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Let the show begin.Nkeon.I will be back very soon.any body that needs help or any question regarding Igbo language and culture just drop it.

Let the show begin.Nkeon

@Nkeon and dear others here www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-260225.0.html is where i started this kind of thread.lets join hands and upgrade and update it.

What kind,type or style of bag did you use when you were in primary 1 and 2.lets share our experience.Me i use sewed and styled sack bag,that was the one in town then

Governor Obi today promised anambrarians that he will do every thing within his power to bring that guy (the police man that killed the man) down and that anambra goverment and police will compensation the family of the decease and that they will take care of his burial.that yesterday,Eze uzu ii of Awka pleaded on behalf of police and state goverment to the people of anambra to calm down that yesterday he (Eze Uzu ) was the one that stopped the riot.

@ChinenyeN, how do you want me to go out in riot at night just to give you information, am i a journalist or do you pay me.i know the riot will not continue today cos Awka is a violence free city thats why thier are so many hausas and other ethnics and tribes in it.The reason this riot took place is that its not the first or second or the third time this kind of thing is happening in Awka so they have to take action before the (police) kills every one

@tpia  the guy is from Ogbu community in orumba south in anambra state just 28 mins drive from Awka.He came to exchange in Awka to exchange his foreign currency.

As im typing now thier is a big tribal violence between Igbo and Hausa's in awka.All the hausa's in Awka are running for thier lives here in awka after an hausa mopol man here shot an igbo man (that just returned from abroad for xmas) for refusing to roger him.An eye witness said that the mopol man stop the igbo mans car and told him to give him money (roger) the owner of the car in the car owner barked at him telling him that he does not have money and he will not give him money then the mopol man asked his driver to open the bag/brief case ,when he did the mopol man saw money in the bag and start telling the man to give him money,the owner of the car refused and told his driver to move,the mopol man told him to stop but he refused and he ( hausa mobile police man) shoot the car tire and shot the man on his back head from the car  back glass and he died instantly.then his men (mopol man) rushed him will he tried to escape and started beating him while they were beating him the crowd that saw the incident rushed thier to beat him (the mopol man that shoot him) but other mopol men refused to allow the mob to have access to the mopol man and they started to shoot rapidly and the news spread the whole city.Then police came with armor car and took him (the one that killed the man) away then the mob started to protest that they want him dead instantly and decided to cool thier temper on any hausa man they see

I 've come to notice that most first sons normaly have obstacle or problem in life than others.have you noticed it b4.is thier any explanation for this or why is it like that? Your view,

Happy new year nairalanders.I wish you all a wonderfull and joyfull new year

IGBO TRADITION & MARRIAGE.

1) If you have baby out of wedlock (traditional marriage) the child traditionaly belongs to the girls family.

3) If the mother of your children dies out of wedlock (traditional marriage) you most pay her bride price (
Ime ego nwanyi) and traditional marriage (
igba nkwu nwanyi ) before you claim the children failure to do so the family of the girl will take thier children.

4) If you have paid a girls bride price ( Ime ego nwanyi
) and havent done the traditional marriage ( igba nkwu nwanyi ) and the girl dies,you most take her corps to your home and bury her.

5) If a man pays a girl bride price ( Ime ego nwanyi
) he is her husband.( for does that does not know how much is been paid in bride price ( Ime ego nwanyi
), traditionaly is less than one thousand naira about $

Yes am sooooo happy for soludo,i love the man he have visions for anambra state.i want him to win and rule my home state.for me i would've love to vote for him but i will not vote for him or any other person because i hate PDP and i have sworn not to vote for them.putting my thumb on that thier umbrella is like going to satan for shelter.goodluck to him.

