₦airaland Forum

Madmohamed123:
So innocent Northerner's should not do their business again in yeruba land

It is wrong to tag any northerner a terrorist and suspect to me this is harassment of Nigeria citizens

Yeruba should respect Nigeria citizens if this people is not illegal immigrants from Niger republic if they are Nigeria they should sue police for illegal detention

Let them show their id cards to prove they are Nigerian citizens and not from mauretania or mali

RedboneSmith:
Nope. I didn't say it has roots in both Esan and Igbo. It's origin is unequivocally Igbo, and diffused to both Esan and Benin. You didn't understand what I said there.

And, no. The Southeasterners don't use idumu to mean quarters like is done in Anioma, but this doesn't mean that etymologically the roots of 'Idumu' cannot be understood by a Southeasterner. It was an Anioma innovation but linguistically is still Igboid. To give an example: in the southeast, soup is called 'ofe' in Standard Igbo, but the Ikwerre of Rivers State call it 'mini wiri'. But does it mean "mini wiri" is not Igboid? No. 'mini wiri' is cognate with 'miri nri' which means 'food' s water' or 'sauce for eating food' in Igbo. The Ikwerre word is therefore still etymologically Igbo, even if it isn't used in Central/Standard Igbo. It's the same basic concept with Idumu.



Then you should be able to break it done into its constituent units and explain it. But you apparently can't. And while we are on the topic of Igbo expressions loaned to Edo:

I hope you won't disagree that the "Uku" that appears in the praise name of your Oba "Uku Akpolokpolo" is from the Igbo word for "big or great".

Or that the Edo word for gun, osisi, is from the Igbo word for stick (applied to the early daneguns because they looked like long sticks), and is still used to describe guns throughout Anioma.

Or that the Edo word for skirt buluku, is from the Igbo word 'mbuluku' or 'mbunuku' or 'mbenuku/mbenukwu', which in Igbo means 'that which is girded around the waist'.



Which language isn't continually evolving and borrowing? What exactly is the point of this paragraph?


Deliberately evasive. I will be waiting for an Edo etymology of Idu and Idumwun. Cheers.

Thanks for this knowledge. You should do a series on words in other languages with igbo origins using etymological breakdowns like this because we rarely see igbo language broken down..
At least I don't

Saukruat:
Are you high These are all native yoruba words. Or did you miss the title.

some of these people on nairaland are mad
He said ìwọ is borrowed from French

Probz:
How about oyinbo?

Òyìn(cold breeze) - bó (bleached/pale)

Òyìn (as should be in standard Yoruba, but the word has fallen out of use)
Òyì (as used in several dialects)

oz4real83:
your comment showed how stupid and ignorant you are, you just opened that trap you call mouth even without understanding the issue of discuss. I never called art juju in my statement. I called it "STOLEN PROPERTY" that the jujus were supposed to protect". Your level of ignorance
and stupidity is unprecedented.

See this fool.
Mouth? I didn't know I type with my mouth

When you have stupidity in your useless dna I don't expect anything more.
Art is juju what a slowpoke

oz4real83:
Despite the countless jujus in all the traditional palaces in Nigeria, the white men just came and ransacked the palaces and in some cases burnt down the palaces without the jujus doing anything . But if Nigerians should do the same thing, then you will see the real powers of these jujus . Just imagine a situation where somebody who is in possession of a stolen property that the jujus were supposed to be protecting is requesting for the worshippers of such jujus to come and pay some money before he releases such property to them , It seems the powers of these jujus work only locally.

This type of comment shows the stupidity of many nigerians.
I hope we stop being to quick to tag everything juju
Art is now juju

alsudan:
He should have known that conquered Kwara were only gonna vote for their Yoruba Muslim Brother.

They Yoruba Muslims only try to deceive the Christians among them with the fake tale of Religion cannot divide Yoruba’s, but all na Wash.

No Yoruba Christian should vote for a Muslim-Muslim Ticket.

Will you keep quiet. What do you know about Yorubas
Yẹyẹ

AwesomeGod10:
Isoko man

Lol I hear this a lot that this was my exact thought too. But is it true that isoko and urhobo men are like this

Cubalabloo:
You are among the lucky ones, if she still respects your authority as the head of the family.

It's really strange that you think having dicck makes one the head of the family, rather than the role they play

Ologbo147:
Itsekiris are not up to a million, the Yorubas in Edo state are not more than a hundred thousand, kabba is the least populated senatorial district in kogi state making up about twenty percent of the population of the state(1.2 million at most). Kogi and kwara even are not strong population centres(Yorubas in kwara will be at most 3 million. These numbers cumulatively would staggeringly make six million. We know Ekiti is a bonus state. Among the least populated in the country. Cannot be more than 3million now. Osun is just there too, no viable bubbling town there, would hardly make 3.5million.

