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strangleyo:
The South needs to remain the major production centre for oil in the country. The north needs to sort itself out and begin figuring out to internally generate revenue. The north cannot keep waiting from handouts from the Niger delta region forever. The oil and gas will one day dry up, then what?

By the time the oil dries up it won't matter to them cause they would have gained immensely

No2Atheism:
The end of nigeria is near, its either we perish due to ethnic wars or religious wars.

Once again muslims showing that they are only able to evangelise by use of force whenever they are in a majority in any state, as they say give the devil a small chance he would eventually take a big one. Funny that the north is already practising federalism by using state religious policing and forcing christians in their state to conform to islamic rules. Now they are slowly going towards trying to make nigeria a full blown islamic state, men the earlier we split the better, cus this is really gettting very ridiculous in every way or form.

If there is something i envy the Ibos for its the fact that they do not have islam amongst their midst.

Once a muslim, always a muslim, a moderate muslim is just one who is not yet ready to kill, cus wen he is ready, he sure has a justification for it within their quran.

Its like this man called Adegbite never learned from history or something, Yorubas and Hausas do not mix whether muslim or not. Now he is seeking to justify something unreasonable. How many times has christians enforced a law on muslims against their will. Afonjas did the same thing in ilorin and they are still suffering for it by putting islamic goals before their ethnic goals. Seriously yoruba muslims that behave like this are seriously bastards of the highest order.

Men this is completely stupid, Niger Delta needs to completely control their oil themselves, let the muslim north practise sharia with their kolanut money, thats their problem.

At least someone is smart enough to know where all these is going, the muslim Yorubas more aligned to the north will always be pro north, and eventually would bring sharia law to Yoruba regions that are predominantly Muslims, ethnic solidarity would be short changed with a religious one, and they would at long run be left in the cold. infact this is the reason why the Yorubas are undecided on Nigeria affairs, the South East and the South South are agitating now because they can simultaneously speak with individual regional voice without religious sentiments, wake up people.

Bialegend and Dede1,

The first thing you should have learned here, is to recognise impersonators from their first line of statement and pay them no mind, is so easy.

May his soul rest in perfect peace, is quite unfortunate.

No doubt that the popularity is mainly due to the present economic hardships. however, there will be some/many who will be inclined to stay that way after having been brainwashed during such a period. . .especially when such parties are given reasonable platforms to get themselves popular.

This all started a few years ago when BNP won a seat in Burnley council. . . I remember telling people that it was a bad signal. Now, they have lots of seats.

B T W, those stabbers in London will be too drugged out to fight back

There is a risk of a trend forming, where young people would start to feel is cool to be racist, I can see that happening.

Quote from: JustGood on Yesterday at 12:10:32 PM
Just for the benefit of those who think that there is nothing to think about with BNP winning 2 seats, they actually had about a million votes in an election in which total number of votes cast was just over 15million.

Just wait till the next election.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/hi/elections/euro/09/html/ukregion_999999.stm

One of the things we do best is to always believe that nothing is going wrong. . . till we find ourselves in the gutters.

Otter total Rubbish, they had the same number of votes they had last year, the only difference is that a lot of people that usually vote for labour didn't vote this year and they didn't want to vote for any other party thats why, don't just come and start talking rubbish please enough with this BNP thing, this is Nairaland, talk about all things Nigeria please, its doing my head in.

If you compare the number of people that voted for BNP to the overall number of people that voted this year and relate it to the overall number of people that voted last time, is a fact that is the same, but judging by the fact that the overall number of people that voted this year is a lot lesser, shows that the BNP gained more votes, is just a matter of number 6.

Becomerich,

Then there are others who have come with an ignorant and arrogant attitude developed by a strange doctrine that they are superior to our people in tribe, religion, culture and language. They have been told that their mission is to ensure that oil continues to flow from the South to the North and gas from the South to the West and the dollars generated be used to build super highways and buildings in those regions while the natives should be grateful to receive the crumbs and play second fiddle in an environment that is degraded by years of greed and insensitivity.

A clear understanding of this quote above would help you in understanding how eager, passionate and prepared the Niger Delta is in Uniting with the Yoruba's of western Nigeria, a group they 've sworn to follow with immediate effect in joining Benin Republic.

Then there are others who have come with an ignorant and arrogant attitude developed by a strange doctrine that they are superior to our people in tribe, religion, culture and language. They have been told that their mission is to ensure that oil continues to flow from the South to the North and gas from the South to the West and the dollars generated be used to build super highways and buildings in those regions while the natives should be grateful to receive the crumbs and play second fiddle in an environment that is degraded by years of greed and insensitivity.

