₦airaland Forum

I knew Tinubu is the likely Afonja of our time, teaming up with the north against the agenda of his people. Now the north is going against him
Am glad that unlike the case of Afonja where other Yoruba leaders turned their backs on him as he turned his back on them, yoruba leaders are in support of Tinubu. ..Yoruba must be united!
True federationalism with All yoruba in one region must be achieved

emmyid:
Bro, there is something U guys don't understand. Sometimes, suffer, poverty and way of life affects ones skin tone.
For example, as a young boy from a poor home. I trek to a distant school under the scourging sun everyday, I bath with black native soap, most times I don bath before going to bed, I rub kernel oil or vaseline, I don't eat skin nourishing foods, With all these practices, do U expect my complexion to be well toned like it was really meant to be? Nope!

Today, things have gotten better, I 'm barely under the sun, I bath regularly, I eat well, I use good creams and soap. Life got better; I got fresher and lighter.
Wud U say I'm bleaching? I don't think so, kos d parts of my body were I don't apply creame are even fairer!

good creams and soap that bleach you out

genieluv:
I think i may support DanZubair that Gobir truly is the origin of hausas and not just hausas alone, many middlebelt tribes too. I studied the origin of many northern minority tribes and many sources claim that Gobir is the origin of some of these tribes.



Pls i dont think the Kwararafans and Nupes were ever under hausa nor where they formed by hausas. Nupe land was founded by an igala prince from Idah according to Nupe oral traditions while most igalas claim to have come from Kwararafa and kwararafa itself claims to have come from the middle east directly.
Kebbi, yauri and zamfara may be banza bakwai but not middlebelt tribes.

I think it's just the ruling class - that is the Attah that is of Kwararafa origin
the general igala people would have a common origin with Yoruba

Ascom94:
jonathan

did you read the link or u just follow beer parlor gist

STFUareyouG0d:
Bros, there's what we call 'work ethics'. I'm sure you know what that is

The dude simply broke that. He broke her privacy. It's like a doctor using your medical details against you

but how then do u expect him to approach the girl?

STFUareyouG0d:
you don't get it bro

make me get it na. .. maybe I can learn and not make a similar mistake

Kdon2:
Whether rude or not, its called breach of privacy in law. So he should face the music! You don't know the circumstance of the clients so keep within official bounds,you are safe that way!

lmao your phone number is not private at all. call customer care and they will even help you complete your number if you have problems calling it out


Men shouldn't be intimated for approaching a woman they like respectfully

STFUareyouG0d:
what's this one saying? It's big deal. He's a professional and should learn to stay professional.

But then, the girl could have warned him to stay away.

how else do you expect him to have contacted here or he shouldn't have made a move on her at all ...is she a goddess for being a customer

the girl is wicked and arrogant that's all

mandarin:
If these are true then he must be very frugal. However am baffled, why did he support a rather wasteful Jonathan Goodluck that laid the foundation for the current recession?
I know he is a learned fellow, versed in financial matters, while on earth did he decide to support GEJ considering his wastefulness.
One thing I've come to learn about educated elites is their penchant to become honorary advisers when they leave government. I thought Okonjo Iweala would for instance come out to explain to Nigerians how she presided over an economy that received so much oil income that toward the end was already borrowing to finance salary of workers.
You see why Nigeria baffles me!!!

