₦airaland Forum

Pennilessword1:
I think you have to study that yourself. What separates us from the East. Don't try and discredit ones knowledge of something simply because you want to drive a narrative. So now we will consider Delta and co as Igbos...? What separates us from the East is the river hence the bridge.


Maybe you may call people of Ibusa and and Asaba Igbos. But you see Agbor down to Onichaugbo, they have a very different traditions of Origin. The Obi still pays homage to the Oba of Benin and not to any Eastern King.

Onicha-Uku means great Onicha, Onicha-Ugbo means Onicha farm and their father is Eze Chime and not Shola or Osaretin.


Their dialect is very similar to central Igbo more than what the entire Enugu state speaks Agbo is less than 30 minutes drive to Benin yet they speak Igbo dialect and not Bini that you claim they have ancestry with Bini

I no know whether na witchcraft I go call this kind behaviour.


If you're not from that region don't tell what you don't know and don't attempt to rewrite their history with your prejudice.

PressMyButton:
Why is it called Onitsha Ado n' Idu?

why is Ijebu Igbo called Ijebu Igbo?

SuperOnyi:




I'm reading their comments and asking myself if I should laugh or just enjoy the show , they are saying Onitsha call other Igbos "nwa onye Igbo" while ignoring the fact that our present-day Igbo ethnicity is a recent creation. I'm not saying it didn't exist but its definition is not the same as 200 years ago.

Onitsha, Anioma, and other Igboid groups in present-day "Niger Delta" were under or paid tribute to the Benin empire for some time — it's literally obvious.

Even my clan which is far away from Onitsha is called "umuchime."

I don't know if people can will themselves to be daft or just ignorant.

They forgot the Bini empire was so great and influential that it spanned across the Niger and down to Lagos and these Igbo people under his influence never shared any ancestry or linguistic or cultural identity with Binis or Yorubas

simpleseyi:
The guy made the video from the psychiatric hospital. But I wonder why doctors give smart phones to patients still undergoing treatment at the psychiatric hospitals

very stale

simpleseyi:
The guy made the video from the psychiatric hospital. But I wonder why doctors give smart phones to patients still undergoing treatment at the psychiatric hospitals

very state.

Basic123:
Listen the the OBI of Onitsha himself

He never mentioned Benin on that video.

You need help

Pennilessword1:
It depends on what part of Anioma. No one from Anioma associates themselves with igbo. Geographically is it even possible that the people from the hinterland are less original than the people who leave on the fringes?

So I say again Anioma is not Igbo. Plain and simple

just see as you dey contradict yourself in one sentence. Na waoh.

Which hinterland? Seems I have to send you a large copy of Nigeria map work special zoom effect of the south east.

Enugu bounds Kogi and Benue up in the North. Abia blinds Cross River and Rivers as do Imo and Ebonyi,.

waynetee:
It's the truth, onitcha people are not Igbos. They have benin and yoruba ancestry

mega mumu

Pennilessword1:
Is it any wonder why the Anioma people of Delta state always shout that they aren't Igbos when people try to instill it into the fabric of their own self determination?

Igbos will call the Anioma, Ikwerre and Ika people fake Igbos. When these same people say we aren't Igbos despite the fact that we sometimes bear and speak a section of the igbo dialect the Igbos would start insulting the Anioma people.

If you're an Anioma man, the name of your forebear and progenitor is Eze Chime.


So speak for yourself and not for others.

The Anioma Igbo dialect is way closer to central Igbo than Enugu dialects and even Ebonyi.

There was no question of Anioma Igbo identity until the civil war.

Basic123:
Onitsha has more affinity to Benin than Lagos but Benin and others don't even care because Onitsha has no glory to want to claim.

But Lagos wey be say Benin just colonized at some point,not as if they founded the place is being dragged left and right!

And when people talk about Lagos being owned by Britain,Again lack of glory to want to claim from Enugu,port Harcourt and kaduna has made people not to bring the fact that the 3 cities are the only three cities incorporated and founded by Britain in Nigeria.
Britain met Lagos,Kano,Onitsha,Aba and Ibadan as thriving cities!

what affinity does Benin and Onitsha have?

Lokgisiti? Cultural? Ancestral ?Show us any Bini oral history where affinity with Onitsha people is mentioned

JoeEeL:
This is serious o. “One family”… hmmn 🤔

Did this guy just shade Ipob?

Damn thats serious

the Imbecilë who wrote that piece lied because the Obi never said Onitsha people and ife are one family.

If Nairaland were a TV station or radio station, they would have collected sanctions beyond survival.

