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HELL NO. The police are not our friends especially Naija police officers.

Go stay in victoria Island in Abuja. I heard it's just as beautiful as Abuja; Also as Safe as Abuja but a lot cheaper.
Evne Calabar, i heard Calabar is beautiful also.

If you have a Good job in Nigeria. Stay in Nigeria.
I've seen numerous Africans that had good jobs in their country but when they relocate aboard they just end up doing some idiotic jobs just to survive.
I know a Nigerian that was a Bank Manger in Nigeria. Left Nigeria, Sold everything he owned in Naija just to relocate to America and being a Taxi driver (just sad).

Oga if YOU HAVE A GOOD JOB IN NIGERIA; STAY IN NIGERIA

That's my advice to you.

I've went to Accra in 2007

If you compare it to Lagos then yeah Accra wins big time (No lie). If you compare it to Victoria Island; i think they are in the same level but when you compare it to Abuja, Abuja Wins.
Accra is the main city in Ghana and Abuja is the main city in Nigeria. People always tend to ignore Abuja and focus on Lagos (Yes, Lagos is one of THE WORST CITY in the freaking world) but it's getting better.
They have light none-stop. Something Nepa needs to do for Nigerians but for Criminals; i wouldn't say Ghana is a safe country; maybe the area i stayed in was not Safe. I still had to follow the same procedure i did in Naija when i was in Ghana.
I'll say Accra is a great city but not all Ghana is like Accra. Just like how Abuja is a great city esepcially now that they fixed it up but when you compare Abuja to any other city in Nigeria, you wouldn't believe how better Abuja is. I guess it depends. The part i stayed in wasn't as great as what the poster described but it was still GREAT.

luka1981:
an osu is somebody whose greatgrandparents were sold during the slave era

That's incorrect. It's different from what my mother told me.

The person asking what Osu means? If your Igbo, ask you parents; they'll explain it.

luka1981:
in some villages today it is very iportant u trace whether ur spouse is from slave or freeborn family, in ibo called osu,i want to know the general opinion about this nonsense started by our ancestor.

You've asked this question before and people answered it's too complicated, Noone really understand it.

But serious Note

Nigerians just don't know how to give an advice without insulting others.
I've some Nigerian do that. I know there intentions was meant to be Good but somehow instead of an advice it will turn to an insult.
Even some Nigerian parents do that.
I think that's our way of advicing others

NIGERIANS HAVE A PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEM.

WE'RE CRAZY.
NIGERIANS ARE CRAZY.

NOW THAT WE KNOW THE REASON, What can we do to stop?
Egusi Soup and Akpu will do just fine. Just eat it day and night, you'll see it soothes Nigerians down.
Have you ever noticed when a Nigerian (especailly Naija guys) are mad or angry and they yelling at you, as soon as they eat some pounded yam or Akpu with some soup. The anger melts down.
That's our remedy

Akpu with a Egusi soup that's the only way to stop Nigerian crazy insults on other people.

*osisi:
did a  grown female really write this?
In northern Nigeria and some areas of cross river state,we have tons of young girls,some as young as 10 leaking feces and urine continuosly due to vvf,ostracised by soceity and the same white people you talk about have left the comforts of earning 6 figure incomes in the west to volunteer their resources to repair this ill brought on by child marriage and you call a campaign against it a waste of time?
Breast feeding you was a waste of time.
You need an education.

YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT THOSE CHILDREN. This to you, is how much you hate the North.
You and DeepZone have the same attitude.
Have you looked at all your recent topics and comments?
And by the way i'm 18 years old idiot AND I DO HAVE AN EDUCATION (I'm a freshman in college).

Out of curosity if the West really care about African children
Why the hell didn't they report about Pzier company using NIGERIAN children to test ILLEGAL drugs during a malaria epdemic in the North.
Almost all the kids in that drug-test died from that drug and the ones that suvived where left Brain dead from that drug testing.
That deserved a documentary too

I wonder child marriages or illegal drug test on children?  Which one is a better story?
If the West cares so much about how Nigerian children are.

Out of curoristy

Seun:
You have not accused her of anything tangible.  What exactly did Helen Okpabio say in the video?

A friend of mine read her book. According to my friend, Mrs. Ukapabio(or should i say the Evil woman) claimed that if a child breaks out in rashes and sweat in the middle of the night, that means the kid is a witch.  If my parents were as Paraonid as this Akwa-Ibom parents; i'll be in the same boat as those children.  i had rashes when i was a little girl. I'm actually thankful that i didn't grew up around those paronoid parents.
I hate how that mrs. Helen Ukapobia passedo ff her stupid belief to other people and the sad thing about it's this brain diease(mrs. Helen created) is.  Other African countries are starting to do this; Tufiakwa. I don't know who started but we need to stop it.

