What they say is irrelevant, Benin empire ruled Owo, Akure, Lagos etc but they are still yorubas so whatever they had to do with Benin empire is irrelevant and has nothing to do with their ethnicityWhat they say is irrelevant, Benin empire ruled Owo, Akure, Lagos etc but they are still yorubas so whatever they had to do with Benin empire is irrelevant and has nothing to do with their ethnicity...

Gajagojo:


Is Omoku Ogbaland??

Omoku is not Ogbaland

Omoku is widely known as the headquarters of Ogbaland..It is a town in Ogbaland

Ogba dialect is a distinct form of Igbo dialect spoken in Ogbaland.

freshvine:


What's food called in Ogbaland?

Your analogy holds no water,just as two different states in the south could have same pronunciations of certain delicacies or items,so also it is in Rivers state,which Omoku in Ogbaland is not different from....

arcnomec:


Omoku is widely known as the headquarters of Ogbaland..It is a town in Ogbaland

Ogba dialect is a distinct form of Igbo dialect spoken in Ogbaland.

I already know

The question was not directed at you but thanks for contributing

Let that joker answer

How reasonable is it for any self-respecting traditional ruler to leave his throne and go all the way to the home of a morally and ethically challenged politician to celebrate his birthday? Or is it that this so-called traditional ruler have no shame at all?

But his breakaway colleague of former ogba kingdom now egi is called Eze Egi. Why

Gajagojo:

I wonder the psychological discomfort that compelled you to type this

His title is Oba of Ogbaland.
You can go all over Facebook and Wikipedia doctoring stories it changes nothing
He is not Eze and Ogba people are not Iboes

SmartyPants:


Is his name and first language mentioned anywhere in the article? Once it comes to matters of tribe you people get so weirdly aggressive. Sir, there is no prize for claiming the Ogba people o.

In any case, obviously that a people migrated from some place many hundreds of years ago doesnt mean they will still bear exactly the same language and names. If you have any idea of anthropology you ought to know that proximity, not origin is the greatest determinant of language as culture evolves based on environmental stimulants.

Quit being clever-by-half! So at what point will a people who ‘migrated from Benin’, as you and some Ogba say, be assimilated and adopt the ethnicity of the place and people they met and joined up with!? After all, every group of people migrated from somewhere, even groups in your own ethnicity….which i’d go out on a limb and guess to be Yoruba (correct me if i’m wrong)! Onitsha has said they have links to Benin, but nobody is saying they’re a distinct ethnicity today or a outpost of the Benin empire!

The Fulani that migrated from the Futa-Jalon highlands, how come they’re still a distinct ethnicity today and still managed to retain their language and customs!?

If the Ogba got a epiphany after the uncivil war and suddenly realised they’re not Igbo, that’s ok with them! It’s of no loss to the wider Igbo nation!

ebudola53c:
What they say is irrelevant, Benin empire ruled Owo, Akure, Lagos etc but they are still yorubas so whatever they had to do with Benin empire is irrelevant and has nothing to do with their ethnicity What they say is irrelevant, Benin empire ruled Owo, Akure, Lagos etc but they are still yorubas so whatever they had to do with Benin empire is irrelevant and has nothing to do with their ethnicity...

Spot on, and mirrors my argument in my last post!

LooneyLester:



I can see you're on meth

you don go argue with ma.d man lolz

Donake:
But his breakaway colleague of former ogba kingdom now egi is called Eze Egi. Why

Yes despite Egi speaking an Igbo dialect that is not as clear as ogba they still retained there original title. Read somewhere Amaechi was responsible for Making the Eze Egi a first class chief so as to weaken the powers of the Oba of Ogba land.
Today citizens of Egi do not agree to be under the control of the Oba. Just like Esan refuses to acknowledge the supremacy of the Oba of Benin over them.
I guess karma visits everyone in there own kind

Ogene001:

Oba of ogbaland doesn't make them Yoruba. Kings title can be borrowed. Are Benin people yorubas too?

Yes, oba of bini came from Ile Ife in Yoruba land, they are just twisting stories to get recognition from government which they will never get
As at today, their oba is always seated behind ooni of Ife and that's why he doesn't like to attend federal government meeting that involves traditional rulers

Gajagojo:


I did not calll

It so
That term is based on academic research
There is research by a person called kay Williamson
before you were born

It is in books which means it is secret and hidden from ignorant and illiterate folk like you who cannot read anything bigger than a phone screen

Her Igbo language dictionary is well known

Man just stop
The way you’re going all over the place referring to everyone as ignorant ,land illiterate on a matter which you’re not an authority in . Man just stop that shii .

It’s ass and completely repugnant .

highness25:
When I was dfending my project in Uni, I asked my supervisor and the external supervisor this very question concerning the arguments below, having come from Ogbaland. I was like, Sir, "Our people claim we're from Benin, but we don't speak like them, our culture differs from theirs but they claim we're from there, we speak more like the Igbos why"? The external supervisor just asked me to bow and leave. Even my supervisor refered me to someone I will never find just to get the answer to my question. We should be truthful to ourselves. The Ogba people from Rivers State have something in common with the Igbos.

The answer to your question is here
https://www.nairaland.com/6268289/meet-longest-reigning-monarch-rivers


When you read it, you will discover that his father and his great grand father's that ruled before him used the title of 'Eze'
Until when he ascend the throne in 1970, at the end of the civil war. he decide to abandoned eze and use oba. And also 'cooked'up a story on how ogba migrated from Benin.

All those kids in nairaland that does not read history, should keep their mouth shut rather than saying what they don't know.