₦airaland Forum

gqboyy:
Say no to drug abuse

By drugs I presume you’re including alcohol (which is more likely than most drugs to have someone move raggedy like this).

R.I.P. to the poor woman.

Congrats.

NwaIdeato:
Yorubaa dey travel? They are the least traveled people within Nigeria except when it comes to rushing to the UK to wash toilets and constitute social nuisances in Peckham. It shouldn't shock you that the myopic reasoning of yorubaas is simply because they lack the intelligence, courage and adventurous mindset to travel to other regions and explore the opportunities there...na only government contract jobs dem sabi, and that's only when they even get to travel to other regions.

You’re not lying. Besides the U.K. and in sprinkles across North America Yoruba people aren’t very well-travelled. But their historical impact is felt in places like Brazil to this day.

FalseProphet1:
Hausas are actually nice people, it's only their religion and how they're willing to kill for it at the slightest provocation that makes me feel uncomfortable around them.

This I have seen.

And even Hausa Christians (mostly the men) can be a bit fanatical. That’s another thing but it’s a minor.

None of my business. Good for them.

oyatz:
This is interesting!


Igala farmers arriving in Osun find it very easy to understand what people are saying but they can't easily speak Yoruba language with ease as they understand.

Now that’s interesting.

GreaterFuture:
You didn't eat it

I’ve eaten Ghana jollof plenty of times. Trust me.

I mean, I still watch a bit of SpongeBob but who doesn’t?

None that I can think of. I’m a very old soul.

helinues:
I realized we Nigerians don't have recipe for food. I have been watching village cooking channel, likely India or Pakistan, when you see the ingredients those people add to their food, they must definitely live older than us

I actually love Indian, Bangladeshi and Pakistani food/cuisine (although the dirtier environments they’re often cooked in can be a bit off-putting sometimes) but it’s not inherently any better than ours. If you want to look at the sort of teas at-least (besides C.B.D. and maybe chamomile) that potentially increase life-expectancy, look to Japanese and their matcha green tea. Their quiet and tidy attitude to life. Et-cetera, innit.

O.P., I’m the sort of person who cooks quite a bit. I won’t quantify it but I’d never go hungry from inability to feed myself. That’s far from my style.

Akalia:
I don't like Yoruba cuisine because I find everything about it nauseating, from preparation, to smell, and taste. Igbo cuisine is the best in Nigeria. Proudly Igbo.
I lived in SW for a year and the whole time I never ate in any yoruba restaurant.

Yoruba people are good at cooking a few things (especially rice) and uniquely-so when it comes to parties but overall they can’t be compared to Igbos, no. From onugbu to agidi-jellof we’re killing it and deep down everyone knows that. Even people who are otherwise very anti-Igbo.

vastolord4:
Not a crime to have the 2 of them both..

Not at all, fam. I’d have to opt for both myself. Both Point-and-Kill and ngwo-ngwo pepper-soup are litty-lit, inni.?

Igor33:
This boy was killed by and insider with spiritual means.

Is that right?

SultanOfAbia:
White people were created differently by God
I don't know who created us Africans
I doubt if God created Africans

When I look at how people openly urinate outside, throw dirty on floor.
They way we carry church for head yet we are the most hypocrital tribalism corrupt set of people.

The whites have their faults too
But Africans are just way too backwards

If you see the way white people truly see Africans you go shock.
THEY SEE US AS VERY INFERIOR

if you look around, u will know they are saying the truth.

You don’t think people throw crap on the floor in Portsmouth and the middle of Hull?

Let him try clomipramine first. It’s a tricyclic antidepressant that’s often very good for auditory-related conditions.

Celery’s celery. There doesn’t have to be a local name for everything. Don’t be silly now.

Demigod22:
You dated him for four years and throughput that four years, you guys are sexually active that you are even pregnant for him, and your marriage is next week.

The guys I have seen don't have sex with women. They don't see me in any picture as far as sex is concerned.

PS: I know some people are bisexual.

You know nothing, trust me. Plenty of black men worldwide are in heterosexual marriages but gay on the down-low.

Sworn tribalists, are you happy now?

NuCypher:
Why christians care so much about their fitted shirts, ironed trousers and polished shoes will continue to amaze me? Take a look at the pastors. Some of them wear the most expensive items like wristwatches, chains, etc. You start to wonder if these people really represent Christ who preached more modest forms of expressions. In his day, kings dressed in glorious robes and golden attires, but Jesus himself (at least according the Bible) only wore what many commoners wore. Today, you see pastors dressed more or less like presidents and company CEOs. Most of them have left Jesus in the wake with their colorful and expensive attires, while their church members can barely afford three-square meals.

At a point, you start to wonder if we shouldn't all be scared of this pastors and their teachings. The same way Obedients view Babablu supporters as perpetrators of evil since they are colluding to bring to power a destructive element which doesn't have Nigeria's interests at heart, should we not start regarding these so-called Christians who spread the teachings of these evil pastors (e.g. COZA pastor, pastor jerrycurl chris, pastor witch-slapping oyedepo) as perpetrators of the greatest evils? I have to ask!

