₦airaland Forum

Etumgbe:
cat is buusu

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.

Omooba77:
MOHAMMED, the third son of former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Mohammed Uwais, who allegedly joined bloody terrorist group, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), has been established to have close relationship with Umaru, the jailed suicide bomber son of the former chairman of FirstBank, Alhaji Abdul Mutallab.

Security information obtained by the Nigerian Tribune on Sunday night revealed that on the Christmas day in 2009 when Umaru made a failed attempt to bomb himself alongside 288 passengers in a Detroit-bound 253 flight, Mohammed was the last person to speak with him before he boarded.

Though the content of the conversation was not revealed, Mohammed’s number was said to have been picked as the last caller on Umaru’s call-log before he switched off his mobile-phone and then the failed attempt by the trained engineer to end his life in a suicide bombing attempt.

Umaru, known as the underwear bomber, was jailed for life on January 2, 2012 and serving his prison term at the United States Penitentiary, Florence ADX, near Florence, Colorado.

It was learnt that on the strength of the conversation between the duo, security agencies in Nigeria had moved to pick Mohammed, but powerful forces allegedly stepped in for him, shielding him from arrest.

However, he was said to have remained on the radar of both local and international security forces, though the surveillance around him was reportedly lowered at a point, considering that he was seen to be doing his legitimate business.

He was into automobile importation before he allegedly moved his two wives and children out of the country and eventually traced to ISIS in Syria.

A family source also revealed that Mohammed might have deliberately left his wives and kids in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, before heading for his alleged adventure in Syria.

The first wife is said to be a national of Malaysia, where Mohammed studied, while the second is a Nigerian.

The second wife reportedly told her family she wanted to quickly visit Dubai, before the entire family left the country.

The family is said to be stranded in Dubai, though not broke, according to a close family source.
http://www.tribune.com.ng/news/news-headlines/item/31460-security-agencies-link-uwais-son-to-mutallab-s-bomber-son

Radoillo:
Me sef, that uze/osa thing is confusing. Don't know which is which. Nchi appears to be grass cutter, and ewi rabbit.

Badgers? Do we have actual badgers in Igboland. I don't know oo.

zendy:
Igbos speak Ikwere language?? What's that nonsense supposed to mean? So the 5 Igbo states came down to your tiny Ikwere kingdom to 'borrow' your language? Look,I don't know if you're just another Ikwere man who chooses to deny being Igbo because of the politics of oil but don't insult Igbos with such insinuation because of your "identity crisis"

Plus234:
Sport the different


Lion--agu
Tiger--odum
Leopard.. agụ owuru/agu ogbu

pazienza:
Nwanne, ajuju gi a, bu nno, question for the gods o! Haha!

Ikwerre is whatever they choose to be.

Plus234:
Sport the different


Lion--agu
Tiger--odum
Leopard.. agụ owuru/agu ogbu

Radoillo:
I do not think the swallow answers to the description of Eneke Nti Oba. The most marked physical feature of Eneke Nti Oba was said to be it's prominent ears. As birds don't generally have external ears, I'm thinking the large ears may be refer to the prominent ear tufts observed in many species of eagle-owl.

I propose that Eneke Nti Oba could be the eagle-owl.

kingstony2k:
Lion = Agu
leopard = awolo.
Tiger = Odum
As my great grandma told me during folk tales

kingstony2k:
wild rat= ewi.

baby lizard. = nwatiti/nwantiti

monitor lizard = Ulor/Uloh

pazienza:
HopeAthand, wune come and give us Ikwerre versions of these names for animals.

LovelyLilac:
ibuzo and ibusa are different.

Rexxie:
If Dog=Nkita and
Hyena= Nkita ofia (which i believe means Bush dog),then whats the Igbo name or word for the real BUSH DOG?

Adegbodolu1:
You cannot associate the above with the calculating Yoruba people.

You can associate it fully with my Eastern brethren. Who prosecutes a civil war on raw emotions and eh.........cutlasses?
The people east of the Niger.

