Wizprodigy:
Carry your fake history with no source to back it out of here. Your divide and conquer is dead on arrival. Which igbos come from ile ife? God forbid it. You yorubas will not let igbos rest. You wish you are igbos but bash the igbos openly. This is the highest length of hypocrisy. For your information you cannot tell igbos their history "cultural grabbers". Igbos are from Eri thats why some of their communities have the suffix "eri" in it so get that in your thick skull CULTURAL GRABBERS.

toyinakomolafe:
I expect you to provide the right history of onitsha, intead of just ranting here. Onitsha is never igbo and will never be. The people of onitsha know where 5hey belong.

toyinakomolafe:
I expect you to provide the right history of onitsha, intead of just ranting here. Onitsha is never igbo and will never be. The people of onitsha know where 5hey belong.

Wizprodigy:
Oyah come onitsha come talk wetin you talk. Land grabbers. My people don show una pepper una want come try onitsha even tonyebarcanista, NgeneUkwenu, HopeAtHand, omenka no go fit save you. Please do yourself a favour and close your useless thread.

TonyeBarcanista:

Wetin concern me with Onitsha?

toyinakomolafe:
The history of Onitsha is said to have begun with the migration of its people from the Benin Empire towards the end of early part of the 16th century as a result of a wave of unrest, war and displacement unleashed by the Islamic movement from North Africa. One version said that it was during their passage through the outskirts of Ile-Ife that they acquired the name Onitsha, a corruption of Orisha Udo.

Another version has it that their migration to East of the Niger has to do with a misunderstanding that arose between the Onitsha family and Oba Esigie (1404-1550), following the slighting of their shrine, Udo, by the Oba. According to the legend, it was customary for newly installed Oba to pay homage to all important shrines in the Benin Kingdom by slaughtering a cow in the shrines enclave. But Oba Esigie is said to have refused to do this at the Onitsha people’s Udo-Shrine, hence the quarrel and the migration down towards the River Niger area and across it.

Ukpabi disagrees with the Oba Esigie angle and posits that the misunderstanding and migration was rather as a result of “a fight over a farmland. These other people fighting over farmland with the others and interest started coming. And because of interest, bitterness ensued and the two brothers decided to go their separate ways. One said, no, ‘I will now leave you, I’m going to Ado N’Idu.’ ‘Ado’ means border. ‘I will leave you and go and settle down on my own. I’m no longer going to be with you.’ That’s the issue. So, the two brothers had to separate.”

Onitsha, capital of Igbo Kingdom
The immigrant settlers from Benin were said to have been helped by the Igalas to cross the river to settle in Onitsha in the 16th century, which was originally called Ado N’Idu. It soon became the capital of an Igbo Kingdom. In 1857, British traders in palm oil established a permanent station in the city, and Christian missionaries soon followed, headed by Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther (a Yoruba) and Reverend John Taylor (an Igbo).
In 1884, Onitsha became part of a British protectorate. The British colonial government and Christian missionaries penetrated most of Igboland to set up their administration, schools and churches through the river port at Onitsha.

Historically, Onitsha became an important trading port for the Royal Niger Company in the mid-1850s. Following the abolition of slavery, trade in palm kernels and other cash crops boomed around this river port. Immigrants from the hinterland were drawn to the emerging boom town as did the British traders who settled there and coordinated the palm oil and cash crops trade.

Colonial relics and post-colonial architectural wonders
Areas bordering Old Market, New Market Roads, Upper Market Road, Modebe Avenue, Iboku, Old Cemetry, Old Hospital, Mbanugo St, Emejulu St, Obi Street, Benjamin St, Court, Enugu Road, Awka Road, Egerton, etc are known as Whitemen Quarters, so-called because the white colonial masters who first settled in Onitsha, used to live here. And, even till today, the white colonial style of buildings such as you see at Yaba, Ebute Metta and Central Lagos, can be seen existing, side by side, with the new, on these streets.

But much more modern exotic architectural wonders exist in places like the G.R.A and “33” Housing Estates. Sunday Sun understands that SCityGate Real Estate Ltd, located on Mike Ilodibe Crescent and which specializes in building ultra-modern architectural structures, makes such building wonders happen for interested clients. In 1965, a bridge was built across the Niger River to replace the ferry crossing. Today, plans are said to be underway to build the Second Niger Bridge.
Onitsha is made up of three groups of people, Ukpabi reveals. The first is the Edos, the Ezechima’s team. The second, Igalas. They were the people that were fishing at the Niger by the time Onitsha people came to settle there. The third, the Igbos who are very close to the Niger and had integrated with them. These three groups make up what is today known as Onitsha.”

“Their tradition is blended with the three peoples, first the Edos, second the Igalas”, Ukpabi says. “In fact, in the past, there were some villages in Onitsha that spoke Igala. And they are made up of two villages. They are still in Onitsha. Onitsha is made up of nine villages. Two out of the nine are purely the Igalas: Ogbodu and Obigboru. So, that is how Onitsha people came to be.

“The ones with Edo influence are the monarchy itself. That’s the Eze Chima, that is the ruling villages. They are four in number. Umueze Aroli, Okebunabu (which include Umudei and Ogbabu) and Olosi. The present Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Achebe is the 21st Obi of Onitsha.”
Inter-marriages, says Ukpabi, have long existed between the Igalas and the Edos. “The people our ancestors met fishing at the bank of the River Niger were purely Igallas. They were following the Niger all the way from their place to Onitsha. So, they don’t normally come to the upper land. They remain there. They have their buildings in their canoes. So, we attracted them into coming to the hinterland. We started intermarrying with them. One of the outstanding monarchs of Onitsha, Obi Eze Aroli, the mother, Enubi, is from Igala.”

