₦airaland Forum

Huh? I thought the country was named after the Niger River.

The Niger is called Jeliba or Joliba "great river" in Manding, Orimiri or Orimili "great water" in Igbo, Egerew n-Igerewen "river of rivers" in Tuareg, Isa Ber "big river" in Songhay, and Oya in Yoruba. The origin of the name Niger, which originally applied only to the middle reaches of the river, is uncertain. The likeliest possibility is an alteration, by influence of Latin niger "black", of the Tuareg name egerew nigerewen, which is used along the middle reaches of the river around Timbuktu.[4][5] As Timbuktu was the southern end of the principal Trans-Saharan trade route to the western Mediterranean, it was the source of most European knowledge of the region.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_River

Though I must add that I'm a bit skeptical considering the kind of students Nigerian universities have been producing of late.

The problem had been sadistic lecturers who put a quota on A grades and first class. Maybe they are retiring now.

supoade:
logica,
I can bet you will still not believe. People like you cannot be convinced easily even with angels telling you "BELIEVE IT"

you are of  diff CAT
Blah blah blah. . .

Your category: those who were given brains but decided to switch them off and think like imbe.ciles.

supoade:
@logica,

You are the type that will read Bible from  Genesis to Revelation and still be asking "WHO IS JESUS CHRIST"

You are the type that I view as no more than a pest; an irritant. Be gone.

joe4christ:
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even if an Angel should appear in the mid sky and shout with a loud voice ''ONLY JESUS CAN SAVE'' ''HEAVEN & HELL IS REAL''[/size]

I will be eternally grateful if you can make this happen. But till then and as you arrange this propaganda message with angels, please STFU.

PapaBrowne:
Asides, if anything happens, GT would have to pay for it.

LOL. You'll be on a long thing. And then, you will not be able to prove that it was their negligence and not your ignorance that caused the loss.

nakedall:
the most intelligent nigerian so far! abuse of office.

LOL. Most people don't realize the implication of an IMF chief giving such a "compliment".

nedu2000:
spiritualism & voodoo is real,if it isn't it won't have lasted for this long

That's where you are wrong. Maybe it doesn't occur to you, but what we currently refer to today as "Ancient Greek Mythology" with gods like Zeus, Hades and Poseidon was actually the religion of the Greeks several millenniums ago. They lasted for so long before they were replaced by Christianity; so going by your logic they shouldn't have lasted so long yet they are myths (therefore not real). It is the turn of Christianity and other religions.

So the reason they've lasted so long is not because they are real, rather it's because of technical people like you who should know better yet hold on to them.

[quote author=BABE! link=topic=871874.msg10203221#msg10203221 date=1329325989]
Imagine the stench that would attack a husband, when his wife takes off her yeye cycling shorts in the bedroom, after a long day at work. It's a complete turn-off! 
[/quote]That wouldn't be as a result of the cycling shorts, but as a result of the woman's lack of proper hygiene.

nedu2000:
scientists can makeup lots of possibilties,I'm in the construction line & I know

Maybe your religious and superstitious beliefs are clouding your expected sound judgement if you actually do have proper training and good experience in construction. But if you can refute any of my foregoing points, please do.

nedu2000:
Were their legs directly on d steel studs,the odds of this happening is off d chart,even a re-creation won't be easy, we shouldn't b ignorant of the devices of devil,how U̶̲̥̅̊ guys watched FINAL DESTINATION?

I think those who did the research on this issue have far more of a scientific mind than you do; which explains your lack of understanding. Do you think lightning is the 240 volts of electricity PHCN delivers into your house? And do you know how football shoes (cleats) are constructed? Have you ever worn one before?

Firstly, lightning has high voltage of the order of millions of volts. This kind of voltage will actually have electric charge literally leap at you, talk less of having several metal objects right under your feet.

Secondly, the cleats are likely the older type which had metal screw holes into which the studs screw into (newer designs are a bit different). What more, these screw holes end in metal clips directly under the foam on which the feet rest on. Now when this foam is soaked with water, you have a direct path from the ground through the metal studs, through the connecting screw holes into the clips and water soaked foam.

So is this supposed to act as a diversion from Sanusi's nepotism and flagrant disregard for CBN guidelines? Yes, noise will be made on this issue as well, but I (speaking for myself) will not forget about Sanusigate. Every single week, he appears to engage in an act to top the previous week's gaffe; his nickname should be "One Week One Trouble".

suolboy:
The website was not hijacked as at yesterday, because i personally accessed the website and carried out transaction. So i don't know for u guy.

Not to say the OP had a completely different issue (especially since I did not verify myself), but WHEN (as in what time) yesterday did you access the site?

