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The oba had already replied wike and their likes, that they are not of Benin ancestry, case closed.
As for lagos, lots of historical proofs, writings and confirmation from oba himself shows that Benin owns lagos.

Nigeria is dead, what we have now is a decaying body.

Nigerian Professor in US: How I was robbed by Immigration officers, Igbo boys saved me from police officers in Lagos
freedomonline.com.ng
a day ago

Prof. Moyo Okediji
Without the intervention of a crowd of young Igbo men who saved me from the claws of the Nigeria Police attached to the FESTAC Mile Two station, I would be a dead man today.

I arrived Lagos today.

I came in through Ghana, and decided to enter Nigeria by road so I could see the lagoon landscape, riding a Jeep that I hired to drive me down.

Everything went well in Ghana, Togo, Benin Republic, until I stepped into Nigeria.

Na dia trouble start oooooo!

The first immigration checkpoint that we encountered was at the Seme border, on the Nigeria side.

One of immigration officers took a look at me, and said, “Come down, oga.”

To cut a long story short, they robbed me of $500.

There were many of them, and they “invited” me–more like dragged me–to their shed.

They took my hand luggage, with all the money that I brought from the US.


Their excuse was that they wanted to search it to see if it contained contraband.

They asked for my Nigeria passport. I told them it had expired and I was in Nigeria to renew it.

They said it was an offence for me to enter the country with an expired passport.

I apologised. But they wanted none of that.

They said I had to “settle” them. They had my wallet containing the money I brought to spend in Nigeria.

They saw two twenty-dollar notes and said I needed to give them these notes, otherwise they would seize all the money in the wallet, and take me to their office to make a statement.

I had heard stories of visitors to the country ending up dead when the police invited them to their offices to clear some issues.

So I eagerly gave them the forty dollars.

They gave me back my things.
But when I counted my money later, $500 was missing.

Then the Jeep driver drove me to the FESTAC Mile Two motor park, where another driver I hired to take me to Ile Ife was waiting.

My two suitcases were on the floor at the Mile Two FESTAC car park, in public, right under the large gate to FESTAC.

I was narrating my ordeal in the hands of the immigration to my driver, when three gun totting police officer appeared.

They carried some deadly-looking AK 47.

They wanted to see the content of my bags.

As they searched the bags, they came upon the money I brought from the US.

I introduced myself to them as a professor at the University of Texas, Austin.

They asked for identifications. I gave them my driving licence, the university issued ID card, my US passport and my Nigeria passport.

They took them from me.

By that time, about ten police officers had descended upon me.

Also listening were some Igbo guys hanging out at the motor park.

Before you could say “Ki lo de?” the police officers searched me thoroughly.

Then they started searching my bag.

They found that my suitcases contained my personal effects.

They were interested in a pair of shorts which they said looked like camouflage shorts.

Prof. Moyo Okediji

They pulled out the shorts.

Then there was a sculpture that I made, which they said was juju,

They decided to seize my suitcases, hand luggage, ID cards and all of my money.

They said I had to follow them to the police station.

At this point, a sizable crowd of some fifty people had gathered.

One of them, with an obvious Igbo accent, said, “You can see he is a professor from abroad. He has given you several ID cards, including his passports. Wetin you dey find again?”

It was like a signal to the others, who began shouting, “You wan kill am? You people are thieves o! Highway robbers! It can never happen! Una don see money, una eyes don open…! Before you can take him, just kill all of us!”

They formed a tight buffer zone between the police officers and me.

Two of them jumped into the police vehicle and dragged out my bags from the vehicle. They accosted the one who held the wallet containing my ID card and my money, shouting, “You better give him back his wallet and money now, odawise wahala will burst.”

Another said, “We will not let you take him to the police station to kill him like you always kill international visitors.”

In a matter of moments, about a hundred Igbo boys emerged from thin air and surrounded us.

The police officers saw they were clearly outnumbered by these Igbo motor park boys.

They threatened to shoot.

These Igbo boys stood their ground, daring the police officers to kill them.

“Oya now,” they said, “Sebi you get AK 47. Kill us now, and then you can take him. But you are not taking him if we are still alive.”

Though some of the police officers appeared to cock their rifles, the Igbo guys only squeezed tighter around me.

