₦airaland Forum

Sarah20A:
is just as if Benin is the air they breathe so without Benin they would die

loopman:
Just like most igbo villages are empty for 350 days of the year!

The fact that you all troop out of your villages to go populate other places to be making noise doesn’t make you have the population.

If your population is significant you will playing a huge role in who becomes President

Kweensavvy:
Hausa 40% otherwise where are all those votes coming from? In fact, 45% sef.

davidnazee:
You no add me to the list.. Son of Iyase of Uselu..
I no gree oo... lol.
stay blessed.

an argument with a fool can make one become a fool

To even kill it, he said Edo is 12.4%

samuk:
They will learn real history, not fabricated garbage.

They are telling everyone how Ife and Ooni are important to the Yoruba race but the Ooni is only a spiritual leader on paper because the spiritual leader of more than half of the Yoruba people including their obas who are muslims is the Sultan of Sokoto.

It's the Sultan of Sokoto that have to sight the moon and give them the go ahead to start their yearly Islamic festivities. Imagine the Oba of Benin waiting for the Sultan of Sokoto to give him the go ahead to commence the annual Igue festival.

The Oba of Benin remains the spiritual head of all Benin people. Benin monarch can't be compared to any Yoruba Oba.

obehi247
Samuk
Gregyboy
Etinosa1234
Edeyoung
Afam4eva
Etrusen
davidnazee

AreaFada2:
The large Yoruba slave population made it easy for any other slaves that lost their origin to get dumped with Yoruba slaves in Lagos. Some Lagosians of today even left Sierra Leone, another major dumping ground to Lagos for opportunities. We must remember that this is just over 200 years ago. Not long ago. Before that only Benin administrative genius that got Lagos to where it was then.

The fact that Yoruba were so comfortable selling themselves into slavery shows they were a bunch of divided, warring, loosely related tribes.

Those that came under Benin like Eastern Yorubaland, Lagos, Ijebu and others were luckier in organisation.

Oyo administrative skills that came much later was copied from Benin. But Oyo was more interested in selling slaves as it began growing in 1680s. Barely 140 years later, Fulani have already overran it. Its empire was very shortlived.

Some will argue how Oyo administration was copied from Benin. They Will suddenly forget how and when Oyo chiefdom was first founded before it grew.
Etinosa
Gregyboy
Valirex
Samuk

Gamesmart:
How did you arrive at this claim?



And your point is?



How did you arrive a these claims?

Etinosa1234:
Her desperation is top notch...

In this interview with the Oba of Lagos.. the interviewer(a Yoruba) expressly said that Lagos was conquered and named eko by the Benin Empire.. the oba didn't object to it or attempt to correct her, which means that it was true


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i83Sa-HptDQ

Go to time stamp 0:52

And in this second video at time stamp 5:00, the oba clearly states that the first oba of Lagos is a Benin person and talks about the rituals they do in respect to the Oba of Benin... Tao is clearly trying to change history but it's not working for her


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOsp9VLRFno

AreaFada2
Bandit900
Gregyboy
Valirex

naijadrivablog:
Nice one.

Ifiok = Akwa/Cross
Nkem= Igbo

Gamesmart:
How did you arrive at the figures in your thought?

HAccord:
Even though the OP is an anti-Igbo sentimentalist, he is right on this one.

Forget politics, a tribe that are majority in their own Eastern region and second majority in every region outside their own in Nigeria can only be the True Majority. These people are the Igbos.

They are also well travelled outside Nigeria. If you count 5 Nigerians outside Nigeria in other African countries, 3 are most likely Igbo.
Outside Africa, if you count 5 Africans at least 1 will be an Igbo person.

I've been to some deepest jungles in the lenght and breadth of Nigeria, I don't know anyone who have never met an Igbo person.

Forget politically induced statistics and use your brains and common sense.

techmo:
Hausa has 64.2 million people in Nigeria making them 30% of the Nigerian Population

Igbos are 42million making them have 24% of Nigeria

Yoruba 43 million

Fulani 16 million


All facts verifieble on Wikipedia, or CIA world fact

techmo:
Lol


You are wrong

Igbo 23%

Yoruba 21%

Hausa Fulani 18%

Ẹdo 12.5%

Ijaw 10%

Ibibio 5%

Tiv 2%

Uhrobo 1%

Others 7.5%

OfoIgbo:
I went through your post and in the attached picture, I saw Oil Rivers state. That state cannot be. The intention is to make every Igbo group dependent on Ijaw people for access to the sea, and Ijaw people's wish to muscle into some oil rich Igbo areas to the north

OfoIgbo:
Then which is the 18th state? You mentioned that 18 new states were agreed on. Tell us the 18th state

OfoIgbo:
The one you seem not to want to reveal is Oil River state, which seems to have taken a chunk of Igboland, and made the Igbos a minority in that state by widening the southern territory of that state.

Just as I suspected, there was a reason you chose not to reveal that state

OfoIgbo:
Then what is the 18th state?

Manab:
adding state is like increasing poverty in Nigeria.

samuk:
Lagos Obas are elected or chosen from princes in the already established Lagos ruling houses who themselves were the children of the first Benin monarch of Lagos. Commoners are not elected or chosen. Try again.

You have an uphill battle to surmount as far as Lagos Obas continue to tell the world that they are the children of Oba of Benin.

The current Oba of Lagos clearly stated to the channels tv interviewer that the first Oba of Lagos was a Male son of the Oba of Benin not your Olofin.

melodyogonna:
Oh, sad. What about Saro Wiwa?

OfoIgbo:
You only listed 17 proposed state.

I bet you are hiding the 18th state for a reason

Manab:
Not important,we should be thinking of merging some state instead of creating we have to reduce de cost of governance in our country. Adamawa and taraba should be merge SE shouldn't suppose to be more than two de same with some other zone.

AlexBells:
There are many chances that guarantee an Igbo president, Igbos are the only major tribe that mingle with minorities in equal leadership and does not try to lord it over minorities, I know that the major fear about Igbos is that we are domineering but on a closer look, that's the real situation, most minorities in the Niger Delta and North Central may feel much better working with Igbos for Example, most political heavy weights in North Central like Saraki and David mark prefer to work with Igbos, this is given the Republican Nature of Igbos, all the Igbos will need to clinch the presidency and break the Core Northern Influence is to forge a new alliance with the North central by breaking the marriage between the North central and the Midle belt, as for Niger Delta, we understand ourselves, personally I will vote for an Ijaw, Akwa/Cross and the rest of Niger Delta over and over before voting others but I will also vote for a Middle beltan, the truth is by the time the political road work the Igbos are creating begins to pay off, Nigeria will never be the same

AlexBells:
Yes, as far as Nigeria continue to be one, Igbo presidency is not a matter of if but when,

gregyboy:
Edo odion


Oba gha to kpere ise

AreaFada2:
Snake has always been a delicacy. Even cobra and other venomous snakes like vipers. Though many shun venomous once.
All constrictor snakes are considered easy meat.

My only surprise is that with urbanisation, less people will know how to eat snake. But it seems not to be the case.
They still eat snakes found on building plots in the cities.

Yenefer:
The question is can Igbo ever be the president of Nigeria