please when you say "summer" what exactly do you mean? I know Nigeria do not have any weather with name "summer" or are you talking about long vacation between August and September. I think the word "Holiday Tutoring" is or might be more appropriate for West Africans.

It will be better believed that, this is not a deceptive joke, if sahara reporters will give us the name of the writer and provide us with a pdf like below for umuerodili polling unit (http://247ureports.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/019-UMUDIMAKASI_SQUARE.pdf). Otherwise, it is just Nigerian usual ethnic/political antagonism.

Why so much tears for us. Most have lamented our course for us and we have noted your agonies. Its time to move on. U can't just be ashamed of anambra alone, you should be ashamed of all the states with the exception of Akwa ibom,Cross river and Lagos. We voted obiano, he might achieve something he might not but he is our choice let's leave it at that. Ngige performed during his time esp in my LGA (idemili) but not in anambra east or west. He is not an all anambra favorite and he has to deal with that. We gave him a chance when he did not win an election, it is time to also give obiano the same benefit of doubt. Election in Nigeria is not about the best man but about the most intelligent rigger. As apga is being accused of bribery , APC did the same. If thesame inec gave him a senatorial sit y is he crying foul with the same inec just because he was outwitted or he outwitted himself. He should go to court, as usual (that is the trademark of every election lost) . That said , is it just me or are those women in the second picture sitting on the ground 'Laughing'

Antivirus92: you are ada ide or are u from mbaukwu?

am conversant with the area.


Is the word 'Taba nsi /tansi' still in use. its used interchangeably for 'be patience or be consoled'
don't think I have heard anyone use it since my great grandma who is from Awgbu - anambra

in-direct translation:
"biko noghalia'
or
'biko megharia ahu'

or
"biko kpumie"


also, mbaukwu in oka south say a lot of 'shi' e.g n'shi gi, i shi nwa gi (if I tell you, you tell your child) nshi(excreta),

really!!! what happened, an Igbo trend that is has not reached 5 pages since the 17th? wonders shall not end!!!
see the write up below:

