₦airaland Forum

MENELIIK:
The Benins of today are Edo and the ones for tomorrow may likely be Hausas! I dey laugh oo in Obasanjo's voice

Yes if something happened that makes hausa out number them changing their tongue to hausa

MENELIIK:
Yet they are the ones picking Yoruba names and titles my friend leave tales by moonlight and face reality Garrison ko Granada ni. You can discuss that with Delta, they have sympathy for you, the Yorubas are the fathers of your fathers

Those benins were yorubas unlike the present day benins

When Benin was Benin they had a Garrison stationed in Lagos communicating with hq in Benin same would be true of ikwerre and etc. Nothing like that in the 19th century

prolog2:
And you are getting this from the bottom of your ass ? You have been saying rubbish for a long time now, I can't keep responding to all this nonesense.

Ibadan reduced the whole area yo tributary status includong bini

prolog2:
You really are dumb, the Benin empire was still active when the brits invaded, when will you fools finally understand that Benin City is only the capital, the city in which the King lives. The kingdom is much larger. Don't reply me again, you are way too dumb.

Benin was tributary to ibadan, the former towns under Benin had become independent like the anioma and the ekitis who were subject to ibadan as well. Benin was not calling the shots anywhere in the 19th century. Prove me wrong

prolog2:
Actually, the word is Benin and it is the name of the empire and its capital. Benin Kingdom/Empire and Benin City. The name of the people who inhabitate the empire is Edo. And we were defeated by the british in the late 19th century, not the 18th century. You are just too dumb to get a single thing right. And once again we were never yoruba, you guys need to research your own history and stop trying to attach yourselves to our history. Dome of you came to your location through slave returnee ships, your ancestors were slaves in brazil and your cousins are still in brazil.

Benin city was defeated by the Brits not empire which had declined earlier. The bini were tributaty to ibadan and at some point to akure

prolog2:
here we go again, you are being completely illogical. I am looking for logics behind your statement, and I have found none. Why does it pain you guys so mucj to recognize the obvious ? I mean some of you guys decend from slave returnees and this is the thing which vexes you ? No Benin is and Edo word, you guys need to stop smoking crack.

ahahah bini is Edo word?I wish you luck in your dream to recreate the bini empire which went down by the 18th century. The original binis who were Yoruba are gone forever

prolog2:
My own name had "Oba" on it. What better way to name your son than to attach it to the word Oba to give him luck and hope he becomes as successful in life as the mighty emperor of Benin empire. You need to reexamine how you think. Haven't you seen people naming their children after a person who did something great ?

The word ijoba means govt. Oba means king and Benin bears a Yoruba name meaning vexation. What I am trying to make u see is that people have been bearing oba for ages because it is Yoruba for king

Proloy1 so the names obasanjo xx obayemi xx obayemi and etc b borne by awolowo and obasanjo et c were b copied from b Benin?;. The way you people reason get as e an be. Oba is Yoruba for king. Alaafin sango is called obakoso meaning the king did not hang himself

When Nigeria breaks up many people's eyes will clear

prolog2:
I am just wondering where you are getting your cheap drugs from. Which "lingua Franca" are you now talking about, Edo people speak Edo which has a lot of ramifications. No we never spoke any Yoruba language, your one-sidedness has made you forget or ignore that Owo was part of Benin Kingdom. Rather you have turned any similarity between the province and the center to mea we took it from Yoruba. Yoruba is a newly made group with no history so stop trying to say that the Edo with around a thousand year history derived from you people. And once again, linguists are not the judges of who belongs to which ethnicity, only history judges that.

You are very rude. Pls mind your language. No empire without a lingua Franca and Benin spoke Yoruba and named their towns Yoruba names ago onibode is agenebode you also have oghotun etc. Bini spoke yoruba

prolog2:
Nope, Edo is a people, the citizens of Benin Kingdom and that is an ethnic group, you are talking about subgroups. The people of Benin Kingdom are not defined by a single language besides I doubt you speak any of the very similar languages, yet you claim they are not mutually intelligence. What you are using it as a sign not a logical criterion and it is false.

