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So how does this work? Is he going to be the emir of both Bichi and Kano, or is he now going to give up the former throne?

unbitchable:
don't go too far. A Nigerian military administrator sacked a sitting Oba of Benin. i dare anyone to dispute it.

Provide the name of this military administrator, please. If you're referring to Navy Captain Anthony Ibe Onyearugbulem, he never sacked the oba. They locked horns, but no, there was no deposition.

Ipisi:
But wait ooo... Why is it that you northerners don't like Sanusi again after he helped play the devil's advocate in removing GEJ from power...

What went wrong??

Nemesis or Karma??

They are not going to say it, but the Northern Establishment is apparently not comfortable with his vociferous calls for reforms.

MelesZenawi:
I don't know and wish not to with that your little book of history. What you know is what you read not what is obtainable.

How can people in midst of others naturally doesn't has ties with anybody, they are just there


Very ridiculous.

You are just all over the place. Did anybody here say there are no ties between Edo and Yoruba?

Like I said, you don't know anything about Edo people. You probably don't know anything about Yoruba people for that matter.

MelesZenawi:
Please I hate lies. If it has no meaning while then are they answering it even to this day.

You very clearly don't know anything about Edo people.

Hmmm.

This one pass me. Igbo pundits on Nairaland. Come and tackle this.

MrPresident1:
How did "Ghost" DNA become part of the DNA of West Africans?

Please, don't tell me you took "ghost" to literally mean spirits/imales/gods.

Ghost simply means the DNA came from as-yet unidentified archaic hominids. It could very well be Homo heidelbergensis as some anthropologists have speculated. But time will tell.

So you have gone and built up fantasies of West Africans shagging gods?

Chai. Nothing left for Musa to see at the gate.

MrPresident1:
The ancestors of the Europeans mated with Neanderthals. The Neanderthals do not possess a superior gene pool so this cannot be hybridisation, as apparently there was nothing to gain in this mating except a devaluation and degradation of the gene pool due to the introduction of inferior genes.

However, with the West Africans, it was hybridisation because in essence, it means that mere men mated with gods who had superior genes. The offspring of this hybridisation process would be super beings. In a nutshell, the West Africans, who are the offspring of the gods, are superior because they are the offspring of GOD.

KJV
Genesis 6:4
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

NIV
Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters ofhumans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old,men of renown.

The giants were in those days; and also after that...
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days-and also afterward-

All those super heroes you heard or read about, they are here with us, they have just been tuned down a little.

They are still on earth, the offspring of the gods

Which gods did West Africans mate with? Lmao. There's nothing I won't read on this forum.

scholes0:
So which village/Town/City is urs on the list.

Wait, you thought I was Yoruba? I am not oh.

There are communitie with Ute in their names in Ika (Delta State) and also in Edo State. And while we know there is a connection between those in Edo and in Delta, I was wondering if they are as well connected to the one in Ondo.

But apparently, the one in Ondo appears to be distinct, according to the tradition.

scholes0:
Yes, Ute or Ute ilogi is a small village in Osse local government.
They migrated from Imeri town, Their progenitor is Akensi. Imeri was formerly in Edo state but was transferred to Ondo when the people of the town clamored for that, since they claim the state was wrong (They being Yoruba and not Edo)

In exchange for the moving of Yoruba speaking Imeri to Ondo from Edo, Sobe was moved to Edo from Ondo.

Thanks.

Put Greek in your title, biko.

Five strongest gods in history, and they all come from one tiny rocky corner of the small continent of Europe.


By the way, Greek gods ain't shịt.

The Greeks themselves seemed to have realised this at some point in their history and started importing Egyptian and Asian cults to make up for the deficiencies of their impotent gods.

Please, the communities that bear the name "Ute" (I think they're in Ondo State.) What is their origin?

Number 1 is only applicable in a relatively small part of Igboland, and putting it in a list of taboos im Igboland makes it seem like it is general, which it definitely isn't.

Number 5 will not cost you your life in at least the part of Igboland I am familiar with. The two people involved will perform ikpụ alụ rites and be re-integrated into society. I even know a case that led to the birth of a child. The child was given away to an orphanage, the boy and the girl did ikpụ alụ, and life went on.

The title of the thread is mischievous. None of the pictures come from Igboland or specifically depict Igbo people.

Adeba01:
I am sorry, not that I am disagreeing with you but I am highly sceptical of these genetic tests, I find them dubious, if I may ask you if light skin Igbos have no admixture, then why do dark skin Igbos exist?

This is like asking: If red-haired Scots are not an admixture, then why do black-haired Scots exist?

Skin colour variation can exist (and does exist) in African populations without necessary genetic input from Eurasia, same way hair colour and eye colour variation exists all over northern Europe.

Apparently, this guy gave this speech twice on the same day. Using the exact same words except to switch 'Africa' with 'India' in one.

Lol. This hoax is still going around?

Whoa.

Adeba01:
That may be true about there being Igbos/Edo/Esan individuals that are lighter than the OP but they do not form the majority but the minority. Most Igbos / Edo / Esan have beautiful dark chocolate brown skin colour. I actually question the purity of the light skin Igbos / Edo / Esan individuals I would not be surprised to find out they have some mixture

I thought we had stopped speculating that light-skinned Igbos necessarily have admixture.

