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YonkijiSappo:
N'ibo ni e ti gbo Yoruba?
Se Eko ni tabi ... ?

Momgbe le'eko..Die die ni oo. Emi o ti gbon tan

YonkijiSappo:
Ore ni awa ati awon omo Ibo.
Sugbon a feran lati ma toja ara wa lori internet.

Odabe, Ore ni gbogbo awon omo Igbo ati omo Yoruba

YonkijiSappo:
These Flatt.ies are so fixated with developing Malaysia, that they even decided to Nickname their Evil forest "Malaysia"

Eleyi ga ju mi lo....


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kilo man se yin gan na? Kini awon omo ibo se fun yi?

They both love each other

These two love each other so much.

All these old artiste can jealous for Africa.

This is one interesting thread...

First and foremost, despite the fact that you sister is in a very dicey situation considering your narrative, under no circumstance should your sister marry someone for the wrong reasons. It's better to be barren all your life than marry someone because you want them to put a baby into you.

Secondly, it's even worse if she tells her boyfriend her condition because no matter how good a person he is, he will take advantage at a point in their marriage. The worst thing that can happen to you is when someone keeps reminding you that they did you a favour by marrying you.

I think your sister need to have a talk with her boyfriend on going forward, as in getting married and hear what he has to say, because from your narrative, it seems he has not explicitly objected the idea. It seems he thinks it's not yet time. But first your sister has to know where he stands on the issue or marriage instead of wasting her time hoping for what won't come.

if it ever happens that the guy is not thinking about marriage and your sister is very passionate about same, then she may need to leave him despite the scarcity of potent sperm in the market. In order for her to live a happy and fulfilled life, she may start looking at other options else she will live a very frustrated life.

You make me fear. I think say my sub don finish.

@topic
That's what we call nested IF statement

hoodmenconcept:
This is has been really disturbing my mind. Please, can somebody tell me the main purpose and aim of Bigbrother Naija ? How does it affect Nigeria Economic positvely ? How does it affect a common Nigerian in a positive way ? what is the main koko gan gan of this nonsense called bigbrother naija? I need a reasonable answer, please.

It's for the enjoyment for those who watch it. Haven't you heard of entertainment before? I don't know why you people must talk down on things just because you don't engage in them. You hate everything under the sun except your self and things you like. if it's not gay people, it is Igbo people, somtimes it's ghanians other times it's Oge Okoye. How about you focus on what you love and leave others to enjoy what they like. Must everything affect the Nigerian economy. How has this your thread helped our economy?

So, our aunty is in jail?

Crappy crap. A legit websites can have all these things and still be legit and vice versa scam sites. Nothing tells you that a site is scam until you get scammed.

You sure say shooting no go go relegation this season?

adioolayi:
very tensed atmosphere here at Lekan Salami adamasingba stadium Ibadan...

3SC 0-0 Abia warriors

Thanks for the updates.

Na waoo

RIP Bro.

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So, we should be happy that out beloved terrorist group is being recognized?

I just want to see how this drama will play out. For the first time i'm rooting for the National assemble because i don't understand how someone who was appointed the Comptroller of customs will have any problem putting on the uniform. This is unheard of even in this parts. If he chooses to continue to swallow his own vomit then he should be shown the exit.

I don't see why this is news. Any Nigerian has every right whatsoever to not only live in any part of the country but to be part of the political process by either eing an electorate or to vie for a political position. It's his inalienable right and no idiot born of a human being can stop him. Umu Ogbanje.

tk4rd:
Mostly Civil Servants and Retired Civil Servants

Exaclty.

cozyfaithex:
hi everyone,this is my first tym of posting here,I ve read several advice pple give here hence I decide to bring this here.lemme go straight to the point. I discovered that I alwaz fall for the wrong guz,I have never enjoyed that spec in relationship that must girls enjoy, I am not a bad person,I have a good heart nd I try my best to play my role as a gf but somehow my bf will jux jilt me for anoda gurl,no matter Wht I do,I wish to be loved back,currently my bf jilted me again nd this is really having a great effect on me as it's making me have a low self esteem,it's making depress.please I need advice

The problem may be the kind of boys you get attracted to and not you per se. If you're a cheerful giver then it's possible that once they get what they need, they scram to their next victim. So, at this point, you may need to be more objective about what you want from a relationship.

