Negro_Ntns:

ooh yes, you have commited crime against his humanity with your comment. your opinion is an infringement on his rights to eat and survive and guess what, .... a complaint will be filed with the UN commission on human rights to the effect.

lol I will take that with a sense of humour
BTW you don't need to go as far as the UN cos we have such a commission here in NIG

This is so unprofessional sha
Why would anyone be eating amala with bare hands in an open office
Bush man
Why should people bring amala or akpu or even eba to work?
It is not suitable for a work environment lai lai
Eat it in your homes people not at work please
And workplaces should provide lunch rooms for their workers so they don't sit in an open office stinking up the whole place with smelly foods and chewing Chakam Chakam Chakam with clients in the vicinity

Who remembers Louis Theroux documentary on area boys/ law and order in Lagos? Right there on duty a Lagos state official ordered for a bottle of Star lager beer.

redsun: How can he keep the documents stain free from ewedu? Nigerian workers like him hardly deserve their meagre earnings. They don't know the difference between break time,duty time,off day,absenteeism,sick day and holiday.

Lollllllllllll!!!

This is unprofessional, no matter how we wanna say ehn he's being 'african'. Lol

It is alright if he is having his break,but not when he is on duty. That is sackable.

The only country where most people know it all. Never take corrections. Everything is about tribe. Eating egusi, ewedu, isi-ewu, amala etc is good, I love them but not while attending to somebody in a court room. My people self. Unprofessional. That is why go to olympics and come back without medals because we don't want to learn. Now you are attacking the poster that is pointing at our shorting coming that need correction.

stillwater: This is unprofessional, no matter how we wanna say ehn he's being 'african'. Lol

so, you want him to be ASIAN ryt?

mekussays: NAIRALAND gives ues a sense of how Nigerian actually think. So there r people actually supporting this unprofessional behavior. Well i knw why cuz many will do the same. I understand what the poster meant that the whole room will be smelling of fish and soup. he should have simply gone somwhere else to eat or close his door and not attend to people for the 20mins he needs to eat.

The picture of the westerners eating pizza is a meeting or sort where all of them are having lunch so its wont disgust any1 and they are not attending to any1. This cant happen anywhere is the western world as they have a room where they eat.

NAIJA NEEDS CHANGE OF MENTALITY

this idea of "smelling of fish" does not hold water in a nigerian context at all.

in oyiboland they dont cook their seafood throughly, claiming that it deprives the food of nutrients. the half-cooked seafood therefore retains its sea odor and is pungently offensive. therefore it is common to see that in america or europe raw seafood or meals prepared with seafood are not popular for close space consumption.

in nigeria our meals are cooked thoroughly and spiced snd seasoned nicely that it (the fish) gives out a nice aroma when stewed. it is appealing, not repelling.

therefore any and all idea of a foul smell in connection with seafood is cultural and foreign to the nigerian soil.

dont claim for us what is culturally not ours. our people dont cook smelly fish.

Lawdddddd, now I want to chop some amala.

Must cook me amala tonight with okra and iru soup.

Dayokanu, you're wicked. Why post a pix like that if you ain't gonna share

Unfortunately, the op will now make a lot of innocent people endure more hardship now, because of his "sleuth journalism" where he snapped a personal picture without the consent if the person being photographed.

And you're a lawyer, you say?

Violating the man's right to privacy and acting like a common tout?

You will soon post a picture of your village chief pounding yam

Baby mama: This is so unprofessional sha
Why would anyone be eating amala with bare hands in an open office
Bush man
Why should people bring amala or akpu or even eba to work?
It is not suitable for a work environment lai lai
Eat it in your homes people not at work please
And workplaces should provide lunch rooms for their workers so they don't sit in an open office stinking up the whole place with smelly foods and chewing Chakam Chakam Chakam with clients in the vicinity

What's wrong with bringing African food to work again'?

Most work places have sink, tissue paper, and hand sanitizer and in Nigeria's case, hand washing bowls.

