Speech: President Muhammadu Buhari’s Speech On 2021 Democracy Day

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Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM

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Jun 12, 2021, 4:49:25 AM6/12/21
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Fellow Nigerians,

I join you all today to commemorate and celebrate our Democracy Day. It is a celebration of freedom and a victory for one people, one country and one Nigeria........

Link: http://www.publicinfoprojectsblog.org/2021/06/speech-president-muhammadu-buharis.html?m=1



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Jun 14, 2021, 2:39:16 AM6/14/21
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If you said one people instead of one person, my primary school teacher would have given you one million injections with his koboko.

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Farooq A. Kperogi

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Jun 14, 2021, 12:17:42 PM6/14/21
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That's probably because your primary school teacher isn't familiar with many nonstandard native dialects of the English language. In African American Vernacular English,  for example, "she's good people" means she's a good person. 

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Biko Agozino

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Jun 14, 2021, 5:00:26 PM6/14/21
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Makes you wonder why African Americans score less in English SAT exams than any other group, including Asians and Hispanics who do not speak English as their first language. But in fairness to Buhari, his A1 in WAEC was reportedly in Igbo Language and not in English.

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Farooq A. Kperogi

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Jun 14, 2021, 6:16:00 PM6/14/21
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It's for the same reason that white people in the Appalachian Mountains do poorly in English,  too. Their dialect of English,  like the African American dialect, isn't privileged in "Standard English."

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Biko Agozino

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Jun 15, 2021, 1:05:00 AM6/15/21
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You are right, working class communities even in London (Hackney Borough) or Liverpool (Scouse) tend to struggle with the Queen's English too. However, the point I was making is that the singularization of people (understandable in normal circumstances) reinforces the one-man dictatorship that is evolving - le etat es moi, I am the state.

Biko

OLAYINKA AGBETUYI

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Jun 15, 2021, 6:09:01 AM6/15/21
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One people is not wrong the way CAO used it.
It is in the same register  as Nigeria's Second Republic slogan: One Nation, One Destiny.  It is a futuristic declamation of political correctness.  Every politician of the Second Republic NPN knew Nigeria is an agglomeration of nationalities seeking common purpose.

In English register matters.


OAA



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Makes you wonder why African Americans score less in English SAT exams than any other group, including Asians and Hispanics who do not speak English as their first language. But in fairness to Buhari, his A1 in WAEC was reportedly in Igbo Language and not in English.

Biko

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