₦airaland Forum

illicit:
Yes, in Biafra

Shut up.

parkervero:
Nigeria is a country where the law enforcement agencies break the law to enforce the law.

^
that.

What are you fighting for?

All these signs and you still think the two of you are compatible?

There’s a reason people’s fantasies generally stop at unicorns, dinosaur-recreations (who don’t shoot lava) and the ethereal world. An expectation of an absolutely-lavish wedding or model for a wife gets people wanting things they can’t have. Stephanie Haydock (Waterloo Road) knew this all too well.

She didn’t need it. She selfishly wanted it.

1Sharon:
The girl set the man up to be ridiculed.

If she was interested in the man, she wouldn't tell her mother.

That’s probably it. But either way she’s 18 so unless the messages go that-far back it’s not a case of getting the legals involved. The man was obviously ugly but within technical rights as far as we can tell straight-up. It’s scummy as hell but not illegal.

Tzar:
What you should do is to:
1. Start living life as if your brother is dead. It is his money not yours. Don’t be entitled to someone elses money. It is sad that he isn’t helping, but you need to learn to live with that reality & stop lying !
2. Think of something you can do to raise money. For instance you can take your shool ID card along when you go look for people who will give you a job. Let them know you need the job to survive in school.
3. You can do the following jobs on weekends and weekday evenings: Washing clothes for people, washing cars in estates far from your school, sweeping compunds, teaching secondary school students at tutorial centers in the evening, doing home lessons, home service cutting people’s hair if you have the skill, etc.
4. Approach big men/women in your church/mosque, talk to your pastor/imam to help. Remember to introduce yourself with your student ID. Let people know you don’t necessarily need handouts and you are ready to work.
5. When you get the jobs, cut down drastically on any extravagance, develop the attitude of saving and continue to be diligent and committed to your job and school.
6. Try not to date for now. You can be only date if you see a woman who understands your predicament and is willing to be with you, this is a rarity in Nigeria of today. So, don’t add woman headache to yours for now.

I like what you’re saying but point 2 is a bit of a random one. Why would you put so much emphasis on her carrying an ID card with her?

FalseProphet1:
When you graduate and start earning money in this economy you'll understand how difficult it is to send someone money.

This I have seen.

That’s the one and this is the situation all over the world, even in guaranteed multi-collared professions (medicine, accounting, etc.; it’s all a long waiting game at the mo.). Just getting a job in the first place can be hard enough but when you do you’re often bathing and washing in cold water, walking and getting raggedy transport to save on fuel and taxi-fares and skipping meals just to stand a chance of covering important bills and clearing pressing debts. You don’t want to get into the cycle of having to break financial promises any more than necessary so if someone who’s open-hearted and obviously generous says they can’t help you like that in that very moment (either at-all or on any less than an emergent basis) they probably genuinely can’t. I hate people with Ps who choose to be stingy and selfish as much as the next person but it shouldn’t be a case, either, of someone thinking they’re entitled to someone-else’s money just like that (especially without even knowing their financial circumstances). The entitlement, the ingratitude and the immaturity of it all can really be revolting.

As for me, I’ll help if I can (and even offer spontaneously when my bank-account’s set up like that and someone could do with some money) in a heartbeat but when I’m struggling myself and I’ve for a long line of people asking for money people have to wait and understand that I can’t click my fingers and get enough disposable to part with month-by-month just like that. Join the queue, innit.

Maybe he’s struggling himself and can only afford to part with some disposable at the moment if he thinks it’s emergent. There are people across the world who have to pay whatever pounds or pennies (stupidly-small amounts) they have left after fuel and whatnot towards their rent and hope that there’s just-about enough activity going on between their account and landlord in the pre.-rich meantime to stop their debt going to a third-party collection agency because once it does (or the equivalent) you’re for it for at-least 13 months. And that ain’t even the half of it.

My friend, if you have good domestic hands you can cook better than that at home for cheaper (yes, even in these times).

