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I know that smart madu from Anioma voice international facebook page.

A bitter Igbophobic being and ardent supporter of Buhari and APC. Smart Madu, Gloria Adagbon and Laureta Onochie form a demonic trinity.

I guess since Buhari had rewarded Mrs Onochie for her hustles and sychophancy. Smart is doubling his hustle in hope that Buhari and his handlers notice him.

Ana emenu.

Bigfrancis1. Good job puting the Afonjas in check in my absence. Job well done.

It's a bit funny that two Afonjas are carrying this issue on head like gala, even more than the Igalas themselves here. Tells you alot about these people.

Also, 25.7% feels that their ethnicity is mixed while 28.6% feels their ethnicity is Igala, 34.2% feels they are Idoma, while 11.4% disagree that it is Igbo.

bigfrancis21:
Many minority tribes in the south may speak Igbo as second language but they are not Igbos. By this I refer to the Ijaws, Ogonis etc. However, if by minority tribes you refer to Delta Igbos and Rivers Igbos that speak Igbo as native language, your argument in this case is not solid.

Coming to the west, the case of Ogori Magongo, Nupe, Bariba etc. speaking yoruba as second language can be likened to the case in Hausa land where several northern minority tribes speak Hausa as second language or as in the south where some minority tribes speak Igbo as second language such as kalabari, andoni, okirika people etc. However Nupes, Baribas, Ogoris etc. are not Yorubas because they have their native language which is not Yoruba, same for the minority tribes in the North who have their respective languages and also for the Kalabaris, Andonis etc. who are not Igbos because they have their own native languages. This is different from Igbo-speaking peoples in the Niger delta such as Etche, Obigbo, Ndoki, Ndoni, Oshimili, Asaba etc. who speak Igbo as native language. Please do not confuse the two.

Succinctly well put brother. This is good.

bigfrancis21:
Lol. Ette only exists in Kogi state online. It still is located in Enugu state.

Ogodo, Emenebe, Obida and Ebe sound Igbo to me, not sure. Aishi, Adope and Achanya sound Idoma to me.

Lol! The writer of that article was clearly hallucinating.
Etteh remains in Igbo Eze North LGA, after all said and done.

No amount of violence or hallucination from Igalas will change that.
The case is still at the boundary commission, and the verdict is not yet out.

laudate:
@ Iansweet, OmoIgala & Revolva:

Here is another article from the same Vanguard Newspaper about Ette community, that was written in 2011. Are there two different Ette communities? Is there an Ette community in Kogi State, and is there a separate Ette community in Enugu state?

Kindly confirm.

This article was only broadcasting the stance of the Igala aspect of Ette. Which is that they want to be in Kogi.
And that is exactly what we had been saying here.
it's not like we expected Igala elements there to say otherwise.
The article was not an investigative one. As only the Igala people were interviewed and their words published without the writers contribution or those of the opposing camps.

Meanwhile, congratulations to Ifeanyi Ubah FC.

The sky is your starting point.

ionsman:
Kano pillars were champions of the Npl in 2013 and 2014, but the northerners didn't make noise. Igbo people always want to make noise over everything (check the comments).

P. S: I don't reply idiots.

Go and sit down. Before Kano pillars won the NPFL three consecutive times in 2012,13,14, Iwuanyanwu( now ( Heartland) Of Owerri did same in 1988,89,90. Enyimba did it in 2001,02,03.

SE teams had won the NPFL a whooping 19 times out of 44 times it was played.
Teams from the entire three geopolitical region of North had won it just 8 times.

SS teams had won it 8 times
SW teams teams won it 9 times.

Enyimba and Rangers hold the joint record for the highest number of wins, ie 7 for each of them.

SE has every reason to take pride in our total dominance of Nigerian football, despite set backs we have suffered as a people.

If this were negative news coming from SE, you and your fellow Igbophobic entities will not waste time to start demonizing Ndiigbo.

If you are not comfortable with us celebrating our feats in Nigeria football, you can go and do the needful.

