Topic: Naija Novice Hangout {Newbies introduction & Orientation} Thread. - page 205. (Read 1029550 times)

I see this like how our president is acting and yet..., although this is self-moderated thread but is for all Nigerians, and you supposed to be the best person to be neutral here regardless of what is going on, but all languages in Nigeria are welcomed. Be it English, Pidgin or local language, this is not what we agreed to in the past with evidences I can bring up. Or is there no one that understand English too here?

If activities increase, we will get it.

This is not what we agreed to, all news in Nigeria are in English, English is our official language. Why this now? All languages Nigerians are speaking are said to be accepted.

Any post wey get Oyinbo completely, I go delete am from next week (Sunday). And no be debating something again and if you dey write the oyinbo try add am Nigerian writings like instead of 'this' you fit rit 'dis' no be mandatory sometin but just suggestions. Here no be englsh board and all those copy post of news article shey una know the forum no dey too welcome am. Here no be were to get post activities as people for d forum dey reason am say na wetin we just dey do.

If you wan rit for oyinbo go main board dem, dey plenty here no be una go come use english dey spoil the whole thread. I no care if we no get the local board but no spoil here. The idea here na for we to hangout gossip. How we go dey talk odas go dey understand which kind tin be dat. You see how our pidgin dey confused dem wen e go main board, e no sweet you?.

Proof: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ban-evasion-5360695

Again: Official language na pidgin and native dialects (I dun update am for main post). E no mata how ur pidgin be. If you wan add am slangs no problem but know say straight up oyinbo yanings no go dey welcomed here again.

Exactly both are important, I just do not want to raise more valid points, but I would if need be, I got points before bringing a matter up, we should not act more like English is not widely spoken in Nigeria or that bitcoin and other crypto users do not understand English, yet it is our official language that we should not deny. I hate the fact that I am dedicating my time here with much activities to learn and gain from other Nigerians and yet people correcting me on what is not, when I believe if 20 other members post just like me, it will be easy to achieve local board. I have once said, achieving local board should be a gradual process.

Yet we post in both and our local thread was pinned recently, I do not expect this to be coming when we have made a conclusion about it just few months ago and more progress came after.

For example, the word CAP is not everyone that uses it, infact you say that word around my area you would need to identify who you are, I think the issue of pidgin and English is important, but language is not all about speaking it's also about understanding, if I can see a pidgin language which has no translator version and still understand it then to me it's a Local board communication, and we can't compare ourselves with other Local board they can easily find their translation on translator for those who do not understand their language, I don't have any problem speaking pidgin, i use it also in the outside world, amongst my friends, neighbor and colleague, because I know they understand, so I think we can do better, and also I would try to add some pidgin to my post here and in such a way I think anyone who reads it can understand.

You still not get me, make we leave everyone be, check the last four most quality topics, 3 na in English, yet most people post for pidgin. If 75% of post na Pidgin, no need to bring this up imo.

If you no sabi Hausa, Igbo, or Yoruba, translators can mislead people, just leave people speaking it among us to post in it, post the one you understand which is Pidgin or your language if it can be active as people from your side plenty pass for here.

We don addressed this before, and there was positive result.

Posting qualities and activities matters most, no be language. I dey surprised we dey get back to what we don addressed before after many positive changes for the good conclusion among us.

Baba if u no sabi cap for pidgin fluently you fit dey add am small small for your talk make e no be pure English, if you be yoruba you fit still dey talk with am I go still follow you talk for Yoruba  Activities matters but de language too still gum body for criteria for making a local board

Pretty obvious na activities, no be language. Then why is the thread pinned after both are active here. Three of the threads I included for the pinned local thread request dey completely for Oyibo and yet strictly pertaining to Naija.

Request for pinned Nigerian local thread

Posting for whatever we want spoken in the country no bad, and yet Pidgin plenty pass for here.

Tbh. I still dey feel say na language make dem never give us this local board cus I myself no see reason why dem suppose give us since na English we still dey yarn for here, wetin dat user example...n talk na legit matter and as e be so make we dey try dey put pidgin for our discussion, if our check my posts here I dey cap for pidgin for most of my discussion here. Abeg we fit dey talk for Yoruba and hausa here from now on till we open our appeal again in December? Us wey nodey hear go use backyard dey translate am den cap.

Na this make dat una telegram group been make sense for dis kind cappins abeg we need to cap vital for telegram abeg.

