₦airaland Forum

Ikengawo:
true.

my too i spent 6 years then every christmas after that. no tribalism.
i have and uncle that says yorubas have ugly babies lol, but that's about it.
even my family that lived through biafra isn't tribalist. It's just these ppl that get brave on the internet and want to claim something to belong too because they haven't been to nigeria in 30 years and don't speak their native language.

Yeah, I've never heard of tribalism too. It's not like hundreds of children are dying in Nigeria because of it. All these silly people talking about non-existent, unheard of tribalism in Nigeria. Haha, next they'll be saying that people in Nigerian government steal billions of Naira from Nigeria. Can you imagine these in-politically correct people?

Ehen now, this is standard practice in most secondary schools in Nigeria, private or state.

Akwukwu Igbo (Delta State)
Ob[b]igbo[/b] (Rivers State)
Etiti Igbo (Imo State)
Igbo Ukwu (Anambra State)

Can you please tell me the meaning of these town names from across the whole of Igboland?

udezue:
Ikengawo, please explain to us the existence of the Igbo-Ukwu, Obi-Igbo, Igbo-Etiti since you know so much.

LOL @ The British created Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba. What about Itsekiri, Ijo, Efik-Ibibio, Zulu?

I didn't even see this.

What is with this your food stamp?

www.nairaland.com/attachments/389008_Stamp_Southern_Nigeria_1901_1sh_jpge5f47cf1c9a0492c41eb71e7c410dea0

Like someone said, they handled their Empire's leftovers well, plus the other institutions they have. Who says anything about Toyota or Ford when a Boeing/Airbus and a Japan Air fly on Rolls Royce engines.

ShangoThor:
Human beings are meant to be intelligent because they can identify things that work and copy them, and adapt them!

It is simple, look at all the countries that are "allegedly successful" and please tell me if they have a "zoning arrangement".

1. USA, with their North/South Schism, is there zoning?

2. Singapore, is there zoning?

3. Japan, is there zoning?

I don't mean to offend anyone, but its the truth.

Why would Japan have zoning?

afam4eva:
I thought it was government. But how will does this Chife foundation get funding.

The foundation is non-profit, but the city is used to create jobs for the people of the region and to act like a technology village.

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afam4eva:
Developing new cities when there are cities in Anambra to be repaired. Why not use that money to revitalize Onitsha, Nnewi, Awka.

It's being built by a foundation called Chife Foundantion who are not connected to, or who were not called by the government.

Anam city is being developed in the Anambra West LGA near Otuocha. I ignored this project at first as another day dream, but now I think the city is going to appear soon as the newest in Nigeria. Anam is designed as a modern progressive city that at the same time is respectful to culture and tradition and is reasonable towards the inhabitants lifestyles.

http://www.anamcity.com/
http://anamcity./

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Energy

https://www.anamcity.com/img/img_design-energy.gif

Transportation

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Water

https://www.anamcity.com/img/img_design-water.gif

Neighbourhoods, All indigenous names!

https://www.anamcity.com/img/img_design-social.gif

Actual building

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Abagworo:
Origin of Igbo Etiti

One of the engaging topics in the book is the gallant attempt made by contributors to trace the origin of the various communities in Igbo-Etiti: Ikolo, Onyohor and Ukehe trace their origin from communities in present Udi area. Onyohor and Ikolo are said to be descended from Ugwunye and therefore blood relations of Affa, Egede and Nike, while Ukehe is one of the seven children of Ojebe Ogene (Ebe, Abor, Ukana, Awhum, Okpatu, Umulumgbe and Ukehe). Udueme claims Igalla paternity while Aku and Ekwegbe claim to be a mixed race of Igbo and Igalla.  A majority of Aku are said to be of Nshi (Nri in Awka) origin while some Ohemje people are said to be of Igalla.  In the case of Ekwegbe, part came from Akpugo, Ikem, Agulu (Awka) and Igalla. It is instructive that the black-smiting village in Ekwegbe answers Agulu (Eguru) while all black smiths are called Umu Eguru (Agulu).  Diogbe and Umunko claim to come from Eha-Amufu and Ikem (Isi-Uzo) respectively.  Ohodo claims to be blood relations of Obimo and Ogbodu Abba while parts of Ozala claim to come from Nkitiba Udueme. Ochima claims to be the father of all Igbo people so that Ochima is the central locus of dispersal of all Igbos. It is claimed that Ekwegbe formed part of the Igalla descendants of Aku from where they moved to their present position through Umunna.

