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Food / Re: DIY: To Prepare Oha Soup, Follow These Steps: by Probz(m): 3:26am On Apr 16 |
Ogeawesome: Maybe they’re not from Anambra State. Imo and Abia Igbos don’t cook with ogiri. |
Food / Re: DIY: To Prepare Oha Soup, Follow These Steps: by Probz(m): 1:56pm On Apr 15 |
You definitely don’t substitute with spinach if you can’t buy oha where you live. 1 Like |
Crime / Re: Man Arrested In Delta For Stabbing 19-Year-Old Girlfriend To Death (Photos) by Probz(m): 1:07am On Apr 14 |
May he rot in jail. |
Culture / Re: Full List of Notable Igbo People Of Anioma Tribe In Delta State by Probz(m): 12:28am On Apr 14 |
Jogs1900: Leave him. |
Celebrities / Re: Meet ‘Area Scatter’ Nigeria’s First Publicly-known Crossdresser (Video) by Probz(m): 6:39pm On Apr 12 |
I remember him. |
Food / Re: Essential Oils by Probz(m): 8:51pm On Apr 10 |
Blacksoap: Who’s got time to do that 5-8 times a day? |
Travel / Re: "You Have No Business Relocating Abroad If You’re 40 & Above" Abroad-based Lady by Probz(m): 10:14pm On Apr 09 |
RedboneSmith: One piece of advice I’d give to anyone looking to travel abroad who needs to do that kind of job for a minute is to not go and join agency. Agency staff are looked down upon as the most menial of the menial and as an … agency it’s full of people from other countries (not Nigeria but places where people under a certain age aren’t exactly guaranteed to have the best command of English, like Pakistan now) who can barely communicate with the people they support in English. There are other reasons for lack of correspondence in communication that can go between anyone and anyone, wherever they’re from or where they’ve been born/lived (say you have a low voice and someone who’s partially deaf just isn’t getting you well to begin with). But agency staff are often the least-qualified for life abroad. Even if you’re good as an individual agency-staff member, people are automatically expecting the worst of you from the very beginning. For the sake of a bit of dignity within the sphere of support-work you’re better-off at least being bank staff if not on a fixed number of contracted hours. At least bank-staff are proper staff who are fully affiliated with the individual company they’re working for but are just on flexible hours and exact location for any one shift. Agency staff are seen as the runt of the litter who no-one wants to use when there are better-regarded staff (fixed-contract or bank) who can do it. So, really, if anyone wan-JAPA and has to do support-work for a minute or a season, I’d make sure I’m at least not agency staff that people are always hesitant to use. They’re like a last resort from what I know. But yeah. Support work is no joke. Anyone who’s done it for whatever reason, whatever their background knows that it takes a lot more skill than people often think. |
Travel / Re: "You Have No Business Relocating Abroad If You’re 40 & Above" Abroad-based Lady by Probz(m): 9:35pm On Apr 09 |
You have no business being in other people’s business, lady. |
Food / Re: Herbal Oils, Essential Oils, Carrier Oils... All Oils by Probz(m): 11:04am On Apr 09 |
Turmeric essential oil sounds … interesting. |
Travel / Re: "You Have No Business Relocating Abroad If You’re 40 & Above" Abroad-based Lady by Probz(m): 12:26pm On Apr 06 |
RedboneSmith: I mean if you think it deserves such a menial rep. or if it’s a job you can actually respect. |
Travel / Re: "You Have No Business Relocating Abroad If You’re 40 & Above" Abroad-based Lady by Probz(m): 2:54pm On Apr 05 |
RedboneSmith: And what’s your take on support work, redbone? |
Food / Re: Found This Giant Rat Drowned Inside The Drum This Morning by Probz(m): 8:22am On Apr 04 |
We4all: Yup. |
Food / Re: Igbo Soups All Nigerian Tribes Enjoy by Probz(m): 10:18pm On Apr 02 |
