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shymmex: I already reported you to the mods. I hope they can warn you to stay off my SN, you gay bastard.

shymmex: Mod, can you please warn this fool one_naira to stop accusing me of SNs I know nothing about?

https://www.nairaland.com/971106/igbo-yoruba-relationship-niger-delta/3#11204502

Atleast I'm sure that you are Brixtonyute. Do you still remember sometimes early this year when you protested the ban on Shymmex with Brixtonyute id? Do u think that our memory are short? Do u really have any integrity left in u?

shymmex: Mod, can you please warn this fool one_naira to stop accusing me of SNs I know nothing about?

https://www.nairaland.com/971106/igbo-yoruba-relationship-niger-delta/3#11204502

Atleast I'm sure that you are Brixtonyute. Do you still remember sometimes early this year when you protested the ban on Shymmex on this platform with Brixtonyute id? Do u think that our memory are short? Do u really have any integrity left in u?

Boyloaf: wow. God help us! 2 packs of spaghetti in one private part! Jeeeez

She must have been expanding her private part every blessed day for one year with boogie to achieve a private part so expanse to accommodate 2 packs spaghetti.

Oops. . . I never knew that Nigerians use ecstasy. I thought MDMA(ecstasy) is a strictly western party drug. Soon some will also discover ketamine too. But I'm worried that trafficker will adultrate it with hallucinogenic drugs like phencyclidine. This is bad news for our youths cos large population of users will end up in mental homes

FACE: Nwanna, I think Ogugua's definition can also be encompassed within the several meanings of efulefu.E.g a 30 year old man that has no job and does not make any effort to get one and indulges in useless activities like getting drunk all the time and steals stuff from people is an efulefuofo-ogri. A man who goes about squandering his inheritance or selling collective properties like land and has no intention of creating wealth is an efulefuofo-ogori. Those people can be classified as lazy, useless and drive-less. Your own definition is also very correct.

You've just translated the word "Ofo-ogori"

ogugua88: That was the definition I got from native Igbo speakers, including my parents. And I do make an effort.

Efulefu can also mean someone who works against his/her people interest or engages in activities that conflicts with his/her people collective interest. It can never translate to someone who is lazy, lacks drive or hopeless. Sorry, daddy is wrong on this one.

ogugua88: Efulefu is someone that's lazy or lacks drive; hopeless.

lol
Nne, try to mingle with folks that understands and speaks Igbo over there. My uncle who lives and work in Virginia since 1990 speaks Igbo better than me. So you can easily learn Igbo if there is a spirited effort on your side.

Efulefu is someone who is not in full grasp of the issue. Though it might have other meaning

alj harem: say 90 % of Yoruba tribalist here would not even be tribalistic but Nairaland turn them to what they are.

Who cares?!
Your warped viewpoint convinced you that Igbos are inborn tribalists.
FYI, whenever Yorubas pokenose into Igbo affairs, they are bound to get aggressive rebuttals. You guys seems not to get this gist. Igbos have people that can match(or even better) u guys in every spheres of life. We don't care about Yorubas! We tends to react when Yorubas cannot contain their arrogance to the extent that it spills into our territory. I repeat, we don't care about Yoruba internal affairs as long as it does not conflict with us or our interests. Since Yoruba refuses to treat Igbos with respect, we are obligated to respond in kind.

Chyz*:
You don't get it. We DO NOT CARE about how you carry your lives along as long as it doesn't concern us it is fine. You yorubas seem to not think the same way and its a damn shame! Every time you people worry yourselves about Igbo and whats sad is that its your parents that are the causes of it. We have no problems with yorubas and it is evident. This is why we are described as egalitarian. It is in our nature. What beats me is the amount of envy and jealousy you people have for Igbo lol. Its so ridiculous dude that if others(non-nigerians) were to see it they'd they you people were the most insecure people on earth. I seriously think it is a problem that you all have to deal with as a people. We don't have to see you all as an ally just do your own thing and we do ours.

An emotional guy is liable to make his decision based on emotion. A guy needs to be tough. A tough guy is more likely to make a decision based on logic and rationality. I wont marry an emotional crybaby guy if I'm a woman. I wouldn't want a wailer husband that will disgrace me during the funeral rites of his granny with his uncontrolable sobs.

But I know that babes wont mind as far as there is steady inflow of cash to finance their romance.

egbeman1: Am realy emotional to the core,and want to know what girls tink about us.
Do u realy tink being emotional is a good quality?
Do we alwas make a good n successful relationsp?

