₦airaland Forum

Fred2020:
It was likely on her bucket list and she considered it could be bought with money and influence.

To be fair, in the finance world, ICAN is more highly regarded than ANAN.

That said, she could have gone for ACCA which is also well respected, but more flexible.

ANAN has no regard anywhere apart from public sector entities.

IbrahimSola:
Do they still fail ICAN these days?When all you need is a good relationship with certain people? Do they conduct ICAN in Ghana? Is it not in Nigeria? Fail? No way! Rather I'm telling you that there are too many ICAN certificates flooding the market that are worthless both to the holder and to the society.

Stop lying abeg. The number of people sitting for ICAN exams has even reduced very well and the pass rate is still very low. I failed two exams in the last diet in a north central state that has only two centres in all. For some papers we were only 6 at my center, the highest we had for a paper was 19, others were between 6 and 10. How then can you say the number of ICAN chartered accountants is becoming too much?

sonofthunder:
Someone explain to those of us that are laymen what this means.


Is this the debt they accrued or the debt they have paid of out of our total debt?

It represents both principal and interest paid to service our national debt.

bigfrancis21:
He is referring to the Ibaji people of Kogi state, who share borders with Anambra north that has been heavily Igbonized, probably due to inter-marriage between Igbo folks and their folks decades over decades. Mainstream Igala people do not even regard Ibaji as Igala. The capital of Ibaji is Onyedega, an Igbo sounding name.

However, Igala language is a dynamic one, with variation as you move from south northwards with the Igala at the extreme south being influenced heavily by Igbo language and as you move north-western it being influenced by Yoruba words from Yoruba states that the language area shares borders with.

You make too many assumptions and then believe them to be true. Ibaji people are regarded as full Igalas, there is no Igala man that doesn't regard Ibaji people as Igalas. If we don't regard them as Igalas, which language or tribe do w.enow ascribe to them? Mind you, they only speak Igala language and they share border with Edo people too the same way they share with Igbos. I have never heard Edo people trying to claim Ibaji people are theirs. The general belief is that the Ibaji people were sent from Idah to fight a war and they never returned to the palace. Ibaji in Igala language means riverine people/people of the river/people that settled around a river.

We don't deny them, they don't deny us. I have never heard an Ibaji man claim to be anything other than an Igala man from Ibaji.

bigfrancis21:
What is complex about it? If Ajida had not migrated from Idah would you have been in Anambra today wondering about your identity or where you come from? Tell me what is complex about the simple fact that you originated from Idah in Kogi state? Except you want to tell me now that your blood line has been diluted by Igbo blood that your make up is more of Igbo now than it is Igala. You need not look further than this.

Your arguments don't make sense. The Ebira tribe of Kogi State, Ebira-koto subgroup of Nasarawa State, close to half of the Idoma tribe of Benue State, the entire Alago tribe of Nasarawa State etc all claim to have migrated from Idah in present day Kogi State. Does that mean they no longer belong to their various states now? Or that there are all Igalas even though they speak an entirely different language right now?

bigfrancis21:
While you are quick to point out replication of some village names in the olumbanasaa area of Anambra state in Kogi state, you've failed to look within to see if such names could be found within Igboland. While claiming you've visited odekpe in anambra state, have you forgotten that there is an odekpe village in Ogbaru LGA of Anambra state, a purely igbo speaking town? Of course, to back up your argument rather than see things as they might be you would want to come up with a defensive line of argument how odekpe in ogbaru could not be igbo as awll but founded by some possible igala migrant group. I am waiting on your rebuttal on this.

Some of these supposedly igala villages have igbo names such as 'ndi okpoliba' and 'igbokaenyi'. In one of your earlier posts, you mentioned the possibility of 'igbo' having a meaning in igala (a proto-yoruba language) and therefore could not be igbo in meaning. Ask yourself, what is the frequency of 'igbo' occurring village names in igala land? How often are we won't to find such names in igala land? A possible research done into this to rule out the possibility of an igala origin of igbokaenyi would suffice but in the absence of such evidence, it would be folly to assume an igala origin of that village name.

Not forgetting that the capital of ibaji lga of kogi state is Onyedega (an Igbo sounding name). In view of your pattern of reasoning, would you readily allure to a possible upward migration of Igbos into the Onyedega area of ibaji?

I would rather not conclude that the olumbanasaa villages are mere 'igala' towns with absorption of igbo influence, because some of the town names sound Igbo. Or should we claim that Onyedega of Ibaji is an Igbo town but igala speaking today? The conclusion is up to you.