Mynd44:
Innosson has to step up else they will get run out of business by these new guys. They dont have the priviledge of being the only one anymore.

This is the time to cement your market with adverts, purchase plans (a sort of mortage) allow people come test drive for free, run promos. Change their entire market strategy.

And for fans of Innosson motors, drop your tribalism else, watch the company crash cos people will conviniently avoid the brand cos of bad publicity

You rarely make comments on here but whenever you do, it just comes out wrong. What is wrong with you?

Abagworo:
I've actually driven in every major city in Nigeria aside Maiduguri, Birnin Kebbi, Damaturu, Sokoto and Gusau. Only in[b] Enugu and Calabar[/b] did I marvel at how people could be so obedient to driving rules and signs. Calabar comes tops followed by Enugu and then no other.

It seems logical that these two cities will have saner people.

kITATITA:
Consider the number of vehicles on Lagos road. Agreed that about 5% should be in the lunatic asylum but the other 95% are ok

Are you serious? Have you ever been to Lagos to make this kind of comment? 5% you say? It's more like 70%. The only thing keeping lagosians are at bay, are the enforcement agencies but even at that people disobey traffic rules with reckless abandon.

RedboneSmith:
If 'Igbo' unity never happens we only have fanatical nationalists to blame for it.

This has always been onr of my greatest worries about the present crop of Igbo people particularly from the SE. We tend to be violently persuasive in the way we do things. If there are even Anioma people that want to accept the Igbo tag, they would think twice on encountring some comments by some Igbo folks on here and on the internet. They make it seem like Being Igbo or even being a supporter of Biafra is a form of slavery. I think we need to start learning from other ethnic groups on how to be diplomatic in our approach else an Ikwerre man will not hate you more than an Hausa does. I remember when some American and British brough up Igbo people like Ogugua and Adaobie etc made an effort to be part of the Igbo community on here, they were chased away because some idiots were angry that they couldn#t speak Igbo. I just wonder what is wrong with our people. I won't rule out the effect of the civil war on our psyche.

Did someone just mention Lagos as having good driving culture? The craziest drivers are in Lagos.

Ngozi123:
Your wording suggests that there's an ongoing dispute over your people's ethnicity. What are your reasons for identifying yourself as Igbo and do you some Ilah people disagree?

Very good question. I think Redbonesmith is one of those Delta Igbos, particularly people from the Aniocha/Oshimili axis who have lived a reasonable amount of the time in the South East and really see that there's not much difference between the SE and where they come from. But he also seems as an objective and politically correct person, who doesn't believe that his opinion should drown those of others. One trend i have noticed is that an Enuani person who has mixed a lot with SE Igbos tend to be more accepting of their Igboness than one who has never lived in the SE before.

Why's nobody mentioning Femi Fani Kayode? He was probably the rudest minister of information ever. Frank Nweke was confrontational too but in a more intelligent manner. I think i'll go with the Chikelu guy but i don't think he was made for this our brand of politics.

PapaBrowne:
They don't have to move their headquarters if they don't want to.

The states in question should come up with a tax called Offshore Headquarters Tax.

So a simple law is enacted that says if you are an extractive company, you should have your headquarters located at least 200km from your highest concentration of extractive activity.

Now if you don't want to comply, it isn't a crime. You just have to pay the Offshore Headquarters Tax which should be minimum 20% of profits from extractive activity.

This makes a great deal of sense. I don't understand how a company that benefits from a particular state will have the effrontery to give us reasons why they cannot relocate too the state. It's becuse we have been lenient with these companies, that is why they think they can do whatever they like. Most oil companies in the US are headquartered in Houston and it's environs and not New York, Los Angeles or Chicago. Why is it so difficult for them to extend the same gesture to Nigeria.

muyoge:
"smacks of rudeness"

Thanks

This list makes sense except for Makurdi. There's nothing English about Makurdi.

