Meanwhile, Tinubu and his cohorts say they spent over 50 billion on palliatives.

Who did he give the palliatives to?

At this point, nobody is shocked about what these people are capable of.

Nothing impressive here. This is just a place for a few privileged people. Build blocks of multistorey buildings like Lagos State to meet the accommodation needs of the locals.

This will end up being like one of those estates that people acquire but nobody lives in them because those who can afford them live outside the country. This doesn't solve the accommodation problem of the people.

Attached: those are the kinds of houses the government builds in Lagos. That's what every state in the East should be building to provide accommodation for all and utilise scarce land.

I remember travelling from Lagos to Enugu to stay for a while and some friends in Lagos were asking me what I brought back from my village. I was like, "What the fvck?!"

Looking at the article, does it mean that other Nigerians don't have the term village in their lexicon? I strongly believe that this man wrote this article from the perspective of Yorubas who live in the Lagos but they don't visit their states of origin.

During the Yuletide, the hashtag ‘Igbo village mansions’ trended on social media. The hashtag, which started on Tiktok, was a reaction to a denigrating remark someone made about the Igbo people living in huts in rural communities.

Those travelling to Igboland for Christmas and New Year began to post photos and videos of their houses and other buildings in their communities, while urging people from other parts of the country to also show their own indigenous communities. It quickly spread to X (formerly known as Twitter), Instagram and Facebook.

To some, it was a show-off; to others, it was some sort of enlightenment for many who had never travelled to Igboland and never knew that such edifices could be built even in the remotest places.

But there was a reason for that confusion. In Nigeria, the only people who call their ancestral communities ‘village’ are the Igbo people. By calling their hometowns and cities ‘villages’ over the years, Igbo people created a picture of a people who live in thatched huts built with mud. Conversely, other parts of Nigeria use terms like ‘town’ and ‘city’ to describe their own ancestral communities.

For example, growing up I had relatives who lived in places like Zonkwa, Funtua, Mubi, Owo, Ikare, Auchi, Gboko, etc. While talking about their place of residence, they would use words like “town” or “city”, but when talking about home, they would use “village.” Friends from other Igbo towns and cities had the same experience. Imagine the absurdity of hearing indigenes of cities like Onitsha, Owerri, Aba, or Enugu, who live outside Igboland, saying: “I am travelling to my village.”

Unconsciously, the Igbo people internalised ‘village’ to mean “ancestral home” as opposed to “place of residence.” Village is interpreted to be where family members live, where childhood friends can be met, where childhood memories exist, and where the traditions of the people hold sway.

But because of the disconnect between this meaning of ‘village’ and the dictionary meaning, many non-Igbo mistake that expression for something else.

How does the dictionary define ‘village’? Dictionary.com defines a village as “a small community or group of houses in a rural area, larger than a hamlet and usually smaller than a town, and sometimes (as in parts of the U.S.) incorporated as a municipality.”

Using a hut for illustration, National Geographic explains ‘village’ to children between Grade 5 and Grade 8 or Primary 5 and JS2 this way: “A village is a small settlement usually found in a rural setting. It is generally larger than a ‘hamlet’ but smaller than a ‘town.’ Some geographers specifically define a village as having between 500 and 2,500 inhabitants.”

Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary says that “a village consists of a group of houses, together with other buildings such as a church or school, in a country area.” Note that “country area” means rural area. Similarly, the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English defines it as “a very small town in the countryside.”

Two features run through all the definitions. The first is that a village is “small.” The second is that it is in a rural area. Being rural connotes lacking in modernity and facilities as a result of being far from the city where urbanity exists.

The large number of Igbo people outside Igboland also helped to accentuate the belief that they are running away from their rural communities which lack modern infrastructure to places where life is better. In every state of Nigeria, after the indigenous or ethnic population, the Igbo people are usually the second largest population. Outside Nigeria, the Igbo people also have large populations in many countries of the world. This has led to the creation of a saying that is used as a joke in Nigeria: “If you get to any part of the world and don’t find Igbo people there, please run away from that place.”

