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BedLam: OP, I don't know what you still want to know after all these replies above me. lemme tell you briefly how I was beaten by military men. I grew up in warri, one night, I was walking with a guy of mine who was notorious for smoking weed. I was at a know he was with weed that night and hapless for me we got caught, as someone innocent I even asked em to search me, to cut my story short, I was beaten like as if I was being handled by a machine. at some point, gravity disappeared and I was floating on air because one was giving me from the ground (he never allowed me to touch the ground) while the other was handling me from top. it was even worse when I tried to explain, on that day I regretted ever being a "bloody civilian ". Brotherly, I prefer armed robber to Nigerian men in uniform.

Is weed equivalent to camouflage in Nigeria?

J12: Okenye not okene.

Okenyẹ in Agbor simply means man or male.

REALITY101: God bless the United States of America

God bless any sane country Nigerians have ran to.

[quote author=PROUD-IGBO]Video courtesy Joe Chukwu


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Is anyone else seeing what i'm seeing?: they've nicked more than half of the streets lights! Now how the fuc/k do you nick something so high up like that? ....so neatly done that the pole is still left standing unscathed!
Does this mean the Enugu state gov't wiil be wasting scarce resources replacing these vandalised street lights every few months?; they need to go out at night with a good marksman and shoot these bastards in the act.

On another note: it might be b'cos of the harmattan, but i noticed the road at the beginning of the video was a bit dusty.

Besides these two issues, everything else (the traffic lights, signage, etc) looks ok.[/quote]People have to eat. On the other hand this would happen in any other country, developed or not. The difference is developed countries have mostly trustworthy policemen who do a night time patrol/CCTV monitoring. Until then criminals can walk into your house and take your laptop while you're there with no consequence.

spyder880: At the site where they are building the new multi-level state secretariat, there are houses still standing, this one was built in 1928, but may still be demolished to build the new floors.

Are you kidding me? They're going to demolish the most historically important buildings in the city? Have they ran out of land? I can't stand Nigerians and their idea of "development". Then they put these ugly-ass cheap buildings in their place.

J12: lol.
Seriously though, gini ka anyi kpor "hermaphrodite" na asusu igbo?

According to an old dictionary it's ẹkẹlẹkpọ in Onicha.

churchilltrice: WE ARE ALL IN LAST DAYS, SO DNT BE SURPRISE TO SEE SUCH.

Oh great one, tell us more about THE END OF DAYS!

An Igbo wouldn't have been shocking to an Hausa all that time back. This word is definitely from the colonial period.

abdulkayus: nt all Africans do dat b4 d white came. Here in d north, dey hav been civilised by covering their body very well even b4 d comin of d whites, dat is y d whites really respect dem wen dey came. I can only believe of such unclothness in d eastern 9ja b4 d comin of d whites.

Amount of clothes does not measure civilisation. British respected northerners enough to make thousands of them foot soldiers, indirect rule, and stopping the flow of moder/western education into their territory. Keep looking for foreigners approval and you will continue in disappointment.

Isn't 'ututu oma' new?

[quote author=]did you guys know Carnival was made to celebrate african culture?[/quote]Carnival in Africa is reductive and redundant. It's the equivalent of observing thanksgiving in the UK or building a China Town in Beijing.

If an Igbo trader missed his way to the Hausa territory he had at least 300 miles of walking to do, and thousands of people to go through as well, including the Igala who were much more active then than Nigeria's current politics would show (they had wars with Igbo people).

Even if this 300 miles of missing-road happened, why would Hausa people pay attention to 2 or three people they saw probably over a period of every 20 or more years, seeing as the Igbo were irrelevant to them. I mean, it seems like everyone here is seeing pre-European Nigeria as this land filled with Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba and others who were well aware of their powers, which wasn't true.

Then there's the issue of how the Hausa back then even knew what Igbo was since Igbo people didn't call themselves Igbo, the Hausa did not know where these people would be coming from, so the Hausa of today would have had to know what Igbo was to be accurately calling the Igbo of today naymiri.

Nyamiri was given to the Igbo because they are relevant to the Hausa in the sense that Igbo people are a political threat to them, so this is why I believe this name is post-colonial. Unless someone has a source that has Hausa people calling Igbo people nyamiri before 1910 or even 1940 sef.

Builder: Next time, be sure to mention names and stop assuming.. how many u don see before, for which station

What do you know? The mayor rides the train, and even David Cameron takes a bike to work sometimes.

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I don't see it. Even if pidgin wasn't widespread, it's almost not heard that an Igbo person would speak Igbo to someone they know does not understand it. Many of those that travelled out of their town already knew how to speak English and that was the main communication between them and others. If it's from hearing Igbo people ask themselves then that's more understandable.

The end didn't come when the most powerful powers on earth fought a deadly battle that took millions in the 1930s and 40s. The end didn't come when atom bombs were being thrown around the globe like toys. The end didn't come when empires ravaged lands across the earth taking land and people with them. The end didn't come when the human population was almost wiped out at different points over the last 200,000 years. The end isn't coming because of poverty and bad governance. No. The end has come because Nigerian women are dancing in bras and panties.

English at least pidgin-English is used with foreigners. And if we're talking about pre-colonial then I don't really understand 1: how or why Igbo people are in Hausa areas when there are thousands of people and hundreds of miles between them; 2: How they were significant enough for many Hausa today to know they were the same as the Igbo of today and 3: How they even knew what Igbo was and wasn't since people didn't identify as Igbo back then.

