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Where is this estate located? Is it Sangotedo, or Awoyaya or Lakowe or Ibeju-Lekki? How much is the annual rent?

Onegai:
Fayose is the only person in govt exchanging words with Buhari. He even went on to attack the First lady. He postured with a trip to China after Buhari went, to do nothing. He goes around cutting kpomo, eating roast corn, sharing rice and live chickens instead of creating a good economic and educational environment. He does not speak too much grammar like he attended university. He is willing to invite bankers to his house and surprise them with a camera crew and create a spectacle. He passed the anti-grazing law in his state. If he presents himself as a Presidential candidate in Nigeria, he will be a Trump and win in a landslide. All he needs is an Igbo running mate or a Donald Duke as VP.

Fayose is not someone that commands my respect, but I honestly believe he was right to have passed that anti-grazing law. Those Fulani herdsmen had pillaged villages and ransacked entire communities, under the pretext of grazing their cows. None of them have been caught, prosecuted or made to feel the wrath of the law, despite several reports to the law enforcement agencies. Are they spirits or ghosts??!

Other state governors whose citizens had experienced similar levels of devastation in the hands of the herdsmen, decided to shout and then fold their arms, in a bid to be politically correct. Only Fayose took some kind of action, by promulgating that law. Since then, those herdsmen have learnt to behave themselves, whenever their cows stray into Fayose's domain.

Honestly, he got it right by passing that bill. Others should take a cue from him.

#IstandwithFayoseOntheanti-grazing bill.

Mindfulness:
You are in no way authorized to speak for most women, white or black so cut that crap.

I read an article that women want different types of men in the different phases of their menstrual cycle and life, now what?

I live in Europe and I have white friends, plenty, but I do not know one woman who fancies Trump.

Believe whatever you want and if you think that Trump is most women's dream, may your daughters and sisters marry a man like him.

Chai!! See finishing...!

Godwin616:
Please stop displaying this ignorance publicly. Trains have been running in Nigeria since independent. I used to board train from Ilorin and Offa to Lagos when we were in secondary schools in 1980s. Its the bad maitenance culture and negligence by previous goverments that grounded the Railway corporation. It was NOT GEJ that implement railway systems in Nigeria please.

Guy, train services packed up totally in the 90s till about 2010-2012, when the fed govt at that time, started resuscitating it. Na where you dey, when the thing die?

NaijaMutant:
You now have eyes to see affluence because it concerns Saraki

But if it were to Aisha's wrist watch and hand bag you'll quickly turn a blind eye

Let me not mention that of your godfathers

I don talk say I no go laugh today, but....

Loisemm:
I am from the South South married to a sweet yoruba man and I am not a Biafran!
I am and will remain a Nigerian!

Let's grow beyond this biafran thinking. What do you want your sisters, brothers, children married to other tribes to do?!
Leave their spouses and come to Biafra?
What a joke!

In this age of inter-tribal and even inter-racial marriages, you guys are still clamouring for Biafra. Pls leave me out. Look for better solutions

They are going to call you a Yoruba man now, for daring to disagree with them. That is all they know. Do not say I did not warn you...

basadenet:
I think jubril has not learn from the past history, may be he should go and ask imoru dikko, how British Government drain nearly of the money he stole from Nigeria then, all in the name of giving him protection in UK. At last he was send packing, I forsaw the same fate befalling dishonest Jubril. Nigerians will not miss him for once.

Na true word you talk!

Eastactivist:
Lobbying people like that , to plea for a case that doesn't depict reality or truth in actual term is criminal.
Mark won't find it funny, it only exposes how desperate you are in hatching evil plans in this case to suppress freedom to speech and expression

Er... it appears that the chap below has just given the right response to your comments. Hate speech from the Ipods should not be viewed lightly. It is a crime against the state.

kropotkin2:
IPOB constitute a threat to the Nigerian state and in extension the rest of us. They promote an ideology similar to boko haram, only with little less emphasis on the religious aspect. While they might not yet have the capacity to raise the military standard against the Nigerian state, it will be foolhardy to assume that they will not be able to do so at a later date. Nnamdi kanu and his IPOB have solicited for funds to purchase arms in the past and there is nothing to suggest that they will not again do so given half the chance. While our security forces face this threat on the streets, it falls on the rest of us patriotic Nigerians to compliment their efforts by confronting the IPOB on cyberspace. This is what the OP has been doing and he has our unflinching support

Guseh:
Oga, your home town(Ayetoro-Gbede) no get light for the past 6months and you sidon for abj dey post pictures upandown.

