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AmazingGenius:Folks in Nigeria should increase their income streams, save up and buy better BUT slightly more expensive car models because these are obviously Nigerian pre-owned cars (NOT imported U.S. pre-owned vehicles) that might have been over used by the former owners on sale for N5 million. |
Crieff:Indeed, this is an insightful thread. |
Mariangeles:That's a very creative pictorial "egg-in-a-hole" toast strategy you have here. I like the fact that you bring up nifty culinary solutions from time to time. Enjoy the rest of your day. |
Yemon:The so-called Gbaramatu "Kingdom" is a recent creation. It NEVER existed before. The Supreme Court has ALSO CLEARLY stated that the lands the Ijaws are occupying belong to the Itsekiris and the law must be obeyed to the letter. The Ijaw homeland boundary ends at Forcados based off of the books written by a gentleman name Alagoa and this was stated by Jasper Adaka-Boro. Several communities that the Ijaws are disputing with the Itsekiris have long been declared as Itsekiriland due to evidence provided that these were leased to the Ijaws. After some years, the Ijaws will start claiming the ownership of your land or settlement just like some Ijaws who migrated from Nembe in Bayelsa moved to the Soku fishing settlement in Rivers State. With the Soku gas project some Ijaws from Nembe started claiming to be the owners of Soku but the indigenous folks of Soku rejected the plan Any Ijaw settlements outside the Forcados area are simply Ijaw boat people who went to other people's lands to fish in fishing settlements just like other ethnic groups such as the Ilajes, Itsekiris, and more move out to other Niger Delta States or areas to fish from the fishing settlements. |
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Racoon:Those are apartments between the First Avenue to the 22 Road area of Festac Town from an aerial view. As of 1981/1982 houses were still being constructed by the FHA such as the duplexes on the 5th Avenue. I know these because I was there right within the well-planned, European-styled residential estate. |
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illicit: The Royalty in Akure, Ikere and Ado claims they came from Benin...Ikere has an indigenous monarch (Olukere) and the one that came from Benin called the Ogoga and there's been a tussle between the two sides. Nevertheless, those who came from Benin also have Yoruba ancestry though. In the 1800s during the Benin attacks and invasions of Akure, I recall reading that this same Ikere (under the Ogoga) provided men and logistics for the Benin fighters and the Esan fighters who fought jointly against the VERY brave Akure warriors until the last man. At the end, Akure was subdued and some aboriginal royal family members were taken as prisoners to Benin, but eventually returned to Akure after some years. |
Peterobiisathie:He got hit right on Indian home soil. He'll pay dearly for doing that so-called seeds export scam the same way his other kinsmen in India have relentlessly been soiling their image getting into criminality while thinking they are smart, meanwhile they aren't. |
coputa:Political analysts have since stated very CLEARLY that Nasir El-Rufai miscalculated politically big time and he CLEARLY has NO political influence to sway the other political leaders to come to his side. He's just someone running around grumpily with real or imagined grudges. Nasir actually left the APC and wasn't working for Tinubu as wrongly posted by some uninformed posters right from PG 1 of this thread. Period. |
UncleAyo:People existed right in what is Yorubaland centuries before Oduduwa was even born. Oduduwa is NOT the progenitor of ALL Yorubas but just one of the ancestors. He met other people and past dynasties in what is now Ile Ife (Ufe) when he arrived from his original home base in the hilly Oke-Ora just 8 miles from the same Osun State. I will quote you to read my earlier post on this same page about the advanced historical books and works of two Nigeria-born Professors who are incidentally both from Ekiti State who different from that ChatGPT screenshot you attached. The younger ones MUST begin to read these books by Emeritus Prof. Jide Osuntokun and Prof. Banji Akintoye to get BETTER advanced results than any ChatGPT from here on out. People have to be very careful with these so-called AI tools such as ChatGPT and more because they ONLY regurgitate what has been fed into them based off of pre-existing algorithms and information that can be from NON-updated sources. Even Google Search that has incorporated and experimental AI function warns that there are some errors in search results and truly there have been are errors based on the FACT that it aggregates information from the sometimes very unreliable Wikipedia (which even the Wikipedia founders WARNED people back in the 2000s to be careful about VANDALISMS from propagandists who plant disinformation Wikipedia. This is why the academic community does NOT allow citations from Wikipedia... You will be penalized for doing that) and other sources of NON updated information. |