RevenuesBoost: “Wikipedia can never be wrong” lol. Well, that’s one thing you definitely don’t say. Also, take a look at the edit page. |
Food / Re: Igbo Soups All Nigerian Tribes Enjoy by Probz(m): 7:24pm On Apr 02 |
Armaggedon: The land that created the KKK, clearly. Most Africans who have never left Africa or have that kind of exposure or understanding don’t have the same way of looking at racism but come on. You can’t be dropping the n-word like that over soup. |
Food / Re: Igbo Soups All Nigerian Tribes Enjoy by Probz(m): 7:22pm On Apr 02 |
RevenuesBoost: lol. I literally just made a point about Wikipedia and the fact that anyone can edit it at any time, which has clearly been the case here. |
Food / Re: Igbo Soups All Nigerian Tribes Enjoy by Probz(m): 4:01pm On Apr 02 |
waternogetememy: They’re already doing so. |
Food / Re: Igbo Soups All Nigerian Tribes Enjoy by Probz(m): 3:55pm On Apr 02 |
Dsimmer: I’m not talking about Ondo/Ekiti/Osun varieties. I already know they do it better than typical Yorubas, but they’re an outlier. I’m already giving more credit to Yorubas than the average Igbo person. I know all about individual states and I’m still saying what I’m saying. Imagine serving egusi-Ijebu at an Anambra function at Agukwu, Awka or Nnewi. As if Igbos joke with soup. Oha soup might not be your cup of tea but people love it. That’s the bottom and top of it. |
Food / Re: Igbo Soups All Nigerian Tribes Enjoy by Probz(m): 3:53pm On Apr 02 |
Dsimmer: Why have you just copied and pasted this? |
Food / Re: Igbo Soups All Nigerian Tribes Enjoy by Probz(m): 3:51pm On Apr 02 |
Dsimmer: Sources aren’t everything whatsoever (especially when it comes to African history) but, er … source? |
Food / Re: Igbo Soups All Nigerian Tribes Enjoy by Probz(m): 3:49pm On Apr 02 |
Dsimmer: I don’t give a braised monkey’s where the name comes from. Ondo/Ekiti/Osun aside, Yoruba people do not know how to cook good egusi soup in the way other Nigerians know it thanks to Igbos, Calabars and Deltans. Call it egusi, call it egwusi, elili, gushi, egunsi, melon, whatever. That one is not even the issue. Not the one I’m interested in. |
Food / Re: Igbo Soups All Nigerian Tribes Enjoy by Probz(m): 3:47pm On Apr 02 |
waternogetememy: You no-get sense. In a land where we have onugbu, proper egusi soup and proper soup period, no-one’s terribly bothered with jute leaves and that’s a fact that stretches from Croydon to Toxteth to Greenville to Netherley to Enugu to Gorton to Nkwerre to Port Harcourt. Just know that Igbos have an equivalent, generally better-made, for ewedu, just like your versions of ogbobo (apon) and okra soups (obe-Ile-whatever) dey. |
Food / Re: Igbo Soups All Nigerian Tribes Enjoy by Probz(m): 3:41pm On Apr 02 |
Aragon001: Fair overall point but why are you now claiming oha? Where do the leaves even grow besides SE Nigeria? |
Food / Re: Igbo Soups All Nigerian Tribes Enjoy by Probz(m): 3:38pm On Apr 02 |
Dsimmer: Do Yorubas get onugbu-egusi, azu-igwe and complimentary-goat-meat (since azu-igwe is goat-weed) and mgbam/akpurakpu egusi with achara (elephant-grass)? Do Yorubas get Deltan egusi pepper soup? Again, you’re arguing with Probz. Be careful. I eat people like you up with pounded yam and a side of Wheetabix and a side of French toast with goose fat, quail liver and ukwa for breakfast. I can even use you for egusi. |
Food / Re: Igbo Soups All Nigerian Tribes Enjoy by Probz(m): 3:32pm On Apr 02 |
waternogetememy: Jute leaves (ewedu) reach as far as Egypt at least and are called arirala in Igbo (amongst others). Popular in Nsukka. You’re arguing with Mr Probz here now. And I know what I’m talking about. You cannot use illiterate tactics to pull the wool over my eyes. |
Food / Re: Igbo Soups All Nigerian Tribes Enjoy by Probz(m): 3:29pm On Apr 02 |