FEMI FANI KAYODE; YOU ARE STILL A LEARNER, THIS IS HISTORY WITH FACTS AND FIGURES: An Igbo scholar, Dr. Samuel Okafor, has made one- time Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, look so small and uneducated by using facts and figures to demolish the claims he made in the controversial August 8 article, “The Bitter Truth About The Igbo”, which set off a storm that almost threatened Igbo- Yoruba relations. In the first part of an article entitled “The Lies of Femi Fani-Kayode”, Okafor, who has a First Class in History from the University of Nigeria Nsukka and then did a Ph.D in Nsukka on scholarship, dismissed Fani-Kayode as a “half-baked intellectual.” He then proceeded, point by point, to address what he termed “the most reckless amongst the tangle of reckless comments spewed by Femi, a character who with each punch of his keypad stresses his severely unwell conditions of logorrhoea, delusions of enlightenment, history and sociology – amongst others.” Below are Okafor’s words: FEMI AND HIS SEVERELY IGNORANT LIES: •Femi Lies About the Yorubas Being Nigeria’s Earliest Graduates: From his myopic bubble Femi FaniKayode claims the Yoruba were the first to acquire Western education; the first ever known record of a literate Nigerian in the English Language is the narrative of an Ibo slave who regained his freedom and documented his life history as a slave from the time he was 11 years old in present day Ibo land till the time when he gained his freedom in the middle of the 18 th century. He later married an English woman and had 3 children. He died in 1795. Femi, a basic Google-research will do you good here; check out the name, Equanoh OLAODAH. Further Femi claims that the Yoruba were the first lawyers and doctors in Nigeria. This is again a big falsehood. The first Nigeria doctor was an Effik man Silas G. Dove who obtained a medical degree from France and returned to practise medicine in 1840 in Calabar. This fact can also be verified from historical medical records in Paris. I would also ask that you google the name BLYDEN – Edward Wilmot BLYDEN – an educated son of free Ibo slaves who by the mid-19th century had acquired sound theological education. He was born in Saint Thomas in 1832. He is one of the founding missionaries that established the Archbishop Vining church in Ikeja. Before the next time you succumb to your long-running battle with logorrhoea, Femi please do some research. What about the third president of a free Liberia – President J JRoyle – again, a man of Ibo descent. Please take some time to do some research so that we can discuss constructively. It is wrong to peddle lies to your people. It is academic fraud to knowingly misrepresent facts just to score cheap points with people who do not have the discipline to do research and accept anything you pour out simply because they say you are well educated. To again quote the great Nobel Prize Winner in Economics Joseph Stiglitz; Femi fits into the category of third rate students from first rate universities with an inflated sense of self-importance . Let’s go on! Who was the first Nigerian Professor of Mathematics – an Ibo man – Professor Chike Obi – the man who solved Fermat’s Last Theorem. He was followed by another Ibo man, Professor James Ezeilo, Professor of Differentail Calculus and the founder of the Ezeilo Constant. Please do some research on this great Ibo man. He later became the Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria Nsukka and one of the founders of the Nigerian Mathematical Centre. Who was Nigeria’s first Professor of Histroy – Professor Kenneth Dike who published the first account of trade in Nigeria in pre-colonial times. He was also the first African Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan. Who was the first Professor of Microbiology – Professor Eni Njoku; he was also the first African Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos. Anatomy and Physiology – Professor Chike Edozien is an Asaba man and current Obi of Asaba. Who was the first Professor of Anatomy at the University College Ibadan? Who was the first Professor of Physics? Professor Okoye, who became a Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1960. He was followed by the likes of Professor Alexander Anumalu who has been nominated for the Nobel Prize for Physics three times for his research in Intermediate Quantum Physics. He was also a founding member of the Nigerian Mathematical Centre. Nuclear Physics and Chemistry – again another Ibo man – Professor Frank Ndili who gained a Ph.D in his early ’20s at Cambridge Univesity in Nuclear Physics and Chemistry in the early ’60s. This young Asaba man had made a First Class in Physics and Mathematics at the then University College Ibadan in the early ’50s. First Professor of Statistics – Professor Adichie who’s research on Non-Parametric Statistics led to new areas in statistical research. What about the first Nigerian Professor of Medicine – Professor Kodilinye – he was appointed a Professor of Medicine at the University of London in 1952. He later became the Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria Nsukka after the war. What about Astronomy – again another Ibo man was the first Professor of Astronomy – please, look up Professor Ntukoju – he was the first to earn a double Ph.D in Astronomy and Mathematics. Let’s go to the Social Sciences – Demography and statistical research into population studies – again another Ibo man – Professor Okonjo who set up the first Centre for Population Research in Ibadan in the early ’60s. A double Ph.D in Mathematics and Economics. Philosophy – Professor G D Okafor, who became a Professor of Philosophy at the Amherst College USA in 1953. Economics – Dr. Pius Okigbo who became a visiting scholar and Professor of Economics at the University of London in 1954. He is also the first Nigerian Ph.D in Economics. Theology and theological research – Professor Njoku who became the first Nigerian to earn a Ph.D in Theology from Queens University Belfast in Ireland. He was appointed a Professor of Theology at the University College Zambia in 1952. I am still conducting research in areas such as Geography where it seems a Yoruba man, Professor Mabaoguje, was the first Professor. I also am conducting research into who was the first Nigerian Professor of English, Theatre Arts, Languages, Business and Education, Law and Engineering, Computer Technology, etc. Nigerians need to be told the truth and not let the lies that Femi Fani- Kayode has been selling to some ignorant Yoruba who feel that to be the first to see the white man and interact with him means that you are way ahead of other groups. The Ibo as The great Achebe said had within a span of 40 years bridged the gap and even surpassed the Yoruba in education by the ’60s. Many a Yoruba people perpetually indulge in self-deceit: that they were the first to go to school; to be exposed to Western education; that they are