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Re: Igbo Union In Finland Celebrates New Yam Festival In Grand Style by cyndy1000(f): 4:33pm On Aug 27, 2018
Lilimax:
New yam Festival! aka Onwa asato in NRI kingdom
Reminding me of my late granny Agumma! cry

Those roasted yam and red oil spiced with utazi leaf is always dope and good combo smiley



See my sis o. Is it the Nri agukwu Nri or Enugu ukwu
Re: Igbo Union In Finland Celebrates New Yam Festival In Grand Style by Nobody: 4:35pm On Aug 27, 2018
Mbaise people are everywhere cheesy.
Re: Igbo Union In Finland Celebrates New Yam Festival In Grand Style by Nobody: 4:36pm On Aug 27, 2018
Oceannaagent:
Ndi igbo eji eme onu, udo diri una. Omenala igbo ga adigide.
O by eziokwu ka ina ekwu.

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Re: Igbo Union In Finland Celebrates New Yam Festival In Grand Style by thatigboman: 4:39pm On Aug 27, 2018
blackaxe78:



Kill shocked

Australia has not even influenced you
he said austria, not australia
Re: Igbo Union In Finland Celebrates New Yam Festival In Grand Style by blackaxe78: 4:40pm On Aug 27, 2018
thatigboman:
he said austria, not australia

Kill is kill

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Re: Igbo Union In Finland Celebrates New Yam Festival In Grand Style by lagdmark(m): 4:41pm On Aug 27, 2018
Waakanda:
Enjoy yourselves ... but bia, no fresh yam for "obodo oyinbo" ni? grin
Obodo Oyinbo wey table dry no drinks.
Re: Igbo Union In Finland Celebrates New Yam Festival In Grand Style by Nobody: 4:41pm On Aug 27, 2018
bigfat05:
Nigerians everywhere in the world
wrong fact because we Yorubas dnt travel.

Igbos are everywhere

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Re: Igbo Union In Finland Celebrates New Yam Festival In Grand Style by BIGDADDY000(m): 4:41pm On Aug 27, 2018
hmmm, Oomo i be confirmed yoruba guy o, but i like culture die.
never ashamed of whom u are, even in a strange land.
KUDOS!

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Re: Igbo Union In Finland Celebrates New Yam Festival In Grand Style by nnokwa042(m): 4:44pm On Aug 27, 2018
Kennydoc:


Are you from Nnokwa?
yes
Re: Igbo Union In Finland Celebrates New Yam Festival In Grand Style by namio10: 4:44pm On Aug 27, 2018
United4greatnes:

The Igbo Union in Finland, the umbrella body of all the Igbo speaking people of Nigeria resident in Finland  celebrated their annual new yam festival "Emume Iwa Ji" on Saturday 25th, August 2018.


The union which is a registered Non Governmental Cultural Organization comprises of Nzuko Umunna Ndi-Igbo in Finland (Imo & Abia), Enugu Progressive Union in Finland and the Anambra State Association, Finland.


In Nigeria, the annual cultural festival by the Igbo people held at the end of the rainy season in early August symbolizes the conclusion of a harvest and the beginning of the next farming season. The celebration is a very culturally based occasion, tying individual Igbo communities together as essentially agrarian and dependent on yam.

This year's festival was attended by a large number of Ndigbo from all parts of Finland. The opening prayer was done by the chairman of the occassion, HRH Prince Idiagboff  who also spoke extensively on the agricultural growth and exploits in the eastern part of Nigeria, most especially in the area of yam production. The "iri ji"( New yam eating" festival which was filled with pomp and pageantry was anchored by veteran journalist, Chief Ike Chime.


The incumbent chairman of Igbo Union in Finland, Chief Barrister Simon Ekpa, in his speech, emphasized the importance of culture in nation building. He said " culture is the total way of life, through culture we are govern by norms and customs which are the pillars of any society.


According to the Igbo Union chairman, this year's festival is targeted at promoting multiculturalism within the Finnish society. He also sent a strong message to the Federal Government of Nigeria over the killings and continuous marginalization of Ndigbo in Nigeria. In conclusion, he urged Igbo governors and leaders to speak up against the marginalization of the Igbos and the genocide that is been perpetrated by the present government.


