₦airaland Forum

Sunboy400:
Poor people always going thru one ordeal or the other.Anyhow hope they pull thru thou.

Jenifa_:
^ yea it's really sad. There probably isn't too much interaction between the groups that's why. I think there should be more hausas in lagos so that interaction will increase. most nigerians abroad have lived in lagos or a larger city and that's where they get exposed to ppl of different tribes. ie.a yoruba becomes friends with a igbo etc.
but abuja is becoming the "it" city now so things might change in the near future. there will be more exposure and therefore less ignorance.

do you speak pidgin?
excuse my ignorance but I know very little about hausas. Just never interacted with many of them b4. and I think that's the problem. But I definitely will not be rude if I meet one. in fact I will be more excited.

manuch:
i hear the reason he lost his people don tire for his grammer .they no send am go national assembly to dey speak grammer while his people are suffering

dem_people:
Of course I very much knew the reason(s) but decided not to explicitly state it/them in other for my response not to be long. I think generally, Nigerians are always suspicious of other Nigerians who don't originate from the same region as them.

Jenifa_:
tsiya, cool temper. yea nigerians are generally suspicious ppl. Are you muslim? northern culture also seem to be a bit distinct from south. unless you lived in the south. did you meet yoruba or igbo people? I would think yoruba people will be less suspicious.

bush = ignorant. so she's referring to them as ignorant.

Andre Uweh:
The almagamation of Northern and Southern parts of Nigeria in 1914 by Sir Fredrick Lord Lugard brought about the entity called Nigeria. The country was further divided into 3 with the splitting of the South into 2 namely east and west.
There are so many ethnic groups in Nigeria namely:
Igbo.
Hausa-Fulani.
Itsekiri.
Kanuri.
Nupe.
Ibibio.
Egun.
ETC.

Akhenaten:
Because the main reason why this nation is together is due to oil.

Onlytruth:
Posted by: Tsiya
Exactly my point. But don't forget that the East is HOMOGENEOUS "religionwise". If you want to fight any of the eastern tribes to eternity, try setting aside their "gods", then you would see. Also remember that the Jihadists were not as strong as the British. The british even kept fighting the eastern groups well into the 20th century.
So, yes a gradual assimilation with northern groups would have been possible. But you and I know that northerners were jihadists (rapid changers). They would have met stiff resistance because of that.

Onlytruth:
Posted by: Dede1
Those are still Oyibo man's classifications.

Methinks that what would have happened if they did not interfere is a situation whereby we would be like the Yoruba, spanning many dialects of Igboid/Ijoid/ and any other Eastern "iods" groups, but with very weak "center".

You would have things like "ikwerres" "ngwas", "elemes","eches", okrikas", etc, all mutually intelligible to some extent, but no ONE tribe. We could have been less suspicious of one another because for an Nnewi man to trade with the whiteman, he would need the services of say an opobo man, instead of it being an Igboman needing the services of say an ogoni man or Ijo man, etc.
The wars we had before were between say Aros and ngwas, or aros and ibibios; not Igbos and ibibios.

The east was fine until oil showed up. 

dem_people:
There's some truth here. . . northerners tend to keep away from southerners and vice versa at least here in London, for whatever reasons I don't know or for some obvious reasons. There's this edgy suspicion that's felt between the two groups. Even when I was in Uni here, it was mostly southerners to themselves and northerners to themselves. There was almost non-intermingling between the two groups.

Oladiran:
@tsiya, i think the prblm s that u are seeing the reflection of your own personality in others. Pls do not withdrawn nto your shell bcus of this! If anybody rebuf u, laugh t off and try another, soon u wil discover a very frindly southern nigerian. Try both sexes though, hahaha,

tpia*:
haha funny, no offence.

bush people.


@ topic

depends on the context in which we're meeting.

Jenifa_:
hhaaaaa can i meet you please
I've never met a northerner randomly!! I only know one who i'm good friends with because we school together but I don't know any other!!

houvest:
Vintage IBB. positioning himself again to be relevant. If I can not be king, why not kingmaker or kingmaking facilitator or broker. GEJ will need him but must be careful at the kind of concessions he makes. He should not sell his soul to the devil for power. The truth is that his main crowner  to all intents and purposes is God.

frosbel:
Just out of Curiosity, what do you think is the average age of all Nairalanders  ?


This information might help start specific sections such as kindergarten only, teenagers only , etc etc etc.

Then we might have serious minded adults debating on serious minded issues, while the children ( mind you , a man of 40 can still be a child mentally ) argue on other topics of less importance.

redsun:
I agree with you for once.Africans are polygamous in nature,have alway been and will always be.People should marry as much wives as they want as long as they are accountable to their families,the state and the society in general.

Not like a case of atiku looting our coffers to maintain his harem or the paedophile senator marrying a child

delimit:
Hello NL
let's look at what make Nigeria and Sudan the same

Nigeria is control mainly by the Northerner
Sudan is control mainly by the Northerner

Nigeria major source of revenue is OIL
Sudan major source of revenue is OIL

Nigeria oil is in the southern Nigeria
Sudan oil is in the southern Sudan

Nigeria oil is piped to the north for refining
Sudan oil is piped to the north for refining

Nigeria is divided into two major religious groups
Sudan is divided into two major religious groups

Northern Nigeria are dominated by Muslims
Northern Sudan are dominated by Muslims

southern Nigeria are dominated by christian
southern Sudan are dominated by christian

if southern Sudan is about to break away from Sudan through referendum what is southern Nigeria,
please post your comment

Tunisia's President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali has stepped down after 23 years in power, amid widespread protests on the streets of the capital Tunis.

In a televised address, Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi said he would be taking over from the president.

A state of emergency was declared earlier, as weeks of protests over economic issues snowballed into rallies against Mr Ben Ali's rule.

Unconfirmed reports say Mr Ben Ali and his family have left Tunisia.

The reports suggest that the deposed president is looking for a place of asylum, with French media saying that French President Nicolas Sarkozy has turned down a request for his plane to land in France.

Earlier, police fired tear gas as thousands of protesters gathered outside the interior ministry.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12195025

Jenifa_:
cool pic. but are these yoruba ppl performing? yoruba buba, sokoto and even cap. lol
www.nairaland.com/attachments/374025_Hausa_1_jpg6303d8707013a2e0ab09db183967db1c