I am one of those who believe that holding sincere and meaningful discussion among people of different backgrounds would be a very effective approach towards solving our problems as a people. I thank God that all our religions teach about the value of sincerity, fairness, and honesty. So, I am placing this discussion here for us to determine before God and human whether it is actually right for the Naira to bear Arabic inscriptions. : Please, NO CYBER-BULLYING HERE. If you do that I report you to the admins. Let's have meaningful discussions only.

Today, someone posted a quote from one Engineer Mua'zu Magaji. The quote read as follows:

Logical:
If Arabic is Islam, then English is Christian. Hence, if Arabic on Naira note is Islamisation, is using and teaching English to my kids Christianisation?

Should we discuss this further to equalise Arabic Arabic with English as national languages to give Muslims same recognition in equitable Nigeria?

Then, I said:

No, English is not CHRISTIAN. English is COLONIAL. Arabic belongs to Islam while Hebrew or Latin belongs to Christianity, depending on the denomination in question. Please, don't get it twisted.

Then, a muslim responded to me saying:

Do you know that in most of the Arab countries, Bible is written in Arabic and the Christian pastors there are preaching with it in the name of Jesus Christ can you call that islamization of the holy Bible?

I responded and said:

Meaning that Arabic is not Islamic? So, since Arabic is not one of our national languages and it's not also a language of any of our religions, why must it be on our currency note?

He responded and said:

My dear brother this thing has been since even before Nigeria independence, in the northern part of the country the colonial masters noticed that the best language the northern people understood in writing then was Arabic and for them to make things easy for the northerners as they write in English also write in Arabic even in Israel Arabic is written on their currency so you can't be a Catholic more than the Pope

Another person responded to me saying,

Sir Islam and Christianity are religions.
English and Arabic are languages.
I stand to be corrected.

I said to him:

every group of people have their own language whether they are Italians, engineers, or a worshipping community. Let's stop deceiving ourselves.

I am not in doubt but it is the Nexus because Christianity spread through English language just the islam spread through Arabians.
Christianity and Islamic are religions not languages.

he retorted.

But I insisted quite honestly:

I've also asked this question but no one is answering: If Arabic is not any of our national languages and it's not also the language of any of our religions, why are some people insisting that Arabic must be on our national currency?

But, my interlocutor refused to yield. He said:

sir, sensitive issue are matters to be discussed with sincererity.
Arabic or no Arabic is not our national problem.
It has done nothing wrong to any individual.
I am opportune to have travel in almost 33 state of this country representing national interest as my call.
I saw people in abject poverty in both northern and the southern states.
Ask a common this issue he will never care about it.
Please Arabic has done nothing wrong.
We are the wrong people spreading hates.
If you don't respect someone religion, race etc...
You are not helping our future.
Everything in Nigeria has been heading to wrong directions.
Churches, mosques, pastors, imams etc are creating more problems than preaching the gospel of each religion.
Sir I am not saying you are wrong, I am saying even if we brake up today if care is not taken it will not be bed of roses.
There's poverty every part of the country, and it is our responsibility to make things right.
I stand to be corrected, please.

I took him up on the bolded line because I saw that he was using that to avoid the simple but unavoidable question I asked even when he was talking about SINCERITY (well, it's one reason I am bringing the discussion here for us to discuss it SINCERELY and TRANSPARENTLY and you'll judge for yourself who is sincere or not).

I said:

Arabic or no Arabic is not our national problem? Yes, it is. How is it? It is because it is part of a grand scheme. It's clearly creepy. It's undemocratic since you are making me use a note I can't read against my will. It is needless affront on me since Arabic is neither our lingua franca, our colonial language, our national language nor even our religious language as you said

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"It's undemocratic since you are making me use a note I can't read against my will. It is needless affront on me since Arabic is neither our lingua franca, our colonial language, our national language nor even our religious language as you said"

Is the English there not enough for you to read Is it everyone that can also read that English
What you're calling Arabic is actually the Hausa Ajami script.
If that's your issue then all the Latin and cross symbols in any of our federal institutions should also be removed.

