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Laxy009:
Please send me Skills Level PDF to lawrence.elugbaju@gmail.com

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shamecurls:
PDP has become a joke

The internal crisis is now more interesting than Papa Ajasco series


God bless GEJ for helping to destroy PDP. It's the biggest gift an individual has given Nigerians.


He destroyed PDP knowing fully well it's was the foundation of Nigeria's problem

YourNemesis:
lol, READ UP girl.

Oba in Yoruba simply means King... no other meaning. Apparently, form your explanation Oba in Benin means Shining....Hilarious.
Ogisos of bini city state were not empire builders, they were rulers of little significance until The rulership of Benin got an injection of Yoruba blood into their royalty, after which Benin became an empire.
( 7 ) . Benin first to meet
Europeans
( 8 ) . " Oba " adopted from
Benin not the other way
round as many made to
believe . There is no king
of Yoruba 's people . and
if there is , what is de
name of his title ? and how many Yoruba prominent
traditional leader /ruler carried the title Oba ? since
when? if Yoruba called king Oba doesn 't mean will
derived our king name (N 'Oba ) from them . Everyone
has a name for king in the their native language / tongue.
The Oba of Lagos is Eleko of Eko not Oba , the British
change it to Oba . the Origin of word " oba" is Benin
( 9 ) . They never conquered any territory but rather
struggle with their neighbours before and after the first
encounter with Europeans looking for slave hunting .
( 10 ) . " Edo" have no relative with the word Yoruba .
Words like Eko , Idu Ganran , Yaba , Oshodi , Osa, Eti-
Osa, idu - magbo , Idu - mota have no Yoruba meaning but
Edo
( 11 ) . Note history is subject to scientific diagnosis and
many historic writtings in the past about Benin yoruba
have been proved by archaeologies and scientist as
erroneous and false.
( 12 ) . Many Yoruba being those in the forfront of Nigeria
history writters, used in Nigeria institutions had the
benefit of making their yoruba look leading culture and
history for nigerians
( 13 ) . Yorubas all along paddling lies in Nigeria , US and
British universities . deceivng Africans with grammar
and academic titles . They confuse other external
scholars about the true realities of African history . . buy
their lies into African America book , which Benin in the
Palace have no ideal .
( 14 ) . Yoruba had and did the highest slave rading in
their togo - oyo region stretched to lagos during slave
trade. see http: // ihuanedo . ning . com/ forum/topics /
yoruba - enslavement - of- african
( 15 ) Yoruba never colonise Benin but Benin colonize
Yoruba
( 16 ) Yoruba is not in anyway related to Igbo ancestral
history
( 17 ) Yoruba not in anyway related to itsekiri history .
Their could be later migrant during the European
expliotation and commerce but not related to the itsekiri
ancestral lineage . Never mind all the title of " Olu " in the
region, its all inventions
( 18 ) Bishop Ajayi crowder and Obafemi Awolowo made
Yoruba known today as an ethnic group in NIgeria
( 19 ) How can an Empire be inside an Empire ? Many so
called yoruba territories of today never existed in the
past but invented and stillfully documented into their
borrowed history
( 20 ) Yoruba copied Benin - Edo history , twisted them
and publish as Yoruba History . Most of their books and
publications are mere opinions of the writers inside
their rooms without a singgle scientific research or a
visit to Ancient Benin for true archaeological discovery.
Covered up with self hate , jealousy and envy of the
Great Benin , bias and leftish in many of their so called
Nigerian history .
( 21 ) If cameroon was inside Nigeria today , Yoruba
would have as well say they are their ancestors. .
( 22 ) Many Yorubas in Lagos today came as migrant
workers for British companies and construction project .
that why you have alot of their fotos with whites . Britain
also use them as colonial officers .
( 23 ) Before Britain or
before the punitive
expedition of 1897,
Yoruba have no were to
be found as recognized
major ethnic group in
lagos but Edos .
( 24 ) Where is Yoruba
ancient flag or before
1897? Yoruba had no
flag but Benin Yes.
( 25 ) Their loyalty to
slave masters , British
merchant gave them the
huge presence in lagos ,
Americas and England
( 26 ) The word Yoruba has it 's roots in Yoruba. The fulani
used to call the Oyo people Yoruba . There was no really
united Yoruba nation till awolowo came with a cooked
up Oduduwa myth with the intention of uniting them
under them with advent of Egbe omo Oduduwa . yorubas
that came to the Americas were identified as lucumi
which is corrupted from olukumi.
.
( 27 ) The Ooni of Ife, the Alake of Abeokuta ( Egba ) , the
Olubadan of Ibadan , the Oba of Oshogbo , the Deji of
Akure, the Oba of Lagos, the Ugbo of Ugboland , the Owu
of Owo etc have no historica
Ife was a more advanced polity than Igodomigodo.
*Paved roads of Ife predates that of Benin
* Yoruba (Of the Ife dialect) was the previous language of the Benin court
* Ife bronze heads predates that of Benin by carbon dating, Infact Benin bronze casting was on knowledge from Ife teachers
* Ife attained the Bronze Age before 1170, (Thurstan Shaw 1977). Benin attained it during the reign of Oguola about 1400.

