₦airaland Forum

echelon:
Ebe i nwere idea di otu,

Gbanu gbanu rie ede n'ihi na ede bu oke mmuo
Eat the cocoyam with caution because it's a great spirit

But remember na onye chi ya esoghi gba izu, ihe adighi eme ya
He who his god did not conspire against, he has no reason to fear anything

echelon:
Nna,

Mmanya hu onye o mara, o bee ugwu
When the palm wine sees who it's familiar with, it will shorten

Yes, E nwere m idea na ihu okenye na anyu mma nko
The face of an old man makes a rather sharp knife go blunt

Ttola:
arsenal your cannon go fall inside water before the d day amennnnn!!!!

. . .and who says a cannon that falls inside water cannot be dried, oiled, aimed, fired and gunned down the Reds on match day

echelon:
_{At the risk of being proud}

Osisi huru ibe ya na adu nkwa, ufere ga amapu ya onu
The tree that sees another and become envious, ufere the wild wind will cut it off

Cute-ass is well represented 

echelon:
Youngies anula ngwo na nkwu na-abia. Cute-ass gbara oso na thread maka ihe merenu oge gara aga

I beg to disagree, Cute-ass is certainly not the type ga agba oso for anything.

Egwu anaghi atu afo, oburu uzo
The stomach is never afraid, that's why it is always in front

ifyalways:
Ok Youngies.o di nma.anyi na ekele ya too.
@Echelon,TroOE bu ezigbo enyi Cutie

Yes I guess na Echelon ghotara na onwere ihe di iche na capital B na ukwu ehi zuro na'ala
There is huge difference between a capital B and the foot print of a cow

Igbo ndi oma!

Yes Cute ass has been greatly missed. she is well and good, but busy at the moment. I spoke to her a while ago, she sends her regards.

Usu enwero onu!

olabowale:
If they stole the money, be it corprate or state or federal stealing, then they should be required to return it. In additional the sharia jurispudence of cutting off of hands should be carried out. I wonder why Babangida and the likes are still walking around with 2 hands? Is"lam also encourages full education: religious and secular combined!

I guess Mallam Bello is not on the same page with you in the quaran

Ihu ka nwa oke na achi nwa ologbo ochi, mara na onu di nso ebe ono

When you see the mouse laughing at the cat, know there's a hole nearby.

Hmmmmm,

Ify yes udo di just that na oku na agba mana nwa awo ka na atu

The fire is raging and the toad is still leaping

@Mortiple

Ihe n'ile ikwuru bu ezi okwu gbam!

Mana odi m ka onwere ihe mere upcoming umu igbo ejighizi eti egwu igbo. O di m ka obu n'ihi na ego adaghi ya dika nke tim-tim yom-yom ndi onyibo. Obukwazi ihe a mere even na nollywood umu igbo adighizakwa act film igbo bu ihe ha jiri bido nollywood.

It calls for concern of all.

Ihe dara n'ala eburula aja
Whatever fall on the ground is already soiled with sand

bababuff:
@youngies

Look your story is inconsistent. See below

In 2345BC Eri was high priest in Egypt, the same Eri lived till 900AD to now be the founder of the "Nri kingdom". Haba, my brother check your facts. I'm not saying you are wrong or right but i dodon'think Eri would have lived that long. (2345BC - 900AD) at least.

I am not the originator of the story, so whatevere the percieved inconsistency cannot be attributed to me. I simply pasted what I found and also provided the source.

History

The Igbo appear to have settled in their present area thousands of years ago possibly from Egypt/Sudan.

The origin of the Igbo people is still a subject of speculation and debate. To give some directions in the issue, we must look at Nigeria's oldest Kingdom, the Nri Kingdom as well as oral tradition (through sometimes fragmentary) and genetics and linguistics.

, like any group of people, they are anxious to discover their origin and reconstruct how they came to be how they are. , their experiences under colonialsim and since Nigeria’s Independence have emphasized for them the reality of their group identity which they want to anchor into authenticated history.

Analysis of the sources available has led researchers to the Nri Kingdom. The Nri Kingdom is the oldest Kingdom in what is now known as Nigeria today. Exact dating of its establishment is not known and made even more obscure since modern day popular dating of the Nri Kingdom, 900AD, conflicts with the establishment of another in Nigeria, the Benin Kingdom which is also popularly dated to 900AD. Via Igbo oral tradition and studies and anthropological evidences, the Nri Kingdom was founded by the progenitor Eri(or Eru). Nri (founder of the Nri-Clan) was the son of Eri.

