rafindo:
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the guy raise up men.full of emotions he refuse to differentiate between dreams ND realities. I laugh at how clueless apga can be.it shows u how uneducated they are about our laws.the constitution entails that all party must have their national hqtr at abuja in other to prevent sectionalism.even when the defunct acn was existing the national hqtr was still abuja.this at this junction I can conclude convincingly Igbo as no leader.

I don't think I ever commented on apga hqtrs location

investnow2013:
River Niger Bridge at Night

looks like Queens bridge in new york city

Road infrastructure is very important to Anambra-State!.Obiano administration said that he will not only build roads, but will also provide all road components including dualizing some of the roads!

investnow2013:
River Niger Bridge at Onitsha

GEJ really tried on that bridge, the contractor finished the maintenance and painting be for the end of his administration, this is the short I took last 2weeks

Let me go back to the issue of Languages. I am in Enugu now, there is this Igbo guy that supplies the abokii who operates a kiosk close to where I stay with goods. The Igbo guy probably lived in the north for some time and knows how to speak Hausa, he is always communicating with the abokii in Hausa language, all the time I've seen them both. Now the question is, if he lived in Kano or wherever and they made him to learn Hausa rather than him making them to learn Igbo, why not make the abokii learn Igbo instead of speaking Hausa with him in your own land? The implication of this is like with more people like him, Zonacom and Nnewis1stgay, we will soon be communicating with Hausa language in Igbo land.

chinolization:
Bona, I admire you for your peaceful disposition. Dalu..

Nwanne u don rebaptize me again? From Chinedu to Bona. Well, I love both names.
About being peaceful, i just don't see the need of bitching in a faceless forum like this. We are all brothers after all.

ZeroTolerance:
Let me go back to the issue of Languages. I am in Enugu now, there is this Igbo guy that supplies the abokii who operates a kiosk close to where I stay with goods. The Igbo guy probably lived in the north for some time and knows how to speak Hausa, he is always communicating with the abokii in Hausa language, all the time I've seen them both. Now the question is, if he lived in Kano or wherever and they made him to learn Hausa rather than him making them to learn Igbo, why not make the abokii learn Igbo instead of speaking Hausa with him in your own land? The implication of this is like with more people like him, Zonacom and Nnewis1stgay, we will soon be communicating with Hausa language in Igbo land.

Nwanne dis issue has long been thrashed, dusted and parties involved ve acknowledged corrections and moved on. Stop taking us backwards tata bu kwa mbosi uka!!! Udo diri gi

asha80:
Lol..as much as I think cjrane went a bit too far I understand where he is coming from..an experience I had in owerri 10yrs ago explains it..we were entering a viewing center and there was some disagreement btw the owner of the event center and an imsu student who obviously was and born and brought up in Lagos and his name is Igbo was from the exchanges I was hearing..then those of us who knew the owner of the place prevailed on him to allow the student want the match and a friend I was with paid for the student..then instead of the imsu student to just relax and watch match he started this small opening raking and ranting for about one minute...nobody talked to him only for him to end the raking with shouting some Yoruba sentences(like the ones you hear area boys drop at times in Lagos )..

O boy want happened next

Lol.... Finish your story nah

tabletman1:
Lol.... Finish your story nah

umuororonjo boys n'ime owerri town watching the match with us acted

I am happy to see that obiano is doing things in omanbala..but good governance is not only about aesthetics we also need more hospitals in the state the child mortality rate in anambra is one of the highest in the country.

You guys should also endeavour to stop pasting private residences online it is baseless and does not follow the purpose of this thread.

cjrane:


Asha,
I am personally not against people taking pride in other African languages. I speak yoruba very well. You just have to have a good sense of person, so that you can see what is better to emulate from other cultures and what is better in your own culture than the new culture. So that you don't copy wholesale and blindly. If you cannot see anything good about yourself, then you'd be a rolling stone and object of ridicule to others. In a way our younger generation have no sense of who they are and what forces have been shaping their lives. This is what concerns me the most.

