₦airaland Forum

try69: And the dude that picked "drake" instead of oluwadapo or chinedu or even sanni for moniker is not brainwashed?

Meringe: Long live to The Pope

Long live to The Holy Roman Catholic Church

ibkaye: Yawn, a simpleton's rant, I'd just like to know which 'yoruba's' on this thread showed any signs of the 'jealousy, misandry and misogyny' you're rambling about?

shymexx: Primitive rants from a 5th decimal IQ having faggit.

I guess you prefer handsome women, nah?

Now I see why the only gay parade in that cesspit happened in your part of the world - homoerotic man!

django1: Lol...two words for you: "adebayo akinfenwa"

Match that and we'll carry on from there.

Br3nd4: [img]http://2.bp..com/-xCHcyKNmbkE/UYpsUWEn2uI/AAAAAAAATVk/mylEuj2o_RE/s320/missniger5.jpg[/img]


This babe was in the Finals

Wow.. shes beautiful and uhmmmm..... shes not Igbo

jjcbuthot: If capital punishment must be abolished, let the murderers take the first step...

frankyychiji: What makes d comment shameless and smug? Bet u can't explain. U love to listen to your own voice no matter how horrible it sounds. Smdh!

Mr knowitall.:
But if the U.S doesn't give money yo complain that they dont do anything for Nigeria...and if they give money you complain

that they are giving it to corrupt politicians....Negros just cant be pleased..always complaining

Chairman of South-East Governors’s Forum and Anambra State Governor, Mr. Peter Obi has announced his retirement from active politics.

The Governor, who disclosed this on Sunday, said he would quit active politics at the end of his current tenure in March 2014.

He spoke at the thanksgiving service and award ceremony to mark the end of the 2nd Session of the 15th Synod of the Anglican Diocese of Enugu at the St. Bartholomew’s Church, Asata, Enugu.

“A very prominent person called me today and asked me, what is your plan concerning politics after your current tenure, I’m telling you now what I told him.

“For me, I have come to the end of it; I want to quit and rest. However, I have been praying to God that for the sake of the good people of Anambra State, please give them somebody like Peter Obi.

“The level of greed in Nigeria is overwhelming, where people can’t see the suffering of other people, they are just accumulating wealth, for me, it is time to go.

“I wonder why one person should own a house in Ikoyi, Asokoro, Dubai and he is not using them for anything, people accumulate what they don’t need, it is madness, the level of greed in Nigeria is intolerable.

“I want all of us to be praying for Nigeria, so that God will touch the heart of our leaders to use public money for the people. In Anambra State we have never borrowed money despite all the works we are doing”.

The Governor, who was quite emotional lamented the level of financial waste in government, stressing “the cost of running a governor’s office in Nigeria is too much.

“When I came in as Governor, I discovered that the state had 70 workers in Abuja office, apart from their salary we spend close to 15 million maintaining that office. They have nothing doing there than to come to the airport and welcome me, constituting nuisance, so we re-deployed the workers and closed down the place. Till date, we have not missed them, which means they were really doing nothing there”.

“I urge all of us to pray for greedy people in this country; they are accumulating what they don’t need, stop accumulating things for your children”, he charged politicians, stressing that he had never bought a car for any of his children.

“I have told them to buy cars when they make their money, I have also never celebrated birthday for them. They can do that when they leave my house. We should stop wasting public fund”.

tpia@:
if everybody stayed in their country and village, there'd be no need for others to become paranoid over who is or isnt speaking with a fake accent.

i blame visa officials who just dash out visas like candy.

maninmood: Another one again? What is guwgle? Can you just let me stick to guugu for now, please? Or do you want those arrogant briticos laugh at me again?

Diasporan: Please can i get a clarification on why Americans make use of Antai instead Anti?My 18 years old cousin laughed at me in public when i said /G^gl/ instead of /Gu:gl/(Google).He was lucky the father was nearby.

queen binte o: Route is pronounced raout
Street vs block
Ground floor vs first floor
And the spellings: labour vs labor,colour vs colour.

delors: Yeah, but then, it is not applicable in all cases. One very important part of the pronunciation is 'stress and intonation'. Whether you stress the r or not, how u indent ur pronunciation matters a lot. You could pronounce water as water (even with the r being silent) and be understood if you use the right stress. In 'WATER', WA is high pitched and 'ter' is low. Then also, i think Nigerians dont really roll the 'r' in their words and we don't pronounce the combination of 'ur' (burn for instance), 'er', 'ere', 'air', 'ee' and 'ea' right. For instance, we say 'strit' instead of 'street', striking out one of the 'e's. Somany wrong things about pronunciation. Hopefully, a lot of Nigerians in the diaspora would benefit from this forum and become conscious of their pronunciations.
More so, some words that serve both as a noun and a verb are wrongly pronounced. 'Remix' as a noun, you stress RE and keep it low on 'mix' while as a verb, u stress MIX and keep it low on the 're'. Listen to American rappers. although some Nigerian artistes are becoming conscious of that one though...lolz

Man_51ut: very interesting, did you study linguistics? just did it, and you're right!!! my flatmate used to say i said water- wahtah. but the t does become less prominent when i stress the r.

linearity: There is nothing new here, it is one of the ways to survival in a foreign Country...some even hire Accent modification professionals to train them.

