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temigracie: yeah...tanks alot...

u're always welcome

Bwaal: na tokunbo before lol abeg park well

lol u no serious.....

temigracie: ...am in a new chapter alredy....

owk oooo just make sure u guide ur heart against another break up.....

temigracie: ...lolz...rolling on d floor..

hmm u getting me scared dearie, i can be ur hero baby, just give me a chance nd i will make ur lyf brand new!

temigracie: hmm...adon hear

should i take that as a yes?

temigracie: all d option combined into a sentence....u ll almost wish d ground can open its mouth n swallow u alive...my ex combined all of dem ni buh here i am today...still d super-sweet gracie...enjoying the singleness...

lol your Ex just gave u the opportunity to meet a better and caring guy like me....

xynerise: I bought a new pen today

lol that's not a new thing now, at least that's not the first time that u're buying a pen i mean doing something that u've never done b4.

I was discussing with a friend and he asked me this question "when was the last time i did something new" and i was silent for some minutes cos i can't remember the last time i did something new i keep repeating same thing everyday....... So nairalanders i want to ask when was the last time you did something new?

koastar: Where are you getting your history from? The first Oni of Ife was Oduduwa who gave birth to only one son, Akanbi. Akanbi gave birth to seven sons who spread the Yoruba kingdom beyond Ife. The last son of Oduduwa was crowned as the new Oni after his grandfather and his other six brothers left Ife to establish their own kingdoms and that is how the Yoruba kingdom spread to what it is today. Check your history well

and who is that last son of Oduduwa?

According to Johnson in his book "history of the Yorubas", Agriculture was the main basis of the wealth of the state for every citizen was a farmer. Before the 18th century, trade with the Sudanwas another source of wealth. Oyo exported to the Sudan kolanuts from the south and locally woven cloth, and imported salt, dresses and horses from there.
Taxes from the provinces and tribute from subjects states provided the greater bulk of royal revenue. For instance, between 1729 and 1781, Dahomey paid an annual tribute of forty men, forty women, forty guns and 4,000 loads of cowries and corals to Oyo. Dr. I. Akinjogbin has said that this expressed in terms of money amounted to about £32,000.

But from the 18th century however, there was a gradual change in the direction of Oyo trade from the north to the south where coastal trade with Europeans was developing. From then on, the sale and export of slaves and the import of European arms and other goods formed an important aspect of the economic activity of the Oyo state. Benin, Badagry and modern Porto Novo (Little Ardrah) were the ports for the external trade of Oyo.

Steven Keshi stated: " what i said to my players was that this maybe my last match at the helm of affairs in the national team, because my contract terminates with the world cup and i have not been offered a new one. I was a bit shocked that the global media went to town to say i have called it quites with the national team.


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koastar: Op, this story you presented here is not correct. Oduduwa had only one child called Akanbi. Akanbi had seven sons, the first was the the Alafin of Oyo and the last was the second Oni of Ife who succeeded his grandfather Oduduwa the first Oni of Ile-Ife

hey you can re check my post i said Oduduwa had only a son who gave birth to seven children.

Sheenor: @Op yuh-r frm edo state i guess

lol i'm not i'm from Oyo state but my mum is from cross river so they have a little ties with edos.

The kingdom of Benin had no standing army, but the king could raise 100,000 men in twenty four hours" from among his subjects.There was however a permanent war-Captain or field Marshall next in the rank to the Oba.
The decline of Benin trade eas one of the cause of the fall of the empire. After 1520, the Portuguese cam less frequently to Benin owing to the growth of the Asian trade and the creation of better bases at fernando Po and Sao Thome islands. Finally, the rise of the Oyo empire meant that the trade of Yorubaland began to reach the coast through new outlets such as Lagos and Badagri and no longer through Benin.
Though the old Benin empire disappeared in the 18th century, the Benin state has survived into modern times. Today, the Benin state has a population of over a million Edo-speaking people, about 50,000 of whom live in Benin city. This miracle of survival is one of the great achievements of the Bini. Of course you should also remember their other achievements. They built an empire of immense size and influence which embraced the Ekos, Ishans, Kukurukus, Ekitis, Owos, Itsekiris, Urhobos, Ijaws and Ondos. They attained a high artistic excellence of which the Benin 'bronzes' are an abiding evidence. They were the first people in Nigeria to exchange ambassadors with a European power as far back as the 15th century.

