₦airaland Forum

funnyx: I do not intend to take the debate personal in any way,why should I? You may be taking my post out of context as I'm just trying to state that we should avoid making a sweeping/generalised statement about another region or tribe as evident from your earlier posts. If the original article was written by a Yoruba man I will probably understand your reaction but that was not the case.

funnyx: Unfortunately you are doing what you accused others of doing which is pettiness.Let's stop listening to hear say and get over too emotional with the current politics, its seems every one is quick to side with his tribe or region and do not bother to think twice before making a sweeping statement about other tribes/region.
In the end we all have to agree that 2015 is still far and a lot can happen between now and then, so instead of getting defensive or making unguarded statements about other tribes why not use the same energy to unite ourselves to demand for good governance from the current govt of the day?. Truth be told no one and I repeat no one can come out to say he knows how each region will vote especially when the election is still far away and no aspirant has been declared as any party's candidate, the analysis of the writer is his personal opinion to which he his entitled to so don't use that as an avenue to say yoruba are this or Yoruba are that or loosing their relevance bullsh1t. Yoruba are always comfortable in the opposition and I believe my people will vote for whoever they believe will protect their interest. So if you want to fault the article that is fine but there is no point making statements that are not only insensitive but lack any form of substance.

remark D: Hello, Gbawe:

Good morning, sir.

I read your posts with keen interest when I see them (as I'd observed over time they're void of nonsense and street/ggabbage talk oozing from most posters with no manners, especially when making an opposing comment). Having said that, this your post left me with an unsettling question... even before I finished... at some point i wondered if you "see" what you just said the way I see it and how it came across.

In the politcal arena of our country, when the word "Herd mentality" .. (guess that is two words lol) is mentioned... irrespective of its accuracy, your people (has a better flow i think than saying "the Yorubas" will be the ones believed to exhibit such behavior (at least, more than other groups in Nigeria).

I have heard the saying that Yorubas don't vote anything that is not Yorua. Our last election showed that to some degree... there was no Yoruba candidate (of/from the major parties anyways), and we saw how nonchallant they were and recorded low turnouts in that part of the country; even though the supposed Yoruba party was in the race, problem was: with a non-Yoruba face ... must confess I'm tempted to insert a tribal-marked-face joke here lol).

The reaction of the Yorubas to Chinua Achebe's last book kind of denotes this herd mentality as well...I say that because the Yorubas felt he had spread whatever effect it had on Awolowo's behavior to ALL Yorubas... it seemed ridiculous: I mean, you can argue the facts and say your mind etc, but saying he'd insulted the Yorubas, i must say, didnt do any good to Igbos perception of the Yorubas. One will say it goes both ways, that is, Chinua's comments did no good to the Igbo-Yoruba relationship and any progress that might have been made over the years. Anywho, enough bandwidth has been committed to that topic anyways, so lemme not spend any more time on it.

So yeah, i'd like to know if you agree with me that herd mentality, which you stated in your post, though can generally be seen across the board in Nigeria... is more, greatly, and I will go as far as saying characteristic of the Yorubas.

Thanks for reading.
Cheers,
Remark D.

Orikinla: [size=14pt]Buhari/Fashola is the best presidential ticket for the APC in 2015.
Buhari will do a single term and then an Igbo from APC should be the next President of Nigeria after Buhari.
The Igbo President should do two terms, then the next President of Nigeria should come from the Middle Belt of Nigeria.[/size]

funnyx: The article was not written by a Yoruba man, did you read the article at all?

musKeeto: Genesis 2:17
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and blessing and calamity you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.


You need to calm down, man. No be us write Bible.

MRbrownJAY: how can someone be defeated and still do what they do best?! abeg stop talking nonsense as Lucifer as been doing his evil work since day one, and nobody has been able to stop him......... just look around you and open your obviously closed eyes/mind.
as for all the other stuff in my list, you must be delusional or simply high on some cheap brew IF you saw anyone solving these issues. God sure havent done ANY of these in the last 1000s of yrs.

Mintayo: my brother,the death there is not a physical death;if you read that part well,you will know that they(adam and eve) were both naked and they knew it not-but the moment they ate the fruits,their eyes were opened(spiritual death);hence sin entered into the world-the death there is a spiritual death(they were cut-off from relationship with God)-same thing go for christain today;if we sin,we will be cut-off from God except we ask for forgiveness and repent.

