₦airaland Forum

Ojiofor:
Which year was this ethnic group manufactured?
Only in Nigeria

Igodomigodo is what is known today as Edo State.

Benin is inside Igodomigodo

MelesZenawi:
The DNA long said Bini as their origin...

They are partially Yorubas also.


Proved.

Ikwerres has no business with Yoruba or bini

They are indegenous people of Igodomigodo

Hellraiser77:
We ikwerre have half Bini half Yoruba ancestry, we borrowed Igbo language for awhile, we will return it after we learn our Bini/Yoruba language

Ikwere has no business with binis or Yoruba

Tranquillity360:
We Ikwerre are not Ibo.



We are south south.















We are Yorubas.

Lol

Of cause you are Yoruba because your not Ikwerre

Ctorch:
30th July, 2020
Press Statement
BRACED Union Counters Amaechi's Claim That Ikwerres Are Igbos
The BRACED Union, an umbrella group of Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa-Ibom, Cross River, Edo and Delta States of the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria has countered the claim recently made by the Minister of Transport, Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi that the people of Ikwerre in Rivers State are Igbos by origin.
The group in a statement endorsed by its National President, High Chief Monday Wehere is in sharp disagreement with such assumption by Amaechi, admonishing him not to bring the people of South-South into the unfavourable Nigerian political climate for personal interest.
The statement said that Amaechi in the first instance has no locus standing to speak on behalf of the Ikwerre people or the South-South region. The group believes that Amaechi has not attained that status of a rallying figure no matter the level he has climbed to in politics.
According to the statement, "History has it that in the early nineties, the white man was looking for labourers and so they approached the Ikwerres and their surrounding neighbours of Kalabari, Okrika and Eleme who flatly refused them for labour. The white man therefore, penetrated the Igbo hinterlands and recruited very willing labourers. And that was the beginning of the Igbo man's adventure in Ikwerre land. However, the administrative arrangements of the white man wrongly posited the Ikwerre and other peoples of Southern Nigeria into the Eastern region, largely dominated by the Igbos.
"So to now claim that the Ikwerres are Igbos because of communal proximity and mix-up is an aberration. As an Ikwerre man, that statement was least expected from Rotimi Amaechi who should know better where the Ikwerre man stands in terms of origin and root. But in case he doesn't know or pretends not to know, he should consult history gurus from Ikwerre rather than throwing up political tantrums to score a cheap one", the statement read in parts.
In addition, the group insisted that as the mouthpiece of the South-South people in terms of advocacy for cultural renaissance, progressive reorientation, building of capacity for inter-BRACED States economic growth and development, it would continue to speak for and protect the interest of the people of the BRACED States.
"We cannot be hoodwinked by political gimmicks. We know who we are, and we are resolute in achieving our own identity independently", the statement further averred.
Comr. Dcn. Patrick Ochei,
Director of Media, BU.

Ikwere people are from Igodomigodo, they are one of our clan. They have nothing to do with the Igbos.

iyofason:
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Bro Ife and Ibinu has something in common, but not what you wrote here. Pls research more.

ife gave birth to Ibinu

OfoIgbo:
NRI also started in the BC era. I am aware of an academic process by someone to prove it at the moment. That effort will correctly ascribe a more accurate date to NRI civilisation.
The date will also dwarf the Igodomigodo date.
NRI held sway as the cultural overlords of Igodomigodo, the same way NRI was the cultural overlords over Benin.

Nri kingdom was founded in 9 century

Bkayyy:
So it is Igodo you are talking about. The guy wasn't wrong when he said igodomigodo was an offshoot of nri. Incase you don't know Igodo means key

Of cause I know igodo mean key.

One of our Ogiso son birth Nri kingdom

OfoIgbo:
People say Eri is a descendant of Had the son of Jacob. These are speculations.

But one thing every NRI man knows is that NRI held sway over Igodomigodo and Benin.
If Ewuare I, or Ozolua were around and read that you are attempting to bring NRI down to the level of Ife or Igodomigodo or Benin, they will use your corpse to bury the next oba to die.

NRI which remains the oldest surviving kingdom has a huge cultural significance

Chae eee

This is the reason why no body take you Igbo serious in this country.

Jacob my asss

One of our Ogiso son founded Nri kingdom.

Those Obas you mentioned above ruled just yesterday in Benin Kingdom.

I am talking about the ancient kingdom of Igodomigodo where am a citizen.

OfoIgbo:
9century AD is the year the Igboukwu artifacts were created and buried in a land that used to belong to Oraeri, an offshoot of NRI.

What it means is that NRI itself is far older than Oraeri which is Nri's offshoot.

An offshoot is always later, than the real deal.

Academic Books have already recorded the cultural preeminence of NRI during the Igodomigodo days, so your falsifications on nairaland won't cut it.

Portuguese explorers recorded Nri's preeminence over Benin culturally. Cannot be changed by latter day revisionists

Nri kingdom was founded by Eri in 9 century AD and you people agreed that you have no clue where he migrated from. You even suggest he fell from sky.

Eri is from Igodomigodo, one of the son of our Ogiso. He founded Nri kingdom, other of our children founded several Igbo communities.

No one fell from sky.. You hear

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Nri

OfoIgbo:
You don't seem to understand.
Igbos are by far, more ancient than Igodomigodo.

Igbo language was for many centuries, the language of the Igodomigodo and Benin royal courts.
How do you think they were communicating with their NRI cultural overlords?

Nri was founded by one of the son of Igodo in 9 century A.D.

