₦airaland Forum

In Aboki's voice; "wuya ba dadi"

mynd1:
Mastiyaci dan iska. Carry ur ugly face commot for my road joor.

Masoyiyata ki barshi kawai. Tsiya tayi mashi yawa.

The Civilian JTF in Konduga local government area of Borno state has announced that it had arrested a notorious Boko Haram kingpin, Bashir, who had been acting as Abubakar Shekau in several videos dance YouTube on social media.
It claimed that Bashir, popularly known as ‘Sarkin Yanka (meaning the king of massacre), yesterday  confessed upon interrogation by the Civilian JTF that he had acted Shekau in several videos and was responsible for the death of his mother, two sisters and brother.

One of the civilian JTF members, Malam Shettima Bulama, who carried out the operation leading to Bashir’s arrest, said the insurgents’ kingpin was arrested while trying to sneak into Konduga town yesterday.
Bulama said the Boko Haram leader was caught with an arrow injury inflicted on him by hunters, adding that the Boko Haram kingpin had also confessed to killing many in the past.
But the military is yet to comment on the arrest as at the time of going to press.
Spokesman of the Operation Lafiya Dole, Col. Mustapha Abubakar Anka, however, pledged to communicate the arrest and give out details whenever he receives briefings from his seniors or above officially.

http://www.blueprint.ng/2016/02/22/civilian-jtf-arrests-shekau-in-borno/

amtaken:
What do you expect when a dictator is in charge?

God please rescue Nigeria from the hands of the wicked tyrant so that all sectors of our economy will be revived, amen.

I know from where did you come.

Op what is the source of your information?

The fear of Sheikh Ayatollah El-Burutai ibn Nonsense is the brginning of wisdom.

Teeklef:
with due respect sir,are you dead?

With due respect, sir, can a dead man typing on internet?

Answer question and question I sabi oo.

tyson99:
And those aboki sabi fry egg ehn

You remind me of my last dinner.

Orjioorji:
products of quotas system. show us prove that that Cyprian ekwensi copy your uncle work ? please stop laing