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laudate:
You are Anioma yet you often speak for larger Igbo groups and other Nd'Igbo communities that are not even located near your own hometown.

But you feel OmoIgala, Iansweet & Revolva who are bona-fide Igala indigenes have no right to make comments about an Igala community like Ette? Do you see how hypocritical your stance is?

Confused AkinEgba, you bore me. Lol

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laudate:
The flaws in your line of reasoning have been pointed out repeatedly, but here you are still wallowing in deceit, thinking you can hoodwink everyone with your half-truths. 3 Igala indigenes (i.e. OmoIgala, Iansweet, Revolva) have confirmed that Ette is an Igala community with Igala ancestry, and OmoIgala even provided links to an online source to corroborate his stand.

You have rejected all their comments and evidence, in favour of an unsubstantiated post made by one lordlexy, (who you believe is the sole spokesman of the Ette community, going by the way you have been brandishing his flawed perspective) and a small report in Vanguard. Wise men bow to superior evidence, when it shows that their earlier train of thought is incorrect. But we all know you lack wisdom, that is why you have taken refuge in falsehood and tagging others with names they do not bear.

It shows in the way you have been trying to pin the identity of a different NL member on me, without any success. Sorry I cannot help you, if you keep shouting AkinEgba's name like a desperate heartbroken lover of his. I truly wish the AkinEgba fellow would show up and put you out of your misery. Stop hyperventilating, as your anger could easily cause you to lose the little aspect left of your senses.

There is no contest going on here, so it is unclear why you are talking of a side winning or losing. Only kids view discussions as a 'win or lose' zero sum game. So I guess that makes you one. You have decided to walk the path of error. Because your error-filled comments have made others see you as clueless, you have now gotten angry. Eeyah, sorry o!

Unlike you, Pazienza a.k.a Igboid, I do NOT have multiple handles. There is only one Laudate. Any other one is a counterfeit. When you find the AkinEgba fellow that has you barking on such a short leash, give him my best regards - for he has managed to establish his dominance over you.

The stench from your repetitive barking of the name of your so-called lover that you refer to as AkinEgba, has actually revealed the hidden stench in your character. I hope you will be able to reach deep within, to find relief from your anger and release from the deception that has clouded your vision.

Peace.

Lol!

AkinEgba, AkinPhysicist, Laudate. You bore me.

An objective report in Vanguard is a small report, but those given by Igalas minorities who are dragging Ette are big reports? Hehe!

I mean, how can anybody take the opinions of Igalas on this issue as an objective one? It takes a treacherous Afonja like you to do such. What were you expecting Igalas in Ette and those in Kogi to say? That they are minorities in Etteh:-/

Lordlexy is an indigene of Ette, his opinion on the issue weights more than those of Igalas from Kogi and Edo here. That very much is rational.

What flaws in my line of thought? I had provided rebuttals to all iansweet, Omo Igala, Revolva relevant posts and arguments here, using relevant examples when necessary, neutral folks here can see that easily. So I wonder where you are manufacturing your own flaws.

AkinEgba you can whine as much as you want, but the fact is that your Afonja self have been busted and the more you drag it on, the more you make public disgrace of yourself.

AkinPhysicist:

Laudate. How far?
Are you planing on commiting some monologue on this thread with your three handles?

ianSweet:
Igbo commonwealth? Like WTF! When did u guys establish your commonwealth of nations? U guys have really taken the tribal bigotry too far. I wish u guys speedy recovery.
Read this link below and see ur so called Igbo Igwe identifying his people as Igala speaking descendants of Igalas. I bet u know the people more than their king does.

http://www.nigerianmuse.com/20130413034525zg/nigeria-watch/why-anambra-cannot-claim-ownership-of-oil-wells-in-igga-by-community-leaders/

Lol! There are many communities in Igboland who have stories of Igala ancestry but yet don't identify as Igala.


