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Smoothie01:
1) The presence of any other band was not emphasised as it may defeat the aim of the writer, so direct ur curiosity to the writer.

2)Was he invited as a band to perform or just a guest??not stated in the piece

3) why would the bride wanna do that, why then do we have MCs, event planners and the likes.

4) You cant just try to complete the story to suit your narrative....nah!

Smoothie01:
No where in the op was it stated that the band was hired by the couple.....What I deduced was that "he came to celebrate with his sister in the Lord"...probably to serve as a gift.....If he was indeed invited, then my bad

0m0nnakoda:
My mother will cough to death.

0m0nnakoda:
My mother will cough to death.

0m0nnakoda:
She will cough and die in agony baskadd

0m0nnakoda:
Woof Woof !! She will die

0m0nnakoda:
Your mother will bark till she dies.She will die barking

laudate:
It sounds funny, right? I mean why would an Igbo celebrant decide to engage a live band playing only 'juju music, and the MC then decides to send them packing? Or didn't the person who hired them discuss the kind of songs he wanted them to play, before asking them to start dishing out the songs?

0m0nnakoda:
Omo ti o ba gbon ni ile ita lo ma ti ko. To ba di ijo miran so fun iya re oni warapa ko ye ma be bi oya ko ma da si oro oloro. Mo daju pe ai won ku ire ti pade ko ni gba l'abo temi eleribu afori

AlhajiAbdul:
Yorubas are the most duplicitous people on the face of the earth.
Will Yorubas allow Ogene music in their events ?
Has any Yoruba man ever invited Morocco Maduka to play at his event ?
Can any Yoruba man stand the sight of Ozoemena Nsugbe playing at a Yoruba wedding ?

I will consider it particularly offensive if a DJ tries to play Juju or Fuji music at an Igbo wedding. He is probably trying to impose his tastes on the guests or simply trying to ridicule them. Lamidi Adeyemi, despite his love for Oliver de Coque's Ogene Highlife, never invited him to play at Yoruba functions.

Head-slamming accommodating criminals.

Obi1kenobi:
Stop deluding yourselves with these tiresome myths about your peculiar "accommodation" and "inclusiveness" and "tolerance". It's getting exhausting. I've lived in Lagos all life and met plenty of hostile Yorubas who have bigoted opinions about Igbos. You don't "celebrate the culture" of other Nigerians more than Igbos do. Stop ascribing phony, non-existent virtues to yourself. Igbos "see tribe" as much as Yorubas and other humans see tribe. Yorubas see "where you're from in your own region" as much as Igbos do. Ife and Modakeke people weren't slaughtering each other out of their detribalized love for each other and Ijebus and Egbas haven't had long feuds in the past out of your fantasy harmony. Some of us read the news and live in this country and we can see the myths you peddle for what it is.

0m0nnakoda:
Your epileptic mother na nuisance,.Go strangle her so you go free baskadd

Smoothie01:
I av never seen an Igbo life band perform in a Yoruba wedding and vice versa. This story is just a distraction and sadly achieving its aim.

Although, the MC was quite brash in his approach, he could av dismissed them in a less embarrassing way or simply gave them a card indicating that they av just a few minutes to perform.....I mean, the guests mustn't be kept bored for long, right?

0m0nnakoda:
Who you be ? Guy no provoke me I take God beg you/. Must you quote me? You no fit read and shut up ??

0m0nnakoda:
I cannot say NEVER but Yoruba willl almost never do that . We are way too "cowardly" and so would rather suffer in silence unlike our brave neighbours

meccuno:
but why would a DJ with common sense be playing juju music in a crowd of igbo people? people should respect others for heavens sake. have u ever seen a yoruba gathering where osadebe is played? people should stop raising unnecessary dust

CrtlAltDel:
Yes Ipig.… u wanna play
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deomelo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpB6c_lM9uY


Stop lying to yourself, Kanu just a few days ago in one of his rallies promised to travel to Abuja to cut off Buhari's/The president's head and there are countless videos and recordings of his speeches and utterances promising to burn Nigeria to thew ground.

Keep the lies and unintelligent ipobic tales to yourself.

wristbangle:
The suffering of Nigeria is majorly on the masses. There are only two citizens in this country ( The elites and the masses). Ask yourself why the SE legislatures/elites/etc are not audible to speak against the recent unrest in SE region except yesterday when they reluctantly give a shabby comment on it.

It's not as if there are good roads, good electricity, etc in Nigeria but not in SE.

Madam forget the thing whey u just yan. The only thing I am against is the injustice done by the northerners in terms of job recruitment. All the FG parastatals, na dem full am. If u had spoken on this, I would have said, YES we can fold our hands and watch this thing to continue.

Not as if during the past administration when Igbos dominated the cabin, they transformed SE region to london

paiz:
I am an Igbo but not a supporter of nnamdi kanu, but the hatred from the govt towards igbos is too much.
I dont know you but i know you will be good in bed

deomeelo:
Please name the Tinubu projects and also include the date Tinibu awarded the projects. This is what you should have done.




In your initial post, you said I shouldn't judge based on Fashola's 8 years, but after posting Fashola's completed projects within his first 2 years, you replied by shifting and claiming that Fashola commissioned Tinubu's projects in his first 2 years. That was pole shifting simply because I proved you wrong.




Fashola built power plants in his first 2 years and built 4 or 5 in total, how many have Ambode built in his first 2 years?
And Fashola built bridges in his first 2 years and he also built still the best bridge in Nigeria so what's your point?



What 4 new rice mill? Where are they located? Who commissioned them?
Ambode only signed an agreement with a swiss firm to build rice mill in Lagos so come back with that when it's built and commissioned.

The Only rice mill in Lagos was built and commissioned by Fashola in 2011 in Imota, Ikorodu after his first 3 years in office.





Come back with all that when they are built and commissioned.


You can not change facts and documented achievements. It's on record that Fashola commissioned more projects in 1 month than Ambode's 2 whole years and even more than what many other governors commissioned in their 8 years in office.

PapaBrowne:
Well, I don't know about that.
Fashola operated in a time of surplus and didn't build as much core infrastructure in 8 years as Ambode who is operating in a time of scarity has built in just 2 years.

Worse still, Fashola's performance at the federal level is as terrible as terror can get!

SalamRushdie:
He is actually right but I think the Journalist got his message wrong , he is saying not more 50 naira would would have been taken off the value of Naira if Jonathan had continued and that so true .

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