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odiks:
And still they say PMB is not working

Even abandoned-for-age road from Orji River, Achi - Mmaku -Ndeabor Junction (PH Rd) is being reconstructed. Works are ongoing in Enugu-PH Rd and Enugu-Onitcha Rd, etc.

PhenomenalMorgan:
This is an outdated article, Huawei is currently Number 2 in global smartphone shipments and not 5!!!

They are not ranked.

This is just to emphasise prominence of Chinese products these days. If one cannot afford iPhone or Samsung phones, he can just go for any of the above and many other reliable cheaper ones. 5G internet was first launched in Shangha just few days ago; Chinese are really doing great in the Tech world, they've improved a lot.

Some people are found of condemning other products that are not iPhone, Samsung or HTC, forgetting that fingers are not equalled. Some were pushed to buy phones they don't need or can't maintain. If you can afford phones that are not Chinese, go for them; the choice is yours but we should stop propagating the misconception that Chinese phones like Xiaomi, Huawei, Tecno, etc are not good.

BaaleOko:
First of all its "Igbo" and not ibo you incontinent dunce, secondly majority of South Southerners prefer to align/relate with Igbos 100% over yorubas. I have this facts in good confidence because I have lots of friends and in-laws from the South South who bluntly tell me they can NEVER trust you people, and also opened up to me that they are safer and more at home with Igbos. But the South South people mostly have a problem with Igbos because of the unease of been dragged into Biafra just like that(which is understandable) . And that's why intermarriage between the Igbos and other ethnic groups in the SS is probably the highest in Nigeria. The only South South ethnic groups that seem cool with you guys are the Itshekiri's (because of lingual and cultural similarities with yorubas), and to some extent the Edo/Ishan people... the rest for lack of a better perspective would rather align with the Almajiri's up North than mess with you guys on any level.

Always attache-by-force!

Even if all South South people want to be Igbos, it doesn't move Yorubas and it changes nothing.

Guestlander:
There are several posts he made in which he made derogatory remarks about igbo. Dude is a serpent with a forked tongue.

It's so funny that Igbos fall for his antics; he knows they can be very emotional and will jump at the opportunity to insult Yorubas...

Here’s a rundown of the Chinese phone makers aiming to displace Apple and Samsung from your pockets and handbags…

Alcatel OneTouch/TCL

The formerly French phone maker was bought by Chinese television giant TCL in 2013, which re-branded it as Alcatel OneTouch. It’s actually the world’s sixth-largest handset maker, according to Gartner, thanks to its longstanding budget prepaid phone business. The firm is currently among the Chinese phone makers targeting the US and Canada hard, having increased its marketing investment by six times. Most eye-catching, it bought up the assets of the once-loved US brand Palm . This led to the launch of the Pixi 3 line of smartphones. The firm has even launched a smartwatch, running on proprietary Alcatel software that works with iOS or Android.

Coolpad

According to IDC, China’s Coolpad sells more devices in its home market than either Apple or Samsung. It is second only to Xioami and Lenovo, and commands 11.5 per cent of the smartphone market. It’s the world’s seventh largest. Coolpad has actually been around since 1993, making white label devices for big operators like T-Mobile. But it emerged as its own brand on the back of the Android boom. However, it hasn’t been plain sailing for the OEM. Late last year, there was a PR storm when it was revealed that Coolpad ‘deliberately’ introduced a security flaw that inadvertently allowed hackers full control of the device.

Gionee

You can’t fault Gionee for ambition. The Chinese firm sells around 25 million handsets a year compared to Samsung’s 400 million, but it still thinks it can be top five inside five years. The firm has a long history in consumer electronics, starting out in 2002 in video and DVD. By 2005, it was a phone maker with its own manufacturing facility in Dongguan. Now, Gionee competes at the high end on features like photography . It’s also making waves in India and is aiming to capture a 10 per cent share over the next two three years.