The Igala was aggressive people that went on rampage on Northern Anambra and Enugu, changing the demographics of those part of Igboland, but yet, those communities have in their core, Igbo elements, who were not always as lucky as the Igbo elements in Nzam that won back the throne of Nzam from the Igala invaders and so are able to present us the real history of those places.

ianSweet:
What do u mean by igalas hijacked the royal stools of those towns?
In this link below, the King who is an Igwe (title still in Igbo language) acknowledged his people as Igala speaking and descendants of Igalas. What else do u want to hear?
Read the link abeg, and hear from the Igwe's mouth himself

http://www.nigerianmuse.com/20130413034525zg/nigeria-watch/why-anambra-cannot-claim-ownership-of-oil-wells-in-igga-by-community-leaders/

In case you forgot. I was the one who first posted the above article you are now parading about here.

https://www.nairaland.com/1256296/why-tussle-over-anambra-oil
So don't pretend like you are presenting a new evidence for your argument that had not already been evaluated and dissected by me.


The Igwe is not saying that crude oil belongs to Kogi or Igala, he is saying that it belongs to Enugu and not Anambra.
That should tell you the status quo there.

Of course, the Igwe is a descendant of Igala invaders in that town, he understands the situation, and is ready to work with Ndiigbo in Enugu.
You can go through my post on Nzam, to understand the dynamics at play in those communities.

The Igala speaking peolple of Nzam were the descendants of General Ajida, a notable warrior of Idah origin who invaded the town. Ajida is the father of field marshal Ogbe who was married to Iyida.

History also has it that the land in which the town was located was initially occupied by other aboriginal Igbos, whom they defeated and sent away in fear of possible attack in future. Some later re-emerged to join other native Igbos to repossess the town. The town's monarch is HRH Igwe James Okolo



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nzam


Look at how Nzam history was written to fully reflect the invading nature of Igalas presence there.

If the Igbo groups didn't regroup and stormed back to seize control of Nzam from Igalas. The remaining indigenous Igbo there would have been gradually forced to assimilate into Igala, the Igalas will hijack the royal stool, and the story of Igalas in Nzam will nolonger be that of Invaders, it will be that of founders who migrated from Kogi to meet an empty land in Igala, the story won't be told by the Igbo aboriginals who would have become minorities in their land with no powers and majority of who must have been "Igalanized", it will be told by the Igalas who now control the royal stool.

ianSweet:
Dont make it look like Ette is the only Igala speaking town in Kogi. Adani, Ojjor, Asaba, Igga and Ogurugu are also igala speaking towns in Enugu state and even their king has confirmed it.

And if u claim the Igala speakers are minority in the Ette town, how come the traditional titles and traditional rulers of the town are all Igalas and in Igala language? Explaim this for us.

Like I said before. The Igalas hijacked the royal stool of those towns, and succeeded in "Igalanizing" them.

ianSweet:
Most of those communities i know have never identified themselves as Igbo people (in a public interview) they always adress themselves as Igala speakers, but they usually take pride in being from Enugu, Anambra or Delta states, some of them claim Kogi. I have seen a family who are originally from Nzam, Anambra state, but they sometimes claim Kogi state because they are Igala speaking.
There are so many published news articles we have seen where people from Anambra, Enugu and Delta states identified themselves as Igala speakers, that is where i stand.

Like i said, its not as if i care about where Anioma people choose to belong, just that we are not blind, i have seen on nairaland, facebook and even physically where some Aniomas reject being called Igbo especially Ika and Ndokwa people. Like one public figure Emeka Esogbue i follow his write up, he is from Anioma and he claims his people are not Igbos.
Whatever they decide is good for them and not really my problem. If i have the time, maybe i will embark on a research on the cause for this identity crisis among these people.

Those communities had never identified themselves as members of Igala ethnic nationality. They just acknowledge their Igala ancestry and take pride in being part of the Igbo commonwealth.

