₦airaland Forum

Dalohad:
If you are not going to US via Sponsorship, your chance of getting a US visa is 99%.

America wants people who are useful to them..

There are medical courses you can read here in Nigeria, get US licensures and start applying for sponsorships.

If you get sponsorship, you have a 90% chance of entering the US, because you are useful to them.

No one wants a liability..

List of medical courses and how long would it take to study?

Oludiary:
SHAYO O
Life is sweet after I have had my five bottles of Heineken with some joints of Canadian Laud.I can remember my experience vividly while I was working at FBN headquarters on Lagos Island. Immediately I wake up in the morning, I am already on the elevator, bouncing down to Aja Joint to start my day with a joint of Laud with some local herbs. After this, I grab my breakfast while I am already waiting for the 12 pm alarm so I can go down again to the shanties bar where I take my two bottles which I step down with another joint of Canadian Laud and this makes me feel like my belly could contain a whole building.

This was my everyday routine and I actually felt I was living a perfect life, but deep down, I was empty, my liver was failing, and my youthful body was metamorphosing into an old man’s look. And the most of it all is that, sometimes at night after overgauging myself and feeling like I had been poisoned, I always swear never to drink or smoke again, but immediately it is 6 am, I am already having my first shot for the day.

What has been my gain from this lifestyle? I have lost; a lot of opportunities, respect from friends, and family ties just because of my shayo lifestyle. I regret...continue reading via FB on Olumuyiwa Iperepolu

It is well with your soul

alphonsoolajide:
My Daughter Has Succeeded, I’m a Landlady in Lekki” — Iyabo Ojo Speaks on Single Motherhood and Success



https://eyesoflagos.com/2026/01/04/iyabo-ojo-single-motherhood-success-lekki/

Congratulations to her.

Julius1995:
Why is this primitive human always barking. No one embodies the tragedy and primitiveness of Nigeria like he does. Someone that should be a motor park conductor somehow finds himself in powerful public positions. Shame. He has never done any dignified job outside government in his life. He has not contributed anything to the progress of the country aside taking. How will the nation progress with people like him; with this kind of madness dressed like politics.

Motor park conductor 😂😂😆

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kpakpakpa:
Tinubu did not need to win every state in the north, all APC governors can bring 50% in the north and south-south, SW will give 80% and south east will bring 30%
All this regional champions go collect wotowoto if they mess up

Na so e easy abi, talking as if the governors will be omnipresent on that very day.

brain54:
Eric Chile best coach...

Small buttox dey shake. I guess in the land of the blind the one eyed 👁️ man would be king.

No Victor on the list!

Wetin you sabi

odejimioflagos:
I dont understand this Shaibu of Atiku. Is he the one to determine how the presidency should respond?

If Bayo Onanuga says Peter Obi is wandering, is that not a fact?

Onanuga should let Peter obi be, if peter is truly inconsequential in regards to the polity, they would ignore him, but the reverse is the case and this is why bayo is worried.

poseidon12:
So you believe the lies from the Palace The Oba was deeply involved which is why the victim was taken to the Palace. The man deserves to be dethroned.

You seem so courageous, go to Benin and tell them.

CrownedPhoenix:
You people just talk like oba of Benin was never sent on exile.

We know the stool is revered but they will depose him and nothing will happen. Benin will boil and cool down.

Nobody is above law. Las las everybody, including the oba, must bend to signed law. Except of course, in the Nigerian way of politics, he is aligned with federal might. Or a later government reinstates him, but by then had been first of all, deposed.

In your dreams

Christlike01:
This Oba is a liar! He was deeply involved in the public humiliation of that Obaseki guy. So, the Oba of Benin can’t own up to his own actions?! If that Obaseki guy sues him, he won’t escape prosecution. A mere one small local government Oba feeling funky!

You are just a bigot and a hater, I wish you were in Benin, but you are behind a faceless forum, spewing trash and writing tantrums. No be your fault, na internet give you the opportunity.

datola:
It will be difficult to achieve with Oba of Benin. Benin people are stuborn strong headed to allow that to happen

Word 🔥 you know right.