Same thing goes for cain-he was banished from the Presence of God! Read vs 23 and 24 of that same chapter.
Jesus loves you BIG BIG.

ijawkid: Didn't adam die??....is adam still alive.??....

Why ona dey MUMU like this??....

Where i§ adam today??at your back yard abi??.........

Satan was the LIAR and not GOD............

Adam returned to dust as God said..........

I know you forgot to read that verse.......

Royal^Pearl^:
This guy is still going on. Lol @ superior argument. Every rubbish(no offense cant think of a more appropriate word) you have said i counter-argue and now you are one to talk about civility, lol just read ur above post and the only "proof" you gave was ur acclaimed forefathers tales. Not much proof btw. And you still went on to talk abt slavery had nothing to do with Ghana which i clearly showed you. But hey ignorance is bliss. Heck even so called wikipedia says it all but you know what, since you getting over angst about it. Let me just say NIgeria create fufu. Now give it a rest will ya. SMDH esp when we have already come to the conclusion that akpu and fufu are completely different in taste and texture and we have other types of fufu not just cassava lol

VillageBoi: I think you have completely missed the point. We all know they were expensive; we were not asking why they were but was showing the figures of what Nigerians spend at the cinemas which is quite frankly peanuts in comparison to film budgets.

#RespectMoney$:
I'm holding on to what u couldn't face, delusion? NO! it is called the ultimate Truth.. don't ask me what the truth is cuz u know deep down inside of u what it is all about

#RespectMoney$:
If u don't stand for something u fall for anything. so u see I gat something that I'm holding on to!

goon: I have watched from afar off how Nigerians are just singing praises for Soludo as if being educated makes u unable to lie or be corrupt. You guys are responding as if Soludo is intellectually better and more reasonable than El-Rufai. I expected Nigerians after reading Soludo's powerful C.V to take a look at his opponent's(in this case) own rather than singing dull praises for Soludo as if he is the first to make a first class. For the of you who may not know. El-rufai is also a scholar and had he opted for acadamics rather than civil service, he would have equalled or surpassed Soludo's academic achievements.Just for your knowledge this is a brief view of his own modest C.V
Nasir el-Rufai was born in Daudawa of the Faskari Local Government Area in the northern state of Katsina. He was the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory and member of the Federal Executive Council, the highest decision making body in Nigeria from 2003 – 2007. He attended various academic and professional programmes at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria, University of London, Harvard Business School, Arthur D. Little School of Management in Massachusetts, Georgetown University School of Foreign Services in Washington, D.C. and the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He holds a first class honours degree in Quantity Surveying (1980), a Masters Degree in Business Administration (1984), a Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Science (1985), a Bachelor of Laws(second class upper) from Harvard University (2008), Master of Public Administration (2009), and has attended several programs on Privatization and Leadership. He established and ran what became a successful consulting practice, el-Rufai & Partners, between 1982 and 1998. He also held management positions with two international telecommunications companies, AT&T Network Systems International BV and Motorola, Inc. In October 2001, he was conferred a national honour, OFR (Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic of Nigeria) by the Federal Government of Nigeria while serving as the director general of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) and the secretary of the National Council of Privatisation where he spearheaded the privatisation of many government owned companies. He is happily married with children. In 2005, he was conferred D.Sc (honoris causa) by the University of Abuja, Nigeria.
Tribalism and sentiments are killing Nigerians.

nagoma: Nyamiri.

PAGAN 9JA:
in the name of Saarkin Aljinn I accept the peace as the deities giveth. I'm high Priest Saarki Arna Maguzanci Samaeiila Tafida Bamaguje.

Royal^Pearl^:
Lmfao awww poor baby, dnt get all hyper and over sensitive for nothing. I made some fufu aka akpu so come and have some ok. You should consider doing theatre because i think thats ur forte,ur so damn dramatic lol.

Royal^Pearl^:
Amala can never ever pass for fufu wth are you smoking, it could maybe pass off as kokonte not fufu.
You just shot yourself in the foot. You are the one who should go and research history since it is clearly obvious you are speaking through your bottom especially the slave trade as even today in Ghana there slave trade castles such as Elmina Castle, Cape Coast Castle and Osu Castle(Fort Christianborg) are amongst tourist attractions.

