Hiann.

Nowadays?

A lot of younger Nigerian male doctors have the wrong attitude and don’t know how to communicate effectively with their patients. Humble yourself and learn.

SensualMan:
Everything about Ghana is just repulsive - from their music, Banku, English - Gosh!

At least they have functioning lights.

Tell us something we don’t know.

Prigidypogodo:
lol dey play
bro those people you mentioned are their main men and number one in different frats.
and average Awka influential man or popular man is a bloody cultist be it an elder or youth.
I lived in Awka for almost 5 years so I know this first hand.
trust me ending cultism in Awka is a mirage because it's deeply rooted.
from revenue collectors to ndị olu ani (land sellers ) etc
Awka na den of cultism in Anambra.
how I take survive there for years still baffles me.

Hmmm.

Rutherford2019:


So you don't believe that two types of DM were previously classified as IDDM or type 1 and NIDDM or type 2.

That’s so not what I’m saying.

pappy2000:
must everything be westernized

It’s not even that. This silly woman would have you eating a Big Mac with a fork if she had her way, as if McDonald’s is a high-end Michelin restaurant or that’s how normal people eat burgers. This is just her being a law unto herself.

The girl’s from Anambra, even. I’d like to see her try to eat akpu and onugbu with a fork. Or chopsticks in the name of Eastern ‘but-not-African-Eastern’ wokeness.

MrSmithy:
Alot of Nigerians need get schooled on how to eat decently and matured in public places...some eat so annoyingly and irritating to the point that you just need leave that environment for them. Please nobody dey chase ona abeg make we learn how to eat cox its very important

It’s the way some of our people chew gum that really gets me goat.

oluwaseyi0:
Just use your clean hand

Don’t mind her, jare. She’s in her own little world when it comes to (imaginary) etiquette.

This woman has come again. The same one who says you should eat cupcakes with a knife and fork.

Remind me never to take her to Costco or Subway. She’s an alright cook but her over-sabi tips are unrealistic and ridiculous. No-one eats cupcakes with anything other than their bare hands.

Munzy14:

The difference is the addition of scent leaf for Igbos. I used banga so people who aren't Igbo will flow with the discussion.

Palm fruit is called banga in our pidgin especially for SS people(delta and rivers precisely).


Akwu is it's Igbo name.

Ofe is soup in Igbo.

It’s not only scent leaves/ahuji (and I’m not talking about ugu either). There’s another vegetable some people add to ofe akwu.

Where does the word banga, by the way, actually come from?

They’re a difference between okpei and ogiri proper (Igbo/isi, ugba, egusi and ukpa are variants of it). You may use okpei to cook okro/ogbono, ofe akwu and egusi but you wouldn’t use it for onugbu. Not ever.

Rutherford2019:

The original name of type1 DM is insulin dependent DM..in chronic pancreatitis in which the pancreas cannot produce insulin it becomes type 1 DM secondary to pancreatic damage
NB Any time that the pancreas cannot produce insulin it is type 1 irrespective of what happens to the pancreas or whether the person is pregnant or not
In type 2 the pancreatic function is either preserved or is minimal.
NB insulin dependent and non insulin dependent are no longer used to describe types of diabetes mellitus because some people with type 2 are now insulin dependent
Also adult onset and Juvenile DM are outdated names of type 2 and type 1 because both can occur at any time in life

I can’t believe type 2 diabetics were ever believed to not potentially be insulin-dependent in the first place.

Achoghim:
No, he's among the most foolish persons to ever come from the East.

Yes. He is.

IbileIfe:
But why only most of the male actors beg online when they are very ill?

Women are so used to looking after other people, whether they want to or not. Most nurses are women for a reason. When it comes to health they prefer to do the caregiving than the caretaking, even when they’re ill themselves. Someone who gave birth to five kids and did all the needful health-rearing with them isn’t going to have the shame to go begging for money online to pay their hospital bills if they have a bit of money. You wouldn’t. The average woman is far more mature than the average man when it comes to taking care of oneself and that’s even what society encourages. Sometimes circumstances can’t be helped but a lot of these male actors can help it. They just make Hennesey (whiskey’s a revelation and so’s good brandy, but priorities) and toasting babes more of a priority than health insurance, as if they’re going to be protected cost-wise by something like the NHS if they base in Nigeria. And that’s a choice.

