₦airaland Forum

Negro_Ntns:
What's all the fracas about this 20 pounds?  In any war the loosing side owes the victor reparations to cover the cost of fighting the war.  Instead of giving you 20 pounds, Nigeria should have taxed you until the cost is recovered maybe then you will be happy instead of lamenting and gnashing teeth over 20pounds handouts. 

You all want me to open another flood gate on the protocols of war so you can see where you erred?  Shut up already about this 20 pound and let it rest.

Hhahaha wind don blow open the nyash of hen!! Fricking tribal bigots giving Igbos advice  I knew you were not up to anything good earlier. Na today? Fuc-king igbo haters! You'll live to see it.
Negronuts , You did not say anything regarding the killed Yorubas in Jos recently   The Northerners are already going after you folks too


@Lucafool
300 years is not enough to forget the Abandoned Property saga.

No it's not

Abeg

Child elopers' Africa plan foiled


"Witness" Anna-Bell (l), with the happy couple: Anna-Lena (c) and Mika
The three were trying to travel without passports or money

Two German children - aged five and six - have been stopped by police from eloping to Africa to tie the knot in the sun, reports say.

The budding lovebirds, identified as Mika and Anna-Lena, packed bathing costumes, sunglasses and a lilo and headed for the airport.

They even had the presence of mind to invite along an official witness - Anna-Lena's seven-year-old sister.

The three got as far as Hanover railway station before police intervened.

The young couple were "very much in love" and had decided to get married in Africa "where it is warm", police spokesman Holger Jureczko told the AFP news agency.

Sun-seekers

The idea for the getaway wedding was born as the children's families celebrated New Year's eve together and Mika regaled the two girls with stories of a recent holiday to Italy.

They can still put their plan into action at a later date
Holger Jureczko
Hanover police spokesman

The following morning, as their parents slept, the intrepid trio walked 1km (0.6 miles) to the local tram station at Langenhagen, where they hopped aboard a tram for Hanover central station.

But the group aroused the suspicion of a guard as they waited for a train to the airport, and police were called in.

Officers persuaded the children they would not get far without tickets and money, but consoled them with a free tour of the police station, where they were shortly picked up by relieved parents.

Although any marriage plans have been put on hold for now, police did not altogether rule out the possibility of an African wedding.

"They can still put their plan into action at a later date," AFP quoted the spokesman as saying.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7811686.stm

4 Play:
@Romeo

Na my colleague wey dey double as literature lecturer give me all these make I translate for am after I don boast say I be expert in Igbo language.

I no dey sure about translations for ''Odenigbo'', ''itu-nzu'' and ''umunna''. Abeg, make una find translations for me before tomorrow.

PS: O na Nairaland ka eke ga na eme translation?

Hhahahaha i ma nu ebe ano

4 Play:
Ogwu = Medicine
Umunna = Kinsmen
Ifukwa gi = Look at you or see you
Mmuo = Spirit
Itu nzu or Ita Nzu = Nzu ceremony ( an Igbo ritual)
Nzu = Chalk
Odenigbo = Famous in Igboland

Biko, make una translate each of the above for me, dalu.

lucabrasi:
@romeo
as usual,you have completely ignored all sense of objective reasoning but have opted to make comments solely based on ethnic bias,so its operation i support my igbo brother, not suprised just bemused

Luca mechie onu there!! I was addressing the points i disagreed with. Do you have any problem with that? Who brought " Yorubas are educated and Igbos are not into this thread"? You did!! Bloody bigot.

Negro_Ntns:
Romeo,

We are best known for culture and civilization.  

Yoruba civilization is parallel with many other great civilizations around the globe.  Ifa has been recognized by UN and its even practiced by Europeans as well as South Americans and North Americans.  China said it is the equivalent of their I-Ching culture.

Just the way Igbo Ukwu civilization is recognized worldwide. The same way Bini civilization is recognised too. And what is Ifa?

Negro_Ntns:
In Lagos for instance, history teaches you that white man arrived and just took over the land. They never tell you that they had to fight for it with blood and property. In the battle they lost one naval vessel and another one was sunk and they incurred fatalities with many British sailors dead and or injured. If you go to the Oba's palace in Lagos there is a canon gun mounted in the courtyard. This was the gun that belonged to the destroyed vessel and the Oba ordered it removed and taken to his palace as souvenir.

The Igbos fought the British like every other African nation, Yorubas did same and Bini kingdom did same. don't take credit for what was a general stuff then.

Negro_Ntns:
We don't need to market our culture, people that encountered us in peace or in battle know who we are and they took our story back home to their people and mentioned our Greatness. Yet, you don't hear Yorubas all over the place acting belligerent and overbearing. We are humble. But you take our humbleness for cowardice. Don't for one minute think we fear you. Its our philosophy to be humble. Go and read Ifa divination for Eji Ogbe and you will understand why we are "Kool like that".

I will mind Yoruba business and leave Igbo alone.

Funny guy . But i like the last sentence.

