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Culture › Re: 12 True Facts You Have Never Heard About The Yoruba Nation by gregyboy(m): 7:11am On Jan 04, 2020

Efesogie:
All the above is a lie. In 1903 the Oba of Benin was Oba Ovonramwen, he lost a war against Britain six years earlier (1897) and he was in exile in Calabar in a sort of house arrest. His palace, had been burnt down by the British, Benin city (the capital of Benin empire) was in ruins. The British burnt the city down. Why you Yoruba always tell lies to aggrandise yourselves baffles me. Next you should say that all kings of the universe vacated their thrones when they heard a guy with a d.ick on his forehead was summoned to Lagos by his British masters.

That's why i dont quote the lieing machine again ,

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Culture › Re: Panic As Ooni Of Ife Gets Stuck Inside The Elevator At A Lagos Hotel.watch Video by gregyboy(m): 4:31pm On Jan 03, 2020

Even the gods can save themselves

Or can this be a recounter from the oba od lagos grin

Culture › Re: Benin Empire And City Architecture by gregyboy(op): 8:50pm On Jan 02, 2020

googi:
You can be colorful as much as you want with your history.

You mess it up and exaggerate your relevance when you claim to be the source of an Ocean whose earlier existence and culture overwhelmed you by centuries.

Stay within you limit and accept your defeat when the people of Edo had to call on Yoruba wise men to send their son to govern you.

Why? Wicked Ogiso drove out others like the Urhobo and many fled. He crowned his atrocious behavior by beheading a pregnant woman. Oranmiyan saved them.

Open another topic tomorrow.

We the benins had built the southwestern nigeria before the arrival if the British we sold the Yoruba's as slaves that's why you as a yoruba Nigerian can be proud of a Brazilian yoruba instead of spilling trash in an attempt to spite me , you should rather be given we benins gratitude.... For all we have done for the yoruba nation

Akure the capital of ondo has a benin ruling monarch

Ado ekiti has a benin minarch

Eko has a benin monarch

Osun ife the cradle of yoruba people has a benin monarch

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Nairaland General › Re: Jos Residents Lament As Weather Drops To 9°C (Photos) by gregyboy(m): 8:28am On Jan 02, 2020

If jos is this cold how come they are that dark in complexion

Over here in benin we dey find cold ooh

Benin should be 28c still very hot

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Culture › Re: Oyo Empire by gregyboy(m): 3:45pm On Jan 01, 2020

All these yoruba people just dey yarn nonsense
Una just dey find how d oba take fit

Every nigga with e own explanation

Some say na obatala , some say na greeting , some say na god

Make una rest

Culture › Re: Benin Empire And City Architecture by gregyboy(op): 11:10am On Jan 01, 2020

The benin long oave roads and the architectural designs

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Culture › Re: Benin Empire And City Architecture by gregyboy(op): 10:59am On Jan 01, 2020

This one he labeled “benin palace: akoko tree gardens”

This one I find interesting. I like the strict adherence to the style of building seen in the brass plaques and the photographs. I like the incorporation of the bird of prophecy on the top of the turret as well.

And I don’t know if he already knew this, but the depiction of gardens is backed by historical sources:

“This compound consisted of about a hundred houses, whose roofs

made a good blaze. Behind the buildings there

was a huge garden, which we never had time to

explore, but it must have been quite a hundred

acres, surrounded by a high red wall. It is not

unlikely that it was the walking place of the King,

and formed part of his compound . . .” – Reginald H. Bacon, Benin (1897)

It would be interesting if this thread in some way gave him any ideas or help. grin cool That’s probably just conceit on my part, though. He could have just found out about Benin architecture on his own. Either way, I’m impressed.

I really have to give this guy credit. These are some of the best architectural depictions of Benin seen.

