₦airaland Forum

pps1759:
courtesy of been the state capital

Enudapan:
Nna eh! No qualms
This is so sophisticated
Ibadan, onitsha, Aba ND pH are more popular than many states for Lag here

Arrewa:
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Haywhysat:
You are correct. Even in osun, many cities are like the same with oshogbo. Like Ife

Arrewa:
Hadeja_ jigawa
Maiduguri_ Borno
Pataskum_ yobe
Jimeta_ Adamawa
Funtua_ kastina
Zaria alone is more popular than many states in Nigeria. Zaria alone has an Aviation school.
Zaria has deport military barrack.
Zaria has Basawa military barrack.
Zaria has Ahmadu bello university.
Zaria has Federal college of education.
Zaria has teaching hospital.
Zaria has lethal institute.
Zaria has Barewa college.
Zaria has Nuhu Bammali Polytechnic
All in one city!

Blackking98:
Yes g.
Akwa ibom doesn't operate one city system like many States, below is ikot ekpene, eket and itam towns/cities

Grandmeister:
Aba was already there before imo state was created and before Abia state was carved out from IMO state.....that city don tey since e begin ginger..aba women riot of 1929 comes to mind.

spy24:
Osogbo akure and abakaliki no suppose dey the list

Blackking98:
Uyo shouldn't be there Sha. People know Akwa Ibom more than uyo.

Bkayyy:
How about Ibadan, an average Nigerian and African see her as a state. Some people don't even know oyo state but I'm yet to see anybody refer to Onitsha as a state.
I don't think Onitsha should be there. If you doubt answer this question, have you seen or heard anybody refer to Onitsha as state like Ibadan, abakiliki, Zaria, Calabar and port Harcourt?
You didn't even add Ilorin

Osagyefo98:
Even Ooni of Ife is not a king.

RedboneSmith:
Who is the traditional ruler of Sokoto then? Tell us who should stand in for Sokoto in a meeting of traditional rulers from the north, since the Sultan is not a king.

By the way, your analogy with Christians and Abuja is (for the purpose of keeping this conversation civil) ludicrous.

RedboneSmith:
And to reiterate: a spiritual leader can be a king or a monarch.

The pope is the religious leader of Catholics worldwide. But in the middle ages he was also a king, a monarch, a ruling prince (whichever designation you prefer), ruling over his own sovereign entity known as the Papal States. The Sultan ruled over Sokoto, therefore, he was a king (an emperor, even), his religious/spiritual role notwithstanding.

RedboneSmith:
"he is originally an Islamic priest." Technically there are no priests in Islam.

"there are prove that thete were kings in the northern part of Nigeria even before the coming of Islam to Nigeria." So how does the existence of pre-Islamic kingdoms in the north now mean that the Sultan is not a king?

gasparpisciotta:
What weight does the title carry?

Edeyoung:
I think we should also have an edo mod on culture thread, too

Edo cultures cross across to major big tribes and still we don't have any as mod


Seun should look into this

I personally nominate areafada as a mod on culture thread

gregyboy:
You guys are something else, if i ever be half yoruba i would be so shy to air it publicly

Tribes of coward, and inborn slaves to d fulanis

I only said that to pull a stunt on that guy

Am a full blooded benin.... An i also pray to take upon a bini lady,.....

So my family will take years before another tribe will dilute it,

AreaFada2:
I made my own clear from 2011. In fact my plan was to be a bridge between both sides. As a person at home on both sides.

But our SW easily insulted and cursed at anyone that had an opinion different from their own. That shifted my position a bit.

Same way I became a big supporter of President Jonathan when I saw how SW demonized anything, no matter how innovative or timely, the act was.

AreaFada2:
Oh you are partly Yoruba too. .

N3cR0mAZc3R:
I meant most of the edoid names listed above sounded like yoruba names to me when pronouncing them.

For example;
Edo: Adesuwa
Yoruba: Adesuwa

Ibechris2:
When people talk about the eastern Nigeria being landlocked I just laugh.