ariesbull:On the contrary, Adiele Afigbo himself states in one of his books that the Ibini Ukpabi is originally an Ibibio deity of one of the Ibibio groups in the last quotation of this post BELOW. There were Ibo slaves who spent many years in captivity to the Ibibio group. They eventually were only able to capture their Ibibio masters' god or deity originally named "Ibritam" due to the assistance got from a Cross River Ejagbam (Ekoi group) who were half Igbos in that war which was fought for many years from 1690 to 1720 like I earlier CLEARLY stated. The Igbo Aro slaves only got victory, after capturing their Ibibio masters god or deity (Ibritam) whom they renamed "Ibini Ukpabi." Even after their Ibibio masters fleed the region due to the taboo OR cultural abomination of a slave capturing the sacred deity, they (the slaves) NEVER ventured to capture more lands from other neighboring Ibibio sub groups because those groups were better defended and perhaps had more powerful deities than "Ibritam." So there's no way they would've captured more lands, because it took them years with help from an outside group to be free from the Ibibio group's enslavement. As summarized by Afigbo right BELOW: The "Ibini Ukpabi" itself was a typical product of the contact situation existing between the Igbo and the Ibibio. According to its social charter it was, in the beginning, a local god of an Ibibio group. Then it was captured by the Igbo slaves of this Ibibio group, who successfully rebelled against their servile status and sought to turn the table on their masters, who chose instead to flee the region. Under the control of these erstwhile Igbo slaves, the Ibini Ukpabi grew in influence to become, according to one authority, the most powerful oracle in West Africa by the nineteenth century. SOURCE:"Nigerian History, Politics and Affairs" By Adiele Afigbo. http://books.google.com/books?id=ez58Dwpa8JcC&pg=PA137/ |
ibibiogrl:Via PG 16. Bump. An insightful thread. |
ananeli3:Bump. That's a cute pictorial concept. |
mannobi:There is an Ekiti community I read about called Aisegba-Ekiti whose king was interviewed a few years back and he said his folks migrated from the Egba people to what is now Aisegba-Ekiti. "Aisegba" he stated means "we are NOT Egbas" which I found amusing. Second, the Oyo Kingdom, (which metamorphosed into the militarily dominant Oyo Empire) is a direct offshoot of Ife (Ufe) via Oranmiyan who founded the Oyo Kingdom. Oranmiyan was ALSO the FIRST EVER Oba of Benin over 800 years ago as affirmed on video during his 2016 coronation speech by the current Oba of Benin as the 40th Oba of Benin. He however claimed FALSELY (for obvious political reasons) that "Oduduwa" was a missing Prince from the Ogiso era who went to Ife BUT we know from erudite history scholars, archaeologists, and Ife indigenes and history that Oduduwa wasn't a missing Ogiso Prince BUT came just 8 miles away from the hilly region of Oke-Ora in the same Osun State where he met other indigenous ancestors of the current Yoruba folks living there as descendants of older dynasties. Oba Oranmiyan later left Benin after having a child named Owomika (Oba Eweka 1) through an indigenous maiden from a noble family from Egor. So Eweka had Yoruba (Ife) paternal ancestry and aboriginal maternal ancestry. It's a FACT of advanced history that Oba Oranmiyan left his rulership in Benin with some of his followers who came with him originally from Ife via the Yoruba-speaking community of USEN now in Ovia South West LGA of Edo State which currently has an Oba named Olu Awure of USEN and they have NEVER denied they are Yorubas. Afelogiyan who was Oranmiyan's older biological brother was the FIRST EVER ruler of USEN. It's not surprising that it was from USEN that Oranmiyan traveled to become the FIRST EVER Oba of Benin. The young Oba Eweka 1 then took over as the Oba of Benin after his father left for Ife because he did NOT stay