2dillu2:
why must you wail over everything

By the way @op the transliteration is NASRUNMINALLAH

Which means victory is from Allah alone

mamaafrik:
you are biase,why is it always arabic?,why dont they just accidentally use jewish language.........

Neeson:


Am not complaining, I don't really give a hoot about it all, it's only funny the way you folks try to rationalize the jihadi antics of your forebears.

2dillu2:
why must you wail over everything

By the way @op the transliteration is NASRUNMINALLAH

Which means victory is from Allah alone

mamaafrik:
you are biase,why is it always arabic?,why dont they just accidentally use jewish language.........

Free101:

Latin is more of a "universal" language. Its like a lingua franca of the world. like the one on the One Cent of the USA.
But this, this is Nigeria for fvck sakes, you don't expect a country of diverse ethnicity and religions to use what others think is a "religious language" (which is not far from the truth) on national emblems and the national currency (I think the currency ish is no more there)

gimakon:


Are you serious? Are you God? How do you know Nigerian army will stand to defend nigeria as a whole? With this katakata everywhere abi you no day watch news? Please spare me that crap.
Butt hurt, bottom hurt, that one na English, I'm not even worried one bit.

Nigeria was colonised by Britain and not Saudi Arabia. Strictly your problem if you keen on harsh islamic theory, islam as far as I'm concerned won't rule, forget this agboju eye una day do, with arabic and islam, I assure you, it will go the way of dinosaurs soon. Wait till Biafrans do what they Wonna, then I would look at the emblem of Nigerian army and laugh at you biggest time.

DBriteLitehouse:


Nigeria is for all of us.And we have all the right to ask questions bothering on the unity of the nation.WHY SHOULD ARABIC BE USED IN THE FIRST PLACE?

sweetgala:


Corrected to what, Aramic/Arabic or Ajami are very valid ancient lettering and very much intricate in ancient mathematics and arithmetic as well as history and text.

A great deal of old texts dating back to the time after Emperor Constantine and it's fall to the caliphate are written in said text

sweetgala:


What have we ever had as a nation in common with Judaism to use Yiddish in our coat of arms or Insignia. From what I know Hebrew is often employed in Nigeria by pentecostal churches thou many of them may not know it, e.g Shalom and many old testament statements

naptu2:
Lord Lugard was a dictator and an egomaniac (he loved to twist history to suit his purposes). He rewrote history to make it seem like the final battle in the conquest of Nigeria was the defeat of the Sokoto Caliphate in 1903.

The British captured Sultan Attahiru's flag in the course of the battle. The flag had the inscription, "Victory is from God alone" written in ajami. The British kept the flag in a museum. The inscription was eventually used as the motto of the Northern Nigerian Army (before 1914). Lord Lugard eventually adopted the motto as the motto of the Nigerian Army at amalgamation in 1914 (when the army of the North and the South were merged).

Ajami is Hausa Language written with arabic script (just like you can write Yoruba with latin script).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajami_script

JayJustus:


dafuq you saying tho arabic alphabets doesn't mean its arabic language?? nigga stop taking substandard weed

2dillu2:
why must you wail over everything

By the way @op the transliteration is NASRUNMINALLAH

Which means victory is from Allah alone

meforyou1:
better Latin or any other language than arabic

HaneefahRN:

Lolz, so tht is what is paining u 'tolerant' guys, nw I understand

Osahon7:
Nigerian Army is dominated by the northerners/Islam ppl! Dats d reason for d Arabic

imhotep:

The maga forgot that Military is also part of Civil Service.

mamaafrik:
hmmmmmmm,you tried iyawo, leme see how effective your mind is,kindly justify why such inscription should be written in arabic and not in english our official language on a badge of a cosmopolitan state like Nigeria?

mamaafrik:
hmmm,that what i'm saying,what'll be your reaction if chief of army staff re-designs it with another with an hebrew or jewish inscription that mean "Jesus,our great conqueror",shebi Jesus according to intrinity is God.........

Freemanan:


DID ISLAM FOUND THE ARABIC LANGUAGE??


