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ProudImolite:
That is why he has been shouting that he is Igbo for the longest time, he has been planning this since

The Ikwerre clown probably thinks himself a wise man
"Cunny man die cunny man bury am". We go show am pepper. The pure water pelting he got in Aba in 2015 when he came preaching that he is Igbo and that Igbos should vote Buhari will be a child play to the humiliation he will get when he comes to Igboland to open his Bini mouth and tell us he is Igbo.

If he is Igbo, let him pull resources with Wike and support an Igbo presidency from SE.

That's how we know he and his Ikwerre people are Igbo

Klinee:
Is a lie! Onuku is an imbecilic behavior and has nothing to do with Igalas. Onuku is not a common word for our neighboring Igbo speaking towns and it has nothing to do with Igalas.
It's just a coincidentally words. Stop lying to people!!!!!

Haha!
You don't want to accept the bitter truth.
I doubt you are from Anambra Sha.
If you were, you will know about "Onuku Igala".

durangokid:
. So you think you are making sense with this crap you put here , first Amechi is Igbo, two he is the most loyal person buhari have in the whole of south, three, wike have promised him 100% support anytime he declare for president, south east prefare him to any other southerner incase the elude south east, , other parts of Nigeria including the core north and MB prefere to tinubu and osibanjo, any day any time, so no amount of propaganda or smear campaign can stop him if he declare , and igbos if southeast knows since five years ago that Amaechi will be used to blackmail them, especially when Amechi began to say he is full time Igbo with Igbo blood in him, just that those who have seen the game are trying to use his plan of low standard guage rail in south east to destroy his chances in the South east

Stop waisting your time.
Amaechi and his Ikwerre people are not Igbo and can't represent us or get our support.
Since Ikwerre have decided that they can play politics with their Igbo identity by picking when to be Igbo and when not to be, we in SE have learnt to return the favor as well.
We will claim Ikwerre as Igbo when it's expedient for us and cast them as non-Igbo when it's helpful to do so too.
Two can play the game. Stop being emotional.

Wike and Amaechi can decide whatever they want to decide, they are both Ikwerre and have a home voting base of 4LGAs with many non Ikwerres Including Igbos making up to 40% of those 4 LGA. So I wish them luck.

But Amaechi can wear Ishi agu as long as he wants or claim Igbo as much as he wants, when jungle mature, we will tell him plainly that he isn't Igbo and can't represent us.
He and his Ikwerre people will not be the ones to choose for us when he will be Igbo, we have the numbers and will make that decision for him/them. And we are saying that as far as Igbo candidates for 2023 presidential elections are concerned, Ikwerre and Amaechi are not Igbos.
It's as simple as that.

Thank you.

Klinee:
Your lies are very unfathomable! Onuku as a word is not commonly used by the Northern Igbo, the word is very common in Southern Igbos. It has never been affiliated to the Igalas. Onuku in Igbo mean imbecilic person and has nothing to do with Igalas. Like I had 'onuku-Igala' once in my life in one Nollywood movie called 'AKWA-UGO' Patience Ozorkwo used the word.

Onuku is used in Anambra. Ask around.
I'm from Idemili.
The full word is Onuku-Igala.
And it means a "Onye nzuzu".

Ask around.
I doubt you are from Anambra.
I always suspected you were a Kogi man.

See a long article written by an Aboriginal Igbo Nzam man about Biafra.
Funny enough my mum and her mother use to go to "Afia Odekpe" and "Afia Attack" to buy fishes and salt in wholesale which they resold in retail, during the Biafran war.

A FISH CALLED BIAFRA

Biafra was not death and sorrow all the time. In the mist of all the uncertainties, there was ‘normal' life going on. After my Red Cross assignment at Iyienu hospital Ogidi, I came back to Achi for a one-week break before undertaking my second assignment, this time I was posted to Nzam.

