₦airaland Forum

Yet he forced us together to become one country

It's the season of facts

Here's my own fact:

Do you know that in Nigeria there is a yoruba city being ruled by an Emir?

The big question still remains "when will the permanent cure for HIV/AIDS be discovered?"

PAGAN9JA:
I didn't bring. They are slaves who brought it here.

Lol slaves ke In 21st century

PAGAN9JA:
Its a shrine for housing Arab Gods like Allah/Hubal, Wadd , Tayy, Al Uzza, Manah , Al Lat , Yaguth ,etc. that has now had its idols representing these Gods removed and is being itself used as a large idol by muslims to represent Allah (Hubal) .

So why are they bringing it here? Are we arabs

What's kabbar?

scholes0:
I know about Owo- this is from the time i spent there
They say:
Mo ki ghan o, dede oma ogho imade

Similar here...
How are you/how far here means ko se gha

Gerrarahia mehn.. U wan spoil market abi?

scholes0:
Please, this topic is about Ilajes, stop with all the silly Bini stuff....abeg .

Are you from any of those places u outlined? If yes. How do u salute one another?

scholes0:
I ave noticed that the Ilaje, Owo, Ikale and to certain extents, the Idanre, Ondo and Ekiti dialects are infacts very very similar.
with Ilaje-Owo being most similar even though miles apart.

Yea right... that's y we constitute Ondo state
We r similar linguistically but differ in culture and tradition

Idi Araba!!!

Editor1:
Another "will" from the dullard...all in a bid to prove a point to Mahama of Ghana

Making it a total of 8,976 "wills" and "shalls" used by PMB in less dan 113days.


When will dis masturbation stop, so we can get the real thing?

Just like saying Netherlands will qualify for Euro 2016

Firefire:
Buhari attempting to pacify the Ghanaians after the wicked treatment of 1983.

Good try. Please return home ASAP and form your cabinet, our economy is dying./


History

Most Nigerians will not remember this period, in fact, about 77% of Nigerians (that is Nigerians under the age of 35) were not born or were too young to understand what was happening at the time the term ‘Ghana must go’ was coined, but it was not in the very distant past.

In the 1970s, Ghana was facing a lot of economic hardship, just about the same time Nigeria had an oil boom, Nigeria’s economy was flourishing. Citizens of some West African countries (mostly Ghanaians) flocked into Nigeria in search of pastures green. In the early 1980s the oil boom somewhat subsided and there was also economic downturn in Nigeria due to low oil prices, jobs were no longer readily available even for Nigerians. The Federal Government decided that the Ghanaians and other African migrants had overstayed their welcome. The Nigerian government enacted an expulsion order in 1983, about 700,000 Ghanaians were returned to their country. The Ghanaians during the exodus used a peculiar type of bag to move their belongings; the bags were popularly termed by Nigerians as ‘Ghana must go’ bags. Well, Ghana left, and if you must know, Ghana is doing really well.

Ghana has since then attained significant economic growth and huge human development, which is majorly down to the growth in manufacturing and exportation of goods.

http://dailypost.ng/2013/11/14/karo-orovboni-ghana-must-go-ghana-has-gone-and-become-great/

http://feintandmargin.com/as-buhari-leads-ghana-must-go-again/

The curious ones would have asked why that bag was called ghana-must-go

phranseeqz:
Thought provoking questions. Btw, what were we eating before cassava arrived our shores?

Leaves

9jacrip:
Kindly share the history bro.
You're Ugbo, I presume?

Yes sire

Goodboiyy:
Lolz, 4 sure u will understand, if 4 example an ilaje man speaks an average itsekiri man will understand. but some1 from Ogun won't understand..

No you still yoruba, buh I have met so many Ilaje's , they all tell me they re Ilaje's nt Yoruba, I think the problem is from there parents #Dunno.

tat y I staged an argument, Buh a Lady corrected me.

Thanks 4 d correction

@bolded do we av an Official radio Station there in Ondo ?, if yes give me the frequency. or is it an official language too ?

I hope u understand iru mo mi fo?

cahnellven:
for those looking for an ILAJE Man that will claim yoruba, here I i am.

I am an ILAJE, and very much yoruba, no doubt.

Y is this question even up for debate?

It's like asking if a pathologist is a doctor, doesn't that sound ridiculous?

The ilajes are a subgroup of the Yoruboid linguistic..
Full Yorubas are descendants of Oduduwa.
NB: we ilajes are not his descendant. He met us in ile-ife

9jacrip:
The bolded is at Mokuro where there are hills. There is a dam around that place now. One of my uncles (Obalepon Obatala) mentioned this to me last weekend. This was where Obatala went to and was accepted to be their king till Oduduwa sent delegates to go and appease Obatala to return to Igbo Itapa where Iranje Oko was/is.

Oh.. thanks for that info
The little history I have about my clan was given to me by my granny. I would still try and dig more

Wait..he still wants to marry again @ what age

The pineapple grenade is a classic of modern weaponry. Baseball-size with squarish lumps, the hand-thrown bomb looks a lot like, well, a pineapple.

