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Adaisback:
Jesus my lord to thee I call
Unless thou save m, I must die
Oh bring thy free salvation nigh
Oh take me as I am

Oh take me as I am
Oh take me as I am
My only plea Christ died for me
Oh take me as I am

Lol jeso, melu m ebere

It's JESUS my LORD to THEE I cry

Were m otu m si di
were m otu m si di
Jesus nwurum bu aririo m
were m oto m si di

great hymn

Heard a thick hausa accent shouting sai buhari. Perhaps Hausa and yoruba community were well "represented".

Unfair contents? meaning?

It's called ODESHI

Breakfast being served!

Good one

The hospital doesn't have picture?

airsaylongcome:
There are references that Yoruba started using it in the 1400s

make the references. That's why we are here.

Antivirus92:
stop saying what u don't know...
the word has been in existence in Igbo land from the very first time Igbos and Europeans came into contact...


Yoruba borrowed it from igbo

Olauda ikwuano wrote in the late 1700s that Igbos called europeans oyibo. Do you have any documented record that shows yorubas called whites oyibo before 1800, or is it your usual cultural appropriation?

magicminister:
Ritual killing does not work and sane people know it does not work but for decades, the nollywood industry have peddled movies with narratives where human sacrifices have made people incredibly rich.

Growing up, I genuinely believed that you cAn be successful with the aide of a “babalawo” and some human skulls but with age comes wisdom and I’ve learnt that the only way to succeed is discipline and smart work.

I strongly believe that the false narrative nollywood has pushed for decades is part of the contributing factor where a lot of desperate youths venture into such activities and the result is on the news every single day.

There is rarely a day that passes where we do not have some form of ritual killing make the news, there is rarely a day that passes where dead bodies are not discovered.

Nollywood needs to do better and this is a call for them
To wake up and change the narrative.

Things will change when you learn to take responsibility for your actions.Nollywood owes you nothing. Movie industry reflects what happens in it's society in a corrective way, and nollywood is doing just that. If you have naira marley, portable and tinubu as role models yet resort to blaming nollywood for your societal ills, then you need help.

hm

Recently on a courtesy visit to the elders of South South, Peter Obi, a leading Igbo candidate for political office referred to portions of Delta as Igboland. In their response, the Elders shut down this idea and drew the line correctly to remind where Igboland ends

any credible link to back this up imperialyoruba

Obalacam:
What is this one even saying, how did Chris ubah made obi the governor of Anambra state.
How can you influence a case in court where the plaintiff had all the evidence that the election was rigged.
For your information, with or without him,obi would have reclaimed his mandate.
This your argument is baseless Mr man

You just contradicted yourself. Bye.

Obalacam:
Without him obi would not have gone to court to reclaim his mandate. That's the point

and it happened that the situation was't without him and he was powerful enough at that time to influence the winner of the case, which is what he just said. Do you have problem processing information?

Obalacam:
He didn't.
He only tendered the evidence he used in rigging in favour of ngige when it was obvious to him that ngige was never going to respect their agreement

...and without it, Obi would simply not have won in the court. That's the point.

Obalacam:
Which peter obi did you made a governor, Po singlehandedly retired your relevance in politics in Anambra state.
This is the same man that kidnapped a sitting governor (ngige) because he refused to hand over the key to Anambra wealth to this useless man.

He did. He gave the court evidence that made Obi governor when he fell out with Ngige.

lhordspy:
Here we go again.

Who would have thought same NATO supplying billions of dollars of war equipment to Ukraine to 'defend ukraine's territory' and preventing Luhansk and Donetsk region of East Ukraine from breaking away.
Once invaded Serbia; bombed them almost into ruin just to let kosovo secede and breakaway.

Is it not amazing and surprising. This level of hypocrisy is top-notch.

You then need to pity the ones being deceived with the media.

attackgat:
I recently watched an old video where the great Awolowo said that he foresaw Nigeria getting independence from Britain on June 1st 1960. It eventually turned out that he was off target by four months.

