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 Politics › Re: Nigerian-Born Rwandan Varsity DVC Named Among World’s Top 2% Scientists by XAUBulls: 6:13am On Oct 04, 2025 |
zoomzoom:CGPT clarified it all in the screenshot you wisely attached to your post. As can be seen clearly, she's originally from Enugu State (but married into one of the Adeola families), NOT Delta State like the poster you quoted incorrectly indicated. Simple online FACT-CHECKS by everyone is ALWAYS necessary before rushing off to post anything online and offline. Kudos to her and the other male academic mentioned in the article. |
| Politics › Re: Nigerian-Born Rwandan Varsity DVC Named Among World’s Top 2% Scientists by XAUBulls: 6:10am On Oct 04, 2025 |
PulaPower: |
| Politics › Re: Nigerian-Born Rwandan Varsity DVC Named Among World’s Top 2% Scientists by XAUBulls: 6:10am On Oct 04, 2025 |
| Politics › Re: Nigerian-Born Rwandan Varsity DVC Named Among World’s Top 2% Scientists by XAUBulls: 6:00am On Oct 04, 2025 |
SmartyPants: |
| Investment › Re: Nigerian Stock Exchange Market Pick Alerts by XAUBulls: 5:50am On Oct 04, 2025 |
[quote author=SonofEl.ElyonRet post=135842129]I am aware that gold etf is available on our stock exchange, but what about crude oil and silver etf on the Nigerian Stock Exchange?[/quote] |
| Investment › Re: Nigerian Stock Exchange Market Pick Alerts by XAUBulls: 5:46am On Oct 04, 2025*. Modified: 7:01am On Oct 04, 2025 |
fashionnisir:True. https://www.nairaland.com/1131485/nigerian-stock-exchange-market-pick/9136#135840371 |
| Politics › Re: Nigerian States With The Least And The Most Languages by XAUBulls: 10:38am On Oct 03, 2025 |
ademijuwonlo:Let me add some real meat to your convo ABOVE. Ondo State is largely Yoruba-speaking with different Yoruba DIALECTS of the Yoruba ethnic group. However, there is a minority Arogbo-Ijaw migrant group in the Ese-Odo LGA and the Yoruba-speaking "Apoi" people where Omoyele Sowere comes from. Omoyele who bears Yoruba names identified himself as being an an Ijaw (in a short YouTube video I saw in late 2024) and that people mistake him for a Yoruba. But his small community speaks Yoruba, bears Yoruba names and is Yorubanized. The Ilaje-Yorubas of Ondo State where the current Governor of Ondo State hails from are part of the larger Yoruba ethnic group are ALSO indigenous to that Ese-Odo LGA but totally own the entire oil and gas-rich Ilaje LGA which shares direct boundaries with the Atlantic Ocean. 2 Likes 2 Shares |
| Politics › Re: Nigerian States With The Least And The Most Languages by XAUBulls: 10:17am On Oct 03, 2025 |
Ttalk:Ttalk, YOU have to correct your error here so you don't mislead others. The Aworis and Ijebus of Lagos State are SUB-ETHNIC groups of the larger Yoruba ethnic group. Therefore, spoken Awori and Ijebu are DIALECTS of the larger or parent Yoruba language. The Ogus too are related to the Yorubas as well from the days of the Oyo Empire and are ancestrally a mix of Yoruba and Fon people. The Fon people of Benin Republic too evolved as a mix of Yoruba and Aja people of Benin and Togo centuries back. 1 Like 1 Share |
| Politics › Re: Nigerian States With The Least And The Most Languages by XAUBulls: 10:02am On Oct 03, 2025 |
Mynd44:@Mynd44, NO. You definitely made a "typographic error" in your last post sentence. The Ijebus, Egbas, and Aworis are SUB-ETHNIC groups of the larger Yoruba ethnic group. They are NOT ethnic groups BUT SUB-ETHNIC groups. The word tribe is now viewed as dated and derogatory when referring to a group of people and this is why many Native Americans do NOT like being called tribes. They prefer the term "Native Americans." Africans MUST stop referring to themselves as tribes which connotes primitivity BUT refer to themselves as ETHNIC groups or SUB-ETHNIC groups. 1 Like 1 Share |
