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Tobbey:
Any in Badore Ajah?
The closest?

None

romme2u:
bros person asked for salary

AntiWailer:
First u have to admit that u are not a programmer.


The confusion will disappear.

Chai this reply is epic, BTW I think you are right

olab059:
Yes. Why do you ask? You want to make fun of my brown teeth?

Ahah no, just want to consistently give you the reason to show that teeth when you remember me

olab059:
Sorry, I am in Venus right now. Maybe when I come back to Earth.

Lol anyway atleast we can do it via whatsapp or bbm?

Oluwabusobomi:
Zombies way of reasoning

You look familiar, have we met before

olab059:
Yes.

Hmm,can I meet you

olab059:
It amazes me how these politicians bash themselves online, but smile and shake hands in real life.

Is that u in the dp

Ubenedictus:
Where do u get this from?

From the nok history

fatiaforreal:
What do people gain from alteration of true history?
1) Oba is a general word for kings. Then, every king has a traditional domain upon which his tittle is based, hence every Oba has a tittle because they own the land.
The case of Benin is different only because according to the treaty, EKIOPAGHA TREATY, the Oba of Benin is not the land owner. The Head of Ogianmen family should be aware of this, the treaty refers to him as a tenant because his origin ( forget the Ekalerdahan fabrication) is Ife. The matter resurfaced during the reign of the 4th Oba of Benin, Oba Oguola or Ewuare, He was confronted by Ogianmen asked to "go back to the land of your father". This led to a short war which the Oba won but did not necessarily change history.
2) Doest it mean that at such a early time in Benin history, the people did not know about Ekalerdahan/Oduduwa debacle? The truth is, it's a relatively recent fabrication to hide true history.
3) If the Ekalederhan/Oduduwa transformation was true,
a. why did Oranmiyan not reign as as an Ogiso? The 32nd or 33rd? Why a departure from Ogisoship to Obaship?
b. Why did Oranmiyan have to build a new palace instead of the one used by the last Ogisos? Yes, a new palace could be built, in such cases, the coronation of new kings still take place at the original palace of that thrown.
4) Ignorance is a big issue here because many commentators assume THE HISTORY OF A PEOPLE IS THE SAME AS THE HISTORY OF THEIR KINGS, they're not always the same.
5) Yorubas are partly guilty for this Benin falsification of history by not telling the whole truth. Youruba history predates the historical Oduduwa(I'm not competent to talk about the spiritual Oduduwa who created the world). From genetic mappings, the Yoruba's had existed for thousands of years before the coming of Oduduwa.
6) As a sincere student of history, have you ever asked where Benin people came from? Why there are similarities in languages? Don't listen to any cock and bull story of journey from Egypt because we're older than Egypt. The Benin people came from the place where more than 60% of the tribes and languages in Africa originated from, and that is also the origin of the Yoruba.
This civilization was at the bank of river Niger. Yorubas referred to it as Ile Ife, there and then the Benin people were known as Efa people, it was referred to as Nyuife by others. Nyuife was corrupted to Nupe. Whether you like it or not, that's where we all came from. Flooding made the people to relocate to present day geographical area called Ife, it is actually the second Ife.
7) The Idia mask and other artworks the Binis and Ife people take pride in originated from the Nok culture, the Nok culture has been traced to this same civilization on the bank of the Niger.
Lastly, people should leave ego aside and pursue empirical and scientific evidence. Benin Obas are Yorubas from Ile Ife or Second Ife if you wish, but then what's the fuss? Nupe, Yoruba, Benin, and countless others have the same origin. However, the truth must be told, that origin is not Benin but a different geographical area know today as Nupe. The Binis were not the first to set foot on Benin, the Ijaws were first. This explains why Uzama from Ijaw ama, meaning Ijaw land is the oldest quarters in Benin.

U must be a student of history

ianSweet:
U seem to be angered and u are commenting unnecesarily. That is not an intelligent way to answer this question. You started this thread well by enlightening us only for you to start this.