Silly website

nabiz:
migrating from benin may not mean that they are from benin. It may mean that they once settle in benin may be something happened the decided to move out. The truth is that Igbo and Yoruba not all Yorubas have a lot in common, may even be a bros or a very close relation

The irony is that no part of Bini folklore or oral history ever mentioned Eze Chime, the forebear of Onitsha amd Anioma

simpleseyi:
We are not saying we want to share a country with you. In fact, we will be happy to let you bear another name different from Nigeria. However, what we are saying is that there will never be an independent drug trafficking nation in West Africa, not to talk of being Nigeria's neighbor.

That will be another Mexico beside USA. So our advice is that you talk to your fellow drug trafficking nations like Mexico, Columbia, e.t.c. to give you a small piece of land within their own drug farms so that you can migrate your people there. You just need a small piece of land around the area that Mexico, Columbia, e.t.c. are, just a small piece afterall the land you occupy in Nigeria which is split into 5 states is not even up to the size of Niger State alone

I support you 100% just as there will never be an independent West African state of ritualists bordering Nigeria to the West.

simpleseyi:
So Onitsha people are runaway Yorubas, yet they hate Yorubas so much.

it's 2024 and you can't remain a history illiterate forever.

The king said Igbos migrated through Yoruba land to the East and some are still their im Ijebu Igbo till today. And that Ijebu Igbo is an Igbo town where they founded and later left to the East.

gidgiddy:
Mischief makers who dont understand what the Obi of Onitsha said because they don't understand Igbo language

What the Obi of Onitsha said is that Onitsha are Igbos who initially left the East and ventured to Ife(Ado) but later had a misunderstanding with Ife people, then decided to return home. On their way back, they passed through Bini(Idu), crossed the River Niger and and settled in present day Onitsha. He also said that those Igbos founded several communities along the way back to the East, the Igbos of Delta State(Anioma)

He was adamant that they were initially Igbo, not Ife or Bini. Onitsha was founded by Igbos who were reverse-migrating

as well as Mbaise Onitsha in Imo as well as as Enugu and Ebonyi

SS777:
He's not Igbo just like Obi of Asaba, but Igbo always want to force themselves on people's.

Obi of Asaba is not Igbo? Did you watch the video when the king said Ijebu Igbo in Yoruba and is Igbo who didn't migrate to present Igbo land and he also said Igbo artifact are still on Yoruba land as well as Igbo market?

Otuegbe:
Reno, Onitsha has always proclaimed they are not Igbo.. Not a new revelation. The city is Igbo City but the people migrated long time ago. I remember when I used to live at bishop onyeabo, inland town.Every other person is referred as 'nwa onyi igbo' by them.
So calm yourself down. Not a new thing. Now we have integrated
You can see Igbos are accommodating. The obi is even the chairman of the committee of kings in Igbo Land. If you have lived in Igbo Land you will notice the love and care for strangers.

So Igbos accommodated Eze Chime, the founder of Onitsha? And don't Anambra refere to Enugu people as Ndi Wawa ?

If you're an igbo man, you're very small-minded and petty by nature

Difrent:
This is why I laugh when igbos think they taunt yorubas with Lagos belonging to Edos
The part of Lagos Edo own is part of Lagos Island (not even all of Lagos Island )

Even though the influence of Eze Chima, the progenitor of igbos in Onitsha can't be washed away, the city dont belong to igbos alone as the influence of Edo cant also be wished away

how does bini influence make Onitsha not an Igbo city?

Una go just dey talk like who tribalism done corrode their braincells.

Abagworo:
Igwe is used only in Northern Igboland ie Anambra and Enugu States. In other parts of Igboland it is either Eze or Obi.

Most of which didn't have a traditional stool until European administration came.

Difrent:
The king looks more like a Benin palace chief than an igboman
And his title is Obi
While other igbos kings are known as Igwe. The heavy influence of Benin in Onitsha cannot be overlooked
But also we can't take away the fact of Exe Chima also being a founding member of Onitsha along with igalas.
Simply put Onitsha isn't igbo but benin

You mean Eze Chime....Eze Chime didn't only found Onitsha but the progenitor of the entire Anioma people and surprisingly, the name of the man whp founded Onitsha and the entire Anioma isn't a Yoruba name or Bini one.

