₦airaland Forum

gidgiddy:
Foolishness is rampant these days. Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB that are not known for killing people suddenly decided to kill an old man for saying that Kanu collected money from Atiku? Something many others have said in the past? I laugh in Greek.

If Kanu was the type that killed people just because of 'talking', you would have heard he killed people long before now

Kanu always tell his followers to kill people. Where have you been?

I cant believe what im seeing. Lol. Did the owner of Nairaland permit this nonse se to happen? Eze ndigbo of Nairaland Ah...tooor!

So who is the current Eze?

The daughter is the victim in all of these. The Judge must consider the double loss to her in his ruling and give him life imprisonment or 30yrs for punishment. This ruling should be reviewed. She cant loose her boyfriend and her father both on same related issue.

lastempero:
The writer is damn on point,the political affiliation of achebe's novel made him not to win the Nobel peace price which I believe he merited. During his burial I was opportune to be with some professors and I asked them why achebe was not awarded a Nobel peace prize, the went further to tell me that achebe was bitter with the government of the time which includes the white men and the fact that soyinka was a freemason played a part also.

How about the other recognitions given to Achebe by awarding bodies in Europe before and after the 1986 Nobel Prize, on what ground did Achebe earn those? You all can create an Aba Nobel Prize and award to Achebe if it will make you feel good.

Armaggedon:
lol...insecure niggas be judging literary works by Nobel prize. Nobel prize is prestigious but not as important as having a literary work gain worldwide appeal. That is the goal of every writer and that is how writers stamp their footprint in the sands of time. I dont know much about personal history of sheaksphere, George Orwell, Ernest Hemingway etc but their great works and not awards have kept their names afloat. No African writer compares to a man whose work inspires greatest Africans in political circles like Nelson mandela, Barack Obama etc Great work like things fall apart is keeping Achebe alive while prestigious Nobel prize will most only die with Soyinka 'cos nobody will read his award when he dies.

BTW we are not in contest with Yorubas. If Nobel prize is their definition of success then they are in for a rude shock cos there are upcoming Igbo writers that will win it in a big way. It will then be proven the prize is nothing special that should be worshipped.

In the field of literature Achebe is a writer, Soyinka is a master. Nobel is for demonstrated mastery of creative writing. Period!

superlightning:
emotions again.

I have never "lamented" over Soyinka winning a Nobel prize. Read the beginning of this thread and stop raising non existent issues.

stop digressing this thread.

Your intent with the thread was to stoke cross-ethnic debate. Look at your topic, what do you expect...hugs and kisses? You know it would ordinarily be moved to literary section and receive political-correctness but you are dramatic and added political to dodge the move so that politically-incorrect ethnic hawks can converge and bloody it out. Save your pretensions. Im here for blood. I repeat, when it comes to creativity in written arts your Achebe is a nobody where Soyinka is.

DabuIIIT:
Jobless hungry minister of Igbo affairs

You are not serious

tsdarkside:
you mean cownunu who promised your elders to go abuja to get buharis head....??

ofcourse una will deny that too....

we saw the video,its online....

you igbos are not that smart....in the age of massive information,you igbos like boasting too much....

even if una speak only igbo to each other,we will translate it and know what you are doing....

game over....

We have decoded them, they cant hide anymore.

nairalaila:
The National Secretary, Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Mr Saleh Alhassan, has said his group indeed demanded from the Federal Government the payment of N100bn to herders but for the construction of ranches and not for amnesty as reported on social media. Alhassan made the clarification in an interview with The PUNCH on Thursday.

He claimed former President Goodluck Jonathan promised to give them the money and that was what informed their decision to support his re-election in 2015. The Miyetti Allah chief, however, said that after Jonathan left, the initiative was suspended, hence the decision of the group to present the matter to the President Muhammadu Buhari government.

Why is IG of Police in a meeting discussing building of ranches? Why is minister of interior in the meeting. Make this guy talk true, na ramadhan we dey, if he lie God fit vex for hin matter. Make he kuku tell truth.

This is why they silenced him.

Xander85:
This sad bigoted fool is still spending a good amount of his time creating threads on IPOB and Mazi Kanu...full of lies, conjecture and fairy tales!

This much attention for a man and a cause they write off as inconsequential and heading nowhere! I predict as 30th May approaches, we'll see much more of all this!

