SeunDAssLicker: Benin were the ones with warriors. The way you lot twist history to suit Yoruba heritage is actually a disgrace that you lot have no idea what you’re talking about.
Only Benin, UK, and Saudi has the Kingdom title anywhere, and that is for a reason being the vantage point between the Colonials and the Benin Empire.
Yoruba’s we’re still dealing with intertribal conflicts when Benin warriors were being sent to different Souther states including Eko.
It is Bini not Benin and they didn't have warriors stop deceiving yourself.
You're admitting that Yorubas were fighting wars which is foolish of you because no sensible person will send their people to a place that is already fighting wars because their people will be killed off quickly.
Your comment even corroborates and supports my comment due to the Yorubas fighting wars they were already war-hardened and this made it difficult for the Portuguese and British to successfully invade the Oyo Empire and they were confined to parts of Lagos island.
Oyo Empire is an Empire and an Empire is bigger than a Kingdom. olodo.
SeunDAssLicker: 🫢😟 Olodo on the loose. Go read a book about history. Southern Nigeria was were they arrived first, Golf of Guinea was their biggest challenge and it led them to Warri (Escravos/Slave Island).
Portuguese were not interested in Oil but Palm oil and Rubber so they invited the Brits.
In History, Spain and Portuguese are the biggest and most rugged sailors, only them could sails the Golf of Guinea and that’s how they discovered oil.
I know you block heads know nothing, but try read some history.
Tapioca (Cassava Flakes) Is a typical Portuguese word still being mistaken for a native Nigerian language. Jollof rice is actually Portuguese risotto.
All the way from what is now Ondo and some parts of Edo state down to the borders of Togo and Ghana was the Oyo Empire and Yoruba territory.
It will be suicidal of the Binis if they tried to claim anywhere in the Oyo empire due to the fact that Yorubas have a higher population than them and 99% of Yorubas were warriors.
Here is the ish. Bini kingdom had influence to Lagos and claimed it as a territory but bear in mind there were indigenous people there.
All this story of Yoruba nation and likes are construct of the Europeans. Before the coming of the Europeans, there was no such thing as Yoruba nation and the likes.
Bini never had influence in Lagos or anywhere in Oyo Empire because Lagos didn't exist then. Oba of Bini had an intermediary in the place called Lagos and that's the person you Binis have been over hyping.
Lagos was called Oko which means farm, the Oba of bini's intermediary who the Oba used as diplomat to trade with the Yorubas called it eko because it was heavily militarised by Yoruba women warriors.
Lagos was a farm and commercial point of the Oyo Empire and was occupied by Yoruba warriors and it extended into benin republic and Togo.
Yorubaland and Yoruba people does not end in Nigeria or Lagos, it ends in Togo and some parts of Ghana.
When the Portuguese came they traded with Yorubas in the places now called Lagos, Cotonou and Porto Novo.
Lagos, cotonou and Porto Novo used to be one whole Yoruba farm and commercial point.
Rybnyk: Even if he mistranslated the word Lagos he is not wrong in reference to what Lagos was. It was actually a slave coast. You can do your research. You will see it. In as much as the present day Lagos is a South western state in Nigeria,it used to be a slave coast. Europeans used to come to buy slaves and other commodities in the slave coasts,one of which was Lagos. Check and see. So Seun Kuti is not ignorant.
It was never ever a slave coast.
Stop rewriting history with fake news and fake history.
Lagos was a farm and commercial point of the Oyo Empire and was occupied by Yoruba warriors and it extended into benin republic and Togo.
Yorubaland and Yoruba people does not end in Nigeria or Lagos, it ends in Togo and some parts of Ghana.
When the Portuguese came they traded with Yorubas in the places now called Lagos, Cotonou and Porto Novo.
Lagos, cotonou and Porto Novo used to be one whole Yoruba farm and commercial point.
sukkot: bro you ain’t gone tell me who I am. My family history is on Wikipedia. Bini royal family of Olisa in ikorodu now called Yoruba today. Google is your friend. Just google Olisa ikorodu. That’s why in ikorodu they have 2 kings Like I said, one to acknowledge the Bini ancestry . Part of my family tree is the abiru guy the senator of Lagos east and the commisioner for transport for Lagos. Ancient Bini guys but name changed to Yoruba like 400 yeRs ago
Anybody can write anything on Wikipedia. I look at what's on ground and what's realistic.
Ogun to Togo was occupied by Yoruba women warriors and farmers. There's was never any royalty there..