The great kingdom of the Edos started as a small city-state on the River Benin. Its early history, like that of Oyo, is not clear. But according to Chief Jacob Egharevbas's version narrated in his book 'short story of Benin', the kingdom in its earliest history (900-1300 A.D.) was ruled by a line of kings called Ogisos. There were altogether about ten Ogisos in this Ogiso dynasty including two women. The rule of the Ogisos later became unsatisfactory and tyrannical. So the dynasty was overthrown about 1300 A.D., after which the state passed through a period of republican rule.
Unfortunately, republican rule proved equally unsatisfactory. So the people appealed to the Oni of Ife for a prince to rule over them. Consequently, Oduduwa sent his grandson Oranmiyan to rule overr the Bini. Oranmiyan found the task of ruling the Edos a difficult one probably because he could not understand Edo ways of life. It is said he gave Benin its present name 'Ile Ibinu' (The land of vexation). This was later reduced to 'Ubini' , and lastly to 'Benin'. Oranmiyan came to the conclusion that only a prince of Edo blood could rule his people. So he married the daughter of a Bini Chief and this woman gave birth to a son. Oranmiyan left his son to rule Bini, and returning to Yorubaland, founded antother kingdom at Oyo.

It is interesting to note that Yoruba andBenin traditions agree in the matter of the foundation of the Ife dynasty of Benin.
Oranmiyan's son was crowned Oba Eweka I, about 1300. He was the first king of the Ife dynasty in Benin which has survived till this day and has given the kingdom thirthy-five Obas.

By about the begining of the 15th century however, the Ife dynasty of Benin had ben strongly established and became politically-independent of Ife. Nevertheless, the religious and cultural influence of Ife continued in Benin, For instance, the art of casting bras figures supposed to have been introduced from Ife still went on.
In time, the Obas became strong and began to expand the frontiers of the kingdom by conquest of neighbouring villages. Under Ewuare the Great (1440-1473), the kingdom entered its Golden Age and its influence and power were widely extended. Ewuare raised Benin to the status of a metropolitan city, and built roads and towns in different parts of the kingdom.
It has been said that Ewuare's rule was unpopular and tyrannical.
As a result many citizens of Benin emigrated to areas outside the empire. Some have suggestedthat the origin of the Urhobo, the Western Ijaw, Western Igbo and Onitsha Igbo whose cultures are somewhat similar to that of the Bini, may be traced to this emigration.
But even so, Ewuare deserved to be called the Great. It was he who extended the empire to the west banks of theniger. He did not only built up the city of Benin but also increased its wealth by encouraging carving in ivory and wood and brass casting for which Benin has ever remained famous. Again, under him, the kingdom acquirwd an intensive area of the coast and extended its sway north to Idah and west to Lagos which was a Benin colony when the Portuguese first visited it in 1472. Ewuare's success, no doubt, depended upon the possession of an efficient army and a well organised administration.

Wuare was succeeded probably by Oba Ozolua. It was he who received the first European visitor to Benin, Jao Affonso d' Aveiro, in 1486. He established trade and diplomatic relations with Portugal and sent an ambassador to Portugal in the reign of King JohnII (1481-95). The Benin ambassador returned with Portuguese missionaries and trading agents, and many rich presents for the Oba.
The King governed the state with the assistance of a state Council which is supposed to have come into during Ewuare's reign. The states Council consisted of six nobles called the Usama who formed hereditary class. They were the Benin counterpart of theOyomesi. The Usama, at one time, grew powerful and in effect became kingmakers like the Oyomesi of Oyo and could even elect a new Oba from among themselves. A struggle for powe ensued between the Oba and the Usama. The power of the Oba derived from the fact that he could not be unseated by the Usama as the Oyomesi could unseat the Alafin.

Gosj01: @Op, and u call this short thing a HISTORY??...Abridged History would hv been better.

thats not all more still coming

@farano:
wow! u've gat a nyc pix . I rate u 9.5

lol i'm blushing!

Oyo was at first a small and insignificant state on the northern borders of Yorubaland near the Niger. It is not certain when Oyo began to expand its power. But it is known that by the end of the 15th century, its inflence was widespread in most parts of Yorubaland except the coastal region. It is recorded that when the Portuguese first visited Benin 1485, they inquired whether a powerful king of the interior they had heard of was the much sought-after Prester John. The Oba of Benin told them of a powerful monarch in the hinterland whose face was never seen by his subjects. This reference was made to the Alafin of Oyo. It is evident therefore that the establishment of Oyo supremacy over the Yoruba states had started before the visit of the first Europeans to the Guinea coast.
However , towards the end of the 16th century a southward expansion of Oyo by conquest of the Yoruba states is noticeable. The cause of this southward conquest is not clearly known. As pointed out earlier, the popular theory among European historiansis that the desire of the Oyos to to participate in the develping European coastal trade was the cause. Against this, it must be said that the economy of Oyo at this period was basically agricultural, and European trade did not yet offer such attractions as to generate wars of conquest. Moreover, European products had not grown so popular in the interior . In actual fact, Oyo was still lookng northwards to the Sudan from where it imported salt and horses, and not south toward the sea. Furthermore, the wars of expansion of the 16th and 17th centuries were not fought to procure slaves for export to the coast but for local service in Yoruba farms. It was not until the 18th century that wars to provide slaves for sale to Europeans became important.
By the middle of the 18th century, Oyo was at peak of its power and had built a vast empire. The empire was bounded to the north by the Niger, to the east by Benin, to the west by the frontiers of modern Togo, and to the south by the mangrove swamps and lagoons. Nupe, Borgu and Dahomey paid tribute to the Alafin of Oyo.

