seunmsg:


Because Ife is the source of mankind. Yoruba, Igbo, Edo, etc all lived in Ile Ife before they migrated to found different kingdoms. Benin was in chaos after the fall of the Ogiso dynasty. They needed a blue blood to restore normalcy and it was only logical that they asked the Ife royalty to send a prince to rule the city. In those days, there was no silly and egoistic war of tribes like we have today.

Igbobyblood:
how do you want Bini to agree with us when you call them names online, insult their cultural leaders.

An average Bini person don't like Nigeria seff, we see Nigeria as a country drawing us backward so don't think Bini are among the people enjoying ""one Nigeria".

I dare you to list any meaningful thing Edo people has again from Nigeria, nothing. Not even federal jobs or political position.

But when some ipob miscreants start insulting the Bini people, you don't expect them to side with igbos after the insults

Igbobyblood:
only I understand, there are many people that claim Edo origin.

There's is this Benin social group, they will release a map of all people that claim Benin ancestry on the 20th if this month. I know it will cause many insults to the Bini's but the truth can't be hidden.

They even visited degema people in river state, their king welcome them and say degema are from Edo. The problem is these degema people dresses like the ijaw and have eze as king title.

I love what the present oba is doing, trying to unite them into a common front.

But the main problems are the uniformed Igbos , they will call us land grabbers and Yoruba slaves

kayusely70:
When are the europeans returning the stolen benin bronze art?

IamAtikulate:

That is where we always have problem, IPOB is not Igbo and Igbo is not IPOB.

IPOB is not perfect but they represent something to us.

Attack the ignorant Igbos and leave IPOB. Lol, I don't think any Igbo man sincerely believe that Bini are yoruba slaves unless few trolling ones.

We know Oduduwa as progenitor of Yoruba people and many of know him as a banished Bini prince. Almost all of us sees Lagos as bini land while some see it as Awori land.

But we all believe that Oba of Lagos are Bini princes.

A prince cannot be a slave to his subjects. Release your map, Niger Delta Republic released theirs and we were happy with them and since then, we have discounted them from Biafra.

The option open to them now is one of choice.

seunmsg:


Let them return what they stole from us first. If we decide to steal the artifacts and sell back to them, that’s understandable. It would be that we sold what belong to us. As it stands now, we never gave them those artifacts and we sold it to them. They should return what they stole.

onez:
I'm becoming more confident that yoruba Obas have their ancestry from Benin kingdom. They may be probably renegades from Benin Royal family. I wish a DNA study can be done on it.

seunmsg:


Let them return what they stole from us first. If we decide to steal the artifacts and sell back to them, that’s understandable. It would be that we sold what belong to us. As it stands now, we never gave them those artifacts and we sold it to them. They should return what they stole.

Igbobyblood:
...Benin historical account of the world is older than the biblical....

onez:
I'm becoming more confident that yoruba Obas have their ancestry from Benin kingdom. They may be probably renegades from Benin Royal family. I wish a DNA study can be done on it.

IamAtikulate:

That is where we always have problem, IPOB is not Igbo and Igbo is not IPOB.

IPOB is not perfect but they represent something to us.

Attack the ignorant Igbos and leave IPOB. Lol, I don't think any Igbo man sincerely believe that Bini are yoruba slaves unless few trolling ones.

We know Oduduwa as progenitor of Yoruba people and many of know him as a banished Bini prince. Almost all of us sees Lagos as bini land while some see it as Awori land.

But we all believe that Oba of Lagos are Bini princes.

A prince cannot be a slave to his subjects. Release your map, Niger Delta Republic released theirs and we were happy with them and since then, we have discounted them from Biafra.

The option open to them now is one of choice.

Frenchkiss564:


I hate it when people ask stupid question like where were the African gods when the white people were enslaving them but never asked where was yarweh when Adolf Hitler was killing 6 million of his chosen generation.

onez:
I'm becoming more confident that yoruba Obas have their ancestry from Benin kingdom. They may be probably renegades from Benin Royal family. I wish a DNA study can be done on it.

Rossikk:


Stop typing through your anus. Nigeria has functional, secure museums, and the artefacts there are not stolen and sold. You wouldn't know this because you've never visited a Nigerian museum in your life.

ruggedtimi:
Nice one..Nollywood should look into making a well constructed movie about the ancient benin city.

budaatum:

Where?

Rossikk:


Google it!

Born2Breed:


This is a faceless forum,assumption is not wrong until the admin adds state of origin and religion before registration,we all will continue to assume.

BTW, if you are Moslem you may ask where was Allah when Muhammad was poisoned.

budaatum:

Typical response when you don't have evidence for what you've claimed.

Nigerian museums are a disgrace and only a person who has not seen better would call what we have "functional and secure"!

Museums are history. A Nigeria that does not value history would not value museums and this shows in the lack of quality museums in our nation.

