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achi4u: Onyeisi,kedu egwu-agwa-ra-ogwa dika nke a?,ibibo obuzi asusu igbo?
Biko ka anyi buru uzo tacha nke anyi kpu tupu anyi atabiri ozo.

Onyeisi,'rikom' a itinyere na "ikuziri(')m ibibio)oziri ezi?.N'uche m "m" kwesiri ikwuru onwe ya.

udu diri unu.

toshmann: Ify Ify Ify
Akpo Ro m gi ugboro ole?
Aga m eji eze steel-iron-concrete mu a taa gi aru n'ara o. Gakwaa gbara ogwu gi ñuo. Okwa darfur ahapula gi gbafuo, si na ochoga ego. Jide onwe gi o. Mgbe m si gi bia Chinchi-n'ata (Cincinnati) kuo mu nkwa, gi mee m 'the more you look'. Hapu m oo. I choro ibutere m obituary.

Adabekee wu nwanne mmadu. Aga m enye ya protection from wolves di ka agaba na Odumchi

anonymous6: hello moderators, One of my threads has been hidden: "Who are the top ten most handsome & hottest Ghanian actors": https://www.nairaland.com/789010/most-handsome-hottest-ghanian-actor (same problem as last time), don't know why but can the thread please be unhidden please. Please can you help me like you did last time on my other thread, thank you

achi4u: Nwanne mmadu,otu ihe ka m na gi na ekwu.Ngwa guhari okwu n'ile ndi aghu m onwe m dere ka ihu na Obu akwa ariri ka m na ebe nighi ndahachiazu umu igbo dahachiri n'ide ma obu isu asusu igbo.

ya bu na echiche gi dika aki mmiri si na igwe wee daa.

ka chukwu gozie gi ma chewekwa umu igbo n'ile no ebe a makwa ebe uwa soturu.

achi4u: Onyeisi,Oburu na anyi amaghi ede asusu anyi nke oma,Obuzi awusa ka obu Yoruba ka anyi ga ama edeta nkeoma?,ya mere umu igbo ka anyi jisie ike na ede igbo izugbe karia iji olu mba nke ga esi ike nghota.

Eziokwu, ide igbo izugbe tara akpu mana anyi ama ji mgbagbu ghara ogu.
Ejikwa m oghere a n'ekele unu n'ile maka oke mbo unu na agba ihu na asusu anyi na aga nihu.

udu diri unu

ifyalways: Ada bekke biko ekwekwala Toshman bia gi nso.O kpa gi aka,i dila ime.Ojikwa anya adowa crotchet.

NRI PRIEST: Odum,you need to let her know that its not just any pepper; It has to be "ose oji" and its not the one you use in cooking. TAKE NOTE!!

ChinenyeN: Igba iche maka ochichi aha, o si n'umu isu Igbo? Ihe m na-ekwu bu na e kwesighi ime umu isu Igbo ka o so n'ihe na-agba iche, madu aga chota ochichi aha. Ile o du sef, a na-azu ochichi aha azu, ma a ga ana-azuta ya na-agbanyighi umu isu Igbo. Ya mere ana m asi ka i chota uzo ozo ka nma. Forgive my weak attempt with Izugbe; just hope I made sense.

ItsModella: They can like to divide the entire country but they should leave my Anambra alone.

emöfine2: ^^^
I don't eat it frequently but only when I have assignments and I may have to stay up late - that's where the bitter taste helps me

I wouldn't actually mind trying out that combination with spiced peanut butter and garden egg...sounds slightly appetizing lol.



Did you like the taste?

firestar: Ingredients:
Kola nuts
Peanut butter (Spiced with what actually?)

Method of preparation?

ChinenyeN: Kedu ihe gbasara umu isu Igbo na onye na-acho title? A naghi azu title azu?

Onlytruth: Nke a bu omalicha atumatu puru iche!
Emee ya, umu nwoke Igbo nile, ndi na acho iche nze na ozo ga ebido igba mbo rinne ihu na umu ha ma asu Igbo ofuma.

Ana m ekele gi Odum maka olu oma di iche iche i na aluru umu Igbo na Nairaland.
Jisie ike nwanne.