Speculation of the origin of the Igbo beings when one starts to trace the origin of Eri. By archeological account, in around 2345BC in Ancient Egypt, "M-Eru-ka (or Eru/Eri)" became a high priest to Pharaoh Teti. Because of this, the Egyptian origin of the Igbo people as many have insisted is also backed by linguistic evidences proving many Egyptian words survive in Igbo today and has led researchers to focus in this area.

According to Eze Nri, Nri-Enwelana II, the "Nri Kingdom is the oldest Kingdom in Nigeria. It was founded around 900AD by the progenitor, Eri, the son of Gad. According to biblical accounts, Jacob had Leah as his wife who begot four sons for him. When Leah noticed she had passed child-bearing age, she gave her maid – servant, Zilpah to Jacob to wife, and through Zilpah he had a son named Gad. Gad then bigot Eri, who later formed a clan known as Erites vide Genesis Chapter 30 verse 9; 46 verse 16 and Numbers chapter 26 verses 15-19. Eri was therefore amongst the twelve tribes of Israel via Gad."

"During their stay in Egypt Eri became the high priest and spiritual adviser to Pharaoh Teti, the fifth dynastic king of Egypt around 2400 BC."

"During the Exodus, which marked the beginning of the mass movement of the tribes of Israel, the tribe of Eri was amongst the tribe that left Egypt following the injunction from God to the Israelites (see Deuteronomy chapter 28 verses 58 – 68). Some of these tribes founded settlements in the southern part of Sudan, where they established the “Nok” culture, which is similar to that of other (sun Cult) culture, like Nri, Fiji, Samoa, and Jukun in the Northern part of Nigeria and elsewhere.

But others who could not remain in the Southern Sudan traveled further South, some branched off to Jukun, in Northern part of Nigeria, others continued and arrived at the confluence of Rivers Niger and Anambara known as “Ezu-na-Ọmambala” and settled there while some veered off to the Island of Fiji in the South Pacific Ocean. An intelligence report notes that the Fijians have the same sun culture with the people of Nri."


"However, the Hebriac/Egyptian origins theory is the official account of the present Eze Nri, Nri-Enwelana II, who went further to trace Eri’s origin to the biblical Eri (the son of Gad, the son of Jacob)."


In addition to the pattern of evidences of migration from Egypt, other people also entered the Igbo territory in about the fourteenth or fifteenth centuries. Many of these people still exhibit different characteristics from that of the traditional Igbo people – for example geographical marginality, the institution of kingship, a hierarchical title system.

The Igbo word "Igbo" is now used in three senses, to describe Igbo territory, to identify the Igbo people (whether they speak the Igbo language or not) and to Identify the language spoken by Igbo people.(see (A.E. Afigbo,1981: Ropes of Sand, Caxton Press,Ibadan. and T. Shaw:1970; "Igbo Ukwu: An Account of Archaeological Discoveries in Eastern Nigeria", Faber and Faber, pp. 268-285).

http://www.answers.com/igbo

Udo diri umu Igbo!

ifyalways:
ihe kacha ewutem bu na if you watch closely,ndi okenya anyi niile are getting old and fading and there seems to be none replacing or fitting in their shoes
do we have young igbo writers?o buru na a cho Achebe,Tony Ubesie,T TAGBO,Ozoemena Nsugbe,Osadebe(of blessed memory),Mike Ejeagha,Oyeka Owuenu na ndi ozo ma ahughi ya ,hmmmmmn o nwere ndi ga anochi ya at all

Ify weep not for ndi Igbo for we are made from a special stock.

It gladdens my heart to know that there are so many Igbo sons and daughters who are already stepping into the big shoes left behind by these our aged and dead heros.

Young igbo writers like: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Half of a Yellow Sun ) have already won the Orange Broadband Prize. Mr. Dulue Mbachu is also emerging as a strong force.

In the music scene, I need not remind you of folks like: the famed Peter & Paul Okoye (P square), Faze, Sunny Bobo, NaggaRaw, Ikechukwu e.t.c

We shall overcome!!

ifyalways:
youngies kwanum more about him.
gini mere o jiri noro on exile ?

