₦airaland Forum

Sugarbear007: una wei arrest dem no de wash am:...abi de once wei dem cease hw dem go do dem??

dem go wash am for them house.

Originalsly: Would you be saying the same thing if you find out your sister buys all the time?...and practice too? Your brain will start working when you start hearing how good she is...better than the p.o.r.n stars.

ode, if person Bleep you like IndecentStar you no go like am? abi you no dey Bleep? hypocrite.

I wonder how a senseless post like this hit three threads, NLers ma wa jobless o.

Igbo would dominate Nigeria after mount kilimanjaro turns to lake.

hadbak: fine! If u learn Arabic for worship purpose dat means d lang must be IMPORTANT to u. Y can't u worship in ur own lang? Is it bcus ur lang is not important in worship? No! God choose arabic for His religion n He alone knows y n dts it. I want u to understand dat arabic is an islamic lang(permit me to say) n not just an arab thing. Stop beefing d arabs. U shld be proud n happy to bear an arabic name which is better n safer for u so long as d name is not evil or meaningless...

Iranians don't worship in arabic, they worship in persians.

hadbak: I don't want to agree wit u on d bases that if u bear Abubakar u are seen as an arab, If u say a muslim I agree. No doubt d name may have an arab origin nevertheless, Arabic is the language of d Quran n d messenger, so if u bear an arabic name ur simply identifying as a muslim n not an arab. Its not a coincidence/mistake that d quran is in d arabic language but of Allah's desires. This is how u as a muslim shld see it rather than saying ur losing ur identity by ur name sounding arabic in nature while ur not an arab. Ur identity as a muslim shld be more important/shld superceed any identity. God creater us all into various tribes n nation but stil choose Arabic language for His religion... don't u think if He desire He could have made us into one nation/tribe? Its a blessing to the arabs for Allah to esteem Arabic language by making it d Quran language, so don't hold it against them.. If the quran language hadn't been arabic n yet d quran came from the arabs then, I wil have a problem if u bear an arab name(abubakar) else I dnt see y u shld stress ur nerves..

So if every one in the world is a muslim, should every one now start speaking only arabic as their first language? no, this will eventually push arabic as the superior>superior culture, which english is doing now to Nigerians. I fully support justaquad points.

PStylish: [size=24pt]We Yorubas should leave our Igbo brothers alone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That we can't be independent cos of our nature doesn't mean they can't.

Everything will pan out whenever however.

Ride on dear Igbos.

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who you be to claim Yoruba. Iya no lye omo ti'o bi o!

SILLY STUPID NIGERIAN AT WHAT THEY DO BEST! CRYING VICTIMS WHEN THINGS DON'T GO THEIR WAY. The times when northern coas had been promoting only northern officers, we did not hear anything, now an easterner is the coas and promoting only ibos, they will not let us sleep with their noise, if a westerner becomes the coas and do the same for yorubas, i'm sure it would be the same story and the crazy cycle keeps rolling.
go ahead, the game is as good as played.

boobyman: And I feel that alot of we binis are vastly loosing our identity in that alot of us benins can't even speak our dialect.This can be attributed to our parents who are not teaching us d language and also it's bot been taught in schools anymore. Alot of binis are becoming yorubanized.

that's because a lot of bini see much yoruba in them (not that they claim to be yoruba or otherwise) there are just too many similarities compared to others.

PointB: That's according to you.

Ekwueme commands a lot of respect across Nigeria; likewise Chief Olu Falae, and Babatope, and host of others. Even so does Edwin Clark among the Ijaw! So please keep those myopic opinion about them to yourself, it is not shared by the majority!

so na for youre house babatope commands respect abi? Can't you just reason for once? Olu falae, although respect by me, and babatope are for now not relevant in the
SW political arena, likewise ekweme in the east, so what do they do? find relevance somewhere else by convening some trumped meeting trying to draw people's passion to them.
who doesn't know what the north is about in this Nigeria?

PointB: So it only those who contest and win election that can/should be termed leaders? What kind of education did you get?

prof. educated, who then should be called a leader? someone that dropped from nowhere because of the money he stole or someone chosen by his constituency?

[quote author=Mr. Globe]is it a lie? Let our SW brothers keep overating Lagos - The world's biggest slum. If we say it, they call us tribalists, wonder what they will call Christina. The people that love living a lie.[/quote]so Lagos is now a southwest matter, its no longer owned by 'igbos'. God! you yanmiris are unbelievable.

Ngodigha: Guess, what is my ethnic group?.

Ape-luvian?

Bam! I got it!

Imprida: I dont understand you.

the only evidence that you are sane.

all you du.mm.Ies turned an innocent post to tribal bashing, where did you see Igbo or any tribe in the post?
you'all re so insecure and insane.
if nigeria no release biafra, make biafra release hinslef abi na by force?

