₦airaland Forum

musicwriter:
That's a fantastic idea!

The way the Chinese and Japanese solved that problem is that they first developed a MODEL for translating Western scientific words into Chinese and Japanese, respectively- such that whatever new scientific word they couldn't find in their language, they simply use that model to create new word for it. That would be a short cut instead of starting from kindergarten, although the words that would be created may be too mechanical instead of natural. But that's a different discussion.

Let me say, nobody is advocating to ban English language as it's an essential language in the world we live in today. But it's a culture made up with human being like ourselves that achieved that feat. A linguist friend of mine, Noam Chomsky, told me that ALL languages are equal and the same. I wish I could show you what I asked him and what he replied. If you want I can screenshot it.

When we prioritize our native languages in school, English would become a subject you can choose to study or not. That's the way it's done in China, Russia, Japan.
Only those interested in English language should study it.

You may have an African William Shakespeare or J.K Rollings in Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, Gikuyu, Shona, Wolof, etc. But under the present system of education, we'll NEVER be able to discover them!! Many literary giants have died unknown simply because we've accepted someone's language.

A child may be very good in writing Igbo but not good in English. A child may be very good in writing Yoruba but not good in English, etc.

Again, how to begin is to prioritize our native languages in school or create a model for translation as I said earlier. It should be compulsory to get a credit in our native languages, then at least a pass in English. That's actually how it should be if we're in our right state of mind.

Wow! You are ful of knowledge and a master of communication and relay of your ideas. Are you a professor, cos you seam to be overflowing with knowledge that's beyond my scope currently.

The translation model for new words is a fantastic idea and practical too. New words no matter how mechanical they sound initially becomes natural with constant use.

Thank you so much Sir. Please feel free to enlighten me the more on this subject matter.

doggedfighter:
Give me the water stove.




Thanks !

This isn't their idea at but copied from youtube. I've watched several youtube videos demonstrating this concept. If you think me a nagh sayer, visit YouTube and verify for yourself ad family too!

Supremos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8L-9L0fzCE?si=QLjZJPBRfS3iLe2n




BREAKING
~ Simon Ikpa.

Armless means person without hands ie a handicapped guy

Unarmed means a person without any weapon like gun, club, matchet, etc!

Journalist wey no sabi difference between handicapped person and person with hand na wetin again?

Myer:
This can only be God.
I'm blessed to be alive to see the restoration of Nigeria's glory unfurling in our time.
God continue to help them and help us all.

😁😂🤣😀😃😄😁🥴

Person just whine mouth and you dey happy instead of to wait for his action!

No be words Nigerians go chop

Nigeria needs action to overcome the coming darkness of hardship.

Boondocxs:
Problems facing the country include:
Banditry and terrorism
Kidnapping and ritual murder
Insecurity and police brutality/excesses/extra judicial killings
High cost of living
Inflation
Insufficient food security
Lack of health facilities
Lack of credit facilities
Increasing number of school dropouts
Child illiteracy/child endangerment
Zero job opportunity
Cultism
Godfatherism
USD to NGN inequalities
Padi padi government/ nepotism
Poor infrastructure
Electricity collapse
Rising cost of housing market
Minimum wage

Over importation dependent economy/low exports

Low agro output

Shut down of SMEs

Money Laundering

Low technology know how

grandstar:
Taxation is important but you're exaggerating things here. The present government has plans to prune the number of taxes present in the country from 52 to 10. So, I

In today's world, you don't go far without globalization. The reason why the Naira is tumbling is due to a lack of dollars.

Foreign investment is a must considering that cost of credit (loans) is quite dear and even scarce. Soludo said that foreign investment amounting to 5% of GDP yearly for 5 years consecutively would lead to the economy overheating.

It is absolutely needed for him to drum up investment into the country. That doesn't mean he is ignoring the troubles at home. The "removal" of the fuel subsidy and attempt to unify rates are far reaching actions to indicate he isn't ignoring the local economy.

For instance, NDDC is planning to build 9 industrial estates in the states it covers.

Also, Buhari chased away many foreign investors from the country, Shoprite being the foremost example. These foreign multinationals contribute massively to the economy.

The challenges on ground are huge. Lamido Sanusi alleged that the CBN under Emefiele printed 22 trillion Naira. This alone is scary.


Tinubu does not have to run everything. That is why he has an economic team.

