samuk:


Don't be surprised if research shows that the bigger Igbo borrowed their BIA and chukwu from a smaller tribe. I am sure you must have seen the debate between the Benin and Yoruba on the origin of the title Oba. On the surface it will appear the Benin borrowed the word from the Yorubas because of its wide used by them and their much bigger population, but the fact is no Yoruba traditional ruler used the Oba title until the 1900s. Under British colonial rule the most senior Yoruba rulers such as the Ooni and Alaafin used the title Sir, so what you have is Sir Adebola Ademola, the Ooni of Ife, it was later they started using Oba.

The Benins have always wished this to be the case unfortunately for Benins it isn't .. and the shadow cast by the Oba from Yorubaland will forever continue to loom heavily over Benin's entire existence. But don't worry, I understand the feeling.

I guess the following Yoruba towns and villages did not exist until recently ko?
Ilu Omoba - Ekiti
Obajana - Kogi
Obadore Omuo - Ekiti
Gaa Oba - Kwara
Too much to even start listing.

Also, all the Oja Oba (Oba's market located usually beside the palace and right in the middle of the old quarters) in virtually every Yoruba town didn't exist either...
Just google Oja Oba and see the plethora of locations you get. From Ilorin to Akure to Ado to Ibadan to Osogbo to Kabba to Oyo township.. These institutions are not called Oja Deji or Oja Alaafin or Oja Obaro or Oja Olu. They are known as Oja Oba throughout Yorubaland.

Even Obalufon from ife who has a famous copper alloy mask circa 1300s was also given permission to be Oba by binis who were probably still at crossroads whether to completely ditch the Ogiso title or not.

You Benin people are just Jokers. One mistake (or maybe it is actually deliberate) that you people usually make is that y'all make automatic assumptions due to the lack of knowledge of Yoruba language you people automatically culturally appropriate anything from Yorubaland in your kingdom and misrepresent some very fundamentally Yoruba things even in Yorubaland.
Someone from Urhonigbe than has absolutely zero Idea that Eti in Yoruba means ear, edge or bank and Osa means Tide or Lagoon in Yoruba language will just come from Siluko road and start talking about how Eti Osa local government means "Power of God" and how the first settlers came from bini land.

If I start making a list of Yoruba and Yoruba derived words and calques in the Bini language, I will get to page 13 on this Nairaland lasan.

smh

babtoundey:


There is even a group in Kogi State called Igodo. The bear Yoruba names and even claim to.have come from Ife like most Yoruba stocks yet they insist the are not Yoruba.

Abeg which one is Igodo again?

Juliusmalema:
For thos saying Igbo enwe Eze and there Rubbish propaganda.

This is a testament that Igbos have kings before the arrival of the white man


As for the caste system, I reserve my comment.

The one you are supposed to comment about gangan you no comment

Na comment wey no follow you dey talk about.

codemaniacs:




elvictor comment is the reason why some Nigerians and some Africans support Trump... leisuretym comment below is the reason Nigerians don't want b:iden to win....

Trump's ignorance of Africa is what has helped reduce t:error attacks in Africa...

If a U:S president is not going to support Africa's development then that president needs to ignore Africa which is what O:bama should have done.... instead of helping turn African countries to war zones and refugee camps....

b:iden winning is bad for African countries.

Oga there is very minimal difference between democrats and republicans when it comes to the internationall policies of the USA.

Which countries did democrats 'destrroy' in Africa that republicans won't do same?

Has anything like the Arab spring which led to the eventual US interference in Libya happened under Trumps time in office?

Have you forgotten how bush invaded the Middle east under the pretence of looking for weapons of mass destruction which they had?

Always complaining always blaming everyone but himself.
Michigan and Wisconsin have flipped, Arizona and its 11 electoral college votes which he took in 2016 are safely in the Dems sack.

That is the end.

Nigerians religiously supporting Trump are some of the most ridiculous black people to ever exist.
Una no even get shame... if we were in the mid 19th century, Trump as a US lawmaker would vote against the abolition of slavery. As a mtatter of fact, if he could have his way blacks in the US wouldn't have been 'allowed' to vote in this election.

Anyways, bye bye Trump!

LegendHero:


That’s 2-0 out of Nine.

We are still waiting the rest to know what’s up.

shey kini yen jare.

uniqueboi1:


2-0 against who?
Tribal bigot.

Against rest of Nigeria together..

Bb

To participate in Protests.. dem no go show.
To burst into Palliative warehouse, you see them in numbers.

Northerners.

Facts.

Lagos state can't be turned into a FT (Federal Territory)

Maybe Eti osa and Lagos Island can follow, but definitely not the greater part (80%) of Lagos state which were all part of the defunct Western region before they were brought to become a part of Lagos state in 1967.

I smell a population census coming up.

mosdii:
Bayelsa state is the only homogeneous Ijaw state in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.

