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The Binis first discovered Lagos. The sea was used as a port of trade between them and the Portuguese. They didn't settle there until the Aworis stopped paying royalties to them after they settled there. The territory was later conquered and became an extension of Benin kingdom. The territory was then named Eko in Bini meaning war camp.

Other ethnic groups and the Ijaws were under the control of Oba of Benin since ages.

Read:

http://www.edoworld.net/The_Origin_of_Benin.html

maryTeee:
Hello gurus in the house.
First time travelled, I applied for SA tourist visa and got it within two days.
Thanks to clarify on the ffg;
1) likely questions and answers at Poe
2) how much bta. b) can I declare I have this on my master card or must have it on me as cash?
3) best airline for ticket reservations as my traveling date is fast approaching and I am yet to book my flight. Although I have contacted some agents like Wakanow and the likes and expecting a feedback by tomorrow, your urgent response/assistance will be highly appreciated.
Thanks

1. Places in SA you will be visiting, paid hotel reservation, return ticket, yellow card
2. $500 cash and also in your master card. Airline always require cash before boarding.
3. No agent or airline will reserve ticket for a long time without payment.

BakireBulmaker:
Mtcheeew

Binis met Aworis in Lagos.

Aworis are Yorubas

Oba of Lagos was only Bini for 2 generations.

The father of the 3rd Oba of Lagos was the high priest, an Ijesha man.

Chikena!

And Oduduwa was the king in Ile Ife. Oduduwa was a Bini Prince banished from Benin kingdom

http://www.edoworld.net/The_Origin_of_Benin.html

Eko in Bini meaning war camp. It was named after the territory was conquered.

Why Oduduwa in Bini is correctly pronounced as Imadoduwa meaning I didn't loose my path to greatness or wealth. Oduduwa was a Prince banished from Benin kingdom and became a king in Ile Ife.

Read the complete history.

http://www.edoworld.net/The_Origin_of_Benin.html

Get all the facts you need by reading:

http://www.edoworld.net/The_Origin_of_Benin.html

nengibo:
PEOPLE AND DEMOGRAPHY
The main ethnic groups in Edo State are: Edos, Afemais, Esans, Owans and Akoko Edos. Virtually all the groups traced their origin to Benin City hence the dialects of the groups vary with their distance from Benin City. The Bini speaking people who occupy seven out of the 18 Local Government Areas of the state constitute 57.54% while others Esan (17.14%) Afemai compirising of Etsako (12.19%), Owan (7.43%), and Akoko Edo (5.70%). However, the Igbira speaking communities exist in Akoko Edo as well as Urhobos, Ijaws, Itsekiris communities in Ovia North East and South West Local Government Areas especially in the borderlands. Also, Ika speaking communities exist in Igbanke in Orhionmwon LGA.

http://www.edostate.gov.ng/edo-people/

Other ethnic groups has always been under the control of the Oba of Benin

Read:
http://www.edoworld.net/The_Origin_of_Benin.html

Read the origin of bini and the early rulers. Complete story of benin empire

http://www.edoworld.net/The_Origin_of_Benin.html

Read the history of Benin kingdom below.

http://www.edoworld.net/The_Origin_of_Benin.html

emily111:
what should i now do since i dont have good bank account. please advise me on what to do

Don't be desperate. If you are caught it will affect your chances of ever getting a visa for other countries. Embassies now share database. You can use six months to plan for it.

If you are coming with a visitors visa with no intention of returning back, know you can't change status inside South Africa.

kudsweet:
Good day house,

Please, i want to apply for SA visa here in Lagos, my husband and I.

In 2011, my husband was issued a SA visit visa, but he didn't utilize it.

Now i hope that wont affect our application?

urgent response needed

No. He should mention in the introduction letter why he couldn't travel in 2011 which could be work related or family matter.

@abdullahi45
Introduction letter does not have particular format. It is a letter addressed to the embassy explaining your overall situation..

I, ... a graduate from ... university wish to further my studies in ... university in South Africa. State the reasons you chose the course and the university, and how the course will benefit you in your home country after you graduate. Explain your relationship with your sponsor. It is always better when parents are sponsor. List or explain the supporting documents you attached.
Make the letter as short as possible.
You must get a guarantor's letter from your uncle including his bank statements
Employer letter is not necessary if you are not employed and if there is no long gap between.