Foreign investors kii you there!
What of local SMEs getting required to loans to produce exportable products?

What if local production of petroleum products surpasses importation of refined crude?

Every time foreign investors this foreign investors that!

Top world economies like America, China,etc are industrialization dependant and not dependent on foreign investors ode! They produce and export to increase their Dollar reserves. Not wait for foreigners to come invest and employ them.

Nigerians including I myself have this dependancy mindset which is "Only the white man can do it cos we can't"

reiddecuti:
Being the first African Nigerian leader to rang the NASDAQ closing bell is an achievement the munching corn heads won't allow one to hear word again.


APC agbadorians will count it as achievement from their fraudulent Master that has no interest of this country at heart.


BTW, this speech of Tinubu is another lie to sell to his agbadorians to keep dashing their hope.

He's not the first African or Nigeria to ever ring that NASDAQ bell. President Goodluck Jonathan did it first.

Jennyclay:
Nobody is above mistake.

Biko, just forgive and leave everything and move on. Can’t you see how catastrophic the economy is How do you expect a nursing mother to pay you back when she also has a baby to cater for

Learn to forgive!!

May God help us.

Haba sis, how is this a mistake na? She just imposed the child on the guy because of how responsible this guy is!

A woman always know who her child's father is.

He should consider freeing the matter not because it was a mistake on her part but because of the economic condition of Nigeria.

musicwriter:
I already registered an organization to be able to do that but on second thought, that's the job of education, not an outside organization. It should happen at the school, beginning from kindergarten.

To do that, the first step would be to prioritize our native languages by using it to learn and write. Within a generation or two, those children would mature to adulthood and take over education into the future. Learning in our native languages would become normal to them as the problem of transportation would be solved easily by them. Only then shall we assume scientific and technological power and compete toe-to-toe with white people and the rest of the world. And that's when the wishes of president Tinubu would come to fruition.

Intelligent Africans such as Cheik Anta Diop (an African physicist from Senegal) already tried translating science works into our native languages but the problem they face is that there are no words for most scientific terminologies. He wasn't able to effectively translate from French to his native Wolof language because we're so much lost in the languages given us by our colonizers. That's the problem.

We must FIRST prioritize our native languages in school and use it for learning and literature. It's in that process that nature would naturally compel us to fill in terminologies that are not currently in our native languages in Africa.

The destruction of black civilization was total!!

Bro thanks for the new insight with regards to the lack of words for some scientific terminologies experience by the Senegalese physicist.

I'll screenshot your reply to enable me read more about him.

But don't you think we can still have a hybrid of English and local language for these scientific translations? We leave those terms that doesn't have words in our native language as they are but use Igbo for explanations and simple words.

I'm Igbo and would love to be a pioneer of Igbo based scientific books.

porthouse7:
do u buy fufu with dollars

Nigeria's economy is control by dollars because of our import based economy.

Naira is not accepted as payment outside our shores.

So importers need to change their naira to dollars to make payments.

The more a country imports stuff (Our imports surpass exports) the more their currency becomes useless or loses value.

Losing value means it's purchasing power goes down. So for eg, if you bought two Indomie with #100 don't be surprised to buy one at #100 naira next day.

Coming to dollars effect on fufu, the seller increases his or her price because fuel(remember our fuel is imported), food, transport,etc has gone up. So for him to be able to afford those, he needs to raise his price to be able to afford those things too.

That's how Dollar affects our economy.

If we export more we will have lots of dollar reserves and lower reserves if we import more.

Eg remember if you have 20 million in reserve ie your bank account, it will go down day by day if you spend more than you earn.

Messileo10000:
That is in no way the problem of this country.

Point fingers at the right direction correctly.

Sir as a learned and highly exposed individual as you portray yourself, kindly expansiate, elucidate and concisely indulge us on the real reason for the backward status of Nigeria since 1960.

What's really the problem hindring Nigeria from gaining a developed nation status?

Where should the guy you corrected point fingers to?

minakom:
Tinubu symbolizes hope for Nigeria, but certain individuals persistently challenge his capabilities due to their inability to accept defeat in elections. These individuals, in reality, pose a significant threat to Nigeria, as they prioritize personal glory over the well-being of the nation, even if it means witnessing the country's decline.

Pls sir how does contesting the outcome of the past election in a courtroom stop Bola from working?

