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Olu317:
The information above just got my bone cracking with more Laughter like someone who won a jackpot.These Oviedos are just too ignorant to realised that the more they contest Yoruba's ownership of Bini, the more ,they get bitter pill of the truth. .

It is so sad, that some e warrior Oviedos had to come this far to be exposed in the public of this magnitude. Edo isn't Yoruba land but Bini is owned, invested on by Yoruba ancestors. Perpetually a vassal kingdom of Yoruba nation because for economic gain and civilization purpose, the Ife ceramic elements in Ilare district during the 13th century was not, however, an isolated de- velopment. Ife ceramic characteristics also emerged in Owo and Benin during the same century, simultaneously with the advent of centralized political structures and ideologies.

The expansion of the Ife ceramic sphere from its homeland around the 11th century to Ilare, Owo, and Benin in the 13th century seems to parallel the political and cultural influence of Ile-Ife in the Yoruba-Edo region. On one hand, the Ife ceramic sphere can be viewed as the re- gional acculturation to the materials of the metropolitan polity with the longest history, and the most elaborate ma- terial forms, of sociopolitical complexity. On the other hand, the ceramic sphere served as the marker of a region- al system in which subgroups (social groups and commu- nities) had access to the material correlates of a coherent system of "ideological structures that established and orga- nized their place in the social world" (MacEachern 1994: 207).

PureFace1:
Lol Ada Ogun that is part of Yoruba culture is what you claim is Benin lol

Do you even know the way Benin king use to dress with beads was how Yoruba kings used to dress in the past?



Read this thread on Nairaland


https://www.nairaland.com/3117938/family-late-oba-benin-tenants

PureFace1:
Yoruba never has a strong empire but I guess dahomey kingdom was part of Hausa empire.

Benin was a Yoruba Colony

PureFace1:
Benin was a Yoruba Colony go and read your history again

PureFace1:

No Yoruba is obsessed with Benin and want Benin for anything, we are more than enough but it is just annoying when you guys peddle falsehood online.

You will never see a Benin king claiming Yoruba when Benin king is actually a Yoruba man lol, keep deceiving yourselves

diplomat058:
The royal eulogy of Alaafin Sango of Old Oyo was 'Sanjo, Olukoso, OBA areku jaiye' which means 'Sango, Chief-in-Charge, a KING of affluence' I am poised to ask you, did Benin, at any point in time, conquer Oyo?

There is a royal title in IFE called OBALUFON of ILE IFE, its a royal stool, subservient to the Ooni of Ife. Did Benin ever conquer Ife?

Obafemi means the king love me, and the word has existed for hundreds of years. if OBA has not always meant KING in yorubaland, why do we have classical names like OBAFEMI?

Why is it that Benin never had an OBA until ORAMIYAN went there from IFE. That, alone, signifies that it was a borrowed culture from IFE which the Binis were privileged to adopt, courtesy of ORAMIYAN who came from Ife and left his child, EWEKA to be crowed the first OBA of Benin.

Benin (Bini) itself was a corrupted Yoruba word from the word, Ile Ibinu. The name was given by ORAMIYAN, in his angry reaction to the conspiracy of the kingmakers against him. He had a child there and departed for Oyo. The Bini Kingdom was formerly called Igodomigido, under the rule of the Ogisos. Portuguese corrupted BINI as BENIN and the new term sticks

There is a market in Ibadan called OJA-OBA, adjacent the Olubadan's Palace. OJA-OBA means THE KING'S MARKET. The market has existed since the 19th century, for close to 200 years.

Lol

Lastmankc:
This table you are shaking will break on your head oooo

PureFace1:
What is this one saying?

Oba means King in Yoruba Language but words like Ooni of Ife, Alaafin of Oyo, Owa of Obokun etc are all titles.

diplomat058:
You are not Yoruba, stop lying. If you are, you wouldn't concur with that ignorant fellow that said that the word, 'Oba' entered the Yoruba royal lexicon in 1970. Lol

I guess Yoruba classical deity, Obatala also existed after 1970. Sango Olukoso Oba areku jaiye, Alaafin of Old Oyo and an immortalised deity also existed after 1970. What of Obalufon of Ife, Obateru of Ugbo, and Obadare, the Prophet? They all adopted the Benin word, Oba, after 1970?

You are a joke, honestly. By your logic, even Obafemi Awolowo used the Obafemi as a name after 1970, cos Obafemi means the king love me. If Oba was not traditionally known as kings in Yoruba land, how do we have names like Obafemi from the olden days

Lol, baba goan sleep. you don't know jack about history

Sammy07:
You're illite.rate I swear.

At the beginning of the thread, I said its a Yoruba word, a Benin guy quoted me that's Yoruba borrowed it.

I ask for prove by giving you some questions

You're digressing from the subject of discussion.
Pls, don't quote me again.

Sammy07:
Thank you, you understand the subject of discussion.

Can you please tell me their meanings?

Sammy07:
Give me 10 Benin words that Has Oba in between and us the meaning.


I can give you 20 Yoruba words with Oba and their meanings.
The word Oba still retain her meaning in those words.


So, give me 10 Benin words that has Oba and tell me their meanings

Sammy07:
If Oba means Bright.
I have two questions.


