mr1759:


the population of Edo ppl in Italy alone is more that the size of population in bayelsa

lol. now. i can faint in peace

Afriifa:
at least when u r talking of the brilliant minds or talented ones in d country, u can rate d yorubas n igbos above us.. we don't go n sell puss!s in Europe, we go there to study.. so what r u saying? are u sure, u r not one of the imports from italy?

Lol, you've been mentioning Italy since, are you yearning to go, you for talk since naa, which one you dey dance upandan
before you do face like last week soup

joke aside, ijaw people ugly die sha, no wonder una dey always beat war drums, nothing to loose
una wan spoil binis fine faces abi

Nosaghae:

Thank you my brother from rescuing him from the ocean of ignorance.
People go just dey jump enter wetin them know nothing about

You are the ignorant one here but infortunately,you fail to realise it. You these Bini or whatever you call yourselves are quite funny. Not until you know the true meaning of 'Oba',only then will you fools realise that You migrated to your present location from Ile Ife.

Yoruba people don't even need you for anything; Whelther or not you were from Ife or from hell!

Beosten:


Yes, Olaogbooru founded Ife-odan.

Oramfe is not here. The popular ones are Orisala, Obalufon, Orisaoko, Sango, etc.

That is interesting.

Ejio compound was founded by Oramfe. It has four lines and they were Oramfe’s sons. Probably they pay homage to Oramfe at the Ejio house over there.

Also, Obalufon, Orisaoko/Orisateko are both on Orisala [Obatala’s camp]. I wonder if Ogboru took the descendants of these people with him.

Always interesting to learn new things sha.

Uyiii:

Lol, you've been mentioning Italy since, are you yearning to go, you for talk since naa, which one you dey dance upandan
before you do face like last week soup

joke aside, ijaw people ugly die sha, no wonder una dey always beat war drums, nothing to loose
una wan spoil binis fine faces abi

do u know ur dad? i mean ur biological father. take heart. sorry ooh.

mr1759:


the population of Edo ppl in Italy alone is more that the size of population in bayelsa

see fatality

But na really true oo

mr1759:


Edo is a kingdom and a nation check Google ,. ijaws are settlers and small community the entire ijaw race is not up to one local government in Edo land

The bold clearly shows joining issues with you is like trying to lift Mountain Everest.

Edo is a kingdom and a nation, but Ijaw is not a nation. Ijaw na church Abi?

My brother, people now better understand the self mystified stories of the Bini people. Bini history is riddled with self edification, glorification and aggrandizement. We know better now....

Where is your Oba sef? Did he leave his palace? I looked for him everywhere but can't find him in the palace.

Most blacks, and especially people like you have problem with social interaction. At one end, you blame the whites for enslaving and colonising us, at the other, you want to do the same to people who are not in any way related to your so called kingdom.

My brother, as far as Nigeria is concerned, the Ijaw nation is too big for the Bini to toy with.....

Afriifa:
are you gonna stress urself for dat guy? even gelegele-gbene. him nogo fit carry from.d ijaws n him d even mention to claim ekiti. dis guys self. dis their Oba, na oba of nigeria?

maybe because you do not have pride for ur heritage that is why you can spew trash. I have pride for my heritage paternally I am descended from the ezomo n'uzebu,oguigo of ugoneki, the oba of benin and the ufeloro dynasty and the izon(unuame) and maternally from the onojie of uromi. so as you can see I have every right to defend my ancestry. so if you are not proud of your background kindly sit down and stfu I am proud of my heritage and I know it and will gladly defend it.

Uyiii:

Lol, you've been mentioning Italy since, are you yearning to go, you for talk since naa, which one you dey dance upandan
before you do face like last week soup

joke aside, ijaw people ugly die sha, no wonder una dey always beat war drums, nothing to loose
una wan spoil binis fine faces abi

Osanobua

KingOvoramwen1:

see fatality
But na really true oo

I will send you a video of a white Italian speaking Bini language

NDelta:
The writer was spot on, the Ijaws were first in Benin before any other tribe, they were fisher men in those days. Benin will always be home of the Ijaws. The next oba must be an Ijaw man.

you are mad

Dsov2016:


then thank you. I should have u know that my great grandfather was one of the commanders who the oba sent to deal with recalcitrant Yoruba kings who decided that they would not pay homage to him this was part of the Benin/ekiti wars which occurred from the 1830s to shortly before the invasion of Benin in 1897. I would also be happy to tell you that your fellow Yoruba's who knew who they should pay homage to helped them in fact one of such who rose to prominence by becoming a captain of the warlords omumu and asa(bor) army was ekemode. they went as far as ekiti to a place currently called ado ekiti. they are now quite numerous and have become a sub group/tribe/clan in Benin. they are called ado-akure(this is because their main base was at akure).

I would also like to tell you that Ado is the original name we called Bini until Oranmiyan came back. He called the place Bini and his son Olubini.

Furthermore, I should add that Bini’s military activities in Ekiti is very exagerrated. The problem is you lot don’t read but rely on mouth to ear ‘action’ for tales by the moonlight.