Igwe is the name of European-appointed kings in most past of Igbo land. These kings are not really traditional but appointed during the colonial times for administrative convenience

Difrent:
The king looks more like a Benin palace chief than an igboman
And his title is Obi
While other igbos kings are known as Igwe. The heavy influence of Benin in Onitsha cannot be overlooked
But also we can't take away the fact of Exe Chima also being a founding member of Onitsha along with igalas.
Simply put Onitsha isn't igbo but benin

Bini does not have the capability to produce Onitsha. And there's no folklore in Bini history where Onitsha is mentioned nor do they have any pral history narrating the progenitor of Onitsha people which is Eze Chime.

Use your data and watch the video

jimetagambo:
I have always wondered why the Obi of Onitsha dresses as a SW king and not like other Igbo ezes. It's starting to make sense now.

His dressing is as different as his language is to Yoruba kings.

Ebibedike1:
Onitsha is not part of Biafra. Know this and know peace.
Oduduwa republic is actually bigger than you all know.,and we will claim and accommodate all of them

this one is one delusional self hating illiterate

muhammaduyusufu:
https://www.bbc.com/igbo/afirika-50720633

The Obi says there are Igbos in Ile ife till today and they are Igbos who know where they came from.

He also said Ijebu Igbo in Yoruba land is Igbo alluding that Igbos must have come through from somewhere migrating through Yoruba land.

He never said they are one family with Yoruba but one which doesn't mean shared ancestry.

You gave a very twisted and misleading interpretation here for your own purpose

DSS is supposed to be Nigeria's equivalent of CIA but is now a political tool used as boyscout for local and petty matter.

When will our people have shame and pride.

AceRoyal:
That's profiling and soldiers and/Paramilitary personnels have no right to shave anyone's hair especially when there's no concrete evidence of criminality.


Some of our laws/norms are outdated and stupid.

Indiscriminate Profiling is also a crime.

This is very bad.

Daily prayer: Pray that Nigeria doesn't happen to you!

whether he's a criminal or not, no one can shave his hair except himself and there's no outdated or dated law empowering the police or army to shave his hair.

The simple fact is that many depraved people love the army and police where they feel protected to carry out their depravity.

opeyemi2012:
Thank you for letting us know how your irresponsible parents conceived a parasite like you. You can play with my heart when you are done playing with your father's infected testicles.


Now are you at the bridge yet? What are you waiting for Zombie? Jump and end your miserable life. No, you won't be missed. Local nuisance!!!!

you're repeating same boring patterns and rephrased drivel all over again and again

Your penmanship is a boring as your father's bed game. Head your mother suffers from CCC (cockk craving disorder because daddy's elevator doesn't reach the top floor

opeyemi2012:
Wow
Why hate yourself so much boy? Isn't it better to end your life at this rate?
I understand your life is worthless. Use the next bridge closest to you. Walking dead

you just wrote your mother

Editing my words back is an implicit admission that they sting you deep inside. It's proof that you suffer. The only missing link is how you feel no shame. But then the dying hissing of a headless snake is that you're exhibiting.

Children who show this kind of emotional imbalance and perceptual disturbances are often those whose parents faucked and conceive them before even exchanging first names

Your tiny little heart belongs to me to play with .

Human vomit.

opeyemi2012:
You can do better. Try harder. Have you kicked your mama's empty skull yet?

I need to hear the echo from here

edit this one.

Your mother would still be the village tart if your dumb father didn't plant an ape like you inside her forcing her to retirement

Now when you edit it, read it and realise you're actually saying your mother

Biological accidents like you would require special therapy to be able to feel shame and embarrassment.

Son of his mother's father

opeyemi2012:
Fool! It's been nice watching you display your foolishness back to back. Kick your wretched mother on her empty skull for me. Next time also, your itchy fingers won't be quick to type insults to a random stranger for sharing their honest opinion. Untrained bastard.

Next!!!!!!

Next? To return my words back to me because your brain can't band words together.

Na your mama shameless ashawo DNA dey manifest for your behaviour so.

Potrid sac of human pus

opeyemi2012:
Aha! You are not welcome. I thought as much. Gonorrhoea impersonified

it's been good scalping you and watch you crawl and scrap tp edit my words back to me

Next time you won't be so fast to get involved in parental disses.

Son of the damned!

gidgiddy:
That's the anthem of unity beggars eager to protect their long failed Nigeria that has never worked.

Why don't you guys set date for referendum to prove you are serious about letting us go, and we can start packing and selling up to go home and vote?

Last time we packed up and left, it was your father's that came to fight three year war to bring us back

unity begging is you having 70% of your properties in faraway land.

Unity begging is every December, we see long coastal busses carrying your people back to the East and by January you scurry back to Lagos Abuja, Kaduna, Warri.

Show me an IPOB and you have shown me a criminal and a jobless one