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shegoon:
In my school by the time the lecture vex comot for class, na the whole class go hand to even beat her. Uncultured brat

Everybody in Nigeria exist in a jungle zoo, and unfortunately the university are not spared. See mentality.

Vinnie2000:


Hmmm, Try YouTube nah!🤨

The MOVIE don Tey! I watched it in 2002! 🤔🙂

It was an IJAW woman (Rosemary Ingbi) that Directed it. 🙂

I no see am

Vinnie2000:


Saint Obi, whose Real name is Obinna Nwafor ed on, today.

In the Early 2000's, Man was our NOLLYWOOD Version of Arnold Swarzeneggar. 😊😎
He was always the 'Actor' in those Teco Benson Movies.

After Teco Benson Left the scene, He went back to Love and Guys lifestyle Roles.🙂

WHICH OF HIS FILMS ARE YOUR FAVOURITES?

*Narrow Escape
*Rituals
*Sakobi
*Festival of Fire
*Felony
*STATE OF EMERGENCY
*WANTED ALIVE
*BROAD DAYLIGHT
*Hot Secret
*Making of the King
*Greatest Sacrifice

Mine is: FINAL WHISTLE. Where he sang one Romantic song with the Lead Actress.☺️

WHAT'S YOURS? 🤔🙂

Nplfmod.

Do you know where one can watch the, "Hot secret" movie?

Throwback:
Even my siblings and cousins born in the late 1970s ate indomie in the mid 1990s when they were in the university and also at home.

So they all drank Gold Spot, Limca, and Tandi Guarana up to the 1990s just as us who were born in the 1980s.

So if those born in the late 1970s still ate Indomie and Maggi 2-minute Noodles as teenagers in the mid 1990s to qualify as Indomie generation also, what then is the need for these incessant questions over the years about Indomie generation not knowing things that existed in the 1980s or 1990s when those born in the 1970s also qualify as indomie generation as I have proven.

Gold-Spot and Limca were originally owned by Indians.
When Coca-Cola returned to the Indian market, they bought over the Limca and Goldspot company and later phased them out to make space for the relaunching of Fanta in India.

I suppose that this move took time to tickle down to Nigeria as well. I guess it eventually did.

They need to remaster all these old songs or give the current popular artistes the rights to the song for remix or sampling.

Some of the music of that time was great but the production and engineering was not at par with international standards. The music videos were also shitty.

It will be nice of they have right to the masters or the music reproduced and remastered.

IjebuWarrior:


You wonder why anything good can NEVER come from Okoro region.

Must you take the bait from trolls? One of the member, Zeal is an Igbo guy. The other one, Shifi is Urhobo/Delta and one Yoruba. It's not a Yoruba group although they were formed in Akure.

samuk:


Was there a recorded war between Benin and Biafra?

Did Benin have a standing army?

You are probably referring to Biafra invasion of Nigeria Mid Western territory.

I believe Mid West actually declared neutrality in the hostility before the unprovoked and poorly thought out invasion.

Anyway, it's on record that the Nigeria forces regained back their territory and Biafra lost the sympathy of otherwise neutral Mid West.

Lastly, it's on record how the Mid West under late Gen. Ogbemudia extended the Mid West good spirit of fellowship to the reabsorbed or recaptured Eastern region towards her redevelopment efforts.

Today, Nigeria is still suffering from the 1965 to 1970 miscalculations and missteps of our country men who were predominantly from one tribe.

The question still remains why Emmanuel Ifeajuna, an Onitsha man will lead a coup to overthrow a government headed by another Onitsha man Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe ( a proud Benin descendant).

Crafty selective amnesia you conjured up there.

Firstly you didn't mention the Bini expedition that lasted only 50 hours. The "great bini" were fighting with the stench of corpse while the Aros fought gallantly. Even a neighbouring Enuani fought. Did they also have a standing army?

How was Bini "a great empire" if they could be defeated so so easily that it was only the stench of human sacrifices that kept the victory longer than 24 hours? At a time when groups like Aros were making the British get modern reinforcements.

Another selective memory. Maj. Kaduna was the major head of the coup... and again.

