₦airaland Forum

Kayharry:
Everyone sha want his or her traditional ruler at the front.Igbo people with problem forgeting that obi is just like baale of a village

fero007:
the problem with many of these theories is there is no real proof supporting them, they are based on logical guesses which maybe true or false, there is no proof that itsekiris came from yoruba, they may be diff people who lost their language to yoruba for some reason, if you know the south south you'll know its not uncommon for tribes to lose their culture for a foreign one

Sinistami:
Thank you o. Epie is more farther apart from Urhobo than Itshekiri from Yoruba. other than that I my self still think Itshekiri isn't Yoruba because language isn't the only thing to define an ethnic group. They entire culture and Traditions and worldview is very different from Yoruba and Closer to Its Neighbours Urhobos Ijaw and Edo etc.

fero007:
thank God u know i said ethnic groups with CLOSE simliarities, ive lived in warri so i know dat apart from language (which is not even that close) they is no other cultural similarity btw itsekiri n yoruba. itsekiri are believe to come from bini lead by ginuwa, their customs are edo related, in terms of other aspects of culture, (food, dressing, dance, way of life) they re FAR FAR CLOSER to ijaw n urhobo sef than to yorubas

fero007:
ok u got it, it seems ur well versed on the subject so i'll lyk to enlighten us on the other similarities btw yoruba n itsekiri, bcuz dressing different, food very diff, music n dance diff, customs(edo lyk), so if u can teach us cuz i dont how do they relate 2 yoruba again o, n ive lived in warri, but we learn evriday

fero007:
its only in this nairaland that i hear that itsekiri is yoruba o

IkpuMmadu:
Did he call himself yoruba

Oshin56:
what the guy said is truth most okun kabba usually said they are not yoruba

centurionpapa:
This boy has been christianised.

vonxe:
Do you know average market women in ilorin does not know their king as emir but oba. Ilorin dialect is not very different from that of oyo.
The Fulani owning ilorin is in the past, visit ilorin for yourself bro you will think you are in Ibadan or ogbomosho.

Even the bariba and tapa (nupe) are fast losing their culture to the yorubas because of the ilorin influence on them.

fero007:
i dont think so, cuz besides language itsekiris ve nothing else in common with yoruba o .................................... Even the languages just sound the same but in truth one cannot understand the other

ill prove it, i dear any yoruba here to interpret d itsrkiri phrase "uruntioritse segbe neh"

fero007:
nor mind dem, later they will claiming dat its igbos dat are immature, nonsense entities

well dis adds to d endless list of pepo with very close culture but r still diff tribes like:

hausa/fulani
igbo/ika/ikwerre/ukwani/ogba/etche
efik/ibibio/oron/annang
urhobo/isoko/epie
ogoni/eleme

n now
yoruba/okun/ilorin

good to know

viscerion:
so why do they say warri city is owned by 3 tribes, n how come ijaws are allowed to contest for LG posts meant for indigenes in warri south

Nowenuse:
Gbam. I almost forgot the Akan people (Ashantis etc of Ghana & Ivory coast).
@Proxillin. Any list without the Akan people cannot be taken seriously. These people are most likely the largest coastal ethnic group of West Africa and even arguably Africa as a whole. They are the dominant ethnic group in Ghana & Ivory coast and number over 20million people.

TAO11:
Any evidence for the "also known as" ?

Moreover, Eleru means "one who causes fear"; "one who has got lots properties, loads, etc"; among other meanings depending on the tone of pronouncing it.

Buhariislifeles:
Lol. Op is joking. Dullhari will not win Yobe, Adamawa, bornu, Zamfara and kaduna.

Op you must be high to think that dulhari will score a single vote in southeast. Afonja muslims might vote him sha

OlaoChi:
It's quite unfortunate but there is nothing as sad as the realization of igbos total disconnect from their traditions and history.

All we hear are chants of Biafra, Biafra, Biafra but no substance, no reference to the igbo ethnic identity or Odinani rather Ipob talking about building a Jewish state
Substituting one system of oppression for another
Pathetic!

Igbos are now lost, disconnected from their ancestors and even reality
Do we blame Christianity?

IkpuMmadu:
Have you seen dino calling himself Yoruba

Apawicked:
FFK put Nnamdi Kanu's name out of your mouth. That slimy trait in most of you over there is trying so hard to manifest in you but i hope soon Nnamdi Kanu puts you where you belong.

AAinEqGuinea:
if one Russian woman can make hundreds of fake fb accounts to attempt to undermine US politics, what makes you think Buhari's camp wouldn't do the same? In fact I'm pretty sure his camp is behind most of these phony "Atikulating" accounts. It smells of Buhari

AAinEqGuinea:
Aren't you just the elated one. "hope and change" is loading

IamAtikulate:
You emerged after months of silence, when Atikulation is hot in the air to tell me to boucott election. You are joking.

If IPOB wants to be demystified, they should try anything stupid. This is Igboland, we don't answer to anybody.

Nnamdi Kanu is not half as popular as Ojukwu, but when he decided to dictate our political future was the day we retired him.

I am Atikulating, Period. Any IPOB that shouts No Election, No Referendum has no PVC. We know that.

AAinEqGuinea:
At the very least maybe you can thank Kanu and IPOB later for the traffic. "Kanu kills a python lurking his garden" loading for even more traffic

AAinEqGuinea:
Kanu and IPOB threads are flooding the fp. But "No one cares". It pains people to see kanu back, here comes trouble send more pythons to dance, further undermine the most botched version of African democracy, in which IPOB is supposed to help maintain by voting

AAinEqGuinea:
IPOB never gave a flying fvk who win any "election", in fact abstaining has always been their strategy.

Reinvent Hope and Change for 2019 see how far that gets the people