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Politics › Re: Mismanagement At The National Stadium Abuja ..pictures by ezeagu(m): 2:20am On Sep 14, 2012

So they weren't lying when they said Abuja was going down the drain.

National Stadium when opened:

https://farm3.static.flickr.com/2498/3704939430_85f4c9c107_o.jpg

Let's just remind ourselves that this is the [size=28pt]NATIONAL[/size] Stadium.

Politics › Re: 15 Most Powerful People In Nigeria by ezeagu(m): 1:49am On Sep 14, 2012

Callotti: Yet. . . Nigeria is still a socio-ecomomic GHETTO!
Of what use is this power? To gossip and loot?

One of these individuals in any civilized corner of this world would have truly made a difference.
Sheeeeeeeeeeeesh.

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Politics › Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by ezeagu(m): 1:46am On Sep 14, 2012

Some of the houses are a waste of land/eyesore. Need to learn from South Africans. Need to incorporate modern as well as traditional architectural styles.

https://hermonacasa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/exterior-house-in-cape-town-south-africa-1.jpg

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Culture › Re: Igbo Architecture | Ụlọ omé n'Ìgbò by ezeagu(op): 11:46pm On Sep 12, 2012

Of course they can, but most Nigerians don't know themselves.

Culture › Re: Nigerians And Other Africans Must Stop Bowing Down To Westerners And Middle East by ezeagu(m): 11:44pm On Sep 12, 2012

Haiti should be "Sub-Saharan Africa", but obviously that would challenge the grouping and naming (of which implies these people had no organisation or civilization). Also "Former British Colonies" is rubbish, obvious attempt to run away from the obvious strong African-based culture there.

Culture › Re: Renaming The Niger Area: Top Priority Place That Should Change Names by ezeagu(op): 11:29pm On Sep 12, 2012

Sagewood: Please post and discuss meaningful topics. Much Ado About Absolutely Nothing!
The French, Americans and British borrowed heavily from Latin and Greek when these
languages (Latin and Greek) were widely used by the so- called educated elites.
Nothing remians the same, people and languages evolve, so do the names of cities, towns
and countries.

Why did you then discuss a meaningless topic? What does French, American, and British have to do with a discussion on Nigeria?

Culture › Re: Nigerians And Other Africans Must Stop Bowing Down To Westerners And Middle East by ezeagu(m): 10:46pm On Sep 11, 2012

[quote author=PAGAN 9JA]so whos denying huh

did i say that they are in the wrong huh

i am talkng about this public stripping for se.xual puposes that takes place at this carnival and which must not be copied by us Nigerians. angry

e.g., in many arab countries, swimwear is allowed in beaches but is banned on the streets.[/quote]But you see, the point is that some of these West African festivals were sexual in nature, some had women naked specifically because of sexuality. I understand your point of sexualising nudity in the sense of massive orgies taking place everywhere, or the spread of diseases. My initial reply to you was only to point out that you can't be a traditionalist and be against nudity.

Fulaman198: That isn't true, try wearing skimpy clothes in 48.89 °C which is 120°F for you Americans in the Sahara/Sahel and see how the weather deals with you.

There is a reason why people wear turbans and long clothes. That is to protect their bodies from the winds and harsh sands that are blown. In many really hot places skimpy clothing is not the preferred kind of dress.

Often people are unclad in the Bush is because they don't have the money for clothes. Nothing to do with climate. At least that is how it is Fulani bush/desert culture.

If people in the forest wanted they'd dress like this:

https://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45855000/jpg/_45855736_masq_iga_341.jpg[img]http://2.bp..com/-cS9cPHNZDyY/TcCLZlYNzUI/AAAAAAAAAVo/FkHOhLfaMUU/s1600/Igwe.jpg[/img]

But even wearing a t-shirt in the humid forest (the Sahel isn't humid like a rain forest) will leave you drenched in sweat.

Culture › Re: Renaming The Niger Area: Top Priority Place That Should Change Names by ezeagu(op): 10:37pm On Sep 11, 2012

kutchs: Some Nigerians can be very hypocrital most times. See people here advocating the change of Lagos to Eko yet they were the very people who insulted, abused and accused for changing the name of Unilag to MAULAG. Make una shift make I pass pass.