INEC DROPS SOLUDO

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-364477.0.html#msg5086015

Anambra 2010: INEC clears 24 guber candidates
From GEOFFREY ANYANWU, Awka
Thursday, December 10, 2009
*Soludo
Photo: Sun Publishing
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday released names of 24 standard bearers of the political parties and their deputies cleared for the February 6, 2010 gubernatorial election in Anambra state.
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo's name was, however, not on the list as he was not cleared due to court litigation.
While the PDP problem was yet unresolved, Governor Peter Obi survived Chief Chekwas Okorie's coup as he was cleared to contest the election but not without changing his running mate which was gathered to be the saving grace.
Releasing the list at a stakeholder's forum the commission organised in Awka, INEC Chairman, Prof. Maurice Iwu said the commission had put in place various measures to ensure that the election was successful.
The list also confirmed the candidature of Chief Dr. Andy Uba

@Africhika i know where you're from,you are from Ayamelum LGA.if you want i can call the name,my people to your land for protection during the biafra war after the war they learnt some bad thing from there

Sean please paste the two threads they will help to promot our indigeneous food to foreigners.What is ur best nigeria soup:Nsala,ora (oha),egwusi,ogbono,onugbu.
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-361138.0.html

Sean please paste this thread on home page it will help to show case our culture.stew tomatoes vs stew akwu(palm fruit). https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-361154.0.html#msg5042125

Thats foreign food vs local food
for me now i can finish two plates of stew akwu (palm fruit) while i hardly finish one plate stew tomatoes one

Select and sort your best traditional soup from the above.
For me my best is Nsala,Onugbu,Ogbono,egwusg and Ora

1) Adịghi ekpuchị afọ ime aka.
( pregnancy cant be covered with hands )
2) Ejiro ọnụ etinye azụ na ofe.
( Mouth cant put fish in soup )
3) Ọ bụ ụkwara ka onye ọria ji elota onwe ya.
( caughing is what reminds a sick person that he is still sick )
4) Nriju afọ abụghị ịbupute afọ.
( eating well is not bringing out big belly )
5)  Ụkwụ ọkụkọ zọlụ nwa ya adịghị egbu ya.
( The footmarch of fowl on its chicks cant kill them )
6) Ọ bụ onye ejidalụ na ukwu ose k'ana akpọ onye ori ose.
( Is only the person been caught on pepper plant that is called a pepper thief )
7) Onye ji ịhe nwata wenyịe aka ya elu,aka loba ya ilo o wetue ya.
( Person that raises something that belong to child up,when his/her hands pains him/her he/she will bring it down )
Ọ bụ sọ anụ ji ézé alị elu n'ama osisi n'enu inu.
( Its only an animal that uses teeth to climb tree that knows the tree that is bitter )
9) Akabeghi gba mgba asị na nwude emerigo,oluzia ka mgba bidolu añudo (emerie) nwude.
( The wrestling hasnt start they said that nwude has won,but when the wrestling started nwude was defeated )
10) Onye ewu ya n'ebe ka ewu m sị ebe.
( He that his goat cries the same as my goat cries )
11) Ọkụkọ nyụọ arọ,ala achụba ya ọsọ.
( when a chicken messes the ground will chase it )
12) Okenye da nda n'atọ achọba ala.
( When an elder falls down three timers then the cause will be looked for )
13) Sọ okirikiri k'ana agba ukwu ose,adịghị alị ya elu.
( Pepper plant cant be climbed rather walking round it )
14) Oke na ọfịa ngwere na ụlọ.
( Rat in bush,lizard in house )
15) Ọ bụ oke nọ n'ụlọ gwara oke  nọ n'ọfịa na azụ dị n'ụlọ.
( its only the rat that lives in house that told the wild rat that thier is food in the house )
16) Ana aju oke ma ọna ata azụ?.
( Do we ask rat whether it will chop fish? )
17) Onye maalụ asụ sụọ n'ikwe,Onye amaghị asụ sụọ n'ala.
( He that knows how to pound, pound in the mug but he that doesnt know how to pound,pound on the ground )
18) Agwọ tụrụ mbe tụrụ okpokoro.
( A snake that cites a tortoise cites its shell )
19) Ụkwa ruo oge ya ọda.
20) Ọ bụ naanị osisi nụrụ n'aga egbu ya ọkwụrụ.
( Is only a tree that hears that it will be killed and stay )
21) Otu onye sịelu ọha nri ọha erichaa ya mana ọha sịelu otu onya ọma nricha ya.
( If a person cooks for multitude they will finish it but when the multitude cooks for the person he/she cant finish it ) 
22) Onye ara na uche ya yi.
( Mad person and his/her mind follows )
23) Àna esi n'ụlọ amara nma we pụọ na ama.
( Beauty starts from home to outside )
24) Ihere anaghị eme onye ara gba ọtọ kama ọbụ ikwu n'ibe ya ka ihere gana eme.
( A naked mad person is not ashamed of his/her self but his /her kindred is the one that is ashamed )
25) Onye jị mmadu n'ala jikwa onwe ya.
( A person that holds another person on the ground also holds him/her self )
26) Ebube agụ na echekwa agụ
( Pride of lion is what protects it )
27) Nwoke kwesịrị ijide ámụ ya aka ka amịrị we gaa nke ọma.
( A man have to hold his manhood for urine to have direction )
28) Atụrụ mụrụ ebule gba aka nwa.
( Any Ewe that have birth to a ram is childless )
29) Egwu adịghị atụ afọọ obulu uzọ.
( Belly is not afraid to be in front )
30)<my favourite proverb>  Mgbe Nkwere amụtaghị okoroudo Nkwere bi,ha mụta okoroudo Nkwere bilu,Okoroudo nwụọ ma Nkwere bikwalụ.
( When Nkwere didnt born Okoroudo they lived,When they born him (Okoroudo) they also lived and when Okoroudo died they still live )