We should also have Yoruba, Igbo,nsibidi,ijaw,etc on the currency.

YouAreFinished:
"It's undemocratic since you are making me use a note I can't read against my will. It is needless affront on me since Arabic is neither our lingua franca, our colonial language, our national language nor even our religious language as you said"

Is the English there not enough for you to read Is it everyone that can also read that English
What you're calling Arabic is actually the Hausa Ajami script.
If that's your issue then all the Latin and cross symbols in any of our federal institutions should also be removed.

99.9 percent of the population can't read the so called Hausa Ajami script. Why not write it in normal Hausa.

What's Nigeria's lingua franca? Your response should settle this (I guess).
And concerning teaching in English...the British colonised Nigeria...not UAE. They brought education. Formal education was alien to the Nigerian culture. Nigeria follows a pattern we even adopted a large portion of their legal system too...So for me, those who started asking questions about the common sense in adding arabic to the Naira notes have a valid case.

Nigeria is an English speaking country (at least as our lingua franca. Not french, not arabic)

Kweensavvy:
What's Nigeria's lingua franca? Your response should settle this (I guess).
And concerning teaching in English...the British colonised Nigeria...not UAE. They brought education. Formal education was alien to the Nigerian culture. Nigeria follows a pattern we even adopted a large portion of their legal system too...So for me, those who started asking questions about the common sense in adding arabic to the Naira notes have a valid case.

Nigeria is an English speaking country (at least as our lingua franca. Not french, not arabic)

Hello there, could we be friends?

Bekermann:



Hello there, could we be friends?

Hi, how are you? Sure we can.

It's not the Arabic language but an Ajami language.
Even if it's the Arabic language, does it reduce the value of the currency

Kweensavvy:


Hi, how are you? Sure we can.

Alright then. Thanks.

no needs to remove any Arabic words on the naira notes .

"Arabic on naira note..."

Should that even be a problem?
Does having Arabic on that naira note devalue it?

You can write whatever language u want on the naira note, but just fix Nigeria and minimize poverty; these should be what people should be more concerned about, not some useless write-ups on the currency.
You can as well make the naira blank, if that would help increase its value.

What exactly is wrong with people?

Kweensavvy:


Hi, how are you? Sure we can.

Sent you a mail.

Blackking98:
We should also have Yoruba, Igbo,nsibidi,ijaw,etc on the currency.

Yeah since they are part of the country.

jidamsel43:
It's not the Arabic language but an Ajami language.

Even if it's the Arabic language, does it reduce the value of the currency

It doesn't however since the interest of few Nigerians are considered, others should.

stonemasonn:
99.9 percent of the population can't read the so called Hausa Ajami script. Why not write it in normal Hausa.

The present Naira notes are written in Hausa,Igbo, Yoruba and English

Bekermann:


Sent you a mail.

Okay...how about you try kweensavvy@gmail.com? I'm wondering if I can access the one tied to this forum

Kweensavvy:


Okay...how about you try kweensavvy@gmail.com? I'm wondering if I can access the one tied to this forum

Sent. Did you see it?

Bekermann:


Sent. Did you see it?

Oh no...I forgot to 8 after the last letter. Twas an error sorry. There's a number after my name–8. I forgot to add it to the address. You can do that. Sorry ko?

Kweensavvy:


Oh no...I forgot to 8 after the last letter. Twas an error sorry. There's a number after my name–8. I forgot to add it to the address. You can do that. Sorry ko?

Lol. OK.

Kweensavvy:


Oh no...I forgot to 8 after the last letter. Twas an error sorry. There's a number after my name–8. I forgot to add it to the address. You can do that. Sorry ko?

Sent. Seen?

No e should not.

It’s ajamai. It should be allowed. It is not killing anyone, but I think that they should add nsibidi.