Children of hate won't like this...haha...The divide and rule tactics seem not to be working.

EggovinMma:


Lmao! !!

Lmao! !!

So nobody even bother say funmi papa dey fuccck her anyhow? What kind of life is this biko nu? And even on here, You guys just like the teachers aren't even bothered ke?


I'm speechless!

It's a shame that none of them has the decency and integrity to call this act what it is....tufia!
Funny this happens all over Nigeria even in the east but this Yorubas here are pitiful....make I hear anybody scream sophristicashion again!!!

kenny987:
I can't believe no one here even expressed any outrage at the fact that a man was constantly raping his daughter hence her penchant for running away from home. She could have run into ritualists that would then kill her and harvest body parts for their evil activities!

I can't believe no one was bothered about the nonchalant attitude of d teachers towards d students further destroying the already poor educational standards.

I can't believe how some see it as an excuse to display tribal sentiments and reduce it to a dirty comparison of tribes...trying to defend the Yoruba tribe from a perceived attack by an Igbo person...how?

Still I shouldn't be surprised cos it only points to one truth that can never be hidden...One Nigeria is a sham n scam! Split already and let's be 'friendly' neighbours with our territorial integrity intact. Good gracious!

Nigeria is a sorry place to come from....tufia!

I have seen the wisdom that flows like milk and honey in the Yoruba man...I can almost forgive if few made this shocking discovery to be about tribalism but when 90% of y'all towed the same tribal line I give up. Is there anything in the write-up that suggests the writer was a bigot or a tribalist ?

Why are you people so senseles even at the detriment of your own people....Ndi Yoruba,unu amasikwor ife

It's Thursday! Throw back Thursday!! I'm having a little hangover from yesterday's excitement but I'm good! I'm chewing on some veggie chips and shrimp crackers, my saviours. Today I noticed that seeing naked mannequins make me uncomfortable, I just want to run to them, clothes in hand. Why are they all white in Nigeria, those mannequins? Someone on my Facebook said they use bleaching cream and I found the answer hilarious!

Photo belongs to the internet, not me.

Oh well, you remember I served at a secondary school in Abeokuta back in 2012 and it was quite interesting. It was interesting because I observed a lot being around those kids. For instance, I found that most Yoruba parents report their kids to teachers concerning issues that took place at home and demand they get punished for it in school. I just didn't understand why a kid would disobey their parents at home and then they wait till the next day to tell their teacher so they get flogged. I found that half the whipping these kids got where for offences committed at home which the teachers obviously did not witness. This act I did not find funny in any way.

The flogging technique as a way of instilling discipline was a norm in that school and it was unsettling for me. They said the kids deserved it because they were stubborn, noisy and disrespectful. The funny thing though was that these teachers entered the classroom with all sorts and sizes of canes but the class was never quiet. They didn't mind being flogged, they had been flogged so much in their lifetime it was nothing to them. Imagine a woman who has had to bear ten children, will pain of childbirth and labour still be news to her? Before any teacher leaves their classroom, they would have flogged half of the pupils and they would still be screaming at the top of their voices.

I also noticed that the teachers taught them everything in Yoruba, including English Language. I found it funny at first and then after sometime, it became annoying. I asked the teachers I was friendly with at the staffroom and they would say things within the lines of "they are not smart ni, what can one do? if you like speak English from morning till night, they will not understand what you're saying. Only few of them understand, will you now speak English for the sake of one or two persons when they can all understand Yoruba?" I am all for learning your local language but this was just extreme! Wont they write WAEC? Wont they go out into the world? Anyway, back to the flogging wahala.

My case was very different. I was taking Jss3 students Literature in English and during my first class with them, my supervisor came with me, naturally dragging along with him all kinds of canes so he was in charge. The second day, I went alone. I asked for a chair and I sat down because standing for too long wasn't my calling. I sat down and I told them I didn't know a single word in Yoruba so they would be wasting their time if they were thinking I was going to communicate in their language. I told them I was allergic to unnecessary sound so noisemaking in my class was not an option. I explained to them that noise generates heat and since they didn't have fans in their classroom, I wasn't prepared to sweat at all. Then last but not least, I told them how I hated to waste my energy, and that I considered flogging a total waste of energy. I told them that anyone who gave me reason to consider borrowing a cane will never step foot in my classroom again. While I delivered this oscar deserving speech, you could hear a pin drop, as in muo nso gafee.

