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OfoIgbo:
Culturally Igbos are more related to Jews than to Yorubas and Edos. You can take this to the bank.

NOw to further ruin your New Year, please go through this ruling from a Jewish Rabbinical court on Igbos

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a98cbc3b40b9da93f7c5126/t/61f35b8ad59d991291cab3fa/1643338634761/Teshubah-on-Igbo-Israelites.pdf

what will you say about Ugwuele excavation dating Igbo presence there to the stone age 100,000 + years ago

OfoIgbo:
You just admitted that your own village has a Shabbat concept. Now you are rigmaroling. My own area and villages near my own village observe their day of rest on Eke days.
But I am also aware that some Igbo communities have different days, which is why I didn't argue with you when you gave me a different Shabbat day for your own community.

It obviously pained you when I proved to you that Igbos also have Passover concept. Something you obviously did not know. What that means is that your knowledge of Omenana Igbo is seriously limited.
Yorubas don't have Passover concept. So we are gradually arriving at the obvious conclusion that Igbo customs are more related to the Jewish customs than to Yoruba customs.
Yorubas have proven time and time again, that they are not really our siblings. Guess who they supported during our most trying times during the Nigeria-Biafra war? Guess those who used starvation as an instrument of war against Igbos.

I am happier being associated with the Jews, than with Yorubas. Thank God the Jewish hierarchy recognizes the links between Igbos and Jews also.

Nkọgheri


you're not Jews nothing at all links you with semites in middle east stop being stvpid and loud

1. No genetic markers

2. No linguistic markers

3.No Archological evidence of items of ancient Igbo land points to semites in middle East.
again, you're more related to Yorubas and Edos Linguistically than any other group in the world

stop being stvpid

helinues:
Abi.

Borrowing ridiculously without anything to show for it is a pure corruption. Nigeria case is now different

i no know say you get sense o


keep it up

yarimo:
Nigerians are happy with your style of leadership now

indeed

Ndị uchu!

wirinet:
Go and read what geographical features gave rise to ancient Civilisations like mesopotamia/Babylonia, Egyptian, Roman, Greek,etc. You will find the Igbos have non.

Which mountain dey igboland? Ordinary hill sef, una no get, e come remain mountain.
Una get ocean, great river, fertile lands? Forests are the hardest places for agriculture due to obvious reasons. That's why the agricultural revolution started in savannahs or semi desert areas.

Ancient Civilisations rise due to trade, agriculture or warfare. If truly you had a Civilisation stretching 4000 years, your would have conquered or at dominated all around you, if not all of Nigeria by now.

you need population to spread and population needs food Igbos were sufficient

Either you're ignorant or just mischievous Enugu terrain are one of the mountainous terrains in Nigeria

All Igbo Land are arable and fertile and comprise of both grasslands and dense forests

Igbos were wonderful blacksmiths they made tools for agriculture

Talking about trade, Igbo are not new to trade they believe in intercommunial trades like in every Igbo town they have specific market days in thier markets like Asaba people sell On Orie market days Onitsha sells on Ǹkwọ day Okwe close to Asaba sells on Eke day

no close community sells same day , either your market is on eke, orie , ǹkwọ or afọ


Igbo trades went as far as the creeks in Niger delta selling palm oil to whites further north as far as idah in kogi state and westward trading with Benins

Igbo uniqueness is not having powerful kings because we're more of republican society where there's no place for tyrants


it seems you have nothing to say

wirinet:
No mind them. Small time dem go claim say the Garden of Eden where Yahweh created Adam and Eve is in Igboland.

Early Civilisations starts due to some extraordinary geographical advantage, either a confluence of two rivers, a large river, an ocean, a fertile land or great mountain. What advantages did Igbo land have that supported flourishing Civilisation?

