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Probz:
I’m something of an educational psychology buff but I still wouldn’t have necessarily equated them. On the contrary some people with dyslexia actually do particularly well with shapes but I guess it can go either way.

Yea, while researching on dyslexia some years ago, I came across articles that said dyslexics do well with shapes. But I guess these things are more complex than any one research can surmise, and different people with the condition may exhibit different abilities/disabilities

Probz:
Isn’t dyslexia more about letters than shapes? Do you not mean dyspraxia?

Letters are shapes and symbols. A person who struggles to recognise letters assembled to represent a word (i.e., a, dyslexic) will in many cases also have difficulty with this kind of puzzle.

https://dyslexiasa.org/early-warning-signs/

Under visual difficulties, you can see difficulty with jigsaw puzzles listed.

COOL10:
Cross na wa oo. What's going on?

Cross is dyslexic. Dyslexic people don’t see shapes and symbols the way other people do. I expected him to struggle with this.

ItisHi:
Feminist don manipulate these fools. All 3 votes Kiddawaya for contentless HM like Tolani

Which feminist? Was it not the male judge that influenced the other two females to vote out Kidd because he no dey ship?

Ike is sha very immature. He won’t last a minute on the streets.

Did this boy just use the L-word? 😂😂😂😂😂

Oh dear dear dear

ANON333:
Piece of advice: Experts once declared that the earth was round. Man must question conventions. It is unimaginable to group igbo language with Fulfude; they might as well include tuareg, french, and japanese into the so called kwa.

Quick question: are you a flat earther?

ANON333:
Including fulbe in niger-congo language cluster rendered that classification a joke, except if it's proven that fulanis achieved their dialect from indigenous central africans.

Piece of advice: Don't jump into discussions about African linguistics if you do not know anything about African linguistics. That would be like me trying to correct people about quantum physics that I clearly do not know anything about.

Fulfude belongs to the West Atlantic branch of the Niger-Congo family. This is an established linguistic fact that no one argues anymore. The language is closely related to the Wolof and Serer languages of Senegal.

efficiencie:
Please experts in Ika language from Delta state. What is the meaning of "God is my strength" and "God strengthens me" in Ika.

In Ika, “God is my strength” would be “Chukwuwuikem”. I’ve also met one person called “Osewuike” and it means the same thing.

God strengthens me would be “Chukwunyemike”.

fitzmayowa:
Adekinle shenk him madam nominate Doyin......

More proof that women stand by their men more than men stand by their women. 😂😂😂😂😂

Amillionnn:
I pray Neo goes home this week.

Silly guy; threw your chances away because you’re too emotional.

Which chance?

kowema:
The only fault I find with the jury is they should have rather been talking about the content of the show and what one ill fated contestant has contributed over the other. That way, they can carry the viewers along in a more professional and business conscious thought process.

I.e Instead of Diana saying "Who is Uriel, she should have said, I barely saw Uriel on my screen except until Saturday and almost forgot she was on the show". That would make us Know they were also watching.
Laycon didn't give off himself like he was watching which even made his vote whoever it was questionable.

Going forward, biggie should educate his jurors to be professional. I believe they are getting paid or going to benefit, they should therefore be mandated to watch the show and prove as such before a final weekly selection.

With this few points of mine, pls vote Ilebaye . I don't want here near the Jury.

Here's the problem with the judges. They are NOT watching the show. When Ebuka asks them what they think of the show so far, they give very vague very general very airy responses because they do not know what the fvck is going on in the house. They are not watching.

So when Ninja hands them the paper to vote, they are not voting based on the performance of the housemates in the house. They are voting based on, "Oh, I know this guy. He's my friend. We've worked together, blah blah blah."

And that's just messed up. It's rubbish. Judges should be people who watch the show, and since there is no way to ensure that these people they bring on Sundays to make these decisions are actually watching, best thing is to get rid of the jury. Let the voting public continue to be the judges.

davodyguy:
Exactly.

Enough of the tribal bullshit.

We had 20 housemates

10 South East
4 South West
1 Ghanaian
3 South South
1 North Central

Every other geo political zone should have cried foul as well, especially North West and North East.

We need to stop this abeg

Who be Ghanaian for there? Ilebaye is North Central.

jenifer007:
Uriel's only content is when she's in the diary room

Nyash and thick thighs are content, please. In a house that is particular short on nyash, this eviction is a travesty. Whose nyash (apart from Mercy's botched left nyash) I go dey look for pool party now? Doyin's? 😭

Mehn, eff the jury!

