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gregyboy:
These are the cunny attitude dat made all yoruba went to war and it has not yet been stop by you all

Are u aware the ooni went to america to see the ife art ur king gave away so sheeply because of money...when he was at the museum there was the izoduwa head he was describing to the white museum attendant then suddenly she paused the
Ooni to come see the benin art that the benin art in the museum is most viewed and cherished alot by viewers they arranged neatly compare the izododuwa head the ooni got confused because he was explain the only art of ife in the museum and the lady paused him to show him the benin art he knows nothing of the ooni camera man were forced to take views of the benin art ....i felt a pity for ur ooni it was a shame to a king even the art wss a shame if you need the link of the video i will send it

Send me the video bro

macof:
All of you keep crying hot tears

I enjoy seeing Bini rants and how nobody takes you seriously, it must be frustrating

Look at who is talking .... You are the last thing I would ever take serious on this site, mind you the HTML files of this site inclusive

You Gerrit? Am sure you don't numb skull!!

AreaFada2:
I mentioned the bolded regarding Igando a few days back.

With Owo it was first moving from Benin, then moving from Ife through Benin (stayed long in Benin and moved much later) and recently it is moving directly from Ife. With Upele near Owo it was moving from Benin, then 6 families from Benin plus one from Ife joined them. The 7 families make up the kingdom. This is the current version. An Ife person needed to be snuck into the story. Don't be surprised that 20 years from now, it will be 6 families came from Ife and one from Benin and 20 years later it could be all 7 families from Ife.
You only need one so-called prof from UI, OAU or Unilag ("the Lagos-Ibadan propaganda publishers" ) to publish a few nonsense on it to provide "evidence or proof".

We that have the strongest ties to Eastern Yorubaland know the truth.

Eastern Yoruba who maintain Benin origin feel marginalised and are now claiming Ife otherwise they may be called "Omale" for being honest to themselves. Others may lose out in struggle for royal stools.

There is already a case in Ondo State in a town with 2 kings. The original king known in the place who maintains Benin origin is being called stranger by the smaller king who claims Ife. In the future, the Benin origin king's descendants may not be bold enough to claim Benin for fear of losing out due to ethnic politics. I prefer not to mention the town but Google is your friend for further information.

We can see marginalisation, politics and fear eroding history. Not everybody cares about truth or what is genuine. Many are mere politicians culturally.

What we are writing here now may not seem important but we need to because there are many silent readers and younger ones may stumble upon them decades from now.

For too long, we Edo people, confident in our history and its solidity, looked away as others were enviously chipping away at it. Granted, it is exercise in futility. We are not worried. Still we must not look away but put the record straight.

If the Benin Bronzes being returned from UK, Germany and elsewhere now were to be happening 100 years from now, there would voodoo historians who would claim, perhaps with 80 million strong tribal population, that they originally came from Ife. I kid you not. Luckily, 1897 is still fresh enough memory,

Gregyboy
UGBE634
Samuk
Etinosa1
AutomaticMotors

Everything you typed up there is facts boss, me personally I remember that issue of the two kings, it's in a town in Ondo I believe, if I am not mistaken it is close to okitipupa if not even the town itself ! The Benin descendant is the real heir of the Throne but the usurper went to ooni of ife to concort an ife migration fairy tale and he is now claiming he is the rightfull king

AreaFada2:
Folks, another history about a hunter from Benin and Ife as founders of Mushin in Lagos State. Make we dey mark them o.

We nor dey follow anybody drag anything o. But if lies and envy began their journey 50 years before truth, truth will one day overtake them kia kia.

When we say Edo full everywhere, envious neighbours will say 7LGAs.

Gregyboy
UGBE634
Samuk
Etinosa
AutomaticMotors

AreaFada2:
The next time they will write the story, they will remove any mention of Edo/Benin.
Na their way.

classic

BanyXchi:
that's so rich coming from a Edo urchin like you.. you degenerates are obsessed with Yorubas. It's a mental illness at this point.

I can't even bring myself down to your dust bin level ... move on kid, I am not the one jumping from one Edo thread to another.... If you don't have work to do, go and pluck Ewedu for your mother!!

