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The ucgirl, OP, looks like an attention seeker cause she's asked the same question with esan, and another tribe. it's always the same thing too, her sister, her cousin, etc wants to marry blah blah, anything wrong with it? or culture differences? when no one pays mind to her question, she changes the male's ethnicity.

The girl or probably a guy pretending to be a girl looks like an attention seeker to me and una just gave her the attention she seeks

aycsharp: I am proud to come from Ibadan, yes Ibadan has over a million brown roofs kudos to ancient civilization from the Yorubas, when other tribes in the country were living in "channel 0" kind of houses. Show me a city in Nigeria without urban slum and it shows how naive you are, most people talking on nairaland have not even left their enclaves to see some other parts of the country, modernized places in Ibadan are more than the ancient places, I stand to be corrected any time. Having toured places like Enugu, Awka, Onitsha, Asaba and even that poor Abakaliki, comparing any of those to Ibadan is unreasonable and really stupid because Ibadan is safer, cheaper to live, more westernized, more industrialized, even now cleaner than those south eastern cities. And the big part of it is that as the south eastern cities are crawling in terms of development, Ibadan is running, Each time I visited Ibadan now, I was always happy because of the changes I saw. So stop comparing any south eastern city with my beloved Ibadan.

i didn't want to comment on this thread but na insult bu dis one. mschewww see this one comparing Asaba to Ibadan. Wetin person no go see on this forum? na which kain insult wey person no go see? Not only are una insulting enugu with daring to compare am to Ibadan of all places, now this one wan drag Asaba into the comparison. na,insult. Ibadan people know your level. know your level ooo. chei, Asaba we don suffer. Ibadan of all places, dirty, disgustin, city wey look like village ibadan, having mouth to compare to ..... eeh insult, insult. we no blame you. we blame shoprite for giving una malls wey una pack am full like una no see mall before. I no blame. tcch tcch the audacity

[quote author=Ola Johnson][/quote]Dude spare with all that. I watched carefully your interaction with ACM10. Just because I didn't join the argument does not mean I didn't bother to read what was going on. In your range of insults, I watched you make a statement and applied to a specific book by a specific author. ACM10 ironically had the exact book and asked you to tell him where it is you got that statement from. He quoted a statement on the said book that in fact contradicts what it is you said so first you insulted him, but when he continued asking and was very persistent, other's joined and ridiculed you. Unable to defend yourself nor provide the information the man asked for, that's when you provided a totally different book (in which he has no access to), different author, a page and then another statement. Which brought ACM10 to say something along the line of if he bought the other book, your comment probably isn't on it. So dude spare me. One thing I am good at is remembering things I read, I am not good with names but I am good with people's comments/opinions.

eGuerrilla: @PhysicsQED,

Your contribution, which highlights the attitude of CA and WS towards the use of certain descriptors, is both balanced and fair, in my opinion.

Ezenwa-Ohaeto. (1997). Chinua Achebe: A Biography. James Currey Publishers.

Now this is what I asked for. Shikena!!

PhysicsQED: One Naira, you might really be much lazier than I thought you were. The solution here is not to start Google searching like a madman and taking random screenshots, but to go and actually pick up the book that I cited from a library. Then you would see the source of the quote and you would realize that while the quote itself is definitely in the book, the quote does not even originate from that book but from an interview that Achebe did indeed give in 1988.

The quote is from a magazine called Quality and the name of Achebe's interviewer was Onuora Udenwa. The quote is from 1988 and yes it exists because he made the statement. The problem is that you're so lazy and ill-informed that you think that every publication ever made has been digitized and put on the internet so you think you can find everything by searching on sites like Google or wikipedia.

I've quoted statements from old publications which one absolutely cannot find the quotes from through Google books or jstor or other online sources many times - that doesn't mean that the quotes don't exist! It means the person I'm discussing something with has to go to and actually check the source if he (for some reason or another) doesn't believe me. Not every academic journal article is online and not every quote from a book can be found on Google books! Similarly not every article from every single journal, book, or magazine published in west Africa or elsewhere has been digitized and made easily available for your convenience. This concept is so elementary that I shouldn't even have to explain it and it's a bit annoying that I even had to do so.

