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Ion crush on any. They're some I love their talent though and Phyno tops the list. YeaThatsAll#

Got no words to describe this dude. He's got phenomenal talent equal to no other. I'm inlove with those braiz o' yours man ! Long may you live and grow dude. God don already bless you but He'll add MORE.

Ps;remember we still getting married. Oh well that's if superman or spiderman's proposal don't come in first! .

Culled this off somewhere, thought it substantial and decided to bring it on here. Check.....


It’s become extremely difficult to identify a Nigerian from his or her accent these days. We are now sounding more American and British than the Americans and Britons themselves. When you listen to radio and voice in some TV commercials and radio jingles these days, you hardly hear the ‘Nigerian accent’ we grew up to know, and I begin to ask how we got here. Is this western influence? Did over half of our population suddenly travel abroad overnight to acquire an accent?


As I begin to ask questions, let me take a look at the people closest to me. Two of my uncles studied in the United States. Not just first degree but master’s degree as well. One of them even had a Ph.D and lived there for over 20 years before returning to Nigeria; none of them has an American accent. One of my maternal uncles and another aunt have been living in the UK ever since I can remember. When they came visiting some years back, none of them had a British accent. And so does my uncle that has lived in Australia for about 20 years.
I can go on and on about so many others. So it beats me hollow when a Nigerian travels to the United States for two months and returns with an American accent or when a Nigerian goes for her master’s degree in the UK and starts talking through her nose when she returns. It’s even so bad now, that some people accompany someone who is travelling overseas to the international airport and comes back home with an accent!

I can understand that some people were born and raised there and it has become part of their system and way of life. But one thing I have discovered is that those that travelled there don’t lose their Nigerian tongue completely. When I was in New York, I stayed in Manhattan with my cousin who had been living in the United States since he was 8 years old. He is about 30 now. He has a flat mate that is also a Nigerian who went there to school and has been living there.

I observed that they had this strong black American accent when they speak on the phone or have a conversation with their American friends, but whenever we were having a chat in the house, they always returned to their Nigerian accent. Even when he visits Nigeria, He speaks in his Nigerian accent even though he can speak like an American very well and not those fake and undone accents I get to hear on radio. I have observed closely those ‘returnees’ that have lost their Nigerian accent really haven’t. Once in a while, when you have a conversation with them, it slips out in some words or sentences and they return to their other accent. But will you blame them? Speaking in an American or British accent is now a status symbol. We admire and respect anything that has a resemblance to America or England. We see them as superior and since as they enjoy that position they would want to remain there.

I have worked in the entertainment and media industry for over 10 years and trust me, I have seen a lot. Most of our on-air personalities now have a foreign accent. There was even a radio station in Lagos that wouldn’t even want to hire you if you had a Nigerian accent. Our voice over artists who grew up in Ibadan can’t even pronounce “Adeola Odeku Street’ anymore the way we will know that it’s a street on Victoria Island and not Los Angeles. Some of them cannot even pronounce their own name very well. This is sad. I grew up listening to Tokunbo Ajayi, Cyril Stober and Ruth Benemesia Opia deliver news casting in a way that made you admire them for their professionalism. All that is gone. A young girl once worked as a newscaster in a TV station in Lagos and I heard that because she had a foreign accent, she got lots of privileges and I know this for a fact because it’s my industry and I have friends in every media house. She got holidays oversees and other perks that others who had been working there could not dream of.

Of course she left after a while and we hardly see her anymore but this is our reality. Though I thought she was a good newscaster. I also know a certain media house on cable TV where they all speak through their noses and form cliques amongst themselves. You are valued according to your accent. So everyone wants to belong, whether you grew up there, or you only visited for two weeks, or you went there for your master’s degree; all join, just dey blow foneh dey go. That’s the only way you can be seen as a sophisticated babe or big boy. I remember one time when one of them referred to those of us with Nigerian accent as ‘locals’. Na wa oh!

These led some of my friends in a certain radio station in Lagos to start what they call the LAFA Awards. LAFA stands for Locally Acquired Foreign Accent. It was done to expose on air personalities on radio that never lived outside the country and have a foreign accent. I had a good laugh as they called out the winners and I can’t wait for the next LAFA awards.

