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Is this what AMAA has become. I didn't even know the award was holding. This other award from MNET has killed AMAA.

God Bless Oke-Ogun. God Bless Nigeria.

Why did i think that Oke Ogun was in Ogun state?

Built2last:
The only reason Igbo elites are not fully supporting Biafra is because of their investments outside Igbo land.

The smart ones are going home in the last 2 months

Nothing has changed in the last 2 months. Wwhat we've heard for some time now are Igbos, especially Anambra people who have adopted the "Aku ruo uno" mantra and are investing heavily not just in Anambra popular cities but in their own villages and town and that is something i hope other wealthy Igbo people can learn from Ndi Anambra.

hustla:
+ Texas

I was thinking Chicago though.

Dlordsamurai:
chai!!! some people are born foolish, how can a sensible human think of online scam right there in the united states of America? A nation that eat, sleeps and dream technology.

The thing tire me oo...At least if they want to scam, they should remain in Nigeria where they can beat the system and even if caught, they can bribe their way out. I don't understand how someone can be a scammer in America with a yahoo email account and internet connection. Beats me.

SalamRushdie:
Exactly . Buhari is a Ponzi Scheme

How dare you insult MMM. Didn't they pay some people atleast? Buhari is a lie.

Wow...The positive that i can take from this is that the man's sales pitch about hs banana is definitely top notch. I've never seen anyone advertise banana the way he did.

He said “I’m a Biafran in practice given that I brought down all my investments to my homeland.

Lol Smart man. How else can you win election in Igboland than actually saying you're a Biafran whether in practce or metaphorically.

Most of the videos of him dancing are actually old videos.

This story get as e be. The man is definitely a psycho.

ebukahandsome:
Rakuten?
Is that a name of a perfume or insecticide

BuhariNaWah:
What happened to Qatar airways sponsorship deal?

Btw, na Rakitić dey sponsor dem now? https://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/michael-jordan-laugh.gif

Rakuten is a Japanese company that is worth over $600 billion

What company did she steal from exactly? Chevron or Shell?

Is it a Nigerian movie?

RedboneSmith:
Most people I know think Hausa is the easiest, and I think there may be some truth to it. Maybe its easiness to acquire/learn may partly account for the way it is spreading rapidly and eating into the territory of other Northern Nigerian languages. I know an uneducated Igbo man in a village in Enugu State who learnt to speak very good Hausa (albeit with a heavy Igbo accent) without ever leaving his village, simply by interacting with passing Hausa shoemakers. I have a friend from Anambra that went to learn trading in Kano, but had to come back after four months because of disagreement with his master. In four months he had acquired enough Hausa to have conversations with Hausa okada riders in the Lagos.


A lot of people say Igbo is the most difficult. I think part of the reason is that most Igbos still speak dialects. The standard/General Igbo is not yet a Spoken language. The Yoruba and the Hausa have been more successful in coming up with Spoken Standards (while still retaining their dialects.) The kind of Igbo Emeka is teaching you may have some differences from the kind of Igbo the girl in the next shop is speaking. This isn't much of a problem for native-speakers (except in extreme cases), but for a learner, it could be quite a challenge; one could get quite confused and frustrated.

I'm inclined to agree with you to the extent that i still feel it's not just that Hausa is easy but because if you spend your time around native Hausa speakers, they tend to converse most of the time in Hausa and if you live in the north, you can barely have much done without understanding the Hausa language. If that's what people mean by a language being easy, then i agree Hausa is easier than other languages.

But take a group of white people that has never been to Nigeria, teach him Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba at the same rate and see if the results will not be different. However, the results could be different if you take the same person to Ibadan, Enugu and Kano at different times. They're mostly likely to pick up Hausa better followed by Yoruba because of the point i raised earlier.

I understand that the Igbos have not gone through what i call "The Igbo experience" which will foster what we call central Igbo on everybody, though i don't exactly agree that everyone speaks their dialect.

Is it me or does the wife have more muscles than the man.

Congrats in advance.

Goldenboy007:
Ok I am getting off this topic. I am allergic to obnoxious people.

We're allergic to hypocrites. Now scram.

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Goldenboy007:
All that glitters is not gold...The difference between these societies are people like you. I have never met an American that talks down about their nation. You guys are incorrigible. Ignorance is bliss.

