₦airaland Forum

Omofranca:
Just my personal take: I think having come such a long way together and it seems there were no reported issues of physical abuse or infidelity, she should just have endured until he became old and tired as will inevitably happen and then she will have him all to herself! A lot of 'enjoyable' things don't matter any more after a certain age and couples just grow old together peacefully.

I am a man but this opinion of yours is rather kind of selfish. What is the essence of a marriage when couples cannot enjoy their youthfulness together? And relive these moments in their old age? Why do they have to wait till their old age before enjoying each other? This does not make sense. The marriage could as well have waited till their old age then.

Bestlily:
Why is everyone saying the first picture no make sense? I need explanations.

Because the first picture shows a fulani woman. Fulani culture is not one of the indigenous cultures that make up Plateau.
Plateau citizens see Hausa fulanis as trouble makers and thieves who came to settle in Jos from the far north and started laying claims to the city whereas it never belonged to them. Do you get now?

hansomb:
Islam is a complete way of life. It's a gift to humanity not just Arabs. It's the only religion that doesn't discriminate based on race or skin color.

A complete way of life, founded by the Arabs and based on Arabic culture and language? What nonsense.

A religion that claims that Arabic is a divine and superior language because this was the language of the prophet? Tell me about equality.

You see a full fledged black man drop all his unique African ancestral cultural names and aswer a name like AHMED MOHAMMED ABDULLAHI. (Purely Arabic names), is that not madness?

MetaPhysical:
The population of entire Saudi Arabia country is less than Kaduna population. Give them a population density like we have, their crime will skyrocket. Im afraid of that because they will go from beheading 37 people to just condemning a whole village to the sword because Shariah police found a prostitute residing there.

Lol, Kai this guy you get mouth sha

uchefefe:
Please, can you or anyone else explain this to me in more detail?

Hello, I am very delighted to see this post of yours. This gives me a positive hope of the Nigerian diaspora.

Just like someone has told you here, you are more African than many people who live in Africa. The surprising part of it is that you are not even a full Nigerian, you are half.

I have cousins in the diaspora who are Nigerians on both parents sides, yet they show absolute no interests whatsoever in Nigerian languages and cultures.

Just as many have told you here, Igbo, your native language should be your first priority. Then the next option should depend on where you want to reside in Nigeria or what business/ work sector you wish to be immersed in when you base here.

If you wish to settle in Lagos, Ibadan or any south-western state, Yoruba comes in handy. Enugu, Onitsha, Owerri or any South-eastern state, Igbo comes in handy.
Jos, Kaduna, Kano and to an extent Abuja, Hausa comes in handy. While places in the South South region like Port harcourt, Warri, Benin, Calabar e.t.c Pidgin english should just be enough for you.

Just an example, If you want to go into Food crops business for instance, Hausa language would be a lot of help, Importation businesses and products distribution, Igbo would be a lot of help. Etc. So you just need to make your inquiries, but at the end of the day, knowing all 3 major languages is a super benefit and it makes you stand out.

Know that, the average Nigerian feels more easy with and friendlier with you and also trusts you more when you speak with him in his own language.

It's very unfortunate that you have a father who shows great disinterest in promoting his own culture. This looks like a strong inferiority mentality if you ask me. Well, many people even here in Nigeria are plagued with it.

It will be very nice if you visit Nigeria and you go to the South east region to test your language skills, don't be so moved by what you see in the diaspora. Igbo language is still very well spoken and alive in the south east region. It is the common language on the streets. When I was in the university, most Igbos in my department actually conversed in Igbo a lot. Well, perhaps because these Igbos were born and bred in the south east.

Igbos travel out of their homeland a lot and most Igbos outside the south east hardly pass down their language to their children. This is where the problem lies.

Trust me, when it comes to languages dying, Igbo is still decades better than the minority languages in Nigeria. Take for instance, the city where I live in the south south region, Warri. It is quite rare for you to find young people in their teens or twenties who can speak their native languages. Pidgin english is rapidly becoming the mother tongue of the society. Even elderly people in rural areas are very much fluent in Pidgin.

Where I come from in Central Nigeria, Plateau state to be precise, our native languages are seriously dying, but they are being replaced mostly by Hausa and not English.

Please do not get offended at the arrogant replies you received from many people here, just pass them.