Yes sure Goodluck Jonathan was wasteful. most national leaders of the world are. .I don't know why

but Compare the money Jonathan spent on his personal welfare and maintainance of the Aso Villa with that of Buhari. .tell me who has been most wasteful
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/195903-buhari-to-spend-more-than-jonathan-on-presidential-villa-to-spend-less-on-food.html

MrTAnonymous:
Sometime a lady doesn’t even know what turned off the handsome guy she just met and liked.
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He stopped calling or suddenly got “too busy”.
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1) The talk about your ex.
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One of the biggest things that turns off most guys is when you talk about your
ex or, even worse, about your exes. Leave the past behind and focus on the
present moment, as well as on what the future holds, like this both you and
your new partner will be happy.
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2) Too needy for love.
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It’s a very repelling thing for guys when they meet a girl needy for love and kind of “desperate” for being “in relationship”, Show him that you are a happy person right now and that you are happy in your own company its called "Self-love", as well as in his company, then he will want to give you all the love in the world!
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3) She is like an open book – no mystery at all!
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Guys are attracted by mystery and when you are surrounded by some kind of
“enigma”, they always will desire to know more (it concerns the beginning
stages of dating, later on you can share all things). My dear don't be too quick
to tell your whole life. Don’t tell him every single detail about your life and keep
some pages of your book still to be discovered, again, especially in the beginning of relationship. Your gentleman definitely will want to explore…
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4) Too much perfume.
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Ewww! Some girls “overdo” it with perfume. He doesn’t need to smell you
coming his way when you are still 3 streets away. Be more sophisticated than
this, use your perfume sparingly except you plan on choking someone. if you
want to be attractive and if you desire to be a real lady. Your gentleman will
appreciate your efforts when you know the right measure.
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5) Too long finger nails.
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Some will say "I cant go with short nails" no one said you should, just don't over do it. Actually a very hard work to grow and take care of very long nails, but little do girls know that this is one of the biggest turn offs for guys. If your nails are too long and, even worse, if your nails have sharp ends, the guy can be repelled by this on the subconscious level. It might be even hurting to just look at this kind of nails. So keep it simple, fixed nails should not extremely long. Never grow your nails too long if you want to be attractive for an opposite
gender.
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6) She is “too easy”.
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Guys are conquerors at heart and when you are “too easy” it can become a big
turn off. And i’m not only talking about “physicality”. Being “too easy” in
various areas is not for a lady, but neither is it good to go into the territory of
being “too hard to get”. You know what I mean naah! Just find your balance,
but don’t be too easy, let your partner conquer your heart.
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7) Rude.
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Biggest turn off. When a girl is swearing, quick to pour insult and is rude, no
gentleman will be attracted to this kind of behaviour. Learn to always be polite
and kind to all people and you will be attractive for everyone, I wish you can
take these one very serious.
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Smoking.
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One of the biggest turn offs is when a lady is smoking. Guys often don’t like it, even though they will never tell. My dear, no guy wants anything serious with a smoker. Make a conscious choice to lead a healthy, smoking-free lifestyle, not only it will attract an opposite gender, but also will help to keep your smile pearly white.
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9) Talking too much.
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Guys also have a lot to share and to talk about, so, please, give them this
opportunity. Girls who talk too much often don’t have a second date, because
excessive talkativeness is, definitely, repelling! So, keep a balance in the
conversation. It’s similar to playing tennis – ball goes to one person and then,
to the other, in likewise manner talk with your gentleman, giving him the
opportunity to share his mind with you
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10) Too much makeup.
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Yea too much of everything is so bad and I wonder why the ladies overdo it.
Guys love beauty and appreciate all your efforts in this area, but when there is
too much foundation, bronzer or blush, it’s very noticeable and it can become a
huge turn-off. I would suggest to apply your makeup in front of a window
looking into a magnifying mirror, like this you will be able to create a “work of
art” on your face that your gentleman will love.
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Hope you gain something from this ?