Super eagle or Golden eagle

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-351390.0.html

Invisible touch/hit while at sleep

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-351332.0.html

@Horus what happened to was witch.you where attacked by witch.i happened to when i was 10yrs old.how it happened to was:i knelt down beside my bed to pray before i sleep around after nine in the night so immediatly i bending my head i saw somebody opening the room cotton so for me to rise and turn my head the person rushed to me within a second and i cant move any of my body,i tried to shout but i couldn't my mum and my sis came inside the room,searching for something i tried to call them but i cant,they thought i was praying

@alex0028 See it happened to me in different places the first one was in our home Awka while the second one in Enugu and the one that happened to me yesterday was in in my brothers flat.the room which i sleeped,i locked it by my self and im sure nobody can open the without me noticing because i locked in with bolt.

This weekend History is wished to be made in Nigerian football,Two of our national football teams have two most important match in thier history.This saturday super eagle will play against black Mambas of kenya in qualification of first first world cup in africa which every nigerians is praying,hoping,wishing that they will qualify while on the other hand Golden eaglet of nigeria will be play thier first ever  FIFA U-17 world cup final in Nigeria and to be the only team in the world to win it back to back and to be the only team in the world to host and win the cup against switzerland which every nigerians is praying,hoping,wishing that they will Win.Now if to say that God said that only one of two teams (Super eagles and Golden Eaglets) will win thier match this weekend which one will you choose,want,wish to win or qualify?

Its been confirmed.There is now big celebration in Awka Anambra state capital

This thing first happened to me around 1999-2000.The morning it first happened was the morning i wished to wake-up by 3:00 am,To meet up with my cousins because we have a very important place to go the following morning.So while i was at sleep,Immediatly it was 3:00 am, somebody or something touch/hit me three times on my right knee and i wake up immediately and looked around in my room (which i locked and sleeped alone ) i saw nobody but still feeling the touch.


In 2003 the same thing happened to me.the morning i wished/wanted to wake up by 3:30am so that i would study because i got exam that morning.immediatly it was 3:30am sharp the same thing happened to me on that same spot.


The yesterday morning was different cos i never wished or wanted to wake up by that time cos i went to bed lately.so around 4:00am something/somebody touched/hitted me on my right shoulder (i my elder brothers house) i woke up immediatly and every where was calm and i did
not see any body.


