Arabic inscriptions were introduced on our notes by the British long before independence.

The numerals 0123456789 are also Arabic too!

I thought the Arabic (Hausa) inscriptions have been removed? 

Somebody said NAIRA means Never Allow Igbo Rule Again. Is that the conspiracy?

aribisala0:

Arabic inscriptions were introduced on our notes by the British long before independence.

The numerals 0123456789 are also Arabic too!

How many of the school dropouts here know this ? Smh

Mac, Crayola, ekt_ and Dranoel,  

. . . you guys brought new points on which to have a further debate and introspection.   I believe the OP's question has been satisfactorily answered.  However, with the new revelations we should examine why each region cannot now promote its own as the official language at regional level of government.  

The Northerners are already slowly moving back to making that happen.  In Kano and some other states up there Ajami shares space with Latin roadsigns. Their assembly is officiated in Hausa.  It wont be long before they demand that all people in their region must speak Hausa.

Part of the power in leadership is to have foresight and imagination to contemplate the future.  The Hausas have continously led the country because of their continous ability to redefine "independent".  The North is independent of British, but the South has failed to liberate itself from British rule.  A slave cannot own slave. . . only free people own slaves.  Our self-tethering and self-enslavement to British will never put the South in position where it can own and dictate matter for the North like they do to us in South.

Does it matter if it's written in Mandarin Chinese or Hindi, who cares?

PeeDaVinci:

tot obj/soludo removed the inscription, wen was this reversed
asking this coz itz bin a long while when i last saw the naira

Lol. I thought so too. So Sanusi bin Laden must've put them back. By the way why are some people bringing the British into the matter? The Naira was created as a currency about a decade after independence, remember?

The numerals 1, 2, 3,, are actually Hindi.
they were adopted by the arabs as kingdoms rose and fell,

The British are being brought in because that is when and how it started and no one has decided to remove it until soludo.

If you go bak and look at all previous notes Pounds etc and after independence it was always so

I think the 1000 naira and maybe 500 were not changed under Soludo

logica:

Lol. I thought so too. So Sanusi bin Laden must've put them back. By the way why are some people bringing the British into the matter? The Naira was created as a currency about a decade after independence, remember?

Stop being hypocritic.Only smaller denominations of naira were changed to polymer then.

Well if you want to argue about the numerals as Hindi you will have to argue the script is Hindi.
The Arabs adopted script and numerals from Hindi and modified both.
It is the modified numerals that we now use
Truth is the numerals were adopted into the Roman system from Arabs

~Bluetooth:

Stop being hypocritic.Only smaller denominations of naira were changed to polymer then.

'scuse me? Where I sabi you from?

Aribisala, the fact that the British did it that way does not mean we had to continue that way. Their style should not necessarily determine ours. So by the time we had our own currency designed by us, you might as well disregard the previous currency give to us by our overlords.

Pass

logica:

'scuse me? Where I sabi you from?

Aribisala, the fact that the British did it that way does not mean we had to continue that way. Their style should not necessarily determine ours. So by the time we had our own currency designed by us, you might as well disregard the previous currency give to us by our overlords.

I did not say that! Or did I.

I supplied factual information without expressing an opinion
It is just a fact that humans continue most inherited practices until a need for change arises.

Why do we bury our dead and not cremate them e.g.

Change does not happen by magic.
The fact is it was done for a reason and if those around today wish to change so be it.

Trying to convice others country to believe that nigeria is an islamic country.
If u hv nt bin in 9ja b4, if u si d arabic on d note, only dat wil get u to belive dat 9ja is an islamic country.

Aribisala, the fact that the British did it that way does not mean we had to continue that way. Their style should not necessarily determine ours. So by the time we had our own currency designed by us, you might as well disregard the previous currency give to us by our overlords.

. . . we can say that about a lot of other aspects of our culture - language, religion, system of ruling. . .and so on. When we successfully do that then we are indeed truly "independent"!

