₦airaland Forum

gadogado:
You're ignorant! simple! the kuwaiti crown prince saad al-ahmed al-sabah is black.what are you talking about!his mother, jamila is african.i used to live in dubai (im black) i had a room mate who is full blooded kuwaiti and he used to watch so much pornography but the thing was he only watched the videos that had black women in them coz according to him,he liked the butts.furthermore,i was close to palestinians there and they were a group of friends, all palestinian but a mix of muslims and christians and they were brothers and loved each other often making fun of each others religion.dont be ignorant and never generalize people,its shallow and shows your lack of depth and understanding of the human mind and social conditions. furthermore, alot of arabs hate eachother,i have seen this first had,the gulf arabs despise the lebanese and the egyptians ad vice versa,saudis hate jordanians and palestinians etc etc, there is a lot of that between them and if you want to go down memory lane,you'll find that arabs lived in tribes and many of them engaged in tribal warfare, killing each other coz they were from different tribes meaning they hated each other.

so stop acting like your some special victim of arab hate coz you're black,many people hate for various reasons. Furthermore,if you want to be honest ans if you are well travelled,is there anywhere on this earth of ours that loves black people? anywhere you go as a black person,you'll find people who hate you and think you're lower than them. EVERYWHERE or dont they have that in the u.kpls go and expand your mind.dont single out arabs coz everyone hates blacks even blacks that are lighter skinned hate darker skinned blacks and often ridicule them whether african americans or africans especially nigerians. as a kid,i'd always here little hausa kids singing a song when they saw a particular type of white bird "bellbela bellbela bani fari in baka baki" it means "bird,bird give me your white and i'll give you my black" if blacks themselves didnt hate each other,would they sell each other in the transatlantic slave trade,in one case,a black cheif sold 200 blackmen to a white man for a mirror,actually he exchanged or bartered 200 men for a mirror so he could look at himself,IS THERE NOT SOMETHING INHERENTLY DIFFICIENT IN BLACK PEOPLE?BE HONEST

Yar’Adua’s second term campaign hots up – The Nation
September 27, 2009 by tim

Brushing aside rumours of ill-health and rash of criticisms on inept leadership from the opposition, the Presidency and top officials of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP have launched an intensive, yet underground campaign to ensure President Umaru Yar’Adua returns to power in the coming presidential elections, which is 20 months away.


For the past eight months, the source revealed, an intensive but stealthy campaign has been launched, which include but not limited to widespread mobilisation of the nation’s most critical sector. An independent source revealed that ‘billions of naira’ have been raised for the campaign.

Irrespective of his achievement profile, Yar’Adua’s re-election is said to be a critical factor to certain symbiotic interests; the core-North, which intends to hold on to power for geo-political reasons, a section of the business and political class which think its interests would be further consolidated with the President’s second coming.

The PDP also seems to rely strongly on the advantage of a weak, polarised and sometimes opportunistic opposition at the national level to push for Yar’Adua’s return.

SapeleGuy:
My friend, most Nairalanders are only interested in selective justice. If only you could inject the name of Ibori or Alams in this story, this thread would be buzzing and then corruption will disappear, the whole country will develop, Yaradua will win a nobel peace prize  etc etc etc and we will all live happily ever after.

Paper presented at the Global Pan-African Reparations and Repatriation Conference (GPARRC) on 25 July, 2006, at the University of Ghana, Legon, Accra.

kite baba:
yea,from Delta state

THE AMAKA:
you said it!
maybe not in this thread.
but when you refer to things you usually say "you easterners" or "you igbos"
as if we are all under the same bus as those who commited those crimes.
you didnt have to say it in this thread, brody.

no one supports ANYTHING!!
SHEESH!
stop throwing more monkey feces, i believe you have done enough.

skfa1:
@ Sjeesy8

Whats your bottom line?

sjeezy8:
kidnapping is all over Nigeria no doubt but the point is IF THE KIDNAPPERS ARE FROM A DIFFERENT REGION IT CAN CAUSE ETHNIC/RELIGIOUS PROBLEMS

IG:
@Beaf, the true meaning of the Eagle is not strength. Check out the links I've posted earlier please.
If the Almajiris cannot read, then what do they write on the slates they carry? Mind you, I am not advocating the almajiri educational system in these times. But instead of branding them illiterates why don't we take advantage of their Arabic literacy. That's why I gave an example with merchants that record their transactions in Arabic.
Agreed their are many problems in the north some of which you cited in your hot reply, but those problems doesn't change the fact that Ajami writing is part of the North's cultural heritage. Northerners therefore have the right to demand that the Hausa writing on the naira be rendered in it's original Ajami form and not with English characters.

