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Ewes in Nigeria are bonafide Yoruba citizens, they originated from Ile Ife - Ayo Ladigbolu

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  • DON’T TRUST POLITICIANS BUT FOLLOW CHRIST 1 month ago

    For how long will you trust politicians? As I always say, both NPP, NDC are evil. They are bent on destroying the nation. Please, invest your life in the Kingdom of God before it is tooo late. Politicians won't help you at al ...
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  • YORUBA AND AYIGBE THE CAT IS OUT OF THE BAG 1 month ago

    At long last, we now have a confirmation of what we’ve been saying all along. Behind every treasonable act against Ghana is an Ayigbeman . At long last, their unpatriotic nature has been exposed. They don’t have Ghana at ...
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  • Animal Kingdom where criminals fester 1 month ago

    The sad thing in life is a man who's ignorant about his history. So you ugly Ashanti rats don't know you're from Mali? Go back and trace your useless roots and come back moron.

  • EWE PEOPLE MIGRATED FROM THE CONGO BASIN 1 month ago

    They first settled with the TIV People of Nigeria before they were sacked. The Yoruba who took them in couldn’t tolerate them so another sack. Everywhere they went, they were not welcome. Dahomey, Togo also sacked them unt ...
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  • TSOOOO 1 month ago

    Point of correction. We were not sacked. The thing with our Ewe ancestors is that, if they don't find a place they like, they pack up and leave. They were in search of a land that would be only theirs. Ewes were an amazingly ...
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  • Kweku Tsin 1 month ago

    The Ewes are more Ghanaian than Asante. They fought for Independence in their motherland, Asantes did not.

  • Ananse System 1 month ago

    What makes you think THE BAG is an Ashanti?

  • Boy Kofi 1 month ago

    What an idiotic thing to say when history has all the wars Ashanti fought to sack the Europeans are on record. Mention one war between Ayigbe and the colonists.

  • Cuss 1 month ago

    The same way a dickhead is more intelligent than your ancestor who tried to do illegal connection but got electrocuted.

  • ST GHFUO: GH LEADERS ARE NOT ENLIGHTENED 1 month ago

    im not suprised. most ewes and nigerians I know love to even marry white or asian women so for this alone there must be some relation between nigerians particularly yorubas and ewes. I just dont understand.....the ewes and ni ...
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  • Bobby Stones 1 month ago

    Wow I'm impressed, what an awesome history of the Ewe people and with such a rich heritage.

  • TERRY 1 month ago

    History is replete with undeniable facts as nobody can deny the records of ancestral facts. An Ewe Nigerian Scholar Professor Adadevor was the first indeginous Nigerian to become the Vice Chancellor of University of Lagos and ...
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  • The Spear 1 month ago

    Ewe is spoken in Nigeria?

  • Laye 1 month ago

    Yes Ewe is spoken all along the coastal areas of Badagry through the coastal areas lagos Island in Lagos state. They are from Nigeria

  • The Spear 1 month ago

    Really? Thanks for this information, I would never have guessed.

    I'm also interested in the Akan groups in Ivory Coast, about whether the languages (dialects) they speak have anything in common with Akan languages in Ghan ...
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  • Wise Kingdom 1 month ago

    @Terry so you can't make your point without mentioning Ashanti. So called West Togoland organization or movement openly labels Ewes as togolese. Blame so called West Togoland movement for openly calling Ewes Togolese but not ...
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  • Selfmade MONEY 1 month ago

    He’s very ignorant and u shouldn’t even waste time on that ignorant fool

    He erroneously thought that MALI EMPIRE and modern Mali are the same lmaooo

    This fool thinks that Ghana and Ghana empire are the same!!

    M ...
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  • Wise Kingdom 1 month ago

    @Selfmade Money thank you bro

  • Me 1 month ago

    If you care to know, the majority of the peoples of Akan ethnicity who came together to form what today is known as 'Asante' were actually escaped slaves from the Mali cum Ghana empire region, who were yet again enslaved by t ...
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  • Cuss 1 month ago

    Slaves constituted about 20 % of Ashanti group so your statement is off the mark

  • Kweku Tsin 1 month ago

    What the fvck is he supposed to do when stupid Asantes keep calling them names? Belly up or fight back?

  • Ganz 1 month ago

    Prove those comments are from asantes..you have down syndrome

  • Billy Ben 1 month ago

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    MRCS LRCP(1959) MB BS Lond(1959) DTM&H(1961) MRCP(1961) MD Birm(1966) MRCPath(1968) FRCP(1975) FWACP(1976) FRCPath
    Babatunde Kwaku Adadevoh was a leading metabol ...
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  • REPUBLIC OF WESTERN TOGOLAND NOW BIG! 1 month ago

    From Axim to Imo State, Western Togoland getting bigger and better!

