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Re: Oguta Lake: Two Angry Rivers Flow Without Ever Coming Together by crystabel2017(f): 3:01pm On Aug 07, 2017
What is all this haters saying? If u want pictures go there and see for yourself...mtchewww
Re: Oguta Lake: Two Angry Rivers Flow Without Ever Coming Together by Greene66: 3:20pm On Aug 07, 2017
penukz2015:

True talk.. I confirm the story. .been thr several times

Nope. I've never been there. So why tell me, when you can show me.
Re: Oguta Lake: Two Angry Rivers Flow Without Ever Coming Together by Sirheny007(m): 3:26pm On Aug 07, 2017
NtoAkwaIbom:


so now na container dem dey so ? oya y dem 2 no com d mix ?
we hv sumwhr in Aks dat run same way... it's d explanation given by experts that I hv gvin to u.

I am a professor of Fluid dynamics
Your experts were wrong..
Re: Oguta Lake: Two Angry Rivers Flow Without Ever Coming Together by NtoAkwaIbom(m): 3:51pm On Aug 07, 2017
Sirheny007:

I am a professor of Fluid dynamics Your experts were wrong..
no you are wrong https://www.quora.com/Why-dont-the-waters-of-two-rivers-mix-in-a-confluence
Re: Oguta Lake: Two Angry Rivers Flow Without Ever Coming Together by Coldfeets: 4:09pm On Aug 07, 2017
Ewedegubbler:
No good pictures to back this up? is this how you market your business?

Don't mind all these useless naija "journalists".

Always crappy through and through.
Re: Oguta Lake: Two Angry Rivers Flow Without Ever Coming Together by fof1: 4:20pm On Aug 07, 2017
cascarino:
In a corner of Imo, two angry rivers flow without ever coming together
pulse.ng Jul 27, 2017 1:00 PM
One half of the lake is a brownish colour; the other half flows clearly and almost appears green. They have never come together.
Across the world, from Stonehenge to the Great Sphinx of Giza, there are remarkable creations and naturally occurring phenomena that can only be described by the term we use to refer to them; wonders.

They are those structures that both impress and confound us, enough to command a kind of respect that almost feels like reverence and put them in a class of their own; a class that preserves them into classical antiquity.

In many ways, these wonders, especially those made by nature’s hand, are mysteries, more than anything else.

Like the Northern Lights or Tanzania’s 260 square km wide Ngorongoro crater, they are unexplained phenomena that arouse our curiosity, a desire to know more and questions that we try ever so hard to answer with science or religion.

One of such wonders is hiding in Nigeria, in Imo state, within the rainforests of the Niger-Delta.

In Oguta Lake, two angry rivers flow side-by-side without ever coming together.

Ogwuta Lake has an interesting story
From the surface, you can distinguish between the two colours of Uhamiri and Urashi, flowing separately, never coming together (Pulse36)
It has been this way for as long as the people remember.

Oguta Lake is a lean finger lake formed by deposits of clay, sand, and silt that dammed the lower Njaba river.

At 8.05km long and 2.41 km wide, it is the largest natural lake in Imo, and the entire South-East of Nigeria.

Water flows into it mainly from the Njaba river and to a lesser degree, the Uhamiri, Awbana and Urashi rivers.

It is two of these rivers that flow side-by-side, parallel to each other, without ever coming together.

You can see it almost immediately on the surface of the lake.

One flows in a shade of green, the other is brown.

As part of #Pulse36, their trip across Nigeria’s states, Fu’ad Lawal and Chris Chukwuedo visited Oguta Lake to see this sight for themselves and learn more about the stories behind the unique lake.

There, they met Ekene, a boatman, and tour-guide of sorts. He led the way.

According to Ekene, locals believe that the two rivers were male and female, man and wife. The green water is Uhamiri, believed to be the female. The brown water is the male, Urashi.

The stories claim that they had a quarrel, since then, they have flowed separately.

Nowadays, the two are deities; man and wife have become god and goddess.

There are two separate shrines where worshippers invoke and offer supplication to them; one on each side of the river.

