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Forget to inform you lot that when the guy told me his balance – my account was reading -£250.00. my mortgage payment had just be taking from my account pushing it into the over draft facility giving to me, thank God it was an authorised ov and not un-authorised over draft, I beg make una no make person here this one oh na my little secret at least my friend did not know.

I know a lot of diasporas can identify with this bit up here, except if they wan form.

10 million Wole Soyinkas are inconsequential to the technological development of a state, they would only be remembered as individuals with noble laureate in English literature and that is invariably where it ends. check out this thread: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-61080.0.html I 've dealt with this language issue before, and is good they are now trying to implement some of my ideas.




Of course 10 million Soyinkas will not be appreciated in a backward backwater which your semi illiterate law makers are trying to create because arts and theatre which is held in high esteem and revered in most advance society will be seeing as irrelevant and inconsequential to a subsistence hungry people. There only focus will be how to and where to find the next meal. The Intelligentsia who are meant to guide this hungry and vulnerable people are feeding from the same white man’s hand and speaking the same white man’s language more than the natives. It is well documented that the Igbos in America have the highest Phd amongst all African tribes yet these same people want to deny the opportunities to their country folks, It will appear that some of your people take pride in seeing their kith and kin wallow in abject poverty I wonder whether it brings some sort of joy or maybe they get there kicks from what most people will consider as a selfish and inconsiderate behaviour.

The opposition raised a case, if Fashola is in the wrong, all he needs do is Change and move more towards doing things legally next time, and possibly save us money if that will happen. Simple!!!

Why do we pride ourselves in over-complicating even the simplest things so we can claim things are ever difficult and impossible in our own idea of Nigeria.  

You are talking as if you dont have faintest clue about politics. Why dont you tell obama that he seem to offering jobs to a lot of Guys from Chicago. They are his cronies, George Bush did the same thing when he was in the white house, why would Fashola do anything  different it is politicking, the onuses is on the opposition to win the next election if they want to effect any change.

Russian language as of today is a national language of only Russian federation, Russian

Russia is the mother tongue in

1. Ukrain
2. Belarus
3.Latvia - 50% of the population are ethnic russians
4.Georgia
5.The Causes
6. Moldovia even thus they have there own languages the long colonial rule in places like moldovia has made russia the language of choice.
7. Kazasthan- see moldovia
8.Azibajan - see moldovia
9. Poland - Polish is a derivate of the Russian language, I actually spoke to a polish and I asked him what is the difference he told me it is a derivative.
10. Bulgaria - Same as Poland a derivative.
11. Serbia - Same as Poland
12. Estonia - Same as latvia
13. - Northern Iran - I was really suprise about thisonly knew recently
14. Some part of Afghanistan
15. Mongolia - see moldovia
Russia is the 5th largest language groupings in the world after English, Spanish, Mandari,French, Russia, Portuguse.

be proud? if thats how an english man or our professeurs spoke to us none of us here will be here today. Its all about communicating not big words.

ole Soyinka at a conference used so many supersized words that most people in the audience couldnt understand even a white man sitting next to me kept asking me what  he was saying throughout.


Because the language is the English man's mother tongue does not give him or her a perogative to the language. Most English people probably use less than 10% of the English vocabulary in their day to day conversation. Learning a language is a skill that no human being has a comparative advantage. If a yoruba man wants to learn Igbo there is nothing stopping him or her to be more erudite than a native Igbo. It is the level of intrest u commit to the study of the language. Whilst most English people dont speak more than 10% of the vocabulary Wole Soyinka might be on about 25% vocabulary level hence the professor not understanding Wole Soyinka.

There are many books and pieces of literature that have been translated but have not lost much. Ngugi wa Thiong'o is aclaimed and many of his writings are in his native Kenyan tongue and he has not lost importance. Its just sad that you are trying to explain away how inferior you deem yourself and Non European language Speakers. Alexis de


You cannot compare a language spoken by about 35%(Swahili ) of the african continuent with a Igbo a language spoken by less than 2% of the African continuent. Ugandas and Tanzanians that speak the language will recognised the great skill and mastery Ngugi wa Thiong has in presenting his prose in swahili so they can judge and recommend him for a Nobel price. Do you seriouly expect a yoruba man to recognised your eloquence and erudite igbo skill, neither can I nor 98% other Africans judge you. You will have to communicate in a more universal language for u to get that recognition.

Jakumo
More significantly, teeming hordes of Nigerian worshippers would be free get up off their knees where they had been immobilized in prayer like so many wildebeest, so as to re-engage their cognitive functions and get on with the many responsibilities and challenges of real life, rather than waiting in vain for the nirvana offered at great monetary cost in the afterlife by those rapacious "Men of Dog", who themselves know of no other occupation that stealing from the poor to finance their own lives of lavish consumption.