There have been light-skinned Igbo girls who took genetic tests and came up with 0% non-African ancestry and 99.9% Sub-Saharan ancestry.

macof:
it still made progress despite the Europeans.

Ibadan for example had more Muslims (and less traditionalists) at Independence than in 1893
The Ajami script would indeed have spread but Islam might not have progressed any further than it has today

When I said progressed, I wasn't only referring to spreading in terms of increasing their numeric spread.

What I was saying in essence was that had colonialism not happened when it did, Yorubaland would have come to a point where the Arabic script would have become entrenched and used to record Yoruba history to the extent that it was used for that objective in northern Nigeria.

Apparently, a man like Sanusi is not suitable for a people/region that is determined to remain in a medieval state of affairs.

The kind of inferences we draw from history are not just absurd, but potentially dangerous.

Saying that Lagos belongs to Benin because the Lagos ruling family has Edo descent is just as absurd as saying that Spain belongs to France because the dynasty ruling in Spain today is of French descent.

You loan a king to another country and all of a sudden the country belongs to you?

Even though the ruling family has long since shed all traces of foreignness and has become thoroughly native.

Adeba01:
OP is making an interest point. The Yorubas may have not learn their lessons from the past. If not for British colonial interference, the Yorubas were engaged in a body genocidal civil war.

For those interested in Yoruba history I will post an ebook with this message.

The 19th century wars were not genocidal. It was a struggle to fill a vacuum left by the fall of Oyo. It was normal. Europe and Asia have fought several of such wars of reconsolidation of power in the past. Heard of the Thirty Years' War? The Napoleonic Wars?

Yorubaland would have stabilized on its own in time if the British hadn't shown up. Ibadan would have established themselves as a power in the West; Ilorin in the north; Ogedengbe would probably have succeeded in turning the Ekitiparapo into an empire controlling the east; and life would have returned to normal.

Sammy07:
She said her DNA test is 49% Nigerian

I know. I read the post.

And you got 80 - 90% Yoruba from that?

Adeba01:
To be honest without the Europeans we would have been largely Oral and I would have not been able to understand nor write what I am writing

I have a different view. Without the Europeans, Islam would have continued to make progress in Yorubaland and in time a crop of men (and some women) literate in Arabic script would have arisen, just like they did among the Hausa, the Fulani and the Kanuri long before the Europeans arrived.

Kaytixy:
don't mind the hypocrites. When there was a movie about one gay Jesus, they were busy shouting that all Christians should stop the use of Netflix they did not allow God to fight for his son according to them but now they can open watery mouth to spew rubbish. For the records, we Muslims respect Jesus for better than you do.

Yes. But did they burn anybody's house? Did they run anybody out of town? Did they call for anybody to be 'punished'? They expressed their disapproval like civilized people and went back to their houses. Even many of those that said they were cancelling Netflix, forgot about the whole thing in less than a month and are watching Netflix today. Be like them.

I'm even puzzled by this whole thing. We don't even know exactly what this singer said. The singer himself appears to be a Muslim from another sect. It is even possible that this so-called blasphemy was just a sectarian view of Muhammad that is not in agreement with the mainstream, and not an actual insult. I can't see a Muslim deliberately insulting the prophet. Doesn't add up.

Sammy07:
Your checks and lips BTW, you said you like spicy food.

You're probably 80 - 90% Yoruba

80 - 90% Yoruba? Lmao. She probably isn't even 90% Sub-Saharan African.

I thought some of these ancestry tests are tribe-specific?

You're not going to get any reliable answer just by asking people to look at your facial features. Don't mind what anyone has been telling you. You can have that face and come from anywhere in Nigeria.

Ogbaru and Ndoni don't speak Enuani. Ndoni is even closer to Ukwuani than to Enuani.

And while Onitsha is close to Enuani there are clear differences.

Obosi doesn't speak Enuani.


I also doubt that Mbaise speaks one uniform dialect. I've heard that Ezinihitte side of Mbaise speaks somewhat like Ngwa people.

beardedboy:
False statement. Do you know how many of my friends have been harrassed in the east just because they are Muslims and dress Islamic?

Your media only reports what is likes and how it likes.

Explain this harassment, please. Physical violence or verbal taunts? And name the towns in the East where they happened. I live in the East and the only time Muslims have been harrassed to my knowledge is when there have been killings of Igbos in the North.

Also you're getting off topic. The issue is the way Christians and Muslims generally react to perceived slights to their faith.

beardedboy:
But if their "lord, saviour and messiah" is called gay now they'll be kicking (bucket).

You seriously can't compare the way Christians in general react to blasphemy to the way Muslims in general react to blasphemy.

Christians generally react with irate comments and tearing of pant; and that is where it usually ends.

Muslims generally go batshit. Often people DIE. In this case we're seeing arson and people being arrested or running out of town to escape certain death. That is madness.

Freedom of expression should include freedom to say whatever about people who died over a thousand years ago.