₦airaland Forum

musicwriter:
Speaking your native language is one thing. Using your native as a language of knowledge acquisition is another. Sri Lankans may speak their native language, but if you go there you'll find out knowledge acquisition happens in the language of their colonizers. Sri Lanka actually suffered severly from Portuguese colonization, Dutch colonization, and then British colonization.

No colonized country was allowed to use it's native language for knowledge acquisition. Native languages were deliberately destroyed by the colonists in order to deny the colonies their identity, pride, culture, and sense of nationality.

No nation has ever become great speaking the language of foreigners. It was actually stated in the bible at Genesis 11:6. The basic tool for development is speaking one native language. If you destroy the power of natural syntax and word formulation, you'll eventually destroy the culture that own such language in the long run. Someone posted it earlier that Noam Chomsky (the most intelligent person alive) and his team also proved this in an independent research.

Please read the link on my signature, part1 and part2.

musicwriter:
Then, I'll advise you not to quote me again in future, if you can't engage in intellectual debates. Discusions like this require one to type long epistles.

I read all of yours and remain ready to read them, if you think you can sustain your argument.

Goke7:
why not, they make huge gains from forex to our detriment

blues20:
I quoted a guy to drive home my point and you're name calling me

blues20:
@op this what a supposed Nigerian posted on this thread. Go through it and see for yourself. I copied it verbatim.....

https://www.nairaland.com/3434857/federal-government-leaves-out-south/8#50615838

bankyman:
I think the SE not being captured in this spending speaks a lot about the country and the government (Good or Bad). Because there is a region called the SE means that when we spend on infrastructure they must be captured? But yes they should....

Looking at the spending, there is nothing in which the SE is asking for that is new? They are all projects initiated before this government, abandoned and now its being looked into to be revitalized and completed. If there is no project to be completed in the SE, it means their leaders have been playing with their future and they were dancing to the rhythm played by the bad leaders blindly or this government is reaaly bad and trying to sideline them.

So whats the noise for? Is it that none of the project wont benefit them? They claim to be the commercial capital (Topic for another day), so if they really are what they say they are, they should be the ones jumping for joy as it means quick and super access to raw materials across the federation.

Now few questions for Ndi Igbo

1. Why the support for GEJ who left you in this impoverished state?
2. Why support for anything anti PMB govt. yet cry for attention for him?
3. Why can't there be a regional organisation from all the SE states with the aim of putting infrastructures across the region?
4. Why situate most of your organisations in Lagos when you could have developed the SE and get the FG looking at the region?


My piece of advice is that Ndi Igbo should look inwards to come out stronger, you claim to be the best and have nothing to show for it. Take a cue from Lagos, if you develop yourself others will come looking for you (you didn't develop Lagos, all you guys did well was to swell the population with people who prefer substandard in bulk than little in quality, I'd really wish you guys got Biafra and leave). One of the reasons this borrowing is devoid of the SE is because there is nothing there to boost the economy really (not completely absent though), Population you don't have, resources is scarce, infrastructure too is devoid, you are intolerable to visitors, and the best brains are either in Lagos doing good or bad and the rest committing one form of illegality or the other thinking they are growing the economy.

Really I ask and I beg for answers What Is There to Invest In In the SE?

N.B

Lagos = ports, diversity, good governance, self dependency, "Oil"
North central, North West, North East = Population & Large expanse of Land
SS = Oil
SE =

Now you can see the average mindset of the typical Nigerian toward South East (Igbo). Do you expect us to keep quiet? I have a lot to say, but I'll not.... We are taking note of everything.... I'm still very young, and there are millions of my kind that are watching and taking note.....

BankeSmalls:
There is no reason for this defence of rubbish. The ppl of the south east are sure this will happen. Only a matter of time.

If this had happened in my south west region, the whole region will be crying by now.

shamecurls:
The World's problem is the Middle-East
Africa's problems in East Africa
Nigeria's problem is the _____

R.I.P to the dead

DerKaiser:
Not necessarily.