The two conditions are totally unrelated.

Culture › Re: Nigerians And Other Africans Must Stop Bowing Down To Westerners And Middle East by ezeagu(m): 9:43pm On Sep 11, 2012

[quote author=PAGAN 9JA]so will you go into the water with your heavy-set pants on huh

to drag you down into the depths. talk sense. what has this got to do with what we are discussing.[/quote]Climate. The reason why people wear sarongs and bras on Miami beach, is the same reason why people are topless in the equatorial forest.

Culture › Re: Nigerians And Other Africans Must Stop Bowing Down To Westerners And Middle East by ezeagu(m): 9:17pm On Sep 11, 2012

Do you think if European ideas of sexuality didn't hit Nigeria that in the baking heat women wouldn't still be unclad? Wearing a blouse and sweating through it on the bus isn't progression, in fact people (well, some feminists) in the west are trying to desexualise breasts which has affected even mothers nursing their babies. People on a tropical beach in some rich island/city nation wear skimpy clothing while using top of the range smartphones, cameras, and other devices, no?

Culture › Re: Nigerians And Other Africans Must Stop Bowing Down To Westerners And Middle East by ezeagu(m): 8:42pm On Sep 11, 2012

No, they may (may) not have always had that intention, but what difference does it make if there's a woman naked because she's horny and another because she's hot when there are men with well working bodies everywhere?

And how have you all of a sudden remembered we live in a modern world? What does that have to do with tradition?

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Culture › Re: Nigerians And Other Africans Must Stop Bowing Down To Westerners And Middle East by ezeagu(m): 8:37pm On Sep 11, 2012

I don't like carnivals being imported from the Caribbean into Nigeria. But the problem is not that they are from the Caribbean or the girls are dressed "sexily", but the fact that it's overshadowing the masquerading traditions that the carnivals came from in the first place (especially Ibibio, Efik Igbo).

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Culture › Re: Nigerians And Other Africans Must Stop Bowing Down To Westerners And Middle East by ezeagu(m): 8:32pm On Sep 11, 2012

[quote author=PAGAN 9JA]it wont be long before even our woman go half-clad in the streets and our men jump around like clowns.[/quote]Kind of hypocritical since you're an extreme traditionalist and (Igbo) Nigerian women once dressed like this:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/A_proud_trio.png/170px-A_proud_trio.png

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Culture › Re: Black Empire by ezeagu(m): 8:26pm On Sep 11, 2012

I don't know about beauty. I think you just seem like you're out to troll and be mean by saying immature stuff like that instead of trying to clarify your identity, but I won't comment on that. But to black nationalists the Kush and Nubia empires are a cornerstone of black history according to them.

Anyway, it makes sense for Somalis and other Ethiopids to be called black since that is how they are treated all over the world.

Culture › Re: Black Empire by ezeagu(m): 8:13pm On Sep 11, 2012

[quote author=tear_jerker]I am not African and am confused by your statement, this is truly learning for me. Basically, my understanding is that people are of African, European, Asian, Indian, American, or Middle Eastern Descent, regionally. (Maybe I left a few out.) And in Africa, you have of black/indigenous Africans, White/European/Caucasian Africans, Asian/Chinese Africans, and Middle Eastern/Arab Africans. Which of these would categorize samoli people if asked by someone abroad?

Usually the word black is used in other countries to identify someone with African ancestry, White is used to identify someone of European Ancestry, Sand colored/Brown/ Middle Eastern is used to identify anyone from Iraq. Arab, Iran, etc., and Asian is used to identify someone from, Japan, China, Taiwan, etc.

So maybe, to be politically correct, people should refer to indigenous Africans and people of African descent as being of the African Race and not the black race?... Although, in countries other than Africa, African descent = black.[/quote]I do not like the term or term[b]s[/b] of race. If, however, you subscribe to race, then it's best to get all the information correct. The term black is foreign to Africa, even though people try to use it as a blanket term for cultures created by people with dark-skin. The term also was slightly, sort of, wonkily adopted by native Africans after the whole pan-Africanist anti-colonial thing. There is, however, no black identity in much of dark-skinned West Africa, apart from South Africa, Zimbabwe, and other places invaded by white skinned Europeans. So with all this 'Black African' has been an accepted for Somalis (maybe not completely by Somalis), and others, but in race terms the Somalis are Ethiopid, while other dark-skinned Africans are West African, Sahelian, Nilotic, Bantuid, and Khoisan under the "Negro race".