Nzam Igalanization wasn't complete. The Igalas couldn't hijack the royal stool of Nzam and doctor a general oral history of everybody from the town originating from Igala. The Igbo aboriginals in Nzam retained the royal stool of Nzam and so Nzam general oralhistory rightly placed Igalas there as invaders. I'm sure that if Nzam royal stool was rightfully seized by Igalas, the story won't be the same, the story will be that everybody in Nzam are Igalas who migrated from Kogi. Infact, Nzam offers the template of better understanding of Bilingualism in Northern Anambra/Enugu, and the oral history of Igala origin which seem to have conveniently left out the fact that the invading Igalas didn't meet empty lands there, they met Indigenous Igbo people that they dominated, assimilated and imposed royal stools as well as Igala origin story on.

Emeka Esogbue is a minion in Anioma history, and even worst, he is from Igbo uzor( Ibusa) a part of Enu-ani with SE origin story.
Osita Mordi, a bigger fish in Anioma history is of Ika ancestry, but yet is proudly Igbo.
He had embarked on unraveling hitherto hidden Igbo origin stories of Anioma clans.
So yes, we would want non Igbos/ non Aniomas to stay off Anioma-Igbo debate.

laudate:
Nah... the whole world can now see that you the the one making a mockery of yourself. You have run out of sound facts to add to the discussion at hand, and you have now chosen to take refuge in deceit and falsehood, by trying to pin someone else's identity on me. Sorry, you failed. It just isn't working.

There is no need to throw a childish tantrum by calling me names, or claiming that Laudate is AkinEgba. But then, your IQ isn't well developed to be able to distinguish the difference.

Sorry, I can't help you with your obsession with this so-called AkinEgba. Continue calling his name because you are his desperate lover.

Goodnight.

What facts to discuss again in this discussion?
Discussion had since ran its natural course when you walked in here with your Afonjaic vituperation to make mockery of yourself.

Ette had since been established as an Idoma dominant town where the Igbos run a distant second and the violent Igala third.
Vanguard a national daily had supported this,?and an Ette native on nairaland corroborated it.

But nah, you want me to take the account of Igalas in Ette and those in Edo( Revolva) and Kogi( OmoIgala and iansweet) so that you can continue your Afonjaic masturbation.

Ofcourse I refused and here we are.

You had been peeping into this thread with your AkinEgba handle, but when you felt the Igala contingents were losing as they should, you logged in here with your laudate handle, with which you can claim unconcerned neutral party to prop up and cheer up the Igalas, any thing to get to Omo Ibos right?

Well, you ended up blowing your little cover, and now you are busted and "casted", your Afonja identity unmasked before the public . Then you resorted to wailing all over the thread talking about sound facts and falsehoods, when you AkinEgba are an epitome of falsehood with your chameleon laudate handle.

Get away you! You stink.

This ethno-historical survey of the northern Nsukka borderland examines particularly one method of African colonial control. When, in the late eighteenth century, the Igala conquered the indigenous Igbo, they gained and held social control through monopoly of certain religious positions. However, despite conscious effort to maintain Igala religious lineages, these gradually became Igbonized. In delineating this religious-social control, Professor Shelton describes extensively border conditions and the nature of Igbo life in the Nsukka area. He dwells particularly on the Igbo religious framework which includes well-disposed, beneficent spirits and more capricious and potentially more hostile outside spirits called alusi. The invading Igala installed their own men as priests, or attama, to the dangerous alusi, thereby becoming the sole mediators between these spirits and the Igbo. Since the attama also controlled most divination, which is employed to explain any unclear or mysterious phenomenon, there was no essential social activity the Igala attama could not influence.

Professor Shelton shows how the Igbo attempted to circumvent the alusi worship by emphasizing various aspects of familial worship (of the ancestors, the High God, Earth), but how this attempt failed because these essentially friendly beings did not require propitiation while it was demanded by the alusi. On the other hand, although the Igala attempted to keep the attama lineages Igala, these families gradually formed so many connections with Igbo families that they eventually Igbonized even though they retained a nominal Igala identification.

Professor Shelton's description of religious activity in the borderland is clear and original. He makes extensive use of material gathered in the field, particularly oral transmissions, and pays marked attention to linguistic clues for information. In extended descriptions of religious ceremonies, Professor Shelton provides evidence that the social control maneuvers of both the Igala and the Igbo are revealed in the content of their prayers.

