₦airaland Forum

Beremx:
Nigeria is unfit for G1000 not to talk of G20.
Who dash us?

Ms INFERIORITY COMPLEX DON COME.

WORTHLESS WRETCH.

Ceeman2o:
Its a good development. But laughable by the promoters of this train transits.the new Lagos badagry express way always looks like a serious waste of resources considering the road users plying the road. 95% of which are commercial buses. (Danfo and korope). Plying unguarded one way and sorts.

Now a train has been introduced to same route and road, 250k passengers per day they said. Lol. It's really about people confusing people. Govt jobers won't tell the government the truth.

The train fare still way high above korope and danfo fares. Atleast mc oluomo people really confused the govt to hike their price more than commercial buses, this way their customers are not tampered with.


Never a prophet or bad belle but this project doesn't look like it would last an inch. Like someone said earlier, few patronization at this moment would be for just the pictures and fenzy of entering new train. Just Nigerian culture.

The route of this train doesn't look like and have the capacity to even carry 500 passengers a day.

You are talking illiterate rubbish.

Shut up.

I WATCHED AN NFL MATCH LAST WEEK ON YOUTUBE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 7 YEARS, AND I WAS IMPRESSED BY WHAT I SAW.

ORGANISATION IS ON AN UPWARD TRAJECTORY.

STANDARD OF PLAY WAS IMPRESSIVE.

KUDOS TO ALL CONCERNED.

DMerciful:
Wake up to reality and stop living in the past. Non of Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba will prefer each other's language to be adopted so it becomes chaos within.

You mentioned China, Japan but these are very productive and powerful countries,
we're not. We don't produce anything tangible so we have no leverage.

I'm not talking of European languages, I'm talking of English language that was used to colonised 1/3 of the world 60yrs ago!

If you're deluding yourself that fighting with the British and Americans will get you anywhere, you're just not ready to move forward.

Even as a country, we hate each other, how much more looking for external enemies

Wake up and use your blasted brain.

Your people have lived on this earth for thousands of years.

It was only a century ago that Europeans invaded your land with guns and bombs. And based on that experience, you‘ve now decided that you want to ditch your entire heritage and adopt THEIR LANGUAGE as your official language forever?

Can’t you see your head is not correct?

Mali, your neighbour that ditched French as its official language, have the heavens fallen?

Let me tell you Nigerian dunderhead slaves with zero dignity one thing.

The AU will implement a continental AFRICAN LINGUA FRANCA.

It is in its Charter, as is eventual Political Unification.

Your FUTURE DESCENDANTS will not be speaking English as their national language,

Or French.

Or Portuguese.

I PROMISE YOU THAT.

Mentally colonised dimwits with no shame.

Wisereborn:
The problems at hand are not resolved, you are looking for other problems

If I am to analyze you, you won't be an organised person no insult intended

With the kind of disunity, lack of trust in Nigeria today which language can be the general means of communication

Abeg just leave the English alone! We also use it to communicate outside Nigeria as well!!! We are okay with it!

Amongst yourselves, you can speak your native dialect!!!

You are talking rubbish.

I said CHOOSE A LANGUAGE FROM A SMALL ETHNIC GROUP to avoid the rivalry of the big 3.

And where is your DIGNITY as an African in deciding to be black Englishmen in perpetuity?

Can’t you see your head is not correct?

And it is idiotic to say you need English to be the national language because you use it when you travel.

Having an African national language doesn’t prevent you from learning or speaking English or any other language.

DMerciful:
There are far more Germans in the US than Englishmen.

Do your own research.

How can anybody propose another language other than English which is the world's official language? Why do you wanna isolate yourself?

Don't be ridiculous. Is China isolated?

Is Japan isolated?

Do they speak any European languages in those countries?

Who the hell made English the ''world official language''?

Your father?

So as you are now as an African, you believe you cannot survive/thrive on this Earth unless you adopt a European language as your NATIONAL language?