And responding to your question above, as a Nigeran in diaspora, it is most likely that you are not well informed on the realities of the Nigerian society. Tribalism is a cancer in Nigeria and it is actually worse than you think it is. This is why you see some of your Igbo brothers pissed at you for even contemplating to learn Yoruba or Hausa language because they feel if it was a yoruba or Hausa in your shoes, they wouldn't even contemplate on what language to learn, and yes, they are kind of right.

Goodluck on your trip coming to Nigeria and like many have advised you, Nigeria is very very difficult compared to the US where you have lived the most of your life. My advice for you is not to come back to settle here, if you do not have enough business capital and financial ideas to afford a quality life for yourself. Take care.

You can DM me if you need more explanations on some points I have touched above and perhaps more.

Pascopele:
Just a friendly reminder that all hose Sit-Ups you're doing to burn belly fat is a scam

Sit ups don't burn belly fat
Sit ups don't burn belly fat
Sit ups don't burn belly fat
Sit ups don't burn belly fat
Sit ups don't burn belly fat
Sit ups don't burn belly fat

Will sit ups reduce your abdominal fat?

Short answer: No

Long answer: No, Sit ups will strengthen and tone your abdominal muscles

Some believe that exercising a muscle will burn the fat around that muscle.

THIS IS NOT TRUE

Regular, whole-body exercises burn calories and fat.

Are sit ups useless?

No, they help strengthen your abdominal core, but you can have a very strong core with layers of fat covering it.

To burn belly fat, you need 45 minutes of high-intensity activity (running, playing soccer or basketball, jumping rope.) on most days

Thank you for this piece. I always thought in this line.

GBOKASINCHA:
Wetin consign us with this burukutu and gbete plateau politics if i call fulani for them now dem go begin cry say i dey wicked

Do you know that you are very senseless and stupid for making this kind of comment? Can't you just read and ignore if it is not your concern?
Or is nairaland for only issues concerning your state?

nasoeb:
Abeg make we hear word, beron man speaking hausa or answering musa is he from hausa? You guys are just so pathetic, and I mean 99percent of yall. Why do you think you have monopoly to those numenclature.as far as we are concern igbos didnt fall from Heaven, they simply got their language from somewhere or its influence by another dialect or language and that could be any language including the ikas qed

I don't think you can usse the Berom man example herw sir. I am from Plateau state and even though we speak Hausa very well, we atill have our own different native languages which we also speak. You guys in Anioma have no distinct native languages which you speak aside your Igbotic dialects.

As for me, I think it would be better for you guys to claim to be Igbos. In a Country like Nigeria where minority groups are opressed and misrepresented, it's puzzling how you guys will choose to be associated with a minority identity rather than a majority one. Just my opinion though.

Obi1kenobi:
German and Dutch are not "mutually intelligible". They just come from the same Germanic languages family. It's like saying Yoruba and Bini are mutually intelligible. Danish and Swedish (and Norwegian) are though, but hundreds of years of history and geographic realities have forged distinct identities for each group.
Russian and Ukrainian are from the same language family, but they are not mutually intelligible, though sharing common words. If you're a Russian from St.Petersburg who has never been to Ukraine and you landed in Kyiv, you would barely understand native speakers.
These are very large groups of people with ancient histories that have spurred the distinctiveness you see today. Ethnic Russians or Ukrainians are large language groups. It's not the same thing as Isoko people asserting a different identity from Urhobo people. I want to know the basis of saying Isokos are different from Urhobos, and not just a slightly different sub-group of Urhobos. Simply saying so isn't a reason. Why are they a different group?

As much as I respect your submissions sir, I think you are contradicting yourself. First of all, Isoko language is more different from Urhobo languages than Crotian is different from Serbian or Slovenian, as well as Norwegian is different from Swedish.

I was born and bred in Delta state and I can tell you that the average Urhobo speaker doesn't understand Isoko well, but Isokos on the other hand understand Urhobo better.

At the end of the day, I think people should just be free to claim whatever identity they want. If Isokos say they are not urhobo, it's left for them, if they want to be urhobo fine for them. They should decide.

What you said about Han chinese is true, the difference between them is so wide but they choose to identify as one ethnic group, same with the Arabs, but Europeans on the other hand are not really that way, they too kind of divide themselves like we Africans, otherwise Europe wouldn't have so much ethnic based countries.

