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Nigeria is a lawless society.

Beans are high in fibre which doesn't normally sit in the body but passes right through. It has nothing to do with them being cooked properly or otherwise. Just be lucky that you are able to have a good stool because food, once eaten is not supposed to sit in the body. Once food has served its function of providing nourishment and minerals to the body, the wastage should be expelled. A healthy person should have daily stools.

Please Google.

In Olaudah Equiano's autobiography he described life in 16th century Igbo village and many of the cultural aspects and the way things were done closely resembled the Jewish way of life.

Here is a brief extract from his book:

"We practiced circumcision like the Jews, and made offerings and feasts on that occasion in the same manner as they did. Like them also, our children were named from some event, some circumstance, or fancied foreboding at the time of their birth, we had many purifications a nd washings; indeed almost as many, and used on the same occasions, if my recollection does not fail me, as the Jews"


I also heard that during the Nigerian civil war, the Jew's in Israel sent aid and arms to the Igbos.

@ Poster



It is is spelt Foods not 'Fuds' How can you mess up a spelling as basic as that??

But sometimes the accent is too strong and thick. Even I have trouble at times never mind an oyibo person.

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This is fun!

Lets see,

1 and a half bottles of diet lemonade
A nearly empty tub of soya margarine
A nearly empty jar of reduced sugar strawberry jam
onions
brussel sprouts
carrots
low fat salad dressing
One lemon and a half
1 giant mushroom
1 large red pepper
1 raw baking potato
4 eggs
low fat tuna and sweetcorn sandwich filler

amsky:
ah ah this elosela!!!!! you no dey tire .okay i agree am still an idiot,but we are both idiots yeah

okay lets's hug,and make up. i like your kind of person sha-never-say-die.now that's a real nigerian there
keep it real.

ok you no be idiot. All the best for 2008!

American chocolates are not nice and this is coming from a self-confessed chocoholic, lol.

The best chocolates are from Belgium. The American snickers, mars and kitkat all taste a bit off to me and don't get me started on that disgusting composition that make up Hershey bars. yuck!

You are a chocoholic like me.

One of the methods that I used was to literally overdose on the stuff so much so that I became sick of it. It worked , but only for a while; at least I gave my body a break though.

What you could do is to try and substitute with other sweet things which will help you curb your sugar rush. Healthy sweet things like oranges or clementines should help.

Gamba:
For me:
10 push ups in the morning
4 slices of bread with Tea / 1 Egg

For Lunch
2 wraps of amala and ewedu with Fish
1 bottle of Water/ Juice

For Dinner
3 slices of boiled plantain
Vegetable Sauce (shrimps) to go with it
1 bottle of Water

Please note: the quantity of the food you take determines how flat it will be
Take light breakfast
Take Staple food for Lunch
Take Light Dinner for easy digestion before 9pm.
And finally try to tuck in your tommy whenever u go out, it helps to firm the tommy

@Gamba

You must be naturally fit to be able tp maintain a flat stomach on the diet above. The push ups are good but 4 slices of bread (high in carb) and then egg which is full cholesterol on top again? You get luck o! Then heavy amala in the afternoon, not one but two?

I have heard that grapefruit eaten every morning does wonders as it promotes daily bowel movements, which is essential if you want to get rid of the gunk bloating out your belly. Fruits such as prunes, bananas also do the same. It is important to keep away from stodge, that is heavy foods that can leave you feeling bloated.

lots of stomach crunches and lots of walking or running should do the trick too.

My first time on a plane was travelling from Benin to Lagos and I actually enjoyed it. It was when I had to take Nigerians airways from MM to London that I was really scared. The plane was shaking like it was getting ready to fall out of the sky and I was tense throughout the whole journey.

This was when I was 14 and going back to the UK after living in Nigeria for a spell.

In case you are wondering we actually took Nigerian Sealines, which was a world class ship, that I think has probably suffered the same fate as Nigerians airways, from Scotland to Lagos when I first left the Uk at age 8.

It was a journey that took us all of 5 weeks and which was very exciting because the ship stopped at most of the major ports of West Africa before arriving in Lagos. During my time in Nigeria I always imagined that London was really far away because it took us 5 whole weeks to travel from there and so when it came time for me to travel back on a plane I was shocked because it took all of 5 hours, lol

@Babasin
It is best not to go in the Hurricane season.

I loved Jamaica. The people were really friendly, relaxed and pleasant which is weird because I expected them to be rude and uncouth like the some of the ones we have in London. It looks as though most of the Ghetto ones like to travel out and give their country a bad name while the nice cultured ones stay at home. A bit like the current trend of Nigerians coming to the UK and US.

