₦airaland Forum

lenghtinny:
If you read his biography carefully, you will know that Olaudah is igbo, but it seems his hometown was under the powerful old Benin kingdom at the time...

So how come some people here are mentioning Anambra?

Was the interior of Anambra under Benin kingdom too?

sarrki:
This is how we stand interms of voting pattern

What is your source for this?

mmsen:
That's been known. When you subtract Lagos' large IGR from the regional total what is left is very small.

Please I an interested in the figures.
Can you post it here?

How come Kogi state that can’t even get anything done is ranking so high above states like Kaduna and Ogun?

Abeg forget this list! lol I don’t even understand it- and I doubt most people here understand what the list is saying.

Jerrypolo:
I rushed in when I heard "Developers"

loool

YelloweWest:
I would like Nigeria to remain as one but that white guy is absolutely right.

The truth must be told. We can't continue with what the British created

The British left us with 3 legit regions, very similar to the present system in the UK where England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are the constituent parts of the UK.
Now, one can't exactly fault that kind of system very much can you?

And some Nigerians desttroyed it because of selfish ethnic interests.

It all started with midwest creation 1963.
Before we knew what was happening- every tom, dick and harry wanted their own useless coccoons.

And the fool that also morphed Nigetia into a unitary republic will never rest well in his grave.

Jaideyone:
this is the kind of logic that makes a lot of biafra apologists appear dumb. no man/ethnic group or country is an island. even australia attracts opinions from outsiders. no one extends an invitation to ibos on this forum before they jump on southwest topics and air your views. your reasoning is so upside down that you feel fein the outsider is allowed to have an opinion but your fellow countryman from edo state is not.

take note of one thing, a lot of us were on the fence before kanu started radio broadcasts and started insulting other ethnic nationalities. yet those that have been insulted and called awusa slaves do not have the right to have their views.

i wonder how human right and freedom of speech will be under your so called biafra when even fellow ibos that want restructuring and not secession have been labelled bastards and awusa slaves.

shame on you for dragging steph on the floor just ecause of the opinion of her husband. Biafra should come please so we can know who will fare better.

yorubas have absolutely nothing to be scared of

The saddest part of this whole thing is all the other Igbos liking his commrnt.

Absolutely disgusting.

agadez007:
Are there no Bini words for "Iwa ji",why did they use Igbo language?

Why are most Igbos Anglicizing the spelling of traditional words?

I mean for example a word like Iwa- they spell as Iwah
Ude is now Udeh

Udo (falling tone) is now Udor

Many words now end in: eh, uh, or, eh, ah.
Quite unlike before.

I have even seen many now spelling the old form Okpara as 'Okparah'

And so what?

If not because of project Nigeria, Yoruba should have actually been their official language.

The so called "wonderful" English speakers in Nigeria today" how are they better off than the Yorubas?
On the contrary they are loosing on two ends because their indiginous languages are fading out, and it's not as if the english they speak is even presentable abroad, or anywhere serious for that matter.

And so what?

If not because of project Nigeria, Yoruba should have actually been their official language.

And what in the world do you need Fulani language for?

Fulanis in Nigeria don't even speak their own language na hin you wan go learn.

I greet you all, my AnEtuno/AnEbira brothers and sisters across in Edo.

From your brother in Kogi State.

fuckerstard:
Emeka

www.nairaland.com/attachments/5776428_img1790_jpeg7a43387671008136d0d5f325458431ed

Hhahhahaha!, I just fell off my bed laughing.

lol my camp that year, before I was posted to Ondo waterside, Ilaje LGA.
Cool weather.

Ejule is in the Igala speaking part of Kogi.
The same area Nnamdiot Cownu wants to add to Biafra... Lmao

I laugh in Agatu ..

Esan Oye!!

I can view part of Ogun state where I live. lol!

Kogi

...

coveredchic:
The Hausas are a thousand times better than the Yorubas when it comes to the milk of human kindness. Take this from someone who has lived in both 'worlds'. And wait! Before you crucify me, I have my reasons.
1) If you travel to the north and find yourself trying to locate a destination, you'll find locals willing to help even at their own expense.
2) These people are simple and down to earth. If God blesses just one person in a family, he tries all his best to assist other members of the family, which is usually large.
3) The religion of Islam have also impacted positively. They lead very simple lives and are a contented lot.
If you remove the issue of boko haram, and our filthy politicians/ruling class, the northerners are not bad.

Is that why heir elites siphon all their wealth leaving their masses poor?
Hausaland is one of the most feudal territories in the world today, and there is a very very uneven distribution of wealth, so it beats my imagination why you would even state the bolded.

If Hausas are sooo egalitarian and humanist oriented, why is there such a huge disparity between rich and Poor in a place like kano.
Keep garnishing hausas you hear.

Addicted2Women:

Lagos is a no man's land

Oba Akiolu, you talked about Lagoon ?? Now, enjoy the Lagoon

You let strangers buy all your lands and properties,
developed it and gave you life, but you still find it hard to maintain and keep it clean ?? Laziness

So you have confidently called yourselves "strangers" in Lagos now because it suits you, but when others call you strangers in the West, una go dey vex say how can one be a stranger in his own country.

Probz:
Obviously not when it's mixed with Arabic. Ebira obviously has some Igbo-sounding elements else this wouldn't be up for discussion at all.

