Afrocatalyst:
lol. E pain am die. Lawyer indeed,lawyer my foot. Have you eaten today? Eyah...

Guy,on a more serious note,you don't just come online and quote people and call them fools. I normally dnt reply dumb..sses like u bt I want to make u taste a bit of ur own poison.
You're still on ur first degree and cnt keep ur head low? I pity u. And dnt go abt making jest of people's livelihood cos u dnt knw what led to they going into it and where it's taking them to. And for ur info, karma is a biatch.
The world has changed boy,most peeps dnt depend again on what they studied at skull. Bt how are u supposed to undastand overhypedsteve?

To all these rants,I say it's ok. Am sorry if I made you offended. I never intended to. Pls forgive me and let it go. Bt I hope we both learnt sometin frm each other. Stay blessed bro and keep being a brother! I love you. And am not going to reply you again. Cheers.

Abagworo: . In the central Igbo area there is something known as Ihitte/Ifitte which translates to springing up from nowhere. In Ezhilihitte area of Mbaise they have a shrine at Oboama l'umunama which they call "Ihu Chileke" (Presence of God) where the "Nfunala" is believed to have occurred. This means origin of mankind occurred there.

Antivirus92: Some igbo people are very foolish. Most of igbos don't know their history yet they will speak ill of a hist ory account given by another person to please other nigerians.
Some even say that igbos are from igala,ibibio,bini,ijaw etc. Why can't that fellow believe that igbos have existed b/4 all those groups?. There might be some senses in what the king said. I will not rubbish it inorder to please the yorubas like most people are doing. If you doubt this historical account,research and bring out yours.

macof:
Shut up, you are really sounding stuupid. Not only is this man's story totally made up from his knowledge of the Bible, he still doesn't quite understand the Bible and most importantly Dating
How can u say Eri son of Gad, son of Jacob is the same Eri father of Nri??

There's over 3000years between these two characters.

macof:
Shut up, you are really sounding stuupid. Not only is this man's story totally made up from his knowledge of the Bible, he still doesn't quite understand the Bible and most importantly Dating
How can u say Eri son of Gad, son of Jacob is the same Eri father of Nri??

There's over 3000years between these two characters.

macof:
Shut up, you are really sounding stuupid. Not only is this man's story totally made up from his knowledge of the Bible, he still doesn't quite understand the Bible and most importantly Dating
How can u say Eri son of Gad, son of Jacob is the same Eri father of Nri??

There's over 3000years between these two characters.

overhypedsteve: you ve proven that you re not matured in anyway, any sensible person would see that my calling you paddy earlier was an attempt to forstall futher hostilities, but you ruined your earlier chances at a peaceful settlement by clearly misyearning, but now when i bring the heat on you as expected, you suddenly began to understand that karma is a bitch and started calling me broda, wen even in my attempt at peace i called you paddy, you reject am, now i suddenly turn your brother, karma isnt a bitch my man, karma is the divine consequence and implication of people action, in my post, rather than focus on spiting your job, i tried to help you see the damage which you re doing to our planet by spraying harzardious material on the remaining earth vegetation and reducing the worth of the land for agricultural use, but no you wont listen, you wont hear, you wont understand and neither will you assimilate, you will just stand there with you fumigation tank in hand waiting for the next land to destroy, gardening, whatever happened to the beautiful act of manual weeding, why re you destroying our eco system in the name of earning a living, have you seen any agricultural or gardening authority that recomend the use of fumigation in weed control, fo you know that the use of fumigants is a major cause of desertification, would you as a man place the immediate interest of you and your family to undermine the interest of a global community, what would your responce be,if you hear that an endangered specie of butterfly is now estinct thanks to the use of your toxic fumigants, your 400 naira fumigation has a very serious consequence and implication for our entire eco system

Antivirus92: fool when ur brothers are discussing about oduduwa,ile ife,sango, u can hardly see igbo people commenting because u pple are irrelevant. But whenever nri,anambra,igbo,enugu,ojukwu,biafra is typed. U fools will rush to spew trash. What do u know about igbo people? Can u prove with evidences that eri of bible is not the eri igbo progenitor?

macof:

O well then...you are Jews, sons of Abraham, brothers to Jesus

Are you happy now?

halfdutch: HRH is quite knowledgeble about the historyof Igbo's, however, he also got several things wrong.

