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Re: See How A Portuguese Captain Described The City Of Benin In 1691 (photo) by DMerciful(m): 6:03pm On Oct 31, 2021
What alliances have you for.ed with Oduduwa,
Biafra, Niger Delta agitators? You sit in one corner with unknown people pretending not to want one Nigeria!
valirex:



Do you just choose to be ignorant? I shared you a link and common sense would have made you to click on it which leads to a page and in that page is another link to a Facebook page where you can watch a video of a group.

If that isn't enough for you that doesn't concern the Ẹdo nation, we are not interested in your Oduduwa or Biafra.

Let's face our individual lands undecided
Re: See How A Portuguese Captain Described The City Of Benin In 1691 (photo) by valirex: 6:16pm On Oct 31, 2021
DMerciful:
What alliances have you for.ed with Oduduwa,
Biafra, Niger Delta agitators? You sit in one corner with unknown people pretending not to want one Nigeria!


Have you asked the Oduduwa and Biafran agitators this question?

For the record no one in the ND wants a ND republic.

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Re: See How A Portuguese Captain Described The City Of Benin In 1691 (photo) by kettykin: 6:27pm On Oct 31, 2021
EraseTheDot:


https://www.nairaland.com/6828730/word-love-not-igbo-vocabulary


- erase the dot

Mark my words , the dot will survive and erase the useless good for nothing empty circle

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Re: See How A Portuguese Captain Described The City Of Benin In 1691 (photo) by DMerciful(m): 6:36pm On Oct 31, 2021
I know Ijaw wants their own republic.
valirex:



Have you asked the Oduduwa and Biafran agitators this question?

For the record no one in the ND wants a ND republic.
Re: See How A Portuguese Captain Described The City Of Benin In 1691 (photo) by SlayerForever: 6:58pm On Oct 31, 2021
Now they are savages.
Re: See How A Portuguese Captain Described The City Of Benin In 1691 (photo) by GreatBoss: 7:18pm On Oct 31, 2021
DMerciful:
I know Ijaw wants their own republic.


Exactly.
Re: See How A Portuguese Captain Described The City Of Benin In 1691 (photo) by valirex: 7:19pm On Oct 31, 2021
DMerciful:
I know Ijaw wants their own republic.


So why asking Ẹdo to ally with the others?
Did you ask them to ally with us?

Better act matured undecided

And now you're aware Edo wants it's own Kingdom too
Re: See How A Portuguese Captain Described The City Of Benin In 1691 (photo) by GreatBoss: 7:22pm On Oct 31, 2021
God bless the Ijaw Nation.
Only Egbema clan here, have over 350 villages and settlements under it.
Only Egbema clan alone.

The Ijaw Republic people.
God bless the Ijaw Republic.
God bless General Ditari.

Re: See How A Portuguese Captain Described The City Of Benin In 1691 (photo) by DMerciful(m): 7:25pm On Oct 31, 2021
If you're serious, you'll look for alliance because you can't do it alone. But ofcourse even you know it's pretense!
valirex:



So why asking Ẹdo to ally with the others?
Did you ask them to ally with us?

Better act matured undecided

And now you're aware Edo wants it's own Kingdom too

Re: See How A Portuguese Captain Described The City Of Benin In 1691 (photo) by Sammy07: 7:33pm On Oct 31, 2021
Benin has now be reduced to 3 local governments grin

Cc: valirex and ur comrades
Re: See How A Portuguese Captain Described The City Of Benin In 1691 (photo) by valirex: 7:49pm On Oct 31, 2021
DMerciful:
If you're serious, you'll look for alliance because you can't do it alone. But ofcourse even you know it's pretense!

Ibo man, what alliance has IPOB made?
Re: See How A Portuguese Captain Described The City Of Benin In 1691 (photo) by DMerciful(m): 7:59pm On Oct 31, 2021
Biafra agitators are working alliances with Oduduwa and Ijaws.

I'm a supporter of Biafra and not Ipob necessarily because the like working alone. No single nationality can defeat the Hausa-Fulani hegemony without alliances. UN already recognized Biafra Oduduwa agitations. Same cannot be said for Edos.
valirex:


Ibo man, what alliance has IPOB made?

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Re: See How A Portuguese Captain Described The City Of Benin In 1691 (photo) by Hintona(f): 9:22pm On Oct 31, 2021
Re: See How A Portuguese Captain Described The City Of Benin In 1691 (photo) by valirex: 9:33pm On Oct 31, 2021
DMerciful:
Biafra agitators are working alliances with Oduduwa and Ijaws.

I'm a supporter of Biafra and not Ipob necessarily because the like working alone. No single nationality can defeat the Hausa-Fulani hegemony without alliances. UN already recognized Biafra Oduduwa agitations. Same cannot be said for Edos.


Really? Lol and yet your people go about insulting ijaws and Yorubas grin

Anyway Ẹdo is well known world wide so we don't need alliance with anyone, and if we deem I necessary to do so we will forge one until then continue wailing online about Benin.

