₦airaland Forum

AxeofGod:
This one is even modest. Come to Uyo and see something. The thing is there is no need to beg women to dress moderately since their children will suffer the consequences.

When women dress provocatively in numbers it becomes increasingly difficult to raise upright men in society. The ones who do not rape will get involved in vices to have the means to gratify sexual cravings they acquired by looking at these half-dressed women.

These women dress half-naked but expect their little sons to grow up respecting womanhood.

If a woman doesn’t consent to being touched she doesn’t consent. Simple as that. You can’t blame women for men and lads not having the maturity to control themselves whenever they go see pretty lady. You can always go home and self-service, innit. But you don’t ever touch someone who doesn’t want to be touched.

A word is enough for the wise and I’ve said plenty. Peace out.

Kobojunkie:
I am even willing to unfriend such a one myself. It is not acceptable behavior for me.

What isn’t acceptable?

If I offered someone food I’d rather they ate the whole plate and even asked for more. If I’m offering someone (or some people) food I’m not the one to be tight or economical about it on the basis of vague cultural notions that you’re only allowed to eat 75% of your plate.

Don’t you think it’s more respectful that people actually like eating your food to the extent of wiping the plate clean and even wanting more? Why should a quarter of it have to go in the bin “just because”?

If you’re not prepared to let them enjoy themselves and eat the food well you might as well just not offer them food. You can’t be making a whole cast-iron pot of jollof with goat meat and ration portions/have some of it go to waste.

What the hell are Nigerians on most of the time?

Kobojunkie:
Respect the food... how long it took for all components to grow and the cost to get it from the farm to the kitchen and then prepared and placed in front of you. Then consider the many out there who are starving while you are busy debating in your mind whether you should finish food placed in front of you.

When you do that, you will maybe better understand why it matters not what your host may think but instead that you waste not.

Respect is fine but any waste will just end up going in the bin and it’s more disrespectful for someone who gave you food to have to bin leftovers than for you to just eat the thing well. Who the hell are you saving 8 grains of rice and half-eaten anu-ewu with all your saliva on it for?

I’m not saying you guys don’t cook well at all, by the way. You guys just aren’t in the same league as Anambra and never will be unless a nwanya Anambra shows you how to cook correct onugbu and nsala. And even then some Imolites struggle to learn.

My auntie Ngozi from Nkwerre cooks some of the best food (ukwa, pepper soup, jollof rice and correct torotoro) and I’d actually rather eat her food than patronise many Anambra kitchens I know (and I feel like Imo probably does somewhat better with rice and okra soup than most of Anambra) but she’s more an exception than the norm (possibly because Nkwerre people often have Awka admixture in them anyway).

I feel like that Anambra-Imo region between Awka and Nkwerre (including Orlu) is very okay as far as indigenous food goes. Owerri people don’t seem to know anything other than ofe Owerri (and even Owere mamas themselves can’t decide whether it should be more like ora, uziza or ugu soup) and the less said about Mbaise, the better so I’m not even going to attempt shade there.

Ndi Owere no be our mates, jor. We can vibe with you when we have to but Anambra (and to a certain extent Enugu) have to lead the roost as far as mainstream Igbo matters are concerned.

If Anambra and Imo are truly mates in a food context then why the hell can no one other than seasoned Imolites list any of your soups besides ofe Owere (and I presume it’s not the whole of Imo State who even regards that ofe as one of their staples) and plain old ugba (ordinary to add small abacha, una no gree)? Why are most popular Igbo-specific dishes (abacha salad, ofe onugbu, ofe nsala, isi ewu, nkwobi, etc.) at least more associated with the Anambra-Enugu-Enuani (northern Igbo) area?

I’m not saying ofe Owerri is a bad soup. It just can’t seriously be compared to onugbu.

ablejesus26:
Just imagine how he even spelt Owerri �.
I no get talk with you.
Look for your mate to do your rubbish, childish Anambra vs Imo.
Abum onye Owerri,but my beautiful princess is from Anambra ��.
So move man,you got the wrong guy if you are looking for who to masturbate on senseless Imo vs Anambra argument.

I’m spelling Owere the correct (native) way. Owerri is but an Anglicisation, my friend.

