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This is really terrifying and shocking. I hope Echidime comes to respond to this.

Following comments ahead the
2007 polls, that the South-West,
through Obasanjo had held
power for eight years and as
such should not expect power
until 40 years later when the
other five zones would have
tasted power, some Yoruba
leaders alleged that Obasanjo
was biologically an Igbo man.

^^^lol

It's like these Yoruba folks are begining to see the Igbos as their mortal rivals as before the War. It seems the temporary advantage sustained after the Civil War has almost faded away.

Why dont they get industrious and stop portraying JEALOUSY?

I can't believe that an elected Governor can be uttering this kind of reckless comment. Is he just talking so that people can be aware of his presence, and in the process spewing nonsensical crap?

The governor's alleged campaign against corruption is mere hypocrisy. Was he not the same governor who was indicted for corrupt practices by the Sanusi-led CBN report? That report linked Mimiko
with conniving with the former CEO of Intercontinental Bank
Erastus Akingbola.
Let the governor come forward to account for the N38 billion Ondo
State fund that was missing through shady oil
deal, and the N 1 billion that is alleged to have paid
as kick-back to him.

I hope those women realize that he's just a man who speaks from both sides of his mouth.

malabite:
It's not just the Igbos in Delta that disagree that they are Igbo, those in Rivers also have the same problem. I'm from Imo state, my home is just at the boundary with Anambra state. When I go to Delta I speak Igbo with guys there and we understand one another perfectly, same thing as when I go across Owerri and into Rivers state. Surprisingly, communication with Ohafia is not that easy, same with those from Nsukka and some parts of Ebonyi state because of the huge difference in dialect.

It is wrong for anybody to think that the Igbos across the Niger have one dialect and one culture. No, Igbo is simply a collection of different cultures and variety of dialects. My friend was surprised to learn recently that not all parts of Imo state and indeed Igbo land celebrate New Yam festival, and not all part do the Iwa-Akwa which is a right of passage for men (we don't), same with beliefs about masquarades. The same way an Hausa man see the Abiriba war dance on YouTube is the same way I see it, even though it was once part of my state

There was Bini influence on the Igbos in the other side of the Niger, but that does make them Bini. The Fulanis had a huge influence on the Hausas even up to Ilorin, but that did not change the Hausa man to fulani

The whole problem actually started immediately after the Nigeria/Biafra war, no one wants to be associated with secession, no one wants to be associated with defeat. And the whole issue of abandoned property in Port Harcourt worsened the discussion, and till date things have not returned to the pre-war state.

This is tantamount to the situation in America where the African Americans say they prefer to be known Black Americans because they are not Africans. They argue that Africans suffer from malaria and AIDS and poverty, but they have never suffered from any of those African diseases. More so, they have never visited African neither have their parents, so no link with Africa to make them have 'Africa' in their social classification. This phenomenon, just like the Nigeria/Biafra denial is a recent development, because some decades ago people like Martin Luther King Jnr, Muhammad Ali and others recognized that they originated from Africa, until the media started patronizing and painting Africa as wretched.

Well said, my brother. It's funny how some black Americans are working so hard to deny their African identity, same way the Igbo denials are doing.

~Bluetooth:
and that happens to be my only beef with him

And what's wrong with the Yorubas re-uniting with their lost tribes in Benin Republic?

Enacting laws for the public execution of corrupt politicians is the only remedy for corruption in Nigeria.

~Bluetooth:
He wants Yoruba to join Benin republic ! Why ?

To unite with their lost tribes in Benin.

@jason. I'm cool, dude.  let him prove he has an igbo name and i'll edit my post. That's my condition.

@ OP. Can you kindly edit your letter and remove Chukwudi from that your ridiculous fake name and replace them with your real yoruba names. Are you a bleeping COWARD? If you are that sacred of IBB? Never you hide under any igbo name again to spew your lily-livered protest. Now do the right thing.

Is it that rampant over there? What if they dont hug but still do the main thing, wetin go happen?  Oya Mai Suya, answer this question for your brother behalf.

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oludashmi:
Oh! I know that place is developed. . . but you make matters worse by saying where you are frm and that you are going to the village in dec. Pls give as many pple your village address/phone num incase of incasity. . . I want to set you up with this your mouth that is never quiet on NL, lol.
I am frm Osun state.

