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Chiki Chik:
Edi soro ya one O bu onye nzuau

Ileke has answered you

shanda:
I still don't understand why some parents will not speak yoruba to their kids. Even if I live in antartica I will only speak yoruba to my kids. They'll learn to speak English in their school. I have a cousin who married a scottish lady, they already have three kids. He only speak yoruba to them while the wife speaks English to them. The funny thing is that, when the kids are together, they always speak yoruba to one another.

stevetboy9:
Extinction kẹ? Come to my village here in Kogi and see how Yoruba is flowing! Never even in 1000years

I know you mean 100000 years

Andre Uweh:
There should be ties or renewed ties between the Afenifere, Kwara and Oku people in Kogi state than trying to buy over the Itsekiris.

Who is buying over who, do you know history at all? I hope to see the day you will make sense

afam4eva:
I don know say na here i go see you. It's actually a good development. I hope Ikwerres and those Ika Igbos will learn from this.

Good!
Andre uweh, this should have been your comment cos it has always bothered you.

Olumogun:
Wahala when you visit rich friends. Once, while visiting a very rich friend, the maid approached me and,


Question: What would you like to have, fruit juice, soda, tea, chocolate, cappuccino, frapuccino or coffee?
Answer: Tea please.
Question : Ceylon tea, Indian tea, herbal tea, bush tea, honey bush tea, iced tea or green tea?
Answer: Ceylon tea please.
Question : How would you like it, black or white?
Answer: White.
Question : Milk or fresh cream?
Answer: With milk.
Question : Goat's milk or cow's milk?
Answer; With cow's milk please.
Question : Freezeland cow or Afrikaner cow?
Answer: Umm, think I'll just take it black.
Question : Would you like it with sweetener, sugar or honey?
Answer: With sugar.
Question : Beet sugar or cane sugar?
Answer: Cane sugar.
Question : White, brown or yellow sugar?
Answer: Oya, forget about the tea, just give me a glass of water instead.
Question :Mineral water, tap water or distilled water?
Answer: Mineral water.
Question : Flavored or non-flavored?
Answer( lapsing into Naija speak!): Abeg, I think I'll just die of thirst. Which kind wahala be dis.
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Have u any such encounter?

DapoBear:
Basically, you are confusing two different titles, people can cal you "Doctor" once you have a PhD. People can call you "Professor" if a university decides to hire you as a Professor. In the hard sciences/engineering a PhD is usually a prerequisite to being hired as a Prof. In fields like literature, law, journalism, they are not. You don't even need to necessarily even have any degree to be a professor of literature; in literature, you are primarily judged on the strength of the works you've written.

Anyway, Emeagwali is in the hard sciences/engineering, where a PhD is required before becoming a Professor, while Soyinka and Achebe are writers, where the PhD is not.

In fact, nobody can call Emeagwali a Professor, since he was never hired as a tenure-tracked professor at any university. At best, he could be called "Doctor." And this is only if he earned a PhD somewhere. I'm not even sure if an honorary doctorate allows you to be called "Doctor", I'm a bit fuzzy about the protocol for honorary degrees.

auwal87:
Let me start from the bottom up.

Your points are not qualified at all, you know why Arewa people are not doing anything at the moment? Because they are Lazy, do you know why they are Lazy? Because of Oil.

5- IBB and Co are all going to die soon, new fresh bloods will emerge soon, with hearts of courage to empower our people

4- Arewa unlike any other Muslim countries are far more liberal, some few bad elements emerge because of poverty and seeking name only, but Arewa will be just like Turkey in Europe, or Malaysia in Asia, or Bahrain in Middle East.

