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Themainboy22:
The truth is that to be Alpha and maintaining masculinity is expensive and can be a lonely road to walk through.


Hence we teach Men to be "stoic" (which every man is even supposed to be from birth). But due to how things has denegraded in our society today, we have plenty men who would rather opt for easy route (become feminine) rather than going the former way.


Funny enough, no feminine woman would like to be with a feminine man, even the the so called feminist. They would rather turn to lesbians.


Lastly, Op, if you've ever mocked the Redpillars here on NL, you are directly/indirectly promoting the so called gays and CDers. Therefore, I implore you keep quiet!.

Most men born in the early 2000 are weak, emotional and feminine the are victims of the global agenda to emasculate men.

Everything possible was used for this agenda.
Media
Feminism
Single mothers and fashion houses.

But their most effective and most successful weapon was the attack on masculinity.

Everything possible was used to sell masculinity as toxic and outdated.

And the new generation of men being emotionally over sentimentative are ditching their masculine nature for feminine one just to prove to the WOKE society that they are the better and improved "REAL MEN" (Feminist Standards) the results are what we are witnessing today.

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Islandlady:
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You understand the whole scenerio dude! It's annoying and fast becoming a norms in our society! Social medias, Schools, organizations seems to be promoting and encouraging it! Soo pathetic!

The agenda to emasculate the new generation of men is something that started as far back as early 2000

They started it by first breaking the family system through divorce settlements separating Fathers from their Sons ( knowing fully well it's almost impossible for a single mothers to raise masculine sons.

Then they started attacking Masculinity By calling it Toxic and with the help of media, court and feminism, they seems to be succeeding because the new generation of Men are trying extremely hard to prove they have nothing to do with masculinity that they are willing to become feminine to prove themselves....

Unfortunately, such mindset is gradually becoming a global something.

As it stands now Only A Worldwide War will revive this trend. Only A Worldwide War.

What rubbish.
Na so e the take start before you know them go use style introduces transgender agenda enter our schools....

This need to stop

APC and their Tribal and Regional propaganda. What a shame.

Since they can't market their candidate they decided to demarket other candidates through tribal and Regional propaganda.

WHO SOLD NIGERIA TO THE BRITISH FOR £865K IN 1899?

This is the story of the first oil war, which was fought in the 19th century, in the area that became Nigeria.

All through the 19th century, palm oil was highly sought-after by the British, for use as an industrial lubricant for machinery. Remember that Britain was the world’s first industrialised nation, so they needed resources such as palm oil to maintain that.

Palm oil, of course, is a tropical plant, which is native to the Niger Delta. Malaysia’s dominance came a century later. By 1870, palm oil had replaced slaves as the main export of the Niger Delta, the area which was once known as the Slave Coast. At first, most of the trade in the oil palm was uncoordinated, with natives selling to those who gave them the best deals. Native chiefs such as former slave, Jaja of Opobo became immensely wealthy because of oil palm. With this wealth came influence.

However, among the Europeans, there was competition for who would get preferential access to the lucrative oil palm trade. In 1879, George Goldie formed the United African Company (UAC), which was modelled on the former East India Company. Goldie effectively took control of the Lower Niger River. By 1884, his company had 30 trading posts along the Lower Niger. This monopoly gave the British a strong hand against the French and Germans in the 1884 Berlin Conference. The British got the area that the UAC operated in, included in their sphere of influence after the Berlin Conference.

When the Brits got the terms they wanted from other Europeans, they began to deal with the African chiefs. Within two years of 1886, Goldie had signed treaties with tribal chiefs along the Benue and Niger Rivers whilst also penetrating inland. This move inland was against the spirit of verbal agreements that had been made to restrict the organisation’s activities to coastal regions.

By 1886, the company name changed to The National Africa Company and was granted a royal charter (incorporated). The charter authorised the company to administer the Niger Delta and all lands around the banks of the Benue and Niger Rivers. Soon after, the company was again renamed. The new name was Royal Niger Company, which survives, as Unilever, till this day.