Hahaha. You crack me up, chick. What's the big deal about telling people where i'm from? I used to hang it on my signature of late. I didn't give you my state, i gave you my hometown,wtf. For all i care you can't compare any place in Osun to it(if it had got the rightful attention). It's one of the commercial nerves of Nigeria.

You want to set me up? Do you usually read your posts before pressing 'reply', lady? I almost thought you were civil.

^^ ^lol

Why do you always assume that every Igbo person is from a village? I'm from Aba, and by all standard, it's not a village.

Yes, i'm going home in December. And why do you ask how much i taking along?

You still haven't told me your state?

I'll like to suggest that if we even want to use some of these foreign names, we can localize them to spell like our native languages.

For example, i've seen some Igbo people Igbonize
a biblical greek name like 'Peter' into 'Pita'.

There's a Yoruba movie titled 'Jenifa', which i think is probably a Yorubanized form for
the Welsh name 'Jennifer'.

If we can localize some of these foreign names into our own forms like the English do, it might still be fine.

oludashmi:
Let me tell you today that my late grand father (R.I.P) lived well in the SE and knows more of your culture than many of your parents (pls no offence), to the extent that igbos gave him a chieftaincy title for all igbos in my state after his arrival and till his death. . . . igbos used to take their cases to him instead of fellow igbos cos of his experience and whatever he said was always the final, at his burial you will wonder if he married igbos, he used to speak the REAL igbo and not the adulterated and re-invented lang you speak now . . . .so if I say I dont want to expose your culture and pple just take it like that cos I know what I am saying!!

Whao! Your granddad must have been a very nice man, then. How i wish you were born in the SE! You see, we really love some of your folks that are nice. If confirmed, we are quick to integrate them as one of our own. I just can't imagine Yoruba folks in Lag. all going to an elderly Igbo man for advice or making him a 'Baale'(chief). They will always feel he is a clueless 'omo Ibo'. You see how open-minded my people are?

You dont need to block the road
for anyone, afterall, if it is good
and safe for you and your pple,
you wouldnt have fled the
place.

It's not that the place is not safe, forget Aba, it's just the only place that has been unstable in recent times. Every other SE cities is safe. The thing is that the place is not good due to neglect and lack of federal presence in the area by anti-Igbo regimes. So there are not federal parastatals where people can work and so on. But some are now coming back home. The nearest convenient place would have been Port Harcourt but own Igbo clans there said they are confused if they are Igbo or not. And did a lot of terrible things to us like confiscating all our assets, including lands, as 'abandoned property' after the war, so many Igbos were discouraged from living there. Hopefully, with a pro-Igbo administration or if Nigeria has an Igbo president, some of these neglects may be addressed and more Igbos will come home.

Most of my igbo friends have not
been to their villages since 15yrs,
20yrs and so on, infact chinedu
from Ngwa just told me the last
time he visited his village was at
2yrs and now he is
29. . . .excanny pls go the village
in december and fetch those
guyz some millions but avoid the
ritualists

It's the same thing with some of the Yoruba classmates i had then. Many of them born and bred in Lagos don't even know their 'home towns', some only know that there parents are from Oyo, Ondo, Ekiti and the rest, but have never set their foot there and dont even plan to.

Yoruba pple no know their home
town in their own land, did yu
hear yurself?

Haba! What are you telling me? Are you an Awori? That's why i asked you of your state which you refused to answer. Apart from the Aworis, no other Yoruba clans can say they are from Lagos. They all migrated there from their various states.

But are your so-called 'abule'(home towns) not villages? I'm sure not all of you come from places like Ibadan, Ilesa, Ilorin, etc. I think some still take transportion from these places into the more rural areas-that is what we mean by villages.

This Ogun state is becoming notorious for bank robbery. It seems all the criminals chased out of Lagos are now resident there.

I wonder why these unknown assailants can not come out in the day time to fight. These plateau folks are just some clueless fools.

They should have been used to how these COWARDS operate and set up volunteering vigilant groups to protect their women and children at night. It seems the Plateau men just love drinking, intimacy and sleeping.

And some of them will come here to start pasting crap of how they are one and the same with Fulani.


MORONS.

The memo was a response to the
one earlier written to the bank
by the ANCOR boss, seeking
clarification from the bank
before writing to anti-corruption
agencies for official recognition
of Job's reported honesty as well
as asking the bank to
compensate him in order to
encourage more Nigerians to
embrace honesty

This is the real reason for all these long stories. The bank is trying to avoid any form of compensation and instead cunning came up with this cock-and-bull story.

