₦airaland Forum

superstar1:
I do ot even know anything about the Ogori Magogos. Igalas have more link with the Igbos than the yorubas.

Olukumis are descendants of Oduduwa. Likewise the ruling houe of Bini.

I even read that the official language of the Oba of Benin within the courtyard is Yoruba, I do not know how true that is, but taking the eulogy of Oba of benin -- Iku Akpolokpolo -- it might be true.

superstar1:
Really!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am shocked.

I thought there is always this story of Nri and Eri and the link with the Igbos. I have always felt they are Igbo's cousin, the same way Itshekiris and Binis are ours.

Funjosh:
I joined the train sometime from lagos to Offa, we left Lagos 10am and got to Offa 3:45am the following day

Arogunmasa:
Have never being to London but I hear one of my uncle says he takes metro train to work everyday, a journey of 3hrs hence my view. Abi how many hrs journery is Ilorin to Lagos.

I also witness man hrs wasted on Ikorodu road, while the inland water ways is under utilised. For instance we have pple living in Ijede when their place of work is VI.

SeverusSnape:
didn't you see where I said "Fuck_ all of you"??... Is that not enough for you to know that I'm angry at both the igbos and the south south guys??... What are you even saying!

wytecat:
You love Yoruba and not afraid to show it. And more importantly you are honest, so, you are very welcome!

Now wat wil ya hav? On rock, riders or bottle?

zimoni:
His brothe Barrister Sapara Williams was the first Nigeria Lawyer.

Sopona, I learnt Sopona ravaged Ijeshaland for years in those days before they found remedy. So it was this man that provided the remedy. Nice one, local disease requires local cure.

Till now, some local Ijesha people still use sopona to curse someone. They would say "Sopona La Je Ojure or Sopona La Pa Ooooo". My people can rain curse on themselves.

You are doing a wonderful job ProfShymex.

I hereby give you a Chieftancy Title - The Okanlomo of Yorubaland.

mandarin:
When you study Samuel Johnson history of the Yoruba, it was centred on Oyo Empire and by no means exhaustive of all Yoruba tribes.Basically it was pro Oyo but Oyo was the youngest empire as at then, there were other kingdoms way back before Oyo and even before Ife.
Most pro Yoruba groups across the world talked of Ife but ife became prominent at the time of Oduduwa and before Oduduwa became the Adimula Olofin, there has been over 90 kings that had reigned. If for instance a king reigned an average of 10 years(some would be less others could be up to 50) then Ife had been having kings for over 900years. So what about those years? The Revd history never covered all of ife just largely Oyo.The Oyo were referred to as the Yoruba initially which now apply to all.Historically, places like Ekiti to Ondo, Idanre ,Owo and may be Ijebu predate ife and Oyo
Alot of Yoruba tribes not captured in Revd Johnson history include most of Ekiti, Ondo states, Yoruba in Kogi, Bini, Itsekiri, Olukumi, Gbagyi and Igala,Ilaje, Ikale etc

SeverusSnape:
Was it I who renamed it

Go through this thread and show me a post of mine that confirms the first trash you wrote.

SeverusSnape:
Please just shut up already.

I am angry that they are fighting on this thread. I'm not claiming any land... You just typed trash.

Oildichotomy:
Very annoying i must say.. The likes of tonye, Truckpusher are just tilting the foolishness bermuda triangle to their direction.

When are we going to stand together against a common enemy is a fairy tale with no good ending!

I won't take them serious again from now on. Including the APC goons

SeverusSnape:
I'm so ashamed right now. Fuc*k!!!

Fuck_ all of you.

I see why the north will continue to lord over us. Rubbish!

Aareonakakanfo:
That's the current one.His first name is Folagbade

anachy:
u re sick , am not mightyhaze ,edo man.

Aareonakakanfo:
Oba Olateru Olagbegi II, the Olowo of Owo

WIZGUY69:
is the Alake the overall king of present day Ogun or only egbaland? I don't really understand that matter.

IlekeHD:
Ok....

ProfShymex:
I believe two of Oduduwa's children - Ketu and Sabe - settled in present day Republic du Benin and Togo. So a sizable populations of those countries should be Yorubas. Then you have the Fon admixture...and since Fon folks were under Oyo for a long time - we'll always be cousins.

