₦airaland Forum

before ko!

Mrvirgin:
Yes boss. Had problems uploading d pictures I av to back up my claims

I opened a thread on ' Discover westerners neighbourhood' to know about south west neighbourhood but nobody seems to respond.

Can you please post some nice pictures of Akure on that thread?

Note: residential areas, streets and others.

Well, He has tested his popularity but what was the outcome?

Volksfuhrer:
Yorubas will take care of themselves. Besides, war is quite natural to them. Please continue in the pursuit of peace, and let those who look for war be consumed by it.

Well, i am also for peace but what i read up there gave me cause to worry and think..hnm!

joeyfire:
Yinka Odumakin has floated a radio station in Ibadan. South West will be ready.

Ok na!

MrEverest:
Aba is dirty no doubt but P.H & Ibadan are dirty too. Only Abuja, Enugu, Calaber & Uyo has some semblance of sanity in Nigeria today, Owerri used to be very neat too until Rochas became governor & abandoned clean & green.

Ibadan dirty?

You must be yorking.

Mrvirgin:
Have a look at AKURE

erhn! are you living in Akure?

First off, i don't support tribalism or nepotism but based on your analysis on how/what Bosnia suffered after Yugoslazia disintegrated, you gave me cause to worry about the present political situations in Nigeria, which could result to disintegration if many issues are not addressed on time. e.g Biafra agitation(radio biafra), Power tussle btw the north and the South west, Ogoni, Niger delta agitation for resource control, Decline of oil price e.t.c

And if that should happen, are Yoruba's prepared to defend themselves?

I mean a readily trained and disciplined army.

For me Biafran's are readily ready, and some Niger deltans are also prepared to defend themselves.

But i don't see it coming until South westernerns and Niger deltan's decides to secede..

badnature:
all this demented baboons and monkeys that compound their problems by schooling in the zoo let me do it in capital letters "ZOO" there by being a victim to Britain (bigger demon) hausa Fulani/yoruba(smaller demons) media propaganda go and get old African Map before the BALIN CONFERENCE you will see BIAFRA started from present day delta state down to Atlantic ocean covering rivers and bayalsa and everything in it .before the colonial period when Europeans come to BIAFRA the normally sign tread treaty with tribal chiefs in( izon,itchekiri,) BIAFRA LAND.over time Hausa/Fulani and there Yoruba slave started brainwashing people to believe that Biafra is all about igbo while in reality ogoni people are even more Biafra than igbo people,the baptized them with a slave name called(Niger delta and south south) all my days in school I have never come across that WORD (south south) until Hausa/fulani came up with that name to divide and rule,with that come un-impeded access to oil.Why did we have south south but we don't have north north? ??in the spirit of divide and rule the tell them you are Niger delta,you people are south south,so that the will have access to oil.hausa/fulani carefully zigzag all the boundaries were there is oil to none igbo state because the know that those people have been defeated mentally and as that can not opposed their actions.the whent as far as telling them that igbo people are wicked,the will dominate you.so Yoruba people and Hausa people are they brothers and friends,but it's Hausa people that killed SAROWIWA,it's a Yoruba man that send the military to OGONI LAND and killed every body in that community and the so called Niger delta or south south are quite,and that exactly what yoruba and Hausa want.but with the coming of BIAFRA all this abuse will STOP

Wow! do you mean there was a country called biafra before colonial masters came to Nigeria?

What are the names of their former Presidents, Prime ministers or Kings of Former Biafra Republic or whatever before Colonial masters came?


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tonychristopher:
Your absolutely correct but unfortunately they have been totally igbonized

My sons have been igbonize but are they?

Ugomba:
listen, there are some yorubas who live in my Asaba town and also in many parts of Delta.
Your attempt to insult Igbos and coin your fake yoruba love to my people is Pathetic.
Anioma is One! Stop playing this dividing tactics.. Do you understand?

Yes sir, I understand.

