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Please it's not IBO, it's Igbo.

You should have said this in your first post. I see what you mean anyway.

That report said Denmark not Nigeria

rubi:
@echelon Ihe m miniri bu madu fuo uzo oga ahu uzo ahu ama ya mere mgbe ozo ogawara ebe ahu oga ama n' ofugo uzo na mgbe mbu wee mara zie nke bu ezi uzo.

Ok.

Unu fuziikwaa na enwego kwa AA's come show your proverbs skills. no comments

ifyalways:
@Eche sim ga rahu ura 

What can I say?

@rubi
I think ifyalways has already told that story earlier on 

@ify
On that story of Tortoise and the Dancing Tree, I could recall our reading it on one of our sec. sch. English textbooks - Intensive English - not sure now. Anyway, thanks for you last story!
Q: For mentioning Ifeoma as one of the princesses, does it mean you are married to mbe 

Ehe na, maka na:

Anaghi a no otu ebe ekili mmanwu
You don't watch masquerades from one spot

rubi:
I called the tortoise (MBE ONYE AGHUGHO) and immediately dam tortoise went back to his shell and never came out till I left. That made me to believe all the story been told about the tortoise.

The heck! Your so funny

So update your profile accordingly 

E no go bad if you tell us

@rubi

I bu nwoke ka I bu nwanyi?

rubi:
I gahie uzo bu icho ta uzo

Missing road is knowing road

Hmmm. Don't quite seem to agree with this one

rubi:
Nwoke nogide n'ulo ya ono pia akpa amu ya

If a man should continue sitting down at home doing nothing, he will shred his scrotum by sitting on them  

Means: Idle mind is the devil's workshop

Kashif:
Onye a na-agbara ama, O na-anuri, onye a na-ebo ebubo okwela? Please my translation module is struggling with this one. LOL!

He who is rejoicing as he's being given testimony against someone, has the person being testified against agreed?

Lay man's tongue:

A testified to B about what C did behind B's back. B is rejoicing on getting this information. But the question is this: has C accepted that he actually did what he's been accused of?

Kashiff nwa nna kedu? Nke a i n-asu na module na module, i na-edere komputa programu? _{just wondering}

Ur opinion sha

michelin89:
Why won't someone also dump the other in this terrible scenario? Is it because of the famous contract they signed?

Yeah, it's cos of the contract they signed. That contract should engender commitment on either party. This is rarely the case when you're dating

michelin89:
People date for 8-10 years before tying the knot!

Just know that the longer the dating period, the higher the likelihood of one person dumping the other 

michelin89:
Na you know. It's not my fault if you spent your adolescence jumping from a girl to the other instead of focusing on true love!

That you met your partner at a young age does not mean everyone else did 

michelin89:
Remember people meet their life partners at a tender age.

Scarcely true

Ilu Igbo agukata agba awalu  

Nwa m akalia m bu aghugho.
To claim that your child is beyond your control is treachery.

'Enyi m, agaara m agwa gi' abughi ya; 'Enyi m agwakwara m gi' bu ezi enyi.
'My friend, I should have told you' is not it; 'my friend, I told you so,' is true friendship

Ife efi fulu gbanaba oso, ka okuko fulu na-atu onu.
That which scared away the cow, is being pecked at, by the chicken.

Chi  boo,  anu  ozo.
Each dawn/day presents a  new story.

A zaa ma e kpoghi ekpo, ya na a zaghi aza aburu ofu.
To sweep and not pack up the debris is as good as not sweeping at all.

Mmiri riri enyi ka mbe huru na-awa ogodo: o ga-efe mmiri a efe ka o ga-awu ya awu?
The tortoise gears up by a river that drowned an elephant: is it going to fly or just jump over the river?

Mbe a sef 

@genius33

You can become an engineer. I'm an electronic engineer and guess what?,,,,,,,,,,, my direct supervisor is a lady,,,,,,,,,,very gifted and technically sound at that. I can assure you that there's no such thing as pay discrepancy or intimidation where I work just because you are a lady engineer.

asamuel:
It's easy na,

To be known as the most corrupt country in the world

To produced the best 419 in the world

To fill the globe with prostitutes of the highest order

I'm always amazed when people senselessly sit at a computer and type away at the keyboard without giving thoughts to whatever it is they have to say

nwakaibe:
u don't say lekwa Nibo,lee Nise na Nimo.a na anu nwanne nnem na Nise. e chetanam something.lol,Isi ikem sef,from ntakiri.Echelon o kwa ima na ndi Nise na eme Nise day every 26th dec.mgbe m di ntakiri,esom nwanne neem ahu na dni ezi na ulo ya were gaa Nise day,di woman zie m ga gbata mmiri na bore hole,m nwere iwe tiwa d bucket na uzo gawara onwem na field ebe a na eme Nise day. E mechara m fuoo uzo,lol a chorom acho abali abuo na Nise.hmmmmn Isi okpukpu di na obara.

Ya ama m na ha na-eme Nise day na 26dec, anyi nwa na-eme Ezeike day.

@bold sentence: I concur 

nwakaibe:
Biko gini na eme na thread ebea nke mgbe? I travelled to warri on official business and was nearly kidnapped

Ga kwaa tuoro Chukwu mma mma

Why don't you let your friend see the girl's family and ask?

Well, I think is culture-dependent.

sistawoman:
Addtionally every woman should always have plan B.