academically ahead of other Nigerian cultures of peoples. Another ignorant lie. As far back as 1495 the Benin Empire maintained a diplomatic presence in Portugal. This strategic relationship did not just stop at a mere mission but extended to areas such as education. Scores of young Benin men were sent out to Portugal to study and lots of them came back with advanced degrees in Medicine, Law and Portuguese Language, to name a few. Indeed, some went with their Yoruba and Ibo slaves who served the sons of the Benin nobility while they studied in Portugal. These are facts that can be verified by the logs kept by ship owners in Portugal from 1494 to 1830. It is kept at the Portuguese Museum of Geographic History in Lisbon. Why then would several Yoruba people peddle all these falsehoods to show that they are ahead educationally in Nigeria? The true facts from the Federal Office of Statistics on education tell otherwise, showing that 3 Ibo states for the past 12 years have constantly had the largest number of graduates in the country, producing more graduates than Ondo, Osun, Ekiti and Oyo states. These eastern states are Imo, Anambra and Abia. Yet he calls Ibos traders. Indeed, the Igbos dominate because excellence dominates mediocrity – truth. Let me enlighten this falsehood’s mouthpiece even further: before the civil war Ibos controlled and dominated all institutions in the formal sector in Nigeria from the universities to the police to the military to politics: •The first Black Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan was an Ibo man •The first Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos was an Ibo man •The first Nigerian Rector of the then Yaba College of Technology was also an Ibo man •The police was run by an Ibo IG •The military as a professional institution was also run by elite-ilk Ibos. Facts can never be hidden. To be first does not mean you would win the race; let us open up all our institutions and may the best man win. Let us not depend on handouts or privileges but on heard work. Let us compete and give the best positions to our brightest – be it Ibo, Yourba or Fulani, and then we shall see who is the most successful Nigerian. I find it difficult not to respond to some of these long-held lies that are constantly being peddled by Yorubas. One is that the Yoruba have the largest number of professors in the country. I would again ask that we stick to facts and statistical records. The Nigerian Universities Commission has a record of the state with the largest number of professors on their records and as at 2010 that state is Imo State followed by Ondo State and then Anambra State; the next state is Ekiti and then Delta before Kwara State. I am sure you Yorubas are surprised. When you sit in the South-West do not think others are sleeping but I wish to address another historical fact and that is who were the first Nigerians to receive Western education. It is important that these issues be examined in their historical context and evidence through research be presented for all to examine. I have continued my research for as the great sociologist and father of modern sociology – Emile Durkheim – put it, the definition of a situation is real in its consequence . What this simply means is that one must never allow a perceived falsehood to become one’s reality and by extension individuals who accept a defined position act as though the situation is real and apply themselves in that narrowly defined paspective. Why is this important to state it is because for long the Yoruba have peddled lies that have almost become accepted as the truth by other Nigerians but it is important that we lay down the facts for others to examine and come to their own conclusion for facts are facts. Let’s go back to education. Historically, Western education resulted as a product of indigenous ethnic groups interacting with the whites through trade. The dominant groups sold slaves, ivory gold and a host of other products to their European counterparts in exchange for finished goods – wine, tobacco, mirrors, etc. The Bini who were the dominant military force from the 15th to the 19th century raided and sold other ethnicities to the Europeans. Top on the list of those they sold were the Yoruba, Ibo and Igala. Various other ethnicities suffered as a result of the Bini military expansion. And the Benin Kingdom stretched from present-day Benin up to what is now geographically referred to as Republic of Togo. Indeed, the influence of the Benin Empire extended to the banks of the river Niger to present-day Onistha. There are huge Yoruba settlements in the Anioma part of Delta State who fled Yoruba land as a result of these attacks and constant raids. Yes, there are Yoruba people who are currently living with Ibos in the Ibo-speaking part of Delta and they are full citizens of the place no one refers to them as strangers and there is no talk about the Ibos being the host community like we hear from the Governor of Lagos State. But let me return to research. Slaves were moved from the hinterland to the coast and many were sold through Eko to the New World. These slaves were the first to encounter the Europeans and by extension their way of life – this included education in a Western sense. The Bini King had taken pains to establish a diplomatic presence in Portugal and the relationship developed into areas that extended beyond trade in the late 15th century and lasted well into the early 19th century. Scores of young Bpni youth were sent to Portugal and studied there, coming back with advanced degrees in various disciplines. The next set of people to receive Western education were the slaves themselves. Some of them managed to buy their freedom and develop themselves further. For the Ibo it does not matter who your father is; the question is: Who are you? Who was Obasanjo’s father? Was he the most educated Nigerian? I am sure the answer is no. Yet this Great Nigeria led this nation two times as a military Head of State and as a civilian President. What about GEJ? Who was his own father? Was he the first Nigerian to go to London? The answer is no. In fact, he had no shoes, yet he is fully in charge. So it does not matter if your father was the first Lawyer or first Doctor in Nigeria but rather what matters is what an individual does with the talents the Almighty has given to him. Let us open up Nigeria for competition. That is the solution to our problems. Those who want privileges keep reminding us that their fathers were the first to go to school in London. Every generation produces its own leaders and champions. Like Dangote who is the biggest employer of labour in Nigeria today and the richest man in Africa. Was his father the first to go to study in London? Yet he is the master of people whose parents gave them the best. My brothers, the answer to the Nigerian problem is that we should establish a merit-driven society. “I get am before” no be property.