In my opinion, Igalas crossed over to meet natives, albeit few, already living there to settle amongst them. At best, olumbanasaa villages would be a mixed Igbo-Igala group today.

I know this thread is old but I have to correct you. I'm an Igala person from Kogi State. The headquarters of Ibaji LGA Onyedega doesn't sound Igbo at all. I guess you pronounced it as Onye (person in Igbos language) and then made your hasty generalization. The e in Onye is the same e you pronounce in Bed, Head, Led etc not the E pronounced in Onyinye.

Onyedega actually means crocodile is at the river bank.
Onye is crocodile
Ega is river bank.

It probably means people found a lot of crocodiles in the river in that town and named the place after it.

Ibrahimcoomasie:
I am not Yoruba. That biggest tribalism title goes to the Igbos. It's so entrenched among Igbos that they don't even know they are practicing tribalism.
A few of them know, they speak out but they are in the extreme minority.

Even Peter Obi again in 2023 declared a religious war. That's religious bigotry.

Then if they have no one to direct their bigotry against, they direct it at themselves. Just like the call Ebonyi people Fulani Igbos

They practice tribalism but still vote other tribes?

SoftSport:
The way the naira keeps going up and down shows what many countries are facing right now.

Around the world, money is losing value in some places because of things like high prices, wars, and changes in interest rates.

It’s not just Nigeria, many countries are finding it hard to keep their money strong these days.

Ol0do, If you understood how exchange rates work you wouldn't be saying this. All currencies cannot be losing at the same time, it is a two way thing. Your loss means another currency gains, your gain means another currency loses. In this case Nigeria lost, it means there is a gain for the dollar.

Nigeria's are only asking why their own currency is always at the losing end..

Port8080:
A collision that led to confusion! They couldn't even agree on the party to adopt.

There are f00lihg you by coming out with confusing tactics so that you won't know their real party but you think there are confused 😂

helinues:
ADC. All Disgruntled Congress.... we are waiting for you people

How many are you people apart from 4 Yoruba States? Mtcheew

Chydon888:
Where's that person that said they will release the list on democracy day. Oya show yourself 😡

It may not be his fault o 😂. Even the head of the agency/ministry that is my connect said we would write exams in May, till date May don pass and we never write. That means even someone like him doesn't know the correct date 😂

Objectivist04:
There is no igala in Enugu state, what we have in enugu is ldoma speaking people in Ette Igbo Eze North local government and they are not more than 30k
. They make up two electoral wards out of the 20 wards in the local government

This is false. There are far more Igalas in Enugu State than Idomas. In fact, majority of the people you call Idomas are actually Igala descendants. Igalas have a rich history of dominance around Nsuka area, Igala language is also spoken there across several LGAs .

Jenamjeh:
Where is that guy that submitted his own three weeks back, should come n give us update oo

Nothing yet. If I get shortlisted I will update on this group. Meself de hopeless despite the small link I have.

femi4:
Winning All or West Africa.....that's the church of the north in the 90s. The biggest as at that time

Church of the Hausa speaking minorities in the middlebelt. States like Borno, Taraba, Kogi, Benue, Niger, Adamawa etc have their own churches that are also widespread.

kushme:
Wow, you submitted three weeks ago, by calculation, first week of May, if i am not mistaken. May just passed and i don't think any one on this thread got an invite or did aptitude test. Give us update on a little added preparation for the test!!!

Details ke? Even me no even sure of myself. I can't say more than this. The details are too direct and personal to be released here. I'm just praying he doesn't forget me as he promised.

aribisala0:
In Spanish Language and Portuguese Language

The following words are examples the same

English Spanish Portuguese
Eat Comer Comer
Fish Pez Pez
Shop Tienda Tenda
Water Agua Agua


Spanish and Portuguese share almost 90% of their vocabulary REPEAT 90%


Because you as an Igbo person see what sounds or looks like your vocabulary does not mean the other person is speaking your language

A banana is not a type of plantain

The fact that Ogbakor means whatever in Igbo language does not mean i cannot mean the same thing in Ikwerre language or that if Ikwerre use it they must have borrowed it from you


These is a list of Yoruba words

Iba Fever

Okuta Stone

Afefe Breeze or wind

Apoti Box

Eti Nose

Ile House

Oka Corn
Enu Mouth

Apo Bag

Ile Ground

Imu Nose


There are very similar words in Igbo

What does that prove> That our ancestors were neighnbours . You cannot claim that because a word means the same thing in two different languages that one group owns it and the other is part of them

Ewure goat

Ibudo Settlement/ Small town

Eru Slave

Ibi Place

Bo Come

bo ibi Come here
bo wa ile (bowale) come home

This your example makes no sense. The Portuguese and the Spanish were original the same people, it is just geographical separation that changed their languages slightly. A Spaniard that has never heard Portuguese language in his life before will understand much of it once he listens to it. They both understand themselves to a very large extent similar to the way Igbos and Ikweres understand each other. The only difference is that the Portuguese and Spaniards have the same origin.

