ElSudani:
What do you have to say about this? https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(71)90112-7/fulltext#:~:text=The%20data%20indicate%20that%2099,lactose%3B%20Anglo%2DSaxons%20could.

zhike:
The is a research that shows that Nigerians drink less milk.
For example South Africans or Kenyans drink average 8 cups of milk per week.
NIGERIANS DRINK AVERAGE OF 1 CUP OF MILK PER DAY.

Kobojunkie:
Not much really since the Data seems to exclude other tribes in the same Nigeria. And I seriously doubt the claim that 99% of Yorubas are lactose intolerant. Dem tell you say Yoruba people no dey eat cheese?

Kobojunkie:
Not much really since the Data seems to exclude other tribes in the same Nigeria. And I seriously doubt the claim that 99% of Yorubas are lactose intolerant. Dem tell you say Yoruba people no dey eat cheese?

ElSudani:
■ What about this?

ElSudani:
■ Drinking milk or eating cheese will probably not kill anyone if not contaminated. People who are lactose intolerant can still take milk products in moderation without and adverse effects.

Kobojunkie:
Yet the same people do not have a problem consuming ice cream and yogurt abi? Anywho, given that many of the same Nigerians abroad don't hesitate much when it comes to shoving a good cheese-laden burger down their throats with ease, I choose to take such claims with a pinch of salt. Nigerians abroad —all ethnicities — typically experience little to no problem adapting to the culture of drinking milk regularly and eating milk products. So, until such a time when milk products are widely available and consumed in Nigeria, I will lean more towards opinons expressed in articles such as this one from the Vanguard https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/06/milk-consumption-in-nigeria-low-stakeholders

Kobojunkie:
If you truly believe the statement in bold to be of fact, then lactose intolerance cannot be the major reason for the problem identified by the OP.

ElSudani:
■ My friend, that would be a major reason. White people virtually live on it.
■ I don't see black folks carry milk in the supermarket the same way white folks do.

ElSudani:
■ I challenge you to take a pint of fresh milk, gobble it down and wait for about 2 hours.
My only advice, don't do it outside of your own home. I eat all these things you mentioned without any problems but I don't deceive myself by going overboard with it.

Kobojunkie:
This isn't about white or black. Hausa live on it and most of the people from other ethnic groups who live for a period up north also adapt to living on it. So, I see no real reason why intolerance would be used as a major reason when the vast majority have probably not tasted milk in most of their lives.

2. By the way, what the fk do you mean you don't see black folks carry milk in the supermarket? You dey alright so?

Kobojunkie:
What in the world is this? I drank two bowls of cereal this morning with 2% milk. And this after I had hot oats with milk last night. I am not any part of your statistics abeg, neither is anyone in my family since we eat milk products regularly without abandon. Yorubas and other tribes eat ice cream, and yogurt, so I see no sense in claiming these same people are to be written off as lactose intolerant.

ElSudani:
■ It is, there's a reason why northerners especially the nomadic Fulani on average are more lactose tolerant. I am not making things up. There are tons of materials on the subject.
Madam Kobo, you don't have to go that low. This is my personal observation. Most white folks can digest lactose therefore it's not a problem for them as far as I know.

Kobojunkie:
Are Nomadic Fulanis white then?

Do these same black people say NO to chees when purchasing a burger? Abeg, stop!

ElSudani:
■ Perhaps you are tolerant of it, that doesn't mean everyone is. You started by saying it is not a medical fact, I showed you that it is. Now what else? You still argue blindly the same way you did several years ago. A leopard truly never shed its spots.

ElSudani:
■ Did I say all blacks are lactose intolerant?

Kobojunkie:
It is indeed not a medical fact that most Nigerians are lactose intolerant given that the majority haven't had the chance to drink milk in most of their lives(about 2/3rd of the country). So, come back when milk becomes a common product in the same country.

ElSudani:


Drinking milk or eating cheese will probably not kill anyone if not contaminated.
People who are lactose intolerant can still take milk products in moderation without and adverse effects.

Kobojunkie:
You said you don't see black people carrying milk in the grocery store. What else did you mean by that ludicrous statement?

ElSudani:
■ I agree that fresh milk is not readily available to most Nigerians. But you only have to react to it once to know whether you are tolerant or not.

ElSudani:
■ You are trying to split hairs with this one. I was basically trying to let you know that you will mostly find white folks in the dairy isle and that is the truth.

RenaissanceGuy:
The reason why more southerners - a whooping 99% - have lactose tolerance in the first place is due to the fact that there's gross unavailability of milk, unlike in the north where some people are used to buying fresh milk from the dairy farmers and their stomach is already conditioned to digesting it without any adverse effects. If Nigerians can buy fresh milk as easily as they buy rice from the market, there'd be no such thing as lactose intolerance.

Kobojunkie:
If about 2/3rd have not even had the substance, how were the statisticians in your writeups able to get them to react even once to milk? Ice cream? Yoghurt? Cheese(wara)?

ElSudani:
■ Where is your data saying 2/3 of Nigerians never had milk?

Kobojunkie:
You confirmed it yourself that the drinking of milk is specific to those in the northern states particularly the Fulani nomadic tribes, leaving almost 2/3rd of the country without access to the same resource.

ElSudani:
■ The Fulanis obviously does not constitute 1/3 of the Nigerian population much less the nomadic ones.

Ttipsy:
Do ogogoro statistics let see

RenaissanceGuy:
That's not true. It's simply because of cost factor and also because of non-existence of direct-purchase of milk from farmers. If a liter of milk (where does the market for that even exist?) sells for ₦500, poor people's children, for example, would be taking a jug of milk to school everyday. Our agriculture value chain is still very underdeveloped. So, people can only access milk by buying already processed ones in sealed cans or in sachet powdered form, unlike in America where as far back as 70 years ago, fresh milk suppliers go from house to house delivering milk to customers.