NewStats: 3,261,612 , 8,174,510 topics. Date: Thursday, 29 May 2025 at 07:03 PM c4l5z

ultraviolet27:


You dey mind the idiotic fulanis masquerading as yorubas to cause division on this forum?at least hausa are still respectful bcus I have had s with many of them but you see those domineering murderous fulanis they don't have regards for elders,or women at all I have never subscribed to this prostration as a form of greeting as I am a full blooded Yoruba from Ekiti state being educated and hygienically conscious should have taught us that one can easily pick up germs from prostrating what if the ground is dirty thank God that buharis office is even neat I was reluctant to let my cousin prostate for an elderly person on the street one time as that place is filthy I had to drag him to the wash room when we got home to scrub his hands what if I wasn't there with him?that's how he would have put those fingers in his mouth? health care is now very costly in Nigeria.

And if I didn't let him prostrate for her it would have seems that he is untrained!! at least kneeling isn't that bad

Many of the idiots maltreat and insult their elderly Yoruba family who don't have money. Once you don't their stupidity of sucking up to northerners they tag you as something else. Bloody confused hypocrites.

Soyinka refused to prostrate before an elderly person as a boy. Are these idiots braying here or even buhari and Akinwumi himself more Yoruba than Soyinka or more prominent?

Lovelyn451:
I've always known this! Yoruba don't respect elders from other tribe, they're so disrespectful and will fight and insult an elder from another tribed.only igbos see others the way they see their own

Even your Igbos don't respect elders from their tribes let alone from other tribes abi no be una dey wake your parents with karate kicks?he is right and that's how it should be "idobale o kin n se iwa"that I get respect no be say I be mumu many Igbo's are even still respectful and sane same with the hausa's but you see that marauding,normadic,banditry ethnic group from Futa d'jallon nothing will make me curtsey for them and the concept of prostrating should be scrapped it has outlived his use,culture shouldn't be static but evolving and dynamic!!

Lovelyn451:
I've always known this! Yoruba don't respect elders from other tribe, they're so disrespectful and will fight and insult an elder from another tribed.only igbos see others the way they see their own

That's not true. Yorubas respect all and sundry as long as the person is worthy. But it's eye service when you prostrate to your British boss or Chinese neighbors or to an ibo man or northerner who don't prostrate or appreciate it in their own culture. Prostrating is not the only way to show respect.

I have been asking all those who have been crying here if anyone of them would prostrate to their Fulani or Hausa gateman simply because he's older. None of them has replied. They replied only with insults

Obaaderemi2:
Many of the idiots maltreat and insult their elderly Yoruba family who don't have money. Once you don't their stupidity of sucking up to northerners they tag you as something else. Bloody confused hypocrites.

Soyinka refused to prostrate before an elderly person as a boy. Are these idiots braying here or even buhari and Akinwumi himself more Yoruba than Soyinka or more prominent?

Go and check a front page(islamic) thread on prostration they implied that Islam and the quran doesn't prostration that means the Yoruba muslims won't prostrate for any elders, neither will the fulanis or the hausa's since almost all are muslims wasn't even the foolanis who brought Islam to nigeria?so they expect the Yoruba christians and the traditonalist to prostrate and genuflect for them as we are their slaves right?

check those castigating you they are all muslims'albeit'fulanis who can't prostrate and lack home training too!!

Obaaderemi2:
As a Yoruba man I find it awkward to prostrate before someone who is not Yoruba no matter how old or what he has done. A respectful bow is enough. This is just eye service

You're on point bro.

Don't mind them hypocrites.

The saying is to do as a Roman when in Rome. You don't demonstrate your culture where it is not appreciated.

If at all he wants to show maximum respect, buhari would have appreciated the squatting and the rankadede more than the dobale the mumu did.

Na yeye eye service.

realG101:


You're on point bro.

Don't mind them hypocrites.

The saying is to do as a Roman when in Rome. You don't demonstrate your culture where it is not appreciated.

If at all he wants to show maximum respect, buhari would have appreciated the squatting and the rankadede more than the dobale the mumu did.

Na yeye eye service.

The hypocrites know the truth. If they are truly Yoruba then they should be familiar with the Yoruba proverb that our elders in Yorubaland taught us : Idobale ki se iwa.
The man prostrating publicly before a gambari knows what he's doing.

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gawu1:



This is indeed a significant issue because we have certain tribe in Nigeria where people disrespect their parents to the extent of waking them up with bicycle kicks, let alone showing disrespect to an elder from another tribe. We need to promote habits like this, especially when they come from respected individuals like Akinwumi. This way, our misguided brothers from that region can learn from and adopt better manners.

It takes someone that can wake his father with kicks nothing to insult anyone even older than shuch father on the social media platforms.

Obaaderemi2:
Can you prostrate before the Hausa maiguard in your house if you have one? Answer. But there are other ways you can honour and respect him as an elder. You don't send him on errands or shout at him. That's yoruba culture.

Do you prostrate to greet every elderly Yoruba person you encounter.
I will prostrate to greet Aliko Dangote if am opportune to meet him especially if he had just awarded me a multi billion naira
contract.
It's a virtue of a true omoluabi.