4 Play:
Ogwu= kedu ihe mere iji aju nke a? i bu onye eke?
Umunna = i na aruru ndi ocha oru?
Ifukwa gi = i bu police
Mmuo = i bu police
Itu nzu = Nna i bu police?
Nzu = i bu eke?
Odenigbo = I bu onye eke?

Biko, make una translate each of the above for me, dalu.

I bu onye Igbo ehh? o bughi m ga agbapu umunna afo na threadia and onye mee ya mu na ya emejuo ihe onu na 2009 nkea Boys ga na eri nri hoo haaa

Negro_Ntns:
Prior to 1966, which war did Igbo ever fight and how many of them did you win? [b]Go ahead and list.
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Yoruba is proud of its indigenous culture and religion. It bothers us that we are practicing the faith of foreigners - Islam and Xtianity, we'd rather just stick with the ways of our forefathers and in the end that may just be what will happen as we evolve into the future. You can make juju out of any religion - Judaism, Xtianity, Islam, . . .etc.

The wars the Igbos fought is not the issue here or is it? You mentioned that we are not known outside Nigeria for nothing short of that war or didn't you? Why are you flaming like LNG in off shore rigs?

What are you people known for other than "santerismo" outside the shores of Nigeria? answer me "Mr. Igbo Advicer" on how to market ethnicities. I can't believe what i read in Nairaland sometimes. We are not asking for your pity or support, when we needed that we were given 20 Nigerian pounds each to start life and re-insert ourselves to the dubious fold called Nigeria.

Ibime:
Look at this idiot. You should be happy that I even acknowledge my Igbo ancestry. Unlike you, I do not see the world in black and white. Do you not know that the Oru (Ijaw) people inhabited Southern Nigeria before anyone else? Oh boy go and check your history mehn.

I hope you remember at the Oputa panel when Elechi Amadi fought for the right to Ikwerre sovereignty and the Ikwerre representatives established the fact that they are a seperate nation from Ndigbo.

On one hand, you beg Nigeria for Independence. On the other hand, you refuse to allow the Etche's, Ahoadas and Ikwerres to forge their own destiny.

I knew you were a fool but not to this extent!! I should be happy you acknowledged your igbo ancestry? LMAO! You can deny it and i will not lose a sleep over that, So chill.

Who wrote the history of the Ijos? The Ijos themselves of course!! The way they are trying to "Ijawlize" The entire Niger Delta. Any archeological evidence to show they where there before others? Nonsense!!

I am not and we are not begging Nigeria for any independenece. They are begging us not to secede because they need us.

Ibime:
Eh. . . . so we should submit to our ancestry from 500 years ago. . . . culture's always diverge, my brother. Holland and Germany were the same country a few hundred years ago. Will you go and forcefully tell a Dutch man that he must accept German nationality? No wonder Ikwerres have been resisting forced annexation by Ndigbo for centuries.

FYI, the Ijaws inhabited Nigeria before the Igbo's, therefore all your arguments fall flat.

Look at this idiot. Just because I said my great grandfather is from Abia State. . . . infact, his mother is Ijo. At the present moment, my blood is only 1/8th Igbo, 1/8th Etche, 1/4 Ijaw and the other half is not even Nigerian. You think I am of incestous pure breed like you? Maybe you never heard of intermarriage. How dare you question my ethnicity when the last Amanyanabo of Okrika came from my family? Infact, my grandfather is fully Ijaw. I only claim Igbo from my grandmothers side since I never knew my grandfather.

Do you even know where you are from idiot? stick to Ijo and leave igbo out of it.

Ijos Inhabited which Nigeria before the Igbos? Are you on some cheap crack? People and kindergarten dreams

I am not asking Ikwere's to accept their Igbo blood, but they should not cry for help when the time comes and it's going to be very soon.

Ibime:
So Romeo, there are only 2 tribes which own PH, Ikwerre and Okrika. Which of these is Igbo?

I have never heard of an Igbo man going home to his village in PH? Which Igbo man goes home to PH for Christmas?

When an Okrika man goes home to Abuloma or Amadi or Ipuculu, he is going home to his village in PH.

An Ikwerre man lives in his village in PH. Whether that be Elelenwo, Rumuomasi, Rumuobiakani, Rumoula or Diobu.

Which Igbo man goes home to his village in PH? Stupid slowpoke.

Upon the fact that you live in PH, you cannot tell that PH is owned by the Ikwerre's and Okrikas? Nama shobiri!

Ifere megbuo gi anuofia!!

Amechi is HAUSA name, Amadi is Bini name, Odili is Nupe name Ogonis are asking for their state ohh!! Ikwere people are of Madingo descent

Ibime:
Look at this idiot. It is this kind of expansionist attitude that creates enemies for Ndigbo. Which Igbo tribe lives in PH? This guy, you are truly demented. From Elelenwo to Mile 3 Park is the land of the Ikwerres, whilst from Park to Borokiri is the land of the Okrika's. Also from Mothercart down to Abuloma, Amadi and Slaughter belongs to Okrika. Just because you have a name for a place does not mean you own the place, it is simply a name that your people use to refer to the place. In Okrika, we also had a name for PH before the white man renamed it PH. That does not mean we own it. Ogoni is a name that the Ibani gave to the Ogoni's. Ogoni being a subversion of Igoni, meaning foreigner. That does not mean that the Bonny people have any right to claim Ogoni land as theirs. Igbo's cannot even claim Ahoada as their land, talkless of PH.

