₦airaland Forum

Honestly, to tell you the truth, the OP is more correct than wrong.

1) A 30 year old woman is already a WOMAN.

She has formed her opinions about Life,men, children, marriage etc.

If these opinions are too different from yours, it will be a source of recurring disagreement and avoidable tension. . . it's just like two MEN marrying each other.



2) Women above 30 years may be sweeter on bed but their reproductive capacity is lesser than ladies between 20-25 years.

Jochabed:
I have an aunt who got married at 50 last year, and guess what she married as a virgin! So all this nonsense about diff men and all is all rubbish. Some get married at 20, some at 40 why? Cause we are all different and the all will enjoy their marriages.

If you go to Obafemi Awolowo University , Ile-Ife, you will see Igbo Professors who can't speak Yoruba language after spending 25 years in the institution to rise to the rank of Professor.

SLAP44:
Baba stop lying, no Igbo person can live in the SW for 25 years without inventing new proverbs in yoruba language

We integrate with our hosts.

Necessity. . . QED




Igbos who are traders need to understand the language of their host environment in order to facilitate their trades.

Yoruba people who are working in Banks, CAC, INEC and NYSC in Kano State don't understand Hausa language like the Yoruba mechanics, Tailors , Doctors or Taxi drivers in Kano.






My Igbo friends in Secondary School and University were mostly from elitist backgrounds with parents who couldnt understand Yoruba language despite living in Yorubaland for upto 25 years simply because their parents were mostlty lecturers or Federal Government Civil Servants.

SLAP44:
I think you are correct to an extent. But the Igbo person also understands and finds it easy to speak all other African, European, Latin languages part from Nigerian language. How can we explain that?

How did you understand the language to this level sir?

Arrewa:
no you're wrong.... Go and get mbido igbo!!

Ikwu_zirim is to teach me

There's nothing like Ikuzirim!!

Iku is to fetch while ikwu is to say

Ikwuzirm is to say something to someone to learn...

While Iku... Can only be used in fetch something!

Example ikummiri, ikunri, iku mmanu!!

Go and get your mbido!!

It's not only Igbos , it's like that everywhere. . . Women tend to have softspots, especially when love is in involved.





Man-women affairs is complex and Love is a strong factor!

PeterUdeme:
Only Igbo women will teach you their language. I learnt it from a girl I dated back then. And the Gus were very angry with her for teaching me. Igbo women are very different from their men. Detribalised and kind. Their men are just devils.

Yes some languages are easier to understand because of similarities.

For instance, it is easier for a Bini man to understand the Yoruba language spoken in Osun State.


Later-on, I found out that even Igbo language is similar to the Yoruba language spoken in Ife, Ijeshaland, Ekiti, Ondo, Akoko and some parts of Kogi State.



The Yoruba language spoken in Lagos is based on a mixture of Awori, Ijebu,Egba, Oyo dialects and it has borrowed so many words from European, Arabic, Hausa and many other Nigerian Tribes. In short, it has become grossly diluted.

To fully understand the core Yoruba grammar, you need to live in Oyo/Osun States.

SLAP44:
Igbo language is very easy to understand, Obinna was wrong, or maybe he saw you were not making much progress.

Another thing I am thinking of is, are you sure some tribes learn other languages faster than some people? Because the way Igbo boys start speaking other languages within weeks of arriving there is amazing.

Yeah I also think they should be but just that I haven't met many.


While in the secondary School, I tried to learn Igbo language by volunteering to teach Obinna (who just cane from Anambra to join us in JSS-2) Yoruba language during break time in exchange for him teaching me Igbo.

After a week, Obinna stopped teaching me with the filmsy excuse that the language is too hard for non-natives to easily understand. I tried learning it from the numerous Igbo guys around me but they will just be smiling at me. Later on, someone just told me that Igbo men don't like non-natives to learn and understand their language.
I later found out that this is only true with the older men but the younger ones don't mind, the problem is that most of the younger ones (born and brought up in Lagos) don't fully understand the language themselves.


Many years later, I started learning the language from my Ex-GF during NYSC in Yobe State because of the possibility that we may marry each other.

