₦airaland Forum

oluamid:
Geeez! For all your "We in the west" rhetoric you are so ignorant. So you saw a few comments allegedly made by some Yoruba and you immediately conclude that the entire Yoruba tribe (a tribe of over 30mil people in Nigeria alone) is suffering from inferiority complex? Complex over what exactly? Beauty?

Physical and behavioural attributes as they concern tribes are a spectrum. You will definitely see people with the attributes from the very bad to the extremely good and anywhere in-between in any particular tribe. The Yorubas are no different. There are Yoruba people who are very beautiful and others who are not so beautiful, and same goes with their behaviour. There is no way one person or a few persons can be adequately used to represent their race.

As they say, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. I've seen very beautiful Yoruba girls, I've seen very beautiful Igbo girls and I have equally seen very beautiful ladies of other tribes and races. I've also seen the reverse.

For you madam, I recommend an introductory class in sociology.

this is classic...... I couldn't put any better than this.....

airmark:
Yoruba educated chics most times dey form too much and hard nut to crack. I remember when in east it was different ball game. One thing is if you get a decent igbo lady, she can remove her eye ball for you to eat. Igbo girls love yoruba guys more. Some of them confirmed to me that their dudes are over-possesive full of ego. @ Op , if you have prayed over it and you both truely love each other and the chic is not from mbaise , no think anything just go. I have mine with me.

over possessive ke.....lol...na wa o.

binarymachine:
U should have just ignored the goat rather than insult Igbo ladies because of him. Am Igbo and my sis who graduated with a first class is married to a Yoruba man from Ondo. Whats even surprising is that my dad rejected the Igbo suitor that came first. He is a pathetic ethnic addict and u should not dignify him with response, quotes or insults to any tribe he is attacking.

Igbo parents only fear the possibility of the Yoruba husband not sticking to their daughters alone after the marriage, outside of that, igbo parents no get wahala so long as you go the right way to get her married.

jemimaa01:
that makes alot of sense...you're the only sensible man on this thread,the rest are strongly misled...northern ladies are truly humble,most of them are not hungry runs girls and stuff (IMO)..

hahahahaha.... You are joking right... Unless you are Muslim and Hausa culture and language, you are in for a big shock.....

MrsChima:
Although, there are some Igbo guys that are romantic but, many Yoruba guys are cassinova of words!

Some Yoruba guys romance girls with words and gestures while Igbo guys romance girls with money and showmance.

hahahahaha..... This is serious, Yoruba guyz are more romantic than igbo guyz..... Lol.... Prolly because they buy igbo girls stuff and try to impress them but igbo guyz just show you as it it and tell you Nne, take it or leave it.... Lol

Obijulius:
This your experience is typical of the average Yoruba.

I wish Yorubas could rise far and above this tribalism. It's even worse when the other party is from the SS or SE.

Tribalism can be self-limiting. The only culturally diverse part of Yoruba land is Lagos-most likely because of its former status as a former capital. Most Nigerians will tend to avoid the other Yoruba states because of their extremist tribal views .

Also, Yorubas are the only tribe with the least investments outside their region. Even the Lebanese have more businesses in Nigeria than Yorubas have outside Yoruba land.

Anyone who has worked with these people can confirm their awkward way of thinking when other tribes are involved.

@OP: Follow your heart. If you eventually marry her then treat her the way you would love your mum to be treated.

I don't believe this aspect of your argument, I am igbo, have worked and still working with Yoruba men and women, I don't feel intimidated or out of place amongst Yoruba...... For sure they like to speak their language no doubt but they are not as tribalistic as you are trying to put it. You have to understand people's idiosyncrasies before jumping to conclude that they are tribalistic, when it comes to relationships I think they are more open than even igbo people especially igbo men.

Gguy4real:
My guy likewise me i'm having the same problem as you but i thank GOd for my life everything is under control all you have to do is. Convince her that you really love her and she's meant to be with you just go ahead with the traditional then i believe that things we be ok but first pray hard igbo people can be mad at times oooooo just believe in God

hahahahaha.... I can understand the igbo people can be mad aspect, I am igbo and I know what you are talking about but the fact remains that most igbo parents refuse their daughters marrying a Yoruba man because they fear he might still take a second wife or have multiple girlfriends after their daughters. Outside of that no worries.

