Andro Blaze: I'm a son of the early 80's, so I am not ashamed to say I have lost the greatest Nigerian Hero I knew who inspired me all through my youth.
He meant more to me and a lot of my fellow agemates than a million Mikel Obis, a billion Obasanjos and a trillion Goodluck Ebele Johnathans will ever mean.
I will miss you, the greatest Nigerian Hero in my Lifetime.
Which of Yekini's goals do you consider the greatest?.This is a simple question.
Yekini's goal against Cameroun in 92 nations cup match in senegal. It was a third placed match and Nigeria won by a lone goal. I think Ikpeba gave him the pass and Yekini dribbled Mekanaky and two other defenders to score.
nateevs: I'm not sure any will sell Earls Court. That's said, no council will approve the site of a stadium on that small road. Meanwhile it will be amazing to see the renders of the stadium as the building is a Grade II listed building. Nothing can be changed. How nice to see a stadium with the towers!
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nateevs: I'm not sure any will sell Earls Court. That's said, no council will approve the site of a stadium on that small road.
Meanwhile it will be amazing to see the renders of the stadium as the building is a Grade II listed building. Nothing can be changed. How nice to see a stadium with the towers!
odumchi: Ah okay, I see now. And I agree that it's a pity that most of these guys are old/disabled now. Thanks.
Dan Orji's biggest problem is his sight. Even with his blindness, he is still a crowd puller. The issue of praising some people in songs is a souther or Nigerian affair. The likes of Sunny Ade and E. Obey do the same. I can remember Sunny Ade's song dedicated to Morris Ibekwe (Okwelle Holdings) in the 90's.
Ibime: Well its Millwall territory. . . we're just basically crossing the River. . . literally one or two miles from Stamford Bridge. . . and probably the only place in South-West-Central London with such space for a footie stadium. . .
Not really. Milwall is on the other side of the Thames, Bermondsey and in S. East.
Eddie Quansa is classic. I enjoy it a lot. It's a pity the originator is blind now. Most of the names in that song were big boys of old Imo state in the 70s and 80's. Lemmy Akakem- a household name in Imo state. He along Chief Emma Iwuanyanwu acquired Spartans f.c of Owerri and transformed the club. They saved the club from extinction. While Chief Iwuanyanwu became the proprietor, Akakem became the Chairman (1985). I watched Dan Orji's show live in Aba in 2002 at a bar in Ama Ogbonna, Overrail Aba. A great entertainer.
Nice to welcome Ivanovic back after suspenction. I think this chap has been our second best player this season. Chelsea's best players this season Mata Ivanovic Ramires.
With players like Piazon, Chilobar, Feiruz etc smashing Blackburn Rovers youth team the first leg cup final, highlights that we do not need to buy more players.
PROUD-IGBO: Was searching for that elusive track by Celestine Ukwu, and came across this. Listening to it, i had to concentrate to understand what was being said- the dialect seems to be Imo/Abia: am i wrong anyone ?
As far as i'm concerned the best Igbo music was made just after the civil war, and will be evergreen and everlasting in our lifes.
Does anyone remember the song, and what memories does it bring back for you?
This song reminds me of the new masquerade and the late Gringori. It is a pity such a talent died at the same time Ojukwu was being buried and as a result, lost the publicity he required.
@The last presidential election, ACN members did not vote for the PDP candidate. Rather they sat at home that day. The way forward here is for the South westernern voters to be independent minded. The idea of allowing their leaders to dictate for them on whom to vote is not helping matters.
wogul: LOVETH SILVER UDE REPORTS: Hmm. I was minding my business today when an Imolite reached out to me via messenger. Her first line was … “Your Uncle was booed today at the Secretariat“. “Uncle” ofcourse being Governor Rochas Okorocha. LWKMD. You people should free me abeg! Anyway, so back to the gist. She goes to spill details of the Governor’s ordeal in the hands of unhappy civil servants at the Secretariat today. Not sure how many of you read the last Press Release from the Government House where Gov.Okorocha explained the need to redeploy workers to the rural areas. It was at that meeting that all hell broke loose. The whole place erupted in loud booing. . In her own words :
“The (edited) man said he wants to downsize ministries. That each ministry should have just 100 staff. Government House 100 and very big ministries maybe 200….. so he went there to address them and he was booed close to tears. My husband was there live. He said shame leave Rochas catch am.
She continued….
That news made my day ! Atleast, his mesmerizing jazz don dey wear off. Nne m, I no fit happy. No sympathy for him. They said he couldn’t even address them again because the booing was “one in town“. He left there and went and cancelled all other appointments. Went straight to the airport and off to Abuja.
Then she ends the transmission with….
“Onwebeghi ihe ohuru! Ugbua ka wu ututu ya!
@ The poster, are you by chance related to that monkey I offered peanut at the Nekede zoo recently or are you the one?. This post reminds me of how overfed that monkey was that hour.
alj harem: It even get better I never even know say Ndokwa done disown una
LOL ROMFLAO !!!!!!!!