Why don't you suggest that the numeric value on the naira be changed from the Arabic numerals (1 2 3 4 , ) to maybe roman numerals ( I II III IV , ). Maybe then the Naira will be Arabic-free.

Pennywise:
This press conference suggests without doubt that the Ogidigboigbo and his team are in a panic mode.

It is a futile attempt engineered by Tony Eluemunor to counteract the ongoing media onslaught orchestrated by Nigerians in the diaspora. It is weak, feeble, uncordinated and lacks credibility. It will not influence the ongoing trial of his accomplices in any +ve way for the defence.

While Ibori is at his current media campaign someone should pls remind him to stay far away from the UK, Europe and the USA where Ribadu is getting royal treatment .

IG:
I agree that English is Nigeria's official language, but who said that only the official language should appear on the currency notes? . . .Do you know that most of those Almajiri boys that the North is (often justifiably) ridiculed about can read and write those Arabic scripts.

IG:
I was reffering to the Eagle on the coat of arms and not the shield, horses e.t.c
The reality mr Beaf is that the whole country cannot all convert to your ethnic group. We must learn to accept that we are living together with others who might be culturally different from us.

IG:
I think we've been here before, there has been such a discussion on the so-called Arabic inscriptions on the Naira as far back as 2005 or 2006. I just couldn't dig up the thread. What you guys call arabic inscriptions are not arabic but Ajami scripts. Ajami is actually Hausa written with Arabic letters. That's how the original hausa writing is. And that is what many Northerners that do not have western education can read.
I really do not think Sanusi will bring back Ajami though I wish he would (No apologies here). I believe by erasing the Ajami writings you are erasing an important cultural identity of the North. Don't forget that cultural identity is what made Soludo changed his name from Charles to Chuckwuma. And Cultural Identity is what made Joe Garba a christian to wear a turban.
Give a two hundred naira note to anybody that can read arabic and ask him to read the arabic text to you. He will pronounce "Naira Dari Biyu" that's "Two Hundred Naira" in Hausa. That is how Ajami works. The relationship between Ajami writing and Arabic is like the relation between Igbo and Yoruba writings with english letters.

Back in those days I pointed out the difference between Arabic and Islam and also pointed out how each group in Nigeria is represented in our National symbols. I gave an example with the Eagle that we are so fond of (Court of Arms, Super Eagles e.t.c) as being a christian symbol.

http://www.catholic-saints.info/catholic-symbols/eagle-christian-symbol.htm
http://www.religionfacts.com/christianity/symbols/eagle.htm
http://home.att.net/~wegast/symbols/symbolse/symbolse.html

I also heard somebody said that there are no Arabs in Nigeria. Well, then you maybe you've never heard of an ethnic group called Shuwa Arab found in Borno State. They've even once produced a state governor in the person of Alhaji Asheikh Jarma. Also most of the ethnic groups from the North-East trace their roots back to Yemen. This is not based on some legends but based on documented evidence and written history.

And for those of us that so much despise Arabic, I'll advice them to device a new number system because the numerals we use with the english language are derived from Arabic and that's why they are called Arabic Numerals.

The Isreali currency called the shekkel has arabic (not Ajami) inscriptions on it. I didn't hear the Jews complaining.

The Coat of Arms of Nigeria has a black shield with two white stripes that come together, like the letter Y. These represent the two main rivers flowing through Nigeria: the Benue River and the Niger River. The black shield represents Nigeria's good earth while the two horses on each side represent dignity. The eagle represents strength, while the green and white bands on the top of the shield represent the rich agricultural land of the inspiring country. The yellow flowers at the base (incorrectly shown as red in the image) are Costus Spectabilis, Nigeria's national flower.

The Nigerian lawmakers want the government to conduct an audit to determine how many illegal Chinese immigrants there are in the country

Beaf:
Good to hear that. We have a govt that claims to be a democracy, yet operates like a secret cult. Everything is propagated as rumour.

. . .As far as the Hausa bit is not written in Arabic.