As much as I want to advise you to follow your heart, many igbo families oppose their daughters marrying a Yoruba man because they believe that they don't take marriages seriously like igbo men, many married Yoruba men still act as if they are unmarried, they keep multiple girlfriends and even bring them home some times with family support. If there is one thing most igbo women can not stand it is the thought of their husbands bringing another woman home or learning about a love child from another woman upon the man's death. Igbo women don't know how to share their husbands, most of them grew up in a Nuclear family structure.

My point is this, if you are going to marry a Yoruba man as an Igbo woman, look at his family members, his own parents, are they together or divorced, his elder brothers or sisters are they married and very close to their wives. How do they take care of their wives and kids, do they just make money available to them but spend very little time with them even though they are always available. Stuff like that. Trust me, any Yoruba man from a polygamous family is likely to take a second wife or at least keep a relationship outside, the same goes for a Muslim Yoruba family.

Unless the Yoruba guy is a serious Christian from a Christian family that takes family values seriously, I won't advise any Igbo woman to marry any other Yoruba man.

Superforce will be right back

kabaka1:
Very thought input. U just deserve a handshake for just nailing the nail right on the head.
Yes, sometimes, I weep for Nigeria. That's when u're overseas these oyinbos no go won repect u until u prove urself to them.

Many of you just comments like the unexposed kids that you are. Projects of this nature are not given out based on sentiments but on capacity and comparative advantage. Common sense demands that you don't produce everything you can produce even when you do not have the comparative advantage on such production. If producing it in China or Japan is way more cheaper than the cost of producing it in your country with the same quality, then outsourcing it to then becomes inevitable, nobody is in the business of not maximizing profits.

China will always have the advantage in this regard because of cheap labour and low wages. If there is a project that FG or any state government is trying to execute and are looking for partners to invest in the project and a Chinese company indicates interest, how is that anyone's problem. Are the so-called Nigerian graduates going to bring the amount of money required to start the project?

Many of you just like to whine over issues that do not affect you while distracting yourselves from the main issues that should be of concern to you; issues like ensuring that 80 percent of the workers are Nigerians, best practices, standard welfare for their Nigerian staff, ensuring that workers have the right to Belong to Labour unions and other issues like these, not the nonsense talk about why a Nigerian company is not Sinotech.

I pity the kind desperate mumu girl wey go gree marry this immature attention seeking closeted homosexual.

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Some of Oscar Chucks's works.

I have seen a couple of Oscar Chucks's works with biro, he has got the best biro drawings I have ever seen. This other guy too from Delta state is super nice but I am yet to see many of his biro drawings like that of Chucks. Great work guyz but una go need come down with una charges, heard chucks collect a minimum of 250k.

babestell:
22 yrs

OK. Well I just just checked your profile, it is obvious you like being referred to as a Nerd not everyone does..... I don't fancy it....there lies our differences. Fact is that some of us are good at denying the issues that come with having eye defects and having to be relegated to wearing goggles while most of us just like to see these issues fir what they are.....

sweetgala:
You sleep and wake up and it's all done, I would not recommend you watch any YouTube videos before going in cause you'll definitely change your mind.

Mine was for mocular hole repair so needles were stuck in the eye to remove the scaring and then a gas bobble was injected into the eye.

I have seen a couple of such already on YouTube.... Too much details that just put some fear in somebody.....

sweetgala:
Glasses never slowed my roll really, I'll have to say I'm probably dating more since I started wearing them all the time, my confidence and ego is just much larger than it. Most of the name calling would be from my friends, the girls think I'm gentle and cool until they know the real sweet_gala

I'm an engineer as well yet yo have any problems with my glasses , when I'm doing any dangerous work o tend to wear CPE glasses over them and I have Edgar Davids type googles when playing sports , I had a mocular hole vitrectomy done in 2013 so I'm very careful with my left eye.

Guy such is life what can you do. I'm concerned about Nigerian employers and this their glasses issue, been thonking of relocating for a while now

Eye surgery, whatever kind scares the hell out of me...... I don't know why I just cringe at the thought of it, too delicate for me

babestell:
I wear a -10. And I have no issues with wearing glasses. Infact I have glasses for every occasion..work, church, club
Any guy who has an issue with it is free to leave.

trust me babe, if you have used glasses for the better part of your life, you will definitely have issues with them. How long have you been wearing glasses.

sweetgala:
I feel your pain, I'm in similar shoes. People tend to think you as gentle and easy going just because you wear glasses.

