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Nebeuwa: They should take their father's identity. Once an Igbo woman has children with a non-Igbo man, they lose that Igbo identity. Regardless how they feel deep down inside. They can never be considered Igbo.

Thanks, i never knew this.

Nebeuwa: If you are born to an Igbo father, then you are Igbo.

If you are born to a non-Igbo father, you can never be Igbo, because Igbo culture is patrilineal.

What about those born to igbo mothers? Here we go again. Afam, whats your view on this?

afam4eva: My friend, that's human nature. Live with it. No ethnic group will allow you to be present when they're having that kind of meeting.

I think i 've personaly explained whom i know an Igbo man to be.
On a more serious note, i will say everyone from the eastern part of Nigeria with an industrious mentality.

afam4eva: Can you sit with another family when they're discussing family issues? Anything that does not concern you, you have no business being there.Don't you have respect?

But when you are in need you will tell me family issues i never asked you right? and pretend i'm a brother.

ifyalways: Not acceptable where and by who ?

He has got his point. Sometime last year, a friend asked me to pick him up after from an Igbo meeting, i decided to wait outside in the first place, so after waiting for about an hour, i thought it was time for me to go inside so he can understand i 've been waiting for him outside, so i took a sit at the extreem end of the hall not even paying any attention to what they were discussing, i was so surprised seeing even some other close friends angrily asking me to go out immediately because i'm not allowed to have a clue of what they were discussing, these are guys i 've had a minimung of ten years of friendship with. This has always been my experience with them. You 're never permited to mix into whatever they are doing most especially when it comes to money. Meanwhile when they are having problems, they are ready to tell you everything abaout them. No hating pls.

[quote author=tpia@]if you're born of igbo parents, you're igbo.

if you're igbo by adoption, you're igbo.

if you feel (ie want to be) you're igbo, you're igbo.[/quote]10likes

Billyonaire: Can you set 'Marriage' as your goal in life ?

Some people does that for reasons best known to them, and i don't think you are in a position to judge them.

It is one thing to get married and a complete different thing when it comes to meeting up with its obligations. I think if you have it all in life and the Mrs is still missing, people will start smelling a dead rat around you.

I think being able to fufil your reason of marrying and its obligations should be seen as an achievement.

Biden won this one hands down.

German and Edo language. My English language and French isn't perfect, most especially in writting.

Congrats.

honeric01: The school has a principal? yes or no? definitely the principal must have told the governor everything about the 20 teachers, if they took excuse, he or she would have laid it down before the governor. quit the sympathy parade.

No one is against what the governor did, but if you take some time and do some inquiry, you will get a different information. This is where we 've got to be very carefull.

[quote author=Okija_juju]like seriously WHAT THE F`UCK?!! Afam, please respond to this guy.. I will like to hear how you respond to this.. [/quote]Atleast nobody stops you from doing Afams's job before he comes back.

[quote author=Okija_juju]like seriously WHAT THE F`UCK?!! Afam, please respond to this guy.. I will like to hear how you respond to this.. [/quote]at least nobody stops you from doing Afams's job before he comes back.

GboyegaD: And is that the best way to resolve this challenge? Does he visits schools everyday? And what is the function of his Commissioner for Education? People often times do not know their constitutional duties.

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Emmyk: Two.

And you are proud right?

Me too i need a God fearing woman wey i go dey push up and down, since bible says ''wives obey your husbands'' lol

dangerzone: ;
my broda na God know where we lost go o,if u dey use one small dat mean u b poor man, if u no fat like frog e mean say u no get money for 9ja mentality

See where we dey today with that kind of mantality.

bblacky: 2 phones r ok to carry abt joor! i de sell phone? Wey go mk me carry 4-5phones?

wetin you dey do with 2 phones?

To the normal Nigerian the number of phones in your pockets show how O.K you are, and the larger the screen the richer you are. we don lost.

honeric01: What makes you think he didn't do this? you assuming already?

No assumption here, you and i know how our leaders sometimes behave.

I dont have any reason for missing my ex, it is over and over for good.

If you are God fearing you can take good care of me.

highlandre: I wish there is an option that says 'Hate' on Nairaland Forum, then I would quickly have hated some nagging, backward-going comments in here. Oshiomole did the right thing by sacking the under-performing teachers and some dudes come here to castigate him! Nigeria has a long way to go.

I'm beginning to think followers, not really leaders, are the problems of this country. The other day, someone was openly defending the disease called 'man-know-man', which has promoted mediocrity and ruined excellence in our society. God, pls intervene in the lives of my people!!!

What are you saying is it wrong when followers sometimes do CHECK AND BALANCE?

