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Genius10:
I am a Yoruba by birth (born in Akure, western region) and Igbo by heritage. As a native Onitsha Igbo, I trace my ancestry to Eze Chima, a prince who rebelled against the Benin royal dynasty and emigrated from the kingdom. Other Igbos that trace their lineage to Eze Chima include Onicha-Ukwu, Onicha-Olona, Onicha-Ugbo, Obior, Issele-Ukwu, Issele-Mkpima, Issele-Azagba, Ezi, Abeh and Obamkpa.

Native Onitshans speak a dialect of the Igbo language with several Benin/Yoruba words such as "Obi" (of Onitsha) and "Oba" (of Benin). In fact, the word Onitsha (Onicha) is a corruption of the god "Orisha." The bini name for River Niger is Ohinmwin. The Onicha Igbo call it "Orinmili." In a few years, we will have DNA tests that proves (or disproves) the Onitsha-Benin-Yoruba connection.

In fact, a lost dialect of the Yoruba language, called Olukwumu, is spoken in Brazil and in a few Igbo communities named Anioma, Idumu-Ogu, Ubulubu, Ugboba, Ugbodu, and Ukwunzu (M. A. Onwuejeogwu, 1987 Ahiajoku Lecture). The absence Olukwumu in core Yoruba land proves that these communities are the Lost Yoruba Tribe that were fleeing from slave raiders.

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http://emeagwali.com/photos/yoruba/photo-essay-on-yoruba.html

Million other Igbos are Yoruba by birth including my own father (born in Lagos). So how is it news that Emeagwali claims to be Yoruba by birth? He says he is Igbo by heritage and that is what matters. Now tell us where your theory quoted below) is coming from.

Genius10:
You know why? Because in Emeagwali's effort to market himself, he did not give all the glory to Igbos. He claimed he was "Yoruba" by birth, "Igbo" by ancestry, "American" by whatever. This severely angered the Igbo bigots and they started a campaign to expose him. It just so happened that he was actually a fraud, and the movement caught on.

Now go to bed, little boy.

Genius10:
Reading is fundamental, dummy.

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/National/5639069-146/the_lies_of_philip_emeagwali_.csp

And you prove that with the same Yoruba evil articles we are talking about. You be real mumu indeed.

afam4eva:
MUMU, then what's his crime.

Please ask them

Genius10:
Please post where I said he said he won a Nobel Prize. Otherwise, shut you pie hole. Blind bigot,

That article you quoted has been discussed thoroughly in the past. It was found to have been penned by a Yoruba using an Igbo name. Bloody schemers. Una go  fail at every juncture.

Genius10:
This is my last response to you because your IQ is obviously lower than your shoe size. So now, SR speaks for Yorubas? Nobody is as maligned on SR as OBJ, so where does that leave your moronic theory. When SR wrote about Bode Thomas, Fani Kayode, Farida Waziri etc, they were not being biased right? But as soon as they write about Igbos, idiots like you start crying.  

You are obviously a bigoted loser, so I won't waste my time responding to your dumb backside. By the way, click on the link I posted before and understand that the true Igbo people have seen Emeagwali for the fraud that he is while you continue to remain a slowpoke

Please be gone. You wicked son/daughter of Jezebeel. I would rather be an Emeagwali than your thieving conniving lot. Now scram and never resurface to eat your vomit, ewu/ewure.

Genius100:
Why is my post being deleted?

Anyways, Environer, you are a complete slowpoke. Stop playing victim for once in your life. Emeagwali was exposed by Igbos on Biafra dedicated website a long time ago. If you are looking for Igbo heros, look towards the likes of Chinua Achebe, Okonja-Iweala, Barth Nnaji. None of these people are not being disparaged by yorubas or other ethnic groups, because they are legit. Emeagwali is a fraud that has brought nothing but shame on Nigerians overseas. He should be condemned by all. Stop being a miserable ethnic demagogue.

Who is the lost and yet to be found omo Awo? When Okonjo was earning dollars in Nigeria it was your brothers that went haywire. It was your brothers who frustrated Nnaji out of govt when he was minister of science and tech under Abacha or IBB. Go and learn your history, Ewu Yoruba olodo.

http://www.saharareporters.com/news-page/dollar-salary-scandal-ngozi-okonjo-iweala-refund-salary-paid-excess

Funny enough, when Eleme people fought a bitter 2 year or so war with Okrikans in the late 90s, they ran to Ogonis for help and those ones helped them to contain the okrikans who themselves where fighting with mainstream ijaw fighters. I was at the epicentre of the battle front at some point.

KnowAll:
If the man is dat intelligent he should come home and contribute towards d growth of the software industry. Nigerians generally are one of d smartest people in d world. This man with what he said he has Achieved in computers, a good tuteledge & mentoring Nigerian youths, they can end being one d net exporter of software in d world just like d Indias.