ProfShymex:
Akikenju Oba Adétutu Akinmu, King of Shabè. Savé, Republic Du Benin.

IlekeHD:
I believe you. Look at the Saraki family: Fulani grandfather, Yoruba mother, Yoruba wife, etc.

You echoed modath's thought about Yorubas being too impartial ....... that's our downfall.

Igbos want the Biafran interest, North have the Northern agenda, what do Yorubas want/have?

IlekeHD:
Any Yoruba speaking non-sw groups that does not voice its unity with the Yoruba union should be left out.

No time for saboteurs.

Why would any Yoruba-speaking group want to stay with the North? I'm still trying to grasp the muteness of Kwarans.

What does the North offer?

1. Illiteracy

2. Poverty

3. Religious intolerance

4. Terrorism

5. Low mortality rate

6. Backwardness

etc

menabadoo:
Barcanista just lost my respect

Aareonakakanfo:
One great personality we forget to mention is Jacob Sogboyega Odulate the man behind the famous "Alabukun powder"
You can steal every other thing in my former neighbour's house but never steal his alabukun.That's his soul

ProfShymex:
[size=14pt]Ajayi Crowther[/size]

The Right Reverend Samuel Ajayi Crowther D.D. (c. 1809 – 31 December 1891) was a linguist and the first African Anglican bishop in Nigeria. Born in Osogun (in today's Iseyin Local Government, Oyo State, Nigeria), Crowther was a Yoruba man who also identified with Sierra Leone's ascendant Creole ethnic group.

Ajayi was 12 years old when he was captured, along with his mother and toddler brother and other family members, along with his entire village, by Muslim Fulani slave raiders in 1821 and sold to Portuguese slave traders. However, before his slave-ship left port, it was boarded by a British Royal Navy ship under the command of Captain Henry Leeke, and Crowther was taken to Freetown, Sierra Leone, where he was released. Ajayi's mother was a descendant of King Abiodun.

While in Sierra Leone Crowther was cared for by the Anglican Church Missionary Society and was taught English. He converted to Christianity. On the 11th of December 1825 he had a rebirth by baptism and he named himself after the vicar of Christ Church, Newgate, London - Samuel Crowther, who was one of the pioneers of the C.M.S.. Ajayi was baptized by Rev. John Raban.

In Niger Territory, 1888
While in Freetown, Crowther became interested in languages. In 1826 he was taken to England to attend St Mary's Church in Islington and the church's school. He returned to Freetown in 1827 and attended, as the first student,[4] the newly opened Fourah Bay College, an Anglican missionary school, where his interest in language found him studying Latin and Greek but also Temne. After completing his studies he began teaching at the school.

He married a schoolmistress, Asano (i.e. Hassana; she was formerly Muslim), baptised Susan. She was also rescued from the Portuguese slave ship that originally brought Crowther to Sierra Leone, and had also converted to Christianity. Their several children included Dandeson Coates Crowther, archdeacon of the Niger Delta.[5] Crowther was father-in-law to Thomas Babington Macaulay, a junior associate, who married Crowther's 2nd daughter (Abigail Crowther).[6] Crowther's grandson Herbert Macaulay (Thomas Babington Macaulay and Abigail Crowther's son) became one of the first Nigerian nationalists and played an important role in ending British colonial rule in Nigeria.

Crowther was also a close associate and friend of Captain James Pinson Labulo Davies, an influential politician, mariner, philanthropist and industrialist in colonial Lagos.[7] Both men collaborated on a couple of Lagos social initiatives such as the opening of The Academy (a social and cultural center for public enlightenment) on October 24, 1866 with Bishop Crowther as the 1st patron and Captain J.P.L Davies as 1st president

jstbeinhonest:
Governor Ibukunle Amosun of Ogun state, Southwest, Nigeria has reinstated his administration’s commitment to the provision of the social infrastructure across the nook and crannies of the State....

cheruv:
it was reported that during the July '66 crisis that when soldiers killed their Igbo counterparts in coldblood,they usually answered briefly the name of the people they've killed.
am sure that syndrome is worrying you... whether you're Igbo or not has been decided by your post

Arogunmasa:
I think SW states shld build intermodel transport system to facilitate movement of people and goods. I see no reason why I person why a person living in Ilorin cannot work in Lagos n go back home after close of bisness.

wytecat:
I thought without traffic one could make it to ibadan in 1hr from Lagos and make it to lets say many parts of Osun in another 1hr. Train will even cut it to 3/4 of the time.