Adegbodolu1:
Who need our advise? The IGBOs.

They are nothing without Yoruba's acceptance and recognition. Always seeking Yoruba's acknowledgement.

We are the pathfinders, Igbo follow but make too much noise.

omonuan:
Eneke is Swallow of the Hirundinidae family of birds and in some countries they are also called martins.

For the Anioma people Lion is Awolo although some would recognize Odum too.

1toRtoiSe1:
then stop whining. You can't expect people to spoonfeed you like newborns. If you want an igbo channel, go get it.

ChristyG:
Ibo animals are always whinning and crying like d losers dey are.it is now Yoruba fault that there is no Ibo channel?oh u don't own nollywood,u are just CO-OWNERS like other tribes.nollywood has gone past those useless chewing gum films that u idiots produce,we now see more quality movies.kunle afolayan movie won most of d awards at d amvca yesterday,the highest grossing Nigerian movie was done by a Yoruba man(ay makun),so how do u own it?
so u guys can continuing hating,ur movies are useless and there is no market for it,stop claiming nollywood,useless tribe.bunch of haters....

1toRtoiSe1:
This is where you people get it wrong. I believe you'll still find a way to blame the yorubas for your dying ibo language, forgetting that you guys. Failed to promote it.

One of your colleagues is already laughing at yoruba movie subtitling. How come those that can speak good english don't have their own dstv station?

If south africa decides not to give ibos a station, why blame the yorubas?

MayorofLagos:
They can't! They don't have the will or vision for creativity. Someone has to lead and show them. If it was a criminal activity they would already have self-perfected it without anyone's direction.

anytaij:
I refuse to insult or curse any buh i knw whht am saying . Why is his name not listed among dem here he clamis he's rm Enugu why was he not mentioned here he knows he's root he shd trace it ooooooo. If u like quote me if. U like insult me since i didnt insult nor curse u it will go back to sender . Amen
Poor up bringing makes peo inuslt peo dey dont even knw .

dennismukoro:
DELTA IS NOT AN IGBO STATE MY FRIEND

anytaij:
Abeg oooo how come JJ Okocha's naame is not here ? Gud for him he keeps sying hes rm Enugu State come to your home Town JJ and stop running up and down you are a Delta born Ogwashi-Ukwu dis is to tell you that Igbo peo no sabi u .

tit:
when is easter?
i will block the road at Ore mysef.
All yeebos have to turn round and vote out that vagabond jagaban and his bastard ambode!

Adegbodolu1:
Lagos is just an administrative outpost in Yoruba land. That is the concept of states. Kaduna and Bayelsa are states in Nigeria but one is Northern the other southern, one is Hausa the other Ijaw.

You see Yanmirin, I am a Yoruba man living in Yoruba land. As long as the Oba of Lagos and all the other counties of lagos, Epe, Ikorodu, Badagry, Ikeja etc have Yoruba Obas who are constitutional members of the Traditional council I am living in my ancestral land. Go and read the history of state creation in Nigeria.

I am a Yoruba man living in Yoruba land, I dont reside in Igboland, Hausa land, Ijaw land or whatever.

Infact isn't it clear we are gullible people lying to ourselves, we dont like each other and Nigeria is a fraud.

So f*ck off.

eyeview:
Can you under an oath swear that you are from lagos state? The sad thing about most non-lagosian yorubas is that while igbos send something home to develop their villages and homelands,the rest of the non-lagosian yorubas completely forget their original home towns and claim lagosians which they aren't. Do you have a bucket traceable to you as your property in your original village? Say the truth?

Isiterere:
wise men from East like?


ALL IZZ WELL

Spray:
how about ojukwu your god? Who was there to challenge him? U be mumu of the highest order

queensmith:
It explains why in the East, they are all drowning in floods everyday. Farms ravaged by spills, kidnapping everyday high level of crime and maternal death.

Probably a ghost that is perpetually blessing you with an advance level of poverty and bigotry.

Tinubu has done more for even you than you will ever imagine.