Bullsh*t! I happen to be in Benin during that period and I know that resistance to the dredging project came as a result of the huge resources that the then govenor (Lucky) wanted to expend on it. I don't remeber cow running into river. . .

the sooner we Ban all these glorify demi god the better for us all and our development, go to Lagos every nook and cranny now have one stupid yeye person called oba , fully paid by the state govt which in turn is a drain on our meagre revenue.

So how are those who sell palmfruit supposed to eek out a living? Display their wares in a dark store room to whom?
Its bizzare!!! This is 2009!!!!

your oba of Benin either a fist class oba or not uphold some of those traditions we need not in Nigeria of today , so you can keep praising them for all you like. as of now i will resist name calling.

Your father and generations unborn are illiterates. You bitch.
How dare you open your mouth to insult an Oba of Benin. Thank your stars for modernity. You'd be dead by now.
The Oba has more education than your worthless generation. Fool.
Perhaps its your mothers worthless head that is used for sacrifice. Fool.
BTW Osisi means gun in the bini language and thats what will kill you if you don't apologose. to all binis.

@osisi,
As a rugged lord, i know what a gun can do. please beware !!!

When will all these madness stop in Nigeria?
Sapeleguy, you come across as though you might be educated, but you seem to be playing stupid all in the name of showing support for some old-age culture and tradition. There is nothing wrong in upholding some things from our cultures, but do we have to remain backward and allow medieval values to deprive us of development and civilization?
I am still yet to read any rational / objective arguments from you as to how this measure from the Oba will contribute to the well-being of the Edo people. So long you are not forth-coming with such, this only makes it more obvious that this measure is crap.

kosovo:

IF you think the oba of benin is equal to those hungy obas'sss you have in lagos then you are obviously dumb!
GO and ask people what happened to the predesessor of LUCK IGBENEDION, when he said he was not going to recognize the oba and his chiefs,
Himself and his genration has already been wiped out, even after countless Apologies.

remo keep making noise,
what a waste!

$osisi:



@ogaga

all your abuse,back to sender in Jesus's name Amen!
see how stupid you sound defending a grown man who is scared of perm kernels
tradition my calloused feet.
no wonder Benin looks like the village of umuofia in 1666

This is the reason I said the Oba and his subjects have a couple of nuts missing.
Keep displaying the stuff you're made of
may the oba carrying a palmfruit pursue you for night
I should apologise to the Oba or the oba should apologise to Nigerians for making a foolish statement in 2009
part of his former empire is being bombed to oblivion by the Nigerian army and he's seeing palm nuts in the dream
What a joker?


Empty threats from a good for nothing oba's town crier
I know thuggery dey run for una blood
unfortunately e  no dey pass new bini market

was shock and suprised to hear this from educated people ( if really they really went through education or education went through them). i respect oba but i believe his advisers should think very well before making such law. Majority of death is due to human Errol. look at the bad roads, the government seems to turn blind eyes. some of the driver are not making things easy by driving reckless without caution on the pot holes we have on our major roads. There is nothing like evil spirit or evil course. what they ( oba`s and his adviser ) do, let them speak to the government to make all our road accessable, make traffic law, recruit more traffic corp, check the standard or MOT of those cars if they are really road worthy, education the driver about safely of driving on the road and some other road safely law. I think some of those thing will reduce road accident and death than ban palm fruit which are source of some people in come. even in European which are more advance than Nigeria, their is still accident and death but we can only reduce road accident as some are human and mechanical Errol. Live and let live. God bless you all.

okokomeji:


@sley4life: Thank you my brother, I don't disrespect people. But Garri thinks he has guts to insult anybody because of their opinions. He just kept yelling at Osisi and one other guy because they were on contrary with king superstition. I wish he was born before Mary Slessor came to Nigeria to abolish killing of twins. Did you know how many millions of innocent twins sent to untimely death in the name of so called tradition? They said giving birth to twins it's a precursor of evil omen. One British textbook says more than 3 millions of Yoruba twins were sent to early death. Reason, it says in the whole world out of all tribes in the face of the earth, the Yorubas have the highest rate of giving to twins up to this present age. It says twins are not sign of omen but a blessing from Supreme Being.
Why people of Southwest give birth to twins frequently? It says first of all, they like eating diary food which account for high rate of fertility and again many ladies that have had kids already still give birth in their thirties.
The third one is due to the advancement in technology; you can do implantation to have twins or more than that.
Thank bros!! This informative age it's hard to say sometimes and nobody will have few opinions about it, I don't think so. We are all on this forum to share our opinions and gain more perspectives. Rather than some people to think, it’s an avenue to lash out anybody that does not conform to their ideology or perspective.

Their mythical story of creation says that Edo is the cradle of the world {“Edo ore Isi Agbon”}. They say that when God Almighty was creating the world, he also created the kings who were to rule the various parts of the world. These kings before descending from heaven to earth were asked to make their choices of whatever gifts they wanted god to endow them with. While other chose wealth, wisdom or magical powers, the king of Benin had nothing left other than a dirty snail shell containing sang the story says that when the king of Benin got to the world, which was, water logged then, he poured the sand on a point now known as Benin which came to be a dry land. The other kings who had been hovering around without a dry land to settle upon had to ask the Benin king for land. This is the origin of the saying that “Oba yan oto se Evbo Ebo” Meaning that Oba owns the land up to European country.[/quote

i found this on benin website, i challenge the oba to decree on the last sentence, if he does have the power.

Ekiadolor Community in Benin kingdom recently witnessed a traditional ritual during which the Oba’s representative led other traditional chiefs in placing a curse on all those involved in perpetrating bloody cult wars at the state owned Ekiadolor College of Education.