See the shots attached below.

[[s]quote author=ObalufonIII post=62836424]

I would also like to tell you that Ado is the original name we called Bini until Oranmiyan came back. He called the place Bini and his son Olubini.

Furthermore, I should add that Bini’s military activities in Ekiti is very exagerrated. The problem is you lot don’t read but rely on mouth to ear ‘action’ for tales by the moonlight.

See the shots attached below.

[/quote][/s]


Abeg wetin this Haffonja dey find for this thread ?

Dsov2016:


maybe because you do not have pride for ur heritage that is why you can spew trash. I have pride for my heritage paternally I am descended from the ezomo n'uzebu,oguigo of ugoneki, the oba of benin and the ufeloro dynasty and the izon(unuame) and maternally from the onojie of uromi. so as you can see I have every right to defend my ancestry. so if you are not proud of your background kindly sit down and stfu I am proud of my heritage and I know it and will gladly defend it.

the Oba of benin bla bla bla. an oba dat was sent to exile, had his people massacred by the british forces. someone who even tried to bribe his freedom.. proud heritage my foot. spits!

ObalufonIII:


That is interesting.

Ejio compound was founded by Oramfe. It has four lines and they were Oramfe’s sons. Probably they pay homage to Oramfe at the Ejio house over there.

Also, Obalufon, Orisaoko/Orisateko are both on Orisala [Obatala’s camp]. I wonder if Ogboru took the descendants of these people with him.

Always interesting to learn new things sha.

Orisala's priest is also the one in charge of Orisaoko here. I saw one deity's barricaded house in Obajio's compound but I don't know its name.

My mother's father was the Jagun-Osin chief - I don't know what that means till today. During Orisala's festival, rain usually disperse people towards the end of the festival when those songs are sung. You hear such lines as 'heavy rain destroyed elebure's house, and he became homeless.' Oloodua would do certain initiation for the king at crowning and must not meet the king again till death.