So, all the destructive policies before and after the coupé after 5 decades, none was destructive... Or you people as usual would look for anything whether real or otherwise to blame the Igbo man for?

clefstone:
so how can you now explain Olaudah Equaino's writing that his village was part of the Benin Empire if Benin was a not so great Kingdom. I will explain how the Benin empire was easily defeated by the British after you explain Olaudah's writing

Olaudah never mentioned "Empire" but rather a "district of Benin". We can say it's semantics, but still, then the areas were known as "districts". All the recorded wars of Bini both with the British and during the Biafran wars ended super quickly.

Igboid:



Now on you Dein Agbor stuff, I believe you were mischievous in choosing part of his words to use to push your agenda.
Dein is not against Igbo Language, because that will be like self fight, seeing as what Agbor speak is also part of the constituents that make up the artificial construct you call "Igbo language". If you are speaking Agbor, you are speaking Igbo .
What Dein was actually doing was that he wants Agbor dialect protected from being swallowed up by the artificial Igbo language construct.
Notice he didn't condemn the use of Igbo language, he also condemned the use of Ika language, he wants Agbor dialect strictly kept.
What he is doing is not disimilar to what Igbo tribes in SE is doing too. Everyone is fighting to preserve their own Igbo dialect from being swallowed up by "Igbo Izugbe".
My elder brother married an Abia woman, I the day she gave her daughter the name "Chizaram", my grandfather was not impressed at all. He felt Chizaram which is of Abia/Imo origin and has been chosen as Igbo Izugbe, is an attempt to erode his own Ogidi language.
He wondered why they didn't name the child "Chizalum" as we say in Ogidi. He wasn't impressed at all.
He has always been a purist and clannish.
He hates hearing names like Chinyere which he believes pose danger to his Idemili dialect.

Funny enough I was in an Ngwa and Ndoki Facebook page some time ago and they were complaining of same thing, they feel Igbo language is taking away their Ngwa and Ndoki languages.
They wondered why their daughters and sons are bearing names like Ifeoma, Ifeanyi, Emeka, etc, when they don't use such expressions in Ndoki/Ngwa, they rather say Iheoma, Iheanyi, and Emela (Chukwuemela instead of Chukwuemeka).
It might seem anti Igbo, but what Dein is doing out there is Igbotic. Igbos are naturally clannish and segregating rather than assimilating.
This is why I quickly dismissed cock and bull stories of Bini people who were turned Igbo overnight. Igbos don't accept strangers as part of our units. We are naturally clannish and everything is tied to Umunna/Obi (Kindred) all knitted together by blood ties, it's almost impossible to get in as a stranger.

LOL. You really came hard on the Bini immigrants.
Well, in context, "great" Bini fought the British with the stench of corpse and pushed their women to fight with pebbles for only 50 hours in total before it was burnt to the floor.

Enuani on the other hands fought for years. In the SE, apart from so many resistance, the fragmented small Arochukwu fought a full blown war with an empire with great resistance that the British had to reinforce again with more firepower and army.

So, if a "great kingdom" was crushed by a few criminal unskilled weak white men for a few days, how can you have pride coming from such a place when your own people were even able to put up a harder resistance.

As for Aboh and Ukwuani, I feel you have to exempt the Ndosumili people (Aboh aside). The euphoria of Ukwuani paying tax to Bini is not held so much with servient relish is not as strong within Ndosumili as it is with Ukwuani.

It's a shame, Aboh is suppose to compete with Onitsha and Asaba, but today, it's only but a sleepy hamlet, despite its strategic location.

RilFavour:
Since we found our selves in bayelsa, yenagoa. Lived here and mingled with the ijaws, it is safe to say we are ready to go under the banner of the ijaw. But everything or person has an origin, where he or she originated no matter where he finds himself today. Epie atissa is a distinct ethnic group but now under the ijaw flag. Period.

It seems it's only in Nigeria people use ethnicity as a political party like APC and PDP where you go in and out based on convenience. Ethnicity doesn't work the way you describe where you go "Under" another linguistically (or other measures) distinct group.

Epie are not only a distinct group but are Edoid people as well. Epie are fragmented Ogua people (The elders will tell you this as well). Epie-Atissa, Engene, Degema then westward to Isoko, Urhobo are from similar lineage.

Excel70:

Hello. Where can I get chlorophy1

I am sorry, I just saw your post. You can get I believe in bigger supermarkets. I think you can first check out the common brand names on Jumia or the other well-known online platform first.

