₦airaland Forum

henrydadon:
it only a matter of time before boko haram destroy it

they should better provide enough security around that place..i don't want to hear stories that touch the heart

Nawa ooooo

Boko haram will destroy your family and relative in the name of whatever god you pray amen idiot......

luvinhubby:
Was 375 unarmed Shiites killed under GEJ?

Was over 800 unarmed IPOB members killed under GEJ?

Was over 200 hungry IDPs bombed to oblivion under GEJ?

Waiting for answers from my friends.

Mtweeeeeee worst post of the century

More than 200 school girls were kidnapped during........ ?

Nigeria lost a territory the size of the south east times 3 during.......?

More 20,000 people died in borno during..... ?

More than hundred thousand Nigerians fled to Niger republic and Cameroon during...... ?

More than 300 people died in kano central mosque during....... ?

People are afraid to go to mosque, church, school, hospital, infact any where there are people gathering during........?

Nigerian soldiers that are suppose to protect people ran into Cameroon during.......?

Same soldiers committed mutiny during......?

Etc etc etc... I can go on and on

So the point is both buhari and your master GEJ failed nigeria the later being the worst.....

Chia

Nigerians are too blinded with ethnicity

Look at how people are displaying their stupidity

Do you even know what Paris club money is?...... the first thing that come to mind is kano receives more than lagos...... Why is katsina receiving more than........ etc

Just in case.....
Paris club money is money that was removed from various state governments allocation by FG to settle debt during the time of obasanjo

So state are given back what actually belongs to them and as such if your state lends more money to FG they will receive more money than state that lend small amount....

Chia god save this country

rain in lagos see gold

How I wish just half of the rain is in kano

It's march, here in kano we are still carrying out dry season agriculture using irrigation and we are still almost 3-4 months away from having our first rain

The lagos govt should please try and fix the drainage system to avoid lost of life and property

Hmmmm

Nigeria....... massacre and genocide is now riot....... kontinuuuuuu

Ganduje gandun aiki

Kano ta dabo.......... ba sai na karasa ba kun san sauran

shukuokukobambi:
God bless you real good. The problem is the political class made up of elites from ALL tribes just like you pointed out. Ekwerremadu is only playing to the gallery like all politicians do

You spoke my mind......
Talk is easy if given the chance I can talk till kingdom come...... but what exactly has ike ekweremadu done for the people of the north east and nigeria in general..... he spoke of his experience during the civil war....now that he is in a position to actual do something.... all we get is rhetoric with little or no action

And the worst thing is that some Nigerians that are so blinded by ethnic and religious sentiment will storm the thread praising ike like he is the best thing that has happen to nigeria since agege bread

God save this country.....

Nusaf:
Brother, their noise is getting too much on this separation of a thing.

Any frustrated soul among them always feel the North is responsible for his pathetic situation. The successful ones among them are very okay. Now imagine the owners of The Young Shall Grow Motors, do you think they are even bothered if Nigeria divides or not? Infact, they will even prefer it remains because their business will boom. There are countless number of successful ones among them and they are very cool. Whenever you see anyone of them foaming upandan shouting separation, if you check him very well, you will find out that he is living a very miserable live and he thinks separation may bring some changes to his pitiable situation.

Nonsense.

Don't mind them it's the poor and miserable among them that are shouting separation up and down the place... thinking they can blackmail people.....

The funny thing is out of all the governors, law makers, members of senate, and top government officials in the south east non of them has the balls to come out and publicly side with the miserable people shouting separation.........

And later they will come out and start blaming northerners for not letting them go...... start with your representatives at home before blaming other people..... And very soon they will start blaming the north for "global warning"

All barks and no bite
mtwee bunch of cowards...

Kudan:
Hausa is the must successful Language take it or leave it.

They know that out of all Nigerian languages hausa is the most widely accepted and most developed language..... And that's why they are launching this robust defence of a foreign language ..... when most of them cannot speak their language for good two minutes without cutting and joining english

And my challenge has made that abundantly clear...

lepasharon:
Traditional religion is about culture and Identity like language, no?

Yes I agree with you
Thesame also applies to traditional religion as hausa language is used by the followers of traditional religions

You know the hausas have traditional religions too e.g "bori" "maguzawa" " yan tsubbu" Etc although not as pronounced as in the south..........

Now for more challenge....

Translate this random word to your native languages

Midwife
Judge
Oil Refinery
Iron ore
Tea leaves
North
South
East
West
Republic
Continent
World
Housing estate
Industrial layout
Science
Technology
State
Federal government
Local government
Doctor
Executive council
Tax
Law

lepasharon:
Native religions nko? Gotta focus on all aspects don't we?

