Fashion › Re: Latest Ankara Bum Shorts You Can Rock In 2016 by BayLord01(m): 11:49am On Jan 14, 2016 |
mummydirect: Serious end time dressing my sister. Over serious end time dressing |
Romance › Re: 21 Things You Miss For Not Having Sex Before Marriage. by BayLord01(m): 4:26pm On Jan 06, 2016 |
evolg: A lot of people might have told you that you miss a lot for not having sex, the answer is a capital "YES". You miss a lot and would continue missing them. 1. You miss contracting HIV 2. You miss unwanted pregnancy 3. You miss being an unwanted teen mother or father 4. You miss having sexually trasmitted yokes and bondages 5. You miss having an unwanted child 6. You miss being a school dropout 7. You miss having a broken home 8. You miss making God and your parents sad and disappointed 9. You miss barreness due to abortions 10. You miss having destroyed your career prospects 11. You miss risking cervical cancer 12. You miss getting worried bcoz you may get pregnant after sex 13. You miss being "used" and dumped 14. You miss being depressed all the time 15. You miss throwing your virginity in the mud 16. You miss getting serious broken heart 17. You miss fornication 18. You miss punishment of the grave 19. You miss weakening your veins at an early stage 20. You miss selling your dignity in just 5mins for a useless pleasure and finally, 21. You miss being thrown into hellfire. Have you seen that you really miss a lot by not having sex? My real G's out there and God's finest babes, i tell people you can have swag and still be a good christian. Your life is worth more than 5minutes enjoyment that can destroy ur life in the present and future. Preserve ur body not just for ur future husband or wife but for Christ sake. It's Rewardable!!! I did it and thank God my Phd thesis will soon be accomplished while my wife is battling with her M.ed, so your post is not applicable to all but let the wise pick the point because it wasn't easy. |
Politics › Re: #tyrantbuhari Now Trending On Twitter see (snapshot) by BayLord01(m): 10:22am On Jan 03, 2016 |
abduljabbar4: When they were stealing and threatening to burn down my fatherland they didnt remember democracy it is now that things have turned against them? Our judiciary is very easy to compromise as long as you are rich and in the end the same pdp will come out to tell you that the anti corruption war was just a scam as nobody was jailed.
I read from a post by a nairalander that a man was acquitted by a Nigerian court who was facing about 170 charges and the same person got convicted by a british court with just 10 charges.
Pdp thinks it can steal and get protected by "democracy" Best reply. The same law can sentence a street guy that stole 10k to 10yrs in prison, granted bail to corrupt oga of $2.1b not even in naira. abeg make una call Buhari any name, The majority that voted for him are strongly behind him. |
Politics › Re: Who Funded Apc's Presidential Election?:Nigerians Should Learn To Ask Questions by BayLord01(m): 9:59am On Jan 02, 2016 |
superpundit: As President Buhari continues to get encomium for his acclaimed fight against corruption, one critical missing link which many opponent and proponent of his administration have been silent on is, how did the APC fund his election. we remembered our able president told Nigerians he took a bank loan to pay for his form. firstly, there is strong ethical question hanging on the action of PMB to borrow money from a bank to fund his bid for presidency. I know the president merely sold that to Nigerian as part of the APC's propaganda to Nigerians to create the impression that its candidate is truly a masses' man. Away from that, the real question as Nigerians look critically into Dasukigate, we also need to ask the questions, what was the source of APC's funding for the last presidential election. if the president claims that he is not a rich man, then by law, I know there is an obligation to INEC, the government and the Nigerian people to provide audited account of campaign fund for all parties. Except the president comes clean on this, there is no way he can convince rightly thinking Nigerians, as apart APC mugus and magas, that he is incorruptible. no doubt this explains why most politicians in the APC fold will never be probed or purnished once Buhari remains Nigeria's president. he dare not try it and if he attempts to, the dirty linen of the president will be washed in the open.
