₦airaland Forum

Beowulf:
I don't know about 'vb" but we use "vw". I am from a neighbouring town to Awka with a similar dialect and we use "vw" as well. Other Igbos find it difficult to pronounce it the way we do. For instance the way we call cow which must Igbos call efi, evi, eshi, ehi depending on their dialects, we call it evwi.

Afam4eva:
I've always thought Amebo had Yoruba origins because it kinda sounds more Yoruba than anything.

BolaAdeyemo:
Story dosent add up abeg,amebo is just a made up slangs,,how Awvebo and amebo take resemble?

naptu2:
Other nicknames that were names of characters on The Village Headmaster include:

A gossip is known as Amebo.

A bald headed or close-shaven person is known as Gorimapa.

An Igbo shop owner is known as Okoro.

And people still use Chief Eleyinmi's catch phrases like, "immediate effect and automatic alacrity", "nonsense and ingredients", etc.

JKisOK:
The word AMEBO is purely Esan language in Edo State. It has the same meaning as the Urhobo simile, i.e. favourite wife in a polygamous marriage.

Probz:
Where else?

Orobo2Lekpa:
Interesting but not correct.
Amebo was a character in a TV programme from the 1970's called Village Headmaster. She was the village gossip. The character was played by Ibidun Lawson

The word Amebo as used to ascribe to a gossip came from this character in the play

HajimeSaito:
Even after the advent of Christianity, polygamy is still common in Urhobo culture.

Probz:
Awka use vb.

fratermathy:
I wish them well. The kingmakers should be just so as to avoid division of the already small Okere-Urhobo kingdom! Urhoboland does not need more kingdoms at this point.

The Okumagbas have seized Okere-Warri for themselves . What happened to the Olodis and Igbogbadus?

It is well!

Efewestern:
Ighogbadu family are no match to okumagba , I even know that Prof. Okumagba .. I wish them well

emmie14:
Islam teach and encourage violence secretly. Christianity has no secret teachings. Transparency is there hallmark and condemns violence in totality.
Reverend fathers and sisters are human beings. And can chill. Bible never condemn drinking but drunk ens is considered sin. Drinking and getting drunk are different state and feelings. So judge your selves.

Tamass:
Movie or no movie if muslims are caught doing this now..they will shout hypocrites,liars and all sort! Since the aforementioned happened to be xtians they will just come here and say end time...let me park well and watch the real hypocrites

onuwaje:
Well my position is indifferent on the subject matter.

But we shud ask ourselves some questions
1. How have state creation improved the state of the geographical space called Nigeria since 1960?
2. Will creation of more states improve thr Current situation of the country?



Even tho i wasn't born during the pre civil war era i still think we shud go back to the regional phase but with alot of amendments and restructuring


Thank you

Efewestern:
I totally agree with your points, you can't separate Urhobo from isoko and itsekiri, so I think they should allow us get our own state and let Delta north go with SE since they are always crying of marginalization, my point is that this is not the best time for this now.

fratermathy:
I agree totally. Without prejudice to the good people of Delta North, those of us in Delta South and Central share more in common and should ideally be the ones to constitute a state, with a capital within the region.

Anioma State should be created and zoned to the SE for equity to reign.

I also agree that the oil companies should move their headquarters to the region. It is simply logical to locate the headquarters of an oil company in an oil producing region.

gseph:
you dont actually look like one

edoboy33:
signs of the end time


God is punishing them for their sins

this is just the begining

Sodom and gommorrah treatment will soon fall on them

omohayek:
And how do you know any of these people are actually Yoruba in the first place? Just how difficult do you think it is to open a new Nairaland account and claim to be from any part of the country, the planet or even the galaxy? What's stopping me from saying I am a Zeta Reticulan from Alpha Centauri?

The real people to blame are all the gullible id.iots who ignore the statements of well-known Yoruba politicians, writers and activists in support of restructuring and decentralization, but are quick to seize on statements by individual anonymous commenters or unknown "youth" groups as "proof" of what most Yoruba people must be thinking: you pretend Afenifere, Fayose, Fani-Kayode and Wole Soyinka are only speaking for themselves, but need no convincing that "sarrki" and other anonymous "One Nigeria" diehards were elected by all Yorubas as their legitimate online representatives, even though these people probably aren't even Yoruba to begin with!

There's a term for such thinking: it's called confirmation bias, and it's what you get when raging anti-Yoruba tribalists go out of their way to look for "evidence" to support the prejudices they probably imbibed with their mothers' milk, well before ever even meeting any Yoruba people.

lordkush:
I love this afonja. very nice. pro black





stew alwyas finding a way into all thier foods.
it's an afonja thing sha
but it's all good

thumbs aup bro