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absoluteSuccess:
Wuruwuru,

You are so involve in me because there's nothing about you.

Why are you lost in my supposed "mental health" that you don't consider the evidence before you and the need to press charge, judging by the gravity of my claims against your friends?

If you are literate enough to hide under this alibi of yours, you can also extend your concern to the names I've mentioned, so they can be vindicated from the "psychosis of a psychiatric patient".

Bunch of killers in high places.

Chai. Pele. You will be well, you hear?

absoluteSuccess:
He is your associate and the one you are trying to check me out for in your latest scheme to harm me.

You can explain your exact interest in my thread, especially this one.

My explanation is that you people have recently got my MTN number in your usual subtle ways where you disguises as customers.

Next, you want to test my current view on the alarm I've raised with this thread, in order to know if I'm still holding to it or I'm now somehow confused over time while nothing happened.

I'm just letting you know that I know.

You can't trap me, you can't harm me, you can't kidnap me, I've set you up too.

You still haven’t sought for psychological/psychiatric help — after all these years?!!!!

I genuinely thought you had gotten better.

absoluteSuccess:
How's Deyemi Saka?

Who is that?

absoluteSuccess:
This is to mourn Charlie Kirk, a man who believed in himself and his convictions about the good in a really wicked world.

Rest in peace brother.

You can never wish evil away from humanity. But that notwithstanding, keep the essence of your own existence pertinent to you.

May the Lord God repose your soul Charlie, you never claimed to have all the answers, but just around to defend what is understandably good.

I am a little late, but....

AlphaTaikun:
Incidentally I speak Hausa and NO Hausa person calls Yorubas Yoruba. That name Yoruba is a European rendition by explorers, missionaries, etc, of different spellings in their books. The Hausa spelling for Yoruba folks is Yarbawa. The spelling Yoruba was coined by Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther, a renowned linguist and clergy. It was Crowther who standardized that spelling YORUBA derived from OYO OBA. That spelling was used in all his official publication as of 1843. Yoruba is the name for Oyo folks (Oyo Oba) and that name was extended for all subgroups with ancestral links in the Yoruba Country. There is a documentary online that explains in a sequential timeline how Ajayi Crowther coined the name Yoruba in the 1800s. The English people are made up of 3 Germanic tribes called Angles, Saxons, and Jutes. They were fused together and collectively called English (or Anglo-Saxons). The Oyos, the Ondos, Ijesas, Ibolos, Egbas, Ibadans, Ekitis, Ilajes, Ijebus of Lagos and Ogun States, Usens of Edo (Ovia South West LGA of Edo State), Okuns of Kogi, Ekos and Aworis of Lagos and Ogun States, Akokos, Ejigbos, Owus, etc, are all collectively called Yoruba as of today.

I didn't want to respond to parts of your post because what I posted some months ago on this thread which you are quoting here is self-explanatory. Just to be CLEAR, the Yorubas of Kogi and the Igalas are close neighbors and ancestrally related as told by Attah Michael Ameh Oboni. So, it's NOT strange that you have 65% of Yoruba-derived words in Igala while the remaining 35% of Igala words are largely of Idoma origins. The American lecturer Shelby wrote in his book entitled, "Ibo-Igala Borderlands" that as far back as the early 1700s, Yorubas and their Igala hunter friends were already hunting in Nsukka and the Igalas learned divination and the art of charms from the Yoruba and vice versa.

Second, "Ewe Woroko" is the well-known Yoruba name for fluted pumpkin leaves used for centuries to make vegetable soup by the Yorubas, which the Ibos call ugu. The Hausas, Efiks and Ibibios have their own indigenous names for the fluted punpkin leaves as well which I clearly stated on this same thread.