Even these your Ikweres likely have the same origin with the Igbos. At least you can't prove that they don't.

I'm an Igala observer from Kogi State.

YourBestWriter:
Una no dey tire? Since March? Haba! Like it or not, but this recruitment is already done and dusted, the Nigeria way. Corruption is written all over it. Trust me when I advise you all to comot your mind from these people. Let us all go and get a skill. Nigeria is not for us.

Unless it was done and dusted last week. I submitted my application through one head of a government department about 3 weeks ago and he informed the person I used to submit it that they would be an aptitude test in the same month of May. He also later updated the person that he had just sent the aptitude tests for his own department to the authorities with a little added details for my preparation for the test. I'm still waiting because he gave his assurances and he is also the head of the department I applied to.

Ttalk:
Am not interested in your competition flaunting but your guys' arrogance is nauseating and ridiculous.

Yes, Igbo travels a lot, but other Nigerians too do.

For your information, we have more Yoruba in the north than Igbo.

Let me break it down for you, Yoruba have been trading with the North even before the amalgamation of Northern and Southern protectorates. That is why you have some Yoruba that have almost completely assimilated with the Hausa culture in the North

Where you have a large presence of Yoruba include
1. Kebbi
2. Sokoto
3. Kaduna
4. Niger
5. Kogi
6. Kwara
7. Abuja

The lies you guys dish to yourself at village square does not translate to truth and it only exposes your ignorance and myopic mindset.

Just because Nigerians have allowed you to continue in your bullying should make you be dishing out lies on social media.

You can lie! I'm from the north, Kogi precisely. Oga, the population of Igbos in the north is probably 20 times the number of Yorubas in the north. In some northern states Igbos are among the top 3-5 most populated ethnic groups including indigenous tribes o.

Yorubas have significant numbers in some northern areas like Jos, Keffi, Akwanga, Suleja, Kaduna, Abuja etc but it still doesn't come close to even be compared with the population of Igbos.

Usenokpevbo:
Ijaws from a fair perspective are not more than Tivs, Bayelsa is the least populated state in the country and would not pass for a senatorial district in some states.

Alongside with that, In delta state, where they are also present, the Urhobos are the largest controlling about 35 % of the population of Delta state. Aniomas are next and they have about 30% of the population of the state. Then you have the Isokos and the Itsekiris with about ten percent each. You see at most even in delta state, Ijaws would be left with 15%.

In rivers state, you have ikwerre and ogoni which would be together about 4 million combined. Then you have Ekpeyes, Ogbas, Etche, Omuma, Ndoki, Ndoni, Oyigbo, Egbema,

When you check the population of these groups together mentioned above, you will see the combined population of these groups cannot be less than 2.5 million.

Then when you put these Igbo groups together with Ikwerre, alongside with Ikwerre, you have some solid 4 million people. When you pit them alongside with Ogoni, you will be looking at six million already.

Benue state is over six million people and when you put the about 800 to 1 million Ijaws in delta at most(i am exaggerating this now to cover for their population in Edo state and Akwa Ibom. Then when you add the population of Ijaws in Rivers state which would not be more than 1.5 million . You have about 2.5 million in Delta and Rivers.

When you put their population in Rivers and delta state together, which would be at most 2.5,when you add that to the 2 million Ijaws in Bayelsa state. That will give you at most a figure of 4.5 million in the south south. Arogbo Ijaws in Ondo state are at most 200,000 people. That is a combined population of about 4.7 million people. That will just be about 80 of the population of Benue state, which the Tivs are already 80% of .

The Tivs also have population of about twenty percent in Nassarawa. As they control one senatorial district there. Even in Taraba, they have a population of about fifteen percent, and they also have very high migratory populations in Kano and kaduna states.