AreaFada2:
Evian and descendants were never "ogisos". Only administrators. Obaseki and some chiefs like Obakhavbaye and Ero administered Benin when Oba Ovonramwen was in Calabar. Obaseki was not a king o. Same with Evian and his folks after Ogiso Owodo and Esagho saga.

Nobody regards them as any ogiso at any point.

Don't buy into Aristo and supporters' fairy-tale.

As for Usen, I know the place well enough and the story. Better to just leave that one aside. The inconsistencies are like that of Oduduwa.

I wanted to draw attention of our people to Igando in Alimosho/Lagos thread about Ife hunter that first went to Benin. From Benin, he moved to Igando.

A straightforward Benin founder had to be made to first be from Ife before going to Igando. Because in Yorubaland, if you don't somehow link your ancestors to Ife, you are fake.

All Baale's and obas are manufacturing Ife links. Because 50 years from now, the descendants of those who don't claim Ife will be outmuscled by Ife/Oduduwa claimants. You know how the tussles and court cases over traditional stools can be fierce in SW.

See Igando link here below:
https://www.nairaland.com/7482734/history-igando-town-lagos#119188660

Gregyboy
UGBE634
AutomaticMotors
Etinosa1
Samuk

Wow this igando issue is very troubling and funny at the same time, this shows this Yoruba ppl don't care about the truth or culture they just care about what they can gain... This all always been the Yoruba trait ... A lair and a cheat/coward

Born2Breed:
Edo odion.

Edo first
Edo best

Forever and Always

AreaFada2:
These figures finally confirm what we have already said here before but some tribalists wouldn't see beyond their noses.

Now that Edo tops the list, the usual envious neighbours will be shouting prostitution.

As if narcotics and wire fraud are better than prostitution, which by the way no tribe can claim not to have.
Or the girls juggling 7 boyfriends alongside hook-ups to pay rent, school fees, feed, buy iPhone and wigs in Abuja, Lagos, PH, Owerri or anywhere in 9ja are any better.

Even the Lagos figures, SS and SE people at Festac and Alimosho will have a big chunk of it.
Oyo and Lagos are SW's most populated and both combined can't be less than 15m people. Yet Edo alone with about 5.5 to 6 millions roughly equals Lagos and Oyo in remittance.

It confirms what I have said before that Edo expects nothing from Nigeria as a country. Because since 1897, we already knew that any British contraption would be a fraud of a country. So Edos are positioning themselves abroad. As with immigrants typically, whatever hustle MO they used to survive initially, the next generation will be far better positioned.

The actual figures yearly should be about $20 to $25bn.

Money people send directly through friends and family travelling home are often more than official transfers.
Containers, cars, bags, boxes and others sent through courier companies by diasporans amount to a lot of money earned abroad.

EGBE634
Gregyboy
Samuk
AutomaticMotors
Etinosa1

100% facts boss!

AreaFada2:
Yes, they are first of all Arabs. They moved from Arabian Peninsula after end of Roman Empire, bringing Islam.
Same way we are blacks or Igbo, Edo, Yoruba, Kanuri before being Nigerian or African. Geographically Morocco may be on the African continent, racially, culturally and spiritually, they are Middle East/Arabs. Fact.

I support Moroccans because of football politics. If Morocco or indeed all African nations did well, the argument to give Africa more slots in FIFA WC would be stronger. Africa should have around 7 slots. Nigeria, Egypt and or Algeria/SA presence in Qatar 2022 would have added more African flavour.

Fact is that France, England, Dutch, Portuguese and even German teams are more African than Morocco team otherwise.

I never support Argentina due to their history with black people. It used to have one of the highest concentrations of blacks in South America around 1850s.

How could Portuguese and Spaniards fill neighbouring Brazil and other countries around like Columbia with African slaves and somehow left Argentina all white? Who worked the fields that generated so much wealth?

Today, who knows that Tango, the national Argentine dance comes from the Congolese (Kikongo) word "Ntangu" for the sun, a dance mimicking the sun's movement through the sky? I guess very few.

As blacks were either systematically eliminated or forced to flee to nearby countries, white Europeans especially Italians were shipped in from Europe. Italy didn't exist as a single country then as it is now. Bits of it were under Austrian, Spanish and other people's control or were small principalities. Emigration was attractive to Italians.

