ThiefOfHearts:

Your idiocy and ignorance knows no bounds, I'd be better off arguing with a Down Syndrome child.

Maybe in YOUR village, asian movies are dubbed. The ONLY asian movie I've ever watched that has been dubbed was The Legend Of The Drunken Master. I am quite sure I've watched more asian movies than you so if you like keep making a fool of yourself. It's amusing in a twisted way anyway.

as for Brazil & France only making soap operas, it is obvious that you know absolutely NOTHING when it comes to the world of cinema/film.

The only thing you seem good at is trying to turn discussions into a tribal war, have fun with that as you are obviously a pitiful person.

Where did you read dubbed in my post? You are apparently a deranged fool

As for french movies, I am only trying to remind you that except they are made into English or subtitled, it is not interesting to a non-french speaker. In any case, french is also a big language, unlike the Yoruba Yoruba Yoruba (and even Igbo) language movies that you are advocating. In which globe will your Yoruba movies play? In your remote village of Ogbomosho?

Combrazor (some difficult name)

So why would films be made in Chinese and then somebody sits down wastes his time and money to change the language to english? Why not leave it in Chinese? Now you see that English in the king language that enables global play? Nobody gives a shit about any Yoruba Yoruba language. ok.

Watch a typical Nigerian movie (be it Yoruwood or Kanowood) that has been subtitled and see if what is being said verbally tallies with the subtitles. Nigeria movies are still evolving and they are yet to master how to summarise the subtitles and yet retain the main koko of the movies. That is why non-yorubas can NEVER enjoy yoruba movies, as the subtitles suck big time. And this is where Indian films are better. Again, many Chinese and Japanese movies are in English, for the pupose of export, similar to nollywood. You are so, so ignorant. Many of those ninja movies (Chinese, Japanese, Hongkong) you watch are in English. Brazil and French people are only making soap operas, not global movies in the league of Holly/bolly/nolly wood.

lol: You will find the Yoruba equivalent of the Igbo ''reverend king'' here

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-102885.0.html

You will find the Yoruba equivalent of the Igbo ''reverend king'' here

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-102885.0.html

You bloody lier. Like all juju in Nigeria, Ijebu (Yoruba) juju is mostly for money. I will post 100 news stories to proove this. Just wait for me while I get them.

More info about Yoruba juju



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Yoruba kills own child.    Oro po.
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This one is hot! Yoruba man turns child into frog

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The man himself (Jonathan) even affirmed his ''Igboness'' during his vice presidential campaigns in Enugu when he said ''I am one of you, I have an Igbo name, Ebele''.

There are probably 30-40 million Igbos worldwide. Certainly not all of these people are educated in English language, to suggest that Igbo language will become extinct soon. Those traders, uneducated or English non-educated members of the Igbo population will continue to maintain the language, while the Chimamanda Adichies will continue to show the Yoruba such as TOH how to be intelligent and play in the global arena

Permit me to let your warped arse into a secret. The main reason for the frequent Igbo interjections (exclamations) in Nollywood movies is to tell the rest of the world watching these movies that although they are in English, these are actually Igbo films. If the movies are made entirely in Igbo (like those senseless lagelu, moremi, Iya aje, Aje Kpako Yoruwood movies) how could all my Zambian, Dutch, Ethiopian, Brazillian, German, etc etc friends have enjoyed these movies?

My typo (possessed)

I ask you again, are movies the only medium to express your culture? Why are you such an incurable slowpoke?

@TOH

Who is this Yoruba thief and slowpoke who wants to curse his father and mother? Are you sure you are not possesed? You Benin slave (omo oduduwa)

What on earth makes you think those who claim to be Igbo on Nairaland are actually Igbo? Why would a true Igbo person try to affirm that he is Igbo before making his statement, if not to blackmail people?