If there was royalty there then you won't be alive today because the British would have k:illed off your ancestors the same way they killed Ghanaian king and cut off his head. Every place that had royalty the royals were the first victims of the British.
sukkot: my family is royalty bruh. We on Wikipedia if you want me to pull it up for you. And there are millions of us like this. Called Bini 400 years ago but name changed to Yoruba today. The name Yoruba is not a very old name. It’s like british people were once part of the Roman Empire. They are Romans. But today they call themselves british. Name change. Name changes with time but the people remain the same
The only royalty in the Yoruba nation are Alaafin of Oyo and the Oni of Ife.. asides them there's no royalty in Lagos or rest of Yoruba nation.
The rest who were influencial were people who controlled Armies/warriors.
Italians are Romans not British that's why there's a place called Rome in Italy.
Name doesn't change with time unless someone changes it and the Eur:opeans are the ones that change it not time.
sukkot: i am talking to you as a Yoruba man whose ancestry 400 years ago was called Bini. My family is part of the Olisa royal Bini family in ikorodu but we are called Yoruba today. Understand that I am speaking to you as an ancestral Bini man but today called Yoruba from ikorodu
Yoruba ancestry over 400 years ago was Yoruba not Bini.
Before they were called Yorubas they were called Egyptians.
Yoruba has never been called Bini. The only Bini in Lagos was the intermediary the Oba of Bini used to trade and communicate with the Yorubas. Stop saying rubbish and rewriting history with false and nonsense info.
The Oba of Benin had an intermediary in Lagos who used to communicate with the Yorubas ( who was later called the Oba of a particular section of Lagos).
he was a person who traded with the indigenous Yoruba and more of an intermediary or secretary or diplomat of the Oba of benin and if the Yorubas wanted to do business with the Oba of benin he was the intermediary they will use... Lagos was called a farm ( Oko ) and also part of Ogun then the Portuguese came and called the part of Ogun they traded with Lagos.. and it was governed by warring Yoruba tribes that's why the Oba of Benin intermediary called it war camp ( eko ).. over time the intermediary stopped been a Bini indigene and Yorubas took over the post and changed it to Oba of Lagos..
From Ogun down to the borders of Togo and Ghana was mostly governed by Yoruba military/warrior women..
sukkot: binis and yorubas are the same people. About 60 percent of yorubas are binis. It’s the same people. For example the commisioner for transport for Lagos state and the senator representing Lagos east are yorubas today from ikorodu but 400 years ago they were called binis . This is why in ikorodu they have 2 chieftaincy titles , one to recognise their Bini ancestry called The OLISA king title of ikorodu. What’s my point ? YOU ARE Making no point
Yorubas and Binis are not the same people and will never be the same people the day Nigeria dis-integrates the Binis will have their own independent country.
Stop rewriting history with fake news and fake history.
Lagos was a farm and commercial point of the Oyo Empire and was occupied by Yoruba warriors and it extended into benin republic and Togo.
Yorubaland and Yoruba people does not end in Nigeria or Lagos, it ends in Togo and some parts of Ghana.
When the Portuguese came they traded with Yorubas in the places now called Lagos, Cotonou and Porto Novo.
Lagos, cotonou and Porto Novo used to be one whole Yoruba farm and commercial point.
martin123: The Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, has claimed that Lagos State is not part of Yoruba land.
Akiolu’s statement is coming barely a week after he publicly humiliated the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi at an event.
In a statement from Akiolu’s palace, the monarch traced the historical background of the state and why it should not be regarded as part of Yoruba land.
The statement reads: “Coming from the palace, with what I was told by my late paternal grandmother who is a descendant of Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi and also reading from factual Historical books, let me share this Knowledge with you all on Eko/Lagos.
“Modern day Lagos was founded by Prince Ado, the son of the Oba of Benin, Prince Ado was the first Oba of Lagos, the son of the Bini King, Prince Ado, named the town Eko until the Portuguese explorer Ruy de Segueira changed the Maritime town to Lagos, which at that time from 1942 was Portuguese expedition center down the African Coast.
“It was a major centre of the slave trade until 1851. Lagos was annexed by Britain via the Lagos treaty of cession in 1861, ending the consular period and starting the British Colonial Period. The remainder of modern day Nigeria was seized in 1886 when the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria was established in 1914 Lagos was declared its capital due to the struggle of the Bini King.
“Lagos experienced growth prior to the British Colonial rule and even more rapid growth during the Colonial rule throughout the 1960s, 70s, continued through the 80s and 90s till date. Thanks to the Awori’s, Bini’s, Yoruba’s, migrants across the nation and world at large, as no particular group of people can take the glory alone.
“Lagos is made up of Lagoons and creeks. The Lagos lagoon, Lagos Harbour, five cowne creeks, Ebute-Metta creeks, Porto-Novo creeks, New canal, Badagry creeks, Kuramo waters and Light house creeks.
“The Awori’s and Bini’s are known to be the first settlers of the Eko land. The Awori’s are speakers of a distinct dialect close to that of the Yoruba language with a rich Bini mixture. Traditionally, Awori’s were found in Ile-Ife, they were known to be the Bini’s who followed their self-exiled Prince, the first son of the Ogiso (now called Oba) of Benin Kingdom, whose step-mother was after his head.