Bayelsa is the acronym of the then 3 local government areas in old Rivers State namely; Brass, Yenagoa and Sagbama (BALGA, YELGA & SALGA).
Present day Bayelsa, has 8 LGA's namely;
1. Kolokuma/Opokuma
2. Yenagoa
3. Southern ijaw
4. Sagbama
5. Ekeremor
6. Ogbia
7. Nembe
8. Brass

In the old Rivers State, Brass LGA comprised of Ogbia, Nembe & Brass respectively.
Yenagoa LGA comprised of Kolokuma/Opokuma, Yenagoa and Southern ijaw and
Sagbama LGA comprised of Sagbama and Ekeremor.

Bayelsa state is predominantly ijaw with other sub and ijaw dialects.

These ijaw dialects includes;
1. Nembe: This ijaw dialect is the second most spoken ijaw dialect in the state after the more conventional ijaw dialect.
It is spoken in two local government areas; Nembe and Brass who are similar to the kalabari people of Rivers State.

2. Ogbia: This dialect is the third most spoken ijaw dialect in the state. This dialect is synonymous with the Abua and Odual dialect in Rivers State.
The Ogbia, Abua and Odual people are said to be from the same roots.
The Ogbia dialect is spoken by people of Ogbia local government area.
Former President GEJ is from this area.

3. Epie-Atissa: This dialect is spoken by the people of Epie-Atissa in the state capital of Yenagoa.
They are said to be an offshoot of the Edoid descendants of Oguan.

4. Urobho: This dialect is spoken by the Ofoni people in Sagbama LGA of Bayelsa state.
They are synonymous to the Urobhos in Delta state.

5. Okordia: This dialect is spoken by the Okordia people in Yenagoa LGA.

6. Biseni: Spoken by the Biseni people in Yenagoa LGA.

7. Zarama: Spoken by the Zarama people in Yenagoa LGA.

The last three dialects are synonymous and they are known with the acronym OZB.

Your opening statement and your number 4 fact are contradictory... No?

So Ikpoba Okha is not even 100% indiginous binis? Same with the Ovia local governments same with Orhionmwon.

How many LG do Binis now indigenously occupy in entirety?

Etrusen:
it's really funny


yorubas are truly confuse with their history


please OP remove Egbeta and usen of edo state from the list because they were are not Yoruba community and weren't founded by Yorubas

They are Yoruba communities.

You probably haven't even been there before.

Useless government.

Hh

Aircraft to protect herdsmen on ground. Nigeria is the only country I know where terrorists fly aircrafts to protect their fellow terrorists on ground operations.
See as the garnish the missiles for floor with red carpet like pikin wey just see big meat chop.

proeast:


Honestly, I really blame some of the Anioma people who doesn't understand the implications of allowing such insult by these guys to stand against them.

People are relying on myths and legends to claim being superior to another group of people that are totally different from them.

Of what benefit would associating with Benin offer to the Anioma people when they're even more populous, more educated, and more endowed in terms of human and natural resources than the said Bini, a minority group with nothing to offer?

Chaiiii
Gregyboy see your life? See how bini was totally and utterly disgraced! c’est dommage

TAO11:
Lol.

Yeah, they actually do celebrate OdUduwa festival.

These people have to be the biggest history distorters Nigeria will ever see.
It is like Hausa people saying the Jihad never happened and their kings aren't Fulanis because the palace titles are in Hausa language

TAO11 destroys these dudes with hard nut cracking evidence every single time

Besides, how come the Binis celebrate Ododuwa festival in Ubinu and not Ekaladerhan festival?

Bunch of modern revisionists.

Wonderful news.

I can't find Laycon's post on the OPPO twitter page.

Did they remove his own or what is going on?

MelesZenawi:


Case closed.

face Ijebu.

lol ever seen people creating thread on NL to romance Ijebus into being Yorubas? lol
I actually just dey laff you ppl.

MelesZenawi:


Her name is Ndidiamaka as I watched, case closed.

That's an Igbo name.

ok, so why are we now discussing it here?

MelesZenawi:


Yoruba people sef..Lol

lol, you know its the truth.. otherwise tell us what is so special about her presentation that makes it warrant a stand alone thread?

davodyguy:
Why not show the presentations of the others?

Because the main purpose of this thread is to start a discussion about Ikas and show to the world that an Ika girl on BBN represented herself as Ibo.

NubaVertigo:


I'm curious though, also. Could there be any link with the fact that Nok art is found near their site and Esie (Yoruba sculptures) and other forms of Yoruba art look like Nok art? They also speak a language which falls under the Volta-Niger cluster -- "Gb" consonant and "kp" consonant

Note that they also see that head as sacred, but treat it moreso as such than the Yorubas do.

Just asking questions. (note: I think Nok is actually found in the Atyap section, but they live immediately close to Gbagyi)

Their reverence for the “head” might just be co-incidental with that of the Yoruba, Furthermore- there is no proof per say that the makers of the ancient Nok works of art were the direct ancestors of todays Gbagyis, and even if they were, I am sure there are other populations descended from the same stock as well.

Yes I am familiar with their language , it sounds very much like Nupe.

Gbagyis? Nope..

Yorubas don’t mention them in our history even when Nupe (Tapa) is mentioned severally and is very well known. There are even towns in Yorubaland founded by Nupes.

Gbagyis are more like the Nupes without a strong culture/history- and we don’t really know them.