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What language do people of Opobo speak?

This governor should step down immediately, period.

The statement is despicable and shouldn't be allowed to dissolve into the air as usual; something needs to be done.
There is nothing ridiculous than witnessing a foolish governor in action.
Unqualified greedy leaders who are killing this nation must be stopped immediately.

Including IBB.

@Debosky

did you grow up in the east?

From my little experience on this forum, many of our Yoruba friends have never left Yoruba land except the few that are forced to do so for NYSC.
They are born,bred and buried in Yorubaland and so were most of their fathers and grandfathers and have absolutely no clue what happens outside of Yorubaland and that's why they argue the way they do and cling unto age old myths.
Some of you need to hop on ABC buses once in a while and travel to other areas in Nigeria.
It may help.

Maybe that is the reason debosky seems to be making more sense than them

however, go to the FED schools that admit on merit, some states are known to always command a higher cut off in this country. IMO isnt part of the states.
my points!!

keep deceiving yourself.

@tkb417

Let me ask you a question.If i am born and brought up in ibadan of imo parents will you consider as someone from oyo or someone from imo state?

@Becomrich

Just few days ago I asked an Igbo person here that how could your people have lost all that gains and leadership you had pre-independence and shortly afterward and yet the general discussion is focused on war, instead of reclaiming those powers through concrete and practical transformations?  I do not doubt SE strengths but I will be a bastard to surrender Yoruba response without a gallant challenge.

My guy a war occured and igbos lost a lot during the war.You think it is easy to comeback after that.

If you want to challenge anything challenge your guys to start taking education seriously as they used to .

[quote[b]]Cross River[/b] and Bayelsa are the only states that are ELDS in the south.[quote][/quote]Afaukwu are u sure about this?

its too early to take alcohol
the schools that command the highest cut off points in 9ja are the SW unis and the states with the highest cut off points are usually Ogun, Ondo and Ekiti.
so where did u get ur IMO thingy from?

I thought states had their cut offs at least in my own time or has it changed?I need proof for the statement above.

4)i come thru like a sound like nike -ruggedman waka

hmmmm.i thought the nike here actually means good like marking good metaphorically in relation with nike's logo.

Finally, BecomeRich has a financial source that will finance his dream. It'll only be a matter of minutes before he spams this thread.

love-vendor-50 cent

forget about dre-Dr dre feat.eminem

Up town anthem-Naughty by nature

Carlifornia love-2pac feat. Dre (wild west version)

Obodo-nigga raw (original version)

_{[i]I found it difficult leaving out ambition rider by 2pac[/i}]

Final tonic for the disintergration of nigeria

This is one of those feel-happy craps that people often deceptively pad into argument hoping they will stick unnoticed.

Hilarious jam

However the beats are a bit similar to 50 cents' 'many men' in get rich o die trying album .

@BigB1

You are condenming corruption meanwhile you are an IBB staunch supporter.What an irony!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG8o5y5BmGs

Nigeria will continue to be an import oriented country.Let me start making arrangement for importation of pure water.

Anya ga ahu anyi iwa na obodo a
Our eyes will see pepper in this country

wrong thread

"Ibo Made" http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/index.php/content/view/11574/55
Written by Pius Adesanmi
Monday, 23 February 2009
Growing up in the 70s or 80s in a little Yagba town in the old Kwara state, your first real contact with the “outside world” – besides European and Canadian catholic priests and social studies in primary school – came in the form of settlerist migrancy. There was the sabo area of town, ceded by Kabiyesi to Hausa/Fulani settlers. That was where you bought suya and fura da nono on your way to and from school. There was Kwaku or Mensah, the ambulant Ghanaian shoemaker (sobata) who roamed the village with his wooden box containing assorted tools of his trade held around his waist by a rope slung across his shoulders. Akosua, his wife, sold rice and beans during break at school. Then there was Okoro from Igboland. He’d been part of the village for as long as everyone remembered. He spoke the local Yagba dialect and its parent Yoruba: he was a quintessence of integration other Nigerians hardly ever achieve. Most importantly, Okoro owned the only trading store in town.

No matter what his real name was, he was always Okoro to the village people. He got that name partly because of his cantankerous Igbo namesake in The Village Headmaster, arguably Nigeria’s most famous TV drama of all times, and partly because of Nigeria’s internal dynamic of racism and othering: each of the three major ethnic groups, forced into a party by the British, has unprintable names and degrading stereotypes for the other two. Okoro was the villagers’ sole access to manufactured goods: clothes, maths set, exercise books, whot cards, Ludo boards, kerosene stoves, sardines, geisha, glucose, Wembley 4 soccer balls, skull slip-on shoes for women, candles, asepso, tetramosol, nku cream, elephant blue detergent, tomapep, shelltox, knitting needles, name it! Okoro’s store was the world: miniature globalization in that little corner of Africa before academia hijacked that word noisily!