As a person, i also believe in compromise just to let things be.However, I soon realized that i had actually learned this attitude from my parents as Igbo people! I soon asked my parents and others why they had this laid-back attitude of not speaking out against evil, and they said "The War"
Then, they refused to talk about "the war". My father, a former Biafran soldier, did recommend 2 books; "Nigerian revolution and the Biafran war" by Alex Madiebo, so that i could see the true sequence of the tragic events and the dairy of Ojukwu published as " Selected speeches & random thoughts" to understand the desperation of the time and why nobody wished to recall those days in stories.I had since added Faraway in the sky, an account of an American missionary and the legendary Chinua Achebe's personal account "There was a country".

These four books are a must for our youths to get a peek into why Nigeria is how it is and why we must change the tactics we have used in reacting to this oppression that started on May 27th, 1967. Unfortunately, nobody can find the time to tell you these facts unless you disciplined yourself to read and find out for yourself. I recommend these books especially to Chino and Abagworo. It will help them understand who they are and how others see them....and most importantly how to reason in order to see they are actually on the same side!

My point is that we tend to be afraid of speaking out against what we know in our hearts to be false for fear of being disrespected, labeled "Igbotic",illiterate, "tribalistic" or worse. While our adversaries donot hesitate to play the ethnic or religion card when it suits their cause.The reason why many more Igbos died in the second pogrom was simply that naivety of thought that we are all the same, "One Nigeria" and they see me as i see them.So i can call katsina my hometown and invest all my life savings there. What tragic fallacy!
The result of the acceptance of the so called "One Nigeria" heresy carefully sculpted to appear innocent so that our people now adopt the narratives and concoctions of their enemies as solemn facts! The first pogrom against the Igbo was spontaneous following the killing of Ironsi as a punishment for the "Igbo coup" that brought him to power, while the second pogrom was planned and systemic massacre only comparable in scale to the Rwanda massacre of Tutsis. The reason why it happened so successfully?......Disastrous underestimation of the intent of the people we call "Fellow" Nigerians. That is why Igbos have continued to invest all their money in god forsaken parts of the north and elsewhere trusting on the benevolence of those folks, just as our parents disastrously did just in the 1960s. The tragedy of it is that our people will believe they are from Kano or elsewhere simply because they were born there and speak hausa fluently just like Musa and Jibril that were born in the same hospital as them. Only for the facts to hit them at some point when they are treated differently! Just as our parents learned the hard way.
I know i have not made my point clearly in black and white, but it was deliberately intended to be fuzzy. So that people that can read between the lines and search the truth for themselves.

@CJrane: Good thinking,Good product! That's what and who u are! Jisike nwanne! You just nailed! Nothing to be added,nothing to be taken away! It is as unfortunate as it is tragic,yet,we must either sail through this sea of errors(Nigeria) and prevail or we shall be marooned at bay forever! Happy Sunday,people!

ZeroTolerance:
Let me go back to the issue of Languages. I am in Enugu now, there is this Igbo guy that supplies the abokii who operates a kiosk close to where I stay with goods. The Igbo guy probably lived in the north for some time and knows how to speak Hausa, he is always communicating with the abokii in Hausa language, all the time I've seen them both. Now the question is, if he lived in Kano or wherever and they made him to learn Hausa rather than him making them to learn Igbo, why not make the abokii learn Igbo instead of speaking Hausa with him in your own land? The implication of this is like with more people like him, Zonacom and Nnewis1stgay, we will soon be communicating with Hausa language in Igbo land.

This is actually the disturbing mindset! Our people are forced to learn hausa to survive in the northern part of Nigeria, then those in their villages in Igboland are also forced to learn hausa to trade in their homeland!
Someone truly has an arrogant attitude of being superior and it is "others" that need to learn his language and not vice versa. Just as the British looked down on our languages. Our people have subtly tolerated that behavior to continue

OreMI22:


This is actually the disturbing mindset! Our people are forced to learn hausa to survive in the north, then those in their villages in Igboland are also forced to learn hausa to trade in their homeland!
Someone truly has an arrogant attitude of being superior and our people have subtly allowed that behavior to continue

Unfortunately, many of our people suffer from deep inferiority complex without even knowing.

cjrane:


Dude,
I don't need your interest nor you to respect me. I get a lot of it amongst people that matter.I am not here to be respected.
Now, i will repeat again incase you missed this from my previous posts. I am here to engage constructively with other TRUE Igbo people. I will not be afraid nor cowed by your threat to withdraw your "respect". Whatever that is worth. I am not here to be respected by any faceless person no matter their gender or tribe.
My aim here is to rub minds with others to ponder the Igbo position in this unfortunate country and articulate the way forward.

