Uchasa:


That page has been like that for decades. The reason why people see Ogba people as Igbos is because before the 80's they fully identified as Igbos.

omonnakoda:

United States is five times the size of England in population and a lot more in area. Most people there speak English that does not make them English descendants
So that argument about Benin SIze has no logic to it
This claim of being "logical" does not work. Rather we have an argument crafted to suit a preconceived idea

According to the Bible Jesus spoke Aramaic which was NOT the language of the Hebrews and many Hebrew names or variants are used by people across that region
yet each group maintain distinct identity despite massive similarity e.g
Suleiman Solomon
Ibrahim Abraham
Musa Moshe/Mose
Daoud David
Haruna Aaron

Etrusen:




Oga keep quiet

the title have always been Oba in ogba land


when Benin told you ppo that their are lots of their migrants in rivers you ppo choose to cause confusion


research b4 saying trash


ogba land have been like this for centuries though the public way of life have change, the monarchy still remain the same

please ask yourself why would the king choose Benin system over Igbo if he had nothing to do with Benin

Simbrixton:
they are bini descendants not igbos igbos no pass d 5 states of eastern nigeria

Uniportadmision:


Abraham.... Ibrahim
Moses..... Musa

Isn't it obvious this moslem names where gotten from the former?

Nwike.... Wike
Nwosu.... Wosu

Isn't it obvious this is Igbo to ikwerre? If we go by your logic.

Talking about the United States population more than England lol. We all know Almost all Americans are migrants and still have their native cultures and languages (names intact)
Sade... Yoruba
Wale.... Yoruba
Arnold schwarzenegger... Austrian
Barack Obama.... Kenyan

My point is, all these names still has something about their bearers original culture. They are Americans now and speak English but we still have traces of their roots.

I'm still looking for that Benin root in all this Delta and Rivers Igboid tribes.

Kfed4ril:


I don’t have a problem if he chooses bini, Hausa, Idoma or Yoruba system, my own is why is he bearing Igbo name?

PHijo:


It is Oyigbo and not Obigbo!

We know the history of that place.
That Igbo immigrants from Abia in particular have flooded the place does not make it Igbo heartland.

sageb:

there is a version that said it was owned by Andoni.
please drop the true story here.

MALIGNANTGuest:
RIP,
DADDY
Continue to Rest in Peace.

omonnakoda:
Akalaka's sons Ogba and Ekpeye founded Ogbaland and Ekpeyeland respectively
They along with the Ikwerre all claim ancestry from Akalaka and that they are NOT IGBO

But Eboes are determined that they must be and have conducted a concerted campaign on Wikipedia to revise their histories

omonnakoda:

Hahaha The internet has not been around for decades neither has Wikipedia.


On any article in Wikipedia , There is a history tab that shows all editing.
There has been countless editing on pages to do with Ikwerre, Ekpeye and similar groups in Rivers state on Wikipedia
This is an easily verifiable fact

Ogba People NEVER identified as Igbos.

NEVER

omonnakoda:


There is NOTHING like Muslim names and no it is not obvious
What we have are Arab names . That existed LONG BEFORE Islam
Muhammad was called Muhammad at Birth , His father Abdullah and Mother Amina WERE NOT MUSLIMS
The Hebrews were one of the smallest groups in that region. They had a lot in common and had many names in common . There is no way of claiming one group owns the name
Do you even know the etymology of the word "Igboid" . There is nothing like Igboid tribe as many revisionists claim

The term "Igboid" is from the field of liguistics developed by Kay Williamson

Igboid is a family of LANGUAGES of which Igbo is one and Ikwerre is another. It has nothing to do with the people or tribes. It is purely a liguistic classification
I have used the capital for language to emphasis the fact that every member of the family is a language on its own and not a dialect
Kay Williamson is the foremost academic authority on the Igbo and Igboid languages and that was her conclusion . They are distinct languages of the same family and the family is called Igboid because Igbo language had the most speakers
Just like French , Italian , Spanish , and Portuguese are all part of the Romance family

And English , Deutsch , Dutch are Germanic languages. The fact that English is a Germanic language does not make English people German

many of you ignorantly latch on to the "igbo" in Igboid to mean something that it does not mean

Uniportadmision:


And who told you the English (Anglo Saxons) aren't German by ancestry?

