nextprince:


Bro, Hausa is to the north what pidgin is to the south. The only language that cuts across is English and whatever obtains in the north in this English applies to the south. U don't need to be in the classroom to understand pidgin in the south and same applies to Hausa in the north.

And the question is what type of English cuts across cos I don't understand what you are defending

Blame their governors who have deprived them of every right to social amenities

menwongo:


Don't be decisive any person speaking pidgin can understand English.
Am from south south, served at Benue state then. The north is zero when it comes to education!

I have come across corpers from the south who cannot piece up few words to make a simple correct sentence. It will interest u to know that majority of nlders are from the south and if their level of education is anything to go by, hmm. There was a corp member then at my orientation camp who was busy telling one of the soldiers "oga I want go sh_it". And that is the only way she could express herself. When she wanted to correct herself, she said " oga I want to go and sh_it", can u imagine? And that same 'graduate' will be somewhere saying the north is educationally backward. Abeg I no fit laff jawe.

WINNERMENTALITY:

And the question is what type of English cuts across cos I don't understand what you are defending

The English that cuts across is what is referred to as 'Queen English'. The type spoken by the English in England. The American English is also acceptable, not pidgin. Pidgin is not a measure of literacy because illiterate market women and farmers who never had any form of formal education speak it fluently. Same applies to Hausa in the north.

FrancisDiote:
Blame their governors who have deprived them of every right to social amenities

U mean these types of social amenities?

nextprince:

The English that cuts across is what is referred to as 'Queen English'. The type spoken by the English in England. The American English is also acceptable, not pidgin. Pidgin is not a measure of literacy because illiterate market women and farmers who never had any form of formal education speak it fluently. Same applies to Hausa in the north.

Queen english is not what a southern and Nothern Nigerian use in business cos out of justifying what I don't know u made fool of your self by saying that queen english cut across... Who dey speak queen english self without blunders

Nigeria is a complete mess! Shame on the useless governor!!

Don't they have a governor in that state?

UnknownT:
Guy, i know you are trying to help but left for me i will advice you pull down your name and state code. Cos when the chips are down, NYSC may deny and blame you. This country is a joke

that corper is a total fool! olodo rabata!

he thinks he is creating awareness for them! if only he knows the mentality of an average aboki!

to them this guy has insulted them! lets wait and hear how the story ends!

they will track him and slaughter him like ram!

he thinks the other corpers tht goes there do their service jeje and go back home are mumu!

he will take his eyes and see his ears for this rubbish he did!

he doesnt know aboki mentality is totally different from ours!


ode!

WINNERMENTALITY:

Queen english is not what a southern and Nothern Nigerian use in business cos out of justifying what I don't know u made fool of your self by saying that queen english cut across... Who dey speak queen english self without blunders

Not really bro, rather it is u fooling urself by concluding that pidgin is the language used for business. Yes, the way u use pidgin for ur business in ur South is the same way we use Hausa for our informal business transactions in the North.
Queen English is hardly spoken without error but not for the illiterate farmers or market women cos they can't even speak faulty English.
Just imagine ur written English, and this one might be carrying one certificate parading himself as a graduate.

tolumanzy:
See How Students Learn In The North West Of Nigeria Kebbi State


Nigeria government should see this and try to reform the education system in the north west. The sit on the ground to learn no desk no class all rugged to study and you expect them to be future leaders future leaders don't learn like this!

I am a serving corper in Kebbi state YAURI this are some pictures of the little school I visited in Yauri on a CDs project I got to see this and I don't want to be the only person to see this...

Please let's make a change please nairaland share this... let's make a change they need help I am Adelusi tolulope Nicholas my state code is KB/16a/0043

.... Lol. That's Murtala school in Yauri. so it has dilapidated to this level. I served there 2011/2012. Guess Mr. Kolawole is still ZI. Say me well to LG corpers lodge. Repped F. wing.