Have  you ever witnessed this kind of thing or know anybody that has witnessed this kind of thing.Do you know what might cause this.Solution/advice needed please

@youngies I did not copy it any where,i wrote it down by my self.i am a typical igbo boy,i was born and grew up in igboland so Nwanne abụghịm ofeke. Nwanne,M-hụ  ịhe nkarịrị adịghịm ayọ chịm ya gbataram ọsọ enyem aka.so if you wants more i got it plenty

,1)Mberede ka eji ama dike.
Its in time of problem that a herro is known.

2)Ntụtụ k'eji atụtụ ju akpa.
-Its picking by picking that make a bag full-

3)Ọkụkọ sị na ọnahị eti mkpu ka ihe ji ya hapụ ya kama nọbụ ka ụwa nụrụ olu ya
-A fowl said that it does not cry out loud for the thing that holds it to leave it but for the world to hear its voice-

4)Aka nrị kwọ aka ekpe,aka ekpe akwọ aka nrị
-If the right hand washes the left hand the left hand will wash the right hand in return-

5)I were aka nri tie nwata ihe I were aka ekpe gụgụọ ya
-If you beat a child with right hand you call him back with left hand-

6)Okorobia tosịa ochera ibe ya
-If a young man grows finish he waits for other-

7)Awọ adịghị agba ọsọ ehịhịe n'efu
-Tod does not run in the day for nothing-

Nkita n'eso onye afọ ukwu mara na ọnyụhị anyụ  ọgbọ agbọ
-A dog that follows a person with purging stomach know if he does not shit he will will vomit-

9)Nwata n'ata akara n'ata ego nne ya
-A child that chop akara chops his mothers money-

10)Onwere ka ịhe g'esi bịara Bishop  ọmia egbe
there are some kind of things that will come to bishop and he will draw AK-47
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11)ọgba ,egbe g'ana n'egbe
-A killer with gun will die in gun-

12)Agwọ otu onye hụrụ n'abụ eke
-A snake that one person sees is usually a kobra-

13)Oji nwayọ anahị emeru ahụ
-Person that walks slow doesnt get hurt-

14)Ikuku kuo ahu ike Ọkụkọ
-When wind blows fowl ass will be exposed-

15)Ozi eziri añụrụ ga erurị elu igwe aka
-Any message that is been sent to heaven through smoke must be delivered to heaven-

16)Iteta ụra n'ụtụtụ Ọkụkọ chụba gị ọsọ gbaba n'ihi n'ịmahị ma opuru eze n'abali
-If you wake up in the morning and fowl start chasing you,run cos you dont know whether it grew teeth in the night-

17)Onye ginu mee n'ọbụhị di ọkpara gburu
-If any one have let him provide that its not the first son that killed-

18)Oke nnọọkọ n'ebute oke mkparị
-Too much sitting together bring too much disrespect-

19)Anụta agbọhọ achụpụ agadị
-When a young lady is married (as a second wife) the old will be chased away-

20)Dibịa agwọọ ofeke,ofeke echozọọ dibịa gwọrọ ya   
-When  a doctor cures a fool that fool will forget the doctor that cured him-

Im sorry for not responding for weeks,i travelled to my best friend village so thier is no access.

@throttler they are typical igbo, they are from Ekwuluobia in Anambra state

@Ify_always.you said that thier is nothing wrong in it even the third can answer ADA.So are you trying to tell me that third son in a family can now answer Okpara while the first son is alive and healthy.okey if you are the first daughter in your family and your your sister is given ADA how would you feel in public where you two are being ask your names?

@Ndipe Ok Dont you know that this kind of thing brings hatred between sisters.In some cases like this dont you think that the real ADA might think they (parents) hates her to take what traditionaly/rightly belongs to her to another person so the name might cause problem/hatred btw the person given the name and the real ADA dont you think so?