Nzam is a unique Igbo town. Unique is so many ways. For instance they are a bilingual people. I do not know about these days, but during the hostilities when I was there I discovered that every Nzam person apart from speaking Igbo as their mother tongue, also spoke Igala, the language of the ethnic Igalas bordering Igboland in the North. This may have to do with the movement and settlement of people from that area hundreds of years ago, as it is believed that some other Igbo communities along the Niger, in Asaba and Onitsha, may have migrated from Igala.

In the past Niger River was the main trading route between communities along its coast, it also facilitated migration and settlement. It may not be impossible therefore that the Nzam people or a part of them migrated from Igala. But the more common explanation by the people of Nzam regarding their bilingualism was that Nzam mastered Igala language as a trade strategy. Nzam was an important trade post during the boom days of the Niger River trade route. Being located upper north, it was one of the first large Igbo communities the Igala traders arrive in. Through such regular contacts, they learnt their language. When other Igbo traders come in from the hinterland, the Nzam trader becomes the go between, the middlemen. Because of his mastery of both languages the Nzam people were able to make good bargains to their advantage.

Nzam is also rich agriculturally. They have a very rich soil that is watered and at the same time fertilized by the yearly flooding ‘Iji' of the river Niger. Their yams are one of the earliest to be harvested. When I was there it was quite interesting to see partially submerged yam farms. It was also interesting to watch farmers harvest their yams. Anyone who knows about yam farming must agree that it is a tough job, and this includes the harvesting process. It takes a careful digging to successfully get a yam tuber safely dug up. But for the Nzam yam farmer, they practically pull large yam tubers off the soil with ease, sometimes using a canoe, as the farms are often partially submerged.




The uniqueness of Nzam and its environ will be incomplete without mentioning mosquitoes and sand flies. These two were my nightmare apart from the raging war. By daytime the sand flies take over. These tiny, and almost invisible flies can really be big menace. Their stinging multiple bites sends irritating sensation all over your body, and they attack in droves making you slap yourself all over. But wait until the night comes, when their big brother, the mosquito takes over. The Nzam mosquito is a rare breed. I guess it has a tiny sword for proboscis, if not how came it could pierce through army fatigue uniform to reach the skin. Well, it is often said that you can never have it all, this must be the reason Nzam is rich agriculturally.

Another aspect of Nzam and the one I enjoyed most in those days was the river Niger and the abundant fishes therein. Having grown up in dry hilly hinterland of Enugu, the rivers I knew were spring waters, shallow streams, brooks, and water ponds. To suddenly be in a place almost surrounded by a massive body of water was extremely exciting. Luckily near my boarding school before the war in Umunze, there was this stream called ‘Unyo'. We were mandated to fetch water from the stream every morning, ahh! How I hated being woken up as early as 6am by hostile sound of the bell and driven off my bed half awake. The awful sound of many swinging metal buckets could be heard as the boys rush to the stream. Anyway I learnt to swim, thanks to ‘Unyo'. I love swimming and I swam everyday throughout my stay in Nzam, but so does everyone I guess, for I cannot imagine how someone can stay in that area without dipping oneself into River Niger.

Yes the fishes, how can I forget the delicious fresh water fishes from the river. We ate fish on a daily bases, both fresh and dried ones. In Nzam those days, soups are made with so much fish in it that you hardly see the rue. For each bolus of pounded yam, a magnanimous piece of fish to go down with. Such was the case in Nzam. And the war raged on.

Like I mentioned earlier, the yearly flooding of the River Niger enriches the lands along the banks of Anambara River, all the way down to its confluence where it joined the River Niger. All the towns along the river, towns like Otu Ukpo, Orometiti, Mmiatta, Ode. Odekpe, Nzam and others enjoy a yearly soil enrichment which guaranteed good farm harvest, and a constant supply of fresh fish.

