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Fredinson:
In Naija where we hardly have low or no power supply, a Tesla car was seen parked on the Lagos mainland bridge which was as a result of it running out of battery. I guess Lagos traffic could have been the primary reason of the battery running out

Ishilove:
Ki'lo omode mo? I plead "Not Guilty", your Lordship.

Klass99:
Lookatchu , abeg swerve one side joor.

You that if I cuddle you and touch your chest small now, your pikin go rise and you'll want to demonstrate sex on an elevated scale, for me.

Mtchew

Klass99:
That will cost you $1,000 only.

Absolutely..... it's the little details that count.

What's your love language? I'm curious

Ishilove:
Daddy wa! The fuckernizer

Klass99:
Please what is sex on an elevated scale? What does that mean.

I think sex as a whole is overated, but intimate moments like touching, cuddling and holding someone you care about and who cares about you, beats sex hands down, any time any day.

Just thinking out loud

Klass99:
Please what is sex on an elevated scale? What does that mean.

I think sex as a whole is overated, but intimate moments like touching, cuddling and holding someone you care about and who cares about you, beats sex hands down, any time any day.

Just thinking out loud

SuperStriker:
That is what I don't want to do. I don't want to go to another woman but I am suffering...Sometimes I feel like I will tear my shirt and start running round the street when that pressure is too much

bukatyne:
Very pathetic thread on both sides.

I will just drop this line: anyone not interested or willing to sexually satisfy their partner (male/female) should not bother about marriage. All forms of sexual abuse are wrong:
1. Withholding sex;
2. Exchanging sex for gifts/cash;
3. Causing intentional injury to a partner during sex (outside BDSM);
4. Not making an effort to satisfy your partner;
5. Performing/incorporating acts that is shameful to the other party
6. etc.

Sex (all types) is the thing that done outside marriage is an outright sin. Other activities done together might just be inappropriate or indecent.

@stress: If something is very important to you, you make time for it or re-arrange your schedule to fit it in.

adetayoonas:
Exports is the major factor that grows any economy. China, Germany and Japan is doing well today because of their numerous exports. Nigeria would have been worse than Zimbabwe if we don't have crude oil to export. A strong economy requires export to be greater than imports . Let's get our refineries working, govt should encourage local manufacturers to reduce imports.
Closing dollar accounts is not the solution. The lawmaker is not well informed.

Read the concept of balance of trade and balance of payments in international trade and finance, then u will know d great importance of exports to any nation.

Seun:
The most idiotic thing I've read this year. Yet now that they are bold enough to say it out loud, it seems clear that they want to do it.

adigun62:
The current world record-holder in the men’s 65kg weightlifting category, Paul Kehinde, aka Olumi Agberin, is dead. Kehinde was also a former world number 1 Para Powerlifter, Olympic Gold medallist and Commonwealth Games Champion. Kehinde died on Thursday after a brief illness. He was 33 years old.

He was born in Epe, Lagos State.

His achievements include winning Silver at the 2011 World Championship, Gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, and Gold at the 2015 All African Games (setting an African record of 214 kg).

He also won Gold at the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games (broke the world record twice with lifts of 218kg and 220kg), Gold at the Mexico World Championship with another world record lift of 220kg and another Gold at the 2018 FAZZA World Para-Powerlifting Championship with a record-breaking lift of 220kg.

He won Silver at 2018 Commonwealth Games, Australia and Gold at the 2018 African championship.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/dailypost.ng/2021/11/19/33-year-old-olympic-gold-medalist-paul-kehinde-is-dead/%3famp=1