Where else can you find the Ijaws in large numbers outside the niger delta they are already indigenous, it is a clear win for the Tivs. The total population of Tivs in Nigeria are in excess of 8million. The population of Ijaws in Nigeria are no more than 5.5 million

Tiv people are a very small minority in Nasarawa State, they do not control any senatorial zone in the state. In fact they do not control even a single LGA in the state. A lot of Nasarawa State people do not regard them as indigenous.

Peterobiisathie:
Oloriegbe is from the north central

He is a Yoruba man.

simpleseyi:
Nonsense Bill. HND and Polytechnics should be scrapped, SIMPLE.

I went to Fed Poly Offa, and YabaTech and I have three Masters degrees, currently running the fourth one. Don’t ask me what I’m doing with them, it’s not your business.

On my CV and on Linkedln, I list my education from ND, HND, PGD, MSc-1, MSc-2, MSc-3. I intentionally start from ND so that any viewer can see that I am a Polytechnic product and I am stubbornly proud of it.

However, Polytechnics have been scrapped in US and UK where Nigeria copied it from. As a matter of fact, one of the two foreign universities I attended and currently attend, used to be a Polytechnic, but has been merged with another higher college and converted to a university. So, why is Nigeria hanging on a dead institution?

All Polytechnics should be merged with other colleges or universities. SIMPLE

You don't need to write ND as your qualification if you already have an HND. HND already indicates you have an ND because one must have an ND before a HND.

But erm oga, wetin you de use all these certificates do? Haba! Two masters and two PhDs don do me o.

OKOATA:
This is a baby cobra, check the stripes around the snake. I'm even watching it on Natgeo wild now, Bland mambas don't have stripes for those saying. Your dog already got bitten that's why it couldn't stand nor eat. I pray it survives and keep us apprised.

Baby Cobra as how? All these funny people self.

Oga, that is a very huge Cobra there and should be about 12-13 feet if you measure it. I have killed many before, the last I killed was in 2023. I have eaten several many times too.

oz4real83:
I am so worried about your dog, this snake is either a mamba or cobra and they are very deadly, I just hope your dog wasn't bitten by it. Your dog needs urgent specialized medical attention

It is a Cobra, the dog should be dead by now.

Gbajabiamila1:
He's learning fast. Tinubu made donations too in 2022/23 before the election, though in billions.

He is not learning anything. He has been doing it for than a decade. I remember when he came for the burial of his friend in Kogi State and donated 1million naira to the community primary school where his friend was buried. This was in 2014, 2014 is 14 years ago!

He donated 2m to another school in Lokoja around 2017/18 too.

Starboytwo:
Wetin all this islamist want gan gan.

I'm starting to believe the Muslim religion is not of peace but of war and chaos

This people do Allahu akbar and cut person neck. And you say thats peace.

To buttress your point, northern Ghana is the only part of Ghana that has Muslims. In fact the only part of most countries that have terrorist groups are the parts that have Muslims. Uganda has a small population of Muslims in one part only, terrorist activity in Uganda emanates from only that part.

Creamcrest:
I don't get it,I thought they said they are trying to reduce the excess money in circulation so as to curb inflation.They keep hiking interest rates to achieve that.

And now they come out to say they are trying to ensure enough cash in circulation.

I don't understand.No wonder kperogi called cardoso an "Airhead"

You echo my thoughts exactly. Why make interest rate so high only to pump more cash into the system?

Antoeni:
This Should Be Yoruba Women, Aboki don't Cheat

De play. Come Giri junction for Abuja make you see things.

scholes0:
Will do that.

So what does Exema mean in Edo then, and how does its meaning connect to being a gentleman? The burden of proof is on the edoids, since this name exists in Three Yoruboid groups if not more, and yet no single Edo group bears Edema as a name yet you wanna claim it comes from them.

I already told you about dialectal difference already, I don’t know how else to explain it - but take this as an example.

The name Jolomi is a Yoruboid name. BUT you will only see it in Itsekiri and certain Ondo groups. Jolo (pronounced as Jorlor) is a Yoruboid word meaning beautify, replace , replenish, repair etc... but its use has a restricted grographical scape.
Now you can tell what a name like Oritsejolomi means.

Now, if I don’t see Jolo in my Yoruba dictionary- I would be very wrong to jump into a hasty conclusion by automatically assuming that it is an Edo name.

