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shango (m)
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Nigeria is truly one.
hahahahahahaha
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NINETOFIVE (m)
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this issue that the hausa's are the most populated is it a myth, or are they just the dumbest?.
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LoverBwoy (m)
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this issue that the hausa's are the most populated is it a myth, or are they just the dumbest?.
you are using this poll as a guide ? |
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lexyflexy (m)
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Who know what he has in mind  |
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JosBoy4Lif (m)
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this issue that the hausa's are the most populated is it a myth, or are they just the dumbest?.
The fact that you and many people percieve that Hausa's are the dumbest actually works to their advantage. Kudos to your narrow mindedness ! |
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nilla (f)
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only 1 other ibibio person apart from me  |
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JosBoy4Lif (m)
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At first I was not going to Identify myself as Hausa person though I'm from the middle belt. But since many of my fellow southern bretheren are quick to classify a northerner as Hausa, so it shall be. Infact on this poll my ethnicity was not even there. No suprise though. I too will refer to anyone south of Lakoja on Nairaland as a Southerner. Irrespective of their ethnicity |
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nilla (f)
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i feel you sha.
so whats your tribe?
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nilla (f)
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never heard of it before. will research it  |
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JosBoy4Lif (m)
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We are very tiny group.
Maybe just surpassing 100,000 people
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nilla (f)
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no wonder your id is josboy4life. your from Plateau state. So apart from speaking the Aten language can you also speak hausa?
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nilla (f)
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so your from the Riyom Local government area.
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JosBoy4Lif (m)
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Yes Eureeka! Someone knows  I'm from RIYOM LGA and I'm indeed a josboy. I can speak little if any Hausa. Due to the fact I have been in Canada since the tender age of 7 So how are you aware of my LGA, did you just google it? |
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nilla (f)
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i told you i was going to research on it. i actually went to your states website.
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nilla (f)
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but if you grew up in Plateau state would you have spoken hausa fluently?
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JosBoy4Lif (m)
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Oh for sure. That is the language of prerference, besides english offcourse
Plateau State has many languages and it would be hard to communicate to one another.
Hausa is the common language though everyone also understands their mother tongue.
You see that is why one can not classify me as Hausa
First of all my culture is closer to Igbo than Hausa. We are Chrsitians predominantly in the middle-belt
And our culture is that of the NOK people the ancestors of many tribers IN and AROUND Nigeria
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nilla (f)
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yup i know jos has a high christian population. i think its cool because you get to speak more languages than most Nigerians. if it makes you feel any better. most people from the west and northern parts of nigeria call ibibio people igbo people. which is false. i guess all of us have a little bit of ignorance in us |
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JosBoy4Lif (m)
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You do raise an interesting point regarding your own scenario. I guess ignorance is trully bliss, and people do not care to educate themselves unless it is advantageous to them. Could you give me a little summary of the Ibibio people because i have heard a lot of conflicting things? Thanks  |
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nilla (f)
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first tell me the confliciting things.
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JosBoy4Lif (m)
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Basically that they an offshoot of Igbos and that they are not, That the two languages are basically intermittenly the same,  |
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nilla (f)
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I have never heard of ibibio being an ofshoot of igbo.
the languages don't even sound alike. ibibio and efik languages are similar a little i understand some efik but can't speak it. There are also a few languages that are similiar to ibibio a little but they are not igbo.
Ibibio is one of the languages in Akwa Ibom. while Efik is one of the languages in Cross River. Cross Rivers and Akwa Ibom used to be one state, until the late 80's or early 90s can't remember, before it was split into two.
We have different food too from the igbos except the ones that are common to most other southern Nigerians.
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JosBoy4Lif (m)
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OK thankyou for that education |
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gaby (m)
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An Edo Man here precisely an Ishan representing,
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Outkast (f)
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yeah welcome, Also from Edo, benin though
@Nilla and JB, thanks for the little history lesson. The whole Efik/Ibibio thing used to confuse me
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JosBoy4Lif (m)
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MY girlfriend is from EDO YESSOOO
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JosBoy4Lif (m)
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1 away from 3000 posts you crazy Lauryn
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lauryn (f)
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Oh hush up, before I stuff U up
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JosBoy4Lif (m)
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Stuff me up, abi you know I'm a skinny kid I think there was atime I had more post then you loser |
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