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Nwanyi na akwa akwa, i na akwa akwa na okuko yiri akwa n'elu akwa I kwara akwa.

This same Ajumobi that has castigated Akala for draining the state pulse. Now, where has this money come from?. He is also finding it uneasy to pay workers the required minimum wage. This Governor is not serious at all. Anyway, politicians are not the only ones to be honoured, there are other men that excelled in that state or Yorubaland in different fields. Monuments or anything can be built for their evergreen memories.
In sports, Muda Lawal, Felix Owolabi, Segun Odegbami, Best Ogedengbe, Mutiu Adepoju, Dimeji Lawal, Chris Nwosu, Bella Momo etc. They deserve their own statutes.
In music, Sunny Ade, E. Obey, Orland Owoh, Kollington Ayinla etc.
Hubert Ogunde, Baba Sala (Olaiya) etc in arts are not yet honoured.

Ababanna (Agbaso)--Egoakokwam.

coogar:
i was wondering too. . . . .tiote signed 7-yr contract in february with newcastle after posting an excellent performance for the toon army. his market value should be somewhere around £25 million but then you never know - alam pardew might need the wonga to buy the disappointing david luiz or the "has-been" nickolas anelka.

This your brainless post above belongs to the thrash bin. What a crap!.

dayokanu:
God punish Akala

Take am easy na. Mind you, he is your town's man.

Mama Magi zutara magi, Magi rachaa magi mama Magi zutara.

Ukochukwu okechukwu kwuru okwu chukwu na ulo chukwu di na Aro Chukwu.

Okwuntabiire/okwumgbawaonu bara ezigbo uru n'asusu Igbo. Okwuntabiire bu okwu eji amata onye nwere ike ikwu okwu oso oso na-ekwugharighi onu.
NdiIgbo bia dee nke i ma.

abagoro:
This is from your www.ndiowa.com foolish man.Now go and hug transformer.


The first version and by far the most popular states that Ndi Owa are of Nri origin, i.e. from Awka in Anambra State. According to Onwuejeogwu (1970) and based on linguistic, archeological and genealogical data, the migratory movement started at about 900 A.D. and continued till early 20th century. This migratory flow led to the establishment of towns and villages to the west of the Niger. But more importantly, immigrants from Nri, between the 12th and 13th centuries settled at Ute-Okpu under the leadership of Ijueh, who thus established the dynasty of rulers of Ute-Okpu. It was therefore from Ute-Okpu that Odogwu later established the Owa dynasty


http://www.ndi-owa.com/index.php/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=66:origin-of-owa&catid=4:owa&Itemid=9

Thanks Abagworo, thanks for bring this up. Even Prof Onwuejeogwu who spent over 20 years of his career researching on Western Igbo people is from Anioma/Delta state.

abagoro:
@agbotaen, we have passed this stage and you have been disgraced out and yet you keep coming here to digrace yourself,the Ika and the entire Igbo.

The name of your website (ndi)owa.com is already passing a message of (ndi)igbo.com.

Obi of Owa has made it very clear that he is an Nri man by lineage and your kingship is based on Nri and not Bini.You rather got influenced by Bini.

It is safe for you to choose not to be Igbo but stop talking on behalf of those greater than you(Obi Efeizomor has claimed Igbo).He is the custodian of your culture and hence has more knowledge than you Solomon.Your father is not happy with you at all.

WORD.

vicenzo:
Dude,give it up,stop dragging agbor into this,your are not from agbor,you have a bigger fish to fry,agbontaen,your obi,the obi of owa, have dumped your beloved bini for nri,agbontaen! Shouldn't you be confronting your obi with your bini crap? Why are you wasting your time in NL, writing to people who cannot help bring your obi to his senses,so that he will uphold your bini crap? Shouldn't you be seeking the help of bini witches to fortify you for your task? Since when has ika turned to agbor and owa only,that an igbodo man's opinion should not be listened to?

WORD

@The Poster, Igbo language is so rich that there are two concepts involved in your question. The are to learn Igbo and secondly, to understand Igbo language. Learning Igbo language may not be that though like other Nigerian languages but it is in understanding it is the in thing. For example, an Igbo may say ''M ga ezi gi eluigwe''. Only an Igbo person or someone who is well grounded in the language will understand what that means. That is the nature of Igbo language. A non Igbo who is learning Igbo will interprete it as 'I will show you the sky''. But if you are an Igbo, it is not what that means.

exotik:
and the language they speak is not igbo language, they speak ika language.

and an Ijebu man speaks Ijebu language. In your logic, Ijebu is not Yoruba. Boy, give up and stop displaying further stupidity in this thread.