This might sound bizarre, but Fulani language is actually closer to Yoruba, Edo, Ibibio and Igbo languages than it is to Hausa. This is because it belongs to the same Niger-Congo language family as these languages.

Hausa on the other hand is closer to languages like Somali, Arabic and Hebrew, since they all belong to the same Afro-Asiatic language family.

Two things:

1. The title is clickbait. I don't know if you even read the article.

2. What's the motive for digging up this 2016 article about a man who is now long dead?

Did these people really spend all this time thinking of who wrote Things Fall Apart?! 😩😩😩

👆 Is this supposed to be the documentation where Asaba was found to still be an Edo town by the mid-19th century?

If it is, then the way some of you understand the written word is bizzare. Na wa.

Edo words are still contained in Asaba dialect till tomorrow and Edo titles and institutions are still there. That has not changed. There is no large-scale Ìgbò migration into Asaba in the 19th century. The ethnic element in Asaba was predominantly Ìgbò way before the 19th century. The Edo/Igala element in Asaba is a superstructure that was laid over a substructure that was and is discernably Igbo.

If there's a document where a 19th century visitor witnessed an Asaba that was explicitly Edo, you people are yet to provide it.

19th century visitors like Adolphe Burdo and Co who documented ethnographic details about Asaba and its environs, provided linguistic and cultural information that shows Asaba was Igboid, albeit with a veneer of Igala and Edo inputs.

The first Igbo dictionary compiled by French missionaries in the late 19th century was actually largely based on the Asaba dialect. So much for a town that was 'Edo'.

Dancebreaker:
It has been shared on some of those Benin v Yoruba threads where you typically jump into the middle. Since several years now.

You should have seen it by now.

POC, I don't jump into Benin v Yoruba threads, because there's nothing there that is of any immediate concern to me. I comment on Benin v Anioma threads where I feel the relation between Benin and the people of Anioma has been misrepresented.

Anyway, if it's the same [misrepresented] screenshot that I have seen that you're talking about, no wahala. I thought there may have been a different one.

Dancebreaker:
Asaba even more so. Even though people like to see Asaba as probably the most Igbo leaning Anioma clan today, by mid-19th century, Asaba was documented as an Edo town with Igbo people increasingly coming from across the Niger. It was already predicted in one such writing by a well-known Yoruba historian that Igbo would soon dominate the population of Asaba. He was right as we can see today.

Source for this? I feel I have seen the material you've misrepresented here, but I want to be sure.

mr1759:
The people of iseluku, kwuale, Agbor etc where very nice people who share ancestory of Benin kingdom they where never Igbo they call them Ika, these people with fertille land open their hands to people from across the river Niger the igbos looking for fertile lands to farm cos they where hungry, many Igbo came and never returned some igbos where slave trade victims abandoned in Agbor and asaba environ who could not locate their way back home according to Reno omokri that was how they igbosnise delta north

Reno Omokri is your source? Lol. Dey play.

mr1759:
This ideas of dominating any you go, am sure that is how they igbosnise this people

I have often read on this platform that Ìgbò people did not leave their homeland before colonialism came and opened their eyes. Explain to me how these people who were not leaving their lands and who never 'open eye' were able to dominate and Igbonise descendants of empire builders in the centuries before colonialism.

VEHINTOLAR:
They are Shua-Arab but not Fulani as you put @op.

Tuaregs, actually. From Niger and Mali.

Couldntfigurean:
Domot (door mouth) from the Igbo word “onu uzo"

This is contestable. Domot means the whole house and not the entrance or onu ụzọ. One can make the argument that the part came to mean the whole, but in this case I think there are far better explanations for Domot in European languages. The Latin word for house is domus. The so-called Romance languages (including Portuguese which had an influence on the early development of pidgin) all developed from Latin and probably contained a domus-related word for house in its early stages before it was replaced by other words like casa. But in some Italian dialects house is still domo or domos. And I heard domos is still used in Portuguese and Spanish to refer to big/grand houses.

Anyways, in the time of the slave trade most educated people in Europe including the Portuguese still spoke Latin, and they likely brought with them to Africa a domus-like word that evolved to domot.

Note also that English words relating to the house or home, like domain, domicile and even domestic all evolved from this Latin word, domus. That's where domot came from as well. Not door mouth.

SosoKairanuli:
Tey is Ijaw, not Igbo. Tey (te) is an actual grammatical feature in the Ijaw language that's used to talk about the passage of time. E.g. “Sote” in the middle of a sentence functions like “until” and at the end of the sentence denotes something finishing. (Sote = god/sky/world ends).

