₦airaland Forum

tellwisdom:
What does this mean?

SolutionMee:
@bolded, in which country please?
Name three (3) Nigerian scientists that you know
And their discovery?

SolutionMee:

A scientist can create jobs for a million people.
This is 2018, we need scientists and not masquerades.

“There’s a particular masquerade in the south east, it takes 100 people to dress him, another 100 people to UnCloth him.
“If this masquerade is well-packaged, it can provide employment in one week for more than 1000 young men. These are some of the untapped potentials.”

TAO11:
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No they weren't and I will give you reasons.

The royal sword is a metal casting you will agree with me. The oral traditions of the Binis tells them that metal casting was taught to them by the Ifes.

Please read about a prominent man in Benin history by the name Igueghae aka Igue-Igha (his life coincides with the reign of Oba Oguola -- the 4th Oba from Oba Eweka). A shrine his dedicated to him for his veneration up till today in Benin at the house of Chief Ine.

He is believed by the Binis to be the man from Uhe (Ile-Ife) to have brought the knowledge of metal casting to the Binis. The Binis had previously imported every metal casting they had from Ile-Ife. So, since his life coincides with Oba Oguola's reign, then the explanation that the royal sword (of Eweka or even earlier) is from Ife is the valid explanation.


Also, regarding the royal stool: Although the Igodomigodos had some form of monarchy prior to Oromiyan's arrival. They had the indigenous form namely the Ogiso-ship monarchy, but since Oromiyan's arrival, they had transitioned completely to a foreign form namely the Oba-ship monarchy.

The transition was not so peaceful as it appears because some chiefs undermined Eweka's authority. The rivalry between the indigenous dynasty of the Ogisos and the foreign dynasty of the Obas is still in Edo folklore and still generates some hard feelings till today. There is a Benin saying which still echoes the rift i.e. the saying that _Ogiso is what Edos know not Oba_. In fact, up till today, the land is leased from the Ogiso descendants during the crowning ceremony of an Oba, all in an attempt to dampen the rivalry between the two dynasties.

So, while the Ogiso dynasty can be argued to be indigenous to the Edos, the Oba dynasty is foreign and from Ile-Ife precisely after the entrance of the Ile-Ife prince Oromiyan.

I am aware of attempts by some to twist narratives that is well rooted and has since circulated far and wide even outside the shore of Nigeria. I know of some ethnocentric redaction attempts by a Benin historian Omoigui to claim that Oduduwa is one and the same person as a certain Edo prince by the name Ekalederhan which many other Benin sources indicates to have lived centuries after Oromiyan himself.

It is important to mention that all the redaction attempts from the Benin side (e.g. the Ekaladehran and Oduduwa equation) is not found in any of the writings of the foremost and most prominent historian of Benin extraction (Chief Jacob Egharevba) who is considered a primary source on Benin History even by western experts.

Attempts to redact and twist history stems from ethnocentrism and esteem issues and it is at best a wasted effort, because it usually results in a patchwork which will nonetheless still reveal the seams, something will just not jive in some other areas of the story, contradictions will be manifest.

So, I submit (in light of the evidences I have adduced) that the royal sword was not of Benin origin, neither is the stool as we know it today indigenous to Edo.

amaniro:
Yes

it
is I the Ikuku, destroyer of BMC, aspirant to Nwaamikpe.


It's amaniro's birthday Wish me a happy birthday!

Cc; sarrki, madridguy, nwaamikpe, tolexander, Airforce1 kalu1...... etc..

clive2u:
hope he wont have to teach him how to ride a crotch wen time reach, if they've not even started riding yet. nice pic tho

“But in Anambra south, the home of Ojukwu the
reverse was the case. Mrs. Bianca Ojukwu stood
for Senate, but she was pushed out and insulted,
thereby dragging the image of Ojukwu in the mud.

whitewalker673:
shutupuuu!!!

National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand
Alliance (APGA), Victor Oye, yesterday, boasted
that his party will produce at least eight state
governors in 2019.

blackpanda:
Lies

kaliboi94:
Ask your ancestors

DrRasheed:
This bald old pa is overrated fa..
Many contributed but are ignored.

blackpanda:
U didn't vote for him then, yet he won. Neither does he need u now

kaliboi94:
U must be related to buhari. I know u don't have waec

ALCOHOLKILLS:
today na Sunday. Don't wanna argue

ALCOHOLKILLS:
that's an insult oga

ChaleeBendel:
Greetings from Edo and as a mark of my respect for Atiku, I want to trek from Uromi in Edo state to Adamawa to meet the great Waziri.