How does this relate to my post?

Abagworo:
Maybe you meant to refer to your own village gan.Those Igala,Nri,Bini,Aro and Awka migrants in your village,can you actually tell their differences from the earlier settlers?

All these things started with colonialism.

I don't really understand what you're saying, but if you are saying that Igbo villages, which are just extended families, cannot trace certain lineages to check whether a family are diala or not, then I will tell you you are wrong and that villagers can tell the difference. If they can tell the difference in cast they can tell the difference in lineage. Women who come back to their fathers house with children will have her descendants branded as migrants. The idea of 'Diala' did not start with colonialism.

[quote author=Fear.com link=topic=597273.msg7673744#msg7673744 date=1296935018]It is either you are completely IGNORANT, or you are a spiritually deaf and dumb mute

Wake Up,Brother.

1 Peter 5 vs 8.Read also the frist three chapters of the Book of job.[/quote]Ironic username.

The Igbo are actually the most strict when it comes to the difference between indigene and settler. There are women centuries ago who returned to their fathers compound after a problem in their marriage and their children are still considered 'ndi mbiambia' hundreds of years later. Most of the people talking about Nigeria is for Nigerians would be the first pushing out a large migration into their villages.

There are Igbo queens known as Ọmụ who are queens in their own right and not through marriage. Ọmụ are usually found among the Aniocha people in places like Ogwahi-Ukwu and Igbuzor.

Obi Martha Dunkwu, Omu of Okpam

https://www.ofaac.org/trustees/obidr.jpg

MEND threatens bombings. From warm bathing water to frying pan?

If they start bombing how will Nigerians know the difference? How do you notice a heater inside hell? In short bombing would probably make more of a good impact on the environment than the Federal government has done in 40 years.

[quote author=dem_people link=topic=575467.msg7668218#msg7668218 date=1296846599]FG intends to spend N90bn for the development of new terminals at some of the nation's airports namely; MMIA(Lagos), AKIA(Kano), AIIA(Enugu), PIA(Port Harcourt) and NAIA(Abuja) which means that they'll be spending at least N18bn on each terminal (plus commission/awuf fees). Maybe they'll be ready by 2050 A.D.[/quote]What is "AD"? Don't you mean 2050 J.R. (Jesus Return).

Has anyone seen Abuja International? From there you will see that the only airport Nigeria has is Murtala Muhammed, the rest are just crash landing pads with rubble beside it. I'm sure the private airports in the middle of the Amazon jungle are better.

Who actually reads 'Compass'?

If anything, MASSOB is growing everyday. You should take a trip to a state like Imo and see how the motor ways are lined with Biafran flags.

So they lose hundreds of members through military murders, flood the east with Biafra flags and now they renounce their movement weeks before the election because of Jonathan? I'll wait and see.

afam4eva:
The struggle has existed before you were born, COW

Install an anti-virus software and you won't be exposed to any programmed viruses anymore.

graychuks:
Na wa o isn't there any man of God arround.We would have heard more.

Let's see what the 'Man of man' says first.

dexmond:
Someone claims to be a witch, another person who dont even know her says otherwise, who then is fooling who? For your information, there is an association of witches and wizard here in Nigeria!- Witches and Wizards Association of Nigeria (WITZAN), with Dr Okhue Iboi as president. Are you still saying there are no witches? Something is really really wrong with some of these atheists and amateur scientists.

So do they have a school like Hogwarts in the other realm? This woman obviously wasn't paying attention to her flying lessons (or even her battle spells).