Gracious10: I don't get u. If u were laid off, u get unemployment benefits. But if you were fired, u r on ur own. Nobody pays u for being responsible for ur misfortune except u lie that u were laid off. It's hard to get unemployment benefits if u were fired. That's if I get ur drift.

In a sound economy, you can decide to stay off your working place for up to 3 years in you 're ill. Only Gods knows if he even tried to find out what the these people's reasons of being absent was.

Mini G: On this one the governor played to the gallery. The action is not procedural, apart from being too drastic,

If the state was to to pay the unemployment benefits to those dismissed , he would have think twice before taking that action.

I believe in the fact that actions and reactions are always equal just as it is in the laws of physics, but destiny is something that lies in everyone's hands.

mutiply: Too bad for those teachers,a query should have been issued rather than dismissing them.

But what about the salary wey ihn nor dey pay in time? that wan dey move country foward too?

BrutusOj: What is the title of the movie

i'm also interested.

Osuofia in action again, this time a real life action.

(CNN) -- Ok. There's no denying it. Barack Obama had a really, really bad debate. The New Yorker has ridiculed him on its cover. "Saturday Night Live" took its shots.

From Jon Stewart to David Letterman, the comedy community has worked the president's belly-flop from his podium at the University of Denver so hard that if you set up a joke with the words "Obama" and "debate" you don't even need a punchline.
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The results of the debate were not just a source of late-night hilarity either. Pollsters have also been worked up into a lather.

Romney's win was by an unprecedented margin. It helped close yawning gaps nationally, in swing states and among key groups like women. Pundits, depending on what flavor they were, wringed their hands or gloated. Wise men just shook their heads in knowing silence.

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So the question is what can the president do to rebound? Although the White House hasn't called me yet asking for tips, here's a few of the tidbits of advice I'd give if they did:

1. Panic

I know this is what everyone is telling you not to do. But, listen to me, they are the people who got you in trouble in the first place. By far the biggest benefit of getting clobbered in the debate is that it should be a wake-up call for you. Time to study up (like you didn't do last time). Time to stop believing your campaign's cartoonish characterizations of Romney. He's a real, formidable, guy. A serious opponent. Take him seriously this time.

2. Don't panic, nothing has changed

I got your attention with the line about panicking. But the reality is you have every reason to remain calm, starting with the fact that you are a preternaturally calm person. First, it was inevitable given your lead in the polls that you would be on the losing side of the expectations game and post-first debate spin. Next, you know as well as anyone that even after spending a billion on this campaign, you and Mitt Romney are going to end up with America roughly split as it was before this whole dog-and-pony show started.

Finally, you're still the president, and you still have everything going for you that you had going for you to begin with, from the good bits in your record to an electoral college and a shifting American demographic reality that will give you a healthy tailwind at the polls.
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3. Show up

I don't just mean this in the sense that you should be there and mentally engaged in the next debate. Given Romney's win in the first debate, the natural story for the lazy ladies and gentlemen of the press will be to write about your comeback. I don't want to put too much pressure on you, but you are going to have to try really, really hard to screw up this next debate, at least.

4. Take the high road

Again, I know this is not what your brain trust is telling you. Well, it's not what many in the universe of your scared and angry supporters are calling for. Everyone is saying you should hit back hard. (No, I mean harder than the lame attacks on Romney for threatening to "fire" Big Bird.) Don't play that game.

What wins campaigns is offering the most optimistic, credible vision for the future. Don't be a self-hating Democrat. You have a strong record on many fronts. By all means emphasize your successes. But focus on the future.

Focus on big ideas for creating jobs, making America competitive, promoting growth and making us stronger from the inside out. Romney has turned his race around largely by letting people see that he's actually a good guy on many levels. Acknowledge it. Challenge him when he is misleading but don't get sucked into name calling. The facts matter much less than how you make people feel. (Sorry, it's true.) Just make sure people know you have a better vision for more people. And by people, I mean swing voters. The others have all made up their minds.

So, despite the temptations, veer away from the partisan. Americans want solutions, not more gridlock and name calling.

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5. Try to avoid an October surprise

If you follow the four steps described above both in debates and on the road (and spend a lot of time in Ohio, Florida and Virginia) you will probably still win this thing. Of course, there's still time for some October (or early November) surprise that will be a game changer. But you're the president of the United States for goodness sake. You have some influence. Try to avoid disasters (on and off the debate stage), and you will soon be able to go back to grappling with the hardest problems in the world all day long.

For Gov. Romney, the advice is simpler. Keep doing what you did the other night. Well-prepared, moderate, likeable and presidential is not exactly a losing combination. But expect the next debates to be somewhat more challenging. It's highly likely the president of the United States will actually turn up the next
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