Why did they have to wait until they were asked to make compensation before knowing Durojaiye was a 'fraud'?

I just wish there's legal grounds on which the young lad can sue this bank for deformation of character.

Nonsensical crap excuse.

ePAYSYSTEM:
The next Octopus the predictor should be a muslim may be Octopus Musa or Adamu or Mustapha

chic2pimp:
You sir are an Airhead. . . . . . Or do you have any evidence to show that Incest is exclusive to only the Yoruba and Calabar tribe?

How some can type so much yet fail to say anything meaningful really beats me.

Sharrapp, dia. You want me to start washing Yoruba's dirty linen in public by digging up news items? Like i told oludashmi i just want to speak the truth, not to cause oofeinse.

www.compassnewspaper.com/NG/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=68574:man-impregnates-16-year-old-daughter&catid=43:news&Itemid=799

www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-464450.0.html

www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art200805312574615

www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2010/10/07/policeman-impregnates-daughter-4-times/


www.newsstarng.com/index.php/news/5265-father-impregnates-daughter-he-threatened-me-with-jujudaughter-

Apart from most of their surnames, 95% of european first names have their meanings. Many English first names today are anglicized forms of hebraic, greek, arabic names, etc.

I can say much about African American names, but i think they have their meaning if not lost in the slave trade era.

Check this site for more meanings and sources of names.

www.behindthename.com/

oludashmi:
I grew up see that it is possible for a woman to be 4-5 months pregnant for her husband who has been out of the country for over a year and everyone (Yoruba, calabar, hausa around) thought the man will send her packing when he arrived but he PROUDLY said it is forbidden to reject the pregnancy in Igbo culture cos anything that comes out of her is his this is just one of the many i have seen but I dont want to expose you.

Haba, funmi, you disappoint me, Lag chicks dey dey extra informed. What you said here is trash talk. But it's a common fallacy held by Yorubas in Lag. One of my teacher said it in class one day, i asked him about it he said that he doesn't have specific example, but was also told the same. Don't let me remind you of Abiola and his DNA-failed kids.

You know you guyz say so much
about us cos you are scattered
around our land and see us,
whereas you have forgotten that
worst things are happening in
the SE where my pple, your pple
and other tribes are far less.

Did we block the road at onitsha for you people to come to the SE to see us do own 'supposedly' bad things? It's because of your people's over-bloated ego, that you are better than Igbos, that is killing you people.(though they are quite a handful especially in Enugu, Coal city)

Will be going to your village this
december? When was the last
time you even visited?

I no be Yoruba wey no know their village again. Actually, i dont like staying in Lag, its too crowded for my liking. I hang out in PH and Aba when i'm around.

What about you, which state are you from? And hope you know your village?

^^^ thanks Andre for correcting that malicious misinformation on the Igbo red caps.

Please, i'll like to ask, What are untitled Igbo men supposed to hear with their native outfits, as opposed to the red caps?(Explanation with pix if any will be appreciated). Thanks.

Whao. I need to see the autopsy report of this Paul the Genius. If it were a dog, i would have suspected a certain part of Nigeria for foul play.

I think most of those World Cup fans who wanted his meat as Barbecue/Suya should be paraded as suspects by the police.

Nonsense gluttons.

The PDP is a JOKE. The EFCC is
definitely a BARRAGE OF
COMEDY and just a tool for
political intimidation.

The EFCC has just shown that it
is not ready to fight corruption.
Can the PDP or the EFCC stop
these  accused persons from
contesting? Never! Why are they
trying to bypass the judiciary?
Doesn't anyone has a clue
among these folks.

I think Farida Waziri is putting
her competence in handling this
job of fighting corruption in
doubt. I wouldn't be surprised if
the NASS moves a petition for
her removal. She should have
discreetly gone to court to get
an injunction to bar these
supposedly corrupt politicians
from contesting the 2011
elections, pending the
completion of the prosecution of
the allegations against them.

Let's stop lying to ourselves in
Nigeria, except we deal with this
cankerworm called
CORRUPTION, we can never
move Nigeria a step forward.
We'll still continue going round
in circles.

Inked_Nerd:

When did you ask me out? .  So, you're always in the politics section?