You need travel ittenary from an airline. You don't have to pay for it. No need for hotel reservation. If you have arrangement for accomodation you can mention it in your letter.

Check vfs website for all supporting documents.

I thought we export 1.8 million barrels per day at the rate of 62 dollars per barrel.
Somebody should explain. I don't get it.

Uruguay. Spain. France. Argetina. Brail. Germany Belgium. Colombia
Rusia. Portugal. Denmark. Nigeria. Costa Rica. Mexico. England. Senegal

Pvibe007:
Abeg make una go sit down but you and the OBA Dey craze! How is Ijaw a tenant , is the Oba the Supreme ruler of all EDO state?

Useless Bini people causing trouble everywhere yet they pollute Italy and all over Europe! Everybody keeps screaming Libya Libya , 99.8% of Nigerians plying the Libyan route are Bini n Edo State so they can cross to Italy and pollute a well organized western system! Igbos n Yorubas n Hausa prefer to buy Air tickets and fly instead of going tru d desert!
Back to the subject , Ijaw has some minute population of indigenes in EDO state and Bini ppl wants to impose the Oba on them ! Is the Oba the Oba of Ijaw? Does he speak Ijaw.
Mad people , n yet they are lamenting about slave trade in Libya and they want to subject the ijaws to same slavery by imposing the yeye OBA!
Rubbish! Ijaw do your things jare!

Your stupidity has no comparison. Can you just wake up one morning and crown another king where one already exit.

hayohorje:
Good afternoon, please i need an assistance as regards a south africa visa application am doing currently.I hope to visit my uncle by next year January, he would be sponsoring my coming and stay in the country as he had already sent me an invitation letter,proof of his residence in the country,a certified copy of his ID and statement of account.however my question goes thus
1. Do i also need to attach a self introduction letter
2 my own proof of financial status (3 months bank statement) if yes,can i use my mothers statement of account.
Thanks

Before a visitors visa is granted the visa officer considers the overall situation of the applicant. You most have ties to your home country, this proves to the officer that after your visit you will return home. Why would your Uncle spend so much money just for you to visit. Apply for a study permit instead. The chances that the application will be rejected is 90%.

Must it be between APC and PDP that must win. All these recycled Polithiefcians. Why can't we vote for a credible person from other parties.

Please, can someone list all the satelites recievable by 90cm dish and their tracking frequencies. I have been away for a while. Thank you in advance. benjaminemmanuel7764@gmail.com.

Please, can someone list all the satelites recievable by 90cm dish and their tracking frequencies. Thank you in advance.

I was taught in history back then that a chief was banished from Bini kingdom to exile and he went to Lagos. After so many years he became a chief or oba in Lagos. Bini kingdom used to be very large before the British invaded and conquered the kingdom.

The party members are no longer scared to voice out their opinion. Say it before now you and your family will disappear.

Oba of Benin is the king of entire Edo state. This man can best be described as a chief of the community they are trying to claim.
You cannot migrate to a place and after a while you claim ownership.
The purpose of this is because of the proposed Gelegele sea port. They want to claim ownership of the community and become relevant

Mugabe should resign in peace. There is no way the military can give power back to him, they know the consequences. Maybe he is ready to die

A man organized a crusade in the village, after praying for the crowd the villagers brought out a man who regained his sight. He was completely blind for years. The man himself was surprised that he could pray and restore sight to the blind. This man was a strong member in his fraternity, he went to late Bishop Idahosa and repented when the time came for him to die. When the time past for him to die and he was still alive, he went about preaching the gospel. I am a witness to this.

Only a fool thinks there is no God.

Some people say it's foolish to believe there is a God somewhere, but it's more foolish to believe everything came by accident, humans from animals and animals from fossils.

End of mugabe's regime. The only thing AU can do is to negotiate his peaceful exile along with his wife.

Dhara12:
Hi, pls a friend of mine want to know how to have a stay in SA... he has uncle that want to invite him, he's ready to send visitation letter already... after the visitation, how did he go about the stay or what are the procedure to follow??

Thank you

The law prohibits change of status inside South Africa for visitors' visa holders.

The only permit he can change to is Volunteer visitors permit. It is issued for up to 3 years.
It is difficult to get these days. If the application is refused, the person is usually given few days to leave the country.
Come with a study permit instead.

