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SCAMMER, When will you repent? Why would a company like GOOGLE ask for job applications through your personal email?

Guy, hope you have not lost your mind?

Onlytruth:
I was shocked by the clarity of Igbanke!
Ikwerre even shocked me more!
I wasn't shocked by Ukwuani. 

Like I said, someone did a job on Ndigbo.

I think it is left for us to undo that job.

Whoever took part in the deliberate balkanizing of Igboland shall know no peace in their lives and will not even rest in it when they die.

Osama10:
I hope she performs well.

That's the point. Nigeria's economy is quite different from a U.I lecture room.

Osama10:
I hope she performs well.

That's the point. Nigeria's economy is quite different from an U.I lecture room.

Igbo has always been blessed with brilliant sons and daughters, the problem has always been inability to use foresight.

The questions we need to ask ourselves is, What is our own political vision? When do we intend to lay hold of the presidential mantle? What will happen if we spilt or concentrate our votes for GJ?

Remember that 2015 is a year slated for our turn, will it be wise for us to do things that will negate that vision, shattering our own dreams ourselves?

What we need to do is call GJ and tell him that we only see him as standing in for his late boss and that his administration will be seen as completing a northern tenure ending in 2015, but that we'll see what we can do to help him to complete his late boss' tenure.

Secondly, he must make an agreement not to come in the way of our vision come 2015.

ziddy:
^^^^

Another Igbo supremacy thread.

How many Nigerian tribes do you people see going on and on like this on the forum, or elsewhere on the internet. But when they start bashing you people you'll start screaming wolf! You guys don't get tired.

I dont see anything Igbo supremacy here. The title read, in case it's not legible enough for you to read, the TRUE EXTENT of Alaigbo(Igboland). Not the 'supremacy' of Alaigbo.

Just informative!

EzeUche22:
Igwe-1,

Didn't you know that there are indigenous Igbo communities in Benue State?

Our presence in that state is not recent, but very old. I feel that Nigerians, including Igbos do not know the true extent of Igboland.

If such investments were made in indigenous Igbo communities like Obi or Oju, a bit better. Igbo is Igbo, and Igbo is one.

The more reasons why we need our politicians to canvass that such communities be re-absorbed into proper Igbo states so that our endeavours will not be lost to 'lazy bystanders'.

Onlytruth:
Again, the fact that Igbos go to other parts of Nigeria to do business is mainly because the south east has failed to invest in business infrastructure over the years.

I still recall that despite Lagos, and the lower infrastructural development of Anambra state, certain products (like certain spare parts) are still sold ONLY IN NNEWI. You have to come from wherever to buy it.
Now imagine if Anambra state builds a large industrial city what would happen.
That is one area where I think that successive governments of Anambra state failed.

This is what we should be consolidating on. Send our young chaps to schools to study the rudiments of science and giving the likes of Innoson a run for their money. We have the potentials.

Raise more industrialists and let people come to our place for their bread and butter.Not building wealth for jobless Tiv miscreants to vandalise some day.

Onlytruth:
Again, the fact that Igbos go to other parts of Nigeria to do business is mainly because the south east has failed to invest in business infrastructure over the years.

I still recall that despite Lagos, and the lower infrastructural development of Anambra state, certain products (like certain spare parts) are still sold ONLY IN NNEWI. You have to come from wherever to buy it.
Now imagine if Anambra state builds a large industrial city what would happen.
That is one area where I think that successive governments of Anambra state failed.

This is what we should be consolidating on. Send our young chaps to schools to study the rudiments of science and giving the likes of Innoson a run for their money. We have the potentials.

Raise more industrialists and let people come to our place for their bread and butter.Not building wealth for jobless Tiv miscreants to vandalise some day.

Igwe-1:
This is good but also concerning. The same news came out recently from OYO state that Igbos controlled 70% of the economy in OYO from Guardian newspaper. It is good that they are doing well, but i am a fan of IGBOS investing in igboland where their investments and property is safe, I guess we have not learned our lessons yet,

Point! What is wrong with Igbo? A man who thinks he has no enemies is a FOOL with flying colours.

Igbo has learnt nothing! And refused to learn. You think you can make wealth in foreign lands without attracting the jealousy of the locals.

PURE STUPIDITY of the highest order!

Segun, sometimes you do make sense when you are not talking about your weakness-Igbo.

When i saw Wiki's list, i was like what is Lagos doing on that top spot? Definitely must be written by some Lagos gov official.

How can Lagos have a higher GDP than the littoral states? Definitely should not be in the top 3.

Can you explain why Ebonyi and Gombe are second and third?

Our problem in this country is not lack of supposed plan. Our nemesis has always been how to turn them into realities.
At the end of the day these monies go unaccounted for.

EFCC will make news probing this in future.