1.Abraham is not the founder of Islam nor ever practice Islam as he lived around 1800 BC! Islam was founded on the teachings of Muhammad about 1500 years ago. And praying face-down was an ancient Hebrew/Jews ways of worshiping Yahweh. Abraham, Yeshua/Jesus likewise Mohammad also prayed to Yahweh/God with their face downwards.

2. The today Egyptians are not the ancient or real Egytians...the Kushitites! They were not the ones that built the great pyramids! The ancient Egyptians are blacks, see picture below. And the modern day Egyptians are the descendants of the Arab Muslim invaders who conquered the land of Kush/ Egypt. Those who refused to be converted to Islam or be conquered by the Mohammedans fled to other parts of Africa, perhaps to the Igboland.


2. The today Egyptians are not the ancient or real Egytians...the Kushitites! They were not the onces that built the greate piramides! The ancient Egpytians are blacks, see picture below. And the modern day Egyptians are the decendants of the Arab Muslim invaders who conquered the land of Kush/ Egypt. Those who refused to be converted to Islam or be conqured by the Mohammadan's left to other parts of Africa, perhaps to the Igboland.

ICHINONYE: [b] Jacob wrestled with one of the angels and the angel told Jacob that from now, you are Israel. So, Israel – the children of Jacob – were subjected to slavery and they prayed to God. God answered their prayer and then, there was an exodus.

They left Egypt and these children of Eri, Gad were part of the exodus. They arrived at a big sea and when Moses struck the water, the sea divided into two and they were able to pass through. Though, there was a calamity as the Pharaoh of Egypt at the time used his chariot to chase them so as to take them back. You know fully well that God did not allow Moses to enter the Promised Land.

When they came to River Jordan, that was where Moses handed the covenant over to Joshua. Now, the responsibility of guiding the Israelites was then on Joshua. That covenant placed in the River Jordan was very significant because God told Joshua to remove 12 stones from that river and those 12 stones represented the 12 tribes of Israel.

Now we are talking about the 12 tribes, we are talking about the tribe of Eri because Gad was the tribe that begat Eri. After suffering, some of them went back to Egypt and they were so tempted by the difficult position those Islamic Jihadists pulled on them.

The children of Eri refused to be converted to Islam and they ran away from Egypt to Nnubia and to other places. Each area they went, these jihadists kept on conquering the places. Nnubia was another parallel empire to Egypt as they had Nnubian Pharaohs and Egyptian Pharaohs that fought several wars. After the wars, Nnubia became extinct and later turned to the present Sudan nation.

That was the area where Eri and his devotees stayed and after the fall of Nnubia, they had to take off again and started moving down south, looking at a place where those jihadists won’t attack them. They became refugees and the children of Eri later arrived at a placed called Jutkom, southern part of Kaduna but presently in Taraba State.

Again, the jihadists visited them and conquered the place and they kept moving towards the Nile basin. They preferred moving on the river basin where they could always get food and water.

They later arrived at the first confluence of River Niger and Benue and wanted to see whether they could live there, but the jihadists came and conquered the place.

In their movement towards the southern side, they arrived at another confluence. This confluence was the tributary of River Niger and Benue known as ‘Ezu na Omambala’. When Eri and his devotees arrived at this place, dressed in Usman Dan fodio kind of regalia and were so tired, they tried to settle there.

Though this area was every small and there were no commercial activities there, they decided to stay there. But they did not settle at the front water because of their previous experiences of attacks. They moved five miles inside the region of the confluence and settled in the interior.

They were only four in number and they cleared a small space and started life there. They named the place Eriaka, meaning the home of Eri. Eri begat children there and assimilated the people living around despite their civilised exposure.