Rude is the only thing that turns of most men in your list.

a decent number of men can be serious with a smoker, talker, perfume freak and the other things on your list

bpee:
May GOD forgive u

thanks
May your ancestors forgive you

Magnitki:
Don't tell me you just woke up from decades of deep slumber not to know that there is nothing like East or Western Germany anymore. It's just Germany now. Wake up!

but our President doesn't know this. he thinks he's going to West Germany

blueto:
I hope he won't tell them in “West Germany” that his predecessors are responsible for his failures, including failure to visit Chibok community after he promised to do during campaign, failure to conduct conclusive elections in 16 months and so on?.

lmao. . He will get to berlin and say to Angela Merkel, the Kanzlerin

"Im Very happy to be in West Germany, President Mitchell"

such a brain fried man we have as a president. .. and Patience Jonathan of all people noticed this and said it, we didn't believe her

Rivertemz:
You're incorrect on sooo many levels, I see from your profile that you are a traditionalist, if you value a so called "oral" history account and naturalist beliefs on Yoruba origins OVER academic research ?? You are VERY wrong. And very very backwards, this is not the values we as Africans should hold on to.
Anthropologist Studies and actual FACTS should ALWAYS be more significant than your pseudo religious beliefs.

The only way you support your theories are from elders from a small village ?? We are talking historical accounts that pre date Yoruba establishment and pre dates the Oyo Empire,. This is a 1000-2000 years of accounted history and population shifts across the continent, whilst your points are to do with 300-700 years of Yoruba History (or narratives)

and what do you think you know exactly to say I'm wrong? What was wrong about my post? that Yoruba children can trace their lineage back several generations with only Oral accounts? or that Obanta is an Ife Prince, or that Waddai was founded 500 years ago, 300 years later than Ijebu? abeg what was wrong? please specify and stop throwing words around


you keep mentioning academic research and anthropology. . you aren't even intelligent enough to tell the difference between biological anthropology and cultural anthropology....you keep mixing them up. so much for someone who acts like he knows shiit about anthropology


NO ACADEMICALLY ACCEPTABLE WORK TOLD YOU YORUBA CULTURE IS FROM EAST OR NORTH AFRICA ....stop lying with the name of academic research

Also if we must play your game; There's academic research into Homo sapiens developing independently in west africa and south Asia. .. most anthropologists looking into the case of the natives of the Andaman islands and others like them will give you shocking details on that.. The Iwo Eleru fossils found in Ondo state stands as evidence supporting independent development in west africa.

But biological anthropology is irrelevant to this thread. .talks about homo sapiens and homo erectus is just unnecessary rubbish for the course of this thread... You opened a thread attempting to decipher yoruba origins not human origins. .stick to that and stop derailing your own thread


No serious researcher will talk about yoruba history or culture without collecting information from traditionalists. ..you must be very stuupid to think traditional oral accounts are insignificant... snap out of that stupidity

Rivertemz:
You are quite mistaken.

First of all your accounts are backed with only Oral history, which can be misinterpreted and debunked on its own. The Yoruba region was exposed to Islam before Christianity and We have a rooted connection with the hausas and Fulanis of the North. There are written accounts of the net migration of civilisations from North to south of Nigeria (not oral tradition) and beyond Nigeria.

The fact that you assume west Africans never migrated from East africa (the birthplace of all Africans and the rest of humanity).
You're further assuming Yorubas simply plocked out of the soil of the west coastal tribes when the truth is we all came from the northern parts of the Niger River, tracing back to Chad and central Africa.

I advice you to do more research and think logically about simple Anthropology.
Moral of the story- all west African lineages came from the east

oh please stop this utter freakshow display.

oral history is enough for yoruba children to know their origin. .. I have traced by bloodline back several generations knowing the names and deeds of much of my patriarchs through that oral history you are trying to discredit

if you don't know where your family house is, pity! you obviously cannot appreciate oral accounts and traditions. .

and just because Yoruba have nothing to do with Nubia doesn't mean we came out of the soil. Am talking cultural anthology here not biological anthology so don't use that "East africa origin of humanity" line, it is invalid here ..
There are more similarities between southern Nigerian people and the people of the savanna regions of central Africa than east or north africa. Yoruba civilization is a pure home grown one because our ancestors came from no other civilization. ..they established civilization in west africa, before that we were great hunters and herbalists not empire builders

.. but ignorant wishful thinkers like you want to cling to more popular groups of people eg. Egypt, Nubians...some even go as far as Israel, Palestinians, mecca, Syria. .. I've seen all kinds of nonsense on nairaland

MayorofLagos:
Lol. You are confused!