Okoro’s customers always expected him to have two versions of every item he sold: the original and the fake. Folks believed that the original came from Europe and America. The fake, according to local lore, was manufactured in Igboland by ingenuous folks capable of reproducing any industrial good with the speed of lightening. Welcome to the legend of “Ibo made” in Nigeria’s national imaginary. “Ibo made” came to represent what you bought grudgingly because you couldn’t afford the real deal. It gathered other registers of inferiority along the way, signaling everything that is wrong with the way Nigerians think.

“Ibo made” is the most explicit metaphor for the Nigerian tragedy. It explains why we abandoned mal-development and underdevelopment for zero development. It is an unserious country that expects development by disparaging and killing the industry, inventiveness, and technological savvy of an entire segment of its population, socializing generation after generation of her people into a mental universe where every candle or pencil made in Aba is deemed inferior because it is “Ibo made”. Neither the obtuse rulers at the centre nor the Governors of the respective “Ibo made” states were ever imaginative enough to develop “Ibo made” into a full scale national asset.

Nigeria is truly a funny country. Her ports are permanently congested because she imports everything from wooden tooth picks to wooden rulers. If air could be imported, Nigeria would import it. Yet, half the things clogging her ports used to be made in Aba and other places in the east. Nigeria killed rather than develop those manufacturing potentials. What Nigeria rejected as “Ibo made”, our friends in China took to unimaginable levels. Now, foolish and ostentatious Nigerians who consider buying “Ibo made” an insult buy stuff that are even inferior to “Ibo made” from China! The Chinese, not being as foolish as we are, flood Nigeria with every imaginable fake and pirated product under the sun. Nigerians buy everything from fake Louis Vuitton products to fake tooth picks from China. A good friend of mine, Mazi Ebere, predicts that unless we change course, Nigeria will soon import elubo, efo riro, and pure water from China.

Other Nigerians have received help from the Igbo in terms of the sustenance of condescending attitudes to “Ibo made”. An Igbo friend of mine based in France inspired this piece. He phoned me from Paris the other day fuming. He is building a house in Nigeria and has just discovered that his contractor was billing him for “original material” while using “Ibo made”! When I drew his attention to the irony of an Igbo man fuming over “Ibo made”, he dismissed me impatiently: “Pius abeg leave matter jare. When you are ready to build your own house, hire the same contractor and let him use Ibo made material for you!” I changed the topic. Enter any Igbo shop in Lagos, Ibadan, or Kaduna. If you are a regular customer, the Igbo trader is sure to tell you: “oga, those ones outside na Ibo made o. Original dey inside. You know now.” We sure do have a long way to go as a country.

Takin it an using it "wisely" will not impress me,its still bribery.
What we want is for him to stop the practice of givin kickbacks completely

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I wonder when we will reach that stage.

Moderator please try to do something about this comfort* CHARACTER .He/she is becoming annoying

kimi ranking

@ofokasibe and @tosinadeda

Una dey craze

RichyBlack what u said might be true.However the truth is that igbo language is a very tonal language and if not spoken well can sound very irritating to the ear of one that can speak the lingo quite well.

In fact it is very easy for someone that speaks the lingo well to notice someone that is learning the language if that person already has another language he or she can speak because the phonetics will just be off.

That is why it is good to speak the language to someone right from when the person is still suckling the moms breast.

@tosinadeda

You and ducan mighty again.

I don tell u make u go settle ur beef with the guy.

Dude, can't you just say something without insulting people? Every African tribe that has a settlement, have a system of government with a elder in it. So are you saying the word, Igwe was invented less than 80years ago?    . Yes, Yorubas had kings but the king never had any influence on their lives. They still trade, go to farms and live their lives how they want. Stop trying to make people look bad. The Northerners also had empires too. The world famous Nok culture of art was invented their. Everyone has pros and cons. Stop trying discredit them.

Yes the igwe syndrome started at the time the british came to igboland and instituonalized warrant chiefs syndrome.It used to be[i] umunna[/i] council of elders.I am not sure though about some parts of the present delta state that are igbo speaking and onitsha.

dignity of hardwork in nigeria has been thrown to the dogs!