Huawei

It must be galling for Huawei to observe the unstoppable rise of its compatriot Xiaomi. By all logic, its should be Huawei sticking it to the world. In the early part of the decade, the giant telco firm set out to challenge the likes of LG, HTC and Sony and gain a slot in the smartphone top five. It launched flagship brands like Ascend and spent big on marketing. It did OK. But it’s been a slog, and the truth is that Huawei still has more cachet in emerging markets than the US and Europe. Today, Huawei ranks fifth in global smartphone shipments behind Samsung, Apple, Xiaomi and LG. Recently, Huawei confirmed a shift away from the low margin ‘cheap’ handset biz to renew its focus on the high end. It expects to boost smartphone shipments by a third this year to more than 100 million units.

Lenovo

It’s hardly a new or unfamiliar name, but in 2013/14 Lenovo finally broke away from its PC roots to become recognized as a serious player in mobile. Lenovo had bought IBM’s laptop business to put down a footprint in computing, and it did something similar when it acquired
Motorola from Google for $2.9bn. The swoop helped it increased global smartphone shipments by 38 per cent in the third quarter of 2014 to 16.9 million units, making it fourth worldwide after Samsung, Apple, and Xiaomi, according to IDC.

OnePlus

It’s easy to characterise the new Chinese phone makers as unimaginative – a group that makes boring functional devices from identikit components. You can’t throw that at OnePlus – which is an independent spin-off of Oppo. The company is a genuine innovator in two ways. First, its phones run on CyanogenMod, a reworking of Android that looks like the raw stock Android OS but lets users configure for their own needs. Second, OnePlus distributes its phone by personal invitation. The latter strategy has come in for a lot of criticism, but at least OnePlus was trying to do something different. And users love its sleek stylish devices. Mind you,
there may be trouble ahead . Cyanogen made a deal with Micromax to exclusively support its Yu phones, which may prevent OnePlus from using the OS.

Oppo

So thin it can cut through a watermelon . That was the claim made for the Oppo R5 last year. The race to be the world’s skinniest was hotly contested, with both Vivo and Kazam making a claim on the territory. But the battleground reveals Oppo’s desire to compete on the basis of design and innovation rather than price. This led to firsts such as the swivelling top-mounted camera on its N1 device. The Chinese phone maker shipped an estimated 25-30 million devices in 2014 and expects to double that this year. Most sales will be domestic, though Oppo does well in India, Indonesia and Australia.

Tecno

The major Chinese phone makers are all targeting Africa as the next great growth market for smartphones. Interestingly, it’s Tecno that’s making arguably the most headway. This smaller firm has taken Nigeria in particular by storm, and currently sells around 12.5m handsets across the African continent every quarter. That’s more than BlackBerry and Nokia. The firm appears to have succeeded by making cheap and reliable phones with astute pre-loads such as Facebook and the Spinlet music app. It also manufactures devices in Africa.

Xiaomi

Of all the new Chinese phone makers, Xiaomi is undoubtedly the biggest. The firm began flexing its muscles in 2013, hiring ex-Google Android VP Hugo Barra to spearhead its charge domestically and across Asia. It worked. Two years ago, Xiaomi didn’t trouble the top 10 Android market share list. Now, it’s third with 5.3 per cent. It expects to sell 60 million smartphones this year. Xiaomi’s secret weapon is essentially price. It sells high-end reliable product (with a premium Android ‘skin’ called MIUI) for about half the cost of a Galaxy or an HTC One. Also, it mostly sells online – so no retail margins: famously it shifted 150,000 phones in 10 minutes on WeChat. Xiaomi sells primarily in Asian markets, but is now targeting India, Latam and Africa.

ZTE

The handset subsidiary of the giant ZTE Corporation is actually the US’s fourth biggest phone maker. It’s reached this point by making budget smartphones for all the major carriers – indeed, it’s the US’s second-largest supplier of prepaid devices. The firm has been trying to establish itself as a maker of aspirational devices for many years. Like its close rival Huawei, ZTE made a big push in 2011 with premium devices like the Skate, but these efforts fizzled out. Still, ZTE is expected to ship 60 million smartphones in 2015, up from 48 million units last year.

10 Chinese phone makers transforming the industry; they are not ranked here.

In no time, Chinese OEMs have risen from nowhere to challenge the world's most powerful smartphone brands. Here are 10 to watch...

Your next phone could come from Nigeria. Or Holland. Or the UK...

https://www.hottopics.ht/8686/10-chinese-phone-makers-to-your-pocket/

AryaSand:
Great Man! The bolded is why he is hated in my opinion. They hate him because they can NEVER have what he has.

