₦airaland Forum

Was that supposed to be a prophecy?

bright007:
Mine is Lani.

My local government is Ovia North East.

Village is Ozorgwor

How come you and the Op are greeting the same thing but are from different local government and family? I don't mean to be rude just inquisitive

onegig:
I understand personal homes but we have all these busy bodies everywhere and world over people want their privacy but public buildings, schools? Libraries, banking halls? Even buildings on enclosed streets?


And the fallacy of blocks fending off robbery is absolute fallacy. Your house is as safe as the security in the neighborhood. No matter the height of the fence the only thing you can do to protect it is maybe put in deterrents like cameras, electric safety wiring on top of fencess etc, but those are even useless in some scenarios.

No o bro, sometimes the fencing is required even in public institutions or universities, schools like unilag are in a built up environment with neighbourhoods like bariga, mushin, shomolu, iwaya close by and are very rough neighbourhoods


And you are right as to Nigerian architecture being distasteful especially multi million Naira private/exclusive homes with zero lawns but instead inter locking bricks, I think government should step to regulate it

TMKsouth:
These are just the MAIN campuses. Most of them have about 4 campuses each scattered throughout the city.

University of South Africa (Unisa) alone has centres in every city and overseas campuses because it's a distance learning institution.

And I've seen Nigerian universities because of this drone challenge currently on-going on Nairaland. I think you might just be overstating their size.

Nigerian university are among the biggest in Africa by landmass (with the exception of unilag which still has a larger landmass than most RSA unis) and number of students

Bighead9:
It's only A.B.U that comes close to these S.A Universities.

What do those pics have to do with Abu?

EVILFOREST:
...,. and not those BOYS QUARTERS Giant of Africa parade as UNIVERSITIES.
UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN lost its Glory long ago.
UI happens to be a University that entertained a lot of Africans and Europeans, including the Saudis.
But see where it is today....

Imagine what would have become of NIGERIA if the WHITES had stayed back and run this country till 1995...
Imagine the Edifice we would have been proud of.
As usual our IMPATIENCE subdued us and we sought for INDEPENDENCE to early thinking say we don get sense, now see where we are today.
ORDINARY UNITY we can't achieve.
To Govern ourselves has become a Herculean Task.

Nothing to show since 1960 except DECADENCE.
We think it's about having CRUDE OIL...
What's the use of Crude Oil without Common Sense

NONSENSE...

You are a slave

TMKsouth:
TRY Bronkhorstspruit, Vereeniging, Hartebeespoort, Odendaalsrus, Gauteng, Phuthaditjhaba and Wolmaransstad.

You left out marabastard, knowing what bastard means isn't that odd?

pazienza:
All Ukwuani need is call a 45million SE back up and you will be pushed back.

For now, we are observing them from sidelines.
If Isokos ransack them from their communities because of their folly of subscribing to minority politics, then we can only offer pity to them.

Both parties/ethnic communities are not violent in nature, they have integrated well with each other and have now forged a unique identity in which they are all proud of however as in any billingual(most are except ibrede, onogbokor, warri irri etc) community, majority tend to lean towards a particular language way more often which just happens to be Isoko language and hence more widely spoken. A lot of communities in Ndokwa East are billingual or understand and speaks another language of their neighbors to a varying degree as most of their villages host isoko migrants, this only shows that both groups have had good understanding with each other of the years, in time past their common enemy used to be ijaw raiders but everybody is integrating into well into the modern world

lablonclacla:
You're spilling facts bro!!!

What alumni association beats this??

Ycee nor graduate na, na my former roommate former roommate him be

adeniyi3971:
Make I no lie, unilag no fine. I've been to that school more times than many students sef.

This makes no sense

CAPSLOCKED:
FORGET DRONE PICTURES. EVEN MAKOKO LOOKS BEAUTIFUL FROM THE SKY.

SHOW US PICTURES OF THE LECTURE HALLS AND HOSTELS. IS IT NOT IN THIS NIGERIA THAT STUDENTS SIT ON FLOORS OF OVERCROWDED CLASSES BECAUSE OF DAMAGED SEATS? .

