₦airaland Forum

udezue:
After the civil war certain groups started distancing themselves from the Igbo and heir identity out of fear and also plain treachery. To many the Igbo were seen as the only and main group the Nigerian govt was targetting for extermination hence it was better to abandone them and join the victorious Nigerian troops. The Igbo never imposed any identity on anyone. If Biafra won everyone remotely related to anything Igbo woulda been quick to point to u their Igbo heritage. Humans are opportunistic and the Eastern region is full of opportunists who will turn Chinese sef if China invaded Nigeria so its no surprise that even an Igbo will deny being talkless of an Okirirka with mixed heritage. Oh well once the govt made use of em and got tired of the pretence they started letting them know that regardless of your their nationality they are in the same boat with the Igbo.

fact

@ikomi and tayo D

keep up the good work

@kx

lol

is it just me or is there something i dont understand.
the same people that said Obama is socialist for ''taking over'' GM,
the same people who talk of govt take over,
the same people who talk of small govt,
the same people who talk of free enterprise,
the same people who publicly rejected the stimulus(and actually accepted it secretly before boasting about it publicly again . . .
the same people are now asking Obama to take over BP.

what is there in these people that blocks common sense from entering their brain?
and even now bobby jindal (who thought he will be the next president of white america  . . .lol) is asking the federal govt to help him out of a mess made by a capitalist company . . .

and senator lamar who wanted govt out of healthcare wants govt to run BP . . haaa

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/23/lamar-bp-takeover/

ifyalways:
Ihe di njo na ato amu

amu as in laughter or as in . . . .

@Topic,owu nani iberibe ga eme aturu amaba na mmiri riri enyi.
Its only folly that wud prompt a sheep to jump into a river that drowned a cow

eziokwu ka ikwuru ada mma

Youngies,Tosh na agaba,mmiri o bula unu biara nso,no matter how clean mmiri ahu di,unu ato must-u gbaruo ya.owu ihe e mere eme

ha wu ndi ara azuru azu. imagine youngies na tosh wu doctors . . . ebelebe igba

Darfur na Rubi,ndi nkem,a nam ekele.

anyi ekelekwaa gi, ada ri obi m mma

ify m oooooo. ify e-miss-i-kwara- m gi ooo
ify onye aruruala. i ma ama mee onwe gi scarce, ka aguru gi guo m baaadly, but o gukwara m baaaaad. infact ana m ahu gi na nro like this ara agbaa m ma mteta

chei, nwa baby m o
mama ahula m onye ri mi mma o o o o o

MandingoII:
- IF YOU CROSS THE NORTH KOREAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET 12 YEARS HARD LABOR.
- IF YOU CROSS THE IRANIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU ARE DETAINED INDEFINITELY.
- IF YOU CROSS THE AFGHAN BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU GET SHOT.
- IF YOU CROSS THE SAUDI ARABIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE JAILED.
- IF YOU CROSS THE CHINESE BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU MAY NEVER BE HEARD FROM AGAIN.
- IF YOU CROSS THE VENEZUELAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE BRANDED A SPY AND YOUR FATE WILL BE SEALED.
- IF YOU CROSS THE CUBAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE THROWN INTO POLITICAL PRISON TO ROT.
- IF YOU CROSS THE MEXICAN BORDER YOU GO TO JAIL FOR 2 YEARS




[size=14pt]- IF YOU CROSS THE U.S. BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET,[/size]
1 - A JOB,
2 - A DRIVERS LICENSE,
3 - SOCIAL SECURITY CARD,
4 - WELFARE,
5 - FOOD STAMPS,
6 - CREDIT CARDS,
7 - SUBSIDIZED RENT OR A LOAN TO BUY A HOUSE,
8 - FREE EDUCATION,
9 - FREE HEALTH CARE,
10 - A LOBBYIST IN WASHINGTON,
11 - BILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS PRINTED IN YOUR LANGUAGE,
12 - AND THE RIGHT TO CARRY YOUR COUNTRY'S FLAG WHILE YOU PROTEST THAT YOU DON'T GET ENOUGH RESPECT.

that is why the U.S is the greatest country. or would you rather the U.S be like china? imagine what illegal immigrants did for this country:
they brought xtianity
education
medical science
and their children and children's children brought the revolution, constitution and democracy

montelik:
But here is my problem with such a statement. All immigration laws have the potential to be xenophobic in nature. Every single immigration law, whether in the U.S, Africa, Europe, Asia has the potential to be xenophobic. Fact. Also all laws have the potential to be misinterpreted or applied. The solution to such threats is not to criticize such laws or abandon them, but to try and enforce them properly.

from this statement, it seems to me that you agree with me.

montelik:
^^^^ I wouldn't have replied. I have long ago learned never to try and argue with self professed "Liberals" when its comes to Palin. It never goes anywhere and it always too personal.

good decision

But something wrote you caught my attention.Let start by saying (as a Christian myself) that I don't like associating Christianity with politics. But surely you understand that faith is personal. This the same reaction I had when some people were attacking Obama as not being a true Christian because of his rather harsh views on abortion e.t.c. How can you judge someones faith or lack of it, when your faith is much a matter of the heart as it is your deeds.

i'm inclined to agree with this statement.

xenophobia is a natural response. the arizona law is xenophobic in nature and majority of americans support the law. hte best americans can do now is to come together and train or re-train arizona police to carry out the law with as little racism as possible bc definitely some racist elements in the police will use the loop holes in the law to do their thing.

but i dont want to be too judgemental on the americans who want to end illegal immigration. it is quite understandable, albeit sad.