Culture › Re: Benin Empire And City Architecture by gregyboy(op): 10:58am On Jan 01, 2020

He labeled this “palace of benin impluvial shrine”

I like how he incorporated

1) the impluvium

2) the thatch on the roof

3) the open roof courtyard

4) the Benin style of columns (note the difference between the bottom and top of the column) as seen in photographs

5) a known, but not yet seen (due to the destruction of the palace) historical fact that was attested to by Dapper’s informant and multiple other visitors to Benin:

“The king’s palace or court is a square, and is as large as the town of Haarlem and entirely surrounded by a special wall, like that which encircles the town. It is divided into many magnificent palaces, houses, and apartments of the courtiers, and comprises beautiful and long square galleries, about as large as the Exchange at Amsterdam, but one larger than another, resting on wooden pillars, from top to bottom covered with cast copper, on which are engraved the pictures of their war exploits and battles, “

—Olfert Dapper, Nauwkeurige Beschrijvinge der Afrikaansche Gewesten

Although the type of columns may have been of earth, rather than wood in the case of the type of columns used for his artistic depiction. Still, there were certainly columns, whether earthen or wooden, on which art was displayed.

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Culture › Re: Benin Empire And City Architecture by gregyboy(op): 10:57am On Jan 01, 2020

“Legroing tells us : ” The city of Benin is situated in a plain surrounded by deep

ditches. Vestiges of an old earthen wall are to be seen ; the wall could hardly have

been built of any other material as we did not see a single stone in the whole journey

The houses for the most part are covered with latanier leaves, and those of
the king with large shingles. In front of the king’s houses there were two thick

clumps of high trees, and these appeared to us to be the only trees planted by the

hand of man (Labarthe, p. 175).” From Landolphe we learn that a ” ditch more than

20 feet wide and as deep surrounds the town, and the soil taken out is made on the

city side into a talus, on which a thorny hedge has been planted so thick, that not

even an animal can get through. The height of this talus deprives one of a view of

the houses at a distance, and one does not see them until entering the town, the gates

of which are very far apart ” (II., 48). ” The streets are very broad ; in the middle

there is turf on which the kids and sheep feed ; about thirty feet from the houses

there is a level road, covered with sand for the inhabitants to walk on ” [ibid, II., 50).

He also mentions several spacious courts surrounded by earthen walls about sixteen

feet high. Along the inside of the walls there ran a gallery fifteen feet wide, thatched

with natanier. The thatching is done by overlapping the leaves which not

being pulled apart, fall one on top of another to a thickness of eighteen inches.

This roof is supported by large pieces of timber cut into the shape of pillars. They

are set up about eighteen feet apart, and carry stout horizontal planks on which

abut the sloping joists which carry the roof, which was an ingenious piece of work “

(ibid, I., 111-112). Of the apartments of the king’s wives he says the walls are twenty

feet high and five feet thick, solidly built of earth [ibid, I., 335).” – H. Ling Roth, Great Benin ]

Modern (recent) concept art by Stephen Hamilton giving his artistic interpretation

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Culture › Re: Benin Empire And City Architecture by gregyboy(op): 10:56am On Jan 01, 2020

The king’s wall in Benin City. Benin, Nigeria. Silver gelatin print, 10.2cm x 13.9cm (4″ x 5.5″wink. Photograph by J. H. Swainson, 1892. Macdonald Niger Coast Protectorate Album, A1996-190138.”

[It should be noted that the angle doesn’t give a good impression of the height of the wall:

Culture › Re: Benin Empire And City Architecture by gregyboy(op): 10:54am On Jan 01, 2020

An 1897 photograph of a Benin building.

This is not from that article (“Images of Benin at the Pitt Rivers Museum” by Coote and Edwards) above, for the record.

Culture › Re: Benin Empire And City Architecture by gregyboy(op): 10:54am On Jan 01, 2020

Note the beams, identical to those that can be seen in that 1897 photograph of one of the courtyards of the Benin palace.