Do you know it was your ancestors that civilized this world, including Europe?

Do you know it was your ancestors who invented speech and writing?

Plus architecture, medicine, religion, and the sciences?

Look, you people need to wake up.

DMerciful:
English is our national language and thats what is best for everyone.

English is not the US original language but has been adopted too. Why are you looking for chaos?

Bullcrap.

The US was conquered by the Spanish and Anglo Saxons who genocided the native American population, leaving a tiny remnant in 'reservations' today like zoo animals!

Majority of folks in the US are descended from the British isles, so they SHOULD speak English.

Are you descended from the British isles or anywhere near the British isles, that you want you and future generations to be black Englishmen?

nairalanda1:
The problem is, we are stuck with English, because choosing an indigenous language is fraught with the same issues as English.

Let's assume we choose Hausa as our national lingo. It's spoken by millions of Nigerians, and not just Hausas. There would be complaints from other tribes, INCLUDING IN AREAS..where hausa is widely used, that the idea would be dropped.

So for now we are stuck with English, at least until we get something like an instantaneous translator technology, then each and every tribe would be able to learn and write in their own lingo, and use the instantaneous translator to understand others. Google translate is a small step towards that direction.

We can decide to choose a small ethnic group's language, to avoid Hausa/Yoruba/Igbo wahala.

That Google stuff won't cut it.

Do you think it is normal for Africans to have a permanent imposition of a European language on their countries?

I think it's an outrage.

I mean.... what?

Just because they conquered us with guns a mere century ago, we must now speak their language as our 'national language' permanently?

As in.........Permanently??

ARE YOU PEOPLE MAD?

This jam is UNIQUE in that it is just an INSTRUMENTAL.

But it was HUGE in Nigeria. Played at every party and club!

Even the title of the song is unique:

'For Those Who Like to Groove' by Ray Parker Jr.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8In8mPfQqmM&ab_channel=BTaylor

Wainey:
That song was not played in most part of Nigeria, it could be played in SW, but definitely not SS part cos I've never heard of it

You're right. Even in SW it was only a certain type of crowd that played it, plus FM radio a bit.

The sounds that reigned across the whole country would be songs by Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Prince, Dynasty, Shalamar, Brothers Johnson, Midnight Star, Billy Ocean etc.

But there were lesser known bands & sounds that used to reign among more elite crowds in Naija. A few of such folks would have even lived in your region, behind large gates.

We're talking R&B jams from groups like Yarbrough and Peoples, SOS Band, Loose Ends, Soul 2 Soul, Melba Moore, Evelyn King, Kashif, Mint Condition, Ray Parker Jnr, Howard Hewett, etc. In certain crowds, especially middle/upper class youths, songs by these bands used to reign more than Michael Jackson and other famous artistes.

Even when you sleep by SOS Band


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX0wGKIgSZU&ab_channel=flybro213

Tell me how it feels by 52nd Street.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0glp96aCVC4&list=RDEMemTmkFJPlwDoFCJv0Wfkbw&index=22&ab_channel=Chili-BoOfficialTV

Love Zone by Billy Ocean


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYAmSbg-uE0&list=RDEMemTmkFJPlwDoFCJv0Wfkbw&index=44&ab_channel=BillyOceanVEVO

Wainey:
no be everybody grow up for Lagos na.

Even other cities were popping. Just like today.

But of course Lagos was the headquarters of everything funky.

That's terrible.

This world will change.

Alchemy528:
English is not our language,,, simple, we where just colonized by the British

So what r we gonna do about it?

Is ENGLISH Our Permanent National Language?

I ask because... we are AFRICANS.

We are not Englishmen or Europeans.

Do we actually have a PLAN to indigenize ourselves following the colonial interruption?

Or have we decided to become black Englishmen permanently?

PLEASE, TELL ME NO.

We must have a plan to have a national language that is AFRICAN.