I still wonder where he stole Wailers' money because this guy was only governor of his state and left 13 years ago. He has never been appointee of federal government like Anyim,Stella Odua, etc. or Fed elected official like Ekwuremadu, Saraki, etc.

He was the first governor outside Igbo land to appoint Igbos as commissioner, DGs, etc. Akabueze heads Fed Budget office due to this man and Igbokwe has been spokesman for his party in Lagos for years.

I've come to believe that Tinubu's name haunts them day and night.

Meel:
Almost 2 years now that she has been a regent,
can anyone care to explain why osun and ekiti always practice this.

If a male regent was used, he might refuse to vacate the throne. He is also a prince and most communities in the West do rotate their kings among the royal families.

Having stayed 2 years on the throne, she will soon start praying for kingmakers to produce new king. She must fulfill those conditions and it is not easy to be a regent as a single lady for a long time.

Weedfree:
Before Egba people came to Abeokuta the stayed in ibadan until they were driving by the ijebus and later got independence from oyo empire later came to abeokuta where they settled in. So u see Egba people have already gained independence from oyo empire, by the time they arrived in Abeokuta the were not under oyo empire so I don't think oyo empire had land's in ogun state.

It actually covered most present Ogun central and west. How do you think Oyo got to her main port in Ajase (Port novo) in present Benin Republic.

Oshi5403:
Baseless Facts.

You Refered To The Benin Empire As A Small Kingdom.
A Kingdom That Extended Its Conquest To Dahomey(now Benin Republic).
You Are Such A Clown.

Then carry out your own research to see the kingdom that's bigger or you continue to believe that which you want to believe.
However, there is no much to find online about African history, look for books.

You already deviated from the purpose of the thread.

davidnazee:
Yorubas worship differently from Benin. Esu is only acknowledged as a deity in Benin but not worshipped, no shrine is erected for it. I too come from a family that worshipped African gods we never worshipped Esu at anytime.

Do you know that Ogun and Esu are friends?

Do you know about several misfortunes Esu caused Ogun due to his tricks?

What do you know about innocent deaths Ogun committed just because of Esu tricks?

Maybe you should tell me more stories about Ogun...

Oshi5403:
But Hope You Read Of The Part Of History That Has It That The Kingdom Of Bini Extended Its Rule To Dahomey(now Benin Republic).
How Do You Explain That.

It never happened.

That's part of revisionists' theory, just because of same 'name'. You can find out how Dahomey came about the name 'Benin Republic'.
Nigeria own was from 'Ibinu' to 'Ibini' to Bini and recently, Benin; they are not related.

Just30:
sorry but Oyo didnt even cross Dahomey to even have a boundary with Akan

Where is Volta River?

''Expansion

From 1650 onward, the Oyo Empire entered a period of expansion, where it would extend its rule over most communities between the Volta River in the west to Benin and the Niger River in the east. The expansion of the Empire was made possible by the adept use of calvary and the use of part-time military forces recruited from its tributary states.
The height of Oyo's militaristic expansion was in 1748, following the subjugation of the Kingdom of Dahomey, which occured in two phases (1724–30, 1738–48). The empire then began trading with European merchants on the coast through the port of Ajase (Porto-Novo).''

www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Oyo_Empire

Weedfree:
Then do u mind listing them out and oyo empire never conquered ogun state.

Oyo Empire did not really expand widely in the forested areas but covered northern part of present Ogun State. The Egbas were settled around present Ibadan then and were covered by the Oyo Empire but Ijebus were not.

davidnazee:
Esu is acknowledged as a diety but rarely worshipped.. it’s only dubious people that makes offering to Esu.
So u are very wrong to say Ogun worshippers also worship Esu..

Then you people don't know what you're doing.

I was born in a family that has been worshiping Ogun for generations. There was never a time, Ogun is worshipped with sacrifice like dog, kola, Palmwine, roasted yam and palm oil that little was not splash or drop on Esu Lalu or lanroye's little spot (though you don't drop some certain things like 'adin') by the main Ogun shrine and the pronouncements 'esu ma se mi omo...' and they would praise-sing him not to cause misfortunes. You people don't just know anything about this deities again. When you see how Binis that engage in Umọlẹ, Sango, Ogun, ect do theirs, you will only shake head. Everything is turned upside down, even the Ogboni of a thing....