Also note the impluvium

Culture › Re: Benin Empire And City Architecture by gregyboy(op): 10:52am On Jan 01, 2020

This painting of a section of the Palace (occupied by British officers) was by Egerton after the fall of Benin either immediately after (in 1897) or shortly after from memory.

Culture › Re: Benin Empire And City Architecture by gregyboy(op): 10:51am On Jan 01, 2020

This painting of a compound somewhere in Benin was made by Egerton or one of his aides in 1897 after the fall of Benin. Captain George LeClerc Egerton, “King’s Palace, Benin,” 1897(?). Watercolor on paper, image 15cm x 32.5cm (5.9″ x 12.8″wink. Dumas Egerton Trust Benin Collection, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, PRM: 1991.13.29. Acquired on long-term loan in 1991

Culture › Re: Benin Empire And City Architecture by gregyboy(op): 10:49am On Jan 01, 2020

Some of the houses in Warri are described by Olfert Dapper in 1668 in this manner: “It has fine buildings, particularly the houses of the nobility, roofed with palm leaves, and like those in Benin, but made of grey earth while those in Benin are red. The court of the King is established in the manner of that in Benin but very much smaller.” The houses of Benin and Warri would have had some similarity so it was not that big a mistake on my part

Culture › Re: Benin Empire And City Architecture by gregyboy(op): 10:47am On Jan 01, 2020

This images shows the building structure of the benin houses the walls are lined with horizontal lines as a form of beautification the houses are made of red clayish sands and the roofs are made from fine wolds and dry palm leaves

Culture › Benin Empire And City Architecture by gregyboy(op): 10:41am On Jan 01, 2020

[size=8pt]First dynasty( bc- 9ad) ogiso[/size]

Benin City started as a cluster of thirty-one villages which were aggregates of family units, at the the beginning of the kingdom this various families where autonomous, with no strong central power or authority,though they were ruled by a king ( ogiso) the ogiso poses little powers over this villages . it is belived that the ogiso was the father of the various clans ,during this early times they were guided by laws and taboos ,The kingdom was said to have had 36 ogiso or more before emerge of the obaship,the ogiso at this times yielded little power, as powers rested more on the various clans than the ogiso,the last ogiso during( 9AD) before the era of the obaship reign had only one male child from one of his wives he got worried ,as the other wives pressured him to seek sloution to thier male barrenness which he called the chief priest, one of the oba favourite wives begged the oba to accompany the chief priest to seek the solution for the other wives, the ogiso allowed ,when the priest consulted the gods he was told the favorite wive had bewitched the other wives from having male children out of jealousy, right there at the shrine she begged the guards and the chief priest for mercy and also bribed them not to tell. which they agreed she went ahead to further plot with the chief priest and guards to assassinate the young prince, the chief priest later returned to the palace and informed the oba that his only son was the reason he couldn't have other male children and that he was needed to be killed, so he could have other male children,the ogiso without having second thought ordered his guard to kill his only son (ekaladeran) to appease his other wives who were pressuring him for thier male barrenness,the guards knowing fully well it was a plot decide to allow the young prince ekaladeran go free into the forest,the ogiso later died after some years ,the story of the plot unfolded to the whole kingdom ,

Second dynasty ogie( 9ad to early 10ad)

a man who had defeated a deadly beast that once terrorized the kingdom stood in as the ogiso sucessor after his death ,some chiefs were in support of him ruling most chiefs was against him because he was not of royal blood they belive since he is not divine like the ogiso it will spell doom for the villages and they sort all effort to fetch ekaladeran with the help of the priest who informed them ekaladeran has seeked refuge at ife,the chiefs later went to ife were they found ekaladeran has a king at ife, and was now old of age he instructed his son oromiyan to go with the benin chiefs ,oromiyan getting to benin found that the benin people were always angry at slight provocation and were always fighting in disagreement, he sought to go to the palace but was scared of being assinated by the present ruler ogiemen" who placed a bounty on his head,ogiemien had put a Bounty on him to be captured if he steos to benin because of the political system at then his army couldn't enter the village ekaladeran settled to capture him
Oromiyan got tired one day and left benin back to ife before he left he had impregnated the enogies daughter of that village, who later gave bith to oba eweka the first,