H2O2:
so ignorant. even the pathetic attempt to justify it didn't make sense.
it's okay because it's not just in the north? .

I said i don't like the thing but i still think it's a waste of time doing a video about it.
Jeez so just because i don't think like you guys when it comes to Child marriages so i'm ignorant.
Well Ignorant or not, i'll still think it's a waste of time. Thank You very much.

huxley:
By the way, I think your facts are not right. All peoples on the planet have practices racism, tribalism, xenophobia and sectarianism. For instance, look at the situation in Nigeria today with its wide diversity of tribal groups and the traditional hostility that exists amongst them. Was this introduced by Europeans? As a country today, civil governance it crippled by these racial and tribal problems.

Racism and Trabilism is different. Just like Sexism, Racism, and Trabilism are different things

Racism -- Hating someone from a different race started in Europe (by Europeans)

Trabilism -- Hating someone from a different tribe started in Africa (by Africans).

Trabilism was introduced to the whole world by i don't know Africans (seeing that we are the most trabilist contient in the world).

Racism was introduced to the whole world by Europeans.

Lets take South Africa and Zimbabwe for example (labeled one of the most racist nation in Africa).
When Europeans came to region we know as South Africa and Zimbabwe; the natives of those region welcomed them with an open hand. When Europeans tried to take over by killing the natives, what happened. The Natives started having a negative feelings towards european and started fighting and killing European (Hence the Zulu and Britian war).
After Apartheid in South Africa and White rules in Zimbabwe, the natives of both nation have a hateful feelings towards any one that isn't black.

Like i said before European spread Racism to the world.
Africans spread Trabilism to the world.

Racism and Trabilism is a form of discrimination (yes) but they are still 2 different things.

huxley:
Supposing your were pregnant and during your routine scan it was discovered that:

1) That the pregnancy posed a very high risk to your health.

2) That the feotus was severely deformed so as to not lead a "normal" life

3) The pregnancy was the result of a brutal and violent rape.


Doo you think abortion would be wise in any of the above situations?

For the first two. Then Yes Abortion is wise for those two.

For the last one, i'll Sympathies with the rape girl
Will i agree for the Abortion from that girl? No i wouldn't
Will i allow her to do it even though i'm against it? Yes I will

Do you even know how painful Abortion is for those fetus? Try having a lion chew at your head for 8 hours; multiply that pain 10 times that how painful abortion is for the fetus.

The First two is a Yes.
The Last one is a Yes and a No.

huxley:
Most human societies advance by culturally inter-relating with other societies. Cultural isolation only leads to stagnation in all forms of life. Many parts of Northern Africa have been open to waves of human movement from the Middle East and Europe for many centuries. As such, societies in these regions benefited from these cross-cultural fertilisation - Europeans, Arabs and Africans learning and developing together.

The African in these area would have learnt new ways of doing things and incorporated them into their cultures, as much as the Europeans and Arabs would have. The learning at Timbuktu was a case in point. It was probably establish by Africans who had been influenced by the Islamic cultures of regions further north, although there might have been a tradition of such formal learning prior to the Islamic influence. If there were any indegenous African form of formal learning (as in schools, etc) that fact may now be lost in history. So for all intend and purposes, it could be argued that the centre at Timbuktu was not traditionally African but arose out of the contact between African culture and Arabian cultures.

Do you know of any form of formal learning in traditional Nigerian society prior to the arrival of Europeans and Arabs?

I've been know that. Most Human societies advance after some culture crosses.

But there were Societies that advanced even withour cross-cultural fertilisation (For example: Chinese Philosophers).

Timbukutu like you said did have numerous of Islamic teaching.

As For Nigeria.

Igbo tribe of Nigeria had it's way of teaching students(young children mostly men) about ancient igbo Math called Mkpisi and Okwe.
Mkpisi and Okwe was used for counting, measurement and much more.
Igbo tribe also taught the men above Constellations
Which they used to farm (understanding the moon, sun, etc helped the Igbo farmers learn how mother nature will help them during the farming season).
It was a tiny small school (only made for men, not women).