If you’re like me, you probably assumed the square sections were like pre-made fragments that would break apart when the grenade exploded, showering your enemy with lethal — and neatly uniform — hunks of metal.

But that’s not true, according to weapons expert Kevin Dockery, a former Army marksman, Gulf War veteran and prolific author also runs a firearms show called The Armory that is a fixture at the annual Dragon Con comics convention.

Dockery says the pineapple grenade’s inventor, William Mills from the United Kingdom, picked the fruit shape for ease of gripping. “His intention for those serrations was so that it wouldn’t slip out your hand in a muddy trench.”

The Mills-Bomb No. 5 became Great Britain’s standard hand grenade in 1915. The French, Russians and Americans soon made their own versions. The U.S. Mk. II remained in service into the 1970s before today’s smooth, baseball-style grenades superseded it.

As it happens, Dockery has a pineapple-grenade fragment in his collection, and it looks a lot like a piece of fruit — but not a pineapple. Having shattered lengthwise across the square segments, the grenade’s killing fragment is like “a sliver out of an apple,” Dockery says.

And that’s a good thing for the thrower, the author adds. “It makes a heavier projectile.” And a heavier projectile travels farther than a lighter one — meaning the grenade is more dangerous

http://warisboring.com/articles/the-myth-behind-the-classic-pineapple-grenade/

When are we going to have an oba/igwe rule sokoto/kano just like the other way round in Afonja's hometown

Still waiting for the day we'll have an Oba in sokoto just like kwara

Behira:
And u are my alomo

I'll help you refine it to Goldspot

nikkypearl:
chei!

I no lie na

The Ilajes are a distinguished, distinct linguistic group of the Yoruba stalk made up of four geo-political entities namely Ugbo Mahin Etikan and Aheri

GEOGRAPHY

ILAJELAND is bounded by the Ijebus to the West, the Ikale to the North, the Itsekiri to the East.  The APOI and Arogbo Ijaw to the North East, while the Atlantic ocean formed the southern boundary.  No doubt, the Ilajes are one of the most dynamic and enterprising people in Nigeria.  Our aquatic skill, coupled with their high adaptational ability enable us to conquer the harsh geographical environment and turn it to a big advantage. Consequently, we were able to build large communities like Ugbonla, Aiyetoro, Zion PePe and Orioke.  Aiyetoro for example in it's hey-days had the highest per capital income in the whole of  Africa and attracted visitors, tourists and researchers from all over the world especially Europe, Canada, and America.
 Ilajes can also be found in cohesive diasporic communities in Douala (Cameroon), Sapele/Warri (Delta), Asejire (Oyo) and parts of Lagos State. According to the 2006 census statistics, we have a population of about 290,615 people.
Igbokoda, the Ilaje local government headquarters is fast becoming an international trade center as it popular market attracts traders not only from other part of Nigeria, but, also from other African countries especially Togo Benin, Ghana, Cameroon and Gabon

OUR ORIGIN

We were said to have left ILE-IFE our original ancestral home/settlement in the 10th century. We mainly occupy the Atlantic coastline of Ondo State of Nigeria while a large population of them settles on land in the hinterland. The area we occupy today remains the Ondo State of Nigeria only outlet to the sea.
According to our dethroned Olugbo Oba Mafimisebi "we were the aboriginal Yoruba that was displaced from Ife". He and Oba of Benin agreed up to this point. Olugbo claimed this is why Ugbo and Benin have similar chieftaincy titles: Lema, Ashogbon, Oliha, Ojomo, Yasere among others. They were the Obalufon, Obamakin, Obalufe, Obawinrin, etc whose Yoruba language were originally spoken, including the lingua fraca in Benin palace.
According to Ben Omowafola Tomoloju, popularly known as ‘Pappy Ben’, a culture activist, author of books and the Aremo Onipopo of Ilaje Land, the Ilajes were members of the ancient communities that existed in Ile-Ife before the advent of Oduduwa in the the 10th century A.D. Upon the arrival of Oduduwa in Ife, he seized power from the incumbent ruler and assumed monarchical authority over the land.
Tomoloju said: “The ancestors of the Ilajes detested the Oduduwa take-over and, therefore, migrated through the forest of Oke Mafunrangan to a place near Esinmirin River from where they invaded Ile-Ife over a long period, carting away spoils and capturing slaves". This invasion was what motivated the legendary Ife Queen, Moremi, to embark on a heroic espionage quest that led to the eventual defeat of the marauding aborigines.
The coastal town, Ugbo, under the paramount ruler, Olugbo, is a major settlement of the protesting migrants. Its full meaning is ‘Mo r’ubo gbo ni.’ (I have a place to stay.) Ugbo is primary setting in the Moremi legend, which people sometimes mistake for Igboland in South-eastern Nigeria.
“Another major town, Mahin, comes under the paramount rulership of the Amapetu. Ugbo, Mahin and other towns like Atijere, Obe-Nla and Igbo-Egunrin reflect a degree of cultural mix which suggest some form of historical kinship between the Ilaje, Itsekiri and the Edo.

