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Another problem Western interference caused. People used to be buried within two days. The extended burial and even how the burials are done nowadays have absolutely nothing to do with any culture indigenous to Nigeria.

[quote author=nwaigbo_mg link=topic=749087.msg9051374#msg9051374 date=1314833700]According to MASSOB, “information reaching us through some Biafra Intelligence Agency (BIA) in Bauchi State[/quote]He-Heeeeey! Ha byala!

saintneo:
the division of this country will start with an attack on the east. then all the military recruitment of igbo speakers by the us will be manifested.

Manifested to do what? Initiate their relatives into the dark side?

greateros:
My fellow citizen, if only u know what the CIA are capable of doing, you wont be laughing your as-s out over their obvious meddling in Nigerian affairs. I seriously hope your read the links attached to the posting before your get so hilarious.

Like i said earlier, the enemy is at the gate and some of us are still not seeing the treat!

There is what experts called bomb signature - Its part of residues left after an explosion, thru it experts can determine the origin of the bomb [after the force HQ bombing some so-called FBI experts came to collect the residue for lab analysis to determine the origin of the bombs - we have not seen their report yet cause they know where the bombs originates] If proper analysis of the UN bombing is taken, you will be surprised at where the bomb was purchased.

AM NOT AN ALARMIST - AM ONLY SAYING THAT WE [AS A NATION] SHOULD BE VERY CAREFUL OF OUR FRIENDS!

America has a way of destroying their friends that have oil reserve

[size=18pt]So all the European fishermen coming to your coasts and carrying off your fish, what are they doing? What about the European boats carrying toxins destined for your coasts? How about the Russian oil tankers that are sent to bunker oil in the free-for-all that is the Niger Delta? What about your president that barks when the CIA tells him to? How about the European countries that watch your money being stolen and stuffed into their countries? How about the hundreds of oil spills on your coasts which have destroyed so much of your habitat? How about all the churches misleading and stealing from your people? How about tourists that come and carry away your children? How about the European expatriates that can spit in your face if they please? We haven't even reached China issue and how they will deal with you.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

You think they need to bomb a building to have you in their hands when you're already stagnating there.[/size]

ednut1:
i tink this is part of western agenda for oil nd domination.

Of which they already have. . . and then?

greateros:
THEY WANT TO PITCH US AGAINST OUR SELVES SO THAT WHILE WE ARE BUSY KILLING OURSELVES THEY WILL BE BUSY LOOTING OUR BLACK GOLD AND MAKING HUGE PROFITS SELLING WEAPONS TO US!

[size=18pt]HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA![/size]

Fredrick Lugard didn't divide Nigeria, they were two Nigeria's created by Britain before he came. You probably think Nigeria was created by native Africans.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Nigeria_Protectorate

"High Commissioner
- 1900-1904 Ralph Moor
- 1904-1912 Walter Egerton
- 1912-1914 Frederick Lugard"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Nigeria_Protectorate

And the whole "they wouldn't have thought they should be separated" is not true, especially when the dusts of the wars of British conquest were barely settled by Lugard's time.

'Handle', as in foreign relations, not handle as in subdue.

ifyalways:
^Don't start.

@Topic,Just noticed him/her but obviously s/he is not new in nld and most definitely still very much active in nld.

Btw,most of her/his posts were @ Tribalism,Racism and Politics section. . . .connect the dots.

Don't start what? Her name was attacked.

If North Africa wants to join Europe, what's anyones business?

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=742281.msg8985008#msg8985008 date=1314067019]This is like AA asking for a "sorry" letter from their white slave masters.

This is just beyond pathetic.

So when will the Igbo ppl apologize for their role in the Biafran war, for the lives of non-igbo Nigerians they killed?[/quote]Go and look for something to do that's better with your time, like reducing mental illness in your state. You have mouth for the wrong things. You think we don't know you're a novice in Nigerian affairs?

seanet02:
Delusional and pathetic ibos

Mumuish and irrelevant internet gangster.

seanet02:
Receive curse ko, relieve cough ni, the same curse that you misplaced on people you try enslaving that backfired on you people and ojukwu the bingo.

Did you see Igbo people killing themselves like common animals? Who is really receiving curses?

How I see it is that if the US wanted Africa it would already have it. If it wanted Africa gone, it would have already been long gone. The US doesn't need to invade Africa, they save that for regions that grow out of their control. Right now most of Africa is under foreign indirect rule. If it isn't, then Nigeria wouldn't have allowed Shell to carry on doing what they're doing in the Niger Delta.

Mobinga:
Be careful.

What are you telling it to be careful for? Let it receive its curses.

