₦airaland Forum

historyworld030:
An other example of a citizen of a zoo. First of all, you seem to be unable to understand that Benin Kingdom and Benin city are two different things. Benin City was the capital of Benin Kingdom. The ruler of Benin Kingdom is the Omo n'Oba n'Edo. Lagos was part of Benin Kingdom and so was Onitcha. Claiming that Onitsha belongs to the "Binis" is like claiming that the south of france belongs to the inhabitants of paris.
Instead of understanding that it is the same people whom leave in Benin City, Onitcha and Lagos, you people have described the situation in the stupidest way possible.

https://dailypost.ng/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Daily_Post_Logo_Transparent_200x30-1.png | Published on May 18, 2016 By Daily Post Staff

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved the proposal for Dangote Construction Company to use cement to build a section of the Lokoja- Obajana-Kabba-Ilorin road.

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents on the outcome of the Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja. He said the company would be executing the road project in exchange for some tax remissions.

“The memo presented to council for consideration seeks to take benefits of the existing policy and regulation.

“It seeks to take benefits of tax policies, tax laws for the purpose of using them to drive infrastructure development renewal.

“So, we presented a proposal by one of the subsidiary of Dangote group, a construction company, for the construction of a section of Lokoja-Obajana-Kabba-Ilorin road.

“Specifically, the section between Obajana-Kabba Road using cement as demonstrative of how perhaps we should continue to build, going forward in order to reduce maintenance on the road and the company proposing to fund the construction of that section of the road in exchange for some tax remissions,’’ he said.

According to the minister, companies are ordinarily supposed to pay income tax‎, but there are existing policies in the nation’s laws which enable government to consider and give taxes incentives.

He, therefore, stated that the council’s approval for the construction of the section of the road, was meant to address the increasing cases of road accidents occasioned by increased heavy traffic in the area.

“So, is a total economy policy which the Council considered and approved because it gives support to industry.
http://dailypost.ng/2016/05/18/fec-approves-dangotes-proposal-to-use-cement-to-build-obajana-kabba-road/

MayorofLagos:
...The person with political power is a god in Nigeria. He can liquidate your economic power in one night, with just one law...

meforyou1:
meforyou1 is an afonja coward. After gani adams the carpentar, it is you meforyou1 the bricklayer that will become the next army commander of the ineffectual yoruba army. The next aare kakanfo of osogboland

meforyou1:
are igbos binis? Or is the prominent lagos indigine, chief layi that says that lagos belongs to binis, an igboman?

Acidosis:
Some of you guys don't understand Kogi politics. Kogi has 4 senatorial districts, i.e 4 Senators with three distinct and non-friendly tribes (Igala, Ebira and Okun)

Dino is not the Senator representing Ajaokuta, there are other 2 Igala Senators and 1 Ebira Senator whose names we don't know. Why should Dino speak for other Senators whose lives revolve around Ajaokuta?

Majority of the people Dino represent (Okuns) do not know Ajaokuta, majority of them will probably not get employment in the said institution because of tribalism, after all, many Okun people can't get employment even in the state owned university. In fact, the newly appointed GM of the nonfunctional steel company is an Ebira man (thanks to the politics between Bello and Aisha Buhari).

Dino understood the fact that upgrading the over 30+ years College of Agriculture in Kabba (the only ABU satellite campus that has remained a Monotechnic) to a University is the "easiest" and most thoughtful thing to go for especially in Buhari's snail administration. He's fought for his people and in three years, I can boldly say that he has achieved more than the former Senator of Kogi West, Smart Adeyemi, who spent 8 years building a family hotel and other private investments in Kwara state.

Dino has not only fought for this upgrade, he has also canvassed for the immediate construction of the road that links Kogi with Kwara, so that the former Senator can navigate between his village in Kogi and his corrupted properties in Kwara in peace.

Dino may not have achieved this feet if Saraki were a floor member though. Politics, especially at the parliamentary level, is all about opportunities and lobbying. No two states or two Senators will get the same level of attention.

Let's appreciate good works when we see one. I have issues with Dino for fighting Faleke and joining hands with Bello when the this whole issue started at the party level. I can't forgive him for making such a terrible mistake but on this one?! I give it to him.

So why shouldn't Dino rally the other 2 Igala Senators and 1 Ebira Senator, whose lives revolve around Ajaokuta?