DO YOU EVEN READ AT ALL? YOU JUST TYPED SOME FANCIFUL GIBBERISH AND YOU THINK THAT MAKES YOU EINSTEIN? SORRY ALBERT, YOU LACK LOGIC AND SENSE ....


ARABIC IS AMONG THE LANGUAGES USED BY SOME OF THE GREATEST INVENTORS AND IT HELPED IN THE QUEST FOR HUMANITY RELATED DISCOVERIES... EVEN THE UN HAS ARABIC AS ONE OF HER OFFICIAL LANGUAGE. NOW ASK YOURSELF, WHY?

sweetgala:
It is one of the languages we speak. On many of the insignia worldwide the Latin language is used even when none of them speak Latin and never did as a nation.

Rexology:

MILITARY is part of civil service? Hmmmmmmm... Since when?

EloquentMedia:

Of course there are many who call themselves chrisrians because theyre not Muslims yet they don't know anything about the kingdom they represent. We are indeed wailers-crying and interceding for your likes to find Jesus.

Ayodee2:


You are right. Some of our legal term are Latin. And if you check some of our higher institutions logo's you will find Latin words. examples is.
OOU= excellentia humana et patriae opus

rallymento:
If Nigerians were living in peace and unity, this wouldn't be an issue!
But we are so disunited..... Every ethnicity wants to be represented... Yoruba will tell igbos to go to their villages yet they want to marry their daughters, igbos will be clamouring for secession yet they haven't made their safe havens safe for them..... Hausa with their born to rule mentality but not educated enough to rule..... Then the minority feels cheated and why are they even labeled Minority at first? Honestly I weep in prayers daily and I want the will of God to happen soon for this country.....

Mogidi:
Everything in Nigeria is Islamic, check the inscription on our currency also.

sweetgala:

Before the British came, the Portuguese made contact and before then over 1/3rd of the nation was using Ajami and Arabic in the court of kings and used in successful trade between northern Nigeria and Instanbul, from terracotta and art found in Ife and as far south as Edo such civilisations may have had contact with Arabian traders too engaged. The Yoruba text likewise.hausa,efik, Igbo and every other was developed out of English alphabets post the introduction of Ajami.
So in effect it is the oldest and earliest used text in Nigeria

Mogidi:
Everything in Nigeria is Islamic, check the inscription on our currency also.

made1:
Mind your Folly here suweetgala , So will they inscribe Ibo, Yoruba or any other Nigerian language on either our Airforce or Navy insignia ? Present day Nigerian defense and security agencies are heavily influenced, manipulated , and mismanaged by our fellows from the North ! Yet WE SCREAM ONE NIGERIA !!!!! . Nigerian military forces should represent the entire country and not a section of the nation ..... Or we go waka leave una !!!!!

mamaafrik:
hmmm,that what i'm saying,what'll be your reaction if chief of army staff re-designs it with another with an hebrew or jewish inscription that mean "Jesus,our great conqueror",shebi Jesus according to intrinity is God.........

mamaafrik:
hmmm,that what i'm saying,what'll be your reaction if chief of army staff re-designs it with another with an hebrew or jewish inscription that mean "Jesus,our great conqueror",shebi Jesus according to intrinity is God.........

sweetgala:

You have a problem understanding and I see it as a lack of knowledge for which God has warmed as an express-way to doom.
Ajami was derived from Arabic which in turn was derived from Aramaic, which is a Semitic language which shares it's roots with Hebrew and Canaanite text, and other ancient text from the times of Moses and beyond. It is more than an Islam, as it was used by many non-islamic civilizations. Unlike English alphabets and text which was derived relatively recently in historic context, English itself is a corruption of Latin, Hebrew, Germanic languages, Celtic and Nordic and would you like to guess Aramaic !
To seal the deal over 1/3rd of our what is now Nigerian territory was in contact with Arabic and used it in commerce and governanace before any other language aspired to such.

JayJustus:


dafuq you saying tho arabic alphabets doesn't mean its arabic language?? nigga stop taking substandard weed