₦airaland Forum

plaindealer:
How do you find or discover an occupied environment with an established culture, language, and way of life?

Makes no sense.

Benin people did not find anything, a lot of communities were already on the ground before his ancestors settled in a corner of Lagos Island.

seunmsg:
Even Akinolu is over 90% Yoruba. He's from the Ologun Kutere ruling house and the progenitor of that house is an Ijesa man named Alaagba. The only ruling house in Lagos with Bini ancestry is the Akinsemoyin ruling house and they've not allowed them to ascend the throne since 1749.

Biodun556:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzKC_zqCFBo?si=IPd8V7_5IOIr7Pqb

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM6e6pGuh/

Biodun556:
Oba of Benin is a nuisance for claiming Lagos belongs to them

Biodun556:
Oba of Benin is a nuisance for claiming Lagos belongs to them

killsmith:
The yorubas used to be a respectful tribe. Why the insults on the Oba of Benin for reciting a version of history? Where are these insultive animals from? Tomorrow you accuse igbo of kicking their fathers. Shameless lots.

Biodun556:
Oba of Benin is a nuisance for claiming Lagos belongs to them

Biodun556:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzKC_zqCFBo?si=IPd8V7_5IOIr7Pqb

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM6e6pGuh/

seunmsg:
Even Akinolu is over 90% Yoruba. He's from the Ologun Kutere ruling house and the progenitor of that house is an Ijesa man named Alaagba. The only ruling house in Lagos with Bini ancestry is the Akinsemoyin ruling house and they've not allowed them to ascend the throne since 1749.

Biodun556:
Oba of Benin is a nuisance for claiming Lagos belongs to them

pachigo001:
So the Lagos state wey yorubas no wan allow igbos to rest still no belong to them

AcademicWriter:
Oba of Benin is a nuisance for claiming Lagos belongs to them..

Biodun556:
The word 'founded' is wrong. Like the man rightly said in the video Aworis, ijebus, Nupes, and even the Tinubus (from Bornu) have been in Lagos before the arrival of Bini invaders

TheOnlyKing:
Na so dem Dey claim waitin nor b their own.

ablejesus26:
Read what I wrote,then slowly read this senseless gibberish You wrote into my mention.

Its either you mistakenly wrote this into my mention bcus e no connect at all or You are at the stage of removing your clothes and running into the market naked

XAUBulls:
@Biodun556,

You don't have to insult the Oba of Benin or call him a nuisance. Just make your clear corrections and move on. He (Oba of Benin) will learn the facts if he is corrected with love. As a career diplomat himself, he will realize his errors. Nobody can take Eko (or the larger Lagos State) away from the indigenous Awori-Yorubas, the Ijebu-Yorubas, and the Ogus. Period.

Cheers!

aswani:
God will bless you with this your response, I don't understand the quick propensity by some to insult elderly people, this is certainly not a Yoruba trait.

I can only assume some IPOBidients are masquerading as Yoruba or there is a clear lack of home training.

We don't even know the context The Ọba (gha tọ kpere Baba) said it, he might have being joking with his gracious hosts.

Hopefully some of these silly youngsters come back to their senses quickly.

Biodun556:
Oba of Benin is a nuisance for claiming Lagos belongs to them

Biodun556:
Out of 52 officially recognized traditional rulers in Lagos, only 1 has Benin ancestry. So how does Lagos belongs to you?

XAUBulls:
@Aswani,
Very well said my brother. Thank you.

There are many fake monikers on NL, Facebook, X, and other platforms that are used to instigate hate speeches and for trolling. The Supermods too have to be more intentional in dealing with these fake NL accounts.

I was initially embarrassed reading Biodun's outburst. I guess it had to do with the accumulated annoyance with the way some Ibo irredentists have relentlessly defamed and falsified information about Yorubas for many decades, claiming falsely that Chief Obafemi Awolowo, GCFR, SAN, drank rat poison to kill himself as a result of a failed coup against IBB. As a witness to the events of that period when Awolowo passed on, NOTHING of such happened in 1987! Awolowo died peacefully and was given a national burial with eulogies from IBB and many more prominent folks.

Some of the younger generation of Yorubas have to be very careful NOT to bring themselves to the level of the known ethnic bigots here on NL and elsewhere who we have always condemned for relentlessly insulting other ethnicities and have refused to stop!
Even early this year, one of these Ibo Ipob members made two different viral videos where he viciously insulted the Oba of Benin and Edo youths because of the 2023 elections and he refused to apologize after Edo and Delta State indigenes warned and told him to apologize. I have those two irresponsible videos on my mobile device.

