₦airaland Forum

[quote author=c.fours]explain yourself. Of course I can tell an Edo man apart. but calabar, delta etc those aren't so easy to tell. understand?
see there are some claiming Onovo as ibo and others claiming him as south south. if you guys can't decide your tribes for yourselves, how do you expect others to know the difference?

example,
The president's full name is Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan. Last time I checked, Ebele & Azikiwe are ibo names. right? Took me a little while to figure out our president isn't ibo. shocking
Ibos in this thread argue that the president is in fact ibo. LOL
https://www.nairaland.com/103441/goodluck-jonathan-igbo

now you should understand why other tribes get confused. Your problem is identity crisis.

your name sef is ibo.right? so are you ibo or South south? [/quote]i used to take every ikechucku and nnadi as igbo until recently when i discovered that some parts of delta do bear igbo names but dont associate or consider themselves as igbo.

every olawale or ayotunde is a yoruba. in east names dont necessarily fall in with igbo ethnicity.

redsun: The delta state police comissioner is an igbo man,ikechukwu aduba,and he has literally turn the delta state police command headquater to a den,ursurpers and kidnappers.

Not that any police is good in nigeria,but some are relatively sane.He is somebody that could become an IG tomorrow as an igbo man in the name of federal character,yet he is a criminal that oppresses his own people.

Nigeria is a failed lawless state.

this is why igbo will not win 2015. we need to contain kidnapping to se, there is no need to nationalize it.

this is our african culture. before islam and christianity our ogun worshipping forefathers practiced polygamy. we should continue this practoce so we dont end up like the westerners where a man has a wife but he spends his money in strip clubs googling over other women and spendig his paycheck on a LovePeddler....or worse, end up in a homosexual relationship.

we dont want homosexuality in our lives and communities and we dont want strip joints....but we will happily take polygamy.

wesley08: No warning, no notification? how tha hell am I supposed to learn a lesson? Its just ediotic to ban me for making a light hearted comment simply because the usual pig faced bigots took the opportunity to throw the usual ethnic / Ojukwu slurs. My comment was on the lily livered Minister that collapsed at the boom of a canon, I simply asked lightheartedly "where Oduduwa had gone when God was sharing Liver that her shildren had turned out to be wussies! I only said so for the humour as my second hidden post on that thread alluded to so why on earth was I judged on the platform of the lunacy of others? Do I have a history of tribalism? In a sane platform with sane mods my comments wld have been laughed off like most normal folks including Yorubas did, but in Nairaland with thoroughly incompetent Mods that dont know where to draw the line and with sense of objectivity irredemably blunted by ethnic affiliation and sympathy what do we have? Wussies jumping at opportunities to exhibit vacuos cyber power! What on earth is wrong with that OAMewu4 dude? I can bet the morones (Dayo and Seanet) that turned my comment into an ethnic war were spared! I just hope that ban doesn't reflect on my record, what rubbish! See me see trouble this new year O!

you really said that ? show me wherw this thread is...post a link right now.

^^^^ what are his visions and proposals on the many issues that face the nation, do you know them?

how is this deployment of ecowas force to mali different from deployment of west african frontier force to burma?

is white french force going to be in the trench hole and taking rpg fire?

this state of residency is an attempt to dislodge people from their land. majority of the people of nigeria are not nomads, we have a homeland. state of residency should be individualchoice not a statutory requirement. they have a bill to give fulani your ancestral land to graze cattle, that ought to be focus for now, not state of origin vs residency.

. afam what did you do to my handles when you banned them:-? restore all privileges.

Chime is kidnapped is not false unless it is true that Chime is sick or in any other verifiable position, none of which is applicable. So any position on Chime is all "true" or all "false". If you qualify my post as a false then other positions on Chime are equally false. You need to understand this.

I am not afraid of a ban.....but please, be sure you have a rule to justify your action. I am makingvrecord of this transactions and I will be glad to open a complaints against your employer if that will help correct your misuse of power and abuse on internet.

When a poster opens a topic it is considered proprietary even though its on public domain. For you to enter into that post and make unauthorized changes is an abuse of creative work and a theft.

I will change the topic back, if you have no supporting rule do not ban me otherwise you will be acting indiscriminately using as you said "your opinion" instead of applying the "rule".

afam4eva: @Negro NTns
Always make sure your thread title syncs with the content. You cannot open a thread titled "Chime is kidnapped" and then the content does not allude to it. That's spamming in my opinion.

you are new at the job, so i'll excuse you this time......next time, you make certain that "Chief" precedes Negro.

......you are using an agenda to target me. since when does the opinion of a mod become the rule? what does the rule say? you banned Dudu_Negro not long ago and I am yet to get response on the reason for the ban.

communicate with me and make sure we have an understanding before you modify my posts.

