₦airaland Forum

NorthernParrot:
Chai this boy you are so so damn fool
this is exactly what I'm preaching for you

your source didn't generalise the whole of fulani race, but some few individuals from the group

your source says "fulani militants" so how does that has to do with my fulani neighbour

Few individuals my ass.

Last we checked, the fulani have been a menace throughout history. Many West African tribes had negative historical experience with Fulani. For Fulani to be menace for generations, it's safe to conclude there is something obviously wrong with that race.

fiizznation:
Don't be silly young man? Many of you cowards hide behind faceless fora to throw shades at other ethnic groups especially the ones from the north. And is like you people do this everyday. Your morning prayer is north, your night prayer is north. When your brothers are all over the world committing different kind of atrocities, you people blame north. Your brothers killed themselves last week in Enugu and you people found a way to blame the invincible herdsmen. Are you guys forever gonna blame the north for the drugs you push, for the robbery you commit, for the rituals you do, for the girls you sold into prostitution, for your leaders that loot you dry, etc. You think people are fools. Of recent any crime committed over there is attributed to herdsmen, and why is that so? Well is simply because the president is a Fulani man. Look here young man, from your numerous outburst online, I can say you are one big loser in life and a real bloody coward. Only a sick mind will be up everyday insulting one tribe or another while ignoring his own tribe.

Why are you so bittered? Is it because you don't eat or what? Go and check your head young man. Everything isn't about hate.

I'm so disgusted with the way nairaland moderators don't ban sick minds like you

This is one thing I hate about the North, NEVER ACCEPTING WHAT YOU NIGGAS DO.

When BH started, it was south. During their repeated killing of southerners, it's southern.

So it was Enugu people that killed Enugu people. I'm guessing the repeated menace attacks from different communities ranging from Middlebelt down to South West have all been lying on the fulani. Even illorin where fulani killed and appointed their own as the leader is all a lie. Even the repeated attacks of the community whenever they try to liberate themselves is all a lie. The Anioma obi as well as the isoko elder una killed is a lie. Ghanaians, malians and all other West Africans and Central Africans that have reported about fulani killing of their community are all LYING. The entire African community are lying on Fulani. My God, I honestly honestly wish they kick you people out of Asaba and South in General. You people have no humanity at all.

And No, noone is attacking or accusing the North of anything. There are multiple tribes in North and everyone of them live peacefully with others anywhere they go, only Fulani are the ones constantly attacking and killing the host of the land each time with zero remorse about it. The Hausa occasionally does so too but I will not be surprise if the hausa which does so are not Hausa/Fulani mixed

NorthernParrot:
Guy you are so childish, what is your age

can you pls grow up

old enough to know a menace terrorist, devilish group when I see one

The fourth deadliest known terrorist group has been named as the Fulani militant group operating in Nigeria and parts of the Central African Republic.

http://leaktimesng.com/2015/11/nigerian-fulani-herdsmen-fourth-most-deadly-terror-group-in-the-world/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/global-terrorism-index-nigerian-fulani-militants-named-as-fourth-deadliest-terror-group-in-world-a6739851.html

Now come and rant that's it's "because of buhari" that people are accusing Fulani Herdsmen.

ObinnaIzuora:
Whats your own? You hate SW and Nigeria yet crying on there thread, why not look for a biafra thread to chest beat as usual.

Why don't you go and save your clowinsh ass from getting milked by your dullards of leaders.

I honestly don't blame them. You people are ridiculously dumb, you fall hook,link and sinker as long as your illiterate leader says so. No wonder Nigeria is a corrupt country. I don't blame una leaders.

DaBullIT:
Did it occur to you that maybe the story was false?


Or maybe it contained inciting statements

Or maybe it could potentially spark violence



That's the same thing Abia state government claimed about bodies of Police, army and navy detected in mass grave in one of their forests



I did not see anybody complain of information suppression

Was the DSS report removed from the internet despite it's false claim? Was the article about Anambra hotel found selling human meat removed from the internet despite it's false claim?

Tell me another rubbish reason.

The only way to verify the accuracy of the report is to cross check each communities and details they provided but alas, we aren't given the chance to do so.

NorthernParrot:
You see! you are indeed LOST
it is very shallow and narrow minded to look into the fulani face and tag them "agents of the devil" that shows how insensitive you guys are.