They are breeding another set of boko haram in the north west. Very soon the whole of Nigeria will pay for it.

nextprince:


Not really bro, rather it is u fooling urself by concluding that pidgin is the language used for business. Yes, the way u use pidgin for ur business in ur South is the same way we use Hausa for our informal business transactions in the North.
Queen English is hardly spoken without error but not for the illiterate farmers or market women cos they can't even speak faulty English.
Just imagine ur written English, and this one might be carrying one certificate in the name of a graduate.

Bro am not here to argue with u who speaks correct english or not but what am saying in essence is that your people literacy level is too low because your type prefer selling them to the socalled english south u stated as English literate whereas they are just good as your local champions that believes that Nigeria starts and end in Hausa land with Hausa language.

NickleTheory:

This is a waste of money, Just send them out to the field with their cows.

Haba!! You harsh o

Hush judges!!! Every country has a weak section

Also served in zuru, kebbi state. Twasn't an easy experience for we the corpers and students we teach.

Till now the system hasn't changed?
I wonder when there is gonna be an improvement there.

Fundamentalist:


Yes , they memorized a complete book in their hearts , is the same applied to your 'holy book '? I know a lot of southern corpers that cannot defend their certificate because we know they bought it .

They come to the north and start forming
Anofia

Am ashamed that am in d same country with Hausas. I suffered in north for common bike man to carry me to my destination he will take me round d whole town because he cant even understand drop me for park.

U northerners are too backward. Even the Hausa teachers cannot speak good english talk less of d students.

For our Bible we memorize only in sunday schools unlike ur people dat spend from 2pm to 8pm memorizing koran everyday. And at d end of d day they still do all sorts of evil
Western education is not for northerners. NYSC should stop punishing us

zionmade:

Am ashamed that am in d same country with Hausas. I suffered in north for common bike man to carry me to my destination he will take me round d whole town because he cant even understand drop me for park.

U northerners are too backward. Even the Hausa teachers cannot speak good english talk less of d students.

For our Bible we memorize only in sunday schools unlike ur people dat spend from 2pm to 8pm memorizing koran everyday. And at d end of d day they still do all sorts of evil
Western education is not for northerners. NYSC should stop punishing us

Typical southerner arrogant beyond measure yet completely ignorant about life. You think you are better than northerners yet whenever we meet in school, we always beat your crappy ass. What do you know about the north someone who has been to only a single state suddenly becomes and expert about how things are in the north. You are minuscule speck in a far bigger world, what have you achieved in your life that has made you so arrogant

I was also totally sad and surprised when I saw it in gombe in 1998.

But recently I realized that even you can see this kind of backwardness in south west as well.

nextprince:


I have come across corpers from the south who cannot piece up few words to make a simple correct sentence. It will interest u to know that majority of nlders are from the south and if their level of education is anything to go by, hmm. There was a corp member then at my orientation camp who was busy telling one of the soldiers "oga I want go sh_it". And that is the only way she could express herself. When she wanted to correct herself, she said " oga I want to go and sh_it", can u imagine? And that same 'graduate' will be somewhere saying the north is educationally backward. Abeg I no fit laff jawe.

i grew up in Kaduna and i can tell you that the North is still under the yoke of Islam

WINNERMENTALITY:

Bro am not here to argue with u who speaks correct english or not but what am saying in essence is that your people literacy level is too low because your type prefer selling them to the socalled english south u stated as English literate whereas they are just good as your local champions that believes that Nigeria starts and end in Hausa land with Hausa language.

Bro, ur English is disgusting and to think u are even arguing about English speaking is quite amusing. Go and learn the language first because u are not even qualified to distinguish between who speaks it well or otherwise.

my dear corper this is the best blessing in disguise for you rally round to raise cash renovate the class, make destination and chairs for them, put your name on it, get attention of NYSC and State guv and that's your ticket out of poverty and job seeking.. me I wish someone open my eyes to it while I was serving

nextprince:


Bro, Hausa is to the north what pidgin is to the south. The only language that cuts across is English and whatever obtains in the north in this English applies to the south. U don't need to be in the classroom to understand pidgin in the south and same applies to Hausa in the north.