NdiIgbo ekelem. Ejim nnukwute oherea na ekele Umu ntorobia Igbo (Igbo youths) in The U.K, nke m so buru ndi nkwado ya. Anakwam ekele nwamadi aha meputara film nke anakpo Mirror Boy-Obi Emelonye.
I mere nke oma, NdiIgbo so gi na azu. Biko UmuIgbo no ebea, Mirror Boy is being shown in most Odeon cimemas round the U.K.

[quote author=alj_harem link=topic=458875.msg8685909#msg8685909 date=1310251390]yeah we have bini which to me is yoruba or yorubiod, ijaw, hausa and even igbo influenece and yes we are detribalised nigerians

unless u we are provoked then we would call our warriors from ogbomosho and shagamu to help us in lagos

we aworis are pro nigerians and very mixed with groups far and wide and consisder ourselves yoruba/bini

now ika people are a bit naught to me

maybe because i do not really understand there origin but from my finding i would consider them igbo anyday any time

whether they like it or not

once your name is uche, ike, etc u are igbo to me and i know it might seem like ignorance but that is me and my view to it

a bi u people want to divide till each man forms his own village as a country[/quote]Well said Alh Uche.

[quote author=alj_harem link=topic=458875.msg8685824#msg8685824 date=1310249598]andre andre

hw far na[/quote]Alh Uche, am fine. I like you Awori guys because despite Bini influence in Lagos, you guys do not disclaim Yoruba.

exotik:
lol, so it is only the nta aka nigerian television authority section of his name you could translate in igbo? when the whole name agbontaen is an edo name meaning the world is long.

agbon-world
taen-long

now i can understand why they dont want to be called igbos coz clearly most of their names have nothing to do with igbo

You are a no brainer at all. An Igboman in this forum is known as Gen-Buhari. Yet he is not Hausa/fulani nor a military man. Your argument is baseless.

And also this

nateevs:
Ibime is not asking him to tell the world but to use his influence that got him to DOF to help ease Essien out. He knows better. Some of us have been seeing this coming. I even remember saying I will drive him to Milan myself if we got 18m for him.

Reports coming in now indicate that he may be out for the season. He will be 30 by the time he returns and without football for a season.

Scan on his knee will be conducted on Monday 11/07/11. Reports reaching me suggests it is not as bad as people think.

This threead belongs to sports section. However, congrats to Rivers state and congrats to Igbo athletes whom contributed 80% of the medals won by Rivers state.

Ibime:
Essien has been £5m down the drain every year since 2009. Yet some stoopid suits at Chelsea say no when clubs wanna sign him for £18m. Michael Emenalo is another guy who is compromised. He as an African should know more than any that Essien is an old man, especially after former Ghana President said Essien is an age cheat. Even when they asked Richard Kingson why Essien takes too long to recover from injury, he said that it takes longer to recover from injury at Essiens age. Emenalo knows that this guy is a diminishing force, yet keeps schtum and is just happy to collect his wages without making decisions that would benefit the club.

Nna biko nwayo nwayo.
Essien's parents are the one to say if their son is a cheat. However, they have not said that.
What do you expect Emenalo to say?, biko hapu ya aka. Do you want him to go and tell the world that Essien is a cheat, yet he has no evidence that will support his claim.
Ibime, biko biko biko.

[quote author=Negro_Ntns link=topic=548902.msg8681964#msg8681964 date=1310188681]To Abagworo,

Your response is the only one with some element of interest, those other dudes are wasting their time.

Chinenye, please teach those young bloods how to talk to people.

So Abagworo, you say Ife and Lagos belong to Binis. Did you actually say that or was that my imagination?

I can't believe your propaganda went that far.

Bini royalty is a spin off of Ife, as much Lagos royalty is a spin off of Bini.

Ife/Bini/lagos, all one family.

When you talk about the lands, that's a different story!

Ife - Yorubaland
Bini - Edoland
Lagos - Aworiland

All three are Yorubanation!

Bini Kings are buried in Ife, Lagos Kings are buried in Bini.

We live and cohabit in peace. If Bini say they no longer are part of the Yoruba brotherhood we say bye bye and goodluck to them. We do not force and rewrite their history to make them submit to our will.

But we are tied together not just in poolitis and culture but also in blood.

The Bini King, Omo N' Oba was innocent in his missed assessment of the brotherhood between his palace and the Ooni palace.

