The Ooni of Ife, Enitan Ogunwusi, who spoke last weekend at his Ile-Oodua palace in Ile-Ife while receiving the Lagos State president of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Solomon Ogbonna, who had as a member accompanied the delegation of African Farmers And Cultural Organisation on a courtesy visit to the palace, stated that the Igbos and the Yorubas have historical ties.According to the Ooni of Ife, the historical ties between the Igbos and Yorubas makes them inseparable members of the same family. He said at the meeting;

“I am so happy to have the President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Lagos State President here as part of this empowerment initiative. Lagos is part of Yoruba land, we are all one, we are all the same. The history is there, the facts are there, and we should actually put this facts out. Why are we fighting?”

“This is your root. I said it recently, some of our Yoruba kinsmen with ignorance of our history came out with nugatory beratement of my position on the family ties between Yoruba and Igbo people. We have to say the truth and the truth must set us all free, we are blood brothers. We should be inseparable. Please feel at home in Yorubaland and respect your Yoruba brothers and sisters too.”

"We still have House of Igbo right in this palace till date. We call it Ile Igbo up till now. Our ancestors are buried and transfigured there. That is where kolanut was first discovered and nurtured. The Igbos are still the biggest consumers and users of kolanut which is only planted in Yorubaland till date. Can the Igbos do without kolanut? ”“The ancient Igbo house is one of the most sacred places in this palace till date. One of my brother kings – Aka Arogundabi from Iremo quarters saw the mysteries of house of Igbo (Aka-ri-Igbo). Till date, Akarigbo of Remoland still sees house of Igbo as a common heritage of his forebears,” the Ooni explained.


https://unclesuru.com/2019/04/22/igbos-and-yorubas-have-historical-ties-ooni-of-ife/

I see...

if so why so much hatred between them

Yes and thier enmity for each other no be here, they just pretend to coexist.

Before you know now, one of them will start bragging on top nothing.

Ok

Truth...Igbos are the leaders when it comes to business deals. Yorubas are learning a lot from them

I always knew this, whenever I see Amaka walking down the road I see a bit of my great granny in her...........

On nairaland abi?

This Oni is exhibiting every symptoms of 2023 Tinubu presidential ambition. But we are too wise for Oni.

"Abokki go rule you, you go tire"

We do not have anything in common with Afonja.
God forbid! Saying Igbos have somethings in common with Afonja is an aberration.

Truth be told, I see no reason as to why Igbo's and Yoruba's should consistently keep abusing themselves online. Let me tell you about myself, i met this beautiful and wonderful lady during my nysc camp in Ogun state. She is a Yoruba Muslim and I am an Igbo Christian. This didn't stop us from falling in love, she was my joy and I was same to her. We prayed, discussed and did almost everything together. A day hardly passes by without us talking...we shared everything which bothered us and never hid anything from each other. She is a seamstress and I am into ICT... After service and all I asked her why wait let's get married... But then there was the issue of religion and tribe, our stumbling block. For heavens sake why should a thing like religion or even tribe stop two adults who are in love from being together. We nearly took a crazy measure but then we reconsidered.
Look be you Igbo or Yoruba for your own best interest stop being tribal and drop every tribal sentiment. Forget what our parents or the society have told us about the other tribe, it isn't true. There isn't any tribe that is all good, none. Few weeks ago I made a comment on a post about stopping tribalism especially on this platform nairaland where it seems to be the heaven for tribalist..and this fellow from no where came and started insulting me and calling me name and all. I hold no grudge with the guy I only believe that if he had something tangible doing he won't have time for such comments.
I pray God heals us all of all tribalism... Racism and xenophobia is enough for us. Let's not add our own self hate to it...
BTW I and Balqis are still lovers and hopefully one day things would change and we'll be with each other.

Hmmmm

Mutual suspicion and antagonism by one ethnic group against the other is a world phenomenon.

Here in Africa, we have seen and heard of the Akan ethnic group against the Asantes in Ghana; the Zulu against the Xhosa in South Africa; the Hutus against the Tutsis in Rwanda, amongst others.

What is however exciting is the fact that most of the animosities amongst the ethic groups highlighted above have been laid to rest and they have decided to work together in love and mutual respect. Other stratified societies in African societies are now forging common grounds for progress.

But here in my country, hmmm (sighs).

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WhoBannedMyBro:
Yorubas and piggiyyyeasstterners have no ties...








PS: I haven't mentioned anybody or tribe. Whoever tampers with this post will die of cancer...

Oh. Don't play innocent bro
Your type is the worst.

inasmuch as i like this ooni for not being a bigot

i no gree for this one

God bless you ooni for not being a bigot like Tinubu the bastard drug dealing vagabond and
Osibanjo the vagabond puppet and a Hopless bastard vagabond Useless nonentity bribe eating scumbag fake pastor

The only ties we have is that we live in the same country, i am so sick of all these


IGBO AND YORUBA are so different and we have nothing in common in everything

Our culture and way of life is different, we don't even think alike. It is even glaring to the dead that we can never be the same and we are different

True

Only if our ancestors had written a history book for us to refer to when we grow.

A common Yoruba will not like this ..Hating for no just cause..

No matter how bad they rant online , they are still the best of friends on the street. My best friend is Aba boy , my Mum business mates are Igbo .

True

nairavsdollars:
Truth...Igbos are the leaders when it comes to business deals. Yorubas are learning a lot from them

Here we go

Na so

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