Eunoiaa:
A001... I have a question, please. Something to do with Yoruba etymology.


Would you not mind my asking, and will be willing to respond?

WhoDeyHause:

Make A001 catch you first.

OasisX:



.....Politics is local. I like what Soludo is doing sha, my Governor is working well for our people.

https://twitter.com/PayeeIzuchukwu/status/1767953670530826423?t=GbI6VTH3UU_T07cISYJFjw&s=19

obainojazz:
I’ve not been to Anambra since he became governor but some of the roads he’s building… I know them and he’s smart for it.
So many single lane roads are being upgraded to two lanes…. I used to ask why they were single lanes back then.

You’ll see a lot of people insulting him online though…. 10 years later, we will see those screenshots that he didn’t do anything

A001:

Bible stories are mostly garbage.

However, I think AI tech is developing at an alarming (scary) rate. EU recently signed the AI Act to regulate the development and use of AI technologies in the region.

There'll be no cause for alarm once AI scientists and engineers don't model AI systems using star dust and other organic matter that can support life after the human brain.

If they do, then the systems could become a living thing and such could create big problems due to the fact Consciousness Science is still in its infancy in mainstream science.

OasisX:




......that's why I said Politics is local. Gov. Soludo ain't care about SM Rating. He is winning hearts of Anambrans at home, not Noisemakers online.

I am not even sure he is borrowing to do the projects. He is prudent and obviously showing how a true Technocrat should lead.

I have been a big fan of him since day 1, and I am happy he is not disappointing. Picked interest in Otti but his first Budget turn me off. LOL!

obainojazz:
Anambra has been a low-debt state for a while now… probably a benefit of having bankers as governors lol… If someone like Ifeanyi Ubah enter…. Otilo

izzou:
If money rituals was a thing back then in Japan, Lord Toranaga shouldn't hesitate to use that boy.

His father has been carefully crafting his comeback. From enduring insults, to escaping like a thief...All gone down the drain.

Stupid boy

WhoDeyHause:

That's just it if they reach the stage where they can become conscious it's possible they might see other living things as threats to their existence starting with we humans of course.
Terminator 2.0 😐

A001:

It's a possibility, though not probable.

Some whites are also talking about humans merging with machine (AI) moving away from carbon-based lifeforms to silicon-based lifeforms.

I don't like the idea.

Any research that involves human life (consciousness) needs to be done with extreme caution.

Fortunately, different bodies made up of researchers of Consciousness Science have started springing up in Europe.

Examples are the Mediterranean Society for the Study of Consciousness (MESEC), the Association for Mathematical Consciousness Science (AMCS), and others.

Advances in Consciousness Science are needed to address potential ethical issues that the rapid rate of AI development might bring.

WhoDeyHause:

Lol, many inventions and advances today were not thought possible now till several geniuses took it upon themselves to bring the light so I'll believe any thing is possible but I agree with you that it doesn't look probable for the mean time. Our own designs as humans that is flawed then we bringing that in form of consciousness via AI that will just seem to perform tasks and do what it wants to do with requiring probably huge resistance to stop it. May we not create what will consume us.

A001:

I didn't say it can't be done. What I'm saying I don't think it will be done because unless a deep understanding of consciousness is reached, a living AI system is highly dangerous for now.

iamoyindamola:

I hope this AI can do kerewa and dance soapy well

A001:
Yes, if I know it.

ouzo1:
Technocrats don turn to thieves.

larride:


Have you seen "SEE"?

obainojazz:
This chieftain saying Obasanjo and Jonathan are Igbos… I give up

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4eFqcMMD1q/?igsh=eGJmaWRhd29peWpi

Adefuye had in an interview with a national daily said among other things, “Some people may argue that what about Obasanjo? Obasanjo is not a Yoruba man. He is an Igbo man from the South-East. His father was from Anambra while his mother was a Yoruba woman. And that was why during his tenure, he completely ignored the South-West. For example, throughout his eight years, he did nothing on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.”

Some Yoruba leaders had in 2007 also alleged that Obasanjo’s biological father was not a Yoruba man.

According to them, his father was Onyekwelu from Onitsha in Anambra State and so, his reign as President between 1999 and 2007 should be viewed as an Igbo reign.

But Obasanjo in the 675-page book described himself as a thorough-bred Yoruba man.

He said, “To be a Nigerian, I have to be born somewhere in Nigeria or be of Nigeria parentage or one must naturalise. If the other can hide their identity, I cannot, because my two parents were from Owu in Abeokuta. And you cannot be more Yoruba than an Owu man as the first child and daughter of Oduduwa, the father of Yorubas was the mother of all Owus. What is more, I bear Owu tribal marks. And better or worse still, I speak English with my Owu dialect.