Why will an American talk down on their country when they're ranked very high in every possible metric of social development. My dear, you're the ignorant one here. You can't sit in America and fool anyone but yourself. We live in Nigeria and know where the shoe pinches. Until you deport yourself back to Nigeria, you don't have the moral right to talk down on anybody that says it as they see it.

Those corpers should be arrested asap. Granted the boy goofed by wanting to taste the forbidden fruit, they should not have flogged him the way they did.

Goldenboy007:
I am surprised by some posts here. I had this same argument with my American colleagues and I thought they were mere white supremacist, now I have to fight it out with my own people...my gawd, I am flabbergasted - Our road to redemption is a very far one - We are the problems. This defeatist attitude is similar to the black Americans - they were freed physically but their souls have not been emancipated from mental slavery.
So how can we blame Saraki who is in London to celebrate his son who graduated in LSE, I don't blame him because I won't want my son hobnobbing with crowds with low self esteem.

Oga, leave Chicago and come and join us in Lagos so that you can tell whether Jesus is lord or not. Nigeria is a dysfunctional country and you want people who have been dealt a blow by the country to lie on behalf of it? If Nigeria is so good, then what are you still doing in Chicago. I can permit pidgin2's delusion of grandeur because she probably lives in Nigeria and still feels the need to defend the country. What i won't have is someone who's privileged to live in the high society in the most democratic country in the world telling us to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery. Are you freaking kidding me, dude?

Goldenboy007:
Lagos no get crime walahi...at least when I was in Lagos I parked my car without steering lock. When I used to live near South Side, dem no born you well not to use steering locks and other gadgets to secure your car. I clubbed well in VI then, by 12am I'm still in Ikoyi with confidence. Walahi try some parts of Chicago at 7pm in the evening ..you will be mugged or shot at.
What of Newark in New Jersey? ..twice they have removed rims and tires of my friends car. They rob your mails and the poverty on the street is first class. All cities have their peculiarities but to say Lagos is not as developed as Chicago is doing yourselves great injustice. Its sad.

There's definitely more crime in lagos than Chicago but it's just that in Lagos, it's more widespread and is not limited to some areas. In cities like Chicago and others in America, crime is synonymous with specific areas, mostly areas with relative poverty.

The only reason why Lagos is mentioned alongside places like Chicago is because it's population. How exactly do you want to compare Lagos with Chicago. Which metric are you going to use. Is it the provision of the basic amenities, electricity, industries. In what areas is Lagos at the same level with Chicago.

Goldenboy007:
Tell me which part of Chicago you lived in and I will deliberately go there and take a picture of a dirty street in that place. I live in North West Suburb which is mainly whites and a mix of middle/upper class. However there are places in North side and South Side that are dirtier than Ojota.
This week several places were flooded in Chicago suburbs just like they had in Lagos. Lagos has Cable TV, Internet, Mobile communication, Rapid Bus transport, major tarred roads and big Malls and tourism spots.
Whatever setbacks Nigeria has is because we the humans are the problem. Evans sef go talk say Nigeria is corrupt.
The difference between Lagos and Chicago is the darn people - In Lagos we have low esteem, inferiority complex , egoistic, sabotaging, dubious, tribalistic bigots. It is attitudes like this that make majority of us that has no business traveling go kneeling down for Embassy officials young enough to be your kid sister or brothers. Majority of whites are not half as educated as us yet we tremble at their presence because we do not appreciate who or what we are. Thats why they still think we are bunch of monkeys.
Better I stay in US than come back home to associate with people that think they are bunch of losers.

I beg to disagree with you that the diference between Chicago and Lagos s the people. Even those places you call ghetto and claim tat is worse than Ojota is better than some so called high brow areas in Lagos. The difference between south-side Chicago and Lagos is the prevalence of crime in Chicago else a lot of Nigerian will kill to live in those ghettos in the US even with the crime,

Daviddson:
You mean you need to insult someone for making a simple statement, which she's entitled to? How does her comment affect your life? It's only on Nairaland people insult others just to disagree with someone else's opinion. Very bad.

I didn't insult her because of her comment but because of her behavior on this forum in the past. She has insulted and derided people and has been responsible for derailing people's threads all over the forum just because some people do not agree with her perception that Nigeria is perfect. You need to take a look around to see who we're talking about here.