“The exiled Benin Prince Izoduwa known to the Yorubas as Ooduwa (Oduduwa) was made ruler of the Ife people due to his powers and followers from the Great Benin-Kingdom.
“Izoduwa (Ooduwa) was made the first King of Ile-Ife in 1230 AD. His followers from his father’s Kingdom in Benin are the today’s Awori people who settled in Eko now called Lagos.
“In the 1300, the King of Benin-Empire heard from one of his traders who was a settler in Eko on how the Bini’s were treated by the Awori’s who lived in their area. Upon hearing this, the King of Benin commanded the assembling of a war expedition, led by his son, Prince Ado, which headed the settlement of the Awori’s and demanded explanation.
“On arriving Eko, Prince Ado and his Army were more than received. The Aworis asked the Bini Prince to stay and become their leader. Ado agreed on the condition that they surrender their sovereignty to the Oba of Benin, to which the people agreed. Hearing this, the King of Benin gave his permission for Prince Ado and the expedition to remain in Eko.
“The Oba of Benin sent some of his chiefs including the Eletu, Odibo, Obanikoro and others to assist his son, Oba Ado in the running of Eko.
“From the crowing of Prince Ado as the first Oba of Lagos (then called Eko), Lagos served as a major center for slave trade from which the Aworis, the Oba of Benin and his son the Oba of Lagos and all the children/descendants who took over as his successors for over four centuries supported the trade.
“The Oba of Benin was the head of the Benin Empire which are the present day Western, Southern and Eastern modern day Nigeria. The King never obliged anyone to speak the Bini language as he believed everyone was entitled to their own choice of language.
“The name Eko was given to it by the first king of Lagos, Oba Ado, the young and vibrant Prince from Benin. Eko was the land now known as Lagos Island, where the king palace was built.
“The palace is called Idugaran meaning “palace built on pepper farm” Oba Ado and the warriors from Benin together with the early Bini’s settlers in Eko and the Awori people settled in the southern part of Eko called “Isale Eko”. “Isale literally means bottom “. Must have been used to indicate downtown (as in down town Lagos)
“Until the coming in of the Benin’s 1300AD , Lagos geographical boundary was Lagos mainland, Lagos Island, the seat of the Oba of Lagos then consisted of a pepper farm and fishing post. No one was living there.
“About 1450 AD some Yorubas who hailed from Isheri in Ogun-state and Ekiti were allowed by the King to settle in Eko during a war, they came in a very large numbers thereby surpassing the numbers of the Awori’s and Bini’s. (Hence Yorubas claim to own Eko due to their numbers).
“Oba Ado fell in love with a beautiful woman whose father was Awori and mother a daughter to one of the chief; they had two sons and also a daughter Erelu Kuti, who begot Ologun Kutere who later became King.”
Stop rewriting history with fake news and fake history.
Lagos was a farm and commercial point of the Oyo Empire and was occupied by Yoruba warriors and it extended into benin republic and Togo.
Yorubaland and Yoruba people does not end in Nigeria or Lagos, it ends in Togo and some parts of Ghana.
When the Portuguese came they traded with Yorubas in the places now called Lagos, Cotonou and Porto Novo.
Lagos, cotonou and Porto Novo used to be one whole Yoruba farm and commercial point.