Now to rehash what I stated above, Ezenwa Ohaeto was a former student of Achebe's, a literature professor, and a great admirer of Achebe's and he sought authorization from Achebe to even produce that biography, so it would make no sense to think that he cooked up the quote. But more relevantly, he was also a proper academic, and when writing a detailed biography, he cited sources for his quotes just as any proper academic would. This is the source for the quote, as given by Ohaeto:

Onuora Udenwa, 'The Nobel is not an African Prize - Chinua Achebe', Quality, 3 November 1988

So there you have the name of the interviewer (Udenwa), the title of the interview as given in the magazine, the name of the magazine (Quality), and the exact date (November 3, 1988) of the publication. You can find this source given on p. 302 of Ohaeto's book. Now since I think that professor Ohaeto was able to provide the quote as it was stated in the interview, I'm fine with quoting from that biography, and I don't intend to track down that issue of that old magazine, scan the pages, and upload them to the internet just for this worthless argument with you. However, if you still have issues (because you couldn't easily find the quote after multiple Google searches) what you need to do is get off the internet immediately (instead of thinking that engaging in more and more "Googling" will get you the answer) and actually start trying to track down that issue of the magazine (in either a university archive or library, if it is kept there, or directly from the owners of that former magazine, if they have it in their archives).

And if the authors of Achebe's wikipedia article who relied heavily on Ohaeto's book for much of their other information didn't care to provide the entire Ashiwaju quote from p. 264 of Ohaeto's book, then that's not my problem because I'm not the one dumb enough to think that every single bit of information in books that are cited in wikipedia articles is actually reproduced in and always quoted in full in those same articles. Ohaeto's book is 300+ pages. Should or could the wikipediaists who put together Achebe's wikipedia article even have included every single detail mentioned in Ohaeto's biography when putting together a general encyclopedia style article? No. I don't even know why you would doubt the existence of the quote. It's not even anything outlandish or very controversial - it's just an opinion, plainly and honestly stated - that winning the Nobel doesn't automatically make one the leader of African or Nigerian literature, and I doubt that the basic idea of the quote is anything that other people haven't expressed before, anyway.

The problem with you is you pick what it is you wish to read and not bothering to pay attention to what it is you read. First you accused me of not researching the quote, despite the fact I mentioned I have researched the quote on multiple occasion, and when corrected and also informing you specifically, I'll purchase the said book you quoted and I'll research that specific page, you disregarded that specific part of the post and jump on the fact, I listed websites I As if the quote is the reason I listed those website as oppose to your silly accusation that I didnot research the comment before declaring it false. Ignorance I say. You preach but don't practice what is you preach. Once more as I stated, I find that despicable. Accusing someone of being lazy, yet displaying a lazy attitude of grasping what it is you read. If you have questions, the little or best you can do is ask. If you going to preach something, practice what it is you f2king preach.

As for the wikipedia post, the website listed every opinion about noble prize CA had as well as his rejoice for WS when he won the said award. I find it ironic the said website which is a clear attack on WS award is disregarded but hey, like my post implied but obviously went through your head, until I can get my hands on that book, I cannot fight you per ser on what it is the said book says neither am I obliged to believe what you said it says. If your @ss cannot understand the concept why I kept mentioning, "I'll buy that book to verify this sh1t". I've been on this website and viewed people made up comments on what a specific book says, people holding onto the said comment until another member with access to the same book defaults it therefore I don't take your word for it. If you can't understand that clear statement then that's on you.

By the way, most controversial interview as well as a statement made by someone as popular as CA usually are digital. Why you felt the need to inform me that books are not usually digital is mere "like duh?" reply. In what way, did I say they were? Since implication does not work for you, let me say it directly maybe then you can grasp it. I find it Ironic that of all this years, of all the comparison between CA and WS all this years, all the interview between the two in all this years, none ever mentioned the said quote until recently in this year. A supposed controversial insult hidden for so many years until he, WS, mentioned it. Interesting. Anyway, once my hand is on the said book then I can counter act everything you said or accept everything you say.

I doubt the existence of the exact quote because that said quote is an insult to another man's achievement and I doubt CA would result to that mere attack. If you have different opinion about what the statement implies, then that's on you. I don't have to have the exact same opinion as you.

heeeehe I love Rihanna jor. That chick do not play

If GEJ is using "divide and rule" tactics on north like they claim then that's the beauty of Karma north.