The average Nigerian man who wants to up a certain lifestyle does not look after himself too well. We’re just lucky that a lot of our foods (especially Igbo and Calabar ones) are particularly healthy, otherwise many wouldn’t see 55. And it’s not even like going to the gym is particularly common in Nigeria compared to how it is in the UK (etc.). So it’s just mineral, protein and weed keeping some people alive. Any sensible conscientiousness in keeping healthy people of that particular kind of disposition have is usually the work of some other trait or circumstance. They barely remember to take their tablets (or insulin if they’re diabetic) if they have some other condition already so they wait until they’re acutely ill before doing something about it. No prioritising in the past and remembering to save up for something like that and you might end up in playing the beggar. Only it won’t be acting-playing but for real x 2.

DJInfluence:
So it's our fault they live above their means?
The fact is, most not all but most beg for money because they failed to plan.
They know they don't receive pension or health benefit so instead of saving for raining day and/or investing, they are trying to please people they don't even know.

You said it.

But I love Mama G.

Aremson14:
Kwara
Kwara
Kwara

But what’s there?

christejames:
Enugu-most peaceful

Others are;

Akwa-Ibom

Taraba

Nasarawa

Kano

Ebonyi

Bayelsa

Ekiti

Enugu City might be peaceful. State as a whole, not so much. Fulani herdsmen won’t let it rest. Even the main coal city’s full of kidnapping and the lot. It might be peaceful on a Sunday day while you hang around with okpa and Pepsi/La Casera but that place can get wild. And dangerous.

Sergio103:


Nah!.

For southern Nigeria, is there any state calmer than akwaibom?

Not really. And there’s nowhere where crayfish is finer. Not even Anambra.

Anyway, afang’s my favourite. I like ikong but not as much.

mariahAngel:


For real? And you're a Nigerian?
You should if you have not.

I was tempted to order amala with okazi + ugu vegetable soup the other day (just to be curiously contrary). I felt like wearing the national flag.

That’s actually what I ordered but either they were out of amala or they just looked at it as being a crazy combo that made no sense, so what they gave me in the end any-road was pounded yam. When I try tuwo shinkafa with onugbu, I’ll know that’s it as far as my taste-buds being normal are concerned.

Dontcry09985:
I prefer Jesus to Mohammed

So do I but you’re not funny so get out.

Which one correct-pass? Let’s settle it right here, right now. (Like for edikang-ikong, share for afang/Calabar okazi.)

Onugbu vs. oha coming up next.

And no-one misses you.

kettykin:
Clean , clear cut central igbo. I understand him clearer than Ebonyi, Ngwa, owerri igbo. Even my own igbo dialect is not this central like his.

Hmm.

Possessedkid:
Smoke Chinese or Japanese cigarettes


Chew gum


Do mewing



Do deep humming

Do Japanese people even smoke?

Truvelisback:
Like Agbero voice abi? Smoke Igbo well. If you Smoke igbo, your voice go deep.

Not sure what all this about smoking weed is coming from. It’s tobacco that potentially gives huskiness in the voice (or at least exaggerates it if you always talked like that anyway). Smoking weed alone won’t help make your voice low or deep in the way you want it. Maybe in the first few drags of a heavy joint you turn into dearth Vader for all of 5 seconds because your throat’s firing up but yeah. It wears off and goes back to normal pretty soon. Doesn’t cause lasting deepening of the voice.

Initially, OP, you might be going for a far rougher, rugged voice than what you currently have but unless you’re trying to be a singer or voice artist you’ll kind of get to a point where you’d rather the pitch of your voice was closer to normal for a guy. Having an overly deep voice can be a curse and a half sometimes. Just talk normally without hyper-fixating too much on how low you want the pitch or tone of your voice by to be. It might still lower some within the next year or two.

ObviaSere:

I use to smoke. Weed doesn’t give a deeper voice.

No but tobacco can do. When you have a naturally low, husky voice and you then add years of … nicotine partiality to it, a few Barry Whites come out of the vocal woodworks. But when you’re that low and more of a low bass than booming baritone it’s hard to be loud and speak up.

Artscollection:
Edo women sabi take care of man but dikwa ya!!

She’s Edo?

humberjade:


You seem not to get what I am trying to say, what I am saying is that, when you live abroad living all by yourself can be lonely and dangerous depending on the country of residence. So many people die alone in their apartments and no one finds out until the corpse start smelling. I can't even begin to mention instances when you wish you had someone close.