You wan. eat out, at least get value for your money. What I’m seeing here is a bloody disgrace. I’m actually really pissed.

What kind of a thing is that? 3000 N. for a small wrap of flour and a side of miniature egusi?

“D person that killed u wee be punished.”

Maybe the reason he offed-out is because una were too busy gossiping about him instead of trying to bloody help.

1Sharon:
Would you like your 18 Yr old daughter to be dating an ugly old man?

I wouldn’t but by rights this young woman can sleep with whoever she wants. Only if she was 15 or below would it be a completely different story.

An 18-year-old is far, far too young for me personally to sleep with but so long as she’s mature (and girls do mature faster than boys, in fairness) no-one can legally tell you no. What does make me worry is when 1996-born lads expose their barely 20-year-old wives and out that there’s four kids between them and sex. balls rolling 2 weeks after delivery. That’s when there’s a big, big, big problem.

As for the girl in this video all I can say is she’s 18. If she wants a sugar-daddy, she wants a sugar-daddy.

Sorry, auntie, but it looks like she’s old enough. She’s not exactly 15.

The girl (young woman, even) is 18, to be fair. So long as the sugar-daddy business didn’t start more than two years ago he’s committed no crime.

Evolutionlove:
Jeweltz I like you already. Even though I know you are catching cruise.

I like bold ladies who knows what they want..

Na broke and hungry ones like virginprincess who will frustrate someone's life Just full Naija..

Can you give her what she wants from Toronto?

obagofizzy:
yes ohhhh I told the girl to put it ohhhhh but I don’t know how much own she put inside , that is tatashe now abi

They’re a bit different.

sylve11:
As a man, you have to be careful with that okra soup.

People in the northern and core western peripheries of the S.W. (who don’t have nearly the same range of soups as more eastern-pointing clans do) believe that myth about draw-soup not being great for men and discount the two vegetable-soups that have the vitamins they need (okra and jute, or in their rendering ewedu) and attach themselves to amala and gbegiri alone, only getting decent nourishment in owambe-lite jollof and akara/moin-moin on weekends. That’s why a lot of Oyo-Yoruba, north-central and some Edo guys look seriously stunted (almost to the point of really being somewhat malnourished) when they’re growing up. They don’t eat enough of what they need because of old-wives’ tales. International reports (from the U.K. and other places) have confirmed as much.

Asaba men can get away with buying into the okra-superstition because Delta-Igboland has plenty of other soups going for them but in places like Ibadan and where the Gwaris and Ebiras be-at you’ve just got to balance well with what you do have instead of eating rice four times a day. Got to package your nutrient/vitamin-intake well if you want desirable health and figure. You’ve got less chance of pulling if you’re not looking after yourself and eating things which have been known, sef, to increase fertility in men,

This kid seemed so cute.

gloryhomemaker:
Thank you Probz for your insightful explanations.

Not so bad once you get to know me a bit, am I?

SaturnNick:
Yea. It's the flavor for me too

Just add a quarter to the soup (make sure that the pepper doesn’t enter your eyes at any point) and use the rest for jollof rice. Jollof/jellof rice cooked with ose-Nsukka/yellow pepper goes down a treat. You’ll probably appreciate the flavour more in rice if you think it detracts from the taste of soups too much.

Ruq:
About four years now. Cumulative I'd say 6-7 cuz there where times I never took it serious at all. I do feel being vocal would help. That's like loudly repelling demons.

Do you still want to talk to someone about this, buddy? How far?

Kriss216:
Ndi mbano enweghi nri. I'wu Isi or Ehi?


I don't know why I got banned just now. Did you report my account?

I’ve been handed the stupidest anti-spambot bans on these sections once or twice. I think it’s just something that happens randomly. Don’t worry about it.

gloryhomemaker:
All the orishirishi inside is enough seasoning already.
Some add Ogiri but I don't think that's the original recipe.
Mariahangel please help me out here, na your soup oooo

I know I’m not Maria (obviously) but for what I know Imo/Abia Igbos don’t cook with ogiri so it can’t be part of the original Ofe Owere recipe. Adding it would be like cooking onugbu with achi (and it is possible to make a nice bitterleaf-soup with achi, probably, but it’s just not how Anambra people would do it if they had access to ede or even/Quaker/Oats).

