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Thank you. We are getting there! Some Nigerians may be shallow-minded and can't see beyond the surface of issues but whenever they finally get it, the party is over. Our people hate being mugus.

ObiCertificate:
Very soon the real truth about the killings on the Plateau and other restive parts of the country will be exposed.

Kudos to VeryDarkMan. Celeb with sense.

Plateau and other troubled parts of Nigeria will be liberated. People are now getting to know the root cause of the issues, and it's no different from what we have in Congo, Niger etc. It's all decoy for illegal mining of precious metals.

Roger MIlla don lost?

For me, Weah is untouchable. Kanu, Etoo and Okocha above Drogba.

Mikel is not even in the picture.

Your conclusion is not supported by your hypothesis and argument. There are facts on ground that run contrary to your academic exercise. You make no sense. Sorry .

viodemus:
Abeg go and study more. Is not a secret.
Brazil has the largest population of blacks outside of Africa. Yes, yoruba culture has a head start, because it was the go to place for brazilian slaves. I also stayed in Brazil, I lived there, not visit. I saw when many of them were dumbfounded that their dna is not tracing back to yoruba like they thought. All their life, they have been told of yoruba and yoruba culture.

My hypothesis on how they came to claim yoruba culture, is that many of the ship captains, who were the big boys amongst slaves in those times, were very influential in spreading the yoruba culture there. And then during their wars, the colonials took some Africans especially the Brazilians back there to go fight. After the war, those ones help spread the yoruba ministry again.

The whites of Brazil couldn't tell the blacks they were lost people like the Americans. By the way, about 25% of American slaves, were taken from Brazil. Brazil was the staging ground for the Mexican, American, etc. slaves. It was from Brazil that they dispatched slaves all over the Americas in the 1600s, and 1700s.

The Brazilians just held on to what they know, and it was mostly because they could get to Lagos, Nigeria. The fact is, over 5 or more million of yorubas today, came from Brazil. It was even because of the Brazilian model that American govt decided to send some African Americans to current day Liberia; but that did not translate in the African American communities like the Brazilians. Am sure if it did, the current black Americans would have been saying they all came from liberia.

Those kids can't handle general history, talk less of their own humbling history. Their parents did a number on their minds from day 1 of their existence

AuthorMan:
Do you mind these kids?
In Seriealeone the Yoruba tribe are descendants of slaves from USA . They call moinmoin the two names Yoruba call it. Moinmoin and Olele. They call it their forefathers food. Akara is Akara Apoti is Apoti ehinkule is still the same.

Our government failed in teaching kids history and culture.

Sad

You are a very talented upcoming comedian

viodemus:
You are mistaken.

It is there. But the Brazilians adopted the yoruba culture because it was the wave at the time. And the blacks there wanted to have some culture to showcase as their own. In the 1800s, most Brazilians felt like if only they can get to Lagos, their slavery will be over.

Please, don't think am tarnishing the yoruba contribution to Brazil. I don't have time for that, but facts are facts. For the longest, Lagos was the go to for any Brazilians that can stowaway in a ship that was run by black shipping captains.

What is your point? I stayed in Salvador, Bahia and I am telling you what I saw and was told. If Yoruba land was just a staging area, how come I saw houses named after Yoruba towns and families in Salvador? How come Yoruba culture was strongly preserved including folk songs and even religion? Why would slaves that were merely staged in Yorubaland be more interested in promoting Yoruba culture?

viodemus:
Abeg stop this yoruba descendants in Brazil mata. It is the other way around "Brazil descendants in the sw".

As a matter of long mathematics, many slaves to brazil were from the east of Nigeria. But when the Brazilians were escaping Brazil for decades, most of them went to Lagos, and then most of them spread throughout the sw. Most of the SE, cross Rivers, and akwa ibom
were fighting wars for hundreds of years - first against the arabs, against the Portuguese, then against the British (which ended in 1902); and mind you we also had internal wars between some igbos and tribes in akwa ibom and cross Rivers. So, the Brazilians that came back couldn't go to the east. Matter of fact, most blacks in Brazil are having african gene result traced back to east, akwa ibom and cross Rivers. Of course, Angola, Congo, and other west African countries. Yes, some, a few were yorubas.

Brazil is appreciative of yoruba for taking them in. The truth is, the colonial masters in Africa preferred the Brazilian escapees to be their help and help ease the locals. It worked. At least 5 million or more yorubas today, were Brazilian descents. Now though, they have mixed with core yorubas and even other tribes in Nigeria.

As for the food, if you say so. I respect your opinion.

