₦airaland Forum

Omenani:
I have pondered the same question as well. However, keep in mind that in North America, the type of slavery that was practiced, was very different from the slavery practiced in Latin America, Caribbean and South America. Even though the systems were similar, you had different ways in how they were incorporated. Plus, the demographic factor played a part as well.

In the Caribbean, you had a small white planter class lording over the majority black slaves. These black slaves interacted with each other at greater rates and were able to keep many aspects of their culture. Plus, the whites in the Caribbean and Brazil did not try to suppress the culture as vigorously as the whites in North America did.

Remember that white slave masters requested that there slaves be a mix from different regions from Africa. How can an African keep his culture, if he doesn't have no one who knows his tradition or language? In Cuba and in Brazil, you had plantations in which one major ethnic group from Africa was the predominant culture of the plantation. They could continue speaking their language and practicing their culture.

klas:
This is what section 249d of Criminal Code says

d) every person who, in any public place, conducts himself in a manner likely to cause a breach of the peace, shall be deemed idle and disorderly persons, and may be arrested without warrant, and shall be guilty of a simple offence, and shall be liable to imprisonment for one month.

kabukabu50:
Yet another reason why nigeria is a failure

You cant cite privacy when you are a public official

Politicians/Policemen/Law Enforcement have ZERO privacy because we the taxpayers, pay their salaries.

This  case is particulary dangerous because the officers were armed and could have killed themsleves or someone, common sense should prevail in this matter but it WONT because Nigerian courts have nothing better to do but take bribes,hold innocent people in jail and let muderers and political thugs go scot free.

Cheers at 50 years of independence, bondage

Failures.

safariman:
Simple, the law needs to change and we shouldn't be comparing taking pictures of a simple common person on the streets with that of the police.  If the law is changed and allow pics of the illegal checkpoints, taking N20 bribes etc, the police may change their ways

tensor777:
Who are you exactly that you're taking her comments so personally. She has a right to her opinion and she is totally correct in this instance.
The guy as a Law graduate should have known better not to commit this rather obvious misdemeanor.

logica:
See this hater more concerned about status. What was the awful act and what is his status you are talking about?

ohaechesi:
I'm not here to support the Nigerian police but their decision of taken the guy to court serves him right. If he had gotten away with such an awful act, other Nigerians will imitate him and that doesn't sound good for a law abiding citizen irrespective of his status.

udezue:
He exposed their barbarism and that is a crime?

U Nigerians on NL are complete morons. The guy saw a fight ensuing btwn officers who should be working not exchanging blows over whatever and somehow he is the villain? Nigerians and their 3rd world mentality. Thats why una go remain backward coz you cant think and be rational. You should calling for the resignation of the mad policemen who put the lives of so many people at-risk while fighting with their guns still hanging on them not the student.

birdman:
I didn't ask if there was a glass ceiling, I KNOW there is a glass ceiling. Its not like its a bed of roses for women, but with all these generalizations, you'd think all men are having a ball, cheating all the way and all women are just passive, submissive at the receiving end of the abuse. If you'd posted the above initially, there would be nothing to argue about.

birdman:
Generalizing is lazy. Most naija men would chuckle bitterly if someone told them society was "bending over backwards" for them. And there are tons of women at the top in every sphere of Nigerian life. Is there a glass ceiling? Sure. But there are also Naija women that are home-wrecking gold-diggers. I could lazily generalize that to all Nigerian women too.

"walking on the backs of their women" is nonsense, and you know it. If we were talking about Saudi, "pride in holding women back" might even start to make sense.

birdman:
This is nonsense. Not only is it lazy to generalize, the facts on the ground do not bear you out.

africhika:
not surprised this is 4rm a cuban author.
many cubans show great respect for nigerians (esp igbos and yoruba)

Eddeux:
why do people always choose the european language? oh ''spanish, french, italian, german"  ?? I personally think Korean, Swahili, French, and idk maybe chinese n yoruba would sound great during sex. especially yoruba and chinese since you know they're tonal 

well besides that I speak English and  intermediate French and Korean. Studying Arabic, Swahili (a lil), and wanna start Mandarin, Yoruba, Turkish, Portuguese, and Vietnamese in the future.

SA Goddess:
Nice one Nerd, open a thread and see how it goes but that information will be invaluable to "natural" sistas!

madlady:
Great@Inked_Nerd, I given the info to a few friends about your thread, I'll email it around once you get started. GP

abagoro:
The most interesting part of the book is the fact that most of the people claim not to have heard the word Igbo but spoke a similar language.They all viewed themselves as different tribes.

bawomolo:
ezeuche by far