oludashmi:

Your response is like saying Ikwerres or Ikas speak Ibo and have ibo names cos they have spent years in ibo land.
Or saying Itshekiris speak Yoruba and bear Yoruba names cos they have lived in Yoruba land (when many of them have not even been to the west b4).

True alj_harem but . .
Please let me have a link to the fact that eko is an edo name cos I know that even dopemu, agege, okun, aga, isale are yoruba names which edo uses too (as confirmed by an edo woman).

oludashmi:

Your response is like saying Ikwerres or Ikas speak Ibo and have ibo names cos they have spent years in ibo land.
Or saying Itshekiris speak Yoruba and bear Yoruba names cos they have lived in Yoruba land (when many of them have not even been to the west b4).

True alj_harem but . .
Please let me have a link to the fact that eko is an edo name cos I know that even dopemu, agege, okun, aga, isale are yoruba names which edo uses too (as confirmed by an edo woman).

Andre Uweh:

Your post on the bolded reveals you are as confused as the original poster. It also reveals that you have not set foot outside Yorubaland. To improve your knowledge about Nigeria people without going outside the south west, you should write JAMB and aptitude text at Universities like Unibadan or Unilag. Such places will enable to come across people of different origins, languages and tongues. It is just a humble advice as it seems you have not been to a uni yet.
For someone to think Edos speak Yoruba and another one feels the same way shows lack of sufficient knowledge of Nigerian people.

You know your problem. . . .halucination!
Your post (especially your first reply) shows your level of hopelessness. And I pray you dont pass this genetic arrogance and ignorance on.

You talk of jamb, talk of aptitude test, talk of unilag and bla bla bla. . . .I laugh in francaise . Andre, you were still walking lifelessly across the streets of Etiti when I acquired all of that. You were still hopeless and without life direction when I travelled to places as a result of the various languages I speak. You always think everyone is a local champion like you  .

A little advise for you . . . .stop feeling irritated whenever we are mentioned. Reduce the number of village festivals you attend cos the breeze there is not good for your health mentally. Reduce your level of obsession. . .And you will be fine again .

odumchi:

Since when did the Ikwerre and Ukwuani clans stop being Igbo? Man you should really stay sway from things you don't know. Ikwerre:Igbo is not the same as Itsekiris : Yoruba. Ikwerre speak a dialect of Igbo. A more reasonable comparison is Ekpeye:Igbo Yoruba:Itsekiris. But I'm sure you've had no previous knowledge of them.:

oludashmi:

You know your problem. . . .halucination!
Your post (especially your first reply) shows your level of hopelessness. And I pray you dont pass this genetic arrogance and ignorance on.

You talk of jamb, talk of aptitude test, talk of unilag and bla bla bla. . . .I laugh in francaise . Andre, you were still walking lifelessly across the streets of Etiti when I acquired all of that. You were still hopeless and without life direction when I travelled to places as a result of the various languages I speak. You always think everyone is a local champion like you .

A little advise for you . . . .stop feeling irritated whenever we are mentioned. Reduce the number of village festivals you attend cos the breeze there is not good for your health mentally. Reduce your level of obsession. . .And you will be fine again .

Andre Uweh:

This your post above is brainless. If at all you have travelled to places around Nigeria and speak different languages, then you would have known that what people of Edo speak is not Yoruba. You would have as well known that those Edos who speak Yoruba were either born in Yorubaland, lived in Yorubaland or have learnt to speak Yoruba. It is an outright stupidity to turn a simple logic upside down.

Andre, Andre. . .
Cool your temper and work on yourself.

To answer the OP like the likes of alj harem, and others who have made reasonable contributions, you have a long way to go!
You were the one who turned the question upside down and I can see you are getting the topic wrong.
The OP did not say Edos speak Yorubas as their language . Read to understand and dont just disturb your keyboard just cos you are not charged per word. If this were an sms, I can bet you wont appear as much as you do. Take care.

cindylee:

I am Edo and I only learnt how to speak Yoruba because I schooled in Ife. Nobody from Edo state automatically learns how to speak Yoruba as his first or second language. You have to learn it because either you schooled in yoruba land or you live there. All these nonsense historians who have never lived or been in Edo state just talk of what they hear people say. And I still say that no Edo person can just learn how to speak yoruba like that. Also some part of Edos share boundary with Ondo state which are the Akokos. We call them Akoko-edo, so maybe those people by virtue of boundary speak yoruba and vice-versa. Please you guys should not just be basing arguments on what you hear people say

By the way, Urhobos and Itsekiris are not part of Edo state. They are part of Delta but we are all from the old Bendel state. Anything aside from this na pure lie.

Negro_Ntns:
Ibo people are nobody in Nigeria when we talk about great people and cultures. To create a new greatness you all are on internet revising yur history. Where you find it impossible to revise yours you then try to revise other people's to narrow the obvious backwardness of your Nri/Aro history.

If we were doing a count and a nemurical value of 1 is assigned to each head of a Yoruba person, the Ibo equivalent will be 1/4 or less.

So you need to realize that you have oyibo to thank for designating you majority. You are truly and factually a political minority in this country. It has nothing to do with your population , which is not that many to begin with, but your political contribution to the history of Africa generally is blank!

Negro_Ntns:

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odumchi:
Man what's your problem? How many times have I told you to leave Aro people and Igbo people alone for that matter? What is your problem really? I can't go on, reading your posts really piss me off. Keep your mouth out of topics you don't know about

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My presence here is to state what is truthful, if that makes you uncomfortable then great!


Ibo people are nobody in Nigeria when we talk about great people and cultures. To create a new greatness you all are on internet revising yur history. Where you find it impossible to revise yours you then try to revise other people's to narrow the obvious backwardness of your Nri/Aro history.

If we were doing a count and a nemurical value of 1 is assigned to each head of a Yoruba person, the Ibo equivalent will be 1/4 or less.

So you need to realize that you have oyibo to thank for designating you majority. You are truly and factually a political minority in this country. It has nothing to do with your population , which is not that many to begin with, but your political contribution to the history of Africa generally is blank!

Andre Uweh:
Well done.
I hope Oludashmi and Negro will read this post.
It's a pity that Physics RMD, Bokohalal and Exotic will turn blind eye to this topic because it has nothing to do with Igbo.

Negro_Ntns: I've discussed the topic with people far knolwedgable than you on Ibo culture and they all agree you don't have any one hereditary.

Yorubas have Oduduwa. Hausas have Bayajjida. Ibos have none! The Nri you all claim is a subordinate to Aro confederacy, which itsel no one knows where its roots lie. Is it indigenus or settler, no one can tell.


Everything point to a bunch of different peoples forced away from their roots and conglomerated under a language.

Go down African history and study how great peoples acrrue power. If colonization had not happened you would by now be a tributary of Bini empire. Whiteman saved you from an inevitable wipeout.

alj harem: ^^^^^^^^^^^^

Okoro man, go take a chill pill and stop distributing hate all over the internet.

NRI PRIEST:


You should be in a mental rehabilitation facility binds with chains! You are a disgusting animal!

Andre Uweh:
Not all the Yoruba believe in this your Oduduwa crap. Southern Yoruba groups such as Egbas and Ijebus do not have any claims to Oduduwa. Some other southern Yoruba groups who now falsely look unto Oduduwa as their pregenitor do so because of politics. Anyway, that is if at all there was any Oduduwa coming from sky or the sky coming from Oduduwa.

Chyz*:


Makes no sense what so ever.Lol. . . Do you even know what "hereditary" means?  "Under a hereditary" Lol

Watch how you use the word "Race", homegirl.