Rossikk:

No. Google it means Google it. The information is on Google. It is not my job to list the museums in Nigeria for you. It is YOUR JOB to find out.



YOU are a disgrace. Name the Nigerian museums you've visited. Answer: ZERO. You did ask ''where''??



WE HAVE QUALITY MUSEUMS IN NIGERIA.

YOU have visited NONE.

Rossikk:

YOU are a disgrace. Name the Nigerian museums you've visited. Answer: ZERO. You did ask ''where are the museums''?? So how do you know what condition they're all in, if you don't even know where they are?

Sapiosexuality:
True. History is often a fable agreed upon. But Rossiki why do you see nothing wrong in the existence of Nigeria? If we were better off individually until some monsters forcefully joined us, why do you have issues with people like IPOB and other secessionist groups trying to strike down the western Creation?

Rossikk:


It's simple. Because of the potential of Nigeria, which I doubt even the colonisers envisaged. One example. Do you realise that Nigeria is projected to become the world's 3rd most populous nation on earth after China and India by the year 2050? I mean, that is incredible right there in terms of the massive investment that will be attracted to this country from all over the world.

Plus politically, in today's world, size matters a lot, and gives you great influence as a nation. Look at how Nigeria is dominating Africa culturally, in music and film, and fashion. Even our pidgin English is being imitated all over the world by people transfixed by Nigerian culture as propagated by Nollywood, and artistes from to Davido to Wizkid.

Nigeria is a great country. Many Africans cannot stand Nigerians. Our potential intimidates them.

We need to find a way to unite as a nation and move forward. Breaking up into little, inconsequential 'Sierra Leones', 'Togos', and 'Liberias' is a backward step. We are all Africans. We can do it.

Igbobyblood:
Benin people were never taken as slaves. Never

budaatum:
Please add the explosive potential of our young population. 42.54% currently between the ages of 0–14 who would grow up smarter than their parents!

1Sharon:


Interesting. But they were the first to interact with the foreigners

budaatum:

I've been to the National Museum in Lagos. Imagine, Muritala Mohammed's shot up Merc in a National Museum and not the numerous artifacts that could have been in it! I've been to the wonderful Badagry Slave Museum. Good on content, functional too, but hardly secure or quality. And I've been to the National Museum in Ile Ife, which, considering what should be in it is relatively devoid of content.

I think it's you who haven't been to museums. If you had you would say so and not just resort to insults once cornered.

Igbobyblood:
yeah.

They supply us guns to win battles while we give them artifacts, palm oil , pepper.

During those days, the oba sent an ambassador to Portugal to Learn about Christianity, that was how Edo became the first west Africa to embrace Christianity, Christianity was never forced on us.

Till date urhobo and Benin chiefs attires have some Christian designs on it

Rossikk:


Stop projecting your ignorance unto me. You have very little experience of Nigerian museums if you've visited just those 3, NONE of which by the way, is ''a disgrace'' as you claimed.

Visit the National Museum in Benin City itself, then come back and tell us if it's ''a disgrace''.

Then try the ones in Jos, Kaduna, and the National War Museum, Umuahia.

Come back and tell us if you see people stealing and running off with the artefacts as you or one of your friends claimed.

budaatum:

First, I have no friend here, and I never said anyone was stealing and running off from the museums that do exist, probably because there's not much worth stealing or running off with. If there was they'd probably be empty by now.

I am indeed very ignorant of the museums in Benin City or Jos, Kaduna, and the National War Museum, Umuahia. But I have visited museums elsewhere and I doubt those you mention compare, which I would wish they could exceed in quality of artefacts and building and funding and number of visits. I know we have enough to fill them with.

Whatever we may have is not good enough and should be improved, is my own opinion. Museums abroad have more of our artifacts on display than we seem to have the museum space and the display conditions for.

Rossikk:


It's simple. Because of the potential of Nigeria, which I doubt even the colonisers envisaged. One example. Do you realise that Nigeria is projected to become the world's 3rd most populous nation on earth after China and India by the year 2050? I mean, that is incredible right there in terms of the massive investment that will be attracted to this country from all over the world.

Plus politically, in today's world, size matters a lot, and gives you a greater chance of REAL independence, as a developing country. Who can bully China or India today, or tell them what to do?

Plus we are becoming very influential as a nation. Look at how Nigeria is dominating Africa culturally, in music and film, and fashion. Even our pidgin English is being imitated all over the world by people transfixed by Nigerian culture as propagated by Nollywood, and artistes from Davido to Wizkid. Go to New York and London now. They're playing Nigerian music on a daily basis in clubs and on the radio, an unheard of situation just 5 years ago.

Nigeria is a great country. Many Africans cannot stand Nigerians. Our potential intimidates them.

We need to find a way to unite as a nation and move forward. Our differences are negligible when set against our massive potential. Breaking up into tiny, inconsequential 'Sierra Leones', 'Togos', and 'Liberias' is a backward step. We are Africans. We can find a way.