SLAP44:
They are many. Most of them lived in Onitsha and schooled in Igbo schools and are friends with Igbos.

If the SS were to be a country on its own, with each State having crude oil and no singular overwhelming majority tribe, in about 50 years, most of the tribes would have diffused into one emerging super ethnic group.

sparkyJ:
Niger Delta comprises 9 states: Akwa ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Rivers, & Abia, Imo, Ondo.

You can see the first six states are d South South while d others are in Southeast & South West. However, they are all classified as Niger Delta bc they are oil producing states. In fact, d 9 oil producing states in the federation.

So, it will be very wrong for anyone to want to portray anything dat has to do with the 9 states outside its name (ND). It is only when an event does not warrant the inclusion of the other 3 (Abia, Imo, & Ondo) that they regard dat gathering/Forum as SS. Example if the forum is strictly geopolitical.

Also, tribalism is not really common in ND bc inter marriage amongst its divers ethnicity have established a solid cultural diffusion. Hence, you see a child whose father is Urhobo (Delta) while the mother Andoni (Rivers). Many of us Niger Deltans are having such background including myself; even down to my great grand parents. As it stands, i am related to almost all 9 ND states by blood lineage.

WE ARE NOT INFERIOR & WE WILL NEVER BE INFERIOR TO ANYBODY. As a people, we have embraced our diversity in tongues & culture in good fate thus we depict our solidarity by calling ourselves by our very own surname NIGER-DELTA.

The guy tried o.




I have only seen 3 Non-Igbo Nigerians that can speak Igbo language fluently.

SLAP44:
Wrong!

Bia Ka m nye gi nri ka I rie.

Are you an Igbo-Fulani or Hausa-Igbo?

Arrewa:
nwanne gwaya!! Ka uche ya diya!! Adim sure na that boy abughi ezigbo onye igbo! Oga bu onye Abakiliki!! Imana ha Adighi enwecha uche!

Absolutely nothing will happen sir.

Hunt27:
Former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has given a stern warning of what awaits the Southeast region if Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State ever becomes President of Nigeria....

Source below
https://www..com.ng/what-will-happen-to-igbo-if-el-rufai-becomes-president-reno-omokri/

Sell out to whom and for what reasons?


Must everybody you consider to have similar opinions with you about the incumbent President hate everybody that you hate?


If the worst happens, politicians change political parties all the time.

Were Orji Uzor and Send Ken Nnami considered sell-outs when they decamped from the PDP to the APC?
Were Aminu Waziri Tambuwal and Atiku Abubakar considered sell outs when they left the APC for the PDP?

daddytime:
Ah...Dr. Bolaji Akinyemi, may God bless you immensely for this piece.

I have been trying to piece this and so many rumblings in my head together just to make a sense of what I see through and in FFK but my inability to be as lucid as the likes of you can be in writing kept holding me back.

Even before Abba Kyari's demise, I have always wondered from whence FFK is able to fund the kind of lifestyle he still enjoys even after being out of government for years, and the throw-in his supposed corruption case that has been stalled inexplicably while the likes of Olisa Metuh got hunted down successfully.

Everyone rightly thought there was an APC mole in the PDP but so many would have missed him on the radar.

So many Nigerians go about consciously or subconsciously cursing out on the enemies of the state and those continually holding us down but never truly believe in the efficacies of their solemn or open swears. But trust me, our prayers and supplications never ever go unanswered. This FFK's case is definitely a good case in question. He has met his waterloo and found out for who he truly is.

This is truly the definition of like father, like a son or the apple not falling far from it's tree.

The one other person I am very confident in that can be as much of a sell out as FFK just to satisfy his greedy belly is none other than Bob Dee. Yes, Dele Momodu. But you know what? Our God go dey pick una out one by one and disgracing y'all.

Evil greedy bastards.

His own version of History is whatever the 'Dilectior' told them on his radio.

LarryBee1k:
Read history book they won't. Late Brigadier General Benjamin Adekunle was nicknamed scorpion not Akintola.

Obasanjo ruled Nigeria for 8 years. I doubt he was mentally unstable. Man your lies are out of this world.

Happy birthday to the Emir.


May God grant him long life.