[quote author=21-05-2011 link=topic=597466.msg7653421#msg7653421 date=1296656738]I hope and pray Nigeria will never turn out like former SUDAN
that is why looking around and noting that we are in the infancy of the bloodshed that happened in Sudan
we have to break up
we should learn to draw from other peoples experiences
Naija simply isnt working![/quote]Who will be wiping whose villages out in Nigeria?

tonte23:
She has continued talking rubbish, saying she was in a spiritual aircraft that crashed

Ey, see witches engineering fully Nigerian made air crafts and the air force just ignores this. Fully wasted talent. *Add the term to the Nigerian dictionary*

Orikinla:
Witches are real and I have met self-confessed witches from Akwa Ibom. But the Police should send this witch to the nearest true apostolic church for deliverance.
She is still in bondage.

Why are all the witches in Nigeria from Cross River or Akwa Ibom? Maybe the air force base should be moved there.

[quote author=EzeUche_ link=topic=596939.msg7649016#msg7649016 date=1296596616]Frankly, if the Yoruba leave this union, the Igbo wont stop them. The same cannot be said about the Hausa.[/quote]Can you blame some people if they are trying to feel important? The real cash cows of Nigeria are the ones people die to stay under the same nationality with. Clearly some places won't be missed as much as the rest.

seanet03:
@chz, We have to be sincere with ourselves, the North is being fooled into believing that it has the numerical advantage militarily over the south. It is a known fact that YORUBAS have the highest rate of literacy and industrialization in the country. We also dont venture what will lead to defeat. If we decide to secede, i have three countries that will support us instantly, and moreover we only need to block the Norths access to sea for just 6 months before the are worn out. Ever heard of the support we always have from Brazil.

First of all don't even mention Brazil, because, yes it does have a large population that claim Yoruba ancestry or embrace Yoruba culture, but if that were the measure, then Brazil would have to support Portugal, Italy, Japan, Spain, Angola, Congo and even the DRC in everything they do. Brazil has Africans, but their not in control unfortunately.

Again, I didn't know this fact that Yoruba people have the highest literacy rate and are the most industrialised, if this is fact then you will provide me with sources.

And the final part, I hope you're not talking about the Benin Republic when you claim countries that will support the Yoruba in war. In fact, what are these countries? Ivory Coast, Tanzania, Haiti and even France to a certain extent supported Biafra, and still, look how that turned out.

seanet03:
@obiagui, if the East try to support the NORTH against the West, then expect the Total Decimation of The Eastern Region, west is the most difficult region to engage in any fight. Did you know why the first and third republic collapse like a pack of cards? You dare not support the north to its annihilation.

No offence, but you couldn't annihilate people fighting you on your own land (for decades), but you'll some how find an army to decimate a people who faced actual world powers for two years? I'll like to see the outcome.

[quote author=Negro_Ntns link=topic=596939.msg7647787#msg7647787 date=1296582274]AN IMPERATIVE

Here is a story once told to me by an ex-student of FSAS.


Life is lesson. . . . But our stories are the garment covering that makes it vibrantly colorful. You take the stories away and life will be unclothed and uninspiring!

I took time to open this post with this short but true life story because it has relevance and gives spice to the mission I intend. The lesson of this post itself is one that should be very troubling to the soul and spirit of any living mankind. It is the lesson of an unrelenting aggression and crime committed by one set of mankind against another set. It is relevant to the killing of the Igbo people by the Hausas. The Yoruba nation is looking on. We do not speak up except on such infrequent occasion when a child of O’Dua is a victim in the mix-up.

My question to the children of Oduduwa: Will you find comfort in your conscience to stand by and not do anything as the Hausas continue to violate the Igbos? The Hausas were not the only victims of Igbo aggression and disrespect in the 60s coup, we were victims as well, far worse so than the North. If we in the West lived by the sentiments of our memories we should single-handedly and over the years have finished wiping their traces and blood out of our region and land by now, but that’s not a noble way for mankind. In conquest, there is redemption. A magnanimous warrior conquers the spirit of the infidel and crushes his ego but must leave his soul intact so the petals of a new humility can open and blossom.