FreeGlobe: Another day another Fashola gaffe. You can tell that to the marines or your ACN minions. Fashola is ill educated. Always opening his mouth to say what he can't back up with facts. somebody get this man a publicist. Am tired of a governor talking like an illiterate. where did he get the 89% budget performance figure from? is it from Tinubu's account? where are the government owned projects from the Capital expenditure? Nonsense

you can believe in fictitious Tinubu account report yet you failed to see the facts of 89% performance. it shows how dumb you are.

odumchi: Like all African nations, Nigeria is an amalgamation of various ethnicities, peoples, nations, languages and cultures. But what caused the decline of our various kingdoms, confederacies and empires? What made it possible fore a few hundred Europeans to subjugate millions of people? Here is my hypothesis.

As much as I liked your intentions in the write up you did a poor job in giving correct accounts.

The Fulani
By the 1880s, the flame of religious fervor that had stirred the Fulani to conquest was in it's dying embers. By this time, challenges had arisen within the empire. Social problems were among the most prominent. By the end of the century, 1 in 3 people were slaves, and the minority Fulani population were ruling the majority Hausa vassals. As the years passed, unrest began to spread. Problems in centralization also arose and threatened the position of the Caliph of Sokoto as the sole ruler of the Empire. The Empire, which stretched from Illorin to Kano was governed by emirs who submitted to the supreme authority of the Caliph, but soon several of these emirates, including the emir of Argungu and the emir of Kano, rebelled against the Caliph. And to add to their problems, the French, by 1890, had begun supplying other rival kingdoms with firearms. By 1892 after a year of brutal warfare with the emir of Argungu, widespread unrest had yet again weakened the empire. The French then moved in and annexed Fulani lands to the north of Sokoto, in what is now Niger Republic. The British in turn made inroads into the Fulani lands to the South and by 1903, Kano and Sokoto had been sacked and the empire had fallen under British protection.

The Ijaws
The Ijaws were among the first to meet the Europeans. Since the 1500s, the Ijaw had been trading with Portuguese explorers and the Portuguese had set up a few trading posts on the coast. In trading cities, the Ijaw traded slaves, spices, ivory, and skins for European rum, firearms and cloth. As the years passed, the Europeans gained an interest in pushing into the hinterland but however, it was finally in 1895 after years of pitting the Ijaw clans among themselves that the British Royal Niger Company that the British were able to annex Ijaw land into the South Nigerian protectorate.

Igbos
Igboland had been fortunate enough to escape British Imperialism for several years after other parts of Nigeria had been conquered. The Igbo existed in the stretch of land that lay between the Edo and the Efik. The British had made several attempts to advance into the Igbo country but they were rebuffed by the Aro confederacy and it's allies to the south and the Aniocha communities to the West. Originally, the British traded palm oil, slaves, wine, fabrics and firearms with many Igbo groups but they grew anxious to tap into the vast wealth of the hinterland and destroy the Aro Ibini Ukpabi shrine which held a monopoly on the slave trade. In the late 1890s, after several failed attempts to end the slave trade, the British used it as an excuse and formally invaded the Igbo country. In the southern areas of what is now Rivers state, they had success and captured a few trading posts. The Aros, seeing this as a threat to their prosperity launched a series of attacks aimed at halting the British advance. The British themselves responded by launching an all out assault on Igbo communities allied with the Aros which ended in 1902 after a hundreds of  British soldiers and their allies defeated tens of thousands of Aro troops. The capture of Arochukwu signaled the opening of eastern Igboland to the British, however, the Western part still lay closed.
In the West, the Igbo had been engaged in warfare with the British since 1884. The Ekumeku movement, as it came to be called, was an attempt by several Igbo groups namely, Ukwunzu, Aniocha and others to dislodge the British from the area. However the war ended on 1914 after Asaba and other key cities were captured. By the end of 1915, the road into the Igbo heartland and the east were open. However it was not until 1920, after the Aba women's riot that the Igbo were firmly under Imperial British control.

The aros were not any organised social group, they are basically slave raiders that existed in different igbo communities, they operated much like italian mafia. they only opposed the british because they see them as threats that wanted to change their way o lives.

Edo
Since the 1700s, the Edo empire was in steady decline. Many years of warefare with neighboring groups which coupled with the growing British presence forced the Oba to ban all trade with foreigners except with Palm oil. The British, seeking more and more of trade wealth of the empire launched an expedition in 1896 which ended in the sacking of Benin city, the exile of the Oba and the clearing of the path into the Midwest.

every one knows that the benin empire was not in any state of decline, it just got quiet the british were looking for an excuse to invade benin to gain access to trade with the interland and they found it after benin warriors killed a british officer.