Yes we do ..... but religion has got nothing to do with language

Do you know today in the north hausa is used to conduct church services by Christians and sermons in the mosque by Muslims....

Nusaf:
You made a mistake here.

WHO- Ma'aikar Lafiyar Duniya.
UN- Majalisar Dinkin Duniya.

Thanks man that's why I said there is room for correction....

lepasharon:
Impessive

Thanks

English did not become widely accepted overnight you know

If we dedicate enough time and effort to our native languages they could have been internationally accepted too....

lepasharon:
Oya translate it in ur own language, that's if there is any equivalent

I am hausa and for those asking for translation here we go

Ministry - ma'aikata
President- shugaban kasa
Senate- majalissan dattawa
House of reps- mjalissan wakilai
African union- tarayyar africa
ECOWAS - tarayyar tattalin arzikin kasashen. africa ta yamma
University-- jami'a
School---- makaranta
Hospital---- asibiti
Exams---- jarabawa
Road ---- hanya
Bridge---- gada
Water treatment plant--- matatar ruwa
WHO--- Majalissar dinkin duniya
Organisation ----- hukuma

Any hausa speaking person can testify to the correctness of the above mentioned with very minimal room for correction

My sister "LEPASHARON" you are free to bring any english organisation we have in nigeria of the sort mentioned above and I will translate ASAP

furrr:
Now let's cool down and let cooler heads to prevail

Here is game........
Translate this everyday used words in your respective languages

MINISTRY
PRESIDENT
SENATE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
AFRICAN UNION
ECOWAS
UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL
HOSPITOL
EXAMS
ROAD
BRIDGE
WATER TREATMENT PLANT
WHO
ORGANISATION

Chai chia chia Nigerians.....

I love this country .....so many funny and intelligent people

I swear Nigeria with all its woes is the best country in the world

I am hausa and for those asking for translation here we go

Ministry - ma'aikata
President- shugaban kasa
Senate- majalissan dattawa
House of reps- mjalissan wakilai
African union- tarayyar africa
ECOWAS - tarayyar tattalin arzikin kasashen. africa ta yamma
University-- jami'a
School---- makaranta
Hospital---- asibiti
Exams---- jarabawa
Road ---- hanya
Bridge---- gada
Water treatment plant--- matatar ruwa
WHO--- Majalissar dinkin duniya
Organisation ----- hukuma

Any hausa speaking person can testify to the correctness of the above mentioned with very minimal room for correction

My sister "LEPASHARON" you are free to bring any english organisation we have in nigeria of the sort mentioned above and I will translate ASAP

lepasharon:
Those are not everyday words but Lol

You see what I am saying no one is even attempting to answer cos we've neglected our language........

Now let's cool down and let cooler heads to prevail

Here is game........
Translate this everyday used words in your respective languages

MINISTRY
PRESIDENT
SENATE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
AFRICAN UNION
ECOWAS
UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL
HOSPITOL
EXAMS
ROAD
BRIDGE
WATER TREATMENT PLANT
WHO
ORGANISATION

Chai chia chia Nigerians.....

I love this country .....so many funny and intelligent people

I swear Nigeria with all its woes is the best country in the world

ThinkSmarter:
Yes, I do understand.
I so much applaud the Hausas for being able to preserve their language, unlike other tribes in Nigeria, including mine that is letting our language to die.
But in a case were English language hv been adapted as a lingua franca for writing Exams and governance in Nigeria, there is a need for us to learn how to communicate and write effectively with it.
I do read and write with my own tribal language[ Igbo] and even in my dialect of Igbo language.
We hv the central Igbo [Igbo Izugbe ] and many dialects [igboid languages ] .
In our local Church, we read the Bible in English, Central Igbo and in my native Igbo dialects.
Likewise the Yorubas and many other Nigerian tribes.
Like you for instance, u re able to communicate with me cuz u do understand English language.
Your Understanding of English language will give u a comparative advantage over someone that only understand native language, it's obvious.
That's what I am trying to encourage, that you embraced ur native language shouldn't prevent u from learning, writing and communicating in English.
Like in India and Korea their official languages re Hindu and Korean respectively, still higher percentage of them do understand English language, read and write it effectively.
Most internet information re written in the World major languages, so u see need to understand any of the world major languages.
I'm not good in English language, but at least I can communicate with it. Which is the essence.

Correct again my brother
That's why I said that they will continue to teach English language in schools but not as a language of instruction rather, just as a language ie how hausa, igbo, yoruba are taught in schools ......