Built in 1482 by Portuguese traders, Elmina Castle was the first European slave-trading post in all of sub-saharan Africa. Located on the western coast of present-day Ghana, it was originally built to protect the gold trade but following its capture by the Dutch in 1637, it came to serve the Dutch slave trade with Brazil and the Caribbean. The castle came under British ownership in the 1800s.

Cape Coast Castle is one of a number of "slave castles", fortification in Ghana built by Swedish traders, originally for trade in timber and gold, later used in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Other Ghanaian slave castles include the Portuguese foundation of Elmina Castle (later Dutch) and Fort Christiansborg. They were used to hold slaves before they were loaded onto ships and traded in the Americas and the Caribbean. This “gate of no return” was the last stop before crossing the great Atlantic Ocean. Please do yourself a favour and at least research more about the slave trade. Ignorance is Bliss.

I am not going to argue with you any longer, i do not have the time and its obvious that you are not knowledgeable in a lot of things from the above post. Lets just agree to disagree. We have already ascertained that akpu is not fufu so lets leave it at that.


I never said that fufu is just synonymous to Ghanaians just like Jollof rice is not synonomous to Ghanaians and Nigerians but their origin came from the wolof people. Its obvious that we are talking about two different types of food as you can see and ppl have said that it is different and taste different so pls lets leave it as that.

here is a picture of kokonte

Royal^Pearl^:
Lol when you think of Ghana the first thing that comes to mind is fufu. We are not saying that other Africans do not eat fufu (Go and ask everyone outside what they know about Ghana and the first food they will tell you is fufu) Jollof rice originated from the wolof ethnic group but a lot of African countries still eat it regularly just like fufu. I just googled akpu and it does not look at all like our fufu more like a food we call banku in Ghana so clearly there is a difference. There is no need to get over sensitive about this issue. Akpu originated from Nigeria and Fufu origiated from Ghana. If it makes you feel better for you to claim our fufu originated from Nigeria then feel whatever you need to feel to make yourselfs feel better it's no train smash. There are different types of Ghanaian fufu such as Plaintain, cocoyam etc while you said you guys only eat cassava not plaintain or cocoyam which already makes it different as we have variety.

Below the first two pics is your akpu [/b]and the [b]last two is what we call banku

zomby: Before you start throwing stone at this man, please get to know the following things:

Mike is a very shy man, he doesn't like to be surprised. This is why most people that know him (including Dangote), will tell you that "you can not get to see or reach Mike, but he can reach you at any time"
He has been this way or done things this way for many years. You do not expect a 60 year old man to start doing new things.

Mike gets extremely uncomfortable when he doesn't clearly know what is going on, surprising a man with this type of state of mind is never a good idea.

Mike is not happy when he is not totally in control, he is one of those people you do not want to surprise. He has to know what is going on at every second. This is one of the reasons why he remains the most successful Nigerian business man of all time.

Mike gets very agitated when he is around too many strangers, he likes to know where is going and who is going to be there. It is not a good idea to attempt to surprise this type of man. Apart from his domestic employees, he doesn't have too many friends around him, he mostly prefers to be alone. This type of life style has worked in his favor for this long, so why change now?

Mike prefers to be notified in advance whenever he is to be involved in any events. He wants to know everything from A to Z about anything he is involved.

Mike loves attention, but only attention that is coming from far away. Accepting awards or praise in person is never his thing. He prefers all these things done through text messages, newspaper, emails, but never in person.

Whoever put this surprise party together should have asked somebody before making such a career ending move. I wish this individual all the best, but something tells me that he or she is in a bowl of hot and spicy soup.

I'm 100% sure that Mike isn't too happy about how all went down on Friday.

Do not be so quick to call people out when they're not doing what you expect them to do. You just never know why they've chosen to react certain way to certain situation. Just respect them and let them be.


Just my 2 cents.
Zomby.

ItsModella: Yam itself is a starchy food. So you add yam to cassava to reduce the starch? That's adding starch to starch to reduce the starch.

ItsModella: The Yorubas refer to akpu as fufu. Akpu is just the Igbo name for what the Yoruba and other people in South-Western Nigeria call fufu. So saying fufu is distinctively Ghanaian is laughable. The Togolese eat fufu, the Liberians eat fufu, those in Benin Republic eat fufu (and yes, they call it fufu). So what are you saying?

GH Swagg: LOL! The average Ghanaian never thinks of yam when it comes to fufu. We don't eat pounded yam. That is a Nigerian dish.