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Okeikpu:
Dike ana aba nti k'anaba ji Ukpaka n'agba na udu mmiri, oji ikpu eme ogo AJO ANU ENYI N'ABARU MBA, O N'AKU IKPU (●__●) keneelu mu ori-aku na ndi be gi ヽ(°◇° )

jcflex:
Governor of Imo state,Rochas Okorocha says that seven governors from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are in private meeting with the leadership of the All Progressive Congress, APC,to garner support for the emergence of General Muhammadu Buhari as the next president of the country.

Okorocha spoke at the APC Rally in Mile 2 area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria on Monday where thousands of party faithful throng to show support for Buhari and Akinwunmi Ambode as Governor of Lagos state.

He said the seven PDP governors were already in Lagos to hold a private meeting with the APC, but he did not disclose the identity of the governors.

“General Muhammadu Buhari’ s (GMB) victory has been sealed and delivered.Today (Monday) about seven governors who are not APC are coming to hold meeting with us privately.

“There is fear in the country. And the fear was that they know that GMB is a good man and he will win. And they know that once INEC announces GMB as the winner of the presidential election, all the bad people who are embezzling the country’s fund will leave the country at night.

“The fear of Buhari is the beginning ofstoppage of corruption.Do you know that before in this country, Nigerians do urinate on the road? But when Buhari assumed power in 1983,it all stopped. And he also stopped corruption, ” he stated.

Okorocha also said the PDP is already a dead party, saying that the party died immediately APC was formed .“We scheduled the burial of the party for February 14th but they postponed the burial to March 28.We are waiting patiently to bury the party forever. But let me tell you that you can change the date of burial but you cannot change the burial.It must take place. May the soul of PDP rest in peace, ” he said.

“The worst thing that can happen to any nation is to have a bad government. And the worst thing that can happen to any family is to have a bad father . Today, it is obvious that PDP is a bad government. And we thank God that we came together to change the bad government. And the change we came together for has started.

Okorocha wooed the Igbo community to vote massively for the candidacy of Ambode as he is the chosen one. “I am in Lagos for one man, and that is for Ambode. He is a good man. And he will not deceive you. He has a caring heart. He loves everyone.All tribes in Lagos will be safe in his hands. And this is one man that can start and continue what Fashola started.

“Lagos today has improved and he is handing over the mantle of leadership to a man that will continue the geometric progression that has been witnessed in Lagos, ” he said.

Speaking at the rally,Governor Babatunde Fashola said he wanted Lagosians to give him a gift by voting massively for Ambode,saying that his administration had greatly improved the facilities in FESTAC and Amuwo Odofin Local Government.

He urged Lagosians not to sell their Permanent Voters Card, PVCs for any reason as that represented their power to remove a bad government.

In his remark, Ambode assured the people of Amuwo Odofin that he would complete the Light Rail project and the expansion of Mile 2-Badagry Expressway which Fashola had started.

Also at the campaign rally was the National leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu who described the government of Jonathan as a corrupt one which must be changed.





www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/03/09/7-pdp-governors-in-private-meeting-with-apc-for-buhari-says-okorocha/

Radoillo:
I made some modifications to my earlier comment while you were replying to it.

According to material I consulted, the black kite (a species widespread in Nigeria and other African countries) besides looking very much like 'egbe' also exhibit typical egbe behavioural traits.

For example the black kites are attracted to smokes and fires, and will often be seen hovering over fires. This is a classic 'egbe' characteristic. Our ancestors even made a how-and-why story explaining why 'egbe' are attracted to fires.

I don't know who are making the dictionaries and who translate for Google and whether they are qualified to do so. But my own observations have led me to think they are probably wrong.

Besides I respect Achebe's opinion in these matters. And he thought kite was egbe.

Okeikpu:
Haaaaaa! Umu nnaa, jiri nu ya nwayoo.... O gini ka okeikpu mekwalu ozo?