Sir pls no insult, I just need to be enlightened on this.

minakom:
Lol. That's their private stuff na. I still carry olosho last night. E no concern anybody papa

No one's against olosho here. People are against using taxpayers/public funds for spending on such frivolities.

Imagine for instance you are the manager of a trust fund in a big market. One day you went to represent them as a chairman at a meeting. You now used the money put in your care for your personal gratification. Then when you got back and people need their money at the years end according to agreement, you start telling stories.

What do you expect the owners of the money to do?

Nigeria is a company and we the citizens are it's shareholders. We are entitled to demand to know how it's day to day activities are run including finances too.

soccerlite:
Na only air

If not that that oyinbo fabricate drilling borehole

Where nigeria for see water

Spot on brother mi! I love when we reason logically here.
Only the truth can set us Free!

musicwriter:
Yes, you're right but that's due to lack of scientific know-how, which in itself is as a result of using a foreign language to learn science.

If you read the link on my signature, you'll understand fully the background causes of what you just said. But read the PDF version only.

Oh my God bro you just aligned with my thought on the barrier posed by using foreign languages to teach science here.
I once proposed for the translation of all scientific papers to our 3 major ethnic languages for easier assimilation.

Once done you'll not need to be proficient in English language to learn physics maths, chemistry, etc.

Bro I love you so much for having the same line of thought as mine in this matter.

Why not we pool resources together to translate all science books from creche to tertiary level to our native languages. If this is done, little kids in rural areas will now become inventors, etc.

Science will become second nature and natural to learn for us and our future generations.

LET'S DO THIS OR SPREAD THE MESSAGE BROTHER!

MartinsD12:
Yes you are paying for the curved screen, gorilla glass 5 screen , in display finger print scanner and more storage and ram compared to regular s23 besides it's an AMOLED screen so it's not that bad just wish it's a 5G phone

I thought as much bro, thanks for clearing things up for me. Bless you!

Taylor92:
Exactly my brother

Tinubu is really good at games

He a first class master strategist from Chicago university

Can’t you see ever since he took over dollar is now 1naira

UAE has lifted ban on Nigerians

Fuel subsidy is actually gone like he said on May 29th

Security has reduced to zero

Employment wan wound Nigerians

Food stuff prices don crash

Tinubu till 2096

To add to it
Nigeria now produces it's own cars "the bola wagon"

Nigeria produces it's fighter/commercial jets, drones and sophisticated weapons

All states now boasts of it's own refineries

Nigeria has a bullet train network that takes one from Abuja to Lagos in 15 minutes

Nigeria is now a major exporter of products like smartphones, household electronics, machines, etc

Agriculture has been mechanized and no one farms with hoes and cutlass anymore

Bokoharam finally crushed to smithereens

All diasporas are trooping back to Nigeria cos opportunities abound now.

musicwriter:
Unfortunately, there's no way we'll not be exploited by white people as long as we speak their language, get their education, believe their god.

Whoever gives language, education, religion would control you, and there's nothing you can do to stop it because he/she has interfered with your reality.

Those are the cause. Everything else is an effect.

You forgot to mention the most important of all, their technology.

If Nigeria likes, let them build paradise on Earth, The man ie westerners that control tech will always dominate us.

No matter our money we still depend on them for industrial machinery, life saving drugs or the chemicals aka raw materials for making them.

We depend on them for weaponry, training etc

We depend on them for a lot of finished goods like parts for our cars, ships, boats, etc.

We are so dependent on them so muc that we've become their lapdog.

And we know that one sanction from them banning our access to electronics and other tech stuff, we are finished cos we can't produce any replacements.

So why not our leaders use this time we are not in westerners crosshairs to systematically make us less dependent on their tech through technology transfer like China did?

MissLeslie:
If we don't denounce the japa syndrome, Africa will not develop.

Good point but what infrastructure, laws are in place to support your dreams here sir?
Here infrastructures here means loans, roads, electricity, quality educational establishments, etc

Nigeria a giant hasn't been able to curb insecurity in the form of militancy, insurgency, piracy and banditry for a decade now.

Our schools and govt doesn't even support STEM with funding.

Our military, police, healthcare,schools, are all underfunded

Nigerian doesn't even rank in the first 100 in technology globally

So tell me what will make people stay?

