₦airaland Forum

Kennydoc:
IBB's daughter got married and the whole country was there. Obj's son now got married and 'nobody' showed up. Is Obj that irrelevant in Nigeria?

Probably people are tired of attending obasanjo's children weddings.

Too many kids

Kennydoc:
I've told you that 'oyibo' pronounced óyíbó (not òyìbó) means English language. I don't know when exactly it came into use, but it's been for a very long time.
Moreover, the 'onye Igbo' explanation makes a lot of sense. When the whites came to Igbo land, they referred to Igbos as Ibos, which many Nigerians including Yorubas still use till date.
I can bet you that nearly half of Yorubas without any exposure to Igbo language will pronounce 'onye Igbo' as 'oye ibo' today (which obviously will sound as oyibo. However, the òyìbó pronunciation of the pidgin version may have come from oyinbo of Yorubas.

Why would yorubas pronounce oyinbo as "oye Ibo " when oyinbo itself has a literary meaning in Yoruba language which translates to peeled skin / bleached skin.

Oyibo in IGBO has no literary meaning , what you have is stories about how the whites were calling igbos "onye Ibo " and you in turn called them oyibo. .

And there's another version being peddled by igbos, and that's the Equaino Olaudah's version.

Your version isn't that straightforward while the yorubas is because oyinbo has a literary meaning in Yoruba language

Kennydoc:
Was the word formed in 1852? Yoruba dictionary was compiled then, but the words were already in existence even before then. Same applies to Igbo words and the Igbo dictionary.
Believe me, there was no mix between Yorubas and Igbos as at the 19th century, yet Igbos already had the word 'oyibo' as at then.

And yet oyibo has no literary meaning in IGBO except for the assumption that the whites were calling you onye ebo, but oyinbo in yoruba has its own literary meaning, it means bleached or peeled skin in Yoruba. .and this word has been in existence since 1852 .and it was included in our dictionary.

I have heard lots of versions about this oyibo issh from igbos,

Have you heard of the equaino oluadoh version?

Kennydoc:
Well, even before there was a clear mix between Igbos and Yorubas, Igbos have always referred to abroad as "obodo oyibo" and English language as "oyibo".

And yet in 1852 ,oyinbo was in the Yoruba dictionary

Kennydoc:
If it's a Yoruba word, how did the 'n' get lost from the widely accepted spelling?

It was corrupted by other tribes but in Yoruba it's spelt oyinbo

Oyinbo is a Yoruba word,

ajayi crowther compiled the Yoruba dictionary in 1852

And it was regarded as a Yoruba word.

Igbo dictionary was compiled by Ajayi crowther in 1857

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Chai, chinko obuko alawada

IPOB and this development sha

Jetleeee:
Development na ni

Lol, mak e no be lyk biogbolo own.. South Africans no dey use their pickin play ooo

Nweke, no kill dat woman oooo, south Africans no dey play ooo . .biogbolo still dey ground, people still dey suffer for wetin tochukwu do

wristbangle:
Remarkable comment. Every words in this comment is a punch line and there is no better way one can put it on table, explaining to SE people politics is about strategy not emotion.

You lose some fights doesn't mean total failure. Just like the case of Chelsea (New defending champion) who lost to Manchester United few weeks back but the story became different yesterday.

SE needs to re strategies instead of pointing fingers at people who fail to buy the ticket of someone whose ideology is seriously flawed.

Brilliant write -up. Permission to always reference this when the time comes boss putting you in copy.

Bro, you are just wasting your time telling the igbos to re -strategize , it won't work work, they will continue to play politics of emotions and confusion ( they want biafra, they want Pdp, they want atiku, they want restructuring, they want to be deputy governor in Lagos and a series of other confusions akin to the igbos)

They should stop that "We are marginalized " slogans everybody now sees it as blackmail.

How can you be made commisoners in a south western state, employed in the civil service of Ogun, Oyo, Ondo etc, appointed as permanent secretaries in Ogun State, do business and earn a living in other regions and also dominate the federal civil service (imo) and then you are still shouting marginalization. Is that not blackmail?

Igbos will continue to be like this jawe

Okoyiboz3:
She went to develop the man's manhood.

You dey mind that one

Not again

Mynd44, lalasticlala

Leave our son alone

Igbos and victim mentality sha

Habeyy:
bad guy, this is how it works ,...thou they don't collect tax on import but those goods can be taxed by the state government when it enters their market,passes through their roads and when it services their citizens and institution...

Thanks to d op..one of the finest thread av seen recently

Yeah, i know that but that was not what the guy meant hence my question to him.

Good one bro

Fifthcolumnist:
Under which construction? Have u been there? The only thing sembling construction work there is a few iron workers twisting binding wires since Napoleon's first invasion.

That's because they have to fix the flyover there first.. Then they will move to the road gan gan. C'mon guy, do you know how construction works?