What does Islam or Caliphate has to do with Waddai? Waddai is derived from Waddi,a term in usage long before Muhammed, the prophet of Islam was even born.

If I say my name is Ibrahim bin Maryam and an Ethiopian Christian would you say Im trying to copy Islam?

Ibrahim, Maryam were Christian names but the loss of original Christian manuscripts in Hebrew to the Latin and sebsequently Roman languages of English, Spanish and German changed Ibrahim to Abraham and Maryam to Mary.

Teach and share knowledge and put your religious bias aside, dont turn Yoruba history upside down in your passionate hatred for Islam.

Not all of us like Islam but we are loyalists to Yoruba history

lmao even ur father or elders in ur village cannot agree with u that Yoruba are from waddai. ..assuming u have a yoruba father

waddai was a caliphate, go learn some basic african history boy


emm. .. u say I'm confused? how ironic coming from the person who doesn't know his origins
waddai ko wakkai lo ba je

adenine02:
i was referring to d tv series bro



i was actually not a child then

that means u don old sir almost 50 abi I lie?

urheme:

African traditional religion.

filt......filty

and that is not man's construction as well abi

you want to turn our children to barbarians.

so wole Soyinka, Chinua achebe, Fela ... jst a few people who I'm sure you know appreciate/d african traditionalism are/were babarians?

what could be more filthy than symbolically eating and drinking someone's flesh and blood ever so often?

how exactly does it being man's construction become a problem? And I thought people were being educated that it's not a religion but simply tradition and culture

And some people say Muslim women aren't oppressed

Rivertemz:
comparison to Yoruba Obas

and what similarities do you see?

Lmao.



1. Obanta was a prince from Ife, a son of oduduwa himself
2. the current Awujale, who invented this wadai story(without details of course) was confused... here's where the confusion lays : Yoruba believe Ife Owodaye is the first civilization.. created by the irunmole themselves and was where mankind was made, where the sun first rose to shine it's light on. the history of Ijebu has it that before Obanta(a 13th/14th century man) communities existed in the Ijebu area and were led by a figure called Olu-iwa.. who was the maternal grandfather of Obanta

this myth of ife owodaye(which is represented by the modern Ile-Ife) has been retold all over Yorubaland as the origin of mankind..
it's "owodaye" that people mix up with "waddai" a Muslim caliphate founded less than 500 years ago

3. what will yoruba be doing with a Muslim caliphate as origin? btw waddai is over 300 years younger than the Ijebu nation founded by Obanta

4. Yoruba share common ancestry with Our southern Nigerian neighbors, Igala and Idoma included. . not faraway Nubians or anything from sudan

Ruke1989:
The word, "yoruba" was not known to mankind until the colonial period. The present inhabitants of the south west were simply living in the western side of Benin Kingdom. The Benin Kingdom has long history and did trade with the Portuguese as far back as 16th century. The earliest map of AFRICA captured the benin empire but didn't recognize any other empire in the West of Benin.

Yoruba language uses words like omo(child), ikuta(stone), alibosa(onion), akamu, otor(ground), among countless other words which you find in urhobo, benin and Ibo languages. This tells us about the history of the yoruba people. if you ever wondered why the yoruba language shared similar words with many other Nigerian languages, worry no more. The answer is here.

The yoruba up to the late 18th century when the colonial masters invaded Africa were not known by the common name "yoruba". They were simply called bush people. This is because they are situated in the western forests. The oba of Benin often sent his warriors to invade the western forests and capture slaves which were often sold off to the white men ie slave dealers in exchange for a piece of clot or iron. This is why you have millions of yorubas in Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean countries. Up till today, the yoruba have never appreciated or acknowledged our effort. You can relate this story better if you have read the book on "Samuel Ajay crowther". Just one of those bush men captured back then. Also if you remember the history of Olumo rock. That's why yoruba people reverence that rock because any time warriors from Benin struck, some managed to hide there.