Most of the pictures are taken from:

ukpuru..com
ukpuru.tumblr.com

Are people sure nyamiri isn't an Hausa word?

jim jones: ignoramus. what do you idiats know about the culture of Cross Riverians? farkin self-serving kunt, looking for cheap publicity. this is how you intend to attract traffic to your blog?


@afam4eva: igbo culture should be promoted by the igbos. stay the fark outta Cross River! "...our culture..." my foot. do yourself a favor, go kidnap some eze or some politician's 100yr old mother. isn't it time you revived your okija shrine?

So Cross River Gorillas are given internet access now? Oga, how is the Cross River National Park treating you? I hope those Crazy Christians™ ain't gonna put a nail in your head for being a winch like they were doing a few years back in your beloved Cross River?

Why would they ask Hausa people for water in Igbo?

stillwater: Eventhough we were na.ked then, I believe the cultural mindset was conservative. Can't say the same for today.

Conservative relative to what?

Arosa: Go and read about the Bini history. na everything them dey tell persons? You can find Bini history books in most library world wide, visit one and read them.

Bini women were naked as well. Don't make me post examples.

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It's not only 'Akwa Ibomite' it's Igboite and Yoruban!

OILOFGLADNESS: MY DEAR ITS SOMETHIN ELSE,THIS PEOPLE ARE EVEN CLOTHED, LAST YEAR OWN WAS AN INDEED AN EYESORE, ANY WAY NORMALYY I CALL CALABAR SODOM AND GOMMORAHH IN NIGERIA, I AHVE HEARD ABOUT , READ ABOUT AND WITNESSED AND LIVING IN THE CITY,
ONLY GOD CAN HELP TO SCRAP THIS INSANITY

Oh get your panties out of a bunch and find a man to whine pon!

[quote author=black_beau]I'm an akwa Ibomite and I can boldly say that the cross riverean culture doesn't include unclothedness.[/b]this years nudity in the carnival was just a show by our nigerian girls to copy their brazillian counterparts[/quote][size=18pt]WRONG![/size]

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Let's get over the "nudity is not our culture" and "all Nigerian women were good Christian-blouse-wearing nuns before Europeans came" now. (By the way censoring thw word "nudity" is the height of ignorance).

Enugu: The small Enugu.

[quote author=c.fours]@ezeagu,
If you believe that britain is under an "absolute monarchy" I won't argue with you on that one. hahaha[/quote]Doesn't make sense since you know what I'm referring to, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Brunei, and so on.

[quote author=c.fours]I'm sorry but Nigeria ain't a communist country. there is no clause in our constitution that states that tribe "equality" (whatever that means) must be enforced by law. Even majority of the so called communist countries turned out to be scams of the highest order and much worse, dictatorial and brutal than the alternatives. all they did was use human lives as tools.

besides as far as i'm concerned, our current president is Goodluck Ebele Azikwe Jonathan. I'm satisfied with my president and i'm yoruba. You keep repeating the phrase "ruling ethnic group" and that makes no sense to me. of course if you have given up hope in nigeria and not interested in contributing to its civil life then you can't complain about not being represented. You chose to be a non- participant. In fact, you choose to be a enemy of progress. Even ojukwu came back from exile and couldn't carry simple votes in his town talkless of whole SE region! of course after he dies they all pretend to revere him. can i say irony?

No, we won't mind if you leave nigeria. seriously. just pack your load and leave the country or change nationalities. the country will stay intact n we won't miss you.[/quote]It's very obvious that Nigeria allows any of its citizens to attain any position in the country, meaning that the law gives everybody that right and nobody can stop them. "Tribe equality" was something you made up in your post, not something found in mine. It seems that you can't understand simple things like when I referred to ruling ethnic groups of empires past. Then you started talking about irrelevant things that have nothing to do with anything as if this was what was being discussed. Look, there are still absolute monarchies around the world, and there are just as many constitutional monarchies. You were wrong when you said kingdoms are a thing of the past. End of.

ifyalways: ^Ghana and some other W. African countries(CIV) pratise matriarchy so there's nothing special with Yvonne's case. The dad didn't adopt Ghana or whatever, its just a matriarch country. Even in a purely GH marriages, the women owns the child.

@topic, in my side of Nigeria ie Igbo, its strictly Patriarchy. The woman adopts and embraces the husbands culture.

Abiriba people are "matriarchal". Ghana and many other African peoples matriarchy is a bit of an exaggeration. The 'matriarchy' in their society comes from the fact that the woman is the only one who is able to choose a king since she is the only one who can confirm who is and isn't a legitimate child, and there's also that thing about 'the hand that rocks the cradle', apart from that Ghana is still very patriarchal like 99% of Africa.

achi4u: "nice to meet you"=="Odi m mma ifu/ihu gi.etc

I feel like I'm stumbling over words saying that and I feel like it's something no one will ever say in life. There's simply no "nice to meet you" in Igbo exactly that way, you simply say ndewo. It goes:

A: Ndewo
B: Ndewo
A: Gini wu aha gi
B: Vivian
A: Ehehe, okay, aham wu Okorie. Ndewo
B: Ndewo

That's it. There are too many attempts at transliterating English to Igbo. Ndewo covers "nice to meet you". I'm not trying to be offensive.