Pidgin2:
Get lost! Who cares what you think

Proudly Nigerian, blessed and great country.

Of course, we're saying the same thing. Nut job.

Pidgin2:
Good advice, that's why I'm on a personal campaign to play my own part in polishing the image of my country

Proudly Nigerian!

1000 likes

What you're doing is painting and not polishing. You polish something that is already good on it's own to some extent but painting means giving the impression of something that is not. You are a liar and criminal and should be ashamed of yourself.

Some people are already consoling themselves that just like Dubai, Nigeria also has nice places. No doubt but what is the ratio of good to bad places in both countries? Nigeria is largely a dysfunctional country and even places such as Lekki, VI, Ikoyi that we praise as the creme de la creme are ghettos in places like America. When are we going to tell ourselves the truth for once.

FortuneTeller:
I don't feel comfortable talking by email. For some reason I feel like I would get caught up in something sinful. Staying on the board where there other eyes keeps me out of trouble lol.

I'm sending my own email in a minute

What crime have they committed. They both look like adults. It's not like anybody took advantage of the other.

OAUTemitayo:
Half-education is not healthy​ for the sanity of man.
Where in the source was Yoruba mentioned or did you see any picture of Yoruba there?
Sometimes I wonder whether what is in your head is fully functional or decay has fallen on it.

If it makes any difference for you, i'm not just referring to this particular article. I'm talking about the constant hassling of the right of Igbos to self determination by our Yoruba brothers. At least if you don't believe in something, just leave it be. If anyone should be concerned, it's the Hausas.

Btw, i think thee OP should be banned for the misleading title.

You know, sometimes i wonder why some of my Yoruba brothers behave the way they do. They have arrogated themselves as the defenders of the Hausa/Fulani oligarchy that in any issue between Igbos and the core North, they always there to defend them and you wonder if they don't have issues of their own. Without knowing it, they're setting a bad precedence for themselves.

scholes0:
I don't know why that 5th poster and some people are saying Hausa is so easy.
I didn't find it easy at all, and was always forgetting stuff when I tried to learn.
The reason people think its easy is because , when you go to live in Kano or Katsina for like 8 months or a year, you are almost constantly innundated by the mass of Hausa speakers around and before you know- you start unconsciously picking up stuff, unlike the south where it would also be common to hear some English or pidgin.
It actually isn't as easy.

I am a Niger-Congo man and I think Yoruba is easiest from what I have heard from others and from what I've seen. Then Igbo (although most times Igbos are not too eager about teaching their language to people or informing others of their culture, dunno why. Pronunciations are also more complex and sound very ethnic) then Hausa (which has the most geographical reach anf everyday use in the North, but can use a whole paragraph to describe a very simple event that won't even take 10 words in Yoruba). In that order.

That a language is very accessible doesn't mean it is easy.

As humans especially as Nigerians, we're all ignorant as far as it relates to other groups that are not ours. On one hand you're saying Hausa is not te easiest just because it was not easy for you but turn around to say that Yoruba is the easiest without considering that is your native tongue. You also said Yoruba is easier because of popular opinion. If it's really based on popular opinion,then Hausa is the easiest, followed by Yoruba and then Igbo. But popular opinions should not be taken seriously as they're based on the convenience of those involved in the statistics.

Let me also fault your claim that Igbo is the hardest with your excuse that Igbo don't like teaching their language. I guess you mean Igbos that are based in Lagos or wherever you are. They should leave their jobs and start teaching you Igbo because that's what they came to lagos to do ba? Why not try learning Hausa or any other language the same way you're trying to learn Igbo and you'd see that it's the same result. The same goes for other languages that are not indegenous to a particular place.

Like i said, languages are perceived to be easier to learn due to the idiosyncrasies that are involved. For instance, in the North, Hausa is a lingua franca whereby that's the language of almost anything you can think of. It's almost like staying in France for one year and not picking up some basic french. It's true to a much lesser extent in the south-west where Yoruba along with English and Pidgin are almost neck to neck.

baum1:
And this involves being informed and really guiding the kids based on their talents. Not what their friends' kids are doing that makes them successful or what their own friends did that made them successful.

Being informed is relative as parents think what they're trying to impose on their children are for their best interest. Our value system in Nigeria are different and a lot of parents still subscribe to the whole idea of their children becoming doctors, lawyers, bankers and so on.