By Ibrahim Musa
In the literary world, Cyprian Ekwensi is a household name. This holds true particularly for the volume of work he churned out within the corpus of African literature. He was a very good story teller, especially of the urban tale, that many people see him as a better story teller than the Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka or even the more famous novelist, Chinua Achebe. In a stark contrast, John Tafida can be considered a nonentity. He is not even popular in the region (northern Nigeria) where he was born and bred, and where Hausa, the language he wrote in is the unofficial lingua franca. The world knows very little about Tafida who lived in the obscure Wusasa quarters in Zaria, and wrote, perhaps, only one book in a vernacular. All these disadvantages robbed him of a chance to popularity and even a recognition for Pulitzer or Booker Prize, or some other award. In another contrast, the two did not even write in the same medium (language) and there was no clear evidence their paths ever crossed.
Why am I interested in these novelists despite that my background has nothing to do with literature? As a physician, I should be seen writing about diseases and cure, or on great personalities in Medicine. For obvious reasons, I have scant interest in reading novels. My little passion for it died with my teen age. However, from the few I have read I am left with a puzzle that refused to get solved despite my curiosity and nagging. I learnt how to read in Hausa language first before I could read in English. So, it was natural that most of the books I came across early in my life were authored in Hausa. I must confess that very few of those books left a mark on me since the vast majority had pattern of telling stories on romance with happy ending. Scholars of Hausa literature even tagged them as Kano market literature; apparently a pejorative term signifying poor writing quality, juvenile treatment of the subjects and limited creativity. However, there was a generation of creative works before the advent of Kano market literature which was outstanding. I can still remember passages and snippets from Abubakar Imam’s Ruwan Bagaja, Tafawa Balewa’s Shaihu Umar, John Tafida’s Jiki Magayi, Gwarzo Muhammad’s Idon Matambayi, and Bello Kagara’s Gandoki. These five novels were authored decades before I was born and they remain classics. They emerged out of a literary competition organized by the then head of the Translation Bureau in Zaria, Mr. Rupert East, in 1933. Incidentally, Mr. East himself is the co-author of Jiki Magayi. The main drive behind that award was to stimulate culture of creative writing in Hausa language. The overall winner, Imam, went on to become well established as an author whose other books like Magana Jari Ce, Karamin Sani, and Tafiya Mabudin Ilmi became must read for every pupil passing through formal school in northern Nigeria.
It was not until 1955 when John Tafida’s Jiki Magayi was published. This notwithstanding that it won an award in 1933. By 1962, Cyprian Ekwensi also published his novel titled An African Night Entertainment. These two books, by commission or omission, happened to be exact replica of each other. They only differed in a way that one was written in Hausa and the other in English. From the first sentence to the last paragraph, Ekwensi appeared to have lifted and translated verbatim the work of John Tafida. I tried to find out whether Tafida’s consent was sought before his work was copy-pasted? I could not get a definitive answer to this query. What is apparent to me is that there is no acknowledgement or reference anywhere to Jiki Magayi as the original idea which Ekwensi stole and appropriated the whole credit for himself. Nothing like that appeared in the preface or foreword of Ekwensi’s plagiarized book.
In the Encyclopedia Britannica entry page, Ekwensi; an Igbo man, was said to have been be born on September 26, 1921, in Minna (present capital of Niger state). By implication, he was barely 12 years when Tafida authored Jiki Magayi. This evidence is a pointer that Tafida wrote his book at the time Ekwensi could not have dreamt of becoming a novelist. Ironically, it appears that there is a grand design to lend this issue a fig leaf. This is a clear case of literary fraud that should not be let to go without correcting the wicked wrongdoing.
It is not uncommon in the literary world to see prominent personalities involved in giraffe of other people’s work without proper attribution. Even Martin Luther of saintly projection was found to have plagiarized some sections of his dissertation. His famous speech titled “I Have a Dream’ was also a subject of contention. Yet no single case to my knowledge is as worst as Ekwensi’s, not even Johnny Cash’s case of absorbing Gordon Jenkin’s lyrics in his song titled “Folsom Prison Blues” could parallel the injustice done to Tafida by Ekwensi.
Finally, I crave the indulgence of Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) and National Copyright Commission to institute a joint probe that would unravel the mystery behind this serious distortion of literary history, or what I choose to call literary fraud of the millennium. We owe it to John Tafida to ensure that justice is done him and his remaining family. If it is discovered that his work was lifted without consent or compensation, every penny derived from that work should be given to his family. The fact that none of them came forward to sue Ekwensi for stealing their work is a signal that they may not be in the right frame of social standing to warrant such. They need this compensation to pay school fees to train more Tafidas. I also expect the federal government of Nigeria to withdraw the national honor awarded to Ekwensi. We have seen in Germany where two ministers (defense and education) were stripped of their PhD honors after it was discovered that they had extensively plagiarized their work.

Booked

"Perhaps, if Nigeria had overhauled its substantive and adjectival laws on corruption by opting for the inquisitorial instead of the adversary and accusatorial approach and prescribing stiffer penalty for the offense, things will be a lot better".- Prof. Akin Oyebode
My take:
This is where Senators Bala Ibn Na-Allah and Dino Melaye should channel their energy not gagging the social media community that aided their ascension to power despite their mostly cheap credentials.
We don't need nobody proposing laws that nobody can successfully implement neither do we need laws that are repressive and anti-people. I'm not bothered about the motives and objectives of the Senators but I'm certainly worried about their cognitive disability to see the inapplicability of the bill even if passed into law. How does Na-Allah intend to check the ease with which a single person could open and operate multiple accounts on any of the social media platforms? You only make laws that can fly. This one is as incapable of flying as a naked day old chick.
The danger of it, while Na-Allah is so engrossed with planning a revenge mission to settle scores with his political foes, he's seen quite unaware of a desperate need for laws that will improve the moral quality of the Nigerian society that, perhaps, he won't need a clearly inapplicable and visibly draconian bill to keep his traduced at bay. Let Na-Allah know, Nigerians are more worried about people with stupendous inexplicable wealth - mostly acquired in public offices than they are worried about torrents of expression of anger against the architects of this bizarre situation.
The fact that Na-Allah is social media compliant and savvy enough to cross path with moral crusaders is enough conviction to deduce that he is embarking on a no win war. Social media is a jungle and quicksand rolled in one. The deeper inside you go, the more your chances of getting lost and the harder you struggle, the more you get trapped in its unforgiving tentacles. In a bizarre twist, it's also friendly and supportive. This, Na-Allah and Melaye could attest to with their presence in a chamber that ordinarily is not only reserved for the very best but, the best with impeccable quality of character not those with resumes dotted with unfinished sentences. The earlier this get into some heads, the better the chance of making Nigeria great by joint rather than exclusive participation.
Professor Oyebode, I say ameeeeeeen to your prayer.

