Karanka:
Reno doesn't have sense at all.
No tribe was shielded from slavery.
Even Binis and Itsekiris were taken as slaves by Igbos and other tribes.
What happened back then was a matter of opportunity. If you had opportunity to acquire a slave even from Chad, then you could.
For him to cite this as a reason for cultural influence and not something like decades of trades and social interaction between Igbos and their neighbours shows that Reno is indeed a big fo*ol.

Igbos didn't enslave Edos. Igbos didn't have any notable powerful kingdom and armies to raid a highly structured and developed kingdom like Benin.
This doesn't mean Igbos were weak or anything. No West African kingdom actually matched kingdom of Benin at that time. Even Britain could not defeat Benin. It took the alliance of the British, South African protectorates, Niger deltans etc to finally cripple the Edos.
Yorubas were also sold by the Edos. Lekki was initially known as eki meaning market in Esan, that was were Yorubas slaves were sold.

Every minority idiot dey claim say dem take Igbos as slaves (even Itshekiri wey no even reach my local government area in population density sef take follow talk), isn't it an anomaly that the so called slaves these "notice me" minorities claimed to have captured ended up not only outpopulating them in the numbers game, but also completely immersed lots of them who claim to have no Igbo ancestry or link into speaking Igbo (a supposedly slave language?). The useless Ijaw apes who dey follow join matter got their only landmark of historical significance through an "Igbo slave" from Amaigbo, a man whom we all know as King Jaja of Opobo... the useless fetish Bini savages who still worship their useless Oba like he's some demigod still have components of their communities like the Igbanke who speak an intelligible lingua of Igbo... same goes for majority of Delta state like in the Aniocha/Ika axis... same in Rivers state where Igbo is the lingua franca of even the non-Igbo speaking ethnic groups...does it even cognitively make sense that the "slaves" ended up been the ones whose language and culture immersed that of the so called masters?

Honestly these minority jokers will never cease to amaze me with their befuddling attempts to force relevance, very soon even tiny Isoko of yesterday go begin come out with their own version of history... I blame IPOB for all this rubbish anyway, stay in your lane and pursue the Biafran struggle strictly along Igbo nationalism and homogeneity, una no gree... now see the results.

Nothing special slave trading have been going on for centuries even during biblical times it doesn't make any tribe to be superior to the other. Black Americans would be happy that their forfathers from africa were amongst those sold as slaves if they look at what is currently happening in nigeria and the rest of africa.

akanke79:
Children of weak and coward ancestors taken as slaves by fellow neighbours calling people who built great empires cowards.Tufiakwa
No wonder they see the whiteman as god and have the smallest landmass in Nigger area.
Na for man to tie wrapper like woman them sabi.chai

Empires that were all conquered by ojukwu and his men in one day till date it's on record that it's only ojukwu and the British that have conquered the bini empire and all the other tribes in the niger delta.

OBALOLA55:
FULANI TERRORISTS ARE RUNNING RIOT HERE



RENO IS NOW FRUSTRATED SINCE ATIKU IS NOLONGER CUMMING

Face front and leave Fulani alone.
What concerns Fulani with Itsekiri and Benin enslavement of Igbos.

EMMY76:



Empires that were all conquered by ojukwu and his men in one day till date it's on record that it's only ojukwu and the British that have conquered the bini empire and all the other tribes in the niger delta.

lol how is it conquering when you literally met no single military presence?
The Midwest made it clear that we were not interested at all in the conflict between fulanis and Igbos so we didn't even bother to station security anywhere. What then happened when most of our people enlisted and the second division was formed?
Remember what happened in Asaba?

British didn't really conquer Benin. We were conquered by fellow Africans. When Brits came they were massacred. They had to beg Africans from South to west Africa, promising them bountiful bronze and gold which they hoped to recover from the city before they were able to do anything. Britain vs Old Benin one on one, old Benin would win 99 /100

Igbo race was formed from conglomeration of slaves of different backgrounds who found their way into the eastern forest. That's why the name Igbo itself means slaves. These people came from different parts of Nigeria area and beyond. In facts, it's this reason and the fair skin color common amongst them that made some of them believing that they are the 'lost sheep of Isreal' refer to in the Bible.