Alleinad: Hi! I decided on the importation business but I couldn't get anyone to tell me how much the middle man would be paid by me. It seemed except I order before I will know how much. Can anyone help me with that detail? And thanks to the guy who adviced us not to go for cheap stuff, really appreciate that cause I was about to make that mistake, thanks for saving me.

Yes please, how much will the middle men take beacuse it could affect your capital.

Nzenwata: nze + nwata
I believe it means a prosperous child or a child with a bright future.(O chiri nze n'nwata)
Nze/ozo are titles usually taken by the rich or conferred on notable personalities)

@ Some-girl
in my area(anambra)'uku' cannot go for 'ukwu'.
Ukwu : meaning waist as odumchi said is silent but noticeable.
Uku: has no 'w' at all and it refers to a sauce also called 'ncha' used in eating tapioca(abacha) or 'ukpaka or ugba'

please house,how can i access tuition fee for freshers?

@mabtuku 2
I think afo for tyre is wrong. Imagine saying 'ejere m i gote afo moto/ugboala'. it makes no sense because afo is the same as stomach.
we say 'ugbo dara afo' (which means flat tyre) because afo of the tyre was deflated hence flat.just like you can say 'nnaa, kedu nke afo gi dachare etu a, i ri-kwara nri or kedu nke i dara afo, i ri-kwara nri' (because his tummy is flat)
but if you say ukwu ugbo/ ugboala/ moto/ oche/ okoproigwe (train)/ ugboelu/ogbatutum/ehi/ewu/ okuko.
it gives a better description because ukwu is for movement as well as for standing. so i suggest we continue with ukwu.

Also olu/onu can be used as dialect if you consider the adage that says 'igbo na ekwu n'olu n'olu' (igbos speak in different tongues)

Don't they know their cloth size abi na 'fasion'

@agbotaen. pls i think it time you down your weapons, let us hear from other Ika people to believe. your one man squad is beginning to look like an opinionated paper. However there is no clan or town in the east or across the Niger that is call Igbo. nobody speaks Igbo rather we speak different dialects, it is a collection of it that is referred to as Igbo language, hence the term Igbo people. just like your dialect is slightly different from Igbo language so are others. if you look at yourself and decides not to be Igbo am sure everybody understands but try to understand that some Ikas' see themselves as Igbo. I have a friend who is from igbouzo who claims bini too, yet her sister told me they move from Isu in anambra(according to her that's what their grandfather said)so she is igbo. Nobody has denied my friend her bini citizenship. You can be whoever you want, you don't owe anybody an apology or explanation, but do stop insulting others who don't feel like you.

odumchi: Na Arochukwu, izu avia Nkwo wu izu ezumezu ike; ebe niile kwesiri idi jii. Anaa emeje oke nmenme na izu ohu maka onyenye na agagba avia. Aga a o di aga a, nwoke chupu nnye ya na izu Nkwo, o pusara na olulu wo enwee isi.

Ihe a wu iwu Aro. M risa odo m edee kwa.

In Arochukwu, Nkwo market day is a day of rest and all of the atmosphere is supposed to be calm and quiet. There are also no major events held on Nkwo day since everyone is supposed to be at the market. Because of this, if a man throws his wife out of his house on Nkwo day, it signifies that their marriage has utterly failed.

If I remember more I'll share them.

In our area, when a man collects back the bride price known as 'ngo' or the brides family returns the bride price, the divorce is complete.

@ dubem, I dara ya. Abu onye Oraukwu ma burukwa onye Mbaukwu(Oka south)

@odenigbo, I kotara ya.

@ negro, am yet to see a community that will call themselves people from the bush/forest. Most communities take names that reflect their greatness/ or a praise or has a kind of relationship with what they do or a natural thing very close to them like rivers but probably not a complete sentence saying they are from the bush or forest.

Please this argument is becoming repetitious. let them be whoever they seem fit. If being Igbo is so hard for them to bear while they can claim it as language; then they can be considered as aliens who took root from Binis' but happen to speak Igbo or better still they can fall from the skies, others have done it before. but my advice is they should restructure the language and their culture so that they won't be mistaken for who they aren't since a greater number of people are already using the Language/culture and they are not from bini.