Oh u are a weakling!
When u take over your wife's role, who's gonna console the other?

Ol boi, hw I go use my 1.25 mil buy machine wey go land me for orthopaedic hospital?

Better carry your Ninja abi na Samurai okada go back to obodo oyibo

pluto04: What exactly is 'his past deed'? Care to share?

societynowng.com/Femi-Otedola-Bounce-Back-Bid-Collapses

Both Otedola and Dangote thrives on government patronage

elombah.com/index.php/templates/1/hi/world/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1336%3Aaliko-dangote-a-femi-otedola-reconciles&Itemid=54

Pls quit posing rhetorical question to me. It makes u sound dumb. I doubt if there is any clean billionaire in Nigeria. But if there is one, it can't be Otedola.

Otedola contributed over N100 million to Obasanjo's re-election campaign.

He donated N200million to Obasanjo's presidential library.

What on earth would have motivated Otedola to donate so generously to anything that bears Obasanjo's name if not to repay him back for his patronage?

BTW I wont respond to more of your rhetorical question. Either u do your private research on Femi Otedola or u wallow in your self imposed ignorance

pluto04: What kind of whistleblowers do you love then? The ones that come from heaven?

The fact that he is a whistleblower does not mean that we should overlook his past deed. It does not even exempt him from our harsh criticism

There is no doubt that Otedola did the right thing. But the fact remains that he was tainted by the same corruption that he is fighting. He is a wrong medium to transport this message. In fact his aim is to win the sympathy of Nigerians as he fights his private war. We love whistleblowers, but Otedola is a wrong messenger to convey this message.

naijaking1: ACM10, how you dey? Long time oh!
If only our policy makers will take a few days to read history and world politics, we'll stop trying to re-invent the wheel.

Naijaking1, I dey fine o. Our policy makers are not to be blamed. Very few of them alocates time to read history and world politics. Afterall they are there to secure their own share of the national cake. Why waste their time to read history?

naijaking1: You're right. The authors of this new idea first failed to notice what happened in the old soviet union when the party became the goverment and the goverment became the biggest company in the country. Same goes for the Egyptian military that has investments in farming, construction, healthcare, etc.
If we think there's corruption in Nigeria now, just wait until one party in power finds a way to maintain itself in power without reference to the people for support. It will be some sort of self replicating entity; in medicine we call such entities cancer.

Surgeon Naijaking1!
Nice one. . .

Otedola and house of rep members are two sides of the same coin. It's laughable for him to claim that he built his business empire without corruption and government patronage. Behind every great wealth is a crime.

tecmon: I loaded an Airtel internet bundle of 200MB and you wont believe it , it just vanished in about 3hrs of browsing, when it is meant to last for one month. I changed to Glo 10mb daily plan and that was a disaster, they took the NGN100 without giving me the data, next i loaded again and got error message that the plan im trying to purchase is not compatible with my current data plan-Instant surf, pls is instant surf not the same thing as 10mb 24hrs plan ? , why are they telling me its not compatible , i tried reset - its an unknown command !, i call 121 customer care and they are closed !!!, i ran to MTN for looking for succour and they aslo took my 10mb in a few mins !!, tell me is this not witchcraft !!

200MB is not up to the size of the videos that I watch on youtube. Pls find a way to enjoy your internet access and avoid the rip-off of internet service providers in Nigeria

bittyend: Please the Yoruba commonwealth includes the ITSEKIRIS AND ILAJES in Delta state - we need to deliver our brothers from the URHOBO, ISOKO, ANIOMA and IKA PARASITES

You are unable to deliver your brothers in Kwara and Kogi from the hands of Fulani raiders. Yet, u are flirting with the idea of opening a second front with Igbos possibly. I guess that your peeps are smarter than u

Odenigbo Aroli: Amarom na ibu nwa Ide; Do you think Obi hasnt really performed?? I want you to speak with your fathers pride in your head.....Given what he has to work with hasnt Obi performed? Unless if am blind!!!

Nwannem wetue obi ala. We've been moving with gear 3 in terms of development prior to Obi's assumption of office. But he changed it to gear 1 immediately he took over. Remember that federal government allocations that were seized under Ngige was released to him. But he continues to punch below average.