All these na part of the terms and conditions wey follow for all the loan we dey borrow from China e don dey hook for our throats small small, we are independence country and having Non-Nigerian bank for we country no make sense at all but these will unbank our local banks with non-interest loan and the rest

o yẹ ki a gbiyanju ati lo ori wa ni aaye yii, jẹ ki a lo yoruba ni igbagbogbo

Nor be say i dey carry the matter play lol, but make person see laugh to laugh small for naija. The matter na say anyhow this matter wan go, na so e go be. Whether the thing go dey beneficial or not to us, i feel say with the kind money Nigeria dun already borrow from china and with the one dem still dey plan to borrow, anything wey China government want, na so e go be for this country. Our government dey sell their right with the plenty borrow borrow.

Could dis be a gud news to 9ja or a gridlock to economy setback?
I bin dey remember somtimes back wen d govment encourages patronizing awa own home made local items in the likes of cars, rice, maize and fabrics to mention few and I can recall that such action and decision wey bin dey place ban on importation of dis dis dem awa items cause inflation to d market price, nd yet we engaged in buying low quality Nigerian products with no choice.

Bringing China banking sector into operation in Nigeria 2me is like going back to an era of colonization in disguise or claiming dependency on China 4 economi survival. If una fit remember dem USA, dey will dash u N5 and take am collect N50 back from u.

Abeg wetin una tink frm una own aspect on top dis opata mata?




Una dey hear talk.... dis bin one of dem reasons, d wisemen talk bin say " use wetin u get achif wetin u want" e no dey work for dis kind mata o

Being a busy and hard-working week for me especially yesterday, so checking up on my nigerian local board and at first first had to search for it, am not used to this because it's not far under the last pinned post, so I thought something must be wrong, then it's wasn't only relaxing but exciting to see our board has now been pinned, I am so joyous about this, bit still let's all nigerians not relent, we have gotten pinned let's show that we deserve it and we can probably get our own board, congratulations everyone.

True talk. Pidgin na wetin everybody suppose to the speak here. Speaking grammar no kukuma makes sense for here. Other people d speak d language wey d take know them and our own no supposed to d different at all.
One love everyone make stay together as family and relate with one another for pidgin

Thank you for that observation.

Shey I tell una to only write for pidgin una no hear, this oyinbo no make self at all and if I be admin ehh I no go fit give una local board when na oyinbo una dey speak throughout. I go ask wetin una need the local board for if na just oyinbo una go just dey speak. Make una dey speak pidgin abeg, so argument no go dey wen we wan appeal again.

If we las achieve am then we fit put oyinbo but I no take oyinbo talk as our official language here go get us wetin we want. Speak Igbo, hause, pidgin or your native language but avoid english. E no make say say dem go just dey decode our cappings for here. Okay check out dat blackpussy case na language confused them and na so e supposed dey.

[CHARTS] Brief monthly overview of the local boards activity


Thanks to Rikafip for this local board stat update. We hope more good posters will be active on Nigeria local thread, we hope more new members will also be introduced so they can be active on the thread. If all of us are active here, posting a page (20 posts) in just a day with the best quality posts, we will achieve the local board very fast, this has been what I have been implying since long time ago. I believe as time goes on, this will be achievable.

Ten most active posters

Charles-Tim [41]
igehhh [22]
CryptopreneurBrainboss [14]
Mpamaegbu [14]
Nathrixxx [14]
Fivestar4everMVP [7]
Pokapoka124 [7]
BIT-BENDER [6]
Coyster [4]
CryptocurencyKing [3]

One of our active poster, Pokapoka124 was banned, it is not what we are happy about, there are times in the past we forget not to include link to our post or some kind of mistake that will make someone forget to include link. Let us all try to avoid this kind of mistake.

If we check this stat very well, it is clear how we are trying, only that more users should be introduced to this local thread so that we will help ourselves more about bitcoin and crypto related matters and also learning many more about what is happening in Nigeria from one another.

The pinned local thread requested overshadowed this topic, I think it is worth to be discussed about.


Nigeria is not yet ready to regulate cryptocurrencies, it was just a request that the national assembly should regulate cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrencies also needs regulation, but experienced bitcoin users can still make use of it in a noncustodial way, having privacy. But the government will want to regulate the custodial exchanges and other centralized services. Nigeria still have not plan for the regulation that SEC is even planning for. Only that the CBN banned bank-to-crypto transactions for their e-naira.

It is wrong that bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies are used for criminal activities like ransom in Nigeria, even Boko Haram demanded for naira, bandits kidnapping kings are all demanding for naira, kidnappers are also demanding for naira, this is obvious all over the news. This is in accordance to what has been on the news, I have never read a news in which people that kidnapped (kidnappers) requested for bitcoin or other crypto assets before in Nigeria, but we all know Nigerian organizations and leaders, they will not conduct more research but take to media false information in order to achieve their aim. At least, if their is any evidences of cryptocurrencies been used for ransom, their should be some news or links to defend this.