The Oba of Benin's Lagos comment was an error of judgement and not the norm. I sort of liked the respectful video rebuttal by Balogun of Eko, Oyeyemi Oshodi as well who himself is Yoruba of Tapa lineage (A Yoruba-Nupe lineage) and a direct descendant of Balogun Oshodi Tapa who was a Tapa Prince that was captured by Fulanis, and they killed his parents in the early 1800s and sold him into slavery. As he was about to be put on board the Portuguese slave ship on Lagos (Eko) Island which was a major slave port, he ran into the palace of Oba Esinlokun (Oba Kosoko's father) and Ifa divination ordered for his release, and he became a part of the palace workers taking care of the needs of the Oba's wives (an Oshodi) and the rest is history!

Aside from some outrightly false posts on Lagos and Ife history that I have read on Wikipedia and some Edo blogs, the Bini or entire Edo State folks do NOT cast relentless aspersions on Yorubas online and offline, so, there's NO need for anyone to insult the Oba of Benin who himself said on the day he was coronated as an Oba... clearly affirmed in the speech he read that his ancestor, Oranmiyan was the FIRST Oba of Benin (although he didn't stay long and returned to Ife with some of his entourage). Oranmiyan had a son by a Bini woman of noble family heritage. The son grew up and later became the SECOND Oba of Benin. The historical links between Yorubaland, the Binis, and Itsekiris cannot be erased.

Even in Ife, there is a grove called "Orun Oba Ado" where the heads of "every third" Oba of Benin was usually buried to signify the paternal lineage of the Oba of the Bini, while the other body part without the head was usually buried in Benin which is the maternal side. The same thing happened in Lagos Island where the heads of Elekos where buried in Lagos and bodies were buried in Benin to symbolize the paternal and maternal lineages.


Thanks for you positive feedback here.

All the best.

XAUBulls:
@Aswani,
Very well said my brother. Thank you.

There are many fake monikers on NL, Facebook, X, and other platforms that are used to instigate hate speeches and for trolling. The Supermods too have to be more intentional in dealing with these fake NL accounts.

I was initially embarrassed reading Biodun's outburst. I guess it had to do with the accumulated annoyance with the way some Ibo irredentists have relentlessly defamed and falsified information about Yorubas for many decades, claiming falsely that Chief Obafemi Awolowo, GCFR, SAN, drank rat poison to kill himself as a result of a failed coup against IBB. As a witness to the events of that period when Awolowo passed on, NOTHING of such happened in 1987! Awolowo died peacefully and was given a national burial with eulogies from IBB and many more prominent folks.

Some of the younger generation of Yorubas have to be very careful NOT to bring themselves to the level of the known ethnic bigots here on NL and elsewhere who we have always condemned for relentlessly insulting other ethnicities and have refused to stop!
Even early this year, one of these Ibo Ipob members made two different viral videos where he viciously insulted the Oba of Benin and Edo youths because of the 2023 elections and he refused to apologize after Edo and Delta State indigenes warned and told him to apologize. I have those two irresponsible videos on my mobile device.

The Oba of Benin's Lagos comment was an error of judgement and not the norm. I sort of liked the respectful video rebuttal by Balogun of Eko, Oyeyemi Oshodi as well who himself is Yoruba of Tapa lineage (A Yoruba-Nupe lineage) and a direct descendant of Balogun Oshodi Tapa who was a Tapa Prince that was captured by Fulanis, and they killed his parents in the early 1800s and sold him into slavery. As he was about to be put on board the Portuguese slave ship on Lagos (Eko) Island which was a major slave port, he ran into the palace of Oba Esinlokun (Oba Kosoko's father) and Ifa divination ordered for his release, and he became a part of the palace workers taking care of the needs of the Oba's wives (an Oshodi) and the rest is history!

Aside from some outrightly false posts on Lagos and Ife history that I have read on Wikipedia and some Edo blogs, the Bini or entire Edo State folks do NOT cast relentless aspersions on Yorubas online and offline, so, there's NO need for anyone to insult the Oba of Benin who himself said on the day he was coronated as an Oba... clearly affirmed in the speech he read that his ancestor, Oranmiyan was the FIRST Oba of Benin (although he didn't stay long and returned to Ife with some of his entourage). Oranmiyan had a son by a Bini woman of noble family heritage. The son grew up and later became the SECOND Oba of Benin. The historical links between Yorubaland, the Binis, and Itsekiris cannot be erased.

Even in Ife, there is a grove called "Orun Oba Ado" where the heads of "every third" Oba of Benin was usually buried to signify the paternal lineage of the Oba of the Bini, while the other body part without the head was usually buried in Benin which is the maternal side. The same thing happened in Lagos Island where the heads of Elekos where buried in Lagos and bodies were buried in Benin to symbolize the paternal and maternal lineages.


Thanks for you positive feedback here.

All the best.