[size=13pt]Ndokwa not Igbo [/size] By Omenazu Ofili
MR. Ikebudu’s letter to the Editor titled Re: The position of Ukwuani in the Delta Maze in the Vanguard of Monday, September 4, 2006, made a sorry reading, what with his indictment of his ethnic stock. The letter was a response to Francis Uchekaogwu’s piece, Locating Ndokwa in the Delta maze, which featured in the Vanguard of Thursday, August 31, 2006. Ikebudu chided Uchekaogwu for “wondering at both the source and incidence of the problem which he and his likes are consciously and unconsciously fueling". He dismissed the problem of identity of the Ukwuani as artificially created by a ridiculous denial of their Igbo roots, the aftermath, according to him, of a government-imposed Igbo defeat complex syndrome. Thus, in Ikebudu’s opinion, the bane of underdevelopment and other problems in Ndokwa is their denial of their alleged Igboness.
Ikebudu apparently appeared to be confusing issues. Why do Igbos like him blame their tribal shortcomings and failures on a supposed government anti-Igboism? Why do they still see themselves as still suffering from the defeat in the civil war of late 1960s when other tribes who were on the same Biafran side have since put the war behind them, preferring to chart a new course for themselves? If Ikebudu appreciates his indictment of his tribe as extremely selfish, with innumerable mannerisms that can asphyxiate any right thinking person, then, he ought not blame a government-imposed defeatist syndrome for the woes of the Igbo.
The Ukwuani or Ndokwa man does not share any of these traits with the Igbo. They lack the selfish aggression of the Igbo. Neither have they ever seen themselves as Igbo, right from pre-colonial times. A walk through history’s lane of antiquity will reveal that they cherish and treasure their Ukwuaniness. It did not start in the 1960s; so it cannot be dismissed as self (Igbo) denial arising from a defeatist complex. Neither can it be waved aside as distancing from the Igbo stock in the hope of tremendously enhancing economic fortunes since our pride of ancestry as Ukwuani did not start with the creation of states or the discovery of oil.
Ukwuani is a unique and distinct language created and endowed by God on the Ukwuani people. Its similarity with any other language should not be taken for sameness, just as the similarity of most extant European languages with Latin or with one another does not confer synonymity on them. Austria is not Germany, neither is Portuguese, Spanish nor Dutch Afrikaans. Ukwuani language is the very essence of our Ukwuaniness and we all have a duty to project and protect it. In spite of the lingual affinity, the average Ukwuani man does not see himself as an Igbo. A generalized grouping that does not take into cognizance the feeling and conviction of the Ukwuani man on this issue of identity does not change his perception. Until slave trade, colonialism, Christianity and globalization, the Ukwuani man had very little to do with the Igbo. They were mutually apart, mutually unintelligible in language and each maintained its prejudices against the other. Both have a separate identity, which should be recognized and respected. People should, therefore, beware of ascribing an identity to a person different from what that person likes to be identified as.
The language similarity often resulted in people erroneously categorising the Ukwuani as Igbo or a sub-culture of the Igbo, just as they have been ethnically mistaken for some of their neighbours like the Isoko and Urhobo. The average Ukwuani man, however, has never seen or identified himself as Igbo. Neither did he understand the Igbo language. In fact, Igboland was a distant territory until colonialism and globalisation resulted in increased contact and interaction between both peoples. Dr. S. N. Nwabara observed in Iboland: A Century of Contact with Britain 1860-1960, that until recently, the name Igbo, was not shared by all Ibo speaking peoples.
The riverain peoples occupying the banks of the Niger, including the Ndokwa, referred to the Ibo hinterland as Ndigbo and to themselves as Ndimili (Ndosumili) or Ndiolu. There exist substantial differences between Igbo and Ukwuani people. The low level of mutual intelligibility and diverse cultural disparities mark the Ukwuani out as a distinct ethnic group. It was in this light that Hon. Ossai N. Ossai, member representing Ndokwa West constituency in the Delta State House of Assembly, moved a motion in 2003 for the official recognition of Ndokwa (Ndosumili and Ukwuani) ethnic identity through the transmission of communication about state matters in their language. The motion received near-unanimous acclamation with only one dissenting voice. It is only fair to concede to the Ukwuani the right to self-determination to choose an identity for themselves.
I wonder what these igbos wants go gain by trying to liken the ika people(agbor.Umunede,owa etc) to be igbos.Everywhere i go these igbos keep saying this nauseous trash.For the fact that our people allowed the igbos to migrate in mass to our land does not now mean that we are igbos.Pls the ikas can never be igbos.God forbid that we will join the igbos.Dodo umunem do nim kwe ni enyi ele ndigbo.Abi ndiigbome.Lol.My fellow ika brothers help me speak this out.We are bini not igbos.Tnks
alj harem: [size=18pt]We are not Igbos the bitter truth[/size]
I condemn in totality, the attempt of many people outside the Anioma region trying to re-write the history of the ethnic group as no group from the outside can re-write our history. The Aniocha, Ika, Oshimili, Ndokwa, Ukwani are one indivisible people with one destiny called Anioma, and located within the south-Southern region of Delta State Nigeria.
