₦airaland Forum

Gamesmart:
Struggle to believe that, men.

Always thought:

UK - Yoruba
US - Igbo

AustineE1:
Envy and the never do well syndrome of a certain people that believes the only reason they are not making it in Lagos is because Igbos have parked all that is left in Lagos....Let all further development go down East as has been recently observed by the massive industrialization going on in the East.

Neckpresser101:
If you're a linguist you'd know that

Words can be borrowed from people you've made contact with and doesn't necessarily means they don't have a word for it . They just prefer to use the borrowed word

I had a conversation about this topic with my friend yesterday . He's actually a linguist , He said it's absolutely possible to replace a local word by a borrowed word from another neighbouring language. According to him it's called Lexical replacement or loan word replacement.
It happens alot especially with society you've come in contact with and it's the basis of English language . English is 80+% loanwords! So what's the fuss about.

Neckpresser101:
You realise bini and other languages of southern Nigeria are from the Niger-Congo language family


And yes there are converging linguistic links here and there


For example

Oba in ìgbo means Barn for yams and other produces

Obà still means that plant used in making calabash


So don't brag about origin of word with people you're in same language family with


It ight mean something in their language you never can tell


If na lie ask any Igbo person wetin Olaniyi means in Igbo you'll be shocked

GboyegaD:
When are they planning to complete the Lagos - Badagry road that has been in construction for over 14years?
Can they give us details of each of the interchange because I thought it was plan of the above stated road.

Irony1:
haaaa!!!!! bros fear God and stop deceiving people. With the way the naira is sliding there is no way we can have a surplus, stop this lies abeg.

Flier:
Forget the media when you have Lagos boy as the president,they own everything media in Nigeria and will make you believe the guy man at Aso rock is doing even if Hunger is killing people in the street
I still believe in this government thou
How can Nigeria export out space import? It’s simply impossible and won’t be possible for the next 20 years

Artscollection:
They are stiffling consumer's purchasing power with their quack policies. You raised your dollar rate without increasing the minimum wage so it is normal that export with surpass import.

ReubenE:
NBS don come with their taichi statistics again.

NBS that is known to create their own model of statistical measurement contrary to every globally known and accepted system to promote propaganda.
What we exported and what we imported that created the trade surplus is not even stated, perhaps they are afraid they'll be busted again.

Your problem is that you don't read.

The report gave enough details of all you are asking here.


NBS will revise unemployment to 2% next year

Sleekcode:
90% of topics in this section will always have something to do with this Igbos



Igbos will always be dragged in other people's delusions.


If you want to trend in this section just create anything and sprinkle a little bit of something that will bring Igbo conversation to your rants

paramakina202:
He is only being victimized by a cabal of Tinubu's supporters that controls Lagos state as majority of Yorubas have nothing against him.

paramakina202:
They are two different individuals with different understanding of issues.Gbadobo shouldn't be politically ostracized because his mother is Igbo or for expressing his personal views.

Omoawoke2:
1000% of the igbos even those in Abia and abroad that has never been to Lagos. I had a friend in Abuja, Igbo whey never come Lagos for him life before carried gbarebo for head

paramakina202:
Governor Adeleke is also partly Igbo and speaks Igbo fluently.How about Jimmy Agbaje that Tinubu camp branded Igbo just to demarket him?

Kukutente23:
You made it sound so simple. That's how it usually is from a keypad. David may be right or not but a hostile takeover is not so easily brushed aside as you put it. Moreso when the hostile party is well connected and powerful in a country like Nigeria.

Omobude244:
lolz
eyah
the igbo man again
u just have to assume everyone is associated with the igbos.

The problem u had with OBI is because he is igbo. nothing else. everyone knows that, and majority of yorubas are already admitting to it.

paramakina202:
You are free to choose your candidate without tagging your opponent as Igbo.

Omobude244:
then what was jimi agbaje sin?

that is what the post is all about

igwebuike01:
If this picture is the largest slum then Enugu is heaven compare to SW. This place no reach 0.1% of Makoko

bestman09:
Our corrupt judiciary, Always using technicality to rob the people.

christejames:
Of course, Lagos culture is entirely different from those of average Yorubas...

The Awori, Egun, Badagry and some other indeginous tribes in Lagos have some kind of distinct culture from the average Yorubas


It's the emigration of Yorubas from Northern part of Lagos, with the immigrants leading as top officials in the state making it the reasons the Lagos state is having some semblance of Yorubas in it. Even the Ijaws and Edos will claim Lagos state as theirs first before even any Yoruba will attempt to


Indeginous Lagos names like Coker, Hundeyin, Gbadamosi, Funsho, Bucknor, Sarumi etc have little or no meaning in Yoruba. Even the culture of Eyo was alien to the Yorubas, Eyo masquerades is indeginous to Lagosians which the Yorubas have adopted as theirs , in the Yoruba folklore, there was nothing like masquerade as they have it today in Eyo... The Yoruba culture could be akin to that of the Hausas.


The case of indeginous Lagosians could be seen in same light to those of Kalabari in Rivers State where but Igbo and Ijaw is seen as forming that language.

paramakina202:
But he got hundreds of thousands of votes in last election and would have won if the election was free and fair.

adamusuleiman3:
It seems every time this guy opens his mouth, more stupidity comes out of it.

Same way he said Sanwo Olu was an Ijebu man. He was actually right but not bright enough to know that Ijebus are also indigineous to Lekki, Epe, and Ikorodus areas of Lagos. Ijebu practically shares a border with Lagos. Heck, his running mate was an Ijebu woman from Ikorodu.

drlateef:
Mostly prostitution in Italy and other parts of Europe. I don’t see Edo among professionals in UK. Most of them are Yoruba.