For a former Spanish colony, people don't ask why so many Argentines bear Italian surnames?

Removing politics or history from football/sports or anything is an illusion.

If not why is Russia often not allowed to participate as a nation in Olympics?

https://afropunk.com/2018/07/argentinas-black-population-has-been-systematically-erased-removed-in-whitewashing-effort/

EGBE634
Gregyboy
Samuk
AutomaticMotors
Etinosa

I always wondered why and how some Argentine names always sound Italian .....wow! Now I understand.

As for Argentina they don't even hide their negrophobia ...Even when Nigeria played Argentina and we were proving hard to beat we all saw how erratic and mad maradonna became on the pitch, pouring all sort of racist slurs on our players..

gidgiddy:
His Bendel identity? No such identity exists. "Ifeanyi" and "Okowa" are both Igbo names

Okowa is not an "Igbo" name!!

tishbite41:
Okoro is also Benin
Mugu

Yes!! Bamb00

Pacesetterz:
Is that what okowa told u? That he’s an igbo man?
U pple have carry this una Ipob spirit of tribal convetousness (by force identity with south)to Okowa. Just keep quiet

No mind them ...Okowa that sounds more like a Benin name than anything igbo

Fejoku:
I'm not the reason for your lunacy. Kindly crawl back to the hole from where you crept out. I've no time for demented rodents.

Shut up biatch what I said still stands reread it and go and off your self!! Tiny bamb00

Fejoku:
Your level of stupidity blinded you to the fact stated in the write up that the community is an Igbo community.
In Igboland, every community has a clan it is closest and more related to irrespective of the state where she finds herself. E.g Okpanam(Okpala Anam) in Delta State is more related to Anam in Anambara state than she is with neighbouring Igbo communities in Anioma. Aro-ndizuogu in Imo is more related to Arochukwu in the fringes of Abia state( 130km away). Many other such relationships abounds which we don't need to explain to mad dogs like you. You can't twist the man's simple statement to mean your bigoted thoughts.
On the other hand, the write up just shuts fools like you who don't know anything about Igbos up. Igbo is Niger Delta and Niger Delta is Igbo. The River Niger passed through Igboland and Igbo communities abound in the Delta that it forms into the Atlantic Ocean. If that isn't Niger Delta, no ethnic group else is qualified to be associated with the term Niger Delta.
I schooled you fool once again.

Your never school your ever growing IDP population in your tiny south east you wan dey school stranger on a random website.... Senseless

AreaFada2:
Anybody who has taken their time to correct the falsehood peddled against our history here has really done well. It is much easier to be quiet but falsehood repeated often enough can suddenly become reality. It is an ongoing campaign that we must sustain. I hope that the real G.O.A.Ts are yet to join us here and surpass all our efforts till date.

We Benins (not Binis) have been too urbane, relaxed and somewhat naïve. We believe in maintaining peace and being accommodating. But we cannot do it at any cost.
We need to realise that we have many frenemies, many of whom we have welcomed and accommodated. When it suites them, they will say we are same people. But in reality they will deride our history and backbite us with other people.
I understand their envy as they do not have our illustrious history. Some seek to compensate for it by aggressively pursuing money, position, wealth, etc.

If they can supress, deceive, take food from your mouth or divert good things away from you as a Benin man, it's a massive boost for their ego. It also satisfies their historical grudges. Frenemies believe that they are able to outsmart us. It is simply because we have cultural values and are never desperate, which is the opposite of their situation. So we must be watchful but cool, calm and collected.

Izoduwa narrated a story of contesting for student leader position at OAU, Ife. His experience was like a fraction of mine and dating from much earlier than his until now. It was one of the things that made him to become such a patriot. We all have our Eureka moments.

Nobody can love you as much as you love yourself or your history/culture. Nigeria is a badly divided country now. It is every tribe for itself. As 9ja's expiry date gradually draws closer, we must prepare ourselves. The North has oil now. They might discover more huge gas deposits that they won't want to share with the South.

I pity our women that pastors from outside Edo gather to build churches, fill their pockets and then demonise our culture. Of course they don't have any great history to cherish so why should they cherish ours? We need to wise up. It is women who chiefly propagate culture.