The quarrel does not affect places of worship, and worshipers can call on either deity from any of the two shrines.

But those liberties do not extend to every area.

Yenagoa, the one road town
Ekene is a 26-year-old boatman and tour guide. He is also a father to two children. (Pulse36)
Even as it stays hidden in a corner of Imo, Oguta is a major attraction and every year, thousands come to visit, including some who do not understand the efficacy of its legends.

Sometimes, the couple is taken for granted and the inexplicable happens.

While they were on Oguta, ever the inquisitive one, Fu’ad asked Ekene some questions about the lake.

“So they’ve been separated all these years and can’t find a way to make up?”

“Yes,” Ekene said.

“They are petty,” he said jokingly.

“Why are they quarreling?”, he asked again.

Next thing he knew, Ekene was looking right into the water, saying in Igbo how the lake should forgive him because he’s just a boatman trying to make a living, not one who would say things he knows nothing about.

Fu’ad shut up after that.

Ekene told Fu’ad of a time not too long ago when some students came to the lake to see its wonders.

One of the students, after taking in its size, stood up and proclaimed that the lake was small, small enough for him to swim.

He asked the boatman to turn around so he could jump in the lake for a swim. As the guide maneuvered, he fell out of the boat and into the lake. His body was never found.

Stories like these may scare visitors and for good reason. It never hurts to respect local beliefs and traditions.

The people of Oguta and the communities that surround it, know the lake as a source of transport, food, and sustenance. For them, the natural wonder is an integral part of their lives.

Ogwuta Lake has an interesting story
On the banks of Oguta, you will find anything from traders to fishermen to tour guides ready to give you a spin around the lake. (Pulse36)
As Fu’ad put it, for them, it is a means to live.

On any random visit, you are likely to find women on the bank doing laundry or selling anything from souvenirs to dried fish.

On one side, you will likely find a boat man waiting for visitors and fisherman getting their nets ready to be cast into the lake’s depths.

At any point, there are people being ferried to the other side, carrying everything from handbags to farm produce.

Ogwuta Lake is also home to some relics of more recent times, particularly the 70s when the area was one of the many theaters in the Nigerian civil war.

Not far from the lake, there is what appears to be an abandoned 18-hole golf course.

But move closer to the course and you will see it, right there in the bushes; a bunker used by Biafran forces during the civil war.

The mouth of the bunker has been blocked off because kidnappers, in the past, used the bunker to hide their victims from prying eyes.

Ogwuta Lake has an interesting story
Apart from this entrance, the bunker has another that is said to be as wide as a road. It is a fair distance away. (Pulse36)
The lake was also used as a base by the Nigerian Navy during the war. There are reports that remnants of old Biafran war boats can be found in various areas of the lake.

It is things like this that make Oguta lake unique.

Now, as a new generation lives around the lake, the mystery of the two rivers, its history as an important part of the Biafran war and many unanswered questions about its past remain.

They are why Oguta Lake and its immediate environment deserve a facelift if for no reason, to preserve one of the many wonders that Nigeria is so blessed with.

Until that happens, Urashi and Uhamiri continue to flow in the same lake, side by side, without ever coming together.



http://www.pulse.ng/food_drinks_travel/oguta-lake-in-a-corner-of-imo-two-angry-rivers-flow-without-ever-coming-together-id7060869.html






WRITER OR WHATEVER U ARE CALLED,PLS MAINTAIN ONE NAME OGUTA.DO NOT BASTARDIZE D NAME. THE LAKE IS CALLED OGUTA LAKE NOT OGWUTA LAKE. ABD FOR UR GOOD INFORMATION,OGUTA LAKE IS A GENUINELY KNOWN OR ACKNOWLEDGED BLUE LAKE,PLS. UR PIECE IS VERY GOOD FOR D PUBLIC AND TOURISTS BUT PLS TAKE NOTE OF MY HUMBLE CORRECTIONS. because NA MY TOWN AND I KNOW IT WELL. SOME NEW GENERATION CHILDREN MAY BE FUNNY ATIMES,THOUGH.REASON FOR D CORRECTIONS,PLS.
Re: Oguta Lake: Two Angry Rivers Flow Without Ever Coming Together by Katier00(f): 4:21pm On Aug 07, 2017
Rapture4real:

Point of correction, not a woman
Do you have a problem with God being a woman.
Re: Oguta Lake: Two Angry Rivers Flow Without Ever Coming Together by kinzubi20: 4:39pm On Aug 07, 2017
that place is my village. pls the colours are the same nothing like brown and green.
Re: Oguta Lake: Two Angry Rivers Flow Without Ever Coming Together by Abdgafarplenty(m): 4:59pm On Aug 07, 2017
kikake:



Lol. The two rivers are never angry.

Yours truly swam and would have drowned in Urashi when I was a little boy, but was miraculously thrown up by the river only to be rescued by people.

isn't God wonderful
Re: Oguta Lake: Two Angry Rivers Flow Without Ever Coming Together by Nobody: 5:02pm On Aug 07, 2017
Not new. I do see something like this in one of the towns in Awka North Anambra state.
Re: Oguta Lake: Two Angry Rivers Flow Without Ever Coming Together by Funkychic(f): 5:53pm On Aug 07, 2017
I witnessed dat when I visited the lake....#themysteriousworkofGod#
Re: Oguta Lake: Two Angry Rivers Flow Without Ever Coming Together by Nizguy(m): 6:44pm On Aug 07, 2017
NtoAkwaIbom:
back then folks use to say that the thing is as a result of two mami wata quarelling.

but then wen I left myth and read far and wide... I discovered that both water are different in density as a result of Salt concentration...
since both are of different density, speed, heat, volume, they don't mix, they move almost parallel to each other.

seems u re a true son of the soil and gas like me grin
Re: Oguta Lake: Two Angry Rivers Flow Without Ever Coming Together by NtoAkwaIbom(m): 6:48pm On Aug 07, 2017
Nizguy:

seems u re a true son of the soil and gas like me grin
son of the soil and gas.?? my guy ur level high pass my own oo.. I swear.
Re: Oguta Lake: Two Angry Rivers Flow Without Ever Coming Together by NtoAkwaIbom(m): 6:52pm On Aug 07, 2017
euromilion:

And why can't one neutralise the other with time?
I read that it does neutralise Overrrrrrrrrr time.

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Re: Oguta Lake: Two Angry Rivers Flow Without Ever Coming Together by jubrilcastle(m): 7:04pm On Aug 07, 2017
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The Holy Quran mentioned that there is a barrier between two seas that meet and that they do not transgress.  God has said:

 He has set free the two seas meeting together.  There is a barrier between them.  They do not transgress. (Quran, 55:19-20)

But when the Quran speaks about the divider between fresh and salt water, it mentions the existence of “a forbidding partition” with the barrier.  God has said in the Quran:

 He is the one who has set free the two kinds of water, one sweet and palatable, and the other salty and bitter.  And He has made between them a barrier and a forbidding partition.  (Quran, 25:53)
Re: Oguta Lake: Two Angry Rivers Flow Without Ever Coming Together by Nizguy(m): 7:23pm On Aug 07, 2017
NtoAkwaIbom:


son of the soil and gas.??
my guy ur level high pass my own oo.. I swear.
Lol grin
Re: Oguta Lake: Two Angry Rivers Flow Without Ever Coming Together by Nobody: 5:54am On Aug 08, 2017
NtoAkwaIbom:


I read that it does neutralise Overrrrrrrrrr time.

Thanks.
Re: Oguta Lake: Two Angry Rivers Flow Without Ever Coming Together by Shayooluwah(m): 11:44am On Aug 08, 2017
cascarino:

Like the Northern Lights or Tanzania’s 260 square km wide Ngorongoro crater, they are unexplained phenomena that arouse our curiosity, a desire to know more and questions that we try ever so hard to answer with science or religion.





Aurora borealis Aka Northern Lights is not an unexplained phenomenon. Please confirm your facts before stating them. Google can help.
Re: Oguta Lake: Two Angry Rivers Flow Without Ever Coming Together by singhsmarty: 8:22am On Jan 04, 2019

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