₦airaland Forum

Ensa777:
;Cost of living is killing the living in Nigeriaoooo.

This lady na werey.

joseph1832:
Does Nick Cannon have Nigerian blood?

See kwesion?

Nor be 2Baba missing bro you dey look so?

Omoawoke:
Wetin concern them with beards?

How many beards Dangote , or Elon Musk get?

Check the people on Forbes list, who among them get beards.

Check the men with multiple wives, how many beards Ned get abi Ooni of ife?

People still forming Nebuchadnezzar with bia bia in 2024. Chai!

Hmmmmm.

Another empire debate.

Automaticmotors
samuk
Gregyboy

Angelfrost:
As it stands, anybody wey never marry now is on his own...!


However, if many women are sleeping around, it simply means many men are equally sleeping around!

Abi, the women dey sleep with themselves?!!

Mostly same few men who have the means and time sleep with more men while a whole lot of men have very very few women.
In the same way around 90% of total wealth in 9ja belongs to only about top 10% of the people (mostly men).

An example, a randy HOD in a department of a subject/module students tend to struggle with can sleep with 50 girls in one semester in 9ja.

Power and or money of a man matters.

Gerrard59:
Pansophist has said the same. Pareto's principle comes to mind.

cc: Areafada2

Very true.

JohnnA1:
In a serious country, shutting down power by nlc should have been seen that dog AJAERO and the tuc President arrested by now.

Any 25% serious country would have sorted out minimum wage issue longest time.
Let's be sincere for once.

Simple fact.

I have said virtually same thing as this lady here on Nairaland for years. The few top guys have all the girls.

A girl has to just walk on the street and men will approach.

The majority of very average and lower classes men don't have as much women as they claim.
Often, average guys have to lie that they are better off economically than they are: that they work at NNPC, Chevron, Shell, etc. Or claim to be businessmen. Just to hit and run as the lie is unsustainable.

It's not up to 30% of 9ja men that have 1m in cash or savings/account. And most that have are already married or older. So sugar daddies have lots of girls to pick from.

Gerard59
This is something we have discussed over the years here too.

Any guy that does not do paternity test on his kids is a capital ode. Unless he is quite happy to raise kids for men outside.

Gerrard59:
You are a prophet! I recall when you have been saying the bold for so long.

But in your opinion, why are the black leaders or black Africans in general so incompetent in managing a functioning system? This time, they don't have to build from scratch, just maintain what is ground. Why is this so difficult?

Areafada2, I am curious.

My brother, your guess is as good as mine.

But there are some common observations.

Although it seems illogical, building from scratch is easier than maintenance. Not physically easier, but psychologically. And psyche is VERY important in anything.

You see, building is a labour of love. You experiment, make mistakes, innovate, learn a lot and succeed. You cherish it and will work harder to maintain it.

Look at the railway lines that Nigeria and India inherited from British colonial times. At Oshodi, people were trading wares on rail lines. The roof tops of Indian trains carry as much passengers as those inside the trains.

But look at China and Japan. They inherited no rail lines from nobody. Today, they have bullet train and what not.

UAE and much of Saudi Arabia were deserts a few decades ago. They built from scratch.

How many inherited businesses succeed in 9ja?

Go to PH, Ibadan, Benin, Lagos and many other places. How many firstborn sons maintain inherited houses well? Yet a stranger that arrived with slippers and the shirt on his back will build his house, business and family in 25 years or less. While firstborn son is still fighting tenants over rent in an inherited face-me-I-slap-you house with leaky roof.

A girl that receives 1.5m alert from her sugar daddy can spend 900k on Iphone immediately.

But a girl who saved up 1.5m from bank teller work over time would buy T-Bills, shares or invest it wisely otherwise.

To maintain what you did not build is much harder than people think.

MASTAkiLLAh:
South Africans are gradually getting tired of the incompetent geriatrics running their country with sympathy tax from riding Nelson Mandela's dîck. If those föols had done their damn jobs of properly running the country, where would a white leaning party have the audacity to come out from ? Ramaphosa has two hairy dark bâlls to suck on very soon whether he likes it or not.

INEC and Nigerian politicians, please learn from your juniors before disgrace will be your everlasting legacy

I have said for some years now that within a generation (around 20 to 25 years) from now, a white guy will rule SA again as president.

