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http://ift.tt/2rCps1L Eyo Festival Lagosians in their thousands on Saturday defied the early morning downpour but trooped out to welcome their own “Adamu Orisa’ popularly called Eyo festival. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that festival is part of the activities to celebrate Lagos @50 marking 50 years after Lagos State was created from the old Western Region on May 27, 1967 by the then Military head of state, general Yakubu Gowon. He appointed Brig.-Gen. Mobolaji Johnson as the first military governor of Lagos State. The residents who did not open shops described the rainfall as a sign that the gods of the land were pleased with the celebrations and with the present administration of Lagos state led by Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode. It is also a sign of peace that greeted the popular Eyo festival and our masqueraders as we used the cultural festival to commemorate Lagos @ 50, they said. They told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that rainfall during “Eyo” masqu...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J For those who are old enough to witness part of the Political  History of this nation in the last 25 years or more , it should be no longer a news item to them that the former President Olusegun Obasanjo, shortly before he got elected as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 1999 under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) went to prison under the  late  General  Sanni Abacha – the former Head of  state. And what was the General‘s offence? General Olusegun  Obasanjo  ( as he was popularly referred to  then before he became   a Civilian President) along with some serving   Military Officers  then were rounded -up and  arrested on the allegation of planning a fathom coup de-tat to overthrow the Military Regime of General  Sanni Abacha. That was in 1997 or so. But in a jiffy  and all of a sud...