The truth is you can't discount the importance of English language but at the same time you shouldn't neglect your language just because English is more widely spoken and accepted

Numerous studies have shown that people that are taught in school using their native language understand what they are taught better

That's why most technologically advanced countries in the world teach students using their native languages, e.g Russia, Germany, Japan, UK, France, china etc

But that's not say there is no plus in being bilingual

For example now there are so many things in igbo land and so many expressions in igbo language that you simply can't translate into English

And like I said English is very important but it's importance like any language in the world is greatly diminished when it starts becoming a replacement to you mother tongue........

The lack of educational materials in hausa or any other language is the fault of the hausa academics and government for not trying to translate their research findings into their various native languages......

Government have played a significant role in making our languages redundant and useless by not giving awards and encouraging people that write books on science, history, economics etc in our various native languages..... it's almost a shame to say that most of our literary gurus write only in English and not in their respective native languages the least they can do is to translate those masterpieces to their language thereby adding more strength and vocabulary to their languages......

And the worst is seeing a hausa, yoruba or igbo man speaking to their fellow tribes men in English when they both can speak and understand their native languages hardly will you see a Korean speaking English to his fellow Koreans even though he/she can speak english

And BTW I am a hausa boy from kano did all my schooling here in kano but atleast I can write and speak English though not as fluent as hausa but I try my best....... I am telling you this to show you we are catching up in the education arena too

And I applaud you for being able to read and write in your native language cos most people cant

ThinkSmarter:
Honestly, the North is really trying right now in times of School enrollment.
I must applaud most especially their various state governments, they are really investing in education.
And I believe with these measures so far, the illiteracy in the North will be reduced to the barest minimum in few years to come.
But one thing that I discovered, that is wrong with their system of education is the over use of vernacular [Hausa language ] in teaching which do affects the students during internal and external exams.
As what u perceived that they understood in local Lang, will be difficultly for them to communicate to the examiner in English language, which is the language, most exams are written. They resort to reading Hausa literature and writing in Hausa.
And if u use English in class, the students will tag u as being weird, that is trying to deviate from the standard.
In the issue of tribal and religious bashing, it's a Nigerian problem.
As u can see here on Nairaland, the Hausas re always at the safer side, they only get verbally attacked when there are issues of Child marriage, terrorism which people do attribute to Islam.
Though extremists or fundamentalist re all Moslems trying to interpret the Quran line by line and enforce hardcore Islamic doctrines. But of the truth is that, majority of Moslems re not extremists, they are rather moderate Muslims.
But critics do generalize, which is wrong.
Nairaland will give you negative impression of tribes.
I guess education is the only factor that will make us to be more understanding of one another.
Education will make us to be civilized and tolerant of one another.
I even do get baffled at the rate of e~tribal war b/w the Igbos and Yorubas that lead to some name callings like Afonja, flattino,ipod yoot, sophisticated, brown roof rep, Ugandan Jews.. ....lol very funny.
But in real life, this hatred doesn't exist.
I am a Christian from South Eastern Nigeria, I live and eat together with my Moslem roommate from Kano.
I hv so many Yoruba and Hausa/fulani friends, and they re good, I must confess.

People that find it difficult to get along re Extremists, they are in Islam, they are in Christiandom.
They re prone to discriminate and find fault in all ur actions because it doesn't correlate with their own ideologies.
I no carry Religion for head.
And ones religion should not determine hw I treat and relate with him/her.

Thank you my brother for your understanding

The hausa issue though..... like I said prior to the coming of western education and English in general hausa was used in everything from education, religion, governance, commerce, trade etc etc this led to the wide acceptance of hausa among northern minorities to the extent hausa is used in church services across northern nigeria (hence hausa becoming lingua franca of the north) and eventually when the colonials came the north was subjected to indirect rule i.e they the British where not in direct contact with the people.... they used translators to communicate with the kings and the kings communicate to thier people using which language? You guessed it "hausa"
And as such not much emphasis was paid to learning English among the people as they was no need for it......

And as you know old habit die hard....

Eventually when the British left, thesame principle continue as the northern region government use English language only on national issues and use hausa to communicate with their hausa speaking people after all what's the use of language? To communicate.... so since they can communicate freely with their people using hausa what do they need English for...

