₦airaland Forum

yashau:
lol... south west and brown roof is like 5 $ 6

Stale!

I know your village is better than Paris;

So, clap for yourself!

engrjacuzzi:
is bukola saraki a Yoruba man or Hausa man

Maybe, but you can still ask them in Abeokuta, Iseyin and his father's adopted place, Ilorin!

yawwilson:
Hello bro, if you don't have any problem with your 4922A,and you don't intend to use it for power-vu..then you are OK for now But since a new software will be release soon for only the new brands(4950 upwards) you will stand the chance of enjoying "Goodies"and always smiling when they pop-up.
However, you can never interchange different Decoder softwares because of the configuration.. you end up "killing"the Decoder

Thanks for this.

yawwilson:
Even with the arrival of the new set 4955 and 4962l, the 4950H seems to be maintaining it's dominance especially in picture quality

I own SRT 4922A and 4329, is there any need to upgrade to current ones? Though I'm not so concerned about Sports 24 but for pure fta. What can one also do with SRT 4329; can the board of 4955 work on it since it is a bin's decoder not stb like 4922?

horsepower101:
The Yorubas simply hate to see igbos do good or succeed.

The Yorubas attitude towards igbos has always been "I will rather us all suffer together than watch you succeed".

Even though Nigeria has clearly been far more beneficial for the Yorubas, the moment they see anything good happen for the igbos, they immediately lose their mind.

In summary, igbo attitude is;

" Yorubas are doing great in this area, let's change our ways to be able to meet up and compete with them"


Yoruba attitude is:

" Igbos are doing great is this area, let's do everything possible to make sure that we stop them from succeeding"

'I see'! And they give you so much space to operate in every corner of the West upon this -

" Yoruba attitude is: Igbos are doing great is this area, let's do everything possible to make sure that we stop them from succeeding"

Mynd44:
The use of Yoruba to teach subjects is a test to see if it will help students understand it better not a drastic change in policy, surely you don't expect everyone to be taught in Native languages. And even if it works, it won't be change anything, students who assimilate faster in Yoruba can as well go learn it.

English is Nigeria's official language but if our next nuclear physicists have to be trained in Igala for them to understand and use it to grow the nation, it is a win for Nigeria

The 'experiment' was carried out in Ife among some students sometimes ago. They were being taught English language just like French but language of instruction for all other subjects was in Yoruba. They performed far better than students with English as language of instruction in all subjects, even in WASSCE.

This is just the way to go.

Efewestern:
You don't get it. he is saying they should use standard itsekiri spelling instead of Yoruba spelling. The spelling is what makes the language unique. so 'TS' is itsekiri while 'SH' is standard Yoruba.

Ts (ola) not sh (ola).
Ts(eyi) not Sh(eyi)
Ts(aye) not Sh(aye)
Ts(aninomi) not Sh(aninomi).

Nothing like 'Sh' in standard Yoruba; the correct ones are: Sola, Seyi, Seye, Ilesa, Osogbo Orisa,. etc; also Pele, Patapata, Ope ( instead of kpele, kpaktakpakta, okpe). Some are even spelling 'were' as wherey or werey!

In central and eastern Yoruba, both the local and General forms are employed when giving names, eg, Ademiluyi for Ademiniyi, Akinlua for Akinleye, Ogunluyi for Ogunniyi, etc.

I don't see why itsekiri must always bear the local forms, some were born in the SW. This notwithstanding, I respect their choice of not really wanting to have much to do with the Yorubas generally.

ettybaba:
This is quite unintelligent,(no pun intended) from the Igbo elders.

Let them boycott, the remaining Nigerians too will boycott Igbo businesses and shops, including Innoson products. Shikena!

Please do you have very sound 2000/2001 Toyota Corolla, Automatic Trans? Also Price.

Ado, Ido, Ondo, Oro, etc mean almost the same thing, that is, to settle or settlement.

Alariiwo:
Excellent!!

Yoruba language will one day be the lingua franca of Africa. Even Whites pay big to learn my beloved language.

God bless all Omoluabis worldwide. Amin!

The translation of Yoruba language to any other is the shortest; one of the sweetest languages worldwide.
The most spoken African language outside Africa.
Language of culture and religion in the Americas!

Indeed "Yoruba dun ka"

Good one from BBC!