It is like calling the whole igbo nation as frauders, scammers, robbers, kidnappers, drug peddlers and products of baby factories or equally calling the whole of SS as militants

Buy some sense young man

NEITHER OF THE RUBBISH YOU LISTED ARE KILLERS, harrashing and murdering people in their thousands while they sleep, only to cowardly run and hide before those people can retaliate.

I would rather live next to a frusters, scammer, robbers, kidnappers, drug peddlers, products of baby as well as a militant than a fulani herdsmen. At least I know next to those motherfuckers my life is intact and if they would attack me, they would do so while I'm awake to fight back.

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NorthernParrot:
@Op you are lost


if I'm lying ask independent

your analogy holds no water

This recent noise about fulani is indirectly aimed at Buhari, for himself is a fulani


Yeebos like insulting ppl like if they are agents the devil

Lost wetin? Independent were the ones who made a list of the fulani attacks all over Nigeria last year ALONE, not even talking about the ones they did years before that. For them to pull it down immediately the northern elders started ranting about "media attacks" on Fulani suggest they very likely forced independent to do so.

Noone is aiming anything at buhari. Maybe if the fulani stop attacking communities every where they fucking go, then noone would speak of them. The fulani have been a menace for years, they just got bolder because their demi-god who obviously support them is currently the president.

****They attack people all over WEST AFRICA, not just Nigeria. Infact lets use Ghana for example: One thing we can all narrate about Ghana is their is less tribalism in Ghana compare to Nigeria, in addition, there are less fulani in Ghana than Nigeria yet the Ghanaians EQUALLY complain of Fulani attacks against their people. That says alot.

****

Luckily, I found an alternative (I actually expect this one to also go "missing" in several weeks...I bet ya'll a million on that).

Fulani herdsmen
versus host communities

DURING the week, attacks by Fulani herdsmen made headlines again in the newspapers. On Tuesday, at Ofagbe community, Isoko North Local Government Area, Delta State, herdsmen reportedly killed a man and wounded another who identified himself as Thompson Ogege.

On Wednesday, suspected Fulani attacked Amoji in Delta State and abducted no fewer than four persons according to a community leader, Emmanuel Odili.

On the same day, a gang of youths attacked and razed down Suwa and Burukutu in Lamurde local government area of Adamawa State. The assailants were said to be well-armed Fulani herdsmen.

In November last year, an armed group alleged to be Fulani herdsmen reportedly attacked nine different communities in Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi and killed twenty-two people.

A month before, women from four local government areas in Enugu State, called on the state government to save them from Fulani herdsmen who regularly molest, maim, rape and destroy their farmland and livestock.

The abduction of elder statesman and former Presidential candidate, Chief Olu Falae on his farm at Ilado, Akure Ondo state by Fulani herdsman in September 2015 may have scaled up the national attention to the menace of attack by herdsmen. The herdsmen abducted and released the 77–year old man later after paying an undisclosed amount as ransom.

These incidents are a fraction of the incidents of attack attributed to Fulani herdsmen across the country.

According to a report published by SMB Intelligence, over 2,000 people have been killed in conflicts between the herdsmen and different host communities in 2015 alone. In comparison, the Boko Haram insurgency that has attracted the attention of the Nigerian government and global community, kills 2,500 people annually, the report states.

Recall that in 2000, the Fulani herdsmen and farmers had a major clash in Oke-Ogun area of Oyo State, which led to a visit by delegation from Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) to the office of the then governor, the late Lam Adesina.

In Benue State, not less than seven local government areas including Guma, Gwer-west, Logo, Agatu, Kwande, Gwer- east and Katsina- Ala were destroyed in the fight between herdsmen and farmers. In fact, there were persistent attack between herdsmen and farmers in Agatu, Ado, Ohimini and other parts of the State. The Fulani herders attacks reached its height in the State during the last quarter of governor Gabriel Suswam because herders from the north eastern states of Nigeria migrated to the state in droves and in turn began to unleash terror on the inhabitants, according to the people’s account.

A few years ago, about 10 youths who were returning home after the one-year compulsory National Youth Services Corps (NYSC) lost their lives in a ghastly auto-crash caused by unguided herd of cattle along Owo Expressway.

At Oro-Ago, in Ifelodun LGA of Kwara State, the Fulanis and their hosts had once clashed and two people were confirmed dead at the end of the hostility.