Eke40seven:
That's wrong. Foxes are found in Africa and even Nigeria. Some of them are exclusively found only in Africa. These species include, The bat eared fox (east and southern Africa) and Fennec fox (sahara and north Africa) and the pale fox (Sahel and sometimes savanna belt of Africa, where parts of Nigeria fall in)

There are wolfs that are native to Africa too. Like the Ethiopian wolf and Egyptian wolf...It is possible that wolf existed in Nigeria too. There is a popular name in Yoruba, "Ajanlekoko"...meaning "Dog chases the wolf".

LovelyLilac:
Hmmmm! O gi na arunye mu aka n'ikpu? So gi jebe owere nchi.

Masterclass32:
Nwanne, ana m ekene. Aka m di n'elu.

I see the work you do on this forum, especially as it pertains to posts aimed at bringing the Igbos in bad light. Keep up the good work.

Greetings to the real Nwafors.

Igbo bu ofu. Let love reign among us.

CaptainOjemba:
Ise eeeeeh Ma di kwara Igbo bu Igbo.

Eke40seven:
That's wrong. Foxes are found in Africa and even Nigeria. Some of them are exclusively found only in Africa. These species include, The bat eared fox (east and southern Africa) and Fennec fox (sahara and north Africa) and the pale fox (Sahel and sometimes savanna belt of Africa, where parts of Nigeria fall in)

There are wolfs that are native to Africa too. Like the Ethiopian wolf and Egyptian wolf...It is possible that wolf existed in Nigeria too. There is a popular name in Yoruba, "Ajanlekoko"...meaning "Dog chases the wolf".

CaptainOjemba:
I don't watch anything movie be it local or foreign but I was coming backing to lagos from Onicha last december, in the bus I boarded I was opportuned to watch Nkoli Nwa Nsukka and I was impressed, I also see adverts Onye Ozi directed by Obi Emelonye which I believe go make sense wella. Gonna get those Igbo fiims When next I go to alaba intl.



"Don't forget that I slay cone heads"

LovelyLilac:
lol.

Kanyol:
Hyena or fox?

proxillin:
You can say anything to comfort yourself from your erosion degraded village. Fact is fact ...you can't do anything about it.

If you so much hate Yoruba, take a gun and kill the next Yoruba near you or go hug transformer...

Oops NEPA will dissapoint you...

Try swallowing battery...it won't dissapoint u. Trust Mr...

customized13:
English is our lingua Franca and yollywood are very good at it

hotwax:
[size=28pt]Funny enough, I posted in huge letters, even if you are blind, you will see my post clearly.

Oops that what meant to address, visual/optical abnormalities. But, I left out mental abnormalities.

Where did I reference spanish in my post ?

Yes again if it will make you cry the more.

Yoruba is becoming popular in Cuba, Jamaica and Brazil... Fact from UNESCO.[/size]

sanmibukunmi:
I love we yorubas for something, we don take our language for granted.... apart from making yoruba mivies a top priority, we have looked for a way of translating chinese, mexican and even korean movies to yoruba..... tell ,me which tribe has done that and why wouldnt the language be more popular??

hotwax:
[size=18pt]Igbos are even ashamed of their language.

Yoruba language is popular in Togo, Abidjan, Jamaica, Brazil and Cuba.

Name one country out Nigeria where Igbo is popular. NONE.

Racists who blame others for their failure. The yeye langauge is even going extinct.

The crying tribe. Attack me, I will attack you too. [/size]

Plus234:
I still maintain that Agu is a Lion

Ishilove:
In Ukwuani language:

Chicken = Okuku

Duck = Odogume

Hawk= Ukoo

Antelope = Ngbada

Horse = Enyinye

Rat = Mbuka

Crab= Ngiga

Dog = Ekite

Cat = Buusu

Sheep = Aturu

Lion = Eduke

Monkey = Enwe

Snail = Inokpo

Snake = Ifu-ugboko

Grasshopper= Otiokpor

Lizard = Oganezhi

Wall Gecko = Ochu uno

Frog = Ewoh

Tortoise = Akpulosa (pronounced Akpurosa)

Black Ant = Akpisi

Mosquito = Enwu

Worm = Ndidi

Leopard= Agwu

Bat= Iba

House Fly = Egiji

Cricket = Ebuzu

Millipede = Ariri

Rabbit = Erunke

Owl = Ogbome (Aki)

Shrew = Nkapi (Mole-like rat that is known for its pungent smell.)