With worsening insecurity, rising inflation, stalled economy and political instability, it is safe to say that the centre will not always hold, and Nigeria may well be heading for disintegration

Igbos are one tribe that have consistently shown they want independence from Nigeria. They have agitated for it, they have fought a war for it and they have consistently spoken about it. They even designate 30th of May every year as "Biafran Day"

Like Awolowo once did many years ago, I forsee Igbos legally gaining independence from Nigeria on 30th May 2025. I may be off by months

The biggest strength of the pro Biafran movement is the rising income of Igbos who are pro Biafran. The past three years to the next two years, a period of five years, will see the biggest mass migration of Igbos abroad within a short period. The implication is far reaching for the coffers of groups like IPOB, especially now that Nigeria itself is in a financial mess. It is very easy to predict that group like IPOB will overwhelm nigeria in the next couple of years.

Napata77:
When qualified linguists and language professors who have spent decades studying these things are talking, your job is to keep quiet and learn.

Arguing with them from your layman perspective coloured by ethnic sentiments is just not gonna cut it.

You are not so smart to know about Verecundiam fallacy, are you? Neither are you so learned to understand that research of this nature requires archaeological, strong genetic and language structure links, instead of comparing few words which obviously evolved after being borrowed along the line. No one pseudo intellectual should rail road us into accepting as reality what is infact a utopia of fake brotherhood.

The researchers are simply sick. seeking for no existing brotherhood by making an awkward comparison of unrelated words. Even a foreigner will definitely spot the difference between Igbo and yoruba on the first day.

KunGioKehRah:
I can give you ten tribes in Nigeria wey fine pass ibo girls

Fulani
Idoma
Kogi girls
Calabar girls( short and thick)
Rivers and bayelsa girls( figure eight with breasts that can swallow your head)
Edo girls( don't try the slender ones on bed if you don't want to die)


Welcome to Nigeria ( I love ibo girls too, so let's forget tribalism and love each other for love and nothing but love sake)

In case you don't know, Rivers state is more than 60% Igbo. Again, most Idomas have Igbos blood historically. some are even a direct result of Igbo migration. Edo also try, especially those from esan.

The fact that most non Igbo beauties are either Igbo related ethnic groups or those geographically contiguous to Igboland tells you something.

ForumNL:
You are daydreaming

Brotherhood, blood sisters, Anikulapo, King of Boys, His Excellency

These movies broke beyong Africa, I can continue listing
South Africa is no where near Nigeria in movie and music industry

I have warned you that a nigerian movie is on cinema doesn't make it good. It is misleading to use cinema grossing to rate nollywood movies. foreign movies still dominate nigerian cinema and your local movies are performing poorly.

President of Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria, CEAN, Mr. Patrick Lee recently opened up on why they are showing more foreign films than local ones in the Nigerian box office.


Lee said their action become necessary following the high demand for foreign films by the theatre goers.

CEAN boss was responding to Nollywood producers, who accused the cinema owners of not only rivalling them in terms of film production, but also, devoting more time and space to foreign films at the detriment of local ones in the country’s box office.

However, defending the action of the cinema owners, while speaking at the maiden edition of Film4Life conference on the business of film making, organized in memory of late Chris Ekejimbe, which held recently in Lagos, Lee revealed that as business people they are responding to the needs of their customers.

According to him, following a research carried out by them on the type of films people like to watch, over 50 per cent of the respondents indicted interest in action movies, while 70 percent of others preferred to watch thriller and romance movies.

“Based on the research, as an exhibitor, I have to take that information very seriously. And so, when I’m doing my scheduling, I have to put that into consideration. For instance, if I have an action movie, be it a Hollywood film, the truth of the matter is that it’s what my customers want to see,” he explained.
I’m experimenting with ‘House of Talents’— Andy Boyo

Explaining further, Lee said cinema goers usually pay for three things; the story line, excitement level of the films and the special effects and stars featured in the movies. And these attributes are not lacking in when it comes Hollywood movies. “That’s how the look at Hollywood movies,” he said, adding “Hollywood movies doesn’t have to have fantastic story line, but if it has very good special effect, the audience will pay to watch the film.”

“Unfortunately, in terms of Nollywood, we haven’t gotten to that point of special effect. So, we have to compensate with something else. We haven’t reached the level, where we can pay huge amount of money to be able to get to that special effect level.”

