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Alhajipablo:
How do I pay for d goods I ordered? and is it possible to return d goods if I'm not satisfied with d delivery?

You pay online using your credit card or debit card. I'd advise using a GTB card though as their exchange rate seems fair (320/$).

Just download the app, register (use a mail address you use very often) and then browse through the site. In case of goods you're not satisfied with, using the 'customer feedback' just below the products would mean your money would either be partly refunded or fully refunded while you keep the goods. (Trust me, it's real).

However, to save you the stress of having hiccups when shopping once in a while, it would be recommended you read through other customers' feedback on desired products before making your order.

Seun:
So it seems that HardMirror heard that a highly spiritual brother died of ulcer, and deduced that the ulcer must have been caused by fasting.

What part of the sentence above is being disputed? That someone died of ulcer, or that the ulcer must have been caused by fasting?

A member of the Executive in the fellowship has come out to debunk the claim made by HardMirror, I believe this is enough to state that HM, as always and as usual. Is that not enough for a rational being since that is what atheists claim to be? NO ONE DIED THAT YEAR IN THE FELLOWSHIP. ISN'T THAT ENOUGH?

Please do the needful and move this thread to FP. Nairaland is reputable and the virtues of the forum's rules must be upheld no matter what. The forum is yours, but would be nothing without its avid readers and members. You and HardMirror, and a host of other atheists owe them the truth.

Please do well to move this to FP.

youngsahito:
pls do you know how to order for goods n d delivery stuff?

On Aliexpress, if yes, then sure, I do. It's basically simple. For starters, I'd recommend you use the 'Free Shipping' box when buying anything. A timeline is given for all of your transactions and it would normally be dropped at the closest Post Office to you.

The beautiful part is that you could get your money back and keep the product if what you ordered is different from what was sent.

pazienza:
Urhobo is just Eight local government areas.
Ngwa sub group of Igbo for example is made up 7 local governments areas, same as Nsukka sub group.
Yorubas had a central setting provided by Oyo empire, Hausas got centralized by Fulani colonists.

Ndiigbo never had such central convergence, each group developed independent of the other.

So this is your defense, just so because you can't tell what brides adorn in Igbo Traditional marriages?

Yorùbás HAD a centralized setting, BUT NOT ANY MORE! Haba! Why are you going back and forth? All I asked for was simple and you're here giving me Bashorun Gaa's history. Who cares about that? Can you please provide pictures and stop these hide and seek? I uploaded Edo and Bini pictures earlier. Now do same for Igbo brides. I, for one, would love to learn and add to my knowledge.

pazienza:
Igbo is a big group.

No single typical Igbo clothing style.

Those Igbos close to the Atlantic, adopted the same clothing style from the Europeans as the rest of non Igbo speaking coastal tribes.

Igbos close to Efik/Ibibio/Annang areas, adopted same clothing style as them.
The Anioma adopted same clothing style from the Europeans, alongside the Edo and Edoids.

Those of us in the Middle, developed our own unique clothing styles too.

So, you don't really come and say " Igbo typically bridal" attire.
It is bound to differ according to the Bride's place of origin, or in this day of "pan Igboism", a bride from one Igbo cultural area might choose to wear the clothing style of another Igbo cultural area she likes.

So you're telling me that there's no standard bridal dress mode due to the many cultural differences in Igboland, yeah?

How about we stick to the five eastern states before going outside to some areas of the South South? How about you share that of Enugu or Anambra, or even Abia state? If you're telling me this, then you're indirectly saying your cannot provide the aforementioned probably because LG defines clothings and all for couples particularly the brides.

Urhobo as an ethnic group, is very broad with sub-sects and slight variations cum diversities, YET bridal dressings stay the same. The Yorùbás are scattered by variations, sub-groups, etc but also come to reckon with their dressings during weddings, particularly traditional weddings. The same applies to the Hausas.

Let's start with where YOU'RE FROM. HOW ABOUT THAT?

ammyluv2002:
I missed


There's one thing that is certain....there is God and He lives forever.I saw the thread last week, but I didn't even bother reading.