I was once privileged to observe a fish harvest. Before this time I never heard anything about fish

farming, and I am not sure it has been introduced anywhere in the then Eastern Nigeria

before the civil war. Even if it had been, it was still uncommon. But the people of Nzam and its

surrounding did not need anyone to teach them fish farming, for their forefathers have been practicing that from day one and albeit in the most natural way. Traditional fish farming in Nzam and its surrounding goes like this; Keeping in mind that the ‘Iji', the yearly flooding, takes place during the rainy season, they have studied its pattern, they know the right spots to dig a trough to hold up a reasonable amount of water. The Iji when it comes, brings in a large variety of fishes that get trapped in the trough after it had receded. Tree branches and leaves are then cut and dumped in the through now turned pond, to make it as inhabitable as possible for the fishes. On a daily bases remains of food and other biological refuse are dumped in the pond, for instance cassava and yam peelings. These become a source of food for the fishes. Thus the fishes are fed fat before they are harvested. The harvesting takes place during the later part of dry season, say around mid January. It was one of such harvesting I witnessed during the civil war in a village in Nzam. This was a pond owned by a family I got to know at that time. They invited me to join in the fish harvest; they also invited other friends as it is customary in Igboland. By the time I arrived at the pond, young men in two canoes were already clearing the pond by removing the tree branches, trunks, and other foliage put in there to provide shelter for the fishes. Soon after, the actual harvest started. The harvest team armed with a long fishing net swept the entire pond from end to end, and from the final outlet, they scooped out the largest quantity of fish I saw for the first time in my life. That was extremely exciting for me being a hinterland person. The variety of fishes from that pond, was another thing that struck me apart from the quantity, it was simply amazing.

After pulling the fishes out, I was told that every one is now free to try their luck if they can find some take-home fishes from the pond. One of the sons of the owner of the pond opted to fish on my behalf, and you cannot imagine what sizes and quantity of fish I went back to the camp with that day. At the time the men were busy getting the fishes, by the right end of the pond the women were busy setting up a makeshift kitchen and a massive drying ramp, and when the fishes were all brought out of the water, the fire of the drying ramp was ready, and the fishes were carried by the women and set on a long row of dying ramp under the heat of the burning coke. Everywhere smelt fish. The evening came to an end after a delicious feast of pounded yam and fish studded yummy Nsala soup, washed down with some of the best ‘Ayigo' – raffia palm-wine. I came home to the camp that day feeling real good, and I slept so deep that I for once didn't bother about the sword mouthed mosquitoes of Nzam. And still the war ragged on.

The next day was a Sunday, you know the saying ‘Lazy like a Sunday morning' or was it a song title? Well, that was how I felt, and did I sleep long and tight? Then suddenly there was some commotion outside, and one thing you learn in a war situation is not to take anything for granted. Whenever you look outside and many people are moving, looking, acting, or talking in a particular manner you have to quickly get out to know what is amiss. It could be an air raid for instance. And this what is called being vigilant. Well, I quickly went out to find out what was going on, and what I found was one big mystery. Some people were digging a toilet pit behind the building, in the process they dug up a life fish from about six feet under the earth. How could that be possible? I was saying something like, no way, this must be a joke. A crowed gathered to observe this miracle. The poor fish was breathing slowly with the eyes still closed. In all the excitement, I suddenly observed that the Nzam indigenes in the crowd were simply having a big laugh out of the whole thing. One of them observed that this is a common thing. It was from him I learnt that this particular specie of mudskipper could survive extreme draught for years, and under the most difficult condition. It goes into an inactive mode until the condition becomes conducive. Years later after the war ended I was reminiscing on my wartime experiences, and the thoughts about this fish crossed my mind. And I found myself saying ‘this is what survival is all about, and Biafra was all about survival, a war of survival of a people, the Igbo people. Then I said to myself, ‘Biafra was that fish, and the fish Biafra, and I further mused ‘A Fish Called Biafra.