  • Darius99 1 month ago

    All along, I thought Ga was Ghanba’s closest language to Yoruba until I met a Nigerian who had lectured at Ho Technical University who assured me that it was Ewe that was closer to Yoruba. It kinda makes sense due to the ge ...
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  • Kofi Mensah 1 month ago

    A lot of Beninoise Ewes are Yoruba.

    I met one called Bashiru Moustafa from Porto Novo - Benin, whose mother tongue is Youruba, though he had vever been to Nigeria before.

  • plantain chips 1 month ago

    Ga, Ewe, Yoruba are all the same people from the same lineage.

  • Black diamond 1 month ago

    Yes, you are absolutely correct. Ga,Ewes and Yoruba are from the same lineage. As a Ga-Dangbe , I am very proud of my Yoruba
    ancestry and heritage.
    And, I love the fact that Ewes are my kin and Kith. The Yorubas and thos ...
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  • Togbe Agorkorli 1 month ago

    They from Benin.

  • Nungua Warehouse 1 month ago

    Did short black ugly Ashanti bastards emerge from a hole in Mali?

  • Busanga Volvo 1 month ago

    You have a point. Look at Otumfours image. Especially his mouth

  • Brian 1 month ago

    Looks like your grandmas labia .She used it to cool herself

  • Brian 1 month ago

    Good it wasnt the hole between yor moda leggs

  • Steve Kay London 1 month ago

    No, they are your slave masters.

  • Wise Kingdom 1 month ago

    @Nungua Warehouse: It is obvious to anyone that you are aware that Ashanti tribe is superior and you wish you were born as an Ashanti. It is not Ashantis fault that you were born in inferior tribe. Inferior people always use ...
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  • Game Changer 1 month ago

    @Wise Kingdom
    You're simply delusional. You ugly short ashantis built your so called kingdom on the powers of a fetish priest called okomfo anokye. Juju has long been your hallmark so shush the pretense and silly hypocrisy. ...
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  • Sam Fante warrior. 1 month ago

    Stop the nonsense Ewes or Ga people are not Nigerians they're all Ghanaians. Remember this we are all comes from somewhere. Can you tell me where Yorubas also came from ? Same as we Fantes from Teachiman and we don't call our ...
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  • Godigbe 1 month ago

    Tribes coming from somewhere is one thing Nigerians don't know. No account of where people originated from.

  • Dan 1 month ago

    It's a big lie. Nothing significant in common in terms of tradition. Original Yorubas have traditional marks and traditional dresses similar to the North of Nigeria, Ghana or Benin.

  • Agbelimor Paris 1 month ago

    Thank you Dan.Another criminal writing history with a pencil.Ewes are unique group of people and were never a citizen of Yoruba people either by migration or adoption.You can find them in Ghana,Togo and Benin and their behavi ...
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  • Joko 1 month ago

    You are a goat @Agbelimor, so what you haven't seen doesn't exist ??. Go to Badagry in lagos state and see them so that you stop displaying your ignorance. They even have a Paramount chief in Badagry you idiot!!! Some of them ...
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  • Kofi Mensah 1 month ago

    Those Ewes in Badagry are from Benin..Remember that we ewes extend from Benin, Togo and in Ghana.

  • okofo 1 month ago

    I admire your point because I subscribe to it completely. As I went through the article I gathered that the narrator sought to SUBORDINATE Ewe to Yoruba. I think Ewes are a COMPLETE and INDEPENDENT group of its own. I think t ...
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  • Victor 1 month ago

    HiThe Yoruba language is rather developed from an old Ewe language. It is true that the Ewes are the Jews of Africa and the Ewe language, phonetically, is the Latin of Africa. Nigeria is the home of Ewes. But for the Islamic ...
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  • Bobby Stones 1 month ago

    No, Ewe are not the Jews of Africa, they probably sajourn through Isreal, maybe one of the mixed multitude mentioned in the Bible. I believe that where they likely picked their culture of circumcision and moral discipline fr ...
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  • Bobby Stones 1 month ago

    Point of correction, I don't think so.

  • Rommel 1 month ago

    Will you cut the crap? Ewes migrated from or through israel??? Black man deceiving himself. Is your dna related to Arabians or even nubians in eretria and ethiopia?? What is this nonesense about israel? Ewes are black african ...
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  • seth 1 month ago

    Ewes have no need to be Jews or Yorubas. Being Ewe IS, and should be enough! No other validation of any kind is needed.