Radoillo:
Nna, Odum is lion, Agu is leopard. Awulu, I have never heard. Maybe it's a dialectical variation of NyaWNWURUede (fox).

We have already discussed this tiger issue on this thread.

If they want to keep arguing that our people had a word for tiger, then biko hapu ha.

LovelyLilac:
Ekwurum ya! Ekwurum na I mebiela. I macha ihe bu ikpu na ohu na out, wee n'aju m. Smh Nwokem, jide ka iji biko, onweghi nke na agum.

bigfrancis21:
@bold...there's actually nothing like 'more igbo' terms. 'enya', 'enye' and 'anya' are merely dialect variations of the same word just as we have humour/humor, flavour/flavor, doughnut/donut, Anaemia/Anemia in British and American Englishes. 'Igbo' is a generic word used to refer to any bia-speaking group that speaks an Igboid dialect as first language. No clan speaks 'Igbo'. If everybody is to go individually, then you would have people speaking 'Owerri language' and not 'Igbo' (after all it is owerri language they are speaking and it is different from what you call 'Igbo' which is central Igbo made up from several Igbo dialects), 'Awka language', 'Nkanu language', 'Ohaozara language', 'Ngwa language', 'Idemili language', 'Onitsha language' etc. Among people who identify as Igbo, they recognize there are numerous Igbo dialects under the 'Igbo' umbrella, hence when they hear a speaker speak, they identify him/her as from 'Onicha', 'Owerri', 'Nnewi', 'Awka', or 'Etche' part of greater Igboland, same way for Ika or Ukwuani or Ikwerre. There is a difference between 'dialect' and 'language'. Dialects are merely variations of the same language. Meanwhile, two spoken speeches can be called languages (different from each other) when there is, at least, 95% incoherence between both speeches. Thus, French and English are 2 different languages but Nigerian English and Ghanaian English are merely dialects of the same language, English.

In the past, and till today, bia-speaking Igbo clans didn't and still don't have a colonialist mentality to colonize others and impose their language on others. Rather, as a community, family unit or village grew in numbers and expanded, some members left to uninhabited areas to establish themselves, carrying with them the parent dialect, which became modified in certain words with time, to create a different sub-dialect of the original one. Thus, any bia-speaking person today who speaks an Ibo dialect as first language is authentically Igbo. His forefather wasn't forced nor oppressed into speaking the language, but was born by birth into the language, which was in turn passed down generation to generation and to the modern-day speaker.

This is not to start a 'Ukwuani are Igbo vs Ukwuani not Igbo debate', but I thought I'd give you a linguistic view of the issue and why researchers and authors still continue to classify 'Ukwuani' as an Igbo dialect despite some Ukwuani refusing to acknowledge they speak an Igbo dialect and are under the 'Igbo' umbrella, by linguistic terms.

Skako:
That the respected Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade is a fashionista might be stating the obvious. He has a unique way of dressing with flamboyance and panache. As the monarch is getting old, many would have thought his fashion sense might slow down, but this may not be the case after all. Pictures emanating from the meeting of some monarchs with President Goodluck Jonathan recently has revealed the Ooni in another light. Oba Sijuwade was spotted wearing colorful nail polish to conform with his attire’s shade of colors. Your comments are welcome


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LovelyLilac:
Ok boss. When you cook your Otu and Amu soup finish, let me know.

cheruv:
enyi..
this is how it goes for the felines
Lion - Odum
Leopard - Agu owuru
Tiger - Agu akara(marked/striped cat)
Cheetah - Agu oso (fast cat)

this is for standard Igbo though this doesn't render the various dialects useless

LovelyLilac:
Ok thanks. As for ukwuani and kwale, kwale is a town and they speak Ukwuani, but not all ukwuani people are from kwale. Kwale is not a dialect or language. I said Ibusa and Ibuzo aren't the same, based on people from that region that I encountered and their opinion. Thanks anyways