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Obi for the win, Nigerians for the win.

“You see, Tinubu is my in-law. His wife Remi is my cousin. Her Itsekiri mother and my Itsekiri mother are sisters. I have known Tinubu since the mid 1980s personally and even arranged for him to stay in my stepfather’s house (Sir Mobolaji Bank-Anthony) in London, when he went on exile.

“I stopped supporting him and stopped family visits etc when he sold that Buhari to the nation in 2015. My advice to the nation is that this man is absolutely not qualified to become our next president,” he wrote.

- Tee Mac

He didn't even wake up to address the meeting, his party chairman spoke for him while he slept and dreamt of his heyday as Bobo Chicago in the drug game.

Deuteronomy 18:22 If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the Lord does not take place or come true, that is a message the Lord has not spoken. The prophet has spoken presumptuously, so do not be alarmed.

So, we shall see.

The recently arrested accountant general of the federation was bold enough to embezzle 80 billion naira because he's aware of the grand looting that's going on in this government.

A shady and corrupt people cannot have a government that is otherwise. Be the change that you desire. Be Obidient.

Tinubu is not fit for office. He'll only be exposing himself, his family and the nation to ridicule while trying to lead Nigeria in his current condition.

Tinubu is not fit for office. He'll only be exposing himself, his family and the nation to ridicule while trying to lead Nigeria in his current condition.

Tinubu is not fit for office. He'll only be exposing himself, his family and the nation to ridicule while trying to lead Nigeria in his current condition.

They have come again o. If you've not bought your AK47 with sufficient ammunition and extra magazines, do so.

jumper524:
Funny how most comments here didn't attribute it to religion cos the lady involved is a muslim.
Let me tell you guys something. Any society that habours religious nepotism in every situation would always bare the consequences of those act.
Back then in the North, kaduna for example, criminal elements used religion as a tool to quench their blood thirst. It worked because people were always giving religious credence to every a act.
Victims of those act were innocent Muslims and Christians like us all. Traditional worshipers were never involved cos they abstained from all form of religious violence.
Today no religious crisis in kaduna not because they stooped but because they moved to the Bush where they kidnapped both Muslims and Christians. I tell all fanatics, if you don't stop now, you or someone innocent would become victim of your action.

Good points, but even though Alem is an Arabic name, in this case it is an Amharic name, and the Amhara people are mostly Ethiopian orthodox Christians.

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samuk:
By 1875 Ibos were already migrating to Asaba, they eventually overwhelmed the original Asabans who were not Ibo. Chukwuma Nzeogwo was a descendant of Ibo migrants in then mid West Region. They wanted to extend their overbearing attitude and domination to the North by killing Sarduana and Tafawa Balewa. The North and other Nigerians who foresaw the danger of the Igbos fought back and ensure they lost their political and military positions in Nigeria after the war.

Ajayi Crowther was a Christian minister who was renowned for his work in translating the Bible. He wasn't a historian, he wasn't Igbo, he wasn't from Asaba or Bini, so we can pardon his ignorance on the subject. He met people in Asaba, whom he must have appreciated were Igbo-speaking people, but because he heard a handful of Bini words being used, and he was informed they had a relationship with Bini, he jumped to the erroneous conclusion that these people had been amalgamated with the Igbo. In his not-so-great exposé, which was all of three sentences, he said these people had different habits from the Igbo, but he failed to expound on what these habits were. If he met Bini people in Asaba, he wouldn't need to state that these people were different from the Igbo, because that would be stating the obvious...the Ibo and Bini are different people. So, his conjecture was that  these Igbo-speaking people, with some relationship to Benin must have been amalgamated with the Igbo.

However, we know of a number of Igbo groups in both the SE and SS that historically have some relationship with Bini. These are proto-Igbo people that resided in areas that were in the Benin empire or had close interactions with them. There are still Igbo-speaking people today that share the same LGA with Bini people.  Long before Ajayi Crowther was, the world-renowned Olaudah Equinao had revealed in his autobiography published in 1789 that he was an Igbo man from an Igbo province that was part of the Benin kingdom. He wrote that they were aware of the King of Benin but he had very little influence over them as they were governed by their own council of chiefs and elders. 

So, we've always known that there were Igbo people in the spheres of the Benin empire, and we know some of these people migrated eastward over time. It's nothing new that some Igbo have relationships with the Benin kingdom. We also know that some of the Bini people that fled their kingdom of blood and gore were accommodated by many western Igbo communities. Of course, they were always assimilated by the predominant Igbo culture of the natives. Here and there, you do see minor traces of Bini culture that show some expected cultural exchanges that take place between neighboring cultures. 

Also, when Crowther was in Asaba, the place was named Asaba...an Igbo name. Being a novice on the subject as he was, he wouldn't have known that there are other Asaba communities in Igbo-speaking areas in the SE and SS. Maybe you can cook up a Bini name for Asaba real quick and let us know what it is. Thanks.

Anyway, it's quite laughable that your evidence to your Bini claims is all of three sentences written by Ajayi Crowther. Your only documented evidence to Bini people in Asaba doesn't even make such claims. Crowther himself doesn't even claim that he met Bini people in Asaba, the best he could muster, in his ignorance, was that an amalgamation must have happened way before he ever got there. Why? He met Igbo-speaking people and he supposedly picked out a handful of Bini words(only evidence he offered was "Do" ), the place already had an Igbo name(Asaba), and whatever habits he thought were different from other Igbo, he failed to mention any of it, so that is hogwash too. Again, we know that some proto-Igbo people migrated eastward from areas in the spheres of the Benin empire, and these people know the names of their Igbo forbearers that led them on these migrations. Crowther should have dug deeper or left history work to historians.

No need to get long-winded over your amusing speculations. Whenever you're feeling brave, you can always limp your way across all the Igbo territory between Bini and Asaba, and when you get to Asaba you can inform them that you've come to reclaim your territory. They'll be sure to oblige you.

Lol wetin Bubu no go see for Naija? Somebody send the young man to za oza room.

Putin's gonna execute them for fraternizing with the enemy.

Gutter behavior and emilokan spirit is ingrained in the entire Tinubu family.