long to rule. Of course the Yoruba language remained an inner court language in the Benin Royal Palace who maintained close contact with the Ife Palace and USEN which plays a traditional role in every coronation ceremony of every Oba of Benin. ALL the PURE Yoruba traditional titles such as "Asogbon" (corrupted to "Esogbon" in Benin Palace) found originally in Ife in Osun State were ALSO brought and replicated in USEN and Benin. USEN is ALSO the custodian of the Yoruba deities such as Ogun, Osun, and many more which notable USEN people have ALSO CLEARLY affirmed in videos that I have seen [alongside the Ogiamien family who are descendants of the former Ogiso rulers in several online publications and interviews] are from Yorubaland WITHOUT a shadow of doubt. Third, interestingly, despite the Ife ancestral origin claim associated with Ogoris of Kogi State, there are a few of them here on an NL thread from Ogori-Magongo (who myself and others had conversations with a few years ago) who strongly insisted that their language is Idomoid (meaning that it contains many Idoma words in it and not close to Yoruba language) based off of the FACT that their ancestors lived for about 200 years in Idomaland. As to whether they have Yoruba ancestral links with Ife, I will say here and now... "Yes," but their language is infused with Idomoid words as well regardless of the Ife ancestral and migratory origins of theirs going back to centuries ago. If I find that Ogori-Magongo NL thread convo from some years back, I will attach it here later. It clearly shows how migrations over the centuries can alter the original ethnic profiles and cultures of people. |
Some Benin Choose To Join Igbo Over Yoruba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVtLnRJ-Eek?si=X6uIUueKUSuCWULz The highly IRRESPONSIBLE video above that first appeared in my YouTube timeline 6 days ago is one of those fabricated disinformation and propaganda from paid ipob troll farms. Period must beware of this misinformation. Yoruba folks have NEVER ever said all Benin folks are of Yoruba origin. Yorubas especially via USEN which is a Yoruba community now in Edo State had interacted with many centuries ago with Igodomigodo (now Benin) before the arrival of Oranmiyan. The Benin Royal family of course has direct paternal ancestral links with Ife (Ufe) going back to over 800 years ago through Oduduwa's grandson Oranmiyan who left his older biological brother Afelogiyan in the Yoruba settlement of USEN now located in Ovia South West LGA of Edo State (formerly called Ife Kekere) and became the first Oba of Benin starting the current Oranmiyan Dynasty he had a child named Owomika (Oba Eweka) through an aboriginal maiden from Egor. Oba Oranmiyan and some of his Yoruba or Ife descent followers later left Benin (Formerly Igodomigodo) and returned to Ife and other places. Oranmiyan set up the Oyo Kingdom which metamorphosed into the militarily dominant Oyo Empire. Period. There are many loan words, foods, cultures, religious practices, dressings, that the individual subtribes (now collectively called Ibos from the late 1800s with the arrival of the British Colonialists and missionaries such as Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther a linguist) copied directly from their neighbors such as the Benins, Igalas (A Yoruboid group with 65% mutual intelligibility with the core Yoruba language, based off of the FACT that according to a 2017 Punch interview, the late Attah of Igala CLEARLY stated that Igala language (ancestry and people) are made up of migrants from the Wukari area of Taraba, Yorubas who they met and fused with at the Idah axis and Edos. Igala folks are made up of multiple ethnic ancestries. The remaining linguistic origin of Igala comes from Idoma), then the Ibibios who influenced the so-called Cross River Ibos of the Aro confederacy, Ohafia, Abam, in the area of loan words derived from Ibibio language such as Abasi in Ibibio, Ibibio religion and deity of "Ibritam" which the Aros call "Ibini Ukpabi," food types, dressings which are similar to the Ibibios, Annang dressings, etc, because as of the 1690s to 1720s the Ibibio subgroup was originally the full owners of the place called Arochukwu today until they had to withdraw from the place due to the taboo of having their Ibo slaves taking over the Ibritam deity which those Aro slaves of the Ibibio began to call Ibini Ukpabi. The Ijaws and Idomas ALSO CLEARLY influenced the Ibos at the border areas just like the Benins, Igalas, Efik, Ejagbam, Ibibios, Idomas, etc. It's