Lee, however, urged the federal government to subsidized the amount paid by theatre goers to watch movies in the cinemas at least for five years. This, he said will encourage the cinema owners to start showing more Nollywood movies in the box office.

ForumNL:
Anikulapo is currently topping Netflix globally

Trending on netflix?the so called trend is within a period of one week, among non English language movies. trend indeed!

Alfo65:
All of that is true, it is not even a question.

That is the reason why particular groups, too scared to compete with Igbos, would hide under fulani women when trying to beef with Igbo beauties, as we can see in this thread already.

It is also why certain groups of men keep trying to spread propaganda that Igbo women dislike Igbo men and like them instead, when in reality Igbo women no send them.

We know the tribe. They dwell in the south west. The same tribe whose entire ruling class is now becoming half Igbo.

Sagamite:
Stop talking crap!

Many middle & upper class Nigerian kids today are not multilingual, and the language they are letting go is their mother tongue.

That is not the case in the countries I mentioned. If their is a language they are not learning, it would not be their mother tongue because they value themselves.

If you don't want to learn the language of your host community and your host community has said it is compulsory every one that lives their learn it, you know what you can do?

Get the fucccck out. You fuuuck off out of that place, no one is forcing you.

You don't go and live in Dubai and say they should not force your kids to learn Arabic. If you don't like it, you ............sweetly fuuuck off!

You can fuuuck off to anywhere you want to learn the language. You don't tell them not to set the rules that best suits their needs because of your outsider ass.

No one is forcing you, you are free to leave.



No one is forcing you to move away. It is you choice.

But you cannot go to another region and demand they follow your wish and desires. If you don't like their ways, don't live there.

I cannot go and live in Sokoto and then tell them that on Friday afternoons they make dumb and unnecessary noise, they need to stop because I like my low noise life.

It is up to majority of them to decide what kind of reasonable rules they want in their society that is aligned to the constitution. If I don't like it, I fcccck off and go live somewhere else!

If you are in Germany, you will not whine they are imposing their language on you and say "it is not international enough".

And cut the "official" crap. Official does not impose on a people a denial of their right to promote, protect and sustain their language. If you don't like yours, that is your problem. If you don't like theirs, fccck you! Stay in your village.

It's obvious you are having a meltdown. You do not know the difference between many and most just as you don't know the different between being a citizen and being a foreigner, as you keep giving senseless example of another country.

BTW, nobody is fu cking off. You have no choice but to live with your fellow citizen without imposing a new identity on them. If you don't like it, go hang!

Sagamite:
You can force them in a country with different region.

If you don't like what you are fed, you move to a region that you like what is being fed.

There are parts of Italy where French is an official language. And majority are biilingual with both French and Italian. You are forced to learn French there.

Like the example you gave, Majority of Nigerians are bilingual too with their mother tongue and lingual franca. what you can't do is to force another indigenous language (a third language) on someone in the name of education. If you don't get it, i can't help you again.

Sagamite:
If you don't like what you are fed, you move to a region that you like what is being fed.
.

Again you are wrong. No one has right to move anyone away from any part of the country. Provided we are still one country, every body has the right to leave anywhere he wishes and be taught in his language. If this fact unsettles any one, he should fight to have his own country and win the power to impose your language on foreigners.

temielects:
I hate to call people foolish, but no sorry you are damn stupid

mynd44 rule 2

Some Igbos acknowledge the research as true but choose to be politically correct, while most other nigerias argue

Following an attempt by a nairalander to deny a US research which found Igbos as the most intelligent black african race, citing dailytrust, a discredited local northern nigerian newspaper, i will travel back memory lane to bring the research back to light and the reactions by other Africans.

I'll also so add that because of the sensitive nature of the findings, nobody expected it to be announced in major global media outlets with pomp and pageantry.

totit:
The same fake stuff that was scrutinized and debunked as far back as 2017?

https://www.nairaland.com/3745332/no-us-study-ever-said

lmaooooo

A US conducted research is being debunked by dailytrust newspaper?

Make yourself happy.

cocolacec:
If your relocate to Italy today,tell the Italians that your child must be taught in his mother tongue not Italian language.

Italian is italy's mother tongue and that is what they speak. You cannot force any one to learn another mother tongue in his own country. If you want to do that, have your own country!