What goes around, comes around

The traditional rulers in igboland have lost everything they stand for the minute they started going around, allowing politicians to use them left and right. There is nothing wrong with giving gifts to traditional rulers, I'm all for providing for those with wisdom for their people, the minute the gifts are politicized, it then becomes an insult to the Igbo councilmen. Anyway, Obi wasted his money and time. How many times have he seen any Igbo group vote because so and so told them to. Many igbo politicians honestly do not know the people they claim to lead. if the people do not like you, my guy no matter how much you give the elders, councilmen, igwe, etc, nothing would change the people's mind about you. A word for the wise to all Igbo politicians out there.

Yungwizzzy: Nwa nne

The name 'PDP' is a synonym of 'CORUPTION'

So ogini kwa?

APC and PDP are both corruption's children.
If we are going to slap one child, the other child needs to be slapped too.

gbaky_floor: Is this the best excuse you have?

From the phone, computer, television, aeroplane, medicine to the dress you put on were invented by a white man.

Now your women go to a country that hates them to make money. Money that will take care of their family. Something that their fathers and brothers should be doing if they weren't so lazy and full of excuses.

*You and your kind should be ashamed of yourselves.

*You should be ashamed that the white man came into your land and made you slaves.

*You should be ashamed that 100% of what you consume come from the white man.

*You should be ashamed that it took the women in your midst years back for you to fight for freedom.

*You should be ashamed that years after you gained freedom your countries are in rot.

*You should be ashamed that the most developed countries in Africa are those with whites.

*You should be ashamed that the biggest companies in all African countries are financed/owned by whites.

*You should be ashamed that your women are going for voluntary molestation in the land of the same race of people that involuntarily molested their mothers in the presence of your fathers.

* you should be ashamed of all the women of different races whom your kind knocked up and left to cater for their offsprings.

*Most of all, you should be ashamed of this silly excuse you put up.

PS: women are good in bed to the degree their male partners taught them. If white women are good in bed, it is because their men taught them well. If African women are bad in bed, it is because (like some one wrote earlier) you suck.

Have you seen Marsha Thompson and Thandie Newton? They are one the hottest bi-racial Ladies and you know what they had black mothers. If any black lady looks ugly to you; it is indeed because the sperm that created her is ugly.

STANDING OVATION.
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Till the point you started insulting black men. I hope you don't think all are like that.

Okorocha Okorocha Okorocha ogini kwa? eeh? Ogini?

Stop fighting for parties and fight corruption, including the ones in your administration.

A party does not determine how good a politician would be. From what I've seen PDP, APC, wetin be the difference?

Ogini kwa? mtschewww

Billyonaire: Even though you are little harsh on him, I do understand totally how you feel. This is a lesson to all diasporans, Invest 90% of your income in your home country, cos anything can happen in your second home even if you hold that country's citizenship and passport. Be wise.

To be honest, I wasn't being harsh. If I was, it wasn't my intention. That is just how I am

reading tonychristopher, I honestly feel sorry for these people. They are so divided. thank God i wasn't born ika

Afam4eva: I've not seen you here for a while, so i don't understand why you're carrying it on your head. Except you're the culprit.

lmfaooo. coming here makes me laugh

abu12: @ One_Naira, that is your own assumption since most of the accusation you stated can not be verify. you should be the one to read between the lines

my own assumption. WS said, CA said "just because someone won the noble prize does not make the person 'asiwaju' of literature". A statement that is just found only in WS story telling. Am i lying or not?

second part in regarding this article
never mind i just read past the accusation and it's misunderstanding on my part. the accusation was on CA cheif title members, not CA per se. what I'm phasing out still stands though. it's a wild accusation against whoever those men were.

Ola Johnson: Them mark register for CA burial? WS never said CA was jealous of his winning the Nobel Laurete; rather it was CA that said WS shouldn't see himself as the "Asiwaju" of African literature, and WS replied that he had no intention of being the "Ogbuefi" of African literature. Why on earth should any reasonable person, a professor for that matter, say WS' gift of ram to CA caused his accident?

obvious this man cannot read. reread the post you quoted as many times as you can until it hits you. the reply to this your requote is already in it. I'm not going to rewrite it again. next!!!

