YoungDaNaval: Are you 4rm Akwa Ibom?

prettiest1: Yea.

PAGAN9JA:

Please dont exaggerate foolish person. You are crying more than the so-called victim. I have tribal marks and so do members of my family. We are all doing fine.

Tribal marks add to the aesthetic beauty of the individual. It is our culture. not a disfigurement.

onila:

their culture is all abt being mean

the rudest girls i have met in my life happened to be yoruba

Olamilekan08:
I never knw these food you mention here can be shocking to someone.
That is actually not a sweeping broom, bt a broom specially designed 4 dat. Dats Gbegiri.u'll enjoy it, especially with ewedu,n amala.
Dat beans and garri, dats wat my guys calld 'sokudale'. When u take it, it ll b long b4 u go hungry again.
I'm sure dats nt a frog bt a toad.Men dat tin sweet die! Especialy in stew,lying on rice.
I hope i'm nt scaring u.

todayguest: I understand you're a victim. My comment had no insults. I only expressed my feelings. If you're, angry, you should direct it to your Pa or Ma.

YoungDaNaval: Where In Akwa Ibom?

Adeoba10: When I travelled to Abia state (Isialangwa north) and i saw ladies riding bicycle and bike , infact, d husband will sit at d back while d lady will b riding it... I was surprised... U will see 2-3yrs children riding CHOPPER bicycle

emenik08:
Na leaves like cassava leaves. What puzzles me is the idea using d same hand to clean our bom bom n same hand to eat

Sylverbox: Being born and bred in lagos, Schooling Partly in the North and attending a well-mixed university in the South south I thought I had seen, or at least heard it all. I was wrong!
After the NYSC orientation camp course at Asaya, Kabba, Kogi state, we were given our posting letters. Mine read 'Igalamela-Odolu'. Since I love tourism I was kind of glad it wasn't anywhere I have heard of! Little did I knw. It tool us about 7hours to get there! Along the way at Ofu, I was stunned to see people still live in primitive conditions, mud huts, bare bodies, plus small shrines outside every hut where they buried beer bottles. The driver told us that's what they worship.
I made up my mind there n then to head back to lokoja....but the culture shock I got was that I could Identify some Ibo dudes in that hell of a Place!!! Damn!!!

AmericanCar: So here it is.....I usually just read for interest and entertainment blogs and forums from around the world because of the business i am in-exporter of vehicles from the USA. I can relate to this culture shock topic in a big way. Everyday i communicate with people not just from Nigeria but from other countries all over Africa, the Middle East, South America, the Russian region and more. And I am a woman and deal almost exclusively with men. Yes and I have been to West Africa. I love to talk but I find when I travel, I stay quiet because everything around me is different....so different that i figure the easiest way to keep everything cool and calm is to just stay quiet and observe.....
We all love our homes because we everything is familiar and comfortable.....the way people talk, the way people smell, what we eat, how we go to the bathroom (urinate and defecate), and for me as a woman.....how men treat me and I treat them.
I now just say....."that's who they are and they were made by our perfect Universe just like I was" and besides, it makes for forums like this where we talk about it.
Here is where I had to learn to laugh......I know when my phone rings in the middle of the night (I am in New York City) and there is a male voice demanding I send them pictures of a particular car NOW and Urgently......9 out of 10 times the country code on my phone is 234. And the standard reply from 234 after they see the car and the price......too expensive...... can you give it to me for half the price that you quote? (which happens to be way way below the cost of any DECENT and LEGALLY ACQUIRED car in the USA. Now if they don't say its too expensive and ask for the invoice......then I know it is DEFINITELY a fraudster.

And yes i eat with my left hand

hugelyendowed: Mod front page things o i have experienced cultural shok b4. in akwa ibom, if u r up to 20 years or more as a girl and u neva born, they wil b laughing at u

emenik08:
Na leaves like cassava leaves. What puzzles me is the idea using d same hand to clean our bom bom n same hand to eat

sandijey:

Then what is the use of soap. How about putting your hand inside your nose and using the same hand to eat. I am so surprised by this. How can u think tissue paper will clean all the shit away.

Arysexy:

Very true, my roommate during service was a Yoruba guy. Normally I bzyrtec tissue paper and keep in the toilet, never knew he wasn't using them till I traveld and after 2 weeks of my absence the tissue paper was still intact.

I enquired from him out of my curiosity and the ogbunigwe was exploded to me. From that day I stopped allowing him to cook and was always mindful of shaking him after he has gone to the loo.

His reason for using water is hygiene but that did not go down well with me cos there was never soap in the toilet, meaning he uses bare hand to scrub the shyt from the anus, yuck!

Tissue is the best, but while bathing, I use sponge and soap to tidy up any remnant if any and same time wash hands and body thoroughly.

hugelyendowed: Mod front page things o i have experienced cultural shok b4. in akwa ibom, if u r up to 20 years or more as a girl and u neva born, they wil b laughing at u

hugelyendowed: mynd44, obinoscopy, pls who are the moderators of this session? I think this is an interesting topic that needs front page, thanks.

at topic, I was shocked when someone told me that in a part of Rivers state , when a male visitor comes to c a family, that the host would give out his wife to the visitor as a form of welcoming him, he will ask the man(visitor) to sleep with his wife .

Amhappy: I was shocked the day a friend took me to a stream that habours snakes. These snakes doesnot bite and coil on people legs. That community is in Anambra. When we relocated back to my villa,i was shocked to see idols openly worshipped. A god even owns a normal house. No killing of python and green snakes. A cow sacrificed to the gods was roaming the streets,destroying people crops and attacking people. When i was in university, i saw masquerade flog married women,it an abomination in my place. I saw women masons,carrying blocks and cement for storey building in Awka. I visited a place still in Anambra state where all compounds have a shrine,i refused to get down from the car that day. Served in Brass and saw the following;there is nothing wrong with women taking alcoholic drinks,when kids fight adults sit and watch instead of separating, its relatively safe to move around at night even for ladies,during the rainy season crab and little fishes will be seen around the house, it can rain for seven days non stop,kids 6-10 can paddle boats,every pubic event people expect the govt to share money etc.

matsilver: Mine was my first visit 2 abuja, dat was in d year 2014. I was insde d room truout d first day, d second day i decide 2 cum out n feel d beautiful city n d colourful street wit full of design flowers. As i opned d gate.behold, i saw an old woman in her late 70's, carring a heavy load on her back sholder instead of her head.. @ first i tought it's d load dat disbalance her, i rushd 2 helpd her, d next tin i hear was "haya haya"means, commot 4rm road. I was so shock..

PAGAN9JA:

Maybe the lady is Gwari (Gbagyi) . they carry dia load like that.

Omexonomy: Their is this people from benue state who are having a very funny culture. A man who is a member of the family is alow to have s.ex with all other females being married into the family. To them a woman is being married into a family and not neccesary the property of the man only. A man can use his wife to entertain his visitors or brother.
According to edo culture at the death of a man all his property will be inherited by the first son no matter how wealthy the man might be.

tuffgongjo: you forget to add their "marrying like 100 women out the same day$most of them sef don born finish".