Third dynasty oba( 10AD till present)

Eweka grew and had to fight the old ogiemien which they later came up with a diplomatic resolution at the end ,it was a new era eweka refusdd to takd the title ogiso, or ogie .ogiemien had earlier crowned himself ogie and not ogiso oba eweka neglected to the two previous tiltes and took a new title o- ba ( shinning one)
He was crowned oba

Oba eware
Oba eware had ascended the throne shortly before the arrival of the Portuguese he is praised has the man who truely united the kingdon into one and expanded the kingdon into an empire he was a warlord at the times the benin obas were still warkings, and before his ascension, benin was still very disorganized and the various villages lived autonomously the oba power was limited to the varioua villages after his coronation he brought all the various village under his rule and strengthen his military he was also a warlord and referred to as oba ewaure the great ,he was very strict king and he made strict laws ,he was always at the war front with his armies ,at his time benin took upon the look of a city he was the king behind the ancient city planning of benin ,after his death in 1453 the portuguese arrived shortly to meet the city he had created the Portuguese arrived at 1474,at thier arrival they ment a planned organized city ewuare had left behind ,they had visited some other kingdoms other neighbouring kingdoms but were not as impressed when they meant benin this alone amazed them which made them call it a city and compared it to europe... They did well to invite othef European to the shores of benin

The empire
The empire unlike other kingdoms was totally built on military power for economic contrtrol , after ewuare had built a powerful military city he expanded it for political power and not necessarily for economic power other oba before ewaure had done the same after the arrival of the Portuguese the kingdom needed to be expanded for economic power to control trade around neighbouring kingdoms, the benins will go into territories that had potential economic power colonized them inorder to control the economic potential, places like lagos, itsekiri were colonized for economic power rather for political motives, the arrival of more Europeans into the city led for more expansion of the empire but the empire had difficulties expanding beyond its control,l it had the military to conquer large territories but was mostly faced with internal rivalry arising from thr palace over sucession this caused political instability and the lack of vast political knowledge to efficiently rule over large vassal state under it ,as most vassal had to be reconquered on several bases like the benin anomia war in the 17century, though the empire didnt cover over large areas of the present southern nigeria but it had economic power over it,independent state who refused the oba economic monopoly were conquered to acess full economic potential the control of economic power over southern nigeria by the British from the oba had resulted to the fall of the empire which is known as the Benin invasion of 1897...

Philosophical belief of the empire
Like everyother kingdoms and empire the benin had its own philosophy they belive thier king( ogiso) had come from the sky and he was a god king who came to rule among them he was Reverend like a god on earth they belive any mortal who sat on the royal stool without a linage to the ogiso dynasty spelt doom for the kingdom on some very few occasions wher it happened it was corrected like the time an oba rebuked any of his sons from being king after his death the man who became king was forced to marry the oba daughter to continue the lineage and that of the story of oduduwa who he son later returned to become king to secure the ogiso dynasty ,the kingdom practice it own unique animism were prayers were first made to oba as a god then to the ancestors of the family The kingdom was purely purely patriarch in nature and not on economic wealth,various villages had thier own special gods and foreign gods were also brought in the gods remained foreign and was never accoladed like the original deities of the kingdom they belive the oba owned the earth and sea ,some foods were very scared to the kingdom like yam they belive yam was a divine food brought by the gods to men and were food to the gods they offered boiled yams and oil to the gods as sacrifice ,egusi and pounded yam offered to the gods on regular bases the kingdom was full of pride and praises to the oba they believe the language was a pride to them and vassalz state were not alowed to speak the language this pride had made the europea traders unable to influence them religiously and culturally,