I think most persons ordinarily count kogi west and kwara as part of Yoruba save for itsekiri which won't add much when counted alongside. I don't know what else to call oyedepo and the afolayan family if not Yoruba not like they have Yoruba denial issues. Or smart adeyemi from kogi west.All Yorubas I have seen from kogi west and kwara own it with their full chest that they are yorubas. You only call people what they call themselves.

You are barking up what is tantamount to guesses as I already stated in my very first comment

Nobody knows what the population of anybody is as a matter of fact.

Ologbo147:
Yorubas being 35 million even would be wild guess. No major tribe in Nigeria is more than 35 million believe or not. Semi major groups in Nigeria have experienced "stunted growth" as a result of analysis by men from major groups. Groups like ibibio-annang-efik would hardly scale 15 million when analysed by these men but Yoruba which was just twice the number of this group in 1921 According to the census at the time is given the number 45 million like if the ibiboid groups experienced genocide. Same with other semi major groups like kanuri, Fulani and Tiv which are heavily downplayed

Well I don't know what you are trying to get at by comparing Yoruba to Ibibio
But I will remind you the Yoruba include those in Kwara, Kogi, Delta and Edo states who are often left out

ManirBK:
We are all agreed that Hausa is number one tribe with largest population in Nigeria. please we need to know between Yoruba's and Igbo's who is second to Hausa in terms of highest population.

Fulaman198
odumchi
bigfrancis21
lalasticlala
seun
seunmsg
mynd44
oam4j

All attempts at giving a conclusive number to the population have been theories and intelligent gueses.
Even census that should be our reference have been met with political gimmicks and screwed results.
So even hausa being number one is questionable. There's a lot of holes you can poke at that conclusion

But I tend to rely on the idea of 45 million yorubas in Nigeria

OrdinaryNigeria:
We know its a Christian nation that was forcefully converted. According to history.

If one religion cease the whole world, convert everybody to theirs, then wat else? Will there be peace afterward?

Religion is the greatest killer of humanity

The area was a Christian area before Turks founded the nation there.
Turkey itself was never a Christian "Nation"

pquaver:
Turkey is know as Türkei here
Turkey is Puten (bird) in German

The issue seems to only affect English.. They must not like how in English the name is also known for the bird

nsiba:
.

Has he finally caught your life?

Lol. The guy can't separate his imagination from reality, thinks whatever comes to his mind is unquestionably real
So if he thinks I'm after his life, even when nothing adds up it must be so simply because he imagines it.
Very serious sickness

WibusJaga:
He'll surely have a rethink when/if he marries.

nosa Rex wey don marry and born do pass am

Blessedofchrist:
I'm not trying to be tribalistic with this at all...

Almost everytime we read news of how other tribes perform traditional rites,i.e rituals, masquerades etc.., you "rarely" hear of an Hausa fulani people being caught with human parts.. Are they "really not that diabolic"?,.

But I know they are no saint.

You're an example of the millions of sick people we have in our society.

Why the constant need to insult people for being true to their African heritage? Our Masquerades are diabolic Why because its African and not from Europe or the Middle East??
The diabolical that you are even calling traditionalists, doesn't make any sense because they don't worship your diablo or devil

You can't force your own entity into a system that said entity doesn't exist and begin to describe them as its worshipers. It makes no sense

Kingpele:
Royal highness i like this king from the Afonja land ..but I think he is getting too fat and fetish.if we indeed want to go back to stone age.i think we should first of all get ride of our modern dressing, cars and block houses ,our phones etc ..u can't condemn western religion and still held on to thier symbols of modernisation..it is pure hypocrisy

you are very ignorant.

Even your Christianity is in a fierce battle against Modernisation.
What do you think Christian Conservativism is? What are they conserving?

Another stupidity is to think cars and phones are a product of Christianity.
I guess jesus was the ceo of mtn? Lmao nonsense

Armaggedon:
You have not said why it's bad to bury people in their own compound. Abi you're moved by inferiority complex?

Two things
1. Inferiority complex of.. I don't see my Lords and masters in the west doing it so it must be bad
2. He must be one of those bloody agents who unemployment elsewhere forced into the field and he imagines how hard it will be to sell a land where someone has been buried in

Absolutely nothing else

Farfalla:
No. They were wrong.

The Earth isn't flat.

No African ancestors even said that
The guy knows nothing about African cultures, he's most likely never even been to Africa

shogsman:
I'm in my early 30s, I've got a bsc in sociology, a master's degree in statistics and like a dozen other professional degrees in human resource management, gerentology, demography, financial risk management, oil and gas services, pmp and so on.