Now to answer your question.
Edo may not be as populated as Yoruba because the Oyo empire conquered more people and territory than the Benin empire did and the Oyo people forced their language down on all their subjects and this is how the Oyo dialect of yoruba united all the other yoruba subgroups in Nigeria.

Benin on the other hand used to believe that their language and cultures were sacred and superior and should never be spoken by their subjects and this was the greatest mistake the bini kingdom made, they never enforced their language on their subjects.
Almost the whole of Edo state are descendants of Bini Kingdom, majority of Delta state ethnic groups also look up to Benin as their origin, many parts of Ondo and Rivers also look up to Edo as their origin, even Lagos too. Even the Onitsha people of Anambra state claim to have come from Benin and all these groups continued to pay their homage to Benin kingdom, many up to today.
Imagine if all these Benin descendants had retained their original language or a form of Edo which served as a lingua franca just as Oyo serve as a lingua franca among all yorubas, they would have been identified and classified as one ethnic group by the colonial masters and would have been probably over 20 million people in 5 different states now.

Stop saying what you don't know, yorubas have existed longer before ibini ,so this is the main reason for the population

Amelian:
You can but your request is coming in late.. am already dating a younger guy, who believes in me, trust me completely and he couldn't believe am still available when we met, Even till today, he chips it in, once in a while.. When we go on dates, older guys stare at him angrily, lol...he has gotten use to the stares.. He's no longer bugged about it...
It's good for someone to have a companion who truly cares .. It's a good feeling.

Hmm sure it is am happy for you sha, BTW I hope you guys are going to the Alter?

Amelian:
Thank God you are sincere about it.
Before I use to think, there was something wrong with me. Someone suggested I may have a spiritual husband, lol but I said have never dreamt of a man sexing me in dream. Another said I have very high expectations.. I laughed again, cos I know I have simple tastes and am not waiting to marry dangote nor his sons.. People come up with different excuses and reasons. After a while I sat down to study my past relationships and dates.. And the reactions that follows every withdrawal and breakups.. I then saw the truth.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with me, at least am not perfect but my mistakes are simple mistakes we make everyday as a human being.
I looked at married men and the kind of wives they end up with..and their mistresses outside the home.. I simply watch and study and I got the answer to all the questions in my head, of why there are lots of single successful ladies everywhere.

Ladies who are still single, successful and good at heart.. Nothing is wrong with any of u.. Simply be the best u can be, and trust me a guy who deserves your goodness will notice and want to be with u for life. He can be younger, he can be way older like dad's age ...not to worry... Simply choose.. . But don't let the age of the young man discourage you, as long as he has prospects and he's hardworking with a job.. You guys are good to go.

Can I?

abike12:
No thanks

Don't thank me

abike12:
The answer to your simple question is in the original post. I'm not responsible for your comprehension issues. Bye.

Smh ..when I was thinking of asking you out

abike12:
So control = respect?

What do you mean by control, I only asked a simple question that needs a simple yes or no

abike12:
I don't know why a sane adult will think it's his duty to control another living, breathing and functioning adult because he is the husband. I was very hard on a nlder that was claiming he's going to Nigeria to get a wife to bring back with him to the UK for this very reason. These men live in cities with a lot of eligible Nigerian single women but choose to go to Nigeria to import village girls so they can isolate them from their family and friends and control them. Unfortunately for them, the girls eyes will open and then they will resort to killing them as a means of final control. They would rather have a dead wife than a wife that comes and goes as she pleases. As for you girls in Nigeria waiting for their savior with dollars and pounds to come and rescue them, a word is enough for the wise. It's best you go and look for work and a young man in Nigeria to hustle with and build something.

So in other words you are free to disrespect your husband is that it?