| Politics › Re: Nigerian States With The Least And The Most Languages by XAUBulls: 9:48am On Oct 03, 2025 |
DrMB:There's NOTHING like "Ahan" language in Ekiti State. They speak the Ekiti dialect of the larger Yoruba language. There's a difference between language and dialect. Unfortunately, a lot of posters right from Page 1 are clueless about this distinction despite the widespread availability of advanced online search tools. Second, Enugu State has an over 500-year history of Igala language and culture presence in the North of Enugu State just like in Anambra State (sharing boundaries with the larger Igalas in Kogi State). There are many Igala-associated communities in Delta North of Delta State such as Asaba, Okpanam, Illah, Ebu, Anambra, and Enugu States, etc, (Igala language is classified by linguists as a "Yoruboid language" just like Itsekiri because about 65% of the words are derived from Yoruba and is mutually intelligible with the core Yoruba language with the remaining words being largely derived from Idoma language). Igala is made up of a fusion of ancestral bloodlines of migrants from Wukari who meet a significant number of Yorubas and Edos around the confluence of the river Niger centuries back and fused with them based on a 2017 interview the last Attah of Igala, Michael Ameh Oboni granted to a major media outlet which can still be read online. I was NOT surprised to read years ago in a book ["Ibo-Igala Borderlands"], published by Boston a White American scholar of the University of Nigeria in Nsukka in the 1960s to the 1970s who indicated that: "the Igalas and their Yoruba friends were in Nsukka hunting together as far back as the 1700s." Therefore, it's NOT surprising based on the ancestral relationship that many words from the Yoruba language and other groups such as Idoma [Egungun for masquerade in Yoruba is spelled Egwugwu in Igala, Omi in Yoruba and Igala for water, Ogede in Yoruba and Igala for plantain or banana, Ewa for beans in Yoruba spelled as Egwa in Igala, Iba for fever, Ewure in Yoruba for goat, Ifa for Ifa divination, Oma for child, "Ise" for work in Yoruba is spelled as "Uche" in Igala, Osu for month is spelled Ochu in Igala, etc] are largely found in Igala language. INFACT some of the few Yoruba loan words borrowed into central Ibo lexicon today definitely came in through the Igala language and cultural presence in the contiguous Anambra, Enugu, and Delta North areas including through other means. I watched a fascinating documentary online about Onitsha and Asaba history and it's a FACT that the Asaba and Onitsha folks who have Igala bloodlines and quarters as told by the chiefs interviewed in both communities [through Nnebisi in Asaba whose biological father was Igala and young mother from Nteje in Anambra State] call masquerade "Egwugwu" which is derived from the Yoruba word for masquerade meaning "Egungun."It MUST be stated that it was the Igalas who used their boats to transport the Chima descendants from the banks of river Niger in what is now the Delta State area to Onitsha just 400 years ago. BUT from advanced history, the Igalas where the FIRST EVER to settle in Onitsha and the area is now of mixed Igala, Ibo, etc, ancestries with 8 quarters. Aside from those linguistic errors from Ekiti State and Enugu State, Statisense, the rest of the data is near-accurate. 1 Like 1 Share |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: New York Building Partially Collapses Due To Explosion by XAUBulls: 1:27am On Oct 03, 2025 |