Bini had a lingua Franca which is the kind of Yoruba spoken in owo today still spoken in ugbodumila Delta State and was the language of onitsha. So will you say all those Yoruba language speakers in ancient bini we're Edo?. However linguists use Edo to mean bini and edoid to include urhobo, isoko, afemai and etc . Igala has been described by linguists as a Yoruba dialect.

prolog2:
They are Edo. Igala being "yoruboid" ? Explain yourself. What do you refer to as "Edoid" and what do you refer to as "yoruboid" ? Also notice "Yoruba" is a new name which was born in the late 19th century.

Edo are an ethnic group the bini and other ethnic groups related by language are edoid. The languages are not mutually intelligible

prolog2:
they are Edo. Learn the meaning of the word "Edo".

They are edoid not Edo just like igala are yoruboid not yoruba

Goodyness:
You have wrongly assumed that every phone or internet user in SW is Yoruba.

Like85 percent will be Yoruba

If the USA accepts these first batch then more people will set out until those badly organised nations are empty

This country is going nowhere as one. The earlier it is split up the better!

Normally a government should be seeking to increase the minimum wage so as to increase taxes while the private sector will be seeking lower wages. The reverse is the case in NIgeria

What is possible is to get a body double a doppelganger

IloveToMess:
Shut up fool he had the opportunity to declare his country of which Hausa cannot conquer Oduduwa and Biafra at the same time, that was the strategy but he chickened out. Talk rubbish again and i'll lay curse on your lying tongue, i know its your trait.

You are not brought up well on how to address strangers

IloveToMess:
No one wanted to invade SW stop deluding yourself. If Awolowo declared Oduduwa i wouldnt have known who you are by now.

One thing will lead to another, he already got the northern soldoers to leave the West and he was not a military man. If biafran had not Invaded the west Nigeria would have split up easily

IloveToMess:
What are you blabbing about?? Igbos can comfortably beat yoruba to a stand still on a one in one basis and you know that. We manufactured our arms ourselves during the civil war, let that show you who we are when we are determined.

It is not brawns but brains. You were undone by your decision to invade the west and the Midwest and it is as if no lesson learnt by you

Ilovetomess. So igbos we're coming to teach the yoruba a lesson for not declaring odiduwa republic?

Ilovetomess awo wasn't a soldier yet he got northern soldiers to leave the West and was saying if east goes West would follow. Only for the east to seize the opportunity to invade the west

IloveToMess:
Coward you have no excuse for Awolowo's action thats why you are bickering like a fool. One on One we will take on Yoruba and reduce them to rubbles. We font make noise my friend. Confront us one on one and see stars.

Imagine Yoruba being colonised by igbos. Thank God for awolowo. I know if you were ojukwu you would have done same or worse

The people to blame for the civil war defeat are your own leaders

[quote author=IloveToMess post=73328877]Did Biafra betray the Wherever you are talking about? But you betrayed us. Forget about the war, what started the war is the issue at hand.[/quotoe]

Just know in case of next time, if you move troops into Yoruba land again you will be met with tjesame fortune

IloveToMess:
With Awolowo the coward and backstabber

Awo was in prison he was not at aburi

IloveToMess:
I am telling you that Yorubas were declared enemies when Awolowo backslid from Aburi agreement.

And I am telling u that no Westerner or midwesterner was fighting the igbos before the invasion Of their land. Colonel ejoor restated that he would not allow the midwedt be turned into a war theatre. If not for the invasion Nigeria would have split up

IloveToMess:
No they were not neutral, Awolowo's refusal to declare oduduwas as agreed at the Aburi meeting was a clear betrayal and a clear stand against the peaceful exit of the Biafra state.

So biafran troops were coming to declare oodia for Yoruba? While seizing lagos

I lovetomess the yoruba and the Midwest were neutral until Biafra Invaded their land. Defending your land is not betrayal

IloveToMess:
My friend stop joining body with Delta, their Governor is Igbo, Their capital city is Igbo. Their businesses and richest indigenes are all Igbos. Tell me one Billionaire from lazy ashawo Edo state, my friend you have nothing in common with Deltans and if Itshekirii wants to join you people they are free to go. Delta is SS and so Biafra.l

You forget ugbodumila the yoruba enclave near Asaba?