You and your inferiority complex shaaaaaaa.

If the man chops amala during his break time, what's wrong with it?

@OP...na wah for you o! You mean you travelled all the way from London to go and look at the Ewedu and Amala this hard working Nigerian civil servant is doing? That he has servant in his name does not mean he is prohibited from eating and yes with his 10 fingers while attending to pencil-pushing charge and bail lawyers like you! Haba! Or are you simply jealous that some gbegiri and round-about meet + shaki and ponmo was right in that mega bowl of amala? Why did you not show his bottle of lacasera or ogogoro or na star lager beer he was using to wash it down if not for mere jealousy? Now, what is wrong in if he grabs your duplicitous charge sheet with his busy hands in order to put the seal of the government on it? He is merely doing his work and you have now gone to invade on his privacy and as if that is not enough, you wrote such a 10000-word essay and added his picture to embarrass the retardeen government right here in the internet. Abeg, if your only job is to stop civil servants from eating their garri, iyan with egusi, okro, ewedu and bokoto + goatmeet; you best sit your ass back in your house!

baby_123: Would it have been better if it was rice? Because he had to attend to you all he should die and not eat lunch? Abegi. You have issues. Some people dont have time for lunch. . What exactly is your problem? You went to his office and his desk, he didnt come to you. Were you hungry or what? I dont get the whole point of this post.

There is nothing different between you and the civil servant seen eating carelessly. People like you are holding this country hostage. Can you understand that there is a difference between your house and a PUBLIC OFFICE? It's called "public" for a reason...other people would be present. Have you heard of lunch room? That's where people go and eat. TAKE YOUR FOOD THERE MY FRIEND AND EAT IT PEACEFULLY. It wouldn't take more than 10 mins to have your lunch. The visitors can wait and most would appreciate the courtesy of telling them you need 10mins to have your lunch and you will be back. How difficult is this?

Nigerians and their "na me invent sliced bread" mentality.

*Ileke-IdI:
Lawdddddd, now I want to chop some amala.

Must cook me amala tonight with okra and iru soup.

Dayokanu, you're wicked. Why post a pix like that if you ain't gonna share

ileke, can you please open an smala fast good joint in miami? it will help lebron james win next championship.

The guy probably attended to people during his lunch break, and mr snappy fingers here decided to go gangster on him

Negro_Ntns:

ileke, can you please open an smala fast good joint in miami? it will help lebron james win next championship.

There are already several Nigerian restaurants serving amala in Miami.

I should know come by, let me take you to my fave spots

Na Nigeria's favorite food nau

On a serious note the posts here are actually hilarious and I hope the OP can see the rather extreme sarcasm in the posts! Yes, you made a very good point and you can be sure a lot of people are as sick of the often useless and horrible service you get from Nigerian civil servants and now to add a bowl of amala and ewedu to the mix, while on duty?? LOL...people are really funny!

*Ileke-IdI:
Lawdddddd, now I want to chop some amala.

Must cook me amala tonight with okra and iru soup.

Dayokanu, you're wicked. Why post a pix like that if you ain't gonna share

To be candid, I felt really hungry on seeing that 'amala with eran ogufe' picture.

maninmood:

To be candid, I felt really hungry on seeing that 'amala with eran ogufe' picture.

Same here.

I'm on my lost 100lbs in 2months (for spring break) with my garri diet. See me chopping soaked garri with groundnuts, feeling proud of myself, daydreaming my sexy figure in a bathing suit.

That pics amala pix just killed me.

Well, I know what I'm having tonight

*Ileke-IdI:


Same here.

I'm on my lost 100lbs in 2months (for spring break) with my garri diet. See me chopping soaked garri with groundnuts, feeling proud of myself, daydreaming my sexy figure in a bathing suit.

That pics amala pix just killed me.

