Is it not Igbo and English? b, c.

Hausa, Yoruba and Igala have also been spoken by various members (on my mum’s side) but that’s different. When you have to flee to Idah or Bauchi during the Biafran war and fall-out of it, you’re going to pick up at least a bit of the local lect. Coupled with the fact that my grandma (maternal) was from Umuzocha (the Awka village that has the most Igala connection, or at least one of the most), so she was already inclined to speak Igala as well as Igbo. English not so much. She wasn’t so good in English but she was okay.

jannzy82:
Not exactly made with ice, but the hot port is also an excellent sort-of wine cocktail. Source: https://thesmartcookiecook.com/recipes/hot-port-drink-recipe

I adore port.

Oh, God.

RedboneSmith:
Y'all are just way too touchy for your own goods. 🙄

Touchy? That’s one way of putting it.

SmartyPants:


Egusi is eaten and prepared in different ways all over West Africa. Try and travel so you won't be so limited in cultural awareness.

In Gambia/Senegal they eat theirs with rice and call it supa kanja.

If you claim it originated from your tribe, no problems but what is the evidence for that claim?

Supa kanja sounds like a vibe.

BeigJawnson:



Lol... Just be careful. Yorubas own Egusi... And Egusi is a loaned word into the Igbo language...

Tackle my post bit-by-bit or go. Give me a solid counter-argument if you want to make it stick. Saying something you want to be the case out of tribalistic loyalty doesn’t make it true. No matter how many times you say it.

vannessa7:


Vitamin A deficiency in Yoruba land?!!, What do you think is in the palm oil you people hate so much, the nmanu, being quiet and laid-back coupled with not being egotistical has made the likes of you to undermine us a great deal, because no one is blowing Yoruba horn you lot think we have no horn to blow

I will not reply you again

Argue with the researchers. It’s there in print. Sentimental love for amala and stinky green hogwash won’t change that. Yoruba soups with one or two eastward/Ondo-lite exceptions are trash. So chill, you jealous cretin. Missing out on periwinkles, seafood, snails, onugbu, ukazi, uda, ugu and okporoko is your loss at the end of the day. Continue eating ewedu with nothing else but pepper and kpomo if that’s how you wanna do but don’t pretend it makes a balanced diet.

Igbos are more prone to disease? Show me the research, researcher. Idiot. Vagabond.

BeigJawnson:



Hear you .... There is nothing like egusi apkurupku in Yoruba.... Use your head not anus

You hear me, yeah? Sound.

vannessa7:



Unfortunately I couldn't read your tribal prejudice induced come back to the end, the premature wrinkled and broken down faces of your people is enough evidence to prove me right, I honestly made that post hoping I might help some igbo women because I know how a woman with premature wrinkles might feel, now imagine a diet that wreck havock on your skin what it is doing to your inside simultaneously,
You sighted the case of Yoruba praising igbo food and I can tell you that is because Yoruba has always and will always be laid back, we don't prove or chest beat until you call us out like you normally do. Go to obalende in Lagos and many part of Lagos island and see igbos chowing down ijebu egusi and Amala. Isn't that what they are doing at that Amala day?
I have travelled round your place and there was a time I felt stranded when my work took me to an internal village and all the food I could get was akpu and garri, I developed muscle before coming back then I understood why your people are typically short until you started traveling out of your enclave. Your land does not grow much food nor support livestock thus one of the reasons for cannibalism, thank God for transportation you now have access to meat if not you lot will still be all midgets. It is not possible for Yoruba to cook like you because we have easy access to protein right from before transportation unlike you that you have to pick all sorts of things to make your soups tasty, that's why hausa soups are even more watery than Yoruba soups , when you have quality protein you don't need to pick so many trash to make your food have some taste and as for vegetables every other regions have more vegetable than south east, vegetable that grow on its own everywhere in south west and the north.

The north are the healthiest because they have most fruits, livestock and grains, it is almost like paradise the way food grows in the north, and that's why they are the tallest, I've been there so I know, watermelon,cabbage, lettuce, yams,beans rice, wheat,etc. Yoruba also have varieties of foods, it is only your region that is food challenged and that's why you recorded so much casualty during the civil war.