I hear the AU is considering making KiSwahili the African lingua franca.

If so, GOOD.

What we CANNOT do is become permanent Europeans.

We can even decide here in Nigeria to pick ONE SMALL TRIBE'S LANGUAGE, like say the Berom people or Urhobo, and make it our national language.

But we cannot be a nation with ENGLISH as our national language forever.

Abi dem swear for us?

mrcrabs:
Dope thread, I like sos band and midnight star

SOS Band was another band that appealed more to the creme de la creme of Naija youth.

Their biggest hit in Nigeria was The Finest.

TOP, TOP TUNE.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-tdCCcfziI&ab_channel=RETROVISOR

007kjb:
But I don't think nuclear weapons are as powerful as being projected.

Again as a Christian man cannot destroy the world until "THE END OF DAYS PROPHECIES"

I saw a YT video where a professor was explaining that it was actually a scam and there are nothing like nuclear weapons.

nabiz:
Also Evelyn champagne

The great Evelyn 'Champagne' King was LOVED in Nigeria.

Her music was a REGULAR CUSTOMER on Nigerian dance floors.

Although she was best known for her hit song, Love Come Down, her biggest tune in NIGERIA was If You Want My Loving.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_7CzPDG6Us&list=PLu5xvsPG4tRgwzbRmb76KNMcDxW3hPKjQ&index=61&ab_channel=FUNKNATION

THIS SONG IS A STRANGE ONE.

It was almost totally unheard of in Lagos. But in Enugu and the EAST, it was a serious, major ANTHEM.

One Hot Night by Pure Energy


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WumPhHXCkM&list=PLu5xvsPG4tRgwzbRmb76KNMcDxW3hPKjQ&index=52&ab_channel=CyrilMoreno

More POPULAR Tunes that ROCKED NAIJA DANCE FLOORS!

She's A Bad Mama Jama by Carl Carlton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-MHDRuJ1ME&list=PLu5xvsPG4tRgwzbRmb76KNMcDxW3hPKjQ&index=55&ab_channel=CarlCarlton-Topic

Silent Morning by Noel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzA6yO7BO10&list=PLu5xvsPG4tRgwzbRmb76KNMcDxW3hPKjQ&index=56&ab_channel=NoelVEVO

Nite and Day by Al B. Sure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fckqglxb49s&ab_channel=OfficialAlBSure

Love Ain't No Holiday by Native

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdO3-iE-0iU&list=PLu5xvsPG4tRgwzbRmb76KNMcDxW3hPKjQ&index=31&ab_channel=Caliggiasound80

SalamRushdie:
If this is what y'all used to listen in Lagos in past them then I must say the quality of music Lagosians enjoy really worsened over the years oooo😅😅😅....From this to Men Mant ooo Men Mant

Omo I swear. Back then the music you played or listened to defined you as a guy or a chic.

It defined your level.

Apart from Fela, If you dey into Naija music back then, you don cast. Local champion.

Babes will be shunning you. As in 'which kind village guy be this?'

If you dey into US (and some UK) R&B, you be correct G.

Naija don change, bro.

Day169:
@Reflect7..
You just reminded me of the difference between music and noise!
Thanks 4 taking me down memory lane.

Most welcome, my brotha.

You will usually hear these tunes at those Lagos Ajebota parties in Ikoyi, VI, Apapa, Surulere, Ikeja, Ilupeju, etc.

Not every Tom, Dick and Harry knew these ones.

Only Creme de la Creme crowd.

If you no carry your IV, dem go bounce you for gate.

Pass the Paper by Direct Drive


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM2Wn2eo1mE&ab_channel=CoolfunkZ%C3%A9z%C3%A92

Just the way you like it by SOS Band


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Nlr9vU0DfU&ab_channel=koollatter

Heaven Knows by Lalah Hathaway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSt8f8N0Ito&ab_channel=victornewman06

Who Do You Love by Bernard Wright

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnlziqQ7gmc&ab_channel=signasmy

I need your loving by Alyson Williams


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsoNttOI3qA&ab_channel=NothingButFlava

Don't Go by En Vogue


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NixHqFmlTy0&ab_channel=EnVogue

This slow burner MELTED NIGERIAN WOMEN'S STONY HEARTS!