God is forever alive. I saw the thread, opened it, saw his name and thought he must be lying, only for him to be exposed in less than a week. Although, I didn't bother to read his as I was still in church.

Now I understand why most of them are always angry while trying to claim calm. The devil is indeed recruiting liars.

pazienza:
You are not wise. Coral beads were introduced to Africa by the Europeans.

Its not an African culture, let alone Edo one.
Binis and Edos were not the only Africans who took liking to Coral beads.Corals were introduced to Edoland as much as same times it was introduced in Igboland by the colonial powers.
You can't claim it to be Edo/Bini culture.

Show me your father's house, and you're telling me there's no light. You can see how your wisdom can make you see your ears?

SHOW ME A TYPICAL IGBO BRIDE TRADITIONAL ATTIRE AND QUIT YAPPING

DoctorAlien:
Seun, is this not the reason why this thread has to be moved to the frontpage?

It is becoming increasingly clear that the religion section of Nairaland has an anti-Christian theme.

Not as if I'm worried: nothing can shake me away from Christ by GOD's grace. However, I believe the owner of a forum like this should show 0% bias in administering his forum.

Eyes are watching you.

The religion section has been transformed into anti-Christian breeding center. Sean's leaning does not worry me, but he should simply heed to the demands of many by creating a sub-section for atheists under the religion section. It's not hard, I believe.

The section remains a no go area for till tomorrow.

pazienza:
Can I see a picture of what you call Edos and Benin's attire.
Cos somehow, my mind is telling me that this is you ignorantly insinuating that Coral beads are of Edo origin.

Ignorantly? Not in the least of ways! I'm Urhobo and I know we don't come close to the Benins and Edos when it comes to beads.

Google should help you as well.

pazienza:
Can I see a picture of what you call Edos and Benin's attire.
Cos somehow, my mind is telling me that this is you ignorantly insinuating that Coral beads are of Edo origin.

A combination of Edo and Benin pictures. Feast your eyes and upload pictures of a typical Igbo bride traditional attire.

Ishilove:
Lol. HardMirror, oniro jatijati. Your lies are being exposed

Damogul keep up the good work. No matter how stubborn night (darkness) is, it must surely give way to sunlight.

Atheists like hardmirror will do anything to justify their disbelief in God, including fabricating award winning fiction.

Hardmirror is a chronic liar

I could remember him telling a lie on a thread in 2013 or 2014 or so. It was my first experience of seeing someone messing up himself on here, so the memory still rests with me.

Hardmirror, life in itself is simple, stop complicating life with your lies. I must admit, I love your analogy on the rape issue but your fiction is not the way God works. God is not man and vice versa.

Ammyluv2002, this is one thread you'd enjoy

mightyhazel:
igbos are dynamic.we hav no qualms adopting ppls culture (evn the primitive ones),..and modifying it 2 suit purposes.

U will notice dat it's only the igboman dat will dorn hausa and yoruba attires without thinking anytin abt it. But u'd hardly see a yorubaor hausa man puttin on igbo attires (except ofcourse wen dey com beggin 4 votes).
Igbos are dynamic and unrestrained in terms of openheartedness and adventurism.

Dats y u'd always hear (and see for urself) dat 'igbo amaka'

Truth is ours

There's no dynamism here but a case of a culture that is fast dying. You cannot term yourselves to be dynamic when you flaunt traditional attires of other tribes. I cannot imagine myself as an Urhobo man, wearing Babariga, then come out to say 'I'm dynamic'. It plainly means my cultural heritage is fast dying with me. Although, it's not a sin to don other people's wears once in a while, but when a people do so and they do it largely to attend a function, then the place of culture is fast diminishing.

While you're right about politicians doning attires that are not theirs, you should understand that that is purely political and subtle means of saying 'I've come to be accepted'. Fashion trends are fast killing cultural values. Unfortunately, laudate is very right. I'm not sure if I've seen a fully donned Igbo bride in a typical Igbo attire. Most of them fashion their dressings after the Edos and the Benins. It's appalling, if you ask me.

