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ifyalways: Thread reminds me of ant infested firewood and lizards, feast for sore eyes.

more like an eyesore.

[quote author=oy_igbe]I always say i am sorry if i am wrong in my relationship
but have never heard him say sorry not to me or someone
else.
Dont know if he is just to proud to say it or ,
dont really know.[/quote]Hard to say "sorry"
F -you suck
M -you too
F -you are unbelievably mean
M -no its all in your head
F -well u hurt my feelings but i dont blame u i blame myself
M -u hurt my feelings but i dont blame myself i blame u u started it
F -i'm sorry then
M -i'm not sorry i believe in an eye for an eye

Andre Uweh: . . . The Igbo is the pioneer that strongly believes that with courage and hardwork one must spell sucess. That is why in any business or profession where he finds himself, he makes a success of it, from hawking of goods and services to the administration of political and commercial concerns.

True.

Chukskalidon: . . . Yoruba's will keep up with their everlasting culture of not being educated and lingua. The Igbo's though the most civilized and westernized still has their culture retained and maintained.

WTF?!

Chukskalidon: We have music industry at lagos but what culture do we watch everyday in the movie, the Igbo culture. Who would like to direct a movie where cows and illiterates are the main culture of the movie. Unless the director has been nuisance to the industry.How many proffesional directors had ever directed the Yoruba movie. . .

Gibberish.

dayokanu: The meat is boiled before adding to the stew to make it soft and chewable. You can also boil fish before adding to stew but its not compulsory because Fish is naturally softer than meat.

After boiling the meat its just bland, no pepper or oil on it. You would now add it to the stew and let it cook together

After the cooiking the taste of the meat and the stew would be equal

Tpia come and spend the rest of your summer with me and let me teach you some things. You would always cherish the experience.

Who's gonna boil fish before adding it to stew? Is it panla?

And you're supposed to add all your seasoning to meat while boiling, not after - that way the flavor is really deep down in the meat. hahaha. Dayokanu needs to go get married! Seriously.

Brother Ptolomeus,

I came across this eye-opening video about traditional Yoruba religion a year ago.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS_IBMQhx5A

I was recently re-watching it and showing to some friends on how it reminds me of Muslim prayer. I hope you find it educative about Yoruba religion. I plan to view more of the poster's videos on YouTube.

Also, I saw that this Cultural thread of yours is now in the Tribalistic (sub-Politics) section, after a notorious hateful tribalist posted on it. If you didn't originally create it in that section, I suggest you protest to the moderators, OAM4j (Politics) and Odumchi (Culture) to move it back to Culture section.
https://www.nairaland.com/934908/yoruba-people-considered-arrogant

LagosShia: well,that is a good question.

peace in Islam is very wide and can be understood from different angles.

first there is inner peace and outer peace.inner peace have to do with how mankind can attain spiritual and self-conscious peace within themselves.inner peace should bring about outter peace and put the Muslim at state of ease and conscious of the rights of others.those so called muslims who commit terrorism and crimes against humanity are therefore said not to be following Islam,which is the religion of peace.they are neither at peace with themselves nor with their Creator.

the Quran says:"It is with the rememberance of Allah that hearts are at rest".

then there is also the outter peace which has to do how mankind deal with one another.if man has inner peace,then he should behave well with others and act accordingly.therefore acts of fighting should only be in self-defense in order to deter enemies or bring back the state of peace that a Muslim enjoys within himself and in his society and the state of peace with His Creator.and that is self-defense.

any form of violent expansion or offensive wars are at odds with Islam.Islam expands through this:

"Invite to the way of your Lord with wisdom and good instruction, and argue with them in a way that is best. Indeed, your Lord is most knowing of who has strayed from His way, and He is most knowing of who is [rightly] guided".

being at peace with one's Creator can be achieved by submitting to His teachings and commands and doing what pleases Him and believing in Him.that is total submission,and thus in arabic there is a connecting mean between "Islam" (submission) and "salam" (peace)."salam" comes from "islam" to Allah (swt).

applause for your post, brother. salaam.

martin123: Hell house, I am preparing for my traditional marriage, and I want to know who takes responsibility for the reception, is it me or the family of my wife to be?? Please I want serious minded people to answer the question, not the children in NL

In almost all societies in the world, including African groups, the bride's family is responsible for wedding preparations and party expenses. The groom is merely responsible for the bride price and the gifts requested by the bride's parents. So, the bride's family will pay for the Reception.