I finished and they all sat up while I wrote down the definition of Literature on the board. From that day onwards, it was the same. They would come and call me thirty minutes before time and my class became interesting! Everyone noticed the change in Jss3E, I had a personal relationship with my kids. Sometimes, the teachers would say things like "where's corper Doris, please go to SS2, they're making noise there"

After a while, my kids started respecting other teachers as well by not making noise when they were around. I told them no one should flog any of them without my permission. The day I told them that, you would have thought that someone won a lottery with their level of excitement. I didn't want anyone flogging my kids because some parent or guardian came to report one silly issue.

The teachers said Jss3E people where now untouchable, they joked about it. They tried to move me to another class but my kids wouldn't have it, I wouldn't have it either. The teachers said it was good so that other classes could enjoy small. Enjoy what? I thought. If you people took your jobs a little seriously, these kids will be fine.

I set the mid-term test and they failed woefully. I complained about it at the staffroom and a teacher said this to me- see, not everybody will be successful in life. If everyone becomes successful, who will be my house-help? Who will be my driver? These children are not serious, leave them jare. I called some of the students who did well and assigned the other ones to them, I thought if their mates taught them, they just might understand better.

I was preparing my lesson notes one day in an empty classroom when a girl from my class came to tell me that a teacher was about caning one of my students because her father came to report her. She said they did as I instructed by asking the teacher to get my permission but he didn't listen. I got up and walked to the staffroom but by the time I got there, she was already being flogged. The teacher repeatedly asked her to kneel in front of him while he flogged her because she kept moving away out of fear. I got there and stopped him, asking why she was being flogged. The teacher told me her father said she was very stubborn at home and didn't sleep in the house the previous day. He said he had been asking her where she spent the night but she had disrespectfully refused to answer. "Where you in their house yesterday?" I asked the teacher. "Where you there when it happened? Why do you think it is your job to discipline her for something you didn't witness? An offence she committed at home" The teacher ignored me and kept asking her to kneel down close to him.

I went and stood in front of my student and the teacher kept saying it wasn't my business. I told him it was as much my business as it was his. The staffroom became heated and noisy, they were speaking Yoruba and I couldn't get anything out of the man because he obviously didn't know any English. Amidst the argument and noise and tension, my student said something in Yoruba but no one heard. One of my bright students was there too watching the goings on when I asked the girl to repeat herself, she did but i didn't understand her. The bright student interpreted what she said to me in English and I fell in a chair close to me. The other teachers stopped to ask why I reacted like that but I couldn't speak. "Funmi, tell them what you just said." She said it again and there was absolute silence. Funmi said her father forces her to have sex with him all the time, thats why she runs away from the house.

One of the female teachers ran to the man and started hitting him, slapping and shoving him. He just stood there, emotionless. What audacity, I thought. He raped this girl on a daily basis and had the guts to report her in school for not coming home the previous day? I just sat there, staring at Funmi whose head was bowed the entire time. The man was pushed out of the school compound. I asked if they weren't going to report him to the police, "which police? so that they can start asking for money abi? And then his partners in crime will go and bail him abi?" My heart was crushed.

Funmi's Agric teacher took her home that day and the next day, the teachers analysed the issue at the staffroom, they all agreed that it was either Funmi wasn't the man's biological daughter or he was doing some form of juju that required him to sleep with his daughter to function. I was so sad for Funmi and I imagined what it must have been like, being raped over and over again by your own father. I was angry because this man went scot-free.

The flogging in my school reduced drastically. The teacher who flogged Funmi that day couldn't look me in the face, he was so ashamed of himself and I wanted him to feel more guilt and shame, I wished there was something I could do to make him feel twice the shame he was already feeling. I thought of all the other students and what they must be hiding behind those eager faces, I wondered what their stories were. What hurt me most, was the nonchalance on the part of the teachers, how normal and ordinary it seemed to them.

odumchi:
I'm interested in seeing how you guys would translate "dangerous" in your various dialects. A sentence incorporating the translation would be appreciated too.