To local chiefs, the Royal Niger Company negotiators had pledged free trade in the region. Behind, they entered private contracts on their terms. Because the (deceitful) private contracts were often written in English and signed by the local chiefs, the British government enforced them. So for example, Jaja of Opobo, when he tried to export palm oil on his own, was forced into exile for “obstructing commerce”. As an aside, Jaja was “forgiven” in 1891 and allowed to return home, but he died on the way back, poisoned with a cup of tea.

Seeing what happened to Jaja, some other native rulers began to look more closely at the deals they were getting from the Royal Nigeria Company. One of such kingdoms was Nembe, whose king, Koko Mingi VIII, ascended the throne in 1889 after being a Christian schoolteacher. Koko Mingi VIII, King Koko for short, like most rulers in the yard, was faced with the Royal Nigeria Company encroachment. He also resented the monopoly enjoyed by the Royal Nigeria Company and tried to seek out favourable trading terms, with particularly the Germans in Kamerun (Cameroon).

By 1894, the Royal Nigeria Company increasingly dictated whom the natives could trade with, and denied them direct access to their former markets. In late 1894, King Koko renounced Christianity and tried to form an alliance with Bonny and Okpoma against the Royal Nigeria Company to take back the trade. This is significant because while Okpoma joined up, Bonny refused. A harbinger of the successful “divide and rule” tactic.

On 29 January 1895, King Koko led an attack on the Royal Niger Company’s headquarters, which was in Akassa in today’s Bayelsa state. The pre-dawn raid had more than a thousand men involved. King Koko’s attack succeeded in capturing the base. Losing 40 of his men, King Koko captured 60 white men as hostages, as well as a lot of goods, ammunition and a Maxim gun. Koko then attempted to negotiate a release of the hostages in exchange for being allowed to chose his trading partners. The British refused to negotiate with Koko, and he had forty of the hostages killed. A British report claimed that the Nembe people ate them. On 20 February 1895, Britain’s Royal Navy, under Admiral Bedford attacked Brass and burned it to the ground. Many Nembe people died and smallpox finished off a lot of others.

By April 1895, business had returned to “normal”, normal being the conditions that the British wanted, and King Koko was on the run. Brass was fined £500 by the British, £62,494 (NGN29 million) in today’s money, and the looted weapons were returned as well as the surviving prisoners. After a British Parliamentary Commission sat, King Koko was offered terms of settlement by the British, which he rejected and disappeared. The British promptly declared him an outlaw and offered a reward of £200 (£26,000; NGN12 million today) for him. He committed suicide in exile in 1898.

About that time, another “recalcitrant King”, the Oba of Benin, was run out of town. The pacification of the Lower Niger was well and truly underway. The immediate effect of the Brass Oil War was that public opinion in Britain turned against the Royal Nigeria Company, so its charter was revoked in 1899. Following the revoking of its charter, the Royal Niger Company sold its holdings to the British government for £865,000 (£108 million today). That amount, £46,407,250 (NGN 50,386,455,032,400, at today’s exchange rate) was effectively the price Britain paid, to buy the territory which was to become known as Nigeria.

N.B: This post was originally published on May 19, 2014.

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This Northern block votes that some people are using to disrespecting ss and se voters is gradually reducing ooo.

If Atiku collect 60% northern votes and kwankaso collect like 25% Northern votes what will now be remaining for people who think that South East and South south votes are not needed for them to win election ?

Nevertheless, Atiku is coming.

I noticed that there are still most of our people who is still refering Agu as a lion. Now hear this:

Agu is the leopard.

Agu is the Leopard (although also used to refer to other Pantheras especially Odum - Lion), “The okpu Agụ” or “Leopard hat” is a knit wool cap of black, white, & red. While the caps were striped rather than spotted, the design was said to represent the patterns on the skin of Leopards.