Nothing in Nigeria works. I wanted to get a watch on Jumia 3 hours ago and the price it was pegged at for the Black Friday is even more expensive than the original price itself on a normal day.

Aliexpress is enough for me at this point.

Atiku2019:
We are in Hell already under your incompetent President I prefer Egypt

As much as we are in he'll, I, for one, would not want to experience another hell. Atiku has money to throw around but as far as the presidency is concerned, he will not be the President of this country.

For a man whose only interest is to lead, you might have to ask what has been humanitarian contributions to the lower class, other than drinking sachet water. If he likes, let him roll in the mud like Chosen members would do, that won't sway the populace votes towards him. He was a Vice President for years, that is enough for a contented fellow.

Why do I have the gut feeling that her visit is to persuade Oba Akiolu to help bridge the gap between Tinubu and the President?

yaqq:
Most male children tend to learn so many things on their own, female children needs alot of talks, advice, grounding to make proper choice in life. Female children re very vulnerable, rape,pregnancy Nd all that. So because a male child is out there playing football so we should Allow the female ones go out there and have fun too? Man and woman re not equal even before God. A female child is trained to become a woman to be able to cook, clean and do home chores whereas a male child is trained to become a man with responsibility to provide for the home chickena

Unfortunately, your mindset is the problem with most parents. We think females are more vulnerable, not true. On the contrary, a male child, if allowed to learn through self discovery (heuristic method) stands a higher chance of being a menace to not only his family but his society.

ALL CHILDREN ARE EQUAL AND ARE THE SAME. However, preferential treatments could create a huge gap between both sexes in the home.

misspicy:
Apart from the disrespect part, hasn't it always been like this?

Most boys were allowed total unrestricted freedom from even house chores for the single reason that they are male kids.
Most were given the choice meat,largest food portion,cleaned after by their sisters etc.
Why do you think we have some really dirty husbands now? Overgrown babies who can't even wash their own boxers?
Even in my house,my niece wash her brothers cloths on the instruction of her mummy,beaten if she shouts back at them or fight them,not because she is younger but because she is female,and will go to husband house
a lot more,lemme hold it here.

Maybe the elite parents of this generation will help correct this trend for our future daughters

Not in the home I grew up in. It was the other way around for me. I could remember being tutored on when to season and when not to season foods. I prepared my first sea food soup at 14, and started cooking for the house at that age. At 16, I had already mastered the art of making eba without a single lump. I was 'burdened' far too early to take responsibilities for my life, not because I was loathed but because I am the only son.

Today, there's hardly a meal, snack or delicacy that I can't prepare, save for the fact that that I hate the food in question.

Elitist parents are worse. I had so many friends who fell into that class as a teenager and I must say that most of them were badly trained. The middle, strict, class family is the only hope to a stronger generation. The lower class and the higher class are not in any way encouraging when it comes to raising kids.

Joavid:
bros suffery dey spread misinformation Na....

Alausa is mispronounced to mean Hausa people.

it is actually pronounced with a lot of stress on the words like Yoruba names. Alausa is a Yoruba word.

I'm really tired going back and forth with this. for the umpteenth time, the Yoruba language is a tonal language and it is very easy to distort a word or its meaning using Yoruba.

Search through the thread and quit dragging me back, please.

dasanchez1:
baba mi, u don forget your boy oo

I'm still fully around. I apologize. Office wahala too much and I barely have time. How have you been?

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nicerichard05:
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nonsense advice, so hw ee go con tak grow the money ni? mtchewww

So the only way for you to 'grow' his money is by asking him to send you a personal message?

yomexp:
This story is fasle because i lived most of my life in Oregun and if you know Oregun very well you will know it just a stone trow from alausa. In alausa there isn't one single Hausa settlement or village, No landmark to suggest that the hausa ever settled there and the whole of the place doesn't even have Hausa or even Islamic influence at all. So where is this huasa narrative coming from? by the way alausa, oregun all the way to ojota is populated by The AWORI people

1. Before you debunk this story, what you should have asked was 'when was this?' Fall back to Wikipedia and you'd realize that most of these happened well over 50 years ago. This isn't something that took place yesterday.