But that doesn't change the fact that right in the heart of Aniocha North, there is an authentic Yoruba community existing. up till date.

Note: I never attempted to insult Ndigbo or to play any divide and rule tactics but just to state the facts. that's all

Is Oloza of Ugbodo( Ugbo du mu la)also playing divide and rule?

tonychristopher:
So you are saying that the man from Igbo bi na uzor who migrated from NRI isn't a pure Igbo or the owa man from NRI isn't pure

Ugomba will not find this funny

Lol

Who is the chairman of ohaneze now ?

Answer that pls

U know identity crisis is a crisis after all

Now have you eaten any sallah meat

You're are what you say you're and the Oloza of Ugbodo[ Ugbo(forest) du mi la(has saved me] had said it all.

Who is Governor of Delta state? does that mean everybody in DeltaState is Ika?

Sallah meat? If to say i dey Lagos now......

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Far from home, Yoruba community makes home in Delta State

National Mirror, November 2011 — Not many people know that there is an authentic Yoruba community in Delta State. Well, there is. The Oloku Mi people who migrated from Owo/Akure area of the present day Ondo State have lived in a community known as Ugbodu in Aniocha Local Government Area of Delta State since circa 11th Century AD. AMOUR UDEMUDE visited the community and found a people eager to retain as many aspects of their origin as possible.
The couple strolling ahead have all the trappings of the Igbo especially in the way they are attired and the language of their dialogue. A few metres more, they are at their abode where a group of kids bid them welcome in a language different from the one they have been using. Their response too is in that same language: a variety of the Yoruba language. Welcome to Ugbodu, a town in the Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State. Ugbodu is a peaceful community of over 10,000 people and it is agrarian like its Isoko, Urhobo, Izon, Itsekiri and Igbo neighbours. It is also a border town in that it shares boundary with Edo State. But aside their dressings, living , occupation and other things which bear close semblance to that of their neighbours, there is something unique and almost peculiar about them: their language and culture. These are prone to shock any first time visitor which was what happened to the reporter on his first visit. How could this be? The writer wondered. A visit to the palace, unfortunately, could not solve the riddle. The custodian of the people’s customs and traditions, the monarch, was not around to illuminate the dark areas. It was a young Princess taking the writer down to one of the members of the royal family who could talk, that made the first move at solving the riddle.

“We are a Yoruba speaking community and the name of our [b]language is Oloku mi,” she disclosed. Finally the king, H.R.M. Ayo Isinyemeze, the Oloza (Obi) of Ugbodu, met the desire of the writer. The youthful looking, handsome royal father explained. According to the monarch who is also the chairman of the Traditional Rulers Council in Aniocha North, the Ugbodu Oluku mi speaking people migrated from Owo/Akure axis in the current day Ondo State between 9th and 11th Century AD to settle down in [/b]Benin during the reign of King Ogiso of Benin. They, however, had to leave Benin for their current abode after a particular incident which rendered them unsafe. “The language, Oluku mi is a dialect of the Yoruba. Interestingly, we are not the only speakers of the language. It is spoken even as far as far away Cuba, part of Southern America. Our history dated far back, very far back to the time of Ogiso’s in the Benin Kingdom. “Then, there was a young handsome Prince, the heir apparent to the throne. After the woman gave birth to the Prince, the nobles consulted the oracle and said that the oracle told them that the child should be killed for peace to reign in Benin Kingdom. But eventually he was not killed. However, when the news filtered into the rest of Benin that the Prince had not been executed, we didn’t feel safe and comfortable. that is to say we first of all settled in Benin at this time so when this filtered in that this young Prince had been executed of course our people grew very uneasy and decided to leave Benin and that was how we ended up here. So, that is how far we can trace our history and when we got here and find the place very conducive and fertile for settlement, of course we have to settle here,” the royal father narrated.