@montelik
palin accepted to be vice president bc she was tired of being governor of alaska. she has no ideology. she believes she is a good xtian. but she is not. her utterances are not what you expect from God fearing people.

she is just another politician looking for fortunes. she did not see what she wanted in alaska gov house so she went out looking for it. she found it in extreme right wing rhetoric, she made money from it, lots of money, used the tea party platform to make more money. wrote a book that she wont read and perhaps never read(who wrote it?) and the book was bought by people most of whom will never read it . . . . she made more money(praise the lord) bless her soul. but she is not a true xtian. just another politician. period

but she is not all negative . . .she has good looks . . . . has a good marriage(very great thing in this day and age) is anti-abortion(yes, i like people who are anti abortion too . . . _{did jesoul just shout})
anyway, she is not fit for the office of the POTUS

so you have advanced from jesoul to jesus huh? you now know when it will all end abi?

the health care bill without public option . . . . . could have been written by michael steele. ahaaa, i hear it was copied from some guy in boston called . . . uuhmmmm . . . Mitt Rhomney


the current wall street reform, i hear is another pandering to the right . . not sure about that yet.

the wars in afghanistan and irag. what is the US doing in the middle east if not to keep oilling the treasure chest of the republican military industrial complex that president eisenhower warned about in I96I . . .

the spill baby spill pandering to the right. here was a guy who was against drilling and then suddenly he turned around to support it to pander to the right before . . . . . BP happened

i can go on and on . .the guy is just confused. a ''leftist'' supreme court judge retires and he appoints a centrist judge. how can someone like kagan replace someone like stevens?

umunne bikonu sopuru nu ilulu igbo . . biko o . . . .

i have a wide network of friends including ngwa people

JeSoul:
The end must be near.

end of what?the US? or the world? or obama's administration? end of what? pls reduce all this armageddon rhetoric jare

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
i knew it,i knew it . . i knew there is a place we agree on. we cant always be against each other all the time

now that it is settled that the comedian from alaska is not fit for office, let me partially agree that obama is not doing well in ofice at the moment. he has let down his supporters by trying to please his political opponents who have sworn to destroy his administration even if it means pulling down the country with it . . . . he plays to the right a lot and takes the left for granted . . . he is in for a shocker. i'm waiting for the day someone will challenge him for a primary run in 20I2

however, pls do not mention Obama and palin in the same sentence

and for peace, take this from me . . . . . . . . . that was an innocent kiss o, no deep meaning _{before ur boyfriend/partner/husband/admirer decends on me}

i love her as an entertainer . . . . but i guess the white house loves to see her in the news . . . whenever she is out there opening her mouth, Obama and co perform better in the polls

my only problem is that even the tea party polls dont rate her high as a presidential material. so perhaps they like her as an entertainer too

ChinenyeN:
I'll make a contribution regarding my own people, the Ngwa. According to a highly celebrated and popular tradition of origin, a people, who are said to have hailed from Umunneoha in Owere, moved eastward from Umunneoha and came upon the Imo. At that point, they decided to rest a bit from traveling and eat. Some decided to roast their yams, as is/was customary, while others did what was unorthodox and boiled their yams, eating them as soon as they were done (without even offering prayers).

While they were all cooking and eating, the Imo began to rise. Those others who did the unorthodox quickly finished eating, packed their things and crossed. Those who did as is/was customary refused to leave their still-roasting food. The others who managed to quickly finish and cross before the Imo could rise to a point that hindered crossing, became the Ngwa, while the Mbaise are the ones who stayed behind. That is the popular and highly celebrated story of my people, but I have a problem with that tradition of origin.

Then there exists another theory, which I'm not all that familiar with.

i've heard this story before. then the ngwa people called the other people ndi ohuhu i.e those who were roasting(their yams)

ikomi, ikomi, ikomiiiiiiiiiiiii ugboro ole ka m kporo gi? . . .
o wu ify m ka ichoro i ga n^'uoro magani burantashi

aga m ejikwa amu gi agwo ogwu ego o

harakiri:
You'll see some middle aged guy who was sponsored into office and had less than N300,000 in his account before assuming power leaving the hot seat with over $5 billion in foreign accounts.And nobody blinks.Matter of fact, it is expected of them.If they steal money, most Nigerians praise them and a few call them rogues. . .if they don't steal money, all Nigerians call them fools!

