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As a result of injury, Alex has not played for Brazil and club recently. But he will be back shortly.

Apart from the communities earlier mentioned, other notable Iwa-Akwa communities are:
Alike Obowu
Umuezegwu, Ihitte
Umuike, Lowa, Uboma.

Yes, it is.

There are two different things involved in Igbo trad. marriage. One is the fixed price which your father may forgo but believe me, the issue of dowry belongs to umunna (kindred). In this case, your father or grandfather has no control over it. Probably, among the non-diala's, you know the group I mean. They may not share the dowry with their kindred.
To sum it up, no where in Igboland that fathers refuse dowry of their daughters. It is unheard of.

Outstrip:
My mother is Igbo and my dad paid no bride price. None of my cousin's husbands were asked to bring anything by by uncles and aunties.

When you marry an Igbo lady, you are not only marrying the girl but the entire kindred. The dowry is being shared by kindred members. With due respect to you. In the case of your grand parents, they will not partake in the sharing of other peoples dowry because of your dad's attitude of not honouring this age-long tradition. I am sure this shameful act will be the scandal of that period.

Men who eloped with women and did not pay the bride price and dowry always do not show respect to those women.
Men who were brave enough to honour traditional marriages always shows respect to their wives. Most brake-ups in marriages comes from those angles that neglected traditional marriages.
Traditional marriages may be expensive in IGBOLAND (not Iboland), but is nothing when compared to what parents spend in raising up their daughters.
But do not worry, you can pay in instalments incase you are not hardworking.

Irrespective of Sharia laws, muslims alcohol intake is higher than their xtian counterparts in Nigeria.

Women do not actually wear men's trousers. They wear momen's trousers which are sown purposefully for women. My sisters do not wear my trousers nor do I wear theirs.
In my own personal opinion, it is very wrong to arrest women who wear trousers without verification of it. For example mens or gents.

One of the posters here said that he who took what belongs to a child and raises it up, when he gets tired will bring it down and the child (the original owner will have it back.
With the events of this days, some of those Ikwerre people who disclaimed Igbo are now claiming Igbo.
On the subject of Port Harcourt. This city is predominantly owned by Ndiikwerre whom themselves are Ndiigbo. I know Okrika people owe a section of port Harcourt, nothwithstandingly, majority of the city is Igbo and the majority ethnic language spoken in Port Harcourt is Igbo.

Is Tuface really the inventor and composer of 'my African Queen?.

dayokanu:
Maybe.

But u need to visit Nasarawa, Gombe, Plateau, Taraba, Adamawa, to see Languages. though they all speak Hausa

Not all of them speak Hausa. I know a lot of Biroms and Angas people who do not speak Hausa.
But, what is not understandable is when some Igbo dialects are classified as languages for example, Ndoni, Ogba, Ekpeye and so on.

[quote author=by.dot link=topic=317217.msg4489218#msg4489218 date=1252197748]Are we here to talk about footballers nickname or the old school players[/quote]BOTH. You can not mention their nicknames without letting younger generation of Nigerian fans know about them properly.

I remember vividly, that Okey Isima's goal against Tunisia in 1985. He just came off the bench and scored. I hope he inspires the Eagles 2morrow.

At Craven Cottage, during the half time of the friendly match between Nigeria and Rep. of Ireland last May, It was P Square's music that was played in the giant loud speakers.  Even the Irish fans danced and danced especially you go wound o (do me)!. Men! I was there live.

stanloski:
There was a guy with a Ghanaian sounding name that played for eagles from Leventis United- Leotis Boateng wasnt a bad player.

He was actually Ghanian as well as Ben Johnson and Edward Ansah.

stanloski:
What of James Etokebe, wasiu ipaye (later played for shell fc of Gabon) In fact it was the infamous ban on stephen keshi henry nwosu and two others for reporting late to camp that kicked off the mass exodus of players abroad.

They were banned for 1 year by Idiagbon regime and keshi moved to Cote D Ivoire to play for Stella FC before joining Lokeren in belgium then moved to Anderlecht for a princely sum of $400,000 (about 2million naira in those days) Boys went ballistic and all man faced europe. Henry Nwosu moved to Cameroon. Then we only invite like 2 to 3 pros for matches. PPle like John Chidozie, Richard Owobukiri (goal machine) they were called "prefessionals" then. Leventis also had Edward Ansah fantastic goalie. Leventis was the 1st club to go an entire season unbeaten with John mastoruodes as the club head. Good old days.

