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Nigeria is a land of jokes, despite the securities reports on Jonathan's desk, he is still trying to negotiate with TERRORISTS :O that's a lame agreement bereft of maturity expected of a Commander-in-Chief! Sometimes I wonder if Nigeria is a kingdom of monkeys ruled by baboons

@StarFlux, I sided with Yoruba probably because I am one! Is it true that English is related to Norwegian? (that'll be interesting to know). Can u speak Icelandic? They talk with a very thick accent, and it's quite sad you learn how to speak FRENCH for five years but couldn't speak it again, probably u got no one to relate it with, sorry about that!

@StarFlux, wao u sure do have a passion for languages, Nigeria for instance is a land of over a thousand dialects so u can imagine the peculiarities of my land.As for u branding Yoruba as the hardest i beg to differ on that in fact many Europeans are Nigerian universities studying it to the highest level (PhD). In Nigerian context, Yoruba is still the easiest to understand based on my own experience.

Andre Uweh: @Topic, the big 3 are very accessible. Accessibility is not so easy outside the big 3.
The way the Igbo language is designed makes it difficult for non Igbo people to grasp it. For example the Igbo make use of idioms called akpala okwu and okwu na ese akuko.The later is using stories to communicate your point. It's very rich.

Little wonder as much as I tried my best to learn Igbo it proves elusive to me, I really want to learn. Which is easiest and hardest 2u

@StarFlux you just gave an elaborate account on the composition and assessment of language especially the Yoruba language. I believe the Yoruba is the easiest to learn, which one is ur easiest and hardest (you did not state them). As for the Ogoja stuff, I have a friend who told me that in Cross River people hardly hear other local govt's indigenes dialect which to me is strange. He is from Obubra and he told me too that the Ogoja dialect is quite hard to learn.

I have always believed that Yoruba Language is the most accessible (easily understood) that can be learnt within few weeks unlike other languages in Nigeria. The Ogoja language is the most difficult (just expressing my opinion here) to me! I don't know what many of you guys feel here.....over to you for more enlightening!

Olaolufred: Can you do this forum a favor by pasting your link?
I believe I can learn from you if we will talk objectively and not allow ourselves beclouded by sentiments and bitterness.
Thanks.

I hope u are for real? First thing first check out my long post on this same page where the guy I replied quoted there few sources there, if not contented google my 'keywords' and if still not contented then I promise more links from me provided you will make this debate civil!

As it was in the beginning so shall it be till the very end, world without end! Another credible evidence that 'women were created from men's rib'

This should be an indirect jibe at the core North! They have been feeding too fat on the 'black gold' for a long time. Should the oil dry up today, the core North will implode!

[quote author=haka_nai]^^^^ Another Achebe quoting from another biafra propaganda rubbish without facts or knowledge.Facts please on your claims and source that all you said about there action and reactions were true with statistics of then and now? [/quote]You got me discombobulated there; can u please supply ur own manufactured FACTS? Or try to refute my quoted post......I am waiting!

The answer is most unlikely, nevertheless don't underestimate the power of LUST because I know the power of bond that still exist between lovers and their ex!

ehie: stu..pid scammer

Woman, ignorance is no excuse in the courtyard of heaven, for goodness sake this is a confirmed Man of God recognised by the kingdom of light and even darkness, millions of souls have been liberated, made conquerors, made rich, converted to God's side thru his ministries and all u can do is to insult him? My dear, take my word seriously, repent of what you said and think not you can get away with it, its that serious!

I suspect this is one of those banal topics laden with insidous motives to start another usual 'tribal warfare' on NL. Every tribe hav their traditional connections to everything, on this one, the behaviour of this in-law cannot be used to explain away the stand of an entire tribe that will be committing the 'fallacy of hasty generalization'. What the in-law did here is applicable to every other tribe. My Point!

slimyem: These kinda girls are girls usually done from the back...
That way,their face won't scare while humping...
#just saying#

For now let me give you 'the baddest gurl' in NL you are soooooooo sweeeeeeeeeet, I hope u are a 'free spirit'.......'done from the back'

Ah! Aiye ti fe pare (the world is about to come to an end) transvestite into 'Beauty Pageant' what a world! sometimes I wonder how some of them cope with the surgical removal of their joysticks just to be women at all cost. N kan be!

