In “Praise, Anti-Praise and the Limits of Memory: Critical Reflections on Toyin Falola’s Adulation,” published by the Oye: Journal of Language, Literature and Popular Culture, (Vol 2, No 1, November 2020) the scholar tries to explain how somebody, who was once a recipient of adulations and panegyrics, could, in a twinkle of an eye, tumble down into the pit of ignominy. Deploying what he called “an ethnographic field research on performance of verbal aggression by traders and buyers in a major market” Adeduntan drew a paradigm that may be used to explain the social anger against Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Nigeria’s president. If you listen carefully to the exchanges today on Nigerian streets, the question being asked is, is Tinubu a mystique or a mistake?
Diri, Jonathan, others pay last respects to Queen Daukoru
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Gov. Douye Diri of Bayelsa and other eminent personalities Saturday paid last respects to the late Queen Gladys Daukoru, wife of the Amayanabo of Nembe Kingdom, His Eminence, King Edmund Daukoru.
Diri at the funeral of the deceased at King Koko’s Square, Nembe, Bayelsa, said she lived to contribute to the development of Nembe and the entire state.
The state governor, who was joined by other prominent indigenes of the state, including former President Goodluck Jonathan, said the departed lived a positively impactful life.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Diri was represented by his deputy, Mr Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo.
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According to the governor, the major lesson learnt from her journey through life was that she did not allow her humble family background to force her back on the ground.
Admitting a huge vacuum had been created by her exit at the age of 55, he called on the family and people of Nembe to take solace in her legacy of an impactful life.
Speaking at the Palace of the Amayanabo of Nembe Kingdom, Diri said the state government was saddened by the death of a woman he described as a true mother in the state.
Ex-Education Minister, Kenneth Gbagi, Dies At 62
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The governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the 2023 elections in Delta State, Olorogun Barr. Kenneth Omemavwa Gbagi, is dead.
Gbagi, a former minister of Education and an industrialist, died at the age of 62.
The renowned Criminologist and Lawyer died on Saturday, May 4, 2024.
A statement signed by the deceased’s eldest son, Chief Emuoboh Gbagi, on behalf of the Gbagi family, said: “It is with profound sadness but gratitude to God, that we announce the passing of our beloved father, grandfather, husband, and brother, Olorogun (Barr.) Kenneth Omemavwa Gbagi, FNIM, OON; Former Minister of Education, who departed this life on the 4th of May 2024 at the age of 62.
“We take comfort in the fond memories of his life, his achievements, and the impact he made on the lives of countless individuals and communities.
Israel Accuses Al Jazeera Of Incitement, To Close TV Network
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Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has accused the Qatar-based news network Al Jazeera of incitement and that it will be closed in the country.
Netanyahu, who described the TV station as mouthpiece of the militant group Hamas, said in a post via X on Sunday that: “The government headed by me unanimously decided: the incitement channel Al Jazeera will be closed in Israel.”
The prime minister’s spokesperson to the Arab world, Ofir Gendelman, said that the decision would be “implemented immediately.”
In a post on X, Gendelman said that the network’s “broadcast equipment will be confiscated, the channel’s correspondents will be prevented from working, the channel will be removed from cable and satellite television companies, and Al Jazeera’s websites will be blocked on the Internet.”
He quoted Netanyahu as saying: “Al Jazeera reporters harmed Israel’s security and incited IDF soldiers. It is time to expel the mouthpiece of Hamas from our country.”
Al Jazeera did not immediately respond to the closure on Sunday but have previously accused Netanyahu of resorting to “inflammatory slanders” that jeopardised not only the outlet’s reputation but also the safety and rights of its employees worldwide.