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donjazet:
Are you a Christian?

I believe he is a teenager. His take on matters, his manner of approaching issues and his ability to use derogatory words unprovoked when civil discussions are being made all points to the fact that the person behind that moniker is still at a stage where his brain is still undergoing development.

Premier league clubs have voted for EPL to continue in the face of the recent upsurge in covid-19 cases..... las las Na now we go know how get better academy players pass, no be by pointing out to former academy players that later became stars. Now Na ur academy players u go line -up like Everton did a week ago if covid-19 too worry for ur side and U no wan drop point .

Lush100:
He scored a free kick too

Thunder fire him !

80sjamshophip:
Lol

This bastar.d called Willian had 3 assists vs Fulham in his first Epl match for arsenal and that was the end .

I’ve never seen a scam worse than this . Even hushpuppi didn’t come close

Willian Borges Da Silva ! God will punish u ! Make I no catch ur papa anywhere on the mainland o

Two years of Arteta at the wheel..... it’s been a bitter-sweet journey

Hoping things get better than they presently are sha .

Page 13,000 nearly turn goal for wolves o

Havertz10:
How did havertz contact covid

The same way every other human contracts it Na. Maybe Na that him gf wey u post the other day sef give am during coitus

I’m interested in this match . I’ve not had time to watch wolves this season , I really want to see why they have conceded just 14 goals this season ( 1 goal more than Loserpool that is sitting second on the log ) .

Na why I no dey buy the market Lacazette dey sell presently be dis

DenreleDave:
Nice.... How far ur location... Island or Mainland abeg?

None of the above ; I dey ilu awon osu where dem dey zazu zeh

My ayamase sauce ready to be paired with ofada rice

Amoto94:
They tend to lie and exaggerate when telling the story of Africans to their audience to justify their evil.

Thank God U got my point .

This is one of the reasons we need to use the same whiteman’s language to inform the audience they’ve sold some of these half truths about the true state of things with us as Africans .

A001:
Who criminalized not wearing clothes? Is everything okay with you?

Why are u so hot tempered and overly reactive like this ?

Somebody posted a screenshot that states that the whitemen criminalized not wearing of clothes in the abakaliki province around July 1960 , I was surprised at how the Whiteman could do that and pointed it out that I actually understand why most people who hold anti-imperialist views do not like most things about the whiteman’s time in africa...... But here u are not taking ur time to understand my post but reacting on impulse thinking it’s an attack on u .

Teejay try dey cool down Na haba!

Astrid4:
Donjazet was correct
@ d bolded was a lie

I don’t know why the message in this photo is kind of hilarious to me; maybe cos whitemen tend to exaggerate things sha . So the white man is saying as recent as July 1960 people in Abakaliki in the present eastern Nigeria don’t even don a loin clothe and there was a move to prosecute them for it ?

Na wa o, now I understand the pain of some of these anti-imperialists people like teejay . Why criminalize not wearing of clothes if what is written in that screenshot is correct ?

Una don start with this war of words again .... chai!

Fkforyou:
I have a feeling you work in a corporate organization, especially a Bank or a financial institution. You are very pragmatic.

Yes u are right , i work in the financial sector.

A001:
The inferiority complex I mentioned doesn't apply to Wole Soyinka because he always promotes the indigenous Yoruba culture in his works, criticizes the foreign imported religions that stiffle the development of our local cultures and languages.

And he's forced to write in English because it's the language of our colonial masters and one of the most popular languages in the world.

To people like Wole Soyinka, English is an important language, but is not the best language in the world.

For a Yoruba person, Yoruba language is the best language in the world. It's only inferiority complex and/or mental slavery that will make a Yoruba person feel otherwise.

Well as per the bold part of ur statement , my both parents are Yoruba; I guess I can say I’m a Yoruba person . Yet I don’t believe Yoruba is the best language in the world ; in fact I don’t believe there’s anything like “the best language in the world “. To me language is just a means/system of communicating with ur fellow humans , transmitting cultures over time , transferring knowledge , etc.

I understand ur point concerning Donj thinking the whole idea of universal is possible especially the line of thought that our own Languages/cultures having to give way for a universally acceptable one. I also don’t believe it’s possible or achievable in centuries to come. Human beings are too complex for such thing to come to fruition. Shey it is the Chinese that have held on to mandarin for centuries , refused to learn English nor speak it even when they understand it and are in a gathering of mostly English speakers ; are they the people that will embrace any universal language that is not mandarin ?

iamoyindamola:
No one is actually mocking him, majority find it hard to comprehend to his posts, he's the one making a big deal out of it.
I even advised him to type in French we will use Google translate.

I don’t really know much of ur personal history with him on here , but I’ve actually seen posts on this thread making mockery of how he writes .

In all honesty when I read some of his posts for a second I will be lost , but then I usually end up making sense of what he says . Yesterday when he confirmed he speaks French more than he speaks/writes English it was all clear to me .

I think he finds the fact that u tell him to write in French offensive ; more like u trying to mock him.(maybe that’s not ur intention but I think that’s how he sees it )

A001:
As regards the highlighted: No, that's not why Africans take pride in speaking foreign languages. It's simply due to colonialism and inferiority complex the average African exhibits compared with other races, especially the whites and Arabs.

