₦airaland Forum

BluntBoy:
English is not our first language. It is actually our second language.

Your first language is your native language. I am Yoruba so Yoruba is my first language.

There are foreign countries where English is a first language, but many developing countries have their native languages.

Lionheart was not eligible in the first place. The award did not say English should not be used, but that the native language should be predominant. In the case of Lionheart, English was predominant.

Speak for yourself. Fir some Nigerians. English is their mother tongue and the only language of communication they know. There are some Yorubas who will not understand a word of Yoruba, so how will that be their first language?

SarkinYarki:
It's an interesting watch but lest be factual lion heart was never OScar grade except we just want to be unnecessarily emotional

The senator raised a very important point. Let's concentrate on that and not on whether the film is Oscar worthy or not. Nigerians speak English and no matter how well our English is spoken, we are still tagged a non English nation. That to me is gross discrimination. What the Oscar's just pointed out is what they also use in descriminating anyone outside of The US, the UK, Aus and New Zealand.

It us poo ire descriminating and I feel we as African must gradually start phasing out English as a national language.

They should also tell us how many of these were proxy companies. How many were being used to defraud the nation and how many were mismanaged.

Gforce2015:
Why does this woman waste her life for this devilish country...She could have told that man to go to aso rock or burdillion or alausa or any of the government house in Nigeria and start distributing Ebola to those polithievians...
By now, many of them could have gone ....

Madam, Nigeria is not worth dying for... We lost you. What a pity!
May your dear soul rest in perfect peace...

Your comment is so funny. I wish it was that simple. Those polifuans would have infected their families and workers who could have as well infested others and the spread continues.

Jestin:
This one just dey give us the Benin people bad names

Let her be! Which one is give bini bad name? .Abeg shift or tell them that you are not Benin to feel accepted. Are there many people doing Benin proud, why should the behavior of one celebrity spoil the whole Benin. As Cosy do reach, did you see anybody say she is giving name to all the Ibos or Tonto Dikeh. The binis have a whole lot to be proud about, if you don't see it, you are free to change your state of origin.

Ikinternational:
You people keep missing the point in broad daylight. I don't care what the politics game is about. What's at stake is the unity of the country. In FAIRNESS, it's the igbos turn. FULL STOP.
The goal post can't keep getting moved whenever it's igbos turn to score. N expect them to keep on smiling?
NOBODY wants to be a second class citizen in their own country.
N the fact that some of you are okay marginalizing the igbos n expect them not to notice, are they zombies?

Right is Right Wrong is Wrong. Let's be honest when we speak. I know it's difficult for some, but damn try.

"Nobody wants to be 2nd class" you said. In Nigeria, we have more than 300 tribes in all honesty, has some of these tribes ever tasted the presidency, VP, senate president or even rep president? Some have never even tasted comon6being a minister but the Ibos that have been all if these are the ones saying us or no one else and you dare talk of fairness. Nigeria is not only Ibo, Yoruba and Hausa o. Some of these minor tribes are the ones producing even the wealth of this nation o.

You see say una matter get long tail?

jaxxy:
Lol True bt also a testament to the fact that Buhari’s Govt is vindictive, we can all say if this was Jonathan’s govt such will not be the case.

At the end of the day are Kanu and iPod terrorists? No! Yes they were trying to distabilze the Govt as separatists or agitators bt they are not terrorists.

According to you "they were trying to destabilize the govt as separatists or agitators but they are not terrorists"

Is it that you want to purpursely lie to yourself or you are just plainly ignorant? So to you it is only suicide bombers that are terrorist. For your information any one who destabilizes a govt and threatens the existence of a nation propagating hate is by definition a terrorist. Ask yourself, did any group ever referred to massob as a terrorist even though they are fighting too for secession. You guys will never cease to amaze any sane mind.

helinues:
May be you have no ideas of how many Nigerians residing in Ghana, students alone are almost over the hustlers..