Botswana is the richest country in Africa,yet they are landlocked,Guinea Conakry and Guinea Bissau both are facing the Atlantic ocean and surprisingly they are very poor.

In this twenty first century world,it is not ur boundary that defines u but ur brain and what u are capable of doing.

Here's another example,Liberia and Sierra Leone,why are they so poor despites facing the Atlantic ocean?
Qatar is landlocked and is the richest among all Arab countries of the world.

Let us wait till then,knowledge they say is power I am sure the Igbo's can't carry last.

N3cR0mAZc3R:
Is it me or does some names here seems to bear resemblance with some yoruba names.

gregyboy:
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Doesnt also change the fact that all your life studying on the history is correct

Benin had so many parable, relating to the heavenly beigns, but those were myth

benin used to leave in different segmented settlement before oba eweka united all the settlement as one, maybe those various rulers were nickname ogiso sky kings but the emerge of eweka who probably was still an ogiso himself wared, with other ogiso and defeated them and formed a bigger
Which probably emerged a new dynasty called oba
This is the possible explanations if indeed the ogiso did exist which i doubt because no evidence to than oral accounts,

It could also be those ogiso kings were called oba and not ogiso like what we are being told [b]obagodo were word coined recently, to attack the yorubas , but one thing i know is if indeed ogiso existed and eweka displaced them, definitely eweka was never from any Yoruba land

Start your benin research history from there, the problem with most of you is you so much believe oral accounts and you read not evaluate but believe as longs as it appeals to your like then it must be truth.....

This screenshot was done in 1969 in relation of what you heard from elders in the 70s


Am not impressed the way you tell history, your knowledge on benin history is too dogmatic

Kirigidi:
In Urhobo-Isoko, sun is "Uvo" or "Oren". Star is "Isio".

gregyboy:
Igbise yor.....

gregyboy:
I speak the language fluently, it would be a shame for me not to,

I write and read the benin pidgin writing and not the standard writeups


That doesnt not change anything,


Youre speaking rubbish and tangling our history with myth made up after 1914

Drop your pride and learn the truth

Face me clear and prove all this nonsense you're writing

Prove them, here dont write any benin to me again write in English or send your voicenote in benin

TAO11:
Hahaha! Clash of Benin maggots, interesting!

gregyboy:
You're not a benin person i cant even read what you wrote in benin, please write them in english or use voicenotenn , just stay of benin history you're inexperienced at it or you probably a traitor , you know nothing on benin history,than just repeating gigo, the yorubas are using you to count their teeth, maybe its all in your plan anyway to save tye face of Tao11 from my destruction


Am just busy now, to have any debate with anyone but you're pushing me to, haven't you disgrace we binis enough
Just stop whatsoever ever you think you're doing and run back to were you came from.....

Even a Yoruba coward wont even converse as you do,

I was thinking you had something new, na just notice me you be, we don notice you abeg nor dey disgrace us pass this one,

If you were a Yoruba guy i wont debate you, i will tell you to simply never to mention me again

Even. If you come from the palace that won't still you ab edge over we who dont,

Just stay clear yoruba guy

gregyboy:
You're not a benin person i cant even read you wrote in benin, please write them in english or use voicenote,just stay of benin history you're inexperienced, you know nothing of it, than repating garbage in garbage out, the yorubas are using you to count their teeth, maybe its all in your plan anyway


Am just busy now, to have a debate with anyone but you're pushing me to haven't you disgrace we binis enough
Just stop whatsoever ever you think you're doing and run back to were you came from.....

Even a Yoruba coward wont even converse as you do, please learn from the other benins

I was thinking you had something new, na just notice me you be, we don notice you abeg nor dey disgrace us pass this one,

If you were a Yoruba guy i wont debate you, i will tell you to simply never to mention me again

Even. If you come from the palace that won't still you ab edge over we who dont,

Just stay clear yoruba guy