Nanatrendy:
lies, lies any Ghanaian/ Ivorian reading this will immediately know you are lying because in the first place the ethnic group which extends to the ivory coast is Akan, ashanti is a tribe within the akan ethnic group. There are records of wars we fought and lost and what you are saying is a lie. Ashanti tried to extend it borders to dahomey but lost the war so they retreated but didn't pay allegiance to bini because they merely defended themselves and their motherland aside that we had no encounter with no tribe from Nigeria. The ewes run away from an evil king in Benin to present day Ghana, the Gas also run away from ile ife to Ghana to escape famine they did not pay allegiance to anytribe in Nigeria infact the tribe that gave them issues was ashanti it's obvious that they interracted with akans most since their culture has some akan influences. Written and oral ghanaian history does not mention oyo drop that fantasy.

I wonder why it so difficult for you to understand!

For the last time:
I didn't say Oyo kingdom COVERED or SPREAD OVER or SPREAD THROUGH Ghana or Cote d'Ivoire. I said it spread up to Ashanti kingdom; that is, boundary of Ashanti's kingdom. And the Ashantis are in present Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire.

This is the problem with the Bini revisionists who don't want to read or carry out research but rely mainly on 'beer palour' tales.

Simply look for history books on Oyo Empire; don't just rely on limited online sources.

You can get few things from here:

www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Oyo_Empire

https://seunfakze./2012/02/19/the-oyo-empire-by-prof-george-ayittey/

www.fsmitha.com/h3/h28af3-4.htm

gregyboy:
Lol....benin dont worship esu .esu is seen as devil in benin and they neither worship osun we can never truely ascertain any worship you mention apart from ayelala you mentioned which was adopted recently just thesame way ogboni was also adopted on recent but this does not connote seniority between both party as religion worship could be accepted through trade .benin empire is way older than the oyo empire it took in some religional worship and took out some indigenous worship...i repeat we can still not ascertain who gave who this worship we could only guess and our guess maybe wrong ...and again benin was an empire.that dwell so much on spirituality they borrowed so many different idol from neighbouring state even also adopted christanity so we borrowing idols from yoruba people cannot ascertain anything young man just like we borrowing christanity meaning we came from isreal

Though I promise not to reply you again because I don't believe an adult would not understand the difference between 'spread up to' and 'spread over/through'.

Please go to any Ogun worshiper in Benin and ask him to show his shrine. You will find a stone close to that Ogun shrine; that's for Esu (the trickster), Esu was different from Satan in the Bible; when Bishop Ajayi Crowders was translating Bible from English to Yoruba, he called Satan, Esu and it sticks up till today.

To an hunter, who worships Ogun, he believes that the gun he is carrying can kill someone/himself through mistake or misfortune hence the sacrifice to Esu by giving him some offerings on that stone near Ogun shrine to appease him. Esu was part of the ancient Yoruba gods just like Ogun, Obatala, Orunmila, etc.

Bye.

gregyboy:
Answer the question youre explaining how did it stretch there through conquest or interaction

I will not say more!
You can continue to choose what to believe.


Bye.

gregyboy:
Oyo empire stretches over ghana and ivory coast how is it through conquest or through influence

Read again!

'' ...spread up to Ashanti kingdom of present Ghana/Ivory's coast''.

Ashanti people are in present day Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire.
Ashanti's neighbours to the east from Accra region to Togo and Benin Republic, the Ewes, Fons, etc are closely related to the Yorubas;; they even claim Ife origin. Oyo Empire easily absorbed them at her greatest prowess but as soon as the empire declined, they did not only got their independence but also attacked some Oyo territories.

Weedfree:
Oyo empire conquered most of Yoruba land but not all Benin empire conquered most of southern part of Nigeria. Oyo empire stretches all the way to Benin, Togo and Ghana. Some of the Yoruba people in those areas got their through migration not by conquering. it was recorded that Oyo empire fought Ashanti empire but it was never recorded in Ashanti history. Just has Benin empire said the subjected ijebu but it was not recorded in ijebu history.