Culture › Re: Black Empire by ezeagu(m): 8:04pm On Sep 11, 2012

somalia1: black is a color. not a dna...not a race, not an ethinicity.

Somali is an ethnicity. Somalia is a country.

You guys are negroid. We are not. We are somali. not good to claim people.

Agreed. You are Ethiopoid though (sorry, that's what they call your 'race', if you want to call it a race).

Culture › Re: Renaming The Niger Area: Top Priority Place That Should Change Names by ezeagu(op): 7:59pm On Sep 11, 2012

I actually laughed out loud at this ingenious and unique joke. I've never heard anything like this one before. You could not have come up with that one all by yourself could you? Pat on the back, good one!

[size=2pt]aturu ohia![/size]

Culture › Re: Renaming The Niger Area: Top Priority Place That Should Change Names by ezeagu(op): 7:44pm On Sep 11, 2012

Abagworo: And many were mad when Ikwerres corrected some of the spellings to their immediate dialect. Owerri is not pronounced Owere as many non-indigenes would want to believe. There is an emphasis on the OweRree. Oguta is Ugwuta.

So people from there call it O-wer-ri?

Culture › Re: Renaming The Niger Area: Top Priority Place That Should Change Names by ezeagu(op): 7:33pm On Sep 11, 2012

greall1: Abeg next topic.

musKeeto: Front page don dey turn showcase. It attracts you to the shop, but you have to go in(a section) to get things of value.... smh..

A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet. This is simply putting the cart before the horse. When our people are enlightened enough, things will change.
I mean our president is called GOODLUCK JONATHAN, his wife is PATIENCE, and then there's DAVID MARK... should they all change their names too?

heed101: Can't believe I opened this s h i t. So annoying and coupled with the fact that I ate beans this morning. GusHhhhhh

DANILSA: I think op is simply jobless. What u just typed makes no meaning considering the meaning of a name.

Chanchit: #yawns#

MzFancy: My guy,serzly I don't tink there's any sense in ur write-up

seedord247: Forgive me lord for clicking on this thread.

jude33084: You are ∂ real slowpoke Yorubas believe Ŧħåϯ Benin is from Ife?

Τ̲̣̣̥н̣̣̣̝̇̇̇ε̲̣̣̣̥ whites gave it Benin city from Bight of Benin ßŮϯ due Ť☺ τ̲̣̣̥н̣̣̣̝̇̇̇ε̲̣̣̣̥ Yoruba tongue, τ̲̣̣̥н̣̣̣̝̇̇̇ε̲̣̣̣̥y could not pronounce τ̲̣̣̥н̣̣̣̝̇̇̇ε̲̣̣̣̥ word ΆŋԂ so called it Ubinu. Tribal bunch of,...

misreal: my brother na wa oh

chrisxxx: How come Ibos are always looking for territories to annex? Na by force to be Ibo?
{The Ikwerres are not Ibos}1000x
We agree we may have same ancestry but it does not make us Ibo just as it does not make Ibo Ikwerre.
You may have the population and for this particular reason of fear of dominating them led to indifference and seeming betrayer during the war.

texazzpete: Much ado about nothing, compiled by a jobless fellow.

So apparently it is not cool for Nigerian cities to bear names that were given by the colonial masters, yet the OP writes his objection in English, a language passed down to him by the British...and he does not see the irony!!

If the OP does not have work to do, let him break Egusi!

Redhot111: so na d "city" wey follow my town, na im dey pain u? I suggest u change ur name 1st, wen can den call 4 a sovereign national conference since it pains u dat much

ijaw citizen: Igbo people should pls keep Bonny out of this. The ancerstral name of the town is Okolo-ama named after the abundance of a particular coastal bird in the town, and thats the name the natives & neighbouring Ijaws still refer it to. Thanks for ur concern, but non required. Shalom!

gandkiss: HOW THOSE ALL THIS AFFECT THE PRODUCTION OF G**** FOR THE HUNGRY MASSES.

tlops: Na this kain over-sabi na im make Nigeria dey where we dey.