Probz:
"]I’ve researched this topic for time and my understanding is that there's three distinct groups in Anioma (Delta Ibo) - two Edoid-Igboid (Ika, Ukwuani/Ndokwa) and one Igbo proper (Enuani), that the latter (the only genuine, authentic Igbos who inhabit Delta Igboland) can be found around Asaba/Oshimili/Aniocha area, that "Bendel Igbos," as my mum calls them, (Ika and Ukwuani people) are culturally Edoid groups who happen to speak Igboid languages and that close proximity and the vague similarity in language is why a people who are essentially Bini are lumped in with the real Delta Igbos (Enuani). In exactly the same sense as that if true Yorubas occupied an area in (let's just say) Delta State with Igalas and Itsekiris, all three groups would all be known as "Delta Yoruba" since they're all linguistically Yoruboid and because they'd share neighbouring proximity with each other, forgetting that there's only one true group of Yorubas who inhabit that area - i.e., the Yorubas, not the other two non-culturally Yoruba groups who happen to speak Yoruboid languages (and not even Yoruba proper).

I tend to agree with the assertion that one and only true Igbos of Anioma are Enuani since I've encountered Enuani Igbos who hail from Asaba who are in literally every respect just as Igbo as a typical south easterner from Enugu or Anambra and the Ika-Ukwuani (Bendel) stock people who speak languages that share similarities with Igbo but who you couldn't in a million years imagine sipping palmy and chopping nkwobi in Ishiagu and red cap. grin

Ditto for Rivers folk. I know authentic Igbos can be found in the Bonny-Opobo axis (said to be, at least in part, descendants of settlers from the Awka-Orlu axis) but as for Ikwerres, does the fact that they happen to speak an Igboid language mean that they're also culturally Igbo (or at least before the civil war) and could someone fill me in on the other Igboid/Igbo groups of Rivers (Etche, Ndoni, etc.). I've looked for info. online and there's next to nothing on Wikipedia at least for Etches.

My question is, could someone fill me in on the Ikas and Ukwuanis of Delta and the Ikwerre, etc., of Rivers? Ika and Ukwuani definitely don't fall under the banner of Igbo proper but Igboid in a linguistic sense (even if you might well argue that their dialect is more intelligible than Nsukka/Ebonyi dialects) but are these people culturally Igbo or Edoid, etc.? I've only researched this for some time so my understanding's limited but that's the conclusion through reading and my own experiences with some of these folk."

That was my first post on that Delta Igbo thread. It was me that was insisting that Ukwuanis and Ikas aren't Igbo but Edo-Igbo hybrids (I even used the term Edoid-Igboid) and that was my understanding at the time of making said thread.

Igala people aren't Yoruba and the language isn't but Yoruboid. An outsider like me can only go off intonation rather than individual lexicon but Igala when spoken is sounds very Yoruba-like and it forms a language cluster with Olukwumi, Itsekiri and Yoruba as Yoruboid languages. You were even the one telling me this on that oyibo vs. oyinbo thread so don't act like you suddenly no sabi.

Your posutlations seem to come from a place of personal opinion rather than facts. The fact that Enuani is more similar in dialect to mainstream Igbos or more accepting of their Igboness does not negate the fact that the Ika, Ukwuani and Ikwerre question is a settled one. You can't go about calling them Edos thereby disregarding the Igbo content inherent in them. There will be no need to argue whether Ika is Igbo or not wihtout any concrete evidence.

Anyways, i think what you should be saying instead, is those who have accepted their Igboness versus those who don't want to be called Igbos and would rather be called what they choose. For instance in rivers state, the Ikwerres are the most anti-Igbo Igbo elements but in places like Etche, it's not as hostile. Infact, a lot of Etche people have no problem if you call them Igbo, likewise people from the Egbema axis.