Sey na "Imode part 2" you promised us be this?
Go ask dem Jemibewon, Smart Adeyemi and Shola Akanmode how e take be for dem today. Na your turn today ooo by 2019 sure it will another person's turn.

God is watching you oo!

Dino Melaye is a hopeless case! No one can point to any good thing he has done for his constituency since he became senator.

Why is he saying he won't return unless his safety is guaranteed? His remark smacks of fear. And only the guilty are afraid! Nobody will miss Jibrin. let him stay there for life! Who cares??

No price? No info on the size of the property? No info on the title deeds?

LadyExcellency:
The contract was not awarded to clusters of Shoe cobblers rather a reputable registered firm in Nigeria located in Aba hence the contract must have passed through due process of tendering proposal, evaluation, security checks and quality assurance before the award of the contract.

The excerpts from proceedings during 2016 Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Forum in Lagos where the information got to the public with scanty details.

The governor added that a firm that has an order to supply up to 50,000 military boots is currently in Aba, where Aba shoemakers are making the production.

“I am happy to announce here that Aba which is the commercial nerve centre of the Abia State and Old Eastern Region of Nigeria, is also the SME capital of Nigeria, where young people are in the business of making shoes, bags and clothes, including the one I am wearing.

“Let me also announce here that a private firm, that has an order to supply 50,000 military boots is currently in Aba, where our shoemakers are in production for the firm”

Please post the details of the online source of this excerpt, or the url. Thanks.

seyiojomu:
No title? And reason for sale?

Was just going to ask the same question!

dasparrow:
Maybe because life expectancy in Nigeria is so low (52 years according to the UN) that is why you people consider a lady in her mid thirties to be old. You people keep shouting menopause when you have women in their forties and even fifties bringing forth healthy babies. Is Janet Jackson not carrying her pregnancy gracefully at the age of 50? Did Singer Beyonce's mother not remarry at the age of 60? It is only in Nigeria that you people keep placing expiration dates on your women. In other parts of the world, women even in their 60s are getting married. My cousin right here in Nigeria gave birth to quadruplets - three boys one girl - at the age of 50 after over 15 years of marriage and trusting God for the fruit of the womb.

If God says Linda will someday become a mother, then it would happen. If God says Linda will someday become a wife, that will happen too because God's word is final. Personally, I don't see Linda Ikeji marrying a Nigerian or African man. I think she is better off with a westerner, you know, someone from a first world country. Same thing with Genevieve Nnaji, I also see her with a westerner as well not a Nigerian man. Nigerian men don't seem to cope too well with very successful women especially when they are not successful themselves. Allow Linda make her choice because at the end of the day, she would be the one to have to live with it. Thank God for the internet, Linda can snag herself a white hubby online or hook up with someone when next she travels out of Nigeria for vacation.

Well said!! In fact, I dash you 10,000 likes for this post. But you can never tell.... Linda Ikeji and Genevieve Nnaji might end up getting married to Nigerian men who do not have the hang-ups & biases that you just mentioned up there. No one knows tomorrow!

repogirl:
I must say I love your ideas. There is nothing wrong in being your own woman, a self made woman. A good man will encourage his woman to be the best she can be and not stifle or hold her down. Many problems in our society can be traced to domineering men who believe it should be their way or the high way.

When they see a woman who does not need their bullshit and wants to be her own person they get touchy.

Many say they don't want gold diggers who will latch onto them, take their shi.t and kiss their ass for material things but when a woman who has got her own says she has a certain standard, they get really pissed as if a woman can't have standards as they themselves have their own standards.

Although I believe the type of person Linda wants is fictional and she might be deluding herself, it's her choice to make. She will live with it afterall, so guys saying sh.it should back off. If Linda thinks this is what will make her have a happy marriage, abeg leave her and go and find the one that will conform to your own requirements. Simple.

Even when you enter market, you price what you like and what you can afford not what is above you or beneath you. Everyone is entitled to their choices, right or wrong.

