cocolacec:

Olu of warri is a Yoruba king.

inoki247:
I don't even understand Nigeria again sef someone Local Govt chairman big pass...


in reality sef wetin b the role of al diz king pass people going to dere palace to goan bow for them...

inoki247:
I don't even understand Nigeria again sef someone Local Govt chairman big pass...


in reality sef wetin b the role of al diz king pass people going to dere palace to goan bow for them...

Dwayne22:
Let satan just enter that man holding sword behind him

Firstcitizen:


Britain was a kingdom that was an empire. Benin was a kingdom that was also an empire spanning as far Lagos.

Cromagnon:
so that what will happen. Remember Yahaya bello was deputy candidate to would be governor and now kogi ppl are crying harder than the former looter

Dwayne22:
Let satan just enter that man holding sword behind him

MENELIIK:


[s]There was no other empire in pre colonial southern Nigeria other than Oyo, Benin was a kingdom and never expanded to any Lagos. You can't find any Benin name in any of the six Yoruba states but there people with Yoruba names in Edo and Delta[/s].

inoki247:
I don't even understand Nigeria again sef someone Local Govt chairman big pass...


in reality sef wetin b the role of al diz king pass people going to dere palace to goan bow for them...

korm2me:

GeorgeTheCoder:


Olu of Warri ke ? lol

The Itsekiris are the supporters of APC in a state that is a notable PDP stronghold. That is why all the APC thieves are running there to pay homage to the the Olu. They know they wont get any attention from the Urhobos, Ijaw or Ika people.

OKAIDUN:
The fact that there are yoruba names in Edo and delta have nothing to do with OYo kingdom. It is because Yoruba is a big tribe and nothing else, and the other tribes you see some of them with Yoruba names it is as a result of intermarriage, proximity to yoruba land or the fact they grew up there. And yes Lagos was under Benin empire. OYo was a confederacy, not really an empire in the actual sense

"The products of the blacksmith guilds were also means by which the Oba
determined the loyalty or otherwise of a vassal states to Benin kingdom. They were
also the means by which the Oba legitimized the rulers in the vassal states. The
“emblem of authority” or “staff of office” sent by Oba Osemwende (c.1816) to king
Akintoye of Lagos in the course of the 1850s symbolized the Oba’s hegemony over
Lagos and the legitimization of the Akintoye’s reign over his people. The acceptance
of this emblem implied the King of Lagos’ recognition of the over-lordship of the
Oba of Benin; with the obligation of annual tributes to Benin (A.F.C. Ryder, 1977,
p.14)."

MENELIIK:


[s]Oga, enough of your revisionist history, Oyo empire was never a confederacy because it controlled all the units under it until the decline in its power which is common to most empires like Mali, Ghana and Songhai. To have called anybody Oba confirmed the fact that Oranmiyan, the first Alaafin of Oyo established Benin Kindgom. Intermarriages is why Yoruba is having Omowumi and Itsekiri is having Omawumi, please try another logic, you are free to believe whatever you want to but the issue Oba Yewande or Osewande to Akintoye is too pedestrian. Yoruba owns the word "Oba" and anybody using it has a link with the Yorubas[/s].

perambulator:


except a governor can remove a King while in office....see the case of Sanusi in Kano, Awo effectively demoted the Alaafin and made Ooni the superior King in yoruba land for politics, Abacha remove the Sultan of Sokoto. there is no governor under any King. You have not read the constituion. You dont know the law of your own country.

VULCAN:
It's not difficult to spot envy. It's actually the foundation of witchcraft inAfrica

caandi:
I hope those statue on his throne are real gold! I’m a fan sir Olu of Warri ! Example of young and getting it

perambulator:


I am telling you the law, Under the law ALL Kings are employees of the state and require the consent of the governor to ascend the throne and can be removed by a governor......that is the law. You want to engage in dick measuring, chest beating and supremacy over which King is bigger than another and turn this into a tribal debate......I'm not biting!!!!

there is no Kingdom on earth even in the days when mornarchies had real power that has not been deposed and banished! infact many royal dynasties ascended the throne by dethroning another, conquering another or fleeing on exile to start another kingdom elsewhere. its not a big deal!!! Nigerian Kings know there are merely symbolic and figure heads so like I said, they dont step outside their boundaries. But let a King in any of these places you mentioned out-step his power, then they will know who is boss....Except the governor is a weak man!!!! A king that tries himself against a gangster governor will end up banished and nothing will happen because the law (and real power) is on the side of the governor.

Nigerian Monarchies were extinguished the day these Kingdoms fell to the British government. They have all lost their Kingdoms so whatever thrones they occupy they occupy as conquered Kiongdoms. What exists now, exist at the pleasure of the respective governments as symbolic links to tradition .....they are all largely symbolic!!!!

Anago55:
No Igbo man can be this stupid. It can only be the sophisticated morons

An Igbo man will give you middle finger and tell you to go to hell with your presidency. Here is Yoruba man wetting the ground just so he can get a political hold of the deltas

MENELIIK:


There was no other empire in pre colonial southern Nigeria other than Oyo, Benin was a kingdom and never expanded to any Lagos. You can't find any Benin name in any of the six Yoruba states but there people with Yoruba names in Edo and Delta.

DEROX:
why is umahi and ohanaezre crying and begging for buhari seat then abi they are not ipob again unsophisticated slowpoke

Firstcitizen:


Lol. What do you even understand by the word Kingdom.

Let me cull something from Wikipedia so I can put it in better perspective

"At its height, Benin dominated trade along the entire coastline from the Western Niger Delta, through Lagos to the kingdom of Great Accra (modern-day Ghana).[

It was for this reason that this coastline was named the Bight of Benin. The present-day Republic of Benin, formerly Dahomey, decided to choose the name of this bight as the name of its country. Benin ruled over the tribes of the Niger Delta including the Western Igbo, Ijaw, Itshekiri, Ika, Isoko and Urhobo amongst others. It also held sway over the Eastern Yoruba tribes of Ondo, Ekiti, Mahin/Ugbo, and Ijebu.

It also conquered what eventually became the city of Lagos hundreds of years before the British took over in 1851."

MENELIIK:




I laugh in Swahili, Kingdom is lower than an Empire in all ramifications, also anybody can put any information on Wikipedia, just like it puts Kwara in South West which is not true. Benin republic is pronounced "Bene" and not Benin just like Niger republic is not the same Niger state in Nigeria. War conquests and dominance was reported about Oyo empire, Benin only had cultural influence some of the tribes around her and that Benin conquer Lagos, please stop it, this is not beer parlour discussion

bjnice:





Because historically itsekiri are Yorubas.

MENELIIK:




I laugh in Swahili, Kingdom is lower than an Empire in all ramifications, also anybody can put any information on Wikipedia, just like it puts Kwara in South West which is not true. Benin republic is pronounced "Bene" and not Benin just like Niger republic is not the same Niger state in Nigeria. War conquests and dominance was reported about Oyo empire, Benin only had cultural influence some of the tribes around her and that Benin conquer Lagos, please stop it, this is not beer parlour discussion

perambulator:


except a governor can remove a King while in office....see the case of Sanusi in Kano, Awo effectively demoted the Alaafin and made Ooni the superior King in yoruba land for politics, Abacha remove the Sultan of Sokoto. there is no governor under any King. You have not read the constituion. You dont know the law of your own country.