Thou I don't subscribe to tribalism but I perfectly understand how you feel about two nwafor speaking hausa to each other. I grew up in jos and can speak hausa, but I won't be caught dead speaking hausa to a fellow igbo man. It's really unfortunate to even discover that people who do this are so proud of it. Have you ever wondered why a vast majority of this hausa people in the east refuse to learn igbo even after many years of been in igboland. You can speak hausa to an hausa man when you see him, but the case of two igbo man interacting in hausa is a shame. Just for a second Imagine two aboki interacting in igbo..........If that's possible to you, then you can go ahead with what you're doing.

Nnewi1stSon:
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And the way to go about this is to ostracize people who would likely serve as spies in the event of another scuffle with the north? You sure are brilliant!

Bro, nobody here is trying to ostracize you in any way but to say the truth.........it's not proper for two igbomen to be communicating in hausa for whatever reason and this is nothing about tribalism. I grew up in the north too but I don't think speaking hausa to a nwafor is a thing to be proud of. I just want you to take a second and Imagine two hausa peeps speaking igbo to themselves. You and I know to well that such is impossible. So for two nwafor to be doing such calls for concern.

Nnewi1stSon:
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And the way to go about this is to ostracize people who would likely serve as spies in the event of another scuffle with the north? You sure are brilliant!

Bro, nobody here is trying to ostracize you in any way but to say the truth.........it's not proper for two igbomen to be communicating in hausa for whatever reason and this is nothing about tribalism. I grew up in the north too but I don't think speaking hausa to a nwafor is a thing to be proud of. I just want you to take a second and Imagine two hausa peeps speaking igbo to themselves. You and I know to well that such is impossible. So for two nwafor to be doing such calls for concern.

uduokirika1:


by stigmatizing your fellow brothers for derailing instead of calling them to order and correcting them abi? so much for a "TRUE ARTICULATE IGBO"

If you had understood my stance i was pleading that the stigmatization was long over due, and not your Arabic caricature of a comment with respect to what happened days ago!!!!!!!!

As for the respect I have for you- ----------------------still booting---------------------

I respect your contributions on this thread but I can't keep quiet in the face of what you're trying to defend. Speaking hausa to your brother is nothing to be proud of. You will never find two northerners speaking igbo to themselves. I don't seem to understand what fuels this your sense of nationalism and patriotism. We must not let our culture suffer in the face of misplaced nationalism. When you think you've seen enough of strange things from my people, they reinvent another.

asha80:
Lol..as much as I think cjrane went a bit too far I understand where he is coming from..an experience I had in owerri 10yrs ago explains it..we were entering a viewing center and there was some disagreement btw the owner of the event center and an imsu student who obviously was and born and brought up in Lagos and his name is Igbo was from the exchanges I was hearing..then those of us who knew the owner of the place prevailed on him to allow the student want the match and a friend I was with paid for the student..then instead of the imsu student to just relax and watch match he started this small opening raking and ranting for about one minute...nobody talked to him only for him to end the raking with shouting some Yoruba sentences(like the ones you hear area boys drop at times in Lagos )..

O boy want happened next

What a shame bro. Amadim ife di n'anya ndigbo mgbe ufodu.

OdenigboAroli:


Very few people will believe I was born in Plateau state ,partly grew in Lagos,Anambra and Benin but not for a second will I ever believe in that deceit called "one Nigeria". Unor okuko munwa bu Odenigbo ama aluia na be ndi ofe na awusha.

That's the way to go bro. I grew up in jos but it will be totally insane for me to speak hausa to an igboman. For those defending this unfortunate thing, well I've no word for u for now.

Zonacom:

Noted. Happy sunday

Nobody is trying to witch-hunt you here but you must learn how to take corrections. What you and Nnewi1stSon did is highly inappropriate. A sizable number of us here also grew up in the north and I don't think speaking hausa to your brother is a thing to be proud of.

SilverSurfer:
I respect your contributions on this thread but I can't keep quiet in the face of what you're trying to defend. Speaking hausa to your brother is nothing to be proud of. You will never find two northerners speaking igbo to themselves. I don't seem to understand what fuels this your sense of nationalism and patriotism. We must not let our culture suffer in the face of misplaced nationalism. When you think you've seen enough of strange things from my people, they reinvent another.