2dugged:
dear afonja read and be enlightened, From verifiable history, Benin Kings were once referred to as the Ogisos meaning KING OF THE SKY, this was long before Ekalerderhan or Oduduwa's Grandfather, they were a proud and prosperous kingdom. Ekalerderhan was the son of an Ogiso banished from the kingdom who on trying to introduce himself to a people who could not understand him but were awed by his presence must have pointed to the sky and they mistakingly think he came from the sky and made him king. The benin people later realised that ekalerderhan was wrongfully banished when is father died an expedition was sent in search of the banished prince this expedition got to ife and found the prince who refused to leave his new kingdom but instead sent his son this was the beginning for the relationship between the too. Oba in Benin has 2 meaning shining or reddish, Omo n' Oba means the shining child, am sure you are smart enough to relate it to Ogiso. What bothers me most in the yoruba claim is how an educated person will choose to 'ignorantly' believe that someone fell from the sky.

You see this your story is what an average uninformed bini person says about, just kindly explain why oranmiyan a prince of ife built a palace in usama and who is owomika

2dugged:
so says an afonja, keep waiting in Ile ife for the Oba of Benin to show up, una go grow white hair tire, the will be crowned the sky will not fall

Why don't you debunk what I said rather than trying to be ignorant

2dugged:
afonja, I am not surprised, smh, go and bury your heads in shame, I know it was the likes of you that were insisting that the crown prince must come to ille ife before his coronation, eye service backstabbing afonja trying to claim supremacy by editing history to in favor of afonja just to claim sophisticashit

You don't even know your history cos if you do you will know all bini monarchs are descendants of oranmiyan, or didn't u read it in the post? Educate your mind

Am jobless

bennyann:
That's what happens when you put your complete trust in a human being that you can only see from a distance. To the extent of fuelling up the anger of your dad? That trust should be given to someone close to you who's earned it. Sorry OP

Hmmm

sunnyb0b0:
How market my brother?

basilo101:
those who forged it will still be prosecuted, the forgery was not done by ike and saraki but they benefited from it. I told you all these at the beginning. Where is chukwudi sef

So if I steal money and we spend it together when you your self knows that the money was stolen, what does that make you?

abokibuhari:
Onatisi abeg no give this one form, him fit tear am this one they vex wella

Na wa for you o it's not your fault sha

alterswerve:
This is a government i strongly supported.
It is really disheartening.

I remember how i supported this government last year in school. Now this is what i see?

Seriously. I'm disappointed
It hurts a lot to be lied to. Big time.

I am disappointed in this administration and i don't think i want anything to do with it again.
It has just been disappointment all through. I've totally lost hope.
I'm naive no more. Wiser now.

Bro, the hazards we faced here in lagos to rebrand and package pmb wasnt easy, is it the threat of arrests by the then government we should talk about?

We wanted a change from impunity we thought pmb will deliver as promised we had high hopes in this government but it's just sad to see the president make a 360 degree

Emycord:
Almost and nearly ? U ever start. Do dey even have case against them. Oya okorocha where is that new imo senate presido to replace ekweremadu

My brother let's be honest here, there was a forgery, even the police did their investigation

alterswerve:
Me too bruh. Me too.

I listened to the radio today and everyone who called us disappointed in this administration.

Come 2019! It won't be funny at all

If you notice, dogara already won award for good leadership of the year and pmb was there, in the face of this glaring budget padding scandal? Its just unfortunate. I know why pmb is doing this

SamuelAnyawu:
Goodbye to APC and Buhari



Goodbye to APC in Imo State

Its just a shame, all because of 2019

Thoniameek:
Whoa! So soon? He still has over 2years to go.... Don't lose hope

Its over my sister, it's over

I can't believe my eyes when I saw that the forgery charges against saraki has been dropped by buhari , am very disappointed in pmb, am just recollecting now how hard I campaigned for this man, insults I received left right and center, how I almost lost some of my ibo friends on Facebook, is it the heated argument I had on the Eve of the election with my dad which nearly earned me a slap even at my age.that I will forget .

Its just a shame I don't trust this man again, I denounce this government may it go down to Hades