This led to the use of hausa language as language of instruction in elementary schools and they teach English only as a language

Then came unity and the abrogation of regionalism and creation of states which led to greater emphasis on learning the English language as the hausas now have to communicate with their brothers in the south of the country that may or may not be able to speak hausa language

So as you can see the whole English thing is relatively (relative to the south) new to the hausa masses... and as of 30 - 40 years back english was a thing of the governing class

And what's interesting is that even today as we speak there is a greater call to revert to the old ways ie to start using hausa language as a language of instruction in schools and teach English language only as a language...
For example in kano, katsina, jigawa etc even today the governor use hausa to talk to his people..... the state house of reps conduct their proceedings in hausa infact out of more than 15 radio stations in kano only two use English throughout, professor of English language will prefer to speak hausa to his hausa speaking colleagues etc etc

The argument of the proponents of the above mentioned idea was if that's the case and the people understand better and prefer use their language "hausa" to communicate with each other and speak the little English they can only when the have to why should we force people to speak English language

Second argument is there are smaller countries in Europe and else where with smaller population to the hausas that use their language and communicate perfectly with other countries so why should we force our selves to speak a foreign language

Third argument is if other countries of the world recognise hausa language spread and wide acceptance to the extent of offering media services e.g bbc hausa, France rtif, china radio, Iran, Saudi Arabia, VOA hausa etc why should we the owners of the language neglect our language and embrace foreign languages

That's the dilemma my brother hope you can find the time to weigh in and contribute to the debate

ThinkSmarter:
majority of Hausas re good people, very hospitable even more than my own tribe.
But the Fulanis re the bad eggs, though not all but majority. They hv this Domineering and conquering tendency running in their blood.
Hausas would hv been a very good tribe indeed if not that they goodwill hv been corrupted by hardcore Islamic teachings.
The extremists or fundamentalists among them re quick to criticize and condemn u if u don't share the same ideology with them.
But, majority of the pure Hausas re extroverted and hospitable.
While the pure Fulanis re more introverted, isolated and always tend to be fanatics in most cases.
The Fulanis re naturally wicked, they don't forgive easily when offended. One good thing with them is that they, Fulanis re always brighter academically, this doesn't mean that the Hausas re not bright.
How do I know these? from their body structure.
The Hausas re always taller, huger in some cases and appear to have a darker skin. While the Fulanis re thin in most cases,more of averaged height, higher tendency of having a fair skin, though some re black, with smaller pointed nose, chisel shaped jaws.
I'm telling you from my experience.
I'm serving in the North.

Thanks for your reply
With regards to education I will say the hausas are trying not to say that we are where we are.... but the true measure of progress is to look at where someone is in the past and where that person is today....... just a few years after independence they where only 84 secondary schools (most of which are concentrated in the NC) in the entire northern region while down south they are hundreds of schools........ this has to do with history.... when the colonials came they met a large chunk of the north having an established system of education based on islam an established system of government and an established religion as such they knew that trying to build schools in the north (most of the schools are missionary schools) will be seen by the northerners as an attack to their religion and their way of life....... And rightly so..... because prior to the colonials they are only two religions in nigeria Islam in the majority of the north and a small part of SW and traditional religion for the rest of the country today Islam and Christianity are almost evenly divided

What I am saying in a nutshell is that the north is making progress in education however slow it may be.... during independence we have only one person with a bsc in the entire northern region and today there are professors, Dr's you name it and schools are filled to capacity and even to over capacity.....

I am a living testament to this fact because I have a bsc in accounting, msc in taxation and treasury management, and a member of ICAN and all this I achieve attending school in kano and am still in my twenties....... just 20- 30 years ago this would have been impossible......

So instead of bashing and raining insult on us no matter what we do "good or bad" which will further animosity and hatred among us why don't you guys offer a friendly hand and provide constructive criticism instead of insults and bigotry and we will see where it goes from there......

malton:
Ka ga, mallam, ka shiga hankalin ka. Wani irin rashin hankali ne haka?!

You're asking if I know what "kafir" means? Well, it alludes to a person who rejects or does not believe in God.

By referring to someone who has their own religion as kafir, you're implying that that individual does not believe in God. The problem with you guys is, you also refer to non-hausa Muslims as kafirs. It's pathetic and reeks of idiocracy. Like, what makes you holier than anyone? Hypocrisy? Surely not!

Most Arabians don't carry the religion on the heads like you do.

Well I agree with you for the most part especially the part where hausa see themselves as more muslim than other tribes or ethnicities ..... this might be because of the feeling that other tribes mix religion and some traditional beliefs......... this has reduced tremendously partly due to more association and co existence with other muslim from other tribes... And I believe there is certainly more room for improvement.... but what I hate and don't like on nairaland in general is generalisation

The moment something regarding hausa or the north is mentioned it's immediately taken to be terrible and bad

Imagine.... a thread on nairaland that show fayose ekiti governor distributing rice and 200 Naira .... most people (not all) immediately start praising the governor and how it's genius what he is doing

Moments letter another thread show Ganduje inspecting a multi billion Naira tiga hydro power plant and irrigation project..... immediately nairalanders including some prising fayose in the previous thread started bashing Ganduje..... saying how it's environmentally bad to build dams some went as far as saying that hausas will bomb the dam etc awful stuff you know

This occurs a lot here on nairaland where a southern governor commission a culvert and immediately he is commended but northern governor does thesame..... the insults begin to rain etc etc....

