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Moorish:
Your words attempt to make me disappointed and ashamed of my ancestry but it failed because the Yoruba culture has so much good in it that I am proud of

Your words will also not make me hateful to Benin kingdom, A civilization I’m equally proud of.

I will take solace in the fact that you are not the spokeperson of Edo people and there might be progressive people from Benin who also admire my civilization and culture

The people on this thread are well read progressive minds, we should be linking up to share, build, create and prosper, not tear eachother down with insults and abuses

The advice you gave in that last paragraph would have sat well and better with your Yoruba brothers. They just lack respect for other peoples cultures. The mutual respect would return when they stop attempting to dubiously and contemptuously write other peoples histories for them.

Olu317:
Are you for real ? An event that there was a full coverage of his speech and you are here denying such? Goosh! Get stuck to the reality. You are just bias and not ready to accept the truth.

Your kind of people are the reason why the last Oba basically severed relations with Ife because of deliberate distorters like yourself.
They say one thing, you come out to quote a different thing entirely.

What you are here busy contending is post oduduwa interaction between both groups and that isn't even an issue in itself. What isn't in contention is pre oduduwa Bini society, and that is what we are telling you Yorubas to keep away from.

Olu317:
Lie from the pit of hell again and again. Oba Ewuare II said during his coronation that Oba came through Yoruba land to EDOLAND . There was nothing like Obagodo. And the kingly appellation “Oba" was a foreign one. Where the hell did you get your own info from?

The lies you people have told against this Oba is unbelievable.
Please where is the video where he said so?

davidnazee:
Hahaha. Yoruba that is synonymous with weakness that you compare to mighty Benin. If Oyo or Yoruba is strong why then is Yoruba always regarded as WEAK? It’s a trait you guys possess.
On the other hand Benin is synonymous with strength and might.

You call Oyo an empire but yet it’s influence was only towards its western side. An empire should spread in all directions.
Benin’s influence spread to North (Igalas), East(Igboland), West (Yorubaland up to Togo).. that is a true empire.

Lastly how come all notable historical African heroes who resisted imperial whiteman are from Benin kingdom (Niger-Delta) but Yoruba as big and strong like u claim couldn’t resist..

Please Yoruba you guys shud continue to hug your weakness and leave Edo alone.

Good thing that it appears that dude seems to have taken a walk. He was just promoting falsehoods painted from the Yoruba side of the equation with dubious references. The Chinese tell their own stories, likewise the English, the Japanese and all the others. The Yoruba are telling their stories even though its filled with lies and all manner of revisions, its still Thiers to tell. Bit not for them to now want to tell Edo stories by themselves, that's bull. The Edos would tell their stories themselves based on thier own perspectives and whether the Yoruba like it or not, that's how it would be.

Y0ruba:
Alright, thank you for the back & forth.

I would very much like to be left alone and not be quoted by you anymore seeing that your knowledge of Bini history itself is very poor - you do not know primorgeniture succession to Bini throne began with one of their Obas (Ogun?) who had a problem with his brother. And from inception, Bini throne succession used to be open to all male of royal ancestry.

You have poor knowledge of your own history but want to shit on those whose professorship pedegree you may never equal. I did not know you were in the position to declare the work of world renowned Historians from Nigeria & Europe who came together to do a work edited by Obaro Ikime were idiots according to you.

Finally, you only want to argue & not debate. You are bringing anything new, you only want to chorus mouth to mouth fables & portray supremacist ideals that have no place in scholarly world. You are not adding anything to me & I would not like my small progress to recede by engaging you in pedestrian banter.

All the best sir, you’ll certainly find folks who would find you worthy.

Sorry to disappoint you, but I'll quote not just you, but anyone I see making your kind of concerted effort to superimpose your impressions on the Binis. You have the right to ignore.

I still stand by my comments that those Yoruba scholars were armed with predetermined biases. Good enough, you even alluded to it somewhere that Yoruba scholars were hardly interested in Bini history, but funnily now trying to muzzle down the throats of all those who care to listen your jaundiced impressions which are either what you have reconstructed for yourselves or what ragtag historians like Egharevba penned down.

Wouldn't it be the greatest of ironies that Egharevba's book would be cited for referencing and the same people would put down Erediauwa's? After all, they were both not trained historians. But by virtue of Erediauwa's ancestry, he clearly had better access to information on this particular subject than Egharevba could possibly have had.