You can not believe the rate of kidnapping in Nigeria, it has significantly increased, while all I have read about demanded for naira.

E shock me just now say, our talk-talk no just count for nothing but, e don dey give result even say, no be the gbege be this but then, we don dey stand well as people of caliber way we be normally. I go like tanka every person way continue to dey show face for here, dey put mouth for the talk-talk of this place way make our corner to dey top like dead body way water been swallow. Na all this una small small effort way don dey turn to bug thing so. Make we no stop to dey put in all this small small effort and this na another medium to tell everybody say, make we carry our fore eye dey look things way dey sup for our side on the forum, make when you wan shoot bird, the mama go fly. We don dey day pronounced so, make we kwa commot dirty for our side. Una weldone!

Dis wan totori me die! Menh! Afraid bin hold me wen I check down there and I nor see owa thread before I come carry eye up see where we hang for up. Na ogbenge thingz be dis. We all don try to make dis thing happen. My people sey wen dem join piss for ground na im dey make am foam. I salute theymos and Cyrus wey make dis matta tanda. I sabi sey e neva reach wetin we dey find but at least na right step in d right direction. As dis thing begin happen now make una know sey more ojokokoro go com plenty for owa matta now. Make we nor lose owa head, abeg.

However, my suggestion go be make we change that "Nigerian" wey dey for bracket to "Naija"

Even before Nigeria was colonized by the Britain, Pidgin (the language you meant) was used in some regions in West Africa just to be able to communicate between the English people and blacks. We are even still better to make other people to understand little of it, because if we write all our words in Pidgin, it might not look like English at all, but if spoken, English people will be able to understand it which is a successful means of communication between the our forefathers and and whites (the English people) to make trades in the olden days.

It was commonly spoken by unlearned people in the region as at then, but as level of education increased and also after independence, many educated people are also now speaking Pidgin. It is a lingua franca in some West Africa countries like Nigeria, Ghana, Cameron and Equatorial Guinea.

Even, when BBC knows how common Pidgin is in Africa, BBC Africa is in Pigin now, which was introduced in 2016/2017. You can watch this video

Pidgin - West African lingua franca
BBC starts Pidgin digital service for West Africa audiences

Pigin is a lingua franca in some West African countries even that many unlearned citizens also understand while learned people that are speaking it have significantly increased in Nigeria.

I'm good man maybe you didn't understand the message I sent to you  

You are always welcome here, they are not slangs they are pidgin English and if you read the 1-2 pages of ^{[the local board request thread]} you will understand why pidgin and English is mostly used here, and also we try as much as possible to let other non-Nigerians contribute to our discussions just like the India local board. Alaye omoh u dey shella 4 our mata like bubu and CBN chairmo. You grab?

you don't seem to have understood my intentions here. I have absolutely nothing against your ambition and the opening of your board, whether that will happen is certainly not my decision.
it certainly has nothing to do with a similar initiative I launched for the Serbian board on this forum. we failed, I gave up that fight (the real reason why we failed was that many ^Serbian users did not want to come out of their anonymity, and there are a lot of them with a very good reputation)

in a short time, several topics appeared with a discussion related to the Nigerian local thread, to everyone else outside of it ^Nigerian, it's not such an important topic it, therefore, seems like an exaggeration (maybe this is more appropriate than saying it’s spam  )
you already have few users, accused/banned because of plagiarism, now I saw Dragonfund is Nigerian and his topic on Reputation... all this does not create a good image of you. (Yes I know, they are individuals and there is that everywhere). this can certainly can be important when someone decides on your request, that is why it is important that "veterans" do not make beginner mistakes.

When I say about activity, compare yours to others who are also without their board. you will see a lot of them much more active, also packed into just one topic.
Unfortunately, I have not seen anyone's similar appeal succeed. who knows, maybe you'll be the first.

I believe that you should take into consideration our experience with the same problem, as well as possible advice.

@igehhh don't take this personally.
Again, I had nothing against your appeal, I have no reason for that. And I am certainly not the one who decides on resolving your matter. Are you okay with that?

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let me learn something from here. 
I see you mostly write in English here. only a few words are of unknown origin to me, but even these strangers seem to me to be part of some slang.
Why you don't write in the Nigerian language here (I mean it's the local part of this forum)?
whether the English language is so used in yours country?