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Queengee:
Panicked mode activated in APC camp .
I can hear sweat twinkling down their cheeks
Their heartbeat felt like sasquatch feet
Thundering shaking the concrete

Obi is coming

Who shot ya 👍

3ice9ce:
That's how your Oba was cursing you his subjects but Fulani kidnappers came and he turned deaf and dumb.
Cultists are wiping you out, kidnappers are doing their own, he's cowering and unable to say anything.
Obidients used him to pick their tooth, nothing you people could do.
Can't you see your cvrses are already manifesting in your heritage?

You can go to Benin and do the needful, go to Benin and solve it, from the way you write, you seem gallant, and courageous. Ewobi

She is trying to bring down his ministry by all means.

3ice9ce:
There is life outside the 4 Local Governments that are under the control of Mr. Erediauwa. They deposed a former Oba of Benin, they can depose human also and NOTHING will happen.

You will just burn houses and kill yourselves. Soldiers will quench your noise in 2 weeks.

May your ill wish for the great monarch fall on you and your house hold, and may the disastrous occurrence you stated here become a boomerang.

Wickedtruths:
Nothing is great about Mr. Erediawa. He's in Benin there but kidnappers and cultists have taken over. One of his predecessors, Ovanramwen Nogbaisi was deposed. This one is very small.

I should leave where I am comfortable and come to Benin to say what?
You Oba was schooled when he said nonsense about Benin. He was reprimanded when he jailed a young child.
No be today Mr. Erediauwa dey collect wotowoto.

Keep quiet, is he the government that will handle the issue of kidnapping or criminal activities, if he tries to take a step towards annihilating crime, it is same you that will accuse him of doing the government's job. You seem a bit nurtured cerebrally but please don't let sentiments be loud your sense of reasoning. Shalom!

3ice9ce:
My brother, one Ovonramwen Nogbaisi, also called Overami was an Oba of Benin. He was deposed and kicked out of the Palace. Not only that, he was banished to Calabar.

Your Mr. Eheneden Erediauwa AKA Ewuare only controls 4 Local Governments and he's a nobody. They deposed a whole Sultan of Sokoto, who is Mr. Ewuare that they can't depose him?

From all you wrote, it depicts a mind filled with bigotry and ill wishes, you can write whatever you want, but I stand on what I stated, that no one, and I repeat no one can bring about the actualization of deposition, it wont occur, not in this life or in aeons to come.

Wickedtruths:
A Sultan of Sokoto was deposed.
Your Oba controls just 5 Local Governments.

No one can depose the great oba of Benin, I repeat no one. But I dare you to say it in Benin city and you will learn how to be courteous for the rest of your life.

Laple0541:
Na small difference dey btw this Oba of Benin and Oluwo of Iwo.

And you think what you wrote here makes sense, by comparing both kings. So because the youths in Benin dealt with someone that insulted their monarch, you decided to compare both monarchs, did the oba authorize the occurrence, no I doubt it. But you are here spewing something that shows your reasoning faculty is enveloped in sentiments.

bluebay:
Edo state is a state where the kimg needs to been put to his place. The people of Benin respects the king more than a Sitting Governor.. I totally condemn the Attack and those involved should be brought to book and the king should be sanctioned.

Go to Benin and say it somewhere around ogbe or upper. Not just here on nairaland.

Chucks13:
Nonsense after marrying 4 time and this is the fifth, sorry I don't celebrate shameless people like her.

She doesn't need it from you. Better people have and are still celebrating her.

baby124:
We will leave her alone but she loves the attention and likes to attach Queen to her name which she no longer is. Don’t put yourself outside and complain when people give their opinion. Who is evil eye? The person you are defending moving from husband to husband every market day does not seem to know evil eye exists. You better go and get lost if you no get wetin to type. You can’t sit down wetin? Erase my comment na.

