₦airaland Forum

KingSango:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHhMQi3iLn8

KingSango:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0ZuC0WJFzY

Ikology:
I was duped by an Instagram online store. Their user name is : top_class_online_boutique/Legit store. After a sending money to them, they blocked me on IG and WhatsApp. Many must have become victims of this fraudsters and more will become victims if they are not exposed. Our WhatsApp conversations is attached.

oboy3:
Non-chi names that i know of
kamsiyochukwu,(kamsi for short)
kosisochukwu,(kosi for short)
lotanna or afunwaelotanna
ebubechukwu
my anambra people love giving long names i once saw a woman name her child ifebuchechukwugaeme,(ifebuche for short),lol

koning:
That is why we have to do away with the archaic paternal indigene clause in our constitution. The lady is clearly an Igbo woman. Just because her birth father is Yoruba and she bears Bumi is not enough to make her a Yoruba woman officially.

She does not even speak Yoruba.

shamiraaa:
You're wrong I did the research myself, on Google if you enter something like "African American Celebrities" tracing their African Ancestry "

Cameroon got at least 4 to 7 in 10 results followed by Sierra Leone. and if some want maybe to say that Nigeria contributed more slave back in the day, if you dig little more. the record shows that many Nigerian slaves mostly revolted and worst, suicidal. before diseases, many were shot along the way, from the former Biafra bight shore to the farm on the work place overseas. its estimated that on 100 Nigerian slave, only between 55 to 70 made it touching other shore between what many continue to pay for their rebellious attitude, and did not make it to have children. That may some how explain a lot.

Lol, I think the OP just selected the ones from mostly Cameroun. And the ones from Sierra Leone might be Nigerians. Blair Underwood has both Nigeria and Cameroun in his ancestry, and you need to understand that before Nigeria, folks from that side of Cameroun were intertwined with their neighbours from that axis of Nigeria. Colonialism divided them

Anyway, majority of those tested, always get Nigeria as the ancestry.

Nas, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Forrest Whitaker, Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Gary Younge, Evander Holyfield, Angela Bassett, Judge Hatchett, Jackson family etc. traced theirs to Nigeria.

badaru1:
Top 10 Yoruba Names You Never Guessed Were Arabic Names
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.


I have always been fascinated by Yoruba people’s creative morphological domestication of Arabic names. There are scores of Yoruba names that are derived from Arabic but which are barely recognizable to Arabs or other African Muslims because they have taken on the structural features of the Yoruba language.

This is not unique to Yoruba, of course. As scholars of onomastics or onomatology know only too well, when proper names leave their primordial shores to other climes they, in time, are often liable to local adaptation. (Onomastics or onomatology is the scientific study of the origins, forms, conventions, history and uses of proper names. Anthroponomastics specifically studies personal names, so this article is an anthroponamastic analysis of Yoruba Muslim names). That’s why, for instance, there are many Arabic-derived personal names in Hausa, the most Arabized ethnic group in Nigeria, that would be unrecognizable to Arabs. Names like Mamman (Muhammad), Lawan (Auwal), Shehu (Sheikh), etc. would hardly make much sense to an Arab.

I am drawn to the onomatology of Arabic-derived Yoruba names because their morphological adaptation to Yoruba’s structural attributes seems to follow an admirably predictable, rule-governed pattern. I have four preliminary observations on this pattern.



One, because most Niger- Congo languages (of which Yoruba is a prominent member) end almost every word with a terminal vowel, every Arabic name borrowed into Yoruba is fitted with one. This is important because the majority of Arabic names don’t end with a vowel. To give just a few examples, Arabic names like Muhammad, Saeed, Umar, Abdulmumin, etc. (with no vowel endings) are almost always rendered as Muhammadu, Saeedu, Umaru, Abdulmumini, etc. (with vowel endings) by speakers of Niger Congo and other African languages. I have tried several times to think of any word in Yoruba and in my native Baatonu that does not end with a vowel (that is, a, e, i, o, and u) and have not had any success. So the first thing Niger Congo languages do when they borrow a foreign word is to add a terminal vowel to the word if it doesn’t have one.