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| Science/Technology › Re: Monitor Lizard: See What I Killed. by XAUBulls: 1:22am On Oct 03, 2025 |
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: List Of Countries That Got Their Independence After Nigeria (1960) by XAUBulls: 1:18am On Oct 03, 2025 |
Cutezt:That's an impressive list right there. |
| Politics › Re: Dangote Refinery Dispute: PENGASSAN Suspends Strike After FG Intervention by XAUBulls: 1:10am On Oct 03, 2025 |
| Family › Re: Cleric Warns Against DNA Tests For Paternity, Calls It Forbidden In Islam by XAUBulls: 1:08am On Oct 03, 2025 |
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| Travel › Re: Work In Progress: Cross River Section Of Lagos-calabar Coastal Highway by XAUBulls: 12:58am On Oct 03, 2025 |
Jerry2rule: |
| Travel › Re: Work In Progress: Cross River Section Of Lagos-calabar Coastal Highway by XAUBulls: 12:40am On Oct 03, 2025 |
blamingthedevil:This is highly impressive. From the video, the Bakassi Deep Sea Port road alignment is also connecting to the Lagos-Calabar Coastal highway and that is gonna open up Cross River State for a rock-solid agribusiness and export-driven ecosystem. |
| Politics › Re: If Planes Collided In Nigeria, They Would Say Nigeria Is Finished - Shehu Sani by XAUBulls: 12:39am On Oct 03, 2025 |
| Politics › Re: Sanwoolu, It Is High Time You Stop Peter Obi by XAUBulls: 12:20am On Oct 03, 2025 |
Ttalk: |
| Business › Re: Lucrative Businesses That People Don't Know by XAUBulls: 12:06am On Oct 03, 2025 |
Psiyohos: 1 Like |
| Business › Re: Lucrative Businesses That People Don't Know by XAUBulls: 12:00am On Oct 03, 2025 |
Psiyohos:Impressive. |
| Politics › Re: Nigerian States With The Most Languages — 2024 by XAUBulls: 11:48pm On Oct 02, 2025 |
ThroneNGamez: |
| Family › Re: Living In Lekki And The Fallacy Of Premium by XAUBulls: 11:31pm On Oct 02, 2025 |
[quote author=ThroneN.Gamez post=135547244]Living in Lekki and the fallacy of premium Lekki gets a lot of rap from mainlanders. Poor people like it when rich people cry. It is sour grapes. They blend it with ice and simple syrup to make a cold glass of schadenfreude. Delighting in your enemy’s travails is sweet. I moved to Lekki in late 2023 and wrote a viral blog post about the transition. The reception to the post took me by surprise. All I did was contrast my life on the mainland with my new life on the island. People laughed their socks off. Shame on you lot for treating my pain with levity! To date, the post has been the most viewed on the blog. The comments on the post revealed the disdain for the island among mainland folks. But we can all agree that Lekki people are the architects of their mockery. They think their fart smells like Chanel No 5 and there are more BBLs on this island to shame Brazilians. A few folks felt my commentary at the time was premature, given that I had only lived in Lekki for three months. They asked me to wait at least a year to do a fair evaluation. It was a fair ask. A lot can happen in a year. So, I promised to write a sequel after one year. I have now lived in Lekki for 17 months. Which is better, the mainland or the island? It is a difficult question to answer. There can be no objective answer; only individual biases. Let me share mine. Lekki is very underrated. For example, no house on the mainland has coffee flowing straight from the tap. In Lekki, when you open any tap in your house, brown brew flows. You only need to add cream or sugar. On the mainland, taps only yield potable water. We have Burna Boy, you have Portable. And nowhere else in Nigeria can you get up close to big celebrities as in Lekki. I’ll give you an instance. The first and only time