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[quote author=tpia6 post=28312247]some of them schooled abroad, eg if you check chazB's bio, he spent some time in england as a kid, and also schooled in the US.

you folks should stop being so judgemental and petty, its annoying.[/quote

90% of radio broadcasters in naija were born,schooled,akamued,akaraed and gugurued in naija ....they are all using fake foreign accents even when they have never visited any airport in Nigeria not to talk of ever travelling to Ghana by arikair

[quote author=WhiteTechnology post=29041336]Mutiny should not be tolerated

Most of these guys deprived guys like me the opportunity to defend our people because they had connection to get the job[/quour

Change your religion,change your name,change your state of origin to reflect you are hausa-fulani and we will send you appointment letter to join any one of army,navy,air force,police,custom,immigration or federal civil service as we ate more in number in all these places than the infidels from SW,SE,SS put together and because we are born to rule. That is why GEJ must go and GMB must occupy our aso rock and handover to another northerner for us to keep ruling Nigeria forever

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Truckpusher:
The price for mutiny is death.

And may I also remind you that the job of the soldier is not to ask questions such as 'why' but to do or die.

They should face the consequences for what they signed up for.

You can say this because ur brother,friend or uncle is not among those sentenced to death

[quote author=lillyjane post=29038997]hohohohahahahhoho, This is why one of my distant cousins is still single at 42, he always said.....girls are everywhere..

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You are already in your 30s as a woman, what are u waiting for to get married

I read with my heart bleeding on how 54 brave soldiers were again condemned to death in the name of mutin because these soldiers are against the corruption and ineptitude of their fat belly commanders who divert funds meant for arms into their pockets. The greedy politicians in the senate and house of assembly that oversees the defence ministry have never intervened in these so called court marshalls nor investigated corruption allegations of these army commanders

https://www.nairaland.com/2049757/mutiny-54-soldiers-sentenced-death

God help Nigeria

IKJ66:
How willi look like a ceo if I don't have the money,,,,,,,,,bro just tell us u are here for adVertisement or something !!!!!

As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.

Your life moves in the direction of your predominant thoughts

The future you don't picture, you will not feature in it.....

CHANGE YOUR THOUGHTS NOW

samplegirl:
This industry called celebrity stinks!!!!!!!!!!

You are old fashioned and outdated. 90% of females have endorsed this types of half naked dressing

Sexipea:
Nyc piece lala! U'l make a gwed journalist cos smtns I feel u take dier picx personally cos of d topic..bt no! U did d research..kipit coming

Please dress like them so that you can become a celebrity instantly

pinkiecutie:

OP ARE YOU A VIRGIN 


JUST ANSWER MY  SIMPLE QUESTION

You are the virgin

pinkiecutie:

because it gives them respect

I know u are a virgin and u hate being a girl, but slow down in posting on nairaland NCOs u have waec,jamb,neck, post ume to write and pass.

You have set a record on nairaland since you registered on 6th December an have posted 77 times.... Diaries God ooooh and your parents are watching you

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lovethokoh:
These are the reasons why our women, ladies or girls dress indecently to any place including church services these days.

Indecent dressing is now so common in churches, offices, campuses and every other gathering in this time because our generation have a huge problem caused by phrases like :

"Let them be"
"Leave them alone"
"Look who's talking"
"Live and let live"
"You can't judge me"
"Everyone is entitled to his/her opinion"
Etc

These above phrases have eaten so deep into our generation that you cannot condemn any wrongs again in our time,if you do,you would only be repaid with curses,hatred and condemnation.

In those days, morals were even more of importance than the bible verses,but nowadays,these generation lacks a whole lot of morals that they continuously and unshamefully request for a bible verse to be able to know their rights from wrongs.

When the society is sick, its products become rotten.

Only one female has made a comment condemning indecent dressing by Nigerian girls....that is serious in a nairaland that 90 % of ladies start or make comments in romance or sexuality topics. Even some girls have over 300 comments within 3 weeks after they joined nairaland

Wow this is great

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A Boy traveled to Lagos after his WAEC result was out so that his Uncle will help him get admission into the University of Lagos to study medicine and become a medical doctor.
The following conversation came up:
Boy: Uncle, I learnt it's difficult to gain admission into the university these days except you are well connected

Uncle: That's true.

Boy: Since you are connected, I came to ask you if you can help me get admission into the university after my JAMB

Uncle: That's true..am connected and I will help u

Boy: Thank you Uncle

Uncle: You're welcome...so how is your result, is it WAEC or NECO and how many credits did you get?

Boy: Uncle, it's WAEC, I had only two credits in agric and Yoruba
language but I failed the rest

Uncle: Well, that's not bad, you can still be a doctor, not a medical doctor really but native doctor(babalawo)...You will use your credit in agric in collecting herbs from the forest, and Yoruba language for incantations.
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EroticAngelina:
I think some emulate the american British accent..and some don't.

if they wanna change it, they can..but if they don't want, then they can't..its a choice.

some grow up with British accents like me they master it either from schooling there or attending a school with British curriculums

my pry school, we used British curriculum plus our phonetics teaching etc, that makes him or her get a British accent.

don't knw about america

Thrash.....All Nigerian educational system, syllabus or curriculum is tailored after the British model..whether private or public school from primary to university

It has become extremely difficult to identify a Nigerian from his or her accent these days. We are now sounding more American and British than the Americans and Britons themselves. When you listen to radio and voice in some TV commercials and radio jingles these days, you hardly hear the ‘Nigerian accent’ we grew up to know, and I begin to ask how we got here. Is this western influence? Did over half of our population suddenly travel abroad overnight to acquire an accent?