Is this one of the Youths that want to become 'the leaders of tommorow'?

Racoon:
When Kingibe was conferred with the GCON title alongside MKO Abiola, our SW brethren welcomed it.Now even Kingibe's northern folks dont trust him.So southern traitors beware as you'll never be trusted.

This has nothing to do with the
President.


There are a lot of young ladies in rural and urban centres doing legitimate but hardwork to survive in Nigieria.

CYBERWEAVER:
The only solution is, we need a President that will be active on the social media starting from 2023.
We are tired of retirees

Haba, why is your sense of humanity?





How will you feel,if this were to be your sister, GF or wife?

GOFRONT:
Ha!!!

This is pokenose abeg.....

Is she complaining that she is up for grabs as a common househelp?? ........It is non of our business. E no concern us abeg....

Her Mates are over here struggling by all means to have their way to Dubai just to go and open their mouth directly below the Anus of an Arabian man........If u know u know

This kind of thread is often deficit in intelligence but surplus in tribalism.



1) Every Geo-Political zones have lands and a farming population which produce certain Agricultural produce
e.g Cassava, Maize,Igwu, Palm oil in the S/East.

Yam, Vegetables, Kolanuts, Oranges, Mangoes, Poultry products,Timber from the S/West.

Groundnuts, cotton, Beaf, Soya beans,Maize, Beans, Nigerian rice from the NW

2) The volume of Agricultural produce in all the zones are not the same and some invest more in Agriculture than others.


3) Since we are ONE Country, we have become inter-dependent in ways that look like division of labour.

E.g Our traders and Pharmaceutical distributors are more from the S/East.

Our Herdsmen, Mai-Suya and Bureau-de-change operators are more from the N/West and N/East.


Our Artisans like Printers, Mechanics &builders ,Carpenters, office administrators/workers, Poultry farmers, Cocoa Farmers and Kolanuts farmers are more from the S/West.

Blue3k:
These thread always turn stupid. I tried researching Nigeria agricultural output but I can't find reliable data. I have my suspicions about northern agricultural productivity. If I ever find reliable data I'll do topic justice.

You are a very intelligent and patriotic Nwanfor who believes that the industrialization drive of the Alaigbo can not commence fully untill perfect conditions are met.



























. . . Let's just say you believe that the full industrialization of Alaigbo will take place after the second coming of Jesus Christ to start the millennial reign when all evils will be banned.

Armaggedon:
This is pure wishful thinking. What is the price of an average innoson saloon car? compare it with the price of an imported Toyota saloon car talk more of the price in their home country. No power, no steal complex etc how does he even grow to produce engine itself? don't you know there are some components you can't manufacture with a generating set and he has to import them, skyrocketing his production cost. Despite his remarkable improvement, If there is no infrastructure his vehicle prices won't come down and if it remains that way, his growth is doubtful. It's not enough to establish business if the environment is not sustainable. Relocate IVM to south Africa and see wonders.

How is glo doing? As far as I'm concerned it is dead. politicians' loots is what sustaining it.

Bring Biafra, fix power, fix electoral system and tackle corruption. Less loot flying around means that hardwork, creativity are the only ways to be wealthy and achieve success. when politics become less lucrative, criminals are discouraged from it and genuine people are encouraged to pilot the system. When majority see business and production as the means to wealth, there will be massive, genuine and more effective demand for better business environment. No more politics of Fulani marginalisation or Yoruba jealousy or divided loyalty from our politicians.

Okay, Okay, Okay we have heard and believe that Buhari has died and was buried in Saudi Arabia in 2016 and Jubrin from Sudan is now ruling.

manuelreports:
This Country you can do anything and get away with it. Imagine all these secrecy yet no reasonable human being is asking question. If the frail looking Buhari we know that was in and out of hospital can survive and be this healthy and look young then I think nobody should die as long as you have money. Because with your money you can cheat death.
We don't even need to wait for Nnamdi Kanu to carry out deep analysis before asking some crucial questions.
They told the gullible Nigerians that rats destroyed the presidential office and the gullible Nigeria swallowed it without asking questions.

Tufiakwa very useless Government and most useless and gullible people that the zoo called Nigeria have.