I saw Beyoncé in person was in 2010 at Times Square. The missus and I had stopped to watch some buskers doing a Michael Jackson routine. A small crowd had gathered. This is Times Square, home of cheesy attractions. Then, out of nowhere, Queen Bey showed up, flanked by three bodyguards. She stopped to watch the buskers too. I was no more than six metres from her. It was surreal. I brought out my point-and-shoot and started filming her. Phone cameras were rudimentary in those days. I had the iPhone 3GS, a 3-megapixel phone. No selfie camera. Only 8GB of storage. Now, phones have 50-megapixel cameras and shoot video in 4K @120fps. The 12-megapixel point-and-shoot was therefore a no-brainer. One of the hawk-eyed bodyguards spotted me filming and signalled to one of his mates. The second bodyguard looked in my direction, saw me filming Beyonce, and headed for me. He was thickset and bald. I could see his strapping biceps through his overcoat. Myself, I was no slouch either. I could take the guy with a jab-cross-hook-low kick combination. But I was with the wife. I didn’t want drama. The last time I was in a fight, body parts were lost. I lost two teeth and an ear. I stopped filming. Anyway, the point of the story is that I had to travel 8,600 kilometres to New York to see a proper celebrity. Here in Lekki, we are celebrity-jaded. They are a dime a dozen. We walk past Jay Jay without saying hi. The first time I saw Jason Momoa was at Ikate, on Kusenla Road. It had rained. A pod of killer whales was after a seal. The orcas cornered the seal on an iceberg at the end of the street. As they gave thanks and brought out their napkins, guess who showed up to rescue the poor seal? Jason Momoa! Aquaman, with his Trident of Neptune! Yeah, that’s how we roll in Lekki – Atlantis. Some developers may tell you that the real price of an item is how much a buyer is willing to pay for it, especially in a society like ours where loot abounds. So developers look to capitalise. Na who EFCC catch be thief. But what also ticks me off is how houses that don’t pass muster are labelled as ‘luxury. Let me tell you what luxury is and what it is not. I like how Coco Chanel defined luxury. “Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends.” Luxury is excellence. It is craftsmanship. It is exclusivity and exceptional taste. Luxury is a Birkin. It is a Rolls-Royce or the Ritz-Carlton. sad It is not a house with lights from Alaba or SweetHome washbasins, a ‘fully fitted kitchen’ or an ‘ultra-modern’ house amid shanties. Luxury is an exquisite three-bedroom villa on 70 acres of green. It is why people get on a six-year waitlist to own a Rolex Daytona. Please put some respect on the word! Diasporan Influence The target group for these overpriced properties also appears to be Nigerians in the diaspora. I am beginning to dislike that lot. They abet inflation in Nigeria. Everything is now ‘abroad price.’ Because of them, we can no longer eat snails. Not long ago, 20 jumbo snails cost around N45K. But these economic migrants show up with pounds or dollars and the price jumps to N110K! They don’t haggle over price. 50 snails for $150 looks like a steal to them. You people should keep your blood money to yourselves and let us be poor in peace! The other day, the missus and I went to Oyingbo Market and priced locust beans. It was more expensive than expected. One seller explained that she had cleaned and prepared hers for travel. “Shebi una wan take am go abroad?” she enquired. I almost lied that I live in Makoko. Even a tailor who sews agbada for N55K now wants N100K. All because some Yoruba demon from Dallas wants to drip. If you wan drip, go General Hospital