God bless Mazi Kanu, IPOB and the promise of a new tomorrow without the unwanted 'one Nigeria' baggage!

Do the right thing. Obinna is reachable...

igbomandate@yahoo.com , facebook.com/igbomandate congress,

Lamenters should know there is a wailing line if you need a shoulder to cry on. Here it is....

igbomandate@yahoo.com , facebook.com/igbomandate congress,

When IPOB and Ohanaeze Youth quarreled over sharing formula of money collected by high profile politicians in 2016, IPOB asked their members to kill Okey Isiguzoro and they pasted his photos and phone numbers. Isiguzoro who knows too well about IPOB financial secrets was ready to explode if they try anything. It was a very disappointed Prophet Nwoko that I met at Ohanaeze secretariat lamenting how money politics wants to disorganize Biafra again.

Prophet Nwoko is not a money bag, despite that, he hates corruption. I remember in 2015 after Jonathan allegedly released cumulative N6.2 billion naira to Ohanaeze leadership to share to get endorsement, the sharing which caused fighting at Ohanaeze Secretariate in January 2015, I met a devastated Nwoko on my way to Abuja who cried and wondered when Ohanaeze will be delivered from money politics.

Therefore, Prophet Nwoko by nature loves Ndigbo, loves Biafra, hates corruption, and hates ostentatious life. He left the US to come and fight for Biafra and was murdered by six machete wielding Biafra activists at his residence in Abakpa Nike, Enugu, according to reports by Biafran Youth League.

Propphet Nwoko that I know loves Nnamdi Kanu , he loves Asari Dokubo, loves Tompolo, Ateke Tom and other Biafran activists outside Igboland. Prophet Nwoko loves Uchenna Madu, Ben Onwuka among others and had told me that on more than one occasion.’

When I wrote an article in 2015 titled ‘Why Tompolo Must not be Arrested’, and the follow up ‘War in the Creeks as Buhari Tompolo Alliance Crumbles’ A visibly excited Prophet Nwoko volunteered to photocopy the write up and give to his activist friends.

Therefore for some IPOB hounds to murder a Biafran prophet, priest, saint, because he accused Mazi Kanu of corruption is tantamount to introducing bloodshed into the Biafran struggle. This bloodshed has rendered this struggle dead on arrival.

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has made the same mistakes Ojukwu made when he turned against Nzeogwu, Ifeajuna, Banjo and got them murdered directly or indirectly, thereby introducing bloodshed into the Biafran struggle. Thirty months later it was a shameful surrender to a victorious Federal Force and Ndigbo is yet to recover from it till date.

It is too early for IPOB to begin to kill dissenting opinion. The killing of a high profile prophet like Nwoko’s caliber has brought a big curse on the whole process. A friend militant from the Niger Delta have asked me questions on why IPOB should kill Prophet Nwoko. One militant ex general asked me “is that how Nnamdi Kanu will kill all of us if that Biafra comes”. Elements within MASSOB and other activist groups are thinking in the same manner.

Igbos has lost lots of front liners in the past few years. Alex Ekwueme died in 2017, Col Joe Achuzia died in 2018, Dr Dozie Ikedife died too, Apostle Dr PCJ Macjossy died and now Prophet Nwoko was murdered. All who protect Igbo interests are dying one after the other. Something is wrong!

Let the IPOB hounds that killed Prophet Nwoko and their principal make open confessions now because Chukwu Okike Abiama (God of Abraham) never authorized any IPOB or Biafran activist to kill anybody on his behalf.

Failure to do so, that same Chukwu Okike Abiama, whom Biafrans lay claim to, will be the one to frustrate the entire project again by Himself until bloodshed is excised from our system

Benue, Plateau, Wukari, Kafanchan are among our brothers who killed innocent Biafrans during the civil war. Today bloody herdsmen are rampaging on their collective destiny piecemeal and there’s no help in site.

The same fate will be visited on us if we turn deaf ear and begin to kill each other over dissenting opinions’

(Rev Obinna Akukwe, a Church Leader and Rights Acivist is the Director General Igbo Mandate Congress,IMC)

igbomandate@yahoo.com , facebook.com/igbomandate congress,

Biafran Activists acting ostensibly under the orders of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, have murdered on the 16thof April, Prophet Anthony Nwoko, a friend and colleague in this struggle to free Ndigbo from internal and external contradictions.