We Want To Bring To Public And Government Attention A Prolong Issue In Gelegele Community And Environs
We Want To Bring To Public And Government Attention A Prolong Issue In Gelegele Community And Environs
On behalf of Otu Notedoghewii meaning Group for the Protection of Benin land, we are pleased to be in the premises of the notable Nigerian Observer, a newspaper that has projected the interest and growth of Edo within and outside the State. In recent· times, the Nigerian Observer has undergone surgery that has now positioned the newspaper to serve the overall growth of the people. Congratulations!
Our visit centres on the communal crisis that has persisted between the Binis and the Ijaws. which has left a sore taste in the mouth.
We want to bring to public and government attention a prolong issue in Gelegele community and environ in. Ovia Northeast Local Government Area of Edo State that have-spanned many decades of administrative and litigation processes between the Binis and the Ijaws.
It is worthy of note that Gelegele and environs, is entirely a rural community, which dwelt in peace and harmony until the late 1960’s. The Binis have occupied the entire area known as Gelegele, Ughoton, Abiala and other relative villages peaceably without any rancour or antagonism from any ethnic group for countless centuries as historical facts reveal.
That Gelegele is a Bini community is a long settled issue. There are established, verifiable administrative inquiries by the then Midwest State Government and judgments from the High Court up to the Supreme Court in Lagos giving authority and power to the Binis over the land occupied by our forbears for centuries.
Our claim to Gelegele and environs is neither fictional nor adventurous. The area was incontrovertibly founded by a Bini Prince Ekaladerhan who escaped a royal death decree over 10 centuries ago particularly Ughoton Princess Kobe from Ughoton founded Gelegele after previous attempts to inhabit the swampy terrain failed the name Gelegele derived from the exclamation:
“Gelegele emwan khian evbo” Our investigation showed that the first Ijaw man from undoubted history to setle in Gelegele was one Feti who suffered a misadventure in the near sea where torrential waves swept away his makeshift .home about 100 years ago. He obtained permission from one Okunseri, the then priest of ·Ughoton, to settle there under traditional oath of allegiance. As time went on the Ijaw population in Gelegele grew but continually paid homage to the Binis nay the Oba of Benin, through Ughoton until late Oba Akenzua II, CMG, stopped them.
However, in 1969 the Ijaw who had prior knowledge of oil discovery in the land, rose against the authority which erupted in a crisis at a time a Bini man, one Ogbeifun Egharevba was Odionwere of Gelegele. An administrative inquiry was setup by the then Midwest State Government of Brigadier-General Samuel Osaigbovo Ogbemudia, headed by one Mr. S. Jamgbadi, a Senior District Officer and sat at Ekehuan. A report was issued in 1970, and we quote inter-alia: “It is however established that the Ijaws have been resident in Gelegele for many years and that during these years they have acquired landed property and cultivated farms; but from the facts in evidence they qualify as TENANTS on the land - their-long period of occupation notwithstanding.
The matter went through the High Court of Justice and Federal Court of Appeal in Benin and the Supreme Court -in Lagos. The Binis secured victory all the way. The following suit numbers are material evidences to buttress our claim to the land at Gelegele and environs
1. High Court of Justice, Benin Judgment delivered on the 22nd December 1978 by .Justice. Ekeruche J in Suit No. B/I44/1970.
2. Federal Court of Appeal judgment delivered on the 16th December1981 by Abdul Ganiy Olatunji· Agbaja and 2 others in Suit No. FCA/B/82/80.
3. Supreme Court unanimous Judgment delivered on the 19th ‘August 1983 by Muhamedu Lawai Uwais, former Chief Justice of the Federation and 4 others in Suit No. SC.131/1982.
With all these’ unassailable evidences, the Binis has been magnanimous in victory. We absorbed them and refused to insist on enforcing the Supreme Court ruling to the letter because Binis are receptacles to strangers of all shades. Yet the Ijaws have not only abused undeserved privileges but consistently for 40 years assaulted our integrity, abused our simplicity, challenged our international acclaimed military prowess, brazenly cajoled and’ intimidated our sense of belonging and trampled on our collective will. It is enough!
Otu Notedoghewii have the following remarks to make to all and sundry:
1. Ijaws have severally attacked, invaded and occupied Bini villages without provocation and retaliation for too long.
2. Gelegele is a recurring decimal in Edo politics that it is a sing-song in the mouth of politicians seeking relevance and electoral patronage. Gelegele is to the Binis what Lagos is to the Yorubas; or what Port Harcourt is to the Ikwerres or what Calabar is to the Efiks.
3. It must be made abundantly clear that the Ijaws have always been erratic, provoking showdown but the Binis’ have cleverly evaded direct confrontation not because we are afraid of war but believe much in peace sine qua non for national stability, growth. and progress·
4. Because of the Gelegele escapade the Ijaws have further audacity to extend their ambitious voyage of annexation to many Benin communities because no one has challenged them since modern development has refused to come to their peculiar terrain they have embarked on a voyage to seek land to rediscover themselves.
5. The Ijaws who settled along river banks in Benin land in spite of our openness and acceptance has become a thorn in the flesh of ‘Binis constituting themselves as malfeasance, aggressors, instigators and violators of civilized behaviour.
6. Ijaw militancy has made Gelegele a disarmament centre because the place is being used as militia centre and gateway to the creeks in Delta and Bayelsa States. This has brought discomfort and tension to the Binis living in the area.
7. Binis has been excluded from the scheme of things as the Ijaws has dominated the affairs of not only Gelegele but environ like Abiala and Ughoton. where the crude oil being exploited by Dubri Oil Company Limited is located. They insisted and got only Ijaws employed by Dubri and derived benefits from royalties through .threat of fire and brimstone.
8. We are reawakening the Bini consciousness of responsibility, brotherhood, communal sensitivity and vibrancy through non-violent means. Gelegele is a starting point to other areas Benin land has been encroached on without challenge.
9. We will no longer tolerate for any moment the calculated and surreptitious stripping of Binis of their age-long territory from every side.
10. Otu Notedoghewii is sounding a strong warning to any Bini man that would want to betray the Benin nationalism to desist from it as he would be consumed with it in the new renaissance. Ladies and Gentlemen, the unprovoked attack of the Gelegele militants led by one Don Ben who has been terrorizing the locality on Abiaia when the people were building their community hall shows the Ijaws’ ulterior desire to invade, occupy and gradually eliminate the Binis from their land, Abiala forms the nexus Gelegele and Ughoton community which last month also suffered attack without being reported,
Therefore, we are calling on the respective authorities in Edo State and beyond to call a spade a spade and address the recurring issue of ownership of Gelegele once and for all. Those that are buying lands from strangers and settlers are doing so at their own risk. Henceforth, the Binis will resort to SELF-HELP if the government does not come to our rescue.
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OKOMU IS NOT IJAW BUT BENINLAND, BENIN RIVER, GULF OF BENIN, BIGHT OF BENIN. BENIN KINGDOM LAND AND TERRITORY
Okomu is not owned by the Ijaws but Edos. Benin was the capital so all dialects you see today in various states in most part of nigeria and Cameroon, Togo, Dahomey, and others migrated to Benin. When the British colonial government started after the Benin kingdom invasion, for 17 years Benin was without a King. British then started empowering the dialects (tribes) to become autonomous by instituting hate into them (divide and conquer). When the Oba's son and heir was crowned then the amalgamation, it was so difficult for the Oba to maintain his power and government over the entire kingdom because many of them already became colonial territories. We are all one, the Ijaws are part of Edo nation, trying to claim some part of Benin land as theirs is totally senseless, the federal Supreme Court already passed the verdict on the matter. The land belongs to Benin. The Ijaws are just being forgetful or rather allowing their current waywardness overshadow their common sense.