Alapa town in Asa LGA of the state also was not left out of the tragic incident.

Speaking on the relationship between the cattle rustlers and University of Ilorin, the Deputy Director Information of the institution, Kule Akogun said, “In the past, some of our staff while returning home at the close of work were sporadically attacked by the suspected cattle rustlers robbing them of their belongings in the process.

“Promptly, the University authorities reacted to this by engaging the services of many local vigilante to complement the efforts of our staff security. By 6pm they are at work combing the major roads leading into the campus.”

Akogun added that the last incursion into the campus by the rustlers was during the tenure of the immediate past Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor Ishiaq Oloyede. “He (Oloyede) rose to the occasion and since then, there has never been another attack.”

Speaking on the menace of Fulani herdsmen, the President of Akure Youth Coalition, Adekanbi Oluwatuyi, said herdsmen continuously harass and intimidate people of the State on their farmland by forcibly entering into their farmlands and feed the cattle.

“They descend on anyone who dares challenge or query their actions,” he said.

Onuwaje Eniola an indigene of Ugbonla, in Ilaje Local Government Area, corroborated Oluwatuyi’s statement. The herdsmen are usually hostile to their hosts whenever they try to stop them from littering their compound or the surrounding with cow dung and faeces, he said.

Speaking in defence of the herdsmen, the Secretary of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association in Kwara State, Alhaji Usman Adamu said, a Fulani cattle rearer see his herd of cattle as his shop.

“He doesn’t have any other means of livelihood and so would want to defend his source of daily income. When he has no cattle under his control due to attacks, he is angry and would naturally think of the way out which in some cases is to vent his spleen on others.”

He added, “Cattle-rearing is our lives because a Fulani man is first thought of as a cattle breeder. Some of us go into animal husbandry mainly to grow food. The proceeds from sales of diary products are the only sources of income of a Fulani man.”

As a way of preventing the recurring tragedies between herders and farmers, several interventions have been made at different levels.
One of such is the recommendation by the 2014 National Conference. The delegates at the conference resolved that nomadic cattle rearing should be stopped; instead, the delegates recommended that ranches for cattle should be established across the country.

The former Governor of Kano State and Minister of Education, Alhaji Ibrahim Shekarau during a solidarity visit to Falae in his residence in Akure, the Ondo State capital city, shortly after the release of the latter, said there is need for social justice.

Shekarau noted that the absence of social justice was responsible for the animosity between the Fulani herdsmen and their hosts. He urged the government at all levels to institute well-defined grazing routes so as to curtail the recurrent crises with the cattle breeders.

Recently, governor Abiola Ajimobi expressed worries over frequent clashes between farmers and Fulani cattle rearers, saying that his administration would find a lasting solution to the crises. Part of the solutions, he said, was the proposed setting up of the committee, which would ensure that there is peaceful co-existence among the people, particularly those from the rural areas. The governor also said that grazing routes would be established in some rural areas in the state to assist cattle rearers in feeding their animals without tampering with the crops planted by farmers.

The intervention of Arewa leaders in the incessant clashes has also assisted in dousing the growing tension between the two groups in the region.

The Chairman, Arewa Chiefs in Southern Nigeria and the Seriki Hausa in Shasha, Oyo State, Alhaji Haruna Katsina had met with the leadership of the Fulani herdsmen and pleaded with them on the need to respect their host for peace to reign.

This was sequel to series of clashes between Fulani herdsmen and farmers in Oyo North senatorial district forcing the state House of Assembly to inaugurate a committee to douse the tension.

The Hausa leader had urged the Fulani herdsmen to maintain peace, respect their neighbors, and respect law and government to engender peace in the state. Katsina said observing the laws of the land and respect for the host community will prevent conflict from escalating to violence saying the region will not allow the terrible condition being witnessed in the North to rear its head in southern Nigeria.

The Seriki Shasha who is the Chairman of the Arewa Chiefs across the 17 Southern states of the country also called on the Fulani/ Bororo herdsmen to maintain peace, obey the government and hold peaceful meetings occasionally, urging them to settle their rift with farmers. He urged the Fulani leaders not to cover up anyone found to be a terrorist or kidnapper saying all enemies of peaceful co-existence must the exposed.