E don tey (pidgin) = It has been a long time.
O tego/ O teela (Igbo) = it has been a long time

The pidgin word "tey" and the doubling "tey-tey" has a meaning that is very consistent with the Igbo "tee", ị.e., denoting length of time. In addition, it also denotes length of distance in Igbo, but this second meaning seems not to have been carried over into pidgin.

This "sotey" looks like an entirely different word, carrying a different meaning, from just "tey".

Does anyone know how Uriel knew TTT was married? Did she know him before they got in the house?

mediocre:
She said she’s 35

Which means she was 29 the first time she was on the show in 2017? Nah, I'm not buying it. 2017 Uriel was definitely over 30.

It doesn’t take much to offend conservative and even moderate Muslims. Their sensitivity is more fragile than a fabregé egg. Nigerians should know that by now.

If it was black people who have the technological advantage that white people have enjoyed for the last 5-6 centuries, I don’t think they would have behaved any better than white people have behaved, to be honest. There are reasons why I suspect they may have even behaved a lot worse.

Efewestern:
* Why was Aboh revered so much?

For Aboh, their rise to power was about location, location, location. Aboh is situated at the head of the Niger Delta. It is very strategically placed to control the Niger routes to Bonny and Kalabari, Nembe-Brass and even Itsekiri. Upriver, it had access to markets at Oguta, Ossomala, Asaba, Aguleri and Idah. As a result, Aboh was in a position to become the most important middlemen in the trade between the Niger Delta and the hinterland. Building on these, its people were able to amass wealth and power.

* Was the Obiship stool in Aboh a direct offshoot of Bini like that of Itsekiri ?

Aboh people definitely believe unwaveringly that their kingship is a direct offshoot of Benin (through Ozolua), and this is the information that they have given ethnographers and anthropologists who have recorded their traditions since the 1800s.

I am personally skeptical about most claims of Benin origin. Scholars of oral tradition have shown that it is quite common for people to create genealogies linking them to nearby or even distant centres of high culture and power, especially one that has influenced them profoundly, like the Benin influenced all around them.

The founders of Aboh monarchy definitely came from areas to the west of the Ukwuani-Aboh area and found an indigenous population (the Akarai/Akiri/Akili) when they arrived. But I find it plausible that they may have come from Benin-influenced places in the Ika-Aniocha corridor, rather than directly from Benin. The royal section of Aboh (i.e., the "Benin” immigrants) call themselves Umudei. Dei is still used in Agbor to address the Obi and nwadei is still used widely in the Ika-Aniocha sector to mean prince. The term for princess in Aboh, which is Akpe also has ‘cognates’ in places along Ika-Aniocha. The geographical spread of these terminologies (dei, nwadei and akpe) is restricted and doesn’t include Benin. Agbor actually has a tradition that the founder of Aboh was an Agbor prince.

Anyway, an Ika-Aniocha origins for the Umudei in Aboh is my opinion, and no one should feel inclined to accept it.

* Was Aboh considered an extension of Bini?

This will depend on what you mean by extension. I have not seen anything in the traditions and history that suggest that Aboh was a vassal of the Benin empire in any practical sense. The Obi operated as a full-fledged sovereign ruler, even carving out his own little ‘empire’ along the banks of the Niger. However, the Oba of Benin was viewed as some sort of elder brother. For example, both Aboh and Benin traditions suggest that succession disputes in Aboh were referred to the Oba for settlement.

Efewestern:
From the references, Obi of Aboh never confirmed into office any Urhobo king and the Ovie of Abraka only needed external recognition or bragging rights that was why he went to Obi of Aboh. Obviously, Aboh kingdom was far more influential than Abraka kingdom.

Here was your initial submission.

So it’s now a matter of semantics. It’s alright. Confirmation or external recognition for bragging rights, some ivie had to go to Aboh upon ascending the throne for whatever reason. That is the crux of my submission. I wasn’t trying to project some Aboh imperium on Urhobo and Isoko. I actually stated that the journey was made because of the convenience of proximity than anything else.

Also note that Bradbury spoke of some ivie “obtaining their titles” from the Obi. This suggests that this goes beyond mere recognition for some at least of the ivie that made that trip.

The documents you submitted still didn't validate your initial submissions. It only confirmed what I said about Urhobo chiefs mostly going to Bini. The popular EMA dance of the Urhobo people was as a result of the frequent visitation to the Oba palace. You can easily knot together the Bini-Urhobo validation taste but not Obi of Aboh. He has zero influence anywhere in Urhobo land.

Now you’re making it sound like I said all or most Urhobo ivie went to Aboh. Of course I knew most went to Benin.