PapaBrowne:

Please kindly exclude us from this Odua dream. Why are we Edos so special like this. People would be dragging us like say na we fine pass.
Oshiomole has never identified with any Odua thing. Oshiomole is the only ACN governor that doesn't pay homage to Tinubu.

Yorubas might have some cultural similarities here and there with Edos but that is simply because of the influence we had over the entire region before the british came thru. And FYI, other tribes have very stronger cultural similarities with us than the Yorubas. And most of these others are in the south south region. Lagos is a different case though as the Lagos Royal family is actually from EDO, just like the Itsekiri and Asaba Royal Families.

Please for the umpteenth time, can you kindly try stop the EDO-ODUA association. I understand that we are very fine and intelligent people and you'll like us in ODUA, but thanks. . . we are fine in SS. We love you back though.



I have spoken as a Bini with Royalty running thru my veins as in IGUN Street things.

PapaBrowne:



Suddenly, the grand proponents of SNC are shying away from it. Hypocrisy is a disease.
Wouldn't this be a great opportunity to state your cause. Shouldn't you be looking to take advantage of this SNC you have always craved for.

Its here right now for you to grab, but no you suddenly don't want it anymore. Hypocrisy.

They said Abiola must be immortalised. They screamed and shouted. Then UNILAG was renamed after Abiola and they said never ever.
They said Jonathan is not tough on Boko Haram. He got tough and declared state of Emergency, they said it is political and genocidal.
They said Lagos Ibadan expressway concession should be revoked. It was revoked and reawarded to Julius Berger, they said no no no.
They have screamed about Sovereign national conference since I was in Primary School, then Jonathan shows interest and they say no they dont want it anymore.


What kind of people are these?? This pathetic hatred is consuming basis senses out of your brains. Once again, shouldn't you at least seek to hijack and take advantage of the Sovereign National Conference that is about to be declared. Why are you suddenly scared? Or are you suddenly realizing that you are aligned with the North and the South South and the South East are super united as never before hence and SNC would not exactly pan out as you always wanted it? Seriously, be ashamed and very very ashamed of yourselves, the two of you.




About Abiola, June 12 2013 marked exactly 20 years since that monumental election was annulled. It passed like it never happened without any memorable celebration. The reason was simple. The hypocrisy of the cries about June 12 had been exposed with the rejection of Abiola in 2012. It was a historic rejection by folks who had used Abiola for 19 years to express thier natural opposition to anything that doesn't originate from them. By them, I don't refer to an entire tribe as most of the people of the south west are some of the most admirable people on the face of the planet. I refer to the loudmouthed tribalistic ones who usually run their mouths with a mountainous mix of ignorance and hypocrisy and many of them exist here on Nairaland.

Billyonaire: We the people of Niger Delta in alliance with the great people of the land of half of a Yellow sun hereby decree and declare as follows:

Option 1: That 100 yrs amalgamation of 1914 is expiring and we seek to restore pre-1914 quo to advance our Destiny outside of marriage called Nigeria.

In the event that option 1 above is too painful to our 'wives' from the North and West (whom we feed eternally from our resources); we request as pre-condition for continued marriage, not 13%, not 30% but 90% of our natural resources, our wives can also keep their 90% while 10% is reserved for the Federal Government.

This is our pre-condition to remain in this parasitic marriage.

Billyonaire - Oil Prince of Niger Delta.

PapaBrowne:


No sir. I have never seen an EDO man claim Yoruba. But countless number of threads have opened on Nairaland with Yorubas saying "EDOs are with us". I sincerely don't have a problem with it. I actually see it as a wonderful complement knowing that they say that out of Love for the Edos. But what is is what is. The british tried to punish us because of our hostility towards them during colonialism so they lumped us in the western Region. We backed out 3 years later to form what I think was the smallest region: The then western Region.
Now we are happily and content in the South South. Anything short of that would see us form as Singapore-like entity.


As per Benin's bearing Yoruba names, I have two things to say.
1) Not only is the title of the King of Lagos a Benin name, the city itself Eko is a Benin word for camp.

2)Benin and Yorubas intermarry a lot, like they do with other tribes. The result is a mixture of names. I have many Yoruba cousins. And they bear Benin and Yoruba names. Plus how come a lot of ondos bear Benin names too?

ichidodo: Orange,Ibeto,Greenlife,Nestoil,Slok.Oya mention 5 multinational coys owned by yorubas.

PapaBrowne:


No sir. I have never seen an EDO man claim Yoruba. But countless number of threads have opened on Nairaland with Yorubas saying "EDOs are with us". I sincerely don't have a problem with it. I actually see it as a wonderful complement knowing that they say that out of Love for the Edos. But what is is what is. The british tried to punish us because of our hostility towards them during colonialism so they lumped us in the western Region. We backed out 3 years later to form what I think was the smallest region: The then western Region.
Now we are happily and content in the South South. Anything short of that would see us form as Singapore-like entity.


As per Benin's bearing Yoruba names, I have two things to say.
1) Not only is the title of the King of Lagos a Benin name, the city itself Eko is a Benin word for camp.