  • Sukuuuura flamingo road sukuuukuura 1 month ago

    You see they are insulting Asante? If you comment and metion ewe they feel crossed and tell you to comment on issue and don't mention ewe name in your comment.

  • Kwake 1 month ago

    Great to find your roots. We all migrated from somewhere on this part of the earth.

  • Kofi Zion Kofi 1 month ago

    No wonder, the Ewes we know in Ghana are very much associated with the wicked ways of of their kinsmen in llle-Effe in Nigeria…

  • Afloa Peter 1 month ago

    Liar. They are kind people. Do you think it is every tribe that cuts head when any of their Ashawo Queenmothers die?Avoid Kumasi because if any foolish Ashawo Queenmothers die from that enclave, they will keep quiet so that ...
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  • Vellem 1 month ago

    What makes you think poster is Asante?You are just another inbred idiot with cracked heels

  • Agbelimor Paris 1 month ago

    Ewes migrated from Nigeria and they had never submitted themselves to any local ruler or king and they also never sweared any allegiance to any local ruler or king.From Nigeria some stayed in Present day Benin, Togo and Ghana ...
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  • Gozzo 1 month ago

    EWE'S ARE VERY POPULAR AND RECOGNIZE IN WEST - AFRIKA THAN ANY OTHER LANGUAGE WOW... THAT'S GREAT.

  • GPS 1 month ago

    The same old crap. Where you born is where you come from. Ga, Ewe are all Ghanaians NOT Nigerians. Jamaicans are Jamaicans though their ancestors came from Africa

  • Bitter truth#1 1 month ago

    Stupidity and totally nonesense..totally fabricated lies..ewes are not from the zoo republic of Nigeria..this is a sign of a failed country..when a country like Nigeria aka the zoo republic fails, they try so hard to bring so ...
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  • EFO KOKU 1 month ago

    ILE IFE PART 2
    Waterproof come for your stone. In one of his shows, the comedian said that if a Ga grows very old, he becomes an Ewe. We laughed and thought it was one of his usual jokes. Not knowing he was saying the truth. ...
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  • The lone crusader 1 month ago

    AND SO WHAT?

  • Nii Okine 1 month ago

    There is element of truth in this. I’m very much aware that we have ewes too in Badagry, Lagos State. That’s their home. The same, we have ewes in Porto Novo, Agbome and Weidda in Benin. We also have them Togo and Ghana. ...
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  • Nii Okine 1 month ago

    *** There is element of truth in this. I’m very much aware that we have ewes too in Badagry, Lagos State. That’s their home. The same, we have ewes in Porto Novo, Agbome , Cotonou and Ouidah in Benin. We also have them he ...
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  • Biafra 1 month ago

    The olden days wars should start again. Without whiteman interference

  • Npp and Stupidity 1 month ago

    Wow, I that, it's a great info to me.

  • Ende 1 month ago

    The Greatest Migration of the Blackman. At a point, the Blackman lost his defensive powers to the Arabs, so the arabs grabbed their lands, and chased them out. Was the beginning out Blackman Exedos in Africa.

  • An African can never be a foreigner in Africa. Remember these words 1 month ago

    Yes this is true. The ewes originated from Ile ife. So it is for alot of tribe. I told many people that there is a large ewe community in badagry Lagos and they are millions of them. And there are alot of Ghanaians who are ve ...
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  • Victor 1 month ago

    The Federal Republic of Nigeria should grant citizenship to all her citizens in diaspora, including the Ewes in Benin, Togo, and Western Togoland. What a giant country that Nigeria would be !!!

  • Blocker 1 month ago

    I can relate and agreed to this story....we have town in lagos like .....Ketu,Ajah and Ekpe just after lagos Island...lekki etc...same names in Volta by extention sign name of some ewes

  • Victor 1 month ago

    I once lived at Abeokuta, precisely at Egba Obafemi, and one programme on Ogun Radio that I enjoyed so much is "listeners' choice in Ewe-- "habiabiawo". This habiabiawo is perfectly the same Ewe vocabulary spoken in Wester ...
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  • Grandpa 1 month ago

    Hmmm I now know the reason why davido was able to sing well in ewe on the R2bes song

  • Papa 1 month ago

    Our so call colonial masters has not done well with boundaries of many Africa nations. The Ewes tribes are in Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria. This group of people can form a nation with common destiny. But see the way our mas ...
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