On imperialism

"Africa must revert to what it was before the imperialists divided it. These are artificial divisions which we, in our pan-African concept, will seek to remove." - Speech at Salisbury, 1962

"Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity." - A plea to the white population of Zimbabwe at a Zanu-PF rally, 1980

"Only God, who appointed me, will remove me - not the MDC, not the British. Only God will remove me!" - Election rally, 2008. MDC is an opposition party.

"Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy." - Zanu-PF rally, 2002

On homosexuality:

"We ask, was he born out of homosexuality? We need continuity in our race, and that comes from the woman, and no to homosexuality. John and John, no; Maria and Maria, no. They are worse than dogs and pigs. I keep pigs and the male pig knows the female one." - ZDC radio interview, 2015

"We equally reject attempts to prescribe 'new rights' that are contrary to our values, norms, traditions, and beliefs. We are not gays!" - UNGA, 2015

On Britain:

"Britain is a very cold, uninhabitable country with small houses." - Mutare rally, 2013

"We are still exchanging blows with the British government. They are using gay gangsters. Each time I pass through London, the gangster regime of Blair 'expresses its dismay'." Reference to an incident in which human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell attempted a citizens' arrest on Mugabe during a visit to London in October, 1999

"We have fought for our land, we have fought for our sovereignty, small as we are we have won our independence and we are prepared to shed our blood ... So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe." - Earth Summit, South Africa, 2002

On Hitler:

"I am still the Hitler of the time. This Hitler has only one objective: justice for his people, sovereignty for his people, recognition of the independence of his people and their rights over their resources. If that is Hitler, then let me be Hitler tenfold. Ten times, that is what we stand for." - State funeral of a Cabinet minister, 2003

On the economy:

"Our economy is a hundred times better, than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is [as good as] Zimbabwe? … What is lacking now are goods on the shelves - that is all." - Interview, 2007

"I have died many times - that's where I have beaten Christ. Christ died once and resurrected once." - To state radio on 88th birthday

On cricket:

"Cricket civilises people and creates good gentlemen I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen." - This is a widely reported quote, but it was unclear when Mugabe said this.

On US presidents:

"Let Mr. Bush read history correctly. Let him realise that both personally and in his representative capacity as the current president of the United States, he stands for this 'civilisation', which occupied, which colonised, which incarcerated, which killed. He has much to atone for and very little to lecture us on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. His hands drip with innocent blood of many nationalities." - UNGA, 2007

"I've just concluded - since President Obama endorses same-sex marriage, advocates homosexual people, and enjoys an attractive countenance - thus if it becomes necessary, I shall travel to Washington, DC, get down on my knee, and ask his hand." - ZDC radio interview, 2015

"Some of us were embarrassed, if not frightened, by what appeared to be the return of the biblical giant gold Goliath. Are we having a return of Goliath to our midst, who threatens the extinction of other countries?" - UNGA, 2017

"May I say to the United States President, Mr Trump, please blow your trumpet. Blow your trumpet in a musical way towards the values of unity, peace, cooperation, togetherness, dialogue, which we have always stood for." - UNGA, 2017

On grooming a successor:

"Grooming a successor, is it an inheritance? In a democratic party, you don't want leaders appointed that way. They have to be appointed properly by the people." - TV interview, 2016

Source: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/11/robert-mugabe-famous-quotes-171115094122605.html

To give birth at a tender age is not a big deal to them. Govt pays the child 10,000 naira monthly, free govt hospitals and some free houses in the township.

Kuzee23:
Requirement for applying for south Africa VISA please

Check vfs website the requirements are there

They give preference to South African citizens. The law states that 60% of the employer's employees must be South African citizens. Unemployment rate in south Africa is very high, and you cannot get any corporate job without a work permit. You can only get a work permit inside SA after you study.
Hustling jobs are done by Malawians and Zimbabweans who do them for peanuts. One of the reasons black South Africans want other blacks to leave.
If he has business skills or study any medical course or IT in any SA universities, he has a better chance to succeed.
He can do a legitimate business without a business permit provided he pays tax. Many of our Brothers does this.
Finally, he shouldn't come on a visitors visa. He cannot change his status inside SA. And above all, he should be prepare to live in the city not township, we don't want to hear story that touch. Beware of some Nigerians who are into drugs and internet fraud, the Police is their friend. Lol

Government hospital is free in South Africa. What kind of permit does he have? It's better to treat him there than in Nigeria.

In every ten South African girls between the the age of 17 and 35, eight has a child somewhere.