Another great submission. I love your take on this, especially the part where you said: "A good man will encourage his woman to be the best she can be and not stifle or hold her down." May more men become such good models of exemplary behaviour.

bigfrancis21:
Long story. Fact still remains that Etteh is in Enugu state, not Kogi state, and has a lot of native Igbo speakers as corroborated by the WHO. Your writing of long epistles here are your waste of time and energy. Again, the Igalas are NOT a majority in Etteh. No non-igalatic source has said they are a majority. So shall it be.

Case closed.

Check all my previous posts. I never said Ette was in Kogi State. I only asked the Igala indigenes on this thread, to clarify if there were two Ette communities (i.e. in Enugu State or Kogi State). So stop trying to peddle falsehood.

Since you have chosen to use the incomplete WHO report to propagate a lie....no problem. Everyone now knows the kind of pseudo-intellectual you are - the one who prefers to embrace a flawed perspective, based on a faulty premise. Case closed.

omonnakoda:
Have you not heard of Fufu intoxication or Akpu Toxaemia

E don do, I beg! E don tay wey I don laugh dis kind heavy laugh....

omonnakoda:
Not crime and law but LOGIC which is the core of philosophy . It is the basis of the NULL HYPOTHESIS. No one can be asked to prove there are no green men on planet MARS. It is for he who claims there are to provide evidence. It is an established norm in Logic which clearly you have no grounding in. You take your inspiration from Fufu. The more you consume the more you assert and the more certain you feel

With reference to the comments in bold type ....ROFLMAO!! LWKMD!!

bigfrancis21:
Trash. 100 sentences written, not one intellectual statement spoken.

One more time view the article below by the World Health Organization, this time rather slowly as you digest the information. Don't forget to grab some spicy popcorn while you do so. *munch munch*

Case closed.

No, you are the one recycling trash, all through your posts. In fact, my comments hurt you so much that you had to strike through the entire post because you could not face the truth it contained.

It has exposed your lack of facts and shown the world that you are just pretending to be an intellectual, when in actual fact you are a dilettante.

The section of the WHO article you quoted, grouped both Nike community and Ette together, which was why the person conducting the study made the blanket assertion about Igbo speakers, being prevalent.

Nike has a much larger community of indigenous Igbo speakers, so if grouped with Ette, the Igbo speakers would appear to dominate the whole lot, than if the language patterns of Ette community had been considered on its own.

Now we can all see where the researcher made the error. And that is the same error you have been using to justify your flawed theory about the Ette community. How sad.

bigfrancis21:
Hahaha. Etteh is not an Igala majority community. Proven by the WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION.

The onus is on you to prove that Etteh is not an Igbo-speaking majority town using a credible source, no biased Igalatic website nor half-baked is accepted.

Or better still, quietly go to sleep and lick your sores slowly.

Case closed.

Sorry, everyone can now see through your hollow rhetoric. The World Health Organisation did NOT prove anything. You are hiding behind an incomplete WHO article which is not detailed, and lacks appropriate data to back their assertions with respect to the prevalent language spoken by the Ette community.

My guess is that the person hired to conduct that study, did not bother to dig deep to find out relevant details about the ethnic composition of the community or its languages. He just heard a group of speakers congregated somewhere, speaking a particular language and jumped to conclusions. He might have even engaged an interpreter. Who knows?

His focus was on the prevalence of onchocerciasis, and not the ethnic composition of Ette community. The language spoken would not have a major impact on his work, since he was looking at health factors. Which was why he did not bother to conduct further checks on the languages spoken within the community.

But you are the one now trying to use his lack of rigorous analysis on the linguistic patterns of the Ette people, to justify your claims simply because the work was pasted on WHO's website. What a joker, you are. Remind me never to believe any sweeping claims you ever make on NL again. When the WHO decides to publish an in-depth study on the demographics and languages spoken by the inhabitants of the Ette community, backed by relevant facts and data, then we would believe your story. Case closed.

bigfrancis21:
Are you blind? Read the link of the article, gotten from the WHO website itself: http://www.who.int/tdr/publications/documents/comdti_3.pdf

No, sir. You are the blind one. I have asked you the same question over and over again. But you are just dodging the issue. There is zero data to show that Ette is predominantly Igbo-speaking while a few speak Igala. The writer of that article just made an assertion. What was the sample size that was surveyed, that caused them to arrive at that conclusion? For the umpteenth time, where are the figures? Where is the data?

bigfrancis21:
Guy, I would take a research by the World Health Organization (WHO) any day anytime over some biased Igalatic articles written on the internet.

