semasir:

@Isinweke: that's just it, I'm proudly an Egun boy and had never denied it once even when the odds are low. It'd be better if Egun indigenes bear their local names, mine is Semasa as well and I cherish it so much.

@Afam4eva: yes it is but that does not mean Yoruba names must overwhelm Egun names. Have you seen a Chinese bearing others name?

Andre Uweh:

@Semasir,
It is interesting reading your post. Egun language must be preserved. However, Egun people must bear Egun names, it's a pity a lot of them have abandoned Egun names for Yoruba names.

afam4eva:

Is Egun not supposed to be a subset of yoruba?

Andre Uweh:

It shall be well with you. Egun people should encourage their wards to bear Egun names. Also, they should see themselves as Egun. Some of them see themselves as Yorubas and that is insane.

Andre Uweh:

@Semasir,
It is interesting reading your post. Egun language must be preserved. However, Egun people must bear Egun names, it's a pity a lot of them have abandoned Egun names for Yoruba names.

afam4eva:

Is Egun not supposed to be a subset of yoruba?

semasir:

@Isinweke: that's just it, I'm proudly an Egun boy and had never denied it once even when the odds are low. It'd be better if Egun indigenes bear their local names, mine is Semasa as well and I cherish it so much.

@Afam4eva: [b]yes it is[/b] but that does not mean Yoruba names must overwhelm Egun names. Have you seen a Chinese bearing others name?

semasir:

@TewMuch: the multi-ethnicity in Nigeria doesn't mean that Egun is a subset of Yoruba, rather it simply means they're considered or grouped as Yorubas simply because they fall on the same geopolitical zone. I need you to convince me that a Calabar indigene considering self as an Igbo or others doing same.

EzeUche_:

I support the Egun people and their question to preserve their culture and language from Yoruba hegemony.

Obiagu1:

So Yorubas are claiming Egun

TewMuch:

Sure, just like Igbo are claiming Delta people who swear violently that they are not Igbo. I knew you people will jump on this to prove something but you have missed the boat here. There are dialects and cultural influences. My link also proves Ezeche's denial that Yoruba's went as far as Ghana.

semasir:

@TewMuch: the multi-ethnicity in Nigeria doesn't mean that Egun is a subset of Yoruba, rather it simply means they're considered or grouped as Yorubas simply because they fall on the same geopolitical zone. I need you to convince me that a Calabar indigene considering self as an Igbo or others doing same.

TewMuch:

Sure, just like Igbo are claiming Delta people who swear violently that they are not Igbo. I knew you people will jump on this to prove something but you have missed the boat here. There are dialects and cultural influences. My link also proves Ezeche's denial that Yoruba's went as far as Ghana.

EzeUche_:

I have no problem understanding someone who speaks the Anioma dialect.

TewMuch:

Mr Egun, get your story stright with your fair weather stories. Andre Uweh is a very mischevous fellow. See below:

"
The other two groups of Lagos State citizens are the Ogu people of Badagry and its environs, and the Ijebu in Ikorodu and Epe Local Governments.

Badagry town houses the first storey building in Nigeria, built in 1845 and still standing on its original site.

Badagry's original name was Gbagle a contraction of the word Ogbaglee, meaning in Ogu (not Egun as commonly mis-pronounced and mis-spelt) "a farmland near the swamp". The Ogu people are historically reputed to have migrated from the ancient Ketu.

Kingdom (part of Oduduwa's Kingdom) and they left Ile-Ife around the mid-13th century, for Accra in Gold Coast. The Ga/Ewe (Aja-Ogu) speaking group of today's Ghana are indeed the kith and kin of the Ogu of Badagry. "

http://www.ngex.com/nigeria/places/states/lagos.htm


Perhaps they bear Yoruba names because of their kinship with Yoruba's and so many inter-marriages. You can't deny your father's heritage Mr. Semasa no matter how certain elements will want to misconstrue it politically. Peace, knowledge is power.

PhysicsMHD:

apparently "Egun" is a Yoruba word meaning "bones"


http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/topic,463af2212,469f2ea82,3ae6ad6e7c,0.html



http://www.bioline.org.br/request?ep03009 (talks about the "Ogu" or Egun-speaking peoples and their family structure)

PhysicsMHD:

apparently "Egun" is a Yoruba word meaning "bones"


http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/topic,463af2212,469f2ea82,3ae6ad6e7c,0.html



http://www.bioline.org.br/request?ep03009 (talks about the "Ogu" or Egun-speaking peoples and their family structure)

semasir:

@PhysicsMHD: I don't mean to play down your intelligence and as well don't mean to insult you but that's rude of you not knowing what you really want to say. The Yoruba word "EGUN" with the ascent (re re) is far too different from "ÈGÙN" with the ascent (do do). These two words are only synonymous in spellings but not in pronunciation, they are two WIDE and distinct words. Always make posts of things so sure and confirmed please.