Another 80s Nigerian National Anthem!

As this song is playing, imagine yourself BANGING A BABE in your room while this is playing.

That is what we used to enjoy.

Should I say Yes by Nu Shooz


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd30kCfuy0M&list=PLu5xvsPG4tRgwzbRmb76KNMcDxW3hPKjQ&index=33&ab_channel=RHINO

PURE BANGER IN 88 throughout Nigeria!!

Mamacita by Troop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3a0DPn1fwk&list=PLu5xvsPG4tRgwzbRmb76KNMcDxW3hPKjQ&index=13&ab_channel=koollatter

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LAGOS MID-TEMPO JAMS FROM THE 80s/90s

Never Too Busy by Kenny Latimore.

You would hear this type of jam a lot in classy house parties for like some hours while folks are sitting around, eating, drinking, toasting babes, and then later on faster grooves when party want set.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8s2j4Ri1Og&ab_channel=KennyLattimoreVEVO


This Luv by Donnel Jones


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMuIPIoqHtQ&ab_channel=DonellJonesVEVO

ANOTHER EASTERN FLAVOUR BANGER

See The Light by Starpoint

You guys have no idea how BIG THIS TUNE WAS in Naija.

You have no fcking idea!!

Even VILLAGE PEOPLE were singing the chorus of this song. ''OH OH...OH OH!''


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xQLPS9_TGQ&ab_channel=djawadoldschool

These 2 na EASTERN NIGERIAN fast FLAVOUR.

Very big in the East.

Summertime by Nocera


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcurEoUvK-E&list=PLu5xvsPG4tRgwzbRmb76KNMcDxW3hPKjQ&index=79&ab_channel=catolog96

Do you want it by Siedah Garret


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF-eZ0PNZNA&ab_channel=MarkRemington

Na this kind been dey reign for Lagos and SW.

Mid tempo classy jams like these TOP TUNES by Miles Jaye and Change.

When you play this one in your ride for a babe back then, you don nyash am be dat.

Back then, the kind music wey you dey play na him go determine how babes go take reason your matter.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8d7LQp034c&list=PLu5xvsPG4tRgwzbRmb76KNMcDxW3hPKjQ&index=114&ab_channel=SOULIISPY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXpOiw6YPXs&list=PLu5xvsPG4tRgwzbRmb76KNMcDxW3hPKjQ&index=113&ab_channel=chocofunk

This particular one was an EASTERN NIGERIAN ANTHEM.

In the East they tended to like faster beat R&B while Lagos and SW was more into the mid tempo R&B grooves.

So while this particular song reigned in Lagos and Naija as a whole, it was in the EAST that it was played DAILY EVERYWHERE.


Wet My Whistle by Midnight Star.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHhR_ftZyoE&list=PLu5xvsPG4tRgwzbRmb76KNMcDxW3hPKjQ&index=95&ab_channel=esmereldatitswallop

And who can forget this PARTY CLOSER by Phil Fearon & Galaxy?

This one was also a NATIONAL ANTHEM in Naija in the mid 80s.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rJJKSLjFec&list=PLu5xvsPG4tRgwzbRmb76KNMcDxW3hPKjQ&index=80&ab_channel=FUNKNATIONII

BoldBrainz:
A deceased Uncle had this song in his radio cassette collection, alongside Dave Koz's "Together Again" and a near endless playlist of Yanni's compositions.

It was a tradition for him to wake the entire house with that particular tape by exactly 5am everyday, whether there was electricity or not.

He gave me my love for Jazz, classical, country and new-age musicals anyway. God rest his fine Eckankar Soul!

God bless bro.