The police officers slapped some of the Igbo guys near them, but their ring of protection around me did not break, it only got tighter, as the guys were yelling and daring the officers to kill them.

I was scared.

The police officers realised that the situation was clearly beyond what they envisaged.

They had imagined I was alone and nobody would rise to my defence.

The police officer who held my wallet, passports and ID cards quickly handed them back to me, looking nervous.

The Igbo boys, chanting, carried my suitcases on their heads, sometimes lifting the boxes up above their heads like highly coveted trophies.

The boys, seemingly closed in on the police officers, ready to attack them for my protection.

The police officers jumped inside their vehicles, and drove off to save face, their tails curled behind their brokos.

I recalled the traumatic moment I left the country in 1992, and swore “If you see me in this god-forsaken country again, cut off my neck.”

Obviously, the country has fallen much lower since then, and is now a danger zone in which men in uniforms of all descriptions—immigration, customs, police, vehicle inspection officers and others wearing uniforms difficult to identify or define—they have all taken over the country and made it difficult for citizens to enjoy, or even just subsist in their own country.

Which kain’ nsogbu be dis o?

It is a geographical zone best avoided if you can.

But for the intervention of these Igbo boys, I could be locked up in a cell at the Mile Two FESTAC police office now—or dead and my body disposed of.

Someone needs to do something, somehow, if they want to save the citizens of Nigeria from law enforcement officers paid to protect the lives of the people, but jeopardizing the very existence of the citizens they took an oath to assist.

God bless these Igbo boys who rescued me from the hands of the obnoxious police officers at the Mile Two FESTAC today.

I’m sure not all police officers are bad.

But those police officers at the Mile Two FESTAC who attacked me for daring to return to Nigeria on a visit were evil, and worse than maggots.

Me? I will pack my stuff and flee to Ghana tomorrow.

*Prof. Moyo Okediji

vanbonattel:
Did Oshiomole suddenly realise there is need for financial prudence just because this minister is Igbo?

An agbadorian tribalist just commented above, claiming to speak for Igbo, while striving to Stoke up ethnic sentiments

Since the ibos are being falsely accused of what they had no intention of doing, it means then, that yorubas are looking up to the ibos to save them politically from beast consuming them as seen in below picture, It is best then, that the ibos actually fulfill the Yoruba dreams, by taking control of Yoruba politics as the yorubas are proposing.

ElSudani:
Awolowo did his bit. He proposed a clause in case things didn't work out but some myopic people frustrated it. Now you want a civilian Awolowo without an army to basically declare a war?
What if the Ibo delegation to the constitutional conference had agreed with him? Did you think about that? The trajectory of Nigeria would have been different for sure. Either we become a country that is more united, respectful and mindful of our differences or we would have gone our separate ways. But either way millions of lives would have been saved.

When gowon fled from Lagos, it was easy for a the highest ranking soldier, who is Yoruba extraction to take command of the military bases, ojukwu had already stocked up these bases with heavy modern weapons and artillery from United States when he was in charge of armament procurement for Nigerian military, the man bailed, ojukwu sent banjo to go and take over Lagos bases, but awolowo stopped banjo and convinced him for weeks at ore on the need to revert to January 1966 plan of installing him, this delay gave gowon time to summon courage and access Lagos, this action gave him two things, one is command and control of the country, relegating awolowo, since gowon as a northerer revers sardauna instead of awolowo, while southern soldiers including ojukwu revers awolowo instead of sardauna, two is that gowon got hold of the weapons in Lagos tipping the balance of power in favor of the north, had banjo succeeded in taking Lagos, awolowo would have ruled and repaired this country tee tee, all this pretenders and criminals ruling Nigeria wouldn't have had a chance.

TimeMachine2:
Coming from the most useless politician in Nigeria of all time. Peter Gringory Obi aka the Pandora thief should be quiet.