NO Yoruba person will ever claim those Ibo words you wrote up there with the exception of Oloriogun (Ologun) which is called "Odogwu" which practically mean the same thing... Head or leader of warriors). Just so you know, PURE Yoruba words in Igala language such as "Ogun" meaning War in Yoruba is spelled dialectically as Ogwu in Igala, Ogun Deity in Yoruba language is spelled as Ogwu as well, "Egungun" for masquerade in Yoruba is spelled as Egwugwu in Igala, "Ewa" for beans in Yoruba is spelled as Egwa in Igala, "Omi" for water in Yoruba is spelled as Omi in Igala, "Ogede" for plantain in Yoruba is spelled as Ogede as well in Igala, "Ifa" divination in Yoruba is spelled as Ifa in Igala [which the Ibos of Nri and contiguous areas influenced by the Igalas corrupted to "Afa"]. Iba for fever in Yoruba is spelled as Iba in Igala, "Osu" for month in Yoruba is spelled as Ochu in Igala, Ise in Yoruba for work is spelled as Uche in Igala I've seen Ibo folks online from Imo and Abia States who affirm that "Odinani" is the original Ibo traditional religion NOT "Afa" which Anambra communities such as Nri and co like to claim as the indigenous religion. This goes to show that Ifa (corrupted to Afa) is NOT indigenous to Nri but was brought from outside from Yorubaland via Igala due to the Igala connection with Anambra, Enugu and Delta North in the last 500 years. The red chieftaincy cap was FIRST introduced into the Nsukka area over 500 years ago by the Igalas whose conquest of what is now called Northern Iboland included Nsukka.

Some noticeable Yoruba words and Yoruba-derived words in Igala have found their ways into the Ibo lexicon. Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther who is a trained linguist and Anglican clergy man was the FIRST EVER person [using the foundations of his work on the Yoruba language alphabet, Yoruba bible and Yoruba-English Dictionary as of 1843] to write a book in Ibo language entitled "Isuama Ibo: A Primer" in the late 1800s. He wrote the same books for Igala and Nupe languages.

The FACT remains that 65% of Igala words are derived from the Yoruba language due to the fusion of Yoruba bloodlines in Igala ancestry (Igalas have part Yoruba ancestries) as confirmed by the Attah of Igala, Michael Ameh Oboni in a 2017 Sunday Punch newspaper interview. This is why Igala language is classified officially by linguists as a Yoruboid language. There's NO doubt that the influence of the Igalas who are indigenous to parts of Anambra, Enugu, Delta North, and Kogi (including several states in the Middle Belt) led to the inflow of these Yoruba words into modern Ibo lexicon as LOAN words via the Anambra/Igala border lands. Yoruba words such as "Ewure" for goat which is Ewu, "Enu" for mouth which is Onu, "Okuta" for rock or stone which is spelled Okwute in Ibo, "Egungun" for masquerade in Yoruba is spelled as Egwugwu in Igala and Ibo.

The amount of LOAN WORDS derived from Yoruba language in Ibo language lexicon isn't more than 2%, BUT in Igala language 65% of Yoruba language are in Igala with 35% of Idoma words in Igala language as well.

Last but NOT least, I have seen works of linguist of Ibo origin online which CLEARLY affirm that Yoruba words such as Akara, Egusi (corrupted to Egwusi), Agidi, Moyin-Moyin (which has been bastardized to "Mai Mai" by Ibos), Elubo (corrupted to Alibo by Ibos) etymologically are derived from Yoruba language as LOAN words. The Longman Ibo-English dictionary published many decades ago by an Ibo scholar and a European scholar clearly states that "Egwusi" is a LOAN words by the Ibos from the Yorubas (YOR) who spell it as Egusi. Elili is the actual Ibo word for Egusi. I also read that different parts of Ibo have different names for the same thing. The original spelling of "Moyin-Moyin" alternatively shortened to "Moin-Moin" with the letter "Y" removed in recent history is simultaneously called "Olele" which are both Yoruba words emphasizing the "stickiness" of the beans pudding. The Yoruba name for Walnut is both called Asala and Ausa depending on regional variations. Ugbo and Igbo mean the same thing in Yoruba meaning forest or bush, Oma and Omo mean child or indigene in Yoruba language.

