Andre Uweh:

Alh Uche, am fine. I like you Awori guys because despite Bini influence in Lagos, you guys do not disclaim Yoruba.

yeah we have bini which to me is yoruba or yorubiod, ijaw, hausa and even igbo influenece and yes we are detribalised nigerians

unless u we are provoked then we would call our warriors from ogbomosho and shagamu to help us in lagos

we aworis are pro nigerians and very mixed with groups far and wide and consisder ourselves yoruba/bini

now ika people are a bit naught to me

maybe because i do not really understand there origin but from my finding i would consider them igbo anyday any time

whether they like it or not

once ur name is uche, ike, etc u are igbo to me and i know it might seem like ignorance but that is me and my view to it

a bi u people want to divide till each man forms his own village as a country

Andre Uweh:

Alh Uche, am fine. I like you Awori guys because despite Bini influence in Lagos, you guys do not disclaim Yoruba.

He's Awori today. Unless his timetable says otherwise, he has to be Igbo tomorrow (as from 12 midnight) and then Efik the day after that.  

See wetin I dee tell u below on the bolded;

alj_harem:

yeah we have bini which to me is yoruba or yorubiod, ijaw, hausa and even igbo influenece and yes we are detribalised nigerians [/b]

unless u we are provoked then we would call our warriors from ogbomosho and shagamu to help us in lagos

[b][size=14pt]we aworis [/size]are pro nigerians and very mixed with groups far and wide and consisder ourselves yoruba/bini

now ika people are a bit naught to me

maybe because i do not really understand there origin but from my finding i would consider them igbo anyday any time

whether they like it or not

once your name is uche, ike, etc u are igbo to me and i know it might seem like ignorance but that is me and my view to it

a bi u people want to divide till each man forms his own village as a country

alj_harem:

yeah we have bini which to me is yoruba or yorubiod, ijaw, hausa and even igbo influenece and yes we are detribalised nigerians

unless u we are provoked then we would call our warriors from ogbomosho and shagamu to help us in lagos

we aworis are pro nigerians and very mixed with groups far and wide and consisder ourselves yoruba/bini

now ika people are a bit naught to me

maybe because i do not really understand there origin but from my finding i would consider them igbo anyday any time

whether they like it or not

once your name is uche, ike, etc u are igbo to me and i know it might seem like ignorance but that is me and my view to it

a bi u people want to divide till each man forms his own village as a country

Well said Alh Uche.

dem_people:

He's Awori today. Unless his timetable says otherwise, he has to be Igbo tomorrow (as from 12 midnight) and then Efik the day after that.  

See wetin I dee tell u below on the bolded;

Lol @ AljHarem Uche. What a flip-flopper?

You are a no brainer at all. An Igboman in this forum is known as Gen-Buhari. Yet he is not Hausa/fulani nor a military man. Your argument is baseless.

lol, so are u trying to tell me agbontaen is not a name answered by ikas, and omonuan/iguefi is actually from owerri?

And what does nduka mean?

u tell me.

Negro_Ntns:

Apparently the ika don't consider you nwanne to them and don't any part of Anioma, however much you try to sell it to them.

Ogbuefi is wordsmithing and cajoling and wooing to get the people to admit they are Igbo.
You clearly said in 1930 you were not Bini, but you never said you were not Igbo.

Let's say Yoruba claim Umuahia as its land. The people of Umuahia go to court and declare "No, we are not Yorubas".
Then Fulani_ Boy arrive 70yrs later on NL and say to chukwuma, "you know you stated some years back that you are not Yoruba but you never said in court that you were not Fulani. Therefore I own your land.

The people have rejected Anioma and refuse to be Igbo. Even if they were Igbo at one time, today they don't want to be Igbo.

Leave them and their land alone!

Please go and play lord of the ijebus cos u are begining to make fun of yourself here,
First of all do you know what Anioma is?
Second of all I am from Delta state Einstein so you are talking to the wrong person.
Third of all stop all this your analogies cos they are senseless, the other day it was with x-men now its yoruba claiming umuahia

exotik:

lol, so are u trying to tell me agbontaen is not a name answered by ikas, and omonuan/iguefi is actually from owerri?

Let's start listing Bini people with Yoruba names. . . .

^
i am usen, and we don't have yoruba names, we have usen names and we are edo people. if yoruba people happen to share same name with usen people, it does not mean we are yorubas coz our usen identity is way older than the contemporary european created yoruba identity. so if anything, it is yorubas that should be claiming to identify as usen not the other way round. same way the ika identity is way older than the contemporary european igbo identity, so it should be igbos who be claiming to identify as ika not the other way round. usen people are not yorubas same way as ika people are not igbos.

exotik:

u tell me.

You should know,since you were quick to tell us the meaning of obaigbena.

and the yoruba and igbo identity are bogus ones as far as im concerned.

@vincenzo, u should know since u are the one claiming they are igbos

exotik:

^
i am usen, and we don't have yoruba names, we have usen names and we are edo people. if yoruba people happen to share same name with usen people, it does not mean we are yorubas coz
our usen identity is way older than the contemporary european created yoruba identity, so if anything, it is yorubas that should be claiming to identify as usen not the other way road. same way the ika identity is way older than the contemporary european identity, so it should be igbos who be claiming to identify as ika not the other way round. usen people are not yorubas same way as ika people are not igbos.