TewMuch:

Besides fashola has given egun people a spot on nta to promote their language so it doesnt seem like Awori's are trying to take advantage.
"THE NUBIAN TONGUE PRESERVES ITS AUTHENTICITY BY ABIDING TO ITS ANCIENT SPIRITUAL LEGACY. THIS IS EVIDENT IN THE ADA LANGUAGE OF THE GA-ADANGBE SUB-NATION, WHICH RETAINED THE ANCESTRAL NAME "NIMLOR" SPELT BY THE MODERN HEBREW,GREEK OR LATIN AS "NIMROID". THUS, A SAYING IN THE ADA LANGUAGE;- 'NOR NOR TSHAPI "NIMLOI" OR "NOMLOI", LITERALLY MEANS ;THIS PERSON IS NOT A "NIMROID" (NIMLOI). THIS SAYING IS ADDRESSED TO A PERSON WHO DO NOT POSSESS THE CHARACTERISTICS AND QUALITIES OF "NIMLOI" AS A WARRIOR, KING, AN ORACLE OR A PERSON OF HOLY SPIRITUAL PRACTICES. THEREFORE, A PERSON WHO IS NOT A GOOD PERSON, OR ANY PERSON OR PERSONS WHO WILL DO ANYTHING BAD MAY BE ADDRESSED AS "NOR NOR TSHAPI NIMLOI".

MANY THOUSANDS OF YEARS B.C. THE “ADA/KROBO”, “GA,” “GBE” AND OTHER RELATIVE NATIONS WERE PART OF THE "YOOHUBA" NATION (YORUBA), THEN PART OF THE SUMA/ UBAIDA PEOPLE WHO WERE ATTACKED OUT OF THEIR LAND BY TERRORISTS AND VANDALS. DUE TO THESE ATTACKS SOME OF THE NUBIANS WERE ENSLAVED WITHIN THEIR OWN NATIONS AND SUB NATIONS AND MOST OF THEM RELOCATED TO MANY RELATIVES AREAS ON THE NUBIAN CONTINENT NOW CALLED “AFRICA”. MOST CHANGED THEIR NATIONS NAMES DUE TO SECURITY REASONS, AND OTHER NAMES WERE CHANGED DUE TO EUROPEAN COLONIZATION, COUPLED WITH RELIGION AND LANGUAGE CONVERSIONS.

MANY OF THE (UBAIDAN) “IBADA” PEOPLE THEN OF THE SUMA TERRITORY CAN BE FOUND AMONG MANY TERRITORIES IN THE PRESENT AFRICA, MOSTLY IN NIGERIA'S YORUBA. YOO-RU-BA = THE FEMALE COUNTER-PART OF THE SUPREME DIVINE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE. THE MALE COUNTER-PART IS "NU". "
http://discussions.ghanaweb.com/viewtopic.php?t=79565&sid=0f58de18fe90f72f9961545e83a83931
Even Lamurudu/Nimrod is mentioned

PhysicsMHD:

apparently "Egun" is a Yoruba word meaning "bones"


http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/topic,463af2212,469f2ea82,3ae6ad6e7c,0.html



http://www.bioline.org.br/request?ep03009 (talks about the "Ogu" or Egun-speaking peoples and their family structure)

TewMuch:

Sure, just like Igbo are claiming Delta people who swear violently that they are not Igbo. I knew you people will jump on this to prove something but you have missed the boat here. There are dialects and cultural influences. My link also proves Ezeche's denial that Yoruba's went as far as Ghana.

TewMuch:

MANY OF THE (UBAIDAN) “IBADA” PEOPLE THEN OF THE SUMA TERRITORY CAN BE FOUND AMONG MANY TERRITORIES IN THE PRESENT AFRICA, MOSTLY IN NIGERIA'S YORUBA. YOO-RU-BA = THE FEMALE COUNTER-PART OF THE SUPREME DIVINE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE. THE MALE COUNTER-PART IS "NU". "

Obiagu1:

@ the bolded

I now understand why Yorubas are cowards and bitchy. No wonder.

ezeagu:

So did Jay-jay Okocha, Pat Utomi or Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala ever swear violently that they are not Igbo? How about Major Chukwuma Nzoegwu?