₦airaland Forum

slurryeye:
Refer to the post above this your post for answers to your questions. True Lagosians are Awori people of Yoruba subtribe that migrated from Ile Ife. When Portuguese came in 1400s to trade they met indigenous people living in Lagos. Awori people are riverine people that had always being hospitable and welcoming. The accepted a lot of other people like the benins, returned freed slaves (the saros), returned africans from Brazil (the Agudas) etc. The presence of these returnees enlightened the local populace of Lagos and distinguished them from other regions in Nigeria. Mind you, it wasn't only Lagos that freed slaves returned to Nigeria. But the indigenous people of Lagos who are the Yorubas were accomodating. Most of these returned freed slaves traced their origin to Yoruba land eg. Samuel Ajayi-Crowther. And those that couldn't accepted Yorubaland as their origin

You get time
You can't convince them even if you present them with all the facts In the world.
They love our prosperous and blessed land. They crave and wish to be Yorubas and be part of our land.

Okeikpu:
I will not ague abt other Yoruba States cos they bear Yoruba names
But Lagos is an empty land founded by the Portuguese
Even bear a Portuguese name

Now, could you please answer this question, is Onitsha iboland?

Thursday, June 9, 2016
GREAT BENIN ORIGIN OF ONITSHA
BENIN ROOT OF ONITSHA
Many of our traditional titles are the same with the Edos/Binis:
Onicha titles like “Iyasele” is “Iyasere” in Bini; “Ogene Onira” is
“Oliha” in Benin; “Odu Osodi” is “Osodin” in Benin; “Omodi Daike”
in Onitsha is “Edaiken” in Benin; “Esagba” in Onitsha is “Esogban”
in Benin; the “Isama” titles are the same in both towns amongst
many others. The “Obi” of modern Onitsha today is the
continuation of the ancient Pharonic dynasty of ancient Kemet or
Egypt. Onitsha must retrace the history of her monarchs from his
imperial Majesty Obi Achebe back to the Ogiso Kings of
Igodomigodo in Edo, then to Egypt; to Pharoah Tutankhamon,
Pharoah Amenemhet, Pharoah Amenemes, Pharoah Amenkhuti
Ra; Pharoah Khafara, and back to the first dynasty in Egypt.
Enough of this tracing of our kingship to just Obi Oreze or his father
Ohime(corrupted to “Chima”) by his later descendants. Onicha
people came from Benin or Edo land, they were also in Igbo land. I
suspect that the Priests of Nri were distantly connected, that is
why till date an Nri King upon consecration must bring certain
sacrifial items to the Obi of Onicha and must sleep over in Onicha
before assuming the Nri throne. Why would the very traditional Nri
people who were(and still are) known all over the Igbo land as a
holy people and the spiritual custodian of all Igbo lands, accord
these rights to Onicha Kings? All these indicate that Onicha and
many other tribes had had prior interactions and established certain
traditional precedence which had been ongoing before the Onicha
town was founded just around 700 hundred years ago. No Nri man
would just concede to subject his divine King to some unknown
immigrants who just crossed over from the Niger River, if that were
to be the case.
authoritatively portray the following facts that the Ikelike people
from the Bini kingdom were the first to settle in Ogwashi-Uku (see
Ben Nwabua, Ogwash-uku Kingdom, 1000 Years of Traditional
Democracy and Cultural Life, 950-1914). Both traditional and
empirical sources gives credence that Ikelike people were the first
set of immigrants to settle in the present Ogwashi-Uku as against
the notion that Adaigbo who purportedly came from Nri in present
Anambra State today is the founder of Ogwashi-Uku. So far, no
counter claim has been made on this. According to Ogwashi-Uku
intelligence report by Mr. J.E Hull, the then Assistant District
Officer dated on the 9th of April 1936, the Ikelike people from all
indications migrated from Benin to settle where they are found
themselves today, because of a reign of wanton persecution of
subjects by the then Benin Monarch, Oba Eweka 11. The story
further goes that at the head was Odigie Ikelike with his younger
brother Ado who later founded Adonta, a relatively small village
close to Azungwu in Ogwashi-uku today.
The Ikelike migrants were said to be politically averse and could
not, therefore evolve an orderly method of governance even
though there were small in number. Jull`s report further went on to
point out that because of such indisposition towards an effective
means of governing themselves, it cost them the political
leadership they were first to settle in. Rather, Adaigbo, the prince
from Nri later came, controlled the situation and imposed
leadership based on Igbo customs and tradition on them and what
later became Ogwshi-Uku kingdom. Adaigbo’s imposed of
republican system, however, later gave way to the hereditary
system of the Benins . BENIN EMIGRATION OR EXODUS: The
migration of Onicha people from Benin happened in phases over
many years and did not happen once. The Ohime/Obi Ezechima’s
exodus was one of the last ones that occurred but it should be
noted that not all Onicha people left with Obi Eze Chima or Ohime.
Some stayed back and are still in Benin today. Some took a
different migrationary route towards Ile Ife and Ado Ekiti. Some
went to establish Ondo. Some made a northern migrational journey
towards the north to establish the Igala Kingdom.The Attah of
Igala and a substantial part of the Igala kingdom were Onicha
people who immigrated into Igala from Benin. The first Attah of
Igala was a Prince of the Edo/Benin Kingdom. Now it can be
understood why the Onicha people were ferried across the Niger
and greatly assisted by their Igala kinsmen when they reached the
banks of the Niger river. It can also be understood why Onicha
people easily incorporated many Igala rituals and traditions into
their own concepts. They were of the same roots but different
branches. Onicha people left Benin to establish Igala; that was the
secret behind the easy adoption of and exchange of different tenets
amongst Onicha and Igala people. Some Onicha people, before
Eze Chima’s exodus, had left Benin to establish other towns like
Issele Ukwu, Ebu, Kwale, Ezzi, Onicha-Ukwu, Okpanam, Asaba
(originally called “Araba”) and some other towns of Benin
orientation that had been established before the Ezechima’s
exodus from Benin.. It was these settlements that habored Obi
Ohime/Ezechima when he and his family fled from Benin. The
migration from Benin to Onicha Mmili took many years, towns of
Onicha-Olona and Onicha-Ugbo were established by Onicha people
who felt reluctant to continue and follow Obi Ohime to Onicha-
mmili. ESTABLISHMENT OF ONICHA-MMILI AND HER RULING
DYNASTY: Obi Ohime or Eze Chima, having been told that he could
not enter Onicha, stayed for a long time in Obio with his family and
relatives before he died. After he died, his relatives decided to
continue with their migration to establish Onicha. The qualification
for whom shall be crowned king was conditioned upon who shall
sound ancient rhythms on a wooden Ufie. Traditionally, Ufie cannot
be owned or be sounded/beaten by a person whose father is still
alive. The contestants to the throne having just lost their father,
had no ufie, however, Oreze Obi, had carved one which he hid
under the boat and sounded first upon getting to Onicha whilst his
siblings were busy looking for the appropriate wood to cut for the
Ufie.
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Okeikpu:
How's Lagos a Yoruba land
Can you give reasonable answer to that

No pun intended.
But dude, are you serious asking that question, for real
Tell me you are just be playful..pleassssss