Of course, there are exceptions to every rule.
1) Some couples already share responsibilities and if the man is more financially able, the groom will often give his fiancee the money she will give her parents to help with the party expenses; Conversely, some brides will help their fiance pay for some expenses, although, it is a general belief, that a bride should never help the man pay for the bridal price or gifts. (she can help him pay for other things, like lending him money to give his family for car rental or other extraneous expenses not directly involving the actual bride price and gifts.)
2) There was a thread on here where some of the princesses of NL swore up and down they would never lift a finger or donate a penny to assist in paying for their wedding - some said it's their culture - that the man pay for every expense of the wedding. It's not that way in mine, so I cannot verify it.

Bottomline, I would check with your people what your tradition and culture dictate. Since it is for the 'traditional' wedding, I'm sure you want to stick to the real cultural traditions of her culture and yours. From my personal observation, you, being the man really have nothing to worry about. Women, especially the bride's mother (along with your mom and fiancee) will love to do A to Z of the wedding preparation. All you have to do is send some bread to your mom every couple of weeks before the big day. lol.

Congratulations!

stiyke: In a war situation, the first to seek truce is often suffering heavy losses and in need of restrategizing. They maybe running out of ammo.

lol. That's when you go in for the kill! No retreat no surrender! Truce ko.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVqFY-TP54o

Funny NLers.

Musiwa2: Itsekiri own nearly half the land in delta state..

this is the olu of itsekiri.. his name is seju Emiko. the one before him is Ayo emiko...


https://itsekiricanada.com/images/olu2.jpg

Nice picture of the Kabiyesi. Thanks for this. I am following you, but I am not sure which satellite picture is causing all the chaos. Can you post it just so we understand.

And to the posters challenging our cartographer extraordinaire, please show the Aare of Nairaland / Alaafin of Canada His due respect. A word is enough for the wise. I would hate to see his subjects, all the Politics section warriors, descend on you o. We all know the Aare is greater than Obama sef.
https://www.nairaland.com/679870/aare-musiwa-hot-form-look

GenBuhari: My wife's water just broke

Thinking of you and the family, brother.

2mch: Guy, we know faith without work is nothing. But I can assure you that success without effort and hardwork before and after achieveing that goal is meaningless. I will advice you to stop going to these people that see visions and other things but still live in abject poverty. They are the real witches and destroyers of lives and family. In Nigeria with all your good results you have to grease some palms to get what you want. Focus on hustling for money to achieve your goals, forget frivolous things and leave visions alone. If God wanted you to know something he will have told you himself. Go and hustle and stop blaming everyone for not being in control of yourself and your destiny as a guy. Pray to God and believe in him ALONE. Not any pastor, or soothsayer! Anyone that sees visions needs mental help or is a demon out to destroy. Also with the women in your life fighting themselves, just ignore them and forge ahead. They are only doing what they want to do. You are a man, why involve yourself in catfights and gossip? Maintain a relationship with them, but don't entertain idle gossip or unnecessary insult from both. When you become successful, they will sort each other out as no one wants to lose out.

Brilliant Post. Why do so many 'religious' people rely on others to communicate with their god for them? You need no intermediaries. It's a racket of epidemic proportions - these soothsaying pastors that've got Naijas by the short hairs.

nobaga: There was a post here somewhere about a man that steals meat from the pot after eating. So what do we do about our wives that eat half of the meat while cooking?

lol.

Maybe she's:
- stressed?
- distracted?
- hungry?
- nervous?
- all of the above?

Give her some celery sticks to munch on while cooking and doing her chores. Those things are so nasty though; so don't be surprised if she throws them at your head.

[quote author=ekt_bear]hmm

I guess I'll need to return to this thread a bit later when I have time. I still don't really agree with you guys, though[/quote]No worries, Ekiti Panda Bear.

Go ahead and ask your dad to reminisce about the days of OBJ from '76! Come back and break it down for us once you get the straight d.o.p.e.

Katsumoto: You give OBJ too much credit. He is crafty self-serving monster.

Ah! Good one.