What exactly do you mean by Pandora thief, you graduated from a university in Nigeria, then left for England, there you became successful in business and had a lot of investment, later you joined politics in Nigeria and won an election as governor, so you decided to close down your taxable investment and transfer your funds to a more tax friendly country, since British tax is 45%, which means that all your money will vanish by the time you finish your governorship term, you transferred your assets to Pandora in Panama, because of their friendly tax system, to then stated it as one of your asset in your asset declaration, before relocating to Nigeria to serve your term as an elected governor, throughout your term, no transfer was made into this account, then some brown envelope journalist cooked it up for your political enemies to use as tool to deceive gullible electorates, it was investigated to track any if criminal transactions existed but none was found, humans roasted this criminal journalist and asked for their head, to which they, the journalist recanted their earlier position and backtracked to avoid litigation, till today after countless investigation by opposition political elements, no criminal activities was seen, so they withrew into their shells, but continue to use animals that are under tribal and religious chains to shout Pandora thief up and down, as if their lives depends on it.

Sangoamadioha1:
As long as they have started fixing, they will eventually fix that one.
The man is not happy that we want to start refining oil locally, that is the reason for fault finding.

Hahahaha!!! I laugh in akwaibom,

.saw the interview on channels. I must say after watching it, I came to the conclusion we have just wasted another $1.5b
2 things in particular he said.
1: We are only going to get 25% PMS yield per barrel whereas the current standard is closer to 50%
2: the grade of PMS from that old refinery is inferior and can only be improved with the addition of lead. Leaded petrol has been banned. We may just have spent $1.5b to fix a refinery to produce petrol we cannot use or that will damage modern engines

Let's assume we go ahead and produce from this refinery as you are suggesting, only old model cars of the 70s, 80s, some late 90s and early 2000s can use it, unless it's leaded, but leaded PM's is banned, so we are stuck, again, most cars in Nigeria are about 21 year and below, so we end up with a petrol that damages our engine.
Secondly, at 25% extraction efficiency, instead of 50%, it means that we will be producing at a loss due to the fact that the refinery can't produce shale oil which makes up the remaining 25% to balance up, profit is around 22% margin, remove that from 50%, it gives us 28%, in other words, production cost will be pegged at 28%, now if you minus 25% this refinery will give us, we ends up with 3% loss for every barrel produced.
Thirdly, it will cost 15times less, ie $100m to build modern modular refinery of same capacity, with higher efficiency and lower production cost to run.
I hate to admit it, but he's right and Nigerian government is on fraud mode.

uuzba:
People are jobless and hopeless in Nigeria.
They have nothing doing and cannot think of anything to do.
So they just fall to touting, disturbing other people who have a bit of money and focus.
They all need hope and jobs
If graduates and educated people who spent money and years training for their career, are ending up complaining about no jobs, and writing nonsense on the internet every day, then what hope for these touts people to ever repent from touting?
It's not easy. One just has to suffer, bear in silence and pray to God.

Noooo into 1000 times, onitsha touts are the most wicked species of human beings, if you want, provide all the jobs in this world, they'll still greedily opt for touting, I encountered 40 of them, wielding matchetes, but thanks to the miraculous work of God Almighty, I was able to surmount their crude wickedness and lived to tell the story, waoh!!!! Such wickedness, if you are the kind that never tolerated intimidation, then, your only saving grace will be God, the fracas that broke out was such that, the then governor Peter obi sent navy to curb them, they went on rampage destroying people's properties, he drafted in the police rrs, combined with navy, with enough amo to confront them, many of them were arrested, the unrelentlessly stubborn ones among the touts attacked the police and navy with different kinds of gun and weapons, obi drafted police from as far as sokoto, Kano, Lagos, rivers, imo and Abuja, he requested for the best, before he could bring many of them down, and Chase the remaining out of the state, many of them left the state, but some came back during the obiano years, recruiting younger touts and training them, I believe those are the ones soludo is fighting now.

Meanwhile all the military hierarchy involved are intact, as if nothing happened.

yarimo:
Illiterate senseless man always speaking out of point, just to fool his fellow illiterate Obidients

There are certain things that a normal huma, with even the lowest intelligence understand, eg,
Faced with roofing a house and furnishing the interior of same house, all within scarce budget, roofing takes precedence.
Faced with changing the engine of car, with damaged engine, and plastering decorative stickers on same car, all within a tight budget, engine replacement takes precedence.
Here's where you come in, when the useless government, is criticized for plastering propaganda stickers on the Nigerian car, instead of engine change that is necessary for that car to operate, your job is to attack the critics, even an illiterate will be ashamed to do such a job, but that's exactly where you allowed history to place you, for whatever the reason, it's a completely an animalistic behavior, humans with such animalistic characteristic are not fit to lace the shoes of illiterate humans.