The reconstruction of the old Enugu-Osha road that passed through my town continues to remind me of how far we've regressed in the pace of development.

onye_ngbu*:
Is that why you have to quote the whole post? Nnaaaaaaaa eeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhh!
I bukwa onye ngbu ooooo

You are the real onye ngbu and I'm following u behind. My Ide nna broda, everything Chief Ofordile wrote in that article is a gospel truth. I felt the need to quote it for future reference. I weep for my state

merengue: Anambra: The Where did Mallam Nasir El-Rufai go wrong in his presentation on Anambra’s budget of misplaced priorities? Is it the facts he presented that Anambra State with adult literacy at 74.0% is behind Imo (80.8%) and Abia State (78.2%) or that the two major contributors to IGR will be N6.76 billion from taxes and about N4 billion from fines and fees? If this IGR is measured against the state projected personnel costs of N16.3 billion, Anambra cannot pay its staff salaries without reliance on federal allocation; this means it is one of those ‘dependent’ states and is not economically viable for independent existence. Can anyone fault this simple analysis from information provided by the government itself?

I need not restate all that El-Rufai laid out in that piece but I was surprised that he was accused by Governor Obi of insulting the Igbos and that only Anambra State indigenes can assess his administration not outsiders who have never visited the state like El-Rufai. Anyway, I am an Igbo from Anambra State and I state as follows: I do not feel insulted in anyway by the article in question and being from Anambra State, I wish to exercise the right which the Governor graciously granted only the indigenes of Anambra state, which is the right to assess his administration.

Peter Obi brought civility into governance in Anambra State at a time politics in the state had degenerated to dangerous and unacceptable levels. That I must concede. But he has also taken, as they say, liberty for license, engaged in needless propaganda, pursuit of federal lucre and in the process, squandered a golden opportunity to positively transform a fruitful virgin state.

Propaganda works and it has worked well for Peter Obi, but it has its limits. One of the areas where a lot of propaganda has gone into in Anambra state is road construction. A lot of quality roads were constructed by the Ngige administration. But the present government claimed to have ‘Asphalted’ over 500 km of roads and claims that Anambra State has the best network of roads in the Country. How much did it cost the state, assuming the number is accurate and of what quality?

A government that prides itself as the most prudent in Nigeria should present the whole picture to its citizens. For instance, in May, 2011, the government of Cross River State under Senator Liyel Imoke, signed contract agreements Publicly with eight contractors for the construction of 474 km of roads valued at N20.325 billion to cover 28 communities across the State under the Cross River Rural Access and Mobility Project. The Projects are being jointly funded by the African Development Bank contributing N7.016 billion and Cross River State contributing N13.308 billion.

How much exactly did the 500km of roads built in Anambra State by Governor Obi cost? Informed citizens have put the figure at between N48 billion and N60 billion, more than double of what Cross River State is spending for corresponding kilometers of roads. As regards the quality of the roads, most indigenes would admit that you can determine which road was done under Ngige and the ones under Peter Obi by the standard. The roads built under Ngige are of a much higher quality. Most of the roads done by Peter Obi will have to be re-awarded, a case of penny wise, pound foolish.

Another major propaganda point is that the government of Peter Obi has not borrowed while other profligate states have been borrowing recklessly. How can a state with massive infrastructure deficits keep its funds in the bank while the Governor’s major developmental efforts will be in commissioning of bore holes, immunization programmes and giving grants to schools seeking accreditation? How much of the state government money is actually in the bank and can the government come out categorically and deny the rumor that over N150 million is paid out by the ‘banks’ as commission every month? Is there a correlation between these monthly commission payments from the banks and the fact that the average cycle of contracts and payment in the state is two to three years sometimes more in order to maintain a certain minimum bank balance?

While rebuking El-Rufai for daring to point out the facts about the state, the Governor claimed that he has attracted industries to the state and mentioned two: Innoson Motors and SAB Miller Breweries in Onitsha. Innocent Chukwuma is from Nnewi in Anambra state. His company, Innoson has always been in Nnewi, long before Obi became Governor. It started as a motorcycle assembly plant before moving to buses, and other vehicles. So Peter Obi did not attract Innoson to Anambra State. He considers as a major achievement the fact that he built the road leading to the Innoson factory and brought the President to commission it. Congratulations!

