₦airaland Forum

jason12345:
so igala are from the same ancestry with the yorubas . anyway, i knew about the itsekiri part because it was obvious.

History has it!

@ Poweredcom

I am a full fledge Igala man, but people who knows me mistake me as an Ibo man.

@ TewMuch

Alot of simillarities exist beetwen Igalas and Yoruba, we the younger generations find it difficult to actually pin point the reasons.

Meanwhile, below is an extract from wikipedia I hope this and more research will solve some of our imaginery questions.

Origin
The Igala are identified by the old oral tradition of Western Igbos as descendants of Igbo migrants who migrated westward during the expansion of the proto-Igbo peoples at the beginning of the 1st millennium. The Yoruba are in turn identified by some Igalas as descendants who continued on west and eventually settled across Western Nigeria and Benin.

The traditional Igala society is largely agrarian, although fishing is also a mainstay of the people especially the Igalas of the riverine Idah area.

Boston (1968) believes that the central geographical location of the Igala people has exposed them to a wide variety of linguistic as well as cultural influences from other ethnic groups in the country. Notable among these are the Igbira, the Bini, the Igbo, the Hausa, the Idoma and the Yoruba ethnic groups. However, the most significant relationship, by far, is that between the Igala and the Yoruba peoples.

Igala and Yoruba have important historical and cultural relationships. The languages of the two ethnic groups bear such a close resemblance that researchers such as Forde (1951) and Westermann and Bryan (1952) regarded Igala as a dialect of Yoruba.

Akinkugbe (1976,1978) is of the opinion that based on evidence, Igala is neither a dialect of Yoruba nor a language resulting from the fusion of Yoruba and Idoma as claimed by Silverstein, but rather Igala shares a “common ancestor” with Yoruba. In her words, “… this common ancestor was neither Yoruba nor Igala but what we have labeled here as Proto-Yoruba-Isekiri–Igala (PYIG). The evidence suggest further that presumably, Igala separated form the group before the split of Yoruba into the present day Yoruba dialects considering the extent of linguistic divergence found between Igala on one hand, and the rest of Yoruba on the other” (1978: 32) Akinkugbe cites lexicostatistic evidence as well as evidence of sound shifts and lexical innovations as support or corroboration of this claim.

Other comparative works aimed at investigating the language status of Igala (directly and indirectly) are Omamor (1967) and Williamson (1973). In fact, Williamson is the originator of the label ‘Yoruboid’ for the group of languages comprising Yoruba, Isekiri and Igala for the purpose of distinguishing “between Yoruba as a language on the one hand, and Yoruba, Isekiri and Igala as a genetic group on the other”. (Akinkugbe 1976:1) Akinkugbe refers to the proto- language of the group as Proto-Yoruboid in 1976 and Proto-Yoruba-Isekiri-Igala (PYIG) in 1978


Contemporary historians believe that the Igala most likely shared a proto-Kwa ancestry with the modern Igbo and Yoruba people as well as most ethnic groups of Nigeria today. Thus, the ethnic family would include not only the prior two, but groups like the Idoma, and the Nupe to the north.

alldone:
He does have a case to answer.

LouisThoru:
Only monkeys know monkeys, that is a fact. LOL

TUMP UP!!

@hackney

I advise you come to Nigeria and apply for hackney permitt (license). Believe me you are a big material in Ajegunle, that kind of hair in your picture's profile is what Ajeguleans used in haulling about 30 tons marijuana from Ojuelegba daily.

A text message purportedly from the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) is currently creating panic among top government officials, security agencies and the people of Zamfara State as President Goodluck Jonathan visits the state today.

Source:
http://www.tribune.com.ng/index.php/front-page-news/12006-mend-threatens-to-bomb-zamfara-as-jonathan-visits-northern-aspirants-ll-deal-with-jonathan-gusau-

Can someone tell me if revolution is not looming?

@Osai sly

Though I was not inn to reply your questions!

To avoid repeatation, I think the question has been answered by "bycisse" correctly.

Let's keep our fingers crossed and watch events as they unfold.

GoodBadluck Jonathan should please take the honourable part (according to Obasanjo on Yar'adua).

Believe me even Mrs Hellen Johnson of liberia is more decisefull than this so-called president of ours.

It's not a must to rule a country.

PLS AND PLS RESIGN FOR THE SAKE OF GENERATIONS YET UNBORN, IF SITUATION WERE HANDLE LIKE THIS DURING YOUR CHILDHOOD AGE, YOU WOULDN'T HAVE BE WHERE YOU ARE TODAY.

DON'T SPOIL THIS COUNTRY FOR THE YET UNBORN

@denzel2009

Thanks for been a wonderfull companion.

I took the system to my engineer in Abuja this morning, he was able to fix it.

bayokenny was right. My engineer said the problem was as a result of security conflict, mind you I had Norton installed before Eset. He advised I should always un-install any security on the system before installing another.

One love all!!

omata-eje:
Egwu Igbo chigbo yaka,

Omi choma- abo EGUME DE-E, Ome,

@ Omata-eje

O'roka! Omi onugo choma-abo EGUME uche, unyi mi chi ADUMU EGUME.
Ejugbo chunyi ewe egume?

Dohi-mi kaneke kola togba lo.

Agba ewola ugwugwu.

