₦airaland Forum

pazienza:
My brother I tire.
I lived with my grandfather who died at ripe age of 97years, and not for once did he mention "Omanbala" to me.
Omabala/Anambra river is a foreign culture to Idemili land, my mother use to tell me stories about Ndi Omabala who are also known as Ndi mbamili.

Ogidi cannot trace her history to Nri. Heck, Ogidi has no single brother in Idemili, we have no fillial relationship with Idemili communities surrounding us, other than the fact that we had lived together for long and had now developed common culture and speech form.
Ogidi is supposed to be the only son of Inwelle, who was the only son of Ezechumagha. Where Ezechumuagha hails from is vague and there are no clear genealogy linking him to Nri.
From my wide readings, the part of Igboland who answers the name Ogidi much, are Anioma people, and we even have Akili-Ogidi in Ogbaru. Akili people being an ancient Igbo speaking people who were indigenous to present day Aboh Ndokwa/Ukwuani part of Delta,, who were conquered and forced to cross the river Niger to their present location by Aboh people who Agbor people claims migrated from Agbor and were descendants of an Agbor prince whose mother was Bini and whose relationship with the king was forbidden by the people, leading to her death and her young prince banished from Agbor with servants and well wishers into the lower Niger, then known in Igbo realm as Oru/Olu.

This prince born of Bini mother and Agbor mother is who Aboh people know as Essumai, and as expected, his history had been embellished and distorted in Aboh so that rather than appear as a reject from Agbor, we are being told that he was a prince and a son of an Oba of Bini, even when it's obvious the man spoke Igbo from the beginning, named his new found town with Igbo tongue, ie Aboh ji, gave his first son Igbo name, Ogwaezi( home on the road), and left us with an Igbo speaking Aboh.
It was this prince(Esumai) son (Ogwaezi) who drove the Akili natives of Ndokwa away towards their current location in Ogbaru Anambra, while assimilating some of them who go by the name Akarai in Ndokwaland today.

Some Anioma folklores also speak of an ancient Kingdom called Ogidi, that existed in present Enu ani area, that was attacked and destroyed by invaders (?Bini warriors) leading to scattering of her people.

Point is that Igbo history is deep and all interwoven.
Every attempt to create artificial Omanbala identity, that would deny us the chance to study Igbo history better, will always be resisted by well meaning Igbo people.

I doubt he can trace Umuoji history directly to Nri, a part of Umuoji history talks about migrants from Arochukwu during formative years of the town. The likes of him would have such detail buried and denied just to promote his Omanbala agenda.

He isn't any different from the Anioma people hell bent on their Bini agenda or those interested in creating a new Anioma identity totally detached from Ndiigbo.

Ttrrffyyghuuh:
Its simple, just like Onitsha people, they're called Igbo when favors are required of them, but when it's time for political appointments or juicy contracts, they're reminded that they're not pure/ real Igbo's, It's just like the Egun people of Lagos that have been sidelined and the yorubas.

I have Igbo friends (liberal though) and love the Igbo people for their industrious nature, but they tend to be very tribalist, especially the conservative ones, you've seen the case of a even catholics rejecting an archbishop, because he's not mbaise, even the vatican had to intervene,
whereas, in uniben, they've had an Igbo VC, Prof. Emmanuel Nwanze, not benin, but completely different tribe, you can't try that in any eatern institution be it federal or state and even religious as i stated above

kayfra:
The most polluted city in the world. Easy on the spin. We are all getting dizzy

https://www.sabinews.com/onitsha-the-most-polluted-city-in-the-world-who/

SarkinYarki:
people are reeling out pure facts and you yelling propaganda while in reality 98 percent of your family members fall into the bracket including you

jayfolarin:
It's called seeing beyond your nose kid. If you aren't capable of that, don't try to engage me. Understand?

jayfolarin:
Bubu is not a stool they can sit and rub their asses on and they are pained. I expect more articles like this from the west and their media. They release same or worse articles about china everyday

It's only left to patriotic Nigerians to realise and see this things for what they are - PROPAGANDA

aolawale025:
Rocha's....always has something to say

NgeneUkwenu:
35 Senators are backing Ndume, and you can't even name one person?

IjebuWarrior:
But why are Igbos always happy whenever anything bad happens under this Buhari government?

Election is over, let's face Reality!

bastardmod:
Sorry boss.... Their own is a spiritual case

IvarTheHorrible:
Yam legs + shameless olosho behaviour = Aba Jew