Yoruba (Oyo)
The Oyo empire, by the 19th century, had become a shadow of it's former self. The empire no longer ran as efficiently as it used to, and the swords of the warriors no longer seemed as sharp or dangerous as they were.
furthermore, to complicate the issue, the Oyo kingdom suffered years of internal unrest and political upheaval[b] after Oba Biodun had been murdered by his son Awole.[/b] Awole proved to also be an in weak leader and he too was ousted from power in 1796 after various chain-revolts had started. A few years later, the Fulani waged war against the weak empire and captured Illorin and other Muslim Yoruba lands. After a series of weak leaders, the empire was on it's last legs by the late 1880s. Finally in 1888, Great Britain invaded and quickly annexed the Oyo empire which has fragmented into various feuding states. By 1896, the Oyo empire existed merely as a footnote in history and with it's collapse, the Yoruba heartland lay unprotected.

1. Awole never murdered his father, Abiodun died at old age as successful king.
2. The british never invaded the Oyo empire, king adeyemi only invited the british to help stop the war raging between the various warring groups in Yorubaland. the only part of Yorubaland invaded was Ijebu, which was defeated with the help of some other Yoruba groups.


So to conclude, I find it amazing thata few hundred British troops were able to subjugate empires and nations all within the same time period. What went wrong?

you never mentioned how the british conqured other nigerians; the igalas, the jukuns, the tivs. these were independent kingdoms in their own rights.

however, what went wrong was simple, the british empire had far advanced weaponry and military organisation than locals, they played one group against the other and they believed its within their rights to colonise us.

back in the days
fortunes
checkmate
arelu
the Abija series (can't remember the title)

I love avatar, Ben ten, phineas and ferb, power rangers, I Carly, spongebob, teletubies...i would love to watch rome and spartacus but mummy and daddy will not let me, they always watch them alone in the bedroom.

Wow! 17 threads in the post, OMG! even ibo vs Yoruba wars were never this long. *singing & dancing* good things are happening *slipped...hit head on the floor*
1 stargate sg1 comedy, action, science fiction
2 everybody hates Chris comedy
3 Boston legality comedy...laugh2fart
4 game of throne...likes seeing the dwarf and the bastard, with the politics everybody plays.

laykhorn: Where are the names of Nlers like Sexkillz, Mondi_cheek a.k.a ninny, and other bragging mofos

point b
ngodigha
proud igbo
ileke idi
musiwa
andre uweh
alh harem
eko ile
sincere9gerian
AFAM4EVER

If we look at the relationship of Benin and Oyo empires, throughout the histories they never had any conflicts despite their strength and proximity to themselves. Benin empire ruled regions to the east and the south while the oyo empire ruled operated on regions to the west and north of their internal borders.
Oyo empire controlled, even bullies territories under its borders except Ife, Benin does the same to its own and sends the Oba to be to Ife for confirmation (a practice stopped in the 19th, most probably due to the civil wars in Yorubaland), this shows that they both hold Ife in high regard.
They both left the areas around ekiti as Ondo uncontrolled to serve as buffer region between them.
These three points of relationship lasted for almost a thousand years between these two great empires. It shows they had an agreement that had been lost to ages, that Ife is their socio-political root.
Bini story claims that Oduduwa was a prince of Benin that sent his son oranmiyan to rule in his stead. Some Yoruba claim that Oranmiyan was invited by the binis to settle disputes and rule, while other Yoruba claim that the king of benin was the eldest son of okanbi while oranmiyan was the youngest.

The real story is hidden among these different sides.

strangleyo: I'll quote:






I was being generous early on. It seems Egypt is head and shoulders above the rest in Africa.

Nigeria doesn't even touch Egypt when it comes to military equipment.

even if Nigeria does, where's the morale, who'd want to fight for Nigeria. my take is Nigeria is at the bottom of the list.

Biafra zionist: Majority of Ijaws are solidly behind Biafra zionist movement. I have the contact of our Bayselsa zonal cordinator. He is a good man. The ijaws are for Biafra

Kanuris are for Biafra and I also have the contact of Ugandan zonal Coordinator. South Africans too are begging to join.

afam4eva: In other words, you're saying people should not express themselves.

express the right things in the right ways, that's what he's talking 'bout.

Allahu Akbar!

[quote author=Dr. Wise]It is time for my friend Segun to return to Unilag. Haba! You don chop small sha.[/quote]Typical Nigerian! is it about chopping or about delivering what they appointed him for?

[quote author=]People can't keep acting as if Achebe isn't respected in everywhere in the world except internet cafes i Ogun state.

He's the most successful black author of all time, and the most translated african of all time. His works are read in primary schools in Iran.[/quote]where's the evidence? many black authors have received awards for their works, can you list his own?