BangGanger:


If Nigeria had 80% accuracy at free throws and just 70% accuracy at 3-points, they would have won.

Exactly

ElPayaso:
90% of the people making comments here don't know that Australia is a power house when it comes to basketball.. They are currently ranked 3rd in terms of basketball

Nigeria is ranked number 1 in Africa and 22 in the world a better ranking than their footballing counter parts

BangGanger:
How is it that Nigeria is so bad at free throws?

Can someone explain?

Go and give Steph Curry Nigerian citizenship so he can feature for us

From what I'm seeing the Nigerians are scared to attempt 3 pointers the Aussies not so much

If not Nigerian defence is tighter than Australia's

As my own slow e dey pain me, Una for no tell me say e slow

The game is slower in my side why?

Olymp2hd

It's still 3rd qtr 54:47

Nice

Oga daddy G.O shut up, it was 4Naira to 1 us dollar that year no much drive to go and reside or work in USA, Nigeria had much much more opportunities for Graduates, even primary 6 certificate would be enough to give you good job, school cert was the PHD then, many communities had no graduate so even without degree if you could speak many languages especially foreign European languages you are made.

Times are different my friends do not let our elders decieve you, they want more members in their social clubs they call religious houses and more offerings in their gift boxes they call offering box so they want us to stay back and they want those over their to come back

JAMESOGBONNAMADU:
Go to cybercafe,is were i did mine.

I didn't see anywhere to upload documents just name, email, picture, and bio

Did you upload any documents or actually apply for anything cos when I click apply after creating my profile nothing happens

yossi4rmaguleri:
Sorry i didnt update yesterday. Thursday was christmas at the embassy o.. maybe they were celebrating ramadan sha..
17 visas in all..
12 students
5 work.
Of the students who got, 8 appealed.
Of work, 2 were first applicants and 6 were after appeal.
Bottom line they got visas sha.
This week is my week please pray!

You will get it no shaking I will talk to Baba God on your behalf meanwhile we that are at your back don't leave us in the dark oh when you see the light (this parable too thick, I mean also pray for us and give us info especially after you succeed)

Henri8:

No one is dragging him.

You guys clearly are "dragging" not just him, but others as well Glory Patrick for example is from RIVERS STATE.

SHE IS NOT IGBO, but you guys just count everyone that doesn't bear Yoruba or Hausa name as Igbo WHY?

As a general rule if you see a Nigerian with 2 English names just assume the person is from South south. That's the most likely scenerio we met the English and Portuguese since 16th century and as a result our ancestors as in Great great grandfather's had European names if I tell you my last name you will not believe

I am from Rivers state and we bear names like London George, George is surname, Violet Horsefall, Jack Finecountry, fyneface is also a last name and so on go on Facebook and see for yourself all of these people are most from River state, Bayelsa and Delta.

So like I said If you see someone with 2 English names the chances are the person is from South south and not necessarily Igbo I have not met an Igbo person who doesn't have atleast one Igbo name. NEVER. I'm sure there maybe 1 or 2 such people but it is extremely rare.

Instead it is Yorubas that are likely to also bear 2 English or 2 non Native names especially due to the slave trade and returnee slaves to Lagos, badagry and all that, I have actually met yorubas with 2 non native names but they are not as much as South south.

Stop using non Igbos to hype Igbo, the guy claimed the list is made up of 12 Igbos whereas he added South southerners to pad it up. Thinking we will not notice.

FreeIgboho:


Twelve out of 20 is few to you. Don't let me call u a tribalist

Samuel Nathaniel is NOT IGBO. he is from Enwhe in Delta state. You people should be calming down oh

E get luck

I suspect the Penguins of Madagascar saved his life

Hmm this country sef

Bad health care system

Terrible roads

Everything can kill you

That's why life expectancy is 52

Ok, if you have father's, sisters, uncles, friends in politics warn them oh they should remove hand from politics for the time being because what is coming hmm in the next couple of years, river will over flow its banks and wash many away people will be identifying them "na him be that" they will be saying "no be me" "na lie na him" commot body oh

Reno shut up abeg you too talk

Shame

And those Mumu immigration people will still ask for bribe to give you your worthless passport

You end up paying almost 100k (inclusive of bribes) for a passport that will put you in trouble

Is that not someone else's job?

Africans and mediocrity,

You will never see something similar in developed climes Trump inspects Chicago housing project, Biden inspects Philadelphia pipelines, Angela Merkel inspects prison facilities

Third world b.s

Mediocre people celebrate mediocrity

I can tell you this for free mark it somewhere, this "project" will not be completed or finished by him, he is merely doing this so people will say he did or started something, so whenever anybody does it they'll say he started it and it will be an avenue for him to loot money and point to this as one of the "projects" he spent money on

I don't know the man personally, I have nothing against him but this has been the Modus operandi of Nigerian governors.