Indisputably, the Igbo man is loud, flamboyant, self-glorifying and arrogant. He suffers from an inability to correctly assess his own weakness and come out with an effective plan to advance reforms. . . .and so he trudges on in a cycle of self-destruction believing in the volume of his hoot and holler as a effective propaganda against a veteran of stealth and strategy.

We can resign the Igbo man to his own fate but how about the helpless Igbo woman and her child? Politically and militarily, the man continues to prove his incomplete and ineffective understanding of the wisdom of war and hence those in his care are dangerously exposed to the whims and violent emotions of the rival. We must recognize this error in judgment as an involuntary attribute and therefore intervene with a resolve to rescue the Igbo woman and her child; and if doing that results in saving the Igbo man from his path of self-destruction as well, then so be it. . . .but it is a moral imperative that demands our firm stand for what is right and honorable in the eye and laws of mankind.

That in the history of mankind, our default reluctance to stand up and intervene for the security of lives and property- of those who are indebted to us for wrongs and injuries - has too far often stripped us of God’s Holy Spirit when we most needed to soak in it. In that un-divine moment, man falls from grace, life loses value and meaning; the “man” becomes the “beast” and willingly responds to the instincts of his carnivore nature - totally and recklessly disrespecting the sanctity of blood and the holiness of life. Everywhere you look a body is gashed open or burnt while the life still in it or smashed violently with a blunt force that the blood is shocked into trauma and finally succumbs to death.

This is not the order of creation and it is not the order of a noble people. Our history is of noble roots and our generation is faced with the challenge in our backyard and under our nose to correct atrocities against the nobility of creation, we cannot turn away from this.

If we continue to watch the Igbo people repeatedly violated and killed and we do nothing, then the time must come in future when the Yoruba nation will look back, either as a co-habiter in Nigeria or as a separate Sovereign, and we would wish we had saved the Igbo people from the ordeal of these torments.

Let’s start by adding voice to a call for the humane treatment of Igbo people in Northern Nigeria. For the sake of the mother and child, let us act as agents of change for their future. We can do it!

Add your voice to this mission.[/quote]First of all, this thread is just an excuse to insult Igbo people and Igbo men in particular, if your people can't keep up with him, it's better you work harder because you will not get paid for envy.

Second of all, did the "Igbo woman or child" call you to come and save them? It's better you leave the "Igbo man" on his path of "self-destruction", because it's obviously working for him and I can't remember any of them asking you to hold their hand. As if Yoruba people aren't being killed.

And oh yes, what a stupid thread.

agbotaen:
IKA HAVE BOTH IGBO AND BINI NAMES ,SO GET IT, EXAMPLES ARE NDUKA IRABOR ,AND NDUKA OBAIGBENA ,THIS ARE BOTH FAMOUS IKA MEN FROM OWA KINGDOM AND THEY HAVE BOTH IGBO AND BINI NAMES,BUT THE BINI NAME IS THEIR FAMILY NAME .
    MGBEJUME -MEANS ONE TREE CANNOT FORM A FOREST OR ONE MAN CANNOT FORM A QUORUM, IT IS AN IKA IDIOMATIC EXPRESSION .MY FAMILY NAME IS OMIGIE,MY GRAND FATHER IS MGBEJUME-OMIGIE, HIS OWN FATHER WAS IGBUDU,-OMIGIE, HIS FATHER WAS OVWIAGBON-OMIGIE,WHOSE FATHER WAS OSAHON ,WHOSE FATHER WAS IMADE ,WE CAN GO  ON AND ON ,WE TRACE OUR FAMILY HISTORY TO THE EARLY THIRTTENTH CENTURY ,AS DESCENDANTS OF OBI IGBEGIDI NO GIDIGAN -THE SECOND KING OF OWA KINGDOM,WHO FOUNDED IDUMU-EZOMOR VILLAGE.