When will we watch this long awaited match between

Team OBIDIENTS 🤼
VS
Team AGBADORIANS🤼

The useless online banter between both sides is getting old and stale

Both teams should just fix time and venue and fight this fight for once.

The winners take it all.

JagabanB:
Did they tell u it's your money?
Oversabi

If you really understand governance, any moneys spent by a government official is public and not private money.

Please define "public" sir

The money is constitutionally Nigerian money and who are Nigerians?

MartinsD12:
Itel is trying, any truthful person will attest to that itel is no longer the rubbish 2gb ram phone maker back in the days, they are now improving but then am yet to see them use high end mediatek processors just unisoc entry level, meanwhile s23 plus is good but I have issues with the back camera design copy cat, unisoc 12 nanometer processor and small 18 watts , at the price of 148k it could have at least been a good 5G processor demensity 700

Ah! So the plus got d same unisoc SOC used in the S23? Still costs much @145k

Orubebe01:
Clitocurrency is bae

Kind sir, where can I buy this currency right now?

burp18:
what masses? The same masses that provide cover and accommodate these terrorists? "The man that brings ant-infested firewood into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit."

For instance you got robbed by armed robbers in your apartment, so everyone living in your street are responsible?

Are you speaking out of hate or irrational right now. So the entire community attacked the army according to your baseless analysis?

Security job isn't for feeble minds like you who can't do simple analysis.

Malroux:
Stop typing with a stolen phone. Return the phone to the owner and have peace.

U fire very deadly arrow into the heart of this guy oh. Are you the grim reaper my guy?

obi58:
When Buhari called Nigerian youths lazy People were complaining. See the daylight robbery that was taking place under APC in the last 8 years and they were rewarded by another 4 years.

Today dollar is N1000 but people who should be concerned about their stomachs are organising protests seeking justice for Mohbad and watching big brother.

Good post but you veered off course by saying youths are lazy sir.
The perpetrators at the sea ports are old men in charge and not youths sir.
This issue got nothing to do with lazy youths sir.
I forget to remind you that you can lead a protest and we will be right there behind you sir!

Raskimonojendor:
The army did their own part in Arochukwu forrest Abia state.

The famous IPOB rocket launcher has been seized.

This is all scrap metal oh. Are these guys serious about claiming that these are actual weapons? Why would an outfit that claims to have sophisticated weapons weld scrap metals and call em weapons? 🤣😂🤣

UKEMY:
I am saddened by this needless killings by IPOB, I think it's high time the federal give them their country (5 south east) states and all Igbo's residing in any Nigerian Territory be repatriated to biafra and banned from Entering Nigerian Territory

Spot on comrade. This killings need to end!

From my observation and research, I've come to realize that Nigeria is the champion of tribalism. Welcome to Nigeria the melting pot of tribalism. Infact Nigeria should start selling course on "how to be the best tribal bigot ever liveth"
Foreigners will buy this course and utilize it for their development.

Makunahatata:
one of the useless Obedients spotted

Sir, wetin concern Obidients and Northern soldiers denied renumeration of their monthly stipends?

Are you really this insensitive to your fellow humans sir?
Imagine you were denied your hard earned renumeration after work welldone.
Would you go home empty handed to your kids and then gaslight anyone in support of you?

DeLaRue:
Crude oil prices are shooting up on the international market.

The price of diesel has not been subsided for many years, so the government is not going to start subsidising diesel now.

All over the world, every one is complaining about the rising price of crude oil, which is currently about $95 dollars per barrel.

Go on you tube, you will see many videos of Americans complaining they cant even afford to buy fuel to drive to work!

It is Russia and Saudi Arabia reducing reduce supply in order to make more money. The rest of the world is screwed...for now.

Nigeria is no different. Are people in Ghana, Kenya, Japan, Sweden, UK, US buying diesel cheaper. No. Everyone is complaining bitterly.

This has very little to do with the Nigerian government.

Those who need diesel just have to adjust for now until crude oil prices comes down.

If I call you an Ode full of dust now you'll say I'm rude and full of insults.

What kind of bland analysis is this sir?

Nigeria doesn't buy oil from Russia or Iran you ode.
Nigeria produces it's crude oil then refines overseas (not in either Russia or Iran)

So you are just yaning pure dust sir.
Bless you.

Exceed15:
Congratulations Nigerians. Its a new era. Welcome to renewed shege banza.

Shege Banza It is Comrade🤣