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realestate99:
Actually you are right, Yoruba ladies do actually date outsiders but to marry they still prefer a fellow Yoruba most times, my friends that are non Yoruba complains about this a lot....but a Yoruba man can marry a Congolese pygmy, he does not care where you come from, this is where I have problem with most Yoruba guys, we need to preserve the blood line.

totally agree, we must preserve our blood.

ariesbull:
Igbo have given Nigeria many foods

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okwuru they non igbo call it okro ...but the real igbo name is okwuru (meaning to stand )okro tree is tall and stands that's why Igbo call it Okwuru but non igbo copied it and name it okro


ugu is another igbo vegetable


without igbo many tribes like yoruba and ebira will be eating trash

Delusional Ipob terrorist.

UGBE634:
He meant no city, in terms of size and economic strength, Benin city is reckoned to be the fourth largest city in Nigeria, ignore this guy, He is trying to distract you from the lord's work you are doing in the other thread samuk

lol I'm not distracting bro... Is Benin bigger that PH?

samuk:
Oredo is not the only local government area in Edo south, what is holding the rest back. Like I said before Benin city will always be a huge magnet for Benin people and others, irrespective of how many local government areas you create out of Edo south Benin city will continue to be a huge cultural centre for every Benin person and all want to live there if they can afford it. There are numerous Benin diaspora from various local government that can develop their local communities but instead choose Benin City.

I don't know how well you know Benin 30 years ago, Benin city in the last thirty years have almost double in size and this is mostly because numerous Benin people in diaspora have become rich and pouring resources into the centre of their culture. A Benin person who can afford it will rather build a house in Benin city first before there local government, the same doesn't apply to other tribes.

It is Benin city first to the average Benin person irrespective of which local government he or she comes from. Esan, Urhobo, Afemai or Ika don't have such. A Benin person can have a house or multiple houses in Benin city and be satisfied without having any in his local government area. An Esan man will first think of building in his locality before venturing outside. Every Benin person wants to live in Benin city, creation of more local government areas in Edo south won't charge that. Edo south already have local government areas that are overshadowed by Benin city because Benin city is the cultural centre of Edo state.

If most Urhonigbe indigines in diaspora decide to build their houses in Urhonigbe, the place will develop.

Places like Amagba, oka, idogbo, Obagie, etc were all villages about 20 years ago. They are now flourishing towns, mostly because of Edo in diaspora investments in these areas, government is only trying to catch up now. All the Urhonigbe, okada, Ehor, etc in diaspora are the ones expanding developing Benin city into neighbouring villages, if they put similar efforts into their towns, they will be develop. Similar thing is happening in Lagos. If all Igbo that have helped to develop Lagos and Abuja, agree to develop a part of Igbo land, that land will be more develop than Lagos and Abuja even without federal government inputs.

where did Igbos develop in abuja and Lagos? And who told you Benin is more developed than the SE states?

UGBE634:
The fg would have undeniably granted a seventh state for the south south, bear in mind that the second in command to Abacha who is equivalent to the vice president today was an Esan man in the person of Akhigbe.
Anenih might have thwarted this one because of the fact that the state capital lot did not fall on Esan people but rather the lot of the state governors which is Even rotational. But this is a different issue,

I am talking about Aikhomu that was the vice to Babangida. Eredieuwa did not allow the creation of local government which would have allowed these communities and their kings some form of independence and these towns some form of development. If not for what Eredieuwa did, there would have been strong population concentration in several towns rather than the strong congregation of Bini populace in Benin city as a residential area. He was however afraid that these kings in these towns with some form of independence and a separate local government would have enabled them to chart their course. That was his major concern. He wanted strong undiluted control over all Edo areas, however it has caused Edo major underdevelopment aside Benin city.

Look at Esan today, their five major towns are fairly developed and are inhabitable, same cannot be said for the Binis

what are the 5 major towns.

samuk:
The bolded is an insult to Edo people, let me quickly take you down historical lane.

1. In pre colonial Nigeria, Edo as a stand alone kingdom/empire was the dominant force for centuries in what will later become Nigeria.

2. Edo kingdom/empire stood for over 900 years until the British destroyed and forced her into the a creation of theirs....the Western Region of Nigeria.