Two, in most cases, when Arabic names start with a vowel, the Yoruba morphological domestication process dispenses with the initial vowels and starts pronouncing the word from the next consonant after the vowel. So, for example, Imran is often rendered as Muroino in Yoruba. I can’t explain the linguistic logic behind this since several Yoruba names begin with vowels (e.g. Adewale, Iyabo, Olusegun, Ekundayo, etc.), but Yoruba is pretty consistent in doing away with initial vowels when it borrows names from Arabic.

Three, it also seems to be the case that whenever Yoruba borrows names from Arabic and, in fact, from all other languages, it usually replaces the “a” sound in the names with an “o” sound, especially if the “a” sound is intermediate or terminal. That’s why Rahman becomes Romonu and Imran becomes Muroino. There are exceptions, though.

Four, Yoruba Muslims tend to be way fonder of names that are derived from the 99 names of Allah than northern Nigerian Muslims. A prominent morphological feature of such names is that they are always prefixed with “Abdul,” which is Arabic for “servant.” So AbdulRaheem means “servant of the merciful.” Yoruba naming conventions tend to eliminate the “Abdul” part of the names of Allah, which northern Muslims consider borderline blasphemous because they say by dispensing with “Abdul,” bearers of such names are claiming Allah’s qualities. (My immediate younger brother is called Abdulmumin, and my dad, who is an Arabist, fought anybody, including my mother, who eliminated the “Abdul” from his name. To this day, I can’t bring myself to call my brother Mumini). This arises from the Yoruba fondness for the short forms of names. Even Yoruba names that start with “Oluwa” (God), “Ade” (royalty), “Ola” (wealth), etc. are often shortened. That’s why Oluwaseun is often rendered as Seun, Adewale as Wale, and Olanrewaju as Lanre, etc.

The following 10 Yorubaized Arabic names appear to be guided by the morphological rules I identified above.

1. Bakare. This is the Yoruba rendition of Abubakar (or Abu Bakr), the nickname of the first Caliph of Islam. As you can see, the “Abu” in the name is dispensed with, and the “Bakar” part of it is fitted with a terminal vowel. Refer to rules one and two above. Perhaps the most prominent bearer of this name in contemporary Nigeria is Pastor Tunde Bakare, former vice presidential candidate to General Muhammadu Buhari. Pastor Bakare was born a Muslim but converted to Christianity in his teens.

2. Buraimo. I doubt that many non-Yoruba Muslims will recognize this name as Ibrahim, but it is. It follows the second morphological principle I identified in my introductory remarks. The “I” in Ibrahim is dispensed with, and intermediate and terminal vowels are added to produce Buraimo, which is sometimes spelled as Buraimoh. People who follow Lagos politics are probably familiar with the “Baale Buraimo Edu of Epe.”

3. Disu. This is the Yoruba rendition of the Arabic name Idris. The initial vowel in Idris (that is “I”) is eliminated and a terminal vowel (that is, “u”) is added to it. Abdul Karim Disu, the first Nigerian to earn a graduate degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1944, is perhaps the first known Disu in Yorubaland.

4. Lamidi. I once had a conversation with a friend from Kastina about prominent Yoruba Muslims who bear no Muslim names. I mentioned former Minister of Justice Prince Bola Ajibola, First Republic politician Alhaji Adegoke “Penkelemesi” Adelabu (who is late). My friend interrupted me and mentioned “Alhaji Lamidi Adedibu.” He was shocked when I told him Lamidi was a Muslim name.

“Which Muslim name is Lamidi?” he asked.

“Abdulhamid,” I said.

He was unconvinced. I told him because of Yoruba people’s fondness for the short forms of names, they often dispense with “Abdul” in Muslim names that begin with that prefix. So that leaves us with Hamid. Now, there is something some people call the “h-factor” in Yoruba, which is the tendency for Yoruba speakers to unconsciously eliminate the “h” sound in words in which it is normally pronounced and to add it to words that don’t have it. So “eat” is often pronounced as “heat” and “heat” is pronounced as “it.” Given this phonological characteristic, “Hamid” becomes “Amid,” but the interference of the “l” sound in “Abdul” can also cause it to be rendered as “Lamid.” Now, like all Niger Congo languages, it’s unnatural for words to not have a terminal vowel, so a terminal vowel is added to Lamid to produce Lamidi. My friend was persuaded.