3- Almajirai are a great resource for Arewa Republic, in no time, they will disappear from the streets, 65% that is not fear, we have more civil servants than any region in Nigeria, go to the ministries in Abuja and other states of Arewa, they are all from Arewa (at least 90%). This is the reality, we have qualified doctors, qualified engineers (go to ABU Zaria and see those behind the Nuclear project, they are all from Arewa), we have Business Gurus (Arewa even though it doesn't have sea ports, most of the distributions are carried from here, I have never seen someone traveling from Arewa to Odua or Biafra to purchase imported food stuffs, but you will see lots of them coming to Arewa to purchase imported stuffs, go to Singer market in Kano, you will see what I am telling you, that markets carries transactions worth billions of naira every single day, why? Because we consume. See Arewa, only those who are ignorant about the country will tell you we only have Almajirai. Because that's what you see in the south.

2- NO! A big NO! Oil is only a curse to Nigeria, only the wicked countries look at Nigeria with like that. The good countries want Nigeria to get their facts right, abandon oil, or at least depend less on oil, develop other sectors, generate employment. You see having an Oil in Nigeria is only a curse to Arewa because it made our people lazy and depends heavily on salaries and revenues from the federal government. But by the time there is no oil, people will understand, and they will wake up to the reality. They will ask question to themselves. What about if this people abandon us, what should we tell our children and grand children, what have we done for them?

1- Yes, Landlocked, but see also in Europe::::
Andorra
Armenia
Austria
Belarus
Czech Republic
Vatican City (Holy See)
Hungary
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Moldova
San Marino
Serbia
Slovakia
Switzerland

They are all landlocked countries. Aren't they better than Nigeria in terms of Anything?

Boy, wake up, Arewa is not what you think it is;

Auwal, I love your confidence.
I love this comment.
I cant do better, but take this

Oil is a curse in Nigeria, without it we will even survive better.
Before the discovery of oil, Nigeria lived majorly on cocoa from the SW, then supported by groundnut from the north and rubber and palm oil from the East. Naira as at then was N1 to $1, so whats the need for the oil?

@OP, if the disintegration of Nigeria is what you think of, then it is good for you to know that every part will suffer at first but will later put themselves together to do the right thing.

OAM4J:
I agree with you 100%.

When wahala burst who no know go know. Wait until wahala burst, we go know who be landlord and who be tenant. Make wahala sele and make Tunde come tell Shehu say him be Fulani or make Emeka tell Tell Akpan say him be Calabar because them get land for those places, we go see if the original owner no go point your baba house for you. Trust me even 'no man's land' for Kano get owner.

If you ask me who owns a city, I will say wait until there is a riot or war, then check those who are leaving and those who are staying, then you will know who the landlords are and who the Tenants are. Somebody please help me interpret this Yoruba adage "Oko o ki nje ti baba ati omo ki o ma ni ala"

afam4eva:
I'm sorry if i offended anybody. Cos t seems you guys are taking it personal. Maybe i should have posted this in the ethnicity or Religion section cos you guys don't get what i'm getting at. I just cited lagos state being governed by muslims as an example and never said that there's nothing wrong with a muslim ruling Lagos forever. I was just curious as to why people value ethnicity as opposed to Religion. PERIOD. Nigerians can yab sha.

afam4eva:
If you were asked to choose just one. It's either your're a Christain or Igbo, Yoruba or Ifa worshipper, Hausa or Muslim. Which would you go for.

Why is it that Nigerians always fight for their ethnicities like rotation of presidency along ethnic lines. Why is no one clamouring for rotation along religious lines. 2. Why is that most of Lagos governors are muslims and christains are not doing anything about it.

silly question

Igbos are not christians by nature . . .what happen to the festivals, sacrifices, rituals they offer and idols they worship till date? Europeans got there first before other parts of the country

Yorubas are not ifa worshippers by nature . . .It is the African tradition/culture. . .Arabians got there first before the Europeans
Hausas are not muslims by nature . . .they have idols they worship till date. . . Arabians got there first before the Europeans

You ask if someone would choose Christianity/Islam/idols as against race/ethnic . . . in what language will the person communicate, what will be his state of origin, culture and history?


2. What is your business with the religion of the governor? Is that what leadership is all about or competence and achievements? Or is God complaining?

ola olabiy:
Eleru Iyin.

ola olabiy:
Please explain,
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