If you come know book small you have confirmed their assertions

What ever you do, don't get laser eye surgery unless you are over 50

I can relate with that, in my own case, in secondary school they called me all sorts of names cos of my glass..... Isotope, oju igo, Prof..... And all the geeky names on earth..... The most annoying was girls asking if I could see without my glasses, the most embarrassing is you sleeping with your glasses on in a public place like a school hostel..... Then the part where you get to be told you look strange without your glasses or that your eyes look weird and smaller without them..... Glasses can be a dent on even one's social life, most chick just think you can't possibly be fun or socially skilled because you wear glasses and are restricted to so many things..... I can't remember the last time I did any sport even now that I practically do not wear glasses any more.

I just took the initiative to try contact lenses in 2010 once I got an engineering job that required me to be greasy and very handy with molding machines. I almost lost the job cos of my glasses..... But once I started with contact, I just got hooked...... I don't even go out again with my solution or contact lenses containers. When I need to travel out of Lagos I buy the very big bottle that could last me 6 months. I wear mine every damn day..... Occasionally I have had to sleep with them on.... Back when I first started, I could go on for a day or two before taking them off cos of my kind of job then..... It is not easy though....... Of all the girls I have dated, only this one girl told me she liked me with my glasses better, toll this day she still ask me about them..... Funny, I am not sure if she does that to help my ego or truly liked it. Interestingly, I too am not attracted to girls that wear glasses, don't know why. , I am always like, what if something goes wrong in the process......

nedu2000:
depends on the nature of the job your gunning for,trying applying for a military personnel or a site engineer(my part-discipline) and you'll know what i'm saying,i've resorted to desk jobs though

Guy I was in the same shoes as well, I studied mechanical engine and was going to work with plastic molding machines in a factory, the HR guy almost thought I couldn't do the job until I showed up for the second interview without my glasses. He kept on commenting like my glasses were going to hinder me from doing that kind of job.
I have been wearing contact lenses since 2010,i wear the colourless one and trust me, nobody knows in my present job that I wear contact except for a lady who also wears contact as me. I even had to switch my career because of it..... I am now an I.T guy, imagine... Lol

Caracta:
It's not about the glasses; it's about you.

I don't believe the job opportunity part. Even blind people have jobs.

I use glasses and I've never been treated differently.

Do you use the geeky-albert-Einstein glasses with rounded rims or the funky-asha-on-fire ones?

I stopped wearing glasses myself after I almost lost a job because the HR taught it was too rough for my soft looks plus I can't wear glasses doing that kind of job. It was a factory kind of Job and I was being employed then as a graduate trainee.

After the interview, I decided to try contact lenses, this was in 2010 and ever since then I have never stopped. Wearing glasses comes with a lot of set backs, the nerdy thingy was one of my biggest challenge. I just couldn't mingle well with the kind of girls I wanted without looking like some nerdy guy whose social life revolves around computers and books.

Till this day, I still wear my glasses but only when I am in the house at night and want to read. Contact lenses are way better alternative once you get around it, the greatest challenge most people have with contact lenses is the fact that they can't properly place the lenses without getting a red eye in the end.... I mastered it the first time and never had to worry about a red eye.... I some times sleep with mine. I started with the classic brown and decided to go pure white because I just didn't need all the attention it was bringing plus I hate looking artificial.
OP, I think you should give contact lenses a chance...

I would have been surprised if Rochas Okorocha didn't win this election, the man has one thing going for him his education policy. Rochas has strong die hard supporters in Imo state who benefit enormously from his free education policy especially to the tertiary level, that feat is unheard of anywhere in this country, he got people like my uncles hooked on his cool aid through that one singular move.

Yes Rochas is cunning and an actor, a pretender and all but you can not deny the fact that he is a way better performer than any of the PDP hotheads, Emeka Ihiedioha obviously is your typical Nigerian politician, Imo would have suffered heavily under his leadership. As much as I am weary of the APC, I am still willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, Rochas is still the man to beat in Imo state, he has strong grassroots support, he is charismatic and knows how to get everyone involved in his government.