An appendix gives important material concerning the origin of these borderland people and a glossary of Igbo terms provides diacritical marks to aid pronunciation of these words which have little standard orthography. The work is also supplemented with maps, charts, and photographs.

Austin J. Shelton is Professor of African Studies at State University College, New Paltz. He was awarded his bachelor's degree and his doctorate by St. Louis University, where he began his teaching career. He was later a Professor and Assistant Dean at Mercy College, Detroit. As senior lecturer at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, from 1961-64, Professor Shelton was able to make a detailed ethnographical study of the northern Nsukka borderland area, a study which included the Igbo, Igala, and Okpoto peoples and languages.

Professor Shelton is the author of The African Assertion: A Critical Anthology of Modern African Literature.
http://www.sunypress.edu/p-389-the-igbo-igala-borderland.aspx


Another resourceful document, telling us how Igalas invaded and tried albeit unsuccessfully to assimilate indigenous Igbo speaking tribes on their ancestral lands.
But today, Igbos must be seen as big bad ass that influenced small Igala, when in truth, Igalas were the aggressor, the invaders, and all towns that are bilingual in Northern Enugu, Anambra and Southern Kogi today, were probably Indigenous Igbos who got invaded and nearly assimilated by Igalas who imposed their authorities on those lands, established monarchies and 're wrote oral traditions to reflect an Igala one.

Ndi ara. Ana emenu!

laudate:
You see, your vision has been clouded. And that happens to folks like you who wallow in deceit and hate. You were the first to state categorically that the Akoko-Edos do not speak Yoruba. I cited posts from another thread, made by two respondents, to show that the Akoko-Edo folks actually speak Yoruba. You came back to claim that I said it was their first language. Now, that was a lie you invented from God knows where. I refuted it accordingly.

The Ibillo angle came in as part of the post quoted from another thread. The Ibillo people are part of the Akoko-Edo community which was being discussed earlier. Now do you get it, or are you still having problems comprehending the trend of thought?

As for your obsession with AkinEgba, it does suggest that you have something intimate going on with the guy. I am NOT AkinEgba, so quit stalking me. There is a word for men like you, who get obsessed with other men.

You keep chanting Afonja like a toddler just learning how to talk. Well, I am not from the South-West so that name means nothing to me. Last time you called someone an Afonja, I believe he responded by calling you an Osu. I guess that word describes you to a Tee.

Akin Egba. Why are you weeping over your bursting? You should take it as a man, afterall, I understand why you tried very hard to deny your Afonja roots, under your laudate handle.
Shi.t happens bro, accept it in good faith. And don't go logging into your AkinEgba handle to come and dance here, you will only make more mockery of yourself.

laudate:
Wake up from your slumber, Pazienza. If you feel better swallowing a lie in order to feel good about yourself, well, how can I stop you?

OmoIgala, Iansweet, Revolva etc, have all given eye-witness accounts of their communities. Especially OmoIgala who responded by giving facts about Ette community, as well as citing a respected online source to show the demographics of the Ette people. You have chosen to discard all these responses, because you want to believe just one person LordLexxy, and a small paragraph in one little report by a small journalist somewhere.



Eeyah! You really need help to get rid of your delusion. What does AkinEgba have in common with Laudate? Or is this a joke?

Well, if you want to continue to wallow in denial and deceit, who am I to say no? Afterall in your bid to propagate falsehood, you have decided to impose the identity of someone else on me. For the first & last time, I am not AkinEgba. Provide proof to show that Laudate is AkinEgba, and stop trying to score cheap points using lies.

Neither OmoIgala, Revolva, Iandsweet are from Nsukka area, let alone from Ette. As a matter of fact, I know more about Nsukka area than those three entities who are from Kogi( OmoIgala and Iansweet) and Edo( Revolva) , hardly can their biased and blind accounts, seeing how far they are from Ette be seen as informed account to be considered substantial.

Vanguard is not a small news outlet. It's story must carry more weight in this matter than those of Igala aggressors and their kings, who obviously can't be expected to say the truth, seeing that they have vested interests in the matter.