And yes, they are very little likely to be infallible given the presence of well-seasoned researchers and employees that work for them.

Oh, where is the proof that it was conducted by the World Health Organisation? It was not stated in your earlier post. You just modified it. WHO relies on consultants to carry out research for them. And like I have been asking for the umpteenth time, where is the data in their report that shows or proves that Ette is mostly Igbo speaking? Provide proof, please!!

bigfrancis21:
It was conducted by a foreign organization, the World Health Organization (WHO) and given their known high level of personal investment in research, I would take their findings over the half-baked and biased articles written by pro-igala black people claiming Igala majority, when an overwhelming number of articles say they are minority, any day anytime. I am sure that of the foreign organization must have been more thorough and well done.

Isn't it funny how the only articles that claim Etteh as Igala majority are 'Igalatic' articles by Igala people? How come no article by a non-Igala claims Etteh to be Igala majority??

Everyone can see how you have been dodging the questions posed to you. So in your view, foreign organisations are infallible? If you want us to believe that the contents of the study you cited is accurate, then provide all the data and information that is conspicuously missing from the study. Without factual evidence, it would be asking a lot of other people to accept the study you cited, as authentic. So please do not substitute your belief (which is highly subjective and lacks empirical evidence) for factual evidence.

We do not know your foreign organisation. Neither can we ascertain the level of research they have done, so we cannot accept their findings as the gospel truth on the Ette community.

bigfrancis21:
Well, the binis conquered some parts of western Igboland and Lagos mainland and imposed bini Obas on them. The royal family of lagos state is of bini ancestry. Several Obis of some villages in Anioma came solely from Bini, however they married native Igbo wives and raised Igbo-speaking families. However, it does not mean that western igboland or lagos are binis. It is clear from history that the atta of igala sought to conquer and dominate northern igboland, which they did for a while and imposed 'attamas' (as in Nsukka) or 'attas' in certain areas that they conquered. This may be the case for Etteh community. I strongly suspect.

Oga, don't suspect. Provide proof!

bigfrancis21:
@bold...that is untrue. It doesn't take much to interview a small village of 20,000 people. It may take up to a week of distributing survey questions and making sure they fill it out correctly and that is worthy of a true research, not some hastily conducted interview of a handful of people (35) that does not speak for the entire Etteh community of over 20,000 people. Even white researchers will not conduct this level of poor quality research. Their high level of personal investment in anything they do shows how, despite the crude times of back then when they landed in Nigeria, they were often able to correctly tell the differences between the different tribes in southern Nigeria. Pick any of their books on the tribes of southern Nigeria written over 200 years ago and read and observe how valid and correct their observations are till today. In research, whites are often very thorough and will take pains to make sure they cover everything and leave no stone unturned. However, for many black researchers, they conduct rather hasty 'research' and come to irrelevant conclusions. Then one wonders why blacks as a whole is backwards.

Or maybe I should survey 35 English-speaking children in Lagos state and use that as my basis to claim that majority of Nigerian children are English-speaking. Does that sound like quality research to you, huh?

In the end, her study is seriously flawed and should not be taken seriously. A handful number of people (35) does not represent an entire Ette population of over 20,000 people. QED.

But your own study which you cited, which makes sweeping assertions about the number of speakers with no shred of data to back it up, and no information on the outcome, as well as zero information on the scholars who carried out the study, is NOT seriously flawed, ko? You have obviously never conducted a study in Nigeria, especially rural Nigeria which is why you think it would take a week to survey 20,000 inhabitants of a town.

The people that gave Jibrin that award are as daft as he is. This is a legislator that was part of the budget padding process, when he was Chairman of the Budget Appropriation Committee of the House of Representatives, for over 4 years. He did not see anything wrong with budget padding then.

When he was now asked to step down from the post, he now started wailing that there was budget padding. Was he blind during all those years he was in the committee and the whole thing was going on under his nose? Why didn't he cry out then? Why is he just crying out now and pretending that he is an anti-corruption crusader? I guess the 'benefits' he got then as Chairman, have now eluded him which is why he is on the offensive.

Bad belle of the highest order is worrying him. Nonsense and Ingredients!

bigfrancis21:
@bold...traditional ruler of the Etteh Igalas right? Just as we have Eze Ndi Igbo in Jos or Abuja right?

