₦airaland Forum

MudRaker:
Only the north, southwest and middle belt will not know peace

If amaechi thinks he can start nonsense in Rivers then he is truly mad

It appears you don't have any sense. Many of the pictures here are from the Niger Delta troubles.

2prexios:
Coker, Cole and Dasilva are all Saro names.

These names are from southern America (Brazil) brought back by Sierra-Leonian-Yorubas returning (to Lagos and Abeokuta) after the abolition of slave trade.

The Cokers are to be found among the Egbas. One of the patriarch of the Coker family was an Islamic scholar among the Egbas in the 19th century or so.

Another reputable Saro in Ogun state with colonial authority was Seriki Abass.

A story around that name (coker) is this:

Coker and another Yoruba scholar were vying to become chief imam of Egba or so.

So it is said that Coker ask if the man is truly an Egba man going by the apparent Ibadan/Oyo tribal mark on his cheeks?

His contender ask him in return to explain if the name Coker is anyway traceable to a Yoruba root.

that's what I've learn somewhere.

Thank you.

I knew names like Smith, Williams, Da Costa, Da Silva, Cole, etc., were mostly brought in by returnee slaves and are English and Portuguese names. Coker puzzled me because it doesn't sound Potoki and I have never heard of a non-Yoruba person who bears it. If anybody knows the name's origin I'd appreciate it. Is it English or Portuguese or Dutch or Indonesian?

tpia6:
what kinds of questions are these?

I would have thought that was obvious. Ok, let me explain it for you.

Different languages take different tones and these names don't sound Yoruba. They don't even sound Niger-Congo. In fact, they sound English. Yet it appears only Yoruba people are seen or heard to bear them. Hence I'm wondering if they're Yoruba names or not. Thank you.

MetaPhysical:
Badmus
Bhadmus
Badamasi
Gbadamosi
pick your preference.

So Badmus is from Gbadamosi. Interesting. Sounds like pure Anglicisation. I wonder if them old folks in the villages will recognise it.

Can you help me with this one? Coker - is it a Yoruba name? Thank you.

Been wondering. Is Badmus English, Muslim or Yoruba?

PAGAN9JA:
how can Africans worship the god imposed by the same people who behave like this?

I respect your posts on this forum and would like to hear what exactly you have against THIS.

Watching yesterday's episode. Just watched where Senator Lockhart gave it straight to 'em Pakistanis! Ol' boy! I'm starting to like this Lockhart guy!

stabillo:
“Wisdom directed my affairs while in the law school. I withdrew from several responsibilities I had outside school and my church, Commonwealth of Zion Assembly, besides, I adopted a regimented sleeping schedule, especially towards the exams. I did not join my family for the last Christmas and Easter holidays. I used those periods to rest and study Besides, I put in extra efforts to redeem any lost time.

http://www.punchng.com/education/how-we-made-first-class-law-school-graduates/

There might be something to that new level of grace, after all!

yhemrite:
I concur with Estate Alapere....I reside there...

But there's a police station ("divisional headquarters" ) right beside that bus stop, isn't there? Well I use that bus stop often.

Dreambeat:
@Op,I wish your mum soonest recovery.On a different note,what you saw was not peculiar to the hospital you mentioned but cuts across all the tertiary health institutions across the nation.This is what the NMA has been fighting to stem,the sorry state of our health institutions.Alas doctors were called different derogatory names.The citizens of this country have to stand up and do something fast otherwise things will get worse.

This may be misleading. While public hospitals are generally not in good shape, this one takes the cup. I was at LASUTH (aka Ikeja General Hospital) last week for voluntary HIV testing. I spent exactly forty minutes in the premises before leaving with my result. Granted, the VCT is paid for by the US government, but most of the facilities used belong to LASUTH. When I went there for my eye there was a lot of time wasting but all these I hear about paying to sh#t, paying to fuel generator, falling roofs and weed overgrowing sitting areas are entirely new. Ogun State should sit up.

persius555:
Morally speaking, what is the difference between CJTF and BH if Pow's head are to be severed to prove a point. Rather, BH prisoners could be paraded in public and summary secret execution carried out. Beheading is primitive and barbaric.

Morally speaking - and legally speaking - your recommendation is even more insidious. When you start letting security agents get away with secret executions you're in Stalin's Russia and nobody is safe.

pro01:
Should this not be in place FIRST before making any attempt to ban okadas? Why put the cart before the horse? In fact, will okadas not die a natural death (without the need for an outright ban) if the various state governments implement "intelligent" and efficient transport systems?

Exactly.

In my view the widespread use of motorcycles for commercial public transportation is neither good nor desirable. But banning okada in the face of the present realities makes no sense. Fashola and the other copy-cat governors were simply insensitive. In a sane system he would complete his “blue line” and put in place functional bus and taxi systems first. I guess everyone wants to be “action governor” before anything else. Oshiomhole even banned tricycles! I’ve seen list of achievements reeled out by governors and many of them actually list the banning of okada as a prominent achievement.

Lol. PDP's strategists should be fired. Word on the street is that okadamen in Lagos had vowed to vote out the APC in 2015. Now this. I wonder what Pro01 will say about this.

darlenese:
So the police can't protect just one man frm the mob? Are they trying to tell us? I dnt really get it! It's a shame on the entire Police Force! Nonsense report

From "hundreds"? No,they can't. But they ought to have expected it and smuggled him out while the crowd was at the gates.

amokeme:
Oh my God rip to them all..

