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Shattuck:
😂😂 ife was greatly influenced by the bini kingdom, ife didn't even have a monarchy, how then did ife give bini a king when the bini kingdom is older than ife, even the obi of onitsha dresses more like a bini royalty the staff he carries resembles that of the oba of bini

See delusion. Which influenced the other? You cannot find any traces of Benin influence on ife or Yoruba till date. Benin bear Yoruba names, worship their idols, has a dynasty from Yoruba. Earliest historian like Egharevba, who were closer to elders wrote correct history in 1930s that are twisted today.

If Oduduwa is from Benin what legacy did he leave in Ìfẹ as a Benin Son?

When Sango was going to revenge the maltreatment of his grandfather, he turned north but couldn't proceed further because of Niger River. Why didn't he face Benin?

Jjust mention one legacy of Benin on Ife and Yorubas. Even the bronze craft was of Benin was learned from Ìfẹ. Check the history.

chiagozien:
Lagos is not Yoruba land.


We recently here in Lagos deported you yorubas back to Osun State.

hahaha pained Okoro, I guess Igbos own it then…..keep up with your delusion, shameless omo ale, and yet you have nothing in common with Yoruba but Lagos Yoruba land😂😂😂the shape of your head must be affecting your brain.

Did Nairaland idioots understand what the Obi said? "Igbo bi na Ado na Idu" literally meaning Igbos living in Ado na Idu. Which solidifies the reverse migration of Igbo from the west.

chiagozien:
Lols self deceit.



Yoruba no match Igbos in anyway.



We Don't share anything in common with yorubas and don't want to

We share Nigeria, Africa, world in common. What is in Igbo land, Africa, world that Yoruba is not more? Mention one thing.

MightySparrow:



See delusion. Which influenced the other? You cannot find any traces of Benin influence on ife or Yoruba till date. Benin bear Yoruba names, worship their idols, has a dynasty from Yoruba. Earliest historian like Egharevba, who were closer to elders wrote correct history in 1930s that are twisted today.

If Oduduwa is from Benin what legacy did he leave in Ìfẹ as a Benin Son?

When Sango was going to revenge the maltreatment of his grandmother, he turned north but couldn't proceed further because of Niger River. Why didn't he face Benin?

Jjust mention one legacy of Benin on Ife and Yorubas. Even the bronze craft was of Benin was learned from Ìfẹ. Check the history.

😂😂😂 Benin learnt bronze craft from ife ? Ancient ife wasn't even a monarchy, at some point strangers ruled ife even till today the ife royal household is being contested by several families and the ooni title is rotated among these families. An exiled bini prince ruled ife.

Pennilessword1:


I think you have to study that yourself. What separates us from the East. Don't try and discredit ones knowledge of something simply because you want to drive a narrative. So now we will consider Delta and co as Igbos...? What separates us from the East is the river hence the bridge.


Maybe you may call people of Ibusa and and Asaba Igbos. But you see Agbor down to Onichaugbo, they have a very different traditions of Origin. The Obi still pays homage to the Oba of Benin and not to any Eastern King.

Onicha-Uku means great Onicha, Onicha-Ugbo means Onicha farm and their father is Eze Chime and not Shola or Osaretin.


Their dialect is very similar to central Igbo more than what the entire Enugu state speaks Agbo is less than 30 minutes drive to Benin yet they speak Igbo dialect and not Bini that you claim they have ancestry with Bini

I no know whether na witchcraft I go call this kind behaviour.


If you're not from that region don't tell what you don't know and don't attempt to rewrite their history with your prejudice.

BadBradley:
why is Ijebu Igbo called Ijebu Igbo?

Ijebu igbo is the forest areas of ijebu. Igbo being forest/bush. The pronunciation is also different from igbo(tribe).

AyakaDunukofia:
Do Nairaland idioots understand what the Obi said? "Igbo bi na Ado na Idu" literally meaning Igbos living in Ado na Idu. Which solidifies the reverse migration of Igbo from the west.

Why then is Onitsha called Onitsha Ado n' Idu?

Shattuck:
😂😂😂 Benin learnt bronze craft from ife ? Ancient ife wasn't even a monarchy, at some point strangers ruled ife even till today the ife royal household is being contested by several families and the ooni title is rotated among these families. An exiled bini prince ruled ife.

Check your history from real historian not bloggers. Nowhere in Yoruba land is a particular prince ascends to throne, every prince has equal rights and jostle for the seat.

twosquare:
Eboes (See Olaudah Equiano) or Ibos... Present day now use Igbo for whatever reason is known to them.

That they share the same Anglo-Latin letters does not connote the same thing. And it was done in the 1970s. I know why, but I won't say it.

Igbó - Bush/forest (or weed). Tonal marks. It's different from the tribe's name.

In Yorùbá's suffixation to towns, it describes a town situated in the forest.