5. Muroino or Muraino. As I explained in my introductory remarks, this is the Yoruba domestication of Imran, the father of Maryam (Mary) in the Qur’an. The initial vowel is eliminated and intermediate and terminal vowels are added.

6. Lasisi. This is Abdulaziz. The “Abdul” in the original name is dispensed with, the “z” sound in the other half of the name is replaced with an “s” sound since there is no “z” in Yoruba phonology and orthography, and a terminal vowel (“i”) is added.

7. Romonu (Raymond). This is the shortened form of Abdulrahman. Its domestication follows the same morphological principle as the preceding name. The only thing to add is that in contemporary times many people who bear Romonu (or Ramonu) tend to Anglicize it to Raymond.

8. Sulu (and Sulufilu). Most Nigerians are familiar with the name Sulu-Gambari courtesy of the traditional ruling family in Ilorin. Well, the “Sulu” in the name is the Yorubaization of Zulkarnain (which is more correctly transliterated as Dhul-Qarnayn). Since Yoruba has no “z” sound, the “z” in Zulkarnain is replaced with an “s,” and the rest of the name is lopped off. Sulufilu, another Arabic name that is popular with Yoruba Muslims, is the domestication of Zulkifil.

9. Sumonu. That is Usman. Its formation follows the same morphological process that gave birth to names like Bakare, Buraimo, Disu, and Muraino. I used to have a classmate in primary school whose name was Sumonu Lamidi Lasisi.

10. Sunmola. That is Ismaeel. Like Bakare, Buraimo, Disu, Muraino, Sumonu, the first vowel in Ismaeel is chopped off and intermediate and terminal vowels are added to it.

Concluding Thoughts
Several other names came to mind when I thought of this article—names like Waidi (Abdulwahid), Mukoila (Mikail), Muda, (Mudassar), etc. There are also other names that I simply couldn’t trace to any existing Arabic name I know of, but which Yoruba Muslims bear nonetheless. This includes names like Shittu, Gbadamosi (now rendered as Bhadmus, which Hausa people bear as Badamasi), Raji (which many Fulani from northeastern Nigeria also bear), etc. I hope someone reading this can educate me on the origins of these names.

Whatever it is, it is remarkable that Yoruba Muslims have successfully domesticated Arabic names to the point of making them sound like native Yoruba names.

Tolexander:
These names are burrowed from the arab(larubawa) and it is very obvious to those with standard and real yoruba heritage.

The names were changed as a result of yoruba's preference for short names and are modified using the rules guiding 'òrò àyálò' in Yoruba.

I refuse to take this.

How about MO[color=crimson]SUNMOLA[/color] translated to 'i'm close to wealth', and ADE[color=crimson]SUNMOLA[/color] translated to 'crown is close to wealth'?
Are they arabic?

banku:
It sure does add gravity. Thanks.

I like the part about Da Rocha too.

The Akan

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The Akan people are an ethnic group found predominantly in Ghana and the Ivory Coast. Akans are the majority in both of these countries and overall have a population of 40 million people.[1][2] The Akan speak Kwa languages.

The Akan are believed to have migrated to their current location from the Sahel[4] between the 10th and 12th Century.[5][6] The kingdom of Bonoman was established as early as the 11th century as a trading state between the Akan and their neighbors, especially those from Djenné, Timbuktu, Bornu among others.[7] A gold boom in the Akan area between the 12th and 13th centuries brought wealth to numerous Akan peoples.[8] During different phases of the Kingdom of Bonoman groups of Akans migrated out of the area to create numerous states based predominantly on gold mining and trading of cash crops.[9][10] This brought wealth to numerous Akan states like Akwamu which stretched all the way to modern Benin[11] and ultimately led to the rise of the most well known Akan empire, the Empire of Ashanti.[12]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akan_people

Characteristics

-Gold (Blinng Bling)
-Pride
-Matrilineal
-Kente/Kita
-Warm
-Welcoming
-Dark Skin
-Good Hair (Jokes)

