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The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has challenged academia in Nigerian universities to properly document the history of Yoruba race rather than relying on jaundiced history.

He said proper documentation will not only foster unity but reveal the ties across ethnic groups, saying evidence showed that the Igbo race migrated from Ile-Ife.

The monarch put the challenge before the academia while addressing journalists ahead of an International Conference on ‘Ile-Ife and Yoruba Civilization: Nexus between Tradition and Modernity’, at his palace in Ife.

He said Yoruba race has about a quarter of its history documented, hence, the reason he is collaborating with select universities on the need to properly document the history of the race with a view to enhancing cohesion among the people globally.

“We have good evidence to believe that Igbo race has its roots here in Ile-Ife. There is Ile-Igbo here in the palace which was not a recent creation but has been existing here for decades. For this and many other reasons, I believe we need proper documentation of our history,” the Ooni said.

“We are not involving government in this project so that we can just place all the facts together, we must write our history properly and put things the right for the coming generations”.

Also speaking, a renown professor of history, Siyan Oyeweso, said the conference aims at bringing scholars together to discuss how to properly document the history of Yoruba, with focus on Ile-Ife as the source of the race.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/10/igbo-migrated-from-ife-ooni/amp/

Oga, stop smoking naira marley hemp, try Seun kuti own, he's still buying from his father's supplier.

Yoruba started from Igboland, some Igbos who had crossed the Niger migrated to Ile Ife started the yoruba race.

Okay

🤣🤣🤣 I don't think so bro


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It seems Atiku is on his way

Ooni is just a boy punching above his weight. No evidence Yorubas predate Bini people not to talk of Igbos who predate every single ethnic group in Nigeria with evidence.

According to archaeological evidence dating as far back as 3000 BC in Nsukka and Afikpo, the Awka- Orlu area by far constitute the oldest continuing settlement in Nigeria from where Igbos spread.

Infact, evidences abound to suggest that Igbos founded Ile ife before moving further south.

Linguistic evidence also suggest that Yoruba language developed from Igbo in the distant past.

What the Ooni has done is as bad as King Charles claiming that Germans migrated from England, instead of accepting the well established fact that the Anglo-Saxons were Germanic tribes that migrated from Northern to Britain.

Its possible Igbo and Yoruba has same origin in antiquity and that place might be Ile Ife.

Ile Ife in Igbo means TONGUE OF LIGHT

Can a man be older than his ancestors ? The way Yoruba people try to rewrite history is astonishing

These are a people that did not have any history before an exiled Bini prince known as Izoduwa , came over to Ile-ife to rule the savage homo erectus he found there . They called him Oduduwa and that’s how yoruba history started less than 1000 years ago

Now Ooni is trying to raise hands at an ethnic group that has existed before the Roman Empire . That’s right. Igbo has been around since over 3000 BC. We’re currently in 2023 AD. So thats about 5000 years till date.

Igbo civilization is older than the Nok civilization
A man can never be older than his ancestors.

Hehehehehehehehehe Ooni of Ife want those people to hit their heads on the way, those that are bereved and grieving Peter girigory Obi lost woefully

No wonder Obasanjo does not respect them

Useless Ooni, you call yourself an Oba but talk like a slave each time you open your mouth. What a new level of stupidity! You look stupid and sound stupid too. You are probably drunk again, since they say you swim in liquor. Oloshi oba ajarabuka, awon alale and orisa ma a se e bi ata se nsoju for helping igbos weaken and drag Yoruba during this time when Yoruba should be all armed defending their land against igbos. So what's next? Steal thousands of hectares of land from Yoruba and sell to igbos?

Whiteangel1234:
Ile Ife in Igbo means TONGUE OF LIGHT

Or "LOOKING AT SOMETHING"

Whiteangel1234:
Ile Ife in Igbo means TONGUE OF LIGHT

"Ile ife " means to look at something in ìgbo language

wowcatty:
Useless Ooni, you call yourself an Oba but talk like a slave each time you open your mouth. What a new level of stupidity! You look stupid and sound stupid too. You are probably drunk again, since they say you swim in liquor. Oloshi oba ajarabuka, awon alale and orisa ma a se e bi ata se nsoju for helping igbos weaken and drag Yoruba during this time when Yoruba should be all armed defending their land against igbos. So what's next? Steal thousands of hectares of land from Yoruba and sell to igbos?

🤡🤡🤡

when will he face his kingship

A king that couldn't speak out when MC Oluomo was asking people not to vote

A "paramount" ruler for that matter

O si gini abi na how them dey take talk am

APC take style make kings lose respect shall

They don't just talk before their talks dey carry weight but not again. Smh

Dey play

While many ethnic groups in Nigeria relate to or claim Oduduwa (Adimu) in Ile-Ife, other ethnic groups outside Nigeria also claim their origin from Ife.

Where those trying to snatch victory from the head in Nigeria missed wide, is that there were 200 to 400 ORISA BEFORE ODUDUWA that Oduduwa met, one of who he claimed as his Ancestor.

So which one of them are you going to snatch for relevance again?

IDENNAA:
Its possible Igbo and Yoruba has same origin in antiquity and that place might be Ile Ife.

Both groups take their origin from north east Africa.........in the region of Kemet and Isreal! Igbos being the first to settle southern Nigeria!

Let Nnamdi Kalu or Ohaneza Ndigbo hear you...!!!!

Anything to divert attention from teanubu certificate forgery Case.🤡🤡🤡

That's the game.

Yorubas migrated from Abakaliki.

Truths9ja:


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/10/igbo-migrated-from-ife-ooni/amp/

Even the Britons migrated from Ile Ife. Nothing we nor go hear

first it was benin, now igbo be like puccy juice don dey affect this king. Igbos that have ancient artificats and even pyramids.