During my secondary school days, I moved from C.I.C. Enugu to Lagos, in order to continue my secondary education there.

It was a private school where they had all those Lagos rich kids from Ikoyi and so on.

You know the type who travel to the States and the UK every long vacation and often return with their forced phonetics and American/British accent.

My English was very "Enuguish and Igbotic" then but I consistently had all As and Bs while there and climaxed it with WAEC and NECO results that were still all As.

It turned out that most of those Queens English speaking kids in my school then were all compound Olodos.

They often fail like they are getting paid for it.

There you have it. Diction and English proficiency does not determine academic success or excellence.

EdoBoy90:
First, English is not the most spoken language in the world. In fact, English is third in term of hierarchy of languages in the world. Chinese is the most spoken language in the world follow by Spanish then English. About 1.2 bn people are speaking Chinese. Today, China has taken over world economy two weeks ago according to IMF rating. Before you know it, they will be number one world power country in the world.

For instance, take Germany, China, Japan, India, Russia etc they don't speak English yet they are well developed. India was colonized by Britain, today the Indians are speaking their official language not English. Let us have our own official language not this imported and adopted language called Enligh. Most countries colonized by Britain are not speaking English as their official language again. They have abolished English and speaking their main official language.

Noneroone:
Japanese dont speak English yet Japan is considered the most technological advanced nation. Chinese, Germans and Jews are developing because they embrassed their languages. It has been proven that using one's own language makes learning easier.

lyterydim:
you need a mental reconfiguration brother,
It's without intellectual ability their is no academic excellence,
SO we are talking the same thing,

Moreover how can you claim you are successful in academic without knowing your root( mothers tongue)?

It's is knowing your language and knowing it well that enhance your knowledge to define things and undastand things in your own terms.

Richy4:
The time you used in typing this bro... you would have used it to make a research for your self.. I am not gonna chat with you anymore because I guess u don't like to take correction...I just want to let you know that no one knows it all..... everyone is still learning till one dies...Five months ago i got to know that a female could be called an actor.... I did not argue the way you were doing now, I just went straight and checked it out on the search engine.....It could look minor to everyone but I was used to differentiating the genders....besides First language is self explanatory enough if you care to check....Have a good day man...

charix:
I don't get it, who owns Made Men Music group? It's funny to get signed under a guy's label who's originally signed under another label. Is Made Men Music group now a subsidiary of Mavins?

Richy4:
Maybe the first thing you should do is check or Google the meaning of first language... then we will start from there instead of both of us wasting spaces for others that wants to comment..

Richy4:
Maybe the first thing you should do is check or Google the meaning of first language... then we will start from there instead of both of us wasting spaces for others that wants to comment..

SillyeRabbit:
Nigerians and their poor judgement. It is two masters collaborating to make good music. African mentality is when you see it as "owner vs ownee" like one ignorant child mentioned.

Richy4:
OP, English is not your first language....but an Official language. You are not a native speaker....

For example, if you were looking for a job @ UN,
and there was a space where you were asked if English was your native language, are you gonna say yes that it was your mother tongue?...meanwhile u have already filled in the form that you were from Nigeria an African nation.....Is that not lies that got consequences....Just trying to correct an impression that English was a first language in Nigeria....

onomeasike:
Buhari is a prince and from a privileged background but lives a modest lifestyle yet Goodluck Jonathan who claimed to be a son of a poor fisherman lives in obscene opulence and wasteful spending of the public funds on her daughters marriage. That's the morale of the story of comparing both presidents.

Buhari's daughter wedding with no iPhone

pring:
Ur even d kid here.
Obama is the worst president ever in US history.
If he was good, Trump would have being a push over.

maternal:
Number 8 is very true. I'm in canada and their was a soccer tournament along with an independent day celebration at the embassy. Some fans and drummers came. When it was time to go nobody showed up at the airport. I've heard some claimed asalyum and got it. Ironically their "shameful" practice has them living better than most Nigerians. What should be discussed is why people have to take such desperate measures.

uncleade:
ILLITRATE, AND DOUBLE OLODO. Are GAMBIA, CAPE VERDE, MOROCCO cities could u please go back to school ?