Your arguements isnt true, i was even praying my students in kebbi state understood pigin back then as a corper, u need to have a tleast a formal education before you speak pigin.

gamargu:

Typical southerner arrogant beyond measure yet completely ignorant about life. You think you are better than northerners yet whenever we meet in school, we always beat your crappy ass. What do you know about the north someone who has been to only a single state suddenly becomes and expert about how things are in the north. You are minuscule speck in a far bigger world, what have you achieved in your life that has made you so arrogant

Practically, nothing. The only thing he has achieved is pointing fingers at who he thinks is uneducated while he swims in an ocean of total and very dark ignorance.
Annoyingly, most of them are defeated whenever there is any intellectual argument between them and the northerners and their only way out is resorting to insult.
Just take a look at most of their responses so far.

Zane2point4:


Your arguements isnt true, i was even praying my students in kebbi state understood pigin back then as a corper, u need to have a tleast a formal education before you speak pigin.

Pidgin is spoken in the south by illiterates, don't tell me what I know bro. Is pidgin taught in schools?

nextprince:


Bro, I served in the East and I will tell u that many SS students can't speak English either.
Meanwhile, don't mistake pidgin for English. Pidgin is predominantly spoken in the East and as far as I'm concerned, it is vernacular just the way Hausa language is.

Which pidgin English for East if you say south south

nextprince:


Pidgin is spoken in the south by illiterates, don't tell me what I know bro. Is pidgin taught in schools?

Thats the point, if the south spoke pigin, then its better if i hv served in the south ,i could have easily impacted knowledge using English, blc pigin is an adulterated form of english, so if they understood pigin, then English is not a problem.

Almand:

Which pidgin English for East if you say south south

Some of my colleagues (graduates) are from the East and I will tell u most of them speak rubbish in the name of English. Give them a simple task that involves writing, hmm, u will end up doing the job urself and since it is a govt parastatal where productivity is of no use, they remain. I have come across a graduate of English who doesn't know the difference between 'later' and 'latter'. Unbelievable but true.

tolumanzy:
See How Students Learn In The North West Of Nigeria Kebbi State


Nigeria government should see this and try to reform the education system in the north west. The sit on the ground to learn no desk no class all rugged to study and you expect them to be future leaders future leaders don't learn like this!

I am a serving corper in Kebbi state YAURI this are some pictures of the little school I visited in Yauri on a CDs project I got to see this and I don't want to be the only person to see this...

Please let's make a change please nairaland share this... let's make a change they need help I am Adelusi tolulope Nicholas my state code is KB/16a/0043

Don't think it's right 2 disclose ur identity on a forum like this ( ur full identity 4 dat matter).
1st, it doesn't add 2 d info u're passing, yet it's a security risk 2 u.
Also ur state code is ur personal identity, more like ur matric No, buh even more as it can be compared 2 ur password (or pin) in some instances.
If u want pipu 2 help dem u cudav dropped contact details (phone No 4 example) instead of ur state code.
All I can see here is overzealous display.
Remember, wisdom is principal in all things.

Zane2point4:


Thats the point, if the south spoke pigin, then its better if i hv served in the south ,i could have easily impacted knowledge using English, blc pigin is an adulterated form of english, so if they understood pigin, then English is not a problem.

And my point is 'pidgin is to the South what Hausa is to the North'. It is not learnt in the classroom and as such never a basis for differentiating levels of literacy. Meanwhile, with this ur English, how did u graduate from the university/poly? Just asking.

nextprince:


Some of my colleagues (graduates) are from the East and I will tell u most of them speak rubbish in the name of English. Give them a simple task that involves writing, hmm, u will end up doing the job urself and since it is a govt parastatal where productivity is of no use, they remain. I have come across a graduate of English who doesn't know the difference between 'later' and 'latter'. Unbelievable but true.

I still repeat not in the east. Those who attend schools among them go there to learn. you can't rule out some few dull ones through. Is like me telling you those in Ibadan can not speak good English simply because in my secondary school than, we were still being taught what is pronoun in SS3