Prophet Anthony Nwoko was a friend and colleague in the quest for Igbo emancipation. He was introduced to me in 2011 by Apostle Dr PCJ MacJossy when Igbo clerics were negotiating with the then Acting President Goodluck Jonathan’s kinsmen on what to do for Ndigbo in return for massive support during 2011 re-election.

Prophet Nwoko followed us in the General Assembly of all Igbo Christian Organizations and Ministers (GAAICOM) when the group wrestled out Ohanaeze Leadership from the hands of state governors and ensured that Ambassador Uwechue was given a second term as President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo (not known to then Ohanaeze constitution) to help Uwechue finish the negotiations with Jonathan started by GAAICOM. This was August 2011.

Prophet Nwoko was part of GAAICOM .under the leadership of Apostle Dr PCJ Macjossy. I was the Director of Media and Communications of the prestigious clergy group and under the leadership of Apostle Dr Macjosssy, GAAICOM was able to reconcile many political and ecclesiastical feuds in Igbo lands including in Ohanaeze, CAN, PFN and elements within PDP. Prophet Nwoko was with us during the 2-Day Pre Convention Prayer Conference held at the Ohanaeze National Secretariat in July 2012 in Preparation for the ‘3 Day Walk into the Presence of God’ , a prophecy which God gave Apostle Macjossy as a must, if Igbos will find their feet politically in Nigeria.

I noticed Prophet Nwoko, very joyful whenever you mention Igbo affair, Biafra affair et all. He exudes the confidence that God will deliver Ndigbo soon.

I was surprised during the initial introduction that Prophet Nwoko said that he knew me some years back as an Igbo cleric and activist in Ohanaeze Ndigbo and other places. The prophet Nwoko I knew lived a quiet life. He was not married. His passion for Ndigbo and Biafra made him to leave the United States of America for Nigeria to join the activist movement. (This is not strange because I remember receiving delegates from the US in 2012 who inquired from me whether it is ripe for them to relocate to Nigeria for the Biafran cause)

Prophet Nwoko lives like a monk at his Ugbene Road residence. He could be likened to a Catholic priest or monk who live a celibate life of prayer in remote mountains to pray for world peace.

Prophet Nwoko that I knew prays for Ndigbo hours every day and sometimes he shares with me and some clerics what God told him concerning Igbos. However, due to busy schedules, I haven’t met Nwoko for a while but I knew that he was very busy with Nnamdi Kanu and his lieutenants and I erroneously believed that they are working as one.

Apostle Dr Macjossy, Rev Msgr Oko and I among other clerics, mobilized pressures on certain elements in Nigeria during the incarceration of Nnamdi Kanu. While Nwoko was among the group that believed that the Biafran protests would lead to quick release of Nnamdi Kanu, we believed that contacts and goodwill amassed over time around Nigeria will be very helpful, hence we warned authorities against any attempt to poison Kanu in prison

As the Director of Media of GAAICOM, I was mandated to seek audience with relevant authorities concerning Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Also as Director General of Igbo Mandate Congress, our people talked with many Igbo elites to step down from their high horse and help secure the release of Kanu. These are known in public spheres worldwide. However, we disagreed with IPOB on principles because Igbo Mandate Congress is a pro-igbo group which believes that Igbos can achieve greatness in Nigeria and Africa if we put our hands and acts together according to divine mandate and scriptures. Prophet Nwoko differed with us on these, he believes that only Biafran actualization can save Ndigbo, and we respected his opinion.

superlightning:
please just calm down and patiently read this through this link

https://m.dw.com/en/controversies-that-have-dogged-the-nobel-prize-for-literature-awards/a-40819676

nobel prize has since being known to be eurocentric. it doesn't change the fact that it is prestigious.

So if you know nobel prize is Eurocentric and is given only to those with beliefs in Eurocentrism which, according to you, Achebe is not...why lament about the award? Leave nobel for people aligned with European doctrines and face away from it....act like they dont even exist. This thread is a waste of your time.