You ask what food has got to do with stroke, that's enough for me to know the class you belong, no intellectual will ever ask such question, I am an analyst and a researcher, if I find anything good about food from other places I adopt it, I don't care about tribe and that's why tuwo is a staple in my home, is it fufu or garri which is all igbos have that I will go for, I don't even eat eba again and I stopped eating fufu which you call akpu a long time ago, I will rather take yogurt for fermented foods than smelly fufu

Your citations are Nigerians doctors and Nigerian websites while tomatoes and ewedu are foods attested to by health professionals all over the world. Amala and tuwo are foods with low glycemic index recommended for diabetics and anybody who wants to reduce sugar.

My conclusion, you are free to continue on your over hyped diet while I stick to mine, igbehin lo ma ye oloku ada ,( the man with a dull cutlass will only understand at the end) to every Mallam his kettle.

Hyped, over-hyped, whatever. Your pro-Yoruba/Hausa, anti-Igbo bias is showing clear as day so don’t talk to me about prejudice. You can vegetables and crayfish (where appropriate to use) trash at your own health-risk. You want to use 10k Naira for kpomo for ONE little soup instead of proper assortment and balance, that’s on you.

Who told you Igbos don’t cook with tomato (a fruit that’s originally from the Americas and not at any Nigerian’s mercy to directly claim)?

You’re a researcher? You’re a bloody biased one.
Yoruba people no-dey suffer apoplectic fit? Vitamin A deficiency in all those poor ndu-nwata (clearly)?

vannessa7:


Your inherited insecurities always making you people vile, must you lie to make a point. Many of you are very ignorant and I think I need to tell you a bit of truth today. On the health scale igbo food is the poorest, the soups you boast about and brag about that makes you age faster than your age, a 50 years old looking like 70, the igbo cuisine that makes you people develop various sickness, have you not notice most cases of cancer, kidney disease, etc afflict igbos most, if you Google most Yoruba food you will stop eating igbo food, our ofe nmanu that you love to hate which is tomatoes soup is a super food, google is your friend, an article on tomatoes I read even said anyone who doesn't eat tomatoes is in trouble already, tomatoes repair cells,
when I saw Mr Ibus news I said this might be another result of igbo food.

Amala is made from yam and everyone knows yam is healthy, it's just grounded dried yam. Go and google ewedu benefits and you will ask yourself what you have been doing without eating it all your life. Yorubas generally use tomatoes in our egusi, our vegetable soups etc, that is why our iya Rainbow looks 50 at 80 years old, go and look for her birthday video.
I have toured igbo land and I know your land doesn't produce good food thus the need to pick various brick a brick to Concort a soup, snails, periwinkle, leaves etc but we don't need all that because we have wholesome foods and meat which gives us all the nutrients we need. I have talk to some igbo women in my area with broken down faces due to igbo food, you know they are not old women but their face is that of a very old women,I asked one of them her age she said 54, I told her she even look older than my 82 years old mom. I encourage her to eat tomatoes and she thanked me, I told her to Google it very well. tomatoes is use in facial treatment and spa to reduce wrinkle imagine it inside you everyday, go and google it and other Yoruba food before condemning, I married an Edo man and he love egusi so much but I always put real tomatoes and peppers inside the egusi very well not the powdered pepper igbos use. Most times empty barrel make the loudest noise.

Google’s our friend, yeah? I’ve taken you up on that and here we are:

A Consultant Gastroenterologist with the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, Dr. Olufunke Adeniyi, has said that south-eastern soups are the most nutritious in Nigeria.

According to Adeniyi, South Eastern soups are usually prepared with rich vegetables and often cooked with little or no oil making them more nutritious and healthy compared to other traditional soups known to other parts of the country.

She said this at a one-day fortification workshop organised by Nestle Nigeria in Lagos.

Adeniyi said, “South-Eastern soups are very rich in micro and macro nutrients. Their soups contain a lot of leafy vegetables and so most of their children are not really micronutrient deficient.

“However, this is the challenge to those in other regions. For instance, parents in the South West need to improve the quality of food their children eat as a way of correcting nutrient deficiency.

“At least 25 per cent of Nigerian children suffer from vitamin A deficiency, the commonest cause of blindness in children under five years. Also, Nigeria falls into the zone that has severe iron deficiency anaemia.

“We thought iodine deficiency was not an issue, unfortunately, we are seeing some degrees of iodine deficiency. Recent figures show that 20 million babies are born per year with mental impairment due to iodine deficiency despite all the fortification that is still going on.”

The Chief Executive Officer, Nestlé Nigeria, Mr. Dharnesh Gordhon, who was represented by the Manager Corporate Communications, Dr. Samuel Adenekan, assured Nigerians that the company would not compromise its fortification policy which, he said was essential to the growth and development of children.