Ghana is our friend, a good one forget about the online ranting by some of her people.

Nigerians are investing on the Ghanaian economy directly through the students who pay ridiculous high fees, real estate, and through the many tax paying businesses set up there. Ghanaian smuggling goods into our country is no investment but robbery

Afonja007:
If nigeria know what is empire they will not abuse the word like some people are calling them selves most sophisticated people in the planet,how can you call Benin empire when their king was banished to calabar and he died there,there no country you will visit without presence of Roman empire

Your ignorance is deep. All those empires you listed, which one of them us still existing till date? The only empire that predates the bini empire us the Japanese empire. Black people are their worse enemies. They celebrate others and look down on their own. Before whatever place you came from knew what royalty meant, the bini empire was already great. The British empire learned royalty from us. Yes they defeated us at war and that remains the only war we have lost, still we are still standing. As long as Nigeria is concerned know this, the bini empire stands taller than any other and their seed is the ones sitting on most of the the thrones in the southern state. Jealousy has blinded your eyes from facts and that makes you a hater of truth and knowledge.

Based on experience and from the comments so far, black people have a huge inferiority complex that they will either never acknowledge or perhaps might actually be unaware of. To the black nan/woman any light skin woman is more beautiful than any black goddess and you wonder why some black women are bleaching? Truth be told the man is the most self hating race on planet earth. Check out our beauty pageants. the lighter your skin, the more europeaa8ypur features are the higher chances of winning. The lighter and westernlike your bride is the more compliments you will get on your wedding day. The more foreign your accent is, the more chances you have with people. The black man is mentally colonized and still enslaved on his mind. Change your taste for wanting oyinbo women and start appreciate your ebony dusters and see if women will bleach or buy Brazilian hair. To the African women please don't change your skin for the african man to notice you, you're a godesss, they need you more than you need them. Let them use all their life's resources and sweat to serve lighter skin women who will certainly never treat them as slaves. In the course of time just like Ned Nwoko they will come back to the warmth of a an over bleached black woman becaus e they never lea




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thesicilian:
There's something inherently wrong with the black man. Imagine, throughout the whole of your state there's no functional fire service department, the one that came all the way from another state to help you out, you're threatening to burn it down for 'coming late'!

You saw what I saw. Very soon Delta state will be blamed for the fire incident.

Happy married life to you and your beautiful bride. You look great together. May God bless your new home
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The project was started over 15yrs ago. It has nothing to do with the present governor but everything to do with Festus Odumegwu. The former MD of Niig. Breweries who used his office to influence the the movement to the east.

Ekealterego:
Your German analogy is wrong.. Whether in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, even in Northern Italy.. They are all referred to as "Ethnic Germans". Even within Germany, there are different dialects which were originally unintelligible, even up till today, e.g Bavarian.

Nationality can differ, politics, religion can differ but one thing they all cannot deny is their Germaness...
Although Germany as a country out of pride named themselves "Germany" to rub it in, but they are not the only ethnic Germans in Europe.

You're very wrong an Austrian or swiz will never claim to be German. The English language and Dutch are germanic languages but non of them too will claim to be a German. I have lived in Germany for 15 yrs and studied uropean languages at the universities majoring on German, English and French so I know what I am talking about

Urhobo I and isoko s an edoid language and sometimes share names but will never claim to be Edo

lyricalz:
you didn't do your research well at all, egun and awori is a language spoken in Lagos, nothing like igala in anambra. And there is a small town in bayelsa state that speak urhobo. many other errors. next time research well before publishing things like this. Stop misleading people.

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And we have some Children of hate, perdition and frustration wishing their beloved country all the bad things in this life.

For anyone that is praying for this nation not to succeed,
For everyone praying for war and violence upon our darling nation.

All the good things of life will be far from their doorsteps.
They will always be bitter everyday of their miserable lives.

Happy Independence Day Nigeria
We believe in her.

Amen
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