₦airaland Forum

idumuose: Why are you foaming in the mouth as if you are ep!lept!c.I answered you according to your f0lly.

urheme: Na wa o!

How is the answers going to benefit a pagan

Abeg enter your shrine joor

idumuose: I don't answer f00ls

macof: Why should you go to church at all?

Is ur god after church?

dont8: Children my foot! So closing of people's business is what will bring the dead back, you must be living in stone age.

dont8: It's barbaric because you're closing and crippling someone's means of livelihood all in the name of culture that should have been discarded long ago, don't forget people eat out of what they sell daily.

all4naija: That is an advice! Traditionalists in Africa are known to follow old rites and rituals which are known to be harmful to people and society.

freshness2020: Am I seeing people saying RIP to the Oba?
When heads of innocent Nigerians are already rolling for the Ritual!... They've already began killing before the news came out..IMO, I don't think the oba died at the aforementioned day, life less bodies were already littered all over the street of Ikeja , like the life less lady found around the Railway on Monday .
Its a pity that such diabolical acts are still practised in this part of the world, and Fashola will come out and tell us this is a "Mega city"..Agbero's are having a field day molesting gullible Nigerians out there, and you say Mega City ? Mega city my foot.
SMH...

simplynola: Hmmn...when their gods fail them in health. Anyways RIP

Siddeek: I tot he was a muslim. Why d rituals? We muslims ar seriously pathing away from islam enmasse. Huh... May Allah 4give us. Well, Rip if he claims to be a muslim.

dont8: [size=14pt]Inna Lillahi wa inna ilaihi raji'un, may almighty forgive him of his sins. But I'm not in support of the closure of the markets, it's barbaric and detrimental to development of the state.[/size]






http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2014/07/02/olu-of-ikeja-dies-markets-shut-down/

Baby mama: Hmm
Na who go receive this soul now
Allah or satan?

Peppyluv: They will o! A message have been circulating on bb and watsapp that everyone should be careful because human heads will be needed. According to the message, it says an oro is going on and seven human heads will be needed. (whatever 'oro' means....I don't know)

all4naija: RIP! The next heir to the throne should shun all forms of barbaric practice.

ABAKA72: Twins
Igbo = Ejima
Urohbo =Ejime

Afam4eva: Rivers state

temilexis: English - Yoruba - Itsekiri(Warri-in Niger Delta)
Come - wa - wa
Food - onje - oje
Hand - owo - Ewo
Leg - Ese - Esen
Meat - Eron - Eran
Door - ekun - ekun
Boat - oko - oko
Water - omi - omi
Cloth - ewu - ewu
One - eyokan - okan
Two - meji - meji
Three - meta - meta
Four - merin -meren
Five - mefa - mefa
Fish - eja - eja
Hear - gbor - gbor
Land - ale - ale
Wife - aya - aya
Take - gba - gba

fijiano202: English-Pomo Yoruba-Pomo Igbo-Pomo Hausa-Pomo

ibrews: let's go
Yoruba-Je a lo
Hindi - ja lo

languages of the world are similar...nt only Nigeria

Afam4eva: SPOON
Igbo - Ngaji
Ogoni - Ngazi

dont8: GOAT
Yoruba: Ewure
Igbo: Ewu

Most times too, some of this similarity could bring about different meanings and interpretations.

Check this: An Egbira boy took his friend, a Yoruba boy to his home and wanted to introduce him to his father and was shouting Ota mi de, Ada mi da. The word ‘Ota’ in Egbira language means friend whereas in Yoruba, the same word means enemy. By the same token, the word ‘Ada’ in Egbira means father, whereas in Yoruba the same word means cutlass or sword. Of course, the word ‘Mi’ in Egbira and Yoruba simply means mine, and the word ‘De’, ‘has arrived’ means exactly the same thing in both Yoruba and Egbira. Therefore, ‘Ota mi de, Ada mi da’ in Egbira simply means ‘My friend has arrived, where is my father’ (to help me welcome him). In Yoruba, the same statement means, ‘My enemy is here, get me my cutlass’.

If I was that friend in question, on hearing the word sword, I'll do Usain Bolt sharpaly.

MacLovington: .

Correction:

I have posted this b4 on another NL thread.

The crown prince and the Oba do see. There was never a jinx. It was mere pragmatism to broaden the prince's "education" and preparation for the crown.

In any case the Crown Prince only began to live outside the wall surrounding Benin about 500 years back.
And it came about like this:

There was a nobleman and warrior called Iken. He lived at Uselu, which was a different town back then but has now grown to meet Benin proper.

The Oba requested Iken to go to war in Yorubaland. He was already relatively "old" and had no sons.
He made only one request: that His Majesty should please ensure his household was well looked after as he had no son. It's like Iken had premonition.

The Oba assured him that the Crown Prince no less would personally look after his household in his absence.

But Iken died in the war.

As a permanent memorial to Iken the Oba decreed that every crown prince upon reaching maturity should live at Iken's palace until becoming king. And so it is till today.

Oba Akenzua II (educated at King's College Lagos) was secretary to his father (Oba Eweka II). Until Eweka II departed in 1933.

That Oba & Crown prince don't see is a total myth.

Many of my people are dukes of the Kingdom and palace chiefs.

brownlord: Really, so you even know more than the Alaafin, bro you guys know nothing about this history, even an uneducated person know's his father' farmland and boundary, saying Alaafin's record is not correct is an evidence that the bini's are right.