Wailers Association of Biafuru grin
Re: See How A Portuguese Captain Described The City Of Benin In 1691 (photo) by Darkcloud11(m): 9:50pm On Oct 31, 2021
gidgiddy:
Benin city and the Bini empire have become irrelevant

The city of Enugu was founded in 1903. The city of Portharcourt was founded in 1912

Both the city of Enugu and Portharcourt are now miles ahead of Benin city that has been in existence since 1691
another pained Biafran your ancestors were ape who couldn’t create any civilisation as great as Benin empire nonsense
Re: See How A Portuguese Captain Described The City Of Benin In 1691 (photo) by dprpikin: 10:22pm On Oct 31, 2021
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Re: See How A Portuguese Captain Described The City Of Benin In 1691 (photo) by DMerciful(m): 10:29pm On Oct 31, 2021
You play too much
valirex:



Really? Lol and yet your people go about insulting ijaws and Yorubas grin

Anyway Ẹdo is well known world wide so we don't need alliance with anyone, and if we deem I necessary to do so we will forget one until then continued wailing online about Benin.

Wailers Association of Biafuru grin
Re: See How A Portuguese Captain Described The City Of Benin In 1691 (photo) by gidgiddy: 12:42am On Nov 01, 2021
Darkcloud11:
another pained Biafran your ancestors were ape who couldn’t create any civilisation as great as Benin empire nonsense

The Benin empire is a thing of the oF the past. May be the Benin empire was great 200 years ago, but today its gone.

I do admire the civilisation of the ancient Bini empire and all they achieved, but those days are gone and the future is more important than the past

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Re: See How A Portuguese Captain Described The City Of Benin In 1691 (photo) by thatigboman1: 12:51am On Nov 01, 2021
Hintona:


Some people argued that he described Dahomey.
Dahomey wasn't called Benin in 1691.

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Re: See How A Portuguese Captain Described The City Of Benin In 1691 (photo) by PROUDIGBO(m): 12:56am On Nov 01, 2021
gidgiddy:
Benin city and the Bini empire have become irrelevant

The city of Enugu was founded in 1903. The city of Portharcourt was founded in 1912

Both the city of Enugu and Portharcourt are now miles ahead of Benin city that has been in existence since 1691

What happened to Benin? Same thing that happened to most prominent cities and peoples that were on an upward trajectory before 1st oct' 1960.....Nigeria!
Re: See How A Portuguese Captain Described The City Of Benin In 1691 (photo) by PROUDIGBO(m): 12:58am On Nov 01, 2021
It's a pity none of the buildings from that era survive today, so we can see what they looked like. Was the entire city razed to the ground by that punitive British expedition?
Re: See How A Portuguese Captain Described The City Of Benin In 1691 (photo) by femi4: 4:42am On Nov 01, 2021
Hintona:


Some people argued that he described Dahomey.
Benin city not a country...besides Benin does not exist as a country in the 16th century

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Re: See How A Portuguese Captain Described The City Of Benin In 1691 (photo) by Hintona(f): 11:47am On Nov 04, 2021
PROUDIGBO:
It's a pity none of the buildings from that era survive today, so we can see what they looked like. Was the entire city razed to the ground by that punitive British expedition?

I wonder too. But I heard the walls of the ancient city still exists. The Nigerian government isn't even doing anything to promote tourism in that area.

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Re: See How A Portuguese Captain Described The City Of Benin In 1691 (photo) by PROUDIGBO(m): 2:29pm On Nov 04, 2021
Hintona:


I wonder too. But I heard the walls of the ancient city still exists. The Nigerian government isn't even doing anything to promote tourism in that area.

You go to places like Iraq (ancient Mesopotamia...i think), Greece, Rome and Egypt, and you see structures from thousands of years ago still standing gidigbam till today! Even the ancient Roman city of Pompei, that was covered in volcanic ash around 79 AD....they’re still unearthing the remnants of the city still almost intact! But come to Nigeria, and you can’t see any structure older than 300 years old! Does it mean they were all constructed with mud!? undecided
Re: See How A Portuguese Captain Described The City Of Benin In 1691 (photo) by BKayy: 3:02pm On Nov 04, 2021
PROUDIGBO:


You go to places like Iraq (ancient Mesopotamia...i think), Greece, Rome and Egypt, and you see structures from thousands of years ago still standing gidigbam today! Even the ancient Roman city of Pompei, that was covered in volcanic ash around 79 AD....they’re still unearthing the remnants of the city still almost intact! But come to Nigeria, and you can see any structure older than 300 years old! Does it mean they were all constructed with mud!? undecided

Pic 1 = Roman Bath still used in Libya (built 127 AD)

Pic 2 = Roman Amphitheatre + City in Tunisia (built around 128 AD)



This is why I always laugh at Afonjas when they say Ibadan dilapidation is because of aga. Ibadan that is not up to the age of Onitsha or quarter that of Awka (around 9th century).

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Re: See How A Portuguese Captain Described The City Of Benin In 1691 (photo) by ohiz2007(m): 8:52am On Nov 14, 2021
Anini is not from Benin but an Edo man.

Christistruth00:



Benin has gone Backwards the city that knew no theft and had no doors has now also produced the most famous armed Robber of them all , Lawrence Anini who singlehandedly put his Region into Lockdown
Re: See How A Portuguese Captain Described The City Of Benin In 1691 (photo) by ohiz2007(m): 8:52am On Nov 14, 2021
Anini is not from Benin but an Edo man.

Christistruth00:



Benin has gone Backwards the city that knew no theft and had no doors has now also produced the most famous armed Robber of them all , Lawrence Anini who singlehandedly put his Region into Lockdown
Re: See How A Portuguese Captain Described The City Of Benin In 1691 (photo) by Christistruth00: 12:51pm On Nov 14, 2021
ohiz2007:
Anini is not from Benin but an Edo man.


Anini grew up in Benin and was based there

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