Infact I'm basically one of the most educated individuals I've met. The sad part is I've never made a cent off my educational qualifications.
Heck I work in a totally different industry and make a good living which I'm definitely not going to trade for social work or psychology, so this past few days I get myself thinking what a waste of Time and resources that was, I literarily spent millions on my education, even relocating abroad to study but it was all a goddamn waste of time, all I got is a useless paper I'm never going to use.

My advice to young ones out there is to set your goals right and stupid untraditional ideas is better than no ideas. You don't necessarily have to pursue a degree to be okay in life.

That is because you were after paper not after the actual education.
And it's not your fault but the typical Nigerian environment encourages going to school just as an avenue to get a degree hoping for cash to start flowing in after rather than just getting educated and developing skills and self development

We need to set goals and map the path, failure to do so and the school or degrees we have can indeed be a waste of time

The truth is we all know the joke was a standard level joke and not offensive in comparison to other jokes. Making a Gi Jane joke about a bald woman is not a bad joke or an insult

Will simply wanted to show his questioned manhood. Good example of toxic masculinity

Colonisation really messed people up

I'm glad people are now challenging all those cultural distortions.

Even the picture above stating "Amotekun" is a cultural distortion, as Amotekun is the cheetah. Ẹkùn is Leopard

BigYash:
I think he is well known in your Yoruba nation,unlike you.. Even though they said he was politically motivated, I still like his guts. When Fulani dey scatter una region, wetin u do put ?? Make una try get small sense.. Just because you have a browsing phone and data,you just come online and say shit.. That's bulshit mehn!

I hope you know that's a fulani guy

talktimi:
He'll be very quiet about Fulani activities henceforth

That's indeed what the enemies of the Yoruba people want. They want us to be quiet about the activities of the killer herdsmen

Sundaypaul12345:
Yorubas are nothing but betrayers

Look at this classic example

Anybody you see mocking Mnk is a not a yoruba man who believes in the struggle. Forget about such miscreants

kingxsamz:
Clown.
If you've killed somebody before because of rituals, why don't you tell us... You seem so sure.

exactly this people are so sure. They should all be arrested because the only reasonable way a sane human being can be so sure is if he has done it himself
People who spread this nonsense belief in money ritual are every bit as guilty as those we've caught with human heads

abbeynism:
Not many would understand their is nothing like money ritual. Because they have been brainwashed.

Your level of understanding of this depends on where grown up, where you have been, how deep you are into this culture and juju things.

Exactly it's all brainwash and a secret desire to engage in it themselves because they are always ready to defend it. Like what is your own if people are saying its not real?
Why the urge to defend it?

These types of people are quite uncultured and don't know anything about juju themselves, they are just conditioned to believe anything

endallinfection:
Money Ritual is Real ...Whether you believe it or Not ...It's nothing to be argued about .It has nothing to do with Academics , Civilization , Science ,Indomie Generational believe , It's far far from Table theory..it's mystical ,So Spiritual ...Life and Direct at Owode Town ,A man called an Akope was Missing for several years , He was found in a Secluded room in a house belongings to one Man Called Ogboye who is into Cars Fayawo in Owode idiroko Area .The man was seen carrying a Spiritual Calabash,Once his name is Mentioned ,Money Flows into the room from nowhere ..Go to Owode and ask about the Occurrence ..It's True...Money Ritual is real ,if it isn't working for some, that doesn't mean it's not real..I hate it ,it's wrong ,It's evil but for anyone to blindly say it's not real is Absolutely wrong

What I have noticed is that many of you people actually love the prospects of money ritual. You are ready to defend it and don't want to hear anything like it's not real.

It's mystic, it's spiritual yẹn yẹn yẹn Nonsense.

The most annoying thing is how you ignorant people attach this stupidity with traditional practices which it has no basis in

Wawelexy:
This werey dey use style advertise himself as babalawo...

. There's no babaláwo that will tell you money ritual works.

It doesn't exist. Anyone you see telling you they do money ritual is a fraud and they will only kill innocent people for nothing, you won't see any money

thorpido:
Sure.
If something isn't working,many would have quit since.There is evil and its results.

People keep paying tithe and rolling on the floor for divine blessings.
Despite the lack of results, once you have fried your brain up to believe these things it will take something extraordinary to get you back to your senses.

thorpido:
The police should do more to tackle the menace.
It isn't fake.Those who know know.

Keep your silly self quite.
What do you know.

You people are so damned and attached to your superstitions and falsehoods that you are now irredeemable

You folks will defend money rituals to your dying breath even without ever having a credible source, just "I dey hear am"