Ikechukwu Ude-Chime

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http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/a-fish-called-biafra.html

Klinee:
Nzam is original Igala but due to proximity, intermarriage and acculturation to Igbos, Nzam were able to flow fluently in Igbo language while maintained the original and main language which is Igala.
The historical and unique nature of Nzam has it that, Igala happen to be the first and main occupant of the land before the subtle Igbo migrants from upland came in and were accommodated by the Igalas.
Not only Nzam, a large part of Anambra state were largely Igala settlers but because of proximal acculturation to Igbos neighbours they lost their original Igala language and picks Igbo language.

Nzam is not and have never been Igala.
Igala in Nzam are migrants and they know themselves.
The Royal family of Nzam is of the Aboriginal Igbos who fought the Igala usurpers and pushed them back, while assimilating the more friendly ones into the town

SlayerForever:
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I implore all umuigbo to ignore. Don't give him that audience he is seeking.

I don't think ignoring him is wise.
We can't allow him have the narrative to himself.

Klinee:
Onuku in Igala language and that in Igbos is actually a word of the same spelling and pronunciation but literally have different meaning.
In Igala language onuku means 'friend' while in Igbo language onuku means 'abnormal'
It's just coincidentally words and have nothing to with Igala or Igbo

Onuku in Igbo is derived from Igala Onuku.
And it is so because Igbos at Kogi-Anambra boundary considered Igalas a people of lower intellect.
Onuku is a derogatory word that means a stupid person.
The full term is "Onuku-Igala".

It's not a good thing to use, as I'm against Yorubas calling me "Omo-Igbo" or Hausa use of "Nyamiri".

Darkcloud11:
If Yoruba are wise they will campaign for a SS person so they can win their alliance,campaign for a SS guy in the primaries and watch him loose and another Yoruba should win the Yoruba guy should now pick a SS as Vp,by that action u have split the vote make sure it’s either ijaw or ibo or effik, that means u are guaranteed about 50% vote from SS the north will come through for yorubas,but if the Yorubas out rightly demand for presidency they will fail woefully,the Hausa fulanis will fill yorubas are getting to big for their boot thank you.

So you will have a SW president and a SS VP ?
Nice idea genius.

djevino:
You caught the clown too

I bet he forgot he was logged in on his Moniker where he was supposed to claim Igbo.

On another twist, Rotimi vs Tinubu sounds to me like a Yoruba vs Yoruba fight.

I guess this is a strictly Yoruba house Party.
Igbos should stay clear.

Amaechi is not Igbo, and there is nothing like SE/SS.
I don't think Amaechi stands any chance against Tinubu.
His ethnic group, the Bini-Ikwerre are just 4 LGAs.
The other SS minorities are not United enough to help him.
Nothing concerns Ndiigbo with Ikwerre man quest for Presidency, we wish Amaechi all the best, but we will only support an Igbo man come 2023, and if SSners have any iota of fairness in them, they would know they own SE a debt for our support for GEJ in 2015 and 2011.
But if they don't recognize this debt, then no yaawaa! We move regardless!

Coldie:
Is the east rich?

You are no longer Igbo today?

mrvitalis:
Igbos are not United yet are tribalistic

The wonders of our time.
I tell you.

aribisala0:
The Akamkpa captrured Aro and installed a dynastay that rule Aro till today

Next?

Lol!
Eze Aro and his descendants are Akamkpa?
Same Aro Oke-Igbo (Aro the great Igbo)?

The joke is on you.
Akamkpa people have Obongs and not Ezes.

Golan007:
You guys consume beef the most?

Unfortunately yes!
It's a multi billion naira business here.
Every dead Igbo man must be buried with a cow, either now or in the future.

