₦airaland Forum

Eastlink:
You don’t want to learn and that’s a problem. Dump that book you were taught in school, keep time to study well researched works.

1. I just checked. You were right. Ajayi Crowther was captured by Fulani.

2. Emir Shitta ruled Ilorin. Now are you aware that Oyo Ile still exist in present Kwara state. Oh, you think they were all chased out? Infact, only the family of the Alafin, his Chiefs and others fled. Some fled to found Ibadan, while other fled to found modern Oyo town. However, those who remained in Oyo Ile converted to Islam and were spared. The present Oyo Ile is under an Emir and the territory is under the Shonga Emirate in Edu LGA. As I told you before, the Emir of Shonga during a courtesy visit to our NYSC camp told us this. The people are Yoruba and Nupe but are ruled by a Fulani Emir.

3. The Jebba town is a chiefdom under the Borgu Emirate. Jebba became recognized after Borgu joined Niger state.

4. The Tapa people are in Ibarapa I know. They are found in many parts of Yoruba land. You can find them in Okokomaiko in a place called Ago Tapa. They are also found in Lagos Island and in Oshodi.

yarimo:
bariba is under Kwara state ,while BORGU is under niger state

EdoDefence:
As long as no proof then you can't counter my statement

Ibadansun1:
Jagaban is the simply the army chief of Borgu Kingdom.

Eastlink:
Bariba as a name is even Hausa. Baribawa is the full meaning, just like Nupeci and Yaribawa. Bariba is the name of the people, Borgu is their emirate, while Borgu LGA is the headquaters of Borgu emirate. Borgu emirates consist of several tribes, which includes the Bariba, Nupe, Fulani and many others. In Kwara state for instance, Baruten is seen as the remnant of Borgu emirate. Borgu emirate stretches from Benin republic, to Kwara north and up to parts of Niger state.

In the old Oyo empire, Borgu was an independent kingdom that had the same status as Nupe. Both were allies to Oyo. In fact, when Nupe under Tsoede invaded Oyo, it was in Borgu Kingdom Oyo people fled to. When Oyo finally got themselves after year's of rebuilding, that a new Alafin rose and took the battle to Nupe. Oyo never conquered Borgu. Rather both were allies who helped advanced the Oyo empire. However, when the Fulani began their Jihad, the trio of Nupe, Borgu and Oyo fell to the jihadist.

It was even said that Nupe and Borgu never really fell to Dan Fodio, but rather a few Nupe and Borgu sons solicited the flag from Sokoto to which they used in claiming their kingdoms to the Islamic fold. But when the deed was achieved, the Fulani sons within plotted their removal and installed Fulani Emirs in both Kingdoms, similar to what happened in Ilorin.

After cementing their claim to the throne, each Emir rallied the indigenes of both Borgu and Nupe to match towards Oyo. In fact, the army Alimi/Afonja used in fighting Oyo was gotten from the bulk of Nupe and Borgu kingdoms. Even when Oyo fell, it was these two kingdoms that continued the match down south, terrorizing Yorubaland until they were defeated in the hands of Ibadan warriors at Oshogbo.

shugabasbn:
Borgu was under Kwara state before Babagida stupidly and forcefully ceded the part to Niger state all because of Kainji Dam.
He said that it was a punishment for his finger ring that got disappeared while he was on tour visit in Ilorin.

Ibadansun1:
The Borgu in Niger state, Kwara are the same.

Just Google Borgu kingdom sir.

Ibadansun1:
Borgu kingdom use to be under the Oyo empire and the Jagaban of Borgu was the right hand of Aare ana Kankafo(army chief of Yoruba land) in fighting wars against Oyo enemies.

Jagaban is the simply the army chief of Borgu Kingdom.

badfuckerz:
Wrong totally wrong no such title exist in Yoruba land .

yarimo:
not the same Kwara is another state in Nigeria

Ibadansun1:
Read about Borgu kingdom and stop disturbing me.

yarimo:
you don't anything about BORGU, you are here to mislead people with your I too know.

samunaka:
jagaban means the Slayer of PDP and the tamer of the IPOB lions

sinkhole:
Jagaban = Asiwaju

A gaba, in hausa, should mean "in front" hence jagaban meaning asiwaju: he that leads from the front
Na my own theory be dat o
Hausa also have something like "shugaba", I think it also means Chief/leader!

EdoDefence:
Whatever but Oyo was a kingdom. Your colonial masters refer to Benin as Benin Empire you're free to address it as what you want it's your choice.

kobie:
The name 'Jagaban' was first mentioned by Bill Clinton (then USA President) when he visited Lagos for the Eko Atlantic Project, however 'Jagaban' as innocuously pronounced by Bill Clinton was supposed to be Ijagaa-Oba, meaning "the maker of Kings", I read this in one of the dailies published by Punch Newspapers (I think) then, I have tried to lay my hands on it as a reference but couldn't find it...I guess our deeply rooted Yoruba folks can allude to it...