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Udezue, Okoro means the same thing in Urhobo and Itsekiri as well. I think Edo have a very close sounding word too.

GettysBurg:
I have found out, and i hear authoritatively it is[b] Abdusalami Abubakar's Son.[/b]

Incidentally, i hear also that the oil bunker being escorted on that same day, which was captured with 11 ukrainians, also belonged to Abdusalami Abubakar.

So, who are the real bunkerers then? The militants, or the nothern hegemonists?

Why do you think the oligarchy have said that they don't mind wiping out all 20 million Niger Deltans?
Even Nazi Germany could not top that with the deaths of 6 million Jews.

Na’Allah is just one of those public officers who is contributing so little to the country but feeding extremely fat on the nation. As a member of the House of Representatives, he is not known for making any renowned contribution to law making or progress of the country. Rather, his most famous act was his statement calling on the government to wipe out twenty million people of the Niger-Delta because of the criminal activities of few militants in that region just to save the 150million population of the country. He lacks respect for human lives and exhibits crass disdain for the plight of people around him.

http://thenationonlineng.net/web2/articles/7187/1/The-insensitivity-game/Page1.html

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We haven't seen it. We are just saying, don't make a mistake.
Talking about religious bigotry, I'm sure you religious diehards don't produce the money that prints the Naira or oils the economy.

It will be a mistake.

English, Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba


[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=325012.msg4577482#msg4577482 date=1253405321]Beaf, since you say na common sense, make you no misinform people. if you no sabi de tings wey dey inside constitution, den stop siting it where e no apply. as far as we know, e no dey illegal or unconstitutional to put Arabic or Chinese characters on top naira.

so if dem put am, noting wey you fit do. i no know why una dey so worked up sef, who cares wetting dem write on top naira.

if dem fit implement policies wey go make naira appreciate 100%, i go dey happy, regardless of whether na chinese of yoruba inscriptions dey on top naira. dis fight wey una wan start, na petty fight[/quote]I'm sure you will find that it isn't petty.

Naira appreciate 100%? In a country that imports everything and only exports oil? Wake yourself up. The way this thing has ben justified as a help to Hausa people who can't read English just doesn't cut it for the simple reason that Hausa is also one of Nigeria's official languages; but strangely they aren't batting for Hausa but some funky Arabic! Rubbish!
Thats called brainwashed, low self esteem.

The only reason for putting Arabic on our currency is because some idiots think they can Islamise the nation. They can't. Better for them to get their own nation where they can put zulu or French or whatever they want on their money.

And for those going on with the bullshit about religous bigotry; don't try reversing things to look like the victims. Don't bring Christianity into it because I AM NOT A CHRISTIAN.

THE AMAKA:
dont be angry or jealous, or whichever one, just because we agree with each other half of the time.
when you guys cant come to your right mind, you always believe that someone else is another person.

Angry, maybe. Because both of you derail threads with inanities; other folk might be interested in those threads. I see a thread and its all baby talk, I walk away. . .
This is the politics section where the first rule of common sense is seriousness.

THE AMAKA:
so how are sjeezy and I online and basically posting at the same time, if we are to be the same person?
its not possible.
just stop kidding yourself, lame-o.

becomerich does it all the time, so it has to be possible.

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=325012.msg4577372#msg4577372 date=1253404221]Where inside constitution wey you take see say legal tender must have only english inscriptions? site de section, unless you dey too lazy to read de constitution wey you site for previous post. If dat na de case, den you are, wettin Yoruba dem dey call olodo.[/quote]Its common sense.

Would it not be foolish to have this on the Naira? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Zhongwen.svg/65px-Zhongwen.svg.png
Chinese has as much in common with Nigeria as has any Arabic. Is it in the constituition not to have Chinese on the Naira?

The Amaka = sjeezy

Cant be coincidence.

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Anything on the Naira must be in Nigeria's official languages; except the Naira is no longer legal tender.

But you guys, shouldn't dare put that Arabic back. ARABIC IS NOT AN OFFICIAL LANGUAGE.

^Read your constituition whether English is not our official language before waxing ignorance.
I've never read a more brainless comment.

gadogado:
@all

Let me first start by deconstructing your logic and proving to you that this "arabic" on the naira is something that you should keep quiet about, why the fuss in the first place.
look,
1. the weekend in nigeria is saturday and sunday
2. sunday is the holy day for christians and their day of worship
3. this was inherited or borrowed from the british colonialists who were christians and successfully converted a large portion of people to christianity
4. in the middle east where there are predominantly muslim populations, thursdays and fridays are the weekend to enable muslims prepare for our holy day of friday.
5. nigeria has a majority muslim population, yet the weekend does not reflect the majority religion and their day of worship unlike countries like egypt who have majority muslim population with a substantial christian population where the weekend is still thursday and friday.
6. in lebanon where there is a 50-50 ratio between the muslim and christian populations, the weekends are fridays and sundays unlike nigeria where the weekend is saturday and sunday albeit nigeria's muslim majority
7.do you see or hear any muslims complaining? that the national weekend is favorable to one religion, why do i have to go to work on my holy day while the christian gets to relax, is that fair?
8. this thing about arabic on the naira, if you give an arab 10 naira, he wont understand the arabic inscription on it because it is not in his language, hausas have been using arabic alphabets as a means of writing, communication and literacy for centuries, way before colonialists set foot in nigeria and converted our sourthern and some northern brothers to christianity, look up "ajami" this is hausa language in arabic borrowed alphabets, is there anything wrong in placing a symbol or northern culture and literacy on the naira? are northerners not equally nigerians?