The point still remains, and its that while you Yorubas aren't interested in Edo history, we Edos are certainly not interested in Edo history being told by Yoruba folks. Any Yoruba account being told that contradicts what is the opinion in Benin cannot hold water.
After all, you have repeatedly and consistently quoted and protected the information from Ife and you expect the Edos to discard that which comes from the crown and accept your fairytales? That would be a major disservice to our heritage.

Y0ruba:
And this same wrote in his acknowledgement that both his parents were Edo. Yet you ascribe Ondo origins to him.

Wow, life.

Oba’s work falls flat in the face of how Ife operates. Your Oba wrote his work on the premise of Yoruba Muslim Mecca tales & Yoruba traditionalist chain story. Ife has its proper history & the relationships of compounds, groups, chiefs & Ooni reflects this facts. This s why NO scholar, be it Yoruba or European takes your Oba’s work serious. It was thrown in the thrash, no one has interest in it.

Stop ascribing Yoruba origins to Egharevba, see below:

Mr man, your impressions are only the skewed accounts of those the Bini throne and some of its sympathizers consider as compromised.

Nobody tell you how to relate your Yoruba story, but you now quoting the accounts of so called scholars who drew conclusions from incomplete or subjective information which stinks of predetermined biases about Bini history is absolutely nonsensical.

You have only succeeded in doing two things, advancing your supremacist intentions and trying to use dubious scholars to twist Edo history.

The Oba's book remains a reference point any day on the subject of Bini history and no Yoruba can come from the moon like your oduduwa to tell us how things were done especially when such opinion doesn't have any concurrence from the palace.

Keep reading your Yoruba scholars, while we go with Edo accounts. It's that simple.

OlaoChi:
You overdramatize the primogeniture tradition in Benin. It is well known that brothers of a previous Oba have ascended the throne, it has not always been Father-eldest son

As to the point about Ife approval, that was an observation reported by a Portuguese explorer in the 15th century. It is most likely just a ceremonial ritual not that Ife had any authority over the ascension to the throne. Something like this is done in Lagos

The case you referred to involved Oba Uwaifiokun, Oba Ewuare the great and others. Murders were involves and didn't follow any traditional protocols. That was an aberration. However, what role did the so called Ile Ife approval play in between all that since the conjurers of that narrative attach spiritual importance to it?

This again invalidates that claim.

Y0ruba:
Make I reach house send you snap shot of Egbarevba’s work on political struggles between Oba & certain Bini groups. You may know the details but I’ll share them nonetheless.

ACF Ryder had this to say about Ogiso’s period being true. Look at sentence with superscript 2 & the footnote appended to it.

Anyone who is of Edo stock and allies totally to the crown would want to be circumspect when ploughing through Eghrevba's work. His mother was of Akure origins and that clearly explains his perceived biases. This again was alluded to by Oba Erediauwa in his book. Though, I know most Yoruba historical revisionists would not enjoy much of what Oba Erediauwa had written and would rather choose to pitch their tent with Egharevba who is by a half their kinsman, those of us who see logic and reason in what Oba Erediauwa had written have also dismissed Egharevba's work as oozing with plenteous subjectivity.

Y0ruba:
1. Ife indigenes know the burial site of the remainings of an Ooni. It is called ‘Igbo Odi’ and there’s a family in charge of it.

2. Orun Oba Ado was the spot from where Oranmiyan left. Not the entirety of Olubini’s corpse was brought back but minor parts like hair, nails and such. I will attach a screenshot of a book & also note the reference attached. The fact was recorded by Colonial District Officers. You may go to the archives to dig it up too.

3. Early Alaafin of Oyos died in battles. Alaafins leading wars did not stop until the days of Abiodun or Atiba, I think.

4. We can see that of Oba Ado because the family in charge of that burial spot made sure it was not abandoned. A good number of families have abandoned the reason they are chiefs in Ife.

Reading this comedy of errors made one crack up real hard. Probabilities upon probabilities is what you call your source of history?

'(Some say only his head)' can you imagine that? Some say it's the entire corpse others say only the head and this chap^^ went further to add his own fallacy when he said hairs and fingernails - jeez! This is someone sitting under a tree and simply writing history off his own imagination.