I would also like to ask; I know a lot of white people who have lived in Nigeria for so many years. Some of them were even born here, especially the Lebanese. But how come they don’t have a Nigerian accent? Why is it the other way round?


I think Nigerians should be comfortable with speaking with their Nigerian accent. CNN recently ranked the different accents in the world according to how sexy they sounded and Surprise! Surprise! The disdained Nigerian accent was ranked 5th. It ranked even higher than the American and British accents. I don’t think you need a foreign accent to have a high self-esteem. The people we admire here in Nigeria for their success and all they have achieved did all they did without an American accent and still have a high place in our society. The likes of Aliko Dangote, Mike Adenuga and Femi Otedola don’t have one.

Even in our entertainment industry, Tuface, P square, Wizkid and Asa don’t have foreign accent. Likewise Nneka, D’Banj and Don Jazzy that have lived abroad don’t have it not to talk of Davido who was born abroad. We should learn to embrace the way we speak and be proud of it just like the Americans and the British would never change their accent for anyone.

EazyBoi:
Mtcheeeew

LOL. Couldn't agree more. Dumb and dumber this post. This is what happens when one thinks 'short term' when getting into a relaish. You saw the good in a cultist and went on to date him,now you wanna bail on him for someone else? Oh well carry on, maybe 'the good in him' will make give give you his blessings as you do so. You didn't ask anyone's opinion to date him, now you do to ditch him. Pele o. You can't have your cake and eat it. I sha wish you get out alive...and prolly unscratched; and then GET SENSE!

Crocz:
Lolz...are you Yoruba?..if I may ask

And are you Meggy Bonds?...007?

No I'm not.....if I may answer.

Yea....iyam,double oh seven, tha female version though

KingTom:
90% of ladies on Nl are men

Now that's just harsh man. ROTFL

No matter the angle you look at it from, girls who do nice things for guys still exists. Even though FEW. They're lenghts you go for him as well that'll be more treasured than any material gift gotten for him. Guys worth the stress .....I dare say, are as well few. I believe if you demand good from a person,be good yourself.


Here's hoping we all end up with who suits us.

Hi ....I'm kinda new as well. Though come around to read posts #ghostmode#but never signed up.(Guess u might say I grew up. Lol) I just did, few days back. Looking forward to meeting sapiosexuals. Peace#

When I see issues like this I begin to wonder what dating/courtship is all bout. I mean if people will team up (for the right reasons) yu'll know yur partners spending habit while yur dating.

For instance yur with a girl who never gets yu anything on specials days or ordinarily and yu as a man complains but she doesn't budge and yu go ahead and marry her. Then don't friggin complain when it she keeps her earnings to herself as yur wife!(Model 1)

Yur good to your man,get him stuffs when necessary,show him you care in more ways than one,which probably he appreciates, but he never sees reasons with you on serious issues yu both thrash out, una come marry, ehn, swallow yur cross and endure when he appreciates yur money but not yur brains(model 2)

Or yur that girl who your man refuses your gifts or any monetary assistance yu give to him(yu go dey think say na lobe and be blushing from ear to ear at that time and be bragging to yur friends how yur man don't let yur fEet touch the ground)una come marry, then he works his butt half dead to keep his family going insisting yu keep yur money, just STFU and carry yur burden!!!(Model 3)

Yuv got brains ladies and gents,use it when picking your man or woman for life,and above all PUT GOD FIRST in dating and after

Ps:greatgod2012 lady and d one who's got loving parents after 50yrs, you both DOPE.
CHEERY SHOUTOUT to my momma who's the pillar of me crib todei.you're my inspiration! And dad,me love you plenty too.

Crocz:
In this kind of situation, in where I come from, we usually ask Ifa...that dude is like the Know-All!...he's incredibly accurate and sh*t, he doesn't collect goats and palm oil...only a cowry, poor dude ...it's not even in use as a means of exchange no more


And hey, I mean those sh*t up there

ROTF.....hehehehehehehe.

You left out the ones who seem to be unserious..clubs,chase girls, goes out often and every and you take them for what you see. But when results are out you see straight A's and only 2 B's. And you're like dafuq is this possible!