The benin architecture and planning design
Like every great kingdom had their own separate and unique architectural design where the city was surrounded by moat for protection this was done for fear of unseen invaders to the kingdom the walls surroe the moat all houses were arranged in a straight anx orderly manner with a long straight road along it the houses were built in court ,like a square shape the open space were called ugha( sitting room)
The palace was located at the centre of the city close to the kings market(oba marke) the city grew around the palace in a concentric pattern around the city

Culture › Re: Oyo Empire by gregyboy(m): 9:24am On Jan 01, 2020

babtoundey:
And why is it called Olokun? is that too difficult for you to explain. You simply don't know how Yoruba language works. Olu-okun is no different from Olokun. the latter is derived from the formal through a process of contraction. Through the same process, aya oba (wife of the king) becomes ayaba, iya oba becomes iyooba/iyoba, oni efo becomes elefo and many more like that.

He carried Ogiso bloodline? How come he didn't establish Ogiso ruling system. Why obaship that was never known in period of Ogiso?

At this juncture, I will leave you to dwell in perpetual ignorance and arrogance. Ogiso ko ogiyagbe ni.

I dont know what you're trying to coin up there but am not buying it ,

Iye is mother in benin,

Oba is alien to yoruba last time i remeber benin conquered half of yorubas
Influence almost 60 to 70 percent of the yoruba people
Here is a sculpture made of a benin chief in ife back in 16c
The ife people adorned us that they made a sculpture of our chiefs we even fought in the ekiti in Ibadan war ... The word oba came as a phrase for kings because of benin influence over yoruba nation, they soon forget this word oba" was foreign to them over the years as they used it to reference the great king of benin it became a word for a general term for king
Even if we had words like obatala in yoruba lingua that also do not connote the word oba cane from there

We benins did the influencing on Yoruba's
Dont try to twist it around because of one man who came to Benin, before oromiyan arrival ekaladeran had already made effect the worship of ogun, and olokun in ife

Culture › Re: Oyo Empire by gregyboy(m): 1:34am On Jan 01, 2020*

babtoundey:
It is very interesting reading your concurted version of history. "Ogiamen was the king" why Ogiamen? why not Oba has you have it today? What title did Ogiamen take as the Paramount ruler? Oba? yet Oranmiyan had no influence in Bennin? With time, to suit your purpose and sentiment, you will say Oranmiyan never ruled or visited Benin.

There was a system in place before Oranmiyan was there and there were people. The system was obviously not working and that was why he was there. He was not in Bennin to subjugate the people but to establish a political institution similar to what he had in his own settlement. And it thrived.

And you said Oranmiyan didn't rule as king. That it another joke. If he didn't rule as king, as what did he rule? As slave or servant? He didn't rule as king yet only his seeds has right to the throne. He didn't stay long. How do you come by that? He didn't stay long, but he stayed long enough to court and impregnate a woman, long enough to see to it that a child is born, long enough to see that the child is of age, long enough to partially or absolutely (as it suits you) establish a system totally alien to the people.

He came and left with all the people he came with. That is another joke. It's simply impossible and unreasonable of him to have done that.

And can you help do simple breakdown of words like
Olokun
Oba
Olu
Ogun in the context of traditional Benin religion, custom, tradition and language?

Here is the simple analysis I can do to them in Yorubas and prove to you they are veeery Yoruba
Olukun- Olu Okun. just as you have in Oluwa, Oluko, Olurombi, Olosa. Olu is used in reference to a person that own or has authority over something or to simply indicate a person. Oluwa- Olu+ wa (person + us= he that owns us). OLUROMBI - Olu + Ri + oun + bi (person + see+ object+ birth= he/she that gives birth to something). Olokun- Olu +Okun (he/authority + Okun (water body) becomes he that has authority over Okun.

