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MadamExcellency:So the Southsouth, Southeast and Middlebelt will abandon Peter Obi and vote in a president who enabled the destruction of their properties in Lagos? A president that instigated he current hardship that Nigerians are going through right now. You people seem to exist in another dimension |
Ebubu6:Tinubu is the president of Nigeria today because Obi chose to be a wimp rather than a brutal politician when the situation called for it. And by brutality, I mean both the psychological form and perhaps the physical form, if that is what it takes to get rid of election riggers |
Ebubu6:That is exactly why it is difficult to rig elections in Anambra. Anambra state is a no-go area for APC |
adeniyiemmanuel:You are contradicting yourself. How can a No Man's Land be Igboland? The jealousy of you guys will send you all to your early graves. Please let's also not forget that more than 90% of Nigeria's gas reserves is just in the SE. Perhaps even close to 40-50% of Nigeria's oil reserves is in Igboland |
legitnow:Good leaders anticipate danger way before it materializes. I will never ever follow anyone I consider my intellectual inferior or exhibits megalomaniac personality. These are recipes for disaster. That is why they are both in jail. Ekpa may get released because he is currently in another country, but anyone that needlessly puts himself in harm's way, not minding how that will affect his followers, is not worthy of being a leader. You only consider being captured, only when it serves a greater purpose, but in a situation where their incaceration is born out of their extreme incompetence, I have no tears to shed for them. When the real leaders emerge, I will know. |
I wonder where ACF expects to get their votes from. They should know by now that the SS and SE will not be voting for any NWner anytime soon. As the NW and NE have never supported the SE or SS presidency, these southern regions will never ever vote for a NW or NE candidate. ACF had better be begging the SW to help them vote in a NW or NE candidate. |
God1000:Both Simon EKpa and Nnamdi Kanu are not fit to be leaders of any Igbo self-determination groups. Access to internet and broadcasting equipment are not the prerequisites for leadership positions. |
yoruboid:Your TPain tax collector governors are draining you people dry and you are here rejoicing about it. And by the way, Igbos are possibly responsible for more Lagos VAT than yorubas who are constantly deported from Lagos to their states for non productivity |
ikaboy:Was the current president of Nigeria not a drug dealer? Why should his supporters be against Kwankwaso whose crime is to have a contrary opinion? All I hope is that Kwankwaso should take note that Igbos are not part of the governing structure of Lagos, so any leadership tussles in Kano has no Igbo hand in it. In fact, Yorubas in Lagos have been destroying Igbo businesses and properties on one trumped up charge or the other, since Tinubu assumed the presidency. |
Robofan:He has already built his power station which now currently powering Aba, so electricity will be the least of his problems, if he decides to set up this AI institute in Aba |
Ttalk:During the regional government, the Eastern region was the fastest growing economy in the world. Now that's a fact Immediately Yoruba and Fulani illiterates took control of Nigeria in 2015, the economy has crashed. Before the crash, the Igbo managers of Nigeria's economy made the Nigerian economy, the biggest in Africa. If the Igbo managers of the Nigerians economy had carried on managing the Nigerian economy, it is estimated that the Nigerian economy would have grown to a N1 trillion annual economy by now. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Arunma Oteh, Peter Obi et al did wonders for Nigeria, before the illiterates took over in 2015 |
1Sharon:What traditional ingredients do Yorubas add to their egwusi soup? |
1Sharon:I can role with the bolded statement. The mission to claim Egusi as Yoruba is fraudulent. All I will add is that the version of egusi soup that has that global appeal is the Igbo version of egusi soup, as it contains ugu and those other traditional spices that make Igbo soups bang. Just to improve my knowledge, which other Yoruba soup do you prepare with Ugu (ewekoro) ? Igbos prepare several soups with ugu, which proves ugu , (alongside ogili and ogili okpei) is second nature, when it comes to Igbo cuisine. |
LivingSage:You haven't given me a convincing etymology for ewedu, and you are here looking for the etymology for egusi, when you don't even know what uziza and ogili okpei are |