lawani:
In Niger and Kwara states, Yoruba is lingua franca, more or less all natives speak the language. In Niger they also speak Hausa. In Kogi and Kwara they dont speak Hausa. Plateau speaks to a large extent, Benue dont really. So, Niger is as much Hausa speaking as Yoruba. Yoruba is native to the place. Nupes and Bariba speak Yoruba as lingua franca while there are indigenous Yoruba in Niger state. Remove Benue, Kogi, Kwara who dont speak Hausa, then you have 16 states who speak Hausa but they are not all Hausa. Hausa land is 6 states in the NW and then SW Niger republic. Kaduna is peopled and owned by Nupoid peoples. Gwaris and etc. They are not Hausas. They have their languages but speak Hausa. Kanuri is in the NE, then there are still over a hundred other languages in the North but one can say Hausa is lingua franca in 14 or 15 states but not more than 6 or 7 states is Hausa land, then SW Niger but Hausa language is used by BBC, VOA and etc. I think Gombe speaks Fulfulde. Yoruba is spoken indigenously in 6 SW and three NC states of Kogi, Kwara and Niger, then in 2 SS states of Edo and Delta but it is full lingua franca in SW, Niger and Kwara making 8 against up to 14 for Hausa. Then it is lingua franca in North Edo and Western Kogi, The Igala speak a Yoruba dialect and are the largest group in Kogi. For Igbo, the language is in 5 SE states as full lingua franca, then most of Rivers and Delta East, making 6. No other Igbo speaking city is in any other place. So as far as Nigeria is concerned, it is Hausa, Yoruba, then Igbo as per widely spoken language. Now, move to ethnic groups. The Yoruba will be number one for controlling fully 7 states with an average 85 percent population. Then controlling a third of Edo and Kogi. So let us just say Yoruba fill up 8 states in Nigeria. Hausas fill up six states or seven. Igbos fill up five or six. Then the population of SW is like double SE, use any indicator, WAEC enrolment, SIM registration, recharge card use and etc, the SW bests all others. I believe the population is highest followed by NW and I believe Kaduna population is higher than Kano's. If we move to outside Africa, it will be where Yoruba surpasses Hausa. Aborisha worldwide are over 100 million of which majority are South Americans and many understand Yoruba to varying degrees, the Awos understand it to the extent that a Catholic priest understand Latin even moreso. So, Yoruba is the language of close to 100 million in West Africa and another 100 million in the diaspora who use it to varying degrees. So in Nigeria, Hausa is number 1, in West Africa, Hausa and Yoruba will drag it since all of Benin republic speak Yoruba and parts of Togo. Yoruba land extend into Ghana where there are 50 Yoruba towns. The Ewe are Ife people who dont speak Yoruba but are same with us. With news channels, Hausa is number one but with foreigners, it is Yoruba because of the popular theology and the diaspora community. Igbo will come third in all instances.

Then nowhere in Yoruba land can we say for sure that Igbos are more than Hausas. Lets be realistic. Nowhere at all but Igbos are more integrated with Yorubas than Hausas despite being new arrivals. In our family, two of my cousins married Igbo. When my cousin's son whose mom is Igbo visits me for instance, my customers will conclude he is my son back then in Ife because the resemblance is striking. His Mom is from Enugu while his Granddad is my Dad's younger brother. We dont have Hausa members of the family. A younger cousin also married an Igbo man from Anambra but as residents of SW, Igbos and Hausa population will be similar. So, no need for Igbos to say they are always second in all cities. That is not true at all. Maybe inside certain markets though.

scholes0:
Fulaman we can't possibly believe a book written in 1921 by some colonialist who must have made numerous errors, is true in 2015 can we?


This is the result of the 1961 Census. The Yoruba and Hausa populations were neck to neck at the time.
Hausa population might have surged ahead between 1961 and now, but Yoruba would still very much solidly in 2nd place, knowing fully well that they have a higher birth rate compared to Igbos who at the time had a much less population, not to even talk of now.

Since you are Fulani, the fula number might also surprise you. I was personally pleasantly surprised, that we had that many beautiful Fulanis in Nigeria, as at 1963. If there were almost 5 million Fulas at the time, they are most probably around 15 million by now.... lets even assume 70% of them can't speak Fulfulde, that still leaves about 4.5 Million of them who can- which is definitely more than the 1.9 Million quoted in the OP's article.