Those at home are running away and you want somebody who already succeeded in running away to return. Why not you return to naija or are you not intelligent enough to contribute?

Aigbofa:
This will be like saying all ibos hide under the bridge, ambush people and eat them!

You saw that but did not see the ones from bk.babe something as he wrote below , not so? You guys will never disappoint anyone

Really!?! Was this "single most blatant disgrace" worse than  the usual:

1. Ibo Kidnappings?

2. Ibos getting executed for drug dealing?

3.Ibos arrested for fraud?

4.Ibos killing their wives (especially 15 incidents in Dallas,TX in a 3 month period)?

5. Ibos killing their business partners?

6. Ibos ra*ping underaged gals?

Quick answers needed, please!

bk.babe97y:
Really!?! Was this "single most blatant disgrace" worse than the usual:

1. Ibo Kidnappings?

2. Ibos getting executed for drug dealing?

3.Ibos arrested for fraud?

4.Ibos killing their wives (especially 15 incidents in Dallas,TX in a 3 month period)?

5. Ibos killing their business partners?

6. Ibos ra*ping underaged gals?

Quick answers needed, please!

Yoruba do all these and more including marrying their daughters to enable them stay abroad.
However no news made headlines like the bomber thing lol

Blazay AKA Gwobezentashi
As you have seen from NVS, if there is anything that brings Igbos and Yorubas together on NVS, it is their hatred of you. You are a persona non grata there as nobody supports any of your opinion. And now you come here as a vermin. You will soon be repatriated to Hadejia where cattle rearers stay. Like I said before, there is no Boko Haram or pantie-bombing situation here.

alj harem:
nigerians how do think sometimes

so because dora wants to investigate him, u all think it is ethnic related

shame on the person that started this tread

illiterate

Who is Dora to investigate Emeagwali? Yours is very ridiculous. Does Dora know how to obtain a visa to travel abroad?

Blazay:
This is getting riduculous.
See how easily a thread can be derailed?

Courtesy a cattle-rearing, election-rigging, animal-counting-as-human-population fa-ggo-t like you.

Blazay:
Here comes another one.
Illiterates.
The reason you can spend so much time on the net, trying to make assumptions of things and persons you do not know.
Phillip Emeagwali inclusive.

You have brought your gworo madness from the Nigerian village square to this side, Gwobezentashi?

fstranger:
He is one of those privileged Abokis who got a spot in our universities with 120 JAMB score. Bloody ingrate!

And his brother the pantie bomber (Abdul Muttalab) brought the single most blatant disgrace to Nigeria.

fstranger:
Mr. Aboki, Stop talking. You are bringing down the quality of this discourse. Please, stop posting, and watch as we debate.

I was wondering now I know he is a gworo-chewing, cattle rearing aboki. Please tell him there is no Boko Haram situation here

Blazay:
Yeah right.
Like the Igbo man is not as bad if not worse than the Yoruba man?
Too bad Phillip Emeagwali is an Igbo man,
He is too polished to come from such an ethnic group of savages.

Well shame on you and your ethnic group, whichever that is. Emeagwali is Igbo and a proud one. I just called him on phone and he says WTF, I am Igbo.

koastar:
Only bigot would react the way you did. Instead of you to answer the question about your tribal lineage, you were busy ranting with sentiments. Now, let me put the question in a simplier way to you if you didn't understand it earlier, "what as Jews got to do with Igbos?" or better still "what as Galileo got to do with Ngozi?"
I'm waiting

Bloody fool. Why not ask the person who wrote that? Now tell me what has falling from the sky got to do with Oduduwa? There is no published book where you will read that Igbos are jews (a nonsense theory anyways) but our secondary school published history books tell us that Oduduwa fell from the sky. Now who are the liars here? You are an incorrigible monkey.

Food for thought:

Heros are 65% myth and 35% facts. No hero in history deliberately tries to debunk myths built around him, why must we start with Emeagwali? Emeagwali is an african/Igbo hero and his myth cannot be demystified by chicken-hearted and evil people who see themselves as ethnic rivals.

Mr~Cork:
is this another IBO news? do this people tink everyting is news? so wot of he looosed his father, big deal.

Must IBO people make everytin news? This is not ENUGU, this is Nairaland gademmmit!

Bloody illiterate. Why not write it in Yoruba language. Fool.

Dapo Bear why did you change your location from California to nothing? Are you running from something?

Blazay:
The reason I always say never trust an Igbo or a Yoruba man. The moment on achieves something, the other is ready to pull him or her down. Both tribes should be driven out of Nigeria. Thank God Philiip Emeagwali is able to liberate himself from it all. Of all the tribes in Nigeria, the Yoruba are the very worst when it comes to this 'pull-down-syndrome'. What sociopaths.