The Staff of Oranmiyan, the Imperial authority of the Yoruba cradle is in Ife, not Bini.
So we understand and we accomodate. In its past there had been confusion about whether Oba of Lagos is a descendant of Oba of Bini. The doubters were shown the proof and the issue was resolved.

We in the West may compete but we are never confused about the who, where, what, when, how of the dynamics of our bonds and allegiance.

There is no land grab and there is no minority, we are Yorubas a race with majestic past and a more meaningful future.

All are welcome in our nation who desire to belong and be proud!

Stop the land grab! You cannot force Anioma State into existence by coercion and intimidation of people who have clearly told you they speak Igbos or their towns border into Igbos but they are not natives and do not share ancestry with Igbos. [/quote]For once you hardly find any Igbo accusing Yorubas of land grab in Kwara and parts of Kogi state. All the time, it is school drop-outs from Yoruba angle who chat rubbish about land grab. This stupidity is getting too much day by day. When Aniomas here chat about their Igbo heritage you will not see it, but when one efulefu from there disclaims Igbo, then you will come out of your dungeon to yawn nonsense. Anyway, at the moment, the number one Igbo citizen is an Anioma man-Amb Ralph Uwaechue. Its a pity as it is shameful that you have not heard of him yet.

@Afrodiva, most of the crap you have been chatting here are laughable. So by comparing some similarities between Ekpeye/Ikwerre and Okrika means that the former are not Igbo. Shame to you. In another thread, Omonuan from Anioma compiled almost a page of similarities between Bini and Igbo. But he never used that as a case to claim that his Igbo area is not Igbo but Bini. Keep deceiving yourself.

It was at World Igbo congress in London in 1998 that the speaker of the day an Ikwere son-Wanodi Okugbule pleaded to the entire world that Ikwerre is Igbo. I still have a full text of his speech till date.
During my traditional marriage ceremony in Ikwerreland, there was nothing to teach anyone that Ikwerres were not Igbo. Infact, the opening prayer and blessing of kolanut were done in Igbo. The closing prayers were in Igbo language. The M.C of the day-an Ikwerre son addressed the audience in Igbo throught the day. The same way my sisters were giving palm wine to go round and find their husbands on their trad.wedding days was also what we witnessed in Ikwerreland.
It is an outright stupidity for some dimwits here to claim that Ikwerre people are not Igbo. What a shame.

Is Lagos no man's land or all mans land?.

@Jarus, thanks for bringing up this issue. I welcome your ideas, but something has to be done in relation to Becomerich's posts and threads. The entire nation is watching.

@Physics.
Ali, ana or ala or mean the same thing in Igbo language. In Anambra and Oshimiri/Anaocha in Delta state, they use ana for land. In parts of Ika/Ukwuani and Rivers Igbo, they use Ali while in Imo/Abia, land is Ala.
Oza nagogo people do not wish to move out of Anioma to elsewhere unlike in Igbanke, a people that for ages resisted their inclusion in Edo state. They are IkaIgbo and has always demanded to join their kins in Anioma.

Ndi Isinweke-Etiti (Ihitte/Uboma/Obowu) unu anwunno.
Ndi Imo state, Unu anwuchulee oo!.
Ejikwam Oherea na ekele Mazi Benjy Uwajumogu-onye ndi Imo statii roputara ka o jere ha ozi na ulo okaiwu (Speaker Imo state house of assembly).
Anwunno.

igbo boy:
Andre uweh, dem people and co, please where can i learn to write igbo and even speak as well. I dont leave with my parents anymore so i dont have the privilege to ask them to teach me. All the igbos i know for this obodo america will be speaking english like they are descendants of the british throne

I can make sentences but cant carry a full conversation in igbo and I am deeply worried. I pretty much understand like 50% cos my parents did speak to me but i was never obliged to respond in kind plus when u grow up in a place like warri where even the so called indigenes only speak pdigin and not their own language will it be an nwa oshimili that will come and speak igbo properly?

Biko achorum ma otue ha na su asusu be' ayi by force onye ga kazuri me otue ha na su plus otue ha de' igbo?
I dont think all hope is lost for me cos i am not starting from scratch (except for the writing part0

Your interest in learning Igbo language is welcomed. There are so many internet sites that has Igbo lessons e.g UwandiIgbo: http://www.uwandiigbo.com/index.html. You may buy some Igbo textbooks when you visit Nigeria or you can send some money to your relatives to buy them and send it across. One of the numerous books you can buy include: Ndezu Utoasusu Igbo by Ofomata. C. (2004), Enugu.