Ngozi123:
Ignore him, he's obsessed with us. Everybody knows that the Igbos are a diverse group who have diverse fashion wear and other customs. There's no need to explain that to him.

imhotep:
EZE Chima, an Igbo man, migrated from Benin and founded Onitsha.

Unlike Lagos that was first ruled by a Benin Prince.

imhotep:
LMAO
You will end up concluding that there were many Igbos in the Bini empire,

totit:
I am glad you made mention of the past, and need I remind you that if otherwise is the case bini' should also take glory or possession of onitcha of today?
Whatyasay

SHAKABOOM:
Hahaha! You think my bini oba is worried by yur folks normal GRA GRA..Hahahaha.Make dem do dia worse

Rotimik:
Igbos actually crashed over 40,000 industries in SW with fake products in the 80s and 90s.

We would have gone farther than where we are today.

ruffDiamond:
I thought this delusion ended with the flatees...I ve not the faintest idea they ve got peeps who are more delusional than them...hahahaha guy wake up day don break na.

meforyou1:
respect your big brothers. Binis own lagos. 1st oba of lagos was a bini man

bright007:
All these bloody afonja are here displaying their frustration .

Because they have no respect for constituted authority and elders, they are busy insulting a king higher in power and authority than their own.

meforyou1:
God bless you my sister. A prominent lagos indigene, Chief Layi Ajayi said it in clear unambiguous terms that lagos belongs to binis. He said it clearly that lagos is not yorubaland. And lagos is not part of south west

Alariiwo:
Binis can lay claim to Onitsha not Lagos.

In Lagos, we have Ikorodu, Lagos Island, Badagry, Surulere and more areas like Ikeja, Ayobo etc. added later.
Binis only held one part which was Lagos Island. Times have changed you hear?

Omo igbo go home and master your boundaries, stop acting like a monitoring spirit of Yorubas

JuanDeDios:
I'm an Edo man, but I'm not a royalist. That's exactly how I would handle it if it happens to me. He won't get her and I will embarrass him. Everyone deserves to have their rights respected. To the oba, his rights; to my daughter, her rights.

greatjoey:
Kogi is not a northern state. Kogi is a state in the middle belt. Stop that political classification. They said that to deceive you fathers. We are wise now.

9jakohai:
1.So that we can have more technicians to build us an industrial society that would take us to developed country status...and i don't look down on technicians, thank you very much.

2.In 2013 we could not find 3 trillion for existing universities in extra funding. Where are we going to find money for this one?

You got 3 trillion naira?

Don't complain when fees go up to 500000 and above to fund this new university.

I am, ultimately, not opposed to new universities, but when we are having so many issues funding the existing ones...to the point that we may have to raise fees drastically....then, I do not agree.

abu12:
name one serving senator better than him,

don't let hatred kill u

Yorubaangel:
DINO is working... BELLO is hating

Nigeriadondie:
Busy doing rubbish. What about capital punishment for corruption, abolition of security votes among others to reduce cost of governance. By d Kogi doesn’t need a university as they have Kogi State University Anyigba and the newly established University of Lokoja. Why don’t they expand the university to have faculties of agriculture if he wants to develop agriculture. What support is given to farmers still using obsolete implements in this 21st century.
Bros rise above mediocrity no wonder they keep fooling people. There are more pressing issues than these rubbish he is busy with.
Let Dino account for the constituency allowances he gets.

In the first place do u know that the concept of constituency allowance is a big fraud.

Nigeriadondie:
Truly some people deserve the kind of leaders they have. Well dont let die out of shallow thinking. Rise above mediocrity. Kogi needs good infrastructure, industries and support to practicing farmers. Making noise at d senate hearings with nothing to show amounts to zero. Wake up

Olu317:
What lie? Point it out,please... I mock at your ignorance. OK,enjoy the tale by the moon light from the land of ogodomigodo. The people associated with red colour. It is even a shame that Yoruba change the named of IDU to BINI. If it pains you that my ancestry isn't Edo, then that's your cup of tea.. Can't stop laughing!!!!

trustyshoess:
Ohh cool. So you understand bini?

trustyshoess:
Ovbiedo we khin?

GuidoVanRossum:
The saying that "oba no dey go transfer" has really been misunderstood. It doesn't necessarily mean the Oba doesn't leave his seat. It simply means the means the kingship in Benin can't just be changed like others by the government.
He is not the first Oba to have been engaged in a nationwide thank you visit. The previous Oba did. So, I really don't see the reason for the comments above.

proudlyYoruba:
Which one u be? Are u a jew? Abi bini abeg where una come freom?