na! My adorable sister-in-law, too, is not guiltless. She wants my wife to bring her two whole goats when she comes for Christmas. Odindi ewure meji. Una wan host Sango ni? Anyway, Lekki is its own vibe. The place grows on you. I enjoy the bars and restaurants. The nightlife enchants. After a while, the prices no longer seem high. Not if you always drive to The Lagos Country Club to eat N1,500-ofada. God bless The Lagos Country Club! Afam’s isi-ewu is still N4,000! The cheapest I’ve seen in Lekki is N16,000. And Lekki is fun. There is no shortage of surprises. Yakoyo and Wagyu burger, masquerades and Cybertrucks, churches and Brazilian Butt-Lifts. And oh, there are now tokunbo Cybertrucks in town. That’s how we roll in Lekki. Two Cybertrucks for sale at a car lot in Lekki, Lagos https://www.thecable.ng/living-in-lekki-and-the-fallacy-of-premium/[/quote]Impressive insights laced with humor. |
| Travel › Re: Work Commences On Ondo State Segment Of Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway by XAUBulls: 11:07pm On Oct 02, 2025 |
abc115: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8vaAaxC2LE?si=6xP5V6jihrj7e1W7 |
| Travel › Re: Work Commences On Ondo State Segment Of Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway by XAUBulls: 10:53pm On Oct 02, 2025 |
| Politics › Re: Wike Heard Praying During An Engine Failure At 34,000ft Altitude(vid) by XAUBulls: 10:45pm On Oct 02, 2025 |
Saskay44:There's absolutely NOTHING in this video that proves that the voice is that of Nyesom Wike. It's against the protocols of any private jet company to leak such sensitive recording into the public domain which violates passengers' privacy. |
| Travel › Re: Dubai Luxury Shops Missing Nigerians by XAUBulls: 10:28pm On Oct 02, 2025 |
| Travel › Re: Calabar And Akwa Ibom Section Of The Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road (Pictures) by XAUBulls: 10:19pm On Oct 02, 2025 |
EponObi:Succinct. |
| Travel › Re: Calabar And Akwa Ibom Section Of The Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road (Pictures) by XAUBulls: 10:16pm On Oct 02, 2025 |
[quote author=Saskay44 post=135581355]Finally we get to see the calabar and akwa ibom section of the Lagos-Calabar coastal road Visited with my brother @iamgbolahan hey this was really challenging 😔😔but we got something to show. https://x.com/Just_Ozed/status/1928878088865059007?t=fQq6P57PN-ptYhoS5a_WFw&s=19[/quote] |
| Politics › Re: Percentage Of The Population Living In Their State Of Origin by XAUBulls: 10:12pm On Oct 02, 2025 |
[quote author=Saskay44 post=129172197]🇳🇬I LIVE IN MY STATE OF ORIGIN... Percentage of the population living in their State of origin: 1 🔴Kebbi: 99.80% 2 ⚫Yobe: 99.60% 3 🟤Akwa Ibom: 99.20% 4 🔴Jigawa: 98.60% 5 🔴Katsina: 98.40% 6 ⚫Taraba: 98.20% 7 ⚫Borno: 97.50% 8 🔴Kano: 97.00% 9 🟠Benue: 96.80% 10 🟠Kogi: 96.60% 11 🟢Imo: 96.20% 12 🟢Ebonyi: 96.00% 13 ⚫Gombe: 96.00% 14 🔴Sokoto: 96.00% 15 🔴Zamfara: 96.00% 16 🟢Abia: 94.80% 17 ⚫Adamawa: 94.10% 18 🟢Enugu: 93.60% 19 🟤Bayelsa: 93.40% 20 🟠Nasarawa: 92.60% 21 🟠Plateau: 92.00% 22 🟤Delta: 89.60% 23 🟠Kwara: 89.60% 24 🔴Kaduna: 88.40% 25 🟣Ekiti: 88.20% 26 ⚫Bauchi: 87.60% 27 🟣Osun: 86.90% 28 🟤Rivers: 84.20% 29 🟤Cross river: 83.80% 30 🟣Oyo: 83.60% 31 🟤Edo: 82.60% 32 🟠Niger: 73.40% 33 🟣Ondo: 64.50% 34 🟢Anambra: 61.50% 35 🟣Ogun: 60.00% 36 🟠FCT: 41.20% 37 🟣Lagos: 20.90% https://twitter.com/StatiSense/status/1773710218821595521?t=Bg_5o-KyGW3rgBl_QA80KA&s=19[/quote] |
| Politics › Re: A Picture Of Aliko Dangote With His grandfather by XAUBulls: 9:58pm On Oct 02, 2025 |
Dogalmighty17:True that. |
| Politics › Re: A Picture Of Aliko Dangote With His grandfather by XAUBulls: 9:56pm On Oct 02, 2025 |
Saskay44:Bump. |
