₦airaland Forum

I suppose there'll be different planes for males and females?

Number 3 is not it.

CORRECTION:
"Chimamanda Adichie, Husband Evara Esaga, Daughter's Legs Meet Obiano in Awka. "

scholes0:
This Edoloaded guy and his multiple markers on NL funny die.
If Yoruba talk about Benin now, he will say we are obsessed with them, but he had to go dig out some story from the 15th century about Oyo empire, or do you want me to remind you of how one of your Benin Obas was killed by Igbos in Agbor?

Please, which Oba was that?

Racoon:
So the Afonja-Alimi debacle have been a recurrent trend in Yorubaland for ages.We our mother's stoutly resisted the whites in the 1942 Aba women riots.

1942? Goodness. Y'all are having a field day with dates on this post.

My concern is with how the dates were determined. 1457? 1542?

Ghanaians too dey bare their bòòbs?
I thought baring bòòbs was a Southern African thing.

Asshurbanipali:
Achebe and Chimamanda are both Anambrans, and they two Africans outside Mandela that made the list.

Anambra is truly the light of the entire black race.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o is on the list and he is also African.

Probz:
What’s your verdict on the opinion that Ijebus aren’t really Yoruba in the first place?

I do not share that sentiment. The Ijebu people I know do not share that sentiment. I believe it stems from the claims in oral traditions that Ijebu kingdom is older than Oduduwa. But that to me is immaterial since there is abundant evidence that Yoruba culture-history did not start with Oduduwa, hence I see no reason to use Oduduwa as a yardstick for measuring Yorubaness.

To just take one of the many inaccuracies riddling this post, no European visited any part of the west coast of Africa in the 14th century, let alone Ijebuland.

soloyes:
Everybody is busy calling the guy names with just a few asking intelligent questions like what was a girl of 16 doing in the hotel with a man? If we loss our morals we should be willing to bear the consequences.
Note:am not supporting the guy's actions but we must face the bitter truth : without teaching our daughters to be materialistic, most of these cases of rape wouldn't exist. In fact I wouldn't call this one rape. Was she going to the hotel to solve waec past questions? The only terrible part is where he called to demand for ransom and held her for days against her wish

"I wouldn't call this one rape."

So if a girl agrees to come and see you in your room she has already consented to sex? If you make a move and she resists and you force her it is not rape because she agreed to come to your room?

Nigerians are scary people. What a waawu.

And it's sad that many people here are finding ways to justify this because the girl went to meet the man in a hotel.

She's a fùcking teenager for crissakes. At that age, people are stupid and do stupid shìt. Your sexual side is developing and you have all these feelings you really do not understand, let alone know how to handle.

Going to meet a strange man in a hotel is ill-advised, but that does not negate the fact that she was raped. Stop making excuses for a grievous crime with, "But she went there, what did she go there to do? "

Reading through the comments...

Seriously, people are surprised that 16-year olds have Facebook accounts? Hian. 16 year olds are already in their last year in secondary school. Many of my students when I was a corper were on Facebook.

Cigo1:
He added her on facebook, she accepted.
They chatted over a period of time.
He probably sent her card to recharge.
He told her to come to a hotel, she didn't object.
Now she is crying wolf..

POS!

HallaDaTruth:
Are you aware that some scientists have come out to say that global warming was all made up. What we are seeing is climate control and the technology for that already exists. The weather can be manipulated

Wrong. No scientist denies that climate change is taking place. What a SMALL number of scientists deny is that humans are responsible for it.

And it is only about one per cent of scientists that deny human-caused climate change. One per cent. That is, one out of every hundred.

To paraphrase the words of Obama, if you were sick and you went to see one hundred different doctors, and 99 of them told you you had diabetes, who would you believe - the 99 who told you you had diabetes or the one doctor who told you you didn't?

By the way, I hope you know that the big corporations and the billionaires who make fortunes from fossil fuels (such as the Koch brothers), and do not want to see the source of their livelihoods vanish, are funding anthropogenic climate-change-denying scientists.