2. I already settled the Awori part and I'm not going back to it again.

3. So if you're say Oregun, this, Agidingbi that, note that urbanization is fast sweeping through some suburbs within Alausa and Ikeja. I believe you saw a post here where someone said there is 'Jogunosinmi'' which still very much looks like a typical village in Ikeja?

4. Your previous post on the 'walnut', tell me, what is the origin and how did the settlement around Ikeja come to be known as Alausa (Walnut owner)? Until you have a solid story to back this, DO NOT rubbish any story as touching this.

Caveat: As a Yoruba speaker, you should under that the Yoruba Language is a tonal language. It is very very easy to distort a word by changing its tone.

HomoSapiien:
i will try the section. I really have interest in agriculture but I'm afraid i have no knowledge of it which might in turn be dangerous to do, since i don't know about it. I'll see the section sha.

It's wiser. Take about a week or two to ask questions in the Agric section and you'll feel like you know a lot after that. So many amazing people are there.

haryomikun:
Can you enlighten me on the agro allied thing?

Truth is, I'm still taking notes and lessons in the 'Agriculture' section, night and day. Pavore9 would be the best person to ask. He knows his onion in this regard.

Abduletudaye:
I need ideas too...i have 350k that needs to be invested too .

I can easily spend the money on phones and shoes but i dont wanna be tempted..

I would appreciate advises too

I'd advice you go for poultry/agro allied. Been thinking the same, just that I'm a bit lazy right now. The 'Agriculture' section is the best on the forum for me. I have passively learnt so many things from there.

Perhaps this could clear the air, somehow.

LAGOS HORIZON NEWSPAPER                
                                                                                        Pages 8-9, August 15-22, 1989

                                                                                                    ALAUSA
                                                                                              The mix of ironies

The name naturally conjures the image of a spectacle akin to the “sabos” in all major towns in the country – pious of Mallams praying on goat skin under the shade of trees; an over made-up milk maiden serving “fura” to an embroiderer who, needle in hand, sits with a “babanriga” he is in a hurry to finish; or a “tuwo” seller splashing some stew on the white stuff with her wooden ladle.

One would expect to find “suya” kilns, kolanut warehouses, ram markets, lorries, trucks and trailers and probably, hear at least five times before the end of the day, sonorous voices filtering from the public address systems of nearby mosques, calling the faithful’s of Islam to worship.

Paradoxically, the town called Alausa which, translated, literally means “Hausa Settlement” presents a totally different picture from the pre-conceived image.

There is not a single Hausa man living in it as a bonafide resident – not even the ubiquitous provisions sellers often found roosting as “megadis’” at the frontage of the homes of the rich and private firms’ premises.

It took five days of diligent search, of trudging on its dirt roads and sometimes sleazy streets, snout-poking into the people’s homes and combing all the nooks and corners to confirm this curious fact.

Each second, each tread turned out to be nothing but an excursion into a world of ironies – a world in which startling discoveries were to be made everywhere the beam of flashlight was directed.

The town called Alausa is in the real sense, no town as such. It is one of the settlements which, until quite recently, existed as separate entities in the geographical areas that have come to be known as Lagos metropolis.

The exigencies of modernisation and imperatives of expansion, occasioned by population growth of the city had fused all into one whole.
Located at the north-eastern fringe of Ikeja Local Government, the community, according to one of its leaders, occupies an area of above seventy acres. It is bound in the east by Oregun and in the west, from the Agindingbi, by Ogba.

Its precincts also extend to the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway toll-gate and all the areas now occupied by Eleganza Industries, 7Up Bottling Company and the Lagos State Secretariat Complex.

As a matter of fact, Alausa – the appellation alternatively used for Lagos State Secretariat derives from the name of the community founded over 200 years ago.