Seriously,I am not a garri-movement fan but this is the kind of situation where garri related questions should be asked. IMHO.

Look at them, not a single unique or inventive idea in their heads. They call someone jobless only to have time in the day to click on a thread with a title that describes its contents and then press out the time to complain about it. Even an amoeba has a clear purpose to everything it does. If the reasons for changing colonial disasters are too much for your mundane selves, take your 'price of ga ri' and 'jobless'-commenting selves to a thread that does not require you to think too hardly, inu?

You see a thread title and continue to the post only to rant about what you knew you were going to read. And you wander why your backward self is sitting in backwards country doing backwards sh*t?

texazzpete: Much ado about nothing, compiled by a jobless fellow.

So apparently it is not cool for Nigerian cities to bear names that were given by the colonial masters, yet the OP writes his objection in English, a language passed down to him by the British...and he does not see the irony!!

If the OP does not have work to do, let him break Egusi!

Yeah, I should have written it in a Nigerian language and alienated half of nairaland. Tell us more about your ideas. Can you imagine these pea-brained idiots complaining about the proposal when they have owned up to the fact that these names do in fact need changing?

ijaw citizen: Igbo people should pls keep Bonny out of this. The ancerstral name of the town is Okolo-ama named after the abundance of a particular coastal bird in the town, and thats the name the natives & neighbouring Ijaws still refer it to. Thanks for ur concern, but non required. Shalom!

Where does Igbo come up anywhere? Could you take out the Ijaw nationalist stick out your arse for one second and make a contribution that isn't laced with hostility? Thanks.

PhysicsQED: Ok, I now understand the basis for changing Owerri's name and some of the other ones you mentioned. But on the 'Aw' vs. 'O' thing, isn't it likely that the 'aw' is there to indicate which kind of O sound the word uses? If Awka was changed to Oka, isn't there a possibility that outsiders might mispronounce it as 'oh-ka'? (Where the O is pronounced like the O in 'throw' or 'so')

On Benin, there used to be a Benin province and a Benin division in colonial times so it was probably necessary to distinguish between the city and the larger area that the city was in for a long time by saying 'city,' kind of like how there's NY state and New York City in the U.S. The 'city' part could be removed now, since there's no basis for confusion now, but I would assume people are used to it and probably wouldn't see it as such a big deal.

And yeah, I agree that PH should be renamed - probably after a famous/accomplished Nigerian from that city or Rivers state rather than having it retain the name of a pervert and criminal.

If the people of Benin want to keep 'City', then it's fine. Out of all these suggestions, Benin and Lagos were only there to try and balance out the list, but as you can see the problem is mainly, and almost completely in the east. I thought about the 'Aw' thing, but then Aw doesn't even serve the Ọ pronunciation well, unlike 'Au'.

Culture › Re: Renaming The Niger Area: Top Priority Place That Should Change Names by ezeagu(op): 8:00am On Sep 11, 2012

PhysicsQED: I don't understand the Benin city example. Benin and Ubini are probably exonyms, but since they are recognized/acknowledged by the actual Edo people, it's not something that really is in need of changing in my opinion. If we don't have a problem with using the name and nobody else does, I don't think there's really a problem there.

Also, what are you saying about the names Owerri and Nsukka? What's the problem there exactly?

Benin City to just Benin. Owere being spelt Owerri not only makes no sense since people pronounce it as Owere, but ignores the changes in orthography since 100 years ago.

Culture › Re: Renaming The Niger Area: Top Priority Place That Should Change Names by ezeagu(op): 2:48am On Sep 11, 2012

How did I know you'd say something without value when I said you watching?

Anyway, any suggestions?

Culture › Renaming The Niger Area: Top Priority Place That Should Change Names by ezeagu(op): 2:43am On Sep 11, 2012

Port Harcourt - huh

, the guy Port Harcourt is named after has absolutely nothing to do with the betterment or welfare of the people who inhabited and still inhabit the area. Apart from this name being a European supremacist imposition, the man it is named after has a mucky and controversial story behind him that I will allow you to research for yourself, which includes tales of perversion, rape, and ultimately suicide. Is this what you want yoru city to named forever?