We stayed in Montego Bay but visited Kingston where we went to Bob Marley's compound. I really wanted to go downtown Kingston to see the Ghettos but the driver refused to take us there. He said that even he as a Jamaican, born and bred, was afraid to go down there, let alone us, lol. In Kingston we saw the Nigerian Embassy even though we didn't go in. We also visited Negril and Ocho Rios. I have heard that there are plenty of Nigerians in Jamaica although I didn't meet any.

In short it is a very beautiful country. I even got away with paying half price for most of the attractions like Dunn's River for instance because the gateman assumed that I was of Jamaican descent.

I have visited. Downtown Kingston is a no go area. Other areas like Montego Bay and Ocho Rios are better but very touristy.

How viable is it to export plantains from Jamaica to Africa of all places? I would have thought it would have been the other way round.

Try the Nigerian embassy in Kingston.

Thanks!

amsky:
anyway let's not begin the year on this note okay girl
let's be good girls now.

Ok, you are still an idiot though

tollyfat:
EloSela,How about a trip to the states to see things for yourself.Maybe then you will understand why you think Nigerians in the US are mean to their UK counterparts like u said.London is just about 1/5 the size on Houston is Texas.

What part of 'I have been all over the us' from my initial post didn't you understand?

There was a time when I used to tell some Yoruba people I met that I was Urhobo. Because of my English accent they most times seemed to assumed that I had lost of the plot and would smear at me that 'It is YORUBA, NOT YOROBO! lol When I took the patience to explain to them that I knew exactly would ethnic group I hailed from and that it was definitely
not Yoruba then they would say I was Igbo. Their arrogance knew no bounds. Some even went on to say that they were the 'main' Nigerians. When I confronted them about that they said that they were joking but there are some things that you just don't make jokes about.

davidif:
The fact that many people in Africa may not be educated enough to understand the laws of gravity, doesn't mean that the law does not effect them.

@naijaking
Look my good friend, here in naija, we have had much much bigger problems to worry about than our cousins across the ocean, we have civil wars, suppressive millitary regimes, famines, colonization (economic exploitation) and trust me, as i am sorry to say, but the last thing on our minds were Jim Crow laws.

Na soO! As I said previously, appreciating MLK for what he did for Blacks in America is good but to say the man's work resonated with us in Africa is foolish. To me it speaks volumes of the desperation of some Africans trying to align themselves with Black Americans when the reality is that some Black Americans can't stand Africans at the best of times (Another thread ) Did MLK even take the time to visit Africa like Malcom X did?

This is a fascinating topic! I do believe in reincarnation but I don't think we are suppose to have any recollection of our past lives but somehow some of us do. I have a large birthmark to the right of my stomach and when I was a baby I used to dream that I was a white lady with hair ala Demi Moore (in Ghost) and that I was in a shootout where I died with a shot to the stomach, lol weird but true. I think that is where my large birthmark came from.

There was also once a documentary I saw based in India on children who had lived pass lives. Apparently the belief is strong is that part of the world. In it they featured a young boy of about 8 who had always told his mother ever since he was able to talk that he had a wife and two children in the city. He said that he was a business man who had been shot and killed by robbers. Amazingly this boy knew the address and names of the family of the man he claimed to have been in his past life. Eventually this boy was taken to meet the family and it was quite amazing to see this 8 year old boy talking to his 'children' asking if they had eaten and how they were doing at school. The wife even said that she believed that the boy had been her husband in a past life.

There are also reports about parents claiming that their babies being able to speak foreign languages without any influence.

If you google reincarnation you will find loads of information on this topic.

Ok thanks! I wouldn't mind going to a Black American church actually.

ThiefOfHearts:
You'll have to go to The Bronx, Queens or Brooklyn. Manhattan doesnt allow noisy ass churches.

What about in Harlem? I don't know if I can be bothered to go all the way to Queens, Brooklyn or The Bronx.

Do you know a particular church in Brooklyn just in case I decide to venture out?

I will be in manhattan mostly. It is freezing in London now but no snow is predicted this year but that could change.

chuckdee4:
@ poster

I'm a Nigerian that was born in the Uk but grew up in Naija, now i reside in the UK, so i believe i'm in the perfect position to talk about the Uk and Nigeria.
Personally i feel your blowing a lot of hot air over nothing. Nigeria may not be the best place on earth but we all love it the way it is.