BS.

agarawu23:
baba God na you get the glory o, if no be Nl eh, how I go take meet this my oyinbo pepper soup joy wan mama babe na you let my head dey kolo since the time wey I jam your moniker.
nne eh! make you just take me the way I be na, you know say money no be love .

I dey ready to spend all my dollar for your head if you go be my one and only. joy biko afurunginaya
I don ready to meet your mama & papa so that our love go enter another level

I know fit chop without u
I know fit sleep without u
all my body just dey do me like say dem nak me jass
yesterday instead of make I pour water for kettle, na ground I dey pour am as your love don enta my brain

hope say you go give me chance make I show you say na you be my lost coin jollyjoy

Real kolo.

Baba God have mercy

Akuneshiobike:
International Ashawo at it again!

lmao!

And this hit fp.
Dia ris God oo

When you want to make sweet lie, don't forget to add the atomic of truth.

OZAOEKPE:
I've lost hope in this nation, the judiciary, legislative and the executive arm of government have gone to the almajiris. We've lost this country to the dogs, like PMB might be the last president of this zoo

Go and hang yourself.

PRYCE:
Dan uwa ni ba ma kiyin Arewa ba ne! Maganan da na yi shi ne Yawancin yan Arewa ne masu Yawan rijiyoyin mai a nijeriya kuma ba su samu wadanan Riyayoyin A hanyan gaskiya ba. Ka manta da yan kudu nnan. Surutun banza su ke yi. Na taba zuwan gefen su... na san halinsu. Jirgi daya su ke da yan yamma. Munafuke ne dukan su.

very true.

PRYCE:
Bro ni dan arewa ne... An haife ni, na girma a arewa... in kana so, zan koya maka hausa da cin abincin yan arewa!

yanzu na gamsu kai dan arewa ne. Amma kana daya daga cikin makiyan arewa ko? Ka duba ka gani yadda yan kudu ke kare yan uwansu ko ta halin kaka. A arewa mafi yawan attajiran mu baru taba rike wani mukami ba a gwamnati bare a kirasu da sunan barayin gwamnati. Misali, Aliku dangote da sauransu amma idan muka duba kudu zaka ga kasha casa'in cikin dari na auajiransu du ma'aikatan gwamnati ne.

PRYCE:
Lol What's that?

I am just asking: Northerner? How sure are you?


I just wannan you to prove that you are a northerner.

PRYCE:
Sure!

I'm a northerner and I can categorically tell y'all it's true.

I've been to Maiduguri where the likes of Mai Deribe, Haruna Kida, Terab e.t.c who've got few oil blocs show stupendous wealth... These guys build their gates with Gold.

Look at Danjuma, Abdulsalam, Babangida, Abacha, Gowon, Indimi, Dantata, Atiku, Terab, Ado Bayero just to mention a few.... these guys are bastardly rich and all their wealth can be traced to oil.

But, Small thief no dey... Diezani should face the consequences of her alleged actions.

Dan arewa? Anya kuwa?

Goldmaxx:
okay God saved your ass

Homo alert!

@Topic, Congratulation!

I am a 18years old studying in Bayero university kano. I am current in 300level will graduate next year.

Now we have a listener president.

barcanista:
Okay... I dumped the broom for the Umbrella about six months ago..... Happy with the Umbrella family!

So you left change before the election took place?



Congratulation!



By the way, were you paid to jump off from the train of change?


Can't you see the bruises you are suffering at this time aroung?

discusant:
Lol, barcanista be one man opposition squad. Today he can be against PMB, tomorrow against Igbo, next week against Jonathan.

Lol. May I borrow him half of my username "confusion"?

IzonOwei:
youre really a northernconfusion.... ....

Jonathan, pls correct my username. I am northconfusion not northernconfusion. Ok

GenBloodykiIler:
Northconfusion, so you are the one who bleeped my mother under pick-up in a motor park that give birth to me.

Of course. Na today you know?

barcanista:
Ahhh did you travel?

I am a new here. I did remember when you damble AIT and NTA on documentary they aired about the person of PMB during electionering campaign.

IzonOwei:
If bayelsans are in a fix as to who governs them next between the apc and pdp then I suggest they vote a candidate from a neutral party..bayelsa deserves good governance...

I total agree with you.

GenBloodykiIler:
BeremX is better than my mother in all aspects

Chai! Una don respect your mother? Dia ris God oo