Sorry that your little Yoruba ass got busted, AkinEgba. You really messed up showing up with that handle here and then coming back to show with your chameleon laudate handle. I always knew you were an Afonja, despite all your poor sorry efforts at appearing ambiguous. Only an Afonja can be following Igbo and Igbo related news the way you do. I'd suggest you get a new handle to continue your treachery.

laudate:
Haba, you have just spoilt the market for those IPOB landgrabbers. Watch your back, because they will come at you with all kinds of twisted theories & bile, in order to brow beat you into submission. Let me stay in this corner with my popcorn & soft drink. The show is about to start...

Lol! Grasping at straws.
Revolva is an Igala from Edo? What were you expecting? For him to support the Idoma/Igbo faction in Ette, or to accept that there are indigenous Igbo towns in Kogi and no Indigenous Igala town in Enugu or Anambra?

Are you this dull, AkinEgba.

laudate:
You modified your post and I responded to the first part. As for the second claim you are making here, it is obvious you are clutching at straws. I am not AkinEgba and there is nothing in my post that bears any similarity to him. Must you tell lies and stumble into the theatre of the absurd, in order to make a point?

Pazienza you are losing it, honestly. Isokos are not part of the Akoko-Edo people, so why are you digressing?

Were Ibillos and Yorubas part of this discussion initially? Why was it introduced by you lots?

You are AkinEgba. A shameless Afonja. You have been peeping at this thread since, unable to stay clear, you morphed into your laudate handle. You deceive no one. I had always known that you are an Afonja.

Revolva:
Lemme tell you....there are no igbos as indigene i beg oooo we r all igalas..but influenced at one point with igbos....so we adopted the igbos bearing of names while at birth....ok.....and we do intermarry igbos....

but originally we are not igbos....ok..that is where i am from.....i am full bloded igala...i dont care but people think am an igbo..when ever i mingle...ok...but i know somewhere i may have some igbo in me..but am igala

guy there are igalas in anambra. and also igalas in ebu osimili lga in delta state....also in esan south east ifeku island edo state ...speak igala..they have their origin from ibaji...which is not far from them... ...and idomas in enugu
this is due to maladjustment of boundaries...ooo and they have been settlers there for many hundred of years...ok..they are igalas...ok...but you saying igbos as indigene in igala land its a big lie




my igala brother has spoken.....agba me nago

There are Igbos in Kogi, Edo and Benue.

They are not Igalas, Edos or Idomas. They were simply influenced by these groups, and they still retained their Igbo nature.

There are no Igalas in Anambra or Enugu. Those you call Igalas there are fast assimilating into Igbo language of their accommodating Igbo aboriginals.

Thank you.

laudate:
You lie! I never said they speak Yoruba as a first language, but that they speak Yoruba. Simple. I know now that you have not been there, neither have you resided anywhere in that community for any length of time. Your ignorance is comical. You were eager to cite Lordlexy's observations on the same Nairaland, in your bid to use it as an authentic source to buttress your claims about Ette. Now that same Nairaland is not a valid source in your own view, when it comes to making observations about the Akoko-Edo people.

Let me laugh very well at your naivety

Lordlexyy's eye witness account corroborates Independent witness account, ie Vanguard. That makes it substantial.

Lol! In that case,I speak Yoruba too, after all I know few Yoruba words in addition to my own Igbo language.

AkinEgba, you are not the brightest bulb in the Christmas tree now, are you?

laudate:
Akoko Edos do not speak Yoruba? Really?? Na who talk am? You reach dat side before?



https://www.nairaland.com/2097102/brief-historical-origin-ibillo-community

Lol! Nairaland thread as evidence?

Nobody in Akoko Edo speaks Yoruba as a first language, they all speak Edoid languages.

Deal with it.

Igbide in Isokoland is said to have originated from Igboland( Awka/ Mgbidi) yet today they don't speak Igbo, they have fully assimilated as Isokos with no evidence of bilingualism, and so you don't see Ndiigbo claiming them.