On its part, the state police command also held a peace meeting with the farmers and Fulani herdsmen in the state on how to live peacefully without any crisis.

While the farmers accused herdsmen of grazing on their crops without restriction, rape their women, threaten them and sometimes use dangerous weapons to rob innocent commuters along several roads within the state, the herdsmen in turn accused the farmers of killing their animals by poisoning the water which their cattle drink. The Fulani Bororo cattle rearers also pointed out that those troubling the farmers and committing crime are non-resident herdsmen and strangers who are insensitive to the farmers and other locals.

Though they expressed their concerns in angry tone, both parties recognized the need to co-exist peacefully having done so for several decades.

The meeting conveyed by the Commissioner of Police, Leye Oyebade was well attended by all the stakeholders.

In a communiqué issued at the end of the parley, the two groups agreed to live together as they have been doing but with a renewed pledge to respect each other in the process of conducting their personal businesses.

Among others, both parties outlawed grazing at night, personal disarmament by herdsmen, stoppage of threats, rape and intimidation. They also agreed to expose any stranger or strange herdsmen who wander into their communities and hold regular meetings for exchange of information among stakeholders.

The communiqué also called on the government to set aside land for cattle ranch for herdsmen as well as train and retrain them for peaceful co-existence with host communities.

Addressing the participants, Mr Oyebade emphasized that every Nigerian is entitled to their rights as entrenched in the constitution of the country. He said crises may brew in the society but all parties must always find a way to dialogue and find the best solutions so that people can continue to live together peacefully. He, however, warned herdsmen against carrying firearms in the course of their business, saying anyone caught with firearms would be treated as a criminal. He also advised heads of the Fulani community to always pass on outcomes of their deliberations with host communities to their younger ones sine they are the ones that take the animals grazing on farmlands.

The police boss also warned farmers against poisoning the cattle.
And the government is not also folding its arms as it announced plans to constitute a committee saddled with the responsibility of putting an end to the lingering crises between Fulani cattle rearers and farmers in some parts of the state.

In Benue State, Governor Ortom who himself lost over 50 hectares of paddy farm to the herders inversion, on assumption of power as governor of the state, advocated for the creation of ranches as a possible way of ending Fulani/ Farmers clashes in the country and sought for collaboration of the idea by his colleagues across the country.

Ortom also made efforts to constitute several inter/Intra states security committees made up of the Fulanis and indigenes of Benue and Nasarawa States to quell the crisis.

Ortom at a security meeting with stakeholders in Otukpo made up of top government functionaries Fulani elders and traditional heads announced the extension of the amnesty program in the Benue South Senatorial District.

The Coordinator of Ondo State Public Private Partnership, Prince Nekan Olateru-Olagbegi explained that “people that have cows all over, those Fulanis, eventually the state might have to build ranch facilities for them and once they come in, we ask them to occupy and register them; we would be able to manage their activities and check their cattle to ensure they are healthy, which is the reason for an ultramodern abattoir to ensure people consume healthy beef.

“Once we set this up too, we will empower so many people, increase their welfare, the revenue of the state and of course, create ample job opportunities for the army of unemployed youths in the agricultural and industrial sectors,” he said.

The Secretary of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association in the state, Alhaji Usman Adamu said the association was established to ensure that its members “do the right things at all times as against cases of robbing, rapping and killing people in the farms.”

http://guardian.ng/features/menace-of-fulani-herdsmen/

Can someone explain to me, why this people shouldn't be considered criminals and terrorist? Last year alone, they killed 2000 people while Boko Haram killed 2500 thus BH killed just 500 more people than Fulani yet the Fulani are not getting arrested, are not being seen as a threat while ND militants, Massob and IPOB are repeatedly harassed by the FG. Last I checked, neither of the group I mentioned have killed people nor have attacked and killed up to 2000 people last year alone. While I'm at it, BH started their killing spree recently, Fulani herdsmen have been doing so even before I was born thus, if we collectively compare the amount of people killed by BH to Fulani's, there is a HIGH CHANCE, the fulani have killed more than Boko Haram. While I'm at it, vigilante groups that dare to fight back against the fulani herdsmen are arrested and jailed (aka the Enugu boys as well all Imbose or whatever they call themselves boys of middle belt).

Someone explain to me the rubbish going on in that country? Why the hypocrisy of fulani. Are they god?