Dangerous-Akanjo in Umuoji dialect.

ChimaAdeoye:


It is hilarious in a sad way when i read about empty vessels trying to lecture their parents about cultural links.
In any case, that is education for another day as we have an urgent need to relocate. I shall upload a book on Amichi origins here and you will see exactly our history.

In the interim, we need to get an alternative platform. That is the only issue i am prepared to engage with right now.

I believe I was somewhat civil when I replied your post ,though you claim to be some kind of deluded "parent" yet don't know the first thing about.....Kwanyelu onwe yi ugwu. Onye ana ekili-ekili adiro mma ikpo ntu!

investnow2013:
TBREAKING NEWS! GOV. WILLIE OBIANO today donated over twenty five smart patrol vehicles to the Nigerian police force of Anambra state chapter. The event which is ongoing at the Dr. ALEX EKWUEME SQUARE is part of what the Governor is doing in the area of security for effective and efficient security services across the state

Haha....Criminals should know Obiano is just warming up.....no room for crime!

Kagame:


Rat poison kwa? Onwero ife anya fuu gba mmee..

....wrong guy.

SpaceTour:
Firstly I am from Uga. I don't think we need comments from other persons outside the state. We need that site to brainstorm on the further advancement of Anambra without any distraction. Anambra members on NL alone are more than some regions put together, so what we need to work on is to bring them wherever they are to know that such a site is now open for posts and deliberations.

Guy,he has a valid point but the site should go as planned and changes can be made later.

ChimaAdeoye:


[size=13pt]Chino,
Are you an Igbo first before Anambra or vice versa?
I am from Amichi and you are from Anam, which makes us from the same state as Nigeria says.
But, What makes you think my people won't consider Urualla, Osina, Akokwa or Arondizogu or Orlu people as culturally closer to us, than yours in Anambra north?Even though we are from the same state? Why do you insist on the artificial boundaries created by Nigeria as recently as 1991, instead of our ancestral affiliations that is hundreds of years old?

You always have a myopic mind. So you'd prefer the site to have no visitors because you don't like Imo people?

Remember yoruba people don't like you,but for the benefit of their site, they opened it to include you to help it succeed.
I remember when Igboson and a few others requested Spyder to help us create an Anambra thread, you and a few others opposed the idea and actually ruined our first thread. Until Frank tried again and opened this one for us. Which you tried again in vain to ruin several times.

in a few months after you post a comment on Omambala and no response or view for weeks, while everyone is still here on NL, you will see how myopic mindsets like yours ALWAYS lead to constant failures.[/size]

First off,you are short in knowledge about the cultural links between your people and Anambra north....So,drop that arguement. Secondly,it doesn't make any sense to say you are more Anambra than Amichi which is where you hail from,the same logic you are applying to Chino's scenario. I don't know about you but I am first Anambrarian before Igbo because I have little or no cultural link with the man in Abia....Nwanne,charity begins at home....Let OmanbalaErika go ahead and maybe later he can change the name to accommodate the rest. Don't get too emotional about this.

I sight Kagame....
No go drink rat poison like Awo

Let him go ahead with the initial idea because we know most people who are gonna patronize him at this stage are Anambrarians. He might later change the name.
Esi na unor dili mma ewee puta n'ezi.

Umu Omanbala you can reach me at Ifediorannaemeka@yahoo.com

I see what this thread is turning into....bye

okwadatigbogal:
Many of u igbos hate Rochas simply because he's an APC person and nothing else. Was election not conducted this year?? was it not the same imo people that voted him?? Why wasn't he removed, if he was that bad? I started hearing about this Rochas hate propaganda immediately t he joined APC, before then Rochas was everyone's sweetheart. Rochas was one of the founding fathers of PDP, so for him to have left, there must be a very valid reason! Whether u like it or not, we are Nigerians at the moment and no-one can live in isolation from other groups. One thing that i like about typical Imolites is that they don't conform, if you're not doing well, u are shown the door. I can say that Imo state people generally are less likely to be tribalistic. All they care about most times is good governance without caring much about party affiliations. There has been no PDP governor in Imo since Achike Udenwa, they care more about the person that party affiliations. Let us stop being divisive in Igbo land, it is really bad! His only crime is that he's the only APC governor in the south-east. Igbos really hate themselves and believe me, with this attitude, Biafra will never stand. Sullivan Chime, you all were shouting about, was it not only Enugu town(capital) he touched??But when u read about him, mumus will be exaggerating that he transformed Enugu. I used to live in Enugu and its only Enugu town that there's sign of development. What about Anambra?? Exaggerations as usual! There is NOTHING special happening in any of the eastern states! They are still the same thing all over. Onitsha is still the same old dirty rustic town, but simply because the governor is not an APC person, he has automatically become a saint. Pls, lets stop this unnecessary hate and bashing of other groups, it is irritating. I can tell the group of people that have hijacked this thread.