PRIMARY OCCUPATION

Being riverine by nature, our primary occupation is fishing. An average Ilaje person knows which fish is gotten from the fresh water and which fish is gotten from the salt water. There are also seasons when the water in the Lagoon turns to salt water, this is between April and July, when we have heavy rainfall. despite fishing across several villages at a time, there is no occasion where any Ilaje fisherman loses his way on the high sea. This, he said is due to the fact that, when you are on the sea, there is a way you picture yourself and there are landmarks you will identify to tell you the distance from home.  The weather condition, the direction of the wind, the position of the sun by day and the position of the moon by night, all contribute to forming part of your compass and a forewarning for straying off the normal route. A very few of the Ilaje, who live outside the water, known as the Ilaje Igbo (that is, Ilaje on land) try their hands on farming, but some people jocularly state that, nature never conferred farming on them but fishing, as a result they have not been able to produce beyond subsistence level as the lands are said not to be fertile enough for agriculture. So, they majorly depend on the Ikale and Apoi people for enough farm produce. Another occupation of ours is timber logging. Though the wood logging occupation in Ilaje land suffers some kind of setback due majorly to the absence of a sawmill, we still manage to use our canoe to ferry the woods to Igbekun, a neighbouring towns in the hinterland.
The pre-colonial ilajes were also salt miners due to our closeness to the Atlantic ocean which contains a lot of salt water.

RELIGION

The advent of the white missionaries saw the Ilajes embracing Christianity with full force, with a slight majority of the Christians among them worshipping with the Cherubim and Seraphim Church of Zion, which has its headquarters in Ugbo Nla. There are also considerable amount of Anglican and Jehova witness worshippers.

FESTIVITIES

Though the Ilaje are scattered in various places along the coastal lines, at various times of the year, they all returnto their home base in Ondo to celebrate some of their festivals, which include: masquerading (the Umale festival), Malokun (a fertility festival for the goddess of the sea), regatta and periodically, the Epo (Raffia-costumed masquerade), which was used to scare the people of Ife before the Moremi saga.
During these celebrations, there is the uniquely polyphonic renditions of both the Biripo traditional music and the Ilaje spirituals of the Zion Christian sect. They are particularly soul-lifting and you find a lot of upland Yoruba musicians trying to imitate these in their compositions. In a typical ilaje marriage ceremony where the bride comes from Ilaje, a court of young girls from the bride's place are selected to entertain their guests with the traditional biripo dance where the make use of obele(paddlestick) to demonstrate their dance act.

MONOARCHIAL SYSTEM

Ugbo is the major town in Ilaje land and is under the paramount ruler known as the OLU-UGBO of ugbo.
Beside ugbo, there are three other major clans,These include Mahin, Aheri and Etikan. Aheri is presided over by the Maporure and Etikan is headed by the Onikan of Etikan while Ugbo is headed by the Amapetu of Mahin.

DRESSING CULTURE

Being migrants from Yoruba land, it would be surprising to know that the core Ilaje traditional dress code borrows from outside the Yoruba tribe. The Ilaje traditional mode of dressing is of the semblance of the Itsekiris or Urhobos with slight modifications. The men dress in wrapper with a buba top and a hat with feather stuck in one part of the hat, while the women dress in blouse and wrapper. But, in the past few decades, most Ilaje have embraced the conventional Yoruba mode of dressing, except on special occasions.

FOOD CULTURE

Though the presence of fish is emphasised in all the foods, there are special kinds of foods prepared. These foods are peculiar only to the Ilaje. They include the Pupuru and Obe Marugbo. The Pupuru is made from cassava, and prepared in a similar process as fufu, it also has a similar taste with fufu. The Obe Marugbo is cooked with a special type of vegetable that is grounded. The colour of the Obe Marugbo is dark green( I usually term it black soup..lol). There is the mashed yam and unnripe plantain prepared with palm oil(ogolale) and we also have what is called the Igbanyeghe, boiled corn with fish and palm oil added to some other Ilaje food condiments.

NATURAL RESOURCES

Apart from petroleum which is largely found in the area for which Ondo State today is recognized as an oil producing State. Other mineral raw materials that are abundantly available in Ilajeland include Glass Sand, Salt, Tar Sand, Quartz and Clay while Agro raw materials include fish, poultry, maize, Palm oil vegetables, Timber, Rafia, Poultry Okro, Cocoyam, Banana, Cassava, and Piggery

And Lastly, the ilajes are highly accommodating and friendly. If u measure the hostility of an the scale of 1-100 on hostility he would score 0.95%.
If you want to call the ilajes in a gathering to an attention just scream AYEMAFUGE de de ilaje oh...the response you get aftermath is AWAYE oh!!!!


From Mr Dede
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agarawu23:
when dey call attendance of ppl wey get brain, just answer ABSENT SIR !!!

Check ur signature

EasternLionn:
Never heard of them, hope you are not talking about oil militants?

Nope just citizens/indigenes

If her real name is not nneka y put it there You are among the problems in this country just trying to cause ethnic war.
Please confirm their names before assuming
Meanwhile this actually happened in.......

EasternLionn:
Which is?

The confederation of Niger Delta people are working on it