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King44:
Toke makinwe ke, believe me the list is dung poo

I agree: it is faeces excreta.

Stale.

This has been on Nairaland countless times before.

Seun and his team really need to start pre-approving posts.

Oh shut up. Yea, you've been around since 2006, but how many of us took any real notice of you before BBN?

I saw a couple of movies she was in, before she entered the house without even really noticing. It was after she was in the house and I saw the movies again that I was like, "Oh that girl is Bisola? Didn't really notice before".

Give credit where credit is due: BBN did something huge for you.

I'm getting a weird deja vu feeling from this thread.

patrickcollins:
Yet ur president gave his son portfolio in Nigeria, and it is not door opener, where have Buhari known Ojukwu's son before.

One or two of Ojukwu's progeny getting their foot through the door doesn't make the Ojukwu name a door opener outside their southeastern base of faithfuls. There are exceptions to every rule.

I reiterate: the Ojukwu name is not a door opener in this country.

gidgiddy:
Ojukwu Transport company used to be the biggest private Transport company in Nigeria. They had buses, trailers and even vans. They were really big in the 40's, 50's and 60's. It was owned by Ojukwu father, Sir Louis Philip Ojukwu, who was one of the richest men in Africa.

Yeah yeah, we know that from books we read. This article here talks about an existing Ojukwu Transport Company however. Which no one I know has ever seen a bus belonging to them or their park.

Toni19:
IBO PEOPLE ARE THE ENEMIES OF THEMSELVES. CHECK THEM ANYWHERE, THEY ALWAYS STAND AGAINST THEMSELVES WHILE FIGHTING FOR COMMON INTEREST, AMONG THEM ARE JUDAS ISCARIOTS STANBY TO BETRAY THEM, THEY NEVER HAVE ONE VOICE. MUST YOU ALLOW FAMILY ISSUES CLOUD YOUR JUDGEMENT OF A WOMAN'S AMBITION FOR POLITICAL POST? ABEG COMOT THERE...

Igbo people support their own, they are too tribalistic/clannish/nepotistic.

Igbo people fight one another, they are not united/they are their own worst enemies.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

OreMI22:
Actually Ojukwu's children are one of the disastrous things that happened to the great Ikemba. Especially that really fat one that was Nnewi LGA caretaker chairman when Peter Obi appointed him after so many years of being jobless.

If Ojukwu's kids were hardworking at all, just their last name will get them fantastic jobs or help whatever company they float to be very successful.

Get them fantastic jobs where? Ojukwu's name is not a door opener in this country, except in a very small and non-affluent section of it. The name is still very much linked with sectionalism and seccession/treachery to be of any use to anyone who wants to get ahead. Small wonder that the Ojukwu family in Asaba changed its name to Damasus to escape the stigma.

There's an Ojukwu Transport Company Limited?

I didn't know that. Who has seen their buses? Do they have a park in Enugu or Onitsha?

Ah, it's no use. Have a nice day, all.

Olu317:
Yes sir , I am familiar . But are you also familiar that language and gene don't always match? My brother , you didn't inform me of where the professor got his citation or self. The professor assertion of 4000 BCE has no backing of this date. This has been argued against even by Akinjogbin. In fact, there is no way the linguistic connection can be without traces of it. Kindly read about ecology of language by Einar Haugen

Where did Professor Akinjogbin argue against the dating for the divergence of the branches of the Kwa language family?

The dating that Akintoye gave in his book is not his own conjecture, as you are trying to insinuate. It was first postulated in the 60s that the languages in the Kwa group began to split up between 8,000 and 6,000 years ago (i.e., roughly between 6,000 BC and 4,000 BC). No linguist (including eminent Yoruba linguists like Akintugbe and Eluyemi) has challenged the dating.

To understand how linguists arrived at this dates, you have to understand how glottochronology works. It is not a system of assigning random dates. All things being equal, languages change at a rate. Using this rate as a constant, it is possible to arrive at a rough estimate of when varying related languages were one proto-language.

Also, what do you mean by "there's no way this linguistic connection can be without any traces of it"? Are you saying there are no traces of linguistic connection between Yoruba and her sister-languages: Edo, Idoma, Igbo? Because there are.

What do you want me to note in Einar's work? Mention it.

This nigga that his mouth is bigger than his acting career.

There's nothing like shame again in this world.

LOL. That's not AKA.

Olu317:
Yes sir , a renowned professor of History. But did Radio Carbon test agree to this 4000 BCE oooo? Where did Igbomina and Okun as a whole existed around 4000BCE in Middle Nigeria? Do you know Igbomina kingdom's King list is not up to 100?

Radiocarbon dating? We are talking languages here, sir; not excavated artifacts.

Have you heard of glottochronology?

Are you at all familiar with historical linguistics?

There's something perry about someone finding this little tear titillating enough to post online, and the mods taking it to front page.

For how long does she think she can do this? I mean she already has the tired face of a grandmother.

The real question here should be: "Who helped her type that?"

oglalasioux:
Very detailed research. Good one.

I will add that most Igbos of Ebonyi State are actually Idoma especially the Ngbo people. There are too many Idoma names in Ngbo to back that up.

