He's done something personally worthwhile for himself but not worthy of a National Award yet..
Nairaland has not been seen as tool to uniting Nigeria's warring heterogenous units which would have been a major factor but has only provided a platform for more divisive tendencies.
Seun has done well for himself no doubt but not enough for Nigeria.

Nastydroid: *yawning*

Nastyroid, even you?

This is why I don't joke with my pictures especially the childhood ones so that someone like the OP 'would just find them out' when I become a billionaire.

Nigeria? I'm a Yoruba man!

We follow you dey disappointed too, young millionaire but what can we do? As you wey get matter no fit do anything

saxywale:
maybe they want the Atlantic ocean.

abi o

[quote author=saxywale]
Lol. 100 years ago or more, some powerful kings were not allowed to show their face in public. It's always hidden behind the beaded crown. It was a taboo back then. But I am just hearing of this mirror aspect too. Mirror na oyinbo man invention.

you be frog wey dey expect kiss from princess?
The Yorubas, long before the advent of the white people, had what they call "digi" which did the function of a mirror.
But why do Igbos like Baby osisi, Toad2011 et al always catch cold in matters concerning the Yorubas such as this? Is it because they don't have a veritable culture to hold on to or they sell it over a bout of Akpu? Seun, this is one of the avenues when some of us are left with no choice than to reply and match them word for word. They came, we housed, rent out shops and sold lands to them. What again do they want?

[quote author=NewNigeriaMind]Educating thread....

Nice one by the Oba.

When will Owa of Ijesaland do something now. I am omo ogboni of ijesaland though I haven't been to my ancestrail hometown.

Proudly Yoruba.
Good to know you're from Ilesa. Your grandpa?'s house is at Enuwa and he was feared in our town.

[quote author=RoyalRoy]

[font=Georgia] Exactly. I purposely ommited that so as not to derail the thread. But I think its one of the Ogun State monarchs. Not so sure though.

That Oba is of my town. He may have done it in Ogun state too. The guy was an avowed polygamist.

[quote author=RoyalRoy]

[font=Georgia] Hahaha

Most known polygamists dont sit on the fence and raise "bastards" not to talk of a traditional ruler.

Check out M.K.O Abiola, he surely got a lot of bastards brought forth as his but in his own "way" without DNA et all, he still could sieve his own from the shaft.

I believe its not the Alaafin that will be lagging behind.


P.S there is a traditional law/myth/ curse on any man who sleeps with a woman a Yoruba king has already slept with, except the king dies. Such men die prematurely, violently and never make a headway in life afterwards.

True! This may be the reason behind the untimely death of MKO himself. He snatched one of the wives of an Osun monarch

No resting on my oars until I reach the one million employee mark. Que Dios bendigame!

No resting on my oars until I reach the one mi5lion employee mark. Que Dios bendigame

I'm on course! my next 10 years project

iheanyi40: meant no offence bro was only joking hope nobi curse u type dere

I didn't curse xou. I chided you. We're brothers

I was once an only child until 5 more of me popped up

iheanyi40: Ndi Ara

Oro re ko jomi loju iwo omo ajokuta ma mumi

[quote author=neuljosh]Naijá Pigin is open to a lot of influences from English and local Nigerian languages, especially from Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba and the Edo and other group of languages spoken in the Niger Delta.

While much of the vocabulary of Naijá Pigin is derived from English its major lexifier, the rest of the vocabulary come from its other contributory languages such as Edo, Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba, as well as a significant contribution from Portuguese. See the following examples.

From English:

chop------------‘to eat/to consume’
domot----------- ‘door mouth area’
doti-------------‘dirt’
pesin------------ ‘someone’
trowe------------‘throw away’
tok---------------‘to speak’
waka-------------‘to walk’

From the Edo:

kpangolo----------'container’
kpekere-----------‘plantain chips’
okada-------------‘motor-bike’
ororo--------------‘vegetable oil’
ozeba-------------‘a big problem’

From Hausa:

dabaru-----------‘to destroy’
dogo-------------‘a tall person’
gworo------------‘cola nut’
koboko-----------‘horse whip’
suya-------------‘spicy grilled meat’

From Igbo:

akamu----------- ‘corn starch /pap’
biko--------------‘please’
obodo------------‘land/country’
okrika------------‘second-handed item’
ogbanje----------‘a water spirit’
ugu--------------‘pumpkin leaves’