You’re conflating Christian with Deeper Life Ekiti.

I like Ndudu by Fafa though, but even then only when she’s not adding mozzarella cheese to jollof rice and branding it as a good Ghana-international take. She should never, ever have done that.

To me (and from the little I know of Ghanaian food-culture) banku or whatever that version of Ghanaian okra soup is called and all these their palm nut-based distins but they ruin half of that by adding boiled eggs. It’s like adding boiled eggs (which I personally can’t stand to begin with) to ofe akwu or ogbono soup.

And sh*to pepper is … sh*t. The o’s unnecessary.

GreaterFuture:
Cos Ghana Jollof is very very Nice

It’s alright but far from anything special.

irunoko:
I see.thanks for your civility in explanation

You’re alright, laddie.

Anyone who seriously thinks Igbos don’t cook with a lot of pepper should take a bath in pepper soup laced with ground uziza seeds and freshly-harvested ose-Nsuk(k)a. Igbos own spice when it fits the universal vibe of a particular food (nkwobi, ishi-ewu and pepper soup are supposed to sort of be piping hot). You won’t normally find that level of heat in rice that’s been made for other people. Individual people may turn the spice down or up depending on who they’re cooking for at home or wherever. But in a universal sense pepper-soup (which certainly isn’t something the typical non-Igbo/Deltan even eats like that) calls for … plenty of pepper, whereas normal stew doesn’t. Beyond that it’s just a matter of personal preference. Some people like their onugbu soup to have reasonable traces of bitterness so don’t wash the bitter-leaves as much, other people would rather it was honey-sweet so they wash and wash and wash. Some people like to form the base of their jollof rice with a mixture of bleached palm oil and goose/duck fat, others use turkey or groundnut oil, still-others use just standard vegetable oils. Some parboil. Some don’t. Some prefer akpu. Others prefer nni-ji (pounded yam). Some people particularly like pepper and base part of their food-culture around it, others just see it as a condiment used for technical necessity beyond foods what really, really call for plenty-pepper (ji mmiri-oku being another). People like what they like as individuals.

irunoko:
do they put pepper in their soups and meals at all? If they do it's not noticeable.thanks for the response though

Of course pepper/ose is used. This-your level of ignorance is astounding.

irunoko:
o really? I wasn't aware that the Igbos dislike pepper.this is just New to me.anyway thanks for the information

Secondly yes I emphasized on only the pepper because a lot of people like myself get some tingling feeling of nausea and unsatisfaction when they eat foods devoid of pepper.

Anyway you have answered my question.i have gotten the reasons from your response.thank you

Igbos like pepper (especially being one of the ethnic groups with a rightful claim to pepper-soup, not to mention ose-Nsuk(k)a/yellow/Cameroon pepper- which is extremely, extremely hot, probably just as much as Carolina-Reaper peppers - being indigenous to Igboland and used quite a lot in certain traditional dishes) and personal preference is an individual thing anyway. Just in moderation. Jollof rice is an example of a food often cooked with ose-Nsuk(k)a people by certain types of Igbo people (not necessarily just Nsuk/k/a/Wawa-Enugu people; Benue people certainly use it and it’s so widespread generally in Nigeria now that even Yoruba people use it now, sometimes in rice). Another example besides pepper soup is ofe oha, or abacha. Other than ora soup those foods are often intentionally quite spicy but you’re not going to get that level of heat in a stew which isn’t trying to be ayamase [which is an amazing type of stew, and I do think certain Igbo, Yoruba and Calabar foods could be enhanced by occasionally using bleached palm oil as part of the oils to cook, e.g., jollof rice, mai-mai/moi(n)-moi(n), abacha-ncha, edikang-ikong, efo-riro, akara, kpuff-kpuff, certain types of egusi with onugbu, pumpkin-yam pottage, afang soup] and often has vegetables in it (plenty is Igbos cook plainer stews but half of the time Igbos like to add things like nchuanwu, curry leaf and (Indian) spinach to the stew, and all these things are closer to being cooling agents and if anything tone down spiciness/peppery-‘nes’). So it really does just depend on the food.

P.S.: I know bleached palm oil can be carcinogenic when it’s over-consumed but one can take phenelzine or cannabis to lower the risk of that ever happening. And like with everything moderation’s key.

LilMissFavvy:
I may not understand all the mix up and bla bla bla, but as soon as I read the story, I just knew it will have something to do with Nigeria. Either the pastor is a Nigerian or the late woman was a Nigerian.

I mean, duh.

It’s not all Abians who do achara balls with egusi.

Why?

At first I thought you were just a bit conspiracially kooky but now I see that you’re actually one of those mad people.

You’re an adult and this is your first time cooking? Shame on you.

Oomardesigns:
So you want to raise mini bobrisky abi

Nothing like that. It’s just that there are some things which are more about changing social constructs and politics than anything that actually makes sense.