Everything Peter obi complained of, as the problem of Nigerian government under APC, is exactly the problem of Nigeria under APC, what a prophet.

Gamesmart:
True.

But it was not like that just 5 years ago.

That should tell you it is a reaction.

Reaction to what, prior to 2011 election, nothing of such was in existence, until after the election, some unruly northern youths massacred coppers, who were mainly of southern extraction, especially, I repeat especially Southwest, surprisingly, it was the south east and South South, that faced the north in verbal altercations, it swiftly snowballed into religious spat, by 2014 after the merger of acn and cpc, the attack on Jonathan and ibos by mostly Western based media started, it was when they tagged the Jonathan government an ibo based government, that the east came out to defend themselves, citing the case of 1966 coup were same Western based media tagged a national coup an ibo coup, resulting in the massacre of ibos in the north, they said that they will never fall victim again to Western based media propaganda, but the newly formed party APC were determined to divide Nigerians based on ethic sentiments, they were determined to make ibos the scapegoat, so the hired social media touts especially of South West origin, in all social media fora, including nairaland, they unleashed hell on Jonathan and ibos, many Nigerians especially of South West and northern Nigeria extraction believe them and jumped in on the bandwagon, the ibos fought back but other Nigerian ethnic extraction were yet to understand the kind of politics APC was playing, this was exactly what APC was looking for, and it gave them the 2015 win, by 2019 Nigerians have realized the deception and decided to vote out APC, but APC declared themselves winner through a thoroughly compromised inec, then the 2023 election came around, again APC did exactly as they did in 2014, but this time Nigerians we're ready for them, they could only convince few youths who were not of age when the first fraud happened, the lost the core north to pdp and nnpc, dragging narrowly beating labour party to claim third position, they lost the south east, south south, middle belt including Abuja, to labour, even in South West, it was 50,50 with labour, they as usual used inec to effect a coup, but they were jolted into reality by labour and the acceptance of their ibo candidate, this was a very big threat, so the campaign against ibos was intensified, again using touts of mainly south west extraction, but this time Nigerians called their bluff, so the resort to ethnic profiling, preventing ibos or anybody resembling ibo from voting, yet they lost, in Lagos , south east, south south, north east and north west,again the got help from inec to force themselves into power, most of us in nairaland knew since 2013, what APC is doing, we also knew who fell for their frauds, since 2019, majority of Nigerians wanted nothing to do with APC, but both the judiciary and electoral commission is already in their hands, so it is now very difficult to vote them out, like Roosevelt said, "the people that votes don't determines who wins, the people that counts the votes do"

UncleAyo:
I once wrote this.

VERY INTERESTING READ

Which Lagos? Is it Lagos as a state or Lagos as a City?

First it was "all land in Lagos belongs to us, we own all the houses and the real estate";
Then "we developed all of Lagos";
then "Lagos is a no man's land";


;
Then "Lagos is not a Yoruba land";
Then "Benins are owners of Lagos";
Then "you're not a True indigen of Lagos";
Then "Lagos culture is not the same as the Yoruba Culture";
Then "Lagos is indigenous land of Lagos natives not Yoruba";
Then "Aworis are not Yoruba";
Then "Lagos is a former federal capital so it is not a Yoruba Land";
Then "Lagos is a formal British colony so it belongs to the British";
To them, Lagos belongs to any other tag or people, but not the Yorubas.
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The Major Problems are:

==> 1. Covetousness:
a. Having or showing a great desire to possess something belonging to someone else.
b. A painful awareness of another's possessions or advantages and a desire to have them too.

Synonyms: jealousy, hatred, resentment, envy, enviousness, invidiousness, malice, enmity, animosity, green-eyed monster, ill will, spitefulness, maliciousness.

==> 2. Greed (or avarice):
a. Is an insatiable desire for material gain (be it food, money, land, or animate/inanimate possessions) or social value, such as status, or power.