If it's unilag and lecture halls, forget it we can never be caught unfresh. Unilag hostel are relatively better than most public unis


Greatest (ex) Akokite

Trynaija:
Lol, I thought he is a man of WAR, liquid metal and don't preach love

E b like say the liquid metal don solidify

chykmoni:
This snake(Python) that swallowed a whole antelope was killed in my village by my friend (Boy-O-Boy) in the bush this morning.

We have a double meat here.

Please for which village/state antelope dey for we Naija?

May God bless the souls of all those who lost their lives in the biafran war.......



That what is dead may never die

That doesn't glorify violence in any way, it seems Americans hate Donald Trump with every last fibre in their bone. Wether Twitter cancels his tweets or not, it won't stop him from doing as he said if and only if it is within his constitutional rights.


Tbh I don't understand why he is so hated

vaxx:
The new completed housing estate in Kumasi ( Ghana)... 1200 unit

Wooow
Kumasi over moebasa, Kenya anytime,any day(ATAD)


What are your largest cities after Accra by population and economic strength?

obaaderemi:
The whole German welfare state policies are based on the Christian religion. What kind of animals are Kenyans?

Is it the Germans that are very irreligious or which one?

forgiveness:
No I can't because I will be banned. You can do the research yourself.

Oh ok
Makes that stuff u gave questionable

forgiveness:
Now, you and the world will know. Take am.

This is 1952 and 1963 census. Igbo is second most populous in 1952 but Yoruba took over and became the second in 1963. Gbam!

Like you said, until you bring another census after 1963, Yorubas remains populous than Ndigbo Amaka.

Can you please provide the link for the 1963, thanks

Wickedfact:
Of course. It is your daddy at home that did everything.

This tells me everything about your failed upbringing. Goodnight

forgiveness:
This is Yorubas in Togo. You don't need to lie here again.


And these fellow is lying saying Yorubas are only in Togo. Lie small small now.

SPECIAL FEATURES
In Togo, Atakpame keeps Yoruba language alive
Published December 30, 2015


An ethnic group in Atakpame, Togo, hold on to a distinct brand of Yoruba they inherited from their forefathers, writes AKEEM LASISI, just back from the West African country

Denisef Fantchede would have been a Nigerian but for an accident of history. She would, most likely, have been an indigene of Ile-Ife in Osun State. But she is a native of Atakpame, a community in Togo and one of those whose ancestors migrated to the West African country when tribal wars raged in the 17th century.


Yet, the same history that changed the course of her descent has made her multilingual. Fantchede speaks French, which is Togo’s official language. She speaks English, which she learnt in school and in neighbouring Ghana. She is also fluent in Ewe, one of the indigenous languages in Atakpame. Most importantly, her mother tongue is Ife, which some scholars would call Ife Togo, an ‘independent’ Yoruba dialect spoken by the majority of Atakpame indigenes, who trace their origins to Ile-ife.

Like Atakpame, like Idanre


In terms of landmark, Atakpame shares some similarities with Ibadan and Abeokuta. While the capital cities of Oyo and Ogun States flaunt the Olumo Rock and Oke Ibadan as their ancestral symbols, respectively, Atakpame, a settlement town that is about 160 kilometres away from Lome, the Togolese capital, defines its origin by seven mountains that surround it.

Just like many other towns in Yorubaland, where myths are explored to trace the people’s roots, Atakpame’s history is not complete without reference to the mountains. According to some elders of the town, the rocks played supernatural roles when the natives were engaged in battles with other ethnic groups. This is how Atakpame also shares topographical and historical similarities with Idanre, Ondo State, a town famed for the huge and acrobatic mountains that surround it.

According to Fantchede, Ife Togo is widely used in Atakpame because the people, who trace their descent to ile-Ife, are the dominant group there. She, however, expresses concern over the future of the language because not many young people speak it.

She says, “The number of young people who speak Ife here is decreasing because of changes in the society and the fact that it is not taught in schools. But I speak it any time I have the opportunity to do so. Our elders also use it constantly.”