On Sab Miller, the Governor will need to address the rumor making rounds in the state concerning the ownership of 22% of Sab Miller shares. Anambra State Government owns 10% while the remaining 12% is said to be owned by other businessmen from Anambra State. Who are those other businessmen? Since they are not ghosts, it is important that their names be made public to avoid ugly rumors.

Talking about investment in the state, the Governor is known to be a successful trader before he became Governor. If the state is so attractive for business, what informed the decision of his own company NEXT International to invest over N12 billion building the two largest shopping malls in Abuja, one in Mabushi and the other in Central Area, opposite federal ministry of transport? The Governor announced proudly that this year, he will pay N32 million as tax in Anambra State. Why invest and create employment outside the state and then pay tax in Anambra State? It is a very strange way of doing things. Anambra State needs the investment and jobs that the Governor outsourced to Abuja and other places. I call on the Governor to publish his tax returns to know exactly where the N32 million income tax is coming from. Is it from dividends or other sources? Since he mentioned it, we need to know more.

Anambra State is a rural state and nobody can deny that. It has no airport, no stadium and no good public secondary school. If you fall sick in the state and you are unable to navigate yourself to the Nnamdi Azikiwe Federal University Teaching Hospital, you are finished. The State University Teaching Hospital, Awka, which was ‘commissioned’ by President Jonathan in 2010, is still an ongoing project in 2012. Yet, the money is in the bank! None of the three ‘cities’ within the state; Awka, Onitsha, Nnewi is really habitable. There is no public water supply system in those areas. The Government of Obi competes with individuals in the provision of boreholes all over the state with his so called development partners. No place like that can attract talents who will contribute to the development of the state.

Little wonder then, that two out of every three property/land transactions in Asaba and Enugu involve indigenes of Anambra State. Most members, past and present of Anambra State House of Assembly and Commissioners including most of the bank managers in Anambra State, all have their houses in Asaba and Enugu from where they commute to Anambra State. Why not? Their children have to attend good schools which do not exist in Anambra State. What Obi has managed to achieve in six years, is sustaining the rural status of the state.

The only habitable estate in Awka Capital Territory is the Udoka Housing Estate built by the Chukuemeka Ezeife administration in 1991/92. Across the other side of the Enugu – Onitsha expressway is the Ngozika Estate built by Obi’s government of a quality much lower than the Jakande houses of the eighties. He claims to have secured accreditation for School of Health Technology, Obosi, School of Midwifery, Nkpor, School of Nursing, Iyienu. Fine! But these are institutions built by his predecessors and he is listing securing accreditation as his achievement.

He announced that he invested N4 billion of state funds in Orient Petroleum but it was conceptualized and set up by Dr. Mbadinuju. The Anambra State University was set up by the same Mbadinuju and when Peter Obi builds a faculty building or hostel in the school, he will advertise it as a monumental achievement. Yet he claims that there was nothing on ground when he became Governor of the state. Even the Women Development Centre, Awka which is Anambra’s equivalent of the International Conference Centre, Abuja [Don’t laugh] was built by Mbadinuju. And I ask, apart from the State Secretariat, what project of note has Peter Obi initiated and completed in the past six years?

Thisday newspaper in awarding Governor Obi (4) four stars in its rating of Governors stated among other things that he built 77 bridges and 103 Schools. These are unsubstantiated claims. Some bridges, yes but not a single school was built under Peter Obi. What he did was that he awarded contracts to the 177 town unions in Anambra State to build 4000 classroom blocks in the schools within their communities. Unprecedented absurdity! He has no coherent educational policy. He would donate computers to some schools, give some principals’ money directly to build toilets in their schools and then supply some with generators as the spirit moves him. When the cacophonous interventions failed, he then out of frustration, rather than a carefully thought out policy, handed over the schools to the missions to continue from where they stopped 40 years ago. Lord have mercy!!

Thisday again listed a new Onitsha hotel and convention centre under construction as one of his achievements. This brings me to the issue of transparency and due process. Contracts under Obi are generally not advertised and are usually arbitrarily awarded. This ongoing convention centre was one of the few advertised and tenders received from companies all over Nigeria. After the pre-qualification and opening of the financial and technical bids, Costain won the bid and was invited by the Anambra State Ministry of Commerce to collect the award letter. Before that could be done, Obi unilaterally awarded the contract to another company. Serious companies avoid Anambra State resulting in the poor quality of work seen in the projects undertaken by Obi’s government.