And they keep wondering why the country isn't moving forward.

this is what i keep saying everywhere i go. our problem is not in our govt or PDP but in us. all of us. the only way corruption will drop in nigeria is if there are more honest people in nigeria than corrupt ones. but corrupt people are more, today, and if you like make millions of anti-corruption laws, unless you will import the people who would enforce those laws, forget it.declaring assets means nothing if the police and the watchdogs of corruption are corrupt.

has anybody here read the nigerian constitution? and compared it to the US constitution? the nigerian constitution is a better document . . . on paper. yet their system is working and ours isnt. why? the british dont even have a constitution at all. yet their society is organised. why? bc of the people there.

toshmann:
youngies onye apari

amu si o gara iri eri, instead ya agboo agboo

o putara na ilu nile nwoke m a ma agwula nno ihe gbasara amu? bikonu kedu di udiri mmadu wu ihe nke a sef?

xynerise:
Amu ne ke le o. Imara na ndi ala na ewe mi we?

enyi, isi aha gi wu gini? amu? . . . . odikwa egwu o

hey what happened to my expensive thread? ahaa, pls tayo d, jesoul, david, montelike etc etc etc return to base and let us laugh at sarah palin (whom i have been accused of loving )

i have not heard much from her these days. i hope she has a solution for all this spill . . . . anyway, good to know that some politicians just open their mouth and talk like their brain, if any, tells them to . . . . psycho talk

anyway, mr tayo d, it's not that i dont like oil, but i just believe that people should be concerned about the environmental impact of drilling on the local communities. if you've been to the niger-delta region of nigeria and see for yourself the effects of oil drilling on those communities, you would drill with restraint. but the oil lords dont care, and they use the disgruntled tea-party/republicans/conservative ignoramuses to push their selfish agenda which has helped land madam alaska some $12million while the poor protesters are crying about jobs . . i laugh in zulu

anyway, jesoul, as a xtian, i dont hate people. if God created people in his own image and likeness, why should i hate them. i may disagree with them, like i disagree with you, but i wont hate them. rather i'll love them, as i love you too.

montelik, i didnt read that your post. it was too long, i wanted to read it later but nairaland crashed and wiped it all away.

pls bring your contributions and arguments . . and fire . . . and brimstone . . . but no personal abuse . . . except for palin . . . the wise rich one

eeee? osisi imutachaala nwa ma ka esi ese foto. igbalikwara jide ahu gi ka odi ka nke nwa agbogho. o wuzi toshnwanyi na agaba419 ajikwala gi alu ogu. right now o di ka toshnwayi meriga bc ahula m aha ya there. amaghi m how aha ya ji baa dia. gi na ya omere meeting somewhere?

lol. when they wan take picture how dem go pose now

abdul mutalab was just a stupid rich kid trying to find an identity and landed himself into terrorism. from that video, he was shown making a statement, some of which he was practically reading from a page which was probably written for him. in the training camp he was shown holding a weapon but not shown firing one. meaning: perhaps he cant even fire a weapon

but to make it look real bad the media showed other militants firing and hating b4 showing mutallab. . . lol

the guy is a fool

i hear arizona was a part of mexico in the early 19th century and beyond. they sold it to the US govt for $10million today they are likely being targeted by a law there.
lesson for all, think of the future generation in whatever you are doing today.

coldhearts:
@jesoul
huh what? lol
haha i have no plans of hooking up online lol, i have enough guys bugging me already, why add to that huh also i only go for men lol. In the actual world, i'm a very conservative and serious girl and i don't take nonsense for the most part .

then you are not ready for marriage bc marriage is full of ''nonsense'' for the most part

just check this out. this is my man at his best


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSgykxuqAoM&feature=related

democracy

tayo my man . . . tayo na wa o.

why u de do like this now? see as foreign affairs section come dull. all bc u have refused to bring comprehensive debate on the floor. even kobojunkie has fled this section. why now?

pls you guys should make some annoying statements and let us keep this section flowing. other sections are doing better.

ebelebe igba
ebelebe igba
ebelebe nke igba igba igbakirigba

osisi, from nowhere gi agbaa life with nkwa umuagbogho. nwanne yorima nkwa gi oooo. . . mana ka m juo kwa o, gini mere iji dee aha toshman eze umunwanyi n'egwu ahu. then gi bia si ikomi lere nkwa. nwanne na wa for you . . .

mana ina ayokwa nkwa o. echekwa m na iwu mama mmadu, amaghi m na iwukwa agboghobia o . . . . chei . . ikomi na toshnwanyi leeeee . . .
osisi biko jirikwa wedding ring gi ebe obula ina aga o, maka ndi dika agaba na tosh . . na ikomi . . na . . . . . ndi ozo na achoghi ilu nwanyi ma ha anaghi eji anya ahu nwayi no na di