is very wrong for an Ibo poster to make a misleading claim in that disinformation and propaganda YouTube video above that the name "isee" is of Ibo origin which is FALSE. It's a loan word by the Ibos from the Benin, and is CLEARLY of Benin dialectic coinage and spelling loaned via the ORIGINAL Yoruba indigenous religion term "ASE" meaning "so shall it be." Yoruba religion and culture dies NOT use "amin" BUT the Yoruba term ASE for many centuries now as part of Yoruba liturgy. Period. Egunsi (Egunsi) is another Yoruba word loaned into the Ibo language as CLEARLY documented in the "Longman Ibo-English Dictionary" co-written by a European and an erudite Ibo language scholar. Unknown to a lot of ignorant young Ibos on NL and elsewhere, they started arguing that the word Egunsi is from them BUT by the time screenshots of the Longman Ibo-English Dictionary was uploaded by well-educated Yoruba folks on that NL Food thread, and the dictionary CLEARLY stated that indeed the corrupted Ibo spelling of "Egwusi" is a LOAN WORD copied from the Yorubas or "Yor." The folks in Enugu call Egunsi (Egusi) Elili which is the original Ibo name. That was the end of the misinformation and insults from those uneducated Ibo youngsters on that Egunsi topic as they scampered right off the NL thread in disgrace in the face of CLEAR evidence from massive screenshots. |
AmazingGenius:Whole Psyllium Husks Soluble Fiber 454 grammes for N13,860 |
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kushme:@kushme That's the spirit. I've originally beem a registered member of Nairaland since 2005 [20 years now] with an older moniker including this one, so, aside from the insidiouis invasion of FB, YouTube, X, WhatsApp, and even this NL website since 2014 by the notorious paid troll farms hired by ipob to derail threads, plant hate speech and plant disinformation online in order to destabilize Nigeria as accurately EXPOSED in the May 2022 investigative video by the "BBC Global Disinformation Team" Nairaland is a good website if you are looking do data mining of important information and networking with a couple of folks. Ah! Lungula. Because I'm a vast reader, your folks, the Lungulas are known to me even though as you said the Bachamas are well-known but Lungulas are among the major ethnicities of Old Gongola that we read about back in the day. Yes, indeed, I have a high school friend who owns a private airline business but he is from the North and very well-travelled internationally as well. Bristow is very competitive to get into and It's interesting that you had some contact with them as it broadens ones view about life. Just to add, I forgot to state that Gneral Theophilus Danjuma retired established an airstrip in his home State of Taraba so, it's been designated by the current Nigerian FG as a hub for an integrated agribusiness export zone so it keys right in to what I was telling you about looking into agribusiness Exports by airfreight and more as the years go by within your Adamawa and Taraba axis. Even OBJ has agribusiness investments in the ==> https://www.nairaland.com/8343091/fg-approves-kashimbila-cargo-agro-allied The Bank of Industry has been giving young folks loans through programs like the Graduate Entrepreneurship Fund (GEF) [to those who are just right out of the Uni after NYSC] to go into various aspects of Agribusiness and manufacturing such as palm oil and palm kernel oil extractions which are in high demand by individuals and industries, aquaculture in catfish and tilapia farming, poultry, snailery, and more. So, check if your home state has a BOI office and also get to know the requirement and go for training through paid seminars and ongoing workshops in whatever field you want to specialize in. Last but not least, go to the YouTube page of the Bank of industry and watch or download right on your laptop all their videos on those farmers and industrialists they have sponsored and funded over the years including Abayomi Ogundeyin, the U.S.-edducated engineer and CEO of ProForce Defence Industries, in Iperu, Remo, Ogun State that manufactures APCs and MRAPS [Ara or Thunder in English] used in the fight against these bad jihadists by the Nigerian military and exported to foreign countries and even Innoson was given money to grow by BOI. https://businessday.ng/companies/article/boi-moves-to-cut-graduate-unemployment-with-n2bn-entrepreneurship-fund/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vHMABaD1N8 Bank Of Agriculture Sets To Revitalise Agricultural Sector - MD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3BYX1QFc2c Channels Television ALSO WATCH The Full Video On This NL link Below. https://www.nairaland.com/8398503/hausa-woman-exposes-real-tribe => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKUzZdXmJO8 I hope this helps. Cheers. |