Roots

    * Olaudah Equinoh
    * Here is Ashaka Kingdom
    * Festivals of our Land

http://www.ofaac.org/essence/index.php

Why are Anioma people adding Olaudah Equiano as Anioma, although he said he was "Eboe under the rule of the king of Benin"? Why would an Anioma person call themselves "Eboe"?

agbotaen:
IKA HAVE BOTH IGBO AND BINI NAMES ,SO GET IT, EXAMPLES ARE NDUKA IRABOR ,AND NDUKA OBAIGBENA ,THIS ARE BOTH FAMOUS IKA MEN FROM OWA KINGDOM AND THEY HAVE BOTH IGBO AND BINI NAMES,BUT THE BINI NAME IS THEIR FAMILY NAME .
    MGBEJUME -MEANS ONE TREE CANNOT FORM A FOREST OR ONE MAN CANNOT FORM A QUORUM, IT IS AN IKA IDIOMATIC EXPRESSION .MY FAMILY NAME IS OMIGIE,MY GRAND FATHER IS MGBEJUME-OMIGIE, HIS OWN FATHER WAS IGBUDU,-OMIGIE, HIS FATHER WAS OVWIAGBON-OMIGIE,WHOSE FATHER WAS OSAHON ,WHOSE FATHER WAS IMADE ,WE CAN GO  ON AND ON ,WE TRACE OUR FAMILY HISTORY TO THE EARLY THIRTTENTH CENTURY ,AS DESCENDANTS OF OBI IGBEGIDI NO GIDIGAN -THE SECOND KING OF OWA KINGDOM,WHO FOUNDED IDUMU-EZOMOR VILLAGE.

Why do most European books of old dealing with Igbo people study the Nri-Awka and Anioma before even the people of Imo and Abia?

Why did this young man of Ubulu Ukwu not correct the writer when he wanted to add his face in a book about the Igbo people? If it is down to language barrier, then how was the writer able to get words for things from these peoples language? Why didn't he once write 'Anioma' in his book?

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agbotaen:
IKA HAVE BOTH IGBO AND BINI NAMES ,SO GET IT, EXAMPLES ARE NDUKA IRABOR ,AND NDUKA OBAIGBENA ,THIS ARE BOTH FAMOUS IKA MEN FROM OWA KINGDOM AND THEY HAVE BOTH IGBO AND BINI NAMES,BUT THE BINI NAME IS THEIR FAMILY NAME .
MGBEJUME -MEANS ONE TREE CANNOT FORM A FOREST OR ONE MAN CANNOT FORM A QUORUM, IT IS AN IKA IDIOMATIC EXPRESSION .[s]MY FAMILY NAME IS OMIGIE,MY GRAND FATHER IS MGBEJUME-OMIGIE, HIS OWN FATHER WAS IGBUDU,-OMIGIE, HIS FATHER WAS OVWIAGBON-OMIGIE,WHOSE FATHER WAS OSAHON ,WHOSE FATHER WAS IMADE ,WE CAN GO ON AND ON ,WE TRACE OUR FAMILY HISTORY TO THE EARLY THIRTTENTH CENTURY ,AS DESCENDANTS OF OBI IGBEGIDI NO GIDIGAN -THE SECOND KING OF OWA KINGDOM,WHO FOUNDED IDUMU-EZOMOR VILLAGE.[/s]

Why does the Anioma cultural website theme music sound like central Igbo, and the rhythm sound like Osadebe?