Effium people speaking the same language with Utonkon is not a mystery. The Utonkon people formerly dominated the area known as Abakaliki. Whatever scattered them spread them to places like Ukele in northern Cross River State, Itigidi in central Cross River State and parts of Akwa Ibom. The Utonkon language is spoken by four large communities in 4 Local Councils in Ebonyi State.

Out of curiosity can you furnish us with some of these many Idoma names that Ngbo people bear?

Idle heads drinking panadol on another person's headache.

Didn't we all hear Nina repeat over and over in the house that she cannot date Miracle, that it was just fun and friendship and that she had a boyfriend outside?

So because she and her boyfriend couldn't patch their differences after the show, Miracle must date her by fire by force?

"During the later stages of the Late Stone Age, as farming turned wandering folks into settlers (from about 4000 BC), the scattered spread of farming people living in the West African region slowly began to get differentiated into related clusters and groups speaking proto-languages consisting of dialects that were related to one another.

Available linguistic evidence indicates that many such groups and clusters slowly formed on the banks of the Middle Niger, mostly in the area of the Niger—Benue confluence and above it. This linguistic evidence suggests that the Yoruba, Igala, Edo, Idoma, Ebira, Nupe, Kakanda, Gbagyi and Igbo belonged to a cluster of languages, now called Kwa sub-group of languages by modern scholars, belonging to a larger family of languages now called the Niger-Congo (or Nigritic) family of languages.

The small cluster was concentrated roughly around the Niger—Benue confluence. Over thousands of years, the groups in this cluster slowly separated as they developed distinctive characteristics, probably the last language groups to separate being the Igala and Yoruba. One study suggests that the proto-Yoruba and proto-Nupe language sub-families seem to have migrated from a little further up the Niger, slowly expanding towards the confluence, and that during that process each finally became differentiated from a mother language group.6

The clear implication of all this is that the origin of the Yoruba people as a linguistic and ethnic group belongs in the process of slow differentiation of proto-groups which occurred in the Middle Niger and around the Niger—Benue confluence, beginning about 4000 BC and continuing for thousands of years. It is, therefore, in this area that we must find the first home of the Yoruba as one people — the area close to the Niger—Benue confluence and further up the Niger, where the southern Nupe and the far northeastern Yoruba groups — the Yagba, Jumu, Ikiri, Oworo, Owe, and Bunu (now collectively called the Okun Yoruba by some scholars) — and the northernmost Igbomina, live today."

~ From "A History of the Yoruba People" by Professor Stephen Adebanji Akintoye.

Professor Akintoye is a professional historian. Not an amateur dabbling into something he is ill-equipped to grasp properly. He has been doing serious history for sixty years.

OP, is it true that the Igala name for elephant tusk is enyi-eri? I saw it on one Igala-language website and was wondering if it is really true. And if it is, how come Igalas don't call elephants eri, but adagba?

Obalufon:
So I'm dumb? ..IQ test is not parrot knowledge people boast about garbage in garbage out that makes our well educated youths see no wrong in white man's dehumanization of black race . IQ test is pure logic based on white man's reasoning .. where can i get the real deal IQ test.i know for sure i can't score less than 100 despite my little academic knowledge

Hian. I did not say you were dumb o. Free online IQ tests (like the one in the link you shared) are not standard IQ tests; that was all I was saying. Check out Mensa for guides on how to take a standard IQ test.

Obalufon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6Cyu9SD8Lk



This white cracker almost had me think i'm dumb but i had IQ test online for fun i scored 180 online i didn't even concentrate

Online IQ test?

Those tests online aren't the real deal. Most of 'em are designed to make users feel good about themselves.

Her mother's name was Njieddee


Please where did her mother hail from? Her name - Njiedddee - does not sound Yoruba at all.

This is not the body we saw on BBN that year. This one looks a lot better.

Who shags a random girl picked at the club without protection?

What is wrong with people?!

In school we were taught that only members of the same species can have fertile offspring together. Sometimes members of closely related species can have offspring together, but the offspring are always sterile (eg., the mule).

So, if Homo sapiens and Neanderthals had fertile offspring together, as evidence now suggests, wouldn't that mean that Homo sapiens and Neanderthals were actually the same species - only (perhaps) different subspecies?

Asaba.

12inches1:
She has no sense. It's not like slavery was a choice. There are somethings you should not say. He might has well have been your brother if some of your people didnt stupidly conive with the the Europeans to sell their people (which remains one of the dumbest actions in African or African American history).

PS: Madam Obianuju If not for Martin Luther King RIP would you even be close to America talkless of achieving anything there?

And the yellowbone who came from nowhere to insult her has sense? Why is it the Nigerian that has to be cautious, but the American can say whatever he likes? This same thing happened on twitter a while back when some African-Americans started trolling Nigerians, saying degrading things about the continent; but when Nigerians hit back everyone came for the heads of the Nigerians.

My philosophy has always been: treat everyone with respect, but if some id!ot chooses to be unfortunate, bury him, and let no one cry about it, 'cause he asked for it.

DPsalmist2:
When did Nigerian and Africans s start claiming blackness? Blackness is concept that originated as a result of African slaves in the new world getting stripped of their cultural identity.

Detour alert.