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sangresan:
Benin didn't pay any tribute to Ife...Some of you just come online to spew trash here...

In fact, no first class oba in Yorubaland has ever paid the Ooni any tribute.....

Until the time of Oba Adesoji Aderemi, Ooni was just another king in Yorubaland....All the tales you have swallowed about his mythical authority were invented.

Alaafin was the Paramount ruler in Yorubaland....The term "Yoruba" refers to Oyo people, not Ife people. The most acceptable form of written Yoruba is "Oyo" not "Ife"...

Many of you making noise here can't even write a sentence in Ife dialect....Besides, Ooni of Ife isn't among Oduduwa children...He is just like a priest appointed to guard the shrine and burial tomb.

So, I don't know where he derives his so-called power from.

Read history and ask questions...Don't just regurgitate what you heard from your ill-informed uncles...


The British came and elevated some kings who didn't resist their rule....They downgraded the Oba of Benin, Awujale of Ijebu, etc...On the other hand, they made the Ooni (who had no standing army), Alake of Egba, and others to look as if they were powerful...That's why I said these kings were British-made....Throughout the world, kings are ranked based on military conquest and conquered territory....For example, Hausa-Fulani people didn't originate from Sokoto, but the Sultan is the No 1 ruler among them due to his past conquests. Further, the Queen of England is also the Head of the Commonwealth due to past victories in battles. Only in Nigeria will you see a king without any history of conquest being described as powerful. A king whose town was sacked by Modakeke forces and had to go on exile in Oke Igbo.


Action Group politics also somehow made Ooni superior to the Alaafin just because the then Alaafin supported NCNC against the AG...

Well, the Ooni is regarded by some pretenders as the paramount Yoruba oba, but in the real sense, he is only the king of his Ife people.

Saying otherwise is just like deceiving ourselves that Nigeria, as presently constituted, makes any sense.

sangresan:
Benin didn't pay any tribute to Ife...Some of you just come online to spew trash here...

In fact, no first class oba in Yorubaland has ever paid the Ooni any tribute.....

Until the time of Oba Adesoji Aderemi, Ooni was just another king in Yorubaland....All the tales you have swallowed about his mythical authority were invented.

Alaafin was the Paramount ruler in Yorubaland....The term "Yoruba" refers to Oyo people, not Ife people. The most acceptable form of written Yoruba is "Oyo" not "Ife"...

Many of you making noise here can't even write a sentence in Ife dialect....Besides, Ooni of Ife isn't among Oduduwa children...He is just like a priest appointed to guard the shrine and burial tomb.

So, I don't know where he derives his so-called power from.

Read history and ask questions...Don't just regurgitate what you heard from your ill-informed uncles...


The British came and elevated some kings who didn't resist their rule....They downgraded the Oba of Benin, Awujale of Ijebu, etc...On the other hand, they made the Ooni (who had no standing army), Alake of Egba, and others to look as if they were powerful...That's why I said these kings were British-made....Throughout the world, kings are ranked based on military conquest and conquered territory....For example, Hausa-Fulani people didn't originate from Sokoto, but the Sultan is the No 1 ruler among them due to his past conquests. Further, the Queen of England is also the Head of the Commonwealth due to past victories in battles. Only in Nigeria will you see a king without any history of conquest being described as powerful. A king whose town was sacked by Modakeke forces and had to go on exile in Oke Igbo.


Action Group politics also somehow made Ooni superior to the Alaafin just because the then Alaafin supported NCNC against the AG...

Well, the Ooni is regarded by some pretenders as the paramount Yoruba oba, but in the real sense, he is only the king of his Ife people.

Saying otherwise is just like deceiving ourselves that Nigeria, as presently constituted, makes any sense.

RedboneSmith:
So a prince, a mere prince o not even a king, comes to town and Kings of old glorious kingdoms left their palaces and journeyed long distances to take a photo with him where his seat is symbolically positioned ahead of all of them.

And the fawning monkeys we are, we are here bragging about which Kings got the seats closest to the prince.

A mere prince.

Tufia! We have chop shït.

scholes0:
He is next in line though. Crown Prince.
Eliza is as good as dead, and he is the King in Making... but you still make sense.

I wonder why they didn't all sit at a round table.

When this man was in Ghana 2-3 days ago he visited the palace of the Asantehene in Kumasi , but with the complexities of Nigeria, I guess he can't possibly visit all those royal palaces in his short stay and hence whey they had to meet in Abuja. So tis is not a racial issue.