I mean damn, Bakassi boys are in jail for fighting and killing criminals but Fulani herdsmen that are killing innocent are left to roam peacefully. SMFH

So, last month, I read an article titled "Diary of Fulani Herdsmen attack across Nigeria." The article listed every attacks, communities and invasions of the Fulani to both northern minorities as well as southerners. The list, last I recalled, was long.

Anyway, in recent to Northern elites claim that the fulani herdsmen shouldn't be called "criminals" while some on here keeping narrating how "peaceful" fulani are. I decided to post the article on NL for both the northern elites as well as the fulani sympathizers can explain how the fulani herdsmen are "peaceful" and not "criminals"

Ironically enough, an article I read LAST MONTH OO" that gave detailed account of those people is nowhere to be found

So can someone explain to me, why an article about fulani attacks, which gave detail accounts of all their atrocities all over Nigeria is currently missing on the web.
http://independentnig.com/2016/03/diary-fulani-herdsmen-attack-across-nigeria/

Even blogs does not have it and we all know desperate to make money bloggers are quick to copy anything and post it yet this detailed article is missing. Am I the only one that found that suspicious now?

Like DUH??

I've always doubted the claim that it was Northern minorities that are members of Boko Haram. Throughout history, Fulani have always been a menace to each group they reside next to. Infact, I sincerely SINCERELY urge anyone interested to go read the African slave trade, if we exclude the tribes that sold their own people without prompting, the slaves that were sold through kidnap, most of the kidnappers were FULANI. In all West African group history, Fulani have been nothing but blood sucking demons. Thus, I always suspected the claim that Boko Haram members were Northern minorities. Let's be real, if we exclude Fulani and maybe Hausa a bit, the rest of the Northern groups are predominately peaceful hence you rarely hear of them attacking or killing others. 95% of the time we read that the north went on some killing spree, most times the attackers are predominately Fulani or Hausa. No be so?

Watch as some of the NL believe this stupid shit.

The stupidity in some is just amazing.

HopeAtHand:
You will die one day from HBD because of your hate for Yorubas. I am not Yoruba, i am IKWERRE and yet you still found a way to link Yorubas to something that doesn't concern them.

You still not ashamed of yourself this yoloba coward.
You've been defeated so many times by an Ikwerre on this NL. He's repeatedly showed us you're not ikwerre or even in the PH you claim you live in and you are still Not ashamed of yourself.

Tufiakwa!!!!

Abeg, everyone ignore this rat. He should be considered irrelevant jor

1Tkester:
Toochi boy, this is not pro Biafran youths, please don't make it look like IPOB, because we don't want to to give Buhari and the world reason to tag us terrorists. Instead, you may refer to them as Enugu youths or even Igbo youths, IPOB has a mandate to stay nonviolently for now until the time comes for us to move one step forward. So please try and rephrase the headline.

SHUT UP IPOB. Shut up!!!!!!

IPOB shut the Bleep up. You people are a disgrace. Small BNYL reacted and ready to continue while you animals who ranted and raving for months, the fools we all entrusted ourselves to, chickened out

Shut up!!!! #spits on una faces.

So only the none popular group reacted.
I'm ashamed of IPOB and Massob...please just dismantle..

BNYL take over jor...it's obvious you have the interest of Igbo at heart while the two "non violent" piss ass are just loud mouth.

NDPVF:
that guy is a go.t

that is a huge insult to goats. Even rats are better than that thing wey dey mask as an "ikwerre man"

So you people still allow fulani to roam your lands?

I swear wtf is wrong with southerners. Are we all chickens or wetin? The fool animals have done damage to MB, SW and now migrated to SE and SS yet you niggas just allow them walk around in your town.

South and MB you all are cowards!!!! COWARDLY people

NDPVF:
[s][/s] unlettered ebot. Mtchww

He's not even ikwerre so don't waste your precious time on attache by force thing


As for OP, as far as I'm concerned, anything that'll get Asaba away from yoloba, edo ppl, excluding igbanke, and north is okay with me.

For those of you niggas, as well as the illiterate yolobas on here shouting Igbo copied our swag.... the outfit in which you fools are claiming as your own came out from the sudano-sahelian of North Africa. It migrated down to West Africa through the Fulani community. The hausa picked it up from Fulani and the Bini and yoloba picked it up from Hausa.