Olodostein: You don't criticize. It is a known fact that you hate the player rather than the game.

Who is the deranged mind? You are fundamentally confused.

Stick to your guns fella , if that holds you in high esteem.

Avoid that psychopath like a plague, you have made ur point already. Watch out for his next post you will see what I am saying. He is trying to sound reasonable forgetting he is a confused soul.....just wait for his next post

icon aus: U gona die one day if u continue to hate igbos because they are on the move and will continue to progress

I endorse that and I extend it to other haters in the house. I have realised that 'a fault-finder will never see his or her many faults'. Indeed, Igbos are flourishing!

Definitely, it's easier being a male than a female.Think about this; 'we both get laid and all what we do is to shoot in some chromosomes, and 3weeks after the journey began and metamorphosed into a balloon like sac. This, they (women) will carry for the next 9 months some more than that, and now the judgment day-day of delivery'! For the mere fact that women have to endure the pain while shooting out the babies say it all. Guys let's learn to love and appreciate our women coz e no easy to BORN!

Nigeria is a State of lawlessness, I have always maintained that the problem of Nigeria started right from d unfortunate amalgamation! The core North have not hidden their JIHAD dreams (Gideon Akaluka comes to mind), places like that should be avoided, afterall N'digbos have better places to stay in their domains than flocking to these God-forsaken places up North! If Nigeria survives the onslaught of the Boko Haram attacks trust me another group will spring up. Nigeria is like Sudan now!

The way forward is to convert the 3Rs bogus promise of the Gowon-led government into a Reparation package or else Biafra may eventually materialise into her dream of a country.The problem with our leaders is that they all waffle too much and edge the issues. The Biafran ghost will continue to haunt the peace of our unity except it is addressed once and for all. Our IGBO brethren deserves our sympathy because what took place then was pure GENOCIDE no matter how we try to circumvent it!

One thing is certain with the level of publicities this case is generating worldwide, should Biafrans drag the Gowon-led FG to The Hague, two things are at stake; its either Biafrans get their rightful country status back or REPARATION! Definitely, the FG will lose this ongoing battle. Gowon will likely be convicted but may be spared. Reason? The Powers that be (UK,Russia &US) were involved! Mark my words!

bigtt76: Na dat sweet wey u get after you remove the 'm' wrapper from the 'tomtom'

Please dont choke me! Babygirl u are damn too funny. You must be a unique artist, you painted the picture well in it right colours, u really made my day

Where is thelastPope (that guy dey make sene wella)? I suspect the politics of I-TOO-KNOW here, typical of Ribadu. He thought being the Chairman he is the alfa and omega of the whole exercise, forgetting that this is not EFCC! I just figured out that the report has been bungled, this early disagreements among the members has just watered down the relevance of whatever is in the report.

quid: Very good. Now, let Gowon go and write his own memoirs. He was commander-in-chief and he has a PhD in Political Science. He should stop ranting.

Write his own book? Wetin Aboki wan write? Forget that his PdD, guilty conscience will never give him the composure to write.He has been regurgitating the same old school fabricated tales about the war nothing new!

[quote author=QueenAw]No big deal.
If you mean this you are a good woman! Trust me it's not an easy thing for a lady to handle emotionally. Heard over d radio few weeks ago about a church program organised 4 pregnant women at Ibadan and the Pastor declared that God told him that most of the women are carrying bastards for their husbands and warned that except they come out for prayers they might die during childbirth behold almost half of d gathering of 3000 rushed out-just imagine that!

Big ups to Messi the new face of 'scientific football and football made easy'. Strangely at the last el classico Messi and Ronaldo both bagged 2goals apiece and the date of the match 7th October(10th Month) 2012 coincided with their jersey's number and now the issue of the age differences with their babies. They must have something common in their 'former lives' very strange indeed!

Realities are being replaced by wishes in many homes, the family unit remains the first centre of change for any children and the authors of that change are the parents or guardians of such born children. The upbringing of a child goes a long way in shaping his destiny, That's why parental care is golden in rearing children.A child that grows up in a hostile env may likely be quarrelsome while d one that grows up in a caring env most times are loving