Oba- O (he/she/ authority)+ ba (perches, dominates).
All these terms are as old as yoruba themselves. They have been in use long before Oranmiyan's sojourn to Benin. Why will you someone jusy wake up one morning and claim they are borrowed terms.

Happy new yr

Is called olokun not olukun

Orimyan didn't stay upto delivery of the child oromiyan was a Benin Prince from ife
He carried the ogiso bloodline that why he was invited if he difnt we could have let ogiemen continue as king
The truth is only fellow Yoruba's like you that is buying all this lies to claim oduduwa yoruba when he is benin, we know the tiny benin people messed your beautiful history up but there is no need to denial it...
Atleast yorubas have a edge over edo peoole now to have a better history instead of rewriting the past that cant be changed
Yea we gave ife king benins didnt loose their religion to Europeans over the years they traded with them but yorubas lost thiers with little influence from outsiders that can only happen if they didnt originally own the religion

Happy new yr again

Romance › Re: END OF YEAR PICTURE: This Image Was Taken Today 31/12/2019 [Picture] by gregyboy(m): 11:25pm On Dec 31, 2019

dayskid:

This glasses can shade your destiny in 2020 pls becareful

Culture › Re: Oyo Empire by gregyboy(m): 11:07pm On Dec 31, 2019

Opiletool:
I know you will come up with one bulldung. Àgbádó means Àgbá-dúró (Elderly ones stopped). Your own Agbado can mean something else. Or perhaps, the Yorubas named the market.since you folks won't stop answering Yoruba names.

Culture › Re: Oyo Empire by gregyboy(m): 11:00pm On Dec 31, 2019

babtoundey:
Just as you are asking, I'm also asking you who is the conquered and who is the conqueror? Who influences whom?

Thank God you admitted Oranmiyan, a Yoruba prince was a king in Benin. What language did he was he speaking? What culture did he practice, what gods did he worship? Did he jettison all he had all his life known and immidiately acculturated into Benin culture? infact, while departing his father's kingdom, did he go all alone without any Entourage? and when he wanted to depart Benin, did he go without leaving any trace aside a son. He was their to establish a non-existing political institution. This he obviously could no attain alone. While in Benin, he could not have jettisoned his belief (religion and language).

if you consider these closely, without the sentiment you're inclined to view history, you will see facts staring at you.

I may as well ask you, Is Olokun Benin good? is ogun a Benin God (funny enough, you guys even call him ogun Onire. Where is the Ire you attached him with)?

Some of you even use the exclamation "yeepa!". Is that also a Benin expression.

Yoruba influenced and birth some Benin traditional system. But arrogance and supremacist agenda will not let people like you admit. You will keep spinning theories upon theories to suit your purpose. But the truth, no matter what you do to conceal it, will always be seen.

Lol...funny enough benun was political disorganized and villages were still autonomous politically and ogiemien was the king the king in Benin at oromiyan arrival he placed a bounty on his head he couldnt attack the village he was because the villages were still very autonomous at that ti.e in Benin not untill oba ewauare reign bsnin was fully politically united his reign was centuries after oromiyan had left
Again oromiyan didnt rule as king his followers had all left with him back to ife
Even if oromiyan managed to had ruled his influence wouldn't be felt in the autonomous kingdom... At then

Culture › Re: Oyo Empire by gregyboy(m): 10:46pm On Dec 31, 2019

Opiletool:
To tell you the truth, those that migrated from Benin to any part of Yoruba land were those, who followed Oromiyan or whose fathers followed oranmiyan from Ife to Benin on his journey to establish a ruling system in the land of vexation. Some departed before he, oranmiyan, returned to Ife, while some left him after he had established his kingdom. Hence the reason no traces of edo language cannot be found in those places these people migrated to. Because they came speaking the same language - albeit different dialect - with their hosts.