As I begin to ask questions, let me take a look at the people closest to me. Two of my uncles studied in the United States. Not just first degree but master’s degree as well. One of them even had a Ph.D and lived there for over 20 years before returning to Nigeria; none of them has an American accent. One of my maternal uncles and another aunt have been living in the UK ever since I can remember. When they came visiting some years back, none of them had a British accent. And so does my uncle that has lived in Australia for about 20 years.

My wife schooled in the UK for her master’s degree and does not have an atom of British accent when she speaks. Her elder sister schooled for 2 years in the United States and doesn’t have an American accent either. My wife’s half brother and sister are half-caste because their mum is a white English woman. They schooled in the UK to master’s degree level and lived there for a while as well and they don’t have a British accent (though a few words can’t escape her). I can go on and on about so many others. So it beats me hollow when a Nigerian travels to the United States for two months and returns with an American accent or when a Nigerian goes for her master’s degree in the UK and starts talking through her nose when she returns. It’s even so bad now, that some people accompany someone who is travelling overseas to the international airport and comes back home with an accent!

I can understand that some people were born and raised there and it has become part of their system and way of life. But one thing I have discovered is that those that travelled there don’t lose their Nigerian tongue completely. When I was in New York, I stayed in Manhattan with my cousin who had been living in the United States since he was 8 years old. He is about 30 now. He has a flat mate that is also a Nigerian who went there to school and has been living there.

I observed that they had this strong black American accent when they speak on the phone or have a conversation with their American friends, but whenever we were having a chat in the house, they always returned to their Nigerian accent. Even when he visits Nigeria, He speaks in his Nigerian accent even though he can speak like an American very well and not those fake and undone accents I get to hear on radio. I have observed closely those ‘returnees’ that have lost their Nigerian accent really haven’t. Once in a while, when you have a conversation with them, it slips out in some words or sentences and they return to their other accent. But will you blame them? Speaking in an American or British accent is now a status symbol. We admire and respect anything that has a resemblance to America or England. We see them as superior and since as they enjoy that position they would want to remain there.

I have worked in the entertainment and media industry for over 10 years and trust me, I have seen a lot. Most of our on-air personalities now have a foreign accent. There was even a radio station in Lagos that wouldn’t even want to hire you if you had a Nigerian accent. Our voice over artists who grew up in Ibadan can’t even pronounce “Adeola Odeku Street’ anymore the way we will know that it’s a street on Victoria Island and not Los Angeles. Some of them cannot even pronounce their own name very well. This is sad. I grew up listening to Tokunbo Ajayi, Cyril Stober and Ruth Benemesia Opia deliver news casting in a way that made you admire them for their professionalism. All that is gone. A young girl once worked as a newscaster in a TV station in Lagos and I heard that because she had a foreign accent, she got lots of privileges and I know this for a fact because it’s my industry and I have friends in every media house. She got holidays oversees and other perks that others who had been working there could not dream of.

Of course she left after a while and we hardly see her anymore but this is our reality. Though I thought she was a good newscaster. I also know a certain media house on cable TV where they all speak through their noses and form cliques amongst themselves. You are valued according to your accent. So everyone wants to belong, whether you grew up there, or you only visited for two weeks, or you went there for your master’s degree; all join, just dey blow foneh dey go. That’s the only way you can be seen as a sophisticated babe or big boy. I remember one time when one of them referred to those of us with Nigerian accent as ‘locals’. Na wa oh!

These led some of my friends in a certain radio station in Lagos to start what they call the LAFA Awards. LAFA stands for Locally Acquired Foreign Accent. It was done to expose on air personalities on radio that never lived outside the country and have a foreign accent. I had a good laugh as they called out the winners and I can’t wait for the next LAFA Awards.

I would also like to ask; I know a lot of white people who have lived in Nigeria for so many years. Some of them were even born here, especially the Lebanese. But how come they don’t have a Nigerian accent? Why is it the other way round?

I think Nigerians should be comfortable with speaking with their Nigerian accent. CNN recently ranked the different accents in the world according to how sexy they sounded and Surprise! Surprise! The disdained Nigerian accent was ranked 5th. It ranked even higher than the American and British accents. I don’t think you need a foreign accent to have a high self-esteem. The people we admire here in Nigeria for their success and all they have achieved did all they did without an American accent and still have a high place in our society. The likes of Aliko Dangote, Mike Adenuga and Femi Otedola don’t have one.

Even in our entertainment industry, Tuface, P square, Wizkid and Asa don’t have foreign accent. Likewise Nneka, D’Banj and Don Jazzy that have lived abroad don’t have it not to talk of Davido who was born abroad. We should learn to embrace the way we speak and be proud of it just like the Americans and the British would never change their accent for anyone.

You should have added don't get familiar with God, because God is the Person that makes all those virtues you mentioned available.
After all God says draw near to me and I will draw near to you...

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