₦airaland Forum

The people of this generation are deprived of learning the beautiful history of this Lagos, Edo, Delta, Ondo, Ekiti, Anambra, Rivers, kogi, and Bayelsa region because of dirty politicians and their agenda.

There's is a brotherhood that flows through this entire region and the thread that binds it all together passes right through Benin. But as the British gas warned us, we must never talk about it. Let's bury our history and begin to accept contrived fictional stories as the authentic history which is designed to drive a wedge between our various people.

The British told them in Eko and elsewhere in SW and SE, don't ever mention Benin and we are complying strictly with the British

There is a difference between settlement and kingdom. A kingdom is a system of government headed by a King who is a sovereign, which means absolute powers to make Decrees, and gives judgment is vested in him..Absolute powers are vested in kings. In most of Africa, the system of government that was most prevalent is one in which the oldest member of the community is the automatic head of the community..That system is called Gerontocracy. The first place where monarchy was practiced in Nigeria is Benin, where the system of gerontocracy evolved into a full-fledged monarchy. So Benin is the first Kingdom in Nigeria.

The Yorubas to the west claim Eweka is yoruba and Igbos to the east claim Eweka is igbo.. The truth is that the Benin kingdom which later became an empire is fundamental to the political and spiritual developments that took place in western Nigeria, Eastern Nigeria, and much of south-south Nigeria for the 500 years before 1900.