Our Yansh:

Dude ran away, tail between legs like a scared squirrel....

The Clown: There's no need for all these argument, the civilised guy called Igalas Antelope because in his civilised language, there is a word with the same spelling refering to antelope. You can see his fellow civilised tribesmen defending him with all their articulacy against brutes. To be fair, a word should be called what is except that a highly civilised man might show some care not to hurt a large number of people just to get at a single brute among them, but then again, the writer and his defenders are highly civilised so that must the way of the civilised.

But you see, going by the writer's generalisation, I'm not as civilised as he is, infact I'm a brute, so I must be allowed some leaverage here. In my own tribe, the civilised tribe known as Yoruba today is called Iyaji, yea, that's the name we brutes call them, ask any brute close to you. And we brute call people by their behavior. So, going by their behavior, we call them Iyaji, meaning, "those who betray for fear." Or "cowards" for short.

So, since my own word for Yoruba translate to coward in english, I should rightly say "Please don't mind the writer from the tribe of cowards, neither argue with his defenders, because a coward must always use his mouth.

The Clown: These civised people, always willing to teach brutes proper english even WAEC level. Eko Ile, please don't leave a brute in the dark, tell me please, what is it exactly you found wrong with those words you highlighted? Please help me, civilised friend, a humble brute, by writing each of the words and providing their correct forms, thanks in anticipation of you help.

Kai, Coward tribesmen, always willing to teach civilised ways.

Mamman Ali Photo:thenationonlineng.net

Mamman Ali, an alleged fuel subsidy thief, used forged documents to steal subsidy funds.

Mamman Ali, the son of former Peoples Democratic Party National Chairman, Ahmadu Ali, forged documents to fraudulently collect N4.4 billion as petrol subsidy payments, a witness told a Lagos court on Wednesday.

A prosecution witness, Chidi Onyedikwe, told an Ikeja High Court that some of the documents used by Mamman Ali were forged.

Mr. Onyedikwe was testifying at the resumed trial of Mamman, who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over a subsidy scam.

The accused was charged alongside Christian Taylor, a Sierra Leonean; Oluwaseun Ogunbambo, an oil marketer; and Nassaman Oil Services.

Mr. Onyedikwe, the Lagos branch manager of Inspectorate Marine Services Nigeria Ltd., had, on February 21, testified that the defendants used fraudulent documents to obtain the money.

Under cross-examination by counsels to the defendants, Kolade Obafemi, and Adebayo Adenipekun, the witness maintained that his company did not issue the documents.

Mr. Onyedikwe listed the documents to include cargo transfer, certificate of quantity, certificate of quality and haulage, all bearing the logos, signatures and stamps of his company.

He said: “As I said, we went through our operational records, our laboratory records and account records.

“Those documents did not emanate from our company even though it was bearing our logos, stamps and signatures.”

Mr. Onyedikwe said that while the haulage report showed that the defendants had imported the petroleum products and that his company had inspected the products, his company did not assign any of its inspectors to carry out the said transaction.

The EFCC had in its charges, claimed that the defendants presented the documents to the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, to obtain the subsidy.

The case, which is being heard by Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo, was adjourned to May 28.

(NAN)

The Clown: I can see this one is not so civilised. He can't even differentiate American written English from Queen's written English. Though very critical of mistakes I must concede, he can't even overlook an obvious typographical error. And why is he talking about betting? I can see the structure of his written English has a lot of room for improvement.

But then again, he is from a civilised tribe, the great coward tribe, and I, a brute.

Wily/Wily:

I'm not igbo.
Yes Tolexander, i mean Adaka Jasper Issac Boro

ndu_chucks:

The author was probably referring to Ali's write-up as Rantings Of An Antelope

Afam4eva:
According to people on this thread, Igala means Antelope in Yoruba. How about the author looking for the meaning of Ahmadu or Ali in Yoruba instead of denigrating his tribe by telling us what it means in Yoruba. Whether he was referring to Ali's tribe as Antelope or Ali himself, it's racist to even involve his tribe in this show of shame. It's even more shameful and satanic that some people see nothing wrong with it.

Afam4eva: [size=13pt]
According to people on this thread, Igala means Antelope in Yoruba. How about the author looking for the meaning of Ahmadu or Ali in Yoruba instead of denigrating his tribe by telling us what it means in Yoruba. Whether he was referring to Ali's tribe as Antelope or Ali himself, it's racist to even involve his tribe in this show of shame. It's even more shameful and satanic that some people see nothing wrong with it.[/size]

Tolexander: better you gat a dictionary to understand what racism is.
An advice anyway!

Afam4eva:
[size=13pt]If a white person had said it, it will be racism, right? Whether racism, or tribalism, they're all the same thing.[/size]

ndu_chucks: @Afam4ever, I agree with you that we must vigorously condemn racism whenever it rears its ugly head. In this case however, I think the author is only guilty of playing with words in the common phrase "ranting of an ant".

