₦airaland Forum

Pure water na pure water and it’s a cute niche. Let’s not involve “sachet” for this matter.

Garri doesn’t have to be a pauper’s meal. U.K. Nigerians can eat it in some form for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

I’d sooner watch him do a Men in August Meeting skit (playing Amaka). In which case neither he nor the opponent would win on Election Day.

He’s still too young to be a president. An Igbo (wo)man of a more seasoned age would be more appropriate.

Fedrick100:
Lol
By this time of the night
Anyway no one have seen mine,if any girl ever see mine I’ll forever be shy anytime i see the girl

Shouldn’t that make both of you h*rny?

(@ h*rny being a censored word - Nairaland, what the actual hell?)

IkpuMmadu:
Oga the word ogiri is igbo... I don't know what yoruba call them

If hausa could give yoruba the name they answer today is it ogiri that they will not claim

Drop the superiority complex. It’s not necessary. I’m as Anambrarian as they come (trust me) but even I can admit that ogiri is merely a shared word between Igbo and Yoruba.

You fanatical tribalists from either side need to drop this attitude of absolute ownership and understand that Igbo and Yoruba share many words and foods in common (oyibo/oyinbo, ogiri, ejire/ejime for twins, moin-moin/mai-mai, egusi, akamu/ogi, etc.) because we share a more distant link. One didn’t necessarily copy from the other. We just share certain things in common, just like alfredo (if you know what that means) is just a standard Italian pasta dish.

This unnecessary tribalism is what the colonial white man don want una to do. He cane to divide and cause confusion and you people (conc. villagers with an excessive amount of patriotism) are following in his footsteps. If you didn’t know before today that ogiri (not oha, not ofe nsala, not ugu, just ogiri) is shared between Igbos and Yorubas, you do now. The Yoruba equivalent to okpei (‘Hausa’: dawadawa) is iru, sure. But ogiri proper (made from ukpaka/egwusi) exists in hinterland Yorubaland just as in northern Igboland. If you don’t like it then you can suck your mum’s pussy but the fact still remains that ogiri is merely shared, not borrowed. No tribal sentiments. Fact. End.

IkpuMmadu:
If they can claim Ugu, Akpụ, Ogbono and okoro... Is it ogiri that they will not claim

Don't be surprised they will claim nsala and Ora soon

Ogiri is as much Yoruba as it is Igbo (moreover, it’s not even all Igbos who cook with ogiri). Yorubas are right to claim ogiri as theirs because it’s theirs just like it is ours.

Gospel2Day:
You have a bad habit, just admit it and stop trying to force society to accept your moral inadequacy.
A woman needs to stay as healthy as possible, both for the purpose of childbearing and child rearing.
What moral lesson will you bequeath to your daughter if she knows her mother smokes?
Do you care about the shaming her school mates will unload on her?
Besides, all over the world, women who smoke are not highly regarded as being responsible and role model in the society.
See, quit the gender war, a female does not occupy the same position in the social Hierarchy. It is inbuilt in our consciousness. Adam came before Eve. She was made to complement him, not to compete with him.
How happy would you feel if employees who came years after you are promoted to your rank and position at your workplace?
Repent, quit your sinful smoking habit, and get serious with impacting the world positively.
Don't add to the mess you met when you were born.
Shalom.

In the west no-one cares what gender you are as far as smoking’s concerned. You don’t know what you’re talking about.

Only in Nigeria. No-one else cares.

Somewhat.

Poiu11:
if you look at the uhrobo language several of the word are yoruba .....

Do you not think that’s because of the distant Edoid link more than anything else (since Edoid languages, while not Yoruboid, have some words in common with Yoruba)?

Has anyone here made any Naija rice meal (jollof, fried, stew) with duck?

I don’t know why you think garri isn’t that common in the East. Igbos based strictly in the East don’t tend to use processed yam/cassava flour (unlike the likes of Yorubas and Ghanaians/other West Africans) and in reality no-one has time to be pounding yam or making nni-oka/igba (corn/okpa fufu) every time so garri’s the standard staple. That’s how it is across all corners of Nigeria and it’s borne solely out of convenience, not because we love to swallow garri. It often takes a seasoned nwanya-mgbeke (no shade intended) to process and pound cassava for akpu (or make corn fufu) but any 9-year-old can boil water and turn garri in it. That’s all it is.