Igboid different from Igbo really? Do you know no tribe or dialect is actually called Igbo. Igbo is a nation containing the different tribes or should I say dialects of that nation. We have the owerri dialect, Ngors, etches, Nsukkas, orlu, Ulis, Ngwas, Aros etc those other tribes that fell into the so-called South South are just one of such tribes. I grew up in Port Harcourt with an owerri dialect, when I went to a boarding school at Imo and spoke Igbo, they all laughed at my dialect... Like what kind of Igbo is this guy speaking? Lol

We used to make fun and laugh at every new Igbo dialect we heard then.

Stop confusing yourself with Igboid or South South this and that, heck even my grandma's Igbo dialect is difficult to understand than the Ogba language, so what makes the other easier dialect in the south south less Igbo than the harder dialect in same Imo?

Etrusen:
. I think u can get your answer by locating the nearest transformer


then you can ask him in person


hope that solve the problem?

omonnakoda:


Who told me English are not German by ancestry? Do you really have anything sensible that is fact based to say or are you just venting?

The Term Igboid was introduced by Kay Williamson. Research it

I am not interested in your biography

Clearly you have no clue what you are talking about

When Linguists study language they have established methods for grouping languages . Intelligibility is not the criteria

There is today zero mutual intelligibility between German and English yet they belong to the same family. Why?

Ikwerre language is not a dialect of Igbo

Uniportadmision:


Are the English German by ancestry yes or no?
No intelligibility between the two languages but English is still referred to be Germanic why? Because English is gotten from German by old Germans who are now referred to as Anglo Saxons(forefathers of modern English men). You're proving my point for me. They are English now doesn't mean their ancestors were never Germans.

From Austria to Holland or England to Germany etc we all know they are different people but from the same ancestry (Germans)

Same applies to the Igbo nation my brother.

Blacknote:

Burna Boy is from Engini clan not Ekpeye nor Ogba.
It baffles me how people argue over what they have little or no knowledge about.

omonnakoda:


Who told me English are not German by ancestry? Do you really have anything sensible that is fact based to say or are you just venting?

The Term Igboid was introduced by Kay Williamson. Research it

I am not interested in your biography

Clearly you have no clue what you are talking about

When Linguists study language they have established methods for grouping languages . Intelligibility is not the criteria

There is today zero mutual intelligibility between German and English yet they belong to the same family. Why?

Ikwerre language is not a dialect of Igbo

Uniportadmision:


So the ikwerres and the rest of the Igbo speaking groups flooding Rivers state that came from Benin nkor?

Let's agree the Benin claim is true, Obigbo people came from Abia while others came from Benin, so why do you sound like one group is more Rivers or Niger Deltan than the other? They're all Rivers people my brother, this hate will only consume you lots

sageb:

there is a version that said it was owned by Andoni.
please drop the true story here.

Uniportadmision:


Are the English German by ancestry yes or no?
No intelligibility between the two languages but English is still referred to be Germanic why? Because English is gotten from German by old Germans who are now referred to as Anglo Saxons(forefathers of modern English men). You're proving my point for me. They are English now doesn't mean their ancestors were never Germans.

From Austria to Holland or England to Germany etc we all know they are different people but from the same ancestry (Germans)

Same applies to the Igbo nation my brother.

PHijo:


Oyigbo as an LGA today has indigenous Ijaw and Ogoni people. On the specifics on which people had which part of Oyigbo I wouldn't delve into it.

Igbo people coming enmass to Oyigbo is less than 15 years.

Hisroyalbadmeat:
What does igbo mean self, when was igbo used as an identity?,why the obsession on the akalaka brothers, I blame my progenitors, they married and accommodated the Sh!ty slaves, make everybody get out

Anago55:
. Igbo don suffer for una hand ooo. wetin concern Igbo with this post now? The said Oba is a confusionist. Your name is Chukwuemela Nnam Obi and you chose to be an Oba instead of an Obi that your ancestors approved. I am sure Wike led him to this to consolidate on their imaginary Benin Origin tales

The gods must have struck him dead for his stupidity

Anago55:
Using EZE and OBA at the same time is contradictory, Confused people

It should be Strictly Oba and nothing more. ndi ara

GeneralKoko:


My father is a bastard and I am a bastard too

Igboid:


Where in Oyigbo are these indigenous Ogoni and Ijaws located?

PHijo:


Igbo people are not Rivers people. Short and simple. Igbo people are indigenous to Oyigbo.