There is nothing wrong with associating people with animals such as a Lion, Tiger, or even an Antelope, for that matter. I frankly can't think of anything derogative about Antelopes. You yourself will feel good if your lover associates you with an Animal by referring to you as "the Tiger from Enugu (or wherever you are from). If the writer had associated Ali with a Baboon or Neanderthal, you would have had a point.

Afam4eva:
Let's assume Hausa means Goat in Igbo and instead of attacking a certain Adamu that denigrated my tribe, instead i decide to translate what his tribe means in my language and call him by that name. No matter how you look at it, it's insulting to the people of Igala.

jas_o: What do you expect from people who are yet to understand why they exist? Igala people are dummies and lack ability to identify what’s wrong in them. Their father (Ali must go) who's creating or polluting air with his dirty mouth ought to be in jail in a normal country. He must celebrate OBJ for institutionalizing corruption and been made popular as evil party chairman. is indebted with live appreciation for what OBJ did to him. He must match and boast like a rubber who walk freely and as well accusing owner of a stole property for been careless to have allow himself a victim of rubber. Omo ale!

VolvoS60:


^^^^

This isn't true. The author of the article, bayo oluwasanmi clearly insulted Igala ethnic stock with two statements:


"Nothing is too insane to say by an Igala – the antelope."


"We of the Yoruba stock stand out distinct from the brute Igala man as midday in contrast with midnight."


There is no way the above statements can be spun to mean anything other than what the author intended and indeed very clearly stated. Anyone familiar with basic concepts and techniques in literature would understand exactly what oluwasanmi is saying.


Let me reiterate: If anyone insults Igala ethnic stock in its entirety because of the words of Ahmadu Ali, then how are such people different from Ali? They are one and the same through their actions. These same people would be up in arms (as they should be) if a Caucasian were to make derogatory statements about African-Americans or Africans in general.


You can't have it both ways.

"Nothing is too insane to say by an Igala – the antelope"

"We of the Yoruba stock stand out distinct from the brute Igala man as midday in contrast with midnight."

ndu_chucks:

The problem with your analogy above is that Hausa does not mean Goat in Igbo or any other language, besides goats are universally associated with stupidity. Pray tell, what is the Antelope associated with that can be deemed derogative or negative? Everyone has heard the term "The rantings of an ant" and I'm sure you've never heard anyone using the phrase the "Baaing of a goat", so save us the drama.

The author was simply claiming that Ali's utterances can be described as "The rantings of an ant". He craftily tried to make his 'insult' of Ali seem less insulting by replacing Ant by Antelope.

Stop trying to fuel hatred, the author has not insulted the Igalas.

VolvoS60:


^^^^

This isn't true. The author of the article, bayo oluwasanmi clearly insulted Igala ethnic stock with two statements:
"Nothing is too insane to say by an Igala – ''the antelope''


"We of the Yoruba stock stand out distinct from the brute Igala man as midday in contrast with midnight."

Gbawe.:


Are you ready to argue with logic alone and without sentiments or subjective/personalised interpretations? I won't respond, to engage in senseless back and forth, after this if you do not see the logic below. The author is Yoruba. Igala directly translates to Antelope in his language. Ali is an Igala man.

Can you say with 100% mind-reading certainty, applied to what is written below, the author is referring to Igala the people and not Igala the animal? Seriously, I don't understand how you got it this wrong. How can you say, as used below, Igala is the ethnic group and not the animal?

“Nothing is too insane to say by an Igala – the antelope.“

Again, if shunning sentiments and working 100% with the literal interpretation of the English language and the possible logical parameters qualifying a statement, I see it can be argued the author only generalise in favour of the Yorubas and not against the Igalas as an ethnic group. Look again and leave bias/sentiments out.

"We of the Yoruba stock stand out distinct from the brute Igala man as midday in contrast with midnight."

How can you 100%, when that will fail you in an examination which will be marked for factual right or wrong, say the statement above cannot be presented below?

"We of the Yoruba stock stand out distinct from the brute Igala man Ali as midday in contrast with midnight."

To have ground to argue your case, the "brute Igala man" must be the "brute Igalas" or the "brute Igala men". Otherwise you are only another intelligent person overcome by sentiments and a resolution to argue according to a bias. Look and think again to see logic and grammatically allowed possible interpretation of statements does not at all support any argument you have laid out here.

Gbawe.:


"We of the Yoruba stock stand out distinct from the brute Igala man as midday in contrast with midnight."

How can you 100%, when that will fail you in an examination which will be marked for factual right or wrong, say the statement above cannot be presented below?

"We of the Yoruba stock stand out distinct from the brute Igala man Ali as midday in contrast with midnight."

Gbawe.:


To have ground to argue your case, the "brute Igala man" must be the "brute Igalas" or the "brute Igala men". Otherwise you are only another intelligent person overcome by sentiments and a resolution to argue according to a bias. Look and think again to see logic and grammatically allowed possible interpretation of statements does not at all support any argument you have laid out here.