I know I have my set preferences at the moment (but that might change; my taste-buds are more open than some people clearly think) but as far as this recipe as far as it’s popularly-known goes you did well. Don’t worry about the ogiri. It’s not an Owerri/Imo-like condiment.

Toks2008:
The good thing is that i make akwa ibom soups so well.

Afang
Okazi
Edikankong


Akwa Ibom has the best delicacies in Nigeria.

You’ve already rightfully-dashed the Ibibio-Efik-whatever version of okazi (Afang) to them. Don’t go giving them okazi (the Igbo version, as the Igbo name okazi would surely suggest) as well.

Calabars cook better than Yorubas (and when it comes to soup that’s not hard) but not Igbos, not as far as I can tell. I’d doubt that very, very much. They’re still good and I love Akwa-Ibomites like die (my uncle only married one) but I’m not convinced they’re better cooks than Igbos overall.

Toks2008:
The good thing is that i make akwa ibom soups so well.

Afang
Okazi
Edikankong


Akwa Ibom has the best delicacies in Nigeria.

So leng that you can only list three, innit?

Akwa Ibom might do well when it comes to soups but when it comes to rice they’re just alright and moi-moi isn’t even on the cards for them. You’ll just have to take it from someone who’s seen how Igbos cook anywhere from Enugu-Ezike to Awka to Liverpool to D.C. to Croydon that Igbos generally have all aspects covered when it comes to food. We get competition when it comes to individual types of food but it’s not a case of only really being good with rice, beans and yam (Yoruba) or only renowned for a handful of vegetable-soups (Calabar). Igbos are somewhere in the middle and in a good way. And apart from that a lot of effort goes into Igbo-ingredient/soup prep. that I just don’t see in any other corner of Nigeria. Is an Ibibio woman really going to have individual pieces of okporoko reserved for various soups or know what to do with ncha (curdled palm-oil) paste? Does she deal heavily with akamu/ogi-prep. on Saturday mornings like Igbos and Yorubas? Is akamu something they even eat indigenously?

I’m not saying Calabar people are bad cooks by any means but their implied range of foods is well-overhyped. Igbos have it all covered in some shape or form (certain types of Igbos living in certain places do better justice to those shared/base-foods than others but generally they exist in some form or-other with every Igbo who knows how to cook) and more.

pocohantas:
Then you know not what you are saying. Igbos are better in making soup. They flop in stew, especially with the addition of tin tomato unnecessarily. Mr Traveller, brush your tongue well and use a little Listerine.




The hype about Ofe Owerri isn’t entirely about its taste. Anyone that says it is just about the taste doesn’t know history. The hype is about the ingredients used and the fact that it is meant to be eaten ONCE. Ofe Owerri wasn’t originally meant to be refrigerated. Just sink all your money into a pot of soup and eat it on the spot!

Abroad-Igbos have the Igbotic art to stew-finesse unlocked perfectly. In Nigeria itself the stew ting dey-vary. Enugu people living in Enugu generally don’t do it well but otherwise it’s pretty good.

Juniorangel:
Ofe Owerri for me everyday and twice on a Monday.... The only soup wey dey give big gbola

Man, I hate (hate, hate, hate, hate) Mondays. Other than ukwa and maybe rice (converted to some sort of jollof from Sunday’s leftover stew) there’s nothing I can eat on Mondays that doesn’t lift the mood of needing some day-lasting venlafaxine to get me through.

I greatly apologise for whatever offence I might have caused you, OP. You did a good job. Honestly.

KingCassy:
Chai… you guys can’t take her to hospital Tf!!!

No. Their own is to take pictures instead of actively trying to help her.

verybadmouth:
May God protect all good mothers

Amen.