₦airaland Forum

Reality check to Papabrowne, (from oduasolja's response):
who gives a damn about edo.
i have friends who are edo . but i aint really gonna fiht for their land. i see no abiding reason why  we need to fight for their land ,we have ours,

NRI PRIEST:
I thought you are one of the ppl here who is supposed to be unbiased ??
You Ignorant Oba Erediauwa opened his mouth and said Igbo will do just about any job to make money!! Is this character exclusive to the Igbos ?? Which kind of Oba be this one ?? Is he not supposed to make his research before he comes out to speak in the public ?? Is he not aware that his Benin women and men are scatered all over Europe selling their pu.z.z.y and drugs respectively?? I guess that didnt count cause they arent Igbos!! You Great Oba said Igbos will take a job nobody wants ? Including yahoo yahoo,ashawoliness,drug pushing ??

PhysicsQed, just accept that Erediauwa spoke too soon and ignorantly and this case will be closed !!

Obiagu1:
I know, religion is part of culture so is there any connection through religion you know?

ezeagu:
The directions in Yoruba is Oye Ede Afo Ukwo? This is the only source I can find for the directions. Can someone confirm it? I didn't claim Ede came from Yoruba, I said even if somehow the name was changed from Yoruba influence the other days can still be Igbo, just like Ukwo is to Nkwo, Ede is to Eke, just like Bini Ahor is to Afo.

"The points of the compass represented and the gods presiding over the respective corners are as follows : (1) Eji Ogbe East E-su (2) Oyeku Meji West Sango (3) Iwori Meji South Qbatala (4) Odi Meji North O-gu(n)"
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CLgIAQAAIAAJ

I would think Onu would be more similar to Yoruba Olu (although the intonation needs to be explained). Anyway, I said the claim isn't verified and I only used it as an example of the relationship between the two kingdoms, but even that aside as well as the market days, we know Nri influenced Idah.

shymmex:
Let me use another illustration,  I haven't really done my research on this - but there are about 5,000 Olukumi people of Yoruba descent around an extensively ibo speaking area of Niger/Delta - I can't confirm who go there first. But based on the research I've done so far, they were there before the Ibo speaking people - and they speak Ibo as well,  They are Yoruba people and Ibo speaking people dominating the area doesn't mean, the Ibos existed there before them - nor make them descendants of the Ibo race, period,

shymmex:
Are the Russians not offsprings of Ukraine,

ezeagu:
Eri greeted the spirits as they came from the east, west. . .

What are the Yoruba market days? Do they use them for direction as well? Also, the three other Igala market days can still be Igbo even if Ede turns out to be Yoruba.

shymmex:
If "Linguistics" can suggest they're from a common origin - doesn't that mean they all have the same ancestry All Nigerian tribes migrated from Nubia, and the migration patterns already proved that - what I can't really proof is the period, and when each of the tribes migrated,  Just as all Europeans know that they all share the same ancestry from Caucasus mountain, and they're mixed with Neanderthals,

Itsekiris won't come out directly to say they're Ijebus now because they've mixed with other tribes over the years - that's will amount to alienating people among them that have Igala or Bini ancestry, Asking Itsekiris to claim  that they're Ijebus will amount to asking Aworis to having Bini and Tapa ancestry, The Itsekiris speak the old Ijebu language, just as the Lukumi tribe in Brazil speak the lost Yoruba language,

ezeagu:
Igala have Igbo market days along with the Bini.

stpat1:
Forget these Igbo guys with Low mental faculty, they are always eager to display their illiteracy and unintelligible ability. Where does the jews relate to the Igbos again.
It still does not amaze me that it was an Igbo folk that opened this thread.
I do not mean to demean the amazing abilities of the igbos but sometimes they just makes u wonder if there are no schools but only markets in Igbo land from the way they argue pointlessly sometimes.
No offense meant

koruji:
That is true. In fact, the Iranians claim to be Aryans or caucasians - hence the name of their country.

naijaking1:
Personal and petty hatred will lead you no where.

Like Sarduana of Sokoto, Akenzua was not the only political figure to discribe his personal hatred for Igbos.
It's well known and blinding effect on official goverment policies are well documented. The people who massacred a million innocent Igbo women and children in 1960s have gone to extraordinary lenght to justify their actions and somehow clear their conscience, to no avail!
Some would link these Igbo victims to the actions of Nzeogwu and his fellow coupist, others, like Akenzua would describe their personal gut feeling for anything and anybody Igbo, but at the end of the day, nothing they say could be further from the truth.
Just like the Rwandan Hutu and Tutsi tribal war, the fear and hatred for Igbos in Nigeria is often a cover for simple jealousy.

oduasolja:
i DEY LAUGH OHH.

IGBO wan claim edo . well heres what the oba of benin wrote about the igbos in his autobiography.

Akenzua wrote:

ekt_bear:
What about in say Benin City proper?

Acapulco1:
Hello

I have this snakes head and wondered if anyone can tell me info and how old it is please.