HallaDaTruth:
ALL OF YOU HAILING THESE EVIL SCIENTISTS ARE A BUNCH OF BLOCK HEADS, THERE IS A BIGGER AGENDA TO IT. ONE DAY ALL OF YOU MIGHT START PAYING BILLS TO AMERICA TO SUPPLY YOU WITH SUN LIGHT. ALSO THE WHITE MAN HAS NO MELANIN AND THERE IS A DROP IN THEIR POPULATION COMING . THEY WANT TO CONTROL THE WORLD AND DUMB AFRICANS ARE HAPPY ABOUT IT. GLOBAL WARMING IS A BIG HOAX . USE DUCKDUCKGO TO SEARCH IT OUT ( NOT GOOGLE, COS GOOGLE HIDES TRUTH WEBSITES)

@kingsango what's your take on this madness

White man has no melanin? LOL. Everyone has melanin, except for extreme albinos (There are white people who are albinos - those are the only whites that do not have melanin). The difference is merely that black people have it in greater concentration than others.

Secondly, it continues to baffle me that there are people who continue to deny that global warming is taking place. I understand (even though I disagree with) the folks who say it has nothing to do with human activity and is merely a natural cycle of cooling and warming. But to deny that the warming/climate change is taking place all together? That's baffling. One has to be dense to be a climate change denier.

Wow. The curves in the first picture. Nigerian celebrities are really going nuts with this surgery thing. She looks good sha.

3. 5 billion is nothing.

The real question is: Is it practicable? Will engineers develop the suitable aircraft to carry this out in time? These aerosols, how safe are they? Will they lead to secondary health and environmental problems?

At the end of the day, this sounds too much like a "quick fix". We shouldn't relent on efforts to switch to cleaner energy sources, replenish the earth's carbon sink and drastically reduce carbon emission.

God help us all.

Don't waste a minute with a girl who makes you (or wants you to) spend more than you're comfortable with.

LastDance:
This is not about igbo.
They are Nigerians and are all legends in Nigeria entertainment industry.
We as Nigerians are proud of them.
stop relating everyone to tribalism.
How can Nigeria grow as one when everywhere on Nairaland is filled with Igbo amaka.

The truth must be told, The yorubas, the Hausas and those from south south will not in anywhere be found shouting and praising their notable men and women on nairaland.
It is the igbos that are fond of shouting igbo amaka all over Nairaland, thereby indirectly promoting tribalism.

The truth is bitter but the igbos online or some igbos online are tribal nuisance.

You are still the reason why tribalism grows in nairaland.

I am from delta state and i am not blind to see that the yorubas and hausas are more loving and free of tribalism, unlike the igbos.

You all need to change for a better Nigeria.

I beg your pardon; you, sir, are full of shït. You are what you preach against. For a post that purports to be anti-bigotry, you went down the bigotry track pretty quick on this one. Heaping the blame for something done by more than a segment of the people on a single group is Bigotry 101.

And if you claim the Yorubas and Niger-Delta people do not have Nairaland members who come here to make solidarity posts/comments when their people are in the news, you either don't come here often or you are a bigoted liar, and you need to take several seats.

Edodefender:
if they say they are Bini, they are Bini end of discussion

If you say you are a goose, you are a goose, end of discussion, abi?

faithugo64:
I wonder why these oyibo women never learn, they keep falling for the same old trick.

Many of them nowadays know about the trick, and don't mind. The Naija guys are in it for the money (or the green card), while they are in it for the BBC. Everybody wins.

LOL. She's nice. I like her.

However, if I can't afford to buy a girl chicken to go with her rice, I ain't asking her out on a date. I'll kuku stay my broke ass home and watch old movies on my laptop.

Little girl probably got her looks from her daddy.

I do not understand why Ikwerre is there. The others speak Edoid languages and form a cluster with the Bini. But Ikwerre? Are you basing this Edo meta-ethnic group of yours solely on controversial oral traditions that are not even universally acknowledged among the Ikwerre.

Still?

Black people need to let go of some of this anger and resentment towards white folks. It is self-destructive. Case in point.

I have been itching to say this to Americans since MAGA hats became a thing!!!

Her man is fine with it, abi?
Our opinion doesn't matter then.

thundafire:
U get mind put 1906 wen we still never get police with sense abi na Bola Ige or Dey commisioner

The Colonial Police we had back then probably had more sense than the black-clothed knuckleheads we have today.

I love Phyno and think he is a really good rapper, but let's face it, the guy hasn't done any serious rapping in a while, just highlife-y singing.

Wait, but I just saw a video where he apologised to Obi.