Chime is a national subject, not an ibo issue so do not attach your emotion to it. I am an advocate for truth.

Ngodigha1: As Igbo people have stopped creating unneccessary awo topics this 2013, yorubas should reciprocate by not creating Igbo topics.

What igbo threads are you talking about? Bring tjem let me see. I speak to the truth, I dont chase tribal issues.

ezi oku? what do you mean my biafran brother? what do you mean this is 2013.....we dont speak political truths anymore because its a new year?

It will do you good to read the entire article and be informed that your own Biafran leaders were responsible for your lost savings. Biafra and Ibos were penniless after war. Whatever you had saved up before had been coercely snatched from you by the likes of Achebe and deposited into their own foreign accounts and the blame shifted elsewhere to Awo and Gowon.

Awo and Gowon had nothing to do with Bank of Biafra. Where are all the reserves that belonged to the Bank? Where are all the savings voluntarily deposited by the people? Read and learn and begin to ask Achebe to cough up your money.

oouuh, I like that!

‘The government has long been aware of the terrible experiences of our people over the issue of currency. The present difficulties started when early last year [1968] Nigeria, on the advice of Whitehall, suddenly decided on its wicked and diabolical plan to dispossess our people of their wealth by means of the notorious currency switch.

We had to do something quickly to save the near-disastrous situation. New currency was introduced. With the short time at our disposal, we could only produce notes in denominations of £1 and 5/-; we could not produce coins. We had to arrange and conclude the exercise in a hurry. The production of our currency notes could not be of the highest quality.’ (Ojukwu, 1969)

http://www.pjsymes.com.au/articles/biafra.htm


* topic modified by Negro at 10:28

Thank you dear.

Yes, It's not a problem going forward if you would prefer a change in topic to let me know prior. My objections are few when there is a communicated understanding.

I will wait on the rookie to come and prostrate himself and explain to Chief why he changed my Chime post. . I already told him he needs Yoruba blessing and support if he wants a good tenure here.

muki, Ive been missing you, show up more often. dont break my heart

Mukinatou,

Sallamu Alaikum and Happy New Year! Will you kindly train your new rookie mod the importance and value of "soft managing" a congregation. He wants to dispose every issue in a black and white manner. Some issues need to beleft alone in their grey flavor and don't require intervention. I'm afraid we will suffocate the vibrant life out of politics section if this rookie is not properly trained on how to handle power.......power belong to the congregants, not the mods. Politics is rivalry and sparring, free and open expression, not a stiff-lipped formal interaction and definitely not a censorship of passionate beliefs.

I share this with you because you understand what goes on here and you, far more than others posess a true understanding of how to manage grievance and abate dispute. You communicate and that is key! It is good to hear from you and I am reassured since you are the one looking into the matter. I don't need to know who has modified the posts but I do need it to stop.

Again, thanks

1. On December 31st. at 10:56am
https://www.nairaland.com/1147068/interview-chief-debe-ojukwu#13618029

The topic title was modified, this was not the original. I did not in my original post include the entire body of the interview. My post was limited to the quotation box (green) and i had a link to the source and i also put the picture there at 10:57. The modifier went behind me to expand the post into full intrrview and also changed the topic.

2. On January 9th at 6:19pm

https://www.nairaland.com/1157161/chimes-kidnapped

This title was also modified behind my back. I have gone back and put it where it was originally.

TERMINOLOGY FROM KING PEPPEL.
Bonny is called Okoloma by themselves, „

Okoloba, Obani, or Ibani, by the Ibos. „ Osiminiku by Abor tribe of Ibo. New Calabar is called Bom by the Ibo, King Peppel said that Bonny was chiefly peopled by Ibo slaves, though they speak the Okoloma or Bonny language, which is also the language of New Calabar.

I remain, Rev. and Dear Sir,
Your .obedient humble servant,
Samuel Crowthee.

give the above a consideration. who owns bonny and where your new state and its boundaries should cover.

Seun,

Someone with administrative privilege is modifying my posts specific to ibo topics. I do not give permission for my post to be revised or modified prior to my authorization. please see to this. I hope there will be no repeat forward.

whichever one of you mods or supermods is modifying my posts without my authorization i will suggest you discontinue. I have two records of such flagrant abuse of internet usage. It can be narrowly interpreted as identity theft. caution!!

we plan on bringing this section to a dead slow pace and ultimately bring it to a crawling grind where everyone finds it too boring to even step in anymore. we are not gone but we will show you that we hold the oil that lubricates nairaland, if we dont oil it will die out.

Chime is Kidnapped?