ChinenyeN: Ochi.

NRI PRIEST: Where is this king from? Very rich culture. Looks like Anambra group.

nedu210: @ ọdumchi, nke bu ezi okwu bu na uta dili ndi nne na nna maka ọdida asụsụ igbo na ada na ebe umu ha no, mana na otu aka ahu, ọbukwa oke na olu dili umu igbo i na asu asụsụ igbo agbanye ghi obodo obuna anyi nwetalu onwe anyi.
Umu igbo anyi kwesilu nu i na akwado asụsụ anyi maka onye kwọọ ọba ya mkpọkọlọ agbata obi enwelu gha kwoo afifi.
Ọdumchi ekene m gi na ozi a i wetalu anyi, chukwu gbaa gi ume ma nye kwa umu igbọ akọ na uche ka ha nwelu mala na asụsụ anyi di ka oku oriọn enyelu anyi na aka etosighi inyi na aka anyi ma ọri.
Ndiigbo ka anyi mulu nu anya ka azu na ebe asụsụ anyi nọ.
Chukwu gọzia umu igbo ndewo n.

Odunnu: Ify 1
ify 2
ify 3
e na cho m okwu o!
I'll report you to Agaba o.
@Odumchi: abu m onye obodo a. My problem bu na, I know more about other people and culture more than I know of mine, which by the way is only relevant on a formal form. I havent stayed in my state of origin for one straight week all my life. I cant even fit in.
So, biko hapu m ka m zo na okpuru umbulera ndi igbo

jmoore: Ndi Igbo no ebe a na amaro asu Igbo di nma i pia utari ofuma ofuma.

ifyalways: With the Gworo(hausa bitter kola) nothing helps the bitter taste.

emöfine2: Peanut butter? Lol I’ve never heard of that style before.

I actually rely on the bitterness because I take kola as a stimulant so I don’t really want to mask the flavour even though I don’t always like the bitter taste.
But sometimes I usually wash my kola down with ginger beer or I accompany it with alligator pepper...however my father and sister wash their kola nut in salt and when we have guests we support the kola nut with money lol.

ndidibabe: So allowing public critisism is now an achievement? If i may ask, how has the critisism affected the price of goods? NEPA has failed us yet we cannot afford to buy petrol to fuel our generator. To eat na palava. Price of a tin peak milk is now N150, Garri that used to be poor man food has now turned to gold. A tuber of yam is now N300. Bag of rice is N9,000. Goverment owned Universities have been 'bastardised' with and the private ones charge as much as N700,000 per session.. How many people can afford that? There is no security of life. We live in fear! The roads are death trap.No employment for fresh graduates. I can go on and on. This democracy is meaningless to me. I derive no joy in it. Babagindas's era was far far better!

McLEAN, Va. (AP) — The youngest person ever to qualify for the National Spelling Bee was running around in a stream with a friend, hunting for rocks. Suddenly, she came charging up the bank and headed straight for her mother.

"Hold on to that basalt," Lori Anne Madison said in a bossy 6-year-old's voice, "and do not drop it."

"Go away," her mother, Sorina Madison, said playfully.

She talks at 100 mph. In the last few weeks, she has won major awards in both swimming and math, but one accomplishment above all has made her an overnight national celebrity: This week, the precocious girl from Lake Ridge, Va., will be onstage with youngsters more than twice her age and twice her size as one of 278 spellers who have qualified for the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

"She's like a teenager in a 6-year-old body," Sorina said. "Her brain, she understands things way ahead of her age."

It's hard to argue with that, especially after spending a couple of hours with Lori Anne and her friends as they splashed in the waters on a sunny day at the Scotts Run Nature Preserve in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.

"Oh my gosh, what is it? A water worm. A water worm! It's alive," said Lori Anne, her shoes soaked from more than an hour of exploring. "I need it in my collection. It's wonderful."

There's been no need for Lori Anne's parents to push her to do anything — because she's already way out in front dragging them along. Some kids are ahead of the curve physically, mentally or socially from a very young age. Lori Anne is the rare exception who defies the norms in every category.