Some non-Igbo who had travelled to Igboland had asked me two interesting questions: Why do you people call your towns and cities ‘village’? Why do your people love to leave your beautiful and big towns and cities to relocate to other places, including places not as developed as yours? Such people say that even in remote communities in their home state, there are Igbo people.

But I always smile and say that such is the nature of the Igbo. They simply love to fan out: that even within Igboland, many Nnewi people leave Nnewi to settle in Owerri, while many Owerri people leave it to settle in Nnewi. Some people even relocate to smaller or less developed communities. Some even relocate to worn-torn countries. There is a belief among Igbo people that there is a need that can be filled in every community, no matter how big or sThere is a belief among Igbo people that there is a need that can be filled in every community, no matter how big or small.mall.

Without these factors, especially the use of ‘village’ by Igbo people to describe their hometowns and ancestral homes, there would have been no need to start a campaign of showcasing their homes to other Nigerians. But despite that display, it will still take a long time to erase that image of ‘village’ from the minds of most Nigerians. The first reason is that not everybody is on social media. The second is that not everybody who is on social media saw those displays. The third reason is that mental pictures and narratives are not easily wiped off or replaced.

Because of this wrong nomenclature, many years ago I made a decision never to say “my village,” given the massive developments that have taken place in Nnewi in the past 40 years. I began to use the terms “my hometown” or “my home city.” Initially, it was not easy to say. But eventually, it stuck. Today, I don’t have any problem using the term “hometown” or “home city.”

Some people have argued that the use of ‘village’ gives the nostalgic feeling of leaving the noise and aloof lifestyle of the city for the idyllic and convivial ambience of ‘home.’ They argue that using the term ‘hometown’ does not create that mental distinction. However, there is a price for every action. If you call your hometown ‘village’ while other ethnic groups call theirs hometown or city, naturally yours will be viewed as rural, backward, and poor. You will have the taxing duty of occasionally proving that it is not so. And like Nigerians say in pidgin English: You go explain tire; no evidence! (You will explain and explain, but all will be in vain.)

– X: @BrandAzuka

Azuka Onwuka

Source: https://punchng.com/how-village-has-harmed-the-igbo-people/

Do they know what N57.8 billion can do in the life of a country?

These thieves in government have no conscience at all.

Omenkalives is obsessed with politics of hate against the South East while the marauders are busy sending his people to untimely death. Rest in peace to the victims...

NapoleonHill:
Some of you are funny. How many SAs have you heard anything from since you've known your left from right apart from the ones advising on media?

Betta Edu was just suspended and thrown to the EFCC to devour and you're asking what the SA National Value and Social Justice is doing. If that was Fela Durotoye's advise to the president, would you expect him to come to the media to announce it?

Una go just dey open mouth waaa after reasoning from the anus.

There are people whose impacts must be felt, regardless of where you put them. Examples are Wike, Umahi, Amaechi, El-Rufai, etc. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo is proving to belong to that category.

So, we expect Fela Durotoye to do the same...speak once in a while because you are a national figure...after all, he's here to work on ethics and values.

AustineE1:

This is unnecessary,the young man is facing some challenges,he will get over it and the refinery will do well. Atleast,overtime it will reduce our over dependency on imported fuel.

What Dangote is facing isn't a mere challenge. He's being questioned by the ant-graft agency under a new government for conniving with the ex-CBN governor to defraud Nigeria of huge FX sums, thereby subjecting the entire country into a deep FX crisis. To recover all the USD Emefiele gave to Dangote without following due process, Dangote should increase the stake of the NNPC in his refinery.

In the past, we have seen the EFCC shut down companies during their investigation because there was clear evidence they were involved in fraud. Thank God they now have a sane chairman who has openly criticised that modus operandi.