Igbos got no time to pull down anyone as long as nobody is pulling them down. The only Yoruba Igbos resent to death is Awo because of his betrayal and ensuing role in the civil war.

EzeUche0:
I think the reason why Chinua Achebe has not received the Nobel Prize in Literature is due to the fact that he had spoken out against Joseph Conrad's novel, Heart of Darkness. He stated that the novel is racist, while many Europeans adore that book of Africa. The fact that Chinua Achebe equated his book as a response to Heart of Darkness has not won him many fans in the elite literary circles of Europe. That is the main reason why I feel he has not been awarded the Nobel Prize in Lierature.

Nwanna: Read my lips. Thanks.

Here is the spin: Yorubas are mad as hell that Emeagwali claims that he won a prize equivalent to the Nobel prize which Soyinka a Yoruba has won. Now they want him to rescind that statement or he goes down. Since Nobel prize or its equivalent by any form or shape, implied or real, must only be won by a Yoruba. Hahahah! Only Chineke/Olodumare/God knows what will happen if Achebe gets a Nobel Prize. And who even knows why Achebe, whose work is far more widely acknowledged than Soyinka's, does not have a Nobel prize yet? Are Yorubas doing some ground work in that one too?Hahahah!

babasoty:
When it suits them they claim Ogoni, when it doesn't they wanna be different, they cry out now that they are being subdued by the Ogoni's, while forgetting that, the Onne free port they claim, is really called ONNE/IKPOKIRI port and that's how its registered in the federal government gazette establishing that port, have they ever for once carried the people of Ikpokiri who are Okrikans along in the sharing of revenue from the companies at the port, or employment quota at the port. they should just shut up as we all see them as ogoni's.

But Ikpokiri is not Ogoni. More like an offshoot Okrika island. The side of the water that is the port/wharf is clearly Onne though. That ikpokiri hm!! filled with ashewos. lol. Use to cross over in boat to get some fresh fish. Please respect what they want themselves to be. They said they are not ogonis and the clear language difference bears them out.

afam4eva:
Eleme is more like Ogoni by association rather than language. Do you also know that Kana, Ghokana and Tai speak almost differently just like Eleme ?

Yes by association. They were together before as one LGA. Those Kana, Gokana and Tai differences are dialectual. They understand each other and Ghokana appears to be a form of central Ogoni language, although Bori in Kana is their cultural head quarters.

Why is SAHARA reporters (SR) a Yoruba cyber media, not talking about how Ribadu suddenly declared Tinubu a saint after accusing him of corruption? Why is SR not talking about Kenny Martins and his billion loot? What about Bodunde Adeyanju and Fani Kayode? Are those no-go areas for SR? What is SR's interest in Emeagwali who has not committed any offense and has therefore not being charged in the USA-the land of law?

Solomon227:
Nwane
The allegation emanated from the US,blown-up by SR and NEXT and Anty Dora finally cataflame it. I normally dont indulge in tribalism. U cant really blame any particular group 4 critisizing him. From all discussions I hav been involved since diz case, most people (SE and SW tribalists) admit he is deserved of honours but disagree on some of his claims. And for SR. Every1 knows Sowore is a wounded lion without any tribal or ethnic affiliations. In fact he attacks any nigerian (most times excessivelly), irrespective of where he/she is from. And Nwane Anty Dora is Igbo and shuld also be critized for not standing with her own. I hav chosen to monitor what d Americans are saying about him because the whole issue started from them.

Emanated from the US by Nigerians in the US. Most oyibos do not know who the freaking hell is Emeagwali. The Yorubas in the US are the ones pushing the agenda. Emeagwali knows this too but he is not interested in taking up issues with anyone. Both Sahara Reporters and Next are Yoruba-owned. That is a red flag.

Aigbofa:
Must everthing be seen through an ethnic prism?

Not long ago, an ibo businessman in Lagos said he miraculously found an oil well in his factory, which was in reality an illegal oil stealing operation.
He was equally defended on this website by some as an attempt by "jealous" Yorubas to pull him down.
Similar language was used then as is being used now, jealous, hateful, envious bla, bla.

I didn't realise ethnic solidarity can cloud one's judgement so much that you no longer know what is right from wrong.

Okay tell me what Emeagwali has done wrong. Why is America, the land of law, not arresting and prosecuting him? Why are Yorubas the ones doing so on cyber? May be, some Igbos have taken a hard line position since you guys refuse to condemn and denounce Awo for orchestrating the starvation of Igbos and giving them only 20 pound no matter how much they had in their accounts.