She hit all her milestones early, walking and talking well before others in her play group. She was reading before she was 2. She swims four times a week, keeping pace with 10-year-old boys, and wants to be in the Olympics. When her mother tried to enroll her in a private school for the gifted, the headmaster said Lori Anne was just way too smart to accommodate and needed to be home-schooled.

"Once she started reading, that's when people started looking strange at us, in libraries, everywhere, she's actually fluently reading at 2, and at 2 ½ she was reading chapter books," Sorina said.

That meant an unexpected lifestyle change for the mother, a college professor who teaches health-related courses. Lori Anne now studies at home, mastering topics other kids her age won't touch for several years. She wants to be an astrobiologist — a combination of her two favorite subjects, astronomy and biology.

And she speaks so fast, with well-formed diction and a touch of know-it-all confidence — just like a teenager.

"She out-argues both of us, and my husband is a trial lawyer," Sorina said with a laugh.

Now there's another wrinkle: spelling bee fame. When Lori Anne spelled "vaquero" to win the regional bee in Prince William County in March, she set a new standard for youth in the national bee's 87-year history.

"It was shocking," Sorina said. "I didn't expect all the media attention. We're private people. We're regular people. It was intimidating. But I'm happy for her. She loves it and she does it because it's a passion, and we never push her into anything and want her to make her own choices."

Interviews can be boring for a 6-year-old, especially if it's a television setting where she has to sit and sit and sit, so she pulled the plug, telling her mother: "I want to go back to being a kid and playing with my friends."

So a detente was reached. Lori Anne was more than happy to let a reporter and photographer from The Associated Press tag along at a picnic with other gifted home-schooled children, but she craftily steered any questions about spelling back toward the joint pursuit of snails, slugs, tadpoles, water striders, baby snakes and other slimy things in the creek.

On all the attention she's getting: "I asked for no interviews, but the media seems to be disobeying me, and that's why we're looking for snails and water slugs right now."

On why she wants to be an astrobiologist: "I'm going to sort of find life forms. And, plus, alien planets are new. But I need some slugs."

Asked to spell her favorite word, she raced through the letters of "sprachgefuhl" like a blur. Asked to spell it backward, she paused a bit and had to take her time, but she got it right.

"It's even crazier backwards than it is forwards," she said with a giggle, her hand holding a collection jar and her eyes focused on the wet rocks. "Now let's look for some slugs or snails."

By now, the jar contained a diversity of small living things, with the help of Lori Anne's friends. The children in the group are also smart and accomplished — there's a boy who has been studying calculus at age 8 — but there's something noteworthy about being in the bee.

"Are you that girl who won the spelling bee?" one boy asked.

"That's me," Lori Anne said.

The bee doesn't have a lower age limit, but no one younger than 8 had ever previously qualified for the nationals. Spellers can compete until they're 15, or until they've completed eighth grade.

No one is expecting Lori Anne to win the national bee this year. Just being there is a unique accomplishment, and making it beyond the preliminaries on Tuesday and Wednesday would be another stunning development. The veteran spellers have honed sophisticated study methods, spending hours daily over many months in their attempts to master as much of the unabridged dictionary as possible.

Lori Anne? She likes to study while jumping on her trampoline, with her mother calling out words.

"She doesn't sit at a table for hours to study anything. I mean, she's 6," Sorina said with laugh. "She's still a 6-year-old and we want to allow her to be a 6-year-old."

But, at this pace, she'll be a spelling bee force for years to come, one of those youngsters who becomes a familiar face on the annual ESPN broadcasts.

Asked how she thinks she'll do this year, Lori Anne simply answered "great" and kept on hunting.

There was one question she was more than happy to answer: How does she win all those arguments with her parents?

"I argue and argue and argue," she said, "until their brain is spinning."

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Joseph White can be reached at http://twitter.com/JGWhiteAP

emöfine2: I’ve always been of that conclusion myself...it is certainly something most if not all Nigerian ethnic groups have in common. How remarkable; something so small like kola seems to serve as a common denominator to a huge nation. Personally I love what the kola symbolises...now if only I could just reconcile with the taste...

Odunnu: Dont you just love the igbos?
I wish to be married to an igbo guy. I love your culture