3. Before this force marriage between the people of old Benin kingdom and yoruba nations, the Oba of Benin had no equal let alone a senior. Who was the Alake historically? The closest yoruba oba that was mentioned in the same book as the oba of Benin was the Alaafin, who the British met on ground as the king of the yoruba people in 1824. In that mention, the Alaafin informed the British that he has requested help from the Oba of Benin to send his military to come and help him the Alaafin to put down his rebellious neighbours.

4. When it became apparent in 1959 that the British was about to exit Nigeria, Oba of Benin and his people began to negotiate with the British to separate from the western region which they were forced into.

5. Awolowo who initially agreed to the separation pre independence, reneged after independence. The Oba of Benin had to pull all strings from both Eastern and northern regions and eventually got his people out of the western region in 1963.

6. The mid West remains the only region/state in Nigeria till date that was democratically created, others Before and after were created by fiat.

7. The Edo people are the ones that have consistently shown that their history have nothing to do with Yoruba history.

8. Finding ourselves in this contraption called Nigeria with so called majority tribes who know very little about good governance and organisational skills have dragged us backward. The old Benin kingdom was known worldwide for her organisational and artistic skills. Today what is Nigeria known for?

9. In the little time we were allowed to govern ourselves, Bendel became number one, many of us old enough still remember the days of up Bendel and Bendel number one with nostalgia.


Yes Edo can do without yoruba, it's yoruba that cannot do without Benin history.

I don't care about your delusions, I just hope the country disintegrate so we can go our separate ways.

nick50:
This one na yorubawood actor not nollywood meanwhile I don't understand why yorubas are too obsessed about igbos ...why baba come attach igwe to his name instead of oba?

no one is obsessed with you.

JudahTheDream:
Come on Sis! Don't call us juju tribe because no be all of us dey senseless like people wey dey follow tinubu! Called them juju hypocrites or juju fools. I am a Yoruba man and I love my tribe and I ain't a juju fellow likewise OBI is my PRESIDENT

Don't mind that foolish olaiya showing off his 2 rotten FUFU yansh na hin problem be dt dem never know say d guy is having cognitive impairment already, body go tell dem.

You are not Yoruba, Osu.

ebufa:
Ndigbo do not need to bleach at all...........bleaching is needed more on the other side! dark or light in complexion ...ndigbo are a fair and beautiful people! the numerous suitors from the other side waiting for the approval of their marriage proposals says as much!

you're so delusional, you can only say that nonsense to those that haven't lived in your shithole region. Majority of your people are not fair or beautiful, and y'all bleach more than anything. There's no one waiting for approval of marriage proposals, your people move to other regions and love to date out compared to other ethnic groups.

AllDModsAreMaad:
LoL, you know you're lying but continue.

If I want to marry a dozen of your women, I can do that.

They are the cheapest thing after sachet water.

Osu, I repeat no yoruba woman will settle for a chukwudi, no sane one, it's your women jumping on every Ndi Ofe mmanu dick...... We don't sell our women here like you do in your barbaric culture, still will never get married to your kind. Just because you use your own daughters as retirement stimulus doesn't mean women in sane civilized climes are cheap, it's very laughable and ironic for a ibo like you to talk about cheap when there's nothing cheaper to fcck than your women. But you can continue to live in your fantasies.

Father4all:
na you and your offspring be OSU

No it's part of you, your culture, your lineage

saintrow1:
You joined nairaland in October 2022 and your mission here is to cause division and spread hate. We are fully aware of your evil intention but you are doomed.
In 1993, MKO swept the whole of yorubaland, NO yoruba voted for him because he was a Muslim, yorubas voted for him because he was a full blooded yorubaland with the capacity to lead. We did the same for Olu falae in 1999, obasanjo who's after was from Anambra and his mother was an egba woman from abeokuta ogun state lost the whole of yorubaland because real yorubas will never trade their own for another or a half blood. We will do the same in 2023 and you will see it. Yorubas dont vote based on religion because in every real yoruba household we have both Muslims and Christians. You and your kind will never suceed because the unification of yorubas had been secured before colonisation. I have caught many of your kind here who are using yorubas identity to mislead people based on religion. By the way, dont tell me things have changed because yorubas of past elections are still the same yorubas that will vote in 2023. This is nigeria by the way, things will never change. I hope you understand, so you are free to keep laughing.