Strange bed fellows

As a result of the entrenched cross-fertilisation that Ife Togo has had with French, Ewe, et cetera, it is easier for the Yoruba in Lome, Cotonou and Ajase, among others, to understand one another than for the immigrant Yorubas in Lome to understand Ife Togo speakers in Atakpame – and vice versa. A Yoruba scholar, Dr. Felix Fabunmi, notes that a language that is spoken by many people, such as Yoruba, usually has dialects that may differ from one another.


In a research he conducted on Ife numerals, the lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, acknowledges Ife Togo, Ife Benin, Tsabe, Ajase and Idaatsa, all of which he describes as Yoruboid, as being “the mother tongues of speech communities whose forefathers migrated from Nigeria to Dahomey, now Republic of Benin.”

This invariably covers the brand spoken in Togo, too. Fabunmi notes in a study titled ‘Vigesimal Numerals on Ife (Togo) and Ife (Nigeria) Dialects of Yoruba’, “Today, the capital of Ife (Togo) is Atakpame. The Ifè (Togo) dialect of Yoruba is spoken by approximately 90,000 people in Atakpame and the speakers stretch from the Benin boundary up to Atakpame in Togo.


“The majority of these Ife settlers migrated from Ija-Oku in former Dahomey into the Togolese territory and subsequently founded the city of Atapkame. There are several other early settlers or ethnic groups in Atakpame, such as Fon, Ewe, Aposo, Kabrelosso and Ketokoli, but the people of Seti, Jama and Igberiko are predominantly Ife. Other Ife (Togo) villages include Alabata, Okutaya, Efujaye, Oko Asade, Asoko Ayepada and Yanmosile.”

Ife Togo is well tone-marked

Yoruba is a tonal language, comprising the high, mid and low tones. That is how a word such as ‘odo’ can mean different things as the tone changes. These include odo (mortar), odo (river) and odo (zero). Also, ‘ere’ can be translated as play, sculpture and profit in different contexts and with different tonal marks, just as ‘agbon’ can be a word for a basket, coconut or wasp.


Investigation by our correspondent reveals that the Ife Togo dialect retains the tonal property of the Yoruba language. Apart from the inflexions that the natives interviewed demonstrate in their speeches, words in the books that our correspondent bought in Atakpame are duly tone-marked. Perhaps the only difference is that the mid tone, which is no more marked in the modern Nigerian Yoruba language, is still marked in Ife Togo. Indeed, our observation also shows that Ife Togo has not responded to the series of orthographical changes that the standard Yoruba has experienced, especially since the early 1970s. As a result, while Yoruba grammar now forbids the collocation of two consonants in a word, which makes Offa, Otta, Oshogbo and Ogbomosho to be written nowadays as Ofa, Ota, Osogbo and Ogbomoso, Ife Togo still flaunts words such as nwon (they), itsu (yam) and Atakpame itself!

The bible
As another Yoruba scholar, Mr. Mudasir Alabi, however, notes that Ife Togo is as rich as any other dialect of the language. Based on his observation in some of the books that our correspondent brought from Atakpame, he notes that what it may also have lost in terms of the words that the standard Yoruba borrowed from English and other Nigerian languages, it has gained through its relationship with French and other languages in Atakpame and Togo in general.


“But I could also see that Ife Togo uses phonological symbols in its writing of Yoruba vowels and consonants like ‘o’ and ‘j’,” Alabi says.

Highly imagistic

Our correspondent further observes that the Atakpame variant of Yoruba is also imagistic. A review of the Ife Togo Bible and other story books bought by our correspondent shows that it is deep enough to produce a rich literature and writers the way the Yoruba Language has produced great works and writers that include Wole Soyinka, Niyi Osundare, Amos Tutuola, Olawuyi Ogunniran and Lanrewaju Adepoju


Our investigation does not reveal any major writer in Ife Togo, but we came across artistes, especially singers, who have popularised the language in their works. Among them is Victor Star, who has released several albums, including ‘Nonu-Etse-Yeesu’, which can be translated as ‘Thank You Jesus’.

“She is a very popular singer in Atakpame. Many people like her and she uses Ife in most of her songs,” Fanchede says.