ruffyjolly: *I DON'T WANT TO BELIEVE THIS, BUT IT'S WRITTEN BY AN IBO PROF.*
*(By Prof. Ihechukwu Madubuike)*
*THIS IS SIMPLY THE REASON WHY HAUSAS, YORUBAS, EDO AND THE NIGER DELTA MAN WILL NOT TRUST THE IBO MAN AT THE CENTER AND WHY THE HAUSAS MAY NOT WANT TO RELINQUISH POWER IN NIGERIA*
*Any historians in the house to vet this but no insults or character assassination please:*
*Forgotten History Of Igbo Tribe And Northern Alliance.*
*Do you know that when Tafawa Balewa was Prime Minister of Nigeria;*
*Chief of Army Staff was from SE* *Chief of Naval Staff was from SE* *IG of Police was from SE* *Chief of Defence Staff was from SE* *Internal Affairs Minister SE* *External Affairs Minister SE* *Education Minister South SE* *Many other key ministries to SE* *Parliament President SE* *Unilag VC from SE* *The University of Ibadan VC from SE* *North resisted same at ABU!!!*
*Still, there was dissatisfaction by SE, the officers from the region killed this same Balewa!!!*
*Out of all the most senior officers in Nigeria, SE has 37, none was killed. 8 from the north, all of them were killed. 10 from the west, 2 were killed.*
*Then Ironsi imposed a unitary system of government on the country so that everything can belong to a region who snatched it!*
*We must know our history so that when we want to make corrections, we will not end up concealing the truth.*
*This has nothing to do with tribalism but everything to do with the truth.....at times when lies litter the streets.*
*There is a tendency to think those are truths and facts.*
*What follows are documented facts that can be cross-checked for authenticity!"*
*Thou shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.*
* *“Prof. Ben Nwabueze was the man who drafted the constitution that took away powers from regions and handed it to the central government because his brother Aguiyi THEORY WOES IN NIGERIA TODAY:*
*The Igbo man is known to enjoy blaming the Hausa fulanis, Yorubas and indeed every other Nigerian tribe and Lord Luggard/Britain for their seeming claim of being in third class citizen status in Nigeria.*
*In their perpetual attempts to play the victim card, they recount the political events of Nigeria from 1914 to the present in a half-baked and highly selective manner which cleverly avoids the mention of the roles played by their elite who by all natural laws of judgement were actually responsible for the woes that befell not only the Igbo race but the entire Nigeria nation.*
*The story told in the post above is one of such selective and distorted accounts of history which the average Igbo man is fond of narrating.*
*However, the national archives have the complete and unedited history of Nigeria regarding the political events beginning way back from even before 1914.*
*I will therefore proceed to furnish my readers with the complete story for all to read and be endowed with enough facts so as to judge and act from an informed position.*
*Shortly after the 1914 Amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorates, it started getting clear that the country was bound to fail as the amalgamation in question was done with colonial fiat without the consent and consensus of the different tribes which were over 300.*
*This prompted the political leaders to start asking for de-amalgamation so as to forestall the future danger which the forced amalgamation portended.*
*To that end, Ahmadu Bello, speaking on behalf of the Northern protectorate in 1944 described the amalgamation as* *"The mistake of 1914 which if allowed to remain will ultimately lead to unstoppable bloodshed and a failed country".* *Awolowo, speaking on behalf of the Yorubas and Western minorities, described Nigeria as a mere geographical expression not qualified to be called a country let alone a nation.*
*Awolowo added that if the5 amalgamation could not be reversed, then Nigeria should be structured as a strictly federal state so as to enable each tribe enjoy autonomy this freedom from being dominated by any one single tribe.*
*But Nnamdi Azikiwe, speaking for the Igbos, denounced Awolowo and Ahmadu Bello, terming them ethnic champions.*
*He accused them of nursing a sectional agenda against the unity of Nigeria, and he declared further that the Unity of Nigeria was non-negotiable.*
*After moving the motion for independece in 1953, Anthony Enahoro proposed that a secession clause should be incorporated into the future constitution of Nigeria so as to give legal backing for any tribe to peacefully exit the forced union if it feels marginalized in future.*
*According to Enahoro, such provision in our constitution would instill in all Nigeria's future leaders the fear of the consequences of misgovernance.*
*But Azikiwe, speaking on behalf of Igbos, rose against him in the parliament and labelled him an agent of disunity, and enemy of Nigeria.*
*At a later date, Awolowo too made a case for secession clause, but Azikiwe again resisted him and instigated the colonial authorities to threaten him and Enahoro with charges of treasonable felony if they didn't stop proposing secession clause for the future constitution.*
*While Azikiwe did all these, Igbos cheered and urged him on because they felt the future Nigeria was theirs to dominate and lord it over every other tribe.*
*Before independece, Tafawa Balewa too had in a public speech described Nigeria as a British experiment and Nigeria's unity as a British intention which Nigerians themselves don't believe in. But Azikiwe kicked and demonized him too.*
*Had Azikiwe co-operated with Enahoro, Awolowo, Ahmadu Bello and Tafawa Balewa about the secession clause, Nigeria perhaps would not have been this misgoverned.*
*For those in doubt, here is a link of one of the numerous instances in which Nnamdi Azikiwe fought against the secession clause proposal for the future Nigeria constitution.*
*It should be noted that there were many Igbo members of the parliament in which Azikiwe fought against Awolowo's secession clause proposal in the link above, but not a single one of them rose against Azikiwe or condemned him.*