Only a lier will deny the man's effort and achievement in Imo state, the last time Imo state had the level of developmental projects this government is engaged in was during Sam Mbakwe's time. The rest have been mediocre lots, from Undenwa to Ohakim.

And by the way, Rochas is a way better Politician than Amaechi. Amaechi just does not know how to choose his battles and cares too much about his own interests than everyone else's. It was so obvious that Rivers state can not and will not go the Amaechi way, he is still a toddler in Rivers state politics and is yet to learn that he can not win people over by being too openly confrontational to people who had once helped you to get to power. Even the likes of Tinubu and Buhari will make sure they keep him at bay, he is more of a rabble rouser and a rebel than a sleek politician that can add anything to the people.

While Rochas was busy testing the waters with his APC experiment, he made sure he didn't lose the touch of the people and his grip on the local politics of his state, he made sure that imolites did not get the wrong message that he had abandoned the state to follow Buhari and Tinubu about like a lost puppy. Amaechi got it all wrong in his case, his open confrontations with the President's wife, Wike who was very instrumental in both his reelection and his court won gubernatorial position from Omehia. He made sure he alienated everyone and even ordinary Rivers people, the result was the massive no they gave at both polls. It is unfortunate that election was destroyed for Peterside by Amaechi, not that he stood any chance against Wike anyway but he let Amaechi overtake his opportunities and brought all the baggage he has with him.

Ozigbondu:
The sheaku of south africa has spoken and the guy folishly showed his face.Unlike our own sheaku this fool has no army to protect him.The south africa police should do the needful or better throw him into the migrants camp

unlike your own Shekau.... You are on your own.... There is no such thing as our own Shekau as if he us some good example to cite. They are both morons that deserve nothing but excruciating death.

Nothing like a woman that can arouse not just a man's loins but also his intellect. A woman that is mentally attractive, you know that stuff they say about great minds; they fvck each other. I am talking intellectual penetration, orgasms are created in the mind, don't forget that.

Of course every man desires a pretty woman with all the features in the right places but again sisters; Brain is the new A$$, you get that, you fvck the right mind.
That is why I am Sapiosexual.

Kachisbarbie:
It won't joor, even if na small.
A beautiful intelligent woman is a lethal combination y'know?

Girls are so vain these days, if it's no waist training_ it's butt lifting....ahnahn.
All these things are vanity, one day it would fall like my own.


lolz
I see am for person dp one day o.
Shey na truetalk?

damn, I want to give you a kiss for this one. My greatest challenge with Nigerian ladies is the fact that they are knowledgeable in stuff that do not portray them as smart and elegant. Too much instagramming and twitting fake life has become the order of the day.

There is hardly anything of interest to discus with Nigerian ladies that won't end up in just fashion and gossip stuff.... It is so frustrating that many are just vane and small minded. The ones that are smart most times are just too smart for their own good. Too much idealistic rubbish and expectations.

Super1Star:
Is this one for real?

For your info, Lagos population was 5.1 as at 1991 and 17.5m as at 2006. Calling it about 20million now, is an understatement.

I am not interested in your guess work, show us the government agencies that made such preposterous claim... Scheeew.

Super1Star:
Why do you people like deceiving yourselves?


What is the population of London -- 8million

What is the population of Paris -- 2.3million

What is the population of Amsterdam -- less than 1million

What is the population of Dubai -- 2.1million

What is.the population of Lagos -- almost 20million.

It is obvious that if you leave, Lagos will only be better for it.

where did you get the 20 million you attributed to Lagos..... Some of you can exaggerate nonsensical stuff and make it look like real stuff. LAGOS can never be up to 20million..... Small landmass of course will make Lagos have many areas of high population density and give the false impression that it is that much but Lagos obviously is not carrying that amount of people in its coffers.....

The way some people talk about Lagos and facilities you would think Lagos is like New York and its government caters for the population of the state.
Somebody pointed earlier on that there's no such thing as special intervention in a state like Lagos in other advanced countries. Let Lagos first of all deal with the issue of lack of transparency in the way it manages the revenues that accrue to it.

