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akata simply means african american period. There is no other word for African American in our culture. How do you expect me to be speaking my language then immediately switching to english just to say African American? Isn't akata a shorter word?

4lag, what does that have to do with anything?

This one dey common for Naija. These agboro boys charge extra for voluptuous and extra nyascious women.

tpiah will pay N1000 before dem go gree carry her over.

@aloyemeka
ha ha ha ha

Nigerians Lament Closure Of Their Businesses In Ghana





Usual Nairaland thread title:


This Is How Nigeria May Treat Biafrans Who Remain In Nigeria

tpia,
don't mind them jare.

There are these thick yoruba, hausa and igbo accent that make English very unappealing. Sorry to say that.

I love my yoruba accent, in fact, i am thinking of developing it and making it thicker. Thank goodness i am not a self loather like you.

wetin be this?

They do have a point but they should look for other means to fight the injustice.

This is common sense people, you use debt (like bonds) for business expenditures like roads where you can generate money from toll gate fees. While you use budgetary allocations on education. Gosh, naija sef, oro ilu yi ti ma n suyan.

he he he

ha ha ha ha ha ha, and they say that Fashola is doing well? the man is busy planting flowers instead of focusing on things that should be priority, like drainage, crime and constant electricity. Let him keep building his skyscrapers.

Fashanu explained that it was not possible for him to break into the team because the Eagles then had fantastic players in Late Mudashiru Babatunde Lawal, Segun Odegbami

Na lie, he is just being modest, if muda lawal or Odegbami were that good, how come they couldn't make it to a top league in Europe? Fashanu just didn't want to play for naija because he is british at heart having grown up there.

And that was how I became the first black player to put on the white jersey to represent England

By the way, he was not the first black player to play for England.

“I must tell you that I was not good enough for the Green Eagles. When I was invited to the national team under Brazilian Otto Gloria, I met the likes of late Muda Lawal, Segun Odegbami, Henry Nwosu and I must tell you these were fantastic players. They could dribble and do wonderful things with the ball.

“The style of play here was different from what I was used to back home in England. These were players with sublime skills. Mudal Lawal could dribble past three opponents at a time. It was a game of skills where the ball was played on the ground unlike where I was coming from. In England, it was aerial assault and physical challenge and that was where I excelled,” he said.

Being a great dribbler does not make you a great player, it just means that you have some tricks in the bag or that you are circus entertainer because Okocha was a great dribbler does not mean that he was more effective than Ballack, Lampard or Steven Gerrard. So there is a biiiiiiiiiiiiig difference between been able to dribble and being an effective player.
On the other hand, maybe that is why Stefan Ekoku didn't play well for Nigeria.

Nope, it's just used in Nigeria because it's clearcut and easy to analyse.
The U.M.E is a big flop . . . a snapshot is not what w need to get people into Uni.
And we're here wondering why graduates are half baked
Exams only test your ability to pass exams . . . c'est fini.

@eldee
My friend once said that if examination is not a true test of knowledge then give us something else. The last time i checked, nobody has seemed to discover one.

at least changing accent better sef. what about the ones that change their whole identity ? like changing the name your papa gave you. you go dey hear person wey dey bear jamiu from oshogbo go come yankee come change am to jamie or mutiu to mathew etc. i mean like WTF? if oyinbo can't pronounce your full name, then teach them.

o se o jare (thank you o jare).

yes o omoge. some just over do it to fit in. you'll hear of one emeka person (jjc) that just landed in yankee and within 1 month, he has changed his name to micky or mekhi and starts speaking yeye english like gerrout, mothafu$ka, shit men, wharabout, yels etc. pitiful. no be by force o. naija peeps to dey overmurder english

Omo, you hit the message right on the head.

can't stand Nigerians or other Africans that fake American accents. I can understand when you kind of tweek it when your speaking to an America, but not when you try to convince another Nigerian that that's your "normal" relaxed accent. I also can't stand it when full grown Nigerians come to America and return back home with an "American" accent and refuse to drop it because "that is how they naturally speak". when i was in Nigeria, this one guy just came back from da States and all the locals were just amused by his "amazing" American accent. Me and my cousin were so embarrassed for him but it seemed the other folks liked it IMO, i don't think it's easy for a full grown foreigner or Nigerian to live in America and then acquire a completely American accent. It may become lighter than before, but it aint going no where. IMO, i think Nigerians sounder funny when they try to talk in American accent. They be killing it with the R's. lol! they sound better (MUCH BETTER) or at least less funny with their regular accent.

hillarious, u know wharamsaying? ha ha ha chai Nigerians.

Nigerians always running in all these pictures, he he he.

