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English as a language is not entirely from Britain. There has been additions from other languages over time. Balcony is an Indian word, chimpazee is African etc

Reflect7:
Is ENGLISH Our Permanent National Language?

I ask because... we are AFRICANS.

We are not Englishmen or Europeans.

Do we actually have a PLAN to indigenize ourselves following the colonial interruption?

Or have we decided to become black Englishmen permanently?

PLEASE, TELL ME NO.

We must have a plan to have a national language that is AFRICAN.

I hear the AU is considering making KiSwahili the African lingua franca.

If so, GOOD.

What we CANNOT do is become permanent Europeans.

We can even decide here in Nigeria to pick ONE SMALL TRIBE'S LANGUAGE, like say the Berom people or Urhobo, and make it our national language.

But we cannot be a nation with ENGLISH as our national language forever.

Abi dem swear for us?

Las las you'll come to the realization that you're trying to go back in time.

Move on, the past is gone. The number of people that speaks English will continue to increase, French might decline, i don't care, never liked French.

Eventually, the whole of Africa will be speaking English

Reflect7:
Do you think if China was divided into 55 countries, each country speaking a European language as its lingua Franca, and influenced by colonial powers, that the land known as China would be anywhere near as powerful, prosperous, and United as it is today?

They were also multi ethnic and multi lingual till Mandarin was imposed as the national language.

MANDARIN, not French or English or German.

WHY CAN’T YOU FCKING SLAVES REASON LIKE THE CHINESE?

Stand up and be proud Africans and stop being a fcking embarrassment to the world.

You like that one abi? I know say you be good wife.

Longest time....you just abandoned us

pocohantas:
Then post this and leave talk.

Niger delta oil money

plaindealer:
Lagos is not only blessed with great, visionary, competent, and credible leaders, but it's also blessed with the priceless spirit of continuity, this is why Lagos is always ahead.

I did not say she's abnormal, i said abnormal situation.

Ofcourse, if you marry a good girl, you have peace of mind. No wonder the Bible said he who FINDS a wife....you only have to find something good as they're not common....bad things are common!

pocohantas:
They have low urgency online, in reality, they are looking for wives and blaming their singlehood on lack of good girls.

She is not abnormal, she no want una registry. No be force.

You're focusing on the wrong priorities.

What you're focusing on will not improve the standard of living of Nigerians or Africans

Reflect7:
What a stupid, myopic way to think.

If you want to copy the west, do so in reasonable things, such as by thinking long term about your succeeding generation and offspring, and plan today with an eye on the future that you may not be here to witness.

That’s how you copy them. Not by bleaching your faces, speaking their accents however fake, and looking to speak their language permanently.

25% in Abuja is a must! Double or invalid nomination for Shettima is a sure banker, Guinean passport. Rigged results.

You narrow the petition to suit your narrative

adioolayi:
It's crystal clear...

These Judges have nothing to hide...

It's beyond Emotions and Sentiments..


Sane Nigerians know that INEC messup the electioneering processes as they failed to keep to their own rules... especially on transmission of presidential election results to IREV in real time as promised by them.

The questions now bothers on if petitioners have been able to convince the Judges that these lapses from INEC is so significant that it has cost their clients heavily and it's the reason their clients (Atiku and or Obi) lose the election.


Well, from what I read during trials...I don't think the petitioners have been able to convince me, not to talk about the Judges, that the failure of INEC to transmit elections to IREV in real time affects their victory.

Tinubu wins this. Not about sentiments or emotions

He has not been stopped till the final judgment.

God works in wondrous ways

Basic123:
Divine mandate?

You are ridiculing GOD!


If his mandate is divine,no amount of RIGGING can stop him.

Tinubu victory, considering all obstacles he faced from his own party,his own state,his father state,his beneficiaries, from the church etc looks more DIVINE that whatever you ascribe to OBI!

E go shock una. Obi is a man of destiny

Kingosytex:
Tribunal don carry men handicap
If you don't know the outcome of the tribunal now, then you are delusional.
Those that lost should count their losses and move on. I would have loved Obi to win for equity and fairness but anyone but Atiku or any northerner is great and Tinubu has done that.

Another Fulani man succeeding Buhari was gonna be the height of unfairness which would simply translate to the fact that the whole of Southern Nigeria are f00ls.