Worried by the prolonged absence of the Governor of Enugu State, Mr. Sullivan Chime from government duties,  group of indigenes under the aegis of the  Save Enugu Group has petitioned the state Acting Governor, Mr. Sunday Onyebuch asking him to avail the public of information about the health condition of the governor and his whereabouts.

In a statement jointly signed by Chief Maxi Okwu, Ozo Igbonekwu OgazimoraChief Willy Ezugwu, Comrade Ibuchukwu Ezike, Comrade Victor Eneh and Mr. Ray Nnaji, the group gave the Acting Governor uptill a fortnight to comply with their demand.

They said though Chime has performed well, his unexplained disappearance has given room to avoidable rumour mongering and gossiping.

More to follow...

iyaniwura,

great post, thanks.

. Kehinsoko (Turn your back to your husband)

why.....what's going on

ajami went out of fashion in yorubaland at the turn of 1900 probably or early in that century.

in hausaland ajami was still popular till mid or late 60s. in the 70s you will see records of it but the hausa society hsd learned by then to use latin script like everyone else to communicate in their language.

the onion and pepper traders, the groundnut brokers, the kolanut wholesaler and the sorghum retailers, the cement store owner.....the subset of their population who on a daily basis were in constant transactions and contracts ...... even if they never been in an academic school, had all by the 80s been forced by the demands of market to acquire basic skills in monetary knowledge and the ability to read and understand invoices, shipping bills, contracts and promisory notes tendered in hausa language in latin alphabets.

by 1990, hardly do you come across a hausa trader that has not at least been in elementary school in his life.

for the minuscule subset who are still illiterate, they are not in the cycle of currency circulation and the ajami was not intentioned for that unproductive class to begin with.

it was a need at one point in past times, that need is no longer served.

i do not see a hausa wedding announced with invitation and flyers printed in ajami. i do not see the receipt of a retail transaction that took place in hausaland written in ajami. i do not see hausa auto tag plate written in ajami. no newspaper in hausaland is written in ajami. the defense. of a non-anglophone hausa has no standing, they dont need english to transact business and exchange currency and if the agreements and contracts of the exchange can be understood in non-ajami script, then the currency with the value of the commodity was transferred can also be ajami free.

unless there is some other reason why the ajami is still retained, then its meaning is no longer practical and should be erased. if an agenda exists that makes its presence valuable, then what is that agenda? this is not conspiracy, this is common sense.

[quote author=c.fours]“Our mother tongue, Yoruba language, is not the responsibility that we should pass to the teachers. It is the responsibility of the parents to teach their children the Yoruba language at home.

“We can’t blame the teachers for our children not speaking Yoruba language. We must be honest with ourselves. Other ethnic groups don’t suffer that affliction.

“Now about Chinese language. I think we must continue to think about what our world would be like in the next 20 to 30 years and anybody who is being honest with himself would see clearly that from Britain to the United States, the Chinese are becoming our largest trading partners.”

-Fashola
http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/lead-stories/51066-why-we-introduced-chinese-language-in-lagos-schools-fashola-marks-2000-days-in-office

^does this remind you of anything?[/quote]fashola has been wrong on a number of issues...this is one of them.

how does a simple discussion on why ajami is on currency become a political fight for you? you do not understand the political undertone in the message.

if the need to know what the currency they are holding is that crucial that it needs to be written in ajami, then it is equally very important that all their transactions and contracts, whether in financial, real estate or marriage be reduced to writing in ajami......but it is not! so if ajami is not that important to the value of the local society up there why is it important on a national banner?

it has a lot to do with it. do not dismiss the banner. contemplate issue and you will see the connection. the ajami on the naira is a political message and has nothing to do with who in hausaland can or cannot read english. the message is not for hausa.....its for the rest of the country.

the chinese banner is not for the chinese people, its for nigerians.

[quote author=]same thing Rochas said about Imo.
I think Nigerians in general are difficult to govern[/quote]you cant compare any city in Nigeria to Oyo.....premier city and only city in. West Africa where an indigenous imperial crown still reigns. there is no other city or indigenous african seat of political power with such lasting history and longevity as Oyo. who is Imo?

........here goes uwazuruke again, putting the igbo cart infront of the horse.

stupid shyyt! ultimatum is end of the year, political "bandwaggoning" and rivalry will be raising high dust by then and everyone who is everyone is scampering for a tent to camp in and unwilling to be labeled biafran or massob sympathiser.

ah, where is Garri to come and tell us what all these nonsense means about increase in price.....is groundnut price going up too?

see link....error corrected!!!

https://www.nairaland.com/1154940/railtrack-construction-commencement-ceremony-lagos-bdgry#13731562