ChinenyeN:
It's not necessarily what Agbotaen wrote, but how he wrote it. Standardized grammar isn't widespread for Nigerian languages. So, some/most people just tend to write however they like. Agbotaen's writing obviously shows no recognizable grammar construction. It's just all over the place. If I did the same thing with Ngwa (wrote it however way I felt like it), I'm sure some of my own Ngwa people wouldn't even bother trying to read what I wrote.

Plus Ika apparently has it's own standard (although Standard Igbo is taught in schools), probably because it's so much more tonal so without the accents it's hard to understand.

agbotaen:
3. let  me  dissect the  sentences  ----------------
  oselobue-  GOD   jen ko da ( will or is going  to )  kpokpo( to trouble or give trouble)
   ndi ( the people) ile ( all) rie ( that is )
    kpokponi ( troubling ) enyin ( us) wu( that) ,

Just from the first sentence, I would have wrote it: Oselobue, jen kọ da kpokpo (I don't know what this is) ndi'lé rì é (isn't it rì á in this sentence?) kpokponi enyin . . . .

In something similar to standard Igbo it would be, Chineke, ga chụ/kpasu/megbu(?) ndi'le nè megbu anyi. . .

agbotaen:
1.  oselobue jen ko da kpokpo ndi ile rie kpokponi enyin wu ika ,
ihien idoboro le uloro  e bihia kowe ,gha itebite de ru itebite,
we jen ko da kwan  mmani, uhuki uwembu ke gbodoni   ni we igbhogho le ifonron.
   emeni we ri isere le ogbara ogbe , we asaka  sime inyenren , jen ko da kokome,
  mani  we bihia umun ika , ihien ebulebu ,jen kon da kenmen ni we ogba, enyin wu umun ika ,
a hun kor , ihien jenkor  da chun enyin ye ni onye ogodon, make ni  ogodon amasi,
   enyi  a hunkor  ihein  uya jen ko de gi enyin gbe ali , ha iyetor de gbepu  uwaya ooo
     iseh.

1.God (please) go (come?) and bring out (remove) the enemies and bring out the friends of Ika, (I thought its kpo[b]kpu[/b]?)
The thing you kept . . . .something, something. . . (don't understand the writing),
Let them go and get (hold) oil(?) (or is it 'Jen kọ dà kwa nmini?' as in let them go and cry), . . . .something, something. . .
They didn't do  . . . .something, something. . .,  . . . .something, something. . ., Go and  . . . .something, something. . .,
And on the other hand if they fight(?)/live amongst(?) with the Umu Ika, peace(?), go and tie their evil(?), and the rest. . .

How did I do?

Below is a 'noble' Igbo woman of Onicha in a funeral for a late Obi in the 60s, one of the ways you could tell those Edo women weren't Igbo is because Igbo women are known for wearing two wrappers, and in the olden days married women wore ivory bracelets. Their coral-beaded hair is also something uncommon to Igbo communities, at least, east of the Niger.

By the way horses were traded in Igboland for centuries from the north, they just didn't stay alive.

[center]https://amightytree.org/oldsite/okosi_funeral/ofala_morning/01-38omenyi_lge.jpg[/center]

[quote author=tpia@ link=topic=465853.msg8964815#msg8964815 date=1313786933]The photo i've been referring to is the one where the women are holding horsetails.

ie this one:

https://www.adireafricantextiles.com/Somorika1.jpg




I hope nobody thought i meant the other pictures where the women were tying george or up and down which everybody knows is an igbo form of dressing.[/quote]This picture is commonly described as Igbo women just because at one time the picture was linked with a web page that dealt with African material and 'Igbo women' was mentioned and became a search term. If you check the origin of the picture, you will find out that these women in fact are not Igbo women, but women from what is now Edo State.

"Northern Edo: the Northern or Akoko Edo are a culturally diverse range of peoples living in small villages to the south and west of the town of Okene. Alongside a lot of very obscure and localised traditions of cloth decoration, they wove fine indigo wrappers from hand-spun cotton. The picture below (taken in the 1960s) shows senior women from the royal family in a small village called Somorika wearing locally woven cloths, some of which mix hand spun cotton with white linen-like thread obtained from tree bark."

Link: http://www.adireafricantextiles.com/nigerianwomen2.htm

kodewrita:
yawn.

unsubstantiated statistics as usual. waiting for a fellow Yoruba or a Hausa dude to show up with another set of falsified stats. all of us lying for sectional purposes.

mscheew.

I guess the "substantiated statistics" that gave Aba a population of a mere 500,000, is not falsified.

Lol at the "Latino" calling somebody a punk.

Attacked just because of her name, ọ gaa diri Naijiria mma.