Besides, I heard a part of owerri do not inter marry with the Ikwerres as they are related. How True is this?

This is good. nice work

Iwa oji na igo oji bu ofu ihe. N'ezia, nwata adiro ago oji ma okenye nnoru
ka ma, okenye were ikike isi ya goo.

Ya kpatara, nwata na ago oji n'iru nna ya (elder) i ga nu ma okwu odiri okwu a "nna m, o gi nyerem oji, oku aguyere nwata n'iru nna ya ama ele ya" okwucha, ya ago-oji ahu.

nso ala:

N'Obodo m, anyi adi egbu Eke ogba(Phyton)ma obu mbe.
anyi adi a nu nwanyi n'afo ime (not practised so much anymore)
Adi echu mmiri n'abani
Umunna wee isi- ehi obula eji mee ihe
IN My House: eke okuko bu nna m wee (very unfortunate)
Ukwa bu onye hu o buru, eti o ka odi kwa udala (onwghi onye wee ukwa friut but nku belongs to owner of land)

Biko nu odikwa ka edemede m, owere ka si a sound

ezeagu: Why don't some people just stay in the romance section?

I wonder oh!
second question, is it a taboo to recognise good efforts on nairaland without bashing!

@Andre, there are people you should deem non-existing, allowing them to die a natural death,
each time you respond they find another way of defining themselves or finding an identity because they have non.
A times, silence can be louder.

@crayola
Why dont we learn it as it is or just do little reduction. the akagu atime is quite different from the nsibidi, atime more complicated and other times a bit similar.
Take No 1 on differences, why not reduce the number of crosses to two instead of 4, rather it was altered entirely making the symbols look different
no 2:look at number 4, why not use it as it is or connect the X marks rather it was taken out of shape.

I appereciate the effort but the akagu is looking like another type of written different from the nisbidi.

Though nsibidi can be modified not changed, the basic structure can be made to look thesame. So that by mere looking at the two(nibidi/akagu)one can tell they are the same symbol.

in summary, if one can spend time learning akagu why not also learn the other or better still create something that look thesame and simpler. Akagu is not doing that.

My tots sha! kudos.

@Kiwi992, all that you have listed in the last post, which one is lacking in any African Country?
For me, go see what's up then make up your mind. TAKE CARE and don't ever forget that just like Africa you are not marrying your hubby alone his famiLies are inclusive. they can make your life a living hell especially where the mum commands and everybody follows.

Correction pls @ nwaigbo mg, there is no part of Anambra that speaks Ibo(it has no meaning), it has always been Igbo eg(igboanugo, igboukwu, igbouzo)
But i belive it's non-igbo or 'did you know i went to school Group' that uses that word.

pls obianauju or obiaranuju means she that came in the time of plenty or bounty.
however iru-uju means mourning. Hence the same sound different meaning
some name

Uzoejinwa/ uzo (uzoejinwadiecheche)- where there is a child there will always be continuity
Ekemezie -eke has done well (usually given to boys born on eke day like today's 'Sunday')
Ukaamaka - sunday has done well/ is good (female)
Nwose - child of God
Ekwutosinachukwu/ ekwy/ Tosi - dont take the name of God in vain
olisaedum / chinaedum - God is leading me
Chisom - my God is with Me
Nkemjika - what/ this that i have is greater
keneolisa - Thank God
olisakwe/ Osakwe/ Osakwenu - If God goes with me or agrees with me (then all will be fine)
Kaosisochukwu/ cosy - as God deems fit
Chukwukaima/Chikaima/ kaima - God we know
Chukwudera/ odera - God writes ( when God writes/ agrees, then it is well)
Ifeatu - Miracle
Okuji - wealthy man
Chiemerigo/ emerigo - God won
Obinna - God heart
Offorma- Not sure
Chimaobi/Chima/Maobi - God knows my heart ( male)
Chizuleum/ chizurum - My God is enough for me
Chiedoziem/ chiedozie God has decorated me
Ekeobere/Ekenukwu brother born on eke day, one is younger, the other older)
Somto/ Somtochukwu- Praise god with me.
Ahannaya - her/ his fathers name
Ogugu/oguguam/ oguguam akwa - i was consoled
Onwubiko - begging death
Onwurah/onwuram aka- death leave me
Adaure - girl born in joy (Ada -girl, ure - joyful song/ poem)
Arinze- not sure
Esobechukwu/ esobe - if we follow God
... and so much more

@Eze Promoe

okpa(seed)is banbara nuts. Then can it also go for male(oke okpa)?