For example, the Ewi ruling house of Ado-Ekiti claimed that his ancestor (not that of the Ado people) came from Benin. According to that history, they named every area they had a stop, like Agbado (A town closer to Ado-Ekiti), which translates to 'The place where the elders stopped' because they were too tired to continue the journey.

Now, the question is, if these people were Benin, why would they name those places in Yoruba language? A language that is not theirs? Isn't a simple logical explanation to this is that, these people are simply Yorubas who left Benin before or after oranmiyan probably to found their own settlement, or just to leave the land of vexation for good.

Get the delusion off your little mind that your tiny land conquered any place. Language is too powerful to be allowed to evaporate just like that. English language is shaped today by the language of the Saxons that migrated to England, as well as the Normans that once conquered England.

Traces of some Yoruboid words can be found in Igbo today due to the contact the latter had with the Igala people. Despite the fact that there's no record that both the Yoruba and igbo had any contact with each other.

Every nation that once left Rome, still have some shared Latin words till today.

As far as the Caribbean nations are, there exist traces of Yoruba language and culture.

How come the Benin people you claimed left Benin to those Yoruba parts, lost their language without any traces despite the close proximity to the source? Isn't that theory laughable?

Do you know agbado market is in Benin

Agbado is a typical benin word when you come to benin ask were is agbado market ,they will show you
I hope this my explaination help you understand that the people were speaking the benin dialect when they called that place agbado,
when oromiyan left its logical that his follower's accompanied him back to ife leaving the child behind
No benin record mentioned oromiyans acompliance stayed behind all account says oromiyan let with peopls who they had come with

Culture › Re: Oyo Empire by gregyboy(m): 8:27pm On Dec 31, 2019

babtoundey:
"Iye was never a Yoruba word"
" Oba was never a Yoruba word"
"There's a clear difference between Iya-oba and iyooba (just as there's difference between Oja-oba and Ojaaba/ojooba. lol"
"iyooba is Benin while Iya-oba is Yoruba"

Every right thinking Yoruba that reads the above contributions from you knows you for what you're. You are always contented with ignorance. History in your view should be as you want it to be. You know Igala history better than them. Here you are again defining and structuring Yoruba history the Yorubas.

Assuming you know how a Yoruba person will see you and your contributions the moment you start drawing a line between "Iyooba and iya oba" you will know your contributions are mare junks on the thread.

How would the conquered influence the conquerors tell me

The only yoruba man who came to benin was oromiyan ,tell me can only oromiyan ulter the benin lexicon,

But on the hand benin had visited the heartland of the yoruba people of ife ,they decide not to conquere them because thier son is already on the throne,
Some fraction of benin population are found in yoruba state

I spoke with a girl in Uniben she is from ondo state i asked she bears both yoruba and and edo name she explained to me her family's is benin who migrated to ondo by the order of the oba of benin before the arrival of the britsh

From this you can tell who is going to influence who by words

Culture › Re: Unveiling Nigerian Personalities By States Of The Federation by gregyboy(m): 7:14pm On Dec 31, 2019

O p kudos

But for ogun ,osun and ekiti you forgot to add they have phd in head hijacking
Aka ritualism

Culture › Re: Oyo Empire by gregyboy(m): 11:31am On Dec 31, 2019

Yujin:
I did task any of you to furnish viewers with records of Oyo 'empire' wriiten by European explorers in 18th century and not those penned by Yoruba historians who actually caused this confusion in the first place. We are not quarreling. Just do so and if it's convincing, I'll apologize and remain silent. II'm waiting for those records.

