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Ije di abughi ije enyi
Marriage is not friendship

Onye o na-agukari na-ebu oku nri n'ukwu
He that is most hungry carries the plates on the waist

O diri nwa ogbenye mma, o were ehihie nuwa mmiri oku ('n' in 'nuwa' has a dot on it)
When things become good for the poor, he starts drinking hot water in the afternoon

ifyalways:
@kashiff,i still che na "iro anya" should be "blinking"
"frowning" might be i gbako ihu.it is connected with "ihu niile" (the face as a whole)while "iro anya" (blinking) starts and ends with the eyes only.echichem sha

Ify you are right when you say that frowning has to do with the whole face but it's as closest to "iro anya" as I can get. Blinking is definitely "itabi anya"

Daalu for the explanations Kashif.
Another ajuju for you: What is Kashif? Is it your name or an acronym? I have my reasons for asking.

@Kashif
You raised an important point. "Winking" is friendly and should not be translated as "iro anya". Frowning is the closest English word I can think of now for "iro anya"

BTW
Kedu ihe bu i na mmadu aka agwo?

@May Kelly
I understand how you feel. So you are in Port Harcourt? Maybe we can arrange to see and I will explain better to you. This will help better than pouring all these vituperation on innocent people that only want to answer you question. Take things easy.

Otu onye ara suru be ya oku si na ya apuola, o wee na-akpotu
A certain mad man that set his house on fire said that he'd left before pandemonium broke loose_{ndi araa a again!}

Onye mgbo turu nna ya n'isi na-eji ite ona eme okpu
He whose father was hit by a bullet on the head uses iron pot for a cap

Nwata huwaa anya, O kwuwaa onu
If a child sees what he's not supposed to see, he'll say what he's not supposed to say

youngies:
Whoever that is winking at someone greater than him is only admiring the person

Gbam! O ihe melu eme ka o bu.

babyosisi = babyO=+osisi= nwando = nwandolina

Ha niile aha otu onye? Nna men,  this is called metamorphosis in biology

Nwandolina, ekene m gi ooo, kenee ihe na-emere gi ihe oooo

Igbo mma mma nuoooo

Ify kwuru gaba!

A si na nwanyi onu uto, di anaghi a  juru ya nri
A husband does not refuse to eat the food of a  soft-spoken wife

Okuku ga-abu  oke na-esi n'eju
A chick that will be mail starts from the broken pot

Esu a zoro ukwu ebeghi akwa ma nwata zoro esu ukwu na-ebe akwa
The millipede that was stepped on did not cry but the child that stepped on it is crying

Ndi Igbo moni. Eji m n'aka na o bughi onyunyu ka oku a nyuru?

I'm sure that is your name. Do you know the meaning?

Welcome back Youngies

Kashif:
Ify, I kajara akaja. OK, Ka m tikoo ya onu: Many hands carrying a puppy resucitates/re-invigorates/revives it

Kashif:
Echelon, oji eze di eze n'aka. Ngwa, kowaa ya

Let me use another proverb to explain it.

Anyukoo amiri onu, o gbaa ufufu
When people pee together on a spot, it forms foam

Nodu nu juu

Igbo bu Igbo mma mma nu oooo!

Lafia lau. Antashi lafia? Yaya dai?

May kelly:
No, They don't marrry around 30 nor 35 but from 43 and above

Oh really? Well how did you come up with that? How can you be so exact at 43? Is it that you know one person that married at 43 and you are now generalizing? My last three cousins that married were less than 34 before marriage.

Unu niile kpaga mu ochi . LMAO

ifyalways:
igbo kwneu 
Pres,o putara na i naghi agu igbo nke oma?a sim otu(one) [b]otu ijeri(one thousand).[/b]infact ike okwu a dighim.
Ikomi e chekwam na i si na i naghi aga party?ole nke jikoro udele na abuba?happy weekend
allkorrect. . .well,isi azala m Now.  dalu.
Kashiff na Echelon,well said.onye ana agwo ibi o na eto afo. 
darfur,Ozy,Toshiee,Mortiple,moonshege,Ynot,diri gawaaaaaaaaaaaa hapi weekend all.
nnenne,Gc,nwando,trev,ChineyeM. ka udo diri anyi niile.

udo chiwa. 

O di m ka
Ijeri = Billion, Puku = Thousand

Not exactly. It's just a general greeting among the Igbos usually used to command silence in a gathering. Good try.

Sunana Eche kuma daga Woji Portharcourt. Yaya dai Abubakar?

The average Igbo guy wants to "arrive" first before marrying. By that I mean buy a car, build a house, and have a fledging enterprise running before getting into marriage. These days they marry around age 30 and not 45/ 50/ 60 yrs

Beta suya, beta suya, bu n'ahu nama 
Cut suya, cut suya, it's from the cow's body

Otutu aka na-ekunye nwa nkita ndu

Bikonu tapiara m ilu nke ikpeazu

You sort some things out first b4 marrying

Have you listened to "Omekagu" by Mike Ejeagha?

Onyi isi ala nairaland na-emezi ka eze onye agwala m bu ntaku nsi n'ike akpaghari  ; there is a growing disenchantment with the way things are being run. Anyway, I now know what I will do when I want to take a break from the addictive grips of nairaland; commit an "offence" and be banned.

@Kashif
I've heard all the advice. 

Kashif I gbaliala wee nye nkowa ilu ahu.

N'ebe afo otuto di, enyi m nwoke onye dibia oyibo siri na o bu "abdominal distention". I still hold that "ibi" is scrotal inflammation and stand to be disproved 

Hi everyone

Good morning This morning

My wife has to answer my name. NON-NEGOTIABLE.

Fulani girls_{the milkmaids}are the most beautiful  . Check out the straight face, the long nose, etc. Fulani girls, I doff ma cap
No wonder one of my cousins says that if care is not taken, he'll marry a fulani girl.

Black is Solid as a Rock

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No, it is not.

Granted, there are lots of short comings of the scheme but I really enjoyed my service year.

So which one of them do you enjoy doing?