The climax of the event was the cultural dance display by various member associations that make up the Igbo Union in Finland. Also, the traditional chief's and elders danced majestically to the Igbo cultural music while the ladies added added icing on the cake with their glamourous dancing steps.


https://www.diasporareporters.com/igbo-union-in-finland-celebrates-new-yam-festival-in-grand-style/
Congrats.

Igbo in Finland - of all places.

While you can hardly find Nigeria's Hausa/Fulani even in Togo, but now find more and more Hausa/Fulani aplenty in all nooks and crannies of Igboland.

Is this not gradual dislocation of a tribe?

Something is fishy.

Igbos, rise and reclaim the land of our ancestors.

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Re: Igbo Union In Finland Celebrates New Yam Festival In Grand Style by Nobody: 4:44pm On Aug 27, 2018
Igbo kwenu!...Kwenu!!...Kwezionu oooo.... We nigerians, na dem de lush(rush) us.
Re: Igbo Union In Finland Celebrates New Yam Festival In Grand Style by Cyriloha(m): 4:45pm On Aug 27, 2018
Lilimax:
New yam Festival! aka Onwa asato in NRI kingdom
Reminding me of my late granny Agumma! cry

Those roasted yam and red oil spiced with utazi leaf is always dope and good combo smiley



Nne mu,na your papa born you!!!! Obu amu nnagi ka eji muo gi life
Re: Igbo Union In Finland Celebrates New Yam Festival In Grand Style by nnokwa042(m): 4:45pm On Aug 27, 2018
blackaxe78:



Kill shocked

Australia has not even influenced you
aturu maaaa I said Austria not Australia

Re: Igbo Union In Finland Celebrates New Yam Festival In Grand Style by Diso60090(m): 4:46pm On Aug 27, 2018
nnokwa042:
We go do our own for Austria this week I can't wait to kill one of my swans



Bro link up we get talk about that zone



Inbox me control
Re: Igbo Union In Finland Celebrates New Yam Festival In Grand Style by Nobody: 4:46pm On Aug 27, 2018
Wow... This is commendable.

I've always had it in mind that i'll marry an igbo guy.
But they all don't seem interested undecided

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Re: Igbo Union In Finland Celebrates New Yam Festival In Grand Style by joenor(m): 4:46pm On Aug 27, 2018
Nor b small thing... Igbo kwenu.
Re: Igbo Union In Finland Celebrates New Yam Festival In Grand Style by omohayek: 4:46pm On Aug 27, 2018
Lilisticlili:
wrong fact because we Yorubas dnt travel.

Igbos are everywhere
Who's "We", kemosabe? Please speak for yourself. I've been to every continent other than South America, and found plenty of Yoruba people wherever I went. Just because we don't tend to congregate together in the same manner, or engage in the same "import/export" types of business Igbos do, doesn't mean we don't travel. On the contrary, when Yorubas move abroad, we prefer to go to developed countries, where we work as professionals, unlike those who go to southeast Asia, India, Kenya, Tanzania and all the rest, and about whose colorful (mis)adventures we read so much on here ...

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Re: Igbo Union In Finland Celebrates New Yam Festival In Grand Style by Rapmoney(m): 4:47pm On Aug 27, 2018
blackaxe78:
Police should check that yam well, their is powder inside
Make use of your brain! That's why God gave it to you. It's not for decoration!!!
Re: Igbo Union In Finland Celebrates New Yam Festival In Grand Style by nnokwa042(m): 4:48pm On Aug 27, 2018
Josh44s:


Kill it and face jail time.
have you been to Chad and Togo before?
Re: Igbo Union In Finland Celebrates New Yam Festival In Grand Style by writeprof(m): 4:48pm On Aug 27, 2018
Waakanda:
Enjoy yourselves ... but bia, no fresh yam for "obodo oyinbo" ni? grin

Maybe it's from a barn. I wanted to ask hope the yam was planted and harvested there.
Re: Igbo Union In Finland Celebrates New Yam Festival In Grand Style by Rapmoney(m): 4:48pm On Aug 27, 2018
omohayek:

Who's "We", kemosabe? Please speak for yourself. I've been to every continent other than South America, and found plenty of Yoruba people wherever I went. Just because we don't tend to congregate together in the same manner, or engage in the same "import/export" types of business Igbos do, doesn't mean we don't travel. On the contrary, when Yorubas move abroad, we prefer to go to developed countries, where we work as professionals, unlike those who go to southeast Asia, India, Kenya, Tanzania and all the rest, and about whose colorful (mis)adventures we read so much on here ...
Person wey never reach Ghana before go still brag! Na wa oh! World people.