The above write up is a very brillant write up very imaginative and up there with the dons of English
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I have always said the Nigerian intelligentisia are the best English writers in the world and we as a nation should be proud of it. Do you know the best spanish nation in the world is the spanish spoken in Colombia, I used to think is the spanish spoken in spain.

@savannah

I did not say Anambra state will be illetrates. I said the state is breeding a new generation of English language illetrates there is a difference. I am an illetrate spanish speaker becos I can neither  read nor understand spanish.

illetrate english speakers - That is the bone of contention. I said that Anambra state will breed a new generation of illetrate english speakers. I am not disputing that Anambra state might however produce distinguish scholars who are erudite and versed in Igbo language, but such feat as admirable as it might be pales into insignificance as the brilliance gets whittled down as any attempt to translate such literal work and knowledge into English  might be lost in translation. However if the same scholar communicates in a language which  3/4 of the world speaks and understand with the same literal knowledge and mastery of the language not only does the profile of such  individual  enhances in a world stage they might also be a potential candidate for a Nobel price in literature(Wole Soyinka ) and the envy of the original owners of the language alas England and America.

I can see you are a literate english speaker.


I am not perfect, u can imagine making yoruba the alpha and omega language in the SW. I would not be able to put 2 words together english.

"The problem with delirious irredeemable inconsequential simpletons and excessively myopic ethnic antagonists is that they always have their sense of reasoning on ''sleep mode'', worse still; they cling tenaciously to their laughable infantile drivel and carry themselves with an air of importance that is merely conjured by their diseased imagination."

You should have written that in igbo and let us see who would response to u, at least we are communicating and that is the first sign of progress.

Fuuuuuuuuck me!

You are dim-witted.


you can shout F***k u from now to kingdom come, it only shows the kind of backward race u come from, u are the kind of people that make white people think Africans live on trees. To call the olubadan a slowpoke is the hieght of dis-respect even if a gun is put on my head I will not alter that kind of statement.

Absolute trash that this guy chats.

You, feel free to go and lick anybody you wishes arse in Ibadan, I am Yoruba and I owe no one nothing.

Generational duty me bleeping arse.


You are not a yoruba person, 1) u are not civilised, I can bet my life on that. If Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden knew after eating the forbidden fruit that they were naked how some tribes could go about roaming about absolutely naked beats my imagination and I beleive u belong to such tribe, babaric savages that even pre-dates Adam and Eve. It is a bastard points to his father's house with his left hand.

well said and enumerated , but that does not still justify this,


It is a generational duty of all yorubas from lagos to as far north as Ogbomosho as a thank you gift to the Ibadan Monarch. If the araona kakanfo is alive today - MKO Abiola, he would have start the ball rolling by donating 1 billion naira and other eminent yorubas will follow suit.

Bleep me.

What a stuuuuupid statement


There is nothing stupid in that statement it is a fact. I will tell u a little story there was a cowboy in the old wild west USA, he was the fastest draw in the west, if anybody draws against him u are dead meat b4 u say the J of the name jackie. So some coward knew this man was the fastest man in the west, but this coward wanted to be as popular as this legend, so one day the legend was walking down the street, the coward hid behind some boulder and shot the legend in his chest. The man died, he now annouced to the whole town that he had killed the legend. The town folks now told him u are the new legend, and a lot of town folks want to be as popular as the legend so they challenge him to a duel, he had no choice but to accept he was later killed in his first duel. That was the trick the hausa-fulani used they were living amongst the ilorins as visitors and they now plot and overthrew the yoruba king. What they did not realise was it was a hollow victory, like the coward that shot the legend.

Hmm, but both came to whoop/dominate Yorubas in their own land abi? You can give all the excuse you want to give in the world.

So you were talking thrash when you were trying to portray Yorubas as some special tribe that is superior to others.



The Ilorin people were caught unawares, which is a cowards strategy, the hausa - fulani knew of the ferocity of the yorubas and they met their waterloo in ibadan, the more reason why all yorubas should come together and build the olubadan a befitting palace.

You are not ashamed you lost Ilorin, could your super tribe, that could conquer the world, dream of reaching Zaria, talkless of Kano. Balderdash rant

Yorubas are not colonialist by nature. The SW is blessed with rainfall throughout the year, there is no reason for yorubas to travel far and wide looking for greener pasture becos they are already in greener pasture. But the marauding hausa where running from desertification and spreading islam. Oyo had already fallen when Ibadan got the news, they now organised themselves cleverly and what ensued afterwards was a total anihilation of the hausas and fulani marauders. The British on the other hand  lived in a cold miserable and wet  island,  so they were forced to travel and conquer better climes for her majesty. If only the yorubas where living in harsh clime then u will know wether we are a super race or not. They say na condition make crayfish bend.