P.S.
As they say, Na Wa for this NL word filter o. I typed 'straight d.o.pe' and it changed it to 'drugs.'
http://www.straightdope.com/
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=straight%20dope

afam4eva: I want to believe that you're either Igbo or Efik/Ibibio.

Well, I don't know what tribe of person would say, or even THINK, the below:

cowgurl: On a lighter note, am praying I don't get married from my tribe so I don't go through all this embarrasment thingy with his people

Not even funny. And, I was on her side at first. SMH.

The girl is not serious at all.

Homar: Reminds me of our principal in jss d guy too flog . When him begin chase people and them be de run away and mumu me follow but i no no where he dey follow come from na so i jump window land for him front . D kind flogging wey i recieve that day na die . But i loved d agric teacher cause instead of flogging d hell out of us he would send us to his plot of land to farm and while farming and after we go begin look for fruits bush meat etc .

cap28: I am starting a blog soon, i will give you the details when its up and running.

Hook me up as well.

cap28: isale gan !!how you dey?

Good, Blood!

where have you been?

I've been here. Just missing each other, I guess. I saw your battle with Katsumoto a few weeks ago. lol. You're 2 of my all-time favourite NLers, so take it easy o. I bet you two have more you agree on than what draws you apart. But, I enjoyed the 'debate' sha.

faithin9ja: your usual anti-west, conspiracy clap trap.

Tell me what new invention that has been a positive influence in the world has Iran or even China brought to the table in the past 50 years?
[b]why do we queue for visa to US, UK, Europe even Dubai ? why don't we queue for visa's for Cuba, North Korea and Iran, [/b]as matter of fact wheer do you live?

Language barrier is one reason, but not the only one, of course. Naijas clamour to go to an English speaking country before anything.

So Ivory Coast is the highest ranked African country at no. 16, right? And, unless I missed it, I see no other in the top 30 - not even Ghana.

[quote author=ekt_bear]I like OBJ. But while his actions were probably good overall for Nigeria as a whole, I'm not sure they were great for Yorubaland specifically.

So, mixed feelings on the guy.[/quote] His actions were not "good overall for Nigeria" or anyone else, in the slightest. He's an evil corrupt vengeful daughter-in-law-molesting power-hungry vicious venal CIA stooge who sold us out to the neo-colonialists!

It is such nonsense. Spiritual husband ko, spirited-away husband ni. Usually believed in by the sort of "bible-believing christians" who also believe in Abiku and child-witches. Weirdoes!

I'm not watching that nonsense.

So, how did a live chicken make its way into church if not put there for show? Rubbish choreographed fake pastoral healing! People are so desperate to believe every fake 'man of god' with a bible under his arm. SMH for Naija.

https://www.nairaland.com/983074/2-okada-riders-jailed-enugu

Is this what happened to Kilode?!, I mean, Okada-man? At first I thought he was taking his usual semi-annual sabbatical from NL. If Kilode?! Okada-man is locked up in Enugu, I will not hesitate to go break him out, I mean, get a lawyer to effect his release o.

Come to think of it, Kilode?! is not the only Knight of Isale's Round Table that is MIA. There are 11 more of those ruffians nobles out there. Never mind about their names.

dasparrow: Oh yes I do. That is what I used in elementary school. Those were the good ole days. I miss the Nigeria of back then. No boko haram and bomb blasts. As children we played outside or went to hunt pidgeons. How did our current world become so bad Lord?

what did you do with the pigeons once you caught them? we used to go to the pond behind a methodist primary school in surulere and catch frogs; we let them go right away. frogs are slippery, but not ugly like toads.

on topic, i used that workbook, and never could figure out the drawing of the dude laying down. now, i'm more curious about the artist. btw, i don't know all these "ede. . . ere. . .iya kayode" crap you all are reciting. any lagosians in the house do that? hmmm. i'm scared i'll figure out it was after, i mean, before my time.

afam4eva: Women LUST/COVETOUSNESS, Money and Religion are the greatest causes of havoc anywhere in the world.

fixed.

p.s.
i regret posting in this thread. i followed afam here from page2. no idea it had deteriorated into nonsense.

mod, delete my post.

Hmmm. Derailment into Tinubu related fisticuffs ensuing. . .