He continued: “Centuries later and interestingly, we would always claim that we were the first to settle in this neighbourhood which is why we have a name for practically all the communities around us as they refer to us simply as Ugbodu. “Sometime in the mid 90’s, the Ife monarch traveled to Cuba and then it was reported that he met a group of persons who were speaking an ancient, according to them, form of Yoruba that was called Oloku Mi.” What exactly does the name Ugbodu connote, the monarch disclosed “Ugbodu simply means, we have found solace in this land”. But how come the people are so different from the Yoruba who they claim are their progenitors? The monarch said: “You know when you have been away from your roots for an extended period what you begin to find is that assimilation of culture begins to take place. In sociology, we call it acculturation. “We began to acculturate and over time we had adopted largely the way of life of our neighbours. We now bear Igbo names. Me, for instance, my name is Isieyemeze but that’s not Oloku mi name, that’s an Igbo name. It is a tribute as it were to my family because, I bear an Oloku mi name as a first name. My children all bear Oluku mi names. I think there is renaissance, an effort of going back to our roots.

So, most of the children being born these days are named Oloku mi names. “Outside from that, our dance, dress and food we have basically adopted our neighbour’s lifestyle in those regards. Interestingly, practically everybody here speaks Igbo but as our second language. Our primary tongue is Oloku mi and everybody born here speaks that language. If we come out without you hearing us talk, you will also see us as Igbos because of the way we dress, kind of food we eat but outside that our language is the thing that really stands us out.” But do the people regret being outside their original habitat and losing touch with their roots The monarch replied in the negative stating: “We don’t have any regrets finding ourselves here because wherever we found ourselves is because we are destined to be here. Being here we have no regrets the only thing that I will say that irks us which is not peculiar to our community is the apparent lack of government attention to our community. “Things you find here, from the market, to the health centre, secondary school, are all community effort. In 2008, the government made a pronouncement of taking over the school but up till now we are still struggling to get that approval fully granted. We received a list of teachers and till now we are still fighting to get the teachers to report but all to no avail. We are the one solely funding the school till date as I talk to you.” The monarch however added: “We are very hospitable, very peace loving, very orderly people. We are development minded which is why we strive at every point to see that we bring the good things of life to ourselves even though we are not getting much encouragement from government in that regard.”

Ugbodu community, though grossly neglected, has produced so many big names who have made the country proud in their various fields of endeavour in life. But this, the royal father lamented, had not helped, their community has remained underdeveloped and grossly neglected. “I think as a measure of hospitality and quest for greatness, we have produced a string of first in this community. We produced the second ever Miss Nigeria in 1958 in the person of Helen Anyamelune, the captain of the first ever under 18 Golden Eaglets that brought the first world cup to Africa and indeed Nigeria in 1985 (China’85), in the person of Nduka Ugbade and beyond that we also have eminent scholars and politicians and all what not but unfortunately all these have not translated into developmental infrastructures in the community. “We have also used every opportunity we get to cry out to government to please come to our aid. You hardly find any Ugbodu person involved in any criminal activities but we had a major of contribution to the social cultural development of good of this nation. So it’s funny that in spite of all these we still not have anything to show for all that.” The Ugbodu people are mainly Christians. The Oloza shed more light. “For religion, we are primarily Christians but of course been Africans you will not remove that aspect of those who are still traditionalists in their beliefs. So, the African traditional religion is still present here but unfortunately it is not as dominant as it was in the days past. Christianity has taken over, I don’t think if we have any resident Muslim here but I am sure we have one or two persons from the community who are Muslims but not resident within the community.

Our community is a border community, we share boundary with Edo State and surrounding our community are several communities with different languages.” The Oloza of Ugbodu who maintained a cordial relationship with his people told Saturday Mirror that he was crowned in 1985 and this year is his 26th on the throne. The monarch however refused to disclose his educational background but simply said: “If I was looking for appointment or employment, I might want to display my educational qualifications but you can’t take it to the bank. That I have had a very good education that is the way I always put it.” He would, however, want his reign to be remembered as one that brought the greatest level of development to his community even as he advised politicians to as a matter of fact shun corruption which he said had brought rot and decay to the nation’s political and economic system, “Our leaders should learn how to be truthful and honest to Nigerians,” he insisted. Since the Yoruba speaking community is surrounded by the Igbo-speaking communities, it did not take much time before the Igbo language started to interfere greatly on the people’s language. This according to the monarch is the biggest and most challenging problems facing the people of Ugbodu community.