NB: I pity ur life if u come here and menstruate under my comment, especially if u are an illiterate! If u have nothing intelligent to say without curses, don't come here!

Onitsha is dirty and rustic? Is this a joke ? I smell jealousy.

I am waiting for OmanbalaErika to open his site so I can park up.

tonychristopher:
I will not comment more because I have not traveled home for like 2yrs but this Christmas will see me in anambra bee nna m

Then I can critique objectively

While you are at it try and buy a quality camera and get us loads of quality pictures...something better than what investnow uses...

What can I say...Nice structures in "OWERRI".

Seun,nkpulu amu gi gbawaa deer!
Now ,ban me.

Nnewiboi:




that's casuarina tree. it can be found in all old missionary schools and church compound all over anambra state.

remember back then at Holy Ghost Juniorate seminary Ihiala. this is standard cane.

koboko dey learn work for whistling pine. if our rector. Rev fr. Leo okeke flog u. U go see Ur ancestors

I get you....The stems has smooth skin.

patrick89:
While I was going I took this...

That tree by the fence look like pine tree....Didn't know pine grow in Anambra.

liberty300:
Mehn, I was hoping to see skyscrapers being constructed are green wood...guess I'll be disappointed

Nwayo ka eji alacha ofe di oku.....Ejiro ike alaru ula.

Gamechanger:
Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Igbariam

Guy,we need more pictures of that University...We haven't forgotten the 5 billion Obi sunk there.

SpaceTour:
The future of Anambra lies in Anambra North: International Cargo Airport, Refinery, Worldclass State University, Petrochemical Plant, Crude/Gas reserves, Coscharis Farms, Ekcel Farms etc

The region equally has 100% arable land.

I support every infrastructural development going on in this all important region.

Omambala ebuka!

You couldn't have said it any better.....Anambra north is the future..

SpaceTour:
Now this is America! Every part of Anambra is receiving attention..

Omambala erika!

Nna,akpa amu unu dere! I missed the 500th page party...Anyway,nsogbu akaro nku.

Kagawa10:

LOL!
Nigeria owns the borders and can do whatever they like with it!

Have you seen the map of Biafra and who is included
And you think when time comes they will chose Nigeria without weighing their potions
You need a red hot slap to wake you from deep snoring sleep

oduastates:
Every single one of those country has a unique geographical, demographical,historical and cultural selling point.
Switzerland and Luxembourg are simply extentions of Germany,France. They enjoy and share in the goodwill of their parent countries in much the same way the Anglo countries US,Canada,Australia,United Kingdom and new Zealand share their success and economic bounty.
Those countries can be regarded as manaco with presidents.
Botswana is blessed with ridiculous numbers and variety of wildlife. That is before you consider her proximity to south Africa which she has been able to leverage as a laid back sanctuary for people who want to escape the bustle of south Africa
Ethiopia is a centre of civilisation.

Great mind builds great society....What has Nigeria achieved with all their resources?

joseph1832:
Oh do please shut up! You're just leaving in self delusion!

Thunder fire that your fingers you used in typing that .....money looking yoloba!

Kagawa10:

The reality is Nigeria don't need to fight biafra anyway like Awolowo envisaged in the latter part of the civil war!
All Nigeria needs is to block the borders to prevent food, investments nor shipment to your phantom Biafra and the same kwarshiokor fate would be wrought once again!

And who will give you the power to block the border....
And with what ? Your improvised canoes