We gave birth to Igbo people

adadike:
This is interesting. I didn't study history in school so am very much interested in this. Biko my people, I attended a burial in Oguta 2, they tied one piece of plain George material on their waist, when I enquired, someone said, it's because theu migrated from Edo, I don't believe it though, so someone should clarify me.
Secondly, what's the difference between oru and Igbo?
Cc Atigba, dedetwo, comonsense99, Slayer forever, ofoigbo

Oguta people are from the ancient Igodomigodo know today as Edo State.

Oru people are also from Igodomigodo, the difference between them and Oguta is that the migration happened in different period.

I don't know where the name Igbo stem from, Igbo is a conglomerate of different ethnic nationalities.

Osagyefo98:
Mr there is nothing like igodomigodo.

that thing is a moonlight story false as that of tortoise and it's intelligence.

Quiet
You Yoruba

adadike:
who is Idu

Idu is a person, the progenitor of our race

thesolutions:
Yes. If truth had not become legend, we would have been termed Israelis in diaspora. But since Umuahia can not be Israel, we won't because of that deny our origin.

Which is Igodomigodo

thesolutions:
Mania can never be Israel. But that you are unapologetic for spreading falsehood shows who you are. A lost soul consoling himself by mocking those journeying back.

Good you have answered my question

Umuanhia is not Israel

thesolutions:
The bolded is propagation of falsehood. Afara is in Umuahia. Not in Ohafia.

Is umuahia Israel?

Bkayyy:
It is funny. Do you know that the major determinant of ethnicity is phenotype before language.
Now tell me, is there any difference in the phenotype of igbos across igbo land including the now "anioma" and "ikwerre"?
Is there any similarity in your acclaimed igodomigodo igbos phenotype and contemporary Benin and ijaws?

All the ethnic nationalities you mentioned are clans in Igodomigodo.

Ikwerres is a clan in Igodomigodo

The people know as Igbo today stem from Ika,Igbanke,Owa in Igodomigodo

Anioma is an offshoot of Igodomigodo, our children founded those communities.

Bkayyy:
I just glanced through it and it looks somehow.
From what I can grab you were saying that:
1.) igodomigodo is like a distinct ethnicity
2.)The Benin people we know of in Edo State are not the owners of the land but igodomigodo
3.) after igodomigodo fell to the oduduwa Yoruba, Benin was created
4.) after the fall of igodomigodo, some of its citizens decided to travel to igbo land and were peacefully accepted
5.)igodomigodo has no distinct language because the resultant states don't speak related languages as the igbo counterparts speak Niger Congo and the western Niger benue, and their phenotype says otherwise
I can't help the laughter lol

Why are you laughing

It is the truth

Kamanuozuzu:
There's no Afara in Ohafia. The only Afara village in Igboland can be found in Ibeku, Umuahia.

Nnamdi Kanu is from Afara, Ibeku - Umuahia.

It doesn't change anything

Idu children populate Abia State

Kamanuozuzu:
Nnamdi*

Go and ask your father question if you are from those town I mentioned above

Bkayyy:
What do you mean by igodomigodo idu?

Sorry, look for my other thread and join

Indigenous people of Igodomigodo

Bkayyy:
By the way what is this your version of igodomigodo that needs members?

Members?

We are not cultist

I opened this thread for all the descendants of Igodomigodo Idu to rob mind, discuss our difference and unite.

Admissionclass:
They should go back to Benin were they migrated from..

How can you drive the majority of Igbos who are Igodomigodo citizens out of the South East.

Is impossible. Even you might be one of our son

Kamanuozuzu:
First, Alayi, Ututu, Igbere, etc are not Edo words.

Secondly, that part of Igbo land don't say "Be". They say "Ibe".

So, the write-up is not only fundamental flawed but lacks merit.

Otherwise, we'd like to see your source(s).

Again, I think the author is only after Nnamdi Kanu.

I mentioned Nnadi Kanu in the article not the author.

Yes those names are Igodomigodo Idu names.

Bkayyy:
Your millions is from Wikipedia which by the way is not a reliable source. If you were educated you would have known that Wikipedia as a source is not acceptable in any seminar or project in the University
That was why I asked for the reference to the millions on the Wikipedia page

He is a fraud

Benin are minority in Edo State

Etinosa1234:
Clown... those villages there belong to who?

Mumu...
Show me proof of Idu language, Idu people

Which village your Oba comes from in Igodomigodo?

Ogbe where he reside is our former cementary ground. Ogbe is not a village.

Etinosa1234:
Okobo...So Ika people will populate Benin villages...

Guy ur stupidity is in u

Benin don't have village.☺

Can you tell me the village your Oba come from in Edo South?

Kamanuozuzu:
First, Alayi, Ututu, Igbere, etc are not Edo words.

Secondly, that part of Igbo land don't say "Be". They say "Ibe".

So, write-up is not only fundamental flawed but lacks merit.

Otherwise, we'd like to see your source(s).

I have put the source there

Go and argue with the Igbo professor

Etinosa1234:
U are very stupid...Where did I say ika and igbanke populate the local government
How will a district with less than 6 villages be more than the remaining 5 districts
See village in Orhionwmwon and stop disgracing it old age

What is written there is names of villages not the occupant of those villages.

Are you okay

OfoIgbo:
I did my research and I saw this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo_State

In it, it states that Edo state has a population of 3.2 million.
Now I know that there are other ethnic groups in Edo state, so by the time you remove the populations of the other non-Bini ethnic groups, I am sure Bini population will come down to around 2 million.

Do you research well please

Benin people are minority in Edo State

They are not up to 500,000