*Igbos initially never wanted to hear anything like secession in Nigeria because they so much believed, though falsely, that they were the most educated tribe. (The first Nigerian tribe to produce a university graduate is the Binis).*
*As an evidence of Igbo domination agenda hence their initial resistance to the idea of secession; here are some quotes:*
*"From all indications, the god of us Igbos have destined us to rule the whole of Africa"..... Nnamdi Azikiwe (1945).*
*"It is getting clearer each day that Igbo domination of Nigeria is just a question of time"... Oscar Onyeamma. (1949).*
*As at 1900, the whole of the present Benue State, Kogi East Senatorial District and some southern parts of Taraba State called Munchi District back then; were all in the Southern Protectorate.*
*Whoever doubts this should consult MacMillan Atlas for secondary schools in Nigeria. With that situation the South had a higher population than the North hence always had an upper hand in any democratic bargain.*
*But as at the early fifties when the regions were being created, common sense dictated clearly that these areas should fall in the future Eastern Region.*
*But against common sense, the colonial masters decided to gerrymander them into the Northern Region.*
*While they did that, Azikiwe who was supposed to be in Enugu fighting against it as the leader of the East, was far away in Ibadan struggling with Awolowo to rule the Western Region and also playing the spoiler role against Awolowo's attempts to have Kwara and present Kogi Yorubas carved into the Western Region from the North which was already too large by landmass.*
*While he abandoned his burning house and was far away in Ibadan struggling against Awolowo for his own (Awolowo's) region, Igbos saw absolutely nothing wrong with that. Rather they applauded him as a nationalist.*
*A nationalist whose house was burning yet busy chasing rats in a far away land.*
*When opinions became unanimous that Lord Luggard and his government must be forced out of Nigeria and indeed the whole of Africa, it was still the Igbos that frustrated the attempts.*
*Here is how:*
*In 1948, Anthony Enahoro organized an anti-colonization symposium in Lagos for which Azikiwe and some other Igbos had agreed to deliver the keynote address.*
*But when the D-day came, Azikiwe was nowhere to be found as he deliberately disappeared into thin air for fear of being arrested and dealt with by Lord Luggard.*
*Anthony Enahoro then quickly replaced Azikiwe with another person who did the job improptu but perfectly well as he lambasted and lampooned Lord Luggard and the British Government.*
*However, the British soldiers invaded the symposium venue, arrested the speaker and Enahoro and jailed them for treasonable felony. Ironically, the next day Azikiwe came out of hiding and granted a radio interview in which he accused Enahoro and the other organizers of suffering from youthful exhuberance.*
*On regaining his freedom few weeks later and being told of Azikiwe's radio interview, Enahoro resigned from his post as Editor of Azikiwe's newspaper - The West African Pilot.*
*Then he wrote a book titled "Nnamdi Azikiwe: Sinner of Saint". After launching the book, Enahoro left Azikiwe's party - the NCNC, and moved over to Awolowo's Action Group.*
*The first military coup in Nigeria was carried out by majority of Igbo army officers.*
*That was the coup that truncated democracy just six years post Independence and led to a succession of coups which put the country on the reverse gear for 33 years.*
*Through that first coup, those Igbo army officers who accused the politicians and government of the day of monumental corruption, killed the political leaders of the Northern, Western and Midwestern Regions but allowed all Igbo political figures to escape by tipping them off prior to the D-Day.*
*In addition to the killing of political figures, they also killed a total of 27 innocent high ranking military officers from every region except their Eastern Region.*
*In the end an Igbo man called Aguiyi Ironsi, who was supposed to have been killed alongside other military officers, ended up becoming the new military ruler of Nigeria. Rather than immediately arrest and punish the coup plotters, he kept them in detention where they were treated as heroes.*
*This was actually what sowed the seed for the eventual Biafra War. On the 23rd of February 1966 (i.e. a month and 8 days after the first coup porpularly but wrongly known as Nzeogwu coup, an Ijaw born Army officer called Isaac Adaka Boro who hailed from Kaima town of present Bayelsa State, declared the secession of the Niger Delta Republic in an attempt to free his Ijaw people from the monumental marginalization they had been suffering under Igbos in the old Eastern Region.*
*But Aguiyi Ironsi immediately ordered Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu to arrest him and hand him over to the military high command under him in Lagos. Ojukwu went all out against Isaac Adaka Boro with federal military might and within 12 fighting days killed 150 Isaac Boro's soldiers, arrested him, stripped him naked, and had him driven to Lagos and handed to Ironsi who immediately charged him to court and within two months secured against him a conviction of treasonable felony for which he was sentenced to death by hanging fixed for December that year by the Supreme Court. His 'crime' was that he declared secession of The Niger Delta Republic from Nigeria. Meanwhile the Igbo coupists who shed innocent blood of other tribes and even sprayed bullets into the bellies of the pregnant wives of Ahmadu Bello and Brigadier Shodeinde were not charged to court or arraigned before any military tribunal.*
*Isaac Adaka Boro was in detention waiting for December to come for him to join his ancestors. But God so kind, a revenge coup happened on July 29 by Northern soldiers and Ironsi was overthrown and killed. Gowon took over and released Isaac Adaka Boro unconditionally, reinstated him into the Army with his previous rank.*