In earlier times the colour red could only be worn by men who had taken heads, and the caps were said to be dyed with the blood of the enemy warriors. The visual references of the Leopard hat and cutlass sheath are trappings of a more immediate identification between war dancer and Leopard, which is fully realized by Leopard-like bodily comportment in the dance itself.
When Ohafia people offer aesthetic evaluation of dancers, their bodily movements are often favorably compared to those of Leopards. The notion that the greatest warriors are able to become Leopards, or at least in some bodily sense acquire the strength, agility, and poise of these great animal, is common throughout the Cross River region (Oyono River). This is more an aesthetic assessment than it is a “belief.”

The Leopard embodies power that is both wild and refined. It is the quality of movement itself, as exquisitely graceful as it is lethal, that constitutes the identification between warrior and Leopard. Thus, the feline poise of the war dancer does not merely symbolize the power of the Leopard. It is an embodiment of that power, immediately present and undeniably manifest.

Photo: The child of an Ohafia Dibia (Doctor).

Source: Dancing Histories: Heuristic Ethnography with the Ohafia Igbo

"In case you haven't noticed it, that's the real Isi Agụ with LEOPARD � head and full image on it and NOT the one with Isi Ọdụm (Lion �). That's what Peter Òbí is wearing there.

What the Ìgbò call “Agụ” is Leopard � and NEVER lion �!"

This IGBO Hat Is Called OKPU-AGU (Leopard Hat). It Is Much More Older Than The Red Cap. Many Modern IGBO People Don't Know The Intrinsic Value Of This Hat, And Its Various Meanings. The Tail Of This Hat Contains Various Meanings, Depending On How You Position Them. And Depending On How You Are Wearing Them, Only An NZE Or OZO Would Know The Ritual Meanings. But Now That We Are In UGA ANWU, It Is Okay To Enlighten You Guys On What They Mean So That You'll Start Wearing Them PROPER.

When You Wear The Hat With The Tail Facing Back, It Means That Something Is Wrong, Somebody Died, Your Life Is Facing UGA AZI. Things Are Moving Backwards For You. When You Wear The Tail Forward, It Means That You Are Going Somewhere Very Important. You Are With An IKENGA ODUMIJE. Your Life Is Moving Straight Forward, No Turning Back. When You Wear The Tail Facing Either Left Or Right, Like Shown In the one Peter Obi wearing,It Means That You Are In A Good Mood. You Are At A Wedding Or A Celebration Event. You Have So Much To Thank For. You Are Well Balanced.

Now That You Guys Know The Mysteries Of The OKPU-AGU, Be Very Conscious On How You Wear Them. And Respect The Rituals. Please always share our post to educate others, and invite and recommend your friends to like and follow our page.

We may understand the words Chukwu or Chineke to refer to God Almighty, but when we say only “chi” chi is not God, at least in the Pre-Christian understanding of the word by our forebears

The Photos below are of a Chi Shrine from Nkharahia, Ikwerre region of Rivers State,

At ‘Nkharahia and the surrounding area chi shrines (obo chi/ ihu chi) were common, They consisted of a room the walls of which, both outside and in, are covered by grey coloured plates fixed in the clay, or decorated with elaborate patterns formed of cowries. An altar-like ridge along the rear wall supports the sacred emblems, while mud seats, smoothed to a pottery-like finish, bear offerings of china, glass, manillas, and food.

These chi shrines were common among the Etche- and Ikwerre (ishimbam), Oratta and parts of Mbaise,

a man’s Chi is represented by three sticks, the central one half as high again as those to right and left, and a woman’s by four wooden fragments fixed in the clay filling of a small earthen bowl. To this emblem of their “personal god” every Igbo man, or woman, kills goat or fowl, at the time of the yam festival. The offering is avowedly made in thanksgiving for harvest and to entreat help and protection during the coming year.

Any individual could own a chi shrine of his own, it was usually owned by one family where every member of the family would have his own niche where he set up an altar to his own chi, children could inherit and honour the chi of their mother but not their father, men's chi leaves the world with them,

The priest of the chi shrine is usually the head of the family or the Ojiofor of the family, the priest of a chi shrine is usually referred to as Ezechi or Ezechukwu.

What then is chi?