Infact, the igbos picked the outfit up from BINI, not Yoruba as it there are pre colonial pictures of Igbo males wearing bubu. The first ever introduction of Igbo and yoloba were during Nigeria creation. Infact the Igbo ancestors avoided yoloba like a plague (I actually don't blame them. I'm pissed Zik didn't follow that foot step) therefore, the picked up from the community who engaged hausa in trade they interacted at that time aka BINI

This article is about the Grand Boubou and its variations.

The Grand Boubou/Bubu is one of the names for a flowing wide sleeved robe worn by men in much of West Africa, and to a lesser extent in North Africa, related to the Dashiki suit[citation needed]. It is known by various names, depending on the ethnic group wearing them: Agbada (Yoruba, Dagomba), Babban Riga (Hausa), K'sa (Tuareg) Grand Boubou (in various Francophone West African countries) and the English term of Gown. The Senegalese Boubou, a variation on the Grand Boubou described below, is also known as the Senegalese kaftan. The female version worn in some communities is also known as a M'boubou or Kaftan.

History
Its origin lies with the clothing worn by the Islamized Tukulor, Mandé and Songhai peoples of the historic 8th Century Takrur and Ghana Empires, and 13th Century Mali and Songhai Empires, (See Bisht and Kaftan for information on these).


The use of the Grand boubou as clothing became widespread throughout the West African region with the migration of semi-nomadic groups such as the Fulani, and traders such as the Dyula and Hausa. Comparing the Grand boubou to the various styles of Arabic Thawb suggests the Grand boubou follows an archaic template to the contemporary male clothing of the Middle East and North Africa.


The Grand boubou is usually decorated with intricate embroidery, and is worn on special religious or ceremonial occasions, for example the two Islamic Eid festivals, weddings, funerals or for attending the Mosque for Friday prayer. It has become the formal attire of many countries in West Africa. Older robes have become family heirlooms passed on from father to son and are worn as status symbols.

The Boubou has female versions in Mali, Senegal, Gambia and Guinea, whereas in other regions of West Africa, the female formal clothing has been the wrapper.

The Grand boubou as a full formal attire consists of 3 pieces of clothing: a pair of tie-up trousers that narrow towards the ankles (known as a Sokoto pronounced "Shokoto" in Yoruba) and a long-sleeved shirt (known as a Dashiki in Yoruba) and a wide, open-stitched sleeveless gown worn over these. They are generally of the same colour, and historically were made from silk, but increased understanding of Islamic restrictions on clothing meant the Grand boubou is now mostly made from cotton and synthetic cloths made to resemble silk.

Method of wearing
There is a set etiquette to wearing the Grand boubou, primarily in place to keep the over-gown above the ankles at any one time, in keeping with Islamic traditions of avoiding impurity (see Najis). This can include folding the open sleeves of the Boubou over one's shoulders, normally done while walking or before sitting down, to ensure the over-gown does not rub against the ground, or by folding/wrapping each side over the other with the hand, narrowing the gowns space toward the ankles (as done by the Tuareg). Thus, it is rare to see the Grand boubou's square shaped gown completely unwrapped.

Popularity
The Grand boubou's use was historically limited to various Islamized Sahelian and Saharan peoples of West Africa, but through increased trade and the spread of Islam throughout the region, had historically gained use among Islamized peoples in the savanna and forested regions of West Africa. Through this, the Grand boubou was historically worn by Chiefs of the Yoruba of Nigeria, Dagomba of Ghana, the Mandinka of the Gambia, the Susu of Guinea and the Temnes of Sierra Leone.

Even today, the Grand boubou is mostly worn by Muslims, although it is gaining popularity as a fashionable form of attire by Christians in West Africa, the African diaspora, and very recently, even among Bantu people in East, Southern and Central Africa.