OfoIgbo:


Now note the sentence that goes thus

The first missions to be established in Ibo country were the C.M.S at Onitsha in 1856 and Bishop Crowther's at Bonny in 1864.

As you can glean from the above sentence, Bonny was clearly considered an Igbo territory by neutral observers back in the days, before landgrabbers started implementing their evil designs.

Alabo7978
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Ekealterego

This is 100 percent fact.

Kobojunkie:
So, what you are saying is the man had enough to give others but left nothing for his own children and somehow that makes him a good father?

I am having a hard time wrapping my mind aroujd this logic of yours. So, you are expecting us to believe that this same poor village tailor and farmer had enough to give other people but not his own children and to you that means he was a good father to his children?

I don't follow at all... since when did being a good father equal taking care of everyone else but your own children's needs and wants?

Help me understand your reasoning abeg! His children have no right to expect anything of him because was a poor village tailor and farmer but somehow that didn't stop all others from expecting and getting from him in the same community?

Maybe you if you remove your entitled veil you could read between the lines.
A parent owe you nothing beyond training you in school (In most part of the world, University might not be part of it), feed you till you are 18 or max 21 if you go to college. They do not owe you anything more.

The question, should be,
1. Did the man train them in school or a vocation?
2. Was the man there when they were young?

As you can see, there is need for more context. What do they mean by "leave us a legacy". What other legacies were they searching for in that context that didn't involve leaving them a property?
The man was given a title for his goodness and service?

The man lived a life of net positive impact, let the children follow same.

They didn't say the father was a deadbeat, they were upset he didn't leave their lazy asses estates they would sell later when he is gone.

Many Nigerian adult children are entitled bums still crying for food in momas house in their 20s and 30s. In Europe and America, by 18 you are already in the streets on your own finding your path in life.
Lazy entitled youths!

Kobojunkie:
You are still not getting it! The man is dead.... he basically got away with what he did to them. However, by exposing the truth as they did, not only do they get to grieve properly but they also obtain needed closure to a hurt filled past and are hence able to leave the past with the dead as they intended.

No amount of achievement in this life can rub away a past hurt. There are so many rich men today who carry around with them the pain of their past unable to plug that hole with all the money and wealth they have amassed for themselves. You have to confront emotional pain, let it out in order to be able to let it go --- that is how you obtain closure from your past and are then able to move on to a better future.

What this kids did has likely set them free from their past.

The man died a poor village tailor and farmer, what were the children expecting?

The same book showed that the man was a very selfless man who served the community till death despite his lack of money.
I know this community, man men there are super rich who die leaving Estates for the children and this was possibly what the children expected from a poor tailor.

Munzy14:
For the first time truth was told in a burial..

Normally ones person die, e don turn saint..Even people with questionable character.

Anyways, Thank God for some of us that had and still enjoying a home filled with love and sacrifice.

Nawa o....How man go leave wify and kids just the spend on top one yeye small girl wey go leave am Japa outside

Again I hope this is not another case of mothers and home politics of brainwashing the kids to look down on Local man

I do not agree. The children are truly stupid and entitled. If you know that community, many of the men that age were truly very rich who died leaving estates, so they were expecting their father to do the same.

The father was just a village tailor and farmer. They also verified that he served his community with all his heart and was selfless even though he wasn't rich.

Do you expect a tailor to leave estates behind like his peers?

Nikkitaboy:

just kukuma say ijaw no get any good city aside bayelsa
i'm sure you've seen Enugu, abakaliki, Asaba, onitsha, Nnewi, Abariba

even my villa sef better bayelsa

Ijaws do not have one single place you can call a city.

Even the Yenegoa village is not Ijaw. It belongs to the Epie/Atissa people. A minority group.

oz4real83:
At the rate that Russia is giving up their men to be slaughtered in this "Putin war", there will come a time that Russia will be importing men from all over the world for the countless lonely Russian women

You people believe everything CNN feed you guys. A small google search will show you that these pictures are old pictures.

Believe 1% of what you see on the news concerning the war in Ukraine. All are propaganda.

ah.
Today's Igala langauge is marginally intelligible with Yoruba.

They probably come from same proto-language.
Interestingly also, Igala and Benin seem to be the buffer zone or centre between Yoruba and Igbo.
They have an element of both.