1. What does Obaseki means


2. Give me 5 Edo words that's has Oba in between, and tell me their meanings

Sammy07:
How come the word Bright didn't appear in your translation

Since Oba means bright.

Youngjohnosas:
Obaseki means the Oba's favour is more valuable than success in trade.

temptnow:
What does these ugly looking things get to do with Nigeria.

I don't understand Nairaland again.


Is this Ghana land or Naira land

slyfox35:
Best friends or closest friends as some people term it is quite normal in the life of 80% of world population, I had one too.

We grew up as teens together, matured as adults together, he came to our house always and ate all his meals with us. My mom was really nice to him when she was alive. He wore my clothes and never returned them. I did not ask because my parents always provided for me although they were average citizens.

Then the worst thing in my life happened. I lost both my parents within the space of four years.
Things turned downhill for me (orphans do suffer a lot.. Too much suffering for you to believe there is even God in heaven who takes care of the fatherless and motherless).

My friend travelled to an African country. He kept telling me to come over there to work that things are better there. I kept declining but after a year of constant pressure, I decided to man up, packed my bags and travelled to meet him.

Guess what? I did not stay up to 5 days with him!!!

His attitude changed by the second day, he yells at me at every given opportunity, from his best friend, I turned to his boy, the heat he was given me was so bad that when he leaves the house and he comes back, I get scared just by hearing his footsteps. I virtually turned to a nonentity to him. I had no money on me because the little I had left, he collected it when I arrived. I knew no one, I felt so miserable and alone and I started regretting why I left Nigeria.

On the fifth day ,I woke up early in the morning and shook him up. I don’t know what got into me (but I am glad it did), I told him I can’t stay with him anymore and I want to leave. He did not even feel bad about this, he did not think of the fact that I know nothing and nowhere in this country. He let me go.

I packed my bag amid tears and went into the street. Mind you, I had no one to call back in Nigeria... It was tough on me but as a naija guy and as God will have it, I did not spend even a night on the streets. I was shocked that a total stranger took me in, clothed and fed me. He taught me everything he knows. I worked for 6 months and was able to make 2 million Naira. This was like a dream to me (If you get money ehn, to praise God Dey sweet o)

I came back to Nigeria, rented an apartment, furnished it and continued working from here.

This so called best friend of mine saw my posts and pictures on Facebook and video called me to check on me (I guess his eyes did not believe what he was seeing) he asked me if I am in a hotel, I said no, I am in my apartment. He was shocked (me I nor keep any grudge against you) he told me he was coming to Nigeria and that I should please forgive him and forget everything that happened. I told him I can forgive but can’t forget.

What surprised me most are this exact words he said “my guy, if I come, na your house I go relax first abeg”

Now my fellow Nairalanders, I am asking, how should I go about this?

I have forgiven him but should I allow him into my home?

Armaggedon:
That's not the point. Igbos don't need them. Ever seen an Igbo campaigning for urhobo and itshekiri or Edo to join Biafra? while I don't hate them, I don't want them also.

my point is Ipob already included them and many of them hate the oodua republic idea while having no dream of their own. It follows that the available which is Biafra could become desirable for them.

kentsozy:
"Lawe" is my family way greeting

valirex:
We will be waiting for you, and while we are doing that plans we be laid on how we will take Onitcha

By my calculations 10000 Ogun warriors should be able to take and retain Onitcha

lawani:
I am not saying the edo are Yoruba. No they are not, but the Benin palace and empire were Yoruba speaking in the past. The palace was a city on its own, home to over 50 thousand people and all these people were Yoruba in language. Oranmiyan did not found Igodomigodo but renamed it to Ife ubinu. I just want it acknowledged that Benin in all its extent was Yoruba speaking officially and not edo speaking.

lawani:
The edo have hijacked the history of the Benin empire, trying to ease out everything Yoruba in it when the empire was Yoruba in and out. We must always remind them at every given opportunity that Benin was totally Yoruba.

TAO12:
Worthless gay.

TAO12:
Worthless gay.

TAO12:
Yes, I always cry after exposing you to be a clueless gay.

TAO12:
Anyone who thinks you are normal is not normal.

(1) S. Johnson was born in 1846.

But gayboy (aka gregyboy) insists that same Johnson was writting Yoruba histories in the year 1820 --- that is, more than 20 years before his own birth.

Should gayboy (aka gregyboy) still be allowed to freely roam the streets?

(2) Oba Eweka II of Benin Kingdom ruled from 1914 to 1933.

Old Western Region of Nigeria was established in the year 1967.

But gayboy (aka gregyboy) insists that same Oba Eweka time-travelled into the future to become a member of the Nigeria Western Region.

Should gayboy (aka gregyboy) still be allowed to freely roam the streets?

(3) Fun Fact:

Same Oba Eweka II of Benin Kingdom informed an European visitor, H.L. Ward-Price, sometimes in the 1920s that his (i.e. Oba Eweka II's) ancestor and lord lives in Ile-Ife.

TAO12:
Says the clueless one who got exposed by my humble self.

TAO12:
I know you will be triggered that I'm exposing you to be a clueless dummy.

TAO12:
You already unknowingly admitted being gay, don't you remember?

I know you're mad that I keep exposing you!

TAO12:
You already admitted being gay, don't you remember?