Your comment shows one projecting the evil eye.

lawani:
In Ikere they have Benin legacies but Benin legacies are Ife in origin also as the name of the city was changed from an Edo name to a Yoruba name and only Yoruba used as lingua franca. The Europeans who settled in Benin learnt Yoruba and there was a Portuguese who wrote Benin language down as Umale okun mabia mabia, a prayer he said Benin people do pouring wine omn the ground which he said means Umale Okun I beg you. This is Yoruba language as all speakers can see not Edo. The old Benin were Yoruboid speakers but nowadays they use their local language. Oba Atakunmosa of Ijesa who introduced the Deji title in Akure spent over 60 years in Benin. The Benin of the past were just another Yoruba sub nation like Ijesa, Ijebu and etc and the language they spoke will be similar to Ilaje and Itsekiri. It is the Benin of nowadays that are now Edoid. The old Ife Benin established Yoruboid speaking outposts all over Ago Onibode is one now rendered Agenebode, Ogba land, Onitsha and etc were also out posts and a part of Lagos island but all those people controlling those places in the past spoke a Yoruboid dialect. They are not really same as today's Benin people in identity since the Benin of nowadays place themselves above Ife origin unlike other Yoruba who agree on Ife origin even as far as Togo and Ghana including ethnic groups who do not speak Yoruba.

So when people claim origin from Benin. They should rnder it properly as Ife Ibinu which is Benin's real name, a defunct Ife successor states that was headquartered in Benin city and that was fully Yoruba in identity not Edo.

There were Edoid state in the past like Igodomigodo and others built by Urhobo, Esan and etc in the far past when even the Yoruba spoke Akokoid tongues but they definitely far preceded Benin or Ife Ibinu which was fully Yoruba in identity.

One thing is that the Edoid groups, Nupoid and etc have been there as far back as any group and the languages are probably more original to this area since unlike Yoruboid tongues they are not similar to ancient Egyptian but that the Yoruba changed language from their Akoko tongues do not make them less of who they are. If we start speaking only English today while maintaining our stories, it does not change the validity of those stories.

So the Ogoga, Obi Onitsha, Oba Ogba land and etc are descendants of Ife Ibinu people like Owomika (Eweka) like the Oba of Benin but the people who are Yoruba are more representative of Owomika than those who now have other identities. It is why I say the Olu of Warri is more representative of the old Benin empire than the Oba of Benin in all respects. They still speak the language and they regularly worship Umale okun.

This is interesting. I would like to know more about this, I understand there are words in the Benin language that are yoruboid, and somehow both languages are interwoven.

chiiraq802:
They're seeing a president the man is seeing a loot 👙

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cdqyehyeh:
What still amaze me is the Nigerians believing Trump is interested in Christains affair in Nigeria lol.
The ratio of killing to Christains killingratio in US way higher than Nigeria. (In 50 killings in Nigeria only 2-3 are against the Christian, In US in the rate of 50 48 if not 49 are against Christians)

Nigeria should sacntion them, you can't dictate for a sovereign state.
After the prisoner deposit saga.
Trump has accused South Africa of White killing, Trump as accused Venezuela of Drug, Nigeria of selective killings, Iran of Nuclear Advancement.
Yet every single accusations happens in the US everyday.

Forget Nigeria trading crude for refine oil, direct exchange for yuan instead of dollar isn't affecting is a big lie. Currently America is on the thread of lose base on the dependency of Nigeria on themselves rather the US.
Mark my word the invasion of Nigeria by the US is going to be a great fall for the United States.

I trust in God and I trust in Nigeria governance as a process and I AM NOT A BETRAYAL OF MY SOIL.
GOD BLESS NIGERIA
GOD BLESS PRESIDENT BOLA AHMED TINUBU
GOD BLESS AFRICA

Are you not ashamed, you should be ashamed of writing this, I just hope people like are affected by the evil plague you are supporting.

CoronaVirusPro:
He should also compare the bills and tax!

Does he know his entire annual salary in Nigeria is the mortgage or rent for what you can call home in the UK?

How many people live in homes in the UK? Many reside in Kennels called homes. Small things we can’t call BQ in Nigeria.

Does he know price of energy and taxes that follow after those numbers he quoted?

I am not saying Nigeria is better than the UK, but the true reality of the difference is not much.

Do you know the cost of living same life you were living in Nigeria under that low salary, with that of the UK?