Most of those who witnessed apartheid as adults will be gone, sense of history will be much less, mixed marriages/mixed race population will have increased, black South Africans will have demonstrated their incompetence in public office, like in most other sub-Saharan countries, and expediency will force a more sanguine population to look up to a white leader. Very unfortunate but it's the truth.

It appears it might happen sooner than I thought.

Housing:
Morning greeting use to be followed with lineage recognition and hyping the Oriki thing is a daily thing in Yoruba culture. If you see everyone do it doesn't mean its no more part of the Yoruba culture.

Give me examples of such morning lineage greetings.

Examples like:

Bashorun family of Oyo
Balogun of Ake/under Alake
Odofin of Ijesha

Owa Obokun family
Awujale family
Timi of Ede family.

And other Family MORNING greetings.

Not talking of oriki generally like "Omo Owa Obokun" to praise Deji of Akure people, for example. Because I know my family oriki in Yorubaland.

Housing:
Ado is a very common name to relate to Ife. Meaning where we stand after leaving Ife. We have than twenty towns that have the morphism e.g. Ado-Odo, Ado-Ota, Ado-Ekiti, Ado in Ibeju Lekki, Ado in Ojo along Badagry Expressway and many more

It still does not prove that all came from Ife. Ugbo people owned Ife previously but they are not called Ado-Ugbo.
HRM Oba Akinruntan even called his company Obat Oil after Obatala, owner of original Ife.

Just because people gathered doesn't mean all came from Ife. The whole Ife story is strange. Yorubaland is at least over 2000 years old. Much more in my view. How come Oduduwa who came around 1000 years ago is the father of all Yoruba? Spiritual leader/father, yes plausible. Physical Baba, not plausible.

In Benin, morning greetings is used to recognise your family descent daily. Just in case praise name/unwanwhen/like Yoruba Oriki is not practical every morning. Although praise name should follow after you greet an elder with family linage greeting.
Automaticmotors
samuk
Gregyboy

Housing:
Eben and Ada were the symbol of authority that On I use to hand over to the new Bini King in the time immemorial. Bini running away from Yoruba ancestry is simply illogical. Omo Ada Omo Eben. I am an Ijebu man with Bini ancestry from my mother side. Bini were from Ile Ife their language change due to cultural diffusion.

That insignia is very common in Yoruba land it in on my family Official letter headed paper.

I have a direct Yoruba royal line on father's side. I have first class kings in Yoruba land from my line. But I am from Edo. However, we maintained our ties, family and know our relatives. Easy when you (my recent ancestors/us can walk into palaces and say who you are in the family) and you are recognised. Together ancient family name still in a street and an entire quarter.

Read my old posts from years back. So, I can vouch for my neutrality. It is only Benin royal family and some aristocrats who possibly share some ancestry. The entire Benin as a tribe and Yoruba ARE NOT that related. Both are very mixed. Igbo, Edo, Yoruba, and some Benue people were very close ancestrally.

Philologically, you can even spot which separated first in terms of language structure. Igbo in general separated first. Yoruba and Benin were closer for a bit longer.

But it does not mean they are same people. There are about may be 5% Edo people like myself with pristine Yoruba descent and we do not hide it. We wear it on our sleeves proudly. Even that is half the story. It turned out we even had a previous Edo descent going to Yorubaland. I asked myself : what other descent could there have been that is now lost to history? And we are still bona fide Edo people today. I do not feel any different whether following Igue festival at Oba palace in Benin or a ceremony at Oba's palace in my part of Yorubaland.

Where some people see differences, I soak in and enjoy the culture. The percentage of Benin people in Yorubaland varies considerably depending on location. In Eastern Yorubaland, I know of some communities (one has a first class monarch) where 90% claim Edo descent. I have thrown the challenge here on NL before to physically take people there to verify but because people just want to argue and NOT want the truth, they didn't take it up.

You see all these our arguments here, those monarchs know themselves. They know the truth, what they can say publicly and what tribal politics of modern 9ja won't allow them to admit in public.

Automaticmotors
samuk
Gregyboy

muhammaduyusufu:
https://www.bbc.com/igbo/afirika-50720633

His royal majesty is a revered monarch. However, Ife was never known as Ado.

