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This thread is so cool

traware:
If marriage is as terrible as you described it in this your post dripping with ignorance,why are women around the world so eager to get married?(I would love to see you blame society as usual for this mindset)

P.S.When i saw this thread,i hissed because i knew its agenda was to socially engineer men to continue slaving for women.
Gentlemen,never believe women are victims of men.Its all a historical fallacy

That is not true at all, she is right, women have been through a lot in this world.
Even till today, look at how women are treated in Northern Nigeria and how they are suffering.

Except you are a misogynist, you can't deny this fact

asitis752:
My younger cousin had first class in ui, went back for his masters and had distinction again but teaching in a private school in Lagos

So what is your point?

FunnyDude:
I checked my result today and I saw a great final Cgpa of 3.41; which to me is still more preferable than having the almighty spill over.
My dilemma is that I felt cheated because I worked so hard in the course of my BSc program. I started with 3.75 & 3.58 in my first year, 3.87 and 3.05 in my second year. In my third year I made 3.0 but I had a carry over of a wizard 3unit load course ; even though I later wrote it and had "B" grade in my final year, I believed that is where my Cgpa slumped. My happiness is that, I attended most social events and gatherings in school, participated & won elections in my department, I also had social life abit but never had a relationship.
Should I attend the convocation?
CC: Lalasticlala , Myndd, Seun pls I need frontpage for this.

Did you finish from University of Lagos?

Vivos:
Quit being racist guys,every tribe in this country is important,we all compliment one another. Igbo known for business and partly farming and education. Yoruba known for education and Hausa for farming and rearing. Neither of these tribes can survive on its own. So Lagos cant survive without Igbo's and other tribes. They need Igbo's mainly am not being racist, it's just the fact.

well said

mrphysics:
Lol, very soon, iwill update the thread, it's going to be the conclusion of my service year in kano State. I have not forgotten the thread

Okay....
Eagerly anticipating

Zabilon007:
Redeployment should be strictly for Health and maybe Marriage purposes only. NYSC is meant to deploy you out of your comfort zone..... Which is, where life is!

Service at the expense of your safety?

I really enjoyed this thread... mrphysics, oya come and give update

Bolustic:
To be frank, NYSC is a waste of time. It's about time we did away with it.

I hardly see core northerners come down south to serve, so what is the unity there?

Northern people serve en masse in the South too o..
It's just thst more people from the South go to uni than north

FriendChoice:
No You did not get his point.

Go back re-read the bolded text of the previous quote.

You claim northerners cannot speak English in comparison with southerners.

You made a grammatical error in writing that and a northerner is correcting you.

Yea, the bolded is not correct grammatically.

WomanOfRace:
Daalu nwoke omma, jide ka iji. Okwu gi bu eziokwu.
Merry Christmas.

Daalu o.
Chukwu gozie gi

QuotaSystem:
If broken English is your metric for stating the bolded, then you may be excused, because many southerners cannot speak English as well so there's really no basis for comparison. Otherwise that statement is completely false and is an indictment on your own capacity.

Regarding the Chinese, say what you know. I've lived among them and know exactly what I'm saying. Mandarin and English does not mix well.

Yea broken English, maybe...
If we all can speak broken English, then infuse our languages into it, that would be very good.
Besides, I stayed with Chinese people too when I was away, and they spoke English and French (because it was a French speaking country) and Mandarin.
Though they pronounce certain words funny they still spoke better than most people here

WomanOfRace:
Go any where in the world and you will never miss an hausa person when you come in contact; their language is their identity. I'm an Igbo but I weep for us because of the rate we aspire to become everybody but nobody. We are losing fast on our identity, who we are , what we represent and what we stand for.

If I'm man, I wouldn't marry a woman that will find it a taboo to teach my mother tongue to my kids anywhere we are, likewise a woman I am.

It is even war now when a friend tried to make me stop speaking Igbo because I have arrived city and should drop anything that associates me to village girl. If I hear! who dash monkey banana? I'm an Igbo first, then the rest follows.

It's unfortunate o, but the language cannot die as long as millions still live in the SE.
any language that survived till today (the internet age) cannot die.
Afterall, many Jewish people cannot speak Hebrew, yet they run this world, and many Chinese and Koreans who grew up in say U.S. UK or France cannot speak Chinese, but they are doing very fine too.