'Whenever a Benin Prince brought the remains of his predecessor(which no knows whether its the compete corpse or the head or fingernails and hairs), he also sought sanction from Ile Ife for his own succession'. This is where it leaves no one on doubt that this writer is a comedian of first grade. It would have made sense to had it been that was said of maybe the Alaafin of Oyo or any other king who usually go through a certain selection, but certainly not the Obaship of Benin. The Tradition in Benin has always been a hereditary monarchy such that only the heir apparent or crown prince who must also the the first male son of the king has the exclusive right of inheritance of the throne. Its a right bestowed exclusively by birth and not due to any non existing approval from Ife. The question then should be; in a situation where Ife rejects the crown prince, who then do they appoint? This has never been alluded to by anyone conversant with the working of the traditional stool in Benin and this writer was at best hallucinating.

Yet still, the mystery of all these back and forth arguments isn't in post Oduduwa Ife-Benin era but in the pre Oduduwa era of both cities, and that's where the Edo oral tradition clearly has an upper hand in logic and sensibility.

But as for this writer, his work is just garbage. A literary work based on too many conjectures is not good for reference - no authority.

OlaoChi:
but who is in a better position to speak on oduduwa? His family in Ife or people who just heard about him in Bini?

Well nobody was there all we can do is gather the left over pieces of information and set them together

Bro, you can do better than that? Oduduwa family members in Ife? Even amongst the yorubas, such hogwash wouldn't sell. And when did some random, unknown dude become an authority in this subject? Anyway, that tells much about how you yorubas came up with all manner of conjectures and conjugation about Oduduwa and your history where both princes and slaves all put pen to paper and scribbling down fallacies, fantacies and outright lies all in the name of history telling. You can now see why you people have so many versions of Oduduwa's origin and are practically unable to streamline them. This is the latest addition to the stable. Una well-done oo. LooooL.

BabaRamota1980:
Is there any prominent ruler or progenitor in Yoruba history, male or female, that has not been immortalized? None! That in itself is a record that serves as reference marker. Where is Ekaledharan in the list? No where.

Where is he in the Edo list of pantheons. Somewhere in La-La land....lost forever!

We need to put a MISSING PERSON notice out for Ekaladheran. Maybe Buhari will help us find him.

Stop embarrassing yourself. What would Ekaladerhan be doing in a list of so called 'Yoruba kings' when you can't even spell the name?
For the mention, Izoduwa or Oduduwa or Ekaladerhan is not a yoruba person and cannot be found among your so called Yoruba kings.

However, he is well recognized in Bini folklore. You cannot tell a man his history better than the man himself.
The immediate past Oba of Benin, Erediauwa wrote his book titled 'I remain sir, your obedient servant' wherein he established these facts, put clarity to so many issues hitherto veiled in opacities.
He clearly and chronologically identified Bini kings from Ogiso Owodo to Ekaladerhan/Oduduwa to Oranmiyan to Eweka I to himself.

Just as it was when an Edo prince, Ado was made king over Lagos, that was how under similar circumstances Izoduwa was made ruler over Ife. The Oba still remains Ooni's father.

Wealthandjobs:
Call it nationwide tour so that you can have a good night sleep at night but this visit is different from any other "tour". Nowhere else will the Oba of Benin visit that he would be taken to where his biological ancestors are buried and told the story of his origin.
You are clearly not from the Benin Royal family and that's why you don't know how very important this visit is to the Benin Royal family.
The next time you want to argue or lie about the history of Benin,remember to make a distinction between the history of the Benin Royal family which is Yoruba and the history of the rest of you from Benin but not from the Benin Royal family.

God bless you

Ignorance is truly bliss. But what do we call deliberate ignorance?

You need to stop adjusting the goal post OK. Ooni the stranger is telling stories about post Oduduwa events. Meanwhile Oba is telling stories about pre Oduduwa events.

Oba is ooni's father and the Ooni knows that.
You can keep masturbating to your self indulging ignorance.

Oduduwa is and would always be Ekaladerhan, the banished Bini prince.

Wealthandjobs:
The current Oba of Benin just continued in the tradition of his ancestors who descended from the loins of their Yoruba progenitor; Oranmiyan and you are bitter.
Is it your own dobale he did to the Ooni and why are you the subjects of the respected Oba so upset at the facts. The Oba was not forced to go to Ile Ife,he knew he must go to Ile Ife where his roots are and according to tradition,he was taken to the location where his ancestors were buried and he was told his history in the presence of his chiefs and palace hands yet you still argue.
If you are Benin and not from the Benin Royalty,just mind your business.
Go back and ask members of the Benin Royalty,it is a sacrilege for them not to go back to Ile Ife alive or dead.