Accodring to old Igbo belief Chi simply translates as Your Guardian Spirit, or your Spirit force, Chi is the spirit force that directs your individual destiny,
Every Igbo man has his chi peculiar to him, he believed that his chi guides his part and protects him,
In some circles it is also referred to as ehi,
That is why when something good happens to you or when u escape disaster, the Igbo say you have "chioma" or "ehioma" it means you have good luck or a fortunate destiny, chioma does not mean "good God" that's a naive layman's analogy. You also hear kelechigi when u miss a disaster, Kelechi did not mean thank God, it meant something like "thank your stars/luck" along the line of today's speech

Every Chi is believed to be a spark that emanated from the great Chi, the very first Chi who is known as Chukwu or Chiokike,
How did the concept of Chiokike arise? According to an Oratta legend, in the beginning was the first Chi the great spirit, Chi begat Ekeh his first child, and through Ekeh they created the entire universe and all that's within it, that is why they say Chi na Eke (Chi and Eke) not Chi na-Eke as many erroneously think,
It's an Igbo understanding of the Godhead, that consists of Chi and Eke, Agwu is the Divine force that creates a relationship between Chi and Eke and between the Godhead and his creation, Agwu conveys the message between Chineke and His Creation, Agwu is the connection between our individual chi and the great Chi, between the material realm and the spiritual realm and between God and man, thus Chi Eke and Agwu is the triune personality of the igbo concept of God!
There were also Agwu shrines, no one was allowed to touch that except the owner, devotion to Agwu was particularly popular in Ohafia-Aro axis.
I have always wondered why the igbo embraced the Catholic Church in large numbers even when the Anglican mission arrived first, it's because they recognized in Catholic theology and mysticism some similarities with their own mysticism.

Having said this, Igbo names such as Chinaza, Chidimma, Chibuzo Ebubechi etc are not native names but rather Christian names given erroneously because of the new Christian understanding of what Chi means, I think it started by abbreviation of Chineke or Chukwu to just Chi, now many think they mean the same thing, that is why such names were rare amongst our grandparents and great grandparents because they wouldn't mean the same thing they meant now to the people of those days back when igbo still had a better grasp of their culture and it was undiluted, Chukwu should be the correct affix to such names.

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Romanoff:
Na we dey do ourselves.

I remember when growing up, we didn't use to buy fruits cause we had fruits planted in our compound.

Now, we will build house and interlock everywhere.

Why won't fruits become expensive when only a few people now farm them?

Imagine people will cut down mango, pear, udara and coconut tress just to have space to plant flowers .

All the udara tress in my village have all been cut down because one over serious pastor said we should do so because the trees are possessed

Now we buy udara at a ridiculous price in our village in its season

Why are this people trying hard to convince us that all is forgiven and well between OBJ and Tinubu ?

Anyway, Atiku is coming

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okrikaboi:
If you love them release them, if they come back it means nobody wants them so let them go again I will have my revenge on this one time will tell

Oga there's nothing Redpill about what you just posted.

If you're actually the one that wrote things, then you're nothing but a social media Redpiller but a bluepiller in real life.

Apc are trying extremely hard with this their tribal propaganda.

Such a pity.

The desperation is soo obvious.
Trying extremely hard with this tribal propaganda.

Peter Obi is not my candidate but I honestly understand what he is saying....

Apc supporters have been trying extremely hard to link Peter Obi to Ipob unfortunately for them, their tribal propaganda is not working as expected.

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GodsOwnMan:
You are right. You voted PDP and you have been voting PDP since 1999

Yes in 1999 and 2003, PDP had a better candidates (Obj and Atiku)

Same thing during musa yara'dua and Gej time.

Same in 2015 and 2019. PDP had better candidates (Not the best) But better than APC candidate (the current situation of Nigeria is a testament to that )

Same thing is happening is 2023 Election. Apc knows this that is why majority of their online supporters are going with tribal propaganda in their campaigns.