“I have always maintained and felt proud of my Owuness, Yorubaness and Nigerianess in that order. They are all part of my cherished identity. But I always refused and will always refuse to be constrained, diminished or reduced to the level of Yoruba leadership. Without being immodest, I am a national leader, an African leader and a world leader in my own way.

“If a Yoruba meeting is called on an important issue of concern to the Yorubas and I am invited. I will go but will not sit on the high table unless I joined in convening the meeting. But I would expect that a seat on the high table would be reserved for me if such a meeting is a national meeting.

“There are Yorubas of the mentality that if they cannot permanently rule Nigeria, then Nigeria should be broken up in the euphemism of confederacy. They would rather be rulers in hell, if they cannot be rulers in heaven. They are mainly those who see themselves as heirs apparent to (Chief Obafemi) Awolowo. I neither share their philosophy nor their mindset. Some of them contributed to putting Bola Tinubu in power and in spite of largesse of houses in Victoria Island built for them by Bola; they turned against him when the flow of largesses started to dry up.

“They are the same people who claimed that I denied being a Yoruba man. I am more Yoruba than all of them. The Ijebus among them must be reminded that the Awujale asserted that they are not from Ife, the cradle of Yorubas but from Wadia. Those who are crying more than the bereaved like Olaniwun Ajayi and Femi Okurounmu are self-centered and lack integrity.

“When there was need. In the interest of justices and fairness, to speak or act on behalf of the Yorubas, I have done so but not against overall Nigeria interest or against the interest of any other group for that matter. I have also spoken out or stood up for other groups or communities of the interest of justices and fairness. But on no account will the interest and integrity of Nigeria be sacrificed.”

Obasanjo further said he rejected a request by two senior Yoruba retired soldiers to lead the Western Region out of Nigeria, which would be similar to what the late Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu tried to do for the South-East and failed.

“In the confusion of the post second coup in 1966 and early 1967, I joined the senior Yoruba officers in the military to present our positions to Yakubu Gowon, in the interest of the nation and of the West. When, during the Abacha era and before I was arrested, two senior retired Yoruba officers, a Navy and Army officers called on me at my farm to lead the West out of Nigeria, I did not take it kindly with their request.”

“I said, “God’s judgment in me if I ever do what will be swift and decisive; He would ask those who died as a result of my fighting for the unification of Nigeria to line up and hold one hand and those that will die fighting for the West to secede from Nigeria to line up and hold the other hand and pull me until I will be cut into two.”

Eunoiaa:


I had two questions but I've forgotten the second one. 😥

And I really really wanted to ask it. If I remember it sha.

My other question is about the Yoruba words "otito/ododo" for truth. Like why do we have two words for it? Do you know how they came to be? Is there any linguistic difference between them? Or is it like a synonym thing, like in English, where you have one word and there are like two, three or ten other synonyms for it?

iamoyindamola:

Yes very good

iamoyindamola:
https://www.nairaland.com/8029741/rescue-abducted-students-kaduna-without

Is this real and should this be leaked
Because the kidnappers can start killing the students

BlueRayDick:
This was inevitable

From: Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede (Group MD/CEO)
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 3:51 PM
To: Obinna Nwosu (Head, Retail Banking Division); All of Us (Nigeria)
Subject: RE: OPERATION JUST CAUSE: THE CHEETAHS, THE SNAILS & THE STONES

I have not commented on this memo since it was sent out because I wanted to take detailed notes of those that operate under the ‘anointing of the snail’. Clearly there must be something fundamentally flawed in the capacity, commitment and character of a member of staff who has opened one or zero accounts since we commenced Just Cause.

It shall not be well with them with effect from Friday 29th July 2011

BlueRayDick:


I thought America offered to help
Nigeria I'm the rescue ; why is the minsiter of information spouting nonsense in the media again ?

Why can't they keep their mouth shut , get the children rescued first and then continue with their propaganda afterwards ?

I no dey trust some of these government officials at all; it's looking like some of them are working with these "bandits"

GloriousGbola:


It shall not be well with them has returned.




Guess who's back, back again. AIG. Tell your friends.

BlueRayDick:


What's the backstory to this? Please share, I have never heard of this gist before now

BlueRayDick:


I thought America offered to help Nigeria with the rescue operations ; why is the minsiter of information spouting nonsense in the media again ?

Why can't they keep their mouth shut , get the children rescued first and then continue with their propaganda afterwards ?

I no dey trust some of these government officials at all; it's looking like some of them are working with these "bandits"

GloriousGbola:



People were not meeting target, oga at the top sent general warning email and someone forwarded it out of the company and it went viral

https://www.nairaland.com/722543/access-bank-md-aigboje-aig-imoukhuede


I read that AIG took the public beating then hired some forensics guys to track down who sent out the email.