*Then on May 30, 1967, Ojukwu too declared secession of Biafra Republic from Nigeria and without consulting or apologising to Isaac Boro, drew a Biafra map which included the very areas that made up Isaac Adaka Boro's earlier declared Niger Delta Republic for which he fought against him and killed his soldiers. Seeing such level of arrogance in Ojukwu, Isaac Boro asked Gowon to provide arms for him to crush Biafra by fighting on the Nigerian side in vengeance for Ojukwu's frustration of his own secession declaration 15 months earlier.*
*Isaac Boro, as an Ijaw man conversant with the waterways, led the Nigeria Army through the coastal areas into Igboland to finish off thousands of Ojukwu's soldiers thus leading to the crushing defeat of Biafra. But today, Igbos accuse Ijaws of betraying them in the war. But from the facts as above, who really betrayed the other in all honesty? Be the judge. Why Gowon fought against Ojukwu's declaration of Biafra was as follows:*
*After Ironsi and Ojukwu successfully crushed Isaac Boro's Niger Delta Republic declaration, Ironsi immediately proceeded to promulgate the Anti-secession Decree which made the mere mention of secession from Nigeria punishable with death by hanging.*
*Ojukwu openly supported and endorsed the decree despite disapproval of it by the general public. So when Ojukwu later declared Biafra secession, he was reminded of the Anti-secession Decree made by him and his brother Ironsi.*
*Igbos frequently reference Aburi Accord to create the impression that the rest of Nigerian tribes don't honour agreements. This is a very dishonest narrative from Igbos.*
*First and foremost Aburi Accord was organized by soldiers and unelected civil servants who should not participate in political exercises like making laws due to the civil service anonymity principle. Secondly, those civil servants and military men in attendance were not elected by their federal constituencies to the Aburi summit. In the philosophy of democracy the only universally acceptable way of making laws is through duly elected representatives of the people. But in going to Aburi the peoples' representatives duly elected in the 1965 elections were all sidelined for soldiers to hijack the process. Where on earth do soldiers make laws for the people? Rather, the civilian populace makes laws that guide the military. Aburi Accord therefore had no seal of the people's sovereignty hence it was an illegality which shouldn't have been allowed to stand.*
*Thirdly, in 1957, Nigerians from all federal constituencies democratically elected representatives whom they sponsored to London, paid their flight tickets and hotel accommodation for the Independence constitutional conference.*
*Those representatives all resolved and agreed on federalism marked by regional autonomy and resource control in the Independence Constitution which they brought back home and everyone accepted it.*
*In that constitution, Nigerians all agreed that on no account shall the military take over power. It was also clearly stated in it that ammendments to it could be done by only democratically elected representatives.*
*That constitution was the first ever agreement between all Nigerians.*
*On the day of his inauguration as the Army GoC, Aguiyi Ironsi stood before the whole world and with his own mouth swore to protect and defend that sovereign Independence constitution regardless of the circumstances that may later arise.*
*But just six years after he manufactured an excuse to clinch power against the clear provisions of that constitution we all agreed to, unilaterally began to amend its provisions with his very offensive Decrees, and ended up dismantling the federalism and resource control therein, and ultimately subverted that constitution we all painstakingly sacrificed to draft. That was the height of Irresponsibility and the dishonoring of sacred agreement. That was how Igbos breached the first agreement, all Nigerians, ever all mutually consented to, thus laying the foundation for violation of future agreements.*
*So Aburi Accord was only treated exactly the same way Igbos treated the Independence constitution agreement.* *Obasanjo removed history from the school curriculum hence the reason why many of what we know of the eventualities in Biafra war were altered to suite their narratives.*
*Anytime i hear or watch NNAMDI KANU talk i never take it serious but only as a noisemaker.*
*Thank God for this author. The Lord will bless him for us all! Everyone needs to know this for real. Knowing the truth sets free. We need we as a Nation.*
*We need to face facts, admit the stupid errors of history and eventual forgive ourselves for the sins, enormous sins committed by our forefathers. Love covers a multitude of sins.*
*Very important history please read, understand and also share and encourage others to know the truth
Open trials. Professional players, academy recruits, and street players, etc. Select the best from them.
If the academy player is not better, why should he go ahead of a street boy that is better than him?
Finito.
A street boy cannot be better than an academy player. An academy player is a professional footballer while a street boy is complete amateur footballer.
It's the same reason you won't visit a street doctor over a university graduate doctor with 10 years experience.
Someone who joins an academy at 10 years old will have at least 8 years experience of professional football before he/she is 20 years old compared to a street footballer who has no professional experience.
Academy players play on grass from a young age while street footballers play on concrete, sand, bumpy grass, wood e.t.c. so most street players especially in Africa have poor ball control and movement.
TheGoodJoe: You are running with your own perception. The screening process I posted was done by Emmanuel Amunike. Keep in mind, he trained under Sir Bobby Robson, one of the best tacticians of the game. He trained under Luis Van Gaal and was part of one of the best-scouted Super Eagles era (USA 94 and Atlanta 96 teams).