No correlation.

And the bold is wrong.

This topic isn't for every Tom, Dick, and Harry to comment on. This is a history that's almost lost and not even known to historians, except as the Ooni of Ife regularly tries to enlighten everyone based on the oral history ed to him as well.

“We still have House of Igbo right in this palace till date. We call it Ile Igbo up till now. Our ancestors are buried and transfigured there. That is where kolanut was first discovered and nurtured.

“The Igbos are still the biggest consumers and s of kolanut which is only planted in Yorubaland till date. Can the Igbos do without kolanut? ”

“The ancient Igbo house is one of the most sacred places in this palace till date..........The Ooni of Ife

I'll provide more details in my book. But you can get ahead with the attached information

MightySparrow:



We share Nigeria, Africa, world in common. What is in Igbo land, Africa, world that Yoruba is not more? Mention one thing.

We share no value system with you yorubas and will never.


Sharing artificial things like Nigeria doesn't change anything.

We're not here to compare what you don't have.



Igbos don't share anything in common with you.

PressMyButton:

Why then is Onitsha called Onitsha Ado n' Idu?

Why did Ajayi Crowther choose to be known as Crowther?

SonofLagos:
hahaha pained Okoro, I guess Igbos own it then…..keep up with your delusion, shameless omo ale, and yet you have nothing in common with Yoruba but Lagos Yoruba land😂😂😂the shape of your head must be affecting your brain.

Lagos is not Yoruba land so stop crying.



We shares nothing in common with you yorubas,I don't care how it pains you to hear that.

AyakaDunukofia:


Why did Ajayi Crowther choose to be known as Crowther?

It was a name given to him upon his baptism which is a common place in christendom. However, he never lost any of his indigenous names and identity to external influence. Onitcha Ado n' Idu bears the ancestry of the Onitsha people.

BadBradley:
the Imbecilë who wrote that piece lied because the Obi never said Onitsha people and ife are one family.

If Nairaland were a TV station or radio station, they would have collected sanctions beyond survival.

Silly website

Imagine. That would have been too salty of him, if true

Pennilessword1:
Is it any wonder why the Anioma people of Delta state always shout that they aren't Igbos when people try to instill it into the fabric of their own self determination?

Igbos will call the Anioma, Ikwerre and Ika people fake Igbos. When these same people say we aren't Igbos despite the fact that we sometimes bear and speak a section of the igbo dialect the Igbos would start insulting the Anioma people.

You're funny, you don't speak Igbo you didn't even hear what Obi was saying. this one na Yoruba translation

tishbite42:

You're mentally ill

No wonder Igbo will never rule Nigeria.

MP3GAGAdotCOM:

Is only 1, idiat..

Igbos don't even have state at all, they are all owned by benin people.

No wonder you're begging to be accommodate anywhere

BadBradley:
Pbi of Asaba is not Igbo? Did you watcj the video when the long said Ijebu Igbo I'm Yoruba land is Igbo who didn't migrate to present Igbo land and he also said Igbo artifact are still on Yoruba land as well as Igbo market?

Benin and Hausa own Nigeria.

The truth beginning to come out. Igbos are the most colonized Nigeria tribe. They don’t even know anything about their history but still will have so much empty pride.

muhammaduyusufu:
https://www.bbc.com/igbo/afirika-50720633

His royal majesty is a revered monarch. However, Ife was never known as Ado.

Even Yoruba called call Edo Ado. Ndi Idu is Igbo's name for Benin people.

The ancestor Idu is the earliest known traceable progenitor of Benin people. Not necessarily the first.
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Ado-Ekiti have their own version of their relationship with Benin.

In 1970, Nnamdi Azikiwe wrote in his "My Genealogy and Nativity" and traced his paternal and Maternal lines to Benin. Naming all his ancestors way back to Benin when Ezechima left Benin. No Ife mentioned in it. Zik mentioned other Ezechima clans, including Isseluku, Onicha-Ugbo, Onicha-Olona, Aboh, etc. In Benin, we consider Issele uku line as the most senior Ezechima line.

However, being of Benin royal descent, Onitsha royals/ancient aristocracy, they only relate with Ife through Benin, if at all such exists between Benin and Ife.

samuk
Automaticmotors
Gregyboy

SS777:


No wonder you're begging to be accommodate anywhere

Abi?

That's why Edo people are chasing away yorubas from their lands, you pigs are attachee by force, no one send una

Amayabor1:


He dresses more like the Oba of Benin than any SW traditional ruler. Onitsha as a town, has more resemblance to the Benin kingdom than any town in the SW. The names of some of their streets in Onitsha are of Benin origin. Even some Onitsha people bear names similar to Benin names.

You see that thing that is in Obi of Onitsha's hand? That's what the Benins call Eben. It's origin is purely Benin. Na men wey mount dey hold am.