Oyo Empire did not conquer most of Yoruba land oh! It covers present Oyo State, Kwara, part of Osun, part of Ogun, and the rest of the empire was in West Africa,
It avoided conquering Ife.It was after the fall of Oyo Empire that the rising power, Ibadan, waged war against most Yoruba clans until Ekiti Parapo war against Ibadan by Ekitis, Ijesas, some Igbominas, etc. with arms' support from Ijebus.

Yes, some got there through migrations; however, some warriors and their commanders also stayed behind during the Oyo Empire. Some were their to collect royalties for Alaafin as 'Ajele' and permanently settled in those places.

PetroDollaxx:
This is not true. Oyo empire never reached a Ghana. When was this? When did it happen?

You can always read more about Oyo Empire.
Just start now with limited online sources; then get history books; don't assume you already knew everything about Ọyọ Empire or any other history,

How did you think the isolated Yoruba people in central Togo, etc. got there in the first place?

gregyboy:
The Ashanti kingdom and togo u speak about was it by conquest if its not i would say benin influence spread beyond sothern part of nigeria including the oyo empire inclusive and beyond africa to europe in portugal

Oyo Empire secured these places through conquest. They mainly used Calvary of horses which were very good in the savanna and plain land of West Africa. They could not penetrate forested and swamped areas hence the independence of Ekitis, Owos, Ondos, Ilajes, Ijebus, Lagos Aworis, etc; even Bini. Their Calvary could easily get to Ajase, Cotonou, etc.
than Lagos.

Bini never gone beyond Lagos Island not even Badagry, the Ilajes and Itsekiris they made use of to get to Lagos Island couldn't really wage war against powerful Ijebus' kingdom, hence they took prince Ado of Bini through the lagoon; the land between Bini and Eko were never conquered by the Binis.

gregyboy:
Listen to yourself who would forfeit a whole language because he wants to rewrite an history if they even attempted to do such they could have been much similarities between the new adopted language and that of the one forgone just in a space of how many years a language was forgone in an entire city you should be ashmed you never took philosophy to help you reason before you talk.... And again because the oba launched a book years ago meaning what he wrote in the book was never true put yourself as a benin man and tell me which history would please your ears

I never said Yoruba language was used by Bini populace but in the palace to some point in time.
A lot of Yorubas remained in Bini after Oranmiyan left, so as to guide the young prince/king in Yoruba spirituality. How do you explain the worshiping of Ogun, esu, Osun, Aiyelala, Umọlẹ, etc in Bini up till this day?

Oshi5403:
Guy,i Believe You Understand That Nothing Happens On Earth Without A Reason.So The Fact That The Bini Kingdom Never Intended To Subjugate The Oyo Kingdom Is Pure Fallacy.
I Think Both Me And You Have A Work To Do On That.

How would a smaller Bini Kingdom subjugate Oyo Empire?
See, most of the explorations of Bini to South West then were carried out by Ilajes, Owo, Ikale, Itsekiris, Ekitis (including Akure), etc. They all saw Bini kings as Oodua royal sons. In fact, Ilajes were used to get to Awori's Olofins in present Lagos Island. Some Ekitis, Akokos, etc were used to fight among themselves on behalf of Oba of Bini...

gregyboy:
Lol...they make lies alot you bother yourselves to question them ....

The only war benin would have had with the oyo empire was the war benin aided ekiti as a tributary under itself to wage war against the egba people which the ekiti won

This is simply confusion!

Ekiti never fought Egba, they don't even share boundary. Ekiti never really fought Oyo but Ibadan. However, there were wars between Ekiti kingdoms and Bini and her allies within. Oyo only intervened in Otun Ekiti kingdom and Bini war.

You people should also know that Oyo Empire started earlier and spread wider, as far as Ashanti kingdom of present day Ghana/Ivory's coast. Oyo made use of ports in Badagry, Ajase, Cotonou and Togo rather than the Ijebu/Awori dominated ones in Lagos. Oyo empire was already diminishing when Bini Kingdom was growing. Oyo Empire knew about Ife prince kingdom of Bini and the two never really waged war against each other.