I pray the wind of change blows through Nigeria and breaks the old twigs, leaving room for the green new ones to grow, since they have refused to give way.
I know this seems harsh but remember
if this prayer doesn't come to pass this old dry twigs will catch fire and everything including the young green ones will burn with them. So if they have refused to step aside let them fall of that bridge that we are currently crossing now, let that cloud hovering over Nigeria let the wind of that cloud break them and leave room for the Nigeria we hope to see. Nigeria is a great nation, Nigeria will not break, the problem of Nigeria is the political class once God addresses their case file you will smile. Goodluck Nigeria.

Marrying off people is not and can never be the solution

Each person is a different case, each person is a new story, experiences are unique

For better understanding some are into it for money not because they can't find a man, some are beautiful and can find a man by themselves if they want, they earn a reasonable amount of money per day they can make as much as 30k easily in a day times that by 30 days and ask yourself the person you are marrying them to does he have half of that amount in his bank account?

Some do it for the fun of it, they are addicted to it, can the man you are marrying them to SATISFY them sexually?

Some of them don't know why they are doing it, they just feel like or something is just pushing them to do it, marrying them off will not stop it.

Some got into it because of an experience in life either rape, lose of spouse, family members, run away from home and other such circumstances

Some need to do it to fund their lifestyle either as drug addicts, alcohol addicts, big girl-ism addict, socialite addict etc

And many others I can't list here Believe me marrying them off will not bring back the list family, heal the mental health effects of rape or other such life incidents that pushed them into the trade.

We should stop treating people especially women today as cargo, cattle or something that can be fixed by archaic thought processes. They are individualistic complex beings just like everyone else, yes this includes Jigawa Muslim women.

Building a kitchen for someone who isn't interested in cooking does not guarantee the person will be interested in cooking. Many people today especially in the western world have kitchens in their homes some have 2 to 3 kitchens but they can't cook, they aren't interested in cooking they eat out or order in.

Solution: focus on psychology, focus on Human capital development.
Get psychologists to help them, evaluate them does who need rehab for sex addiction, alcohol addiction, drug addiction etc treat them. Then they will not need to sell their bodies to get money to fund that addiction

If it was due to a life occurrence treat them, rehabilitate them, you may not understand. Some people actually think after all this guy have raped me for free so what's the use abeg I will just allow any guy who wants after all they are giving me money, help them grow beyond that mindset.

Some of them it is lack of job provide jobs for them, ask them what can they do or what would they like to do, sponsor them for training and give them equipments or tools to start.

Marrying them off is not even an option until they are fully treated and rehabilitated.

Treat the root cause of the problem, not the symptoms of the problem, The root cause is poverty, the root cause is psychological, the root cause is materialism, the root cause is addiction, the root cause is NOT marriage.

Not getting Married is just the symptom, if they get married it will hinder them, slow them down but not stop them so they don't want to be bothered by marriage.

Marry them off and I GUARANTEE you 1. They will run away or 2. They will be doing short time from your house delivering home service.

Treat them first, provide jobs for them first, before we talk of marriage.

I'm just noticing Ijaw sounds like I Jew and izon sounds like Izrael lol

Any topic that has to do with Name or politics or something that indicates maybe Yorubas on Nairaland there are always comments from nairalanders who are Igbo making some funny remarks.

I assumed it was friendly banter between Igbos and yorubas.

But now the way they are attacking ijaws and we are not responding, I know we don't have that kind of friendly banter or atleast I don't recall anytime we agreed to have such exchanges.
I also don't understand why they do this, I will say a few, a few Igbos on Nairaland want to appropriate, annex Ijaw states, Ijaw people etc to Igbo.

Look many of you are not good students of history or you were taught wrong things so I will just point you in the right direction, I won't tell you what to think.

But I want to assure you with all honesty and sincerity, ijaw people (I am an ijaw man both from my father and my mother and I am from one of the royal families in ijaw land)
So I know what I am saying, Ijaw people do not hate Igbos, we do not hate yorubas, we do not hate anyone, and we try as much as possible from what I perceive and what I can tell, we try our best to avoid conflict, remember when others where saying if their tribe doesn't get this or that doesn't happen baboon blood will spill, our person said my election is not worth anybody's life. That is just one example.

However the calmness of the crocodile is not weakness, why do I say all these?

People do not seem to know that by number of states and by population the ijaw tribe is amongst the top 3 and top 4 tribe respectively

Because we don't make noise or hurl insults online to stir ethnic or tribe conflicts doesn't mean we are not in Nigeria or we can't do it. We just refuse to do it.

