Igbos got those red hats from Hausa people, its so obvious, even Libyans have the same thing both the black and red version.

Andre Uweh:

The above post is brain crippling. Sometimes I wonder why people write rubbish about Igbo culture which they do not know anything about it. anyway, the red hat titled men wear in Igboland signifies struggle (blood). It is not borrowed from HAUSAS or any other culture. What Hausas wear is not even red hats but oxblood hats.

Just accept that fact that Igbos borrow certain things from other places. I know you're cultural supremacist but Its not everything that Igbos have that evolved only from them. Look at the pitures

So you can see that everyone has mingled and taken an aspect of someone else's culture even if its unknowingly, some yorubas will stop wearing agbadas if they know its origin is Arab, lol
Language, religion, dress, food, other aspects of culture.

The British took just about half of their words from Latin. The British aren't Latin, the were enslaved by Latin speaking Romans. English and Latin aren't even in the same language group technically speaking. Try not being too hard on yourself. We have to mingle to survive, not everything has to be of your making. We always borrow. Its not as black and white as "mental slavery" as some are alluding to.

Then

The Arab to the North African Arab/berber to the Hausa to the Yoruba.

Honestly, if we want to go down this road of who and who have been colonized, its a slippery slope argument. You can say Japanese people have their own religion and their own names but then you have to ask why they dress like Europeans. Thats also part of colonization, the adoption in a wholesale fashion of someone else's culture or aspects of their culture because it implies that at some point in time, you felt what you had was not good enough so you either willingly adopted someone else's or you were sort of forced to by colonialism, everybody is a victim of colonization one way or the other.
Why do Iranians who are Persians wear western/European clothes? Why do Nigerians wear arab clothes? coz the agabda, babban riga and Kaftan are all arab. Those red hats that Igbo chiefs wear are Turkish passed through Arabs and Hausa people to the Igbos! Goodluck Jonathan whole attire is foreign, his hat English, his clothes, if you trace the origins (the trousers and knee length gown) are attires that came from south west Asia. But its obviously been modified.

@poster. I don't see the need of asking this question. The fact is names come with either religion or colonization/ political-cultural influence or need for assimilation. Haven't you see Chinese people with English names, go to Hong Kong or the Chinese that live in America or the west in general. Go to Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, most of the "stan" countries, Brunei, Iran (persians), Turkey (they're not arab), Albania and so on. You'll see that they mostly have Arabic names due solely to Islam, a religion of about 1.2 billion people. So its not peculiar to Nigeria or Africa. The europeans have a lot of names that come from hebrew/aramaic and general semitic origin, they anglicized most like Joshua from Yeshua etc. So europeans got the names from semites and passed it onto to Africans. If a people subscribes to any of the Abrahamic faiths then they'll have the same names like Moshe for Jews, Moses for xtians, Musa for Muslims. Those 3 are the same names. If you have indigenous beliefs as in parts of India and Japan then you're likely to have your own names. Actually, you have to praise Africans because they adopted the Abrahamic faiths and still kept their names, you cant say that for most others. Just go to Pakistan and see whether its easy to find Urdu or Pashtun names.

excanny:



The bolded are still Arabic names.

Larai and Turai are an Hausanized form of the Arabic names Balarabe and Thurayya

Not true, larai is a hausa name, balarabe as in balarabe musa means "arab" in hausa, the female version of that is balarabiya, and there are women with that name in Nigeria. The Hausanized version of Thurayya is Surayya not Turai. Turai means you were born in a foreign land. Thats why a white person is called "bature" meaning foreigner. Bello is a hausa name, so is dalhatu, sarki, tafida, tukur, lamido, badamasi, gambo, tanko, mairo, dogara, dikko and many more.

IBB gave him the money to buy his 1990 ferrari that he so much loves! its red abi, i see it around abuja!

nairaland has officially become a northern bashing site. Its sad because 99% of you bash northerners on here and hardly do northerners defend themselves. So you're basically talking to each other like i.diots.

http://www.dailytrust.dailytrust.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3964:listen-to-henry-okahs-interview-with-aljazeera&catid=27:breaking
news

orbaxy:

Sometimes you manufacture evidences to nail a culprit,  sometimes you create a little "evil" to avert a huge ONE

A CULPRIT is guilty, because we KNOW it,  all we need is a reason whether existent or imagined.

If he's indeed evil like you say and has committed all these crimes, then why not prosecute him for the alleged crimes instead of fabricating evidence and conspiring against him in a really dirty way. If goodluck is now fabricating evidence to rope his political opponents into some phantom charge, how is he different from abacha or any other evil dictator? What can we expect from him in the future in terms of intimidation of political opponents
Good thing is IBB cant be pushed around by Jonathan.

Moonstone:

If you take into account the increasing desertification of the Northern area, you would know that very soon everything is moving down south, thanks to global warming. Sahara is spreading faster than it is contracting. Besides, we can always get food from them no matter what or else, how are they going to build their economy?

Fool, only about 3% of total land mass of northern Nigeria is "desertified" since you are no scientist, leave the desertification/global warming issues to the experts who know what they're talking about.

how about sani abacha's dashing looks

Buhari- handsome fulani general

so guess only the presidents from the north are fine.

lol