So what were the police doing when the man was being dragged out??taking cover I suppose
jungle justice has to stop!

Report says there were "hundreds" of them. Unfortunately, it's difficult to stop "hundreds" of people from overrunning a police station. But the police could have anticipated it and smuggled him out through a back exit.

dekronik:
I'm just trying to show you the obvious bias in BBC reportage, not denying the "professional" Ebola scourge reporting.

There is no bias. Anyway I don't expect someone who thinks it's the media's remit to praise his country and who mistakes a reportage of the WHO's certification of Nigeria followed by a detailed story on Nigeria's success against Ebola for praise to understand what professional news reporting is all about.

joseph1832:
While they dilly dally because they haven't a single how to stop Boko Haram they engage in this free for all Shenanigans to deceive the foolish Nigerian multitude.

Imagine president Barack Obama negotiating a cease fire with Taliban, Al-Queda, Islamic Jihad, ISIS and co.

Exactly.

Even where you negotiate like the Gaza situation, once Hamas broke the ceasefire by firing a single shot that did not injure a fly, there was an immediate response. Here Nigerians are being beheaded while Badeh drinks champagn in his office celebrating a "ceasefire" and the military is
saying they will not go on the offensive but will retaliate if fired upon. In a serious country Badeh would be in serious trouble by now.

It would appear that the BH guys simply went out to ridicule the military and Badeh fell for it. Shame.

dekronik:
Professionally right? Like they "professionally" ignored 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th battles of Konduga where BH were "professionally" defeated by the NA? The same BBC were "profesionally" in a haste to report BH attacks in Gwoza and Bama?
Smh

Sorry, did I misread the thread? It's about Boko Haram and not Ebola, and so your post is apt and I should respond to it, right?

The BBC has reported the whole Ebola outbreak professionally like a good media outfit should. I don't know when praising anyone became a part of their remit or why anyone would feel his country needs their praise.

joseph1832:
Did the FG believe Boko Haram to be a single entity?!. Kai! I wonder the kind of people who are leading us...

Strange, isn't it? Now Nigerians are being murdered while soldiers stand by on the instructions of Badeh who's celebrating a sham ceasefire.

aljharem2:
Is that not obvious.

Maybe the governor that stopped the spread in Lagos also stopped the spread in Rivers and Abuja

This governor na super governor oh. Fashola government na super government

Sorry, was there Ebola in Abuja?

priscaoge:
Congrats Dear! Purity is now an "Elder Sister"

Yeah. Probably to Perfection.

QMark:
I wonder how many 3½-inch floppy disks will take the number of pictures, music and videos I have on my phone's tiny memory card.

Moral of the story: That you have a bigger head does not mean it houses more brain.

Those 3.5 and 5.25 diskettes were nightmarishly unreliable. I couldn't thank the gods enough the day I got my first flash drive.

If you want Buhari to campaign against himself just put a microphone in front of him.

galadima77:
Even used phones get class. I don't think u can afford good used phones at that rate....

Ok. Didn't know. I should make a different budget. By big screen I actually mean any phone that let's you read on the whole screen instead of half of it. So how much should I be looking at?

Is it Android?

Is it safe to buy used phones? What are my options?

1. I need a big screen phone so I can read on the go.
2. It has to be Android so I can do Kindle.
3. I don't want a Tecno.
4. My budget is small.

What can I do? What are my options?

I don't know a lot about phones.

GeneralShepherd:
It is irresponsible for the Nigerian government to tax citizens, only to waste the money on themselves and their cronies. This is highly unacceptable.

Fair point.

But tax defaulters have no moral high ground since every one benefits from government amenities like roads (god and bad), subsidized hospitals and cheap university education - it is just that we don't benefit as much as we should. In any case, that is not the point Pastor Oyedepo is making. He wants special treatment because (1) He helps the poor (2) He's working for God (3) He built his own power installations and boreholes. His argument doesn't stand up.

SlimSkipper:
if mega churches should b taxed wat of mega mosques or doesnt money also flow arnd in d mosque?
and even shrine sef, abi dem dey fear to tax 'SANGO nd IFA'

Name one imam or babalawo that has a private jet. I'm not saying mosques and shrines should not be taxed if they are making money but your comparison is off.

gorociano:
"There is no single government input on this premises," Oyedepo told Reuters in the interview. "We supply our water, we make our roads, then you ... say: 'Let's tax them'. For what?"

I also provide my own electricity yet I pay tax. Did Pastor Oyedepo also build the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway? Mschew. The government is not serious jare.

Idrismusty97:
It doesn't matter how people see the US. What matters is the fact. US is the strongest politically and military. But starting from today, The US is living on past glory economically. China isn't waiting for them, They would continue to rise.

No, not quite yet. I suggest you look at the criteria used for this ranking, try to understand it, and then consider all the variables. China is still far far behind the US. One can write a whole book on that.

APContherun:
It's a very simple task I gave you, don't you run away from it.

I do what I damn well like.

You can make your own findings about Mr Jonathan and make up your mind.