Most Numerous group

In Ghana:
-Ashanti
-Fanti
-Nzema
-Akuapem
-Akyem
-Aowin
-Denkyra
-Sefwi
-Brong

In Cote d'Ivoire

-Baoule
-Agni
-Akye
-Adioukrou
-N'Zema
-Abron/Brong
-Abbey (don't really know, said to be related to the Ewe)

If there are akan or anybody knowledgeable about the Akan people and culture on this forum, please help in developing this topic. Thanks

Common Akan Surnames: Kouame(Kwame), Kouakou(Kwaku), Kouao (Kwaw), Koffi, Bedi, Bediako, Bouake (Boakye), Assamoi(Assamoah), Yao (Yaw), Akoua (Akua), Allah, Kouassi (Kwesi), Kanga, Konan, Adja...

Women names: Akissi, Akosua, Aya (Yaa), Affoue, Affoua (Affua, Afia), Becanty, Adjoua (Ajoa), Amlan, Amenan (Aminan), Bledja...

(I stole this description from the outside Nigeria Thread , i ll modify this introduction later on)

banku:
I was really impressed with the preparation of akara in Brazil.

It shows they never forget their culture. They are so proud of it telling visitors akara was brought to Brazil during slavery.

There are many food and styles of preparation in the West Indices as well.

August1st:
On December 30, 2017, Brazilian worshippers were seen flocking to Copacabana beach in Rio de Janiero to pay tribute to Yoruba goddess, Yemoja, queen of the sea.

The annual festival had worshipers dance, sing and pray their way to the water to offer flowers, letters and gift to the sea goddess.

Candomblé is an Afro-Brazilian religion that has roots in the Yoruba, Fon and Bantu beliefs brought to Brazil by enslaved Africans. On December 29, Umbandá and Candomblé followers unite in a religious procession that starts in the Afro-Brazilian neighbourhood of Madureira and proceeds to Copacabana beach where religious followers, dressed in white and blue, throw flowers into the ocean.

Umbandá is a Brazilian religion that blends African traditions with Roman Catholicism, Spiritism, and Indigenous American beliefs – With their tributes washing out to sea, worshippers hope they’ll be blessed by Yemanja.

The tradition was brought over to Brazil by African slaves hundreds of years ago. Cuban-French sisters Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Diaz of ancestral Nigerian origin are http://bencollinspro.com/2018/01/09/photos-brazilians-honour-yemoja-as-citizens-flood-sea-to-worship-yoruba-goddess/

RedboneSmith:
The Portuguese and the Dutch bought cloth from the Ijebu, the Bini and the Itsekiri.

The Igbo-Ukwu finds prove that the people had woven cloth as early as the 9th century.

In my part of Delta State (Anioma), we had towns that were widely famed for cloth-making long before the Europeans figured out how to sail a ship into West African waters, e.g., Ubulu-Uku and Ewuru, among others. The earliest Europeans to visit Ubulu-Uku were much impressed with the skill and the quality of the cloth of its weavers.

And of course up north, the clothes made in Kano were exported north as far as Morocco.

With the exception of a few isolated tribes here and there, there were no Nigerian ethnic group where woven cloth was completely absent in 1800. In some places, custom may dictate that children and unmarried women should not put on cloth, but this was a matter of custom - not that they had no idea of cloth.

What ignorant idiot says Africans were too stupid/lazy to figure out how clothes were made.

donogaga:
Lagos, Nigeria and Africa’s largest city , sprawls inland from the Gulf of Guinea across Lagos Lagoon. Victoria Island, the financial hub of the metropolis, known for its beach resorts, boutiques and nightlife, popularly referred to as the city of hustlers. There is a poplar saying that if you cannot make it in Lagos, then you cannot make it anywhere in Nigeria. Millions have made a fortune through hard work and consistency even though they came into the city with a pair of slippers and few clothes inside their nylon bags then the next step is to look for where to buy good cheap clothes in the city (Lagos).

Talking about students who want to look flashy and smart, with little money, those with white collar jobs wanting to look smart especially when they are in the business of constant interactions with clients and customers, here you will all see the 7 most popular markets where you can buy good cheap clothes in Lagos with ease.