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Re: Igbo Union In Finland Celebrates New Yam Festival In Grand Style by osymerga(m): 4:49pm On Aug 27, 2018
Lilimax:
New yam Festival! aka Onwa asato in NRI kingdom
Reminding me of my late granny Agumma! cry

Those roasted yam and red oil spiced with utazi leaf is always dope and good combo smiley

Bros,are you from Nri too ? Which village ?
I am from Uruoji...

Nri- the ancestral homeland of all Igbos...

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Re: Igbo Union In Finland Celebrates New Yam Festival In Grand Style by Lilimax(f): 4:50pm On Aug 27, 2018
osymerga:


Bros,are you from Nri too ? Which village ?
I am from Uruoji...
smiley smiley
My bros wink
I'm from Uruofollo! cool
Re: Igbo Union In Finland Celebrates New Yam Festival In Grand Style by Reelmii: 4:51pm On Aug 27, 2018
proudly NWA AFOR IGBO NMANMA NU OO

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Re: Igbo Union In Finland Celebrates New Yam Festival In Grand Style by namio10: 4:52pm On Aug 27, 2018
thaoriginator:
shockedshockedshocked

I don't want to hear anything about drug case afterwards o


Igbo Amalia grin

REGISTERED PARASITE.
ANNUALLY, MORE YARIBAWA THAN IBO ARE CAUGHT IN DRUG CASES WORLDWIDE.

CONSULT RECORDS.

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Re: Igbo Union In Finland Celebrates New Yam Festival In Grand Style by omohayek: 4:52pm On Aug 27, 2018
Rapmoney:
Person wey never reach Ghana before go still brag! Na was oh! World people.
No, I "never reach Ghana", but I've managed to reach America, Canada, Australia, Denmark, Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Italy, Sweden, Japan, South Korea and Thailand in the meantime, so yes, I think I'm more than entitled to brag. I'm not a desperate bush rat who thinks of countries like Ghana as representing some sort of paradise, and I didn't go to any of those countries to "hustle", or to engage in packing "containers" full of second-hand goods, and you will never see people like me in the "Crime" section of this website bringing disgrace upon Nigeria; we leave that sort of thing to you and your ilk.

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Re: Igbo Union In Finland Celebrates New Yam Festival In Grand Style by Lilimax(f): 4:53pm On Aug 27, 2018
cyndy1000:




See my sis o. Is it the Nri agukwu Nri or Enugu ukwu
Enugwu-Ukwu is never NRI rather an Umunri.

I am from NRI kingdom cool
Re: Igbo Union In Finland Celebrates New Yam Festival In Grand Style by Lilimax(f): 4:54pm On Aug 27, 2018
ngadaAwo:
i want to fork you accept JESUS CHRIST now kiss
FIXED!!
You need JESUS CHRIST into your life embarassed
Re: Igbo Union In Finland Celebrates New Yam Festival In Grand Style by tech18: 4:55pm On Aug 27, 2018
zinnyzee:
Wow... This is commendable.

I've always had it in mind that i'll marry an igbo guy.
But they all don't seem interested undecided

mhmm Igbo fa sister.
Re: Igbo Union In Finland Celebrates New Yam Festival In Grand Style by Reelmii: 4:55pm On Aug 27, 2018
PROUD ADA OF UMUAHIA...... we always represent

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Re: Igbo Union In Finland Celebrates New Yam Festival In Grand Style by lozanni(m): 4:55pm On Aug 27, 2018
blackaxe78:
Police should check that yam well, their is powder inside

A jealous Afonja spotted wink

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Re: Igbo Union In Finland Celebrates New Yam Festival In Grand Style by cyndy1000(f): 4:56pm On Aug 27, 2018
Lilimax:

Enugwu-Ukwu is never NRI rather an Umunri.

I am from NRI kingdom cool



lol I don catch you... Anyway don't know much about that history but I was told we are with the staff

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