Why did you think Igbo tribe of Nigeria was among the African tribe labeled to have civilization prior to colonization.
They had a banking system which they used Mkpisi to keep up with.
Settled their own law matters using mediator(something that was suppose to be invented by Ancient Greece) but yet Igbo tribe was also among the people labeled to pratice this act.
Most Igbo nation had quasi-democratic republican system except Ontisha, Nri Kingdom and Arochukwu which had Kings
Had Nri kingdom(a medival Nigerian state also one of the first medival cities in Nigeria)

You can learn about this in (Book)
Pre-colonial economic history of Nigeria


I'm not sure but i also think Yoruba's had a teaching. I know they were also labeled a African tribe with a civilzation prior to colonization.
Haven't studied about Yoruba's yet though so i'm not sure about that.

huxley:
This is called the Argument from Tradition and is notoriously a bad argument. On this basis, you could argue for the

1) Inter-tribal hostility and conflicts as most African tribes have had hostile relations with their neighbours for millenia

2) Slavery and the selling of children and captured war victims into slavery.

3) The abandonment of twins in forest to be eaten by wild animals

3) Various forms of bodily mutilations and scarifications

4) Systematic illiteracy and no education as many African village never had a system of formal education before the arrival of Europeans and systematically opposed sending their children to the few school that were created by the Europeans

5) Human sacrifices and cannibalism


6) etc, etc, etc.


Next time you are inclined to make an Argument from Tradition, have the above in mind.

Okay your talking about African history that WE ALL KNOW IS BAD

Let ask you something (Should Africans follow this Europeans tradition/ ways also)

1.) Racism was started by Europeans (which is still being done by Europeans)

2.) Testing illegal drugs on poorer nations children

3.) Supporting War's just for cheaper Natural resources.

4.) Bombing other nations

5.) Supporting dicators just for cheaper Natural resources,

6.) etc

There are some Shit Europeans are doing, that Africans aren't doing because we believe it's wrong right?

Okay, we believe having a child before you married is a bad thing; Westerners have no problem with that.
Having Abortion
Illegal in Nigeria. Westerners have been calling us names just because we believe hate Abortion

And Abortion is a eqvialent to number 2 on your list.
I had to do a research on it and the way those children are killed and the pain behind is basically the same kind of pain a child will recieve when a lion eat him/her.

Don't get me wrong; I hate child marriages but like i said before it's a waste of time reporting about that.
Cause you know damn well our government will not do anything to stop it.

And by the way about the illiteracy. you really need to learn African history before saying that.
Africans parents refused for their children to learn ABOUT EUROPEAN HISTORY OR WAY OF LIFE but parents thought their children African history and the way of life.
Your basically using the same logic Europeans are using to condemn Timbuktu
Ever heard of it?
It's an ancient African library and university in Mali. Had many philosophers that studied day and night about everything, the only reason Europeans condemn Timbuktu philosophers is because the philosophers studied things the Islamic way. And the philosophers refused to study or learn anything about European.
Your basically using the same logic europeans use (If it isn't about Europeans teaching then it's not a real education right?)

I condemn Child marriages but like i said before it's still a waste of time doing it unless the kid was forced into that marriage (by all means report that i'll love to learn about that). If a kid wasn't forced into it but is complaining about her marriage (Again report that, i'll love to hear about it) but if a kid isn't complaining and wasn't forced to marry some old guy (then that's not something to report right?)

I guess we should also report Nigerian men doing polygamy (When is that going to be on CNN or BBC or whatever).

One thing i don't get

Isn't child marriages something thats been in Africa since the beginning of time?

I mean i don't condone it but isn't Child Marriage an African tradition?

I know how much we all love to insult Sharia law(i do too) but they didn't start this, its something that's been in our nation since the beginning of time.
Our ancestors praticed that and they never saw it as a bad thing, we see it as a bad thing now because white people see it as a bad thing.

The Child witches was a Good story and something Nigerians needed to see for us to stop
but this Child marriage is just a waste of time cause i bet you this is not just in the North; if you go anywhere in the South to any village (not the city but villages), you'll see a grownass man married to a child.
Unless that kid was dragged and forced to marry that man then by all mean report that but if she wasn't forced to marry him then what does it matter.

A better story is how a grown ass woman marries a man just because her parents forced her to do so(something that seems to happening in Africa(not just in Nigeria)). That's a better story.

Moyola:
in d world?!

Yea girl. Forbes labeled him the richest Black man in the world but not the richest man in the world.

KarmaMod:
Your Ethiopian friend is a homosexual, Ify.

Gurl, No he ain't. His the biggest homophobic boy i've ever seen in my life. Trust me.
Don't know why he doesn't like her, he thinks Jessica Alba is sexy but for some reason he thinks Adriana is ugly.
To me Adriana is prettier than Jessica

pictures i got about Abia

And this website shows the new development of Abia state

http://abiadevelopmentaward.org/Development.htm