Biggie225:
Igbos are intelligent people. They understand situations accurately unlike yorubas.

As the most intelligent Igbo on earth, you should have known that PMB also named FUOYE in Ekiti, that is far better than the one in Ebonyi, after Adeyinka Adebayo and no one make noise.

Are you saying only Yorubas attend Unilag?

SicilianMafia:
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Arrant Trash untop Nonsense!!

By the time I deal with you on this thread you will run to the Mods!!

Edo us the only ethnic group that cut across ethnic divides ....Apart from our natural domain of all of the delta down to Lagos and even Onitsha and Even the Ekiti and Ondo in the s/west today was once under Benin , so small boy your Yoruba is a joke compared to Edo's

Who is stopping you? Go and take over Ekiti, Ondo and Lagos States! Whereas, you own no single plot in Ondo that shares boundary with you but Yorubas owns lots of miles in your 7 LGA! Ekiti has nothing to do with Bini than in the past when some princes of Ife (in whom my Great-grandfather was included) were looking for land to settle, move to Bini area and later returned westward and settled among the Ulesun people of Ekiti. Ekitis fought Bini expansionists to a standstill just the way they later fought Ibadan. Ekiti, the smallest Yoruba state (after Lagos), with 16 LGAs, is more than double of your small Bini of 7 LGAs with less than 40% Bini population in 2 Ovia LGAs.

You don't deserve reply at all because your behaviour online is the worst I have seen, even than that of @historyworld031! This gives you up as a kid with little intelligent contribution but insults; and I will not accord you with one reply again. Bye, Bini revisionist, you can assert your energy on Ijaws that are coming for your little igodomigodo.

historyworld031:
If the word alafin doesn't mean king in your language then chances are that the alafin never was the king of your people.
If the word ooni doesn't mean king in your language then chances are ...
Is my reasoning too complicated or can you understand me ?

You simply know nothing!
You binis are very funny and hard learners.

Oba is a Yoruba word which was adopted by Bini for Eweka since he was the son of Oba of Ife ( Omo Oba Oranmiyan), the Ooni. So Bini that used to have Ogisos now gave Obatala, Obalufon, Oba Eledumare - Oba to ba Lori oungbogbo to Yorubas?

You're just a revisionist like your fellow binis with little brain for research but insults and arriving at kangaroo submissions.

Safe yourself the stress and ask a Bini that understands Yoruba language the meaning of Oba in Yoruba. You don't simply deserve reply any more since you people believe 7 local government areas overshadow and wiser than over 177 local government areas. I only pity you when Nigeria will divide and Igbo and Ijaw will subjugate Bini once more; we can only guarantee save passage for Omo Oba ni Edo.

Continue!

konoplyanka:
Yoruba still don't bear oba as a title. It's a general name of a king with each king having its own title.

Ask him to translate 'Prince' into Yoruba!

Prince = Omo Oba in Yoruba.

'Omo Oba ni Edo'

Eweka was the son of Oranmiyan of Ife!

Ask him the transaction of 'King' in Yoruba!

King means Oba; then each king now has his specific tittle partaining to each town or kingdom, eg Ewi, Olowo, Alaafin, Ooni,etc

Patterson504:
Hello all, My name is Lawrence. I'm from New Orleans, LA. A lot of people across the world are starting to use DNA testing to find out where they come from and distant relatives. It is very popular in America and black Americans are no exception. This morning, I was contacted by a distant relative from Ekiti state. She is Yoruba. I was really excited to finally hear from someone who I share a common ancestor with... Could anyone tell me more about Ekiti state and the Yoruba?
Obviously, our common ancestor was taken as a slave to America. My distant cousin surname is Fadogba.... I've read that Ekiti state has a lot of educators... I'm pursuing a teaching career right now... My DNA is split between Benin, Mali, and Cameroon... I am unfortunately 13% European... I'm 85% African and 2% Native American.... Could I fit in with the Yoruba?