Oshi5403:
But Hope You Know That The Benin Verse Of The Mythical History States That Oduduwa Is From Benin Kingdom.It States That Oduduwa Is A Prince From Benin Know As Ekardarghan.It Was When He Migrated And Settled In Ife That He Termed Himself "Izoduwa" Meaning "I Did Not Lose My Royalty" In Benin Language,which Was Later Changed To Oduduwa By The Yorubas Or Rather Ife Kingdom.

So That Makes The Benin To Claim That They Are Superior To The Yorubas Because Oduduwa Originated From The Royal Family Of Benin.

Start with the consideration of the two groups' population. Then consider these:

One thing is that Bini never loved Oranmiyan; if he was a son of ozodua as they claimed, they would have loved him and he wouldn't have called the land 'ile ibinu'. Also his generations will not continue to pay ceremonial land royalty to one particular Ogiso house till today.

The greatest Bini historian never mentioned this ekhaladeren/ozodua tale. There are lots of revisionists of Benin story today. Not too long ago, the palace of Bini brought this ozpdua's story so as to remain relevant in the midst of Igodomigodo people. Yoruba language of the palace was also downplayed.

Ooni of Ife is the senior among the three. Ile Ife remains the source of every Yoruba and the people' spirituality.
Alaafin never ruled over Ekiti, Ijebu, Ondo, Ilaje, Ikale, Owo, Akoko, Ijesa, etc. so these people don't revere him in anyway but respect his exploits. However they all recognise and revere the Ooni.

Though some historians claim, Oba of Bini was the first through Eweko, a woman of Igodomigodo origin; Alaafin was second child through a Nupe (Tapa) woman and Arole Oodua Ooni through a Yoruba woman. In those days, Yorubas kings, sons of Oodua valued the purity of the royal blood, Oodua, by marrying themselves. All these gives credit to Ooni leadership and spiritual dominance.
There was also story of Ooni being direct child of Oodua other than Oranmiyan who later returned to Ife after founding Oyo, became king or not, died and buried in Ife with his staff present till today.

Alaafin later became political leader through the spread of Oyo empire and Oranmiyan generation also created the Bini Kingdom.

In all these, respect to Oranmiyan, son of Okanbi, grandson of and Arole Oodua.

tommykiwi:
According to El Rufai " he his a common Commissioner"

It was Saraki that said so; however, where is the loser today?

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laydoh:
if you don't know anything, just sharrap. Their family house is beside mine.

The best answer to these people is silence.

They are trying hard to turn this thread to ethnic and religious one. That's their trade in stock.

mekaboy:
Petty traders, yet 99% of electronics used in the entire Lagos was imported by igbos.

Even the phone or laptop you are using to type this rubbish was imported by igbos.

All car parts in Lagos are igbos.

And they gave them free to people.

Trading is one of the easiest thing to do; once you move back to SE, people are already waiting to occupy those spaces.

enemybulldozer:
enlightened?? Ok, show us pictures of this kind hail falling from your cave.
Wonders shall never end. Imagine a Yoruba man that does not know what it means to travel is telling me to move out of the cave am staying??

Mitcheeeeww

This is inferiority complex oh!

Are you just seeing this in Enugu and you are already 'beating chest'.

I really pity Igbos, this is getting out of hand; you are really pushing Yorubas to cut you to size in the SW. Every normal thread is turned to anti-Yoruba one.

Hail stones rain is a regular thing in Ekiti. Check this out:

http://www.tori.ng/news/57427/see-photos-of-snow-that-fell-in-ekiti-state-on-sat.html

https://www.nairaland.com/3704339/snow-fell-ekiti-state-today#54948140

ngoxievergreen:
does it mean that APC in lagos knows what we online people does not know? this APC desperation proves one thing, igbos are very key to whoever that will take over the Alausa house in Ikeja. it is obvious igbos are very important in lagos

The guy is wise enough to protect his investment.
Only you with no single investment there will be beating chest on faceless forum.
Are you saying APC, a national party, should not associate with any Igbo man?
Your eyes will clear after Saturday's elections whether all Igbos (as they always do) vote for PDP or not. PDP can only win Lagos with Yorubas' votes. upon all Igbos' noise in 2015 Lagos elections, Yorubas votes for PDP multiply that of Igbos' many times; u can get in touch with INEC to find out. You think it's igbo that is rejecting APC in Oyo?