There is nothing controversial about the history of Anioma people as the Igbo make us believe. No single ethnic nation can lay claim to the ownership of the region because the people are entirely distinct and distinctive like other ethnic groups in the country. Even the vast humans and personalities produced over the thing by the Anioma ethnic group cannot be overwhelmed by any single or group of ethnic groups because we deserve to be known as we desire.
Other ethnic groups apart from the Igbo have since recognized the Anioma as being distinct from what anyone can call “sub” A long time ago our fathers, the founder of Anioma realized the difficulty of going with any one group in the country because it would amount to marginalization and thought up the political idea of “Anioma” Anioma no matter what you think refers political and cultural quadrants of Aniocha, Ndokwa, Ika and Oshimili. A people are defined and made to be what they say are, in the light of this no group, large or small possess any moral right to re-define the social and political destiny of people. We, the people of Anioma are defined by our culture, tradition, history and geography and we cannot be geographically re-situated because we were in the first place made to naturally so by the almighty God.
We do know that Anioma people have the feature of diverse origins but we have become united by culture and history and nothing, I repeat nothing can change this development. The culture we have developed have now become distinct from those of others, and nothing can explain this in the contrary. No individual or group of people can write our history better than us because we understand ourselves better than them from the outside do. We inhabit the West and they inhabit the East, we are situated in the South-south geo-political zone today as defined by the Federal Government of Nigeria, while they inhabit the South-East geo-political zone. We have since sacrificed a lot to them, while we have benefited nothing from them.
We are in the eyes “fake Igbo” while they are their eyes “core Igbo,” they call themselves “Igbo” and call us “Delta Igbo” In 1967, they did not consider at all that we were Igbo when Republic of Biafra was declared, Bifra started from Onitsha and ended just before Cameroon but when more men were needed to fight, we hurriedly became Biafrans. When the issue of State creation in Nigeria re-surfaced we once again became South-southerners which we truly are. This is enough to let us stay on our own, every Anioma person(s) who continue to attend Ohaneze Ndiigbo and try to force it on us should first of all open the agenda of Ohaneze and tell us their plans for us.
They use linguistics to want to force us to agree that we are what they have devised as “Igboid” but we know that though Igbo language is intelligible to all in Anioma, more than half of the people of this ethnicity speak languages that are related to Edo, Igala, Idoma, old Yoruba etc which if expressed an Igboman from South-east will not understand. It is very vexation to remember that the people of South-east went to war with Nigeria in 1967 because they felt they were not Nigerian but Biafrans and today they try forcefully identifying us as Igbo only orally and on papers, and then denying us of this when it matters. Linguistics alone cannot justify the ethnicity of any group. Similarity in names too cannot justify homogeneity in ethnicity.
If you have ever heard of Ezechime, then realize that this Diokpa from Benin Kingdom now in Edo State is progenitor of many Anioma communities too numerous to mention here such as Onitsha in Present Anambra State, Onicha-Ugbo, Onicha-Olona, Issele-Uku, Issele-Mkpitime, Obamkpa, etc but the problem the people of Anioma have at the moment is that the ethnicity did not fit into the early ethnography’s invention of ethnic identities in Nigeria. There are some towns and communities in Anioma whose history laid claim to originating from Igboland notably Ibusa and Asaba but not all Anioma people are Igbo. The Agbor (Ika) are far from being Igbo as their progenitor arrived from Edo may centuries ago to found the communities.
If the Igbo cannot help us realize our long sought dream of Anioma State, they should leave us alone and not bother us with whether we are Igbo or not, this is no longer important in our history since we have since revolved our own distinct kind of history, linguistic and culture, capable of advancing us. “Anioma people are now a special breed, endowed with intellectual gift… today, Anioma people are using that gift of intellect to make contributions to democracy and national unity in Nigeria and around the world. This commendation is a testimony of many of the contributions Anioma women, have made over the years in Nigeria and elsewhere (Challenges to Democracy and National Unity in Nigeria: The Case Study of Anioma People, Sadiq A. Abdullahi)
We have been marginalized by the Federal Government and Igbo ethnic group who have constantly denied us of the creation of Anioma State, and our own neighbouring ethnic groups but we know that the visions of our leaders shall never be undermined. We have no inheritance in whatever ethnic group near or close that want us only in terms of population to politically score a point and seek to outsmart other ethnic groups in the country. And all of you who are seeking to reverse or turn back the hand of our history by writing our history in Wikipedia.org and else where we admonish you to keep away from seeking to attempt to turn back the hand of clock. Our own is our own, and your own is your own. Leave us alone and let us grow.
Culture › Re: Cultural-Political Attire From Different States by AndreUweh(m): 1:03pm On May 06, 2012
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! Atleast, his mesmerizing jazz don dey wear off. Nne m, I no fit happy. No sympathy for him. They said he couldn’t even address them again because the booing was “one in town“. He left there and went and cancelled all other appointments. Went straight to the airport and off to Abuja. 