Igbo have mountains,low lands and dense forest fertile forests

with fruits and everything they needed

yams used to grow on their own in the forest all we do is go harvest them

Igbo believe that yam is a God given dish we respect it thats why we set out a day to celebrate it

same with peppers and other vegetables

it's the reason why an Igbo diet is nutritionally rich with vegetables and different kinds of garni

Igbos are not alien to Rivers, lakes, lagoons,streams and streams we have them in abundant

infact Igbo people made one of the largest boats recorded then by the whites that came here

Igbo flourished and our population exploded
and spreading out to the west occupying 40% of Delta State space and second largest ethnic group there some further spread southward into Rivers some even further into Bayelsa forming parts of towns like Osekwenike and further east to cross River boarders and Benue some even in Kogi state


So yeah, our reach is a testament of an explosion of population that lead to our spread

OfoIgbo:
Eze Nri still remains the high priest of the Igbo belief system, so Eze still has that priestly connotation

yes

wirinet:
Sorry jare. I thought you are one of them making all kinds of claims without any proof.
Imagine showing a colour photograph of Eze Nri Òbalíke, someone wearing an embroidered cotton fabric that died in 1936 as proof of Nri civilisation being 4000 years old. Even in the US colour photograph was not common in the 30s. Most photos of world War 11 were in black and white.

If you look at the photo of Eze Nri Òbalíke closely you will see pattern on the wall superimposed on the right shoulder, showing clearly that the photo was photoshopped.

that's an obviously colourized picture

this is the original copy

wirinet:
4000 years ko, 4 million years ni. OK, show us your proof. You made so many extraordinary claims without a shred of proof.
You have a civilisation that is 4000 years with no writing, no science, no pottery, no architecture, nothing.

all i see here is a cope

all the studies and fragments of the potteries of Afikpo are out there in open sources dating to 2000 BCE that's 4000 years +


your cry means nothing

OfoIgbo:
I am not even a fan of mnk.

While you are here clowning for Yorubas, the same Yorubas are knocking down your properties in Lagos, and always very willing to partner with Fulanis to keep Igbos marginalised.
Didn't you see how Tinubu and his minions usurped the Igbo turn, and you are here wishing to be liked by the Yorubas. They are not our relatives. A true brother will look after your interest. It is time Igbos become pragmatic and act accordingly. Igbos even have closer neighbours. Yoruba territory is hundreds of Kms from Igbo territory.

And by the way, Yorubas are all over YouTube trying to claim they are Jews. They are jealous of Igbos because Igbos have Israelite origins

oh I'm not Mnk slave but somehow you're spewing Thier rubbish victim nonsense!!

Nigeria isn't fair to anyone


so mechionu


again we're not Jews linguistically, genetically, religiously and spacially

we have sites older than Jacob who is thier ancestor

cope

Ojiofor:
Make I believe you but Nri have nothing to do with Leja metal site.

We know homo sapiens migrated from East Africa because of archological evidence of very old sites there if we see it anywhere else we'll reconsider


if you know anywhere more ancient than Lejja sites please present it

migration always start from the place of old
outward
Scholars believe the development of farming tools was one of the reasons for migration.

Bendeco02:
Onicha is the oldest

Extending from western to Eastern Igbo but Nri is only in Anambra

we'll follow evidence for now

lejja and Afikpo are the oldest based on archological evidence

Nri is the oldest kingdom that is the first people to have Eze

you know Eze originally means priest or skilled one
before it was now associated to king

that's a story for another day

Ojiofor:
No 1,If circumcision of male child on the 8th day is Jewish custom what about female circumcision widely practised in Igboland but not in Israel? Circumcision is African culture borrow by the Jews.
No2 is false.
No3 every village have their own market day like my village our rest and market day is Orie not Eke.
No4 is African traditional religion it is not only practised in Igboland.
This is my argument,you people claim to have migrated from Israel why then is the OP attaching Nri to Lejja metal site which scientists have dated to be over 6000 years which is way older than Eri/Gad the Jewish migrants to Igboland?
Abeg make una carry una confusion seat one place.

don't go to Lejja


Afikpo pottery sites are over 4000 years Ago made over 2000Bce

that's same time Abraham was alive in middle east

Igbos were making Ite Ụrọ (glazed clay pots) in afikpo


Our people can't grasp how extra ordinary those sites are

OfoIgbo:
This claim is definitely not being made by Nri people.