I knew that this was going to be derailed into an Ojukwu talk. I initially didn't want to comment, only that it was a topic i was researching of late. 

Some people just dont have any thing to offer. Just empty skulls!

odumchi:
^ I dont think that government forces winning is relavant in this matter because all of these nations--both the beligrants and the defenders each had their own nation states and gov'ts

What i meant by 'government forces' is that in most civil conflicts, there is always a logical analysis of the legitimacy of the conflict.

This means that those who try to break away, or try to seek a new government are termed rebels, while the original government is termed government forces.

I'm making a general statement here, no reference to any specific case.

There are civil wars in which the conflict is between the East and West. If i'm correct as in the case of the Russian Civil War. 

What i've noticed is that., in most civil wars, the government forces are usually victorious as a result of the consideration given to the legitimacy of the conflict.

This factor, legitimacy factor, is what makes government forces in most cases to carry the day since the civil war will end up derailing into a proxy war between partisan superpowers.

And most times more superpowers support the legitimate government or the justifiably oppressed.

tpiah:
^^no need to get defensive as if someone abused you.

oversabi helps nobody but rather makes you look foolish, since no one has a monopoly on knowledge.

as i mentioned before, okiti isnt a common term across yorubaland. Apata is another word for mountain.

simple fact which you'd do well to learn. And if you dont want to learn, then waka pass jeje.



if you go around telling people okiti and thinking you've known the whole concept of yoruba, you don gba foul.

if you're going to style yourself an expert on yoruba language, at least make an effort to know the region.

okiti itself sounds like a derivation of okuta but you wouldnt know that now, would you.

why isnt abeokuta called abeokiti, since you're the expert here.

No offence, though, only Igbo-Yoruba-Bini shared words will make sense here. 

One-sided contributions will be pointless. That's my point.

If you can provide some, you are welcome.

tpiah:
okiti/ekiti is a dialectal word.

hills can be called okiti or apata, depending on your location.

eg okitipupa could mean red hill or red mountain though i'm not sure.

but i doubt the word would be commonly found across yorubaland.

just an observation.

it's not uncommon in yoruba to have multiple words for the same thing.

What is this one saying?

Didn't you see okiti in bracket? Did we tell you that we don't know it's dialectic?

We asked you to give us more example of shared words that are still preserved in the Igboid-Yoruboid Kwa language family, and you are repeating what we said before.

This is above you. So bounce to where you belong, Lady.

Honestly, i thought we had more sensible Muslims down here in the south. The moment the angry muslims laid their hands on that lady that was where they lost it.

They are supposed to be charged for assault and sexual harassment. They are a shame to themselves and an indictment on what their religion stands for.

There are better ways of expressing their grievances instead of resorting to violent acts.

In international law. once a person is tortured, he is already acquitted of the offence he committed. So the lady is innocent now, while her batterers will face legal actions.

I think Amaechi still need to go about whatever programmes he has for his state with some level of maturity.

Governance isn't about yielding political might. He needs to carry everyone along in order not breed bad blood.

Ofcourse, that does not imply he sacrifices good judgment or what is necessary to be done in order for his state to move forward on the altar of compromise.

Muslims will always be Muslims. So they want her murdered for disrupting their service. where is the forgiving spirit. If God himself watches our errors, who will be alive today.

Her actions were unnecessary, but are we all perfect?

Where is the human face in justice?

Ekiti -probably the same meaning in the past, but now completely corrupted.

Ekiti(Okiti) now means 'hills' in Yoruba.

Basket
akpara/akpere

Member of a society
ora/ara

Children
umu/omo

Medication
ogu/oogun

and more to come

It's funny that Yorubas and Igbos argue and fight each other when they are apparently brothers and sisters whose common ancestors spoke one language before splitting a long time ago.

Strong man
dimkpa/giripa

Twins
Eji-ma/Ib-eji

Person
onye/eniyan

Elephant
enyin/erin

Breeze
ifufe/afefe

House
ulo(uli)/ile

(stone)
Okwuta/Okwute- yoruba/igbo

wash(verb)
fo/fo- yoruba/igbo

goat
ewu/ewure- igbo/yoruba

More coming,

It's not a must to start a thread. You are better off being a good contributor to existing thread than starting an unnecessary one.

The bottom line is actually making sense in all you do.

Ok?

I saw the ad today. I'm glad they are now thinking in that direction of having a think tank. I hope they put their thinking caps on, preferably non-red ones, and come up with brilliant futuristic political maneuvers for the region, adjudged to be the largest single ethnic group.

I've never heard of a place where the largest group is always defeated in elections except in this country.

Sounds all greek to me,

This is an act of injustice against my dear Yoruba people.

You guys are mere copycats. You can beat us here in the great wild wild west.

Whao! So Yoruba people don reach there!