TouchDown: This thread must not make front page. The likes of Ola Johnson, One_Naira, Raphead are exactly the type WS has taken to the cleaners with this fantastic piece and under 3 pages, they've come true to form. Everyday I see that father of literature thread expand, I'm disgusted and amazed at the sheer negative energy.

This shyte is old. Refrain from bigotry. Its a poison!

Brother TouchDown writes from Lagos, Nigeria.

don't ever put me in the lines of ola johnson and raphead ever again. if you want to insult me, insult me but don't you ever link me with disgracful beings. I'll insult Yoruba anytime, i ain't going to deny I've done it before, and I'll do it again anytime they insult my people. unlike some people, i retaliate, i don't start. unlike those people i don't go around seeking trouble with the people i find despicable. I don't go around poking fun and trying to insult others just for the fun of it and i don't go around creating multiple IDs to use other ethnic groups names to insult the people that i cannot stand nor do i go around making up wild tales to insult people again. learn from this. don't ever insultme like that again by linking me with morons you hear. once more, if you going to accuse me of sh1t, then accuse me of sh1t I'm actually doing. I haven't been to the father of literature for eons and my last argument on that thread was against cameroonpride. i rarely paid minds to Yorubas on that thread self.

abu12: @ One_Naira, thank God you didn't finish reading it, how did you come to conclusion that WS see CA as his enemy. Stop spewing rubbish if you can't comprehend

slowpoke that cannot read trying to teach. see oxymoron. let me say it as slowly since your ignorant can't comprehend what i said. WS accused CA of hating on his noble prize award. a statement that cannot be verified other than WS saying. now once more WS accused CA of another hate filled statement;he, CA, denyed him, WS, access to visit him, CA after the accident because he, CA, saw him, WS, as an enemy that caused him, CA, his accident. once more another wild accusation that nothing can verify. only a hate filled pretender would come out and accuse an innocent man of things that cannot be verified. If your @ss can't read between the lines, i sure can. Go thank your literature teacher for wasting your time.

more oil money to steal.mtchewwwww

it's called Juju. the legislator was holding object that are used for juju in that country we call Nigeria. stop giving it new name jor and drill that woman. I won't be suprised if she's killed human beings jor or even put some parts of it in her miniature coffin. drill that woman. get the answer abeg

Antony chinedu should blame noone else but himself. why invest all your money in a nation or home that is not your home. This is a lesson for all, especially umu igbo,there is something called " 2nd choice" or what my father calls "incase something happens". Even now at my age, i know to take half or majority of my property and secure at my home state. Chinedu, you have noone to blame but yourself. You're an 1diot. why invest everything you had in a country you MIGRATED to. you're an 1diot. earlier i felt sorry for you, now i care little. hope more are learning from this.

t-something:
If you don't know his motive you had better shut up. Do you think the essence of this thread is to inform you about the state of Akwa Ibom hospitals or to conjure hatred against Akpabio. How would he post those rubbish pictures and call them hospitals in Akwa Ibom, except he's up to some mischief. If you want to know the true status of Akwa Ibom hospitals and other infrastructural developments visit the state website or better still take a trip to Akwa Ibom and see for yourself .

Our government isn't into media propaganda like most ACN governors which you see their achievements only on the internet. In Akwa Ibom , the citizens who see and enjoy these facilities are the ones who will speak good about our government as we have continuously done on this and several other fora. Again we say visit and see so you can spread the testimony.

E don do jor. let it be and in most case, just ignore.