Oral traditions diverge on the origin of the name of the town.
Pa Dauda Odewale, an octogenarian and descendant of one of the three patriarchs who founded the town got its name from two war refugees, a Nupe man and an Hausa, who sought shelter from the early settlers – Jogunosinmi, Odewale and Bashorun.

The northerners were said to have fled the war-front (Ogunsope Ayinbokoru war) and ran to Akiola, a local chieftain at Oke-Isheri Olofin (present Isheri). Akiola refused to harbour them but prevailed on his friends and neighbours (the trios) who were trying to establish a settlement of their own to give them refuge.

Over the years, the population of the “foreigners” tripled that of the inhabitants as they were later joined by their friends and relations. It was not long before the settlement, formerly variously called “Abule Jogunosinmi”, “Abule Odewale” or “Abule Bashorun” after their founders came to be known as “Abule Tapa” (Nupe post) and much later “Alausa” or “that of Hausas”.

Pa Odewale recalled meeting some of Hausas’ festivals and cultural activities in his youth days. They used to beat their drums and blow animal horns. Some wore charms and stabbed themselves with knives without drawing any blood or causing any injury.
He remembered some of their leaders’ names to be “Me Turari and Suya Ogunda Meta”.

Another octogenarian called Pa Buraimoh said it was through one of the three progenitors and the first Baale of the community that the Hausa came.

Buraimoh was a horse trader who supplied Europeans and wealthy African coastal chiefs with horses for their wheel carts (a means of transportation in fashion then). To case his trade, Bashorun had stable hands, expectedly, Hausas, who were also responsible for bringing the horses from the North.

Their population soon grew enormously and a space had to be provided for them at the outskirts of the town precisely, the spot where the Lagos State Broadcasting Corporation (LSBC complex) now stands. The place was known then as “Oke Dadi”.
The Baale and his court appointed a “Seriki” (Leader) to adjudicate civil cases among them while serious cases had to be brought to the Bale's attention.

In the simplest of senses, the Hausas’ continued living in the community was at the pleasure of the Baale, who began, perhaps not too – wrongly, to be called “Olu Alausa” (owner of the head of the Hausas).

Alausa was popularised by traders’ of the period who used to drop by to hire the Hausas as porters to help to carry their goods to and fro the coast to Lagos.

But what came of the Hausas who give the town its name?
The last surviving generation, said an 80 year-old indigene and traditional pharmacist Alhaja Asaratu Bashorun (a.k.a Majekobaje), became extinct some 50 years ago. Others simply emigrated to other parts of the country.

Today there is nothing in the town to indicate that its landscape used to swarm with Hausas, save for one or two ancient and ramshackle bungalows said to have been built by two Hausa men.

The houses stand grotesquely on Odewale Street, as relics of their owners past.

The departure of the Hausas from their midst caused the natives of Alausa no grief. But one thing that caused them great sorrow and wracked their entire psyche was the loss of the sacred python, the symbol of the life and soul of the community.

“Olu Odo” or “Olodo” as it was called was said to be the source and controller of the Eleregun Stream on which the community depended for water. It was revered because it was said to be the snake that assisted the founding fathers to settle where they did.

The patriarchs who, married into the royal families of Onilegbale, Suenu and Aromire were ordered by the Ifa Oracle to sojourn and settle near a stream in order to have children.

During their journey, they came upon the snake and the stream in which it lived. It became the emergent clan’s god-head, regularly worshiped and offered sacrifices.

The stream course, Lagos Horizon discovered on the fact-finding mission, extended as far as Onigbongbo area of Maryland. People were forbidden to kill or ear its fish.

Violation of that taboo of then had disastrous consequences such as drought or mosquito invasion of the community. This normally called for propitiatory sacrifices to an angered Olodo.

Ironically, the snake which tried to protect the lives in and out of its water seemed unable to save itself from the tragic fate that befell it! Some 24 years ago, it was killed by fatal chemical wastes discharged from various industries in the area.