Also, let S.L. Akintola rest in peace. I still have not seen any proof that the man did anything to turn back or arrest the progress of Yoruba people. My dad, a confirmed Awoist (but Tinubu-'hater') describes Akintola as a gentleman. Until I see conclusive evidence he did Yoruba wrong or behaved in a manner lacking the dignity that we expect from our true leaders, I have to agree with that assessment.

The same cannot be said of the man we're discussing here tonight. OBJ is most certainly not an omoluabi. Actually, the word most often used to describe him is ika.

mummy3: . . . .May be naija wasn’t so good o as at then
We only thought it was good because we were still children and all we needed was provided for us. . .

Hmmm. Nope! Naija really was good at some point in time. Very darn good, in fact. Don't make me tell stories o. There are some real old-timers around here - I will start naming names shortly. lol. We They just keep their heads down. You want all my ancient peeps to start coming out of the woodwork and posting as if leisure suits, afro (sheen) and disco are back in style?

microgiant: The exchange rate was N1 = 1Pound = $2.
Level 01 worker earned N128 which was equal to $256
Then came IBB and IMF insisted on devaluing our currency.
The naira was devalued to N10 to $1
Salary was increased to N350, workers danced over the increment but later discovered they have been short changed.
350 was exchanging for $35 in import dependent economy, that is when real poverty started.

Someone should tell Cap28 about this thread. Hey, bro!

cowgurl: . . .Let's share ideas peeps, do you think it's the kids, parents or society's fault for our inability to communicate in our dialects?

The parents.

nolongtin: Moin moin

"Ewe eran" leaves (Thaumatococcus daniellii)
Moinmoin or Moyi-Moyi is a Nigerian steamed bean pudding made from a mixture of washed and peeled black-eyed beans, onions and fresh ground peppers (usually a combination of bell peppers and chilli or scotch bonnet). It is a protein-rich food that is a staple in Nigeria. Some adaptations also put apples in MoinMoin. It originates from South-west Nigeria.
Moin moin is prepared by first soaking the beans in cold water until they are soft enough to remove the fine outer covering or peel. Then they are ground or blended (using a blender) until a fine paste is achieved. Salt, bouillon cube, dried crayfish, vegetable oil (or any edible oil such as palm oil) and other seasonings are added to taste. Some add sardines, corned beef, sliced boiled eggs, or a combination of these and other 'garnishes' to liven up moin moin. Such is referred to as having 'x' number of lives, 'x' representing the number of garnishes added. The most touted is "moin moin elemi meje", which translates to moin moin with 7 lives.
Moin moin usually comes in a slanted pyramid shape or a cylindrical shape, owing to the mold it is poured into prior to cooking. The pyramid shape comes from the traditional broad "ewe eran" (Thaumatococcus daniellii) or banana leaves fashioned into a cone in one's palm, then the seasoned and garnished liquid is poured into the leaves, which is then folded.
The cylindrical shapes come from empty cans of tomato sauce used in preparation of other dishes. Once placed in its mold, it is placed in a large pot about a tenth filled with water. The water is the source of steam that cooks the moin moin. Moin moin is eaten alone or with bread as a snack, with rice as a meal or with ogi (corn or millet porridge) for breakfast or supper. it can also be taken with garri in the afternoon.
[edit]See also

I am so hungry.

About the tribalism in this thread, AljHarem did not start it. Bashir did. He misunderstood Ileke-Idi simply because of an oversight - she did not remember the Yoruba name for 'apon" and called it Ogbona soup. Obviously both Westerners and Easterners cook it, but call it different names.

You folks better calm down.

Good thread overall.

https://www.nairaland.com/icons/birthday_cake.gif

Ha! I missed this thread. 12 candles for Freechocolate.

Happy 12th birthday, girly!

Seun: I've not seen a Ford car in Nigeria before, so I find it difficult to believe that they are serviceable locally.

Did a monkey steal your keyboard?

kandiikane: Lasgidi, u dey try me abi?


2rd or 3rd? Hm, so what usernames were you using and who were you voting for?

same user-name. different tedious threads. each time i log-on there's some other voting deadline. or has there not been multiple threads or voting/primaries for the same freaking 'mr./miss nairaland' thing?!

never mind. i'm not gonna spoil your fun. carry on.