₦airaland Forum

engrchykae:
what is your problem?my mother speaks yoruba and hausa while my dad speaks hausa.
My people in southwest do hear and speak yoruba very well.
But ur people despise other people's languages,not ready to learn other nigerians language or leave their enclave the way hausa and igbos migrate to other parts of nigeria.
Think on this.

Are you for real? Which part of Nigeria have you been to that you didn't come across a Yoruba man or woman?

prettyeyo:
And what do we minorities learn to speak?? Minorities from South South? Besides i don't think Yoruba should be a compulsory language. What they should do instead is let them choose out of igbo ,hausa or Yoruba.we called it Nigerian languages in unity schools. You choose one.

It's a state government initiative and will only apply to schools under the jurisdiction of the state government.

HardMirror:
How dare you call our prophet a low budget actor?
He is the best in the industry and one of the richest. Let's promote our own.

"Patronise naija to grow the naira." Lol.

phemmie06:
Look at you who is more shallow, I don't want to use a foul language for you but come to think of this who is the statement by your honorable minister of masquerade meant for the employed or non employed people, if it's for the employed he should not bother, let him create job for the non employed people

And this comment of yours makes sense to you?

phemmie06:
See wetin politics and sentiment don turn people to. Event management manager will not sit in a spot likewise MCs, even at the course of the event they can get another job. But will you offer Agege masquerade invitation to perform in your wedding or naming ceremony

And what makes you think those dressing masquerades will stick to only a masquerade. Are you this shallow?

urahara:
MY FADA MY FADA,

ANY FOUL SPIRIT OF DELAY IN TELLING LIFE STORIES, IN THE BODY OF HARD MIRROW, I COMMAND YOU TO DIE BY FIRE , DIE , DIE , DIE , FALL DOWN AND DIE IN JESUS NAME!!!!!!!

Haaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy-Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeehn!!!!!!!!

earthrealm:
#as copied

One day a local evangelist bragged during a crusade that his God was more able than all the other gods in the town and the powers of the universe that the villagers worshiped put together. Just then, rainstorm sounds started sounding overhead, threatening the progress of the crusade. The evangelist lifted up his voice and declared with confidence that if the rains fell, then he wasn't a man of God; he would stop preaching!
Before he could finish his bluff, the rains began to hit the crusade grounds so vehemently, apparently in disregard to his declarations. The whole town left the crusade grounds to their houses, shaking their heads in disappointment and dismay.
The evangelist, so distraught and angry, packed his belongings and left the town the next day. On his way through the next town, he checked into a local drinking spot and drank himself to stupor. As he laid on the ground cursing God, an old seedy looking man tapped him gently on the shoulder.

"Man of God", the old man began. But the evangelist quickly cut in, "don't mention the name of God to me. He is fake. He is unreliable. I am no longer a believer in this God. A God who chooses to disgrace his servants. Leave me alone!"
But the old man would not let him be. He continued,"I am the fetish priest in the village you just preached at. During your one week stay in that village, you destroyed all the charms i had made on the people for 45 years. Your prayers and your words always came with some fearful fire and power. I tried so many times to eliminate you but i couldn't. My last chance came yesterday. I had loaded my gun with gun powder lying wait on the mountaintop where i had a very clear view of you. My plan was to shoot you from a distance since i couldn't get close enough to you due to the fire around you. But just when i lifted the gun, the rains came from nowhere, wetting my gunpowder and covering you in a cloud so that i couldn't even see you. All i saw was a bright man holding a sword in front of you. I was so terrified. I concluded that your God was indeed all powerful and Almighty. That is why i've been looking for you since then. I want to follow this your God!"
The ex-evangelist bowed his head in shame!

Dear friends, sometimes, it is just wise for us to believe that our Father knows the way He is taking us. We should just trust His leading. Let our boast be in the Lord, not in ourselves. If we decree a thing and it doesn't happen, let us not see it as disappointment or dishonor from the Father. Let us just believe that the Father wants his perfect will to be done in all things.

You sound like one of those who believe that J.K. Rowling is a witch and Harry Potter is a true life story.

How come the bright man the fetish priest saw was carrying a sword and not a machine gun? Swords are no longer fashionable as weapons of war, you know?