Well, I know what I'm having tonight

of course you do,, garri spiced with kwuli kwuli

baby_123: Would it have been better if it was rice? Because he had to attend to you all he should die and not eat lunch? Abegi. You have issues. Some people dont have time for lunch. . What exactly is your problem? You went to his office and his desk, he didnt come to you. Were you hungry or what? I dont get the whole point of this post.

It is very unprofessional for him to eat at his desk in the office and attend to customers at the same time. The appropriate thing is to eat in a private place such as the dining lounge or a pantry. Though i doubt if he has any specific time for lunch which is supposed to be a must, but in Nigeria we work people to death. No lunch break, no annual leave and even no guarantee of payment of salary at the end of the month.

nnedozie22:



It is very unprofessional for him to eat at his desk in the office and attend to customers at the same time. The appropriate thing is to eat in a private place such as the dining lounge or a pantry. Though i doubt if he has any specific time for lunch which is supposed to be a must, but in Nigeria we work people to death. No lunch break, no annual leave and even no guarantee of payment of salary at the end of the month.

With hand o
With hand
Attending to customers and eating amala with fish at the same time with bare hands stinking up the whole office
Talking with mouthfuls
I wonder why people won't see everything wrong with it

Same as armed police men dancing owanbe on duty. Nigeria can never make a headway unless people are able to differentiate play time from work time. People have to earn their kobos,no matter how small.

Deep Sight: You know, it is still amazing, although we all know it - how Nigerians simply lack any sense of customer service whatsoever. It can be bad even in the private sector, but is always massively worse in the public sector. The public service and civil service are just. . . . wow.

Here's a tiny example. About 2 weeks ago I went over to the High Court of Lagos State at Tafawa Balewa Square; Lagos Island. Having practiced as a lawyer there several years ago, i already knew the court had many improvements (there is also a new Multi-Door wing at the rear); and there had been many other modern improvements. When I left practice about seven years ago, I was already very pleased with the many gradual improvements at the court. Not just structurally but also in terms of process and practice and the rules of court.

There has been a general effort to improve the processes of the court. For example the new 2012 Rules of Court have introduced a compulsory Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanism to see if cases can be resolved amicably before being assigned to a Judge.

You can therefore imagine my shock when I entered the office of the Chief Registrar; and came upon the sight of one of his officers eating a meal of amala and fresh fish (stinking to high heavens) right there in the court office - whilst attending to lawyers and litigants.

This is something that Nigerian civil Servants do A LOT and with impunity and its simply totally unprofessional and disgusting. I was totally ashamed.

I decided to do some "sleuth" journalism and so I managed to sneak a shot of him with my phone in the dastardly act.

Here is the s.illy fellow -

Did he buy it from a roadside vendor nearby or did this man bring amala from his home to eat at lunch time?

maninmood:

Excuse me, what is daunting about a man having a lunch in his office? And what has corruption got to do with having a lunch in one's office? Do you really understand your composition, or did you just write this without giving it a profound disposition?

And by the way, what steps are you personally taking to reforming Nigeria? Spewing all Longman dictionary words on Nairaland wouldn't change a thing. Search within yourself, make amends where imperative before coming here preaching.

My friend, eating his meal isn't troubling as a matter of fact you and I would agree to it as a human necessesity. However, my inference to the word dysfunctionality is largely culled from his discourteous customer service, more disturbing is his ambassadorial status of representing a state (civil servant). Our penchant for trivialising such social impairments from jumping a queue to tossing litters on streets to driving under the influence or eating on active duty in an office whilst servicing customers as the photograph depicts is ultimately what emboldens this quagmire of societal and governmental malfunction.

Baby mama:

With hand o
With hand
Attending to customers and eating amala with fish at the same time with bare hands stinking up the whole office
Talking with mouthfuls
I wonder why people won't see everything wrong with it

It is because Amala made headlines again. That is why all form of professionalism would temporarily sideline them.
I'm sure they'd have made contributions that are worthwhile, if the OP had used a more universal term like eba.