Just for the records, standard official German which is based on a more central dialect may not be very similar to Dutch, but as you go northwards Germany, the regional local German dialects of Northern Germany are very similar and mutually intelligible to Dutch. Same way as you go towards the Austrian border, the German there starts sounding more Austrian.

So, I think nineone has a point.

The Baltics (Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian) are very similar but different ethnicities and nationalities. Spanish and Portuguese very similar but different. Galician in spain and Portuguese are just like the same language.

More examples.
Central Asians (Kyrgyz, Uzbeks and Turkmens) are very similar but different nationalities and ethnicites.
Turkish and Azeris are literally the same, but different identities. How about Persians, Daris (Afghans) and Tajiks? How about Balkan nationalities?

Naajjii:
My friend this an igbo person's hand work, you think Hausa fulani got time for such hate. The Op is clearly frustrated that middlebelter obviously dont cared about fraudulent Biafra, hence this vrer bad taste post. MIDDLEBELT Clashed with igbo, when you tried to steal oil from Kogi state and the problem is there till today.If you want peace with middlebelt tell your people to stay off that oil.

I'm from the middlebelt.

Westaslave2:
From Goddess of biafra~
I remember in 2015 during election when i use to go to aliade ,zaki biam and some parts of jos for bulk yam and provision businesses respectively for my elder brother .Tiv people will be shouting igbos Vote PDP and die ,like yorubas are telling igbos in the west.Believe me my igbo children is just the replical of what happened in benue in 2015 is happening in the west today . In jos they will say *you igbos we will kill you all if you talk bad about Apc*
I was in plateau around 2014 during my graduation from an institution and my fellow christians from jos are saying 'Igbos we hate you people more than the devil and dont mind shedding our last blood like 1967 in making you people keep quiet...the same was said about igbos in Zaki biam and gboko "What is happening now ?
Do you know we have 6 types ,sect and group of killers in south kaduna, benue ,jos some part of kogi ...As an executive of a coalition we know every hidden agenda but because of topic removal "it dosent matter posting it.
Now people who planned to kill my people are so busy sacrificing their love ones just to avert looming genocide in their town, Karma is not buhari who hate justice , Since You want to annihilate igbos they they do business or you want their provisions and electronics ,karma is now making you so busy ..I havent heard for a long time that northerners burnt igbos shop or kill igbos Why because they are so busy fighting murderers ,terrorist, kidnappers and demon on verge of growing wings in zamfara,yobe ,borno,katsina ,kano ,kaduna etc
The truth is that igbos enjoyed buhari's govt more than any other tride because apart from political killings of ipob agitators by army whom they are asks to pay igbos more than £1billion.

Karma watches us from lagos and puerto rico ..he is coming

I can see that this is a very foolish post from a Hausa fulani man in order to cause hatred between Igbos and middlebelters.

Nonsense, show me one time when middlebelt indigenes have ever clashed with Igbos on their soil.

NairobiWalker:
Wow. How did you know you were tagged in a thread you left when he didn't write your full name? Only genieluv's name was written in full. I'm starting to believe him now.

PS - The word is loser, not looser

Imbecille. Jonraid mentioned my name and mtisTheQubit quoted him. Like I always tell you guys and will keep on saying. Go back to your alma mata and request for a refund of your tuition fees.

mtisTheQubit:
Genieluv was actually Nowe..they come from same area..argue the same stuff an now they've disappeared an will appear same time..

I hope you know that you are actually an idiot? I know that you guys enjoy the pleasure of my company, but you'll never get it.
We have left the thread for you loosers to keep on masturbating.

Hotfreeze:
He's a Christian from an indigenous minority in Bauchi. He has always had his base solid cos his people love him. Apc or PDP, he would have always retained his seat.

Problem is he's from the minority in Bauchi and can't even become the Governor there cos he's from a minority group.

Majority presidential votes in that place would go to Buhari though. Some of his people in PDP are voting Buhari. They aren't voting Apc, they're voting Buhari.

I would rather you just say he is from a minority religion. Bauchi state is like 80% muslim and as such a christian cannot go far in politics beyond his constituency.

Otherwise, most ethnic groups in Bauchi state are minorities. There is no absolute ethnic majority in Bauchi state.

0koyeeboz:
Can Bukola Saraki represent the SW in a political meeting?

Could someone like Sunday Awoniyi from Kogi represent the SW?

No, but they can represent yorubas in a meeting.