So, calling it madness is funny. Instead, you should learn from him.
Keep in mind, he was part of those that scouted the likes of Isaac Success, Kelechi Iheanacho, Wilfred Ndidi, Taiwo Awoniyi, Kelechi Nwakali, Victor Osimhen, and Chukwueze. He knows his stuff.
Now, what he is looking for are gems. Let me explain what gems are. When Diego Maradona joined Argentinos Juniors, I think he was 10 years old, his manager said, he could not teach Maradona anything. He knew it all at that age.
What the open trials are for, is to find special talents. Yes, you can find them on the streets. When you find these special players, you give them a crash course in tactical play. As soon as they assimilate the basics, they grow from there. And, yes, they can even outclass players that grew up playing in some of the best academies in the world.
Kelechi Iheanacho, Wilfred Ndidi, Taiwo Awoniyi, Kelechi Nwakali, Victor Osimhen, and Chukwueze were already playing in academies they were never street footballer.
Diego maradona's manager said that after Maradona had become an accomplished player he didn't say it when Maradona was 10 years old..
do you expect him to say negative things about Maradona the same way some Nigerians on this thread say negative things about Nigerian footballers
Special talents can never be found on the streets because if they had special talents they'll already be in an academy.
TheGoodJoe: I am with typicalgamer on this one. Open trials even for U-20s level. Hundreds of young footballers aged 19 and below turned up in Abuja on the first day of screening of players for Nigeria’s U-20s conducted by head team of the coach Emmanuel Amuneke.
Owngoalnigeria.com correspondent who was at the training session this morning reports that the players were divided into eight different set of 11 players and who played among themselves before some were dropped.
The team will hold their second training session this evening with more players expected to be tested as part of the process of picking the best legs for Nigeria’s Africa Youth Championship qualifiers against Burundi in March.
Selected players from the exercise which is expected to last for three days will compete with 30 other players already listed by the coach for camping starting this Saturday.
Among the 30 invited players, 12 were selected from the all conquering Nigeria U-17 team of 2015 with four members of the same team namely Kelechi Nwakali, Samuel Chukwueze, Victor Osimhen and Lukman Zakari set to join the team later in camp from their various base abroad.
unless the open trials is strictly for players from academies or an u20 football league.
You can't compare the football intelligence of an U20 player who joined an academy when he was 8 years old and has been playing different leagues and tournaments since he was 8 years old to a street footballer who only plays football occasionally.
That's one of the reasons Nigeria doesn't have players who are 18 or 19 already playing in Europe or UCL because the club that signs them sends them to junior teams.
Players like onyeka and onyedika and the other guy a Danish club recently signed have never played u20 football for the flying eagles and they got signed by European clubs because the academy they were in is affiliated with the European club and because they were already in an academy.
gamaliel9: I said this in my earlier post..pragmatism is the way to go... u20 does not play good football, but they kept on winning and qualified for Indonesia. they have a good defense, though uncoordinated... they have a good goalkeeper...
The keeper wasn't really tested. They rely too much on long balls and pace of forwards which I have said many times is the undoing of local coaches. when they stopped relying on long balls they started playing better.
Creating chances is something local coaches have to work on and the only way they can do that is to stop long balls and hoping the strikers get the ball.
class0247: The first settlers were the Awori. The first government was from Benin. Then to make Lagos a city at all, there were two other sets of people: the Brazilian slaves of Yoruba origin, who came in 1852, and the Yoruba-speaking slaves, who came from Freetown, Sierra Leone
Stop rewriting history with fake news and fake history.
Lagos was a farm and commercial point of the Oyo Empire and was occupied by Yoruba warriors and it extended into benin republic and Togo.
Yorubaland and Yoruba people does not end in Nigeria or Lagos, it ends in Togo and some parts of Ghana.
When the Portuguese came they traded with Yorubas in the places now called Lagos and Porto Novo.
Lagos and Porto Novo used to be one whole Yoruba farm and commercial point.
My brain and the fact that the capital was exclusively for Whyte people and returned slaves at that point in time.
Most of the descendants of "returned slaves" are still doing very well and that's due to generational wealth from the empowerment the British gave them and a lot of them have been at the corridors of Yoruba politics and government.
truthhurtsnaira: Then why did The North kick against Independence when ENAHARO suggested it? Why did the British merge the two countries that had their own flag, coat of arms, governments (Northern Nigeria and Southern Nigeria) into one Nigeria......?
E be like say you dey enter class late too ooh during your "YOUTH".
See your mouth " A bunch of Greedy and hateful Igbo soldiers"... LOL
Is that what they taught you? No wonder the Midwest voted peacefully to get the he.ll out the Wild Wild West.... You people fighting right after independence, then fighting before independence with Afonja bringing in Fulani terrorist to kill his own Yoruba people.... Nawah.