To me, except PMB can come clean on this, he is deceiving himself, and very soon, the same hawks who joined arms with him and sold his candidacy to gullible Nigerians will soon come back for his jugular very soon if he fails to settle boys accordingly, when times come for them to get their returns. Common sense should be apply, PMB have challenge all waillers to present evidence of any corrupt act by any of his cabinet members. |
Politics › Re: Media Chat: The 14 Things Buhari Said by BayLord01(m): 10:56am On Dec 31, 2015 |
Teddeebear: it is saddening to hear the buhari say that by giving political offices to individuals the district which the individual hails is well treated.
How does giving political offices to selfish politicians benefit the common man, how many of these politicians reach out to their people expect during another election period.
Buhari should be listing possible FG projects that he wants to embark on in the region that will touch their lives.
Moreover, the people have nothing much to show in terms of FG presence in their region for 100years and about 55yrs independence, they also have the right to decide not to be a part of Nigeria.
He should rather call for a conference, where our existence as a country should be negotiated, if after 100yrs, some people call themselves igbos, Yorubas and hausas with their own agenda, one claiming to be superior to another, then Nigeria is a joke.
These ethnic issues and tribalism should be handled seriously else our problems will persist. Then why not attack those political office holder that didn't perform instead of disturbing Nig peace? |
Politics › Re: Mass Resignation Of Workers Hits PDP by BayLord01(m): 8:17am On Dec 24, 2015 |
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Christianity Etc › Re: Church Arranges Hampers On Members' Seats, Before Their Arrival (Pic) by BayLord01(m): 11:40am On Dec 23, 2015 |
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Demmocrats: The hair style must have taken two weeks to complete, truly mission impossible. . Lol, more than two weeks sef |
Politics › Re: Nigeria Political Photos From The Past by BayLord01(m): 10:11pm On Nov 22, 2014 |
Nice one, keep it up |
Culture › Re: The Tom And Jerry Relationship Between The Igbos And Yorubas. by BayLord01(m): 10:52am On Jul 15, 2014 |
irvingia: BY AZUKA ONWUKA
It is difficult to say if Igbo and Yoruba are friends or enemies or merely tolerating each other. On the surface, they seem to be friends, because you rarely hear of any clashes or killings between the two in over 100 years. People from the two ethnic groups work together, live together, laugh together, worship together, and play together. Everything seems all right. Nobody wants to be seen as publicly making any comment seen as tribalistic or intolerant.
But if you look deeper, there seems to be something you cannot truly place a finger on. It’s like a volcano waiting for the least provocation to erupt. It only needs an excerpt from Chinua Achebe’s There Was a Country to be made public, or for Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos to “deport” some Igbo to Onitsha for hell to be let loose. Commentators immediately line up behind their ethnic groups, releasing venom against the other side. Luckily, such altercations usually end in words and not in violent acts.
But on Nigerian online sites like the punchng.com and others, where commentators can use anonymous names, such fights are a daily affair, and they always get embarrassingly nasty. At such times, combatants throw caution to the wind and rake up gut-wrenching jibes dripping of hate and bordering on insanity. You wonder if the purveyors of such vitriol would feel at ease afterwards interacting with someone from the ethnic group they have maligned so viciously. Some see it as fun, but many don’t. They see it as a war that must be won at all costs.
Regrettably, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe and Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, whose direct and indirect action and inaction sowed the seed of hate and distrust between the Igbo and the Yoruba, have died without uprooting that dangerous plant or even denying it water and nutrients. Therefore, till this day, the Igbo and Yoruba still enjoy shooting at each other with accusations of betrayal, expansionism, hate, ingratitude, greed, as well as trying to prove that each ethnic group is superior to the other.
And it seems the contest for superiority is at the root of that frosty relationship. The Igbo and Yoruba are unarguably the most competitive in Nigeria. They are the ethnic groups that easily and forcefully ask for the removal of quota system in all national life. They believe that if things are done on merit, they will excel. The Igbo think that the Yoruba are the major competitors they have in Nigeria, while the Yoruba think that the Igbo are the key competitors they have in Nigeria. This shows in almost all spheres of life. The Yoruba had a head-start in western education because the British colonialists and missionaries arrived on their land first. The Igbo, who resisted and rejected the British initially, eventually accepted them and thereby began a sprint to catch up with the Yoruba. And they succeeded.