RevenuesBoost: Also Wikipedia: “Egusi is the name for this across many parts of West Africa and it can't be attributed to one tribe or ethnic group. For the sake of peace and unity, I removed the part that claimed "Egusi" is a word from a certain tribe.” People forget that edits can be seen by as many people who wilful edit the page for free (i.e., virtually everyone). Nifty edit, though, whoever did that. |
Food / Re: Igbo Soups All Nigerian Tribes Enjoy by Probz(m): 3:20pm On Apr 02 |
2mch: Most Nigerians in Cameroon are probably Igbo. Nothing’s ever historically concerned Yorubas with Cameroon. |
Food / Re: Igbo Soups All Nigerian Tribes Enjoy by Probz(m): 3:19pm On Apr 02 |
Nearly every West African nation has their own variants of egusi but Igbos are among those who cook it particularly well (alongside Calabars and Deltans). Besides Ondo/Ekiti and chunks of Osun, nothing dey concern Yorubas with good soup whatsoever. Their own is amala and ewedu and egusi-Ijebu. Anything good ofe-wise comes from Eastern Yorubaland, which we all know is notably influenced by more easterly cuisines and practices (starting from Edo/Idu). A lot of Ondo State Yorubas can even pass for Igbos and randomly have surnames like Okoro. Egusi might also be indigenous to northern and western Yorubaland but which one would one honestly go for between nonsense cooked with egg-yolks and an abundance of oil for nothing (not even proportioned between akwu/anything tropically rose-related or derived from oha and customary red palm oil) vs. countless variations cooked with okporoko (which, before anyone starts I know is imported from our good-ol. Nordics) and a variety of vegetables (starting from isapa/zone in eastern Yorubaland and including onugbu, okazi, ugu, azu-igwe and amaranth), made in such a way that’s not gonna purge your stomach? Why are northern and Western Yorubas trying to convince people that they know how to cook soup? |
Politics / Re: The Great Kingdom Of Nkwerre In Imo State Defends Its King And Community. by Probz(m): 3:39pm On Mar 31 |
Bump. I like this thread. |
Food / Re: Edikang-ikong Or Afang? by Probz(m): 8:00pm On Mar 25 |
mariahAngel: I mean. It’s okay but there’s something a little more unique about afang. But like I said the unfortunate reality is that most Nigerian restaurants that have Calabar food on tap tend to deal more with edikang-ikong (bog-standard vegetable soup). Ordinary to make afang available at someone’s 50th birthday-party or a wedding, they no-fit supply 7 times out of 10. It’s annoying. Afang’s the one I really crave. Some people will mix a tiny bit of ugu with spinach, pour plenty of palm oil and call it vegetable soup. And yeah, maybe it is in one sense but at least with afang you know that it’s going to be authentic and not subject to environmental adaptations or personal quirks. You’re either cooking with okazi or you’re not. Lamb’s lettuce is no real substitute. And to be honest, dried okazi (common at African food shops in the U.K.) isn’t that great either. I prefer to work and chop with fresh vegetables, not that dried vegetables don’t work well enough most of the time. It’s just not the same. |
Celebrities / Re: Bobrisky Wins Best Dressed Female With 1 Million Cash Prize At Ajanaku Premiere by Probz(m): 7:58pm On Mar 25 |
Also Bobrisky: “aah, I can’t be supporting LGBT now. Is Hadam and Heve, nor Hadam and Steve. pls, am not a gay” |
Jobs/Vacancies / Re: Do You Regret Leaving Your Lucrative Nigerian Job For Abroad Menial Job by Probz(m): 7:57pm On Mar 25 |
mekleelex200: At least Nigeria doesn’t do taxes (like, not really). That’s one perk. |
Romance / Re: Dad Cries As He Gives His Daughter Away On Her Traditional Wedding Day(vid) by Probz(m): 7:48pm On Mar 25 |
Zonefree: What in the actual flip? 5 Likes |
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