1Sharon:You all speak from both sides of the mouth, one tells me that Ugu is not a Yoruba-used vegetable, while you are now telling me it is also a Yoruba-used vegetable. So if egusi is universal as you are claiming, why did someone post a publication that suggested that Egusi soup was solely a Yoruba delicacy? Anyway my point still remains that Egwusi soup as is popular around the world at the moment, is an indigenous Igbo soup, as Igbos use condiments that are not used elsewhere. What about uziza? What about ogili okpei? The last question is the hammer that will beat your argument to death. What the above questions prove is that the egusi soup that everyone seems to like, is the Igbo version, which doesn't negate the likely possibility that other people may have their versions of egusi soup. The Igbo version must have ugu and ogili okpei. This is not the case with the egusi soups from elsewhere. We mustn't also forget the fact that the only word for this soup, is derived from the only igbo word for melon. So whether they cook it in central Africa or in Yorubaland, the word for the soup is the only word that Igbos know melon by. |
Sharpsharp00123:Ugu is the principal vegetable used in cooking Egusi soup. So if you assert that Yorubas have never claimed Ugu, why are you trying to claim Egusi soup? And for your information, you claim that THEY dropped DU to make the word EWEDU and not EWEDUDU. My question to you is this. Who are the THEY you are referring to? I can also tell you that the SI in EgwuSI means COOK in Igbo language. I can easily ring up my folks in the village to bring up a word that contains EGU or EGWU, so that when it is joined to SI, it will make perfect sense. But the point remains that the major points of this argument favour the Igbo origins of the Egusi soup. 1. The word that is ascribed to the soup is the only word in Igbo for melon. 2. You have even just admitted that Yorubas are not claiming ugu, which happens to be the chief vegetable for Egusi soup. 3. I am not certain whether there is a word for UZIZA, which is another condiment 4. I am even doubly certain that Yorubas don't use ogili okpei, which is a critical ingredient for preparing egusi soup. cc. mrvitalis gidgiddy Okwyjesus Ngozi123 |
Sharpsharp00123:I would have understood EWEDUDU, You still haven't satisfactorily explained EWEDU. Ugu is an Igbo vegetable. It is also a major ingredient of Egwusi soup. What is Ugu called in Yoruba, and what is the etymology of the Yoruba word for Ugu? |
Sharpsharp00123:I will have to tell you that, alongside the etymology of nsala, akwu and akanwu I will also be expecting you to tell me the etymology of ewedu |
Sharpsharp00123:It is all a part of the plan to claim egusi as Yoruba. The fact that the piece fails to mention that Igbos also refer to melon as egusi, clearly shows this is an attempt to claim egusi soup as Yoruba. We are all used to these little Yoruba moves. No one is fooled. |
Bobodee09:What is tomato in Yoruba? |
Bobodee09:I thought you guys have been claiming Lagos as a Yoruba state. Now you are trying to de-Yorubanise Lagos, because they cook efo differently from you. Anyway, I suppose my major point is that Egusi soup is an Igbo delicacy, alongside Nsala (white), Onugbu, Ogbono etc soups |
Bobodee09:The ones I eat in Lagos here, all contain tiny amounts of tomatoes. I also know that at times, they add a spoon of stew on top of the dished out efo soup. |
Gustavowhite:You have a point, especially when you consider the fact that EFO is likely a very modern soup, because tomato does not have a Yoruba word, unless I'm missing something. So following from your point, the only Yoruba soup that contains vegetables is modern, which is probably why it doesn't follow the usual Yoruba soup rules. |
Bobodee09:According to the Yoruba dictionary that Reno was quoting, Melon has 4 words in Yoruba. No classification for species was made in that dictionary. Please why don't Yorubas also call it ITAKUN soup? Why is the identification for that soup, derived from the only name Igbos have for melon? |
If it was Yoruba delicacy, it should also be called Itakun soup. Why is it only known as Egwusi/Egusi soup, which is surprisingly the only name that Igbos have for melon? |
Kobojunkie:Who told you so? In Igboland, we call it koo-nkosa, but for some reason over the past 200 years, Igbos popularised the other forms of attire to the detriment of koo-nkosa, which is called Agbada in Yoruba |
Kudos to the Igbos of the middle East. |
Ikaeniyan0:Yoruba leadership and blinding incompetence are like 5&6 |
gimids:They are all Tinubu's allies. In fact, a few months ago, Tinubu's government allowed top level Hamas officials into Nigeria to justify the October7 massacre in Israel. |
richmond500:My dad studied in the UK. When he got back to Nigeria in 1972, that was when he saw a cassette tape for the first time. He didn't see any cassette tapes in the UK as he lived there for about 5 years before returning. Some of these goods tend to make it into Nigeria, before the various certification agencies start allowing their sales in the US or European countries, or before they become widely available in the west |
Celestialsword:Interesting |
illicit:Informative Thanks |
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