Whatever the Igbo achieve, the Yoruba have an answer to it, and whatever the Yoruba achieve the Igbo have a response. So, if you have a Wole Soyinka from the South-West winning the first Nobel Prize for Literature in Africa, you have a Chinua Achebe from the South-East holding the record of the most popular and most-selling literary writer in Africa. If you have a Rangers International Football Club of Enugu shaking the Nigerian football scene in the 1970s and early 80s, you have the Shooting Stars Football Club of Ibadan shining brightly at the same period. If Rashidi Yekini is noted for scoring Nigeria’s first World Cup goal and being Nigeria’s all-time highest goal scorer, then Nwankwo Kanu boasts of being Nigeria’s most decorated footballer, while Austin Jay-Jay Okocha flaunts his status as Nigeria’s most glamorous and mesmerising footballer. If Genevieve Nnaji boasts of being named by Oprah Winfrey in 2009 among the most popular people in the world, Omotola Jalade- Ekeinde will show off her name in TIME magazine’s most influential people of 2013. If P-Square and Flavour think they rock the music scene, D’Banj and Davido smash the charts.
So, in all areas of life, the Igbo and the Yoruba are competing, and in the process boosting the nation’s economy and bringing glory to the nation. Yet, some inferiority-complex-afflicted people who feel threatened within each of the ethnic groups look for every excuse to spread hate among the two peoples. My close study of the Igbo and the Yoruba makes me see them as the Germans and the French of Nigeria respectively. Even the Igbo language is like the German language in many respects. In German and Igbo, there are no silent words. Excluding a few words in Germans which are sounded differently from the way the English sound theirs (like “j” which is pronounced like “y,” “w” which is pronounced as “v,” etc), whatever you say in both languages is what you write. For example, the “g” is always pronounced /g/ in Igbo and German and never as “j.” “Danke” and “obante” are pronounced as written.
But in French and Yoruba, what you say may be different from how you write it. Some letters are either silent or semi-silent. For example, the Yoruba and the French would pronounce “san” as if it were “saw,” or “son,” but the Igbo and Germans would pronounce it /san/: exactly the way it is spelt. Also, the “h” is usually silent or glossed over in French and Yoruba: Hospital or Kehinde. The Igbo and the German are bullish and technology-minded. They have fought and lost wars but staged successful comebacks in a short time. Conversely, the Yoruba and the French are subtle and supercilious, with good administrative skills, regaling in their years of history and culture. A country that has such two success-driven ethnic groups should be at a great advantage. The Yoruba have been great hosts to the Igbo; and the Igbo have reciprocated by contributing immensely to the building of Yoruba land, especially Lagos State, including buying swamps at a high price and turning such places to residential or commercial estates. The sleepiness of Lagos during the Christmas-New Year period, when the Igbo usually travel home en masse, bears testimony to their contribution to making Lagos lively.
Just like the French always wish they could cut the Germans to size, so do the Yoruba to the Igbo, but it will never work. And just as the Germans always try to flaunt their success at the French, so do the Igbo do to the Yoruba, but it is completely pointless. The Yoruba can never be like the Igbo, and the Igbo can never be like the Yoruba. There is nothing the Yoruba can do to suppress the Igbo neither is there anything the Igbo can do to suppress the Yoruba. Both of them can actually succeed without the other, but working closely together will be very beneficial to each of them as well as the nation. The younger generations are forging greater ties, despite the baggage of enmity the older generations handed over to them. Working together, attending church together and living together seem to have increased the rate of marriage between the two people. Most Sundays when I look at the church bulletin, I see increasing higher number of banns of marriage between Yoruba and Igbo people. These days, it is common to see women whose names are Temilade Amadi or Ngozi Adesanya because of marriage. The ethnic barriers are being broken, even though ethnic jingoists continue to spread hate. Such hate speech and thoughts need to be stopped, for ethnic bloodshed or xenophobia does not burst out in one day.
Since the older generations are passing away without bringing these two great ethnic groups together, the onus is on those born after the Civil War to consciously take steps to bring the two ethnic groups together for their own good and for the good of the nation. It is high time this Tom and Jerry relationship between the two ethnic groups ended, for the good of both and the nation at large.
http://www.punchng.com/opinion/tom-and-jerry-relationship-between-igbo-and-yoruba/ |