Awesome! Those who God has richly blessed shouldn't forget those who don't have so much.

This is probably going to be Nigeria's worst AFCON outing.

She wanted to go start begging him. This will serve as deterrent to other looters in government.

Civil service is like a criminal organisation where everyone is free to steal but must not be caught in the act.

The global family and movement of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) ably led by our Supreme Leader, prophet, and indefatigable liberator, Mazi Nnamdi Okwuchukwu KANU condemn in totality the false history labeling Ndigbo as invaders and trouble makers in a book authored by Sola Akinyemi and approved by the Ministry of Education in Civic Education curriculum titled "Fundamentals of Civic Education for Basic 8 (JSS 2)".

The current Minister of Education, a tribalist, and the Yoruba author are masterminding an ethnic hatred against Ndigbo by distorting history in the Civic Education subject. This Yoruba bigot author named Sola Akinyemi must be demented by demonizing the entire Igbo Nation in his treacherous book as invaders and troublemakers to brainwash Nigerian Children against Ndigbo.

The Nigerian Ministry of Education to approve such ethnic hate-based textbooks that describe “NDI IGBO “as invaders and troublemakers is very disappointing and unfortunate.

In the history of Nigeria, there is no record that Ndigbo has invaded nor attempted to conquer any other tribe, now or in the past. Ndigbo has never had a history of invading other tribes. But because of hatred and bigotry against the Igbo tribe, the Ministry of Education under the fulani government and leadership of Yoruba cabals have introduced a book in primary school describing Ndigbo as trouble makers and invaders. This is not only wicked but also to brainwash non-Igbo children to hate Ndigbo.

We demand the *removal* of such distorted history books from Nigeria schools. We equally demand that the Ministry of Education and the author of the book organize a public debate and lecture Nigerians and the World on this false history of Igbos invasion of Ife kingdom. Moreso, we demand that educators, the State Ministry of Education, headmasters and headmistresses, and prioperators of Igbo extraction lead a petition to demand the removal of this ethnic hate-based book from education curriculum. In the event that the bigotry of the government of Nigeria and her education ministry refuse to remove the book from all their schools, then Ndigbo would abolish such an evil book from schools in the Eastern Region.

At the expiration of 14 days from the release of this press statement, if the government does not withdraw the treacherous book titled "Fundamentals of Civic Education for Basic 8 (JSS 2) authored by traitor "Sola Akinyemi", we order Ndigbo both young and old, big and small to locate the books in our region, the Eastern Region and burn them. Again, every IPOB member must help search for this evil and distorted history book and burn every copy found. All schools in the Alaigbo should reject that book and must not allow it to be sold to school children. Igbo parents everywhere in Nigeria must not buy such books that seek us against other tribes in the contraption called Nigeria.

In fact, we call on Ndigbo to reject every book that is authored by this traitor Sola Akinyemi. All his books should be burned anywhere they are found in the East.

It is disgusting to discover that a Yoruba man authored such a book against Ndigbo to brainwash non-Igbo pupils and continue their age-long hatred against Ndigbo. That won't work for him and his sponsors in this day and age.

The architects of hatred and attack against Ndigbo in the print media, television, social media, and markets now want to nationalize it by including it in the education curriculum?

We hope that every sensible Igbo person has realized that Chief Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu, Mazi Nnamdi KANU, and IPOB have been right with the demand for an Independent Nation of Biafra outside of and away from Nigeria. Every Igbo man and woman must rise up now to defend and support the cause for the restoration of Biafra.

The hatred against Ndigbo is incurable, and the purveyors of this ethnic hatred have gone beyond political exclusion to distorting history to perpetuate their hatred. Biafra Independence remains the only hope for Ndigbo. The more we delay the realization, the more we endanger the future generations of Biafrans.

COMRADE EMMA POWERFUL, MEDIA, AND PUBLICITY SECRETARY FOR IPOB.

Congratulations, Lagosians!

