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If you’re building a house in Benin, please NEVER FORGET to keep space for trees. Plant trees. One of the beauty of our dear city is the greenery look from above, and these trees are special guards against our naturally attributed conventional rainfalls - heavy rains accompanied by strong winds. The trees also allow us to continue breathing fresh air across the city, despite the growing rate of urbanization, unlike what we experience in some “mega cities” today where there aren’t enough trees to filter polluted air. These house trees can be edible fruits, if you may. Our forefathers knew the nature of our lands and barely would you not find at least one tree in homes as recently as the 80s and 90s. Not only natural trees but those deliberately planted - from mangoes to oranges to pears, etc. They could so serve as source of naturally grown fruits that you spend a lot of money buying at the markets. Why spend too much, when you only need to throw a seed in the ground and watch it make you fruits? There is no beauty in having strictly concrete houses and floors in your compound. Create space to plant trees today, and control their branching patterns. You build roads, plant trees. You create new infrastructure, mind how you bring down trees or replace where possible. Build anything at all, plant trees. Take out one timber in the forest, plant two. Another part is rearing livestock at home. You shouldn’t be pressured every Iguẹ season to buy chickens and goats at extortions rate. Rear the ones you can, connect with nature like our ancestors did, and reduce spending. Everywhere in your house should not be concrete. Create an area where your feet can touch the earth. Ọba Gha Tọ Kpẹre, Isẹẹ!🐆

You like it or sleep with it, the NDC WILL NOT have any stake at the Executive level of the Ẹdo State Government. Also, like it or become sleepless with it, non, other than Ẹdo people, shall win any political seat in Ẹdo South at state and federal levels. And non of them will come from the NDC party either. It’s okay if other regions of Ẹdo state wishes to adopt or accept what/who they want. Ẹdo South in its entirety is Benin (a.k.a Ẹdo) and Benin ONLY. You’re either Ẹdo in Benin (Ẹdo South) or you’re a settler/guest/foreigner. If you like, go and package all the local government of origin certificates. Best you go secure yourself in your state, so you don’t lose everything with the hopes of infiltrating Benin someday. IT WILL NOT WORK. Ẹdo people know how to identify Ẹdo people, no matter how long you’ve stayed with us and what relationships or documents you hold. Sell what you sell on social media, people are doing what’s needed to be done (to define power) in reality. I’m only ashamed of those who claim to be Ẹdo (yet dumb and daft) and laugh at those who pretend to be Ẹdo.🦇

In actual fact, in the entire country, the Sultan has ONLY organized the Durbar for Benin Kingdom and did it twice, nowhere else.🦇

Today, we begin Event Number 11 of the 10th Coronation Anniversary of Evbavba.🐆 It is Golf Tournament at the Benin Golf Club that will stretch from today to October 31, 2026. While the tournament is ongoing, other sacred Ugie and cultural activities will be taking place. By the end of the Golf Tournament, there will also be series of unannounced events that the public may learn about in short notices before the next Coronation Anniversary Event day on November 19, 2026. Ọba Gha Tọ Kpẹre, Isẹẹ!🐆🐆

The bride’s name is Davita Ainọghẹna Lamai, a true Ẹtsakọ blood whose family are glued to their Ẹdo culture, despite their international status. We value the Lamai family for the representation of who they are and the influence they’ve had in promoting the Ẹdo culture from the UK to the U.S. Zlatan, a proud Ekiti man, born and raised in Lagos, also represented the Ẹdo culture, along with his proud Ẹdo-blooded friend, Davido. Happy married life to the newly wedded couple.🦇🦇🦇