₦airaland Forum

AfonjaBoston:
Yorubas are too many in ATL

And your point is? Abi na oduduwa found Atlanta too?

Hamzaay:
Afonjas and Igbos will never cease to amaze us both home and abroad

Almajiri sef dey talk, lol.. una wey depend on quota system and federal character to even travel abroad

DontBullshitMe:
Does the inclusion of this seem sensible to anyone?

I hope I am not the only one who finds it mentally disturbing.

Haba na, shay you wan kee person with laughter no

luluman:
And you are here wining the best Idle man on nairaland.

You are just seeing this thread, d initially heading was " igbo girl becomes the bgs in Lagos poly" before it was modified

Gaddafithe2nd:
I laughed at your assumptions. Lagos 70% Christians, is it because of the mushroom churches scattered around nooks and crannies of Lagos . ileya is nearby, come and experience how Lagos would be deserted. Ogun state is not majorly Christians. I grew up among the Ijebus and Abeokuta people. If Muslims are dominant in Ogun state, why is their Ojude Oba always held 3rd day after Ileya. Quit assuming.
The Christians started this mess, let the Muslims take their pound of flesh.
The two religion are foreign to Yoruba land, sorry bro my ancestors don't worship deities, I don't know about yours.

I don't know what you were on oh but christains of all ethnicity outnumber Muslims by at least 2:1 in Lagos even way higher in some areas, there is no public place be it schools, buses etc where Muslims are up to 40% sef .. we are all one non the less

olajizz01:
so,you saw osun as only Muslim dominated state in SW in your dream,U must be living in a fool paradise.What about Ogun Lagos and Oyo state.

Which Lagos does Muslim dominate? They don't even make up to 40% here

Kylekent59:
Black man must always say bad when good things happen to someone.

Congratulate her and hang the hatred.

Ok congratulations to the smart chic, but you don't have to be a tribalist, there were igbo in same school who couldn't graduate too

samuel19222:
Lovely, nice cars and tricycles, but I thought there is a Yoruba community in Cuba.

Their president is originally from ijebu ode

Yes o and she did so by answering exam questions with "I'm Igbo"

OhBiafra:
Yorubas and bleaching

Once them get small change na to bleach remain

Amalekki:
https://litcaf.com/ekiti-people/

Ekiti people are subgroup of the Yoruba, historically occupying the Ekiti country, which was made up of 16 kingdoms- Otun, Ikole, Ado, Oye, Ijero, Ido, Ikere, Ise, Emure, Effon, Okemesi (traditionally Imesi-Igodo), Ara, Isan, Itaji, Obo, Akure, and Ogotun. In 1882- the Awujale of Ijebu made mention of being an ally of “the 16 kings in Ekiti.” Samuel Johnson says that the Ekiti are a section of the aboriginal elements occupying Yorubaland before Oduduwa. Apparently, the people in this eastern districts comprises aborigines of the country and later immigrants. In reality, a majority claims to have come from Ile Ife, though there are sessions who maintains they came from easterly regions (mostly Benin) or from other places at different times. The story usually goes that even these people came from Ile Ife but went separately or in the company of the Oba of Benin, to the east, settling in Benin kingdom. For reasons that escaped records, they retraced their steps and finally settled in their present abode.

No single leader was acknowledged by the confederation of Ekiti kingdoms prior to the 19th Century. No two towns in Ekiti is known to have been ruled together by a single Ekiti ruler. The Ekiti dialect differs in varying degrees from one kingdom to another. Although there can be seen an Ekiti country characterized by hills and rocks, a 1933 Intelligence Report on Ikere by N.A.C. Weir posits that “the Ekiti people, if there are any such thing, are not a subgroup in the sense that the Egba, Ijebu are.” Each town, identified as Ekiti therefore are one because they live and occupy land in a district which takes its name owing to its hilly nature. These people, said CMS’s Hinderer in a journal of 1855, “love their liberty- and have been known in the hour of extremity to chose death rather than a life of slavery.”

Trade served as a great uniting factor for the Ekiti people. Women were often seen carrying their wares on their heads from one end of the Ekiti country to another. However, Ekiti was too fragmented to offer enough resistance to the mighty Benin empire when by the late 16th Century, forces penetrated as far as Otun in the extreme north of Ekiti country. The kingdoms gave their submission peacefully in most cases, but ignored or forgot the terms of submission thereafter because of the relatively great distance of their land form Benin and the inconsistency of the power of Benin. Evidence shows that Ekiti before the 19th Century, like other eastern Yoruba kingdoms, were drawn more towards the center of Benin than towards the center of Yoruba civilization. At intervals, Ekiti came under the old Oyo Empire. Igbomina, occupying the north of Ekiti was fully part of the empire but the rest of Ekiti kings only acknowledged the Alaafin at Oyo as a senior brother.