The nomenclature wahala na neither here nor there. Just like the Igbo word for wild mango (ogbono) is more common than (for example now) the Yoruba equivalent (apon), more Nigerians are conversant with the Yoruba name for garri fufu (eba) than the Igbo one (nni-utara). That’s it. Cassava was imported to us from Central America or something so there’s no ethnic group in Nigeria (or Africa for that matter) who can lay claim to it. Nor fried plantains. Nor pounded yam for that matter (even though Nigerians are fond of it, other west African countries have been doing it for as long as we have). Africa really doesn’t start and end with and in Naija you know. It really doesn’t.

lilvicky68:
Maggi

Knorr for me. Maggi’s anyhow.

And if the man cheats (which is far more common), nko? Why is faithfulness only important for the nwanya?

If anything it will liberate the country.

RedboneSmith:
25%? LOL. What hard drug do you people take before coming to post on social media?

Whatever it is it’s definitely not kush.

MasterofNL:
If duck is that tasty how come people are not crazy about duck meat like they are for chicken and turkey?

Because it’s a rare meat in Nigeria. Not so easy to get your hands on. Doesn’t mean it’s not good.

Duck and goose are in a league of their own. Use the stock for your stews and jollof rice and you won’t know what’s hit your tastebuds.

Lawlab249:
Dunno

Then why the hell are you even answering at all?

DeipTruth:
People that usually talk like this based on my little years I've lived on earth are mostly poverty stricken. Not necessarily you. This is purely based on observation.

Anyone who is quick to call another person poor are mostly very poor people or no self esteem worse off inferiority complex situation.

I hope you're not one of them, the more money in 7lifetimes, are you God that determines s persons lifetime's worth.

Be careful and mindful how you quickly brandish anyone poor.

Your experience doesn’t hold space for mine so whatever. You don’t know anything about me, fam.

Ambivert is the best way to be.

Fucklove:
Seeking for online validation. Made more money in dream land. Useless being forming porche to suit his ego

I’m not the one whose two feet are exclusively and indefinitely planted in Naija. I’ve had one big foot in ala oyibo for years and years. I don’t need validation from you village people.

Fucklove:
This one don carry Technicality enter job hunting. Dey there dey form psychology, sapa never romance you

I’ve worked more jobs and made more money than you would in 7 lifetimes. Gaslight me all you like. It’s you who’s living in poverty.

Technically I only had my first official job at age 18. But in my head I was a class A psychological hustler from very, very young.

thesicilian:
I'm a typical introvert. The only place I find comfort and sanity in this messed up world is within myself.

Same here. I used to be an introverted extrovert but as the years have gone on I’ve become more and more introvert-introvert. I’m still somewhat ambiverted (in a way) but definitely more introverted at this point in time. And it’s what gives me peace so it is what it is. I’m not complaining.

This probably isn’t the most appropriate section to post this in but I couldn’t find a better option so I’m just putting it here.

As it says in the title, are you predominantly concerned with your own thoughts and feelings (introverted), the opposite (extroverted) or somewhere in-between (ambiverted)?

Because you’re actually related to your children by blood. Blood is thicker than most things.

Omoluabi16:
2014 took my dad.It just felt like a bad dream, took a while before I could come to terms with it.

2014 was a dark year for many people in different ways (myself included). I feel you, dude. I feel you.

2007: maternal grandma (God rest her beautiful soul)

2014: maternal auntie I

2016: maternal auntie II

God’s kept us since then (even my parents who had severe Covid earlier this year). So compared to a lot of other people I can’t really complain.

Sexydevil:
Its been a good year. Lost my job in May, thank God, had a baby girl in July.



God has been faithful.

Congrats, sir.

The year’s gotten worse as it’s gone on. No-one close to me died but it’s been a bad year either way. Very bad. 2020 beats it hands-down.

Kobojunkie:
Read between what line now?

I am simply trying to better understand your claim from earlier below So what book?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothing

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27s_skirts

Start with that.

I’m not saying I’d be thrilled at my son dressing like a puff but that’s only because “cross-dressing” in a modern sense is usually done on the basis of weak sentimentality and I’m not about that. Never have been. But clothes aren’t inherently masculine or feminine. Only the bra is (and even then some men have moobs because of being overweight/having certain medical conditions). Everything else is just a matter of social conditioning and that’s something that changes by the era in history and culture. In certain Eastern (not even western, before you start shouting westernisation and being whitewashed) cultures esteem trousers for the female sex alone. It’s literally women who wear the trousers in those countries (traditionally) while the men wear the wrappers and that makes the most sense functionally. No-one outside of horseback riders were ever intended to wear trousers, at least not in warm climates. So trying to gender clothing according to 1950s white-man ideals (and the ideals before then were different as well, so where do you draw the line?) is nonsense. Women are not going to hell for wearing trousers. Men aren’t going to hell for decorating themselves with a bit of lingerie and pantyhose if that’s what gets them hard. Half of the time no-one sees it anyway.