Mr. Chukwuka Ofoegbu you do not have to.

einsteine:


She is Eggon not Igbo.

Alago, they speak Alago or Idoma Nokwu

Etinosa1234:
Obi local government

Igbo amaka...

Igbos are ionate at what dey do

They are Alago people who speak Idoma Nokwu. They have a few shared words and names with Igbo, like "Agbo" or the forming of some names, However they are not Igbo but Alago who are Idomoid or speak a similar language to Idoma.

powerhouse3:
...your quote so far show that you stay in the North, though you're Igbo ,and you have so much hate for a state that you can really rely on as an ally,..no problem...we are all watching and learning each ing day..


Akwa ibom eme Ked naga aba ke esin ,..ibaga Owo imaga mbufo so e try ema idem mbufo

It seems you are new to nairaland. That guy is not Igbo in any way. These are monikers created to cause ethnic tensions and you fell for it.

The same owner of the moniker will create another opposing moniker to reply himself to stoke more fire.

diadem10:


Another bullshit.

Egun language is as close to Yoruba as it can get. It's not even difficult to understand. I understand some of their tongue. People around the axis of ijebu, Ilaje etc can understand egun's language to an extent. It's been modified of course due to their interaction with other tribes in Ghana and Benin republic, especially after Dahomey enslaved them for a while.

That being said, your language isn't the source of your root but your culture and historical root. Egun root is from ile ife. So also is their culture.

What do you mean your language is not your root?
Language says more about your root and history than any thing. Language is a bundle of your roots, history, battles and war expressed via sounds.

Do you mean Yoruba language does not define Yoruba people. When the name of your language is literarily the name of your people. Igbos speak Igbo. Yorubas speak Yoruba but the language is not the people? Guy please don't disappoint people with any iota of sense.

If Yoruba language is for Yorubas and Igbo language is for Igbos why are you contesting that Ógu/Egun should not define Egun people?

As per language classification. It is NOT an OPINION that Ógu is not a Yoruba language nor even close, it's a SCIENTIFIC fact.

It is possible that Ijebu and Ilaje could have an ógu sound, it shows past and present relationship which is a fact with all neighbouring languages. They can be mutually influential. However, by fact and not by folklore of a earth bound, heaven evicted creature who layed eggs all by himself to father children singlehandedly. Ógu do not speak a close language to Yoruba neither do they identify as Yorubas.

Christistruth00:


Why is the Oba of Benin Claiming to be descended from a Myth then?

Oduduwa Story is not Folklore
The Exact Crown Oduduwa Wore is still in the Ooni’s Palace and Every New Ooni must wear it during his Coronation

All the Major Yoruba Kings and Kingdom founders descended from him


The Egun mother Tongue is in the same Kwa Language Group Yoruba


Hausa and Fulani Languages are completely unrelated yet they are considered to be the same People

Bruv, stop misinforming yourself. Yoruba is not a Kwa language There exist NO Kwa language in Nigeria. These are mostly, Togo, Ghana and Ivory coast.

Ogu/Egun is a Fon-Gbe language and Yoruba cannot and is not a Gbe language. Yoruba is more related to Edoids and Igbo languages than the distant Ogu, which is basically a Fon language.

Some Igbo say they are from Israel, all these are not tied to written records nor archaeology.

Secondly, people like Ijebu believe they are from Sudan and or somewhere afar off and do not regard themselves as Yorubas. In fact, Ijebus and Egbas sold Yorubas as slaves up until the slave trade was abolished. However, I know of recent, this loud separation is no longer as vociferous as it used to be. Even though we understand that Ijebu is a Yoruba language.

Bottom-line, many Yorubas are so keen on quashing individual identity of these minority groups into their larger group and collapsing their identity for a Yoruba identity even if it means conjuring up a folklore that gears towards that goal.
Ogu people however do not speak a Yoruba or yoruboid language or even a related language. Igbo and Edo languages are closer to Yoruba than Ogu.

christistruth01:



Egun are Descendants of Oduduwa and migrated from Ile Ife
They adoped the Language of the Fon in Dahomey and when Alaafin of Oyo defeated the Fon Kings the Egun and many Fon became bilingual speaking Yoruba too

The Egun king of Badagry wears a.beaded Crown from ife that only kings descended from Oduduwa Wear

Same Oduduwa who was a Bini prince.