Again, it was when the forest exploitation became lucrative during colonial period that Ijaws moved into Okomu in large numbers to ferry timber through the creeks to sapele and lagos. What business have fishermen with forests except to cut wood occasionally for canoe. The ijaws were tenants of the Oba of Benin and there are extant documents written by Ijaws to prove it as they paid rents till recent times
Benin is the only kingdom built in the heart of rainforest. Check Asante, Dahomey and Kongo, they were built either on the fringes of the forest or in the Savanna. Benin rainforest was the richest forest in Nigeria during the colonial period and accounted for two third of Nigeria's timber export. The town of Sapele +AT & P (African Timber and Plywood) were built on the exploitation and proceeds of Benin forest to the coast (Bight of Benin). The forest was teaming with elephants and leopards in the past and special quarters still exist in Benin that were responsible for hunting, trapping and taming these animals- namely Oreẹgbeni (quarters of Elephant hunters) and Ehaẹkpẹn (quaters of Leopard tamers). The Oba never stepped out of the palace without his pet leopards preceding him. One tusk of any elephant hunted in the empire belonged to the Oba abd he had the prerogative to buy the other tusk at his price. Any leopard killed in the kingdom must be surrendered to the Oba. There is a proverb among the Yoruba of Ondo, Ekiti, Akoko, Owo and Ikale area that "a person who killed a leopard have sent himself on an errand to the Oba of Benin".
The elephant tusk were used for documenting the every Oba's achievements as they were carved on the numerous tusk placed on his ancestral altar. Chiefs also used ivories for ornaments in Benin and other places. Ivory was never imported. There are still a very few forest elephants surviving and protected in Okomu forest reserves and were sighted by researchers in the 1990s.
Constant bush burning lead to development of derived savanna and destroys the habitat for wildlife. This is in addition to unregulated logging of the forest . What saved the cross river cameroun forest was the mountainous terrain that made logging difficult during most of the colonial period and the European companies lack of interest in developing infrastructure for their exploitation until very late into the colonial period. But the chinese are busy logging the cross river basin now and the super highway is going to destroy it. Benin being on lowland with adjoining rivers to float the logs did not require heavy investment in infrastructure development and so they concentrated on destroying the Benin rainforest during the colonial period. the destruction is still ongoing
The British looted textile materials (apliqued clothing, bark materials), leather (ekpokin leather boxes & ezuzu-fans, ema-drums), gourd and shell works.
I have a relative who only specialized in hunting elephant and he does not have to travel to Kenya or Zimbabwe to hunt elephant. Like I said we have elephants in Edo land, if you have no idea of that, then your Business is ask an Edo elder where in Edoland they have elephant he will tell you. Nri live in derived savanna as their forest had been cleared long time imo river. Vegetations change and that is what has affected some areas of Igboland. But some parts of Igboland have always been guinea savanna particularly Northern Igboland near benue and kogi borders
Ijaws are making claims of Edoland and okomu because of Oil in these areas which they are trying to claim ownership of. They are tenants of the Oba of Benin.
The forest was never Ijaw ancestral homeland. The documents are not online, but you can read them from intelligence reports on Ekenwan and Siluko District at the National archives Ibadan. Today the urhobos claim Jesse as their land, but it was Benin land that transferred in the late 1930s by the British and they paid rents to the Oba till the creation of Midwest
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We Want To Bring To Public And Government Attention A Prolong Issue In Gelegele Community And Environs
We Want To Bring To Public And Government Attention A Prolong Issue In Gelegele Community And Environs
On behalf of Otu Notedoghewii meaning Group for the Protection of Benin land, we are pleased to be in the premises of the notable Nigerian Observer, a newspaper that has projected the interest and growth of Edo within and outside the State. In recent· times, the Nigerian Observer has undergone surgery that has now positioned the newspaper to serve the overall growth of the people. Congratulations!
Our visit centres on the communal crisis that has persisted between the Binis and the Ijaws. which has left a sore taste in the mouth.
We want to bring to public and government attention a prolong issue in Gelegele community and environ in. Ovia Northeast Local Government Area of Edo State that have-spanned many decades of administrative and litigation processes between the Binis and the Ijaws.
It is worthy of note that Gelegele and environs, is entirely a rural community, which dwelt in peace and harmony until the late 1960’s. The Binis have occupied the entire area known as Gelegele, Ughoton, Abiala and other relative villages peaceably without any rancour or antagonism from any ethnic group for countless centuries as historical facts reveal.
That Gelegele is a Bini community is a long settled issue. There are established, verifiable administrative inquiries by the then Midwest State Government and judgments from the High Court up to the Supreme Court in Lagos giving authority and power to the Binis over the land occupied by our forbears for centuries.
Our claim to Gelegele and environs is neither fictional nor adventurous. The area was incontrovertibly founded by a Bini Prince Ekaladerhan who escaped a royal death decree over 10 centuries ago particularly Ughoton Princess Kobe from Ughoton founded Gelegele after previous attempts to inhabit the swampy terrain failed the name Gelegele derived from the exclamation:
“Gelegele emwan khian evbo” Our investigation showed that the first Ijaw man from undoubted history to setle in Gelegele was one Feti who suffered a misadventure in the near sea where torrential waves swept away his makeshift .home about 100 years ago. He obtained permission from one Okunseri, the then priest of ·Ughoton, to settle there under traditional oath of allegiance. As time went on the Ijaw population in Gelegele grew but continually paid homage to the Binis nay the Oba of Benin, through Ughoton until late Oba Akenzua II, CMG, stopped them.
However, in 1969 the Ijaw who had prior knowledge of oil discovery in the land, rose against the authority which erupted in a crisis at a time a Bini man, one Ogbeifun Egharevba was Odionwere of Gelegele. An administrative inquiry was setup by the then Midwest State Government of Brigadier-General Samuel Osaigbovo Ogbemudia, headed by one Mr. S. Jamgbadi, a Senior District Officer and sat at Ekehuan. A report was issued in 1970, and we quote inter-alia: “It is however established that the Ijaws have been resident in Gelegele for many years and that during these years they have acquired landed property and cultivated farms; but from the facts in evidence they qualify as TENANTS on the land - their-long period of occupation notwithstanding.
The matter went through the High Court of Justice and Federal Court of Appeal in Benin and the Supreme Court -in Lagos. The Binis secured victory all the way. The following suit numbers are material evidences to buttress our claim to the land at Gelegele and environs
1. High Court of Justice, Benin Judgment delivered on the 22nd December 1978 by .Justice. Ekeruche J in Suit No. B/I44/1970.
2. Federal Court of Appeal judgment delivered on the 16th December1981 by Abdul Ganiy Olatunji· Agbaja and 2 others in Suit No. FCA/B/82/80.
3. Supreme Court unanimous Judgment delivered on the 19th ‘August 1983 by Muhamedu Lawai Uwais, former Chief Justice of the Federation and 4 others in Suit No. SC.131/1982.
With all these’ unassailable evidences, the Binis has been magnanimous in victory. We absorbed them and refused to insist on enforcing the Supreme Court ruling to the letter because Binis are receptacles to strangers of all shades. Yet the Ijaws have not only abused undeserved privileges but consistently for 40 years assaulted our integrity, abused our simplicity, challenged our international acclaimed military prowess, brazenly cajoled and’ intimidated our sense of belonging and trampled on our collective will. It is enough!
.