What will be worrisome is if those in the SE don't speak Igbo again, or those in the North don't speak Hausa again, but as long as the language is spoken at the origin, the language is not dying

Or, why don't we make pidgin English self official language too, then let it evolve over the years by infusing Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba words into it like we have now, that will be a better way to unite the country tho (just thinking out loud)

For example, wahala is a Yoruba word but it is used in pidgin with the same meaning..

Akpu is used in pidgin too, and other words like that

FriendChoice:
OK. Let everyone speak his language. Communication is still established between northerners and southerner despite the English barrier.


Sometimes southerners are ill informed by the media. Northerners go 2 schools. They might not efficiently and fluently speak the language but they understand and communicate.

I ask you the same question how many Igbo and Yoruba are ready to learn Hausa language ? Many can already speak it.

Hausa is the second most widely spoken language in west Africa. It should be declare as second official language after English.

I have always wanted to learn Hausa tho, I did it in secondary school and it was fun; D

Funny enough, my Hausa teacher was an Igbo woman how ironic and she spoke well (she grew up there)

Daya biyu... Shidda,, chai I don forget..

then there are other words I remember like Ashirin, Wasa, yaya ne, etc

too bad, I have forgotten most of it

QuotaSystem:
You sound as if everyone south of the Niger is capable of speaking and writing good English. We are all witnesses to the gruesome murder of proper grammar on this forum to start with, so quit fooling yourself with that false and fraudulent claim that most people in the South speak good English.

Are you completely ignorant of the fact that Russians, Chinese and Arabs speak worse English than is spoken over here? I repeat, emphasize and assert that the ability to speak and write in English is not a measure of intelligence or literacy.

@Your first paragraph,;if course many southern people murder English too, but hey when it comes to spoken English, many Northern people can't even speak AT ALL when compared to the south.
and your last statement, I have agreed already, but still, without a basic grasp of English, you are handicapped in this world.
Remove Chinese from that list o, Chinese people, especially those under 18 speak English even better than us, yet they speak Flawless Chinese too.

Can't you guys up north adopt a policy to achieve same?

FriendChoice:
It is not the matter of good or bad. Quotasystem simple means inability of a person to speak English does not guaranteed he is unlearned.

English is not the weighing machine for learning. In developed countries, they use their mother tongue.


It's time 4 Nigeria 2 declare Hausa as official language.




It's good to learn English language, and the other 3 major languages of the federation.

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English is not the weighing machine for learning, I agree, but with many of them up north not knowing how to speak English, sorry to say, they are of no use to the rest of Nigeria because they cannot communicate with the rest of us, and Southern Nigeria does not speak Hausa.

Making Igbo Yoruba and Hausa as official languages is not a bad idea tho, but how many Hausa people are willing to learn the other Nigerian languages?

sparkleboy:
SMH! And someone is calling most of you commenting on this thread tomorrow's leader? With all the TRIBALISM ON THIS THREAD I PITY THE FUTURE OF THUS COUNTRY. SMH

I wonder too o. There people have allowed politicians use their head

See how some people have derailed this thread now. What is wrong with some people?

QuotaSystem:
A person who cannot speak English is unlearned? What school(s) did you attend if any?

Go and also learn to write, speak, and communicate in English correctly before you admonish others to do so.

So you think many people in the north who cannot speak English is a good thing

It's verry verry bad.
How can they be useful to our country if they cannot communicate with us down south or something.

I'm not saying that they should not learn Hausa o, but at least let them learn English and learn it well too.

@FriendChoice and @Fizznation, oya come and tell me your opinion on this.

Indiaindia:
GOOD TALK, IBOS GO AND SIT DOWN

I'm an Igbo guy too o, so kind how you refer to my people....

Some of my Igbo brothers are just very Stupid...

So you think anyone can kill the president of Nigeria just like that? Do you know the security around him?

You guys have not seen anything at all. If he wanted to come he would have come, and if killing 50 people was necessary to keep him safe during his stay there; DSS and the security apparatus around him would have done so and nothing would have happened.


As much as I don't like Buhari as president, he is still my president until he dies, or his term expires, whichever comes first.

RevDesm0ndJuju:
The question you ought to ask is why are there female presidents in the first place? I love women die but a woman although capable of many things is not designed to lead a nation. It is an abomination just like Merkel.