TheKingIsHere:
But the yorubas are the ones paying homage to their big brothers the binis

trustyshoess:
Omo n'oba n'edo, uku akpolokpolo. Oba Ewuare!
Oba gha tokpere!!! Ise!!!

aimuafigo:
You have said it all. There were reasons why the Oba did not leave is palace in times past. Even when he did, it was either top secret or he was leading his army into battle in which case he had the full complement of security around him. You don't expect an ambush in the present day unlike in the old days when they used to follow bush paths to get from Benin to Ife for example. Times have changed. People should give us Binis a break. The fact remains that the monarchy is still the most apolitical in the country. It took him a whole year after coronation to start moving around. Which other monarch's visit to Abuja has generated more interest from the public?

GoroTango:
And now kogi has two federal universities over and above every other state. Should we read an ulterior, sinister northern motive into this?

Olu317:
Since you are not conversant with the location, then, you need to do your research if you don't know. The location is easy to know for those who lives or lived in that territorial part of Lagos. Lastly, you kept regurgitating same perspective based on your emotional attachment to concocted LIES. So, it is perfect for me to see you and the likes to continue in such direction. However, the few info I have given is for the millions of people that will come across this part of information, which OUTRIGHTLY NULLIFY LIES PEDDLED BY PAPER HISTORIANS FROM EDO.

c'est fini mon ami

goldedprince:
No smoke weed una no go hear

NewLola:
The traditional chief hinted that series of adjudication have trailed the disputed land. He said, “Let us start from the Court Judgments on Gelegele. The claim of the Ijaws over parts of Gelegele has been contested in Court up to the Supreme Court level where they lost the claim. This present state issue is only a strong-arm twisting to acquire Benin land, and it is simply unreasonable, mindlessly adventurous and our people will not let it happen.

He added noted that judgments of courts of competent jurisdiction on the ownership of Gelegele, and that one of such judgment was the one delivered in favour of Benin by Justice Ekeruche on December 22, 1978 at the High Court of Justice, Benin, in Suit No B/44/1970, expatiating that in the judgment, Justice Ekeruche held as follows:

“Finally, I enter judgment in this case as follows: for the avoidance of all doubts, argument or controversy. I hereby say unequivocally that Gelegele village and its environs and bushes are Benin land. They do not belong to the Ijaws of Gelegele as owners. The Ijaws are tenants of His Highness Akenzua II the Oba of Benin. Apart from above, the plaintiffs’ claims are dismissed in their entirety.

“Dissatisfied with the judgment, the Ijaws appealed to the Federal Court of Appeal, Benin. The Court of Appeal dismissed their appeal. The Court of Appeal judgment delivered was in favour of Benin by Justice Abdul Ganiyu Agbaje O.J. and two others on December 16, 1981. Still not satisfied, they went to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court also dismissed their appeal, upheld the judgment of the lower courts and awarded costs against them. Recorded as Suit SC.131/1982, the judgment was delivered by Muhamadu Lawai Uwais (CJN) and 4 others on August 19, 1983.

“Besides these court judgments, there are other evidences. These, he said include: – monuments and Historical Landmarks that Define Gele-Gele as Benin Land. Firstly, The Okun Shrine which was established by the Legendary Prince Ekaladerhan early in the 11th Century, AD. Secondly, the landmark monument in Ugbine marking the place where the British invaders first clashed with Oba Ovonramwen’s emissaries, which eventually led to the Benin Expedition of 1887. Thirdly, at Ughoton, Oba Ewuare 1 planted seven ‘U’ bolts (Aban Ihinron) to stop pursuing soldiers from getting to Benin. These seven Aban, planted in the 15th Century are still there. And fourthly, also at Ughoton is Oke n’alubode, the hill which was regarded as the exit route of departing souls of the dead by our people. These are very important historical and cultural monuments to the Benin people.

He buttressed that “In addition to all these, is the existence of four Traditional stools in the area and they are: The Okao of Gelegele, the Enogie of Obazuwa-Iko, The Iyase of Udo and the Enogie of Siloko.

Source: https://independent.ng/no-end-sight-beninijaw-crisis-ownership-gelegele/amp/

leezzz:
ladies and gents i give u tales by moonlight from the afonja
smh

Onijagidijagan:
They don't really but they are moving towards dat direction.