Otu Notedoghewii have the following remarks to make to all and sundry:
1. Ijaws have severally attacked, invaded and occupied Bini villages without provocation and retaliation for too long.
2. Gelegele is a recurring decimal in Edo politics that it is a sing-song in the mouth of politicians seeking relevance and electoral patronage. Gelegele is to the Binis what Lagos is to the Yorubas; or what Port Harcourt is to the Ikwerres or what Calabar is to the Efiks.
3. It must be made abundantly clear that the Ijaws have always been erratic, provoking showdown but the Binis’ have cleverly evaded direct confrontation not because we are afraid of war but believe much in peace sine qua non for national stability, growth. and progress·
4. Because of the Gelegele escapade the Ijaws have further audacity to extend their ambitious voyage of annexation to many Benin communities because no one has challenged them since modern development has refused to come to their peculiar terrain they have embarked on a voyage to seek land to rediscover themselves.
5. The Ijaws who settled along river banks in Benin land in spite of our openness and acceptance has become a thorn in the flesh of ‘Binis constituting themselves as malfeasance, aggressors, instigators and violators of civilized behaviour.
6. Ijaw militancy has made Gelegele a disarmament centre because the place is being used as militia centre and gateway to the creeks in Delta and Bayelsa States. This has brought discomfort and tension to the Binis living in the area.
7. Binis has been excluded from the scheme of things as the Ijaws has dominated the affairs of not only Gelegele but environ like Abiala and Ughoton. where the crude oil being exploited by Dubri Oil Company Limited is located. They insisted and got only Ijaws employed by Dubri and derived benefits from royalties through .threat of fire and brimstone.
8. We are reawakening the Bini consciousness of responsibility, brotherhood, communal sensitivity and vibrancy through non-violent means. Gelegele is a starting point to other areas Benin land has been encroached on without challenge.
9. We will no longer tolerate for any moment the calculated and surreptitious stripping of Binis of their age-long territory from every side.
10. Otu Notedoghewii is sounding a strong warning to any Bini man that would want to betray the Benin nationalism to desist from it as he would be consumed with it in the new renaissance. Ladies and Gentlemen, the unprovoked attack of the Gelegele militants led by one Don Ben who has been terrorizing the locality on Abiaia when the people were building their community hall shows the Ijaws’ ulterior desire to invade, occupy and gradually eliminate the Binis from their land, Abiala forms the nexus Gelegele and Ughoton community which last month also suffered attack without being reported,
Therefore, we are calling on the respective authorities in Edo State and beyond to call a spade a spade and address the recurring issue of ownership of Gelegele once and for all. Those that are buying lands from strangers and settlers are doing so at their own risk. Henceforth, the Binis will resort to SELF-HELP if the government does not come to our rescue.