We got Christianity before other tribes in 9ja. It may be "sharking" those who got it under 150 years ago now, not us that got in the 1470s. We even indigenised it as Aruosa Cathedral centuries ago. How many other kings in Africa are the heads of a Christian Church? None other aside Oba of Benin. King Charles of England is another king who heads a church but that's in Europe. Because they have no ancient indigenous church of their own to show, suddenly they say Aruosa is pagan.

But Coptic Church of Egypt and the Ethiopian one are not pagan o.

So nobody should tell us about Christianity, paganism or whatever. We got it before anyone else. We need to wake up.

Very wise counsel boss! As always no lies told

UGBE634:
Unarguably, physics is the greatest Benin man to ever grace this forum. Even Areafada would agree with that

AreaFada2 in my opinion is the G.O.A.T!! He stood the test of time and he is still here strong as ever!

Ologbo147:
He leg for peel before he reach Ife

Olu317:
And to correct you permanently, Olúgbó is not even superior to Aláke in anyway even Olúgbó ancestor who was Obamakin was affiliated to Ora ifẹ . But you people love moonlight story

A character from one of the different ppl that make up the "Yoruba Canopy" accusing someone of moonlight stories is the most
Ironic thing I have seen on nairaland in a long time

All Edos on this thread stop replying this people! Ignore them till the Ewedu dries in their stomachs!! This thread should be purged of such elements not worthy of 1kobo!

You are not even on the same level with the person you are quoting!! Both of you are not even comparable! He is a gift to Edos on this site and we acknowledge and appreciate his efforts over the years on this site whereas you upon all the years you have spent here making a mockery of your existence your fellow Yoruba comrades no even send you Dem no even regard you reach 1 cup of beans!!

AreaFada2:

Well, Benin already led Midwest out of Western Region concocted by the British and we have stood on our own, thank you very much. You can keep your teleporting Dr Who Oduduwa. Or is Arabian flying carpet?

Even Alake ranting in 2016 to rank Obas in Yorubaland didn't even dare to rank himself above Oba of Benin. So what are you saying?

Because Egbaland has produced many heads of state doesn't make Alake rank higher than Owa Obokun, Soun or Timi.

I know you guys do political obaship, even the selection sef na wa.

Of course he probably had too much time to spare he went about the fruitless journey of mentioning Benin inside supremacy battle. I know your hubris and ignorance won't allow you to know the woto woto Alake received in 2016. Why Alakes take it upon themselves to infuriate other people minding their own business? In 1952 and again in 2016.

Let Alake openly rank himself above the Olugbo of Ugbo, Oba Frederick Akinruntan and see the woto woto he will get.

Cc Automechanic

Deadlytruth:
In Igarra usage:
Ozioma means a responsible child develops the trait naturally and not due much to parental efforts.
Iramofu means the future always is greater than the past and present.
Adaviriku means that a responsible father is a like a forest into which members of the family run for protection.
Asusheyi is actually a condensed pronunciation of A si ewu sha eyi and it transliterates to 'You should not hurry' meaning no hurry in life.

So they are not Yoruba names and have nothing to do with Yoruba.

Wow see how you exposed him

AreaFada2:
For our SW friends, Oba Osemwnde sacked Akure and chopped off Deji Arankale's head in 1818 due to Deji of Akure's insolence and murdering of Oba's emissary Chief Osague. They won't know that history of course.

Bro you too Ruthless and also funny to booth

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AreaFada2:
At least a woman taking hard currency abroad is wiser than one that opens leg for Agbero just for amala and Ewedu from Iya Basira Buka. Italy one can benefit well compared to local champion. If you must chop frog, chop a nice fat one.
At least their skulls will not be mined whether in Edo or Italy but your people in SW thank heavens if they wake up on any given morning with their head intact.

We already broke away without waiting for the people we have in SW. No biggie.

So why did you guys support your Hausa masters to stop Biafra then? Midwest was neutral when the war started. Since when did leaving Hausas become a priority for you guys? We already realised in 1897 that allowing the British to colonise and merge us people that thrive on betrayal was a bad idea, you guys suddenly realise that you want to separate?

You are just seeing what we saw in 1897 already and what even the SE say 70 years after us in 1967? Upon all the claimed education and sophistication?

Keep doing evostick gum because of oil and gas in the SS.