Anyone interested in the full list can PM me, or quote me and demand for the rest.

oladosuphemmy:
HOW ON EARTH WILL SOMEONE TELL ME THAT IGBO IS MORE SPOKEN THAN YORUBA.
THE POPULATION ALONE TELLS YOU ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE MOST SPOKEN LANGUAGE.
DEFINITELY HAUSAS HAS THE MOST POPULATION FOLLOWED BY THE YORUBAS AND THEN THE IGBO.
LAGOS IS ABOUT 15MIL IN POPULATION AND MORE THAN 90PEFCENT OF THIS POPULATION SPEAKS YORUBA, NOT TO TALK OF OYO STATE, EKITI, ONDO, OGUN, KWARA, OSUN, PART OF KOGI, EDO, BENIN REPUBLIC, COTE VORE, TOGO, THERE IS EVEN A COMMUNITY IN BRAZIL THAT SPEAKS YORUBA
IF YOU ARE STILL CONFUSED PLS READ THE LIST OF THE MOST SPOKEN NATIVE LANGUAGES IN THE WORLD HERE
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers
HERE WE SEE YORUBA AND HAUSA AMONG THE MOST SPOKEN NATIVE LANG WITH THE EXCEPTION OF IGBO.
PLS, MAKE SURE U CARRYOUT YOUR RESEARCH CAREFULLY, DILIGENTLY, AND ACCURATELY BEFORE POSTING HERE SO AS NOT TO MIS-INFORM NAIRALANDERS.

Fulaman198:
I wish Fulfulde (Fulani language) was the most spoken, but sadly we can't have it our way. But the truth is Hausa is the most spoken language in Nigeria. We must remember that the majority of Nigeria's 250 ethnic groups are found in the "Core North". Most of these other ethnicities understand and speak Hausa very well.

I'm glad you like the Hausa language, I'm not really a fan of it as I prefer Fulfulde, but I respect the Hausa people because even BBC promotes their language. They are not afraid to say "no" to white people that they refuse to speak their language. I admire those who are proud of their respective cultures.

Fulaman198:
That's a lie

For one You are referring to "Fulanis" in the North Western part of Nigeria not the North Eastern part. Two very different regions. The same Fulani dialect spoken in North Eastern Nigeria is also spoken in Eastern Niger, Chad, Cameroon, Central African Republic and Sudan.

Fulaman198:
Stop speaking sellout jargon, the reason why Hausa for example is hosted on BBC is because they actually cherish and respect their language, unlike you. It's important for people to know their native languages, otherwise how can they call themselves Africans. No outsider (be it white or Asian) has respect for an African who can't even speak their native language. There is a reason foreigners go to countries like Mali or Senegal for their "African experience" because foreigners don't want to experience wannabe Westernised bullcrap.

If you have that slave sellout mentality, kindly keep it to yourself.

Fulaman198:
Umm no, I'm not wrong about the states, Fulfulde is most spoken in Adamawa (which extends into Cameroon as well), Gombe and Taraba states. It is not spoken at all nearly much in the NorthWest. Adamawaare is the dialect of the Fulani spoken where I am from.

Cayon:
http://www.antigua-barbuda.org/aghis01.htm

SlyDev:
The first book in the Igbo language (Isoama-Ibo: A Primer) was written by a Yoruba man, Rev Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther (1809-1891) in 1857.

The book had 17 pages, with the Igbo alphabet, words, phrases, sentence patterns, the Lord's Prayer, the Ten Commandments, and translations of the first chapters of Matthew's Gospel.

In 1882, Crowther also wrote the "Vocabulary of the Ibo Language", the first comprehensive dictionary in Igbo.

Crowther was the grandfather of Herbert Olayinka Macaulay (1864-1946), founder of Nigeria's first political party, whose father, Thomas Babington Macaulay (1826-1878), founded the first secondary school in Nigeria in 1859.

ModestGal:
So I got a customer care job in a health company paying$15, but before getting the job, I already contacted some bakery job agencies. And two weeks in they called me for a job at bakery. The bakery pays $18. Stupid me left my customer care job, rushed to$18 bakery job, it's a 12hours job.
In this new job, we work straight for hours without breaks, omoh, this thing wan kill me.