Obi nwanne m, daalụ!
Ndi be anyị sị na anụ gbanaa taa, na echi bụ nta.
Keep of the momentum, 2027 might be your turn!

Meanwhile, 9ja judiciary 👇

Fear dey catch you, nor lie

LegacyB:
Honestly na big screen we go take watch am.
Everyone knows the result already . Nothing special.
I just hope the regular losers won’t make their usual noise . Abi na all eye on the Supreme Court we go begin hear later now.

When the give judgment, they explain the wisdom behind it. So they'd explain to the whole world

Sermwell:
The tribunal's proceedings wasn't televized live for transparency but the fraudulent judgement is to be televised live!!

Sometimes I just wonder why I studied law in this useless country!!

Justice has NOT been manifestly and undoubtedly seen to be done in this case!!

It's only a fool who will expect a fair judgement in this case!! The cracks are there for everyone to see!

Put your shirt on!

If my future descendants speak any African language, how does that concern me if I'm no longer here?

Reflect7:
NOBODY IS ASKING YOU. WE ARE TELLING YOU, MR SLAVE, THAT YOUR FUTURE DESCENDANTS WILL PROUDLY SPEAK AN AFRICAN LANGUAGE AS THEIR LINGUA FRANCA.

WHY?

BECAUSE THEY ARE AFRICANS.

YOU DIG?

STUPID BRAINWASHED MUMU.

Seems Agbero behavior is natural with you guys

LegendHero:
Good one.

God bless Sanwo Olu. Lagosians should guard the infrastructure so that children of hate won’t use bad belle burn it like they burnt the BRT buses

Ignorance in its purest form

Lazyreporta:
Which kind rubbish talk be this one?

So supreme is powerless cos of obidients?
So law will be left cos of obidients?
Worldwide jubilation by who? Obidients?

Are obidients Nigerians?

Nigerians are 200m not 6m people.

Anyway, court can't even anul anything election not to talk of giving a 3rd person win. Let me even forget about obi not claiming he won

Why are you barking?

You cannot solve unity within Nigeria after 62 yrs of independence but wanna unite Africa.

That thing you're taking might land you in trouble. Stop taking substances

Reflect7:
Historical illiterate. We had huge empires in addition to smaller kingdoms. The Mali empire covered 3/4 of West Africa and was among the most prosperous nations on Earth for 500 years. Zero hunger. Zero crime. And they did not speak English or French. They spoke the Mande language.



What a STUPID line of reasoning.

Has your being supposedly disunited prevented you all from speaking English as your lingua Franca?

So why should it prevent you from speaking an uncontroversial language like Urhobo or Berom, if such were selected as the national language?

It is YOU living in an alternate universe in addition to being shameless and stupid to think that just because your land was invaded by thieves and mass murderers who burned down your cities and looted your treasures, you must now speak THEIR language as your OFFICIAL language permanently.

That you even consider that reasonable shows you and most Nigerians are thoroughly brainwashed, sick in the head, thoughtless and stupid as rocks.

Like I said, the AFRICAN UNION has in its CHARTER that an African lingua Franca will emerge.

THANK GOODNESS THAT DECISION WAS NOT LEFT TO NIGERIAN SLAVES LIKE YOU.

This is not the point. When something behaves abnormally, its better to seek understanding why that is, and this is what the Op is doing.

Again, men have low urgency for marriage because they can technically marry anytime and still marry as young as 18yrs. Women generally do not have such privilege

A good man will always be the price!

pocohantas:
I love that girl.



I hope other ladies can read and learn. The reason some men claim they don't want marriage or they have more to lose is because women carry it for head. Always fighting tooth and nail for (registry) marriage. So they sit back and allow you do all the work while acting like they did you a favour marrying you. Have you ever considered the fact that you would be the one needing to escape from an evil man in record time? Breaking head over a man's property even at the expense of your life.

This OP claims it favours women more but he is restless because he met a woman who has mastered her emotions. He wishes she were chasing him upandan for a legal wedding and flying to catch ring. He is bothered because he doesn't hold all the ACES.

Isn't this the kinda arrangement they claim to want online? #TEAMBABYMAMA? Why is OP worried and why the responses from his fellow men above?

Men want this marriage as much as you do if not more. If they hated marriage so much, they wouldn't be open to polygamy or rushing to marry another wife after a divorce or death of the first wife. No man keeps two (polygamy), even four of what he doesn't benefit from. They benefit heavily from marriage. In fact, after tasting marriage, they find it hard to stay alone again. Unlike women who would rather enjoy companionship without commitment.