Dudu_Negro:

Mac, Crayola, ekt_ and Dranoel,  

. . . you guys brought new points on which to have a further debate and introspection.   I believe the OP's question has been satisfactorily answered.  However, with the new revelations we should examine why each region cannot now promote its own as the official language at regional level of government.  

The Northerners are already slowly moving back to making that happen.  In Kano and some other states up there Ajami shares space with Latin roadsigns. Their assembly is officiated in Hausa.  It wont be long before they demand that all people in their region must speak Hausa.

Part of the power in leadership is to have foresight and imagination to contemplate the future.  The Hausas have continously led the country because of their continous ability to redefine "independent".  The North is independent of British, but the South has failed to liberate itself from British rule.  A slave cannot own slave. . . only free people own slaves.  Our self-tethering and self-enslavement to British will never put the South in position where it can own and dictate matter for the North like they do to us in South.

Thank you so much for this.

South Africa has 11 official languages, because that is a country that is gradually building an identity for itself.

very nice thread never bothered to figure out with means my self

I thought Soludo removed those arabic words when he changed the Naira during his tenure

I though The Arabic Inscriptions have since been removed on the New Naira Notes.

@ Dudu_Ntns

I don't know if its a sign of independence per se, because much of this occurred under and was facilitated by the British under indirect rule. The Sultan held control over vast swaths of the North which spoke Hausa, so it made sense to leave it as is. The south didn't have a unifying language so the British inserted their own language.Lugard actually perfected his policy of indirect rule in the North, which he then applied to the West, East, and etc as well as places like Sudan and India.

Dudu_Negro:
Mac, Crayola, ekt_ and Dranoel,  

. . . you guys brought new points on which to have a further debate and introspection.   I believe the OP's question has been satisfactorily answered.  However, with the new revelations we should examine why each region cannot now promote its own as the official language at regional level of government.  

The Northerners are already slowly moving back to making that happen.  In Kano and some other states up there Ajami shares space with Latin roadsigns. Their assembly is officiated in Hausa.  It wont be long before they demand that all people in their region must speak Hausa.

Part of the power in leadership is to have foresight and imagination to contemplate the future.  The Hausas have continously led the country because of their continous ability to redefine "independent".  The North is independent of British, but the South has failed to liberate itself from British rule.  A slave cannot own slave. . . only free people own slaves.  Our self-tethering and self-enslavement to British will never put the South in position where it can own and dictate matter for the North like they do to us in South.

aribisala0:

Well if you want to argue about the numerals as Hindi you will have to argue the script is Hindi.
The Arabs adopted script and numerals from Hindi and modified both.
It is the modified numerals that we now use
Truth is the numerals were adopted into the Roman system from Arabs

thanks.

no fighting, get down to the point

whether you use 101000001000000111 0r you use a barcode or chinese characters or  roman characters or hieroglyphics if it is Hausa it is Hausa.

So people are attacking the inscription using the wrong argument.

I do not agree with the inscription anyway but so far I have not seen any coherent or convincing arguments here just visceral dislike dressed up as logic

We shld av d arabic inscription off

How does the inscription affect the value of the currency?

Someone has said it all. If some are offered bible in arabic language, they wil criticize it. Fogetten dt arabic is just like dr eng alphabets

They have sunday work-free day we go to work on friday-begged 4 permissions to attend mosque, yet their not satisfied still here asking melancholic question, their selfishness bore even their housedogs

Naija is far from being islamic

A muslim northern lady voices her frustration in a long narrative. Then we move from the north to inscription on the naira in arabic, to the success of an igbo man in removing ajami inscription on the naira. to show that an Igbo man hate islam?
Anyone who does not want to use naira note that says naira dubu should just go as far as severing the words from the note. Let him juse put ave maria there.
Zainab kar ki damu.

SailorXY:

Naija is far from being islamic

Oh, that is all what you want? Free from "ISLAMIC" what?