E get why and that's why Africans should be in the habit of understanding our diverse culture instead of condemning everything they are unfamiliar with.

What you just described was the main companion to meals like Ekuru, Ewa, Eko etc. Many just loved it and started making it their main style due to the belief that it cures lots of ailments by eliminating bad stuff from your system.

Odidigboigbo:
That their pepper, hmm; they always stool because of pepper. Imagine someone that want to cook stew, she will buy tomatoes #200 and Cherry pepper and Ataorodo #800.

This one na confam omo orisha and he may not even know. Na una dey love Ekuru

molu:
That Ekuru is what I need right now . E dey hungry me here

Totally agree!

Many don't understand how cultures mixed over the ages. Yorubas have been trading and intermarrying from time immemorial. It happened in Ile-Ife with Moremi, and it happened with Oranmiyan in Oyo, who had a Nupe wife and his son also married a Nupe woman. With that comes expansion of knowledge in many basic things including food choices.

Different ethnic groups will come with their own variation and give it a local name. We should appreciate the diversity not make it an issue.

soccerlite:
Those vegetables are also found and eaten elsewhere

And have their local names too

Exactly, some of those foods are present anywhere you see Yorubas, even those enslaved centuries ago.

AuthorMan:
Many of them got their parents lying to them out of hate. I read some comments and smile. Don't mind them.
Many Yoruba foods were adapted by their ancestors and they failed to tell the kids the truth.

Yes, those are Yoruba food but who 'invented' what is what may be open to debate.
Those food types are common among Yoruba descendants in Brazil (Salvador) and the ones along West African coastline.

viodemus:
Nothing wey we no go hear.

moi moi, akara, yoruba food? Igbos, they even claim corn and coconut.

out of that whole food, amala is the only yoruba food. Then soup with stew is a mostly yoruba thing.

No wonder many of them believe Tinubu invented and patented Lagos.

soon, before we know it, they might say they invented the air we breathe. Na wa o.

We can only work with data not speculations. We tend to look at the outcome and not the underlying trend.

I don't buy that APC/PDP mindset demarcation, Nigerians are Nigerians and most of our people embrace impunity at the slightest opportunity. This didn't start with any political nomenclature. I heard of what happened under Buhari but I don't have short memory, I remember what happened during 16 years of other people not named Buhari.

Obi was governor of Anambra State, Nigerians still happened to Nigeria there.

nedekid:
See, during buhari's time, apc in general, let crude oil be $1000 per barrel, there will still be excuses and impoverishment. Give them the economy of Sweden, Qatar, Germany and they will still produce the same result in 6 months.
Are you not aware our crude production dropped to 700k bpd under buhari/apc? We could not meet our opec quota of slightly over 2m bpd. Few people in a cabal were stealing more crude than the rest of the country was sharing. It took Obi to call them out.
Our problem is corruption, and nothing more. Abi did you not hear of "tunde" having 1.5 trillion in just 1 account, to the extent Emefiele had to protest that his own was too much, yawa will gas. Have you not read recently how over 30b was paid into one man's companies from the agency feeding school children? 30b ohh, not million.

I was actually digging into this and about to make my post when I saw yours.

This is directly related to crude oil PRICE TREND. Obasanjo's time coincided with over 100% uptrend in oil price that peaked during Yar'adua's time. GDP appeared to maintain a trailing trend with this. Oil price crashed towards the end of GEJ's tenure.

Diversification is key. GDP's definition is clear, we need a departure from over-reliance on oil export. We can't keep paying lip service to this with basic minimum of efforts to address it. We cannot be running a container economy or keep frustrating efforts to boost our GDP. We as Nigerians need to be clear on what we want. We can't eat our cake and have it!

aribisala0:
Simple question what was the Price of Oil in 1999 and what was the price range from 1999- 2015

Has oil maintained that trajectory since then?

It is Noteworthy that oil price crashed before Jonathan left Office and Okonjo Iweala was borrowing to pay salaries showing that she had not worked any magic and was merely cruising on high oil prices

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/business/182543-nigerian-govt-borrowing-billions-to-pay-salaries-okonjo-iweala.html?tztc=1

The one thing that was different in that time was that Mobile telephony entered the economy and did have a genuine impact

That is a technology issue and not something to give politicians credit for .
That can only happen once. We have not leveraged that as best as we should

2024 never reach one week dem don lose focus

Great job!

Just be careful. Let Wilson Oruma's experience serve as a lesson. You are out there for your faith, and probably to contribute your quota in helping the needy, not for business. Don't fall for any investment scam.