I WON'T BE HAPPY WITH THE CONSTITION REVIEW IF IT FAILS TO COME OUT WITH A LAW THAT WILL MANDATE EVERY POLITICIAN, FRAUDULENTLY ELECTED BUT LEGALLY BOOTED OUT OF OFFICE, TO REFUND ALL THE MONIES AND RESOURCES HE HAS EVER USED IN THE OFFICE: THE SALARIES, ALLOWANCES BOTH TO HIM OR ENTITLLED TO HIS OFFICE. THIS WILL GO A LONG WAY TO ENSURE THAT ALL THE POLITICAL ROGUES WILL THINK TWISE BEFORE EMBARKING ON THEIR CRIMINALITIES. I AM CONVIENCED THAT ALL THOSE THAT "WORKED" WITH HIM IN THIS EKITI SAGA ARE READY PACKING THEIR BAGS. EKITI GOVT SHOULD NOT TOURCH ANY MONEY IT CANNOT BE ACCOUTABLE TO BECAUSE THE EAGLE EYES OF THE EFCC ARE WATCHING. THERE IS NO HIDDING PLACE UNDER THE SUN.
I AM OF THE HOPE THAT IF THE JUDICIARY IS GIVEN WHAT THEY NEED, THERE IS A RARE OF POLITICAL HOPE IN THE NEAREST FUTURE. SO LET US ALWAYS SUPPORT ALL THE ANTI-CORRUPTION CAMPAIGN INSPITE OF WHOSE OX IS GORED. OUR AGF SHOULD BE INFORMED!
THANKS FOR NOW.

azegba,
thank you o, there has to be a serious punitive (punishment) actions on the part of the courts so that next time, politicians would learn there lessons.

Depends on how fine she is, and how I feel deeply about her. (but mostly how fine she is, lol) If she is anything like Halle Berry, Need I say more. CAN I GET AN AMEN!!

hilli,
No!!!! you are not getting an amen on this one.  what kind of blasphemy is this?

@poster,
omo, he be like say shame no dey usually catch una Nigerians at times o. which kind nonsense be this sef?

omo, i can't find my confirmation number.

The thuggish politician who was arrested by the Nigerian police with about 10 pump action rifles in the last controversial election in Ekiti State

Aaaaaaaaaaaaah, what is he running? a millitary operation? or maybe he is funding a revolution in south america or in Chad. Geez. oga o.

White = Ocha
Black = Ojii
Red = Uhie (Uhie Uhie)
Blue = Uri
Green = Ndu Ndu
Brown = Anwuanwu
Yellow = Edo Edo
Pink = ?? Hybrid color. . . uhie uhie still, I guess. So, instead of icha uhie uhie, it would be, ichatu uhie uhie, to express a "dab" of red.

Amazing.

In Kalabari

Black = Krukru

Blue = bloblo or so toru

Yellow = epe

White = Pina

Green = Inyatoru

This is also cool, i didn't know that Nigerian languages had names for yellow or green.

Yoruba language doesn't have specific name for the colours you mentioned but we often times associate them to things.
example blue is the colour of the sky and it's oftentimes called awo sanmo(colour of the sky), green is the colour osfand it's oftentimes called awo ewe(colour of leave)

@IFELEKE
Exactly, i think we just use metaphors: we compare them to things for example in order to describe that your cloth is green, you can say "aso e fe jo moto yen (assuming the car one is refering to is green in color).

By the way davidf when are you coming back to teach us some German language
Ich bin ein Nigeria, i must confess i fell for that one, u got me writting the whole page

@waladis,

HA HA HA HA HA HA.

Green (Awo ewe/ leaf color), i heard that lots of time on Yoruba news, but the rest i don't know.

My father said that brown was awo paali, but i don't know, he also gave me the translation for the following;

buluu- blue
awo bi osan- orange
yelo- yellow
popu- purple
buraun- brown
pinnki- pink

But i told him that this were not original words but just twisting English words by using an accent like calling the color blue, buluu.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/29/news/economy/madoff_prison_sentence/index.htm?postversion=2009062909

Speaking on behalf of his wife and looking at Madoff, the same victim said, "I have a marriage made in heaven. You have [a] marriage made in hell, and that's where you'll return. May God spare you no mercy."

These people are compassionless people.

No mind dem jare.

That's the problem with my language, there are no other words for colors other than the aforementioned.

I am yoruba and we only have three words for different languages: white (funfun), black (dudu), red (pupa) but my teacher wants to find out what we call blue, green, yellow, brown, and pink.

For example, how do you say these sentences in your language?

Yesterday, i saw a beautiful flower. It was (pink/purple/yellow) ______________

Yesterday, i bought a new blanket. It was (brown/green/pink/purple/red) ________________

Yesterday, i bought a new dress. It was (brown/green/pink/purple/blue) _________________

but seriously,leave the guy alone. u never know who will be next. it may be you. this teptation dey pandemic o

toshman,
that's why the bible said that we should "watch and pray lest we fall into temptation". He be like say our brother here no sabi pray.

whats the fuzz about wacko jacko? after all legendary actress farrah fawcett the former star of charlie's angels died the same day with MJ after battling with anal cancer since 2006 she was 62 yrs old. how come nobody is talking about her?

RICHIE BOI
Its because she was not a global icon like Michael Jackson. She was made popular because of a tv series (Charlies Angels) and that famous poster of hers and that's it. Sorry to say this, but MJ's star power was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay much bigger than Farrah Fawcett.

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Could You Pls Lend Us Gov. Fashola In Oyo State ?

No you can't have him.

you are the greatest to ever do it, and you will always remain the greatest of all time,