Nri people are very ancient with a lot of civilising innovations that their fellow Igbo brothers and neighbouring ethnic groups have adopted.

Nri people are possibly from Israel because their culture is heavily Israelite.
That's possibly why the Jewish Rabbinical court ruled that this Levitical community ought to be recognized as Israelite Levites.
But Nri people don't adorn their attire with the star of David. It is Aguleri people who are attempting to commit cultural fraud, that are doing that. But in spite of this Aguleri move, the Rabbinical court didn't pay one single attention to them in their ruling. It was Nri that they recognized in spite of the fact that. Ri people hardly mention anything about their felt with Israel. Nri people are all about Igbo customs and traditions. They have no time for simping and clowning.

You may not want to hear or read this, but Igbo custom is more related to Jewish custom than to Yoruba or Ijaw customs

you mnk boys are the reasons we're receiving insults upadan


we're Aboriginals here we're a people who started our civilization in the isolated forest here. we learnt weaving, we learnt how live and be independent.


We are not jews not even close


we're Africans and all our DNAs don't have any trace of middle East

you're more related to Yorubas linguistically
and genetically because we're in the volta Niger family of languages same with Edoid and akokoid groups

Ojiofor:
Since when?
You guys from that corner of Igboland are just messing up Igbo history and culture due to greed.Now you want to claim Lejja after claiming Jewish origin.

No Igbo scholar believe in that rubbish

whites Just noted certain cultural similarities with jews and thats it


na Ipob guys popularise that nonsense


we've always been here


thus the reason for the very very wide Igbo dialects that cuts accross Enugu,Anambra,Imo, Ebonyi,Abia,Anioma(Delta State) , Ịgbanke-Igbo akriri ( Edo State) , Osekwenike(Bayelsa), Rivers, western Boundary towns in Cross river, Benue, Kogi (In Ibaji LGA, we can see some town names such as Nwajala, Umuoye, Ubulie-Umueze)

Thanks

Ojiofor:
Una don attach una self to Lejja to claim ownership of that civilization
Nri/Eri claim to come from Israel still want to put claim to something that is way older than the Jews you people claim as your origin.

We're not Jews we are blacks we are Aboriginals

thanks

kettykings:
Thank you for this piece. I almost shed tears today that our historians and scholars are not doing enough.

There is the possibility that the Igbo people may have pioneered the Iron Age is a profound narrative that deserves very serious academic attention and global recognition. Yet, instead of delving into such groundbreaking historical inquiries, many of our scholars are preoccupied with less consequential topics, leaving the field open for others to claim this monumental achievement.

This oversight not only robs the Igbo of their rightful place in history but also denies humanity a fuller understanding of its shared heritage. Why is this conversation absent from platforms like TED Talks, where revolutionary ideas and untold stories are meant to shine? It’s high time we redirected our intellectual energy to reclaim our God given heritage.

Follow Ozi ikoro

and many of our brothers digging out outstanding things about our people

we are great people

yesterday, today and forever

OduduwaNow:
Ijaw is the oldest tribe in Nigeria.

Igbo is landlocked that shows they are not old.

No tribe will see ocean and leave it.

Lejjá sites are the oldest over 4000 years old

many Igbo migrated away from there.

Afikpo potteries sites are over 2000 years

Igbo ukwu bronze were made 9th century


Igbo ukwu textiles were made 11-12th century with well established settlements Archeologically proven

how about Udi pyramids were made in 8th and 9th century

lol humans are said to have originated from east African heartland not anywhere near ocean

so this your point holds no water

The Nri Kingdom stands as the oldest civilizations in Nigeria over 1000 years old, serving as a spiritual, cultural, and historical cornerstone of the Igbo people. With roots deeply intertwined with the ancient traditions of governance, spirituality, and innovation, the Nri Kingdom represents an unbroken lineage that predates many African civilizations. By integrating the origins of the Nri people as migrants from the Lejja region, which boasts Nigeria’s oldest iron-smelting sites (dating to over 780 BCE), we uncover a narrative of innovation, migration, and cultural evolution that shaped the foundations of Igbo society.