NakedEve:
TonyeBarcanista

TonyeBarcanista:

NakedEve

toyinakomolafe:
I expect you to provide the right history of onitsha, intead of just ranting here. Onitsha is never igbo and will never be. The people of onitsha know where 5hey belong.

NakedEve:



Should I come n visit you in the dream tonight my baby?
I will come dressed sexily I promise.
Or wud u prefer me to come into ur dream dressed naked?

soonest:
There's just something about the igbos other are envious about. Onitsha and ile ife, lwkmd.

toyinakomolafe:
delusion of the highest order (grandiose delusion) find out the historical link between onitsha and benin. If you check the name of the writer, does it sound Yoruba? CHIKA ABANOBI

toyinakomolafe:
delusion of the highest order (grandiose delusion) find out the historical link between onitsha and benin. If you check the name of the writer, does it sound Yoruba? CHIKA ABANOBI

soonest:

Shey visual hallucination is worry you. Did i doubt the link between onitsha and benin? Did i say the is yoruba? Dig up history about your origin or don't you have one? I already know mine.

toyinakomolafe:
I expect you to provide the right history of onitsha, intead of just ranting here. Onitsha is never igbo and will never be. The people of onitsha know where 5hey belong.

lawani:
There was a highly advanced civilization on Earth over ten thousand years ago that could do things we only know as science fiction today. Their various languages, no one alive will be able to understand. The Yoruba call that civilization Ife Oodaye. It was sunk over 10000 years ago and the remnants or survivors established Ife Ooyelagbo, they were far more advanced than us today. Fe means expansion and Ile Fe or Ile Ife means the point on Earth where land rose and started to expand. The first place where human civilization started on Earth. That is the tradition kept in Ile Ife by the Yoruba in songs, stories, national anthem, orikis and etc. It was not made up but passed down from the very beginning. So the Ife tradition started as soon as the Earth became habitable for humans and that may be any number of years ago but the Ife Ooyelagbo tradition started over ten thousand years ago, five thousand years before Igbos and Yorubas became different people. Many things have happened since that time. Kemitic Egypt was established and after several ups and downs, it collapsed and millions of them relocated to West Africa to Ife Ooyelagbo where the languages would have been proto Akokoid surrounded by proto Nupoid, proto Igboid, Edoid, Fon, Ewe and etc in forms that may be difficult to understand today. The language of the Egyptians was adopted over a large swathe of territory encompassing Yoruba, Igala and Itsekiri not farther back than 3000 years ago. Today it is varied into dialects. The spirituality of the indigenous population was carried on but the language changed. A knowledge of the old language is kept among the Awo. A celebration during the Olojo festival in Ife is the Itapa festival which I believe is an indication of the part proto Nupoid past of the Yoruba. The Nupe are called Tapa by the Yoruba while their land is called Enpe and their King called Olu Enpe or Elempe. The Nri Igbos to me, by their language are descended from Ife people who refused to live in huge cities and be under Kings. They were outlaws, they went to live in the forest, groups of them, even before the Egyptians arrived, maybe two thousand years prior to that, living in small villages of 1 to 2 thousand at most. People left them alone with their system, so far they cooperated and did not cause trouble.

The Igalas have Ife on Igala land which is definitely the site of an ancient Ife Olofin, it is said that the Onu of that Ife does not bow to the Attah which indicates seniority prior to the rise of the Attah. This reinforces the Yoruba position and our stories. The Onu of that Ife might belong to a more ancient royal family than the Oduduwa.

Around 1500 years ago, the oracle stopped the selection of a new Olofin Aye in Ile Ife or Ode Ife upon the demise of the old, saying explicitly that a stranger will arrive and that stranger must be made Oba. At around thesame time, the Meccan monarchy claiming descent from Nimrod or Lamurudu was deposed by the Muslims under Prophet Mohammed and the royals fled, probably guided by the oracle as well, they were guided across the Sahara to Ile Ife where their head was crowned Oba and renamed Oduduwa.

Now to the Onitsha question. Onitsha today is Igbo just like Arochukwu and the rest of Anioma but the place was not established by Nri Igbo people. They acquired the culture and tradition through association, trading and intermarriage. A place established by Nri Igbo will have the Osu caste system. Arochukwu, Onitsha were not established by Nri Igbo but by Ife people via Benin and Ife language was their language in the past. There are also Anioma towns established by Igala. Those places were not established by the Igbo Enweghi Eze group, neither was Arochukwu but today, all are Igbos. This is what should be accepted by all.


There is no other group in the world with passed down history, songs and anthems insisting that they are the first human civilization apart from the Ife people. So I believe that all humans are really Ife people.


This of course is my own analysis or thesis based on passed down histories and research works of linguists and etc.

oboy3:
anytime i read this guy's post,i normally bursts out into laughter
niggga believes everybody on earth originates from ife


no be only ife na ifunanya

bigfrancis21:


Onitsha Igbos

bigfrancis21:


Please don't go about spreading false history. There is nothing close, not even slightly related to Ile Ife or Yoruba about the Onitsha people. The Igbo civilization is a very old civilization, with the Nri civilization coming into fore at about the 9th century AD, 300 years before the Ile Ife civilization came into existence in the 12th century. Please know your place in the timeline of events.

Maybe I should start with how Abeokuta (properly ebe okwute in Igbo language) was originally Igboland the Egba (corruption of Igbo) were originally Onitsha Igbos before driven eastwards?