When women master the art of pissing on a wall from 6ft distance then only may I consider lifting the ban on women aspiring to lead a nation.

But women have led countries in Europe in the past (and present) and led well. Merkel, Thatcher, The Danish Prime Minister etc etc

MadeInSpain2015:
Good of you...its well with us.

Tu es toujours au Senegal

Instead of us to join hands to raise each other, look at the garbage people are typing.....
Let us join hands and build out country up to the envy of other countries., not all this rubbish talk, chest beating and empty competition that helps nobody..

Una matter don tire person

Pidgin2:
What do you mean by merely existing?

Many Nigerians indeed living in Nigeria are merely existing

bilulu:
u re talking about western kid n African kids....... were do u get spoilt kids d most? whose society is most rotten?

Africa....
Except you want to deceive yourself.

freeborn76:
The IGR from Ogun state alone is more than ALL the Southeast States put together.

Huh

Where do you get that from

freeborn76:
I prefer a Lebanese who believes Lagos is his home and demonstrates it by respecting culture and constituted authority, than an arrogant loud-mouthed Igbo who desecrate his host's cultures, abuse hospitality and still cries Biafra tomorrow.

You prefer a Lebanese who believe Lagos is his home = And what makes you think millions like me who were born here do not consider Lagos home


And demonstrate it by respecting Culture and constituted authority =So according to you all Igbos here do not respect authority

Then a loud mouthed Igbo who desecrate his "host" culture = What does that even mean? First of all how do my people desecrate the culture? And second, the Lagosians (not ndi osun etc forming lagosian) are not our hosts but countrymen (How can you host me in my country) so that "host" talk there no follow.


Abuse hospitality =What does that even mean? Were Igbo immigrants into Lagos decades ago given free house or free food? or what as i don't get it which one is hospitality again

And still cries Biafra tomorrow=It might interest you to know that there are MANY Igbo people who do not buy into the idea of Biafra (me inclusive) and of course there are others who buy into the idea, so being Igbo does not automatically mean that you believe in Biafra.

djbobby007:
if will be renewed for omo oduduwa they pay little,go ask y igbos are begging ambode to grant dem CofC,like i said u will never understand

Please stop that joke

My cousins got their C/O during his admin, and they did not have to beg anybody.
There are no separate conditions for Yoruba and non Yoruba people, know that.

You people should stop hating on us, I don't hate anyone and I love my country people And you should do the same

Merry Christmas

PeterKbaba:
Yes you're right, but you hear them say they are British of Yoruba origin. You don't hear them saying UK is a no man's land, telling the Queen we have conquered your kingdom. Sometimes I wonder if the Igbo's say all this things on purpose, just to provoke the Yoruba's. I don't understand why they can't be humble. The likes of Dangote, Sanusi, Dantata and all the royals of Nigeria, most of them lives in Lagos, before taking their thrown in their respectful states, you don't hear them causing the Yoruba's. When they visit the Oba, they are always humble, dress in Yoruba outfit with Yoruba cap to show respect for the culture. I remember seeing pictures of Prince Sanusi (now the Emir of Kano), visiting Ife and Ibadan, even though this guy was muslim, he gave Yoruba royals a 75% prostration (which is accepted), thats how its down.

It was Igbo's fighing to become igwe of Lagos, fighting to be Igwe of Onda, fighting that Lagos is no man's land, insulting Yoruba's they are dirty, they are lazy, they are cowards and you igbos are the one in their land, if it's not course (no disrespect), how do you want us to feel, do you hear news of Yoruba's in the North, East, South South fighting, robbing, kidnapping, doing drugs.

Me I don tire, I don't know what else to say.

One thing you should be clear about too is that not all Igbo people reason the same.
Generalizing all Igbos as " " is what causes this mess sometimes

slurryeye:
I agree on that. So far you are born in Lagos, and grew up in Lagos, you are a Lagosian. The issue is some Igbos make annoying comments like Lagos is no man's land or they owe majority of the property in Lagos. Do you know that the popular Oshodi family are from Nupe? And do you know that the popular Eyo festival is from Iperu in Ogun state? Lagos is cosmopolitan and it has been that way for a long time. However, respect indigenous people like the Aworis, Ijebus and Eguns.

I never knew Ijebu people sef dey the circle

I know of Awori and Egun, but not Ijebu..
But if you say so, well, what can i say?