₦airaland Forum

dyabman: But there will be some instance whereby we need natural RB for our attacking options not just crosses alone . .

Ivanovic is the answer. Ivanovic is like Ramos of Real Madrid.
When we won the double in 2010, Ivanovic played in that position more than anyone. Our match against Portsmouth that year, he attacked continously and that you will think he was a winger that night. We won the match by a lone goal at the bridge, and it was when he was brought down in the 18 yard box during his successful flights on the wing that night brought us the 3 points.

Ndokwa people speak a dialect called Ukwuani. Ndokwa is one of the 9 local councils in Delta state called Anioma or Delta Igbo.
They are a hardworking people and peaceful minded. Their chief town is Kwale, also is Aboh situated along the Great River Niger. The slave of Igbo origin who bought his freedom and later wrote about his life is from Ndokwa. His name is Olaudah Eqiano.

High_Chief: Hulk, Jovetic and Debuchy and we are good for next season. Am sure about 6-7m will seal Debuchy's deal.

Am not too sure of Hulk's deal coming to a conclusion. The chap is yet to agree personal terms neither has Porto agreed to reduce their £40 million asking price.
In my opinion, I would like RDM use Ivanovic as Chelsea's right back as there is no better right back out there. He is the best. With that, we can bring in one more central defender probably Collocini.
Felaini, Ben Arfa and Paizon will be good additions.

mikuz: why on earth did goal.com describe the move as ridiculous? Mtchew

Mr WHELAN did and not goal.com

MADE MANN: Where is Nairaland Office Located ?

So that you go and blow it up. Isn't it?.
Nonsense.

190: ^Link please

stop spreading sahara reporters reports here

http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/premier-league/2012/06/19/3185338/wigan-reject-ridiculous-chelsea-offer-for-moses

May be Chelsea will continue with the pursuit of Brown Ideye and hapu ya aka (Moses).

High_Chief: @Ify, nice one. Really enjoyed that. My brother Andrew Kedu ka eke si anya anwu?

O bu ntughari-ntughari. Udo di.
Who is the lucky bride this time?.

BlueDiva: You could have told us the 'one'.
I'm guessing it's CA.

C.A won his opening fixture.

Wigan again for our first match. In 2005/06 season, our first match was also against Wigan. Crespo's goal late in that match secured us the the points. All our managers since Roman era has won all their opening fixtures except one. Hope Di Matteo wins his opening match.

One of the problems of Igboland today is that we no longer have Igbolanguage newspapers. That Igbo newspaper-UDOKA should be brought back to life.
Though Ndigbo are very literate, that paper helped in promoting Igbo language and readership.

ekt_bear: The most pressing issue in Igboland is that the people have not make me their king and paramount ruler

LOL.
Impossible.

odumchi: I Here's one that I need help comprehending. If you could skip to 3:35 of this album and listen to "Feriserima". Amazingly, I understand none of the words in it. I think it's because they aren't signing clearly.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikzPf8gI6qg

This arist is very familiar with Ghana and Ghanian artists. Even one of his songs-Eddie Quasah was about a Ghanian.Probably, that song is from one of the Akan groups in Ghana. Peacocks speaks many dialects and I can remember he sang in Ikwerre dialect in one of his songs.

Owu sa gi------When you are too broke. It is a slang in used mostly in the south east towns. Origin is Abiriba.

Nice one from John Michael Obi. God bless him.

Odenigbo and Ify, it shall be well with you guys.

BUSH MAN: NDI OGWU EGO

KOWAA

Igba Nkwu. Enjoy this beautiful aspect of Igbo culture.

onomeasike: he prefers to maintain the annonimity his alias confers on his person as Reno Omokri and the grace of deflecting the consequence of receiving gej`s blood money from his generations alive and those unborn.
Don`t give him the joy of beaf,call him his real name-Reno Omokri

What a useless thread and a useless post above. It seems this poster is an attention seeker.
B---Bold
E---Enlightened
A--Amazing
F--Finesse

ChinenyeN: Andre, you misunderstand my post. Corrupt or not, I would have preferred that my people fought harder against did completely did away with the warrant chief institution, rather than going to go borrow external culture to transform warrant chiefs to "ezeship". I know I should take solace in the fact that the "Eze's" in my area are only ceremonial figureheads, but the fact that the "eze" culture has been so adopted is just "mmm" to me.

Omeele wu omeele.
Now can can the position of Ndi eze in your area be improved?.

Biko nu, let sanity reign here. I hate posts with insults.
@Chelsea fans, what do you think about RDM two year contract?.
Did he refuse the one year contract we thought was offered him.

ChinenyeN: I honestly wouldn't mind seeing this 'ezeship' business end in my area.

It seems that there are some corrupt Ezes in your area. The way forward is to seek for ways to uproot the corrupt Ezes and install the progressive ones rather than abolish the entire institution.
As for my area, our Ezes engage in awarding scholarships to their wards, sink bore-holes, donate block of classrooms to the local school, build town halls etc.