Btw, what happened to your AkinEgba handle?

laudate:
A Vanguard report which was cited by your partner as being his source to prove that Ette people were Igbo, and which was refuted almost immediately by a superior source from OmoIgala? According to you the opinion of LordLexy (who is only one youngster) out of several thousand people in that community, supercedes every other source in your view?

I don't want to call you a clown, but...

How exactly is his Igalanized source more superior than a national news daily like Vanguard, corroborated by a son of the soil lordlexyy?

What were you expecting Igalas to say before? That they are third minorities in Ette with no right to drag the community to Kogi?

You are a comedian.

laudate:
Ok, now we get it! Lord Lexy is the SOLE authority on the origin of the Ette people - a community whose population runs into several hundreds of thousands. Even their traditional ruler knows nothing about the origin of his people. LWKMD!

We get it. We should take the word of Igala king whose people are minorities in Ette, over those of Idomas and Igbos who are the dominant population.

We should also discard a vanguard report which seem to corroborate Lordlexyy's eye witness report, so that you and your fellow demonic Igbophobic bandwagoners can masturbate in peace, right ?

Revolva:
I Took time to read this page..

as am studying everyone here.......
@iansweet you are right

first of all....There is no igbo indigene in Kogi state ....whether the souther part of igala speaking area...ok..that is where i am from...the only problem is we from those area have been influenced a lot by our igbo brother.. and we share the same cultural from the way we behave..infact the southern igalas behave mostly like igbos...that does not make dem igbos ok

as for me no igbos in kogi state or in igala land as indigene....ok... they are igalas but majority of them speak igbo because it is the language they use for trading in onitsha where most igalans and idomas in benue axis...do use and they get influenced by it...

but i know there are igalas in some communities in northern anambra... and some idomas in enugu state....that does not make them igbos...

but all the way...we igalas and idomas share some historical facts with northern igbos....ok

You are not serious.

But hey! It's a free world, your are free to believe whatever you want.

If there are no Igbos in Kogi, then there are no Igalas in Enugu and Anambra. The Igala speaking people there are Igbos who got influenced by Igalas.

jayrule:
Igboid my brother!
You have done well.

But remember you once argued with a girl who claimed her father is Anioma, then later claim he is Benue. She kept tossing her family back and forth to make sure she ends up balkanizing Igbo land.

Someone here sounds alike.

Look closely at the motives used
You will notice that the same person exists here.

Chukwu gozie hi!

Nwanna dalu. I'm very much aware. Mana ima na oke adaa eri ife onye mu anya.

[b] Lordlexyy: Etteh is my community. Boundary wise, the community is situated in Enugu state. In terms of culture, it has very little in connection with the Idomas and not the Igalas. The language spoken are predominantly Idoma. Igbo language comes second for areas that are regarded as igbos. Igala language is meanly spoken by some few who believe they are Igalas. To be honest, the Etteh community ideologically believes they are Igbos and has very little in connection to both the Igalas and the Idomas. You find most of the people there speaking the three languages fluently and intermix very well. This whole crisis of identity wouldn't have surfaced in the first place if the not for some of the Igbos and their culture of segregation where others are regarded more Igbos than the others. The same people will say Enugu or Ebonyi is not pure Igbo but 'wawa', some Enugu will say Etteh is not pure Igbo but a mixture of two. If Etteh was long embrace and made to feel among by the Igbos, none of this cultural conflict would have surface. Those minority group wanting to joint Kogi are doing so because they felt they majority are more recognised and therefore benefit more by the Enugu gov't. Inspite of the upheaval, i believe the brotherliness and oneness of Etteh is beyond culture, language or tribe. PROUDLY ETTEH.
https://www.nairaland.com/1920606/10-houses-razed-scores-injured/6 [/b]

Here is a post from lordlexyy, an Etteh indigene.

Notice that he correctly ranked the ethnic composition of Ette as follows: 1, Idoma, 2 Igala, 3 Igbo.

Why exactly Igalas native to Kogi and non Igbos are tearing their pants over Ette is what I don't understand.