Yep, not only me. Many of the intelligent Igbo dudes. I know you already know Ezeuche. We have Abagworo, Asha, Onlytruth, Chyz, Dede1, Afam4eva, Mikeansy(if you dont like me, you'll like this last name, he's extremely analytical).

In the Culture [/b]section, you'll find these 2 Igbo dudes holding fort- [b]Ezeagu and Andre Uweh

The list is not exhaustive, some many other Igbo dudes i can't remember, just come often. There are equally other females there, instead of talking trash with those losers.

^^^ lol.

You just proved my point with that statement of yours. Have you heard about the word 'intrinsically' unfaithful? That's what Yoruba men are. I swear it's only a Yoruba woman that can handle that urge of Yoruba men because they are equally good if they want to.

What gets me is that their targets are usually their friends' wives or daughters. They are even known to sleep with their own daughters, which is kind of exclusive to them minus the 'calabars'. They see it as some kind of 'superiority conquest'. It has to be a married woman for the thrill to be achieved. It's publicly encouraged and celebrated. It is further encouraged by the muslim polygamists among your people. I dont want that kind of destiny for my sisters. Yoruba women are used to it and it's fine if they like it.

Yes, once in a while you find an Igbo married man with such tendencies, but believe me, they are largely in the minority. That's why like you said we dont bother about DNA tests because unfaithfulness is rare and a strange concept. The belief is that the gods of the land will kill such a woman or man that flirts outside their matrimonial home.

The embrace of Christianity from the europeans imbibed monogamy into our psyche and nothing can change that. An Igbo man can never be too BOLD bringing a second wife into his home. His mother must not hear it.

oludashmi:
You said in one of your posts that Igbo girls that marry Yoruba men are products of inferiority complex,. Now are you advising this lady (another tribe) to become a product of inferiority complex by marrying an igbo man cos it is a natural phenomenal.

Funmi, bawo?  Se o si wa ni Lag. Moni cousin mi kan l'eko ti oma trip fun ti o ba ri. He's the kind of Igbo product that Yoruba girls roll themselves over for(fair, tall and cute). O complain fun mi pe awon girls Yoruba won je ki ohun gbadun. Mo fe ki o meet tie someday.


Ok, back to your question. 

It's a common fact that Yoruba men are careless with women. They are  generally big flirts who are never faithful to their wives and dont respect the sacred institution of marriage. Yoruba women are quite adapted to dealing with this kind of philandering of their men. They are used to it from the founding of the world. That is why i pity clueless Igbo girls who are fancying Yoruba men. I hope they tell their stories with a happy ending in the future. I will always tell my sisters the truth, if they refuse to listen and go ahead. Best of luck.

An Igbo man, on the other hand, will do everything to protect his wife and marriage because they just dont have the time to be looking for 'ale', or for philandering with everything in skirts.

This why a Yoruba woman  or any other women are better protected in the arms of an Igbo man than vice versa.

I speak the truth, babe.(no ofeinse).

Maa send mail si e soon concerning cousin mi.

The PDP is a JOKE. The EFCC is definitely a BARRAGE OF COMEDY and just a tool for political intimidation.

The EFCC has just shown that it is not ready to fight corruption. Can the PDP or the EFCC stop these  accused persons from contesting? Never! Why are they trying to bypass the judiciary? Doesn't anyone has a clue amongst these folks.

I think Farida Waziri is putting her competence in handling this job of fighting corruption in doubt. I wouldn't be surprised if the NASS moves a petition for her removal. She should have discreetly gone to court to get an injunction to bar these supposedly corrupt politicians from contesting the 2011 elections, pending the completion of the prosecution of the allegations against them.

Let's stop lying to ourselves in Nigeria, except we deal with this cankerworm called CORRUPTION, we can never move Nigeria a step forward. We'll still continue going round in circles.

EzeUche0:
Traditional Hausa names are:

Kande
Turai
Larai
Yelwa
Kubura
Maimuna
Monsura
Yasira
Uwani
Shibu
Jamila
Hindatu
Goggo

The bolded are still Arabic names.

Larai and Turai are an Hausanized form of the Arabic names Balarabe and Thurayya

My parents made that mistake because they thought it was cool.

But my baby is going to have 3 cool african names(first, middle, and last names)

Let's just sit, relax and watch as the Battle of the SS/Northern Titans begins.


This political clash is getting interesting as the days go by.