Apparently the militants knows whom the criminals are, understandably they would have shined their eyes, you can fool some people but not all the time.

KnowAll:
[color=#000099]In fact the Japanese are one of the laziest races when it comes to arts they can hardly speak any other language, but their deficiency is not a handicap as they excel beyond expectation in the sciences. But with the Igbos you will have a situation where you lack both the skill in speaking English properly nor speaking Igbo properly coupled with the fact you already live in an under developed agrarian society, your youths would be idle and we all know an idle mind is the devil’s workshop hence my reference to Hoodlums in my initial article.

Do you think if the Japanese adopted English language like Nigeria did, they would be technological giant like they are today? How would you know that the Japanese are weak in learning foreign languages when they have never in their history subjected themselves to the perpetual state of myrmidon the African nations has subjected themselves borne out of plethora level of inferiority complex and simultaneously, a profuse level of low self expectation. They 've never had an immediate need to learn foreign languages, so you can not quantify or measure their ability to learn foreign languages, common sense would have told you that, but apparently it has not. Your inferior cognitive ability does makes me want to flout your post but I would give you a chance once more. By the way developed societies don't fall from heaven, but societies are developed due to positive choices and decisions  made by people from such societies.

In this world we live there are the sciences and there are the arts. You cannot be the masters of both you are either a master in science – Brain surgeons, Astronauts, Electrical and Electro Magnetic Engineering or a masters in arts, here we can identify with the ingenuity of Picasso, the mastery of the English language by someone whose mother tongue is not English, Wole Soyinka comes to mind, this are achievements 98% of the human race cannot accomplish nor fulfil. The fact that the Russians sent someone to orbit round the earth is a feat worthy of praise, neither does this singular scientific adventure diminishes the great work and recognition that a non native speaker of a language has in mastery a language which is not his or her mother tongue. The two are at par one is not a greater feat than the other they are just different discipline.

10 million Wole Soyinkas are inconsequential to the technological development of a state, they would only be remembered as individuals with noble laureate in English literature and that is invariably where it ends. check out this thread: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-61080.0.html I 've dealt with this language issue before, and is good they are now trying to implement some of my ideas.

KnowAll:
Russian language as of today is a national language of only Russian federation, Russian

Russia is the mother tongue in

1. Ukrain
2. Belarus
3.Latvia - 50% of the population are ethnic russians
4.Georgia
5.The Causes
6. Moldovia even thus they have there own languages the long colonial rule in places like moldovia has made russia the language of choice.
7. Kazasthan- see moldovia
8.Azibajan - see moldovia
9. Poland - Polish is a derivate of the Russian language, I actually spoke to a polish and I asked him what is the difference he told me it is a derivative.
10. Bulgaria - Same as Poland a derivative.
11. Serbia - Same as Poland
12. Estonia - Same as latvia
13. - Northern Iran - I was really suprise about thisonly knew recently
14. Some part of Afghanistan
15. Mongolia - see moldovia
Russia is the 5th largest language groupings in the world after English, Spanish, Mandari,French, Russia, Portuguse.

Am sorry these were all during the soviet union, I studied at Kiev state university, Ukraine, so I know.

1,The national language of Ukraine is Ukrainsky, as of the year 2000 you can only study Russia in Ukraine as a foreign language.

2,The national language of Belarus is belarusky

3,The national language of Poland is Polish or Polsky, they don't understand any atom of Russia and they hate Russians.

4,The national language of Latvia is Litovsky.

5,The national language of Georgia is Gruzinsky

6,The national language of Bulgaria is bulgarsky

7,The national language of Azerbaijan is Azerbaijansky,

8,Iranians are Persians for God sake, don't make me laugh.

9,The national language of Estonia is Estonsky.

10, Serbian has their own variation of Slavic language.

11, some very minute numbers of people from Afghanistan might understand Russia because they were offered scholarships in Russia after the Soviet Afghanistan war.

12, the mention of Mongolia here is laughable.

13,The national language of Kazakhstan is kazakhstansky.

14,The national language of Moldova is Moldovsky, so spear me all the blah blah blah.

You will have to go read what I wrote carefully, what is your grief at least the new law put in place in your state will produce emeritus professors in Igbo language and your type that can write so eloquently in the  English language would be a dying breed which generation to come will only read in history books. The Irony is what will actually emerge from this kind of social linguistic experiment is half baked Igbo speakers and half baked English speakers creating a generation of buffoons who will not know there left from there right.