Thanks for the compliment and advise but what do you think should be the way forward? 'Cos it is one thing to condem and critisize and another to strategize and build up!

SilverSurfer:
I respect your contributions on this thread but I can't keep quiet in the face of what you're trying to defend. Speaking hausa to your brother is nothing to be proud of. You will never find two northerners speaking igbo to themselves. I don't seem to understand what fuels this your sense of nationalism and patriotism. We must not let our culture suffer in the face of misplaced nationalism. When you think you've seen enough of strange things from my people, they reinvent another.

THEIR TYPES ARE CALLED OFEKE

Former NCC boss Dr. Ernest Ndukwe pictured with the APGA faithfuls at the International Women Development Centre- (IWDC), Awka

chinolization:
Former NCC boss Dr. Ernest Ndukwe pictured with the APGA faithfuls at the International Women Development Centre- (IWDC), Awka

Too bad this man lost to Uba.

Tribunal is likely going to overturn it in favor of Ndukwe. Though I still like Andy as a person apart from the fact that we are from the same town.

Zonacom:

Too bad this man lost to Uba.

SilverSurfer:
Thou I don't subscribe to tribalism but I perfectly understand how you feel about two nwafor speaking hausa to each other. I grew up in jos and can speak hausa, but I won't be caught dead speaking hausa to a fellow igbo man. It's really unfortunate to even discover that people who do this are so proud of it. Have you ever wondered why a vast majority of this hausa people in the east refuse to learn igbo even after many years of been in igboland. You can speak hausa to an hausa man when you see him, but the case of two igbo man interacting in hausa is a shame. Just for a second Imagine two aboki interacting in igbo..........If that's possible to you, then you can go ahead with what you're doing.

Shut up, most of them do hear and can speak Igbo very well, go to Awka, Abagana, Nnewi, osha and other parts in the state..

Zonacom:

Noted. Happy sunday

Udo..k3du ka idi nwanne madu ..ika no UGWU awusa

tonychristopher:

Udo..k3du ka idi nwanne madu ..ika no UGWU awusa

Udo di. Ano m plateau state kita. Mana plateau abughi ugwu awusa

Zonacom:

Too good this man lost to Uba.

fixed

NOBLEDANDY:


Shut up, most of them do hear and can speak Igbo very well, go to Awka, Abagana, Nnewi, osha and other parts in the state..

I was chatting playfully with a hausa man just two days ago and he called me Okokporo in igbo. At first, i was shocked and inquired to know if he knew the meaning of the word he used. Then he told me to go and get married so as to start fending for my kids.
The man's brother later told me that the man sells onions in Onitsha and has been in the trade for years.
I have seen several hausa and yoruba men who can communicate fluently in igbo even more than some igbo people. Their only difference with igbos who can speak other nigerian languages is that they hardly speak it amongst themselves.

Zonacom:

I was chatting playfully with a hausa man just two days ago and he called me Okokporo in igbo. At first, i was shocked and inquired to know if he knew the meaning of the word he used. Then he told me to go and get married so as to start fending for my kids.
The man's brother later told me that the man sells onions in Onitsha and has been in the trade for years.
I have seen several hausa and yoruba men who can communicate fluently in igbo even more than some igbo people. Their only difference with igbos who can speak other nigerian languages is that they hardly speak it amongst themselves.

LOL that word deep for an average Hausa man living here, but for core ones I think they can know more of that...
Anyways we shouldn't allow lies to be celebrated here no matter how sweet...
Hausas learn Igbo to thrive here likewise us up the hill... Simple

NOBLEDANDY:


LOL that word deep for an average Hausa man living here, but for core ones I think they can know more of that...
Anyways we shouldn't allow lies to be celebrated here no matter how sweet...
Hausas learn Igbo to thrive here likewise us up the hill... Simple

Chukwu gozie gi nwanne.
A lotta folks here are just being unnecessarily very emotional about their love for alaigbo. They tell white lies and when you try to correct them, they label you an enemy. All this hostility directed towards me is simply because i refused to join the bandwagon of those ignorantly placing Awka above its level. Anyway, nothing anybody says here will stop me from chipping in my opinion whenever need be. I don't believe anybody loves Anambra state more than i do, but i won't celebrate lies. Never!