When you attend an interview, where the interviewer keeps asking you to repeat yourself; then nobody will tell you before you start modifying your speech patterns.

Most times, it will involve speaking more clearly and also more deliberate...in other cases you have to substitute new words and phrases into your linguistic...e.g. in the US they do not understand 'around about'..you have to say 'Circle'...pant and underwear have different meanings...first floor of a storey building have different meanings..there is no dustbin, nothing like booth of a car or trafficator or 'branching' somewhere; nothing like iceblock, touch light, etc..

chreld_b: The key is to speak in a manner that you could be understood. Even within the so called Nigerian accent you will agree with me that some people are more articulate than others. A very good example is Prof Wole Soyinka. Will you say he is faking his accent or that he has a good command of the English Language? As far as Nigeria and all other colonies of Great Britain are concerned the epitome of the English language is the Queen's English and that is the ideal English accent. What most people don't understand is that the typical British accent is not the Queens English. Some British accents are local and unrefined such as the Newcastle or Manchester accent even to British people. So the bottom line is that some people don't fake it because they are Nigerians but they just have a good command of the language such as Soyinka. If you attended a good primary and secondary school there is the likelihood you will be more articulate than a person who attended an inferior school in Nigeria. So some people don't actually fake it because it comes naturally to them.

Man_51ut: Which people are you guys meeting that don't understand your accent?

I've never had that problem. As long as you speak clearly, people will understand you. The only thing that really tripped them was how I pronounced water, waTer, instead of waDDer.

I went to Corona and then Atlantic Hall, but I wouldn't even say they thought us how to speak well or anything.

spywareczar: Black face shud read this

Dee60: I am all too aware of the covert nocturnal operations of white supremacists who would want Africa to remain underdeveloped just for their own gains. China has been able to fight that and they are winning. I even feel that these supremacists and elites are spying on us and forever want us to have weak leaders. It is all a game, and they do that to protect their markets and their people.

They will sing a new tune the moment they realize that Africans have woken up and have started to think. You always need a critical mass, a coalition of like minds that will promote your own economic and social agenda, irrespective of what the supremacists think. Collin Powell succeeded with good thinking and hardwork, so did Barrack Obama.

We just need our African leaders to wake up, think and work for their people, irrespective of what others are doing. I am in support of Africans solving the problems of Africa. There is not amount of external force that can withstand when the people of a nation queue behind a common cause.

Dee60: We have to learn as Africans (Nigerians particularly) not to situate our problems with the 'whites'. If we do not learn to forgive the whites for their wicked acts of the past we would turn out to become worse racists! There is no white man running Aso Rock but for 50 years, we are yet to be able to provide common electricity. There are Africans that sleep and snore all day waiting for 'national cake' and completely ignoring to read, think and act. Mugabe is no African hero. He is a fellow that used racial sentiments to try to hold on to power, and he has destroyed an economy that was once rated the most prosperous in Africa. Whites would never have been able to inflict pain on blacks, if not for the selfishness of a few blacks who made gains selling their fellow blacks. let us for once, sit down to think about how Africans will help Africa through the virtues of love, equality, forgiveness, meritocracy and hard work. Today, even with your first class degree or a PhD, you may not be able to get employment in a common agency like NIMASA or Civil Defence Corps if you don't bring a letter from one 'oga at the top'. What has any white man got to do with that? And what has Christianity got to do with that?

There are black South Africans sitting on top of multinational corporations today (like MTN) because of the good policies (and values) Mandela introduced. Apartheid is yet to die, but the first steps have been taken.

Let Nigerians solve its own corruption problem, instead of sitting down and criticizing a great man like Mandela.

Dee60: Mandela preached forgiveness instead of grudges, equality instead of apartheid, and he promoted values that are enduring. That is why he is loved. many of us have been victims of racial discrimination, but we chose the path of forgiveness and love for all (white inclusive) because there is more strength and virtue in forgiving others instead of living in hatred and grudging all life. There is no good black or white, we must learn to take people by what they are worth instead of the colour of their skins. Mandela is revered by the blacks of South Africa for this reason. He taught the virtue of forgiveness. he promoted hardwork as the sure path to greatness. He preached love against hatred. He is regarded as a father to that nation. Let us not mix up the facts.