justnairalande: So your proof of superiority of your ooni is a photo taken in the british embassy ? A Photo of royal fathers sitting down on chairs waiting for the photograph to take a photo of them ? The display was most likely done by the photograph himself. Well yoruba and double speak is a common thing.
When everybody thought only the Oba of Benin was invited to the british embassy, I remember all the insults flowing from the yoruba who were saying it wasn't dignifying that the Oba of Benin would grace the prince of wales by going to the british embassy. As soon as it was clear that the ooni of ife was also invited, the yoruba changed their tune and it was now about sitting arrangements for the group photo. Whomever was sitting closest to prince charles was the highest according to the same yoruba.
When people call you guys hypocrits, it is not an insult, that is what you are. Every now and then, your ooni of ife would come out to make an incredibly foolish statement and you will all jump to defend it: he has claimed that an ooni of ife lived 500 years, that the igbos migrated from ife, that Benin Kingdom was withing Edo-state and part of yoruba territory, that a prince from ife founded Lagos, 80 million yoruba living in Brazil... The list goes on.
So we can ask ourselves how greatness of precolonial Kings who no longer have executive power should be measured. I dare say it is not by sitting arrangements on a photo.
Some plausible ways to measure the greatness of a precolonial African King:
1) The greatness of the precolonial Kingdom he ruled. 2) The status of his father 3) What was named after his kingdom (perharps a postcolonial country and/or a bight ?) 4) Artefacts 5) Architecture 6) How did he lose his executive power ? Did he fight or did he give up without a fight ? 7) This one is closely linked to point (1): how old is the oldest text talking about his kingdom and what does it say about his kingdom. 8 ) precolonial maps. 9) Organisation of the monarchy (you know a monarchy is fake when it has no capital and the lowest title is that of king)
All the yorubas do is bring up a fairytale of "oduduwa" to "justify" their ooni being the "source". In reality, ife was not developped when the british arrived contrary to Benin City which is the capital of Benin Kingdom (like abuja is the capital of nigeria and paris is the capital of france). Many cities withing Benin Kingdom (including Onitsha, Auchi, Warri, Lagos, Asaba) were way more developped than ife. In all the points above, Benin Kingdom beats ife village hands down.
Also, I would like to know why the ooni of ife wears a d.i.ldo on his head as crown ?
SouthWest and NorthWest have being allies before the british came in.. they sold slaves together and engage in trans antlantic and trans saharan trade together... what exactly would change in 2023, i pity south east banking on betrayer.. them go wait tire
Captain Gbuile said: “I went to Aba because Ngwa people were eating human beings. I am going to advise our people against a lot of things they are doing and although they have not sought my advice but I am going to give it to them without asking for any gain.
“I went to Aba to stop cannibalism, the eating of human beings, which is just as bad as our people here today kidnapping our own people. We fought a war to protect lives and properties but our own people are now kidnapping our own people, does it make sense?”
Former Biafran commander Ben Guile reveals Ndigbo resorted to cannibalism during civil war
Captain Gbuile said: “I went to Aba because Ngwa people were eating human beings. I am going to advise our people against a lot of things they are doing and although they have not sought my advice but I am going to give it to them without asking for any gain.
“I went to Aba to stop cannibalism, the eating of human beings, which is just as bad as our people here today kidnapping our own people. We fought a war to protect lives and properties but our own people are now kidnapping our own people, does it make sense?”
Every moment, men, women and even children passed me. One would be carrying a human leg on his shoulder, another would be carrying the lungs or the heart of some unfortunate Kroo-boy in his or her hands. Several times I myself was offered my choice of one of these morsels, dripping with gore.
Father Bubendorf of Freiburg, an eye-witness to the slaughter of a group of captives outside the hut of a tribal chief, Onitsha, Nigeria, c. 1921.
OP, The most important task is what you have done. Anytime Ibo say something, I dont care if he attaches a source...Im going to review the source and fact check to conclusion. You will be surprised how many of their falsehoods and fake stories have been bursted by people taking the extra step to fact check before believing the nonsense.