They should ensure a private company manages it.

Well done, Governor Sanwo-Olu

Please make sure you extend it to the island soon to significantly reduce traffic gridlock in that corridor.

madridguy:
My brother, there will be competition and it will be very easy to rebel against them unlike governors.

This is FALSE. If LG chairmen get autonomy, they will become as strong as governors and get more police personnel to protect them.

Again, Nigerians don't love this country. Everyone cares about what they can take than what they can give. If we really love this country, the Nigerian law as it is now would have been working perfectly.

Ozommadu:


Because he dey Apc? So something good can come out from se??

Even ebonyi under umahi level pass ekiti and osun combined

They hail him now for being a humble servant. Wait until Umahi declares to become the president of Nigeria. He will tell you 1001 reasons why they won't vote for him. Nigeria is a sick country!

Cameroon should be the next! Don't give room for sight-tight leaders

madridguy:
The best coup that can happen in Nigeria is we the citizen against the rulling class.

Gen. Sanni Abacha is dead but till today Nigeria is still going around to bring back his loot kept in different part of the world.

We Nigerians, our first mission must be against our states governors. These people are our biggest obstacles to our development. We Nigerians must wrestle the local governments full autonomy away from the states governors.

If you give the local government chairpersons autonomy, they will become emperors.

Nigérians don't love Nigéria. That's the summary of Nigeria's problem.

The federal government should adopt this model if it works well.

Let Edo State be the pioneer state.

Tech promotes transparency and accountability

Children full for Nairaland.

I am not sure this OP is up to 18.

LP lawyers haven't even said a word about all the CTC tendered in evidence. I thought they would even use figures to show how Peter Obi won.

shegzhkn:

shii.
The same Americans who voted long shot Obama and bill Clinton also voted for biden.

Americans vote for options GOP/Dems give them.

Biden should stop disgracing himself and the United States, and step aside for a strong Dem to run against Trump in 2024!

J.F Kennedy was 43 and Obama was 47 when he became president. How come people who compete in today's US presidential elections are mostly old folks?

Although the last assembly failed at checking the excesses of the executive arm, I must commend them for the number of bills they successively passed, including Electoral Act, PIB, this right here, etc.

For power, I want to see big companies invest in solar from generation through transmission to distribution. We have to break the 5KMegawatts of electricity jinx!

Hausa is the most popular language in Africa!

That's why it would have made sense if this proceeding was broadcast live. That way, the media will stop reporting and interpreting nonsense.

The soldier thought that the train captain was a bloody civilian who could do him no harm. RIP

BATified2023:
it’s either u are a kid or u don’t watch Yoruba movies

From when I was a kid in d 90’s this woman have been acting n I remember my sister normally use her picture n movie to scare us that time n Yorubas witch movie isn’t complete without this woman so what are u talking about

She’s d symbol of witchcraft in Yoruba land, once u see this woman in any movie just know she’s not here to play

Yoruba films shown on Africa Magic Yoruba are mostly poor quality, low-budget films. Where real money comes is the movies they show at cinemas. I won't argue with you.

georgeakins:


There is no money in movie industry in Nigeria, whether Yoruba, igbo, English, Pidgin, Hausa, Ijaw, etc.

Those actresses living big are into something else.

Stop saying what you know zilch about!

Google how much Funke Akindele makes from her movies.

Nollywood, after rebasing, helped to make Nigeria's economy the biggest in Africa.

HacheNoire:
🥰🥰🥰

This women acted movies upon movies and did not become millionaires. Today, ladies act just one movie and become millionaires!

This is FALSE! You people should stop coming here to insult ladies. No lady makes money by acting one movie!

Besides, that lady merely acts Yoruba films.
How much do they pay them for acting Yoruba films that target a section of the country?

Iceberg3:

Ain't you confused?

You are thinking about Kanu and at the same time beginning to think that Nigeria is too complicated to work.

It's no confusion - you lack understanding.