₦airaland Forum

Okun indigenes moved against merging them with completely different tribes but they were forced into this marriageTheir efforts to break away and form Okun State, which could make it possible for them to be more closer to their Kiths and Kins in the South West, failed to materialise.
Concerning Identity problem, The Yorubas in South West are trying to link the identity of Okun people to their Kiths and Kins in South West going by history and shared traits but their counterparts who want Okun people to remain a minority tribe in the entity called Nigeria, claimed that Okun people are not Yorubas and Yoruba is only trying to expand their Kingdom. Okun people bear Yoruba names like Edo people, lots of them speak yoruba and many of their settlements are named in yoruba language such as Kajola, Egbeda, Egbeda Ega, Okedayo, Odo Ere, Odo Eri, Ife, Iyamoye, Agbaja, Igbo Nla and Obajana. Even, groups that make up Bunu people of Okun are Okemeta, Okemesan, Akumerindinlogun and Kiri groups.
By: Raymond Ayinla Ajeigbe

They associated this name with him whenever they wanted to send messages across to him after returning to his occupied area, now called Yagba.
Okun people faced lots of challenges, ranging from geo political zoning, marginlisation and problem of identity. Their problem started during the colonial era when they were politically ceded to the Northern protectorate by Lord Lugard, the Governor-General of Nigeria. The abolition of the provincial and regional administrative units in 1967 led to their merging with Ilorin to form old Kwara state. Then, Igala was merged with old Benue State. However, on 27th of august 1991, Okun people was removed again and merged with Ebira, Igala from Benue state and some other tribes to form Kogi state.

Also, The Nupe wars of the 19th century and interaction with the Hausas due to geographical zoning left an indelible mark on the Okun people and their dialects.
According to oral source, Okun people migrated from Ile Ife when Yorubas were spreading to occupy more lands, before spreading out, each and everyone was instructed to report to Ile Ife for a yearly meeting. The man, that led group of young people to a location (now called YAGBA) in Kogi state did not return over a long period of time.
When eventually returned and explained that he lost larger part of his acquired land to some other migrants. He was blamed for the loss and said in yoruba,''ÌYÀ ÀGBÀ LÓ JEMÍ'' meaning that invasion of his acqured land was due to lack of having elderly people with him. Since then, they started mocking him at Ile Ife, calling him Iya agba .

BRIEF HISTORY OF OKUN PEOPLE
Okun people are Yoruba descendants in Kogi state. Okun people spread across six local government areas in Kogi State, known as Kabba-Bunu, Yagba-West, Yagba-East, Mopa-Muro, Ìjùmú and Lokoja local government Areas.
They speak varied dialects…Owé, Ìyàgbà, Ìjùmú, Bùnú and Oworo, but their language is generally called Okun, Okun has become a form of greeting among them.
They understand one another to a greater extent and large numbers of them speak Yoruba. Their dialects are influenced by various factors. Such factor is that Kogi state shares boundaries with Kwara, Ondo, Ekiti, Niger, Benue, Nassarawa, Anambra, Enugu, Edo and Abuja.

Holywizard:
i'm not surprised...

He is a yoruba man...

maybe he didn't hear well... he thought he won a lottery

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. that's an authocratic for you

Appleyard:
Russia and China marching side by side.. The biblical nations of Gog and Magog.

World War 3 formations gradually taking place right under our eyes..

Get ready for the second coming of Christ!

don't be brainwashed by religious fallacy dude.... russia is the boss.... why didn't you make reference to the scripture when uncle sam legalised homosexual marriage hmn?!

"When it goes bad, they are igbos but when it turns good they are Nigerians. See the headlines..... FOUR IGBOS EXECUTED IN INDONESIA, EIGHT IGBOS WAITING EXECUTION IN THAILAND, TWO IGBOS SCAMMED A BRITISH WOMAN OF $23,500, IGBOS VOTE JONATHAN BECAUSE OF GREED, but when it turns good see the headlines, FOUR NIGERIANS WINS IN BRITISH PARLIAMENT, A NIGERIAN HAS BEEN CONFIRM HARVARD PROFESSOR,A NIGERIAN HAS BEEN APPOINTMENT AS THE HEAD OF MICROSOFT INC. Madness of a failed state, that is what I call it."
Qris Ebeatu
source: m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=930146883702948&id=139195132798131&refid=17
cc:
lalasticlala, ishilove, seun, barcanista

shikaan:
my sister's traditional wedding
i think she looks beautiful!!
am surely going to miss her....

you must be a tiv

Texcoco:
[color=#1980BC] Dem artists neber hab de juice fi groove de nayshian an OP wan wi fi judge dem remix kings? Boomshaka!..Wi check it deep an wi see Davido an Wizkid dem both be casko brand name artists...Empty kartaan artists. [/color]

what the hell are you saying, do you think you're at the caribbean? :-/

bigt2:
OK. If I post pictures of me and my gf too, would you like it? Oya, font page straight. aren't we romantic? I gave her the ring so dont tresspass

I SEE TWO WEREWOLVES :-/

190:
Its no biggie
During my time
I had 490 in Jamb and 19.0 in an american university of yales

so wats the big deal?? /

dabosuker:
yeah but if the planets where that close to us, the scary background of jupiter or saturn would be the least of our problems,...............we would be faced with one hell of a cosmic monster:........GRAVITY.......with the mass of jupiter or saturn, it would be unthinkable what its gravity would do to us,...unthinkable i tell u.... ..

gravity might just pull us WWithin jupiter's orbit

jnrbayano:
Bigger than Main market in Onitsha the only Nigerian market captured in/by Wikipedia?