Fortunately or unfortunately, some of the bush men (now known as Yoruba) eventually captured from bush to the city(ie Benin). They get to learn urhobo, Benin and Ibo languages there under their masters. After which a number of them escape again into the south western bushes. That is the reason you see a trace of urhobo, Benin, Ibo and even hausa in the modern day yoruba language. The hausa components may have been introduced by escapee slaves from Kwara axis Fulani Emirate.

another lunatic on nairaland.

I'm sorry but nairaland is now a joke


1. Benin was the only prominent west african group that wasn't majorly involved in slave trade with the Europeans
2. most of Benin slaves were igbos
3. all pre colonial Maps of africa show empires west of Benin. .. all of which were larger in size than Benin
4. the story of olumo Rock involves Dahomey not bini. ..

keminiyi1912:
Yep! It is high time our Yoruba parents talk sense into our Yoruba boys head. But, most importantly, let's pray that God should touch the heart of these guys and retrace their way Christ.

This also serve as a clear indication of end time signs. Christians! Beware, watch out, and get ready for Christ's second coming.

homosexuality has been in practice for thousands of years before Christianity

got nothing to do with any end of the world

adenine02:
meeen if papa ajasco time na ur childhood days




then u must b small o!




jus say thou

senseless statement! papa ajasco series is about 20 years but the plot itself started with a comic back in the 1980s
so stop saying thrash like this... so unless you are about 40 years old, papa ajasco started in your childhood

richidinho:
Where did i mentioned religion in my post?

waoh! and this one will think he is intelligent

to refer to a belief in God is to refer to religion dummie

richidinho:
Yet some muntula will say there is no God

what has religion got to do with this?

Bolustic:
Kwakwanso is well respected anyday, I'd prefer the man over Nasir El-Rufai anyday.

I even prefer him to Buhari

henrydadon:
he probably sold the Yoruba people for
a piece of mirror

This is not igboland

MrPresident1:
Seun, you are completely ignorant of the meaning of the contents of the Bible. I just checked frontpage now to see that this thread is now there and mischievously titled with 'naughty passage'.

To help your ignorance, I will provide an explanation but like everyone else you are free to take it or leave it. Know also that the Bible version you have quoted from is a heavily watered down version created by wicked people to keep the truth of the Bible obscured so that their slaves may continue to be slaves.

In summary, the songs of Solomon is the Bible book of a story of love between Solomon and his bride. Anthropomorphically speaking, Solomon is God while Israel (the people) is his bride. The real and true Israel of the Bible are the Negros who lost favour with God hence their devolution hence their present condition world wide today. God is the life and wisdom of Negros, but due to idolatry, we lost His presence and now grope about in darkness at noon, a lost people. But He has promised that His anger will not last forever, and He would regather us.

The time for this regathering is nigh, when the Negroes the true Israelites of the Bible will assume world leadership again, our birthright that was truncated for only about 2 days will be restored to us.

Solomon is Adam, Israel is Eve. Eve corrupted Adam; Solomon's numerous women corrupted him into idolatry.

too much weed

tayooluwole:
You mean Jesus was originally named joshua ?

not really. .. both "Jesus" and "Joshua" are corrupted names with no meaning
but hese men bore the same name - Yehoshua

promise10:
What about people who grow up in an atheistic family only to abandon it when they understand the truth, they are foolish too right??

of course not, nobody is foolish for understanding the truth

problem here is, Christianity is far from truth

Alhajipablo:
What if all these oguns,Sangos and Oyas were just allegories. I.e what if they never really existed in the physical realm.

in some ways yea ...those names have been applied to allegories and personifications

but People with those names existed. . they are true yoruba ancestors