Stop fighting these men over registry. Tell him you don't want. Let him be the one to create thread and beg you to sign those lines. Stop begging them to see the usefulness in marriage. Stop answering stupid NL questions like "what can you offer a man?" He has the option of remaining single or marrying a fellow man or new yam.

You are the prize.
If he isn't giving you same energy, disembark.

DSS might end up like SARS

Again, you guys did not follow the petition but spreading propaganda.

He presented the figures to the court in the evidences tendered

helinues:
How do you want court to declare you a winner when you did not present the figures you scored to have won the election and also the states where he got 25% in 24 states..

Make you reason this thing well

But couldn't recover kwara

RecentHistory:
Na Paper tiger tear 3M of your papa to pieces.

Ali Bongo was saying Gordon nor be Niger especially because his family has been in power for 56 years. Things change!

GYBABA:
Naija no be Gabon

Don't shift the goal post. You guys keep saying he did not mention being declared the winner in his petition, i just showed y'all

helinues:
What's the total number of the illegal votes across Nigeria? If deducted from Tinubu's votes, would it make different?

Would that miraculously gave Peter Obi 25% at states where he did not secure it?

If you're not part of the you guys, why are you responding?

Omoawoke2:
Who are the you guys?

The rise will be worth the fall.

What you're doing now is called idolatry

pandoragirigory:
Who is Achilles compare to the greatest politician that have ever walked the surface of Africa, the Eze-Chukwu of Igbo land, the kingmaker that become king.

Whatever language they speak would still be borrowed so why focus on inconsequential things. We were living for thousands of years as small kingdoms, no wonder it was easy to colonised us.

Again, you're avoiding the fact that we're not united as a country, infact, we have a higher tendency to breakup than unite behind a single language.

You're living in an alternate universe

Reflect7:
Wake up and use your blasted brain.

Your people have lived on this earth for thousands of years.

It was only a century ago that Europeans invaded your land with guns and bombs. And based on that experience, you‘ve now decided that you want to ditch your entire heritage and adopt THEIR LANGUAGE as your official language forever?

Can’t you see your head is not correct?

Mali, your neighbour that ditched French as its official language, have the heavens fallen?

Let me tell you Nigerian dunderhead slaves with zero dignity one thing.

The AU will implement a continental AFRICAN LINGUA FRANCA.

It is in its Charter, as is eventual Political Unification.

Your FUTURE DESCENDANTS will not be speaking English as their national language,

Or French.

Or Portuguese.

I PROMISE YOU THAT.

Mentally colonised dimwits with no shame.

When it was being tendered, you guys were in denial. Just wait for the judgement

tinsel:
Please, tell us the evidence

Paper tiger

RecentHistory:
By the time hand touch you fools, you will be crying to the UN, Putin, Netanyahu and Shuku Abuke Obioma

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/589365-just-in-peter-obi-files-petition-against-tinubus-victory-seeks-five-prayers.html

Read this premiumtimes and not Tinubu's newspaper

Zaydbat:
guy na you dy play, here are obi 5prayers to the PEPT 25% in FCT, Election cancellation, Fresh election, Fresh election without Tinubu/Shettima, Eligibility. were did he say he won.
https://tribuneonlineng.com/election-tribunal-5-prayers-obi-seeks-in-petition-against-tinubus-victory/

Obi is not the only one with a petition

seunowa:
Notorious criminal from Agulu will never become Nigeria president

E go shock you

Burob:
Even you from your shaky grammar, do not believe the nonsense wishful imagination that you typed.

You think we're just gonna allow them give rubbish judgment? No way!

2pacarnate:
No.bro,use your cafa(No 6)

It was just yesterday Mary odili said loosers should accept and not to intimidate judges,so can't you see the script has already been written?this country is gone Forever

Asan obidient that I am,i already believe it will.favour tinubu,something has been cooked

You think we're gonna take a wrong judgment lying down?

2pacarnate:
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The military has been pocketed like the judiciary bro,no hope,Mary odili has already passed the judgement

You guys keep spreading this false narrative that Obi didn't say he won. You don't know his prayers then

deji68:
obi win in his parlour.He dient plead rhat in Court, how court gö grant you what you didnt plead. :