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RomanceRe: Robert Mugabe`s Quotes About Romance by Built2last: 11:05pm On May 24, 2017
Africas most stubborn leader
BusinessRe: Daughters Of Abdulmunafi Sarina, Owner Of Azman Air by Built2last: 11:01pm On May 24, 2017
Why does most billionaires of Northern extraction have oil connections.
PoliticsRe: APC To Hold National Convention Without Buhari by Built2last: 10:58pm On May 24, 2017
Ok....this is APCs greatest fear since they won election.

Are they ready to conquer it now?
PoliticsRe: Osinbajo Writes To Speaker Dogara, Seeks Approval To Borrow $1.28b And €9m by Built2last: 2:48pm On May 24, 2017
Ha
PoliticsRe: Obiano Dances With His Daughter, Ogechi Obiano After Her Graduation In US by Built2last: 1:36pm On May 24, 2017
BrutalJab:
Didn't you see a thread where a Nigerian was able to get 2 degrees in the space of 4yrshuh

Tell me if it's possible in this country.
grin You can actually let your own children stay over here. That's patriotism



Obiano was a billionaire before he even thought of joining politics.

If they have the money, why nothuh
Oga, we must grow beyond self. I am currently writing from UK where my family is and having the best of education. The difference is, I work for my money and never promised to provide good medicaid or education. When you are in public service. Serve the people and deliver on your promise. While campaignin you promised quality education. Keep that promise not leave it and whisk your children away to ivy league schools
PoliticsRe: 9 Men Who Saved Emir Sanusi From Investigation (Full List) by Built2last: 11:32pm On May 23, 2017
Nigeria my country
BusinessRe: Which Of These Shirts Do You Like? by Built2last: 11:31pm On May 23, 2017
chukycollections:
they are tailored to give you a perfect fitting
You make them yourself?
BusinessRe: Which Of These Shirts Do You Like? by Built2last: 11:18pm On May 23, 2017
chukycollections:
am in aba, Abia state, but I deliver nationwide
Do you make them yourself or you import them.
BusinessRe: Which Of These Shirts Do You Like? by Built2last: 10:47pm On May 23, 2017
chukycollections:
You can get this designs if you need them.
Order now 08095738206
Where is your location in Naija.
PoliticsRe: Obiano Dances With His Daughter, Ogechi Obiano After Her Graduation In US by Built2last: 9:13pm On May 23, 2017
Till we stop the elite sending their children abroad. Our education sector will remain in comatose same with our health sector

They snap their graduation and rob it into your face while you like, share and blog about it.
LiteratureRe: Nneka Arimah, Chikodili Emelumadu & Arinze Ifeakandu Nominated For Caine Prize by Built2last: 8:17pm On May 23, 2017
That tribe and literature be like akara and pap on Saturday morning
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Foreign AffairsRe: 19 dead and 59 injured Following An Explosion In Manchester (Graphic screenshot) by Built2last: 4:09pm On May 23, 2017
ollah1:
So the manner in which an attack occurs is how to recognise what a terrorist attack is or not? Wow

Who were you expecting to claim responsibility? When Al Qaeda was order of the day, they claimed responsibility of everything and same Al Qaeda happens to be pals of Hilary Clinton as this email proves
Your name suggests you are a Yoruba Muslim, slightly different and enlightened.

Your suppositions on the email by weakileaks is that America is behind Al qaeda.

Question! Why allow America use you and your brothers. Why don't they use their own citizens. It's simple. You are blood thirsty from the beginning and si easy tools.