Ekiti did not suffer the effects of the decline of Oyo authority directly, but Fulanis from Ilorin, who, taking advantage of the empire’s fall, soon showed face at Otun, in the extreme north of Ekiti. Although they conquered most Igbomina villages with little difficulty, Omu-Ekiti proved to be a nut to crack, for its ranks had been filled with Oyo refugees who had learnt the Oyo Art of War. Managing to rise up once beaten, Otun served as a gate keeper to the rest of Ekiti southward. Once more, the hills and ruggedness of the Ekiti country rendered the Calvary warfare that was the hallmark of Fulani Ilorin’s army ineffective. By 1840, the Ibadan army, eager to enter dominance in the new post-Alafin Oyo order that was to emerge, had joined Ekiti warriors in expelling the Fulanis.

From 1854, Ibadan military garrison, which had become the most powerful state in the whole of Yorubaland set its eyes fully on Ekiti, the country which it has, after several minor expeditions, familiarized itself with. Six years later, most Ekiti towns had come under Ibadan. As aggression from Ibadan continued, the kingdoms started to realize they shared a common destiny.



Wokuti

Wokuti, name given to the mysterious death of Ibadan warriors at the hills of Ekiti in 1897 at the last Ibadan military campaign in eastern Yoruba country literally means “pile the corpses out of the way.” The Wokuti war was pursued on the Ibadan side under the leadership of Latosisa, but no mention of it was made even in Ibadan prior to the attack. In this war, neither Ogedengbe nor Aduloju, the arch-enemy warrirors of the Ibadan army was attacked, but it appears, Esugbayi, the ambitious warrior, friend to Ibadan, who ruled a large kingdom extending beyond Aiyede to Ekiti and Akoko lands. Esugbayi bourgeoining influence, historian, S.A. Akintoye believed, excited the suspicion and hostility of the Ibadan chiefs.

Latosisa, the Ibadan General’s bigger vision was to extend Ibadan conquest into far northeastern Yoruba countries- the latter day Kabba Division. In December 1875, he led his army into Ekiti and proceeded to Aiyede, capturing and securing the surrender of Esugbayi who now accepted his kingdom to be Ibadan protectorate and to pay tributes. The conquering Ibadan party missed their way, and forayed into dangerous terrains where many perished, in one probably exaggerated account, leaving only one alive.



Ekiti Parapo

Erstwhile hostile and uncooperative relations between Ekiti kingdoms reached a turning point in 1878 with the creation of an alliance with Ogedengbe as Chief Commander and with the political patronage of the Owa of Ilesa. The alliance’s original purpose was to dislodge the Ibadan overlord. The emirate of Ilorin, seeing an opportunity in its contest against Ibadan for more territories, joined the Ekiti Parapo alliance in this campaign. Ekiti villages already under the control of the emirate joined their kindred who sough freedom from Ibadan influence. With the outbreak of Kiriji War, they pursued their goal of a glorious reunion.

A treaty was made in 1886, which passed Ekiti districts formerly under Ibadan control to the hands of the British. The part of Ekiti still under Ilorin began to revolt against the emirate, sometimes driving consols from their towns as recorded of the towns of Otun, Aiyede, and Ishan towns in 1896. An attempt to assert the emir’s authority led to a war at Erinmope, in which Ilorin suffered defeat. In spite of this victory, many Ekiti towns under the emirate were not joined politically with their kindred in Southern Nigeria until the first half of the 20th Century. When Otun Ekiti was finally transferred to Southern Nigeria in 1936, there remained only one Ekiti town left under Ilorin jurisdiction. Ekiti people are today contained in the political entity, Ekiti state of Nigeria, carved out of the old Ondo state in 1996.

So ekiti resisted the Fulani lead illorin emirate, no Wonder it is extremely rear to find Muslims from ekiti state

darlenese:
my dad and mum used Urhobo and Okpe and their main mode of communication , not to us ,but to themselves Somehow I got to learn the language .