Movies are not the only way to potray a culture. The hollywood with all its violence, sex, and others cannot be said to be truly american culture. If movies were to be the only medium of expressing culture, what can be said of countries that are not known to be making movies, eg Togo and Benin Republic. Does it mean they do not have culture? Igbos potray their culture in other ways. And it should be remembered that they speak sprinkling of Igbo in their English movies. For example. they make most exclamations in Igbo language

Dis Guy:

local investigators(coroners) could be mistaken for ritualists its the Nigerian journalists after all the have no clue

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What a defense. Those guys I saw on NTA were clearly not coroners, except if Yoruba coroners carry amulets and machetes about looking for human breasts and other private parts. Those were Ogun state human scavengers and bloody human vultures. You might even be one of them. Thank God you can't reach me from there

For the first time in their lives, Igbo people are said to be marginalising the Yoruba. This was made known at the maiden edition of an event held last year where there was an attempt to unite English/Igbo home video actors (Nollywood) and the indigenous, especially Yoruba movie practitioners (Yoruwood), who had always complained of discrimination in the industry by the English/Igbo practitioners. The event was coordinated by Ambassador Segun Olusola and Dele Momodu, publisher of Ovation magazine.

Actually Yorubas are not in Nollywood officially speaking. They have their Yoruwood. Nollywood is mostlly an Igbo, and the south south thing

English language is the language of the universe and anybody who can not express themself in that language is disadvantaged. In Nigeria, Igbos speak much better English than the Yoruba, on the average. In my sec, schl. days, there was a student-imposed ban on the use of Igbo language during non Igbo language lessons. We even imposed fines of 1 kobo as penalty. I believe this was also common in many Igbo schools back then in the east. We used to refer to it as ''no vernacular''.

Talking about Nigerian movies, the fellow, TOH, has been known to be dripping with sheer envy for anything Igbo. I believe she/he regrets being born a non-Igbo. That Nollywood is tick today is due to the use of English Language to act films that have become ''must watch'' in many countries of the world. For example, in Brussels, I know a prof. of Anthropology who teaches aspects of his course with Nigerian movies. A US advertisement agency recently ranked nollywood amongst the 80 things to watch in 2008 http://www.vanguardngr.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3942&Itemid=0

Igbo producers and to a lesser extent Edo/Delta producers take credit for the evolution and global recognition that Nollywood has experienced. Now, many non-Nigerians (especially Africans) who watch Nollywood movies think that Nigerians are just Igbos only due to the names in these films. What has been the achievement of the Yoruba Yoruba-lagelu and moremi outdated movies produced by the Yoruba actors? Of all of them, only Olu Jacobs, his wife Joke Silva, and Omotola Ekeinde (who actually is very artificial) are worth anything outside Yoruba land. And people should really ask why Olu and Joke do not act Yoruba movies. Others are chaffs who crawl on their knees begging Igbo producers to feature them in English movies. On the other hand, Yoruba movies feature Igbos prominently because the guys are simply too good to be ignored. That is why you find Clarion Chukwura, Hanks Anuku, Benita Nzeribe and tens of other Igbo actors in several Yoruba movies. Igbo actors are amenable to training. They can learn other languages and roles faster than their Yoruba peers.

Most Yoruba actors feel very inferior when acting together with Igbo actors, who are more polished than their Yoruba counterparts. Watch an English movie featuring Jide Kosoko and say, Pete Edochie together and see the difference.

Yoruba culture is full of lies and ''fabu''. Imagine them telling us that Oduduwa fell from heaven, whereas he was a renegade slave of the Benin empire who rebelled and ran away from home to found the Ife kingdom. Thanks to the Oba of Benin for that earth-shaking exposure

Apart from Lagos, which other Yoruba state is better than Enugu and other Igbo States? Is it Ibadan? The dirtiest and most unplanned city in the world? Or Ekiti or Iseyin, or Ijebu or Ogbomosho? Lagos is not really a typical Yoruba state as it is for everyone, with at least 35 % Igbo population. Remove Lagos and the Yorubas are finished.

JAMB statistics and records of Nigerian students in Diaspora say otherwise. The Igbos are in charge now.

Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nuhu Ribadu, may have adopted a two-prong response to the decision by Police authorities to send him on a one-year course at the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) in Kuru, near Jos, Plateau State.