@The palace of the Igwe.

Odenigbo Aroli: I also want to inform some of us that inspite of the "warrant chief" system that the white man introduced that almost destroyed the structure that was already on the ground when they arrived the Igbos still maintained their ancient "Priest King"(Eze Ani) and the "council of elders"(Ndi Ichie); However,the Priest Kings has been relegated to the role of keeping only the traditional obligations including faring for the deities and this position is hereditary....We call these "Eze Ani" the "True King"......Most of the traditional festivals,rituals of the town is presided over by the Eze Ani....They are still very much revered but the Igwes(warrant chiefs) are more famous....Its important to know these as we move forward.....I still think we should revert to the old system and give the Eze Ani their rightful place and give them the same glamour that is accorded to these warrant chiefs and ABOLISH the warrant chief system,afterall the Ezeani was ancient and hereditary which makes it more original.

Umu Igbo ekeneem unu rinne!

Your idea is good but I don't think it is realistic. Your idea can be likened to suggesting that Nigeria should hand over to traditional leaders instead of elites as The British usurped the traditional leaders but handed over to nationalist when they left. Ndigbo have moved on. The Ezes/Obis/Igwes have come to stay just as in other lands.Udo diri gi.

Good idea but it should be Michael Obi's state or local council in Nigeria doing that.

The laws of Igboland are meant to serve a plurality of purposes, the most important being; (a) the protection of life and property; (b) the order, peace,, justice, good management, and effective administration of public affairs in an Igbo community.

Dudu_Negro: . . .lmao! Andre, can you share why they were abolished for ages?

The reason why in most parts of Igboland, nobody was allowed to ascend Ezeship was to avoid tyranny. There were Ezeship positions which nobody occupied because the conditions were too high. One of the conditions is that the would be Eze must pay the debt of all men in the village. It also included redeeming those in slavery. The debt willl not be paid back. Who had that kind of money to achieve all this?. Even if the debts were paid, how much will be left for the person to cook for the entire village for 21 market days before a coronation feast?.
WE ARE WISE.

Alade Tunde: shut up,who told u dat rubbish, and wot do you know about we yorubas

Lil boy, no point displaying stupidity here, if you are intelligent, just shut up your smelly mouth and write a rebbuttal to my post.

Alade Tunde: when did Awujale and Ijebu told you that,when did you visit then and they told you they are not yoruba,pls don't say dis in Ijebuland orelse your eye will pay for it mumu ode oshi,pls say something else ok?follow the topic and answer it not saying what you don't konw

Itsekiris are Ijebu descendants, says Awujale, calls for Ijebu state

By Ernest Nwokolo
Published 2/05/2010
ijebus are not yoruba

The Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, has declared that the Itsekiri people currently in Delta State are descendants of the Ijebu stock and not part of the greater Yoruba nation.

The monarch said the Itsekiri people in Delta State are true Ijebu sons and daughters stressing that the Itsekiris in the Niger Delta still retain core Ijebu dialect in their language. He said migration for expansion and survival accounted for why they are currently in the Niger Delta area.

The monarch who spoke to journalists as part of preparation for his 50th year anniversary celebration in June this year, also expressed disgust over the nation’s economy being controlled by the federal government, saying it does not augur well for rapid development of the country adding that it undermines self-actualization.

Awujale noted that the only time monarchs in Yorubaland ever came together to see each other was in 1937 when the colonial masters then worked to forge peaceful relationship ‘among us as a way of reducing the inter-tribal wars and its attendants effects."

" We are never one. We are different people and that is the truth. If I speak my Ijebu language, neither somebody from Ekiti, Ondo nor Ibadan will understand and if any person from any of those places speak his, I won’t understand," Oba Adetona said.

Adetona who is often referred to as Orisa Ijebu by his subjects, said it is the uniqueness of the Ijebu people that is behind the agitation for an Ijebu State to be excised from the present Ogun State. He expressed confidence that the dream would be a reality in his lifetime. However, in a statement by the Egbe Irapada Oodua, EIRO on Saturday, the group said the ancestry of the Yoruba people as descendants of Oduduwa has been settled by "intellectuals of international standing both at home and abroad after intensive research which began around 1050 AD."

The group in a statement by Dr Akinlola Sowumi, leader of the group in Ogun State, noted that the Ijebus deserve to have a state but that the agitation could be waged without resort to the distortion of timeless historical evidence about the history of the Yoruba people.
After this, you will now know that you are a fool and feel sorry for yourself.

Ileke-IdI:
And they said Igbos have no king

At a time the Israelites had no kings, and they demanded to have one like other nations around them.
But in the case of Ndigbo, at first there were Kings, later Kingship was abolished for ages till the coming of the Europeans.
As it is now and ever shall be Ndigbo have Kings.

What is the symbolism of Akufe and Abuba ugo in the above photograph?.