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A Brand New Toyota Fortuner SUV for MC Walter Chukwuemeka from the Executive Governor of Ebonyi State, His Excellency Rt Hon Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru.
Naza Christian Iruka |
This generation of the Youth has failed this country. You and I reading this post have failed Nigeria. It's very sad.
Activism has died a natural dead. Civil disobedience is now a story of the past not because the leaders have improved and become better but because some voices have been tamed and silenced while others with loud voices to complain what is not right in the society have been appointed into media and publicity offices.
The opposition parties have failed. Opposition parties used to be watch dog to the government but today's own are group of people who struggle to grab power to enrich themselves.
People like Gani, Falana, Afa Babalola, etc started at age lesser than we are today. What happened to our own generation of youth? Today, Omoyele Sowore, Adeyanju Deji, etc have done their best and are giving up gradually because the youth are not supporting well enough. Should activism die? How will the government know the reaction of the commoners to harsh government policies. Fuel price has thrown the country into infertile ground, who is to tell the government how painful it is to the low income earners.
Activism should be rekindled. It's a great way to show patriotism. Those around the ruling class can never tell them the truth that an activist or one in opposition party can tell him.
Naza Christian Iruka
While on Okada moving along Afikpo road today, I saw people on long queue in a petrol filling station. I asked the Okada man carrying me if he knows the reason for the long queue and he said that it's because the petrol station is selling at ₦617 per little. Immediately my eyes were engorged with tears 😭😭
How did Nigeria get here😭
Fuel that was ₦97 in no distant time! How do the commoners adapt to the sudden adjustment which is not gradually but skyrocketed from the least to the highest!
How will the Okada man survive the sudden surge in fuel price? Fuel is ₦650 per litre but those who patronize the Okada people price their service to a distance place at ₦200 😭. The motorcycle occasionally spoils and the services of repairers will be needed, Parts will be bought.
Severally, I have said, to me, meaning of subsidy removal in Nigeria is to build Nigeria owned and controlled refinery, and there won't be need to subsidize anything again. Anything far from that is to intentionally subject the masses to untold agony.
May God help Nigeria and force good purpose into our leaders.
Naza Christian Iruka
By
Okoro Mark Ogbonnaya Maazi Ogbonnaya Okoro
Over the years, grammatical anomalies have been committed regarding ways to write some Igbo names or words. On social media, series of "nma" and "mma" challenge have taken place.
Many people opined that their dialect pronounce "nma", others said no, it is "mma". Some said "mma" means mother while "nma" means beauty. They are phonologically unexposed to know the importance of tone marking in Igbo heteronyms. Others say "mma" is knife while "nma" means beauty.
Let me first initiate the idea that "nma" is anglicised form of mma which does not follow the phonotatic rules of the Igbo language.
In Igbo language, "M" and "N" are consonants. But unique in a way. They are syllabic nasals. In Igbo phonotatic rule, there is no consonant cluster. That is why Nsukka, Onitsha, Owerri are wrong. They are not Igbo. Instead the correct spellings are Nsụka, Ọnịcha and Owere.
But "M" and "N" can come together to form a meaningful word. This time, the repeated "M" or "N" is no longer a consonant cluster but as one stands for syllabic nasal (myiriụdaume), another one stands for consonant (mgbochiume) The first one can take tone mark but the second one cannot. Eg:
Mma
Mmanụ
Mmadụ
Mmemme
Mmọnwụ
Mmịmị
Mmegbu,
Mmakọ
Mmemmadụ
Mmekọrịta
Mmekọ
The first "m" stands for a syllabic nasal. It takes tone mark. But the following "m" stands for consonant, it does not take tone mark.
Coming to "N", the same rule goes. Eg:
Nne
Nnenna
Nnedi
Nnamdị
Nnọọ
Nna.
The first "n" is not functioning as a consonant but syllabic nasal. It takes tone mark; while the following "n" is a consonant. It does not take tone mark.
THE GRAMMATICAL RULES OF IGBO
Igbo phonotactic rule states that:
1. "M" cannot meet with "N" to form a word. Like "Mna" "Mnadụ" "Mnegbu".
2. "N" cannot meet with "M" to form a word. Like:
Nma
Nmadụ
Nmenme
Nmegbu
Nmanya, etc.
What we have are these:
* "M" goes with "m" eg:
Mmá =beauty
Mmà= knife
Mmanya
Mmanụ
Chidịmma
* "N" goes with "N" eg:
Nneka (not Nmeka)
Nnanna
Nnadi
Nnọrọ, etc.
Another point that disproves "Nma" is this. The place of articulation of "M" and the place of articulation of "N" is not the same.
While "M" is a bilabial speech sound (the upper and lower lips emerge together to produce it) then "N" is produced when the tongue rise up to the hard palate and clenched with the upper teeth. Though both are nasalised voice sounds, that is why they are called syllabic nasal only when they function as vowels as enumerated above.
What we are discussing here is Igbo izugbe and rules of writing Igbo. Those of you claiming that Chidịmma is Chidịnma, you are failing the Igbo grammatical rules of word formation. Those of you writing mmegbu as nmegbu, you are failing the grammatical rules of the Igbo language.
The aforementioned points are the reason why "Nma" is wrong. it does not go at all. Some people say: " that is what we have been pronouncing since". They can even be telling you that "n" came first before "m".
Yes! Ihe ọjọọ gbaa afọ ọ bụrụ omenala. When an evil thing persists, it turns to tradition. That you have been pronouncing this for long does not make it right.
And some people asked: "who made the rules? Are they not Igbo like me?"
These same people are hypocritically hunting for new English grammar books to learn new grammar and how to speak and write well. They never questioned those who made the English grammatical rules they obey.
The truth is, no one made any linguistic rule. Grammatical rules can be proven. From its nature, we see the rules naturally made before anyone say them out or put them down. That is to to say that grammatical rules are formed following the nature of the language..
© Maazi Ogbonnaya Okoro
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