Origins: Migrants from Lejja, the Cradle of Metallurgy

According Many scholars Nri people could trace their ancestry to Lejja, an ancient settlement located in present-day Enugu State. Lejja is renowned as the site of the oldest iron-smelting technology in Nigeria, with artifacts dated to around 780 BCE, marking it as a hub of early African technological innovation. The iron smelting in Lejja not only provided tools for agriculture and warfare but also held significant ritualistic importance, symbolizing the transformation of the earthly into the sacred.

As the people migrated southwards to Anambra axis to form places like Ọkà (Awka) Igbo ukwu and other iron smithing areas, their mastery of metallurgy and ritual practices became integral to their societal organization. This migration culminated in the establishment of the Nri Kingdom initially it was Gerontocractic Kingdom till the 8th century CE Before having it had its first Eze, around the fertile banks of the Anambra River. Here, the migrants combined their knowledge of ironworking, spirituality, and governance to build a kingdom that would influence Igbo culture for over a millennium.

The Nri Kingdom: A Spiritual and Cultural Epicenter

Founded by Eri, a divine figure said to have been sent by Chukwu (God), the Nri Kingdom grew into a center of spiritual authority and cultural refinement. Eri’s settlement was characterized by its emphasis on justice, peace, and harmony, principles that were further institutionalized by his descendants like Umu eri, Agulu eri (Aguleri) and many more . The kingdom stood out for its rejection of military conquest, relying instead on diplomacy, spiritual influence, and ritual purification to expand its authority.

The Igbo Calendar (Afọ Igbo)

Central to the Nri people’s cultural identity is the Afọ Igbo, an advanced calendar system used to regulate time, agricultural cycles, and festivals. This calendar, in use for over 1,024 years, is composed of:

Four market days: Eke, Orie, Afọ, Nkwo.

Seven weeks in a month.

Thirteen months in a year, culminating in the Igu Aro festival, which marks the start of the new year.


The Afọ Igbo calendar not only underscores the Nri people's advanced understanding of astronomy but also ties their spiritual and agricultural practices to a cyclical view of time.


Nri Kingship: A Divine Lineage

The Eze Nri (Nri kings) served as both spiritual and political leaders, wielding authority through rituals, diplomacy, and adjudication. Unlike conventional monarchies, the Eze Nri were seen as divine representatives, tasked with mediating between Chukwu and the people. Their primary role was to maintain cosmic order and purity, solidifying the Nri Kingdom’s position as the spiritual nucleus of Igboland.


The lineage of Nri kings is a testament to the kingdom's enduring influence. Prominent rulers include:



Eri
948-1041
Eze Nri Ìfikuánim
1043–1089
Eze Nri Nàmóke
1090–1158
Eze Nri Buífè
1159–1259
Eze Nri Ọmalọ
1260–1299
Eze Nri Jiọfọ I
1300–1390
Eze Nri Ọmalonyeso
1391–1464
Eze Nri Anyamata
1465–1511
Eze Nri Fenenu
1512–1582
Eze Nri Agụ
1583–1676
Eze Nri Apia and Nri–Alike
1677–1700
Eze Nri Ezimilo
1701–1723
Eze Nri Èwenétem
1724–1794
Eze Nri Ènweleána I
1795–1886
Eze Nri Òbalíke
1889–1936
Eze Nri Jiọfọ II Taabansi Udene
1937–1979
Eze Nri Ènweleána II Obidiegwu (MFR)
1988- present


Archaeological and Historical Evidence

The cultural and historical significance of the Nri Kingdom is supported by archaeological findings. The ancient iron-smelting sites of Lejja highlight the technological ingenuity of the Nri ancestors, while the bronze artifacts of Igbo Ukwu (dated to the 9th century CE) reflect the kingdom’s artistic and ritualistic sophistication. These artifacts provide tangible evidence of the Nri people's advanced craftsmanship and their contributions to African history

The Nri Kingdom’s legacy endures as a testament to the resilience, ingenuity, and spiritual depth of the Igbo people. From their origins in the metallurgical hub of Lejja to their establishment of an influential spiritual kingdom, the Nri people exemplify the transformative power of migration, innovation, and cultural leadership. The Afọ Igbo calendar and the divine kingship of the Eze Nri remain central to Igbo identity, inspiring a sense of pride and unity among their descendants.