Hahahaha... This man is one hell of a joker. So we should stop blaming PDP for Nigeria's woes but he is free to blame his own predecessor for his inability to pay workers in his state their salaries. He owes four months now, I gather.

phemmie06:
I wonder why some people are brainwashed. cos they belong to a party. Farming is seasonal but not that there won't be a source of living for the farmers. Poultry farming is seasonal but that doesn't mean that no one will buy poultry products after the seasonal period

Let's take those that are in events mgt for example, they are only fully occupied when they have an event to cater for. Same goes for a civil engineer, MCs, etc. So stop your one-way thinking and look at everything holistically. And what makes you think I belong to a party? People like you who only see things from the party angle contribute greatly to Nigeria's perpetually swim in the waters of underdevelopment.

phemmie06:
Hmmmmmmmm seasonal employment, seasonal income and after that starvation set in. Good idea abi.
Anyone supporting him should resign from his or her present work and show others how to do it.

Oga, even farming can be a seasonal occupation. There ain't nothing wrong with it.

Onegai:
You cannot plan tourism without safety and infrastructure. So I'll be in a village in Enugu, taking pictures of dancing masquerades and Fulani Herdsmen attack. Or I'll fly into Benin City with my family to watch a festival and guess what, chronic fuel scarcity, my budget cannot cover the new hikes prices of transport. The only state that can reasonably do festivals is Lagos state because they use public holidays to provide free buses for people to watch them and it's relatively safe. South American countries with a high crime rate make sure they keep it down during events where tourists come or they isolate the tourist areas (example: Mexico, horrendous crime and corruption rate and a bustling tourist centre far from the crime-ridden cities). Nigeria doesn't have that yet.

You are very correct and even Mr Mohammed alluded to same with his submission that what Nigeria has are tourist sites and not tourist attraction centres, and he went on to give the examples of tourists having to bribe immigration officials at the airport and insecurity as challenges.

Lere Olayinka will be effective in that role, I think.

compoundcc:
[size=28pt]Mimiko is not the problem.

Ondo problem started many years ago, when it did wrong and until they correct that mistake, it will never develop. Some people need to accept the truth about government.

How government is rule all over the world.

Mimiko tried. But until that mistake is corrected. Not will change. If

Lagos benefited from the mistake . and this is why lagos is the most developed. Until that mistake is corrected lagos will continue to benefit from that mistake. It takes an individual to make sacrifice for his people.
Mimiko is not the problem.

Do you know there is a place call fagbo. Until the mistake is corrected, lagos will continue to benefit what Ondo lost.

Until the masquerade is reinstall back to Ondo, Ondo will never progress Because this is how government is run all over the world.

So anyone blaming mimiko does not know the history of the masquerade which moved to Ibadan and then to lagos. Because some people have to make personal sacrifices.


Alafin of oyo went all the way to look for the masquerade in London to install in oyo town. That shows you how important the masquerade is. Others obas search for the masquerade to install the masquerade in their town.

So Ondo most count it's lost.





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Masquerades? Seriously!? So the way to development is to install masquerade in a locality? Will wonders never cease!?

Nigerians and our attitude sha. There is nothing wrong with what Mr Mohammed said. He is only talking about the potentials of the country in terms of tourism. I must admit that the masquerade example he gave is quite funny, but then we can't throw away the baby with the water. And if the masquerades turn into big business, those dressing them will surely get paid for their troubles. Seasonal employment, yes, but employment all the same.

opeaceo:
Hahn, ghost01, someone needs your help.

Lol. The word the OP is looking for is 'atheist'.

chubbyswit:
Lolz c them frustrated atheists calling me chidish, illiterate, daft, etc. All it'll take God is just a flip of his thumbs and you guys'll seize to exist, then maybe ur spirit man'll get to see all the answers you seek, but the worst part of it is, you'll regret your decisions for eternity. Choice has been given 2 everybody, use it wisely

Flip of his thumb? And how many times have you seen that happen?

Sorry, OP. BTW, 'love' is an overabused word.

blackjack21:
why would he want to attack the wall?

He believes Sansa is heading there. Rewatch the scene where he killed his father again and follow the dialogue that ensued there.