Ekiti people are central Yorubas just like Ifes, Ijesas and Igbomina. Their major townships are Ado (Ekiti State capital), Akure (Ondo State capital, and although, the people of Akure South, North and Ifedore are trying to calve new identify for themselves), Ikere, Ikole, Otun, Ijero, Aramoko, Iyin, Ido, Efon, Oye, Ise, Omuo, Ilawe, etc
Ekitiland is mainly highlands dominated by high and mighty rocks, mountains, freshwater and springs.
It was initially been populated by 'ulesun' people, well related to Nok people. The land was also occupied earlier by people we can only refer to as 'Atlantis'. The reminants were the ulesuns headed by an 'Ifa' diviner by the name 'Agboniregun', the son of Orunmila who was in the same league with Ogun, Obatala, Elegbara, etc. Hence, there are lots of Ekitis with names like, Fayemi, Fasogba, Falayi, Faseyi, Faluyi, etc.

Later, the arrival of migrants from 'The East' (probably the remnants of Aramaic people) in Ile Ife brought a lot of migrants to Ekiti area and these people continuously migrated to Ekitiland, took over the land from Ulesuns and rule the land up till date. Below are few examples of ulesun words:

English. Yoruba. Ulesun

Goat. Ewure. Ideregbe

leave. ewe. eira

Pap. Eko. Orin

Pawpaw. Ibepe. Ogolomasi

Dog. Aja. Okili, etc.

To Ekitis, Aba ( Abba) means Father unlike other Yorubas that say 'Baba', etc.

Ekiti people are very straightforward; they can lay down their lives for whatever they believe in. They are well known for their intelligent and academic pursuits. They are good, fearless and great warriors who fought Binin and Ibadan to stand-stills during wars; although some of them were sold into slavery earlier. Ekitis have integrated their local slaves of olden days that it's difficult to trace any slave again.

GuidoVanRossum:
You are the one using emotion here now sir. I just asked a neighbour who is from Ekiti (igbara-odo) and she confirmed they don't speak the same language even though they have some similarities. She even said there are slight variations in the way Ekiti people speak I.e, Ikole and Ikere have slight variation in language. Anyway, I don't understand either language.

I'm from Akoko-Edo, I speak fluent yoruba. In facts, I speak and write yoruba. I was already reading yoruba since I was in primary 3. But when people from Ekiti speaks, or Ilara or Akure, I usually don't understand them. Still they are same Yorubas.

Secondly, I have sincerely not met a person from Akoko-Edo claiming to be yoruba. My family (nuclear) speaks yoruba. When we are at home and we don't want people to hear us, we speak yoruba. Even in Ibillo where we used to stay, some that don't know us well will cal us ibo yoruba (yoruba people).

Big lie! Akure and Ekiti are the same with little variation which is the same all over Ekiti. Just try and listen to someone from Ise, Emure, etc in Ekiti and someone from Iju, Akure in Ondo, they speak virtually the same dialect.
Someone from Ekiti West, Efon ,even Igbara-odo, Ogotun in Ekiti and Igbara-oke, etc in Ondo speak a dialect so close to Ijesha. So also people in Moba or Omuo-Ekiti who speak related dialects to Igbomina and Okun respectively.
Akure South, Nouth and Ifedore (Ilaramoki, Igbara-oke, etc) people are foundationally Ekitis and are very close to Ijesha like the rest of Ekitis. They all understand each dialect.
These people with Ife and Igbomina are central Yorubas.

Noccerino:
Lol... Afonjas have been playing tribal politics even in 1993, did anyone notice how every yoruba states voted Abiola meanwhile northern states like kano and kaduna voted against a fellow northerner.

Whereas ipob states except great Anambra voted heavily for NRC; and some of you would come here and wrote how you massively voted for Abiola. Even Rivers was massively NRC!
You shall soon be paid back in the same coin then you will cry us a river.

ApexPredator:
Good for you. The same can't be said of your brothers with the way they are running to marry Igbo babes and paying hefty bride prices.

Yoruba men are free-hearted, adventurous, humourous and very very good with women; no much cultural resistance from their parents because Yorubas already overcome religious and cultural prejudices.
They are born spiritual and to conquer; they are very very social and down to earth.
They always prefer their babes who are more independent, ambitious and resourceful. Yoruba women are go-getters, feminine and respectful; Majority of them maintain their natural beauty. I love them for their ambitions and spirituality; I only love Igbo girls for their complexion which on most occasion not really sure whether it's real or not. I so so much love Yoruba feminine features even more; they're not masculine or growing hair where only men do.
It's very rare for a Yoruba woman to choose Igbo man over Yoruba man unlike Igbo ladies.