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GodsOwnMan:
But eboes have been insulting Obasanjo since 1966 because of civil war but now that he took one picture with eboe presidential candidate obi, Obasanjo is now a hero of ndi eboe

Don't know who are the "Eboes" but if you're referring to the people from the east then I can assure you you're being sentimentaly wrong because it is on record that the south east voted massively for obasanjo in 1999 and 2003 the record is their for you to verify.

You will be surprised to know that number No 3 is not as common as you think

The Igbo calendar (Igbo: Ògụ́àfọ̀ )
is the traditional calendar system of the Igbos.The calendar has 13 months in a year (afo), 7 weeks in a month (onwa), and 4 days of Igbo market days (afor, nkwo, eke, and orie) in a week (izu) plus an extra day at the end of the year, in the last month. The name of these months was reported by Onwuejeogwu (1981).

Although worship and spirit honoring was a very big part in the creation and development of the Igbo calendar system, commerce also played a major role in creating the Igbo calendar. This was emphasized in Igbo mythology itself. An example of this is the Igbo market days of which each community has a day assigned to open its markets.

Some Igbo communities have tried to adjust the thirteen month calendar to twelve months, in line with the Gregorian calendar.

The calendar is neither universal nor synchronized, so various groups will be at different stages of the week, or even year. Nonetheless the four-eight day cycle serves to synchronize the inter-village market days, and substantial parts (for example the Kingdom of Nri) do share the same year-start.

Market days

Igbos generally have four market days, namely: eke, orie, afor and nkwo.
In various parts of Igboland, each community has a market named after the aforementioned four market days, e.g., Ǹkwọ Achara in Uturu.
In the traditional Igbo calendar a week (Igbo: Izu) has 4 days. (Eke, Orie, Afọ, Nkwọ), seven weeks make one month, a month has 28 days and there are 13 months a year. In the last month, an extra day is added.The traditional time keepers in Igboland are the priests or Dibia.

Months in Igbo and it's Gregorian calendar equivalent

1 Ọnwa Mbụ (February–March)
2 Ọnwa Abụo (March–April)
3 Ọnwa Ife Eke (April–May)
4 Ọnwa Anọ (May–June)
5 Ọnwa Agwụ (June–July)
6 Ọnwa Ifejiọkụ (July–August)
7 Ọnwa Alọm Chi (August to early September)
8 Ọnwa Ilo Mmụọ (Late September)
9 Ọnwa Ana (October)
10 Ọnwa Okike (Early November)
11 Ọnwa Ajana (Late November)
12 Ọnwa Ede Ajana (Late November to December)
13 Ọnwa Ụzọ Alụsị (January to early February)
The Igbo calendar is not universal, and is described as "not something written down and followed ... rather it is observed in the mind of the people.

Newborn babies are sometimes named after the day they were born on, though this is no longer commonly used. Names such as Mgbeke, Mgborie,Nwankwo, Nweke And Nwafo.

Igbo months and meaning:
The following months are in reference to the Nri-Igbo calendar of the Nri kingdom which may differ from other Igbo calendars in terms of naming, rituals, and ceremonies surrounding the months.

Ọnwa Mbụ
The first month starts from the third week of February making it the Igbo new year. The Nri-Igbo calendar year corresponding to the Gregorian year of 2012 was initially slated to begin with the annual year-counting festival known as Igu Aro on February 18 (an Nkwọ day on the third week of February). The Igu Aro festival which was held in March marked the lunar year as the 1013th recorded year of the Nri calendar.

Ọnwa Abụo
This month is dedicated to cleaning and farming.

Ọnwa Ife Eke
Is described as the fasting period, usually known as “Ugani” in Igbo meaning 'hunger period'. It is the period in which all must fast in sacrificial harmony to the goddess Ani of the Earth. Many communities host competitive wrestling events in this month as it is dedicated to finding one's Ikenga through conquering personal and communal struggle.

Ọnwa Anọ
Ọnwa Anọ is when the planting of seed yams start. In many communities this is the month of the Ekeleke dance festival which emphasizes optimism, sustaining your belief in God through hardships and the coming of better days.