It use to be local Igbo cow, but somehow it became replaced with Fulani cow.
Imagine how many burial taking place in Igboland every week.
And rich homes can even kill more than 10 cows at ago like you saw with Cubana.

aribisala0:
Console yourseld

All kinds of tiny groups sold you as slaves fro centuries

Ask Reno Omokiri
Ask Asari Dokubo


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"We also captured Ilorin, killed their local King and installed our Fulani Emir. We took that ancient town away from the barbarian Yoruba and their filthy pagan gods. We liberated all these places and all these people by imposing Islam on them by force. It was either the Koran or the sword, and most of them chose the Koran".

~Alhaji Aliyu Gwarzo

aribisala0:
Sold by Yorubas

Ajase or Porto Novo is Yoruba tll tomorrow
But Eboes were sold by Ijaws and Itsekiris and Efiks

Taa!
Fon and co control Benin and they sold you for Kobo Kobo.
Tapas(Nupe) ransacked old Oyo captured Indigenes and sold them to slavery, the remainder ran down south wards abandoning their Oyo ile capital, which the Nupe seized and now control in Niger state.
The Fulanis did same in Kwara and now control Ilorin after ransacking and selling Yorubas to slavery.

See, a Yoruba man shouldn't be talking where an Igbo is, your history is littered with subjugation and intimidation by your neighbors.

Misterone:
who's talking about aggression in Biafra? how are you going to protect the man in kano, kaduna, sokoto etc? what of their landed properties. or you think indigenes of those places will not take advantage of you guys. think deep.

Igbos consume cow the most, a multi billion industry for the Fulanis (Nigerians)
Nigerian banks have buildings in Igboland, etc.

So we will have leverage too.
Worst come to worst, we will still be fine. With freedom we can rebuild and become stronger than we were.

Misterone:
you should be the one to think deep not big. nigerians are selfish and like to take advantage of others misfortune. you see a trailer carrying tubers of yam capsize by the road side. instead of nigerians to help they would start packing the yams home. overnight the price of yams will be cheap in the market. while the owner of the yams and trailer will be in debt. that's Nigeria for you.
if there's a violent division of Nigeria, not even joe igbokwe will survive in lagos without discrimination. Igbos would be pushed back to the 5 SE state with nothing because those that sold land to you will want to take it back by force. your markets would be looted you will have no justice as corruption would be use against you. that is Nigeria for you so think deep. it is only the law and the constitution that is protecting your properties right now. nothing more.

Igbos are not just 5SE , and no one has monopoly to violence.
Biafra will be an independent country with sovereignty and will defend Igbos from external aggression.

Ekpeitit:
Stop feeling sorry for yourselves all the time. STOP STEALING AND OTHER TRIBES WILL BEGIN TO TRUST YOU.

What did Igbos ever stole from anyone, and who told you we want your trust?
We want to fuc.king separate ourselves from you.

aribisala0:
No

They were sold as slave by smaller more civilized groups like the Ijaw and itsekiri for centuries
Know that and know peace

Your people were taught better Metallurgy methods by the superior Igbos.
See for yourself:https://www.nairaland.com/6765286/early-igbo-sojourners-eastern-yorubaland

We don't like talking about these things, but you lots have forced our hands.

Ijaws were ruled by Igbos. Jaja, Oko jumbo were all Igbos. Even Asari Dokubo ancestor,the great Edi Abali was an Igbo man from Abam in Abia State who ruled over his Ijaw subjects.

As for Itsekiri. They were inconsequential in scheme of things.
They were never a match for the Igbos of Aboh.
I understand they captured and sold some Urhobos and Isokos to slavery, I am not sure again.

aribisala0:
What did they achieve in history before the creation of Nigeria? Did any single town exist in Ibo land before 1914

https://www.nairaland.com/6765286/early-igbo-sojourners-eastern-yorubaland

Igbo people were always ahead.
Know this and know peace.
We always had the superior technology.

FantasyHub:
So who r we trying to please by having igala broadcast on Anambra broadcasting service?

Are we now that soft?

That's our Political correctness for you.
The same way an Ijaw man GEJ became "our son".
We are a gift that keeps giving. All man rushing to take turns.