Kudos to you! This thread is dry because you bursted them....they are avoiding it.
On Thursday Onitsha police arrested 11 people after they discovered 2 fresh human heads in a hotel (name withheld) very close to the popular Ose-Okwodu market in Anambra state. Two AK47 rifles & other weapons were also discovered in the hotel. The arrest followed tip-offs from area residents on Thursday morning.
The hotel owner, 6 women and 4 men were arrested.
After police got access to the hotel, they made a startling discovery of two human heads wrapped in a cellophane bag, two AK47 rifles, two army caps, 40 rounds of live ammunition and so many cell phones.
“Each time I came to market, because the hotel is very close to the market, I always noticed funny movements in and out of the hotel; dirty people with dirty characters always come into the hotel. So, I was not surprised when the police made this discovery in the early hours of yesterday,” said a vegetable seller in the area
A Pastor who was among the people who tipped off the police on Thursday said: “I went to the hotel early this year, after eating, I was told that a lump of meat was being sold at N700, I was surprised. So I did not know it was human meat that I ate at such expensive price.”
Here is a confirmed account of Cannibalism in Nigeria by Father Bubendorf of Freiburg, an eye-witness to the slaughter of a group of captives outside the hut of a tribal chief, Onitsha, Nigeria, c. 1921 Every moment, men, women and even children passed me, One would be carrying a human leg on his shoulder, another would be carrying the lungs or the heart of some unfortunate Kroo-boy in his or her hands. Several times I myself was offered my choice of one of these morsels, dripping with gore. Directly an enemy was slain, his head – and sometimes his body, if the people were strongly cannibalistic – was taken to the village and a great dance given, either at once or after the skull has been cleaned of its flesh by boiling, or by being buried for a time in the ground. At the feast, every man-slayer of the village danced round, generally with a skull in one hand and his machete in the other. Sometimes the body of the enemy was brought in whole; sometimes it was cut in pieces in advance to facilitate transport. It was then boiled in native pots and shared out, occasionally among the man-slayer’s family and friends, but sometimes among all the people of the village, until it was wholly consumed. In some tribes it was forbidden for women and children to partake of human flesh; in others, for example among the Kalabari, the eldest sister of the hut was forced to taste it, however strongly she might protest.
Among the Abadja, the whole body of anyone slain was ordinarily taken back to the village and there consumed, though it was tabu to eat women or children. A man only divided his ‘kill’ among his own family. The body was cut up and cooked in pots; the fingers, palms of the hands, and toes were considered the best eating. Sometimes, if a family had been satisfied, part of the body would be dried and put away for later.
When an Nkanu warrior brought a head back, everyone who heard of the deed gave him a present, and much palm-wine was drunk. The trophy was boiled, and the flesh cut away. The skull was then taken out, accompanied with all the others in the village, and the flesh was then boiled and eaten.
Much cruelty was practised among certain of these tribes. For example, the Bafum-Bansaw, who frequently tortured their prisoners before putting them to death. Palm-oil was boiled in a big pot, and then by means of a gourd enema it was pumped into the bowels and stomachs of the prisoners. This practice was said to make the bodies much more succulent than they would otherwise have been. The bodies were left until the palm-oil had permeated them, and then cut up and devoured...
Here is a confirmed account of Cannibalism in Nigeria by Father Bubendorf of Freiburg, an eye-witness to the slaughter of a group of captives outside the hut of a tribal chief, Onitsha, Nigeria, c. 1921 Every moment, men, women and even children passed me, One would be carrying a human leg on his shoulder, another would be carrying the lungs or the heart of some unfortunate Kroo-boy in his or her hands. Several times I myself was offered my choice of one of these morsels, dripping with gore. Directly an enemy was slain, his head – and sometimes his body, if the people were strongly cannibalistic – was taken to the village and a great dance given, either at once or after the skull has been cleaned of its flesh by boiling, or by being buried for a time in the ground. At the feast, every man-slayer of the village danced round, generally with a skull in one hand and his machete in the other. Sometimes the body of the enemy was brought in whole; sometimes it was cut in pieces in advance to facilitate transport. It was then boiled in native pots and shared out, occasionally among the man-slayer’s family and friends, but sometimes among all the people of the village, until it was wholly consumed. In some tribes it was forbidden for women and children to partake of human flesh; in others, for example among the Kalabari, the eldest sister of the hut was forced to taste it, however strongly she might protest.