If we should ever go by the premise of your write up, it would be very pellucid and easy for one to notice and accept that the knowledge of the English language does not mean that one becomes automatically intelligent. If one would just agree that there is a lot of issues that's got to do with inferiority complex here, then  it would easier to decipher why you came to a conclusion that the knowledge one's language would impede ones mental development.  Mind you, the deeper knowledge of ones mother tongue is a catalyst to ones metal development, because it is the default language in ones brain and at such the language of thought. I would dare not deprecate the importance you attach to the English language, or mitigate the effect it has on today's modern world, no one is advocating for entire removal of English language, but left to me it should be a second language, all science and mathematical subjects should all be in Igbo.  

Don’t forget the Russia language is spoken in vast swath of land from central Europe to shores bordering Japan and Alaska. To reduce this international language to the level of Igbo which is a language spoken in a few states 200 miles radius of Enugu is an understatement which defiles logic. The Job opportunity open to Russian speakers all over the is unimaginable even an emeritus professor in Igbo language from Anambra state will be lucky to land a Job in neighbouring Imo state for not been a native how much more Nigeria as a whole and the world at large. The world is your oyster as an English speaker.

I hate when people pride themselves in total display of nescience, sometimes is easier to present an argument that does not lack probity, an argument that is  difficult to defenestrate or don't bother trying. Russian language as of today is a national language of only Russian federation, Russian language is not an international language today, get the record straight, all the former soviet blocks without no exception opted for their mothers tongue. Is very clear you are thinking of a situation where we should train people in soft sell careers to service other countries economy, while I on the contrary think of breeding people whom their language of thought would not contradict the language of education therefore breeding people with superior knowledge to what we have today. Ogbunigwe was not pioneered by people with low self esteem but rather people with deeper connection with the default language in their brain which is the language of thought, the name Ogbunigwe says it all.

@savannah

I did not say Anambra state will be illetrates. I said the state is breeding a new generation of English language illetrates there is a difference. I am an illetrate spanish speaker becos I can neither  read nor understand spanish.

illetrate english speakers - That is the bone of contention. I said that Anambra state will breed a new generation of illetrate english speakers. I am not disputing that Anambra state might however produce distinguish scholars who are erudite and versed in Igbo language, but such feat as admirable as it might be pales into insignificance as the brilliance gets whittled down as any attempt to translate such literal work and knowledge into English  might be lost in translation. However if the same scholar communicates in a language which  3/4 of the world speaks and understand with the same literal knowledge and mastery of the language not only does the profile of such  individual  enhances in a world stage they might also be a potential candidate for a Nobel price in literature(Wole Soyinka ) and the envy of the original owners of the language alas England and America.

Makes me want to puke each time I come across people that wallow in this level of sempiternal timidity, I guess you are so convinced you have a valid argument, a rudimentary level of reasoning could not  be disassociated to why superficial things are so important to you. Your warped thought process about the English language is an imprecation that blinds you from looking at the bigger picture, while you are slaving away trying to impress the original owners of English language, countries that pursue technological advancement in their native languages are achieving an insurmountable level of technological advancement. Russians pioneered space travel in their mothers tongue, to be able to understand what am saying, you are required to think, but literally you are NOT.

when others are planning on permanently staying on the moon? waste of scarce resources i say.

I will give you 15 naira if the current system in place takes you to the orbit.

udezue:
I SUPPORT THE BILL. IF WE CAN VALUE THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE THEN WHY NOT OUR OWN NATIVE LANGUAGE IGBO? I don't care whether you are from Sierra leone. If you are in Anambra state you are in Igbo land hence you can get out if you don't want to hear the language or deal with it. I had to take Spanish in the US to graduate from Highschool and my world hasn't crumbled.

Gbam!

ow11:
Was there a 10 grand fine hanging over your head if you failed?

The fine issue is a different ball game, and is unrealistic.

[quote author=$osisi link=topic=278804.msg3960308#msg3960308 date=1243878604].
There are non Igbo speakers in Anambra state and I think it may be unfair to require that they master the Igbo language in order to school in Anambra state.
Igbo language should be compulsory for Igbos at least in Elementary school
It was,during my time
[b]I hope they exempt non Igbos from that rule.[/b]I would hate for my relatives in Warri to be forced to read and write Urhobo or Itsekiri just because they live there.
That would be wrong[/quote]This is a very good idea and there should be no exemption, I grew up in Yoruba land and at such I had to study Yoruba language, are you trying to tell me that if it was free education that was imposed, then non Igbos should be exempted? well - NOT.

Sagamite:
God, I'm good!

I finally cornered and forced you to make a rational and reasonable statement devoid of stupid sentimental propaganda.

Genocide, massacre, extermination me (sic) bleeping arse.

If you do not feel you argument is strong enough, keep quiet, don't add salt to it.

Look at the retard trying to correct someone, a waste of space, if you live in a glass house don't freaking throw stones.