However, could someone coming from a far less civilized society establish a magnificent kingdom in a much more civilized polity? Archaeological evidence about the Ogiso period had not shown any magnificent civilization. From 1472 when the Portuguese explorers first reached the coast of the Benin River or the Bight of Benin, until 1960 when Nigerians became independent from colonial rule, no single foreign historian, or anthropologist, sociologist, traveler, missionary etc ever mentioned Oduduwa as being Ekaladerhan. It is pertinent to show now that apart from the Isekiri who were visited by the Portuguese between 1472 – 1486, the Binis were the first to be visited by the Europeans in Present day Nigeria.
The first European visited Benin by 1486 long, long before Ife. How come almost all the colonial officers favour the story that the Bini Dynasty originated from Ife or in few instances from Oyo? Could the European writers be more biased towards the Ifes they knew very little, than Benin they were frequenting much more often? From the evidence of all the reporters it is clear that the Ikaladerhan-Oduduwa story is fiction.


Perhaps there are some written records between 1472 – 1960 purporting that Ikaladerhan was Oduduwa, the world will be glad to see such records. None of the writers have even inferred in their write-ups that Oduduwa or even the founder of any of the Ife or Oyo dynasties had a Bini father.

KORMART:
.
( 1 ) . Their story of
kingship began with Edo
prince and the Benin
recorded History .
( 2 ) . Ayayi crawder said,
little were know about
yoruba existence,
meaning they were not
part of Nigeria of today
boarder or were in small
settlement close to
dahomy. yoruba are half
muslims and those with
African traditions copied or got them from Benin
civilization . I doubt if they not immigrants from dahomy
mix with Benins or other fulani- hausa from Niger
. Bishop Samuel Adjayi Crowther (c . 1809 – 31
December 1891 ) Was the first African Anglican bishop
in Nigeria . Born in Osogun (in today's Iseyin Local
Government, Oyo State , Nigeria ) . His grandson was
Herbert Macaulay
( 3 ) . Yoruba have dublicity of kingship with the process
highly politized to being traditional . A system they try
copy from Benin but can 't get it real like the Benin
Kingdom. Edo Obaship is one of the most revered
institutions in the world because of the way it has
sustained its awesome prestige with strict and
meticulous attention to ancient traditions of valour ,
discipline and integrity . Edo chieftaincy titles cannot be
bought or conferred on non- indigenes or frivolously .
Every Edo chief performs a peculiarly sacred duty
and responsibility to the people of Edo. It does not make
sense , therefore , to think that a people who would not
and have never conferred their chieftaincy titles on non-
indigenes, would voluntarily invite , accept, or surrender
to non- indigenes as their kings . Due to celestial
origins , the Edo monarch cannot eat out and cannot be
diverted from full time palace duties to hustle
for contracts .
( 4 ) . Most of today
yoruba religion are
Benin Origin , Olokun ,
Ogun , Iha oguega (ifa ) ,
oronmila, Esago
(shango ) , Ayelala etc .
Many Benin traditions
and spirituality are
stillfully documented by
yorubas in high places
as YORUBA ? (Never mind the Edo man ' s christian
mindset quickly dening Edo have niothing to do with
African traditional religion , agreeing they are foriegn to
Edoland . . . LIE ) .
Although the Great Edo ( Benin ) Kingdom were not major
participants in the trans- Atlantic slave trade , because
the Obas (Kings ) believed that their subjects were too
valuable to sell away , and their noblemen had need of
war captives on their own farms , the influence of Edo
religion and medicine has still been substantial upon
the people of the Americas .
According to Mason (1996 ) , it has been widely
accepted that Olokun ( god of the sea ) worship
originated with the Edo and spread to the Yoruba ( p. 2) .
In fact, the most prominent part of Edo cultural
traditions that has made its mark in the New World is
Olokun worship. Olokun (god of the Waters ) worship
originated from Urhonigbe and then became prominent
at Ughoton around the Ethiope ( Olokun) River . The
priesthood and rituals were firmly established at the
time . Some of the possible points of contact happened
early. During the Ogiso Period , trade with the Yoruba
and Igbos was quite extensive. Olokun worship may
have spread to those areas through traders . Prior to the
Oba Period , Ekaladerhan Izoduwa was initiated into
Olokun as a chief Priest while he stayed at Ughoton ,
before his moving westward with his followers to
establish Ilefe ( Ero , 1999 , p . 108- 109) .
Once he arrived , Ekaladerhan Izoduwa brought Edo
traditions to those areas and was a King of his new
community called Ilefe , which could be what yoruba call
IFE. . From Ekaladerhan Izoduwa ’ s loins , the Yoruba
dynasties may have began. However, it is certain that
Olokun is an Edo divinity whose worship spread to the
outlying Yoruba areas. During the trans - Atlantic slave
trade, slave raids were launched upon Yoruba and Ibo
territories . Europeans were able to obtain some of the
greatest amounts of West Africans from both Yoruba
and Ibo land (Crosby , 1992 , p . 136) . In the 18 th century
in Iboland at Isseke , slave raiders took a famous Edo
subject named Olaudah Equiano , who later wrote about
the encounter . Olaudah traveled to the New World and
then to England , learned to read and write Englis

MrPresident1:
The new Omonoba MUST go to Ile-Ife to visit and propitiate his fathers.

May the king reign forever

MONITZ:
.
Same with Obasanjo, Danjuma, Babaginda, Atiku ,et al kleptomaniacs who finished this country

IamOdin:
i think he should be equal to the task.