By the way, the 7 traditional rulers in olumbanasaa Anambra have Igbo titles. They are all called 'Igwe'.

The traditional ruler of the entire Ette community has an Igala title. From the records available, he is not a settler in the town unlike the Eze Nd'Igbo in Jos or Abuja.

And there is no information, that shows that the traditional ruler of the entire Etteh community is an Igbo man with an Igbo traditional title, such as Igwe or Eze. If you have evidence to show that the traditional ruler of the entire Ette community, is an Igwe or an Eze, kindly paste it here.

bigfrancis21:
Now, let us get scientific. Her study itself is not representative of everyone in the town. First we have to ask what is the sample size used in the study? Did she take out time to survey every or almost all of Etteh community or did she survey a handful of people? The population of Etteh people is about 20,000. The sample size of the author's research is only 50 people. That is only 50 people out of about 20,000 Etteh people were interviewed. Out of the 50 responses gotten only 35 were filled out properly. That means, her study is based on only 35 responses out of about 20,000 Etteh people and such a number is highly selective and does not represent the general consensus of the Etteh people.

Her study is not factually correct, objectively speaking.

http://www.who.int/tdr/publications/documents/comdti_3.pdf

I pointed out 4 town names in Ette which MAY NOT be Igala or Idoma but Igbo instead. Which is more credible given the fact that such town names are more common in Igboland and nearly absent in Igala land. To accommodate the possibility of Igala/Idoma origins, I have asked Igala speakers to tell us if these 4 names have any meanings in Igala. Read my post again.

Your examples don't make sense because of course there are town similarities between different linguistic zones in Nigeroa. We have an Igbo Ogidi town in Anambra state and a Yoruba Ogidi town in Ajaokuta Kogi state. However, in this case these town names are common in Igboland and nearly absent in Igala land, which tells you that they are more likely Igbo than Igala.

Ojo is not a common name in Igboland. He may have had a Yoruba mother or given the Ojo name by his parent for a reason. Nnamdi Azikiwe gave his first son Bamidele out of his love for a united Nigeria but as you know the Azikiwe family is not related to Yoruba in any way.

It is rare to see any study that captures the entire inhabitants of a town. To carry out such a large scale study would take years and lots of resources. The unwieldy sample size could also be difficult to administer.

Secondly, for what it is worth, the person who carried out the study was actually on ground in Ette and took time out to visit the location. She provided as much data as she could and gave insight into how she arrived at her findings.

In comparison to the study you cited, there is nothing in your citation that shows the sample size, how they got their data and nothing to show how the writer of that article arrived at his conclusion that Ette is mostly Igbo-speaking with a few Igala speakers. There is no information about those who even conducted the study, and what the outcome was meant to achieve.

And you want us to swallow the assertions in the study you cited??

Now back to the names and nomenclature. In some areas of Lagos, there are streets bearing Igbo names, or roads named after Igbo personalities. Are we to infer that those streets are the ancestral homes of communities in the South-East, who share similar names with those locations?

bigfrancis21:
Yes of course. The 50 people interviewed could be mostly the Idoma speakers or Igala speakers and it does not tell the true situation of things in Ette. Just as I could conduct my survey on mostly the Igbo speakers and come up with figures in favour of Igbo speakers in Ette but that does not tell the factual truth of the place. That's my point.

Rather, an intensive survey of at least 85% or 15,000 of the people would make more sense and is more inclusive of everyone in the town.

Ok, go and conduct your own study or survey in Ette. Then come & post the results here, so we can compare & contrast the outcome.

The traditional ruler has an Igala title, but I guess that escaped your notice.

bigfrancis21:
Now, let us get scientific. Her study itself is not representative of everyone in the town. First we have to ask what is the sample size used in the study? Did she take out time to survey every or almost all of Etteh community or did she survey a handful of people? The population of Etteh people is about 20,000. The sample size of the author's research is only 50 people. That is only 50 people out of about 20,000 Etteh people were interviewed. Out of the 50 responses gotten only 35 were filled out properly. That means, her study is based on only 35 responses out of about 20,000 Etteh people and such a number is highly selective and does not represent the general consensus of the Etteh people.

Her study is not factually correct, objectively speaking.

http://www.who.int/tdr/publications/documents/comdti_3.pdf

Ok now, you want to discredit the study conducted on the Ette people based on sample size?

bigfrancis21:
Correct.