Many can’t even live that life. It’s a party after party champagne campaign in Nigeria with the lowest we earn. We build houses to taste and own outrightly. We not chased by banks.

Forget all this one, he is living a better life jare.

christopher123:
Two solid Igbo men representing the Igbo and the Nigerian and muscj respect to the Yoruba guy ..these are the two tribes that are consistently putting Nigerian in the global intellectual map...remove Yoruba and Igbo ... Nigeria is doomed

Other tribes are just onlookers

Low key, other tribes are doing well. Forget about the online hype, not everyone likes to be listed on the Internet.

SmartPolician:
I don't understand how Dr. Maduka made all that money and couldn't even speak good English. Considering how rich and exposed he is, his use of English is quite embarrassing, to say the least.

Leave English for the owners, at least he can communicate in a mode people can comprehend over there. The individual is influential, opulent and famous.

robosky02:
Pack well

Even okon don see watin go happen leave ona run

Naija to the world 3 sure points

Loooooooooooooooooooooooooool

omoredia:
When we weigh the historical evidence (oral tradition + documented history + linguistics), the Benin/Edo origin of “Eko” as a “war camp” is considered stronger than the Awori/Yoruba “camp/settlement” version.

Here’s why:


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1. Early Control of Lagos (15th–16th century)

Historical records show that the Benin Kingdom expanded westward during the reign of Oba Orhogbua (mid-1500s).

Benin warriors established a military outpost on Lagos Island to control trade routes and collect tribute.

The Oba of Benin appointed a military administrator (called an “Eletu Odibo”) to govern the area.

This aligns with the interpretation of Eko as a “war camp” in Edo.



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2. Oral History & Naming

Lagos oral tradition (especially from Benin sources) consistently states that the Oba of Benin named the settlement Eko when it became a military camp.

The Yoruba Awori were already living there, but the name “Eko” was imposed through conquest and administration, making it a political name, not just a descriptive one.



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3. Linguistic Strength

In Edo (Bini), Eko indeed directly translates to “camp” or “encampment,” often military in sense.

In Yoruba, ẹ̀kọ́ has meanings like to gather, to learn, or to be trained (also the word for pap/fermented maize meal). But the usage of Eko to mean “settlement” is less direct and less common.

This makes the Edo origin linguistically tighter.



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4. European Accounts

Early Portuguese records from the 15th–16th centuries confirm that the Benin Kingdom was administering Lagos (Eko) before colonial Lagos emerged.

They describe Lagos Island as a tributary state of Benin, not Awori, in terms of political control.



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Conclusion

✅ The Benin (Edo) origin of Eko as “war camp” is better supported by historical, political, and linguistic evidence.
⚖️ The Awori/Yoruba origin reflects the fact that they were the indigenous settlers, but their explanation of Eko as “settlement” is more cultural than historical.

So, historically: “Eko” = war camp (Benin Edo origin).
Culturally: Yoruba still claim it as “our settlement.”.

Attention seeker, you are here to cause tribal bashing but e no work.

Sirleo05:
When death comes knocking my guy go bow. Enjoy now, for the grave where you are going, no money no buy or selling no status or class,all will end up in the grave, until christ comes to take his people during resurrection

Your mindset en, you shouldn't be a preacher, you belong to the stone age, please go back in time where you belong.

Dogalmighty17:
1 trillion dollars across 10 years and subject to certain performance conditions. Tesla as a whole is worth little above 1.2 trillion dollars in market cap. So this is a head scratcher.
This will make him the wealthiest man ever after Mansa Musa of Mali of course.

But here's the thing. Even with the depth of riches Elon has, he remains a deeply unhappy man. Has no relationship with most of his kids(they hate him), and has to rely on as much as 20 different hard drugs to effectively function. One of these drugs, Ketamine, has the side effect of damaging the bladder to the point you can't hold urine. Yes. A full grown man leaking urine steadily and it is not what surgery can handle.

The question has to be asked. What is wealth without relationships with ones children? what is wealth without happiness? What is wealth if one has to be a drug addict? What is wealth without fulfillment?

This isn't necessary, no one asked for your opinion, just write something prudent pertaining to the topic itself without showing you know him more than anyone else.