You keep beating to the gallery.

His visit to Ife was part of a nationwide tour. When Ooni visited Alaafin, was he also going for dobale? You can now see how skewed your reasoning and logic is.

OlaoChi:
I have. And when you think of it, it becomes obvious that it doesn't even make sense. How can Oduduwa be from Israel? But Yoruba had no knowledge of Israel before Europeans brought Christianity
Also how convenient is it that these claims are coming from people who hold on to the bible(in other words Christians)

I thought you were among those saying he came from Bini?

Can you now see that evm from your own postulations, you don't have a clue where that Oduduwa chap came from(that's from Yoruba angle).

The Bini claim is totally independent of what you guys are contending here.

OlaoChi:
This doesn't even make sense. Why and how would Yoruba have anything written in Aramaic or Greek?

If you have been following this thread, I think the major argument has been between those who say oduduwa came from Bini and those who say according to Ife tradition he came from a nearby village
The near East is an obsolete hypothesis without logic or evidence
I think Samuel Johnson's book has been disregarded as an authority on Yoruba history for almost half a century now, new information has been collated since then

All this kind of near East and Semitic connection claims are borne out of the feeling of self inadequacy of the black man

You shouldn't try to sweep some aspects of your history under he carpet simply because thy are unpalatable to you.

Have you taken your time to even verify the claim to determine whether its true or false? Anyway, that's the same attitude of deliberate falsehood some of you guys have attended to this topic on group.

Wealthandjobs:
If you are not from the Benin Royal family,then,sincerely this is not your business.It is the business of the Yoruba.
The Ooni is not having any ceremony or event yet the whole paraphernalia of office and the Oba of Benin whose office I hold in high esteem, went to dobale in Ile Ife says it all.
The Benin Royalty is Yoruba,that may not be true for the subjects of the Oba of Benin.
That's why it's only the heads of the departed Oba of Benin that is buried in Ile Ife.

Call it dobale or whatever, even your Ooni who is a stranger from where no one knows is aware that the Oba of Benin is his father any day any time.

There's nothing you or anyone else would say that would change that.

shizzle1:
you are not deserving of a response

Ogbeni, direct your needless response to the foolishness of your brother.

I guess you shouldn't be too dumb to know what brought about all these.

Moneywomen17:
the family of the guy in contention oduduwa where he became king and died and was buried said he is from oke-Ora but u who probably just heard of him from online say he is some foolish lost Benin prince. A lot of people distort history according to ur own ogiamen family of bini he said ur oba is a Yoruba migrant the bini historian that most of u try to shamelessly say his mother is Yoruba also buttress a lot of the things yoruba say. Ooni seats on the stool of oduduwa not the bini man so how is Ooni his son when the Ooni is the legitimate ruler of the seat of his father why the bini king is just ruling another stool which is not oduduwa own. Ur oba of bini came to ife and he was shown where his ancestors were buried including the first oba oranmiyan. This is ife not bini. Anyway am done arguing

You are just making a mockery of all you are trying to propose Stop confusing dates. What happened in Benin after Oranmiyan is not essentially disputed, what happened under the Ogiso dynasty is also not in contention. What you yorubas are dubiously trying to confuse yourselves with is what happened in the interregnum of the current line of kings and the Ogiso. Olokun, Ogun, ifa, no one disputes they were from I've including ogboni. However, while you jokers are unable to clearly state where Oduduwa came from, the Bini's can and have.

Tell all the lies you can, it doesn't change a thing about what we have achieved in the past.
Learn to streamline your arguments rather than beating around the bush.

ariesbull:
They are killing you guys steady....u was in Benin last week and the governor is shouting and esan people are saying they can't even go to farms because of Fulani ...your crazy oba is walking up and down...well if they can't get Gelegele from ijaw ...is it the farm they would get from Fulani

If Nigeria crashes look at how we would share Benin
Yoruba would take Akoko Edo Utsen, utua etc
Igbo would take Iganke, Abudu etc
Ijaw have taken Gelegele already
Hausa Fulani is takung Auchi environs already

Then we would reduce your oba to community chief

Stop disgracing your tribe abeg!!!
Within the Nigeria of today, there is no single ethnic entity that has the number of enemies the Igbo have. At least Nnamdi KANU helped increase that number.
Hausa na una nemesis
Fulani, Igbo enemy.
Yoruba, Igbo enemy.
Efik, Igbo enemy
Ibibio, Igbo enemy.
Urhobo, Igbo enemy.
Itsekiri, Igbo enemy.
Edo, Igbo enemy.
Ijaw, Igbo enemy.