No one is saying the Fulanis should be ashamed of their heritage. We all have ours. But they shouldn't use their own heritage to destroy ours. If you must herd your cattles about, keep them confined to your locality. There is freedom of movement for the human being, but such does not extend to cattles. Heck, in some areas in some cities here in Nigeria, not even goats are allowed to roam.

Akanniade:
He will self destruct eventually.

His self-destruction has begun already; he is in for a shock. He believes now that The Wall is peopled by cooks, old men and the likes and, as such, is planning to attack. The next episode should be interesting.

opeaceo:
and why did Jesus "stop" the stoning of the adulterous woman since the Bible is the unchanging word of God?

So are you saying the Bible is not the unchangeable word of god? Or are you saying Jesus (whom I know you xtians believe to be God) wasn't part of the god(s) who gave the initial laws? Or are you saying that contrary to the popular thought, the xtian God is an evolutionary being too?

opeaceo:
muhehehehehe, am I sleep typing?? You referred to this age, and I said don't confuse it with traditions and you quoted Deuteronomy??

Slaying of non virgins in this age, have you experienced it before?? No associations with unbelievers, have you experienced it??

Hahahahahaha... Stop trying to sound naive because you are not doing a good job at it. When did the traditions upon which christianity is built become divorced from the beliefs which xtians propagate? And unless you're trying to be clever by half, you'd notice that the contents on the cited verses emanated directly from the xtian god himself - the one whom you xtians like to claim is the same yesterday, today and forever.

As for dissociation, it's actually common in xtian sermons and practices these days. Many xtian parents do not allow their wards to associated with some other kids or families on the basis of religion - even denominations within xtianity itself at times. And it is also common for preachers to preach that xtians shouldn't enter into a spousal relationship with non-xtians - I've heard this many times (Some even insist on intra-church relationships and go further to initiate such themselves.

So leave matter for Mathias.

Ranchhoddas:
lifted from Richard Dawkins' 'The God Deluson'

Yes boss.

opeaceo:
Holy Smokes!! Calm down, read again, digest, think, then respond.

What's there to digest? You wan play Maradona with this one, ko? We ain't no swallow-swallow people o.

opeaceo:
The murder of non virgin brides?? Where?? and please don't confuse it with traditions.
Dissociate how? not talking to them? not having conversations with them? expound please

Don't wanna derail the thread; refer to Deuteronomy 22: 13-21.

opeaceo:
and how are they harmful to you or the society or themselves??

Xtianity encourages honour killings, the gruesome murder of non-virgin brides, believers dissociating themselves from unbelievers, etc. In this age, those doctrines/teachings/practices are toxic.

HardMirror:
Not the fault of God, but the people that created him

True.

HardMirror:
Am I implying that Insincerity, selfishness and ignorance is what is keeping Christians as christians.
The answer is a BIG YES!
The moment I began asking god the questions such as the one in my last post, that very moment I began to discover the falsehood of christianity.
If you are sincere and truely concerned about your fellow man, you realize god is more wicked, stupid and incapable than the presumed devil.

"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."

Like that, ko?

beejaay:
I dont get bothered by Religion ish again.its damn too boring..i just leave its adherents to their ignorance..whether they like it or not evolution of mind will catchup with them,if not them directly definitely their generations..@op ur own evolution has simply come, so rejoice in ur new found eureka,however u should no that at the end of the day, it all doesnt mean shit so pls dont look down on others with ur new found wisdom.remember we are all here on earth passing time to die since d very day we were all born(everything between birth and death is just an amusement,a sport or hobby u call it)

The last sentence in your comment reminds me of these lines in Colleen McCullogh's The First Man In Rome:

"What was life except the procreation principle and what was death save its extinction? All else are decorations - the furbelows men invented to convince themselves life and death must mean more."

I had decided to leave the believers and their beliefs too but sometimes one just has to say something, and as such I've decided to devote the whole of this week to "teaching" the bible on FB. Some of their doctrines are so toxic they are harmful to the rest of society, and not just themselves.

Lovely. Shame on those who claim that in all African cultures, women play second fiddle to their male counterparts.

OP, wetin concern Yoruba concern not wanting Delta Igbos to identify with their kinsmen again? You guys are always looking for what isn't there. That's like saying the Yorubas in Kwara, Kogi or Benin Republic should deny their Yoruba-ness on the ground that the geo-political space in which they are domiciled is different from that of the majority of their kins.