Unimaginable123:
I live in Abuja. And I know Lagos like the back of my hands.
Population doesn't make a place a city. Lagos is just a hell. The worst place to live on earth.
See Lagos island, see VI, Ikoyi, Lekki and d rest. Just rubbish. Go to cotonou or Accra or Dakar or Cape Verde and see. Not to talk of Asia or Europe or Northern America

habebe1:
I don't know if anyone else has noticed that our " finest" residential ( maitama, asokoro, lekki, banana) and top business areas don't come close in terms of structure, scenery and aesthetics when compared to Europe and even some other emerging Asian and African countries.
I don't know who to blame, architects, town planning or government in General? Or maybe it's just a reflection of us as a people. No finesse or attention to detail in this our country

3Div:
Hello Guys,

Great work Harzontorh, Ugosample and all,

I have a conference to attend in Liberia in December, now Organizers have pegged transport for 160k (airfare), when I asked about Road, I was given a bill of 74k which I think is total bollocks. They wrote Lagos - Ghana 16k, Ghana to Ivory Coast 18k, Ivory coast to Lib 36k.

Haba now!.

Anyway, my search for a viable means led me here, now i'm really interested in seeing Ivory coast as well.

I see ngcars paid 23k to Abidjan, does anyone have any information on how much it'll cost to get to Monrovia, Liberia as well ?.

What time does the bus get to Abidjan.. (I'm hoping to get to Monrovia next day at most).

Thanks.

NB: I intend to spend a while in Abidjan on my return... These pictures have made me ditch my plan of returning by air already. I must explore the West African coast.

Pinkiwinki:
very true and the op is 100% correct...
A friend of mine was on his way to school In that sapele to oghara bridge in delta state. the car suddenly stopped and refuse to move, the driver will successfully make it work only for the car to stop again..
lo and behold a young lady from the car told them that unless she leave the car it will not work and that her home is in the river below them which is river Benue...
immediately she left the car and started walking away from them, the car suddenly started and they quietly left the Lady on the bridge...
They turn back and behold she has disappeared...

passyhansome:
A MAN WITH ONE EYES IN A BLIND TOWN HIS KING, What did you expect, congrat sha

joncan12:
ugosample wat are u into there in Abijan..please can we talk cos I wish to migrate

Clinton9000:
The same forces trying to bring Innoson down. Same that almost destroyed Ibeto. As I speak now, the forces have moles monitoring every Igbo/SE and SS activities. Yorubas actually have no clue of of whats going on this country. Yorubas actually think things are normal!

cutieme:
@ugosample if I marry an ivorian or if an Ivorian gives me a child will that guarantee my citizenship over there?I think I love their ladies

riddler4real:
Don't be blinded with hate...... The seeds of disunity was planted by the colonial masters to curb us..... A time bomb that will explode... leaving us consumed with hate, backwardness and a third world nation syndrome....

Fate has brought us together and interwind our destinies as a Nation. And the moment we realize we need to heal from our tribal wounds the better for us.

What makes USA the greatest Nation on the face of the earth? It's the people... There's no country as diverse in ethnicity than the USA.... but they realize that being United Strengthens them.

Dont be like our fore fathers and fathers that were clouded with hate and tribal bigotry. It will only take us round in circles....

Look at Lagos... The most Liberal state in Nigeria. Every tribe contributes it's growth and development.....

Please I beg you... dont make the mistakes our fathers made.... Stop this your tribal hate and learn to heal.... There's so much we can gain united than being disunited.

Clinton9000:
I'm trying to have a conversation with you since you appear sensible in acknowledging that this injustice exist, which I applaud and respect you for. What I'm saying is what you are not understanding is that GEJ, Okonja Iweala cannot help change this injustice because the forces responsible for the systematic marginalization of SE and SS are far more powerful than them. Makes sense now?