I'm glad you know the tactics of these cursed Osus. This is the first time I'm hearing about 'Yoruba christian and Yoruba Muslim'... Anyways they will hear from us 'yoruba christians' next year

Father4all:
surprisingly, I'm not

continue to deceive yourself Osu.

technicallyrich:
Ful afonjas,Peter obi is not relying on any afonja to win.they can help fine but not that they are the back bone of his campaign.
Igbos and ss don't go to Yoruba land,what we I for example go and find in a barren land like ekitti,osun,.
We ss/se only go to Lagos because Lagos is a no man's land and that belongs to all nigerians.
That's were our sea ports,air ports etc are located.
Finally there are millions of afonjas in ss/se too.
Expecially in pH were afonjas are doing meachanics,taxi driving, Hawking the poison agbo etc

of course a Osu like you will have to mention SS as a backup even though them no send your papa. Imagine a ibo like you talking about barren when your whole shithole region is a God-forsaken ecological cesspit.

sucemt:
Nwanne... this comparison is very unnecessary for our resurrection from the colonial bondage still holding us all. This is more like local champion competition (div 2) to console ourselves as we wallow in the neocolonial system imposed on all of us, and which has made us hold and fight one another while the whites use few politicians, military and intellectuals to hold and exploit the best of human and natural resources in Africa. I'm sure the West will be laughing seeing us fight and blame one another.

There are smart and dull people in every ethnicity, tribe race, nation or continent of the world. Some of the most brilliant people i met in university of Ibadan are Yoruba... and there is a wide distribution of smart people across the tribes.

So please stop this comparison. Let's find how to free ourselves from the colonial system holding all of us to the ground.

I wish they were more people that reason like you bro. We should focus more on redrawing the borders of this part of the world.

potland:
if i woze you slap. Na yoruba girls do olosho and hookup pass

lol go around the whole of West Africa and shout chiamaka in the brothels, I bet my left balls at least 3 girls will raise their hands lol.

Father4all:
guy I'm from core Arewa ooo. No think am

No you are not, the Arewas I know are not bigots that will generalize a whole ethnic group. Only ibos do that.

flexyrule:
Oga, nollywood started from Upper Iweka Road Onitsha and Pound Road Aba.

Netflix ko, Netflix ni.

You are very ignorant. Nollywood was started by Yorubas like Baba Ogunde. Go and read the real history of Nigeria movie industry and why Yoruba actors stopped those that tried to celebrate '20yrs of Nollywood' some years back.

Father4all:
This man is a complete FOOL. Yoruba people and bleaching sef God forbid

Coming from a tribe that bleach more than anything.

blueAgent:
Clown.

Same southwest that skull minning and ritual killing is at epic level?
Or is not the same south west that ppl were killed in a church?

before hearing about one skull-mining and ritual killings in the SW, we'll hear a thousand cases of UGM cannibalizing and beheading people in the SE, I see gory barbaric videos of those Ipob savages butchering people in the forests. The SW is the safest region in the country and more than half of the crimes here are committed by the refugees especially from the East. Owo killing was done by Ebira muslim extremists and most of the victims were ibos. The safest states according to o NBS are in the SW.

Nwakannaya1:
You missed one thing, you are making reference to nations, not artificial countries that are products of colonial decisions. I'm being realistic, those things that worked in those countries cannot work here. Nigeria is made up of many nations, over 200 of them, this makes it difficult to implement that policy, it is unrealistic having 270 official languages or languages of instruction.

If the old Oyo empire were to be a country in the 21st century, Yoruba would be a language of instruction in it, if kanem bornu empire were to be a country in the 21st century, kanuri would be an official language there, this applies to nupe kingdom, Benin empire, and every other single nation lumped up in the country called Nigeria.

This is the situation under consideration, it is not about choosing to use a foreign language or not. The countries you cited have something in common, they have a dominant language which over 70 percent speak. It is not the same in Nigeria.

If it would work, then the country need to divide itself into nation's first.

In Nigeria, about 450 languages are spoken and this is more than twice the number of languages spoken in the entire Europe. When comparative study is being done, one should not discard peculiarities.

Let me leave this here, how would you feel if your child is instructed with a local language different from yours just because you live outside the area where your language is dominant? Nigerian languages are too many, they should rather be studied as subjects not serve as language of instruction.

well we must redraw the borders or Africa.

lordmans:
These are the kind of things that tears us apart rather than unite us. Most of the times we complain about the religious practices of those appointed to serve as administrators as if the work is meant to be a religious one. Especially, in Yoruba land, merit should be the sole criteria for choosing people to office. Many people today are not christians or muslims. So all these religious bodies should be banned.