Ethnic affiliation is very different from Geo political zoning. I am from Plateau state, but we share more relationship with Southern Kaduna people who are part of the North-west than we share with Kwara or Kogi people.

0koyeeboz:
When you need to so strenuously explain the point, such point becomes a lie.

You may be correct but the intention of the impostor was fraudulent.

The question is: why should a Borno man stand in for the Middle Belt?

Borno is never middle belt but cos Atiku is a pickpocket from Cameroon and his Vice is a liar from China, Borno suddenly became Middle Belt.

Borno south (the Buras, Marghis, Chiboks & Gwoza people) are regarded as part and parcel of the middlebelt. Middlebelt is not for North central alone.

pacespot:
I wish this weather is distributed all around the world. In fact, I love harmattan, winter, snow, and all the cold weather. It is unfortunate some races have taken over the best parts of this planet: Russia, Canada, USA, China, Europe, Australia, etc. They don't have mosquitoes in those places, their citizens enjoy the best temperature in the world and economy. If I must relocate to these countries, it has to be because of their weather. I love cool places.

African sun can fry human brain

That is not true my brother. Do you know we in the tropical areas are actually blessed with warm weather?

People living in iceland pray for warm weather which they experience only 1 month in a year. It snows for 11 month in iceland and when the warm weather manages to reach in July, everyone take a break from work, businesses and school just to enjoy the warm weather. And guess what? This warm weather is just something around 12°c which is a proper cold weather here.

Do you know that in these cold countries, winter gets so bitterly cold sometimes that for weeks there is no form of movement? All the roads are covered with snow, there are snow storms, hence there is no form of movement, flights are cancelled, businesses and schools are closed down. People get frost bites as soon as they go outside their houses.
Woe unto you if you don't have enough food in your house to keep you through the weeks. Thank God for technological advancement today. In those days, these people had to chop enough firewood for them and their cattles before the winter to keep them warm during the winter or they die of cold. They have to gather enough food in their houses for themselves and their animals for the winter or they will starve. That's why the white man has the parable (make hay while the sun shines), cos they can stay for weeks and months without seeing the sun.
That is typically unlike in our part of the world where we can farm every day, go to work and do business every day. For no reason whatsoever do we get trapped in our houses for weeks without being able to come out. We are blessed abeg.

drlateef:
What an illiterate you are? Onoghen was suspended, not removed. That's a lacuna is the law. The law does not talk about suspension. You must remember that the courts also make laws where they find a lacuna in the constitution. A former CBN governor was also suspended by Jonathan, it was argued that this was also not known to law. The difference here is that Jonathan did not rely on the law courts to make his pronouncement. He did it by himself, making himself the law giver. Yet nobody shouted and pulled down the roof. Buhari relied on the law court pronouncement, so he is better than Jonathan in that respect. The law court pronouncement has become the law as it is. That's why I call you an illiterate.

How come supposedly educated individuals juxtapose the office of a CBN governor who is an appointee of the executive arm of government to a whole Chief judge who is the head of another arm of government of it's own just like the Senate president ?

The Nigerian education system is in trouble for us to have people like you.

discusant:
"Security forces to be deployed to kill innocent Nigerians protesting the rape of democracy."


But ask: are the security officers not humans who are also seeing the evils going on in this govt?

What type of military indoctrination can make a soldier defend evil fashioned by this Buhari cabal against Nigeria?

Hmm, no offence, but you asking this kind of question will make anyone think you are a child.

I can't believe you are questioning the evil conscience of the military. World all over, dictators have been making use of the military to intimidate and kill innocent civilians without the batting of an eyelid.

TayserMahri:
Thats her opinion. As for me I would choose Ethiopia or Uganda. Before choosing Tanzania I would have already chosen Somalia.

Empty false words to blow your fake ego. Why did the EAC fail without Tanzania?
A Kenya/Uganda merger cannot really be progressive or make any reasonable impact.

The question was asked on Quora, which country would you like your country to be merged with and this was the reply from a Kenyan.

Kazikazi, so Kenyans really love and wish to be one with Tanzania, but the likes of TayserMahiri, gallivant, mtisTheQubit00, NairobiWalker, rvp20183 keep saying rubbish about TZ just to save face.

kaleam:
Yesterday 19th January was a great surprise for APC Bauchi, This is just one Local Government.

Tafawa Balewa LGA together with Bogoro LGA are the only christian dominated areas of Bauchi that's why you can see this crowd.
Most christians here see APC as an islamic party.