2)Benin and Yorubas intermarry a lot, like they do with other tribes. The result is a mixture of names. I have many Yoruba cousins. And they bear Benin and Yoruba names. Plus how come a lot of ondos bear Benin names too?

Earthwide:
u re a fool. It is some few speaking major Yoruba speaking communities in edo that bear yoruba names not d benins, esan, afeman and rest. so let that suck in ur empty skull ok

Shine It:

The two richest Yoruba men now Adenuga and Otedola made their money from our oil.

The SW and the North would really struggle in your Nigeria without our oil.

Virgin Finder:

We Yorubas only claim Edos to be part of us when convenient. When the chips are down, we class/see them as Igbos.
Hence, Edos have learn't to stop claiming to be Yoruba. It does them no good!

Awolowo would have held on to you all if he wanted but chose to let you go. It was his choice!

Please remind me of the title of the Oba of Lagos again? Is it Eleko (Oni Eko) of Eko? That is Yoruba!

Pick up a LASG written history of itself and you'd learn that the word Eko (Lagos Island) is from Oko (farm).

Edos and Yorubas don't intermarry a lot. Stop lying. We are wary of Benin girls. They are a one-way ticket to quick, early death. So many landladies in Benin

Please mention Benin names borne by Ondos

Most of the Yoruba-named Edos I know are from pure Edo parents.

Auchi peeps almost come around as muslim yorubas. They almost always bear one Yoruba name and a muslim surname thereby making it quite difficult for us to fish them out.

PortHarcourtBoy: Yes, Nigeria must divide if Jonathan is not reelected

ilugunboy:

You sure know how to day-dream


LMAO

mars123: SNC doesn't mean Nigeria will break...its to strenghten the unity of the people of Nigeria,and share ideas and opinion on how to move d Nation forward...

Willy4Willy:
Hate them as you like, the end story is Edos are Proud people and more intelligent than Yorubas, HRH Oba of Benin is superior than any Yoruba Oba,
Oba of Benin cursed Awolowo, and the Curse pushed Awolowo to buy Otapiapia

neyobillz:



Stop blabbing nonsense because the more u talk on here,u show how ignorant you are,We Yorubas are over a century ahead of you in all things For example the first yoruba lawyer Christopher Alexander Sapara Williams was called to the English Bar in 1879 whilst the first igbo lawyer, Sir Louis Mbanefo, was called to the English bar in 1937. Again the first yoruba medical practitioner, Dr. Nathaniel King, graduated in 1875 from the University of Edinburgh whilst the first igbo medical practitioner, Dr. Akannu Ibiam, graduated from another Scottish University in 1935.
The 1st T.V station is Africa is in Ibadan
Funmilayo Ransome Kuti was the first woman to drive a car in Nigeria(Im sure the most sophisticated of your women had access to automobiles a century later)
Do u know the Nigerian flag was designed by a Yoruba man
Do you have any idea how many Yoruba men have Private Universities in Nigeria minus the ones owned by General overseer,s and missionaries
The biggest Igbo actors in English Movies are forced to relocate to Lagos at least if they do want to stay in limelight,same for the music Industry.
The amount of multinational companies in Lagos and Ogun State alone dwarfs all the multinational companies in the whole of your south east.
Do u know Osogbo the Osun State Capital is a UNESCO world heritage center of culture.(In other news i heard the roof of the Imo State house of Assembly is leaking and the legislators over there will now use Ojukwu centre,shoudnt that be some concern for you guys)
You dont have any idea what culture is and those miserable looking bungalows to you are part of our history
Do u know the first storey building in Nigeria is in Lagos
Do you know the first higher institution of learning is also in Lagos
Do u know the first skyscraper in tropical Africa is in Ibadan.
Sunny Ade and Femi kuti are the only indigenous Nigerians to have been nominated for the Grammy’s.
Nigerian-born artistes who have won the award in the past are Helen Folasade Adu (who first achieved the success in the 1980s as the frontwoman and lead vocalist of the popular Brit and Grammy Award winning English group) and Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel (who was born on February 19, 1963 in Paddington London). Both are British citizens but of Yoruba descent.
Do you know the world current richest black woman is Yoruba Net worth,$ 600 Million (2012) Is there anyone in the whole of your south east who can dwarf this figure

Virgin Finder:
If Igbos cannot measure up to the Yorubas, how dare the Edos?

You are a mad man!

Willy4Willy:
But before the white man came, Binins(Edos) colonized Yorubas, who then is greater?

Virgin Finder:

If Igbos cannot measure up to the Yorubas, how dare the Edos?

You are a mad man!

mikey2fin: The land of the rising Sun BIAFRA!!

T8ksy: IMO, what we really need is true federalism with resources control. We are stronger been one nigeria with our huge population but we do also need to understand our differences and harness our diversity to improve our lives. As a yoruba man, am not afraid of going it alone as most of our detractors are claiming here but at the same time, am aware of the benefits of us staying in a truly federalised one nigeria.

Let each region takes care of his people with its resources whilst paying an mutually agreed amount for the maintenance of the center. We are too different in every sense of the word to run a centralised one nigeria-this is what has been the bane of the country.