Even the Israel you jokers claim to come from, they did DNA analysis and confirmed that they have no similarities with you guys - REJECTED!!!

SOUTH AFRICA is doing xenophobia against you people.
INDONESIA is hanging you like chickens everyday for drugs.
CHINA has Igbo people in prison as if na football match una go watch there.

Even here in Nigeria, you still hate yourselves. Ozubulu massacre.

Meanwhile, you are internally displaced and wouldn't stay at home roaming all the corners of the country that's why you easily fall victim when crisis occurs.

The other day, Arewa youths gave you fools quit notice, your elders started begging up and down like fools.

Before that, Fashola deported so many of your back to you landlocked, crime infested region.

Again, the Oba of Lagos, Akiolu threatened that some of you would perish in the lagoon. - What a tribe!

All these things are happening to you and would continue happening to you because of the stupidity of your likes.

Don't be carried away by this game being played here by the Edos and yorubas. It has always been like this, but in reality, both groups remain friends.

But who can be a friend to greedy Igbo's?

The entire south east is an IDP camp. That's why you people still refer to Lagos as no mans land.

Nna, go sell market abeg. You lack common sense.

Moneywomen17:
but according to the guy I was arguing with if u have eyes he denied the existence of oduduwa or oranmiyan he even said the oba of Benin accepting ofuduwa as his father is just a folklore by the oba. Now to answer ur question according to ife where oduduwa actually reigned as king they said he came from oke-Ora. Now before u start spewing jargon like he few from the sky and knack his head on the floor or that he came from Mecca let me explain to u. Oduduwa coming from heaven was a myth made after his death after his deification he was admitted into the Yoruba pantheon another example is Sango son of oranmiyan after his death he was admitted to the Yoruba pantheon same as Ogun god of war. About Mecca it was a recent claim by Yoruba Muslim to connect him with their faith it’s all false just like ibo being Jew. Oduduwa is not from ife but still Yoruba from a neighboring village. Ur lost Benin prince is not oduduwa he was probably eaten in the forest they left him.

You should read this drivel again and see it has anything with the semblance of common sense. So its still your so called Yoruba that are also doctoring your history. I guess that's how the lamurudu connection came about too.

See, whether you like it or not, Your Oduduwa was the Izoduwa or Ekaladerhan of Bini.

That makes the Ooni Oba of Benin's son. That's that.

Saladin25:
Common, am also a Yoruba person, but am a Nigerian first ahead of any ethnic/religion. Using that derogatory statement isn't okay. After I did all my findings about the origin of Oduduwa I realised, the Benin account is somehow right. If Oduduwa never came from Benin, the Chiefs of Benin wouldn't have picked Oranmiyan to come and become King after the Ogiso dynasty came to an end.

Thank you bro.

This is coming from a Yoruba brother who is utilizing objectivity maximally. Not dumb fvcks like [b][/b]macof who just rallies beer parlor talk.

macof:
o pls either you are intentionally lying or you are just ignorant. it is ego and vain pride that made bini go out of the old western region. provide the official reports to support this your claim that the major resources were coming from Bendel area?

mid-west region was created in 1963, 3 years after independence, in what way did Yorubas or the Western region government extort from your region? Ok now after over 50 years of being away from the 'bad evil' western region, what development has Edo state obtained? is Benin city now a paradise?
Use your head please

Yorubas have done nothing against you folk

P.S when did Japan ever dominate China
and italy over europe stop talking through your ass

With this^^, now I totally agree, you're a complete ass! A complete empty pot head.

Read this your trash again and recheck the functionality of your brain.

macof:
i respect bini too. It was a kingdom all Africans should be proud of but these people of today are hateful and disrespectful for a people of such insignificant landmass and population
They have no place in a greater Africa of tomorrow with attitude like this. Their hatred towards Yorubas especially and all other Africans in general is disgusting
They are ignorant, boastful, rude, dishonest

I stand by it, when provoked these people should gain no mercy. Yorubas have treated them as brothers for too long

Get the Bleep out of here dog! Now you sound like a headless chicken that has no brain.