As accommodating and nice as the UK is its got its own issues, i for one do not feel British even though i was born here, u must know that they are a million and one other black people with a britich passport, does that stop the police from treting u differently? Does that stop racism against u, Wether u have a British passport or not, once u stand next to a Nigerian or Ghanian citizen, your all looked upon as the sme kindda people.

See being Nigerian and living in Nigeria completely cuts out racism, at least your treated like e full member of the nation and not a 2nd class citizen. Having said that we have our own issues like tribalism and corruption.

No place is perfect and i can understand your love for the Uk (I love the UK myself but can't forget my homeland) but don't walk around goin on like the UK is the best place on earth. You sound like u want all Nigerians to bow down to u because your English (Typical English mentality, i can't blame u afterall your British). You should take a cue from these so-called Nigerians uve met and learn to respect every country even if they are not the richest on earth

For the record i actually prefer the states

Ah right! I know where I feel at home and unfortunately it is not Nigeria as much as I would like it to be. I don't want or need for any Nigerian to bow down to me, rather, I would like some to stop deluding themselves because I keep on hearing the same statement "Nigeria is better than the UK"all the time from them trying to put me down! Thanks for your input anyway!

amsky:
please someone should kindly tell me what kind of inferiority complex this elo whatever is suffering fromis she okay. this is a sapele girl from what i can see.
my dear,it does not matter where you were born.when people want to trace your ancestors,they will never start from london or US.be proud of your homeland okay.if it's the uk i have been in for 4yrs you are talikng about,then it reminds me often times of my dear nigeria.
you be careful let me tell you o don't make me laugh at your small mind anymore like i've just done now. you are sooooo pathetic,i don't believe this-you scare me.

You sound like a first class Arrow! In future, please take the time to learn to write and communicate effectively before deciding to express a view on a public message board.

I was in Maryland years ago but not this time around. I have also been to NY plenty of times only this trip will be the first in a long while that I am actually staying a bit longer than the weekend so I would like to attend church when I am there.

How bodi?

Any recommendations for a good Nigerian/Black church in the NY Manhattan area? I will be in the city from the 25th till the 30th of Jan. Many thanks!

Chxta:
The man is an American thing. I can't link him with us here in Naija,

I agree! I once had an African American tell me that Black people all over the world had benefited from the fight undertaken by MLK and Malcom X and I thought that was BS. We in Africa had a much longer tougher stronger struggle with the white man, getting our countries away from the control of the colonists etc than they ever had in America. It is a shame that our media doesn't uplift our heroes more. While I appreciate the works of people like MLK and Malcolm X their struggle was for Black people in America and not all Black people.

shinystar:
Elosela,

Those pictures are mischievious. There are such sights in all parts of the world. Do they highlight such slums? No. Why? Because they deliberately project good national image. Why not advertise the good sides, not the bad of Lagos?


My only problem with Nigerians is we supply western propagandists with materials to run us down. It is not patriotic and nationalistic.

Let us join hands to stop this current listing of Nigeria in every worst project in the world. there is no country like Nigeria.

I disagree. These pictures show scenes that are common in Lagos. Lagos is a city where unfortunately the bad disgraceful sights such as these outnumber the good. I understand your patriotic stance but I have never been one to bury my head in the sand and ignore such atrocities because I feel that by doing so I am letting the government literally get away with murder.

The government is responsible for fixing up the roads, providing proper sanitation and trash disposal facilities, proper public transport and decent structure for the wellbeing of all Lagosians/ Nigerians alike but they aren't and until they do I will continue to expose their a$$es to the world. You guys can sit up here deluding yourselves about how Lagos is one of the best cities in the world but I happen to think that Nigerians deserve better and so I will continue to expose until the government fix up and get their act together.

@Tats


I think that the reason why they talk about immigration over here is because it is a very small country, in fact the smallest country that the everyone from the whole world seems to want to immigrate to. I think they are scared that that they are going to be overrun and so it is a major issue, especially in terms of how the NHS and other public resources/ services will cope.

I don't know what they plan to do with the 1K if invited guest refuses to go back. I was under the impression that most visitors were made to go back already by those who had sponsored them otherwise their (sponsors) reputation would be jeopardized and they would not be able to help anyone esle. I can't help but think that the plan is a money spinning ploy as I explained to Funkybaby; i.e leave 1k in a high interest account for a certain amount of time and collect the interest. I have temped for some govt agencies before and they are fond of doing stuff like that.




Merry Christmas!

funkybaby:
@elosela
Sorry. I addressed you as easybaby. You are right. Those uk peeps like money too much!

LOL! no probs!