Weinberg:

Why can't you ignore the ugly "Afvonja"?
He is clearly not from Abia...He is a descendant of a fallen demon

his own demon no be small . Idiot wants me to start insulting my Abia state brothers

Walkee:
in our legend the places called Igodomigodo was founded by Pa Idu, the younger brother of Osa the ruler of the sky, his children spread out to start families which later turned to villages and towns. The rulers were Edionwere meaning elders. Edionwere will then appoint a young spokesperson, okaiko to represent him in meetings. Okaiko is a derivation from okalo (first) ikolo (meetings). Igodo was an okaiko who deceptively killed all the Edionweres and named himself ogiso. Ogiso is from the words ogie and iso. ogie means king and Iso means sky or far away or unknown. Igodo claimed to have descended from directly from pa Idu, the younger brother of Osalobua(God) so he became the first Ogiso. The Ogiso dynasty ended with owodo. The word idu is still very present in Esan as Idumu which means Quarters. Idumota, idumuagbo etc were created by Esan soldiers who colonised Lagos

Edionwere almost sound igbo.

Oka in Igbo also means 1st or Bigger.

Ogbe is igbo.


Ugbo is igbo.


Your language is Igbo mixed with yoruba.


U cannot make a sentence without an igbo word in it.

hammerDK:


Edionwere almost sound igbo.

Oka in Igbo also means 1st or Bigger.

Ogbe is igbo.


Ugbo is igbo.


Your language is Igbo mixed with yoruba.


U cannot make a sentence without an igbo word in it.

no, our people colonised most parts of Igbo and Yoruba so your languages got influenced by the Edoid language. For example part of Anambra were our colony, same with Agbor. Ondo, Ado-Ekiti and Lagos were also created by Edos.
There's no records of Igbo and Yoruba presence in the Edoid region (Yoruba is debatable due to the activities of oromiynan in some parts of Uselu) but Edo presence in Yoruba and Igbo regions are well documented

Walkee:
no, our people colonised most parts of Igbo and Yoruba so your languages got influenced by the Edoid language. For example Anambra was our colony, same with Agbor. Ado-Ekiti was also created by Edos

You did not colonize anybody.

If you are from Bini, you are either descendant of the Yoruba invaders or Original tribe there, who were igbos.

hammerDK:



You did not colonize anybody.

If you are from Bini, you are either descendant of the Yoruba or Original tribe there, who were igbos.

I'm from uromi. We weren't Igbos.
We trace our ancestry back to the ogisos.
I gave you examples of places we colonised. Most places in Lagos have Esan names

hammerDK:


Edionwere almost sound igbo.

Oka in Igbo also means 1st or Bigger.

Ogbe is igbo.


Ugbo is igbo.


Your language is Igbo mixed with yoruba.


U cannot make a sentence without an igbo word in it.

ogbe is not Igbo.
Ugbo means farm and its particularly uromi word, not just esan okalo is the full word meaning first.

Reno omokiri should also know the benin sold them too as slaves, the bini kingdom actually sold any tribe that wasn't edo as slaves
Igbo, yoruba, itsekiri, ijaws and so on

Slaves has always been a part of bini kingdom before slave trade started, any town conquered by the benins some of this people of that town will be taken captive to benin especially if the person is skilled, this captive would be shared amongst the royal house their offspring will endup a freeborns..

The benins ended slave trade before the europeans did because they felt the benin Gods were punishing their lands for selling off innocent people and the spirit of those slaves haunted the kingdom so they saw it as a bad practice and ended it

These slaves took upon benin names and were integrated into the edo kingdom...
The word 'Edo' was a royal slaved who helped an oba in benin to become the ruling king


Reno should be warned not to instigate hate for the bini we are good loving people we support the igbos, Yorubas and everyone he shouldn't use is personal ambition to rub the benin tribe, thank you

The good people of igbo nation we appologise for such offense, it is to be noted we sold all tribe within our reach as slaves and not just igbos alone

Walkee:
ogbe is not Igbo.
Ugbo means farm and its particularly uromi word, not just esan okalo is the full word meaning first.

Ogbe in Igbo means area of settlemen or yard.

Ugbo means Farm.

Take it easybro.

Karanka:

I used to regard you as someone intelligent and sound but now I know better.

hammerDK:



Ogbe in Igbo means area of settlemen or yard.

Ugbo means Farm.

so? How does that make it more Igbo than Esan.
Ogbe means fence while ogbẹ means someone very important.
These linguistics similarities were mainly as a result of Edos activities in those regions.
Idumota is an esan word lekki is from the esan word for market, Eki, Idumagbo is an esan word. There are other parts of Lagos with Benin and etsako names.
The general name of Lagos, Eko is an esan word for settlement.

Ojiofor:
Good for idiots who goes about looking for Igbo sounding names to claim as a relative.
Btw,Reno himself might still be one of the so called slaves just like Asari Dokubo whose great grandfather was a slave.