Gender differences
Although usually a form of men's clothing, women's traditional clothing in much of Sahelian West Africa is of similar construction, though usually worn differently. The Boubou has female versions in Mali, Senegal, Gambia, and Guinea. In some places these are called the M'boubou. In other regions of West Africa, the female formal clothing has been a Boubou variant, called a kaftan, and in other places it is the wrapper and headscarf.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boubou_(clothing)

More links regarding its origin

Here's some reading material for your leisure time:

http://www.adireafricantextiles.com/agbadainfo.htm
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0438/is_2_35/ai_94010397/
http://www.bakareweate.com/texts/the%20agbada.pdf
http://books.google.com/books?id=zmKZ7-y4Q3gC&pg=PA100&dq=agbada+clothing&hl=en&ei=zAm6TpWXKMvAtgeezJWqBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CFIQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=agbada%20clothing&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=r_pUDOWOB7MC&pg=PT64&dq=agbada+clothing&hl=en&ei=zAm6TpWXKMvAtgeezJWqBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CFcQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=agbada%20clothing&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=Q_lCFcabj0MC&pg=PA59&dq=agbada+clothing&hl=en&ei=Qwq6Ts2nJcGTtwfi342iBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDcQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q=agbada%20clothing&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=1u4EAQAAIAAJ&q=agbada+clothing&dq=agbada+clothing&hl=en&ei=Qwq6Ts2nJcGTtwfi342iBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBDgK

Cosbyrich:
Hilarious..but the Igbos,I am sorry did not have any native dress except wrappers..lols..All the clothes they are wearing now are being copied reason they wear western clothes than any other tribe.You don't give what you don't have.

Neither do yoruba do wtf you talking about. Everything yoruba were today was copied from SUDANO-SAHELIAN tribes of North Africa. Putting a floppy hat on a traditional tuareg, etc outfit dpes not make it your own traditional attire.

Everything yoruba wear is either from Arabs or whites so before opening mouth talking about "you don't give what you don't have". Look in the mirror first of all"

bakynes:
You are just assuming, show me a Yoruba man dressed in his native attire dressed in a wrapper. Dig out the internet for pictures and show it to me. Just so you know another form of trouser yorubas wear is a bubu type of trouser that is more like a 3/4 trouser but never see any ancient yoruba man wear wrapper.

Will you yoloba shut the Bleep and go back to school. The outfit yoloba call a traditional attire is a DIRECT COPIED of the SUDANO-SAHELIAN groups of Africa. None of what yorubas wear today came from yoruba excluding THE hat. You actually have no traditional attire

We've already argued that on this page
https://www.nairaland.com/807895/yoruba-igbo-acculturation-multiculture

Some even provided direct books and links which stated so.

The SUDANO sahelian outfit in which yoriba wear today and call "yoruba traditional attire" was passed around west Africa hence most west African male outfit are similar.

The yoruba learned that outfit from Hausa who pick it up from tuareg who picked up from nubians who were the original creator.

The ONLY thing yoruba has claim to when it comes to that attire is that weird ugly floppy hat.

Abagworo:
Can the millions of Igbos in the North take refuge in the barracks? Warning to those trying to create ethnic crisis.

Everyday I doubt this man claim of Igbo. I'm starting to seriously believe you are a Northerner pretending to be Igbo on NL. Theta no way you are from any part of south. No way!!

omenka:
And the op had to twist the original title to incite ethnoreligious bigots like himself.

Before you lot musturbatte till day break on this thread, here's what the DSP said:

This is for those whose hearts are filled with so much hatred they can hardly read the first paragraph without making a mockery of themselves.

Will you shut up. A community was sacked in the middle of the night while they slept for no reason whatsoever by the same people the army is out there protecting.

It shouldn't take much brain cells to tell you by day break, the youths of the town or even family members of the people they killed will want to revenge back ( after all that's Africa Nigga. An eye for an eye is all we understand).

The fulani from north that ran to Enugu to start shit because of f2kimg missing cows triggered this and the people that'll bear the wrath are sadly the innocent hausa/fulani that very likely didn't know wtf was going on.

In my opinion, the fulani are weak as f2k. They like the definition of the biggest bully. Last we checked, it was Abia people that attacked their cows, not Enugu. Abia has been kicking them when they start their Wahalla so instead they took their "revenge" to Enugu that's more peaceful. I hope Enugu people have learned their lesson. Being nice to Fulani is the biggest, dumbest, move you can make. Better start copying Abia and Anambra style. You see how una bear the blunt of Abia "dealing with them"...that says alot. A bully picks on the weak, not those that will fought them back. Enugu people Copy Abia. Copy them to the T when it comes to dealing with Fulani. I don warn una.

angels09:
No. Am angry. That thread was hidden.

Right! every eyewitness thread got hidden.

First it's 33, now they changed it to 5.