agbotaen:
IKA HAVE BOTH IGBO AND BINI NAMES ,SO GET IT, EXAMPLES ARE NDUKA IRABOR ,AND NDUKA OBAIGBENA ,THIS ARE BOTH FAMOUS IKA MEN FROM OWA KINGDOM AND THEY HAVE BOTH IGBO AND BINI NAMES,BUT THE BINI NAME IS THEIR FAMILY NAME .
    MGBEJUME -MEANS ONE TREE CANNOT FORM A FOREST OR ONE MAN CANNOT FORM A QUORUM, IT IS AN IKA IDIOMATIC EXPRESSION .[s]MY FAMILY NAME IS OMIGIE,MY GRAND FATHER IS MGBEJUME-OMIGIE, HIS OWN FATHER WAS IGBUDU,-OMIGIE, HIS FATHER WAS OVWIAGBON-OMIGIE,WHOSE FATHER WAS OSAHON ,WHOSE FATHER WAS IMADE ,WE CAN GO  ON AND ON ,WE TRACE OUR FAMILY HISTORY TO THE EARLY THIRTTENTH CENTURY ,AS DESCENDANTS OF OBI IGBEGIDI NO GIDIGAN -THE SECOND KING OF OWA KINGDOM,WHO FOUNDED IDUMU-EZOMOR VILLAGE.[/s]

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Why are Anioma people dressed like Nri-Awka (Anambra) people?

http://www.ofaac.org/festival/index.php

agbotaen:
IKA HAVE BOTH IGBO AND BINI NAMES ,SO GET IT, EXAMPLES ARE NDUKA IRABOR ,AND NDUKA OBAIGBENA ,THIS ARE BOTH FAMOUS IKA MEN FROM OWA KINGDOM AND THEY HAVE BOTH IGBO AND BINI NAMES,BUT THE BINI NAME IS THEIR FAMILY NAME .
MGBEJUME -MEANS ONE TREE CANNOT FORM A FOREST OR ONE MAN CANNOT FORM A QUORUM, IT IS AN IKA IDIOMATIC EXPRESSION .[s]MY FAMILY NAME IS OMIGIE,MY GRAND FATHER IS MGBEJUME-OMIGIE, HIS OWN FATHER WAS IGBUDU,-OMIGIE, HIS FATHER WAS OVWIAGBON-OMIGIE,WHOSE FATHER WAS OSAHON ,WHOSE FATHER WAS IMADE ,WE CAN GO ON AND ON ,WE TRACE OUR FAMILY HISTORY TO THE EARLY THIRTTENTH CENTURY ,AS DESCENDANTS OF OBI IGBEGIDI NO GIDIGAN -THE SECOND KING OF OWA KINGDOM,WHO FOUNDED IDUMU-EZOMOR VILLAGE.[/s]

Anioma, meaning The Good Land, is one of the most peaceful and dynamic regions in Nigeria, located strategically from the serene banks of River Niger to the inland stretching to Agbor.

Why does Anioma, the name and therefore soul of the Anioma people, mean the same thing in Igbo?

agbotaen:
IKA HAVE BOTH IGBO AND BINI NAMES ,SO GET IT, EXAMPLES ARE NDUKA IRABOR ,AND NDUKA OBAIGBENA ,THIS ARE BOTH FAMOUS IKA MEN FROM OWA KINGDOM AND THEY HAVE BOTH IGBO AND BINI NAMES,BUT THE BINI NAME IS THEIR FAMILY NAME .
MGBEJUME -MEANS ONE TREE CANNOT FORM A FOREST OR ONE MAN CANNOT FORM A QUORUM, IT IS AN IKA IDIOMATIC EXPRESSION .[s]MY FAMILY NAME IS OMIGIE,MY GRAND FATHER IS MGBEJUME-OMIGIE, HIS OWN FATHER WAS IGBUDU,-OMIGIE, HIS FATHER WAS OVWIAGBON-OMIGIE,WHOSE FATHER WAS OSAHON ,WHOSE FATHER WAS IMADE ,WE CAN GO ON AND ON ,WE TRACE OUR FAMILY HISTORY TO THE EARLY THIRTTENTH CENTURY ,AS DESCENDANTS OF OBI IGBEGIDI NO GIDIGAN -THE SECOND KING OF OWA KINGDOM,WHO FOUNDED IDUMU-EZOMOR VILLAGE.[/s]

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Why is the Anioma cultural website image filled with men with red caps and two Igbo (Enugwu) looking masquerades?