Another example will be the Igala name Onuche, Ogwuche or Onoja - these are very apecific Igala names one might even be tempted to think the first or second one is igbo- but believe me they are proper Yoruboid names that have been accented by the Yoruboid language in question (Igala). In Yoruba the first and second one would be Olushe (Master don do am) , while the second would be Ogunshe (Juju don do am). Third one would be Oloja (village owner i.e Ruler)

I hope you are getting my point sha?

I see why you got the wrong meanings now. Onuche is not pronounced the way you pronounce the Igbo name Uche, che in Igala pronounced same way you pronounce Shem, shirt, shell etc.

Even the second name is pronounced same way and not the way you pronounced it like Uche the Igbo name.

The pronunciation of Ogwu in Ogwuche is different from the pronunciation of Ogwu (medicine) in Yoruba and even Igala language. We call medicine Ogwu in Igala too but this Ogwu is pronounced differently from that of medicine. You tried though.

scholes0:
Will do that.

So what does Exema mean in Edo then, and how does its meaning connect to being a gentleman? The burden of proof is on the edoids, since this name exists in Three Yoruboid groups if not more, and yet no single Edo group bears Edema as a name yet you wanna claim it comes from them.

I already told you about dialectal difference already, I don’t know how else to explain it - but take this as an example.

The name Jolomi is a Yoruboid name. BUT you will only see it in Itsekiri and certain Ondo groups. Jolo (pronounced as Jorlor) is a Yoruboid word meaning beautify, replace , replenish, repair etc... but its use has a restricted grographical scape.
Now you can tell what a name like Oritsejolomi means.

Now, if I don’t see Jolo in my Yoruba dictionary- I would be very wrong to jump into a hasty conclusion by automatically assuming that it is an Edo name.

Another example will be the Igala name Onuche, Ogwuche or Onoja - these are very apecific Igala names one might even be tempted to think the first or second one is igbo- but believe me they are proper Yoruboid names that have been accented by the Yoruboid language in question (Igala). In Yoruba the first and second one would be Olushe (Master don do am) , while the second would be Ogunshe (Juju don do am). Third one would be Oloja (village owner i.e Ruler)

I hope you are getting my point sha?

I see why you got the wrong meanings now. Onuche is not pronounced the way you pronounce the Igbo name Uche, che in Igala pronounced same way you pronounce Shem, shirt, shell etc.

scholes0:
Will do that.

So what does Exema mean in Edo then, and how does its meaning connect to being a gentleman? The burden of proof is on the edoids, since this name exists in Three Yoruboid groups if not more, and yet no single Edo group bears Edema as a name yet you wanna claim it comes from them.

I already told you about dialectal difference already, I don’t know how else to explain it - but take this as an example.

The name Jolomi is a Yoruboid name. BUT you will only see it in Itsekiri and certain Ondo groups. Jolo (pronounced as Jorlor) is a Yoruboid word meaning beautify, replace , replenish, repair etc... but its use has a restricted grographical scape.
Now you can tell what a name like Oritsejolomi means.

Now, if I don’t see Jolo in my Yoruba dictionary- I would be very wrong to jump into a hasty conclusion by automatically assuming that it is an Edo name.

Another example will be the Igala name Onuche, Ogwuche or Onoja - these are very apecific Igala names one might even be tempted to think the first or second one is igbo- but believe me they are proper Yoruboid names that have been accented by the Yoruboid language in question (Igala). In Yoruba the first and second one would be Olushe (Master don do am) , while the second would be Ogunshe (Juju don do am). Third one would be Oloja (village owner i.e Ruler)

I hope you are getting my point sha?

You got the meaning of those Igala names very wrong.

Onuche means messenger or servant. If broken into parts of means
Onu - King/leader
Uche - message

Meaning king of messages. For instance, the Igala Bible refers to angels as Onuche ojo (messengers or servants of God).

Servants or messengers in a king's palace are also referred to as Onuche.

I don't have energy to break down the other names.

scholes0:
errrm, are you sure Edema is an Edo name?

I have never seen any Benin man called Edema before, The only Edemas I know are Itsekiris,some from Ondo state and one guy from Ijebu waterside.

We Igalas bear Enema, it has the same or almost the same meaning with the Edema used in Itshekiri. In fact many of the names listed here can be understood to some extent by Igala speakers.

samdaisi:
Okay now, I am 100% believe in what Omokhire always says about this man, 6 Kings were killed in his region during the protest,he couldn't speak up against it let alone of sending condolence message to their family members but now he can send it to the people that killed during the protest

More than 60 were also killed in Benue State too and he also said nothing, so what is your point?