PVision2020:
Gao Xingjian (2000) - Chinese,
Mo Yan - Chinese (2012),
Yasunari Kawabata - Japanese (1968),
Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1966) - Isreali.
Naguib Mahfouz (1988) - Egyptian (Arabic)
All the above mentioned won the noble laureate by not only being "non eurocentric" but they wrote in their native languages and still won. So your Eurocentric arguments is only good for the trash can.
Must of Achebe's appraisals, approvals and accolades came from this same Europeans. Just last week BBC listed him as one of the Top 100 Authors in history (Excluding Soyinka) with nobody shouting one Eurocentric nonsense.
I'm not surprised though, it's normal for our friends across the Niger to accept/chestbeat over anything that favours them but quick to cry foul, play down or or summarily claim persecution when it doesn't favour them.

I am yet to see any area of human feat where Ibo outperforms Yoruba. It will never happen.

Weve been producing literary giants before Achebe was born. Did Achebe not go to UI, where he was taught and his eyes opened to writing?

Yoruba leads Ibo forever...in every area of life.

scholes0:
'Sese' in the context of your proverb is a form of Black eyed peas. There is Ewa and then there is Sese.. the one you cook for hours and hours on end, I don't know if you know that other one. I prefer the taste to that of Ewa.

Cheese can't come from animal fat, what you will get in that instance is butter. Cheese is from mostly animal milk protein.
Wara is not Cheese, Wara is the yoruba word for Milk. It is Warankasi that is Cheese.

I see! Thanks for update bro.

Olu317:
These ones:

Ìdùrò and endure?

Iduro carries a sense that can have applications in different scenarios calling for the attribute.

Iduro ti eni - acting as pillar of support

Iduro Omoluwabi - to exercise restraint or show forthrightness.

Iduro is different from Inaro (stand erect)

Ìfẹ́ and life ?

It follows similar explanation as above. The phenome and its distribution wherever applicable to give meaning.

Eve, Life, Love, are all consistent and draw from Eve as root.

According to tradition, God created Adam, but produced Eve. Eve in turn became reproductive source of mankind.

I attach Eve with Ife, the source of mankind.

Agboniregun and aborigine?

Oregun and origin?


My opinion on few ones

1.*Orisun(orígùn) and origin*
ọ̀rẹ́gùn and origin?
ọ̀rẹ́-gùn is the spot the ọ̀rẹ́ diety dwells(stagnated spot), while origin is ìpílẹ́sẹ́,ìbẹ́rẹ́,àsẹ́sẹ́-ìwà,ìpọ̀rí, ìṢẹ́dálẹ́,òrísún

The Yoruba "gun" is connected with source or a chain link to the beginning, the pioneer! The prefixes are qualifiers.

Oregun
Iregun
Orogun

In the case of Agboniregun and Aborigene, and other instances of "gun" all symbolize pioneering.

2. béré and bend

3. gangan and gong

4.ìfẹ́ and vast?


Cheers

I thought you will use "loso" for Bend.

Thanks.

scholes0:
Nice collection, although Cheese in Yoruba is Warakasi or Warankasi

Thanks. Consider this..."kaka k'eku ma je sese, a fi se awa danu".

Cheese can come from animal fat, turned to butter. It can come from groundnut before it is processed into butter. Wara is only specific to the cheese obtained from dairy or milk.

I want to hearr Fayemi side to understand what happened before I slap somebody. 2000 people In this hard times? Nooo!!!

I was not expecting to find Ibos among them. I guess I under-estimated the reach of developers of Ibadan.

All of them should be locked up without bail. Good riddance!

richie240:
can u just imagine.
If it goes their way, its merit if not its nepotism .
What do we call all ds now?
How can/why shd u pull down someone just to make itself better?

las_las these clowns will still take this (Nobel laureate) matter to ICC with d look of things.

Its looking like that to be honest.

They are already giving it attributes..Achebe was denied because he was assertive, but we cant find anything of his assertiveness in creation. Contrary, Soyinka was the one assertive by breaking stereotypes of Europeans as a civilized and noble society above the black race. Soyinka proved to them with his works that he comes from a cultural background that is peerage...and in some instances superior....to their hyped Greek. After review they agreed. The award signifies their judgement that Soyinka, and indeed Yoruba, is among the circle of great masters and civilizations of works of art....in this case written art!

superlightning:
poetry and prose are both works of creativity.

quit the reverse psychology, nobody is desecrating anybody. thanks for your concern though.

Soyinka was judged the best in the world. He defeated literaries greater than Achebe. Who is Achebe where Soyinka is ? Knock it off!

superlightning:
yes you are right, Eurocentric creativity.

The text Achebe used to compose and tell stories to his readers, were they not Eurocentric letters?