Eben and Ada were the symbol of authority that Oni use to hand over to the new Bini King in the time immemorial. Bini running away from Yoruba ancestry is simply illogical. Omo Ada Omo Eben. I am an Ijebu man with Bini ancestry from my mother side. Bini were from Ile Ife their language change due to cultural diffusion.

That insignia is very common in Yoruba land it in on my family Official letter headed paper.

AreaFada2:


His royal majesty is a revered monarch. However, Ife was never known as Ado.

Even Yoruba called call Edo Ado. Ndi Idu is Igbo's name for Benin people.

The ancestor Idu is the earliest progenitor of Benin people.
"
Ado-Eki have their own version of their relationship with Benin.

In 1970, Nnamdi Azikiwe wrote in his "My Genealogy and Nativity" and traced his paternal and Maternal lines to Benin. Naming all his ancestors way back to Benin when Ezechima left Benin. No Ife mentioned in it. Zik mentioned other Ezechima clans, including Isseluku, Onicha-Ugbo, Onicha-Olona, Aboh, etc. In Benin, we consider Issele uku line as the most senior Ezechima line.

However, being of Benin royal descent, Onitsha royals/ancient aristocracy, they only relate with Ife through Benin, if at all such exists between Benin and Ife.

samuk
Automaticmotors
Gregyboy

Exactly Sir!

I was about to say this same thing!

I wonder why that obi of onitsha would want to include Ife in their origin when nothing points to this being true! SMH

AreaFada2:


His royal majesty is a revered monarch. However, Ife was never known as Ado.

Even Yoruba called call Edo Ado. Ndi Idu is Igbo's name for Benin people.

The ancestor Idu is the earliest progenitor of Benin people.
"
Ado-Eki have their own version of their relationship with Benin.

In 1970, Nnamdi Azikiwe wrote in his "My Genealogy and Nativity" and traced his paternal and Maternal lines to Benin. Naming all his ancestors way back to Benin when Ezechima left Benin. No Ife mentioned in it. Zik mentioned other Ezechima clans, including Isseluku, Onicha-Ugbo, Onicha-Olona, Aboh, etc. In Benin, we consider Issele uku line as the most senior Ezechima line.

However, being of Benin royal descent, Onitsha royals/ancient aristocracy, they only relate with Ife through Benin, if at all such exists between Benin and Ife.

samuk
Automaticmotors
Gregyboy

Ado is a very common name to relate to Ife. Meaning where we stand after leaving Ife. We have more than twenty towns that have the morphism e.g. Ado-Odo, Ado-Ota, Ado-Ekiti, Ado in Ibeju Lekki, Ado in Ojo along Badagry Expressway and many more

Housing:


Eben and Ada were the symbol of authority that On I use to hand over to the new Bini King in the time immemorial. Bini running away from Yoruba ancestry is simply illogical. Omo Ada Omo Eben. I am an Ijebu man with Bini ancestry from my mother side. Bini were from Ile Ife their language change due to cultural diffusion.

That insignia is very common in Yoruba land it in on my family Official letter headed paper.

Lol. Hold on to the Yoruba narrative or history while I hold on to the Benin narrative.

Oduduwa was a Benin prince who left Benin to found ile-Ife

Housing:


Eben and Ada were the symbol of authority that On I use to hand over to the new Bini King in the time immemorial. Bini running away from Yoruba ancestry is simply illogical. Omo Ada Omo Eben. I am an Ijebu man with Bini ancestry from my mother side. Bini were from Ile Ife their language change due to cultural diffusion.

That insignia is very common in Yoruba land it in on my family Official letter headed paper.

Eben has been benin from a long time. If any traditional ruler uses it in the SW, it is a sign they have their origin from Benin

NiRfreak:
The reason most Africans are so stupidly neck deep into tribalism and war against themselves is basically because they don't know their history
Now look at how this king is tracing a historical relationship btw an Igbo people to Ife (Yoruba) and Benin...yet these three people insult each other on the basis of tribalism for no reason..,May Africans have sense someday so that they CAN unite to do the right things for themselves and nation

Onitsha are not ibo. In the past, Onitsha People consider it an insult to be referred to as Ibos.

Orobeat:
Exactly my point brother, this should be an interesting thing, but because selfish agenda and hunger for domination they will not get the point

We are not same people. We never was. You can see the Obi detaching himself from one and attaching to his root.

muykem:
Nobody said Oduduwa fell from sky. Lamurudu is Oduduwa father.

Some of your people say he fell from the sky. Anyways, Oduduwa was a Benin prince that left Benin and founded Ile-Ife.

waynetee:
It's the truth, onitcha people are not Igbos. They have benin and yoruba ancestry

When was that written and who wrote that. There, you’ll find out whether you’re talking nonsense or not.