Udmaster:
PDP won 1999 without the southwest.
So shalap

Who tell you the North will now vote for your candidate the way they voted massively for Obasanjo? And as if Obasanjo and Falae are not Yorubas!

A win! win!! win!!! for APC that will still deliver massive votes for Buhari in the North.

PVision2020:
Are you educated at all? cos educated folks don't argue with fact. Check any info about those state and their landmass and you'll put your lame argument to rest. We have Igbo Geography professors of repute and they have never refute the landmass of the east, so who are you to argue against fact?

You can easily visit all the states' capital townships of the East under 6 hours. Awka to Enugu - about 40 minutes; Enugu to Abakaliki - about 40 minutes; Abakaliki through Afikpo, Uturu, Akara to Umuahia - about 1 hour; Umuahia to Owerri - about 50 minutes; Owerri to Awka about 1 hour. It's even lesser!

There is no argument here at all but trust the op and his followers, they can argue and measure anything, even dick, online. This looks so stupid; when the map is there for everyone. 'We for be in trouble if only Igbo is educated in this country o'. They can even create thread to tell us that there is atlantic ocean in Enugu or that black is white. This is simply madness!

The Ogbu of a person should be ashamed of himself; if a farmer governor, who left office 10 - year - ago and who has never been given federal appointment, could plan the defeat of a sitting president. With SSG Anyim, DSP Ekwueremadu, Iweila, and thousands of igbos as Jonathan's appointment army; and several appointees from South, North, East and West. Ogbu, can simply cry us a river, that one man planned 'una' downfall, instead of asking for the heads of your people that failed GEJ.

Yyeske:
OP, what was calculated was the landmass and not total area so Lagos could be bigger than Anambra if the total water mass is included.
Remember that Lagos still has the continental shelf in the Atlantic and if that is included too, you'll realise that Anambra MAY BE the smallest state in Nigeria.

What he fails to realize is that, just like Singapore, Indonesia, etc, water bodies like oceans, lagoon, creeks, helps in sustaining large population than dry land. If Anambra at present could not manage it's waste products, pollution, etc, and should now have present Lagos population, then it would be hell on earth.

The op is deluded and pained, all he sees in his dreams is Afonja, who will forever hunt him and his fellow ipobs. He forgot that Oyo state alone is almost the same in Landmass with the entire South East.

Ekiti, Central Yoruba


Akinlua. - Akinleye

Adesua. - Adeseye

Adelua - Adeleye

Adeluyi. - Adeniyi

Akinluyi. - Akinniyi

Others are:
Ademiluyi, Oguntuyi, Ogunluyi, Ademiluyi, Olumilua, funmiluyi, Adesuyi, etc. Though they bear both forms.

Uyi = Iyi, Ua = Eye etc.

Then you have '... en' ending some Ijebu's names.
In Ijebu also, Ogunleye becomes Ogunnewe or Ogunneye; Adeleye becomes Adeneye, etc.

Adeleye = Adelua = Adeneye = Adekeye (Igbomina, sometimes for Adesua or Adeseye).

arbourboateng:
They are almost the same in terms of the features but 4962i is more advance version to 4955 because of the terrestrial version and the processor of 62i is faster than 4955. So I will saggust you go for 4962i beside its more latest than 4955 series.

Please, can Srt 4962i perform all the functions of 4950 series and what is the market price?

Until you people engaged in more researches then your hearts will be open to knowledge!

Some scholars of history have failed because they allowed emotions to be cloud there beliefs and some are lazy and proposed rubbish which they taught their students.

Findings over the time have pointed out that there was not just one Oduduwa nor one Oranmiyan. These later became titles and names that many rulers and princes beared or adopted in Ife, hence the confusion.

Just like the OP wrote, there are some oral traditions that pointed to creation of the World in Ife; there are some that point to migrations from the East with earliest one from probably from Mesopotamia (with some religious people erroneously pointing to Mecca and Israel) and others from Egypt, Cush, Spain through Morocco. They are all correct depending on the one you choose to believe.