Ọnwa Agwụ
Ịgọchi na mmanwụ come out in this month which are adult masquerades. Ọnwa Agwu is the traditional start of the year. The Arusi Agwu, after which the month is named, is venerated by the Dibia (priests), by whom Agwu is specifically worshipped, in this month.

Ọnwa Ifejiọkụ
This month is dedicated to the yam deity ifejioku and Njoku Ji and yam rituals are performed in this month for the New Yam Festival.

Ọnwa Alọm Chi
This month sees the harvesting of the yam. This month is also a time of prayer and meditation for women. The Alom Chi is a shrine or memorial a woman builds in honor of her ancestors. This month is dedicated to reconnecting with the ancestors by breaking kola and holding communion with them. Onwa Alom Chi is also dedicated to venerating mothers and motherhood, honoring womenhood, remembering ones 'first mother' (the woman which all of humanity and creation comes from) as well as connecting one's children, including those that are yet to be born.

Ọnwa Ilo Mmụọ
A festival called Önwa Asatọ (Igbo: Eighth Month) is held in this month.

Ọnwa Ana
Ana (or Ala or Ani) is the Igbo earth goddess and rituals for this deity commence in this month, hence it is named after her.

Ọnwa Okike
Okike ritual takes place in this month.

Ọnwa Ajana
Okike ritual also takes place in Ọnwa Ajana.

Ọnwa Ede Ajana
Ritual Ends

Ọnwa Ụzọ Arụsị
The last month sees the offering to the Alusi.

Festivals
Two major festivals are the new year festival (Igu Aro), due around 18 February, the planting season when the king, the Eze Nri in the Nri area, tells the Igbo to go and sow their seed after the next rainfall, and the Harvest festival (Emume Ọnwa-asatọ) in the eighth month.

The Nri-Igbo yearly counting festival known as Igu Aro marked 10 March 2012 as the beginning of the 1013th year of the Nri calendar. The festival was delayed due to other events.

Imöka is celebrated on the 20th day of the second month.


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Those of us that are conversant with the book of Revelations are not suprise with what's going on around the world.

Season of stranger things.

I thought Russia and China are like 5&6.

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SmartPolician:
Having a structure is critical in Nigeria's politics. That's the edge APC and PDP have over other parties.

I cannot wait for 2023 elections to come and go so everyone will know their fate. Buhari should just leave Aso Rock.

Atiku is the next president though not the best option, but a better option than APC.

Atiku is coming.

While PDP/Atiku and LP/Obi are mostly loved by the poor masses, Apc/Tinubu on the other hand, is mostly loved by the Elite....

This life na wow.

The same man they have been insulting since 2015 is the same man they went to beg and are shamelessly shouting colabo with up and down.

Same Obj they describe as inconsiquencal and outsmarted by Tinubu is the same man they are happily masturbating up and down that they went to visit.

Indeed everything na turn by turn

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exstreve:
The Igbos are the most tribalistic tribe in Nigeria, they don't care about your tribe, as far as you're from the north, they'll call you Hausa or ab0ki.

All of a sudden now, they remember there are Christians in Jos, Kaduna and other northern states. Look, don't be fooled by that. We northern Christians will never vote an Igbo man.

We would rather vote for pdp than vote an Igbo man

Oga ooo vote for any candidate of your choice.

The election is not about the tribe of a candidate but about competence.

If we make the right choice all of us will enjoy the country and if we make the wrong choice all of us will still suffer for it.

The good thing about poverty, hardship , insecurities and high cost of living is that they know no tribe or religion.....

So vote whomever you want to vote.

The future will tell

It is not feminism but their actual nature it's just that in the past they were good at hiding it no thanks to culture and religion.

Unfortunately for them, Social media and feminism are currently helping men to see and understand the true nature of women and it is not a commendable sight.

The depressing thing about this pictures is that 97% of the people in this pictures are all dead and majority of them are also forgotten...

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0neal:
They were banned from YouTube for a week but came back stronger and on their way to 1mil sub

Haters reported them after their "they ain't night riders" joke on one episode of the podcast, meaning they don't fu*ck with black women, consequently they got a lot of backlash from the black community

Ok thanks.