Just30:
Juliet is a basket case
she has lost her identity and she needs to see a shrink

Juliet just cannot have enough of Nigeria

There are so many Ghanaians in Nigeria, just that they easily blend in into Nigerian culture somehow and you may never know that they are Ghanaians.
Ghana as a country is too small and culturally powerless to acculturate Nigerians that's why it seems like there are too many Nigerians there.

gallivant:
Noweuseless claimed Nigeria has no slums, just Makoko. I am guessing it's the codeine, you?

Nigeria has no full blown slum community except Makoko.
Any other area you call a slum in Nigeria has nice middle class areas too, hence that community cannot be called a slum.

NairobiWalker:
I see how you're trying to save face by conveniently inserting "and some few other places" to save your ass from the lies you told.

Dude, I posted you photos of greenpark estate (which you didn't even know: interesting for somebody who claims to understand Nairobi inside out) and Runda to respond to your claims and you're conveniently ignoring it to focus on Kariobangi? Just accept you lack knowledge and spoke out of ignorance to save your lying ass.

Meanwhile show me those other middle income areas in Lagos outside Lekki, Victoria and CBD that can compare with Nairobi areas outside CBD and Westlands.

Even parts of Ajegunle (which you call a full blown slum can pass for middle income areas). The joke is now on you

NairobiWalker:
I'm ignoring that No-ones-anus idiot. He's not the person you can have a serious discussion with. He speaks from his anus reason I avoided responding to him. He thinks posting a few photos of good houses in Ajegunle - most which are hoaxes from those 419 guys - makes Ajegunle not a slum. Dude doesn't know even in Kibera there are nice houses. Ask him to post a nice aerial view of those Ajegunle houses he speaks of and he won't.

Meanwhile hear is what you you get when you google Ajegunle.

Animal.

I guesss google maps is also lying.

tylann:
No Kenyan uses 2g network
In terms of internet we even beat USA
We can even show you good houses in kibera not all houses are shacks in kibera
Some are middle income apartments
But kibera is a slum and ajegunle is a slum not slummish
So stop fooling yourself and post real pictures of ajegunle

Show us the good houses in Kibera or any other Kenyan slums, don't just use your changaa drinking mouth to sing it.

Did you just say I should show you the real Ajegunle? You are hopeless.

Kazikazi:
While we are busy producing stuffs,and exporting them,some dude call us lazy! Now look at this...

Whoever said Tanzanians were lazy? The real lazy people are those who sit down in groups to drink Chang'aa and Busaa day and night while the whites, Somalis and Indians dominate their economy.
Then later on, from their slums, they come online to post pictures of houses in Nairobi which only whites, Indians & Somalis live and do business.

theenchanter:
i decided not to reply cos we'll keep arguing over n over which i detest.

*In kenyans mind*..... Nairobi has a population of about 4m and lagos about 20m, if nairobi could have like 5 slums, Lagos should have 5X their slums.

I'm still waiting for d slums to be converted to per capita.

You silent male biitches with facts bro.
Kenyans just desperately wish to see Nigeria at their level, especially in the housing sector, but it's just impossible.

NairobiWalker:
If Ajegunle is not a full blown slum then Nigeria is a developed country on the same level as Japan.

More from Ajegunle to knock you, gallivant & tylann out.
Nigeria can never be like Kenya where millions of people live in dozens of full blown slums everywhere.

Just as genieluv has told you guys, the Nigerian housing and land ownership system does not encourage slum explosion and profileration.
Nigeria would never have had a full blown slum had Makoko not been on the waters.

NairobiWalker:
If Ajegunle is not a full blown slum then Nigeria is a developed country on the same level as Japan.

Iamleefact:
Nice, tell us more about these as well

Agege
Ajegunle
Amukoko
Badia
Bariga
Bodija
Ijeshatedo/Itire
Ilaje
Iwaya
Makoko
Mushin
Oke-Offa Babasale
Somolu

Yourself, gallivant and tylann are all ignoramuses. You want to drag Nigeria to Kenya's level abi?

Take your 2g network phones and google HOUSE FOR RENT IN AJEGUNLE and see what comes out.

We will keep on hitting it into your coconut heads! Makoko is the only full blown slum in Nigeria.

See houses from Ajegunle below. Can you show such houses from Kibera or Mathare?

She looks masculine and not so pretty. She is aging.