There is nothing to be proud of as a Nigerian. NOTHING

neeyah212:
Every artiste who contributes to an album nominated for Album of The Year automatically get a nomination also. Chimamanda Adichie got a nomination in 2015 when Beyonce got nominated for the album of the year because Beyonce sampled her speech on a song. So Wizkid actually has a nomination also. His name is on the Grammys website also.

You are wrong. Chimamanda got nominated because Beyonce's track "Flawless" was nominated. Always get your facts right before you start spewing trash.

9jaBloke:
Much as I love Wizkid, Op is actually making a point. I was very hopeful that 'One Dance' will get at least one nomination. Oyinbo and their ojoro!

At least there are still sane people in Nigeria.

I read to my consternation on Premium Times and on Nairaland that Wizkid was nominated for a Grammy Award for "his role in Drake's single, One Dance."

I browsed through the Grammy nominations, which were unveiled yesterday by last year's Best New Artist winner Meghan Trainor, and there was not a single nomination for Drake's "One Dance" or Wizkid. Rather, what I saw there were nominations for Drake's album "Views."

They are quite different scenarios. If a "record" or "performance" gets nominated, the nomination goes to all the artistes who performed the track. As we all know, Drake, Kyla and Wizkid were the artistes on the track, One Dance. However, One Dance was neither nominated as a record or a performance in any of the categories, hence Wizkid did not get a nomination.

Secondly, if a "song" gets nominated, the nomination goes to the songwriters of the track, not the performers. As we all also know, the songwriting for One Dance was credited to Drake, Wizkid and a host of others. Then again, One Dance was not nominated as a song in any of the nominations, hence Wizkid was not nominated.

However, the album that had One Dance in it, "Views," was nominated in several categories. But, that doesn't mean that all the individual tracks in the album were nominated. Rather, it just means that the album as a whole was nominated as a body of work. Herein, the nominations will go to the artiste(s), producers and the mastering engineers of the album.

"Views" is Drake's album so he's the sole artiste. Wizkid did not produce the album and he also was not a mastering engineer. Hence, Wizkid gets no nomination again.

There is so much misinformation going on in Nigeria and I wonder if it's due to illiteracy, pure mischief, the rise of the social media or the sheer laziness of our journalist in digging deep and getting their facts right. If you are still in doubt, visit any of these sites and find out for yourself if there's a single mention of Wizkid:

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7597556/grammys-nominees-complete-list-2017

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-ms-2017-grammy-nominations-live-updates-20161205-htmlstory.html

lalasticlala

I'm impressed. lalasticlala

Israeljones:

Okay if thats ur analogy egbon azerbaijanbase... Who is the criminal Buhari is trying to release in morocco?
Am waitin for an answer

I only know of one criminal. "Chief" Obafemi Awolowo for murdering 2 million innocent souls

woodcook:
You cant put it on me I refused to accept it.

I put the blame on PMB and those that have ruled Nigeria.

Where you not the one that voted them into power? What have you done to change the status quo other than making noise on the social media?

Germane

This should make the front-page sharperly lalasticlala what are you waiting for?

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Egusi is 100% Igbo

Rikidony:
Igbo people no go kill us for this country. nawa oo

Prove that this pic was taken in Onitsha

Space booking on point

I am Igbo and I love Mbaise people. Igbo bu ofu! One love

ImperialYoruba:


There is no tribe known as Igbo. Ibo is the correct tribal identifier. However, after studying history of Nigeria and the roots of indigenous people and Ibo could not be traced to any significant greatness in the region, Chinua Achebe, a man respected amongst his people for his penmanship updated Ibo to Igbo and led a rewrite and revision to attach Ibo to Igbo and thus to Ife and its history. He did not appear to know about the existence of Ugbo people in Ondo State.

His revision had for a time being gained ground and spread due to initial under-estimation and dismissal by Yoruba historians as inconsequential account. This is similar to the attempted revision by last Oba of Bini, claiming Bini was not an offshoot of Yoruba dynasty.

Soon Yoruba historians, and in particular Ugbo priests and their King laid out in detail and chronology order, citing their culture, shrines, deities, belief systems, worship, customs, songs, dance, and many other customs of their land are mirrored in Ife, and challenging Achebe to, not only refute them with facts but also, give chronological footprint of Ibo or Igbo in Ile Ife.

The outcome was that another rewrite displaced the previous in which Ile Ife dissapeared from Achebe's claims of ownership. Unfortunately for him, the term Igbo had caught on in a wild spread and gained acceptance by Ibo people and so it remained till today. The word Biafra is another steal from the people of oil coast who were the original Biafrans. They did not fight back and so Ibos succeeded in taking ownership and claiming Biafra.