7 Most Popular Markets Where You Can Buy Good Cheap Clothes In Lagos State.

(1) KATANGUA MARKET : Popularly known as “bend down market”, Katangua market is where you can get authentic second hand(used) wears and household items for jaw dropping prices. The place is a hub of activities and your head will be in a swirl when you see collections of good-looking things to buy. Katangua have their market days which you need to be aware of inorder to get the best products, be it clothes, kitchen utensils and general house hold materials. These new consignments come every Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, if you can target those days of the week, then you are good to go. The heaps of clothes have different grades and the prices reflect them.

Location: It is located around Super bus stop in Abule Egba, you can’t miss it, just ask any shop owner around and you will be directed.


(2) YABA MARKET: Yaba market offers items that are less priced than the one you’ll find in Tejousho market. You can get very authentic Okrika (first grade used) clothes for as low as 1000 at yaba, you will be amazed at the authenticity of the clothes. Unilag students can greatly attest to this.

Location: As long as you can find your way to Yaba busstop then you are there, you would be approached by sellers trying to persuade you to buy from them.


(3) TEJUOSHO ULTRA MODERN MARKET: This Market has undergone a great transformation into a modern market after it was reported gutted but fire. The Lagos state government wasted no time in brining it to one of the best markets in lagos, contrary to general belief regarding the cost of getting or securing a shop there, it is regardless one of the cheapest places you can buy clothes in Lagos. It depends on the shop being visited.

Location: It is off Yaba bus stop, shares same boundary with Yaba market.


(4) OSHODI MARKET : Oshodi undergone a fabulous transformation under the administration of ex-governor Babatunde Fashola. Once a very disorganized market, is now easy to navigate in and out. The display of Ankara and materials for making clothes is awesome. For your ‘aso ebi’ materials, which is usually in bales of clothes of the same design, and material, Oshodi market will cater for that.

You can easily get a bus from any part of the city that will convey you to Oshodi.


(5) BALI MARKET : Are you a corporate man or job seeker intending to look like a classy job seeker with style? Then Bali is the place to be… you can get very authentic first class used designers there at very affordable prices.

LOCATION : It is located off broad street, the road directly in front of former AfriBank, Lagos Island.


(6) BALOGUN MARKET: This is the chub of textile and fabric in Lagos. You surely can’t get enough of what the market offers. You need to be very smart to shop here, as there are lots of people doing the same. Your favorite lace and wrapper will be on display there. There are also ready-made dresses on display. All you just need to do is to confirm if it is the right size! Its located in the heart of Lagos fondly referred to as Eko.

LOCATION: Balogun, Lagos Island.


(7) ASWANI MARKET : Located in Isolo, Aswani market is quite popular and brings a euphoric feeling when the name is mentioned. It is known for its long years of attending to consumers’ needs in terms of clothing, fabric and accessories. Tuesdays are special days and you have you tighten your belt when you go there. There are bends down select as well as high-grade clothes. You can get your favourite at fair prices.


http://www.nigerianarchives.com/2016/03/08/7-most-popular-markets-where-you-can-buy-good-cheap-clothes-in-lagos-and-their-locations/

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metronaija3:
Nigerian rapper, Falz who hosted a remarkable concert at the end of last year has just recieved a letter from LIRS (Lagos State Internal Revenue Service) to come and pay his personal income tax for 2017.

See the letter below...

http://www.metronaija.ng/lirs-sends-falz-letter-come-pay-personal-income-tax-2017/

cc: lalasticlala mynd44

gare:
Your News Wire
CIA Agent Confesses On Deathbed: ‘I Killed Bob Marley’

Former CIA agent Bill Oxley has confessed on his deathbed to assassinating Bob Marley on behalf of the government.
A 79-year-old retired officer of the CIA, Bill Oxley, has made a series of stunning confessions since he was admitted to the Mercy Hospital in Maine on Monday and told he has weeks to live. He claims he committed 17 assassinations for the American government between 1974 and 1985, including the music icon Bob Marley.