Beosten:


Orisala's priest is also the one in charge of Orisaoko here. I saw one deity's barricaded house in Obajio's compound but I don't know its name.

My mother's father was the Jagun-Osin chief - I don't know what that means till today. During Orisala's festival, rain usually disperse people towards the end of the festival when those songs are sung. You hear such lines as 'heavy rain destroyed elebure's house, and he became homeless.' Oloodua would do certain initiation for the king at crowning and must not meet the king again till death.

In Ife where I’m from Orisa Oko, Orisa Ikire, Orisa Ijugbe, Oluorogbo and a few others were Obatala’s loyalists during the civil war. Those compounds have the Priest-Kings who are under Obatala’s followership — I see they merged it together over there.

Jagun-Osin is a contraction of Ajagun Osinkola. Osinkola was an Ooni during the time Ife was under attack by Ijesa who were raiding the highways. There was a man from Ijugbe family who volunteered to fight them. He did, came back victorious and the Ooni told him to move closer to him into Ife proper. He was settled in Igbodo [a place behind the Ooni’s palace in Ife] and was given the chieftaincy title Ajagun-Osinkola [warrior of Osinkola]. The title is somewhat Balogun-esque in nature. Ajagun Osinkola was contracted to ‘Jagun Osin.

So you lot have Oduduwa house there too, beautiful! Feels exactly like Ife.

ObalufonIII:


I would also like to tell you that Ado is the original name we called Bini until Oranmiyan came back. He called the place Bini and his son Olubini.

Furthermore, I should add that Bini’s military activities in Ekiti is very exagerrated. The problem is you lot don’t read but rely on mouth to ear ‘action’ for tales by the moonlight.

See the shots attached below.

and I assume you have heard of the saying that what an author writes is colored by his emotions and impressions and that the best way to understand history is by matching very different and distinct sources to sift thru and finding that kernel of truth. pls go through google and read about the process of authenticating history and then you will find that it is not about accepting one source as a gospel and dismissing other sources.

Dsov2016:



and I assume you have heard of the saying that what an author writes is colored by his emotions and impressions and that the best way to understand history is by matching very different and distinct sources to sift thru and finding that kernel of truth. pls go through google and read about the process of authenticating history and then you will find that it is not about accepting one source as a gospel and dismissing other sources.

Did you apply this thought when you were busy typing away the oral fables about your great grandfather?

I have only provided you another source that cites several other sources to show you the military exploit of Bini in Ekiti is highly exaggerated.

NDelta:
The writer was spot on, the Ijaws were first in Benin before any other tribe, they were fisher men in those days. Benin will always be home of the Ijaws. The next oba must be an Ijaw man.

You are all dreamer

ObalufonIII:




Did you apply this thought when you were busy typing away the oral fables about your great grandfather?

I have only provided you another source that cites several other sources to show you the military exploit of Bini in Ekiti is highly exaggerated.

of course. do you think I am a dummy. and no not exaggerated in fact I think you are purposefully underrating it