It's the colonial masters that introduced and enforced these foreign languages and foreign systems of education in those languages on their colonies.

Without unprecedented use of great force and violence and novel neocolonialism campaigns, the world can never be united under a single rule with a universal language, religion, political system, economic system.

It's mere wishful thinking and will never happen. Even if such happens in a world of fantasy, humans will still never be united.

To create a united world, you need humans to be perfect and enlightened without having traits like greed, lack of contentment, jealousy, envy, avarice.

But it's impossible to eliminate these traits in humans unless it's possible to engineer a new species of humans genetically with the traits you desire to have in the inhabitants of a united world.

All these are unnatural.

What I don’t understand here is why u chose to highlight the first 4 lines in my post when I in fact I proceeded to explain further that point in subsequent lines.

Simply put what I was trying to say is the same thing u just said ; without the inferiority complex angle u tried to bring into it which I don’t agree with. ( except of course u are saying Wole has inferiority complex cos he speaks and writes big grammar)

We all know Africans were not left the choice to learn, speak and write in their own native language and that is why English and French ( the language of our colonial masters ) is the most people have at their disposal to achieve the great things Reno talked about in the world scene.

All these talks about neocolonialism , inferiority complex etc I no dey join mouth put. I no get strength for those things at all.

hensben:
Reno said only Africans take pride in speaking foreign languages, whereas they can’t speak their native language. I brought it here because some handle take pride in correcting my English and even go as far as mocking me which is comical when you are not British . I have a British friend who is a teacher, no time he has ever mocked me because of English because he understand i am not British, he even have interest in pigin because he has nigerians as brethren in jehovah witness who communicate with pigin sometimes unto naija things.

Africans take pride in speaking language like English , French because those are the languages Africans were taught in schools from formative years up to the university level. Most European countries are taught in their own local language and then a foreign language is added as optional( like we have French in some schools in Africa) . Africans are not as privileged as their European counterparts who weren’t really forced to learn and adopt a foreign language like English as lingua Franca .

Someone like Wole Soyinka takes pride speaking English language because that’s the language of instruction in Nigeria where he had most of his education. If the prof had been spanish born and bred in Spain he would probably have maintained that same pride writing books in Spanish language , getting international recognition doing it too. This is where I have issue with Reno’s point . He added people like Wole Soyinka who takes pride in speaking and writing English ( a foreign language ) , to a list of those who achieved great things with native names and then in the next paragraph he’s criticizing other Africans who do exactly same just because they bear white man’s name. I no just understand his point with those two contradicting paragraph.

Like I said earlier , I don’t think it makes much sense mocking u that didn’t grow to speak and learn English as first or second language like most people here.

Spy360:
Lol...

This is my time o baba. Just like when Jesus said to the woman, 'has anyone condemned you?' she answered, 'no one my Lord'.

On the emboldened, why you add that description? You know he has beaten all those teams before. Adding convincingly is just being spiteful.

Na so life be o.

Arteta beat all 3 teams he mentioned on the way to winning the two silverware he won in his debut season o, but men don forget already.

Dem want make he beat each of those team 5-0 fess , only then will he be reckoned with

donjazet:
It would be good to name who started this in order not to generalize wrongfully.
You can't see the unbridled joy I have right now seeing that none of them even recognize what they're fighting for.

See the way they all rushed me when I suggested adopting a universal language. It struck straight at the heart of our tribal awareness, when in essence, nobody even identifies what that is.

Imagine the heaviest sense of irony they all feel on the realization that they are castigating a language they are in fact learning, speaking and passing down to their own offsprings.

Isn't it funny?? I have asked 4 different people what these African traditions they are all raving about is in the 1st place and that was the END.
People suddenly realized they were fighting for nothing. They were just emotional and sentimental.

I WON. I won because logic would always trump sentiments and emotions.

I read everything from hensben’s initial post U responded to and subsequent posts that followed; I know u didn’t start the whole insults/diatribes. Well, personally I feel u should’ve just ignored the first guy that struck out ur posts and ended it with with an offensive post.

I’m not holding u by my standards o, but personally I would’ve just ignored him and continue the discussion with more polite people that had commented on the topic. At most , I would report the post and move on with the discussion with someone else.

As regards the topic itself I understand the point Hensben was trying to make , tho using that Reno’s post on IG as the basis for making a a case for the way he writes English messed things up for him.

I don’t know how Reno thinks , but I really do not see the correlation between someone bearing an English name(which he was christened when he was a toddler and has no control over ) and being unable to speak their native language . English is the language of learning in Nigeria,it’s ironic most of the people he mentioned that became great with their native names actually speak the English language perfectly well ( I know some of them even wrote books in English language that won them international recognition ); So I don’t really understand what point he was trying to make. In the course of the discussion I discovered English seem not to be Hensben’s first or second language , so it’s understandable some of the basic rules of English language he’s unable to observe when he writes . I would not mock/castigate/blame him for this.