==> 3. Mass Megalomania or Grandiose Delusion:
a. The delusional belief that one is important, powerful, or famous, as a form or symptom of mental disorder.
b. Megalomania is a mental disorder characterized by an excessive desire for power and glory and by illusory feelings of omnipotence. It is commonly understood as a psychological condition in which there is an obsession or delusion of grandeur.
c. Delusion of grandeur is the false belief that one is important or powerful, accompanying certain mental disorders. It is also known as paranoid grandiosity. Has subtype called: "narcissistic personality disorder".

CHARACTERISTIC OF: Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Symptoms may vary from person to person. The most common symptoms include:

1. Being overly boastful, exaggerating one’s own achievements
2. Pretending to be superior to others
3. Lack of empathy for others
4. Looking down on others as inferior
5. Monopolising conversations
6. Impatient, angry, unhappy, depressed or has mood swings when criticized
7. Easily disappointed when expected importance is not given
8. Always craves for “the best” in everything
9. Has a very fragile self-esteem
They:
10. Have an unreasonably high sense of self-importance and require constant, excessive admiration.
11. Feel that they deserve privileges and special treatment.
12. Expect to be recognized as superior even without achievements.
13. Make achievements and talents seem bigger than they are.
14. Be preoccupied with fantasies about success, power, brilliance, beauty or the perfect mate.
15. Believe they are superior to others and can only spend time with or be understood by equally special people.
16. Be critical of and look down on people they feel are not important.
17. Expect special favors and expect other people to do what they want without questioning them.
18. Take advantage of others to get what they want.
19. Have an inability or unwillingness to recognize the needs and feelings of others.
20. Be envious of others and believe others envy them.
21. Behave in an arrogant way, brag a lot and come across as conceited.
22. Insist on having the best of everything — for instance, the best car or office.

At the same time, people with narcissistic personality disorder have trouble handling anything they view as criticism. They can:

1. Become impatient or angry when they don't receive special recognition or treatment.
2. Have major problems interacting with others and easily feel slighted.
3. React with rage or contempt and try to belittle other people to make themselves appear superior.
4. Have difficulty managing their emotions and behavior.
5. Experience major problems dealing with stress and adapting to change.
6. Withdraw from or avoid situations in which they might fail.
7. Feel depressed and moody because they fall short of perfection.
8. Have secret feelings of insecurity, shame, humiliation and fear of being exposed as a failure.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/narcissistic-personality-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20366662



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_gKkrS42lU


Researcher from all over the world should come to Nigeria help conduct thorough study on this group of people and help us understand as to why their Grandiose delusion is on a massive scale.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JwZ5-s2q9E

Jeez, you wrote all this cos of ibos, you really need psychiatric attention, meanwhile, all the thread I've been viewing for the past month from individuals from Westside is about ibos, ibos, ibos, hard to see ibos giving a hoot about westsiders, brings me to one uncomfortable conclusion, westsiders are obsessed with ibos, even when a thread is about others killing westsiders, they end up talking about ibos, while ignoring those, who are butchering them, the obsession is out of this world.

It has always been the case, if not for izoduwa(oduduwa) a Benin prince, Yoruba land will still be an evil forest today

Useless bragadacio, the fools are using third parties to advertise themselves, the mofos can't do without musk

Pakute:
You're mistaking me for your elder brother.

Naaa, I no get elder brother, I know who exactly I'm referring to, so your stuck with it.

Pakute:
Who is Galambi again?. It's high time DSS started picking up nonentities.

Supported, nonentities should be picked up by dss to stop causing nuisance here.
DSS, arrest the chairman of nonentities, Mr pantkute, with immediate effect!!!
For identification, view his picture below

YorubaDemonswag:
If this op no be Igbo make I bend

He no be ibo, oya BEND!!!