Most people do that already spending hours in traffic within Lagos anyway. So living where rent is cheap and making Lagos money will get so many moving.

wirinet:
100% supported. I have always told the Igbos on this forum that non Igbo tribes of the Nigerdelta wants nothing to do with their utopia - Biafra, but they often get offended, cursing and calling us all kinds of derogatory names like Yoruba ( Yoruba is the most derogatory name to a Biafran), backstabber, efulefu, slave, etc. Is alliance by force?

I understand their pains, Igbos need Portharcourt for sea access, and they would fight tooth and nail to include it in their Biafra. Without Portharcourt, no Biafra.

Biafrans are now calling the whole of Portharcourt Igbo land. Imagine how Yorubas feel when they say Lagos is no man's land and not Yoruba land.

Barcanista, just prepare yourself for serious war over Igwe-Ocha. You will be surprised that majority of those claiming Portharcourt are not even Ikwerre, but Igbos from anambra and imo.

ajibolabd:
War In Telecom Industry As NITEL Return With 4G Cheaper Data Services

That awesome moment when you think Nitel is dead and gun for life, and you just woke up one morning seeing NITEL Advert again. The good news is Nitel is coming back with full force to take over the telecom industry. Not NITEL again but Nigerian Telecommunication (NTEL).

This time around, NTEL will focus on Data services at the onset; maybe the've noticed people consumed data much than they make calls.
However, NATCOM Consortium, the winner of the bid for the moribund Nigerian Telecommunications Limited, is planning to roll out services next month.

The consortium will launch 4G Long Term Evolution Technology (LTE) services suggesting that the revamped NITEL may focus on data services from the outset. Come next month been November, 4G data services will be launch in Lagos, Abuja and Port-Harcourt before it will finally roll out to other states.
I guess the return of NITEL will even make data more cheaper and other Telecom industry seat up. I[b]f you don't know, NITEL had broadband facilities that traversed the entire country and that once revived[/b], it would boost transmission of broadband capacities from the shores of Nigeria to places in the hinterlands, where the demand is high.
If your device is not 4G supported, then it's time to port with ease.
www.yomiprof.com/2015/10/war-in-telecom-industry-as-nitel-return.html?m=1

Euro31:
u are extremely stupiid for saying dat we Egbema in Rivers are not igbos ...

My wives couldn’t tolerate my other women friends –Graham Douglas | The Sun Newspapers | SEPTEMBER 30, 2013|

By CHRISTY ANYANWU

Alabo Tonye Graham-Douglas is a household name in Nigeria. He was the Minister For Youths Sports and Culture and Minister of Aviation during Retired General Ibrahim Babngida’s regime. In 1999, he was also appointed Minister for Labour and Productivity and in 2000, Minister of Tourism in ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo’s cabinet. At his Port Harcourt GRA residence last weekend, Sunday Sun engaged him in an exclusive interview during which he reflected on his early life, lifestyle, family and other issues. Excerpts:

"My elder brother is a doctor and was the first secretary of the Nigerian Medical Council. They were the people who set it up. He was a great surgeon at the Hammersmith University Hospital in London. He organized medical services in Rivers State and was also the brain behind the teaching hospital in Rivers State.

One of my brothers was the federal attorney general during General Yakubu Gowon’s regime. He was first the attorney general to Odumegwu Ojukwu . When Ojukwu launched his rebellion , he opposed it and told him “We should try to keep Nigeria one. On that note he resigned though he was almost killed. When Rivers State was created, Gowon enjoined him to come and set up the Ministry of Justice.

Still another brother was the Chief Judge of the Rivers State . These two brothers were Senior Advocates of Nigeria. Today in my family, there are over 10 doctors and over 38 graduates with the grand children. So it’s a great dynasty." .... Read the rest here: http://sunnewsonline.com/new/my-wives-couldnt-tolerate-my-other-women-friends-graham-douglas/