Governor Obi has announced two years to the end of his tenure that he will build a new Governor’s Lodge and Governor’s Office before he hands over in March 2014. Informed citizens are asking him not to bother. Since he has lived in a temporary governor’s lodge and operated from a temporary governor’s office for six years there’s no hurry.

Lest I forget, three years ago when people complained about the lack of development in the State, Governor Obi announced to Anambra people that he was developing a base map for Awka, Onitsha and Nnewi with a United Nations group, Habitat in order to have orderly development. Great idea! Three years after, can someone please ask the Governor the status of the ‘base map’?


Hon. Chudi Offodile is a Lawyer and former member of the House of Representatives who served between 1999-2006 representing Awka North/Awka South Federal Constituency, Anambra State. He was also Chairman of the Public Petitions Committee of the House of Representatives.[/b]

I agree with every sentence in this article 100%. Peter Obi is a spectacular flop and a huge disappointment. I feel embarrassed

Though APGA is dyin in Anambra. Thanks to the poor performance of Agulu Progressive Union led by Peter Obi and Victor Umeh. But I don't evisage PDP cashin in on the on the openin, except they can successfully convince Ngige to stay on the sideline. None of their candidate(be it Andy Uba or Soludo) can be able to beat Ngige in a head-to-head match in Anambra.

On the other hand, the case of Imo wz greatly exaggerated.
I think that Rochas is still relatively popular.

PDP should be worried about Ebonyi and Abia. Especially Abia which is ripe for Imo-styled revolution.

I don't think that this folk did physics. If it is possible to build nuclear weapon in secondary school lab, then Al qaida would have acquired several warheads. Lol

queensmith: It's quite funny because I never knew of this when I was studying virology and the only cases resistance to HIV that I came across was the case of the Kenyan Prostitutes, The result was probably unintentional and if so it's a massive shame nobody thought of it! Makes sense!lol

I was trying to find a research paper but couldn't, i'm pretty sure he didn't have Aids, he would have died instantly if he was anywhere near needing an organ transplant. Besides a sensible (and fair) medical system probably won't treat him. Unless the whole point was to see if it will cure him. curioser and curioser.

It doesn't really offer a solution but it's definitely an option, I'm just a little confused at how the mutant CD4 cells can avoid infection. I thought the USP of HIV was being able to replicate alternative forms of the invading protein so it can bypass immune attack. I'm definitely going to waste my time getting to the bottom of this! lol

Have u heard about the cells surface protein called CCR5 and CXR4? Check for their roles in the transportation of the HIV virus into the cell.

jimharry21: Mr. Peter Obi has taken Anambra State 6years back from where Dr. Ngige Left It

This iz an insult to the person of Senator Dr. Christopher Nwabueze Ngige. Mr. Peter Obi actually took Anambra State 8yrz back to the first one yr of Ngige. He decelerated the pace of development left by Ngige. Plz take note.

alj harem: Ne deceiving yourself, I wonder when you started believing Nigerian stats. Do you know the amount of stats we have brought here that YOU have discredited because it is not in your favour ?

The fact remains that, Oyo is safer than Lagos. You do not know these two states more than me

Imo and to a larger extent is safer than Enugu aka the coal state. When last have you heard kidnapping happening in Imo compare to enugu ?

Imo state iz safer than Enugu? You must be outta ya mind. How many kidnappings haz occured in Enugu for the past 4yrz compared to Imo? Plz reduce the dose of the crack u take or better still, check into a rehab centre.

BTW, why did u abandon your female ID when u were caught?

I'm amazed that I can't find this thread on the FP.
www.nairaland.com/957428/reps-wade-into-innoson-auctioned

dayokanu: Mods according to Nairaland rules and regulation, Any thread with the use of vernacular should be in the culture section

So do the needful here

https://www.nairaland.com/934808/eze-ndi-igbo-nairaland-parliamentary/6

There are many threads here where vernacular of Yoruba origin is widely used. Why are u such a hypocrite? Your aversion for a particular tribe has blinded u to the point of non-perception of light. I pity u

I hope that Ogugua88 gets to read this.

I hope that Yoruba folkz has now realized why Igbo businessmen don't break into Forbes list.

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Agbakata izu, onye nti ike anu ya.

E kwukalia ezi okwu, o di ka okwu asi.

A dighi m atu ujo ara nwanyi ajadu, maka na amam na di ya anoghi nso.

Awo siri na ihe o jiri kworo di ya na azu bu maka na di asoka.