@Obiagu 1

Libra 38 is hail and healthy.

I 've been extreemly busy for days, that not wistanding, I haven't abandon this topic.

We shall be talking together in a short while.

One love!

Thanks a million!!!

I will have to wait till I travell back to Abuja.

I appreciate your efforts.

Thank you alot.

The window 7 was installed for me by an engineer in Abuja, now 'am on excussion in Kogi State.

Which means I have to wait in two weeks time when I will be travelling back to Abuja.

But then can I download the window 7 from the net? please don't be disturbed over my serial questions.

It was Vista and later migrated to Window 7.

For the RAM and HDD, believe me i don't have the idea.

@denzel2009

I downloaded and burnt into cd the software link you provided, but it did't solve my problem.

Can you tell me how to re-install the OS. I would't mind loosing my files.

Please do yur ussal assistance.

@denzel2009

Thanks for your kind assistance. 'am downloading the link you provided already.

I shall feed you back as soon as 'am through.

Thanks once again for your kind care towards my plight.

When I entered safe mode (Last known good configuration), it prompt me to select the operating system meanwhile it's only Microsoft Windows XP Proffessional that is on display! I entered but still the same problem.

It display "Welcome (User)" I click and it will be loging in then suddenly loging off. But the fact is it isn't loging off rather it's redirecting me to a Welcome (User) window again and again.

Not only learnt a leason but paid dearly for ignorance price.

I can access the safe mode but woud'nt solve the problem. Please what else can you sugest?

Nairalander's

Please somebody should help me out. I dowloaded ESET NOD32 free virus removal from the net hoping to remove the virus on my pc, now my system has refused to start up.

After booting, the system will display USER LOGIN meanwhile I did'nt password it. When I click enter, it will start "loading your personal setting and at the same time saving your personal setting" then it will display USER LOGIN again, it will continue the process repeatedly.

I have tried rebooting, f8-safe mode, f2-Run Set up & f11-Boot Menu all to avail.

Somebody pls help me.

@chyz

It might interest you to know that Igala and Ibo people share's some common value and believes.

I will expantiate further at my leisure time.

Cheers!!

@Udezue

Igala have four market days.

There are:

i Eke
ii Ede
iii Afor
iv Ukwor

@Samdigo

Interesting!!

@samdigo

Can u speak Igala dialect?

@stagger

Thanks a million, I just check my mail now and happens to be among the fortunate free recievers.
I will definately contact you as soon as 'am through with the project 'am working upon.

Meanwhile you need to be encourage for your kind generousity.

Please take God's blessing

Oh my goodness! I have been off this section for some times. This is the topic I have been looking for!

@Stagger

COULD YOU PLEASE SEND ME THE MANUAL to mohdonuh@yahoo.com

I promise to get in touch with you as soon as you permitt.

I love this business with all passion.

I wonder why nobody has made mentioned of Ibrahim Idris of Kogi State. I can describe him to be the best interms of the followings:

Best in bleaching (skin tonning)
Best in hirring of thugs
best in building hotels in South African and Niger republic (all with state fund)
Best in poor grammertical construction (he got his neco result in 2005 while in office)
Best in project budgetd, but non executed (not even a pole of eletricity has been erected in his home town "Icheke"

If i have to describe him among the worst, whell i don't know what to say, but he is the MOST EXTRA-ORDINARY DEWOWO (URGLY FACE)[size=8pt][/size] among the whole governor.

Yes they can leave the children alone if they (children) agreed not to use a dime out of the corrupt money.

remember a repantant cultist will only be free from the wrath of his former warlord if he chooses to do away with anything gained from the occult world.

Else the nemesis of the father shall pass upon his children!!!

Fellow Nigerians! see, God is exposing some foreigners pretending to be Nigerian 419's on the net.

I am not in support of scamming though, but it's high time we realise some of the fraud perpetrated on the net are not really from Nigerians.

Check the link bellow and publish it as much as you can, this might reduce the negative perceptions about Nigeran.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/court-israelis-suspected-in-nigerian-scam-can-be-extradited-to-u-s-1.296597

'am interested in this business too, I have a vision for soap production.

Just tell me why you want to change it, I will teach you here for free. - my promise.

Yes he has to be approved.

Meanwhile the National assembly has promised last week to give their nod to whoever is choosen by the president, to me, his (Sambo) confirmation and approval is guarrantee!

Source; Saharareporters!!

http://www.saharareporters.com/real-news/sr-headlines/6065-jonathan-appoints-kaduna-state-governormohammed-namadi-sambo-as-vice-president-.html

[/one only becomes corrupt when you decide to run for office in Nigeria.
becomes
]

Indeed!

A signed original copy of the late Dr Pius Okigbo's Panel Report, which indicted former President General Ibrahim Babangida over allegations of corruption and mismanagement of $12.4 billion accrued revenue to the national treasury has been sent to Attorney General and Minister of Justice upon his request.

Source below: Sahara reporters.


http://www.saharareporters.com/letters/press-releases/5992-124bn-scam-civil-society-sends-original-copy-of-okigbo-report-on-babangida-to-fg.html

A ball has now been set rolling for fellow Nairalanders who have had a series of controversial, contradictory and all sort of argument over IBB.

Let's keep our fingers crossed to whatch the begining and probably end of this interesting game.