There were two literary frauds in Ibo history known for stealing ideas and cultural roots that belonged elsewhere in a much respected civilization and converting it into a Ibo story and history to gain similarity respect and cognition. They failed in some they succeeded in some. Achebe is known for historical rewrites, Acholonu is known for art theft.

The frauds:
1 - Chinua Achebe
2 - Catherine Acholonu

hahahaha. a Yoruba who has not travelled out of yorubaland trying to educate the Igbos on their history. buhahahaahaha
That weed you are taking is very strong

All these things are folklores and fairy tales. none of it actually happened. the so-called oraminyan existed around the 1300s and it is claimed that he is a grandson of oduduwa who created the Yoruba ethnic group. So, at the earliest, oduduwa existed around 1200 AD. Are you guys trying to tell me that the yorubas didn't exist until 1200 AD while civilizations such as Egypt, Nubia, Carthage, Rome, Assyria, Persia, etc has existed since 4000 BC?

This is actually insightful. Lalasticlala

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This is so lovely. Simple, rugged and effective.

I'm still wondering why the mods have refused to send this thread to the front page. lalasticlala your attention is needed here

patriotic9jaboy:




he died a coward wrapped in the nigerian flag he fought against. i just pity nnamdi wasting his life at kuje for nothing. one nigeria dole

What has one Nigeria done for you?

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The icon, general and freedom fighter was born on the 4th of November, 1933 in the northern Nigerian town of Zungeru to Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu, an Nnewi businessman and one-time richest man in West Africa. He joined the Nigerian army in 1957, rising to become its first indigenous Quartermaster. Following the January 1966 coup that toppled Nigeria's maiden independent civilian government, Colonel Ojukwu became the military governor of the old Eastern Region.

Following the failure of the Aburi accord in Ghana and the ceaseless pogroms of ethnic Easterners in some parts of Northern Nigeria, Ojukwu, in accordance with the demands of the elders of the Eastern Region, declared the Republic of Biafra and became its first leader. Overlapping the territory of the Eastern Region, the Republic was reabsorbed by Nigeria following a bitter civil war.

Ojukwu passed away in the United Kingdom on the 26th of November, 2011. He was accorded one of the most elaborate burial ceremonies in the history of Africa by the Nigerian army, his Igbo people and the President Goodluck Jonathan-led Federal Government. He is widely considered a legend, icon and freedom fighter, especially by his native Igbo people who see him in the same light as the Americans see George Washington, the Britons see Winston Churchill, the Indians see Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi and the Chinese see Mao Zedong.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Odumegwu_Ojukwu

Great! Haters gonna hate. If you don't like what you see, go and build your own. This is lovely for a start. More power to their elbows. Igboland rocks! Coal city rocks! Onitsha rocks! Awka rocks! Owerri rocks! Abakaliki rocks! Aba rocks! Umuahia rocks! Asaba rocks! Everywhere in Igboland rocks!

Great thread.I think it should be renamed and given a more appropriate title so that Lalasticlala can push it to the front page.

This is great

Nigeria is a "house" built on the foundation of lies, deceit and hatred. it's only a matter of time before it will come crashing down.

Chino and ImoRiver/Avagworo, please you guys should stop disgracing the Igbo race and creating non-existent strife and jealousy among us. In the real sense of it, there's nothing like an Anambrarian or Imolite. We are all Igbos, all other tags are figments of the imagination created by unelected and illiterate military juntas for political expediency. Please, Igbo is one and Igboland is one. Whatever affects the so-called Imolite affects the so-called Anambrarian, likewise the so-called Ebonyian or Abian or whatever. If there's progress in Imo state we all should celebrate it. Likewise if there's any progress in Anambra or Enugu we all should celebrate it. For we are one and of the same ancestry.

Opharhe:
I can see Ikenwoli I, Olu of Warri (Itsekiri), Orodje of Okpe(Urhobo) and errm Ovie of Uvwie(Urhobo), Igwe Alfred Achebe, Obi of Onitsha amongst others... Hmmm this is powerful.
The Ancient Empire is well represented.
My special Greetings to Umogun, Orodje of Okpe and Ovie of Uvwie of Urhoboland.
Wa sutor oooo.. .

Onitsha is and was never part of the so-called ancient empire.

Haters should leave Obiano alone. This is trash!

wow. This is great. An epic throwback. Lalasticlala this I front-page-worthy