₦airaland Forum

Coming to the west wouldn't be a bad idea you know

NigerMan1:
Oyecute - your question exposes you as lacking knowledge of history. Plus lacking knowledge how people and tribe of today were formed in the olden days. Do you know the meaning of Migration in History? Please go and do more research.

Also you gave yourself away as one of the young people in Yorubaland today, who'd been hoodwinked into believing that Yorubas were the same in the Olden day (say 1000 years ago) as you are today.

The reason is that you're were culturally brought up NOT to challenge historical stories rather regard them as SACROSANCT!

A Brief History of the Word YORUBA

It was Fulanis who described and calling the Oyo people "Y A R I B A" in the 16th Century, which was officially used by the Hausa-Fulani to identify Oyo people ONLY. In fact, the word 'Y A R I B A" was applied to the OYO PEOPLE only when a TREATY was written by a Songhai scholar, known as Ahmed Baba in the 16th Century

Then in the mid 19th Century, Samuel Ajayi Crowther began a propaganda by applying the word "YORUBA" which only the OYO were known by, to describe all the people and tribes who spoke languages related to Oyo as YORUBA. It's like calling all the people of the core north HAUSA!

The truth: In present day Yorubaland, many of you calling yourself "Yoruba" today were not originally part of Oyo, nor migrated from them. For many of you, your forefathers migrated from Nupe. Igala, part of North Central, Dahomey, Togo etc over many, many Centuries ago. Some of the reasons for such migration were trading, marriages, war, famine, social attractions etc

Unfortunately, however over the last few decades, the word 'Yoruba' has been seized by Politicians and Rulers to exert cultural DOMINANCE, Economic control and Political Leadership over you all. This was the reason they discouraged you people from EXAMINING your past.

Oyecute don't be afraid to ask these questions:

"Who Are My Fathers?"

"Where Did My Fathers and Mothers Migrated From?"

If you are not Oyo (maybe Ekiti, Ijebu etc) and you willingly called yourself Yoruba and believed Oduduwa is your ancestor, then it can be described as UNFORTUNATE!

Hahahahaha. And what you just put up make sense to you

NigerMan1:
absoluteSuccess - Whenever history is brought to the table you Yorubas find it difficult to bring scholarship to the table. True educated and knowledeable HISTORIANS do not recourse to insults and abuse to defend their points.

First did you read that story very well? Tell me the truth - is there anywhere you read (or heard) any of your so-called Yoruba Historians alluded to the fact that people from present day Yorubland are domiciled in present day Delta, via old Benin? Am sure you did not! Why? Because they carefully kept such historical truth from you guys, so they can continue to deceive you - about the lies called "YORUBA"

Again I asked you: "Have you ever accepted the fact that some of your so-called kinsmen are domiciled in Niger Delta? And remember all those places were once under the ruler-ship of the Oba of Benin"

Now this story came out, 100s of Yorubas read it and extremely FEW commented with tongues in your chic, while majority carefully passed off, without commenting. Even you, absoluteSuccess did not comment directly on this historical fact, but instead attacked one of my points!

For me, a story like this has shown that most part of Yoruba History are lies and fables. And I hope you will lesson your boastfulness and grandstanding. I hope your historians will not one day, coupled up lies that those towns are "yorubaland"

NOTE: Stop deceiving yourself, Yoruba is not one. The word/term Yoruba was a mid 19th century appellation to group you guys together. This is a fact of history, well recorded so no one can change it.

Somebody should tame this man please.

NigerMan1:
Ilekeh - there is nothing like Yorubas are everywhere!

The major problem is that most of you calling yourself Yoruba today do not understand or lack knowledge about the ORIGIN of the term/word "Yoruba" and when?why it was used to group different ethnic people in the mid 19th Century.

Here is the true origin of those people:

At the time the Great Benin Kingdom was ruling a vast part of Southern Nigeria, down to Lagos, and part of present day Middle Belt, including present day part of Cameroon and Benin Republic, slave raiding were always carried out by the Benin Warriors.

Those Yorubas were a combination of the Benin slaves and others who later fled from the incessant slave raiding and hide in the Bush. With time, they settled in their present abode.

NOTE: When you see Yoruba speaking people anywhere, as indigene, the right question you should ask is: How did they got there? Most of you guys engage in chest-beating because you do not have wider knowledge of the olden days. In the olden days, there was
NO Yoruba as you have it today.

TRASH

Ok

Omode o mo Oogun, ounpe ni Efo. Ogun wa Ewe ati egbo wa, beeni awon Iya si n be

North African Countries.

Naija men always representing anywhere we go to.

Mr Okon abi wetin be your name, hope say them no send you to us

EGBA boy.

Nicepoker:
I can't eat that amala. Even if am married to a yoruba lady.

I pray you marry a correct Yoruba lady.

Fulaman198:
Please report any post of people speaking ill of this innocent woman and they will be hidden. Thanks!

Sure person

Tuntheycr7:
On getting there, the door was said to have
been locked by the couple who reportedly beat
up the victim repeatedly with punches. Not
satisfied, the wife allegedly stabbed Chidinma in
the private parts and smeared them with
pepper.


This is pure wickedness...

I tell you. This is crazy.

Please I need Fashola in Power.

Let them apeased the gods and also carry out scientific research and orthodox medication. Let just do what ever we can to save the people that are dying.

Who are the people backwards and forward, we, you or the lady

Otutu1:
We are really backwards in Africa

Just Try to be Good always. It Is well.

So Fayose can be this so low

Bad bad peoples we have leading us in this country. Immagine thjis man still talking and yet PDP still allowed him to contest

Respect

what I dislike most is the "No man's land" phrase.

I think say u no go Put FUTA before

Chisos!

One thing am confident in is that no mater the hatred no country of the world can do without us. Thanks to our population

A lot still to be learned.

Not in this age.

Write everything here for us to read before refering us to your blog

Am interested in Imo state election.