I notice a pattern with this eko ile. if a governor attacks or against GEJ, he immediately sees the 'good' of the said governor but if it's the oppsite, he attacks their fault. I noticed that pattern recently. anyway, his obbession with bayelsa and now Akwa ibom is pathetic. I'm one to insult all Nigerian governors. they are all underperforming but the akwa ibom guy tries. that i know and seen with my eyes. at least he's not what i call a media performing governor like well una knowwho I'm talking about.

wow. it's official WS is just like his people. A tribal, hate filled mongrel. Chinua Achebe dies, unable to.defend himself, and Wole Soyinka took the opportunity to make wild accusation about the man. Pretended to be his friend all this years. He waited till the man dies, and then unleashed his bigotry hatefilled mind. I'm trying to phatom why the heck will you smile, called a man your bestfriend, my brother, etc when the man is still alive and then do a complete 360 when he dies. in my opinion that's the major definition of cowardly. here i thought WS was different from the rest of his people. At least now, we know. dem all the same. Instead of him wasting his time yarning rubbish everywhere, maybe he should focus on his barely selling books. spare us jor with the tales that CA jealoused your award. a tae that we can't find anything else to verify it to another take that CA saw him as an enemy. another tale that nothing ,other than WS saying it, verfies. one more thing i forgot to add, a man that is secure with himself and truly believe insult giving to him are not accurate representation of himself does not waste his time writing long but boring articles to defend himself against those he believe are not in his level. Take a close look at CA reaction with your people barade of insult from his last book and learn from it.

kinda glad i didn't finish reading this. the little i read was a waste. WS thank you for continuing showing your true colors. At least we know who you ae now. I'm glad you let the facade fall.

OP, Nigeria is not united. we not united online, politics, cultural, educational, religious, etc. it's a divided experiment and just like any other experiment, if it's not binding, try something else. imho, for me to support "one Nigeria" again, the people behind the ridicule of a country this nation has become should be kicked out. I.E: take core north and SW out and try again. if it e no work, continue trying until a good solution is found

ROYALD: PLEASE CAN SOME ONE TELL ME THE MEANING OF ONE NIGERIA? WE SHOUT ALL THE TIME
.WHICH MEANS THERE IS SOMETHING REALLY WRONG WITH NIGERIA A NATION

HAVE YOU HAD AMERICANS SHOUTING ONE AMERICA? NO
HAVE YOU HAD GHANA SHOUTING ONE GHANA ? NO
,, ,, TOGO SHOUTING ONE TOGO ? NO

ASK YOURSELF WHAT IS THE WRONG WITH NIGERIA AS NATION?

exactly i view this rubbish "one Nigeria" thing. If a countrymen have to constantly let people know the nation is one then the nation is not one.

politics in Nigeria is like the grade school politics you see. childish in everything.

SMH. if ujonime and other bayelsans retailate now, the people on the other side would start playing victim and pretending it wasn't them that threw the first punch.

anyway ujonime and other's, just leave this thread. it was created on the sole purpose of ridiculing. why do you think i usually avoid the delta thread dem create once in awhile. If you don't want to go off, avoid.

omongbatim: These days, if you do not praise yourself, no one will do it for you and others will actually construe it to equate non-performance. Until now, how many people knew the gov of Jigawa State is doing quite well? It is because no one was ringing his bell for him. Fasola has mastered that (with Babapupa aka Eko Ile singing his praises from the roof top) and it is paying off for him. If you look deep, given the huge internal revenue plus huge fed allocation to Lagos, Fasola is still hitting below the belt. But his propaganda machine is quite effective. Igbo govs need to up their game, for a lot is going on in their different domains, commensurate with the money they receive/generate.

I disagree completely. I know Fashola is hitting below the belt. I've said so many times and I've been attacked by his crew about it. The reality of what I saw last december visit to Nigeria differs from what i see on NL. Any igbo or any SS or any MB or anyone at that who feels they need to emulate that behavior is wrong. There is a difference between praising once self and giving out false impression. anyway, moving on. Igbo governors should not join the self praising wagon. to tell you the truth, I'm glad that, excluding SW, no other region have joined that wagon. What they are doing is their job. They do not need self praising to do their work, neither do they need to disturb everyone whenever they do their job. imho, Igbo governors should copy the behavior of chime, i don't know his name but akwa ibom governor, amachi, etc. perform, build, increase the HDI of your state and don't make much noise about it. that's how I feel it should be done.

Zet72: The level of hatred exhibited towards GEJ by the learned fraction of yeroba race, is not because of his average performance or the imbalance in the ministerial appointments as claimed by some posters,rather it is the unification that GEJ is bringing between SS&SE which if, it stand will change the startusquo& the way Nigeria politics is run between the northern& western elites. The power that be is allergic to the coming together of the old eastern region

oh yeah that too.