Meanwhile, let me go and use "I ain't no night rider" on some entities that are trying to force their way on me on Telegram.....

Trying to imagine the amount of drugs this woman is and will continue be taking all through her confused life.

We are not in anyway saying that there's no Satan. What I'm only saying is that what we regard as Satan in igbo as Ekwensu is not Satan. Now let's analys it in this way.

The Christian Satan couldn’t possibly be the Igbo Ekwensu. At least, that is what their different stories tell.

The Biblical Satan was once a high ranking angel in heaven who revolted. After he was defeated alongside his army, the Biblical Satan was cast off heaven.

Ekwensu, however, is a Pantheon God of Igbo Traditional belief’s system. According to word of mouth history, Ekwensu is the god of trades and bargain. He is seen as a wonderful negotiator and a trickster. This role makes him a go to god due to the commercial nature of the people. Since Igbo Traditional worship is pantheistic, worshipping Ekwensu as a personal God wasn’t uncommon among the people in times past.

Well, according to the Bible and the Koran, there is a being or beings called Satan. For Christians, Satan was once an angel in heaven who fell out of grace with the Biblical God. In Islam, most evil spirits are regarded as “Šayṭān“.

Most Christians of Igbo extraction call Satan “Ekwensu” in Igbo dialect. However, ‘Satan‘ is not “Ekwensu” of Igbo Traditional worship.

Happy reading. I hope you have been able to learn a new thing today. Please share if you enjoyed the knowledge.

Remember that We had our type of government, ways of communication, believe systems, spirituality, ways of trade, justice system, health system, defense system, e.t.c.

I am in not in anyway against Christianity. I am a Christian, and still a Christian, but we have to face the fact. When they ey came with christianizing everything about us, changed our names, our cities names, our towns names, our calendar, our believe systems, demonizing our sacred things and all that we hold dear, our ancestors were labelled demons that we now bind and cast them, they put a knife on what held us together and severed it.

That was how “Ekwensu” became “Satan” …. in Igbo cosmology we don’t have Satan’like entity, who is opposite of God, was once an angel of God, rebelled against God with some angel with him, and now snaring humans into disobeying God, from whom all evil emanates, … No we have no such entity in Igbo cosmology.

The character they re portraying as the person of Satan is all the story of Europeans and when depicting it they draw a wicked black man with horns and tail inside what they called hell fire, the beginning and the end of the story of Satan is European, it has no place in Igbo cosmology.

Ekwensu is a powerful deity of war in Igbo land, it’s shrine is located in Anaku, Anaku is in Ayemelum local government area of Anambra state, just like we also have Haaba Agulu and Agwazi Uga these are deities of war and there re other deities of war and different purposes in Igbo land

Though you are free to regard whom you ever believe is Satan.

They said Satan is Ekwensu in ìgbo, then what is the name of Jesus in Igbo?

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The Omu of Okpanam, whose name was not recorded, photographed by Northcote Thomas in 1912. Okpanam is an Enuani Igbo town near Ahaba (Asaba) in Delta State, Nigeria today.

The Omu [awe-mu] are titled women who control markets and are spiritual protectors to the Obi, the king, in Igbo communities west of the Niger River, typically among the Enuani, and in the past in Onicha (Onitsha) and Osomari on the east bank of the Niger River. There is one Omu in each community with the institution.

The Omu work closely with diviners performing rites for the community and are the authorities over the opening of markets and resolving disputes within the market. The Omu depending on the community and period take titles typically reserved for men and also dress like men, as a consequence women who are post-menopausal are preferred for the role because such women in Igbo society could achieve the same status as men. As is custom in most communities, the Omu was not allowed to be married to a man, Omu were known to marry wives to assist them and have children for them.

Colonialism greatly reduced the power of the Omu in the market and over society in general due to gender bias in the indirect rule system, colonialism was also partly the cause of the disappearance of the institution in some Igbo communities. Today there are many Omu who are still active in their roles.

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