Hausas are generally hated because of preconceived notion of the north and it's people as bad..... And most at times by people who have not set foot anywhere in the north.....

It's amazing how anything that comes from the north no matter how good it is its immediately ridiculed by our brothers from the other section of the cn3

Imagine some dunce coming here with very little knowledge of engineering and the situation on ground trying to form professor..... tiga dam at the moment is used to irrigate more than 5000 hecters of land imagine what it will be after the project is completed the 15megawatt is just an added bonus that may be used to power some light factories and power water treatment and irrigation pumps during the day and and power street lights during the night

Just yesterday I came across a thread of fayose ekiti governors stomach infrastructure almost everyone was praising the governor up and down

Well that's what we've come to expect from some of our southern brothers....

Peace out

Plaintainboy:
The OP asked a simple question in a comprehensible language and instead of keeping quite or oferring answers, every one is all about his grammar. Only naive and inexperienced people attach this level of value to English. We were taught English in school so what? Germans were taught English in school too yet most of the speak very poor English, same for the Chinese, Russians and a host of them. Quit making unnecessary fuss displaying your ignorance in the process, its not a must to comment. Your primary language is the most important language any other one is secondary.

I tire oo my broda

Most if not all developed countries in the world speak their indigenous language e.g China, Japan, S Korea, UK, Russia, France Germany etc all countries that truly matter to the world speak and use their indigenous languages

This is because it's more practical and natural .........
Instead of wasting time and energy to learn someone else's language why don't you try to improve and develop your own language and devote that time spent learning other languages to something like technology etc

Don't get me wrong learning a foreign language is not bad infact it's a plus to an individual but please don't do it at the expense of your own language and that's why we have a section in universities dedicated to languages........

ImadeUReadThis:
The Amir is a first and foremost a religious title in Islam and roughly translates to "leader of Muslims".

Why is it that only Fulanis are ever appointed Amirs?

I understand that the Fulani laid down the foundation for the emirate system in Nigeria but does that mean only they (Fulanis) can aspire to the position of Amir?

Are Fulanis ordained by your Allah to rule Muslims in Nigeria?

If so can someone point out one single Islamic literature that gives the Fulani the audacity to claim sole leadership of the Nigerian Ummah?

An emir or amir is just like a king in the sense that only those from a particular family can aspire to be king

You don't ask why anyone can aspire to be the queen or king of united kingdom do you or to be the pope in the vatican do you so why should you ask if anyone can aspire to be amir

And by the way it's amazing how you guys keep trying to differentiate fulani and other ethnic group most noticeably hausas

Are you aware the emir or amir of kano "fulani" cannot speak fulani but speaks hausa fluently

The truth is the hausas and other ethnic groups are not complaining

very little knowledge is very dangerous..... I hope nairaland starts checking post for facts before allowing anyone to post anyhow

Viewers discretion is advised................................................................


God save this country

And I hope my brothers and sisters here in the north will restrain themselves and allow the authorities to handle the situation and hopefully prosecute the perpetrators

Viewers discretion is advised................................................................


God save this country

And I hope my brothers and sisters here in the north will restrain themselves and allow the authorities to handle the situation and hopefully prosecute the perpetrators

Benevee:
This is why the north is not yet developed


Smh.

Is your state or ur region developed
Mr development

nextprince:
That is how they incite crisis and they will turn around to play the victims. Why naming a dog Muhammad knowing very well the likely implications, especially in a muslim dominated area?

Even on nl, that is what they do. One thread was just opened calling the Prophet all sorts of unprintable names and is not as if anything had happened, just like that.

God bless you
And all your relatives
I was feeling a little bit down today but your post immediately improved my mood

Of all the names in the world, he decided to choose Muhammad and later on when something happen they will be crying foul

Going to someone's home calling his father mother and everyone he hold dare bad names and expect him not to retaliate is simply stupid and arrogant .....and by the way this worse.....

legislatively:
Owerri has it already

I am going to "LEGISLATIVELY" tell you to read the post cos that's exactly what I am saying

Just kidding ......

momentarylapse:
Are you high?

Maybe I should be asking you thesame question? Maybe you have "MOMENTARILY LAPSED"