Rodwave:
There is no Igala people in Anambra. What we have is Igbo people that speak Igala as second language.

There is.https://www.legit.ng/1160049-governor-obiano-appoints-igala-man-commissioner-anambra-photos.html

But they are very small.
And are at the border of Anambra and Kogi.

Christistruth00:


I hear there are Indigenous Yoruba Communities in Southern Niger State just after Jebba

Only Problem is the Yoruba Warlords told them over 150 years ago that if they are not willing

to relocate to the Jebba Area then they are on their own because the Niger River was where the Border

was at and they should just learn to live in Peace with the Nupe People if they were not moving

Many Nupe people migrated into Yorubaland and were Yorubanized.
I once read of the Tapas (Nupe) of Lagos.
Their ancestors were Nupe, but the people are currently Yoruba and speak Yoruba as mother tongue, they are also mostly Muslims like their Nupe people.
I think Nupes played big role in Islam spread in Yorubaland.

Ekealterego:
They are Ohaobu Ndoki, many of them claim Abia state and even run for positions in Abia state... 90% of them never agreed to the Akwa-Ibom tag and will never tell you they are from Akwa-Ibom, they will rather say they are from Abia state.

There is also an extention from the Arochukwu side too but I think it is just as a result of the expansion of the town.

However, there are villages like Ndi Okoro and Nkalu, deep inside Akwa Ibom

I think there are more Igbos in Cross River than Akwa-Ibom.

There is Ikot Ibekwe in Ikot Abasi LGA of Akwaibom State.
But I don't think the people there are still Igbo speaking.
The main criteria to qualify as an Igbo is that you speak a recognizable Igbo dialect as mother tongue.
This is why the likes of Igbide in Isokoland don't qualify and no Igbo is interested in them.

Nkalu is a LGA in Akwaibom that borders Abia State.

Ekealterego:
I like how you analysed the etymology of the word, "oluku/Onuku".
Many adjectives in Igbo for attributing to the character of a person or group of people are usually derived from the character that best symbolises a particular people. Sometimes, it could even be a single event.

An example is "Okomoko"... Okomoko is a place/people in Etche and I think one other mmoghu (Umon) group.

Akunakuna (Akwunakwuna) are found close to Abia (Biase), although they are many of them in Cameroon etc.

Even in Abia state, they use to use, "onye Mbieri" when you do a childish act, but that's is going out of fashion.

I interesting.

OfoIgbo:
Just to shed a little more light.

1. Onuku has been explained
2. Onoja nwa Oboli (Onoja the son of Oboli). According to UMU NRI tales, Onoja was the last son of Eri who migrated to Idah. Oboli was Eri's second wife. As the last son, obviously his elder brothers which included Nri-Menri, Agulu and the others observed him in n his formative years when he acted silly, like lastborns do. The expression ONOJA NWA OBOLI, also became a way of saying that someone is silly or demented. Any UMU NRI man above the age of 70 is conversant with that expression. But it is phasing out in preference for the more widely used ONUKU.

But at some point, the Igalas started twisting this tale to the extent that they came up with a more militaristic view of ONOJA

As I wrote earlier on, Oboli was Eri's second wife, and Nneamaku was Eri's first wife

Igboid
Bkayy

Yea I am away of this angle. Thanks for bringing it up.
In Nri history Onoja Oboli was indeed the only son of Eri second wife who lived in Idah.

Donjossy1010:
Saro-wiwa, was betrayed by his kinsmen..... Ogoni chiefs sold Ken for a cup of oil. Though Ken, thought he was with the North and the North showed him why 'fear north' were written in the Bible.

No one betrayed Wiwa.
Wiwa was a murderer who killed Chief Kogbara and other Ogoni chiefs who didn't agree with his methods.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/11/an-appeal-for-my-fathers-remainsas-mosop-seeks-for-saro-wiwas-exoneration/amp/