Now the gist

Omoh, after working for 3hours, e be like say I don dey see heaven. No breaks or rests in between. When one man(African but white in colour) see say I wan die, he con whistle for my hear say, make I say I wan go use rest room.
Immediately,I quickly ran to meet the woman in charge say, I wan pee
She granted me permission,and I went to pee

After I rest finish,I came back,after 15min, the woman beside me (Chinese), asked if I wanted WATER, and I should go and drink. To cut it short,most of them were giving me excuses to rest,and I don't know why everyone there seems so nice

Now the KOKO
The Koko be say, the women we work together,told me they don't like going for washroom breaks because it's too far and they will need to climb stairs,and prefer to wait till we close from work.
So for my mind, I'm like, shee this one think say, na pee I go pee,lol
I con ask them,are they tired, they said they are not, smiling
Now, when we were going home,one of them said tomorrow is her birthday,lol. Ask me how old is she? My brothers and sisters, she's turning 65years old, she's CHINESE.
Na like that them dey say their ages, most of them are above 50yrs. I Kon dey wonder if na steel dey their body, because I no understand. I'm usually tired after 1hour of working, seriously tired o, no be shereshere tired. And funny part is I'm fit,not fat
Some of Theseus women are fat o, but the Asians grandma's are slim

Let me go back to work please
I will gist you guys later

Mynd44:
Previous thread: https://www.nairaland.com/6844124/kuda-bank-called-efcc-friend


https://nairametrics.com/2021/11/11/kuda-bank-says-it-cant-facilitate-cryptocurrency-transaction/

Here is the full statement

Okortor:
You all ran to kuda because of the convenient banking system and easy KYC documentation. Now the chips are down...you all still spilling trash...

I use kuda and av got millions in my account which they won't dare report me to EFCC because I don't accept suspicious or fraudulent Transactions neither inflow nor outflow on my account.

I'm a financialist n I know what's right n what's wrong.

I can't count how many suspicious accounts n transactions I've reported to the CBN as regarding AML.

STOP JUSTIFYING FRAUD, WHAT'S BAD IS BAD. IF YOU ARE LEGIT, YOU HAVE GOT NOTHING TO FEAR N WORRY ABOUT IRRESPECTIVE.

Great weekend guys. TGIF.

joey150:
Nigerians don't like accountability. The leaders are only a mirror of the people they lead. We have so many weak institutions because there are simply no checks and balances.

All this ruckus because a financial institution rightfully flagged an account due to a suspicious transaction? Financial institutions flag transactions for different reasons, it's not just about the sum of the money.

The person with the said blocked account can tender the required evidence and they should be absolved of any wrongdoing.

If it's about cryptocurrency, then banks have been explicitly warned by CBN not to facilitate crypto currency transactions of any kind. People should take it up with CBN and Emiefele and not Kuda.

I don't support the stupid herd mentality brewing on social media, neither do I have any incentive to support or crucify Kuda.

I will continue to use my Kuda account until I have a substantial reason not to do so.

oyatz:
Both Yoruba and Nupe have strong history of inter-relationship especially during the hey days of Oyo Empire.

Many notable elites in Old Oyo had Nupe Mothers/wives.

Stormtrooper11:
A throwback picture of two time President of Nigeria, General Olusegun Obasanjo with Former American President, Jimmy Carter taken in the late 70s during a White House visit by the then Military President of the African nation.

General Obasanjo, was pictured wearing his signature Nigerian traditional attire.
Olusegun Obasanjo is said to have been the only African President that never wore an English Suit.

giftibo:
TOMPOLO'S INVASION OF UGBORODO COMMUNITY UNDER THE OVER LORDSHIP OF THE OLU OF WARRI: AN OPEN DECLARATION OF WAR.

Government Ekpemukpolo Tompolo act of invading Ugborodo community land of SAHARA on Monday 8th of November, 2021 with over 20 speedboats carrying armed Ijaw militants chanting war songs is an open declaration of war on the Itsekiri ethnic nationality, and Warri Kingdom territorial integrity. The picture of over 150 Ijaw youths led by Tompolo himself all dressed in Egbesu war gears leaving where they currently settled upon our ancestral land without any form of harassment, molestation or attack whatsoever, and beating Ijaw drums of war in a show of force and audacity right before the eyes of our people, security agents, and multi national corporation workers in broad daylight, without thinking about the security implications of such provocative and inciting action to the peace that has existed between the Itsekiri people and the Ijaw people since the Warri crisis ended some years ago in an area that government both at the state and federal level including various stakeholders from both ethnic nationalities have tried painstakingly to maintain at a very high cost, was a sad reawakening of the bitter and sad memories of the gruesome killing of our innocent people and wanton destruction of our communities which we are yet to recover from.