Mr. Oxley, who worked for the CIA for 29 years as an operative with top-level security clearances, claims he was often used as a hitman by the organization, to assassinate individuals who could represent a threat to the goals of the agency.

Trained as a sniper and marksman, Mr. Oxley also has significant experience with more unconventional methods of inflicting harm upon others, like poisons, explosives, induced heart attacks and cancer.

The 79-year-old operative claims he committed the assassinations between March 1974 and August 1985, at a time when he says the CIA “was a law unto itself.” He says he was part of an operative cell of three members which carried out political assassinations across the country and occasionally in foreign countries.

Most of their victims were political activists, journalists, and union leaders, but he also confesses to assassinating a few scientists, medical researchers, artists and musicians whose ideas and influence “represented a threat to the interests of the United States.”

He claims he had no problem with going through with the assassination of Bob Marley, because “I was a patriot, I believed in the CIA, and I didn’t question the motivation of the agency. I’ve always understood that sometimes sacrifices have to be made for the greater good.”

But Mr. Oxley confesses that Bob Marley remains unique among his victims, as he was the only victim he “felt anything for.”

“The others were assholes. Bob Marley was Bob Marley. I was no closer to being a long-haired hippy back then than I am now, but I must admit Bob’s music did move me. It held some power over me.”

He claims to have “mixed feelings” about Bob Marley’s death. On the one hand, Marley was “a good man, a beautiful soul” with “profound artistic gifts” who did not deserve to have his life cut short. But according to Mr. Oxley, Bob Marley was also placing the goals of the CIA in jeopardy and threatening the existence of the United States:

“He was succeeding in creating a revolution that used music as a more powerful tool than bullets and bombs. Bob Marley in 1976 was a very serious threat to the global status quo and to the hidden power brokers implementing their plan for a new world order. As far as the agency was concerned, Bob Marley was too successful, too famous, too influential… A Jamaican Rastaman who started using his funds and fame to support causes around the world that were in direct conflict with the CIA… To be honest, he signed his own death warrant.”

“It’s not like we didn’t warn him. We sent a few guys to shoot up his house in Kingston,” Mr Oxley says, referring to a shooting in the Marley residence that left the singer with an injured arm and chest. “We had a message for him. We impressed upon him the gravity of the situation he found himself in. He didn’t listen.”

“Two days later, in the mountains, I stuck him with the pin.“

How Bob Marley was murdered by the CIA

Two days after Bob Marley was shot in the left arm by one of three gunmen who ambushed the singer and some of his crew in his house in Kingston, and after a brief stint in hospital, Bob Marley travelled to the protective hills of the Blue Mountains and spent time at the highest point in Jamaica, rehearsing for an upcoming concert.

bob-marley-assassination

According to Mr. Oxley, he used press credentials to gain access to Bob Marley during his Blue Mountains retreat. He introduced himself as a famous photographer working for the New York Times, and gave Bob Marley a gift.

“I gave him a pair of Converse All Stars. Size 10. When he tried on the right shoe, he screamed out ‘OUUUCH.‘

“That was it. His life was over right there and then. The nail in the shoe was tainted with cancer viruses and bacteria. If it pierced his skin, which it did, it was goodnight nurse.”

“There had been a series of high-profile assassinations of counter-culture figures in the United States in the late sixties, early seventies. By the time Bob Marley’s time came around, we thought subtlety was the order of the day. No more bullets and splattered brains.”

Mr. Oxley says he kept close contact with Marley during the final years of his life, ensuring the medical advice he received in Paris, London and the United States “would hasten his demise rather than cure him.” He died from cancer in May 1981. He was just 36 years old.

bob-marley-death
The final photo of Bob Marley, days before his death.
“The last time I saw Bob before he died he had removed the dreadlocks, and his weight was dropping like a stone,” he says.

“He was very withdrawn, unbelievably small. He was shrinking in front of us. The cancer had done it’s job.”

“The day he died in Miami was definitely one of the most difficult moments in my career. I felt real bad. For a long time I wasn’t comfortable with my part in his death. But eventually I came to realize it had to be done, for America.”