By the way, GOOD JOB!

agbotaen: many of them speak the old yoruba language and igbo ,and it is time you igbo people learn that language alone does not determine ethnicity like brazilians speak purtuguese but they dont regard them as purtuguese because brazil is mixed with african, indians, chinese and others ,isoko in delta state speak almost identical language with uhrobo yet they are two seperate group, itsekiri speak a close language to yoruba , yet they are two seperate ethnic groups, bini and ishan speak almost same language but they are seperate ethnicities.
what determines a people is their tradition , and what and who their fore fathers told them they are , and other evidence like culture, language, chieftancy system and religion and others things and finally all ethnic groups in nigeria is a political union , so each group has the freedom to choose who they want to associate with .
there was a time when british lumped isoko as uhrobo people but later ,the isoko people pulled out and got their seperate ethnicity

Pls Ika Igbos (obviously not you) have more in common than language with Igbos not minding your permanent state of denial. Besides, why do you strive so hard to distinguish every Igbo deltans from Igbo people even when your own Obi (Ika community as you claim) says otherwise. I even sent your write up to an Ika friend who declared you have Identity crises as much as ChinenyeN refuses to see. It's time you start your own trend so that people who want to see what you advocate can go there and allow us to rest. As an individual, you can always un-lump yourself from other Igbos including the Ika-Igbo and everyone will be fine with it. Even the web site you post on every forum does not do justice to your personal Ideologies. Be whoever you deem fit and please give us a break from your non-igbosim, we've had enough.

@osisi
Pls, Igbos don't greet there elders standing up as you described, they usually don't look into there eyes (which i think is funny)

They don't call them by there first name(never). You either call them by their title or their nick name or praise name. Besides,you can call them Nnaa or Nne m (if they are old enough to be your parents).
It is very rude of one to call his elder by name e.g my grandfather's name is Godwin, but we either call him papa or his Praise name, Onye o gazilu (onye ogazilu osi n'ibe ya na awo ara). It was only a member of his age grade (otu ogbo)or his colleagues had the previlege to call him, Godwin.

The beauty is whenever you greet, the way you say it tells the elder if you are happy with him or not but definitely you will show respect though not by prostrating(I do like the way Yorubas prostrate). Women bend slightly when they greet the elderly, while a young man does not stretch his hand to shake an elder (man), he only shakes when the elderly stretches his hand forth. Although, most elderly will not rebuke you for that unless he thinks you did it on purpose. Elderly women generally hugs not minding your sex.

Hi kabarka,
I want to venture into this business but dont have the slightest idea of the cost implication.
Some material online says 400 others 4mil. I need help.
I will be very greatful if you will send me doc or any material(including Nafdac rerquirement)that can help me not just to set up but to learn more.My email is chimamanda2012@gmail.com

@ larimo,
I married as a V. Pls note that being a V. or not has little or no bearing to being good or better in bed. There are non-V. that are still no good in bed. With this techno era, all you need is an innovative mind and willingness to act, 'to be that good in bed'.

By the way, most guys might be suprises how much fun you get out of you V. bc you get to trying anything and anywhere, it all new and special.

lastly, why do you guys keep comparing virgin + bad character and non-virgin + good character
why not virgin +good character and non-Virgin + good character?
It is a better level ground for comparison.

"You know we were colleagues. Our husbands worked together, but their ways were different from my own. I didn’t like to be what they were. I don’t want any person to come and tell me about my husband because it may kill your spirit. I also don’t want to tell them about their husbands"
   , food for the wise

"Yes, but if I love him what can I do. It’s not something you just write on. It is deeper than just writing about it"
  , she could have been john keat

so much to learn in this short write up, i wonder what it would have been, if it were a book. RIP ma!

INE OMUGWO is a salivating yet tedious. i wont forget nkem owoh's very interesting film where he insisted on representing his wife during his daughters omugwo.
another song is
ihe omuru amaka (x2)
oga changeia naira nee ya omugwo
ihe omuruo amaka
or
onuru akwa nwa ehee
ahaa ehee
onuru akwa nwa me-gwagwa
o bu ofuonye nwe nwa?