However, the people especially the elders are trying to tackle this problem headlong. Their Oluku mi language is being threatened hence its protection and that of their culture in general has become paramount. Prince Adebowale Ochei of the royal family anindigene of Ugbodu who was born and breed in the land revealed that the elders are more connected to the original Oluku mi language than the youth stressing that they are gradually losing the real Oluku mi following the encroachment of the language by the Igbo language. According to Adebowale: “The real Oluku mi is like the Yoruba that is spoken in Owo in Ondo State. Someone from that place is expected to understand the language perfectly. I am an Oluku mi man and I am proud of my language. I am not happy that Igbo language is infiltrating our language. We are trying our best to correct the situation and part of that is what my brother (the Oloza) is doing by organising an Oluku mi reciting competition. We want to know the people who can speak the real Oluku mi without mixing it with Igbo or English.” As a protecting measure against the infiltration of the language, the inhabitants have made it a point of duty to making sure that their children are given Oluku mi names and to sing and say prayers in Oluku mi. In some cases, some radical reformers and revivalists changed the names given to them by their parents from Igbo to Oluku mi. The climax of the restoration process of their linguistic ethos and identity was the christening of the incumbent Oloza with an Oluku mi name, Ayo. The people of Ugbodu like every other community in Delta state have always contributed their quota mostly when it comes to casting their votes during elections, but the big question now is that, why has government decided to neglect the people to their fate by not living to it responsibility?

tonychristopher:
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Why don't you tell us which one is hybrid Igbo and pure Igbo

Anioma is just pure Igbo ..do you know the president of ohaneze today

Before ko. Do you expect me to swallow everthing you or people say on Nairaland without doing my own research?


As you can see it's not pure anything.

They have the right be whatever they want to be.

Delta state of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is made up of 25 Local Government areas (LGAs) and like every other state, she is represented in the Nigerian Senate by three senators. Delta state is thus carved up into three senatorial districts…Delta Central, Delta South and Delta North (Aniomaland).

Delta Central comprises eight LGAs and is inhabited by the Urhobos while Delta South also comprises eight LGAs and is home to the ethnic Ijaw, Isoko and Itsekiri while Delta North is home to the Ika, Enuani, Ukwuani sub-groups who are spread across nine LGAs.

The principal towns of Delta North are Agbor, Asaba (the Delta state capital),Ogwashi-Uku, Issele-Uku, Ibusa, Ubulu-Uku, Obiaruku,Kwale, Ashaka, among others. Her peoples are predominantly farmers, fisherfolk, businessmen, academics, bureaucrats and members of the defence and security forces. It is on record that at the dawn of Nigerian independence on 1 October 1960, nine(9) of the fifty-eight(58) indigenous commissioned officers of the Nigerian Army were from Delta North alone. Most famous of these was Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu who led the first military coup d’etat in Nigeria in 1966.

As of April 2010, the Chief of Defence Staff of the Nigerian Armed Forces and the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service both hail from Aniocha North LGA of the said Delta North.

It is also on record that the Ekumeku peasant rebellion against white domination (akin to the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya) mounted by the people of Delta North under Agbogidi Oligbo, the Issele Uku monarch and against the British colonialists ensured that Aniomaland was arguably the last part of Nigeria to be completely subjugated by the British colonialists! The Ekumeku War spanned the period between 1898 and 1929. Even the Sokoto empire fell in 1903,the defiant people of Delta North were still at the barricades.