On the one hand, Ribadu has been on the trail of the President, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, tagging around him to Kano on Saturday, where the latter had gone to attend the wedding of the daughter of the National Security Adviser, Aisha Muktar, and following him to Katsina, his home state, on Sunday. Ribadu’s mission: Seeking audience with President Yar’Adua, with the plea that he would wish to be retired from the Police Force, on condition he is allowed to continue his headship of the EFCC. The EFCC Act allows a retired police officer to head the Commission.

President Yar’Adua did not grant Ribadu audience.

On the other hand, Ribadu is reportedly instigating foreign donors and missions against the Yar’Adua administration, by sending messages to donor agencies requesting them to put pressure on the President to back off removing him from the EFCC or face international isolation. Intelligence reports indicate that the messages were intercepted by International Police Organisation (Interpol).

The reports also allege†that Ribadu has removed from his office all petitions against former President Olusegun Obasanjo, including the one by the Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL), ostensibly to shield him (Obasanjo) from probe. Ribadu faces allegations of acting out the script of Obasanjo, a view strengthened by his failure to probe the former president and his cronies despite a stream of petitions demanding such.

Aso Rock is silent on the plan to send Ribadu on course, but is believed to support the routine exercise, and prominent Nigerians have warned against indiscipline if Ribadu evades the course.

Until now, even as an Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), Ribadu has not attended any major police training, and the one in Kuru would be his first.

Talk is in the air that the State Security Service (SSS) has an incriminating dossier on Ribadu, but that its former Director General turned down the demand for his probe.

Ibrahim Lamorde, Director of Operations at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), is also scheduled to attend another course, alongside other senior police officers, at the Police Staff College in Jos.

http://www.independentngonline.com/?c=148&a=8165

NDLEA officers arrest woman with 2.150kg of cocaine
By Odita Sunday

OFFICERS of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos have arrested a female drug trafficker with 2.150 kilogrammes of cocaine. This was disclosed yesterday by the Agency's spokesman, Mr. Mitchel Ofoyeju.



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According to Ofoyeju, "the suspect, Airat Alade Ashake, 28, was arrested on December 27, 2007 during the screening of passengers on Ethiopian Airline flight to Bombay Indian en-route Addis Ababa".

The NDLEA spokesperson said: "The cocaine was carefully concealed inside plywood in a false bottom of her luggage. The use of plywood as false bottom is a new development. The arrest is a clear indication that officers are prepared to uncover new tricks employed by drug traffickers.

"The NDLEA has been faced with series of scandal over the years. Some officers of the agency have been fingered as men who collaborate with barons. The trend seems to have changed since the assumption of office of the current Chairman, Alhaji Giade, who has declared war on barons and their allies".

According to Ofoyeju, the suspect said that "her primary school classmate gave her the two bags at Ibadan to deliver in Indian for a fee of N200,000. Ashake, who was shedding tears during interrogation, explained how she was lured into accepting the drugs. Her words: "I met my school mate at the market. He asked me what I do for a living and I told him that I sell jewelry. He then collected my phone number. I asked of his number but he said his phone was stolen. He was the one always calling me until he asked me to meet him at a motor park in Ibadan where he gave me the two bags containing the drugs and promised to pay me N200,000".

The drug peddler, according to Ofoyeju, lives at No. 22 Dumare Square, Lagos Island with her mother. She is a native of Igbaja village in Ifelodun Local Government Area Kwara State.

Similarly, one Mufunnanya Charles Nwanbunwane, 28, said that his mother collected loan from her cooperative for his business but he decided to travel with the money. The suspect was arrested on December 26, 2007 during the inward clearance of Emirate Airline flight from Mumbai with 166 grammes of heroin inserted in his anus, said the NDLEA image-maker, Nwanbunwane hails from Achala village in Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State.

Nwanbunwane told the anti-drug body that: "I left school at elementary III. I was in India for four years selling wristwatches to survive. On December 20, 2007 I went back to hustle in India but I came back after six days because I was afraid they will arrest me if my visa expires. My Tanzanian friend in India gave me the drugs that if I sell it in Nigeria, I can start a new life.

"Both cases are under investigation and will soon be charged to court," Ofoyeju said.