The Nri Kingdom’s story is not just an account of the past; it is a living narrative that continues to shape the present, affirming its place as the oldest and most enduring civilizations in Nigeria.

Picture below is Eze Nri Òbalíke
1889–1936
and his grandson holding his picture (got it from Ozi ikoro)

AfonjaConehead:
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i swear coneheaded ba⭐ds

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coneheaded reT4rds

Ttalk:
No wonder many get albino colour the the Arab

You people are always jealous of Igbos

i know its hard being yoruba

you people are not exactly blessed with Good genes

thus why you're fighting to get our women to wash out small ugliness out

Typing:
Lies
This are the original pictures of Onitsha you dey post fake pictures.

eyya
old pictures

this thread sha pain una

Ttalk:
That could be true since that's the headquarter of baby factory

Nupe and Fulani too

the list long

Ttalk:
Half of those houses belong to Igala and Asaba people

and kanuri people

uzuor!

lamba

richmond500:
smh.
I am a supporter of Tinubu govt but I am not blind like u bruh.

Tinubu policies is anti people, none of his policies has yeilded any positive result.

Inflation, currency depreciation, loss of Jobs, insecurity, political instability, companies shutting down. All these are not something we want to see. Tell urself the truth abeg

I no know say you get sense o

Thank God o

Agbado people so after clamping down on Binance and BDC operators naira isn't below 1000?

babasolution:
There' are few reasons why the Igbo were able to rebuild after the civil war.
It has only a little bit to do with the Igbo race themselves actually.

The reasons are,
1. The war was prosecuted by a minority ruler ( Gowon). Who strategically prosecuted the war to cause minimal damage to the igbos. More people were lost due to starvation than the actual fighting( it was mostly children that suffered from the war and died). There was minimal damage to Igbo cities and wealth.The 20£ story is over exaggerated.The igbos did not start from scratch.Gowon ,a minority man was able to apply strategic tactics to prevent serious damage to the Igbo.Infact Nigeria suffered too much losses from his methods of gentle ,careful prosecution of the war.

2.Shagari emergence in 1979 with Alex ekuweme as VP.Alex ekuweme was in charge of economy. He made policies that favoured the igbos by encouraging importation over domestic production. He knew that the Igbo domestic capacity had dwindled after the war,so the best option for the re-emergence of the Igbo was for them to be big players in the importation business. Igbos well received this economic model and took to importation. Alex ekuweme simultaneously gradually killed the domestic capacity of production in other regions completely ruining their economy by this the Igbo were well positioned to catch up with other regions despite being victims of the war.

Here's the catch.
The fact that the igbos were pragmatic enough to take advantage of the Alex ekuweme ECONOMIC model was to their credit and they deserve praise for that.

The fact that other regions didn't recognise this ECONOMIC hitjob and subsequent rulers couldnt change this model was to their loss.


In summary, despite the arrogance of the igbos it is pertinent to note that their positive re-emergence out of the civil war were more because of external factors than their quality as a people.

Garbage write up by someone from a region of liars and propaganda machines


Igbos built up because God's Mercy and Thier resilient spirit


Igbos are Go getters


Super motivated fellows and yes they don't care if it's Ibadan or Kano that will give them money

They'll go there and make thier money

ndí Igbo ndị ọma

babasolution:
I stated the reasons, Alex ekuweme as VP was placed in charge of the economy by shagari.

I also mentioned, that subsequent rulers are guilty for not addressing that ECONOMIC model since then

shut the F up!

look at the shape of his head