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DonCandido:
Apparently, it's been a while since you left your village.

Find an excuse to travel round and see what this administration has done/is doing all over the country.

I think Buhari will win a 2nd term comfortably if he chooses to seek it.

Mr. Traveler, emphasis on projects initiated and completed . I didn't create the thread.

This is hate speech. Where is DSS? Una no get work today?

I was waiting to see projectes initiated and completed by this propaganda government going by the op headline... Am disappointed ......

Where is Madam Lauretta? Please compose one Ode for your OGA ;
' whilst the Gallant soldiers laid to rest, the C-in-C followeth the blues of a Tinubuic party along the beach of Lekki........' Continue from where I stopped...

Hmmmm! Somewhere in Lagos, APC is preaching to us that their are on rescue mission,that PDP will not come to power again........
Drama upon drama .

Hypocrisy is devil himself....

yarimo:
Mtcheeew but if it was GOODLUCK jonathan you won't have said this. Nonsense

This Yarimo of a person, what fits you is to be employed as cleaner to wash Yusuf Buhari's Boxer shorts in Aso Rock

Which great day?

Amen Umu Anambra

Downloading..............

soloxxng:
Is isi-agụ the right name for this cloth material that is associated with the Igbos?

Yes, isi-agụ is its correct name but what is on the cloth is isi ọdụm (lion's head), not isi agụ (leopard's head)

Does that nullify the name? No.

Is it the first time a wrong name has been given to something in Igbo, English, Latin, etc? No.

The people who named this cloth mistakenly called it isi-agụ. But that wrong name has become its name. It can't be changed soon. It does not even matter anymore.

It is that mistake that contributed to the confusion many Igbos who are under 50 have over which animal is agụ and which one is ọdụm.

Ọdụm is lion.

Agụ is leopard.

That is why we say: Ọdụm na-egbu agụ (the lion that kills the leopard). That is why God is called Ọdụm nke ebo Juda (the Lion of the tribe of Juda).

Tiger never existed in Africa and was never seen or known by our forefathers. So they had no name for it. But in modern times, some people also call the tiger agụ. However, I have suggested that it be called agụ-ukwu (the big leopard), because it is the biggest of the big cats, while cheetah should be called agụ-ọsọ (the speed leopard), because it is the fastest land animal.

So should isi-agụ be changed to isi- ọdụm? It is not necessary. Languages don't develop like that.

Similar mistakes had been made in Igbo before. Some months ago, I asked people on Facebook what is the Igbo name for library, since school is already called ụlọ akwụkwọ (book house), and what is the Igbo name for pharmacy, since hospital is already called ụlọ ọgwụ (drug house). It caused a lot of confusion and introspection.

School has been "erroneously" named ụlọ akwụkwọ. It can't be changed anymore. Library will have to get a different name. Same goes for pharmacy.

In English, similar mistakes have been made countless times. When the world erroneously thought the earth was flat, they coined the words "sunrise" and "sunset", believing that the sun rose from the east and set in the west. Centuries ago it was discovered and certified that the sun never rises and never sets. Rather the earth rotates round the sun. Centuries after, the words sunset and sunrise have not been abolished in English. We use it everyday even though we know sunset and sunrise are scientifically wrong and non-existent.

Similarly, the months September means 7th month (ie septuagenarian); October means 8th month (ie octagon, octogenarian); November means 9th month (ie nonagon, nonagenarian); December means 10th month (ie decimal, decade, decimetre). But in reality they are 9th, 10, 11th, 12th month respectively in the Gregorian calendar we use today. This is because the old calender did not capture 2 months. The current calendar captured them, gave them names and adjusted the months by 2 months, causing the mix-up we have today. But nobody bothers to change the names of the months to reflect their true meanings.

Again when Christopher Columbus set out for India through a different route, he landed in North America. Thinking it was another part of India, he called the indigenous people he saw there Red Indians. West Indies also got its name via that mistake. These names have stuck till today even though North America has no connection with India.

So isi-agụ was mistakenly named by those who didn't know the difference between agụ (leopard) and ọdụm (lion). But that name has stuck. It can't be changed now. Isi-agụ is its name.

Interestingly, some isi-agụ materials bear no animal pictures (as can be seen in some of the attached pictures), but are still called isi-agụ. Some even have the pictures of other animals but are still called isi-agụ. So it is no longer the picture drawn on this material that makes people call it isi-agụ. It is the material and what it represents. It is the cloth material that points to the Igbos as a people. The Igbos have adopted it as the cloth that gives them their identity. So isi-agụ is it!