Personally I do not think a universal language is adoptable . I remember someone ( I don’t know if it was you ) pointed it out that having a grasp of the English language is one of the pre-conditions for u to work in the UN, but it’s actually funny that the Chinese representatives will always choose to speak their language at the general assembly knowing fully well most listeners don’t even understand “go” or “come” in mandarin. I did a little check on google that revealed with a population of little above 1.4billion , just 10million people in China speak English . Less than 1% of their population don’t speak English despite the country having a literacy level of 98.6% .

I’m not the best with figures but to me those figures above are saying the most populous country on earth with over 1.4billion has refused to Learn English nor any other potential universal language for reasons best known to them. So how will the dream of universal language u desire be achieved ?

Most posters that have contributed to the discuss have made good points, but the insults/offensive words/diatribes that precedes/concludes the points being made by the posters are actually unnecessary.

iamoyindamola:
Laca is following his friend foot steps
Lost pk last match and missed 2 chances
I can't celebrate any of our goals as I really feel for Leeds
But martinelli is showing his class

Why are u feeling for Leeds ? Shey u no see how schoolboy Everton players beat Chelsea ni ? Shey Na until Leeds thin squad beat us too?


I check LiveScores and see say we dey do dem shege as expected . I’m happy jare

Make una dey update us as per the match as e dey go. I’m somewhere on a beach enjoying my Derry December . . Man shall not live by bread alone

aboyaji:
Good morning, this morning.

Is that banana I’m seeing in the noodles ? How does it taste ? Does it not make the noodles too sweet ?

afrodoc2:
What this means is UEFA Nations League= Copa America.
And since Euros > UEFA Nations League it means Euros > Copa America


There is a reason why they are getting invited to the lower tier competition in Europe. and not the Euros. Until they start inviting non-European countries to the Euros you have no point.

Egbon gbogbo inequality yi o neccestry now

Personally I don’t care which competition is bigger or rated higher , me I just wan enjoy football matches with decent score lines and not some 10-0 , 8-0, 11-0, etc that we see on a regular basis in Europe and sometimes at the World Cup jare.

Theuniverse:
my friend blueraydick, pls what was the inspiration for your username? back to topic, no be only brazil,argentina and chile dem go invite. as you say the european giants dey win 10:0, by the time peru,bolivia,paraguay join it may even reach 20:0.

Trust me , I can bet u that England , France, Italy , Portugal , Spain cannot wallop teams like Peru , Bolivia , Paraguay , Ecuador etc 10-0 like they do to those European minnows. Even Brazil wey don collect the most World Cup sef no dey see those teams beat 4-0 ....blood go just dey flow on the field before those teams allow u end the match with cricket sores against them trust me .

As for the moniker it’s a play on word and being mischievous at the same time. The last four letters is a short form of one of my names and then the first part is what it is

afrodoc2:
So you are equating UEFA Nations League to Copa America abi?

Me keh, I no get any power to do any equation o. I just find it funny that in the past few months we’ve been having debates and arguments about how the South Americans invite Countries like Qatar and Japan to Copa America and now we have Europeans inviting South America for UEFA nations league .

Now we get to see if them Neymar , Messi etc we’re actually stat padding against teams like Peru , Bolivia etc .... on the other we will also see dem England , Portugal, Italy etc playing against real teams regularly and not the whole drubbing Andorra , San Marino , etc 10-0 everytime.

Let’s just say I’m excited for now sha

Roland17:
I can’t wait to start seeing European countries compete in the African Nations Cup and African countries participate in the Euros.

Make we kukuma spoil everything because of money.

Methinks sooner or later they will cancel World Cup or it will lose its prestige with all this kind tournaments springing up . I mean if European and South American countries find this new competition enticing , the timing makes sense and clubs do not have to lose players at crucial point of the season, I think with time some of them will boycott the normal World Cup ; cod make we no lie Na those two continents sef dey make World Cup gan gan sweet.

But make we dey look am sha , 2024 still dey like 3 years away

Talking about possibility of Qatar or japan winning Copa America and not knowing how best to address them; well UEFA has agreed for 10 South American countries to join nations league .

Abeg if Uruguay or Chile win UEFA nations league 2024 , how do we address them ?

Jodera:
Mehn, na wa oo.
I never expected it. I thought one or two matches, at most three.


I want to hear your opinion, don't you think it's too harsh??

I think Auba deserves whatever is coming to him now. He occupied a position of authority but with authority comes responsibility .......

I know he’s had a dip in form since he signed the contract but yet I still believe so much in his goal scoring prowess ; in fact less than a week ago I was here arguing how he happens to be our biggest goal scoring threat amongst the attackers we parade.... However, I don’t condone indiscipline in any form.

If he’s been found wanting for disciplinary breaches 3 times as a captain who should be more responsible than other players, then I think whatever punishment being meted out to him does not mean he’s hated by the coach , but that the club management is using his case to make a bold statement to other players both current arsenal players and future arsenal players; u don’t disrespect the institution by going against its rules and then thinking after a game or two u will be patted on the back and asked to go and don no more .

Auba Na my guy but e don shiiit for church on this one ; as e be now church Agbasa!