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ah-aaaaaaaaah? This is unbelievable!! !  I sometimes hear of 'enter your shoe' but 'wear vehicle' Hmnn, that's gross!!

Anyway, try this: When did you return back from the abroad? What did you brought for me? Or did you thought I diddnt know you travelled?

i am one, go ahead, slap me


I wish I owned a forum like this

You don't need to make further proclamation,

Just make your contribution and let there be continuation

Rat Poison Hawker

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Accepted or not, apology is alredy given, and that's d koko!

Niiiiikeeeeee, do you realise you are wasting my credit? I hope its not a man you are talking to there while holding me on? You children of nowadays! When I reach  home, ehn? You will see what I will do to you. HHelloo, are yu still there

First it was Portmantoe (we called it Fotimoto) (a metal box) which I used to carry on my head to and from school.

Hi Mod, kindly move the post below to Forum Games Section. Thank you.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-380602.0.html#msg5305196

Eku oye (harmattan)
Eku irin ajo (to travellers)
Eku ongbe (muslim fasting)
E ku odun (festival)
E ku iya (punishment)
E ku eru (to one who carries load)

Suck mcus out, so what?
I used to think I never would be able to until I had my baby recently. Initially the 'waiting' couple next door used to take turns to do it until shame catch me one day and I had to bring myself to doing it and (though my husband makes fun of me and the naughty little one also laughs at me) it has become part of me. So let the unmarried ladies never say NEVER!

OgidiBoy:

Ewwwww I think roaches are attracted to filthy houses, clean your house and maybe they'll go away.

Roaches of today defy cleanliness, they are almost everywhere!!! I maintain a very clean environment yet those smal-small cockroaches found their way into my kitchen cabinet drawer despite the presence of camphor balls I keep there!!! some days ago I found a small one in my fridge even (eeew!!!). I have wallghekos too and they tend to eat the small roaches but I hate the sight of both.

adeniyi83:

How best can i get rid of Cockroaches in my house?

A few years ago, someone gave a chalk that when i draw lines on the floor, it attracts and kills roaches. I remember that chalk worked very fine, unfortunately i cant find it in the market. Has anyone ever heard of the chalk?

Yes, Ive used the chalk too and it was very effective but I don't know where to buy it either.

Bisijohn:

Let me give you the solution. Buy Snippers in the market and apply it. It will eradicate it totally. The cost is just N250 only. Try it and get back to me.

What are Snippers and where can they be bought? Can they also remove Wallghekos? Oh how I hate ghekos but I cant kill them directly!!

We Yorubas are the best 'greeters' in the world . We have a greeting for not only every activity but even idleness!!!  A typical Yoruba woman/man would greet you for eating, sleeping, dancing, playing, bathing,name it!!!

Here, I want us to review some of the ways Yorubas greet one another in this thread varying from the popular 'time of the day' greetings to the most ridiculous one youve ever heard. You are free to create your own, its  purely for fun pls.  I start:-

E ku ode (when you go for an outing)
E ku aare (when you are tired)
E ku aisun (when you've had (or having) a sleepless night, as in partying or religious vigil
E ku ATM ( )
E ku oko (to fellow passengers)

O ya, welcome on board!

In Yorubaland, a pregnant woman or a baby should not go close to (or see) a corpse , (I do not know the consequence)

Hi Mothers! Can you people come up with recipes for finger foods for my under one year old child? I know some but I need some more. I've googled it and could only find so-so Oyibo foods . I need Nigerian recipes please . Thank you in anticipation .

vanitty:

Everything that needs to be said has been said really but please don't be mean to her, she might be in a very bad place, her being childless and your church pastors might have told her to be nice to babies u know "ori omo lo pe omo waye"

My sentiments too. Though I passionately wish she knew her limits - moderation should be every woman's watchword!

These days, I often lock the net that leads to the living room and make sure I usher her in all the time. Meanwhile the baby is close to me so she can play with him when am there. Few times she took her away I retrieved him after some time with the excuse that I wanted to give him his drugs (if I said food she would insist on feeding him)

About her offer to do domestic chores for me, I had sat her down and told her in plain language that anytime I say ‘No’ to her offer of help she should take it like that and that she needs not be forceful about it. And ever since she has left me alone with my chores.

One night, because she did not see the baby at all the previous day, I was in the room when she entered, greeted and walked past my husband and other visitors in the living room. I heard her voice as she was approaching and I dashed out of the room, consciously closed the door behind me and blocked her at the entrance with a smile. As i was talking to her I was stylishly ushering her back towards the living room and she pulled me back to ask for an item she said she needed which I gave her promptly and continued leading her back there. She asked after the baby and I said he was sleeping. She requested that I should bring him and I said ‘he’s already sleeping, try and come early tomorrow and you’ll see him’. Then she walked away with a faint smile on her lips but I could see disappointment on her face.