We fought the British head on and we still have 7 LGAs. Those that didn't have the liver to fight are now Hausa slaves. Even after your people are slaughtered, your god emilokan still asks "where are the cows?"

I sight you, we have many takpa people in Ondo, they now claim Ife origin too.

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This wotowoto was too strong boss even his ancestors felt it in their rotten bones

Igboid:
The Bridge was blown under the command of an Anioma son, and it wasn't blown to trap Anioma people.
It was blown to slow down the advance of Nigerian troops.
All over Igboland bridges were blown to slow Nigerian troops march. The bridge at Imo river in Etche was blown too to delay the match from PH to Owerri.

Nsukka was also quickly abandoned and the troops withdrawn to defend Enugu, leaving Nsukka citizens at the mercy of Nigerian soldiers, since it was assumed that killing of unarmed civilians was not part of war.

You will have to find another excuse why you wicked Edo people joined hands with Nigerians to massacre our Igbo people in Bini and in Aniomaland.

You danced around the truth and ended up digging a bigger pit for your Ibo corpse!

From what you typed and posted it is very easy for those with a sharp unpolluted mind to see Ojukwu blew up all those bridges to safeguard the only people relevant to him "The igbos in the 5 dilapidated SE states"

And left those he felt were "Never Really Igbo " or "Not Igbo Enough" at the mercy of blood thirsty Murtalla!!


This is my last reply to you kid!!

The same Ojukwu(Igbo) that blew up the Onitsha end of the bridge, leaving the Asaba people at the mercy of blood thirsty Murtalla? Ojukwu did this knowing fully well what was going to happen next (Asaba Genocide)

And this Igbo jihadist has the effontery to speak on wickedness?

Igboid:
Ndiigbo fought Britain, Egypt, and 200 plus ethnic groups in NIGERIA for 2years plus and gave a good account of ourselves.

Your mushroom overhyped Bini empire was ransacked and your fat Oba captured within 3 days by few British soldiers in a simple expedition, not even a war. So much for an overhyped empire.
In contrast Arochukwu fought for 2 months plus in full scale war called Anglo-Aro war.

It took the British decades to subject Western Igbos to colonialism.

And you think you are Igbos mate? You think you can taunt Igbos with Biafra defeat?
The joke is on you.

Stay off Igbo lands in SS. We have not forgotten how your Edo people committed massacres in Anioma during the war and killed many of them in Bini city.

Move on!

I don't have the mental patience to engage in diatribe with the Igbo stock ..... But I will tell you this plain and Clear!!
You and your Igbo jihad are of no consequence and never will ! Slam your head all you want the fact still remains thus:

IKA IS NOT IGBO AND WOULD NEVER BE!! IKA IS IKA!! Ika is a gazetted tribe in Nigerian constitution! Igbo land starts and end in the tiny south eastern 5 states! This Anioma ppl have rejected you lots both openly and privately!! Leave them the 4uck alone na by force? Tufia!!

Igboid:
Rather than think of how to reconcile with their Esan brothers, try and regain their Edo people carved into Ondo state (Akoko SE), try and bring Edoid brothers like Urhobo, Isoko, Epie-Etissa, Degema, Engenni, into one umbrella.
Shameless Edo people are busy eyeing Igbo speaking Delta North and stupidly thinking of ressurecting their dead Bini empire in a modern world where ethnic nationalism is the "in-thing".

These despicable people see Ndiigbo in SE as their biggest obstacle to annexing Igbo speaking territories in Delta into their modern day empire under the rulership of their Oba.
What a charade.

UGBE34 If your brothers will not stay off Igbo speaking territories in SS, and you can't bring them to order, be ready for Igbo total attack on Bini and everything you lots hold dare. We will leave no stone unturned in coming after you guys.
We are not our parents who were playing cool with you guys, we will not play fair or cool.
Hate will be met with hate, propaganda with propaganda, lies with lies, deceit with deceit.
And guess what, we have the number to overwhelm you guys on this online propaganda war.
Stop trespassing into Igbo issues! Face your Edolands.
On appropriate time, we will exchange Ozanogogo with Igbanke. That's the only business we have with Edo.

For the chest beating little gorilla !!!

Make I go find that buhari tweet I dey come