Wealthandjobs:
That was not a visit. It was a ceremony to witness his descendant and subject continue in a tradition that brought Benin traditional system under his dominion. If calling it a visit suits you,it is fine but to see an Ooni leave his palace to visit a Yoruba king is rare. It took the current Ooni breaking the tradition two years ago after almost 70 years to visit the Alaafin of Oyo. The place and the rank of the Oba of Benin in the Yoruba traditional system is even behind the Alaafin of Oyo.

This is where you make a fool of yourself.

Oba of Benin is NOT a Yoruba monarch. Alaafin is even greater than your so called Ooni.

Who is visiting who now between them?

Moorish:
Don’t be too arrogant

I am Yoruba and I love my culture

I also respect Benin. It was mighty

Good of you.

This brother of yours is a genetic mistake. Spewing hubris all over.

ariesbull:
THE ASSAULT

At 3 a.m. on Wednesday, August 9, 1967, the fourth anniversary of the democratic creation of the Midwestern region, a motorized rifle brigade consisting of 3000 Biafran soldiers and militiamen, under the command of Lt. Col. ["Brigadier"] Victor Banjo, crossed the Niger Bridge at Onitsha into Asaba. The Biafran Invasion of the Midwest had begun. Transported in over 100 trucks and civilian vehicles, this was the nucleus of what eventually was planned to be designated the "101stdivision", also known as the "Liberation Army of Nigeria" or the "Midwest Expeditionary Force". Upon arrival in the Midwest, they split up into three spearheads, destined to peal off from one another at Agbor. Units fired indiscriminately into the air as they arrived unchallenged at successive tactical objectives. The seizure of the Midwest was essentially accomplished within 12 hours (8, 9, 13, 14).

The 101st HQ group included Major ('Lt. Col.') Emmanuel Ifeajuna as Chief of Staff and Captain ("Major" Joe Isichie as QuarterMaster General. Much later in the campaign, Lt. ("Major" Fola Oyewole (upon release from prison in Enugu, where he (and Adeleke) had been detained for the January 15 coup) became Isichie's deputy (16).

The 12th Battalion, under Lt. Col. Festus Akagha, made a dash for Benin City, [the capital]. The 18th battalion under Major Humphrey Chukwuka, headed for Warri, [in the oilrich delta] with Sapele and Ughelli as secondary objectives. The 13thbattalion under Lt. Col. Mike Ivenso, swung northwards toward Auchi, with Agenebode (across the Niger from Idah, in Benue State), and Okene (in then Kwara state) as secondary objectives. A detachment was to head for Jebba to destroy the Niger Bridge at that location (8, 9).

Unknown to Banjo, a unit led by Lt. Col. Ochei (a Midwest Ibo officer), specifically attacked the Government house in Benin, ostensibly ordered by Ojukwu to capture the governor, Lt. Col. Ejoor dead or alive (13). Fortuitously, Major Ogbemudia (then quarter-master-general) had changed the guard detail at the Government House during the night (14). Therefore, the soldiers on duty, not being part of the plot to hand-over the state resisted. Ejoor escaped, separated from the rest of his family. Other than some fighting in the Siluko area, this was the only resistance the "Liberation Army" had to face in its initial phase of operations.
http://www.dawodu.net/midwest.htm


We would do it again if there is a need because you are the tiniest minority of the south! Ijaw is bigger , Urhobo Isoko is bigger but you Benin are the tiniest and a walk over for anyone even ijaw people....they have taken Gelegele..come and take it naaa

Ozuoor toota

Rudderless people in their usual fashion. Gelegele is now your problem all of a sudden. You have already abandoned IPOB.

If you gave ipob all this useless energy you are dissipating here, you might just have been a step closer to Biafra actualization.

Shameless people, even Ojukwu's son abandoned Biafra and went into bed to romance with Buhari and APC.

ariesbull:
You can imagine some tiny minority group....it took the Igbo less than 24 hours to over run them ...they should always pray for one Nigeria ..because if this country divides ...Benin city would be war booty

They don't know that they are in middle of two big tribes which can annex them easily...the Igbo and Yoruba then another relatively big tribe the Ijaw


You can imagine the tiny Benin with their tiny oba disturbing everywhere ....he doesnt even rule the Igbo speaking part of Edo (igbanke) or the Yoruba speaking part of the Edo (Akoko)

Tiny Benin

You must be deeply hurt from your predicaments in this country. I sometimes sympathize with you internally displaced people. It must be particularly difficult being an Igbo man in Nigeria of today.