Our correspondent also visited a pharmacy shop operated by Kujo Akpo, where Ife is his medium of communication with customers.


Like the Red Sea Nagbe Kotannoa is very proud of the exploits of the forefathers of the Ife people of Atakpame. A historian, culture promoter and musician, Kotannoa, in Atakpame, is synonymous with the Tchebe traditional art, whose features are largely traceable to what obtains among the Yoruba in Nigeria. Particularly, he promotes the pole dance, a variant of what the Yoruba call ‘ageere’. In different parts of South-West Nigeria, ageere dancers entertain people at socio-cultural events, just as some of them work with masqueraders.


Kotannoa, who worked in collaboration with Emmanuel Lambert to produce ‘Thebe: Danse Traditional au Togo’, a book that documents activities of Tchebe dancers, agrees with the authorities that trace the history of Ife Togo to Ile-Ife, Nigeria. According to Kotannoa, he and his people were, in the past, referred to as ‘Anago’. But they rejected the term because they believe it is derogatory. So, they opted for Ife, which describes both the people and the variant of the Yoruba they speak.

He says, “Ife people came from Egypt. But our ancestors and scholars also noted that we first got to Ile-Ife in Nigeria. Our fathers lived in Ile-Ife for many years. Many of them werebabalawos (native doctors) and hunters. The tribal wars sacked them from Ile-Ife.”

I heard that ile Ife dialect of Yoruba is very distinct from standard Yoruba. I think further studies should be carried on the atakpame language, Ife dialect (nigeria) and old Ife(uhe) formally used as one of but not the only dialect by benin preist to determine the level of intelligibility et al

Sanwo olu has done nothing

Sammy07:
Uun yi agbalagba ri n’oiho joko, omoiton le ri un n’oiho uduo.

K

If the igbos complain now, they would say they are wailing

Shegzy8:
so you believe just any news, even if it happened all in his head. you lots are one big problem. you don't get to substantiate or question the authenticity of a write-up or news.

Ctrl shift

Sammy07:
True, when they know that it won't favour them.

Theyve seen that the judiciary and state house of assemblies, LG has been granted autonomy.

They know, the state house of assemblies can remove the governors now if they're not careful.

This one, I'm sure they won't amend it, cos it won't favor them.

Lagos ibadan expressway analysis

The North is afraid, their phantom population bubble for burst. They (arewa) carefully had a rethink because they know that anytime Nigeria tries E voting, each southern states would have nothing less than a million vote ...

[quote author= post=90082970]Voters registration across states in Nigeria mind you many pro Biafra refused to register, check typical Yoruba states and Igbo states[/quote]The south south is experiencing population explosion from the figures above, it means minority population including igbos and igboid tribes are increasing

Bayelsa has now surpassed ekiti, kogi and gombe are next. Delta is now so close to oyo would surpass it by next election while Rivers moves closer to kaduna. Below are the figures for Delta by local government, the Delta Igbo/Anioma part surpasses/equals ekiti

Cc pazienza

Yet we treat those dirty racist Indians as royalty here. Only God knows why a reasonable person will go hustle in that hell hole, I Rather go to my village and do farm work there abi wasn't it the same dirty smelling India a nairalander toured with disgraceful and shameful pictures of their hell hole


Kudos to the Abike Dabiri led diaspora commission

Matriarch of the El rufai family, the most morally bankrupt group of people related by blood. If shamelessness, bigotry and hate were a family

Juliusmalema:
Op is fantastically correct except Ijaw...

Ijaw is not even up to 3.7 million.

The inflation is out of bound. That position is for TIV and kanuri.

If it's in Africa, it's a no what of the ethnic Arabs, Zulu and xhosa should have above 5m same with kikuyu2
Cc lionessza6

Bembellaa:
Nigeria will soon break up...

Even the north know that,The oil in the north is being reserved for future use.

Ask yourself why the delay in oil exploration in Lake Chad

This is a political game... For now every region is just feasting on Niger Delta oil

Na when Nigeria break up, na there reality go hit everybody, the north is preparing for this break up! But everybody is blind to see that

Oil that is becoming useless especially with the Western world championing clean energy and zero Fossil fuel