Oduduwa story is pure folklore.

No one can tell with certainty. What is certain is that the mothertongue of Ogu people is not Yoruba and not related to Yoruba in any way. They also do not see themselves as Yoruba.

Christistruth00:





The Egun migrated from Ife and are descendants of Oduduwa


Edo and Urhobo speak different Languages that doesn’t mean they don’t share the same Ancestry and

History the two tribes are Siblings

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/03/yoruba-in-badagry-are-from-ile-ife-not-ghana-high-chief-wawu/

Brother, Urhobo is an Edoid language. They are related.
Ogu on the other hand, IS NOT a related language in ANY way.
Oduduwa that fell from the sky magically birthed a people that spoke an unrelated language.
Oduduwa birthing all people in the SW is just folklore.

Christistruth00:





You don’t have a Clue do you ?

You are just making up lies as you go along


Oba of Egun Badagry got his staff of office from Ile Ife

Our forefathers were Visionary Nation builders you know


The Ife Princes were not sent out haphazardly in every direction without a trace or Purpose

They were sent out by Oduduwa to build durable Kingdoms that were built on Justice and Equity

Are Ogu/Egun yorubas?

Even 70 years ago, Ijebu and Egba do not even identify as Yorubas.

The whole people were called, "Akus" and Yoruba was just part of the Akus.

Again, there is not one single proof of all these origin stories. No group can say with certainty which particular spot they originated from. Most are folklores at best.

Bottom-line, Egun do not speak a language that is close or even related to Yoruba. So, how did their language just change from Yoruba to a completely strange unrelated language that is Fon/Gbe language?

By the way, this documents from Kölle in the 1800 proves what I am saying about the Yoruba ethnicity.

huptin:


They actually also originated from ile ife....from the same stock with the Ketus (Alaketus) the language is actually similar to Yoruba if you are careful enough to pay attention....several Yoruba words though used or pronounced differently....but wherever you see the Aworis you will see the egun...they are very attached to the Aworis and their culture and customs are the same...they all speak and understand Yoruba as the first or second language...they hardly speak their language except among themselves..

The Eguns are so many except it is difficult to spot them since they bear Yoruba names, speak Yoruba and are very attached to the Yoruba...

Few names : David Hundeyin, Segun Arinze (real name : Segun Aina Padonu), Adesola Amosun ( former chief of Army staff), Djimon Hunsu( though from Benin republic), Bisckerteth(founding partner KPMG) etc.

Bruv, Egun is not a Yoruba or Yoruboid language in any single way. Egun is a fon language. with the dominance of Yoruba in the region it is only commonsense that they adopt some names or some filler words from Yoruba or even understand the language. Their native language is not in any single way, Yoruba. They are fon, which belongs to the Gbe language group.

christistruth01:



Where did the Egun of Badagry migrate from to Ouidah and which Tribes were their Ancestors?

Egun or Ogu people didn't migrate to that place, that is their ancestral lands. If anything, they were pushed back during the Oyo empire expansion.
Egun or Ogu people are from the great Dahomey kingdom who defeated the Oyo Empire.

Due to their location, they are traditionally water people who engage in fishing, basket making etc.

Femifasola:
While growing up in osun which is my state of origin, I had thought the south west is entirely yoruba not knowing they're also Egun people in Ogun and lagos state which David Hundeyin belong to. Interesting to know.

You are right though. Yoruba was not the national name of people in the SW. The SW was not homogenous.

They were called Akus. These Aku or Oku comprises the Yoruba and some other smaller tribes.

As for Egun, their language is not close or related to Yoruba. Their language is a Gun language. Related to Fon people from Benin Republic.

Datboredberri:
Oh... Thanks...

Don't mind that pipeline thief, he is chatting absolute rubbish. Igbos are one of the majority ethnic group in Delta state.

noobsaibot2:


Odum = Lion
Agu = Tiger
Nze = Leopard
Ozor = Gorrila
Edi Abali = African Civet


To name a few. I would ask you to go and meet elders from your village to know more.

There is no word for Tiger in ancient Igbo language. Tigers are not even found in Africa to start with.

Agu is Leopard or any of the big cats with markings.