I do not think it is wise or fair for some Igbo people on Nairaland to keep claiming ijaws are these and that, we see all the insults targeted at us especially and even almost exclusively from the Igbos, I've never met an Hausa or Fulani man both online or offline who was insulting of ijaws. Many ijaws have lived peacefully with yorubas for so long you can't even tell the difference now,
In ajegunle and environs in the 60's and 70's there were large ijaw settlements or enclaves or however you want to call them, there are also large numbers of ijaws in some Yoruba states even some ijaws in ijaw states bear Yoruba names, many can speak Yoruba my mom speaks Yoruba and she's from Bayelsa, her half brothers are named taiye, kehinde etc Yoruba names.

But the yorubas have never one day come online to claim ijaw people are Yoruba, some ijaw or many ijaws largely agree through oral history that ijaws came from Bini but even the Bini people have NEVER one day said we are lesser than them or their subjects or any of that or we must fight their battle or must support them.

But online no week passes without some form of name calling, tribalism etc being flung at us from the Igbos and Most times it goes unreplied read the topics here on Nairaland that has to do with anything concerning ijaws. It is not as If we are not on Nairaland, it is not as if we don't see them or read them. We just chose not to reply.

But it has graduated to the level of propaganda and this is why I needed to post this, because in the future some of them will claim "if the ijaws were not or are not Igbos why did they kept quiet" their children may say " if your parents weren't Igbos why didn't they reply when my parents claimed they were Igbos" so this is the post saying WE THE IJAWS ARE NOT IGBOS.

what do I mean? Some Igbos online are now claiming all ijaws or most ijaws are Igbos, firstly, na by force?

Secondly in what way are we Igbos? We don't speak same language most of us do not share a common ancestor or history, during the Biafra war you renamed some places to Igbo names and claimed they had always been like that as if we don't have history, I want you to read Mary Henrietta Kingsley's book on West African History read the part on Nigeria and the Kalabari people or new Calabar people as they were called then, see if you can find ONE, just ONE Igbo name, also we have been bearing Portuguese names and naming our places Portuguese and English names since 1700's does that mean we are Portuguese or English? till today Port Harcourt is named after Harcourt, Bishop Bara heart, Braithwaith memorial, Forcados, even the ijaws you know off from wayyyy back their names where Isaac, George, Melford, Graham, West and so on.

Thirdly you forget we were once clumped under eastern region and we agitated to leave for certain reasons, go and read history about the creation of old Rivers State and maybe you'll understand, Northerners didn't create rivers state for no reason or because they wanted to, We Rivers people, ijaw people wanted our own state, because according to those who were alive and actively involved then and who moved for it, Eastern Region which the Igbos were a part of became Igbo, I don't think you understand that, everything good that came to eastern region was centered in Owerri, Enugu or any other exclusively Igbo town, rails, govm't buildings, anything, Port Harcourt was in existence but nothing came that way all other old cities of other tribes were in existence but attention was not given to them, and there was serious nepotism.

This led to people like Melford okilo and co. Pressuring Gowon for a State,

Even when it comes to cessation from Nigeria don't forget Niger Delta Republic was declared on February 23, 1966 and they fought against Federal forces before being defeated. Isaac Boro and his comrades were jailed for treason by Ojukwu and co. Ojukwu fought for Nigeria against the NDR only to turn back barely 3 years later and try to force us into Biafra, without even an apology or statement of regret or even acknowledgement like "sorry oh, you guys were right then". He just woke up and added us to battle and think we will fight for him just like that, Let us fight under Biafra and gain independence under Biafra Lol. A Biafra whose identity is so igbolised, igboitic. From their god chukwuAbiama to currency to flag to everything. that is not a country in which an ijaw man will thrive, it will be frying pan to fire.

I as a person I am not against Biafra if you want it Goodluck to you left for me I would allow the refrendum, what I disagree with is your manner of trying to forcefully coerce others into your Biafra, you want freedom from Nigeria but you don't want to respect freedom of Niger Delta from Igbos? That is hypocritical.

Port Harcourt is the most free, most open, most accepting city in all of Nigeria. Yes! I've been to all big cities they usually speak Igbo(Enugu, Owerri), Yoruba (Lagos) or Hausa (Kano, Abuja) but in Port Harcourt English or pidgin are the default, they are the languages you are expected or assumed to speak. But even when you speak yoruba or Hausa, Tiv, Igbo or anything else nobody eyeballs you or acts prejudiced against you because of it. I know cities in this Nigeria where if you speak Hausa or Igbo prices go down for you, if you speak other language prices go up for you.

In Owerri and Enugu people expected me to speak Igbo, when I went to buy something the seller spoke Igbo to me, in Kano the bus drivers many spoke ONLY Hausa not even pidgin English, in Lagos along the conversation you'll just hear the speaker burst into rants in Yoruba and leave you lost in translation.

There are alot of Igbo people especially from imo in port Harcourt, but there are also many Akwa ibom people, many yorubas and people from everywhere else, we have our own problems like everyone else, we don't deny it. But insulting us trying to get us agitated will not help you in any way at all.