EDO STATE. IJAW AT GELEGELE ARE TENANT TO THE BENIN PEOPLE
by Otedo News Update
Jul 5
That Gelegele is a Bini community is a long settled issue. There are established, verifiable administrative inquiries by the then Midwest State Government and judgments from the High Court up to the Supreme Court in Lagos giving authority and power to the Binis over the land occupied by our forbears for centuries. Our claim to Gelegele and environs is neither fictional nor adventurous. The area was incontrovertibly founded by a Bini
Prince Ekaladerhan who escaped a royal death decree over 10 centuries ago particularly Ughoton Princess Kobe from Ughoton founded Gelegele after previous attempts to inhabit the swampy terrain failed the name Gelegele derived from the exclamation: “Gelegele emwan khian evbo” Our investigation showed that the first Ijaw man from undoubted history to setle in Gelegele was one Feti who suffered a misadventure in the near sea where torrential waves swept away his makeshift .home about 100 years ago.
He obtained permission from one Okunseri, the then priest of Ughoton, to settle there under traditional oath of allegiance. As time went on the Ijaw population in Gelegele grew but continually paid homage to the Binis nay the Oba of Benin, through Ughoton until late Oba Akenzua II, CMG, stopped them.
However, in 1969 the Ijaw who had prior knowledge of oil discovery in the land, rose against the authority which erupted in a crisis at a time a Bini man, one Ogbeifun Egharevba was Odionwere of Gelegele. An administrative inquiry was setup by the then Midwest State Government of Brigadier-General Samuel Osaigbovo Ogbemudia, headed by one Mr. S. Jamgbadi, a Senior
District Officer and sat at Ekehuan. A report was issued in 1970, and we quote inter-alia: “It is however established that the Ijaws have been resident in Gelegele for many years and that during these years they have acquired landed property and cultivated farms; but from the facts in evidence they qualify as TENANTS on the land - their-long period of occupation notwithstanding.
The matter went through the High Court of Justice and Federal Court of Appeal in Benin and the Supreme Court -in Lagos.
The Binis secured victory all the way. The following suit numbers are material evidences to buttress our claim to the land at Gelegele
and environs
1. High Court of Justice, Benin Judgment delivered on the 22nd December 1978 by .Justice. Ekeruche J in Suit No. B/I44/1970.
2. Federal Court of Appeal judgment delivered on the 16th December1981 by Abdul Ganiy Olatunji· Agbaja and 2 others in
Suit No. FCA/B/82/80.
3. Supreme Court unanimous Judgment delivered on the 19th ‘August 1983 by Muhamedu Lawai Uwais, former Chief Justice of the Federation and 4 others in Suit No. SC.131/1982.
Ijaws are only settlers on Benin land and have no legal, moral or historical support for their claims to be owners of where they find themselves
IJAW TREATY REFERENCE WITH BRITISH
In July 1994, the aboriginal Ijaws wrote a letter to the Queen of England and forwarded a copy to the Attorney-General and Minister
of Justice in Abuja. In the letter, they wrote: “It was only by the Treaties of Friendship, Trade and Protection signed between Ijaws and the British Government on 25th of January, 1836, at Bonny with Lieutenant Robert Tryon on behalf of Her Majesty, the Queen of Great Britain, that our aboriginal territory of the Niger Delta became a British Protectorate and was proclaimed the Oil River Protectorate in 1885 and the Niger Coast Proctorate in 1893 respectively.” Signatories to the letter were representatives of Augalabiri, Angiama, Sagbama, Odiani, Ogbere, Akassa, Middleton, Bonny, Ogolomoa, Obika, Opobo. It is note-worthy that none of the communities named is in Itsekiri, Benin or Ilaje
These has proven in many instances the Ijaws came to settle as free-tenants in coastal land given them by other other ethnic groups, only later for them to start actions of claiming ownership of those lands as shown in references above, a situation which have resulted to wars with the destruction of lives and properties.
IJAW TO MIGRATION
According to historical facts and treaties with the british, the Ijaws have their core settlement in the present Bayelsa state and western Ijaw where they migrated to coastal areas of other states.
There are authoritative records that Ijaw later moved both west-ward and east-ward from their homeland about early 18th century, P.C. Lioyd in the journal of African History iv. 2 (1963) p207-231 says: “the Ijoh (Ijaw) coming from the southern delta, have moved as fishermen into the westhern delta area, extending northwards even to the modern Yoruba town of Okitipupa”. Other sources confirming Ijaw movement to the neighboring homelands include: Intelligence Report of 1938 by Lt. com S.E. Johnson (R.N) Age. District Officer; Intelligence Report of 1938 on Ekhuan District by Mr. H. F. Marshall, District Officer
Another on Ilaje by R.J.M Curwen, District Officer in 1936 Prof. E.J. Alagoa, G. T. strke & C. Ifeka etc
In the course of these migration some Niger Deltans settled in one another’s homelands. Until recently, we had all lived happily among ourselves, respecting one another’s customs and traditions. The new expansionist agenda of our Ijaw brothers began early last decade, leading to a series of inter-ethnic crises between 1997 and 2003. They made state creation proposal to forcefully and illegally claim lands and territories that belong to other ethnic group
The Ijaws have had ethnic wars with Itsekiri, Ikwere, Ilaje, Bini, Urhobo etc Doing everything to forcefully take over lands belonging to other ethnic groups (non-Ijaw communities) in their claim of Niger Delta lands in several case with the destruction of lives and properties of peace loving people.
A source of this Ijaw agenda to take the Niger Delta can be found in an advertorial by the Ijaw National Congress INC (an umbrella organization of the Ijaw Ethnic Nationality) on page 50 of the Vanguard of Tuesday, May 14, 2013. In the advertorial, the INC recommended a political restructuring of Nigeria into ten ethnic-based regions with the entire Niger Delta, excluding Effik/Ibibio, labeled Ijaw. Another source was from the article, “Boro and Jackson: Alliance across the Atlantic” written by Professor G. G. Darah and published in The Guardian of 3rd- 5th June 2013, but look at it, the Niger Delta was never meant to be Ijaw.
The Niger Delta, from 1849 when it was part of the Oil Rivers to 1885 under Oil Rivers Protectorate and later in about 1897 under Niger Coast Protectorate, 1900 under the Protectorate of Southern Nigeria, 1906 under the Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria and Nigeria in 1914, the Niger Delta was never contemplated to be an Ijaw colony. Many ethnic groups live on this space including Ikwerre, Ijaw, Ekpeye and Ogba, Ogoni, Effik, Anang, Ibibio, Etche, Urhobo, Itsekiri, Isoko, Edo, etc.
Ijaw’s ambition of taking places that does not belong to them also explains why it does not have respect for other ethnic groups in the region and at the same time cunningly and indirectly appropriating the resources of other ethnic groups for

ReubenE:

The bold clearly shows joining issues with you is like trying to lift Mountain Everest.

Edo is a kingdom and a nation, but Ijaw is not a nation. Ijaw na church Abi?

My brother, people now better understand the self mystified stories of the Bini people. Bini history is riddled with self edification, glorification and aggrandizement. We know better now....

Where is your Oba sef? Did he leave his palace? I looked for him everywhere but can't find him in the palace.

Most blacks, and especially people like you have problem with social interaction. At one end, you blame the whites for enslaving and colonising us, at the other, you want to do the same to people who are not in any way related to your so called kingdom.