No, I understood exactly what you were saying but at the end of the day I’m also saying what I’m saying. Life would also be less dangerous if people minded their own business a little more and weren’t looking for which stranger to mug or knife just for the sake of it (to use a twisted example) or even cat-call. You can still have a robust social network and value meaningful social connections/friendships but also be capable of being alright in your own company and not desperately need social validation and company ’round the clock to stop you from rotting in your chair. Some people are allergic to doing anything alone and when it’s like that you’ve got to question how much someone hates themselves that they can’t even do a quick Tesco/Shoprite/Asda/Walmart run alone or enjoy a quiet night in with some chamomile tea and a bit of Bailey’s (and whatever else the drift wants to catch and vibe with) the odd Saturday night. As if being alone with yourself (emphasis on the “yourself”; aka, you, yourself and you, your own person) for just a little bit is a punishment worse than prison. You don’t have to be particularly introverted to enjoy a bit of quiet in your own space every now and then. It doesn’t negate awesome social networks and support that absolutely should be there for you whenever you need it but it does add a bit of needful self-sufficiency to your life. The outer world would be boring if everyone veered super-far in that direction but I think a lot of people in general just need a bit more of that.

The irony of it is that a lot of people are more inclined to view people with a quiet temperament that’s not the blatantly stoic, self-assured/strong-silent (or at least menacingly, fiercely “independent” antisocial kind) type as overly soft, overly shy (they may or may not be and if that’s genuinely the case and not just a sort of lay misinterpretation of quiet calmness as shyness, since a lot of people use quiet and shy synonymously; they both have an air of modest diffidence and a certain kind of gentleness), timid and stifled by over-protective parents as kids and all that wonderfully complimentary stuff (including that they’re somehow socially deficient in a way and it’s almost like there’s something wrong with them) and any of that may or may not be the case (just absolutely not inherently) but there’s an obvious link between quiet and being more comfortable alone more of the time, and there’s a connection with preferring ample solitude to just doing your thing and getting through many terms of life alone, because when you’re like that you just don’t need the same level of social stimulation to feel comfortable and just do stuff. It’s often the loud ones who are lacking in those independent life skills but they’re assumed to be confident and competent just because they’re loud, and that’s what a lot of cultures (ironically especially in the West) preferentially value now. In Nordic societies and places like Japan, people are much more insular and self-contained. Far, far more than French people are known to be.

Not saying it’s not important to be able to speak up for yourself and surround yourself with people when you need to because it definitely is but you’ve still got to stand on your own two feet at least sometimes or at least just go the extra mile in finding like-minded communities and stuff. You’ve got to be okay enjoying your life with or without lots of constant gregariousness but sometimes you’ve just got to adapt a little and find what you need rather than just expecting it to come to you.

Advancedman:


That is my biggest desire, business minding is different from care and check on closed ones that depend on what and how you program your circle.
The office mug is a different tale entirely so your absence is not noticed or felt by your organization, what's your designation pls?

Not to minimise the importance of good social networks but there’s some opportunity for integration everywhere in the world. You need a good support network (cultural, otherwise or both) you can rely on but you can’t really rightfully complain about being lonely when you’re not putting yourself out there with people and making those additional connections if you need to.

“But it’s so cold.”

And Nigeria’s so hot. The problem with this new generation of Nigerian immigrants is expecting the whole world to revolve around Nigeria, like it’s the only country on planet Earth. All these U.K. Insta. vloggers complaining about everything are just painful in their entitled freshness. It’s a new flavour of expecting the whole world to accommodate for them specifically and it’s embarrassing to see. Being an ignorant, entitled freshie who can’t adapt anywhere outside their region in Nigeria isn’t a flex. It’s embarrassing and it’s annoying.

“Nowhere to change Naira in this shop.”

It’s Tesco, for God’s sake. Go to Western Union if you need to change money. You wouldn’t go to Shoprite expecting to convert Naira to Canadian dollars or Dubai currency.

This generation of freshies can be so senseless. Yes, those initial adaptation struggles are an issue for everyone in somewhere new and always have been but most of the Nigerians who have emigrated since last year seem to be of a much more inherently unadaptable ilk to the ones from before then and a world away from the original Nigerian communities. Igbo communities in places like Liverpool and Scotland (for example) faced so much racism in the ’30s, ’40s, ’50s, ’60s and ’70s especially but they just got on with life and formed authentic, tight-knit cultural communities and unions while also knowing where they were. Yorubas fused and integrated with the local Brazilians when that transatlantic business was going on and likewise with Igbos and Ibibios in Jamaica and the southern U.S. (like Virginia especially). They themselves didn’t lose their sense of cultural identity (on the contrary) but they left a viable imprint and adapted. These latest freshies ain’t seen nothing and they need to shut up. They’re not adapted to a life outside their narrow confines.