Drama At Airport As Drug Suspects Fight

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By Simon Ateba

A mild drama occurred at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, at the weekend, when suspected drug peddlers arrested by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), traded accusations over the real owner of the cocaine found with one of them.

NDLEA officials had arrested Mrs. Olayemi Olawunmi Olajumoke while attempting to board an Emirate airline to Mumbai, India, with 584g of banned substance suspected to be cocaine concealed in two brown envelopes hidden in her skirt.

After she was arrested, Olajumoke accused Mrs. Serifat Shalewa, who brought some items for her at the airport, of being the real owner of the hard drug, an accusation which Shalewa denied. The latter said she gave her food items to give to her brother in India and not cocaine.

After the accusation and counter-accusation, NDLEA officials arrested both of them, including a man who accompanied Shalewa to the airport.

After their arrest, a search was conducted in their various houses located at Isolo and Surulere areas of Lagos but nothing was found.

P.M.News learnt that the three suspects would be charged to court today.

By Oluwole Adeboye

The pastor in charge of Divine Miracle Centre, Isiaka Kehinde, has been arrested by policemen from Olosan Police Station for allegedly setting 25-year old Dorcas Olubukola Osho ablaze during a vigil. The victim is a staff nurse at Labake Maternity Centre, 9, Arowoye Street, Papa Ajao, Mushin.

P.M.News checks this morning revealed that Pastor Kehinde left his residence at Ajose Street, Lawanson, for 62, Ojekunle Street, Papa Ajao, where the lady resides with her father’s elder sister for the vigil.

He was able to convince them that the holy ghost instructed him to hold a vigil with them in their home. The vigil was attended by Dorcas and five other women.

P.M.News investigations revealed that in the course of the vigil, Dorcas went into trance and the Pastor shouted “Holy Ghost Fire”. Perhaps to convince people that he was a genuine man of God, he allegedly sprayed the victim with petrol and set her ablaze.

According to sources, when the lady screamed for help, Pastor Kehinde said, “see fire, fire burning her”. The others at the vigil also screamed for help.

The victim’s father, Pastor Ezekiel Osho, 65, told P.M.News that: “I still cannot say why this fake pastor did this to my daughter. Is it by force that you must be a man of God when you are not called by the Most High God?

“Information from others who attended the vigil suggests that he deliberately set her ablaze.

“He used to be a Muslim and suddenly he became a Christian. Please, help me to tell God-fearing people to assist by giving proper medical care to her so that she won’t die,” the victim’s father pleaded.

As at the time of filing this report, the victim was still in critical condition at Labake Hospital in Mushin.

She was unable to talk to our reporter who visited the hospital.

Meanwhile, Pastor Kehinde is helping the police in their investigation.

Ijebu and indeed most Ogun (Yoruba) people are hard-core juju people. After the Belview air crash that happenned in Lisa village, Ogun state in 2005, Ogun state villagers around the scene were shown on NTA (I am not kidding, this is a fact) trying to scavenge/scavenging rotten parts of the victims for rituals. They claimed that since the people were already dead, they did not think that it was criminal. If you doubt me, ask from the NTA. Now what can be more horrible than this?

dapsycool:

Joney, you decided to write your signature in the Language you want. Ha ha ha
@Germannig ode ni e
@ all, i've been taking to seun, about restricting nairaland to yoruba only.lol
Have you seen the yoruba version of Google or Wadja.Very Cool.
We need to promote our language to international standard.Why not start from Home.
Call me racist, I care less. Moreover an average ibo man(traders) in Lagos is VERY dubious, especially those that sell electronics, i hate them with passion.
I remembered my time in the North, them show me pepper(abokis).I've been a victim of racism in many states that's why i'm not leaving south west anymore.
So deal with it, if u can't move to umahia, or Aba.

Yeah! those Igbo traders are as dubious as OBJ, Pastor Akanni, Bode George, Akala, Adedibu, Glo Chiarman, Abiola, Awolowo, and the thousands of treacherous Yoruba agberos that strut the streets of Lagos. You can hate the Igbo. But the Igbo simply don't care about your hateful mediocre arse.