This is Konquest's alternate account. The ideas and style are hard to miss.

madridguy:
Provide five Oba of Yoruba in East going around with crowns on their head.

What this one is wearing is face cap.

Fenrir:
Again you are wrong I'm Scandinavian

Norwegian and all Scandinavian countries are in the top 5 for least corrupt, most honest and most equal

Nigeria is one of the most corrupt and lying because of Nigerian men

So why are you not in this corrupt-free, honest and egalitarian society that you are from?

Why did you give up that place for 'one of the most corrupt countries in the world', filled with men (Nigerian men) that you h.ate and cannot stand?

Are you a fugitive or something? Did you commit a crime in Norway and ran to Nigeria to escape justice?

I hope they won’t use too much fantasy to spoil it. The way they did with Lisabi. I come dey wonder whether na Harry Potter-type fantasy stuff I dey watch, rather than events that were supposed to be real and historical.

Make them try make this one as realistic and as true to reliable history as possible.

How they will compress a 16-year-long war into a film of 2 hours (more or less) is probably going to be another challenge.

So na Benin man kill the Sardauna of Sokoto, and Igbo people have been left to be paying the price since 1966??

jegede20:
I think you should click "OK" and switch to self-service. It seems I encountered the same "no slot available" issue, but when I switched to self-service, most dates in September became available.

Ah! Thanks! I did that and the dates appeared. Lol. Nawa oh. TLS could have made these things more explicit na.

Thanks.

jegede20:
I was able to book appointment at same centre on August 28 for September 04 slot and there are plenty slot for September.

Enugu TLS is premium location, all customer using the location pay 450k, if you select any other option, you may not get free slot.

Wow. This is crazy. They’re still telling me no slots available. I’ve been checking every single day. I’m aware it’s premium location. They don’t even give the option of selecting anything other than premium and we’re okay with that.

I’m beginning to think it may be because I’m trying to book for her from outside Nigeria. I’ll send the application link to someone back home to try too, so I could know if the problem is my location.

giselle237:
Did you pay the Enugu TLS fee or you only paid UK visa standard visit visa fee? Thts all you have paid was it only in pounds? This centre is alike with PH centre, sp check the thread for those who used PH as well and see if you could get any pointers to securing a date.

I haven’t paid the Enugu TLS fee. I think you can only pay that when you’ve booked your appointment, which I couldn’t because no slots are available. It’s only the UK visitor visa fee that has been paid.

I’ll check out for the pointers. Thanks.

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Good evening, guys.

Please, I need some help/guidance.

I applied for a UK visitor visa for my mother living in eastern Nigeria. I saw that Enugu now has a TLS contact centre, so I chose Enugu as a centre because I didn’t want the old woman to go through the stress of travelling to Lagos.

Time to book an appointment for her to go and do biometrics, and I find out there no slots in Enugu. I have been checking every day now for one week but till now slots are still not available. Ha! And it’s important that she comes to the UK as soon as possible.

I tried to change her centre to Victoria Island since it appears Enugu no dey get slots only to find out you can’t change centres. The only option that seems available is to go back to Gov.Uk and start a fresh application from scratch and pay another visa fees. We don’t want to go through that.

Please, is there anyone with contacts with TLS that can help us with appointment date in Enugu? We really won’t mind paying a little extra if we have to .

Why is there an apparent lack of general history books about the Hausa in the precolonial era written by Hausa scholars?

After many years of searching, all I could find were works on the Sokoto Caliphate of the 19th century, mostly written by foreign scholars like Johnston and Murray Last. Professor Bala Usman wrote a good book on Katsina history in the precolonial period. But that is the history of just one Hausa city-state.

Why has no scholar deemed it fit to produce a work covering all the Hausa city-states from the earliest known times down to the beginning of colonialism?