Adenekan said, “We have been tackling dietary deficiencies in Nigeria with our fortified food products. We are also committed to various initiatives to address the issue of malnutrition in the country especially among children and their mothers.”

Want a source? With pleasure: http://www.aka-ikenga.com/2015/12/south-eastern-soups-are-most-nutritious.html | https://9jalegal.com.ng/south-eastern-soups-are-the-most-nutritious-expert/

Is it Nairaland backing you’re looking for? (You can thank the Google for this one, also.) https://www.nairaland.com/2796034/south-eastern-soups-most-nutritious----expert

There you have it, my dear.

Want some anecdotal comments served to you on a calabash platter to stop you scrolling through?

“One does not require mirror to see what he/she holds in the palm. If u are a lagosian, then u must have seen how yorubas and other tribe frequent igbo restaurants to enjoy igbo delicacies,why the contrary is case in yoruba run restaurant. To be candid and sincere, in all my years in lagos I'm yet to see an igbo person walk-in to a yoruba restaurant to eat any of their delicacy, while most yorubas i have come across have all confessed how they have fallen in love with igbo delicacy. Me, personally I'm yet to test any yoruba food. Food will have to appeal to ur sight first before u Desire it, which yoruba food does not, infact, it is irritating to an average easterner”

“I can confirm this. Typically SE and SS foods minus Edo are pretty much the same, very nutritious evident in how physically strong our men are. There is a reason why Yorubas, Hausas and some Edo look malnourished because their foods are not nutritious. Though the Yorubas and Hausas who live in the East and regularly eat eastern foods tend to be bigger and stronger in appearance. Several yrs ago, my good friend went to serve in Osun, he came malnourished, lost all muscles. At the time we couldn't figure out why this happened. However after staying just 2 weeks in Calabar, he gained his muscles back and looked more healthy. Eastern foods are very nutritious. Again, all Eastern/Biafran foods are pretty much the same.”

Will folk-medicine with Igbo herbs do for some things, instead of wearing egusi necklaces as a juju accessory? https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dewb.12330

Want to hear what a core Ibadan woman with tribal marks has to say about the whole thing? Listen to her (polygot interviewee).


And what’s stroke got to do with food? Are Nigerians actually this senseless?
Igbos not traditionally believe in motility rehabilitation in your world? Okoye, Emmanuel Chiebuka et al. “Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the reintegration to normal living index into IGBO language among individuals with mobility disability.” Journal of patient-reported outcomes vol. 3,1 40. 12 Jul. 2019, doi:10.1186/s41687-019-0139-9

What about geriatric melancholia? Mgbeojedo, Ukamaka Gloria et al. “Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the 15-item Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-15) into Igbo language: a validation study.” Health and quality of life outcomes vol. 20,1 22. 5 Feb. 2022, doi:10.1186/s12955-022-01928-8

Fancy a chirpy blog about it? https://okofiablog.com/health-benefits-of-eating-popular-igbo-foods/

Want to hear the word about oha soup specifically?

“Diarrhea Management:
Oha leaves contain zinc, which supports a healthy immune system and helps manage diarrhea.
Constipation Relief:
The fiber in oha leaves aids digestion and improves gut health.
Anemia Prevention:
Oha leaves provide iron and vitamin C, crucial for red blood cell formation and anemia prevention.
Joint Health:
Manganese in oha leaves supports cartilage formation and joint health.
Heart Health:
Potassium in oha leaves promotes normal heart function and blood circulation.
Muscle Cramp Reduction:
Magnesium in oha leaves acts as a muscle relaxant, reducing cramps.
Brain Function:
Glutamic acid in oha leaves supports brain function as a neurotransmitter.
Muscle Mass:
Oha leaves can aid in building muscle mass due to cysteine content.
Blood Pressure Control:
Low sodium and high potassium content in oha leaves help regulate blood pressure.
Eye Health:
Vitamin A in oha leaves supports better vision and a strong immune system.“

Are you so tired of trying to make a convincing case for egusi that you’re now going to come out and face ora soup, hm?

Another? https://healthguide.ng/igbo-foods-in-nigeria/

Waawa rundown? https://enuguonlinetv.com/2023/08/28/top-15-food-in-enugu-state-with-photos/

Their word on egusi? “Ofe Egusi is a popular Nigerian soup made with egusi seeds (pumpkin seeds), which are known as agushi in Hausa, ofe egusi in Igbo, and efo elegusi in Yoruba. It is a staple food in many parts of Nigeria, and is especially popular in the southeastern region of the country, including Enugu.”