Even Yoruba called call Edo Ado. Ndi Idu is Igbo's name for Benin people.

The ancestor Idu is the earliest known traceable progenitor of Benin people. Not necessarily the first.
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Ado-Ekiti have their own version of their relationship with Benin.

In 1970, Nnamdi Azikiwe wrote in his "My Genealogy and Nativity" and traced his paternal and Maternal lines to Benin. Naming all his ancestors way back to Benin when Ezechima left Benin. No Ife mentioned in it. Zik mentioned other Ezechima clans, including Isseluku, Onicha-Ugbo, Onicha-Olona, Aboh, etc. In Benin, we consider Issele uku line as the most senior Ezechima line.

However, being of Benin royal descent, Onitsha royals/ancient aristocracy, they only relate with Ife through Benin, if at all such exists between Benin and Ife.

samuk
Automaticmotors
Gregyboy

arithletics:
After Gandollar tore the emirate into 4 like he was slicing Agege bread! No respect for culture and tradition

Nice. Biz reg, I mean.

samuk:
20-12-1514 King Manuel: to Ruy Leite, to give clothes to Benin ambassador

Ruy Leite. We command you to give to Pero Baroso, a black man who came to us with letters from the king of Benin a capuce and a cloth cape worth 200 reals a yard, red or of any other colour, as he prefers, trousers of heavy cloth worth 180 reals, and shorts of red camlet. Give him everything made and tailored to fit him, which we are having him given to wear. Do not wait for a bill, because it is an understanding between us. By this letter, which you are to show to the accountants, I command them to please pay for the cost.
Given in Almerim, on 20 December 1515. The Secretary wrote it. Also give him a red hat.
a) The King -
The said Pero Barroso received from Ruy Leyte all the clothing mentioned above, made and tailored, as well as a red hat on 22 January 1516.
a) Jorge + Correa.
a) P. + Barroso.
A hood and cape made cloth worth two reals a yard, a pair of trousers of heavy material worth 170 reals a yard, shorts of a red camlet and a red hat, to Baroso, who came with letters from the king of Benin, to your Higheness and Ruy Leite.
Received Y. da Fonseca

True account.

samuk:
Among others, there is in the kingdom of Benin an ancient custom, observed to the present day, that when a king dies, the peole all assemble in a large field, in the centre of which is a very deep well, wider at the bottom than at the mouth. They cast the body of the dead king into this well, and all his friends and servants gather round, and those who are judged to have been most dear to and favoured by the king (this includes not a few, as all are anxious for the honour) voluntarily go down to keep him company. When they have done so, the people place a great stone over the mouth of the well, and remain by it day and night. On the second day, a few deputies remove the stone, and ask those below what they know, and if any of them have already gone to serve the king; and the reply is, No. On the third day, the same question is asked, and someone then replies that so-and-so, mentioning a name, has been the first to go, and so-and-so the second. It is considered highly praiseworthy to be the first, and he is spoken of with the greatest admiration by all the people, and considered happy and blessed. After four or five days all these unfortunate people die. When this is apparent to those above, since none reply to their questions, they inform their new king, who causes a great fire to be lit near the well, where numerous animals are roasted. These are given to the people to eat, and he with great ceremony is declared to be the true king, and takes the oath to govern well.
The negros of Guinea and Benin are very irregular in their eating, because they never eat at fixed hours and eat four or five times a day. Their drink is water or palm wine.

samuk, please tag people or they might miss these eyewitness accounts.

As for the burial rights, not sure when such stopped or if indeed this was in Benin proper.

89green:
Nigeria, 900 step backwards, 0.5 step forward. We never ready for any development seh.

Helinuess pls deliver my ultra super discount APC card tonight. I need to buy 800 litres of diesel at 63 naira per litre tomorrow.

Emeskhalifa:
But let's get something straight here, so let's say after 8yrs and opposition wins governor election in Kano and decided to revisit this case, won't SLS be dethroned again and this very one reinstated?

Abeg, let him go chop another 3 years or 7 years emirship in peace first. He will cross the bridge when he gets there.

magoo10:
So what is ICC doing about hamas the terrorist?
Fk ICC
Very useless court

ICC also wants to arrest 3 top Hamas leaders.