This kind of attitude shows exactly why Biafra lost the support of some Niger-Delta people in 1967. Stupid idiot!

You don't even know where you're from!! "My grandfather is Igbo, i am ijo but not by nature" An Igbo man can not become ijo!!

Which Igbo tribe lives in PH? LoL @ you people. The Aniomas had been saying they are not Igbos until recently. They thought they were safe in Niger Delta without Igbo indentity but the others pushed them out of the corridors of state house and to add "salt to injury" pushing for the relocation of state capital from Asaba to Warri. Then the Aniomas became Igbo and wanted Igbo support for the creation of Anioma.

Same will happen in Rivers soon.

Dede that Luca boy is not your match!! You trashed him very well

The un-educated Igbo youths prefer apprenticeship in a commercial entity to Area boys skills

@Negro
We are not marketing ourselves. We are known for war and you're known for Juju all over the globe (santerismo cubana) .

I think they are all positive things ehh?

Mugabe is an idiot for hanging on to power but the Western world are not punishing Zimbabwe for Mugabe's long tenure but for the Land evictions. They are simply commiting devilish acts in Zimbabwe by blocking their economic growth and stability. Zimbabwe is fighting a war with the imperialists.

BecomeRich:
""""""""""Which Uni did you attend? I am blacklisting some Universities for their poor jobs """"""""

so tell what is wrong in your english, english teacher, so poor jobs or poor job. and you got first class from which university. ?

Go back to secondary school

He said that scrapping the programme would save the country the estimated N40 billion expended on the scheme which he said was now being poured down the drain.

Sorry Sir Chike! The article is confussing.

Go home and clear some bush over growing along your village path. That will be commendable.

Ibime:
Knowledge is for everyone in London. But PH should implement it for non-indigenes.

Hypocrite!!

BecomeRich:
i serviced in adamawa state, nice and bad thing happen, but with the way northerner are killing our people. i think we should put it on hold.  it is becoming costly.

number was LA/ilr/year/5522X   X is a number from 1 to 9. that is my service number

Which Uni did you attend? I am blacklisting some Universities for their poor jobs ,

They have a winner now. Atta Mills

lucabrasi:
shows the level of reasoning our so called educated and enlightened lawmakers have,if one or a group of them can publicly make these sort of comments about a programme that is meant to among other things promote cohesion amongst the various ethnicities,instill a sense of responsibility,build character e.t.c

The comment he made is one of the best made from NA in it's entire history.

4 Play:
N28bn (70% of N40bn) isn't particularly astounding considering the scale of the programme, possibly tens of thousands of graduates.

Ermm! Chike Obi, It's not 70% of N40bn but 70% of Ministry of Youths Development's budget.

Put your source please!!

otokx:
What "business" does that business man do? Have they checked the source of his wealth? Is it legitimate?

MEND militants are kidnapping and stealing Oil for him 

Did your Alams and Ibori use their own loot to do even 100m road for you?

Ibime:
Otokini, what of all the guys on foot trying to make it from A-B. You may be comfortable in your car but majority do not own cars.

What will not work is Amaechi's belief that this move will depopulate PH. The Okada drivers will just find another hustle.

IMO, they should have just licenced Okada. There is something we have here in London called "The Knowledge" where black cab drivers have to study for 2 years before they can get a licence. What Amaechi should have done is licence Rivers State indigenes to drive Okada and allow those from foreign states to get the licence but only after taking exams for 2 years. That should provide enough disincentive to the foreigners whilst creating jobs for River State youth.

Ermmm! "The Knowledge" is for Foreigners or Non-Londonders?

They got mad because they were coming back to Nigeria. I can feel them

tpia:
there's no law stating the images have to be on the web for people to see. What's abnormal there.

It's a building funded by the public and should be at least available for the Nigerian public to see even though in image forms. But we all know that they are afraid to show Nigerians way too much opulence and grandeur in exhibition there. The Google sat picture is awesome and can give you an idea of what that place looks like.

idiopathic:
Romeo,
You don't need a house to be a man. What you need is a home consisting of a loving wife and well brought up children and to be admired and respected in your local community.

I don't know what you are talking about here!! You can not live under a Mango tree or under bridge with your family and expect respect from the society.

Dede1:
This is where I get twisted out of form when people conveniently injected education into culture. I had a very good formal European education and travelled wide but there were no instances of these endeavors that taught me the culture of Igboland or even the culture of Europeans. While I had been breast fed on the Igbland culture and tradition, I must admit that I have only observed other people’s culture.

You have to make a choice of marrying a girl from Igboland with the fine accolade of strong family values and respect to the institution of marriage that had strongly discouraged divorce or marry European, American, Asian or African girl from the ethnic group that dash its girls away.

We can not fold our hands and watch individuals with myopic view of Igboland culture and tradition to trash them because they have issues in coming up with marital rites.

Thank you my brother