Additional Igbo take (beyond mgbaloti-egusi, onugbu-egusi and the egusi sprinkled with ugu that you guys have adopted):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH70DxfvduY?si=sydWgw518PEHVqr4

Need particularly diabetes-friendly recommendations? https://recipes.africanvibes.com/15-african-foods-suitable-for-diabetic-patients/ edikang-ikong, plantain porridge, ukwa and stuff from other countries got a mention but nothing like broomstick-stirred ewedu.
And why’s that?
I can’t imagine.

Do Yoruba people cook egusi with ogbono (Igbo name; if any other ethnic group has claim to it, it’s Edoid ones)? Do they grind egusi with osu to improve the texture? Do they even know what osu is? Isn’t that what egg-yolks are used for among many Yorubas (nonsense)?

Yoruba people used to cook egusi without palm oil? Try Delta egusi-pepper soup. Try egusi ocha (a Delta Igbo egusi).

You invented egwusi for where? Ebe? Is that place on planet Earth or as a matter of fact anywhere this side of the solar system?

Ila wetin (the range of Yorubas who cooked anything like good okra originally is limited to Ondo people, not even Ekiti this time)? Okra literally comes from the Igbo word ọkwụrụ. Common old-world plant but the fact that its common English name is derived from the Igbo language should tell you something.

Sorry. Akpu and onugbu, semo./ukazi, pounded yam + ofe nsala >>> amala and ewedu any time; any day, anywhere. This is Mr Probz you’re talking to, not some semi-illiterate vagabond somewhere. You are not going to win this argument with me. Try me if you want but I’ll finish you and that’s a hill I’m prepared to die on.

And listen, stop and listen. This is free knowledge you’re being given. Stuff you probably already kinda knew deep down, unloath to admit it or not. From Ngor-Okpala to Umuahia to Agulu to Nsukka, one blind Igbo person can cook better egusi soup than 80 Yorubas with 20-20 vision and you know it. Only Ondo, Ekiti and certain parts of Osun begin to come close when it comes to knowing how to cook proper egusi. I’m not even going to compare you guys to Calabars/Akwa Ibomites. But when you people come up with anything like afang or onugbu, let me know. Come and find me and I’ll be there with a bottle of coke. But the fact remains that any Yoruba (minus Ondo/Ekiti, some of Osun) who cooks good egusi does it with some Eastern influence or generally just learnt it somewhere else. No-doubt Yoruba people are good at cooking rice but we’re talking about soups here and with few exceptions you guys aren’t even zero but -1. And I know that you know that you don’t have. No shade and one love but when it comes to soups and all that, leave that for SE folk. Hapu ofe for those who can actually cook them well.

BeigJawnson:


Not an actual definition right? But if the table turns around against you, and you defended with a definition from google, you won't say it is an individual comment. Just go and sleep. You have nothing to defend.... Yorubas invented egusi soup...

If you’re going to tell lies, at least do it convincingly. Ewu.

Start by going through this in your own time, and I don’t want to hear another word from you until you’ve finished. https://www.fao.org/3/i0370e/i0370e13.pdf


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUYRpN11jVk?si=1cXAkms-4gjdEPRc |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD3fNIdnvOg?si=gNrf368euxFXI7wj did Yorubas invent egusi-akpuruakpu? Any Yoruba even know what that is? When did an Abia State delicacy that’s literally as grassroots as it gets become a Yoruba soup? This boy, are you okay?

femi4:
I just told you the correct name. Same way you called/misspelled boli (roasted plantain) as bole, miss pronounced Aṣọ̀ ẹbi as Asebi and spell MoinMoin as moimoi

In yoruba land, these names don't just exist, they have source and meaning where they are derived from. Hope you know that Yorubas exist outside Nigeria

No. You told me a dialectical variant.

Who strongly associates boli/bole with anywhere outside Port Harcourt? Do they have utazi-spiced bole + fish festivals in Ogbomosho?

BeigJawnson:

This fact has just make you look stupid and foolish here... Una dey drag our soup, yet una still dey borrow egusi enter una language... Are you normal?

You know that’s just an individual comment being showcased and not an actual definition, right?

femi4:
You didn't event Egunsi. The name itself is Egunsi not Egusi.

It was derived from its shape cos it looks like Egun (thorn)

Dialectal variant. Egusi isn’t even particular to just Nigeria.

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?