Yes, ICC is skewed against developing countries just like IMF, World Bank, UN Security Council, etc.

But the weak usually gets the short end of the stick. We are the weakest of all the regions in the world. Only we Africans can work hard/smart to change that.

Lol. The thing go be skit.

Interesting.

Black soup (bitter leaf, pumpkin, scented leaf).

Limca, Canada Dry, Goldspot, Crush, Krest, Mirinda, Shandy, Schweppes.

Newyorkitis:
Perfect... Both are related to Manchester City.

I have two questions:

When will Seun Monetize Nairaland?

When do we get to see the names of those who click like on a post?
(We have some hypocrisy going on because we don't know who may like a post but end up doing other things)

Seun listen o. Shey you nor dey scam us old hands for this NL so?

Na so Seun suddenly vanish our beloved Nairalist that year.

If not, OLX abi jigijigi something for nor stand a chance.

Abeg monetise o.

vastolord4:
This is a trending scam and some he goats are falling for it.. just confirm the order before the delivery.. una morning

Big scam! One useless guy that will not marry her is tidying her thing steady on your behalf.

They form saint for a responsible guy and play LovePeddler to one agbero, na today?

eweqwatr:
Mtshew, dependent husband for 10 whole years he kept depending?

Please read well o. The spouse or kid of someone studying in UK is a dependant. He said he arrived in UK in 2023 as a dependant.

If he had arrived in UK as a dependant 10 years ago, he would have a British passport by now. It must have been 10 years of marriage in total with their kids even still in 9ja.

Most 9ja women marry a guy who proposes, not really the guy they wanted.

When they get the opportunity to be independent, economically and otherwise, the unloved hubby becomes irritating. Simple.

Zonefree:
Anyone going under the knife is not a consumer of professional services.

Ok, na Alagbo Service consumer. Kwantinew, shogbo.

Cosmesis is professional service provision, not even essential care in this case. Not like correcting burnt skin or something.

Gajagojo:
Not impressed with Ojo and Umahi too much hype

Do we have ministers of Health, Education and Trade?
For me those are among the most important jobs and they have been missing in action

It is stupid and ignorant to blame the power minister
Does he even known what his mandate is?
Do we need a power minister under byte current laws?

What should be have done that he has not done

We failed the minute these three ministries failed. The wealth and future of a country are based on them.
The first 2 ministries alone should take around 30% of national budget at least just to manage, not even to be superb.

See what China is doing with trade. If you don't export valuable goods, you will be in perpetual trade deficit, starve of Forex and put currency under pressure.

Look at what we have comparative advantage in. Should we just keep export raw materials on the cheap instead of first adding value? Why export cocoa beans when we can export cocoa powder and chocolate?

Can't we export/drink Lekkita instead of importing/drinking Bournvita?

Blue3k:
Let's just become communist already. Forget the wages they can decide what we eat, where we live, where we work and how many kids we have. The state has proven to be good at running schools, the electrical grid and other industries like oil refineries. Revolution now comrades.

Workers get communist wages but spend ultra-capitalist, where prices rise daily.
Nor be juju be that?

Minimum wage increment should be gradual but should end up around 125 to 150k within like 2 years. Govt can even use it to campaign from mid-2026 to early 2027 as an achievement.

And govt should try to reduce inflation. Food, fuel and transportation are the main drivers of inflation in 9ja. Govt should look at those areas to tackle inflation.

Peejayz:
You have twisted the whole thing.... According to the senator, he said death sentence shouldn't be for politician that steal one million or one billion, but should be for politician who steals one trillion.

Abeg nor mind that guy you quoted.

If we go by Ndume logic, corruption is worse than drugs. At least you must actively buy or access drugs, then take it to affect you. You would have played a part in taking it. There can be academic debate regarding availability of drugs making it accessible and whether some take it under duress, etc.

But if money meant for medicine and other medical supplies is stolen and you can't get proper treatment in hospital, life is at stake because someone stole the money. You didn't play any part in the money disappearing. Yet innocent citizens suffer the consequences.

Greatconcept12:
APC has clearly failed. Tinubu is clueless. He doesn't know what to do to improve Nigeria and the economy.

Hmmmmmm