Let any group enter Nigeria with intent to build a terror group...you and your northern brothers are the easiest tools. Why is it like that?
Foreign AffairsRe: 19 dead and 59 injured Following An Explosion In Manchester (Graphic screenshot) by Built2last: 4:04pm On May 23, 2017
nurshah:
Any one who does not practice Islam as taught is not a Muslim.....am sure you have seen or read Muslims openly stating that such people are not muslims beses many evils are committed and blames are shifted on Muslims for a hidden agenda

So ...they are not my brothers ..
Guy, i agree, not all Muslims are terrorists but all terrorists are Muslims. How do you explain that? They either read the Quran or Hadiths.
Foreign AffairsRe: 19 dead and 59 injured Following An Explosion In Manchester (Graphic screenshot) by Built2last: 3:41pm On May 23, 2017
nurshah:
So you at now saying that for sure Muslims are behind this ? By stating middle east one comes to the understanding that you are reffering to Muslims
Your brothers have released statements claiming responsibility. Are you now happy now. You guys should have atleast proved me wrong.

When Psychos want to kill, they drive through people or pick up a gun and start shooting. But when people the the pain to make a bomb...it must be Islamabad
CrimeRe: Jukum And TIV Communities Clash In Benue This Morning (Graphic Photos) by Built2last: 1:10pm On May 23, 2017
It's a pity
TV/MoviesRe: Chukwuma Onuekwusi Of Channels TV Is Dead by Built2last: 12:51pm On May 23, 2017
Chai

Sorry to the bereaved.

Demolish Aso Rock and rebuild it.

Our past leaders are evil.
PoliticsRe: Aliko Dangote And Segun Awolowo Pictured In The Billionaire Private Jet by Built2last: 12:26pm On May 23, 2017
I see Joe makoju at the back.

Silent billionaire
Jobs/VacanciesRe: Recruitment: Nigeria Immigration Warns Applicants Against Fraudsters by Built2last: 11:31am On May 23, 2017
Posted this yesterday but cos I am no blogger they won't take me serious.

Anyways I warned people

Foreign AffairsRe: 19 dead and 59 injured Following An Explosion In Manchester (Graphic screenshot) by Built2last: 2:26am On May 23, 2017
Terrible

Europe shot themselves at the foot when they flung open their gates to middle east refuges 2 years ago.

They yielded to emotional high jack and media sensationalism.

Germany and France should brace up.
PoliticsRe: Breaking News : Bomb Blast In Manchester,UK by Built2last: 2:22am On May 23, 2017
Europe shot themselves at the foot when they flung open their gates to middle east refuges 2 years ago.

They yielded to emotional high jack and media sensationalism.

Germany and France should brace up.

Islamad is the capital of a country.
Foreign AffairsRe: At Least 19 Dead After Explosion At Ariana Grande Concert In Manchester by Built2last: 2:16am On May 23, 2017
Terrible.
PoliticsImportant Announcement From Nigerian Immigration by Built2last(op): 10:22pm On May 22, 2017
Take note

PoliticsRe: Obasanjo, Osinbajo To Speak On 50 Years After Biafra by Built2last: 10:12pm On May 22, 2017
Jobbers
PoliticsRe: Prepare For Break-up, Afenifere Tells North by Built2last: 9:56pm On May 22, 2017
Ok na
Jobs/VacanciesCivil Defence, Immigration And Fire Service Vacancies Full Of Discrimination Pic by Built2last(op): 12:49pm On May 22, 2017
See discriminations

Try this in UK or America and disabled people will make money off you.

PoliticsRe: The Buhari, Babangidas: Nigerians Decide For Nigeria, Not The North – Reno by Built2last: 6:50pm On May 20, 2017
I didn't read. The title is enough for me.
EducationRe: Immaculata Onuigbo: American University Of Nigeria's Best Graduating Student by Built2last: 9:33pm On May 19, 2017
COPIED

A very interesting and valid piece by Chijioke Ngobili..... Igbo parents and parents to be pls take note..... This is very very important.... GIVE YOUR CHILDREN IGBO NAMES..... Pls read

Late last night May 17, 2017, I was given a sudden invitation to be a guest at a Radio presentation in one of the Nigerian universities’ Fm stations. The theme was on the Igbo People and the issue of their names in conflict with their origin. I had accepted and went there this morning. Between 9am & 10am, I tried to contribute my thoughts on this issue that has been one of my main concerns about ndi Igbo. I considered that I should share some of the highlights of what I said on air here on Facebook. Below are the highlights:

· A people’s language may go into extinction but the people may still remain relevantly identified to an extent because of the last marker of who they are, which is: “NAME”. But the moment their names begin to get tampered with either directly or indirectly, they, as a people would go into the final stage of extinction and that would be their instant end forever. As we battle to save the Igbo language, we must have to battle the eclipse of our Igbo names replaced by the pull towards English names which is happening among many young Igbo people who feel they need to answer English names for social acceptance—or even for the other one they call “global” acceptance—all revealing their problems of inferiority complex caused by the lack of/insufficient education on Igbo Consciousness.

· The first and last identifier of who you are and would be remembered to be, even centuries later is your name. Other things like your legacies, works, etc fall in between. If your name veers away from the language of your origin, you stand the chances of being given a forced identity and your history distorted. Today, there are “Black Americans” who also are the “Negro” and more recently “African Americans”—these are names forced on a people whose grandparents and great grandparents had their languages and names from those languages. But those grand and great grandparents were forcefully dispossessed of their names during the slavery and given “Johnson”, “Washington”, “Freeman”. The irony now is that nobody is forcing it on us, we simply submit to the slavery and inferiority, after the psyche had been done a severe damage as a result of insufficient enlightenment on Igbo Consciousness.

· Njideka Crosby was formerly Njideka Akunyili—and that’s one of the late Prof Dora Akunyili’s daughters. Had her sufficiently educated mother given her some English names like “Jenny, Lily” or anything of sort as we see some Igbo young mums do to their daughters today just for “global” or “social” acceptance, we’d have lost that lady entirely having been married to a White man. But with that singular show of Igbo Consciousness by her mum, her history in connection to her origin with the rest of ndi Igbo would never be blurted. Compare that with the other lady at CNN, Zain Asher, who changed her names completely for reasons I suspect to be connected to the same issue of “acceptance”. Many years from now, the Igbo people yet to be born would only ‘hear’ or ‘glean’ from books that she is Igbo from Enugwu State. And when she’s married, forget it! And when she must have gone the way of all flesh? That historical link is a goner, forget it! There’s the other lady, Ojinika Kambili Obiekwe with the PIX TV in New York. She represents our people appropriately and is known to easily switch Igbo and English without some forming of accents. She bears her full names just as you see them above in Igbo! No inferiority complex, yet she is on the so-called “global stage” from where she has rightly understood that you’re nobody when you seek to be something other than yourself! Would we or anyone ever forget her to be of Igbo ancestry even ten decades after she’s lived? No!

· I gave all the examples above to emphasize that this problem needs more of our ladies for it to be addressed better. When many of our girls in the universities are sufficiently enlightened on the indignity of bearing names that are not from their very own Igbo language, it goes a long way to help them as mothers in instilling the same consciousness in their kids. Women impact most on kids than the men, following that nature has conditioned it so. Meanwhile, young Igbo men are to be enlightened as well, so as to become fathers who are sufficiently conscious.

· Young Igbo people who are guilty of this inferiority complex issue as well as parents and institutions that aid this wilful slavery with so much dosage of ignorance should know that, in Igbo Thought, names—of human beings—are summarized histories, summarized memories, and summarized values. There is absolutely no reason why an Igbo person would have to be bearing foreign/English names if not forced on him or her by the people that birthed him/her or by the institutions that shadowed his/her life or by him/herself (which is wilful slavery: the highest form of human indignity!). But a good enlightenment can help break away from those shackles as well as impart the right thing to the next generation.
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Plus a few other things that would have made this lengthier even as I have tried to summarize briefly as possible. The host-presenter acknowledged that there’s the need for another day/session to dissect more on this where I’d get to slice deeper into the folds of this issue and give the modules on how to arrest the situation—both on short and long terms. I left the studio around 10.15am.

Daalụ kwanụ, ndị be anyị.