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Olu317:
Better to be late than never in wishing awesome and appreciated people on NL happy and belated new year. Wishing the following monikers
irrespective of differences . I pray that nature and God provides to you all:
Konquest
totit
metaphysics
9jakool
probz
ishilove
areafada2
absolutesuccess
imperialyoruba
laudate
macof
bigfrancis
kingshango
Hati13 etc


N. B
The ones I didn't mention should know I wish you all prosperous 2018 in all ramification

MsNgo40:
Yes....I'm still awake unfortunately.
Don't know why I can't seem to go to bed....just yet.
I'll have to make up for the lost sleep.
I replied your email and want to ask you something there if you don't mind?
Please check it.

Thanks
I don't want to derail her thread any further.

MsNgo40:
Oh Mr. Konquest....lol....seriously....lol.
Where should I begin?
Let me first thank YOU "for the new year wishes you sent ME cotained in the third message on the first day of January 2018"..remember dear?
You can't be older than moi....so I know you don't have memory loss....


With all due respect, in terms of cooking or baking, I didn't know you were even interested in my delicacies....lol.

By the way, I'm incapable of producing mouth heat.....

MsNgo40:
I have recently begun baking fresh bread...and it looks like u have all of the right ingredients...and understand the need to let the yeast rise...and get a thorough kneading and rising a few times.
Have u used bread flour before?....
Cause that seems to work with whole wheat flour.

That seems interesting about bread baking without an oven. I was wondering about that.

HomesOfLife:
Theirs are worse o. They're creatively crafty too. I was once travelling to Lagos from Anambra. When I got to the park, there were many buses, their 'agberos' were all seen trying to lobby passengers thus the competition was high. We saw many comfortable buses loaded almost half full, but seeing a 'not so comfortable' bus with only two seats remaining, I hurriedly got on the bus with excitement that we would leave soon. After buying bus ticket, I realized they were all fake passengers. Everyone got down one by one, remaining me and just one passenger. The stone face on the agbero self will not let you gather confidence to ask for refund.

I doff my hat to these guys.

havillaplus:
In real estate, doing due diligence (investigation), probing the validity and authenticity of a property is essential thing before paying money. It allows to avoid falling into a scam or acquiring series of liabilities with the asset in question. Many had fallen victim of fake lands or land with fake papers. There are cases of lands sold by scam estate agents which were discovered later to be someone else’s land.


The target of this article is to help you avoid such common mistakes which lead to loosing your money.


Serious Reasons to Make Investigation Before Buying Property
Investigation is essential thing as it can disclose a lot of problems and secrets behind a land or other property for sale. Here are just a few examples:


It reveals hidden costs or unpaid fees like accumulated land use charge, tax and so on.
It allows to get trusted info about actual size and topography of the land in question.
It helps verify the real owner of the property. You do not want to give your money to someone who has nothing to do with property you are buying, right?


It reveals the exact location of the property and the neighbourhood it is located (current one and future one), the social amenities surrounding it and potential problems which can appear in near future. For example reveals the possibility of acquiring land close to or under powerline route, oil or gas pipeline route, filling station, gas station.



How to Do a Due Diligence (Investigation) for a Land in Nigeria

You need follow 5 basic steps:

1. CHECK CAREFULLY OWNER’S DOCUMENTS
To be more specific, you need to request from seller following documents (or good quality photo copies of documents):
– Certificate of Occupancy (C of O)
– Power of Attorney (if you are buying not from the owner)
– Tax Clearance Certificate
– Survey Plan
– Deed of Assignment. A deed of conveyance or assignment traces the history of how the property or land has reached the present owner till date.



It is very important that you have a good property lawyer before embarking on land/property purchase. Reason being that your lawyer is the one who ensures that you don’t run into legal trouble with land/property documents after purchase. It’s your lawyer’s job to verify the authenticity of any title document backing the land/property.


2. INVESTIGATE TAXES AND OTHER FEES
Check for the payment of land use charge by the owner on the land. Any land with C of O attracts this charge on an annual basis. If the owner refused to pay this charge it will accumulate and would be inherited by the buyer. You might want to check this out before making payment. Finally find out any other charge or fee on the land. Only when having full info you can decide how to proceed.