Na semi-literate I go be for correctly spelling the likes of Awka and Enugu as Oka and Enu[-u]gwu?

ablejesus26:
Ok I don hear you ��
Look for your mate to do your Anambra vs Imo ririr ayam not doing e get watin person dey pass ��.

I was breed and imbibed with the sacrosanct doctoring that Igbo bu ofu obara,
Ofu nne na nna
None is bigger or better than another.
I only appraised Ofe Owerri as an Owerri Man.
You can do so too without the rubbish comparison
And who told you that ofe onugbu is an Anambra dish?
Biko buru akuko ndi 11yrs old puo��

How is onugbu not an Anambra soup?

And what do you Owere people have to even be proud of other than that your ofe Owere?

I’m obviously not talking about the standard party/parry-ish jollof and chicken but jollof rice made with more earthy ingredients (beef, goat meat, turkey, palm oil, dried tatashe, etc.). Is it okay to add ehu. to that sort of jollof rice or will it change the taste to something else entirely?

BeeBeeOoh:
Oga! Nothing concerns ONION with Nsala soup.

The list below is what is needed to make NSALA soup

-Fresh fish
-Goat meat
-Cow meat
-Smoked fish
-Stockfish
-Uziza seed
-Uda
-Yam
-Crayfish
-Fresh, dried or Cameron pepper
-Seasoning cubes
-(optional)
-Uziza leaves
-Utazi leaves
-Salt

You don’t even need all these ingredients for ofe nsala either. There’s a fine line between nsala and pepper soup and you’ve definitely crossed it (as tasty as that soup may be).

Any obstacle other than fresh catfish will turn it into pepper soup and so will the likes of uziza and uda. The ingredients I’ve emboldened are literally all you need.

Mutemenot:
ofe nsala and you never mentioned fresh fish. Op is not a true son of the soil

Fresh catfish to be precise.

The OP don try sha.

pezeji:
Am an Igbo man and I love good soups.
That white soup (ofe nsala) is one soup I want to learn so I can always prepare it for my wife anytime she isn't strong or fit to be at the kitchen

Which is how every nwoke ought to be. Your wife can’t be bedridden with Covid or newly-returned from the hospital and you’re demanding ofe after ofe (and eventually rice) from her.

Sha the woman don try.

Well done.

ablejesus26:
The second best soup
Second to no other but the GOAT of all time.

Ofe Owerri ��

Ofe Owerri is trash compared to onugbu. I say that as someone who doesn’t even like onugbu that much but you can’t be comparing Anambra ofes with Imo-lite soups.

ANON333:
Which people actually get olugbu soup ?

Anambra but more especially certain parts (Nnewi, etc.).

Onugbu is to Anambra/Nnewi what okpa is to Enugu or amala is to Oyo/Ibadan.

Babysho:
What are the benefits of Bitterleaf Soup?

It’s largely dependent on how much the bitter leaves are washed (the more you wash them, the more nutritional content gets correspondingly rinsed off). But when it’s allowed to be at least a little bit bitter it’s very medicinal.

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Shelumiel:
That is a lie from the pit of hell! The yorubas are good at cooking two things : ÉKuru and Éko. Finish

Igbos have more traditional food and best way of cooking in general but party jollof isn’t our strongest point if we’re being honest. I still love Igbo ceremonial jellof (probably more so than the much-acclaimed olopo jollof common to Yorubas) but there’s an element of truth in the title.

Least tribalistic? Yoruba?

I feel like this thread should be focused on advantages only. Everyone knows the many disadvantages.

What about the man? How many women would get married if the man was a virgin?

Maka nnidi, na?

Good on her. Marriage is honourable in all at any age. I doubt she’s planning on having (more) kids at her age so her marriage is most presumably just a way of securing herself romantically. And there’s nothing wrong with that whether you’re 24 or 84.

I was 16 going on 17 when I made my first attempt but it was so bad that I might as well have just mixed rice with ketchup and passed it off in place (it was awful). It wasn’t until a year later wey I don get am half-correct (which is weird because I over-parboiled the rice, one of the mistakes I always made when I was new to the jollof-cooking shiz).

I experimented with egusi around the same time and got it half-right as well so it’s safe to say that my bachelor cooking skills improved quite a lot within that year-long period.