In 1990, Achebe was severely injured in a car accident in Nigeria that left him paralyzed from the waist down. That year he came to Bard at the invitation of its president, Leon Botstein, to continue his recuperation, and he has stayed, living in exile from his homeland. (Remember most intellectuals were in exile because of the military juanta - IBB)

In 1999 he returned to his village for an extended festival in his honor. "I couldn't do anything else, except receive people," he says. But more recently, his protests against government corruption in Nigeria have made him unwelcome there. After years of dignified but forthright objections to Nigeria's often-tyrannical rulers, in 2004 he declined the high Nigerian honor of Commander of the Federal Republic. Excerpts of his rejection letter:

"I write this letter with a very heavy heart. For some time now I have watched events in Nigeria with alarm and dismay. I have watched particularly the chaos in my own state of Anambra where a small clique of renegades, openly boasting its connections in high places, seems determined to turn my homeland into a bankrupt and lawless fiefdom. I am appalled by the brazenness of this clique and the silence, if not connivance, of the Presidency.

Forty three years ago, at the first anniversary of Nigeria’s independence I was given the first Nigerian National Trophy for Literature. In 1979, I received two further honors – the Nigerian National Order of Merit and the Order of the Federal Republic – and in 1999 the first National Creativity Award.

I accepted all these honors fully aware that Nigeria was not perfect; but I had a strong belief that we would outgrow our shortcomings under leaders committed to uniting our diverse peoples.

Nigeria’s condition today under your watch is, however, too dangerous for silence. I must register my disappointment and protest by declining to accept the high honor awarded me in the 2004 Honors List."

So in respect to the above letter he said, "That has changed everything for me," he says. "I can't simply get on a plane and return home."

The idea that he will be a permanent expatriate clearly saddens him. It angers him, too. Nigeria is a study in wasted opportunity and promise, he contends.

"Nigeria should not be a third-world country, at this stage," he says. "It is very lucky in human and material resources. So to see it going to waste is very annoying

Ify I hope I was able to give you some clue

Let us not forget that na. . . mma onye ji ka oji ana aka

the sword you have is the one you greet your peers with.

Ndu mmiri, ndu azu!!

The celebration of the 50th anniversary of Things Fall Apart, a novel written by Nwa afo Igbo - Prof. Chinua Achebe is on.

At age 77, Chinua Achebe is living in grace and in exile, housed in a cottage built just for him on the campus of Bard College, lonely for his Ogidi country home and the people for whom his stories have been written.

Let all who can; salute him and wish him well also.

mellow:
I am just wondering what St Paul would have done in this circumstance. If abstenance

would not work why not dish out condomes? It is only a man that is alive that can

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Your views are misplaced. Christanity is not built on trial and error, but on principle. There is no IF. . . ELSE statment

I personally think that there is no sincerity of purpose here. There are some issues that needs to be reconciled.

1. It costs research, money and time to produce condoms, why give it to us free?

2. It also costs research, money and time to produce ARV drugs, why not give to us free also? (not subsidizing it)

Whoever thinks that condoms are genuinely distributed freely only to prevent STD, HIV/AIDS and unwanted pregs needs to take a more closer look. The church in its wisdom have decided to preach abstinence as against the use of condoms and some people still wants to drag her into the ignoble role of being a saucer to dish out these rubbers.

@MC Usman

You can start another thread if you wish to. You are beginning to sound very repititive just like a broken record

Ify ndu agadi nwanyi babi ga adi oooh 

Ejighi eyo ekiri ihe agba n'aka
You don't need a mirror to see what you are wearing on your hand

I think it will be nice if these proverbs are also transalted in English so that non-yorubas can at least appreciate it

Eku igba dun!

It is not a must that a manunited must like football. I like football. . . no, infact I love football especially when it is played at the Emirates 

Those who don't like the sport should tell us what they like and why.  I guess I don't like Pole Vault, I can't be watching a man running as if demented with a pole . . . and finally hoisting himself on the pole 

ifyalways:
. . . .gi na onyekwanu?heheeee okwa nani gi kara oooooh
aka m bukwa sweet sixteen old baby pancake anaghi aka nka buko.

The highlighted word affirms otherwise

Ify don't worry, a huru m na iche anaghizi ada ebe aturu ya
Things are no longer as they used to be

ifyalways:
nna men,mmadu a kala ooooo

Amaghikwa m na obughi nani m kala nka n'ala ooo

source:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7263534.stm

I dont know how I missed this, happy belated birthday. Hope you did had a good time. [s]It was bad of you oh not to have informed me atall.[/s]

Echebobo did you remember the story line: Chude! Chude! Chu!

It seems there is no end in sight.

The election tibunal sitting in Umuahia this morning nullified the election of PPA's Theodore Orji, the Governor of Abia State.

More to follow . . . Super Tuesday!!!

biko ole onye dere akwukwo igbo "ukwa ruo oge ya"?

Odi m ka onye dere ya bu akwukwo bu nwa amadi Tony Ubesie