Lagos - Eko, now this one doesn't seem much of a priority or the name seems to be appropriate seeing as it is centuries old, and Lagos, after all, was a colony, but it's still a case that should be mentioned and decided. Just do it.

Benin City - Benin or Ubinu. It's only 100 years ago guys!

Onitsha - Onicha - Onica - there is less of an issue on the naming as there is the spelling. Why do people especially in West Africa just take things from Europeans as sacred? Why keep an outdated spelling of one of the most important cities of you country? what purpose does it serve to spell Onicha as Onitsha and have the nerve to tell those that spell it onicha that they are illiterate?

Asaba - Ahaba, again, another case of Europeans shitting and Nigerians storing it in a cooler.

Abakiliki - Abakeleke - dumb, dumb, dumb, just dumb. There are no words that can describe this type of subtle display of inferiority.

Owerri - what the **** do you think it should be?

Awka - Aw esome example of backwardness.

Anything in igboland that uses the letters AW instead of O for Ogu.

Nsukka - Nsuka, I've never heard an Igbo word like Nsuk, that mus be Efik.

Bonny - Ubani, come and fight me nau!

I really do believe these names haven't changed because Nigerians find them sexy.

Anymore suggestions?

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Culture › Re: Does Nollywood Misrepresent Traditional Religion? by ezeagu(m): 2:03am On Sep 11, 2012

I am completely wrong. The thread linked showed me that there is still a need for human sacrifice!

https://www.nairaland.com/1044167/lagos-introduce-chinese-public-schools

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Celebrities › Re: Meet Comedian I Go Die And His Family??? by ezeagu(m): 1:56am On Sep 11, 2012

Are they going sailing?

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Culture › Re: Does Nollywood Misrepresent Traditional Religion? by ezeagu(m): 11:21pm On Sep 08, 2012

Tell that to the empires that raided neighbouring communities for sacrifice victims. There's no way human sacrifice can be put in any good light, especially in this age.

Culture › Re: Igbo Architecture | Ụlọ omé n'Ìgbò by ezeagu(op): 11:51pm On Sep 03, 2012

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"Interior of an Igbo Mbari shrine, Nigeria. Photo by Edward Chadwick, 1930s."

Culture › Re: Igbo Architecture | Ụlọ omé n'Ìgbò by ezeagu(op): 11:51pm On Sep 03, 2012*

Signature

Culture › Re: Igbo Architecture | Ụlọ omé n'Ìgbò by ezeagu(op): 11:16pm On Sep 02, 2012

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"Well at Arochuku [Abia State, Nigeria]
Donald A MacAlister, 1901"

Culture › Re: Negritos(small NEGROS) Found As Natives In Asia by ezeagu(m): 8:50pm On Sep 02, 2012

[quote author=PAGAN 9JA]Negritos are not half-caste. they are full-blooded Ati Tribespople. angry

[/quote]This is the problem with your non-mixed universal tribal law argument. It doesn't hold true when most peoples on earth (tribal included) were made through waves of migration.

Culture › Re: Igbo Architecture | Ụlọ omé n'Ìgbò by ezeagu(op): 3:42pm On Sep 02, 2012*

Go to my signature.

Culture › Re: Igbo Architecture | Ụlọ omé n'Ìgbò by ezeagu(op): 3:41pm On Sep 02, 2012

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"Pillar of an mbari shrine. Photo by Zbigniew Dmochowski, 1960s. Mbari are votive shrines found in the Owerri area of Imo State Nigeria among the Urata Igbo people and their neighbours. The shrines were commissioned in the name of Ala, the earth deity, and an array of other local deities. The protocol of the erection of mbari made it compulsory for the mbari to be built with four corners supported by pillars along with with figures of deities (especially Ala), images of everyday life, and mythological creatures surrounding a central chamber. Mbari could be single storeyed or multi-storyed. They were constructed with termite earth and a thatch roof. The task of commissioning and building mbari shrines were passed on from father to son. Because of their sacred status mbari were often left to dilapidate. Recently, there have been efforts made to restore ruined mbari buildings by mbari artists and priests; some mbari buildings were even destroyed by the government and other bodies since they were considered ‘pagan’. There are different styles of mbari, all painted with bright and colourful pigments."

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