Doesn't this show lack of faith in the union

Quite touching.

It's normally better for newly married to live on their own for the first few years of marriage. My question is this: hope you have a cordial r/ship with his sis you are living with now. If not, that may be the cause of the brouhaha. He plainly refused you 300bucks? What was his reason? Do you realize that he may not have the dole at that point? Just take things easy and ask for his opinions before making every decision. Kai! It's too early to start talking of divorce nah. Abeg make una give the marriage some breathing space.

This is not encouraging to us singles  

maureenfx:
abu'm nwaanyi AWKA na ANAMBRA state

Onye Awka? Mu nwa bu onye Nibo 

presido1: Igbo ekele m.
PS Rolling stone gathers no Moose= none got the correct igbo version yet

We are still waiting for _your version

Maureen nnoo, kee kwanu?

Mbe Na Nwunye Ya (The Tortoise And His Wife)

On a certain day that it was drizzling, the tortoise told his wife that they’d be having some visitors. He asked her to get to the oye market and buy goat, fowl, yam and cocoyam with which she’d use to prepare a delicacy for the visitors. Anim, his wife, obliged him and went to the market. She bought all that she needed to prepare a delicious meal alias aka – aga. When she got home, she started cooking, pounded the yam, killed the goat and fowl and used them to prepare the soup; when she finished she kept the food at the house; waiting for the visitors to arrive.

At afternoon, the tortoise told Anim his wife, “Come let’s get to the bush and harvest some palm fruits” So they went. After a little while, he told Anim that he just heard his name being called at home that perhaps it’s the visitors that had come and were calling. He started singing the following song:

“E…………………e…………………….e……………………….Tumangwe
E………………………e…………………e……………………….Tumangwe
Nwa Mbe na-ebu akwu…………………………………,  (The tortoise is cutting palm fruits)
…………, na-akpo ya (and he’s being called)………………………………………, Tumangwe”

He sang this song thrice, got down from the palm tree, told Anim he wanted to get to the house, she gave him the go-ahead.

When the tortoise got home, he ate all the food his wife had painstakingly prepared.  He then poured water on the floor of the house. When Anim got home, he told her the visitors had come, eaten all the food and gone home. She accepted that to be the truth.

In this wise, the tortoise deceived the wife time and again. On another fateful day, nwa nnunnu ogba ama – the testifying bird told Anim what tortoise was doing. From that day onwards, she started thinking of what to do.
She then used eso – a gummy material to pound the foo-foo. When the time came, the tortoise told his wife once again that he was going home to see his visitors.

When the tortoise touched the foo-foohe got stuck to it and was held there till Anim came back from the farm. When Anim saw him, she shouted , “ Mbe, is this what  you’ve been doing!? ” The tortoise replied, “ Please release me, I would never do this thing again”. Anim took the good foo-foo, and ate all, she also consumed all the meat and fishes in the soup, all in Mbe’s presence and said to him, “When the deceitful man dies, the deceitful man will bury him”

After this brouhaha, the tortoise wife started thinking of how she might hurt the tortoise. When she went to the market, she bought akidi beans.  The tortoise enjoyed eating akidi a lot because it’s delicious but he didn’t know the name. He then approached the wife and asked her to give her some of the cooked akidi so he could eat. On hearing this, Anim said she would give him only on one condition: that he mentions the name of the beans. The tortoise didn’t know how to get the name of the beans; he thought about it and arrived at what he’d do. He left his house and set out for the market. He didn’t want the market women to know that he didn’t know the name of the beans and cos of this he didn’t want to ask them directly. (fast guy); for it would be an abomination that an elder like him that is being looked upon as the wisest did not know the  name – akidi .

He then went past where the beans was spread and stepped on it. The woman he stepped on her beans addressed him, “Tortoise, why are you stepping on my akidi?” The tortoise immediately withdrew his leg, and without mincing words, started a song with akidi and headed home –

“Akidi kiridim, kiridim, akidi kiridim, kiridim”

As he was crawling home, he knocked his foot against a stone; he then shouted, “Nna m oo! – My father oo! – and forgot the name akidi.
At this point, he could not think of what to do. He then went back to the market and approached one little boy and asked him, “What does your people call those beans over there?” The lad did not know what the tortoise was up to. He therefore answered him, “akidi”. The tortoise continued with his song,

“Akidi kiridim, kiridim, akidi kiridim, kiridim”

till he got home.

He ran to where Anim was seated and said, “It’s called akidi” Anim then gave him some of the beans. From then onwards, they negotiated for peace and lived happily ever after.

Morale: : Never underestimate anyone's intelligence and assume you will always get away with trickery. If you must trick, stand on your toes 

Ify. very funny story indeed . Can anyone outwit the tortoise?

Mustay:


I am reading a Tortoise story book and Mr. Tortoise never stops going to his father's grave asking the dead man "can't u teach me another trick?"

Imagine that.

Blue is True  Chelsea 4 Life

Deeje!

Okwa a si na:

Onye ji enyi wee kwee onya, keduzi udi anu o cholu imata?
He who uses an elephant as a bait in a trap, what kind of game does he want to catch?

Onye ori otu anaghi amu nwa
He who fathers a child from adulterous liaison with a married woman has no legal claim to the child. _{You now know}

Akwa okuko tie aki, ihere emee mkpume
If an egg breaks a kernel, stone is ashamed