A friend won't pursue a dream in 2006 because 2010 was too far & he wasn't 'getting any younger'. 17 years later he is taking steps to get started with the same dream. Huge lesson.

GO FOR IT!

Never ever listen to any age-based opinion, ever! What you failed to do at 30 because of age, another person will do at 50 and find fulfilment.

Stop defending people that don't give a damn about you or are not even aware of your existence.

Even if the govt in power is not your preference, don't give them an excuse to do nothing as that works perfectly for them. Dog eats dog works for you and the people.

They will just say "If we do they complain, if we don't do they complain." Then they embrace full scale impunity and you can't do anything.

Shikena.

Cho cho cho cho cho

The turnaround starts today. Chelsea to top the league by April 1.

Tareq1105:
What about Portable and Wizkid?

You wan kill Wizkid ni? Wizkid vs Toke Makinwa is a fair matchup.

“The President has just been voted into a term of four years. He is eight months into the term which constitutes 31.8 percent of the total time that he has.

“He has less than 70 percent time in government, when is that going to happen?

All hail PDP wuruwuru mathematics of those days.

8 months is what percentage of 4 years again?

Name and behaviour may be Igbotic to you but Achogwu is also Igala.

You find them mostly in Kogi State but with many also in Anambra West. Achogwu means herbalist in Igala, so he is a great candidate for the chemical side of the global development initiative, India branch.

tsdarkside:
soo what....
we dont care....

name sound igbo....
na igbo....
and behaves like a igbo added to it too....

With that tiny list of achievement in tiny Anambra the undisputable home of hard core agberos in Nigeria with headquarters at upper iweka, I agree Mr Peter Obi may perform well as Minister of Education at federal level .

ablejesus26:
Hahaha no. Those who are aware of the stats and facts not all the political propaganda and lies
Quick question.

Do You believe that the provision of good social welfare in a society is a product of having a secured State? If You do then Obi is Your Man for under Obi the IGP Baba rated Anambra most safest State in Nigeria, back to back even with the presence of a secessionist movement.
Obi met Anambra's education in like 16th position, left it in 1st Position, now Anambra can never be found missing in the top ten most educated States in Nigeria rating,year in year out.
At a time when those pdthief Governors were looting and stealing and leaving gbese for their states, Obi saved money for Anambra State.

Politics aside,everyone knows, Obi is more than a politician, He is a man addicted to good public service, one who will not even collect shishi and yet do a good job.

Lie all you want but the stats don't lie

Urchins said Nigeria dodged a bullet when Obi lost the inec selection, but here We are
see them receiving bombs on their zombiec coconut head
Tinubu is a maximum disaster
We still dey shege stage oo,my criminal drug lord president never unleash the BANZIA mode oo😀😀😂😂

May the strongest survive joor.

You do realize lots of single mothers are single due to untimely death of the husband and not because of feminism?

EbolaTinubu:
They are mostly feminist and hate men
But Las Las them go regret just like their mother

It is men's world whether you like it or not

There is no magic formula. Human beings fall into one of several character types and this can change as the mind is developed through knowledge and understanding.
Single mother is not a character type but character type will influence how single motherhood is handled.

Regardless of what you do after all the words of advice and debates, we should always keep in mind that this world is not a permanent destination. Stop making life too hard on yourself with rigid positions. Some have more than 50 years left here and some have just a few days or months left regardless of age. It is a sad reality of life but one that helps put things in perspective. Appreciate the gift of good health and live your life to the fullest with your family and loved ones without forcing unnecessary issues.

You mean those who are ignorant of Obi's tenure as governor of Anambra?

ablejesus26:
Loll forget the pastors, every average Nigerian, teachers,traders,farmers,artisans, poor,middle-class needed Obi to win because them already know se na maximum shege pro max them go see if Tifnubu win
How market now,imagine a supposed first class graduate being daft than bubu

May the strongest survive.

Good for our boy. Stay clear of Chelsea. Simple!

That's true. They did a number on Obi and his supporters, I come dey pity my friends among them. They were sharing all these video clips of prophecies from God about what to expect by May 2023. They were 100% sure of those predictions because the pastors were so convincingly bold and authoritative. Now they have lost interest in Nigerian politics as they are not hardcore online miscreants hiding behind obidient movement, they just craved genuine change banking on a candidate they later confessed they don't really know.

AareGaa:
Those pastors really fooled Obi.

They lied repeatedly that Hoebee would win, but was crushed and disgraced at the polls.

Jagaban is the conqueror of Obi and his delusional blodas