Leventis achieved that feat in div 3. But when they moved to div 2, they lost to DIC Bees of Kaduna 4:1.
I think there were 5 of them who were suspended. Mostly NNB players e.g Keshi, Eboigbe, Omokaro, Nwosu and Tarilla Okoronwanta from Insurance.

After the disbandment of Leventis United, James Etokebe was bought by Nationale. But he could not dislodge Paul Uzokwe in that NO. 11 position. That marked the beginning of his downfall. Ben Johnson the Ghanian could not also bench Ransome Madu at Nationale.

tayoccu:
@andrew uweh
r u the same andrew that player 4 nigeria?

No, the one that played for Nigeria is Andrew Uwe while the writer here is Andre UWEH. Anyway, Uwe or Uweh is a common surname in Igboland.

Andre Uweh:
As you can see, their clubs then are listed in the posts.

koolchicco:
Yea right!Some of them are quite old tho,maybe i'd enquire from my Grand-Pa.

are you sure your grand-pa will know them?.

the viper:
pple seem to have forgotten my man SAMSON OZOGULA ZION TRAIN

IT SEEMS YOY HAVE NOT READ MY POST. ANYWAY, I HAD EARLIER MENTIONED ZION TRAIN SAMPSON OZOGULA. HE USE TO SCORE FOR IICC AND I.NATIONALE FROM CORNER KICKS.

MrCrackles:
^ Asha80
You must be about 40years old. . . .

He does not need to be 40 to know about stars of yesteryears.

Paul Uzokwe. Hails from Oguta, Imo state. Played for sharks of Port Harcourt but was bought by Willy BAZUAYE, the Iwuanyanwu coach in 1986. What a great left winger he was. He was a member of the eagles team that lost to Ivory Coast in 1987 All African games qualifier.
Thans Asha 80 for reminding us of tis great Oguta boy.

They are stars of the 80's and 90's. Were you not born by then?.

koolchicco:
All these people na footballers,abi una dey add boxers and wrestlers?

As you can see, their clubs then are listed in the posts.

stanloski:
Thanks my brother!
I was shocked the other day when two guys i was conversing with did not know who Etim Esin was!They only know him as a tv pundit! Then there is no way they will know Peter Niketien, John Okon, Monday Odiaka, Bunmi Adigun, Uwem Ekarika, Raymond King, Sam Pam Junior, Humphrey Edobor, Muda Lawal, Thompson Usiyen, Clement Temile, Okey Isima etc. We have lost our history, both in sports and other areas of national life, thats why our people only live for the present! We dont remember our heroes!

Sorry for digressing jare.

Etim Esin-Flash flamingoes and I. Nationale; Peter Niketien-J.berger and Nationale (flying eagles 87), John Okon Calabar Rovers; Monday Odiaka-ACB; Bunmi Adigun-Leventis United; Uwem Ekarika-Leventis United, Sam Pam -Leventis, Clement Temile-Insurance; Okey Isima-Rangers; h. Edobor-NNB,Muda Lawal-IICC, and Abiola babes.

Yes Stanloski, thanks for reminding me of Raymond King. His real name was actually Ramoni Oba.
Do you still remember Chibuzo Ehilegbu, Paul Okuku, Chris Ogbodudu, Chris Anigala, David Ngodigha, Etta Egbe, Ikechukwu Ofoje, Jude Agada, Wahab Haruna and Mojeed Aziz?. Thanks.

Austin Eguavoen--Cerezo
Yakubu Aigbeni--yak
Ben Nwosu--Zico (former spartan)
John moshoe--shoes (South african)
Isaac Semitodje--Ekwe-ekwe
Taofiq Malik--atta (3sc)

stanloski
Well done my brother.

I hereby thank the Yorubas and Ndigbo for their perfect understanding of the poster's ploy. Never again.

Nigeria vs Ghana
Nigeria vs Cameroun
Ghana vs Ivory Coast
Brazil vs Argentina
Brazil vs Norway

Chelsea vs Fulham
Arsenal vs Hotspur
Rangers vs Sootin
Rangers vs Spartans (heartland)
Middlesborough vs Sunderland vs Newcastle
Southernton vs Portsmouth

Greatest of the greatest UI. Greattttttttttttttttttt!. Am so proud of Unibadan and Tedder Hall.

Benjy Nzeako--touchline wizard. Played for Eagles from 1985-1987. Played for sharks of Port Harcourt and Iwuanyanwu Nationale (spartans).