As e don say for title, how old you don dey when you don cook edible/half-correct jellof rice (I’m not talking about anyhow concoction/bachelor rice here)? Did it take you years and years to learn how to cook am or was it one of the first dishes you don master?

Longsleeve:
Jollof rice is the normal one that's not too sweet .

Jellof rice is the sweet one..the one wey under dey burn..

Mine definitely burnt at the bottom the first time around but that was more down to my lack of competence at the time than me trying to get a bottom-pot effect.

Moreover, I thought the commonly-asserted difference between jollof and jellof is that the latter is the S.E. rendering (with crayfish at the least) and jollof is the normal/party-ish kind. Wetin concern bottom-pot rice with the jollof/jellof distinction?

fijiano202:
I believe this is more attributed to religion than reality cos in nigeria and the world itself culture and religion works hand in glove..Biblically the right hand is regarded as a sign of strength and honor and also sitting at the right hand side of someone means u are highly honoured..like the christains believes that Jesus sits at the right hand of God which makes him next to God,Although the bible never mentioned left handed people as lesser people but people still believe the right hand is more honored..left handed people are not much in the bible,the most popular left-handed person in the bible is Ehud Judges chapter 3 and also Judges 20:16...the bible refers to left hand as an advantage cos people with left hand are mostly warriors....the left means plenty things in diff language - in latin left means sinister which means evil ,in french left is gauche which means awkward...in Local /traditional belief Right hand is called hand of peace

That and the fact that most people wipe their arses with their left hand (I say that as someone who couldn't have less of an issue with left-handedness).

I know it’s hard narrowing it down to 101 things considering the state of the country but let’s start with that.

1. The fact that lay Nigerians big up Hausas as regards relevance just because they’re technically a majority tribe. That may be the case but outside politics and the two food imports that Nigerians can be grateful for (suya and kilishi), core northerners might as well be nonentities. As far as (mainline) Nigerian culture is concerned the southern minorities who occupy the space between Igbo and Yoruba (Edo, Kalabari, Urhobo, etc.) are way more important and relevant than ndi Fulani/Hausa will ever be but a lot of people seem to think that it’s only the majority tribes that matter and it’s wrong. Nigerians need to drop this silly, nonsense idea that the only relevant ethnic groups in this country are the three majority tribes (Hausas and Igbos in particular have absolutely nothing to do with each other other than the fact that they share a country of origin).

2. Igbos who cry marginalisation at every little thing. It’s true that we’re not given the governmental-political representation we deserve but not everything unjust in Nigeria is a slight against Igbos per se. Some young Igbos in the diaspora made out the SARS brutality to be worse on “poor, marginalised Igbos” and that just wasn’t the case. SARS messed up people from every ethnic affiliation, not just Igbos.

3. Certain ignorant Yoruba people (I’m not saying this is even the slightest majority but it’s definitely a lot) not having the bottle to look a whole nwafor Igbo in the eye and tell them that Yoruba na the best tribe for Naija but otherwise carrying on as if they belong to the elite/VIP ranking in Nigeria and that other than their ‘rivals,’ (Igbos, and possibly the northerners who technically own the country) all they need to concern themselves with as far as Naija affairs go is with their own (this is a real wahala among British Yorubas, especially the millennial ones who only grew up around fellow Yorubas as far as Nigerians go). Both tribes (Igbo and Yoruba) are blessed in different ways and quite complimentary in the grand scheme of things but certain people on either side don’t seem to want to co-operate and integrate because they want to believe that only they (should) matter.

4. Non-Igbo Nigerians (again, it’s not all or even the vast majority, just the ignorant ones) seeing Eastern practices and customs as inherently weird.

5. The governmental-political situation in general (no need for further elaboration but the fact that Buhari’s still floating around in-cognito is the most annoying part of it).

6. The senseless misogyny (Nigerians in general/Igbos especially might have special migrative and intellectual qualities but black men in general aren’t regarded as shit so you can’t be out here serving as a post-colonial agent in white male supremacy) and polarising gender stereotypes/roles that only came into play after colonialism (in Igboland at least). Pre.-colonial men braided their hair like no man’s business and they didn’t wear trousers at any point either. Women should not be told they’re going to hell for wearing trousers when a.) it’s a scientific fact that trousers fit the anatomy of women better than men anyway and b.) the wearing of trousers by non-Westerners in a historical context was reserved for women alone in some cultures. The only truly gender-specific item of clothing is the bra (and even that’s not set-in-stone because men can get moobs for different reasons). Everything else is just a matter of social conditioning, not intrinsic differences. Trousers aren’t inherently masculine and skirts aren’t inherently feminine. These are all post-colonial lies that even the Westerners themselves didn’t spin until comparatively recently in the evolutionary cycle.