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mannobi:It's a FACT that Oduduwa (though a Yoruba and one of the modern Yoruba ancestors) was historically NOT originally from Ile Ife BUT from the hilly region of Oke-Ora just 8 miles away from the modern-day Ile Ife. This is why before any Oba or Ooni of Ufe (Ife) is crowned, he has to go to Oke-Ora as part of the coronation rites in that same Osun State. Nothing complicated here. So, I assume this is what @Illicit was trying to say when he said he is a indeed a Yoruba from Ekiti BUT NOT from Ufe (Ife) based on his "Oriki." There are indeed many towns in Yorubaland and Ekiti State with migrations from Ufe, especially the royal families BUT there are aboriginal Yorubas in some communities as well that may not have a direct migration from Ife BUT from some other Yoruba settlements. Of course intermarriages have blurred the lines over the many centuries gone by. England is named after the Angles who are one of the 3 Germanic tribes that migrated in waves from Mainland Europe to England namely: the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes, BUT it's the name of the Angles that was given to the entire country called England today. It's quite similar to the entire Yoruba Country being named after the dominant Oyo (who had the militarily powerful Oyo Empire stretching from Nigeria to Togo) hence the name Yoruba (Oyo Oba or Oyo is King) as written and institutionalized in his 1843 book by the great multi-linguist and clergy man, Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther (who is a direct descendant of Alaafin Abiodun of the Oyo Empire who reigned in the late 1700s). Yoruba folks worldwide could have been known collectively as "Aku" or even "Lukumi" because some other writers in the 1800s were using those terms in books to describe ALL the closely related subgroups that make up Yorubaland today. For even more clarity here, Nigeria's former Ambassador to Germany and International historian, Prof. Jide Osuntokun and Prof. Banji Akintoye who incidentally are of Ekiti State descent clearly state in their books and other works that (and with strong emphasis on the works if Prof Jide Osuntokun) BEFORE the arrival of Oduduwa from Oke-Ora in Osun State to Ufe, people existed in Ife and the Olugbo of Ugbo Kingdom in the oil and gas-rich Ilaje area if Ondo State is from Ufe and a direct descendant of the aborigines before the Oduduwa Dynasty started. Oduduwa is NOT the ancestor of all Yorubas but he is just one of the Yoruba ancestors and the progenitor of the most of the great Kings or Obas in Yorubaland today stretching from Nigeria to Togo and beyond. The Emeritus Prof. Jide Osuntokun emphasized on the FACT that many autochtonous communities and people lived right in modern Yorubaland for many centuries before Oduduwa was born based off of oral and archeological evidence available and the Emeritus Prof. Jide Osuntokun did emphasize on this FACT that the Oduduwa Dynasty was NOT the beginning of Ufe or Yorubaland and Yoruba people but a representation of a NEW Ruling Dynasty over the older ruling dynasty. The Ooni of Ife granted an interview 3 years ago and emphasized on the fact that the Oduduwa Dynasty is the 3rd dynasty in Ufe (Ife) and clearly affirmed that 2 other ruling dynasties had existed in that article. These members of the younger generation MUST begin to read advanced history books and works of legit scholars such as the U.S.-based Prof. Toyin Falola, Prof. Jide Osuntokun and Prof. Banji Akintoye on the real Yoruba history going back to many centuries NOT the very basic stories published in the Social Studies books I personally read from many decades back about an Oduduwa descending from the sky (which should ONLY be taken metaphorically based on Ufe religious and cultural cosmology and NOT interpreted literally. Coming down or descending from the sky simply refers to "the descent of Oduduwa from the hills of Oke-Ora" (Oke in Yoruba language means "Hill" and "Ora" is the name of a Yoruba deity) on his way to Ufe (That's what the indigenes of Ife know). But Oduduwa was a real historical figure. For those who may be curious, "Ufe" is the real dialectic pronunciation by the Ufe indigenes NOT Ife with a letter I. Ife is however used as an alternate spelling. I hope this helps. Cc: @UncleAyo |