Already, the first question posed to Eri by the people living there was: “Who are you?” Actually, there was difficulty in language but when the question was thrown, Eri answered them, ‘We are Igbos’.

http://www.today.ng/news/ndigbo-originated-from-egypt-jacobs-son-is-the-father-of-nri-monarch/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter [/b] below is the Pic of His Majesty, Eze Obidiegwu Onyesoh, MFR, the traditional ruler of Nri kingdom

UjSizzle: Seriously man, who cares about all these things? Whether it's Egypt, Israel, or bloody Iraq, we're Igbos not any of those people!

I'm yet to understand the need to identify with some ancient race. Is there a prize to be won

sylve11:

My dear, me tire. Just wear their silly red caps then start to dey quote from bible or any book wey we understand differently. *hisses*

ICHINONYE: We have been seeing n reading more about Eri n ow it came in2 being, while some argue Eri Originated 4rm Isreal , some says He is 4rm Egypt , Now here is a 1st hand Info about Eri on how n were it Originated n dis info is coming 4rm d King of d Location Eri 1st settled, so do we now go with dis? Wel read below Cheers.


[b] His Majesty, Eze Obidiegwu Onyesoh, MFR, the traditional ruler of Nri kingdom (believed to be the ancestral home of Ndigbo) in Anambra State has said that  Ndigbo originated from Egypt.

Onyesoh who said this during an interview with TONY OKAFOR of the New Telegraph claimed the father of Nri is called Gad, who according to him was the son of the biblical Jacob.

Read the excerpt from the interview below:

His Royal Majesty, how would you trace the origin of Ndigbo?

Nri came from Egypt about two centuries ago and the father of Nri was called Gad. Gad was the son of Jacob while Jacob was the son of Isaac and Isaac was the son of Abraham.

The family tree of Nri is traced from the origin of Abraham and Abraham was the favourite child of God. At that time Egypt was regarded as the capital of the whole world and the entire Igbo race lived in Egypt.

While they were there, the man called Eri, the progenitor of Ndigbo, also lived there and was the special adviser on religious matters to the fifth dynasty of Pharaohs of Egypt.

He was responsible for everything concerning religion and Pharaoh could not take any decision without consulting Eri. It was in those days in Egypt that Eri determined who was going to be the next Pharaoh.

And by their law, there was a deity called Emem. For anything to happen during the time, the man called Eri, in his capacity as the religious adviser to Pharaoh of Egypt, was responsible.

He was also responsible for the coronation of Pharaohs of Egypt because the system was, before coronation of the Pharaoh of Egypt, you must undergo certain processes.

So Eri was in charge. The Pharaoh of Egypt of the fifth dynasty recognised the protection and powers of Eri when he made him the conscience of Egypt. Now Eri needed people to help him and he recruited people called devotees. These devotees were all appointed by him but he had to do something to really find their own loyalty. Therefore, he initiated them into Ozorship.

This Ozorship was to find a means that anybody who would be associated with him should work with him and be loyal to the cause. This brought about the existence of ‘Atani’, which means tying a rope to the ankle of all their members that had the Ozo title. And by so doing, gave them power of authority to tackle issues on his behalf.

This power of authority which Eri gave to his devotees was known as Ozo title and Ofo. Some of the sons of Abraham found their own tribes as time went on and later got to the 12 tribes of Israel.

Among those children of Abraham, one of them became the founder of the Jewish religion -Judaism. During this era, there were some people who could not love themselves anymore because that time, the Pharaoh that knew Moses was no longer there.

And equally the Pharaoh that knew Eri was no longer there, he now faced the Hebrew population and some of them declared themselves Jewish and hatred started from there.

What happened next?

Interestingly, you should know that Abraham was the founder of the Islamic religion and Isaac became the founder of the religion

that later turned into Christianity. However, when the punishment and wickedness became so much, they called God that they wanted to be free from slavery. Moses went up the mountain and God asked him to go and deliver the people of Israel. Jacob was the Israel.
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Continue below!

macof:

No, not everything Africa started from Egypt. Egypt itself started from West/Central Africa