From Yoruba:

adire-------------‘tie and dye’
agbo-------------‘herbal medicine’
ashawo----------‘a prostitute’
shakara----------‘show-off’
she--------------‘hope’
shele-------------‘happen/take place’

From Portuguese:

kpalava-----------`trouble’
pikin-------------- ‘child’
sabi-------------- ‘to know’

Compounding

akara-wuman---------- Yoruba/Igbo+English---------------- ‘a women who fries and sells bean cakes’
boku-bai--------------- French + English-------------- ‘wholesale’
egbe-weja------------- Edo + English----------------- ‘a bouncer at a club, a thug or hoodlum’
go-slo----------------- English + English-------------- ‘traffic jam’
ova-sabi--------------- English+Portuguese----------- ‘one who shows he knows too much’

boku∙boku------------- French---------- ‘in large number’
boi∙boi---------------- English---------------- ‘a male household servant’
sabi∙sabi-------------- Portuguese------------ ‘someone who thinks he or she knows everything’
waka∙waka------------ English---------------- ‘someone who about aimlessly or without any destination’ or ‘a prostitute’[/quote
Ogbeni OP, you tried but you should do more research.
Akara was a Yoruba invention. Igbos imported it to their domain. You know they have been with us for centuries.
So are ìpínkeré(shed into pieces), pangolo and òróró which you erroneously attributed to Edo.
Also, "Okrika" is not Igbo! Give that credit to Patience Jonathan's village of Okrika and townspeople where that second-hand cloth trade first blossomed.
And again, problem is "problema" in portuguese. The word "palaver" is actually from portuguese' "palavra" which means "word"

I don't blame them. I blame our scientific, technological and economic inferiority. Any nation that is superior in all these three cannot be treated anyhow even if the combined evil of SARS, Hepatitis and Ebola is ravaging them.
Nigeria, we get there someday!

The South East will be the most affected. When I was in Imo, hardly there is any day without corpse entering my small village. It was so alarming that they do burial every day of the week whether young or old.

Tani eléyi? (say out the name) Kí ló n pèmí fún?

where are the 75000 troops sent to the harmless state of Osun? I'm sure BH could not have overpowered such a large number of men even with their crude weapons as long as they aim their targets and follow simple military procedures.

Every andyblaze inspired spirit working against you....catch fire!

Oya now...let's see what his prayers to the court would be
Maybe we would have had a change of mind, if during his campaigns, he explained to us what happened to our Cicero, Ajibola Ige and the reasons for his criminalistic tendencies.
In other news, youths in my area of Isale General, Ilesa are currently celebrating the crucifixion of Omisore

Neuroboss reporting from Ikoyi, Ilesa West Local Government. The six Ijesa LGAs namely; Ilesa West, Ilesa East, Atakunmosa East, Atakunmosa West, Ori-ade and Obokun are for our son Rauf Aregbesola.
Omisore is believed to have had a hand in the killing of our iconic son, Chief Ajibola Ige, the Cicero of our time. Sleep on, great legal luminary!

these aren't virgin poses

I settled on this land first...clearing the bush and making ways for prospective settlers

they cannot walk past any reflecting surface without shrugging to check out themselves
they are in perpetual, silent battle with one another no matter how close
they all want a very rich man as husband
the ones that answers a man's surname already feel socially superior to the other who may be richer and more connected but has not married

How peurile of some people to start reading tribalism to this well-meaning question! Please, I only throw a question to sincere people out there. Imo is my adopted state. I served there. I enjoyed myself there. I did business there. I built lasting friendship there. I speak the Igbo language which I committed time, energy and money to learning.
This is not an attempt to disparage the people of the famed "Home of hospitality" but to confirm or negate their ubiquitous superiority compared to others within their tribe.
Warped opinionists, please get out!

I've travelled around. The Igbos are known to be avid travellers known to travel to every corner of the earth in search of economic development.
And fascinatingly, the most represented of this ubiquitous tribe seems to be those from Imo state.
It's been seen and observed that 1 out of every 4 Igbo person/family outside Igboland is from Imo state..
How correct is this my assertion?

Eléyì tú yàtò ò

The height of cluelessness is
trying to reconstruct what is
still being destroyed. You
only talk about rebuilding a
razed building long after the
inferno not during the fire outbreak. Boko Haram are
still raging, throwing bombs
everywhere and our Clueless
president is talking about
Reconstructing North-East.
Nigerian youths, if you like vote in Mediocrity again na
you sabi. I'm a global citizen.