If any Muslim in the North want to mess off to the Middle East, fine. The rest of us will remain in West Africa (where geography says we are located).
Is it surprising that Boko Haram could rise in a place located in West Africa, but by some weird twist, thinks it is Middle Eastern?

About Muslims being the majority in Nigeria; everyone knows that there is no place on Earth where the desert produces a greater population than forest areas; except that in a very Nigerian miracle, every goat and cow up North have been counted as Muslims.

Large numbers of idiots up North do not realise that illitracy is a tool to keep them subjugated; and here you are, a literate Northerner (I presume) talking bullshit about Hausa's being able to read Arabic, but not English. Sorry, but Arabic is not one of Nigeria's ethnicities. Period.

Long and short is, it would be a fatal error to reintroduce Arabic on our currency. Read the signs; we don tire!

A cannibal is an animal that feeds on its own kind.

I posted some images to prove that we cannibalise each other, unfortunately they were deleted by the forum bot.
We live in a country were the rich steal remorselessly from the poor, the govt repeatedly bombs its own citizens, it is difficult to distinguish between police and armed robbers; thieves who are known worldwide are the powers in Aso rock

Is Nigeria a cannibal? Do we really think others can't see us we truly are?

I don't see anything wrong with the movie.

^Then you must agree that you are a hyena, because you live in the jungle as well.

I just googled it, this is their website http://www.nigerialibertyforum.org.uk/

Nice one.

becomerich, you have a very unhealthy fixation on The Amaka. Stop threatening people.

I don die! Underage marriage police. Stupid thread.

I TOO AM MARRIED!

You'll be shocked to find that there several people registered here alongside their partners.

“As soon as the government got to know that he was in the country, all security agencies were mobilised to look for him in a small village, in Yola, Adamawa State.”

But he was in Lagos na. Which kain small village for Adamawa again? Ha! Police will never change sha.

This was just the US sticking a gentle finger into Nigeria's eye.

I sincerely hope there won't be a return of Arabic.

Arabic never was and never will be one of Nigeria's official languages. Neither is there any indegenous Arab ethnic group in Nigeria.

Above all, we are a secular country.

The Foreign Direct Investment does not measure the strength of a nations economy.

In any event, it is easy to see how Nigeria figures on that list. We had huge growth in the banking sector (currently smashed), the other area of direct investment was in oil exploration, drilling and sales of oil blocks (oil is currently a very unreliable indicator).

Conclusion. . . Nothing to celebrate.

From the same document:

FDI flows increased to structurally weak economies in 2008, including least developed countries (LDCs), landlocked developing
countries (LLDCs) and small island developing States (SIDS) by 29%, 54% and 32% respectively

http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/wir2009overview_en.pdf

[quote author=becomrich, link=topic=319788.msg4572137#msg4572137 date=1253318439]Beaf you people are nairaland are not too smart by the answers you give. Even I think villagesquare people smart pass all of the 397037 members . una dey show say una no get brain. Can you imagine some saying satellite pciture are fake. going theu your answer, you people sound like you have no brain.[/quote]Shut up about your bloody satellite pictures. Even little children can search google maps, but it takes an adult fool to post them all over the place.

Fool. Or you want to tell us you're on one satellite taking pictures with polaroid. Yeye malu like you!

Better ask your family to fly you back home for treatment.

[quote author=becomrich, link=topic=319788.msg4572114#msg4572114 date=1253318044]ogidiboy, you are the first smart person, i would meet on nairaland. what happen to you, did you marry a white woman who open your eyes to civilization. What happen to you, you are a normal human being. I was about to start believe that it look I am one of the few nigerian, whose brain was still normal.

O my God I found a nigerian with human brain. ? waho, this dream come truth. there is a nigerian with normal brain on nairaland. I hope CNN can caught up with this historical moment. I was about to give up on nigerian on nairaland. At a point, i just started to believe Nigerian on nairaland are not smart people. And ask myself, how did i pick up a human brain , when others did not. Is nice to see a person with brain on his head.[/quote]Na so crase people dey tink say na oda people dey crase.

This mans family better fly out to Canada to save their son.

The deafening levels of stupidity displayed by the man is to be expected.

Is this not the same bastard that suggested that all 20 million Niger Delta people should be wiped out?

http://allafrica.com/stories/200906040125.html

sherry lo:
@Beaf, please is that the picture of MEND or Nigerian Army?

My dear, it is MEND.