₦airaland Forum

Aliyu333:
saying far north would have been better placed. Kwara is North central.

Bros, seems like u missed 'core' in my statement.

Nice
Why's there none in the core North? Seems they do not care about their illiteracy problem.

seguno2:
Like governor Aregbesola's airport.
Lol.

I'm no longer moved by all these photoshoots

Nice
Just hope it doesn't stop at groundbreaking.

when it comes to formulating roadmaps and policies, we are one of the best. Our problems has always been implementation.
I just hope this one will not go the way of others and that the people will feel it's impact. We should stop pointing out paper growth.

hell hath no fury as a scorned woman

my people, Abeg make una tell me just one important bill wey all these legislooters dun pass since 1999

Mikel should go to inter. He would be very well accepted there. He has tried for chelsea and it seems they do not really appreciate him again.
Besides, seria A will suit his natural game.

So Buhari should leave him alone just because they might do it back to him. What kind of messed up reasoning is this?
Africa as a whole is suffering because of imbeciles who think this way. Instead of him to encourage Buhari as he tackles the monster called corruption, he is talking nonsense. Mtcheww

I don't understand what this woman is talking about. Your husband illegally acquired properties and these properties were rightly retrieved from him.
WTF is wrong with Nigerians?
they burn people that steal just a hundred Naira alive while your husband was given preferential treatment yet u are still blaming people.

Nigerians are suffering. We need instant solution to our current malaise.

these idiots should be killed since they have no sympathy for human life.
If you know the harrowing experience families and their kidnapped victims go through in the hands of the scoundrels, then you'll have no pity on them. Lazy set of imbeciles.
I know people who survive selling pure water. They have no excuse. They deserve the same punishment we should melt out on politicians.

sharing money among states is very stupid. and highly laughable. How do you want states to grow if the states aren't ready to work to generate funds?
if we continue on this path, we should forget development for a long time.

Wow. none should be spared in this fight for the soul of Nigeria

he is the 40th Oba and not the 39th

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Ubenedictus:
HE also clearly said that oduduwa is ekhaladeran a prince from benin did u miss it?

he didn't say that.
he said Oranmiyan is the son of Oduduwa who came from Ife to Benin and became Oba even if his reign was short.

Ubenedictus:
Not really he is saying oduduwa was a stranger to ife and benin is his origin.

that's obviously different from what the Oba said.

Ubenedictus:
HE also clearly said that oduduwa is ekhaladeran a prince from benin did u miss it?

he clearly referred to ekhaladeran as Oduduwa, but he didn't say Oduduwa was from Benin. He clearly said he is from Ile Ife. Or did you miss it? he never referred to Oduduwa as a prince. I He only called Oranmiyan a prince. And besides, there he a reason he used their Yoruba names and not the Benin names.

2dugged:
read and get enlightened
Ogiso Owodo was the last Ogiso. The break came because there was no heir. This is called the interregnum period.
Prince Ekaladerhan was the heir to Owodo. But the Prince's step-mother called Esagho schemed to get him killed. Faking a message from an oracle priest, and claiming that only his death would avert disaster in Benin. Sadly & reluctantly Owodo accepted it, for the welfare of his Kingdom.
But the Isiewmenro (Royal Executioners) who took the prince to the forest to sacrifice could not bear to kill him. They made him swear an Oath never to return to Benin but run for his dear life. He did. He travelled towards Owo (70 miles due North-West of Benin). Then he moved towards a village now called Ife. Ife is also roughly 70 miles West of Owo. So he entered Ife from the East. A prediction Ife people had been given about a ruler coming from the East.
With time back in Benin, Esagho could not produce an heir as she had hoped. Owodo later got suspicious and sent other emissaries to the oraclist. That was when the scam was revealed. But it had become known that Ekaladerhan through divinity was in fact alive but he could not be traced in Owodo's life time. So the crown remained vacant. So Evian (now Ogiamien family) became ruler as the most powerful local chieftain of Igodomigodo (as Benin was called then) but NOT a King.
In the meantime, Ekaladerhan has found fortune in Ife & made king. He exclaimed that "Izoduwa" meaning I have been favoured/achieved my destiny. This became Ododuwa. A similar corruption of name would happen to Ododuwa's grandson in Benin two generations later. The exclamation "Owomika" in Youruba became Eweka I of Benin.
In fact my relative is the duke/chief of the ancient village (actually now part of Benin metropolis) where Eweka made that exclamation in About 1170 AD. In just over a week from now, The Crown Prince will be making a similar exclamation (at exactly same spot as 800 years ago) near my relative's ducal palace. That exclamation is what his Title & name will become for life.
And all his children and descendants will henceforth bear that name as surname. Except his first son who will chose his own regnal name when crowned in the future.
Ekaladerhan was known to be alive already so the search continued for decades. Until he was traced to Ife. He refused to return, having sworn an oath not to. But he sent his son "Omonoyan", basically meaning beloved child. What was called Oranmiyan by Ife people.
Oranmiyan was accompanied by yoruba courtiers including Oloton. Chief Oloton today remains in charge of Royal ancestral shrine. Oranmiyan's son Eweka I restored the monarchy in Ogiso line. Benin people were ready to keep the stool vacant for decades then, just like they did while Ovonramwen was in exile in Calabar for 17 years.
So Ife people came to be very welcome in Benin & seen as our relatives. Even after Oranmiyan left.
Now we all know Yoruba versions of Ododuwa: from coming from the Sky to coming from Mecca. Judge for yourself what is scientifically possible.
Idia was the mother of Oba Esigie. Esigie ruled from 1504 to 1550. Idia was the wife of Oba Ozolua. Both her husband and son go down in history as successful warrior Kings/emperors.
She was a warrior Queen Mother with her own Royal Regiment personally commanded by her at war front. She played a major role in helping Esigie expand the empire. Europeans even accompanied Esigie to wars in Eastern Yorubaland & extolled Benin war tactics including Ifianyako (encirclement) of enemy soldiers.

all what you wrote up there is nonsense because the Oba just proclaimed with his own mouth that he is a direct descendant of Oduduwa and not ekhaladeran as you try to paint it.

The new Oba of Benin Oba Ewuare II just declared himself as a direct descendant of Oduduwa.
He also rewrote history by recognizing Oranmiyan as the first Oba of Benin and not Oba Eweka thereby making him the 40th Oba of Benin instead of the 39th.
Historians, take note.
Mods, let people know the truth.

The new Oba just pronounced himself as the 40th Oba and a direct descendant of Oduduwa. mods, take note

ihimiray:
craze dey ur head, which bloody yoruba man... U people can think so stupidly

you no hear am from him mouth?

he just confirmed that he is a direct descendant of Oduduwa. All case closed.

I really miss Yar'adua. Really had Nigeria in mind.

OK sah
Come and collect the certificate

Bullsh*t
2bn Naira Na beans? He should refund the money asap. Nonsense

legends

I think it is HTC desire. Very annoying phone. I couldn't root it for cheats. HTC forming as if they are Apple. Mtcheww

sh*t, second page. Mtcheww

Nice one. Hope it doesn't stop here.

Nice post. Highly informative.