Reno is a direct descendant of Ogiame Atuwatse-1, the 7th Olu Itsekiri.

Walkee:
so? How does that make it more Igbo than Esan.
Ogbe means fence while ogbẹ means someone very important.
These linguistics similarities were mainly as a result of Edos activities in those regions.
Idumota is an esan word lekki is from the esan word for market, Eki, Idumagbo is an esan word. There are other parts of Lagos with Benin and etsako names.
The general name of Lagos, Eko is an esan word for settlement.

And Edo is a Japanese word.

oyatz:


Reno is a direct descendant of Ogiame Atuwatse-1, the 7th Olu Itsekiri.

Good for him but he seems to be kinda obsessed with ndi Igbo.He should mind the business of his ethnic group for once.

theTranscriber:

Igodomigodo people are not Igbo
No dey claim nonsense

He partly right and partly wrong.

All the peoples from Western border of S/West to Edo State to Igboland were related in the distant past.

EMMY76:



Empires that were all conquered by ojukwu and his men in one day till date it's on record that it's only ojukwu and the British that have conquered the bini empire and all the other tribes in the niger delta.

What's your level of education?
Was there Bini Empire in 1967 when Ojukwu invaded Mid-Western Region?

hammerDK:


Edionwere almost sound igbo.

Oka in Igbo also means 1st or Bigger.

Ogbe is igbo.


Ugbo is igbo.


Your language is Igbo mixed with yoruba.


U cannot make a sentence without an igbo word in it.

Both Yoruba and Igbo languages met in Benin

Ojiofor:


Good for him but he seems to be kinda obsessed with ndi Igbo.He should mind the business of his ethnic group for once.

If he mind his business, how will he remain in trending news?

oyatz:


If he mind his business, how will he remain in trending news?

IPOB boys will mess him up if continues.

Ojiofor:


IPOB boys will mess him up if continues.

He has the mumu button of the IPOB boyz

oyatz:


He has the mumu button of the IPOB boyz

I know but he been on their nerves recently.

Walkee:
lol how is it conquering when you literally met no single military presence?
The Midwest made it clear that we were not interested at all in the conflict between fulanis and Igbos so we didn't even bother to station security anywhere. What then happened when most of our people enlisted and the second division was formed?
Remember what happened in Asaba?

British didn't really conquer Benin. We were conquered by fellow Africans. When Brits came they were massacred. They had to beg Africans from South to west Africa, promising them bountiful bronze and gold which they hoped to recover from the city before they were able to do anything. Britain vs Old Benin one on one, old Benin would win 99 /100

Stories the bows and arrows and juju of the bini warriors were no match to the well armed british soildiers u guys stood no chance then.

FreeIgbos:


This overgrown baby called Reno Omokiri is very petty and stupid. At some point, the Benin empire was vast and it would be expected that an empire of such magnitude would slaves from their neighboring tribes. Is it only Igbos that were slaves? No!

Igboland is vast and while those at the periphery will easily fall prey to outsiders, it doesn't make Igbos cowards. The only difference is that Igbos are democratic people who believe in live and let's live mantra. If they were empire builders, all the minorities around us would have been totally subjugated since we greatly outnumber them.

Foolish Reno even attached his itshekiri minority group to the Bini out of his overbloated ego, as if it's one and same.

Rome once built an empire that spread throughout the world at some time, but they're nobody today. The Chinese were once conquered by the Mongols and the Japanese but today, these people won't dare China without suffering humiliation.

The so-called Bini Empire was never vast. It was more or less village thing. I cannot recall the Bini chief appointed by Oba to represent his interest in Agbor, Ugwuashi-Uku,Ibuzo or Asaba. To the best of my knowledge there was no so-called Bini Empire leader who dreamt of southeastward expansionism. Bini Empire got the beating of its life from Agbor and the people of Igbanke. A person wonders if Bini and its village leaders grew wings and flew invisibly into Igboland to collect slaves. I guess moronic dingbats seemed to spew craps about the great Igbo people to gain any form of socio-political attention. The funny remains there is single land affinity between the crap spewed by these fools and reality on the ground. I guess Nigeria is not called basket of fools for nothing.

EMMY76:


Stories the bows and arrows and juju of the bini warriors were no match to the well armed british soildiers u guys stood no chance then.

Benins were already well armed with sophisticated European weapons at least 300 years prior. Benins had access to Portuguese weapons as far back as under the reign of Oba Ewuare.

No prove