You want us to hate the hausa's but it is you dragging our land, it is you selling things to us 2 times the price because we are not Nwokem

You only want us not because you love us or you want the best for us or because we are brothers or anything like that but merely because you want numbers when you want to fight Hausa people or Yoruba people.

You claim we migrated from Ghana, Sierra Leone etc, lol we haven't denied it and we are not saying it's impossible but didn't you also migrate from somewhere to wherever you are today? Dont you claim to come from Israel? So if that's true it means even the land under your feet should be taken from you.

Also you are not doing yourself any good by fighting everybody, insulting everybody, everybody knows nothing only you knows everything, only you is smart everyone else is dumb. You are fighting yourself into a corner, a corner that will keep reducing as you fight away everyone who can possibly help you.

I will continue to advocate that ijaws do not fall for the trap of becoming hateful people, we should keep following peace with all men and holiness without which no man shall see God.
We should remain accommodating that's why people say Ijaw people don't travel, travel to where when PH, Yenagoa, and other Niger Delta states are the most accommodating? No religious, ethnic, language intolerance, no cheating you because you are not my brother or you can't speak my language.

Finally if you are interested in knowing where most ijaw people stand on breaking the country called Nigeria.
It's one of three things
1. No, don't break it.
2. Southern Nigeria (which will include us, Yoruba and Igbo and other interested parties or regions)
3. Niger Delta Republic. (Just us)

No to us and Igbos alone in Biafra, that's not even an option except for a few hungry irrelevant people or just social media noise by one or two people with multiple accounts.

Why those 3 options? Because Nigerian politicians are the same, just greedy people interested in Thier pocket breaking Away from Nigeria will not stop the likes of Wike, godswill akpabio etc from doing their evil deeds and ruling badly. If an ijaw man becomes president or not it will not affect me personally. If an Igbo man becomes president it will not affect you personally, the north have been president for so long yet the ordinary northerners have very little or nothing to show for it.

We are not Igbos we are a distinct separate entity with different language, culture, dressing, history, delicacies, oral traditions, value system etc

We left the eastern region for a reason and wouldn't want to go back to that arrangement ever again we either remain alone or if we have to stay with the Igbos then Yoruba people, Tiv people INFACT all the middle belt and south west will be in that union. To counter balance each other, minimise bigotry, tribalism and so on.

That we are not exactly the same doesn't mean we cannot work together for the betterment of human life.

Thank you
Stay in love

Before nkor

Help me check if my name dey there

I said this season is season of crossing bridge many will fall both good and bad, old and young many will be called back

Hmmm watch and pray

This shaggy go try rest

Liposure:
no wonder a prophet is without honor in his hometown

Go on YouTube see what Foreigners are saying see what Nigerians are saying

Nigerians = negative comments and ALL hearsay, (I heard someone say that one woman said)


Foreigners = everything good and mainly first hand accounts

That is the main reason I even believed TB Joshua the more.
Look for that swedish SCOAN worker evangelist Rykards YouTube channel, "Hungry gen" is the name of his ministry, he was with TN Joshua for over 10 years.
The guy broke down happenings in the SCOAN with the help of others like Cedric the chorister and others

I can't remember the channels name but these are people we saw everyday in scoan Emmanuel TV, white people from USA, UK, Sweden, south Africa, Netherlands etc

They are in their country now and TB Joshua is dead they have no incentive or no reason to be fearful or to lie or hide anything or say anything to impress anyone but just go and listen to them say their experiences by themselves don't listen to hearsays

If I post link to the channel I will be banned from Nairaland

Good morning and win my friend

BKayy:

Tụfịakwa for you people.
Shame on you people.

Anyways had it been that you people are indigenous to the land you occupy, you would have been ashamed but no. You know what I am talking about.
Land Thieves.

Land thieves how?

Nigeria
But you guys said northerners are not corrupt

Religion, laws etc are all for the poor.

Poor people dey try oh no wonder they believe so much in God. I mean they have nothing, I mean absolutely nothing else to believe in not government or govmt institutions, not family, not friends, not security agencies, not society nothing

I know this because once upon a time even me, I used to pray "God please let light come", "God please let Nepa bring light", "God please let this hold up move" things that ordinarily does not require calling for supernatural help imagine so I understand

SegFault:

This is how most looters... Sorry polithief.... This keyboard self. Politicians yes, this is how most of them started. As they say, do not despise the humble beginnings.

Humble beginnings no follow for our generation it ended with Wike, Orton and our current governors their set.
Now the beginnings you need is man know man if Alex can get Ned to man know man his way through then he just may have a chance

What Alex thinks governorship is by being P.R agent for Ned and what's her name again

You think after student unionism the next step is actual state governorship

Let me not pretend I wish all the best, but we al know it won't happen

Na me carry the cup

67 GB used for phone oh not laptop lol