The Oyo state of the yorubas was the earliest and the largest of the four great kingdoms of west Africa. At present very little is known about the early history of the state. The little that is known is gleaned mostly from Yoruba legends and traditions.

According to some of these traditions,Oduduwa, the chief ancestor and first king of the yorubas settled at Ile Ife. His eldest son and successor Okanbi died at Ile Ife leaving seven children: the first was a daughter, the mother of Olowu, the ancestor of the Owus; the second also a daughter, was the mother of Alaketu, the founder of Ketu; the third became the king of Benin; the fourth Orangun became the king of Ila; the fifth Onisabe became the chief of the Sabes, the sixth Olupopo became the chief of the Popos; and the seventh Oranmiyan became the founder and the first Alafin of Oyo.
These were the founders and first Obas of Yorubaland.

Oranmiyan, as the story goes, set out with an army to conquer the tribes to the north of Ila Ife. It appears he was the Most warlike of the sons of Okanbi. He left a reletion Adimu at Ila Ife to look after the sacred shrine of the gods. Oranmiyan was not succesful in this expedition, and instead of returning to Ila Ife in disgrace,he founded a city at Oyo Ajaka(Old Oyo) where he and his army settled. This tradition was followed by later Oyo generals whose military expeditions proved a failure. Mr. Peter Morton Williams suggests that Oyo was founded between 1388 and 1438.
Speculations are rife as to why Oranmiyan chose Old Oyo as his capital. Perhaps he chose it beacause its situation in the savannah was suitable for movement of cavalry on which his military power depended, and because it was strategically placed to defend the new kingdom against attacks by the Nupe and Borgu. Perhaps again, he wanted to exploit its situation along the trade route from the south to the north.
However, it came to be that Oranmiyan as the Alafin of Oyo and his descendants were accepted by the peole of Ife as the military rulers of Yorubaland while Adimu and his descendants became known as 'Oni' , and were accepted by the people of Oyo as the spiritual ruler of all Yorubas.

Me i see vision say super eagles go carry this world cup........ As i just dey see d vision na im my brother wake me up from sleep

Which country do you think has the craziest football fans?

2:1 in favour of nigeria

Nah I'm listening to Ashawo by flavour

onye_okwu: Obj egomaniac
oduduwa gave birth to rascals, agberos , leeches parasites and fucking lazy unproductive and creative
thank you oo jare Clark for calling them who they are

One of the reasons why I think abortion should be legalize your parent will be so sorry to give birth to a deluded soul like u

Hmmmmm some girls are feeling oooooo but pretending and calling it irritating

Wow dats great, I Also noticed it

musa ajebor: As a kaaba boy dat was brought up in the north, I will like to reiterate the point dat hausa is the easiest to understand,pick, and speak amongst all nigerian languages. If u have idea of key hausa nouns u can easily deduce the rest of what the speaker is saying
Eg gida=house
Mai gida=owner of house(husband).
Simple.

aNd Yoruba Ile=house, Onile=Owner of house

But what if my wife go lost d key how we go use unlock am now?

I've been to Abuja,Lagos,Oyo,Kaduna,Osun,Kogi,Ogun,Niger,Cross river,Kano,Kwara,Ondo.

alutacontinua: @OP, ask around, i'm not the type that minces words irrespective of the personality or gender it affects.
But I gotta admit, all what you wrote up there is bull-crap. Sounds more like teenage things to me, so, i'll like to ask, how old are you

shut d Bleep up what do u know? transgendered

hotwax: WHy cant he face his church and leave catholic out of it? Must he attacked anybody. If he is allergic to xmas, not all his congregation hate xmas.

I have many deeper life friends that are crazy for xmas.

what's this one saying where did u heard dat he was addressing catholic just spewing rubbish