It is what happens when you put incapable people in charge of critical functions. I do remember once back in 2007 when a friend tried getting cash from a GTBank ATM and the console showed a Windows desktop running a virus scan and an alert indicating the computer was infected with some worm. Of course all the ATMs we went to that night showed the same desktop since they are all terminals to a single computer unit.

To add to this, I am aware of a vulnerability in JBoss and there was a security release on the issue several months back. I am sure if you check all the companies running JBoss in this country, none would have been updated as those in charge are completely unaware.

[quote author=Yeske! link=topic=871066.msg10201130#msg10201130 date=1329309369]My question is do we have any law that gives him the right to the national coffers or is the money his?[/quote]It makes sense that there isn't; because on which account will that be placed - donations account? But this is Nigeria.

The worrying thing is, if he can openly donate this sum of money, what is he "donating" from under the table?

I'm sure he must be taken aback by the backlash, like he and the trio of fools were taken aback by the backlash generated by the "fuel subsidy" deception. They've long considered the general public dumb and I don't blame them.

LOL. Broken record.

After scouring the Net, I found this is an old story from 1998:

http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/resources/Ltg-Events.pdf


27 October 1998: Lightning Killed 11 Soccer Players In Congo, Africa, Apparently Via A Ground Streamer,
Rather Than A Direct Strike

Further information though not confirmed was the team that got all players killed were all wearing steel cleats (meaning their boots had steel studs) while the other team had plastic cleats on. Of course the steal cleats are good conductors of electricity.

dazzy4real:
who says this isn't voodoo u lie meh imagine on the same pitch with 22 players only 11 oda side wer killd and u call this natural disaster, rip guyzz 

. . .and you confirmed that the only people killed were really ALL of the players of the other side? Except of course they were all huddled together for some reason it is not possible.

Only fools will be standing on a field during a thunderstorm. The general advise is to find refuge during a thunderstorm and stay away from flat and open areas of land (of which a football field is one) where you stick out as the tallest object.

http://www.wikihow.com/Avoid-Getting-Hit-by-Lightning

^^^ That advise comes as number 1 in the list.

WAVixen:
I pretended not to speak English, but French. The poor guy was apologetic and moved on.

The joke would've been on you if he spoke flawless French.

aieromon:
A former business associate who blamed Jobs because he had not received lucrative stock he thought was due to him characterised the Apple founder as an "honest and trustworthy individual; however, his moral character is questionable".

Isn't this a contradiction? No wonder the assessment was disregarded especially since it sounds like sour-grapes.

OAM4J:
. . . very funny especially the part "Iya re n be lo bi ewure, baba re nbelo bi igala"  

That used to get me literally rolling on the floor because I visualize the father and mother running for their dear lives. Iyen ni won n pe ni "sa asala fun emi re".

afinic001:
@op, pls visit imesi ekiti(in ekiti state) and imesi ile(osun state). U wl see the war camps there. Best of luck.

That's my home town (Oke-'mesi) which literally translates to "the hills of Imesi" referring to Imesi Ile. Being hilly it's a very good strategic location to occupy in a war but it's interesting I never saw the camps. My peeps go there often so they should know the locations of the camps (if they still exist).

By the way going by the period of this particular war, I'm not sure slaves were sold off to "white men" considering that slavery had been abolished in Europe and the US (and practically all other slave destinations that come to mind).

russellino:
I know not too many ppl know that an african-american mercenary was hired to take part in the kiriji (though I can't recall which side imported him) he was a veteran of the american civil war and was brought in to operate the then new Gatlin gun that the ppl didn't know how to operate. I heard he took a yoruba woman back as his wife. Can any scholars in d house shed more light on this? I heard this story from one old baba

I will not be surprised. This may very well be one of the returnees to Liberia and Siera Leone. It looks even more plausible when you consider that both the American Civil War and the Yoruba Civil War occurred around the same period with the former ending just 11 years before the start of the latter.

It seems some people are feeling left out. Please create a thread about Igbo warriors in antiquity (I never heard of one) and also any Igbo heroines (not the drug but I never heard of one either like the Yorubas speak of Moremi and Madam Tinubu and the Fulanis of Queen Amina ).

Personally speaking of course I feel the sophistication of an ethnic group or nation is closely linked to how high a woman can rise in the society.

So because the US constitution was drafted by a handful of cultists, Nigeria should do the same. Something tells me Wole Soyinka isn't the one out of ideas here.

Kobojunkie:
Am I the only one who feels this man should SHUT UP already!

By responses so far it seems you are the only one.

dayokanu:
Isale I dont know if that coloured picture of that quality could have been taken in the 60's when Akintola lived.

Maybe it was retouched

What you don't realize is as long as the film is intact, a colored photo can be generated from the film. The color information is stored on the film.

Anyway my heart swells to realize a lot of new generation Yoruba men know their history; they know where they are coming from.