I believe with gradual and repeated diplomatic turndowns like that she’ll stay put. I really don’t have to be aggressive unless of course she asks for it and trust me, am not as ‘cool’ as u think. Cheers, ye all.

@All, thanks for your responses. So sorry I've been out of touch. I wish I could react to your posts one by one but I can't, they are so many, but I'll sum it up:

[/list]I can’t move out over this issue. It’s really not that  bad. BTW, isn’t it said that the devil you know is better than an angel you don’t know?

[/list]I can’t perpetually lock my door against her, shout at her or completely reject her, it hasn't and may never come to that.

[/list]Can’t ask her to give me a call before she visits, she lives next door, we in fact share a common wall.

[/list]I’m not lax in taking care of my only child, its not out of place if someone offers to help once in a while or you have the need to hand over your baby to a waiting hand for a moment, you cannot take your crawling baby to the bathroom for instance!

[/list]This is Naija, where every woman is perceived as the mother of every child in the neighbourhood.

[/list]I also waited for some years before I had the baby and while it lasted I was carrying and playing with others’ babies. 

[/list]About my husband? We live together of course. He doesn't want to be involved.Said I should handle it 'woman to woman'

Like Chaircover aptly put it, she’s just be ing overzealous and insensitive (ko moju ko mora).She just doesn't know where to draw the line! That’s just what she is, no more no less!  To those of you who suggested i should  be firm with her, i can be more firm than all of you, I know how to rave and rant, go wild and hysteric when i have to do so but this just hasn’t come to that. I don’t intend to make her an enemy. All it requires is diplomacy and I’ll  put in summary what i’ve done so far:

Don't cover your ewedu/okro or any other draw soup while on fire, it will boil/spill over.

After having boiled our yam, don't leave it too long inside water to soak as it becomes too soft.

Wash your vegetables before cutting so it doesn't lose its nutrients if you do it vice versa.

Don't talk while stiring food or serving it (esp if its meant for others and you) so droplets won't fall in.

Don't enter the kitchen with chewing stick in your mouth.
Will go and think, then come back with more

I have this neighbour, lady, married, no child. Her flat is next to mine. We in fact share a common wall. She moved in a few months ago though we’ve been in the same church  for sometime.  I have a 7month old baby after 5yrs of marriage.

This lady has a pushful and forceful attitude that I don’t like. In fact she’s suffocating me but I don’t know how to tell her without offending her. She comes in countless times during waking hours to ‘play with baby’ and she has no respect for my bedroom! Many times I would tell her the baby is sleeping and she would walk past me into the bedroom(until I fixed curtains  at the bedroom door), carry the baby and make sure she wakes him with an excuse that she wants to go out and we might be out or sleeping by the time she comes back!  Other times she would insist on taking the baby to church  for a mid-week service when I cannot go. If I said the weather is cold she would urge me to wear thick cloth and that she would ‘back him’. The day I said I needed to be close to him after having left him in the crèche all day, she took offence and the next day she said she did not want to carry him so I wouldn’t say ‘I needed to be close to him’ . 

In short, she wakes the baby from sleep at will despite my mild pleas not to disturb his sleep .  I’ve  been careful the way I handled it so she wouldn’t feel its because I have a baby and she does not. She should be in her mid-30s and I expect her to be mature and sensitive enough to know those acts don’t go down well with me.  Oftentimes she would take the baby from me and when she needed to be busy she would give him to another woman next house (also a church member) to hold for her. When baby cries she prefers to come and take his formula and feed him rather than bring him for breastmilk even when my breasts are full and dripping!!!  So many things that I can’t say all!

SECONDLY, She has no respect for my privacy. On my own part I’ve NEVER for once gone beyond her living room and don’t even know what her kitchen looks like let alone her bedroom (am not interested anyway).  When am not in the living room she would not wait for me, rather before I move towards her, like a wind she would rush to meet me in the kitchen which I don’t like. And when she’s there she’d start offering to help me wash or do one thing or the other. Sometimes she would offer to join me in washing my baby’s clothes which I usually decline  because sometimes my undies are there. Few days ago she insisted on washing my dirty dishes and she wouldn’t take ‘No’ until I almost got angry. This was the same person who earlier told me she was busy cooking in her own kitchen!!!  You see, sometimes am tempted to think she’s up to some mischief!(Could be she likes sizing me up, as in let’s me see what she has or how neat/organised she is or whatever but a once-for all assessment is ok if that’s it, abi? )


Thirdly, she’s too inquisitive for my liking! She asks for every detail and I don’t find it funny. She likes knowing everything and she’s not smart enough to sense it when you don’t want to tell her what she’s asking for. I love her and I wish she's just  like me, minding my  own busines, shikenah!

Abeg, how can I tell her in clear times to respect my privacy and let the baby be? I honestly don’t want to hurt/offend her but am not comfortable with the way she thrusts herself on me. Someone should please respond to this plea.