I hope with the above expose, the management of Radio Lagos, Eko FM, LTV will see it wise to change their stance on the distortion of history.

https://www.nairaland.com/814672/alausa-mix-ironies

izombie:
Just watch how afonjas will give 1001 reasons why this port will not work in onitsha. Oya who is the first afonja to object to this?

uduak2016:
Afonja...oyah come and cry blood but okay with it if it's in Kaduna.

thepeople2020:
BAD NEWS FOR AFONJAS, BUT WE HAVE GONE PASS THAT WE WANT OUR SELF DETERMINATION RIGHT.

bignero:
hmm good news
but i doubt , the hate and vile filled people will allow this sail through

One main reason why you guys would run in vicious cycles for years to come without a national achievement is the fact that you guys think every of your problems in this life is caused by the Yorubas. You dream them everyday, and nurture hate like new born babies. I know very many of your ilks think the same, particularly those who are not all that learned but then again, I'd want to believe it does not define the Igbos as a people.

This is what we get when we have so many prospective undergrads whose stay-at-home lifestyle have turned to frustration.

Intrepid01:
Bros I do not know of historical records you have stated but I doubt if you are right on the simple reason that you are wrong about your story on 'Alausa' ....Go to Lagos radio the right pronouncuation is "the owner of awusa' ....Awusa is that local fruit you eat and your mouth taste bitter if you drink water afterward....it has nothing to do with the Northerners AT ALL....

LOL... My Yorùbá is perfect. The Awusa you're referring to is Walnut. And yes, the pronunciation of Alausa is more like saying 'oni (owner) + awusa (walnut)' = walnut owner (alausa).

That is the pronunciation they want every one to adopt, hence, the reason radio Lagos and LTV presenters stress the 'walnut owners'. The transition of names from Abule Tapa, to Abúlé Jogúnosinmi and then to Alausa is clearly significant. Historically, it was said that the Hausas at the time fell back from a war and ran to the Oba of Isheri. Later received pardon and went back to their villages up north to bring more of their relatives. 'Alausa' was said to have been given to the king at the time, hence the name change. However, you can see many of them around the area till date, none has built a single thing as they cannot afford the luxuries.
Ike I earlier mentioned, we're all suffering and struggling over this historical viewpoints because our record keeping culture is horrible.

dreamwords:
Awori is not Yoruba, that's d fact

Two things, either you have a personal problem with the Aworis, or you really don't understand their origin as a people. The Aworis are Yorùbás. This is just the Gospel truth.

1. The Awori constitute the bulk of the indigenous population of seventeen, out of the twenty local government areas of Lagos State as at the year 2003. The exceptions being Epe, Ikorodu and Ibeju-Lekki with minimal Awori inhabitants.

2. Oro, Egungun, and Gelede festivals among the traditional Awori communities are celebrated as people celebrate modern Sallah and Christmas with indigenes trooping back home from far and near when dates are fixed. This tells you that most of the Yorùbá festivals, masquerades and cultures IN LAGOS are indeed the Aworis.

3. The Badagry area is important historically to Awori people because it is one of the first places to have had contact with the outside world. It was at Badagry town that Christianity was first preached in Nigeria in September 1842.

4. The english translation of “Awori” is “The Plate Sank”. This name was derived from the legend of a floating dish which Ogunfunminire (their ancestor) allegedly followed from Ile-Ife down to Isheri. It was the disappearance of the dish into a river that suggested settlement in the region.

5. The plate initially stopped near Olokemeji near present-day Abeokuta.After seventeen days, it began moving only to stop at Oke-Ata for another seventeen days. At the end of seventeen days, the plate began moving again, only to stop again on the southern outskirts of present-day Abeokuta, where it stayed for another seventeen days. The plate continued downriver, stopping again at Isheri, where it remained for a much longer period of time. After 289 days (17 x 17) the plate began moving again. The plate stopped finally at at Iddo in central Lagos, it whirled around in the water and sank to the bottom
http://enroute.ng/uncategorized/facts-about-the-awori-people/


Most of these information are not new to me. However, I needed to post this to let you know. I was privy to a handful of them in the late 90s. I'm sure tons of articles litter the cyber space now.