Why haven't you folks told that Emir in Illorin that a "Bunch of Greedy and hateful Fulani soldiers" killed Afonja....?
Or was it a Bunch of greedy and hateful soldiers that killed Fajuyi who refused to abandon his brother Ironsi?
The Western Region was corrupt then and law and order broke down. EVERYBODY from SOYINKA to ABIOLA to OBASANJO has said that regarding the 1960s events. North was Tribal and killing folks like they are doing today in MIDDLE BELT....... it is well documented and archived videos everywhere.... That is why every election middle belt vote with Igbo- Solomon Lar with Zik, and this las las with PO winning in Plateau, FCT, Nasawara, and schemed out of his victory in Benue....
You cannot be moving a nation forward and playing these NIGGER games. That should make sense to you Mr MAN
North kicked against independence because they taught it wouldn't favor them.
Midwest left peacefully because they wanted to control their revenue.. meanwhile Igbos didn't let the SS go peacefully.
Western region corruption built the first University, the first t.v station, the first skyscraper, first region to offer free education e.t.c. If that's corruption then I want more of it.
What did the saint south East region build with their holiness
South East region with their holiness went on a killing spree killing politicians and leaders of other regions in order to take over the other regions. If that's not corruption to you then you're worse than the people you accuse of corruption.
Iykoto86: Agreed,but the igbos want to leave this country and every other tribe is working against that.if igbo man can not be trusted by nigerians and other major tribes who have ruling the country is the reason nigeria is a big mess,then let every body go their saperate ways naa.no be fight bros
The Igbos are the ones who truncated regional system and fought to unify Nigeria so that they control the revenue of all regions..
They don't want to leave Nigeria.. if they wanted to leave then all their businesses will be in the SE.
class0247: Lol What do you know? I bet you are just under 18 trying to suggest an opinion instead of fact. Go and watch that documentary and you will see that elders of Lagos know their original and there are facts in that documentary. Mind you, it was not made by Igbos but chiefs from Lagos. The slaves that returned back to Lagos where over 10% of the Lagos population. There are of different tribe of Nigeria. Are you now telling me that they are not also lagosians?
I don't watch false documentaries.. I look at what was on ground and decode the original events.
Slaves were never returned to Lagos. The people they call slaves are people the Bri:tish brought to replace the indigenes and make them more influencial than the indigenes and also gave them Yoruba names because the British did not want to empower and employ the indigenes..
That's why a part of Lagos island was the capital and was exclusive for Whyte people only and the "returned slaves". While the places outside the capital were left to decay.
truthhurtsnaira: Wrong... Nigeria was practicing then CORRUPTION and TRIBALISM.... The Wild Wild West- CORRUPTION, The North with Ahmadu Bello who would rather hire expatriate OYIBO than other Nigerians- TRIBALISM.
It was only East and Midwest that had some sense of normalcy....
One Nigerian soldiers led and SUPPORTED the military coup that tried to end Corruption and Tribalism- not ending the Regions.
The most famous picture of Nzeogwu was officially cropped because HASSAN KATSINA was standing next to him as a supporter of the coup. (DO your research).
By 1967, Ojukwu in Ghana officially asked for the British model- not ZIK, not Awo, not Bello, not Balewa.... but Ojukwu.... but Gowon was advised by the colonizers to not gree for am..... and the rest is history
A group of greedy and hateful Igbo soldiers accused the other regions of Nigeria of corruption and tribalism because Igbos weren't the ones in control of those regions and because those other regions were richer than their own region..
It's the same as seeing a hard-working rich man and out of the blue accuse him of corruption because he is richer than you..
that's the same thing Igbos are doing to Tinubu today.
The corruption in the SW is not Igbos business.
The corruption in the north is not Igbos business.
ukaface: Before nkor Lagos na Yoruba land na Abi no be south west e Dey for map? But Yorubas should chill,every other indigenes of non Yoruba states built Lagos
Every other indigenes of non Yoruba states did not build Lagos and have no hand in it's progress and development.
They are not the ones signing road construction contracts.
truthhurtsnaira: Its to show how local Africans continue to be... Dragging that this are is ours or not ours....
Did Yoruba name Lagos? Did Igbo name Nigeria?
As we watch and masturbate over being a Chelsea fan or Spurs fan, why can't we masturbate their political structure- Independent Home nations of Wales, Scotland, England, etc....
Give Oduduwa their own parliament, Arewa their own, and on and on, and let each region develop as they wish...
But since we have a lot of NIGGERS, they will begin to vex...
Crazy
That is what Nigeria practiced before ig:bos vex and truncated that system of government in 1966/1967.
Politics › Re: Lagos Means Slave Coast - Seun Kuti by codemaniacs: 4:37pm On Mar 08, 2023