Oh cool, I wanted to know if you were able to understand urhobo with only knowledge of okpe language

Y u 1 know her house hmmm ? Lolz if u wanna give her anything give her here nt wen u see her... Lolz

U dey find wife Abi Lolz
#Kidding

Long time

darlenese:
Translation

"Mad woman hear this
What you are doing is bad
In the life to come you will suffer
mad woman/wife hear this

Hahahahahspa
Oya lecturer mark my script

Growing up, did you guys urhobo or okpe @ home?

Osonobrughweson:
Okpe is a language not dialect

Your moniker sounds uvwie, shouldn't they speak for themselves?

Not everyone watches afonja movies na. Patience is 10x More popular

Abeg wetin dey occur?

But I hear say mami water (and papi water) plus ogbanje dey yellow sha

It means you make too much noise/moan, while having sex to the extent of disturbing the neighbours

movement2020:
While in school, 3rd class were gambling, hustling, messing around while 1st class were studying day and night. Upon graduation, 3rd class realized, Nigeria was all about hustling and gambling which paid off and 1st class kept reading and looking for white collar jobs.

All these happens in a shithole where SABI-ficate is important than CER-tificate.

I have answered your question to the best of my knowledge.

Undergraduates please avoid this post

movement2020:
While in school, 3rd class were gambling, hustling, messing around while 1st class were studying day and night. Upon graduation, 3rd class realized, Nigeria was all about hustling and gambling which paid off and 1st class kept reading and looking for white collar jobs.

All these happens in a shithole where SABI-ficate is important than CER-tificate.

I have answered your question to the best of my knowledge.

Undergraduatea please avoid this post

This is nowhere near beauty

Premier university my ahz

Blackking98:
she might be ejagham, some central and northern CRS group's have borrowed some names from us too although we share nothing with them

She is from ogoja sha

SlyIg:
Yea ...
Obong and Abasi means God in Efik.
"Funjosh Obong" can be a nice combination. How about that? Lol.

Are there other groups in cross river that is linguistically related to the efik- annang- ibibio. o have friend from cross river whose native sounds efik but she isn't

Goel:
They are a bit up but worlds ahead my foot.
Their GDP per capita and HDI are just 5-7 years ahead of India that even because of natural resources only which India will overtake easily in next 10 years even at its slowest speed.
Even upper middle income countries of Eastern Europe aren't more than decades away from India, leave alone middleastern North African countries. They will soon fall behind black Africans also as world transfers to energy efficient systems.

In terms of inequality adjusted indicators, they start to suck in things like poverty, education and healthcare. South Africa is worst among them.

In terms of modernity, technology, IPRs, political system and free society, India isn't outshined by any country outside far east, Russia and western world.

The kind of infrastructure south African cities have ehn, India cannot compete.

India is an over populated hell hole

hisexcellency34:
That's why people say Islam-a-bad

My brother, there is also Allahabad in India

Goel:
Last time I checked, India's poorest and most underdeveloped state Bihar has HDI above African continent.

India isn't a very "good" country to live in honestly (except democratic freedoms and stabilit). But it's definitely a better place with lot of opportunities when compared to any other third world country.

South Africa, Tunisia, Algeria are worlds ahead of India

saheedbadmus:
Subhanalai

I think na ****** u talk, I wan fear say you be sucicide bomber,wey wan bomb nairaland

Euthanasia/mercy killing is sometimes the answer especially in cases like this, why let him suffer?

frosbel2:
Nothing wrong with being rich or wanting to be rich for the right reasons and through honest hardwork.

However flaunting wealth and houses worth billions of Naira ( millions of dollars ) which is/are beyond the reach of many is precisely why our society is all messed up. People , especially some LAZY YOUTH, want to acquire these earthly goods through crime and all sorts of nefarious methods without waiting for their time. That is why your country is all MESSED UP and SICK.

Stop this BULL SHIT.

Are you a Yahoo boy ??

It's not flaunting, they are marketing the house for prospective buyers

carpdiemz:
I watched the video and it’s a shame how our government and we Nigerians overhyped Lagos and estate management are you kidding me , do you know how beautiful such mansion would look like if it’s in a western developed country like Australia or USA, with same amount of money , we encourage corruption in this country , look at the surrounding of the so called expensive mansion abeg make huna go check how dem Dey build am for dat side nonsense

My thoughts exactly

Darkseid:
Only the smell from that Lagos water alone is enough to reduce the price by half. I have seen many better looking American mansions that costs way less than $3m.

My brother God bless you, I was waiting for someone to say this, the house is fucking over priced, there is no green space at all sef