MURIC does not speak for Yorubas, he's a one-man army clown.

UGBE634:
They are not now, the Igbos in delta and rivers, what do you consider them to be

they are still landlocked, they don't have access to the ocean, only rivers.... Not only does Yorubas have the largest ethnic coastline but also we're bordered by other countries who share the same ethnicity with us. If you understand what I mean.

You mean young secondary school students having sex?

Delusional cannibalistic Osu miscreant, the Ibos are inferior to the Yorubas in all spheres and sectors of life, your ancestors couldn't even build a single kingdom.

samuk:
You cannot give what you don't have, the yoruba are trying to claim what they were never able to achieved. This is will only intensify as more of them before aware of what Benin represents in world history and black civilisation.

Benin is acclaimed as the only and best example of black civilisation, others such as Egypt is tainted and intertwined with Arabic civilisation. So for everyone black man on earth, it's Benin first.

Most people in Benin city who haven't travelled out of Nigeria to places like Europe and America have no idea of the importance of Benin to the world and black race. Yoruba people who had a head start of travelling to the west took advantage and started writing books to claim Benin as yoruba civilisation.

I never knew the importance of Benin history until I left Nigeria, I always thought it was a local history. Unfortunately some Benin people are being miseducated by Yoruba writers.

Like you said, the stories and lies written by the yoruba and their supporters don't resonate and not in agreement with our oral history and traditions.

'You can not give what you don't have' coming from a delusi0nal clown

ASAPFERG1 nothing we no go see for this forum loool.

UGBE634:
In the south, it is the Igbos if you add Ika,Ikwerre and other Igbo groups in rivers state.

You cannot say for a fact this is the case, Edo south which is the Binis domain did as high as 1.3million in terms of voters registration in 2019. We cannot say the same for Ekiti which did as low as 900,000 in terms of voters registration. And we are the most traveled minority with about a third of Binis outside the shores of the country. My father gave birth to 16 children, I have four of my bethren outside the shores of the country. We cannot also say the same for Osun, although she just had her election , if we should combine the figures of Binis outside the country to the ones at home, it will amount to something significant, there is hardly any home you can't find a Bini abroad, in some homes infact, out of seven bethren, 6 will be outside the shores. Even in some larger family in Benin with over 30 children, some up to 15 Will be there. Check for the Osayi family on facebook and see. We have a diaporan population of about 1.2 to anywhere around 1.5 million

i agree with everything you said except from ibo population compared to Yorubas... The Yorubas have Kwara and Kogi west (more than 27% of kogi) and is spread across several countries unlike the Ibos that are landlocked.

Maliqcious:
who they hear this Mumu talk? Interms of education Edo was one of the 1st state to embrace free education I don’t know about Osun but what I know is since the time when Edo was bendel we’ve pass that comparison and in terms of monarch I think you are mad to compare Oni of Ife with Oba of Benin. Same Oba has more influence in Yoruba more compared to an elected king. I don’t know why since 1875 the Yoruba try every means to undermine Edo influence and you know Yoruba is just a figment of Great Benin. Thanks to British for their collaborative efforts with the Yoruba at least they made Yoruba more influential in Nigeria but have you asked yourself how come you have Yorubas and a colony in Brazil, Jamaica, halti and other countries in South America. I would stop here. Just go to your statistics to see which state has the highest out of school children among the two states.Expect you talking real fact.

everyone dey talk even Bini man dey talk, your oba no get influence pass his 7LG in your state, who sabi your wrapper wearing Oba in Auchi alone? There's nothing like undermine Edo influence, yoruba has nothing in common with your kind. Never in your miserable life should you compare Ooni to your oba.

ZombieSlayer1:
to a skull-mining afonja

before finding a skull-mining Afonja in the west, we will find a million skull-munching Osu cannibal in the blighted yEast.

ZombieSlayer1:
I'm even surprised they chose Ogun, of all the states in this country. They're lucky to have lives up to this age without their skull getting mined, you know Ogun is the skull-mining headquaters of this country

that's so funny coming from a Osu cannibal lol.