By that singular action of Tompolo INVASION OF UGBORODO COMMUNITY UNDER THE OVER LORDSHIP OF THE OLU OF WARRI, His Majesty, Ogiame Atuwatse lll, he has shown that he did not believe in all the efforts of the state government and Federal Government to bring lasting peace and development to the area. Tompolo has also demonstrated publicly that our 21ist Olu' of Warri call for unity, peaceful co-existence and collective prosperity among Itsekiri people and all it's neighbors in the Niger Delta region so that good things can come to the region for the overall Interest of everybody, is nothing to him. He rather preferred an atmosphere of chaos, violence, bloodshed, lost of investment, lost of job opportunities, relocation of all oil and gas companies from Warri to elsewhere, and the total breakdown of law and order that profits him alone and his cohorts. By conducting himself in such a violent and provocative manner to cause fear and create tension at a time we are doing everything humanly possible to prevail on the state and federal government to bring the EPZ project to life so that millions of Deltans and Nigerians can be gainfully employed and rescued from the current hardship and insecurity is a clear indication that Tompolo is an animal in human flesh without any atom of concern for the ordinary youths suffering from the unemployment challenges bedeviling our people.

It is manifestly clear that by wearing the T-Shirts with the inscription of their king, and that of Tompolo, and driving speedboats in such a manner that sent panic and fear to the neighboring communitities, and travellers on the waterways on that fateful, Tompolo was trying to carry out a premeditated evil plan to attack innocent Itsekiri sons and daughters and also burn down Itsekiri communitities if there was a resistance to his foolishness. By openly claiming falsely that SAHARA is now SARABOBUWEI, and is the beginning of Gbaramatu kingdom, shows that he lacks any believe in constituted authority and the rule of law. Tompolo cannot continue to use his own primordial and selfish interest to cause mayhem and trouble for everyone in the area. He must be stopped once and for all. Moreso, the elders and the man who the state government gave staff of office as a traditional ruler of Gbaramatu has shown that he lacks the capacity to build bridges of friendship between his people and others especially at a time the Olu of Warri paid a visit to the state governor His Excellency, Sen. Dr Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa, the Asagba of Asaba and the Obi of Owa all in a bid to bring peace and development to our area. Tompolo represents evil and darkness for the entire state and nation and must be tamed accordingly.

The stupid action bold as it may look, however did not take the Movement for the Protection of Iwere Homeland, Development and History (MPIHDH) by surprise as we have been monitoring the entire situation from inception. We have told Ugborodo community leaders the dangers of allowing the Ijaws to come and settle at the entrance of our creek and few meters from the Chevron tankfarm and EGTL yard which Tompolo and his criminal gangs have attempted on several occasions in 1999, and 2003 to burn down if not for the superior fire power of the combined military force which saw the death of some workers inside the yard and that of some security agents.

Tompolo's action is a clear demonstration of the fact of his hatred for the Itsekiri people and an UNPROVOKED call to arm conflict in our Kingdom. It is now abundantly clear that his "peace march" in Warri was a deception. For him to leave Gbabo, (which he and his cohorts changed to Oporoza) and invade our community and attempt to change the name from SAHARA to an alien name SARABOBUWEI, manifestly indicate that he is indeed Itsekiri nation's number one enemy. If a man like this have the state governor, come 2023, it will spell doom for innocent citizens and government investments and that of foriegn countries in Delta State and Nigeria in general.

This time around, Tompolo will not go scott free. The Movement-MPIHDH and the Itsekiri people has long prepared the permanent antidote to this madness in our homeland and Warri Kingdom.

Liliyann:
This is what you get when you abandon your pregnant wife!!
Their hormones are usually high, they need all the love and attention from their husband!!