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vedaxcool:
Ipoop/Ugadans/Ugu hawkwers/beerfruadians when would you leave short sighted bigotry for a decent educative post?



Bros this your lies would shock the devil, there is N -power, Aso demo day, ensuring the successful completion of Abuja -Kaduna railway, etc

mannobi:
It's just a matter of time before empty N start begging customers to come back to their network...
Hey op! The increase and gain actually belongs to GLO NOT AIRTEL
**** According to the report, Globacom had 26,628,065 customers surfing the net in June, showing an increase of 272,674 from its May’s record of 26,355,391.

It also said that Airtel Nigeria network recorded a rise of users with 17,325,423 internet users in the month of June, as against 17,280,089 customers in May.

The records, therefore, showed that Airtel Nigeria network users increased by 45,334 in the month of June.******** abi you no sabi simple mathematics ni?

Team glo #2500 for 10.3 gig
Glo tí take over

striker9:
Just like we got no medal in 2012 and we knew who to blame but only Indonesian won't agree.

allanphash7:
Im not interested cos shes from the YEAST






can anything good come from Ugandans ?






Dont dare quote me if u one of d Isrealite

veekid:
Export wayre wo? Are these pple normal? Nigerians never belle full, Na hn dem wan export; they better no do rough play

nicedas:
God, They can lie, anambra ti take over from lie mohammed.... Anambra people don chop?

betterABIAstate:
you dont throw stones into the market cos it may hit one of your family members.

If the government decides to clean the ghettos, majority of your brother will relocate to osun and Oyo state and I'm sure osun cannot pay NEPA bills now, let alone accommodating an extra agbero.

I'm sure omenka will end up going back to benue if this happens and he may end up at the edge of a fulani man's machete

Flyingngel:
Okonjo i think one question for u is, did u diversify when in government? Or it is now u knw abt diversification.

bittertruthz:
E be like say na GEJ give Nigeria independence. GEJ thank you for giving us independence.

Igbos and pdp are brain sick and obsessed with GEJ.

This is gov't not GEJ affairs. If they talk of arms igbos say Jonathan, railway Jonathan, Abuja Jonathan, airport Jonathan, Lagos-ibadan express way Jonathan,

Please igbos make una tell us what we had before Jonathan?
Does it mean we don't have anything as a country before?

Even Lagos to Asaba express way constructed in 70s and dualized by IBB/Abacha in 90s is still Jonathan.

You people need brain examination.

mrmetoo1:
Lmao!!! Thank you Gej for wetin abeg?? For initiating it or completing or which one? He didn't start it, he didn't finish it but we should thank him. Online comedians too many nowadays. The project passed through Gej but what did he do with it? This thing should have been completed years ago but were they serious, no!! Funding that was supposed to be put up by FG wasn't put up, another government came up and released the funds, you're now shouting thank Gej. Comedians i tell ya

joborskill:
Most people on that screenshots are frustrated IPOB yoots who are obviously pained by the defeat of their corrupt hero GEJ. Since they can't seem to get their deluded biafra after so many suicidal attempts, they have returned to their vomit of praise singing GEJ for every success of this administration and blaming Buhari for every failure. The one's with yoruba names are cloned account from aba branch of IPOB


If a plastic of gaari becomes 200 naira tomorrow it is the hand work of GEJ


If it becomes 500 the next day, it is Buhari's fault.

It sucks to be in their shoes

Ibime:
That is less than $1bln dollars my friend. What do you expect $1bln to do in the size of a country like Naija. That is what local governments would spend in some countries.

olaitankazeem9:
Thank You So Much! It's Just That I Am New To Nairaland

egopersonified:
I don't understand the relationship between your comment and your username.

Viktoreze:
Basic explanation -- in the sentence "The building of this building was complicated." you are using two different forms. Though they look they same, they are used differently and have different meanings, and in fact, different origins. (Though both forms are created from the same root verb, "build", the suffixes were originally different and did different things.)

Actually, this sort of thing is not very unusual at all, as you may be able to see from the examples I list at the very end of my answer. (And, since other languages do the same sort of thing, it is NOT evidence of English being strange.)

More important, speakers of English are seldom if ever confused by these distinct uses (which is what really matters) anymore than they are by such things as very different uses of "the same word". That's because the specific WAYS they are used in actual speech (not all alone, but combined with other words) make the intended form and meaning clear.
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DETAILS:

"this building" uses a noun referring to a concrete OBJECT, that can be counted

"the building of" uses what is essentially a verb form (specifically, a participle) to refer to an action that is in PROCESS; the fact that you THINK of some ACTION going on shows you that this is a verb.


The origins of these two (originally different) forms:

The NOUN form -- in Old English, the suffix -ung (sometimes -ing) was often used to create nouns. This exact ending is still seen in German nouns that end with -ung. The noun can relate to the original verb ("build" in several ways. Often it refers to something that is the RESULT of the process the verb refers to.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ung
http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/phil/english/c...

There are MANY examples of such words in Modern English. Consider the following nouns which refer to objects which, like "building", are ordinarily NOT "in process" when we speak of them:

painting, dwelling, saying, writing, gathering, bedding, roofing, sacking, clothing, earnings

(There are other, related ways, that Old English formed nouns from verb roots. One of these is the suffix -(at)ion, such as: decision, isolation, explanation. Another is -ment: establishment.)


The VERB form -- in Old English, participles ended with -ende (a form still found in German).

In Middle English these forms fell together. That is, both the participle and noun ends became "-ing". In fact, the use of this form in expressions like "the building of" is a LATE development (whereas "building" as an object is a very old sort of form).
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node...

For the distinction in the suffixes, see Webster's (1913)
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=261832
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Note that it is actually quite common for suffixes that look exactly the same to be used in different parts of a language to carry out different functions. This is not usually a problem and should not confuse speakers because the WAY the forms are used in sentences makes it clear which form is meant. Most of the following cases are things you see/hear every day:

-(e)r -- turns a verb into a agentive noun ("maker", "hitter"
OR for the comparative form of an adjective ("bigger"

-(e)s -- a singular present tense verb ending [originally -eth, as in King James "cometh] ("he hits"
OR to make a plural noun form ("hits"
OR (with an apostrophe) to form a possessive

-(e)st -- old ending for verb forms (2nd singular) such as "thou makest"
OR for superlative of adjectives ("finest"

-y -- to form a diminutive ("Timmy"
OR to form adjectives from nouns ("funny"

felapikin:
Which bank dey open on sunday abeg??😏

Drienzia:
am back again.
Let me go straight to the point.

1- You rushing to seat close to your crush, buh before you got to the seat, church ushers grabs your hands and took you to a vacant seat in the front row.

Lilbrown007:
GOD HAS A PLAN FOR EACH ONE OF US LETS PRAY SO THAT HE CAN CHANGE HIS MIND!!

flyca:
That victorious moment when you read to paragraph 2, line 3.

Geniro:
You vomited this trash to prove what ?

mu2sa2:
But they don't condemn the dominant religion in US & UK, unlike the hypocrites who deny the lsamic-ness of Dubai.

mu2sa2:
Many would visit the islamic land of Dubai and when they come back hypocritically call Islam names.

micxwell:
UNFORTUNATELY, IT DID MAKE ITBTOBTHE FRONT PAGE.............

Dragonking:
Have you seen a video of militants who are currently wanted dancing in the public? Please, tell your Igbo brothers to grow some balls and tag themselves as Igbo vigilantes / militants.

grayht:
Am seeing things...
See her Igboetic yam legs like aka odo "pestle"..
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