The clown is about 50years of age o

solmus:
When a 40 year old man passionately deceives himself .. his mates are searching for cure of covid 19, he is here searching for Buhari and his neck

Yeah, Nigeria almost had something like that in the 1980-1990s but only in selective places.

GamalNasser:
Are you sure Nigeria has ever had good electricity?

Fornication and adultery.

Obviously you lack the capacity to engage in intellectual debates.



The only thing you know how to do is to engage in tribal e-wars.

ZombiePUNISHER:
Shut Up there my Muslim friend

1) Everybody can NOT be selected or appointed at once sir.


2) You don't necessarily need a Government appointment to contribute your own qouta to the development of your town, State and Nigeria.

For instance, I know of a young lady who through dint of hardwork started as a teacher in a private school in 1990 but by 2020 has built groups of private schools which provide quality and affordable education to generartion of students in her environment.
She has contributed to the educational advancement of her community than than a Commissioner of Education.

femi4:
The point is even with your degrees and hardwork, we have at least 100 people with the same or better pedigree yet not considered or get SELECTED as a Minister

Many of you guys on Nairaland are just unnecessarily embittered.




1) All over the World, it is the ELITES that rule.

2) The Elites have playgrounds- Schools, Business or Ceremonies where they and/or their children meet.

3) When children from different backgrounds meet in elitist schools and graduate together, they usually have greater opportunities to work in reputable companies/organizations which can give them superb exposure and experience which in turn give them better chances of being considered for leadership positions than others.

4) In the US, most citizens who eventually become Governors, Senators and Presidents attended schools together at Yale, Princeton, MIT and Harvard Universities.

6) In the UK, most of the members of the House of Lords and Prime Ministers were groomed in Easton College, London School of Economics, Imperial College, Oxford and Cambridge Universities.

7) In Nigeria, some of the students who attended King's College, Lagos, Government College, Ibadan, Barewa College, Zaria , University of Ibadan and Ahmadu Bello University between 1960-1985 became Perm-Sec, VCs, Ambassadors, Top Military brass, Director-Generals, Senators, Governors and President.

The Elites in Nigieria are actually like one big extended family which are interconnected and sometimes interrelated across party, religion or tribal lines.

ZombiePUNISHER:
Shut up there

Buhari government is a conglomeration of past present friends and family members

Is that how to run a government?...
Who in this administration is more experienced in the area of Economy and finance like Iweala

But tribalism and who knows who won't allow the nation progress
When this onyema was yapping rubbish about what went down in China regarding Nigerian citizens there... I knew he was handed a script by his employers..

We have never had it this bad

What exactly is your point sir?


Are you saying Goeffery Onyeama who has B.A in Political Science from Columbia University, New-York, B.A in Law from Cambridge University, M.A from London School of Economics and LL.M from Cambridge University who worked with the United Nations for 30 years, retiring as Deputy Director-General of WIPO doesn't merit a Ministerial post of his Country?

femi4:
You don't the difference between elected posts and selected posts. Ministerial positions are selected post

Both Godfrey Onyeama and Abba Kyari went to great Schools in the UK and worked in reputable organizations in Nigeria and abroad.



They both merited the positions they occupied.



There are always better people anywhere.

In the UK, there are more intelligent and hard-working people than Queen Elizabeth and Boris Johnson.

Donald Trump isn't the most intelligent, hard working or patriotic person in the US.


Those 1001 Nigerians that you know that are better than Onyeama and Kyari should join politics and let Nigerians see their Sterling leadership qualities.

femi4:
Which work hard.....we have 1001 people with better CV yet didn't have the opportunity.

In Nigeria, you must Work hard and know somebody

People age differently due to a complex combination genetic and squired factors.

Biafrarep:
How did he end up looking so sick and old?
In this picture, he actually looks younger than Onyema Ugochukwu only to now look like his father before he died.

Na wao.

This is a good example of jaundiced journalism.

1) The write up was poorly written. E.g what's invasive (instead of Intensive) Therapy in the management of a Respiratory disease?



2) Madam Kemi Olunloyo violated the confidentiality of the patient.

It's ethically wrong to be giving out information about the health condition of a patient .