Oyo kingdom that highly disorganized and were continually trashed by dahomey female warrior and Fulani, they should be ashamed to mention it amongst if it even existed from the yoruba account it looks like state under the oyo kingdom were politically autonomous no war was fought to bring the vassals under it ,it was strictly on social gathering the oyo kingdom was weak militarily because they were not used to war ,when the alafin wanted to extends is kingdom to another yoruba kingdom under it,that's how everything went south and a war broke out the new political power after the war rested on ibadan were they attempted to wage war on ekiti a benin vassal state at then ,words was sent to the oba of benin ,and thousands of soldier's were disperse to ekiti to fight the new political power of the yorubas which ekiti won in the war
At the early 18c ogendegbe from ijesha ventured to edo north with his fierced warriors he had already conquered some part of edo north when the oba get to here of it he disperse warriors from edo central esan warriors who waged ogendegbe at edo north and defeated him and his army his head was later brought to benin

Crime › Re: Texas Church Shooting: One Killed Before Gunman Shot Dead By Churchgoer by gregyboy(m): 11:23pm On Dec 30, 2019

CaptainMeks:
Nobody knows where the next mass shooting is going to take place in USA. Today it happened in a church. In August it happened in a Walmart store in El Paso where 22 people were shot dead but it is Africa that is not safe.

They should continue with their propaganda targeted at demarketing Africa and let gullible Africans keep on buying into their lies.

Hypocrate.....

Is america the only white nation...
Does it happen in canada
Spain or dubai

But come to africa ,ooh i forget the headlines reads “sars kills woman only child in edo"

Better stop petting africans into this your dillusion to spite the white for your own intrest the crime rate in africa is worse than the ones in hell

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Family › Re: My Wife's Wahala. Goes Through My Phone Every 3 Days by gregyboy(m): 11:08pm On Dec 30, 2019

Please dont go ahead and start laying hands on her it would make it worse and it may lead to a bigger issue someday if you have to hit her not frequently let her know she had gone beyond her boundary...

Everything you listed here i don't even see it as a problem she just need attention and you need diplomacy with her ...

Did you read the posy a nairaland made late this year were is wife wouldnr speak to him or have sex with him that is an issue not yours

Celebrities › Re: Photos From Uche Jombo's 40th Birthday Party by gregyboy(m): 11:55am On Dec 30, 2019

Divay22:
Ini Edo is one bad ass babe

Surgery my guy

Which she did last year

Culture › Re: Why Yoruba Must Be Abolished And Replaced With Oduduwa (pic) by gregyboy(m): 11:09am On Dec 30, 2019

Is oduduwa the true identity of the yorubas
A better name should be coined to reflect all yorubas...before another mistake is made again
This happens when about 5million tribe couldn't organised themselves before the whitemen arrival ....

Just common religion diffeence is pulling the roofs over thier head

Modify: a yoruba man called the edo people angry land" and they still bear the word as a tribe and even a country adopted it ,the yorubas were called deciet and bastard i think there is no nedd to change the name a name is given as a reflection of perception to be truthful the fulanis were not wrong calling yorubas Yoruba" it showed what all tribes sees glaring today about the yoruba people...
Until the yoruba people change the name would remain unchanged

Culture › Re: 12 True Facts You Have Never Heard About The Yoruba Nation by gregyboy(m): 10:51am On Dec 30, 2019

lx3as:
Ọwọ is very ancient than Bini; most cultures/religions you get in Bini today were from Ọwọ and Ugbo(Ilaje). Ugodomigodo was quite different from present Bini. Maybe you need to see Ọbalùfọ̀n with lots of beats...

Those arguing on Oduduwa or Okanbi being Ogun; There were Original Ogun, Oduduwa, Sango, Oranmiyan. However, many great people beared these names after them; people are still bearing Ogun, etc. till today. Okanbi as Ogun or Sango as Oyo king were different from the first Ogun or Sango, Obatala's contemporaries

You have come up with another one...
I thought you said i was saying rubbish abd now you saying most of our culture come from owo....
Nigga wont just quit

Culture › Re: 12 True Facts You Have Never Heard About The Yoruba Nation by gregyboy(m): 2:57pm On Dec 29, 2019

cbrass:
What is this one saying sef oga go find something reasonable to do. Compliment of the season to you

Am saying what you need to hear
And what your people had denied you of

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