Among the Abadja, the whole body of anyone slain was ordinarily taken back to the village and there consumed, though it was tabu to eat women or children. A man only divided his ‘kill’ among his own family. The body was cut up and cooked in pots; the fingers, palms of the hands, and toes were considered the best eating. Sometimes, if a family had been satisfied, part of the body would be dried and put away for later.
When an Nkanu warrior brought a head back, everyone who heard of the deed gave him a present, and much palm-wine was drunk. The trophy was boiled, and the flesh cut away. The skull was then taken out, accompanied with all the others in the village, and the flesh was then boiled and eaten.
Much cruelty was practised among certain of these tribes. For example, the Bafum-Bansaw, who frequently tortured their prisoners before putting them to death. Palm-oil was boiled in a big pot, and then by means of a gourd enema it was pumped into the bowels and stomachs of the prisoners. This practice was said to make the bodies much more succulent than they would otherwise have been. The bodies were left until the palm-oil had permeated them, and then cut up and devoured...
gulfer: We need a Fourth Mainland Bridge in Lagos, kindly divert the funds there
Good gesture but we actually do not want FG to have anything to do with 4th bridge. Lagos has a better maintenance culture than FG...the bridge go just rot and State will be blocked from repairing it. We want full control of that project.
C'mon, there was a whole revelation about this nonsense during the Stealer Oduah BMW import waiver scandal. Coscharis' fingers were caught in the cookie jar....
Did they do anything about controlling the gap? No.
wirinet: You still failed to answer the question, whou still have been requesting compensation? The land owners or the community? Remembers as someone rightly pointed out, this project was proposed over 3 decades ago. It had been awarded and re-awarded. Even Jonathan moved to site, and you think all these times, the people directly affected by the project had not been compensated? Why now?
If the FG shelve the project on a wimp as you suggested because the communities does not allow the contractor to work, I hope you will not shout marginalisation and blame the FG of abandoning the East.
Hotworta1: Keep them to yourself...I don't need them!
Your first statement is sickening,,,there was absolutely no need bringing it here!
It has relevance on this topic. We are talking of kidnap and traffic. You have baby factory for same reason. Reports have surfaced of restaurants serving in human meat in SE. So there is relevance when 45 children are missing. Very significant indeed.
Hotworta1: Cc Dominique, Seun, Lalasticlala, Ishilove, Mynd44, Obinoscopy.
What are you calling mods for? To help you do what? You want to deny cannibalism in Abiriba?
I have lengthy scholarship article written by clergies and travellers....their description is even more grotesque. I will load it here if that would help your stress.
That land has been zoned to the FG many decades ago. Second Niger Bridge did not just start under Buhari. The land has been compensated, re-compensated and over-compensated many times over with successive administrations. It has become habit for the communities to make these demands and get paid each time the contract is re-awarded. It has simply become cash cow for SE politicians. They don't want the bridge completed because the cow will no longer produce milk for them to suck.
The land has been zoned for decades and fg has right of way to it. Communities no longer have right to the land except when its lease expires....depending on whether your customary law allows change of ownership for land sale or not.
Those who do not want the bridge to complete are sending thugs to go and harass and threaten contractors and drive them away from work. They were hoping Buhari would do like his predecessors and not follow through with the construction. They are shocked and have been harassing workers since they started pouring concrete.
These are the set of people that want to lead Nigeria in 2023. Hell no!
From looting America, now to looting Kano and their children. Na wah for Ibo sha...una dey try.
Thank God these children were in Onitsha, and not Abiriba. No be wetin we dey talk now for dey table....their knuckles and ears and tongue would already be oiled and pepper souped!
I hear there are still about 45 children not yet recovered and known to have been sold off to SE. Gaddem!
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