Still sha, the sitting arrangement was terrible, Hierarchy or not.

prolog2:
Don't call her that, one day you will be as old as her, would you like being called "as good as dead" ? We are all growing old, let's respect age rather than mock age.

DeLaRue:
Sultan & Ooni seated on the right & left of Charles. Obi of Onitsha, Emir of Kano, Oba of Benin (Isn't that him in burgundy?) sitted one row behind, as if they are junior. The Obi should be at the front too so that all 3 major groups are duly acknowledged.

I wonder how the federal govt decided that Ooni & Sultan are the most senior.

May be, I'm making too much out of this, but I doubt I am.

odigbosky:
After reading all through your write up, i came to the conclusion that you just came here for the whole yoruba superiority contest. It is obvious that you are yoruba. You made a claim that the yorubas thought us metal casting. What kind of metal, you did not indicate. You went further to say ancient Edos got all their metal works from ife. This literally meant all Benin war equipments were gotten from Ife. i would then ask what did Oba Ewedo then fight with i guess with stone tools. What Egharevba talked about was about Bronze Casting and it is very wrong to paint a picture as if the Edos had no prior knowledge to metal works before the Oguola time. Some of the first moats were built by Oba Oguola during wars with the Duke of Udo called Akpanigiakon.
As for the stool, it was one of the things surrendered to Oba Ewedo after he defeated Ogiame in the battle of Ekiophaga. Son for you to say the stool also came from ife...please bro just drop the whole ethnic shit and sip your alomo bitters.


Those swords are associated with the Monarchy of Benin and not any king in Yoruba land.

TwoBottles:
The traditional institution should be scrapped. It is the most corrupt and prejudiced institution in the whole country. Traditional rulers are champions in land grabbing and voodoo. If I remember my history lessons very well; they encouraged slavery by accepting little gifts from Europeans and sold their people for a pittance. Till date, they haven't changed.

DeLaRue:
Sultan & Ooni seated on the right & left of Charles. Obi of Onitsha, Emir of Kano, Oba of Benin (Isn't that him in burgundy?) sitted one row behind, as if they are junior. The Obi should be at the front too so that all 3 major groups are duly acknowledged.

I wonder how the federal govt decided that Ooni & Sultan are the most senior.

May be, I'm making too much out of this, but I doubt I am.

DEXTROVERT:
Wasting Public Funds Up AND Down

DEXTROVERT:
Wasting Public Funds Up AND Down

Kennedy94:
cool

slimfit1:
You dey vex

resurgent4oodua:
Where Obal Rilwan Akiolu in all of these?

I thought the snubbed the Ooni thinking he's a young man?

Ooni is the Arole oodua. Any other Oba is a counterfeit!

resurgent4oodua:
I don start to vex small small.

theDEVILisHERE:
Hopeless and worthless idiots called traditional rulers
Entertaining a vagabond from the linage of demons who destroyed your people's life and desecrated your land and culture

prolog2:
I am happy my King didn't go there to entertain anybody nor to seek validation but to reclaim the belongings of his great great grand father, Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi. Oba ghstokpere, Isse.

AyakaDunukofia:
No, the British came, saw and ranked based on their evaluation of each tribe's stupidity and maleability.

Lugard handover notes are still a reference point before any high profile visit. The easterners had no time for ass licking.

LUGARD'S DUAL MANDATE ON NIGERIAN TRIBES
1922...( Copied from Mathew Mbanaja"s wall)

*The handover notes Lord Lugard wrote to his colleague, Walter H. Lang, on the 25th of September 1918. The quote reads inter alia:*


HAUSA
The Hausa-Fulani has no ideals, no ambitions save such as sensual in character. He is a fatalist, spendthrift and a gambler. He is gravely immoral and is seriously diseased that he is a menace to any community to which he seeks to attach himself.


YORUBA
Lagos has for 20 years opposed every Governor and has formented strife and bloodshed in the hinterland…, I have spent the best part of my life in Africa; my aim has been the betterment of the natives for whom I have been ready to give my life. But after some 29 years, and after nearly 12 years as Governor here, I am free to say that the people of Lagos and indeed the westerners are the lowest, the most seditious and disloyal, the most purely prompted by self-seeking money motives of any people I have met.


IGBO
These people of predominantly Eastern Nigeria are fiercely rebellious with no regard for authority. Though industrious and religious, in deference to the objectives of her majesty and the crown, they are highly dangerous to be trusted with.