I just thought this was a bit odd, given the fact that the Hausa were literate while most of Southern Nigeria was not, and so there must be written records in existence that could serve as sources for scholars to produce a general work of Hausa history.

This is very sad.

If you're not already talking to someone - a therapist, psychologist, or a mental health specialist - then you should ASAP.

Your posts are giving bipolar disorder or/and schizophrenia. I know you don't see it and you may even think this comment is an insult, but this is coming from a place of concern. It is quite easy to see that you are not well. Talk to a specialist today.

omonnakoda:
Even longer than that has been intelligent coherent communication?
What is your point?
That they traded in beads but not the other things that were unearthed?
That there is no residual evidence of bronze mask making as we have in Benin raises questions about where those items came from not just the beads
We cannot assume without proof that the current inhabitant s of Igbo Ukwu are descendants of the first inhabitants of Igbo Ukwu or that those items have anything to do with them.They could well be of Igala origin. There is no evidence of the spread across what we know as Igbo land
That facial scarification is not ubiquitous
They could have been spoils of war just like Benin bronzes in London

In precisely the same general area of Igboland where pythons were held in high religious regard and people scarified their face in a radiating pattern (at least into the early part of the 20th century), archaeological digs uncover bronze works of a religious nature where the python motif was widely used and faces with radiating-pattern scarification, but you do not think it has anything to do with the surviving culture in that area. Lol. Dey play.

omonnakoda:
How do you explain the discovery of beads from North Africa in Nri?

So there is this little thing that has been going on for thousands of years. People call it trade.

macof:
Well I don't know what you are trying to get at by comparing Yoruba to Ibibio
But I will remind you the Yoruba include those in Kwara, Kogi, Delta and Edo states who are often left out

Who are the Yoruba in Delta? Do you mean the Itsekiri? Or do you mean the Olukwumi, who generally use Igbo names now, are culturally Aniocha and are hardly conscious of their Yorubaness? In any case, they occupy a few tiny villages, and I won't be surprised if they don't number up to 100,000 people in total.

KarlWest:
Wait, ESN (Disguising as UGM) Has find their way to Abuja too?

Maybe we should free COWnu so as to speak some sense into the head of his IPOB boys. The rate at which this guys continue to kill the responsible Igbos is alarming.

#Igbo Live Matter!

This is funny to you? One day you will die and people will make jokes about it.

Damasus*

Not Damascus.

What does Ghigho mean? I can infer from my little knoweldge of Eastern Yoruba dialects that Aghofen means palace.

KingOKON:
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Stop making careless statements

Stop arguing facts.

You opened this thread probably because you want input, and I will continue to air my honest-to-God opinions.

For two months - two entire months! - someone has been trying to kill you. In that time, all he seems to have done is to allegedly have people show up on your estate or follow you around. The only physical confrontation that has happened in all this time was one that YOU initiated. (You probably attacked an innocent man, by the way; I just thought I should tell you.)

In the meantime you've inundated us here with long rambling posts that will make interesting reading for students of clinical psychology. The truth is not hard to see here. I myself have had instances where I felt I was being followed around and that people were watching my house. In the end, nothing like that was happening: I. Was. Simply. Paranoid.

And so are you. For whatever reason.

May the help you need come to you.

KingOKON:
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Which Africans Americans are in general better of financially than Africans?
Even the Africans combined in America are better off than them

African Americans are, in general, better off than Africans. Don't waste your time and my time arguing this.

Africans in America are a select group and is not a good representative sample population.

Okay. If none of the people reading this thread will say it, I will. Dude, no one is trying to kill you. No one is after your life. Speak to a therapist. If you won't do it for yourself, at least do it for your wife and children.

flowerpower23:
From a moral standpoint though, are they not owed something?

If I did you dirty 30 years ago and 30 years after our parts cross again, and you're doing way better tham I am, from a moral standpoint do I owe you financial restitution for doing you dirty 30 years ago?

Again, you are doing waaaaay better than I am.