Patriotsleague:
The line of ascension has never been broken, a clear lineage. The issue of Oranmiyan is the confusion, but Oranmiyan was the Son of a Benin heir to the throne who went on exile, due to a Palace situation, and stopped at a place known today as Ile'Ife. When he arrived at Ile'Ife formerly known as ile'Ibunu, the place was a jungle, a forest, he built the place and settled there with his associates, after a while aboriginal yorubas started trickling into the community, and it grew into Ile'Ife. He was the first Ile'Ife king. After a while when his father died, Benin emissaries came to look for him, and they traced him to Ile'Ife, at this point he is already married with a Son, when they invited him to take his father's place(because of the Benin people strict rule on ascension, only a bloodline can be crowned king)... perhaps due to old age, or the oath he took never to set foot in Benin again, he sent his Son Oranmiyan to rule Benin, as a bloodline, Oranmiyan was accepted. When Oranmiyan got to Benin and became a ruler there, he could not cope with the Benin people and he doesn't know their ways, having been born in Ile'Ife and grew up there... Oranmiyan didn't last as King...and the next bloodline Eweka, Son of Oranmiyan'through a Benin woman took over, and became the first Oba, this began the Oba dynasty, third dynasty.

The Benin empire had an already established throne ascension system in place, they will never go get a stranger or allow others rule them, they were warriors...it would have taken a war and subjugation for another man from another tribe to come rule them.

Before Oduduwa (Ekaladerhan), and Oranmiyan era, Benin kingdom have had several kings and was on it's second dynasty, this shows it was an already established empire, with strong army, wealth and structure, and by far older than the Yoruba society and civilization, the Yorubas were not organized enough at that point, had no civilization or organized state at that point, before the emergence of the Benin Prince to ile'Ibunu, now known as Ile'Ife...as it is widely known, Ile'Ife is the cradle of Yoruba civilization, (as per indigenous yorubas coming together to form a state)

This is why Benin Obas were buried in Ile'Ife, it was the land founded by the Benin Prince, and it began a new era...that is why the Oba of Benin mentioned 'Son of Oranmiyan' during his coronation. It is symbolic, showing his direct ancestry, born out of the land of Ile'Ife founded by his direct ancestor Ekalederhan...who gave birth to Oranmiyan through an aboriginal Yoruba woman. This is the connection between Benin and Edos.

This is the truest account of what happened

Omobude244:
lolz
ogiso Erodo

abeg rest
overpowered

u nor get sense
come to igun street where it all started and learn the history of benin raw.

not someone telling u what u want to hear

Tomorrow his descendants will tell your descendants that he met you on nairaland and overpowered you with that his useless comment, yorubas are expert in twisting history, turning it to myths and legend

Thanks for this expository history, I can now understand why the yorubas referred to oduduwa as coming from heaven, izoduwa was too sophisticated and advanced for them that they ended up calling him a god, his scions are now in charge of both edo and Yoruba nation, history is good, you can see the realistic trajectory of this history, not the myths and legend of a man thrown down from heaven, the picture below describes the two histories, the real owl is the true story of how izoduwa started the Yoruba kingdom, the fake forged, tinubu type of owl is how yorubas told the story of izoduwa (oduduwa)

If you migrate to a country, but can't cope with their laws, quietly leave and migrate to a country that suits your fancy.

Tinubu's lieutenants are learning all his criminal tricks

My own question to this beautiful lady is, why are ibo women so beautiful exciting to be withand also among the most intelligent women in the world.
Agbadorians, you are free to attack while crying in frustration.

CoronaVirusPro:
Peter`s carbon footprint calls for serious concern.

The rate at which he wastes aviation fuel and petrol on frivolous and inconsequential jamborees calls for serious deliberation and stringent actions.

In a world of today, where dedicated and patriotic leaders are conserving energy, and opting for renewable energy, Peter is bent on polluting and degrading the environment.

No matter what, the aim is to find fault with Peter obi or die trying, pufff, pufff!!!

Believe whatever you want

Papayaayasager:
You said my mind,



IPOB caused it

Sponsored by Peter Obi

Fueled by Obidients
See them calling all the whole world to come and help them even OBJ they rejected and call names

Funny poeple.

I follow you dee surprise oo!!
Instead of calling their Lord and master, whom they voted for, they are calling baba obasanjo, an old man resting in his farm, same man they insulted to high heavens during campaign and election period, the reasoning agbadorians is below unicellular animals.

pandoragirigory:
Afraid of the north? read well, I didn't comment on the post, I commented on the bitterness, anguish and indignation of Peter Obi and his grieving people that are embittered and grieving all over the post

You mean that the craziness have reached to the level where you now move around, and from one post to the other, shouting, frustrated insult against Peter obi and the ibos, even when they are not involved, this is serious, something had to be done to bring you back to sanity.