ednut1:Over 90 percent of the indigenous Ilorin are of Yoruba descent. This is why Yoruba is the pure lingua franca spoken in Ilorin. Any contrary narratives are based off of pure delusions and historical revisionism by impostors. A small part of 10 percent are settlers from Nupe, Bariba, Hausa, Kanuri, and the descendants of the minority foreign Fulas from the 1800s and right after the 1900s from other West African countries. The respected British colonial administrator, Sir. Alan Burns, who served as the Governor General of the Gold Coast (now Ghana) and Acting-Governor General of Nigeria CLEARLY stated in his iconic book "The History of Nigeria" of which I have a 1947 edition in my vast home library collections and archives that Ilorin as of when he published the first edition of his book in the 1920s was one of the 10 largest towns in Nigeria and 9 out of 10 of those towns are Yoruba Towns while Kano a Hausa town (with some settler trading populations from as far as Libya and Syria) was the ONLY Hausa town in the top 10 towns by population. So, the British Colonialists knew full well that Ilorin is a Yoruba town (now a capital city) hence they suggested towards their exit from Nigeria in 1960 that a referendum MUST be conducted to ensure that an Oba is installed in Ilorin. Even the Ekundayo Panel of 1978 emphasized on the same thing. The minority foreign Fula descendants have been using subterfuge and military rule and their position in the political hegemony over the majority Hausa States to sidestep this plan for a referendum. Right now, I've seen online videos from Hausa men and women openly rejecting the Fulani political hegemony and resisting the foreign Fulani herders and bandits invasion of their ancestral homelands and farms from other West African countries to kill and drive them off then totally occupy their ancestral lands. This is a growing revolt from the Hausas and this is why some Fulanis are in panic mode to deflect attention right from Nasir El-Rufai, Atiku Abubakar, the Baba Ahmeds (whose foreign paternal Fulani origins come sequentially from Guinea Conakry, Cameroon, Mauritania) who are the some of the major culprits saying and lashing out blindly that the "North" will not vote Tinubu in 2027 while trying to cause chaos and pushing for a political coalition (with the largely unsuspecting Peter Obi and his co-travelers who seem naive) to remove Bola Tinubu as President so as to take over power again and continue their political and military domination of Nigetia (while allowing their foreign Fula herder and bandits kinsmen to move about freely and go away free from criminal prosecution). That subterfuge strategy is what they are known for from past history. People must be wise and not fall for the insidious game. The British Colonialists who unfortunately propped up the Fula hegemony in the North of Nigeriavto oversee their own colonial agenda of tax collection and more, left Nigeria in 1960. It's totally unacceptable that a minority Fulani ethnicity (with original paternal roots from the Berbers of Morocco in North Africa based off of revealing DNA testing results and written texts of Fula scholars from centuries past) of NOT more than 24 million in the entire West African countries would come to Nigeria to invade ancestral farmlands and lord it over many indigenous ethnic groups like the Hausas, Yorubas, Ibos, Kanuris, Tiv, Birmingham, Taroks, etc with some if them like the Hausas and Yorubas having over 70 million in population each and Yorubas and Hausas still having ancestral lands and indigenous populations in Benin Republic, Togo, Ghana, Niger Republic, etc. It's shameful and NO minority ethnic group should ever lord it over others who are CLEARLY a majority. This is where the current Nigerian President and his political team of Federal and State legislators have to trigger a massive restructuring of Nigeria and hold referendums in several geographical locations to break the hegemony of the minority Fulas on others from 2025 onwards. The indigenous Hausas are agitating already and are not fooled by religion anymore. Restructuring of Nigeria fully to break any minority ethnic group's political and cultural hegemony over others who are indigenous and larger in population would fetch Tinubu a resounding re-election in 2027 from the large Hausa voters and other Nigerian ethnicities in different regions as well. Period. |
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