President, dem no gree una, Biafra nko, dem give una egwu eke (Python dance).

For now, Hausa Fulani are still colonizing you after the British. If you get your second independence, then you can continue your dream.

macof:
honestly this Edo people need to be taught a lesson. They are getting too wild and disrespectful to people who can wipe them out if provoked

Zoo escapee, when you wake up, check the time OK. This is the 21 century @$$hole!

But if it were to be in the past, you surely would have gotten some fries with a good whoop ass.

ariesbull:
U wikpeadia or not...we would still invade that old useless city of yours again if there is need and this time Ina would be held hostage just like the British did to him...pray that Nigeria doesn't divide

For now sha o, you are still slaves held under the shackles of Buhari.
Small crocodile smile the other day, you people suddenly started speaking Portuguese.

The federal government is about to nationalize a commemorative 'EGWU EKE' day annually where the crocodile would smile.

Lol...

ariesbull:
You can't get Gelegele...we are tactically supporting ijaw





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When the Biafrans reached Agbor they split up, the Biafran 12th Battalion under Lt. Col. Festus Akagha began moving north-west to Benin City, the 18th Battalion under Major Humphrey Chukwuka made its way into the oil-rich Niger Delta, and the 13th Battalion under Col. Mike Inveso swung northwards towards Auchi. Benin City was captured with little opposition as Biafran soldiers fired their weapons into the air upon entering the city. The 13th Battalion established control over Auchi and Agenebode while also capturing the towns of Okene, Atani, and Iloshi, indiscriminately shooting civilians in the process. A Nigerian Army unit was pursued by Biafran soldiers to the Siluko River where the two sides exchanged fire, before the Nigerians managed to escape under the cover of darkness. Within 12 hours of the initial invasion the Biafran Army had control over the entire Mid-Western Region. Unbeknownst to General Banjo a unit of Biafran soldiers under Lt. Col. Oechi attacked the government residence of Mid-Western Region governor David Ejoor on the orders of President Odumegwu Ojukwu to capture Ejoor dead or alive, Ejoor's guards resisted the attacking Biafrans which gave Ejoor enough time to escape and flee to Lagos.



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwest_Invasion_of_1967


We would still do that again ...if there is need...this time Benin city would be occupied territories! Trust me because you guys are minority. I would advise you to face yoruba and stay away from Igbo....we saw the role you played In killing Anioma Igbo during the 1966 and we have that in mind also

If you had any decency and self respect, you wouldn't talk about the civil war or its properties.

You started the war, you got kicked in the ass and you are still here quoting a war that is and would always remain a source of shame to the igbos even for generations to come.

As far as the Nigerian project is concerned, the Igbo are a conquered people. After Aguiyi Ironsi, which other Igbo man has ruled this country? Even the Ironsi is only matrilineally Igbo. His patrimony is Sierra Leonean.

You now shamelessly hide behind minority Ijaw, yet the same ijaw have produced a president in this country, but big and good for nothing Igbo is still sticking one foot in managing deputy senate president.

ariesbull:
Do you realize this small boy that we have Onicha anglicised Onitsha in all Igbo land

Onicha Ukwuani Delta
Onicha ugbo Delta
Onicha mmili Anambra
Onicha Mbaise imo
Onicha uboma imo
Onicha ngwa Abia
Onicha ezza Enugu


Now all these Onicha are Benin right....confused souls

Do Benin bear Onicha

Your asking me the meaning of Onicha ....is it the Benin that the NRI priest thought artistry and administration because NRI civilisation is far older that these small minority Benin

Abeg face your Yoruba cousins...we Igbo have nothing.... absolutely nothing to do with you...we see you in condescending manner

Omo ibo, do you know that your people were originally slaves to the people of calabar - I guess you never heard that history before. Go back to your books, 'Igbo' was a derogatory word used in describing slaves in old calabar. Arochukwu people were the authentic what you now call 'Igbo'.

This argument isn't for you OK. Continue looking for KANU, that should keep you busy enough. Ndiala!