At least to my knowledge (the bold)

mr man don't feel on top of the world because onitsha main market is on wikipedia..... i might as well create a wiki account and write an article about oyigbo market also

NOBODY SEEMS TO MENTION OKPA that's the life saver for students from the south east and north central.....
anyway, has anyone eaten bread with engine oil or tooth paste before..
i remember cooking egusi soup with weed g

HILLARY CLINTON is most likely to win the elections, just like obama being the first black president, being the first female pres is something that sounds new to america.... and which they'll definitely want 2 try out

Some days to his epic fight with Manny Pacquaio,
Floyd Mayweather, who has never lost a fight in a
all of his 47 professional fights, compared himself to
boxing legend, Muhammed Ali, saying he’s a better
fighter than Ali. No disrespect to Muhammad Ali, but
he did it in one division. I just look at
Ali’s career when he fought Leon
Spinks and lost to a fighter with seven
fights. There were some other fights
he lost and he’s still known as The Greatest because that’s what he put
out there. It is what it is. “He called himself The Greatest and I
call myself TBE (The Best Ever). I’m
pretty sure I’ll get criticized for what I
said, but I couldn’t care less. I could
care less about the backlash.” He said.
Source: www..ng/2015/05/03/i-am-better-than-muhammad-ali-floyd-mayweather-speaks/

“I know when you have money and
when you have ‘power’ and you have
all these ‘yes’ people around you,
sometimes you don’t have that person
to pull you aside and really give it to
you straight,” she said. “So every once in a while I’m just
like, ‘You know what, I need to reach
out to Floyd and I need to have a
conversation with him’, because I
don’t hate him. “I dislike the way that he acts and I
dislike the way that he treats people
and obviously I’m definitely not down
with his beating up on women
because that’s very cowardly. “But the first thing I think about is the
fact that he needs somebody to reach
out to him and kind of guide him.”
source: www..ng/2015/05/03/mayweather-is-a-little-boy-a-broken-person-muhammad-alis-daughter-laila-ali/
cc: lalasticlala
barcanista
ishilove

Ealier yesterday, Mayweather said “I Am Better Than Muhammad Ali – Floyd Mayweather
Speaks ” Muhammad Ali’s daughter called Floyd
Mayweather Jr “a little boy” ahead of the
undefeated American’s historic showdown with
Filipino icon Manny Pacquiao. In the lead-up to the ‘Fight of the Century’
Mayweather suggested he was a greater fighter
and had done more for boxing than Ali. “I don’t agree that he’s better than
Muhammad Ali,” Laila Ali said on CBS
Sports. “That’s a whole other conversation,
but I [also] think about the man my
father is outside the ring.” “I know Floyd. I know his family,”
she said. I wanted to reach out to him and have a
conversation with him because I see a little boy,
even though he’s a grown man, and I see a
broken person. Laila said she was obviously against his treatment
of women – Mayweather Jr has been found guilty
on multiple counts of domestic battery – and the
welterweight champion needed someone in his
corner who would be honest with him.

seankafor:
after watching transformer 2 and 3 i now learnt that to be a soldier with better armour sweet oo...truly no country can fight u s a..

PUTIN STILL DEY FORM O!! but he dey do him own codedly

McEwen:
gonococcus

this is a combination of gonococcus erus, staphylococcus erus, and other unidentified eruses

...

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Nokiae5:
would it be a dream come true if i marry obama pikin? Well make she go read meds make i reason her

by the time u go wan marry her, her papa go don finish hin tenure as POTUS and returned to his cannabis plantation at illinois MMM

smalls7:
Ehh, first to comment, dancing shoki***
Lalasticlala oya do the needful

Na lie!! lalasticlala no go do anything, this post no go commot from this lungu enter fp

FP worthy post

aguiyi:
osinbajo looks like a baby ape in the last pics

that baby ape is an erudite scholar with several years of intellectual experience....... oh!!! i almost forgot, HE'LL SOON BE THE INCUMBENT VICE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA by may 29.. why you're busy hawking palm wine at ariara market like a tattered church prat, now tell me.... whose the ape YOU NEANDERTHAL

dat must be charlie hebdo... And if guys com carry gun go arrange dem 4 deir office, dem go dy yarn

Sile12:
17. Vladimir Putin as a young teenager, looking pretty much like Vladimir Putin today.

See more:
http://www.visualnews.com/2013/12/30/22-pictures-famous-people-young/


www.suggest.com/celebs/12505/27-rare-pictures-of-celebrities-before-they-got-famous#page=1

badt guy.. he myt already had been in d secret service agency by that time, i learnt he joined at 17