My brother, as far as Nigeria is concerned, the Ijaw nation is too big for the Bini to toy with.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mosque attacked in Benin city/world-africa-16492504

this the only Edo are the ppl that has ever sent warning to Fulani herdsmen, we don't make noise like ijaw go and ask

A mosque and Islamic school have been
attacked and set alight in the southern Nigerian
city of Benin, police say.
A Nigerian Red Cross spokesman told the BBC
that five people had been killed and six injured.
It follows a separate attack on a different
mosque in the city on Monday.
In recent weeks, southerners, who are mostly
Christians or animists, have been the targets of
deadly attacks by the Islamist Boko Haram
group, which operates in the mainly Muslim
north.
A leader of the Hausa community in Benin told
the BBC's Hausa Service that 7,000 northerners
were seeking refuge in police and army barracks
in the city.
The Nigerian Red Cross confirmed to the BBC
that they were registering northerners at police
stations and army barracks.
Spiral of violence
Two cars at the centre housing the mosque and
Islamic school were also torched, police said.
The attack is the latest in a spiral of sectarian
violence that has seen many southerners living in
the north flee their homes.
The BBC's Naziru Mikailu in Abuja, Nigeria's
capital, said the latest violence started in Benin
on Monday when a group attacked a mosque,
leaving 10 people injured.
Then, in Gusau, capital of northern Zamfara
state, youths attacked a church. Police made 19
arrests, our reporter says.
Back in Benin on Tuesday, a mosque and Islamic
centre were attacked and set alight in a different
area from Monday's attack. Police told the BBC
that 10 people had been arrested.
A group of youths tried to attack a Hausa
community leader's house but it was defended
by Hausa youths and the police then intervened,
our reporter says.
Nigerian writer and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka
blamed the violence of recent months on leaders
who put their own religion above national unity.
He said the situation was not dissimilar to the
one that existed before the last civil war that
erupted in Biafra in the 1960s.
"We see the nation heading towards civil war.
We know that the civil war was preceded by
problems - serious killings on both sides of the
regional divide," he told the BBC.
"When you get a situation when a bunch of
people can go into a place of worship and open
fire through the windows you've reached a
certain dismal watershed in the life of that
nation.
"There's no question at all, whatsoever. Those
who have created this faceless army have lost
control of that army."

It is time for the president to start advocating for the courts to step in and start levying fees against tribal or religious issues. By the time the governor or oba looses their properties and finances, or getting jailed legally, everybody go begin get sense. This is a country that is supposed to be leading africa from ignorance but now we are leading in ignorance.

mr1759:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mosque attacked in Benin city/world-africa-16492504

this the only Edo are the ppl that has ever sent warning to Fulani herdsmen, we don't make noise like ijaw go and ask

A mosque and Islamic school have been
attacked and set alight in the southern Nigerian
city of Benin, police say.
A Nigerian Red Cross spokesman told the BBC
that five people had been killed and six injured.
It follows a separate attack on a different
mosque in the city on Monday.
In recent weeks, southerners, who are mostly
Christians or animists, have been the targets of
deadly attacks by the Islamist Boko Haram
group, which operates in the mainly Muslim
north.
A leader of the Hausa community in Benin told
the BBC's Hausa Service that 7,000 northerners
were seeking refuge in police and army barracks
in the city.
The Nigerian Red Cross confirmed to the BBC
that they were registering northerners at police
stations and army barracks.
Spiral of violence
Two cars at the centre housing the mosque and
Islamic school were also torched, police said.
The attack is the latest in a spiral of sectarian
violence that has seen many southerners living in
the north flee their homes.
The BBC's Naziru Mikailu in Abuja, Nigeria's
capital, said the latest violence started in Benin
on Monday when a group attacked a mosque,
leaving 10 people injured.
Then, in Gusau, capital of northern Zamfara
state, youths attacked a church. Police made 19
arrests, our reporter says.
Back in Benin on Tuesday, a mosque and Islamic
centre were attacked and set alight in a different
area from Monday's attack. Police told the BBC
that 10 people had been arrested.
A group of youths tried to attack a Hausa
community leader's house but it was defended
by Hausa youths and the police then intervened,
our reporter says.
Nigerian writer and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka
blamed the violence of recent months on leaders
who put their own religion above national unity.
He said the situation was not dissimilar to the
one that existed before the last civil war that
erupted in Biafra in the 1960s.
"We see the nation heading towards civil war.
We know that the civil war was preceded by
problems - serious killings on both sides of the
regional divide," he told the BBC.
"When you get a situation when a bunch of
people can go into a place of worship and open
fire through the windows you've reached a
certain dismal watershed in the life of that
nation.
"There's no question at all, whatsoever. Those
who have created this faceless army have lost
control of that army."

What purpose is the above post meant to serve? Is this an attempt to show that the Bini's are tough?
Sorry, try again

ijaw are the only know slave still existing till today.

king jaja found them though him the king jaja was a slave but of a higher value and importance to the white compared to the down trodden ijaws who were sold like crocodiles with stick on their mouth against their will

ReubenE:

What purpose is the above post meant to serve? Is this an attempt to show that the Bini's are tough?
Sorry, try again

we do not hate ijaw but they should accord us our respect