All I'm reading is nothing but excuses. Are there a significant amount of Bini people with what are known to be Yoruboid names or not?

exotik:

and the yoruba and igbo identity are bogus ones as far as im concerned.

Really has nothing to do with Bini people with Yoruba (non-Edoid) names. Guess much of your people have names that have nothing to do with the rest of Edo people.

dem_people:

He's Awori today. Unless his timetable says otherwise, he has to be Igbo tomorrow (as from 12 midnight) and then Efik the day after that.  

See wetin I dee tell u below on the bolded;

Onlytruth once said that alj harem is a yoruba guy from kogi or kwara state,i believe him,for that would explain his pro yoruba posts and his northern affliation.

exotik:

@vincenzo, u should know since u are the one claiming they are igbos

I asked because the guy that i know that answers obaigbena also goes by the name nduka,but you were quick to interprete obaigbena leaving nduka.Nduka= life is greater.

@ezeagu,
dat is what im telling u dat they are not binis. the edo people wit names that are "yorubic" are not binis. they have their distinct dialect, eg usen.
binis that may have yoruba names are those who are married to yoruba people. maybe their mum or someone in their family is from one of the yoruba states. but no proper bini family have a "yorubic" name in their family, they all have bini names.

@vicenzo, so he has an edoid name and has an ika name does not make him igbo. if anything he should be edo coz it is his surname and not first name that is edoid

exotik:

@vicenzo, so he an edoid name and and an ika name does not make him igbo. if anything he should be edo coz it is his surname and not first name that is edoid

No,it means that he is an igbo with an edo ancestory,just like some aro people with ibibio surnames.

lmao!so if he traces his origin to edo wouldn't that make him edo? his ancestry leads him to edo state and not imo state so his is more edo than igbo, that why he is ika!

exotik:

lmao!so if he traces his origin to edo wouldn't that make him edo? his ancestry leads him to edo state and not imo state so his is more edo than igbo, that why he is ika!

Many igbo groups trace their ancestry outside igboland,there are some igbos who does not know the meaning of their surnames,what makes you igbo is not where you came from,rather its the language you speak as a first language,what unite all igbo groups is the igbo language,(which all of us speak a dialect of),and not where we came from.

vicenzo:


Many igbo groups trace their ancestry outside igboland,there are some igbos who does not know the meaning of their surnames,what makes you igbo is not where you came from,rather its the language you speak as a first language,what unite all igbo groups is the igbo language,(which all of us speak a dialect of),and not where we came from.

and the language they speak is not igbo language, they speak ika language.

exotik:

and the language they speak is not igbo language, they speak ika language.

and an Ijebu man speaks Ijebu language. In your logic, Ijebu is not Yoruba. Boy, give up and stop displaying further stupidity in this thread.

Exotik isn't getting the picture.

hahahahahahaha, u are the stuppid one nzonigga, and i don't care how the ijebus choose to identify themselves. if by tomorrow, they say they are not yorubas, wetin concern me. but as of today, a lot of ika people don't want to be called igbos, ozuo.

ChinenyeN:

Exotik isn't getting the picture.

no, u are the one not getting the picture. the picture is clear from where im standing.

vicenzo:

Onlytruth once said that alj harem is a yoruba guy from kogi or kwara state,i believe him,for that would explain his pro yoruba posts and his northern affliation.

Hmm. . .Still wondering why you all are still responding to exotik. He is not "Delta Igbo", "Bendel Igbo", or simply Igbo. You all are totally deviating from a good topic. This may sound a little tribalistic, but lets only reply to Igbos. Physics and maaaaybe Alj Haram is ok. The table is open to changes though so do speak you mind.

exotik:

@ezeagu,
dat is what im telling u dat they are not binis. the edo people wit names that are "yorubic" are not binis. they have their distinct dialect, eg usen.
binis that may have yoruba names are those who are married to yoruba people. maybe their mum or someone in their family is from one of the yoruba states. but no proper bini family have a "yorubic" name in their family, they all have bini names.

So the struggle all us have when we see a Yoruba name only to find out the person is Bini does not exist? It's clear that you see how stupid your logic is when the tables were flipped. Try that naming nonsense again and I'll move on to Yoruba gods in Edoland, after that it's straight to Ewuare and then finally Oduduwa.

exotik:

no, u are the one not getting the picture. the picture is clear from where im standing.

I'm just saying, maybe you simply need to learn to shut up and listen. This isn't about the identity, but about the categorization of people.
If you don't get that, then you simply just do not get the picture.

^ huh?

who cares who oduduwa was and please do move on to ewuare after all it was after the reign of the same ewuare that anioma lands were conquered.

ChinenyeN:

I'm just saying, maybe you simply need to learn to shut up and listen. This isn't about the identity, but about the categorization of people.
If you don't get that, then you simply just do not get the picture.

well, maybe u are the one who needs to listen and shut up because it is clear a lot of the people dont want to be categorized as igbo.