MayorofLagos:
Discuss it in full dimension if you must do so. Yoruba were already using guns to wage war in the years you mentioned. Yorubas were in the middle of Kiriji war when colonialists got hinterland of Yorubaland. One of the principal warriors was Ogedengbe and many of his pictures showed him with a musket.

When British Navy attacked Lagos they were badly defeated twice. Yorubas used muskets and canons to defend Lagos and it was only on third attempt the foreign navy succeeded in victory, and that battle was hard-won, took over 24hrs.

Yoruba had posessed guns through trade with Portuguese and Dutch. Iyalode of Egbaland was one of the frontline arms trader.

If according to your storyline Britain was involved in mediating a war in the hinterland of Yorubaland, then it had to be after 1865....the bombardment of Lagos i described above occurred in 1850.

If we could fight off British sailors in boats and over waters in 1850, what stopped us from decimating Fulani horseriders galloping in open view across the plains....or into dangerous terrains of the forest where tree canopies can aid our concealment and assist ambush with the lethal fire power of guns?

Please reconstruct your story. I repeat, Fulani has no power of victory over Yorubaland, they owe gratitude to Afonja and his armies for their Emirate in Ilorin.

What has kept Emirate in Ilorin is Islam rather than Fulani tribe. The Emirate was sacked many times by internal Yoruba groups within Ilorin but thanks to the British and Islamic religion that have secured it till this day.

urahara:
Hmmmn, are you fluent in itsekiri ?


..........and what in gods name is "old Yoruba "

Old - Orisa (Abarisa in Ekiti; Aba means father in Ekiti, etc), Olua, Eleda, Eledua, Eledumare or Edumare, etc. Newer - Aseda, Olorun, Oluwa, etc.

Orisafemi = Oritsefemi.

A friend from Osun shared an experience with me concerning his ordeal with one Old Man in Ekiti Bank who insisted that he should never ever call him Yoruba but Ekiti because Yoruba is for Oyo group within the larger ethnic body of Olukumi or Nago. The friend tried to let him know that 'Olukumi now referred to 'concubine' in Oyo dialect rather than 'friend or one related to you' but the baba would not accept. He accused Ajayi Crowder of imposing his dialect and group's name 'Yoruba' on everyone; the same with Itshekiris, they are not accepting but have shared history with Yorubas.

However, majority of the dialectal groups in the West, Kwara and Kogi West (because they are the same people) now accept the name Yoruba for it gives everyone one identity.

One of my Igala Director was counting, ini or ene, eji, eta, etc just the way Ekitis, etc count 123.. I asked 'how come'? He said we were virtually the same people. that there were lots of migrations of the same ancient people from mesopotamia (particularly Ur, Using), Aramaic -the earlier movements, then later from Egypt, the East, etc. That their group passed through Adamawa and stayed with kwaraffa people, the Jukuns, etc for sometime. They moved to and stay in their present location instead of going to Ekiti or Ife. They later mixed with local Okpoto Africans to become Igalas. He said one of the prince went to form Eri kingdom and some still later went to Ekiti, Okun to establish kingdoms; he said there is Atta of Aiyede in Ekiti. He said, some believe that they were from Wukari and came to their present location, mixed with Yorubas and other earlier Africans like Okpoto.

Itshekiris are simply the mixture of Ilaje and Ijebu with the king from Bini and by extension, Ife. Nevertheless, they can choose to be Itshekiris rather than being Yorubas if it pleases them.

diadem10:
Of course, there's no problem with them settling in the place but the problem I have with them is when Ijaws keep claiming the place as their ancestral land when they are just settlers. The question is how could we have had the Itsekiris separating these Ijaw tenants in Ondo and Benin from the Ijaws in Delta if it were their ancestral land in the first place?

Funny thing is the Ijaws and even the Ikwere people loved putting a name to every small community that isn't up to a plot of land and that was why they were able to name many small sized communities inside Ese Odo which was named by the Ilajes. The fact is we don't care what the settlers choose to name their communities, the fact remains that they are settlers and if the Ijaws tries any stupid thing, we will have their arogbo brothers moved back to Bayelsa!

The Apois have already assimilated. The Arogbos that migrated after them can never go with an inch of Ilaje land but for now they are accepted as one of us and are already assimilating. The only problem I had with some of them was in School then, seeing someone that claimed to come from Southern Ijaw LGA also claiming at the same time to come from Ese Odo.