I doubt Igala origins for many of the town names in Ette. For example, one town name in Ette is Ogodo and we have an Ogodo community in Imo state: https://umukabiaogodo..com/p/our-history.html

Also, another town name in Ette is 'Ebe' and there is another town in Udi LGA of Enugu called 'Ebe'. We have several other towns in Igboland starting with 'ebe' such as ebenator ekwe in Isu LGA Imo state and Ebenator town in Nnewi south Anambra state. 'Ebe' for short simply means 'place' in Igbo.

In Awka, we have a bridge called Emenebe bridge. Emenebe is a town name in Ette. Emenebe seems to be a coinage of Emene and Ebe. There's Emene area in Enugu town. Some Igbos bear Emenebe as surname. I am yet to meet an Igala who bears Emenebe as name.

Obida strongly points to Igbo origins. Many towns in Igboland start with 'Obi'. For example, Obigbo, Obike in Imo state etc.

At least there are 3 town names in Ette that strongly point to Igbo origins. Strange enough, these town names are not found in Igala land. Indicating they are possibly not of Igala origin. Any Igalas here can tell us if these town names: Ebe, Emenebe, Ogodo and Obida have any meanings in Igala.

You are still doubting their Igala origins, when the scholar who conducted the study shows clearly from the data available that the Idoma speakers are 60%, the Igala speakers are 40% while only 8.6% speak Igbo? Has it occurred to you that some of the words you cited might have other meanings among the Igala and Idoma.

I know Igbo families in Enugu who bear the surname 'Attah.' I also know Igala families in Kogi as well as Efik families who also bear the surname Attah. Are we to infer they all share the same blood ties? I think not.

The late Chief Ojo Maduekwe had an interesting first name - "Ojo". I have met several Yoruba people who also bear the name Ojo, either as a first name or a surname. Do we then assume they are all related? Just asking.

Even in Lagos, there is a district known as Ogba. In Rivers State, there is an entire community that also bears Ogba. Going by your analysis, I guess we should assume that the district called Ogba not far from Ikeja in Lagos mainland, probably has the same origin as that of the Ogba people of Rivers State.

Oh, before I forget.... there is a town called Ozalla in Owan West local govt area of Edo State that is about 30 minutes drive from Benin. There is another town with the same name of Ozalla in Enugu State. Should we say they share the same ancestral heritage because their names are identical?

Igboid:
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.

It still shows that the Igbo are in the minority, in the town of Ette.

Igboid:
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 iinvestigative one. As only the Igala people were interviewed and their words published without the writers contribution.

Oh, so this is your new angle? The report is not an investigative one. But nobody claimed it was one. Hehehe.....

It was the same Vanguard you have been using to buttress your points that published it, too. And it was cited to show the viewpoint of the Igala community in the town.

The article cited by OmoIgala is an 11-page study of the Ette community, which shows that Igala and Idoma language are more predominantly spoken than Igbo. Yet, you initially wanted to make everyone believe that Ette is an Igbo community.

Here is an excerpt from the study:

MULTILINGUALISM AND THE ETHNIC IDENTITY OF THE ETTE PEOPLE by Martha Chidimma Egenti | Department of Linguistics | Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka

This paper sets out to examine the Ette people in the light of their ethnic identity and also to ascertain which of the languages spoken has the highest percentage with regard to its status and level of proficiency. Primary data were collected from native speakers of Ette resident in Igboeze North Local Government Area of Enugu State using Phinney’s (1999) Ethnic Identity measure questionnaire....

From the data in table 1, also reveals that the respondents are proficient in idoma and in terms of regular usage; the Idoma language has the highest percentage of 57.1%. While the Igala language has 37.1%, the Igbo language has the least percentage of 5.7% and 28.2%
respectively...

Table 3 shows ethnic identity measure with regard to membership to an ethnic group, and whether the respondents feel a strong attachment to the group to which they belong. Idoma and Igala have a 60:40% for those who strongly agree or agree to the fact that they belong to Idoma or Igala group, and commitment in these groups. Interestingly, the respondents who strongly agree or agree that they belong to or feel strong attachment for the Igbo groups have the least percentage (8.6%). 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. ....http://www.ajol.info/index.php/mjas/article/viewFile/118497/108028

Er... the study was carried out by an Igbo-speaking scholar, I believe. I guess you would say it is still not objective.