In most of the developed world big Cities run there government on revenues mostly from a well transparent levy and tax system that shows proof of tax benefits. People talk if services and facilities and I just laugh at the preposterous claims, the BRT shuttle buses is the closest and only benefit an average citizen can say he benefits besides that nothing.

Take the markets for instance, the people that do businesses there feel the brunt of the multiple taxes of the government almost immediately and yet, they are not provided with facilities as easy as common toilets. Yet the Lagos government talks about non-natives as if they are being fed by funds from their purse.

Businesses are reluctant to pay taxes for various reasons, the way and manner tax is collected is downright archaic and unacceptable, you can't go into the compound of a small business owner and tell them to pay taxes the do not have any bearing with anything legal, just some locally created regime that exists outside of the government's own heavy tax.

I have seen worst cases where these thugs lock up people's businesses just because they won't pay taxes that are not recognized by any legal establishment.
Businesses won't pay tax when they pay for all the facilities that should have been provided by governmentn; clean water system, good access roads, free health care or at least cheap quality health care.

The other day I was in the car with a friend driving on the 3rd mainland bridge and was so disgusted that instead of the Lagos government to take the cheaper, more feasible and beneficial option of building a link bridge from ikorodu to the island instead of the costlier option of sand filling the waterways in an effort to build another city on it. It just does not make any economic sense to any right thinking government that cares about the people than a white elephant project that will take monies that even the government can not afford.


When people like this dumb senator, the state government and the tribal minions shouting off support in an attempt to insults other tribes begin to tell the truth that Lagos state greatest problem is mismanagement and wrong priorities then they can begin to understand that it does not take a tribal gang to move Lagos to the level like New York and their likes.

Yesterday I was in the car with colleagues and we were busy discussing the dynamics of Lagos politics and today's elections then unavoidably the issue of the Oba's threat came up. Of course typical to we Nigerians, we all argued based on our tribes and tribal biases-at least, we are all guilty of that.

But one of my female colleagues stunned me with comments that I felt were careless expressions inherent hate for the Igbos. I was a bit annoyed because unlike the others, she clearly does not understand the subject of politics. I have noticed in the past that she has no regards for facts, neither does she follow Nigerian politics.

In her very immature way of talking carelessly and making very tribalistic comments with reckless abandon, she said I was rooting for Jonathan because I was Igbo; that really got me upset especially comming from a young woman who spends most of her time in the office on social blogs chatting and face booking. I replied her back and told her that I would follow her logic and conclude that she is rooting for Buhari because of his Yoruba vice.

After that careless statement and attempt to always turn political discussions into an Igbo vs Yoruba argument, I started avoiding any discussion of politics around her. Yesterday's unfortunate episode in the car on our way to work at a site was a crescendo for me. In her typical manner she started by asking between Lagos Igbos and Yorubas who own Lagos knowing how she throws hearsay around in her bid to bring tribalism in every discussion I ignored her and continued what I was discussing with others that were informed. Next she said Jimi Agbaje promised Eze ndi Igbo that if Igbos voted for him en mass, he would raise their royal status to that of the Oba's that was why the Oba threatened igbos.

She followed her unfounded and careless statements with all sorts of hearsay in her usual attempts, that Igbos don't allow Yoruba teachers to be principals in their schools in the east and all sorts of nonsense, this a young woman who has never been to any part of the East or probably left the southwest. I was just stunned at the comments coming out of her mouth about Igbos and how Jimi Agbaje is a bastards and all.

Bad enough, this is a person who is going to be working with me directly. When she and I got off the car, it was all an awkward silence for me until we finished the job at the site and went back to the office. But it later dawned on me the enormity of the Oba's tribalistic threats....... It goes beyond his kinsmen pandering or making palliative statements as if the man is an immortal whose statements can not be condemned in strong terms. This is very unfortunate, I just hope people will vote their choice today and go home safely without anyone being verbally assaulted or any tribe being blamed for any of the candidates' loss or Victory, this is a democracy after all.

Chineke!!! Na g.... Spot na im Sean and him software turn to center of gravity.... Hahahahaha ha... God punish devil..... See translation... Lol

Tuzz:
Wetin I go do me ND my gal dey do everything but she no gree make I pluck the cherry.

lol.... Try find the center of gravity and your complaints will be over.