7. The fact that certain people still no sabi half-correct jollof. It’s 2021, peeps - it shouldn’t hard to cook ordinary jollof rice to at least a semi-decent standard). If you’re past the age of 17 and you can’t cook common rice or anything other than indomie, I feel sorry for you.

8. The fact that young people don’t seem to like traditional delicacies as much anymore (indomie has its place but in a land where okpa, abacha, ojojo and ikokore dey plenty, you’re not culturally seasoned enough if you can’t eat your traditional meals at least once in a while without worrying about being seen as local/razz).

9. The fact that some young people (the ones who sabi speak their mother tongue) form ajebo in public (there’s nothing wrong with being refined but African languages aren’t inferior and there’s absolutely no shame in being bilingual, least of all from a linguistic-intellectual point of view).

10. The fact that men who tie wrappers choose to obliterate the whole point of wearing them in the first place by putting on trousers/shorts (that thing wey they call half-shimi has a practical function and it’s just as appropriate for men who tie wrappers as women since it’s technically not a gender-specific item of clothing).

Lookupman:
You are right, Example MTN, you will hardly see a yoruba person using MTN because the Igbo man is among the Management
Go to Winners, RCCG, Deeper Life, you will see Igbos among their members but go to any church who founders are igbo, you will hardly see a yoruba person there, go check Chosen, CPM etc and make your confirmation,
May of these igbo founding churches has Hausas and Yoruba as their regional pastors but hardly in any yoruba church, you can easily make hand count of other tribes as pastors in yoruba churches

Hausas being a majority tribe doesn’t mean they’re likely to be a regional pastor of any Pentecostal church considering 90-something percent of them are Muslims. The pastors who aren’t Igbo or Yoruba tend to be southern minorities (Edo/Delta, etc.).

Nigerians need to stop this silly, ludicrous idea that because there are three major ethnic affiliations in the country the other groups are irrelevant. Hausa people are reclusive northern Islamic people. Absolutely nothing concerns 95% of them with Pentecostal churches. Absolutely nothing. They can’t be said for the south-south region (which has an even greater Pentecostal population than the Igbo/S.E. region).

Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba are not the only relevant tribes in Nigeria. Get that silly, stupid nonsense out of your head. Such a unity exists only in politics.

Lookupman:
You are right, Example MTN, you will hardly see a yoruba person using MTN because the Igbo man is among the Management
Go to Winners, RCCG, Deeper Life, you will see Igbos among their members but go to any church who founders are igbo, you will hardly see a yoruba person there, go check Chosen, CPM etc and make your confirmation,
May of these igbo founding churches has Hausas and Yoruba as their regional pastors but hardly in any yoruba church, you can easily make hand count of other tribes as pastors in yoruba churches

Hausas being a majority tribe doesn’t mean they’re likely to be a regional pastor of any Pentecostal church considering 90-something percent of them are Muslims. The pastors who aren’t Igbo or Yoruba tend to be southern minorities (Edo/Delta, etc.).

Nigerians need to stop this silly, ludicrous idea that because there are three major ethnic affiliations in the country the other groups are irrelevant. Hausa people are reclusive northern Islamic people. Absolutely nothing concerns 99% of them with Pentecostal churches. Absolutely nothing. They can’t be said for the south-south region (which has an even greater Pentecostal population than the Igbo/S.E. region).

Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba are not the only tribes in Nigeria. Get that silly, stupid nonsense out of your head. Such a unity exists only in politics.

Youngvegetable:
Op isn't this picture beautiful

Absolutely beautiful.

YorubaKinging:
The end is near

Of a truth, everything God created is good

But men turned the world upside down

That. Alcohol and tobacco are far more dangerous yet they remain legal.

Mary-Jane will be legalised all-round one day. It’s just a matter of time.