One unique thing about Ebira language is the plenty use of V and Z.
I don't think any language in Nigeria use those two letters like Ebiras do, except perhaps Nupe and Gbagyi.

alanmwene:
Given the amount of opportunities in uk and usa compare to france ,it it obvious that Nigerians and ghanians would do a bit better than .But even then,the first black ceo of a major English company was francophone Tidjane Thiam(CEO of prudential plc)congoleses have a bigger cultural presence in france than Nigerians have in uk.Congoleses control completely the music scene in france and have change French people musical taste.A there plenty PHDs holders in france,trust me!

Man you argument is just obtuse.
Former English Colonies span from Australia and Fiji to Indians, Jamaicans, Canada, Egypt to South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya.

Most of the large French colonies are in Africa duurh. Of course Congolese probably make up a larger percent of diasporans in France than Nigerians make of former colony immigrants in the UK.
France focuses all her energy and soft power on her African former colonies. I don't envy their position at all.

Nigerian music and movies have the largest presence in Africa and the caribbeans, Which to me is what matters. I don't care if some Congolese Évolués in France manage to use the better structures of the French state to achieve some prominence, Nigerians are pulling their weight culturally in the places that matter.

aljharem:
Igbos and lies. I don't speak igbo well but hear very well. Does this sound anything igbo to you


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHjulkXf16M

What a bad choice of music... How can you pick this song where like 95% of everything there is Arabic and say it is an Ebira song lol.

If anyone want to hear pure Ebira language, listen to these:

Contemporary:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hqgzh71bkc

Traditional


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9QUFGjUH0g

alanmwene:
Given the opportunity,nigerians and ghanians would choose to be professional footballers than accountants or security officers( a lot of them are!).The money is just too good!Find another excuse.....

lol Nigerians in the UK (or US) are in the upper quartiles of the immigrant populations there. You can't honestly be comparing the educational and Income averages of Nigerians in the UK to say Congolese people in France, like LOL
Yes a lot of Nigerians will chose football, they pay is good, but still they have a better chance of making equally good money (well at least satisfactory pay) by studying professional courses than spending their entire lives in football academies where like only 2% of everyone who enroll will ever make it to professional level.

Thanks but no thanks, becoming an Engineer is much better than gambling your life to become a professional footballer.

alanmwene:
What about Nigerians and ghanians born in Uk?There are about 1million of them there,but how come not a single of them in in the English national team?And the only English-born footballers I can think of were slops like Shola Ameobi,Ehiogu,........But,in france you have the Patrick Vierra,Drogba,Pobga.......etc..Would you say that England is a third world country?

The composition of the English and French national teams have always been starkly different in racial composition for a very long time.
Hope you know that the French have a Policy of Assimilation into "Frenchness" which England does not have.

Go to Cote D'ivoire and see if you will hear anyone speaking local languages on the street of Abidjan. All they do there is Français.
In Lagos streets you will see people speaking Yoruba or Pidgin English , In Nairobi at least you will steal hear people speaking Swahili or Sheng before nonsense English.

The French team has been Afro-Diaspora team2 for a while now.
It all has to do with the basic differences in the natures of English vs French Imperialism and neocolonialism.
Btw there are still very plenty players of Nigerian descent playing in local English league teams.

Besides West and Central Africa is dominated by Francophone countries with Nigeria and Ghana being the only notable exceptions... so what do you expect?
Each of these francophone countries have their independent systems in place as sovereign states, with each having a chance to contribute a quota of football talents to the world stage, compared to a country like Nigeria that even though big is run by a single system.
10 teams won't represent Nigeria in any football competition because the country is big. A country like Togo and Nigeria will field the exact same number of players, even though the later might have much more pool of people to tap into.

What you are therefore doing- is comparing a single country to the entire Francophone Africa of like more than 25 countries, which anyone would honestly find very funny.

Because Nigerians in Europe have their sights st on better things maybe?
You have to understand that Football is a sub culture, and even though most Nigerians passionately love football, seeing your son become a professional footballer is still not the wish of any Nigerian parent.

Nonsense why did you have to create a moniker using a Yoruba name?
Yorubas have no concern or issue with whatever happens in Anambra.\

They are simply spectators.

Wonderful thread.

Please as we all post the final products of hours of hard work, it would also be nice to see the workshops of these products being made and people actually putting the sweat t it.
Like these bags, shoes etc, it would be cool to see their craft space and where these things are being fabricated.

Efewestern:
I don't understand itsekiri o, but if you want to know some urhobo words that's similar to itseke I can help you out.



Ésété (plate) in urhobo it's o'sete same meaning, Ukujéré (spoon) same in urhobo , uda (sword/cutlass) in urhobo it's oda which means cutlass .

simply put, itsekiri is a mixture of Yoruba and urhobo /edo, although 70% of the language are Yoruba words.

those words like ukujere esete etc are neither itsekiri nor urhobo but portuguese words that entered urhobo via itsekiri intermediaries.

Markfemi2:
I actually want a monotholic Yoruba nation
Only issue will be re integrating ilorin into Yoruba land

Oga, abeg which one be monothlic? lol Monolithic?
All those places I mentioned are Oodua, so yes, it wis still monolithic, if that is what you want.

I have noticed from your previous posts that you seem to be of this conviction that Ilorin is so far gone that it isn't that much Yoruba anymore.
That couldn't be any further from the truth. Because if the people of Ilorin vote today in a plebiscite, they would vote to join the West in an 80-20 landslide.
What more evidence of easy integration do you want than that.

Mind you I am from Kogi state.