Today,the predominant spoken language in the area is a hybridized dialect of Igbo but the people somehow do not refer to themselves Igbo for the simple fact that over eighty-five percent (85%) of Anioma people are said to have emigrated from Bini empire during the 14th and 15th century reigns of Obas(Kings) Ozolua, Ewuare and Esigie of the Benin Empire which lies immediately to the west of Aniomaland. The festivals, language, kingship systems of the people of Delta North appear to bear testimony to this fact even to this day. Possibly, they may have lost their mastery of Edo language on account of long separation from the Benin Empire and became subsumed in the dominant Igbo culture as a result of the fact of greater proximity to Igboland.

But Delta North also has, albeit unbelievably, an indigenous and living community of Yoruba and Igala speakers.

Aniocha North Local Government Area is the smallest, most northerly and most rural in the Delta state. It consists of 16 communities grouped into the three clans of Ezechima, Odiani and Idumuje.

Odiani clan comprises 8 communities which are said to have historically migrated emigrated from the Akoko area of Yorubaland during the wars which raged in that part of pre-colonial Africa during the 18th century. When they arrived at their present place of domicile in the Far North of present-day Delta state, the Edo(Benin) emigres and Ibos from the east of the Niger river had been on ground for a minimum of three centuries. Unable to communicate with the hostile people all around them,they courtesied all and sundry who they came into contact with“Olukumi” ,a word in the Akoko dialect of Yoruba language which means “my friend”.

To this day,the variant of Yoruba language spoken by my people is called Olukumi by neighbouring communities. Further east at Ebu,a migrant community of Igalas who came from central Nigeria in search of prime fishing grounds had developed and to this day,the people of Ebu still speak Igala language.

fr3do:
not all Aniomas consider themselves Igbo, but online authorities and other tribes think otherwise (when it is inconvenient for them to consider Aniomas as non Igbo).

That's all. thanks

tonychristopher:
Nice question eko was as a result of Benin expansionist in Yoruba land and mind you only island and Lagos isn't only island Bro ..we have awori and ijebu maybe you tell me that they are edo and they retained their Yoruba names like ojuelegba ajegunle and iyana ipaja and all these are Yoruba names


Anioma was never as a conquered territory by Igbo but just Igbo that is why you have places with Igbo names such as onicha which can be found in many Igbo towns .ukwuani which is also Igbo name, you still find igbobinauzor shortened igbuzor and they are just Igbo names of town

These are pointers to people tribe ..the names of their town so as you can see eko was a conquered territory just fragment but they are Yoruba
Anioma isn't any conquered territory and they have Igbo names from Igbo akiri in edo state to onicha ugbo in delta to umuebu in ukwuani ...what more pointer can I give


Just like saying port Harcourt is English forgetting that the main name is igweocha

These are pointers Bro


Any more questions

Yes o. Are ALL Anoimia's Igbo?

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tonychristopher:
All anioma are Spanish not Igbo
First what is the meaning of anioma and how did it come about

This will be a pointer if they are Igbo or not

Simple question needs simply answer.

What is the meaning of Eko/Lagos?

This will also be a pointer if they are Edo/Portuguese or not.

fr3do:
Anioma has 33% of Delta's population and 9 out of 25 LGAs.

Are all Anioma Igbo?

una don start!

politrickcians

When a fisherman goes fishing his prayer is to catch fishes and when he catches a big one, it's a prayer well answered.

thank God!

crisis averted

barcaboi:
he for put head where stone dey ni

before ko!

no be em dey form paparozzo?

mohlanforex:
I AM ONE OF THOSE WHO STONE HIM AND HIS SECURITY FIRE GUN TO THE SKY. NO ONE WAS HURT ACCEPT SARAKI THAT GOT HUMILIATED .

hmm! are u for real?

Saraki(eniyan la) is turning to......

Confirmer:
I was there. Pictures will surface pretty soon

two witnesses?

ok na.

You said you're there but you can't show pictures or video.

is someone believing this guy?

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