If you don't have your isi-agụ, nwanne, ndo.

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Cc: Lalasticlala[[quote author=Afonjas post=66207991]Bro. Isi-agu is the real name, there was no mistake, our rich forefathers use the agu skin to make clothe and not the odum's skin, that's why modern Igbos stick to the isi-agu as their identity.
Just like Ibe Kachukwu and Obiano wore it.
Thanks, you tried.

There was a title for great people then like Ogbuagu.

/quote]

Library is 'oba akwukwo'

Good morning Gen. Danjuma,
I saw in my coma the stained bloods of Aguiyi-ironsi and companions hovering over the Mambila plateau.....stretching toward Benue valley.

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Make sure you take cover as they approach the hills of Takum Good morning once more. Karma is really a bastard!!

LaudableXX:
Why do you IPOBs like twisting any situation around, in order to applaud yourselves? How is this matter about IPOB, or Igbo or even their leader Kanu, who jumped bail and ran away, leaving his followers in jail, without any attempt to help them regain their freedom?

Kindly remember that Nnamdi Kanu called for the dismemberment of Nigeria. TY Danjuma did not, he only asked people to defend themselves.

Kanu insulted and vilified other ethnic groups and called them unprintable names. TY Danjuma, did not, he only asserted that the military was compromised.

Kanu instigated his IPOB followers, called Nigeria a 'zoo', and ranted that Nigeria would be burnt down. TY Danjuma did not, but only noted that those who had been attacked severally without let, should protect themselves from annihilation.

So who is the real hypocrite here? The one who tried to instigate his followers to burn down their country and turn it into Somalia, or the one who asked his people to engage in self-defence?

KANU said this, January sdid that. You have forgotten that KANU warned about Fulani herdsmen carnage. Have you forgotten how Sagay villifued a whole Igbo nation in an effort to justify Buhari's government? ,.....

Good morning Mr. Sagay!
Good morning Oga Danjuma.
Any time a person realised the truth, is the person's own morning
I hope it is not about the Igbos and IPOBS this time around?

I hope your 143billion figure is quite correct. I believe there will be no more secret memorandum to EFCC over figure discrepancies.
The truth is that day in, day out, your utterances and publicity are getting the masses more confused. APC government ....

Nicklaus619:
Hallelujah, hallelujah

Till Easter . Now is Hosanna

Hosanna Filio David,Benedictus Qui Venit in Nomine Domini

Hosanna O son of David , blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord.

Glorious Palm Sunday to all

Hosanna Filio David , Benedictus qui venit in Nomine Domini!!!!!

Glorious Palm Sunday to all Christians and Easter in advance

Epiclesis(prayer of invocation of the Holy Spirit)


Prayer of intercession etc

Apart from EBOLA, every other tin ba double double.

Ebola

The truth is that at a time in history, Ojukwu created opportunity for Awolowo to liberate the West from our Northern feudal chiefs even if they didnt want to join forces with the East. But out of cowardice and political domineering, he chose to be a minister of finance....today, all of us are suffering the carnage of Fulani herdsmen. Tell me whom did prosperity justified.

We can see your trial

This people self. Vomiting every thing that comes out of their mouth. Your baptised YOUWIN CONNECT cannot give grant to any single youth to start business after training. There is Godooooo

No

Which cartoon captures the bleeding mood of the country more than this? A country where a sitting president commissions projects while on condolence visit. What a country! 1,300+ killed on under a period of 10 weeks....

SamoaJoe:
http://saharareporters.com/2018/03/02/trucks-fertilizer-disappeared-under-previous-govts-buhari

Bia this man, stop manufacturing lies.. Last time it is about Nigeria cutting their rice import by 95%.

Op ,
Expose this , expose that. That is what your 'saintly' president was able to accomplish.You succeeded in rating your blog low with a heap rubbish.

Where is Madriguy,Ngeneukwenu,sarrki,omenkalive. Oya make una chop una kpomo...

Where is Madriguy, Ngeneukwenu, sarrki, omenkalive. Oya make una chop una kpomo...

not only propaganda but body language. All has failed.

femidejulius:
"I belong to nobody and I belong to everybody".

Substitute the 'nobody' and'everybody' to mean fulanis and other northerners.

You will have:
" I belong to the fulanis and other northerners and I belong to the fulanis and other northerners ".

Really!