Ada React: I love this post of yours my brother Chijioke Ngobili Nna .... I simply love it....

Do you know that none of my kids bear English names other than when they are receiving the sacrament of Confirmation.... They are baptised with Igbo names.... Their first and second names are Igbo..... Chineke daalu

Their oyibo teachers struggle to pronounce their Igbo names and I can't be bothered.... They have often looked at me, silently imploring that I make it easier for them perhaps by adopting an English version but I look back at them and insist that my child's name is "Chukwuagozie" and if I can make the effort to pronounce "Siobhan" and "Caoimhe"..... Which are common Irish names which I pronounce correctly, pls kindly pronounce "Chukwuagozie" for me biko ..... The best I do is to tell them to informally call him Chuchu.... To show them a little empathy .... And they are always so grateful for that concession

I love the Igbo language fiercely..... God help me to continue to propagate it in any way I can Amen ..

My children are very Igbotic.... And they are so proud of their Igbo origins, they brandish it about in school.... They know their state of origin, local government and village and they recite it like they will use it to win the lottery..... Thank you so much for this Nna.

Odogwu Reacts:

Very apt, my point exactly, a friend was asking why I named my son Chinualumogu as first name, I simply said he's an igbo man, whenever I take him to see his pediatric doctor, the nurse is always having issues calling his name, I helped her to shortens it to Chinua...lol..besides I don't want him confused of his origin, born in American, but he is a full flesh Oguta by origin, I love the fact that his full names are ibo names, no confusion at all, no questioning before they will start messing with his head that he's halfcast... he's a full cast Biko... from Umuamechi kingdom of Oguta 1 Imo state and proudly Nigerian.......

Glory Ude reacts:

That's good. My son's name is Kamsiyochukwu but his teacher told me one day that the name is too hard to pronounce, that I should change it to English name. I laughed, however I told her since she can pronounce !!!!Russian and Slovakia!!!! names my son's own is as easy as abcd. Out of empathy I told her to shorten to ""Kamsi". Thinking that the problem has been solved, one day she told me that it is better that they write the name this way '''Camson". I vehemently said "NO". I told her that the name is our heritage and, she felt so bad.

Ngozi Reacts:

Totally concur with the writer's concerns ...People around me knows I love my igbo names, all my children go by their igbo names Living outside Nigeria succumbs you to all kinds of pressure to go by English name but I am unapologetically "Igbo girl" my son's school struggle with his name Ikemdinachi but I always tell them make an effort ..its not that difficult.

NOTE:

Women have the task to make these Igbo names stick to the children and make them proud of it.

If we struggle to pronounce Russian, German and Italian names..why should you care if people can't pronounce Igbo names. Re - arrange that child's name before he/she writes WAEC. Igbo amaka. If proud of your heritage. Share
PoliticsRe: Fani Kayode, Among Those Planning A Coup: Oodua Youths by Built2last: 5:34pm On May 19, 2017
There we go again
PoliticsRe: There Is No Going Back!!!! I Will Vote Against APC In 2019 – Senator Dino Maleye by Built2last: 4:05pm On May 19, 2017
Deno
PoliticsRe: Buhari’ll Sign 2017 Budget, Osinbajo’ll Take It From There – Ita Enang by Built2last(op): 6:13pm On May 18, 2017
hodusglobal:
Buhari soul is created by the lord Almighty, I prayed for our president to get well soon...Even if we elect 40 years old as our president he can also be called by his creator before the end of his tenure in the office...So, lets pray for Nigeria, our leaders and ourselves...#E_Go_Better
I have carefully checked my post to see where I wished Buhari death and can't see...

My confusion is: why did you quote me?
PoliticsRe: Buhari’ll Sign 2017 Budget, Osinbajo’ll Take It From There – Ita Enang by Built2last(op): 5:50pm On May 18, 2017
The North will truncate this democracy if anything happens to Buhari. There will be power seizure by military for 6 months.
Another election will take place when the north pefercts their plan.

If this plan is foiled. Asassinations will take place.

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