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PoliticsRe: Iwhurohna Chiefs Issue A Communique Of Their Relationship With The Igbos. by Grossmanb(m): 2:13pm On Nov 04, 2025
Igbo or no Igbo we are still Igbo. Period
EducationRe: Largest City In Northen Nigeria by Grossmanb(op): 8:04pm On Jul 06, 2023
abufadllullah:
Kano city!
The whole Kano city not Kano state, is almost twice of osogbo town!😔
EducationRe: Different Types Of Students You Will Meet In An Exam Hall (meme Collection) by Grossmanb(m): 8:00pm On Jul 06, 2023
I dey number 10 and 13 na we get am 😜😁😂
EducationRe: Largest City In Northen Nigeria by Grossmanb(op): 9:49am On Jul 02, 2023
Oracleee:
Na Croc City o..... Kaduna of life.
Just dey play......dey play 😝😜 grin
EducationRe: Largest City In Northen Nigeria by Grossmanb(op): 8:21am On Jul 02, 2023
OloYeOfEgbE:
Ask them
Na person wey dey under pressure you wan ask question? 😁😁😁
EducationRe: Largest City In Northen Nigeria by Grossmanb(op): 8:20am On Jul 02, 2023
ImmaculateJOE:
Kano City
Kaduna City
Jos City
Abuja City
Zaria City
Maiduguri
Maralaba (Nasarawa)
Yola
Your list I think 🤔
EducationRe: Largest City In Northen Nigeria by Grossmanb(op):
Mrsoft3:
Between Kano and kaduna
Yeah I go with this, but what about the city of jos?
EducationRe: Largest City In Northen Nigeria by Grossmanb(op): 11:22am On Jul 01, 2023
EducationLargest City In Northen Nigeria by Grossmanb(op): 10:59am On Jul 01, 2023
Please I am still trying to know which is the biggest And largest city in northern Nigeria?
EducationRe: A 2:2 In These Universities May Equal 2:1 Or First Class Of Other Universities by Grossmanb(m): 8:21pm On Jun 27, 2023
MrHenshaw:
18 and 19 confirmes your list authentic.
It the truth [university of agriculture, umudike] is another hell in earth 😳 grin
EducationRe: If You Can Pronounce This Whole Poem, You Speak English Better Than 90% Of Us by Grossmanb(m): 7:38am On Jun 24, 2023
alexasomba:
The poem below is a condensed version of 'The Chaos' by Gerard Nolst Trenité , written in 1922.
It features a ridiculous number of words that are difficult to pronounce, so don't feel bad if you have to refer to a dictionary. I certainly did!

If you fancy yourself something of a professional linguist, then this challenge is for you. English is notoriously difficult to learn, as the language has so many exceptions to the rules. Even for a native English speaker, this poem presents quite a few challenges! Check it out and see how you fare. If you can pronounce all of the words, you speak English better than 90% of the population.

Here we go!

Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.

Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it's written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.

Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.

Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation's OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.

Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.

Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.

Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.

Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.

Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.

Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.

Pronunciation -- think of Psyche!
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won't it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It's a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.

Finally, which rhymes with enough --
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!
I tried but not all I pronounced
EducationRe: Best University In Nigeria To Study Mechanical Engineering by Grossmanb(m): 10:30am On Apr 30, 2023
insperyadyou:
Go for Civil. Mech Engine and Architect are also very good
why not you try ATBU
EducationRe: Can Do A Masters In Electrical And Electronics Engr. With A Bsc. In Mathematics? by Grossmanb(m): 9:00am On Apr 09, 2023
Grossmanb:
I don't know ooo
I don't know ooo
EducationRe: Can Do A Masters In Electrical And Electronics Engr. With A Bsc. In Mathematics? by Grossmanb(m): 8:57am On Apr 09, 2023
Mywd:
You studied electrical engineering too??

Thats what im studying
Just go get a form no dey worry urseff
EntertainmentRe: Arewa Youths Scatter Dance Floor While Singing To Joeboy’s Alcohol by Grossmanb(m): 11:10pm On Apr 08, 2023
This one no concern me. I just dey wonder which kind hunger catch the person that discovered bitterleaf soup😞🥺

Please if you know anybody who wants to sell his or her car, any mlllodel & any colour, with AC and you are sure it's in perfect working condition & valid papers, with price around 2.5 or 3 million, as long as the engine is not weak yet. Pls let the person sell it, it's none of my business 😊

When I’m drunk I’m very alert when crossing the road. I look left and right for cars and bikes. Then I look up for aero
Planes and down for bombs, then I look back for kidnappers and then I hold my beer tight and start walking in zigzag to avoid bullets😂😂
EducationRe: FUTA Final Year Students Storm School In A Grand Style (Photos) by Grossmanb(m): 11:05pm On Apr 08, 2023
fowowea1:
The Federal University of Technology Akure final year students are currently doing their final year week. The week will usher them to their final exam. They all came out to represent their alma matter.
Omo see difference here
No reason am ooo
EducationRe: University Of Abuja Students Beat Lecturer After Exams (Video) by Grossmanb(m): 10:59pm On Apr 08, 2023
grin Who no know go know grin grin grin
this one na uncle ojo the mathematics teacher grin grin grin
PoliticsRe: Soludo Celebrates 30 Years Wedding Anniversary by Grossmanb(m): 7:49am On Apr 02, 2023
The best Universities in Nigeria

1. University of Ibadan
2. University of Nigeria, nnsuka
3. Obafemi awolowo university, ife
4. Ahmedu bello University, zaria
5. University of Benin
6. Federal university of technology, owerri
7. University of port Harcourt
8. University of agriculture, Abeokuta
9. Michael okpara university of agriculture, Umudike
10. Nnamdi azikiwe university, awka
11. University of ilorin
12. Federal university of technology, minna
PoliticsRe: Soludo Celebrates 30 Years Wedding Anniversary by Grossmanb(m): 8:25am On Dec 28, 2022
Soludo my soludo the betrayal��� cool

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