3. MAKE A PHYSICAL INSPECTION
After verifying the authenticity of the documents request to be taken to the location of the land or any other property – house, apartment etc.. Confirm the size and condition of the property to find out if it is the same with what is in the documents. Also pay attention to following things:


– Filling station: be sure your neighbor is not a filling station or someone who wants to build a filling station after purchase.

– Proximity to the highway: There is government regulation as to the distance from the road to properties. Confirm to discover these because sometimes in the future road enlargement could mess up your property.

– Power-line route: Check the distance between the land and power-line route because there are specific guidelines as to the how close a property should be to power-lines. Apart from regulations it is dangerous to build under a power line route.

– Oil and gas route: Check the proximity of the land to an oil and gas pipeline so as not to contravene the law against closeness to one of these.

– Waterways: ensure the land is not located on or dangerously close to a waterway or major drainage because of governmental regulation and flooding.

– Infrastructure and other advantages listed by seller – condition of the roads, neighbours etc.


4. VALUE ASSESSMENT AND INVESTIGATION
Assess the land further to discover its price in relation to others in the surrounding. Ask the owner of a similar land near you to discover if it is within the same price range or outrageously above. In real estate location of a property or land is a determining factor in the price. For example the value of a land in Lekki is different from value of the same size of land in Ikorodu. It is common place for lands in the same zone/neighbourhood to be on the same price range. Furthermore, inquire about the supposed owner of the land from neighbours in that area to be sure they own the property.


5. ZONING / LAND USE CONTROL
Confirm that the land is not located in an area assigned to be used as business district or industrial estate if your intention is a residential building. If you contravene this law your property is doomed for demolition.


And finally, if everything is ok – make sure you collect the genuine receipt after paying for your property fully.

http://www.mobofree.com/blog/things-must-check-buying-land-nigeria/

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Teniola2000:
Nollywood Actress, Chizy Alichi has damned all the slay queens and actress by building a Four Bedroom bungalow for her parents in the Village.


According to her, her parents were living in a dilapidated house with leaking roofs,it was such a terrible experience that her Dad considered selling a part of their compound to seal the roofs and just then the Idea of building a New house for them crossed her mind,inspire of all the insults from her fellow stars she still went on to do what was right.



The big question is what's the essence of been a slay queen if Ur parents are leaving on the streets?? Nigerian ladies should imitate this actress and not those ones that leave fake lives on social media...having a girl child wasn't a waste afterall...



News by Joelsblog: https://joelsblog.com.ng/nollywood-actress-chizzy-alichi-reveals-how-she-built-a-house-for-her-parentsinstead-of-buying-a-car/

sayoberry:
Saw someone eat, tried and tasted and saw that the thing sweet. Esp in fried stew

Tastes like dried fish

luvinhubby:
The Igbos never used to have the annual ritual of Christmas homecoming until the upheavals and subsequent civil war of 1966 - 1970. Before, ndi Igbo hardly travel home except on very serious cases and even when they do so, will hardly spend a few days at home, because they saw anywhere they are based as their home.
But at the onset of the civil and the attendant pogrom targeted against Igbos in the Northern and Western parts of Nigeria, a whole lot of Igbo families was forced to run for their lives down to the only safe part of Nigeria for them then and that was the East, it was called 'oso agha' (fleeing the war). Because most of the families that fled to their villages and towns in East then rarely visited home, they did not have houses of their owns that can accommodate their wives, children and properties and most families only had small houses and huts built by their aged parents, a lot of the properties they ran home with was abandoned outside and was destroyed by rains, the children had to squeeze into small, uncomfortable spaces, at times under licking thatched houses, with their parents. The Igbos saw this as a fallout of not visiting home frequently as that would have compelled them to see the need to put up decent houses at their respective hometowns.

So immediately after the civil war and the Igbos returned to their previous bases in the West and North and resumed their works and trading, it became a necessity for every Igboman to do two things, start a deliberate act of visiting his hometown at least once a year and alongside it, make effort to build a decent house in his hometown that will shelter himself and his household during his annual homecomings and to act as his refuge in the event of another oso agha.


Ndi be anyi ekene m unu !