FreeStuffsNG:
Wow! Kabiyesi waja.

Ibadan's age-long non-acrimonous method of choosing successive Olubadan will always turn up an aged Oba because candidates spend so long on the queue before it gets to the eventual Oba's turn.

With the passing of Kabiyesi, it should be 80-year old Pa Rasheed Ladoja who's likely next in line to the Olubadan's stool. They almost messed up Kabiyesi's political position with fake news during the 2023 Presidential election. Probably Kabiyesi was already dealing with age-related slowdowns.

May God console his immediate family,
Ibadan, Oyo state and Nigeria as a whole. Nigeria lost a great Nigerian and First Class Royal Father.

Pascal9:
Chest beating, nothing special about Anambra,

Pascal9:
is Anambra not igbo again

meolaniyi:
My Yoruba people and devisive propaganda. Which one is Anambra landlaord and Ebonyi Tenant.?

Some igbos will start making comments based on this headline.

WeddingParol:
@OP

This your reporting title is discriminatory. What concerns Ebonyi and Anambra in this your yeye report?

A tenant killed landlord would have been a better caption rather than trying to raise ethnic uproar among peacefully coexisting people.

swagana:


Who recruited jobless Ebonyi youths to ESN/UGM?
Hate the game not the player.Many of you supported MNK when he created ESN.

Chikel20000:
dis is what i don't like ...which one is Ebonyi people, which one is Anambra people.....i see a hand in dis write up to divide d Igbos

swagana:


The way Anambra people profile Eboyians is not different from tribalistic behaviours of Abike Dabiri-Erewa .
So any crime committed by any Anambra indigene his state must be mentioned henceforth.

SmartPolician:

I am just wondering the essence of spending a lot of money to bury people who are dead. Sometimes, the way the so-called clergy behaves, you begin to wonder if they actually have the spirit of God in them.

These are the same people that usually give crazy terms and conditions to deceased families before they can participate in funeral rites. Throwing a big party for dead people don't send them to heaven. The last time I checked: the Catholics believe in praying for the dead so that God can accept their souls, not throwing a big party to impress people.

Jcoleworld911:


Apc and their propaganda agenda, the chronic debtor cum senator isn’t going to be Anambra governor, we can’t reduce ourselves to nothing

The political harlot and his co travelers will always loose because nothing good comes from him

Write it down somewhere

Oghene86:


Does the law not apply to Obi Cubana? I believe he is from Anambra state

GerogeI:



Am from Anambra State. What exactly do you call a stool. Stool translates to Okwa, which simply means having a role, not kingship. There was nothing like Igwe any where, except for Onitsha people who claim to come from Benin with their Obi. Go and ask your elders for the truth. There were titled men, but they were not kings. Within the Ozo, NZe or Someother Stock grouping, there was the highest titled Man who led procedures and rituals, as well as decision making. Some time two or three man were equally titled and they countered each other. But there was no king.

Where the British won such men, they gave them armed police and called them warrant Chiefs. Where such leaders opposed the British, which was the case in most communities, they looked for the most Dubious Character in the community and gave him armed police and named him warrant chief to oppose the real community leadership. This is captured well in the story of things fall apart by Chinue Acheba.

Igbos are republican, every man had his say, even though all men were not equal. No man was appointed a king by the people. Rather you level of title determined your political role, stool or Okwa. Power was shared, not a monarchy.

Soludo, Archbishop Okeke in war of words over flamboyant burial of priest’s mother
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ONITSHA—The Catholic Archbishop of Onitsha Archdiocese and Metropolitan of Onitsha Ecclesiastical Province, His Grace, Most Rev. Valerian Okeke, and Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State were locked in a war of words yesterday over the governor’s threat to impose a fine on the Obimma family for celebrating funeral ceremonies of Ezinne Grace Obimma in a flamboyant manner.

Recall that there is an existing law against lavish burial ceremonies in Anambra State, enacted during Willie Obiano’s administration.

Soludo had at the requiem mass for Ezinne Grace Obimma, mother of the spiritual director of Holy Ghost Adoration Ministry, Uke, in Ndemili South LGA, Rev Fr Emmanuel Obimma, blamed the family, particularly Charles Obimma, who was a member of the legislature that passed the state burial law in 2019, for an over-shooting limit of burial expenses prescribed by the law.

The governor said the insignificant, low-key burial of his late father, Pa Simeon Soludo, was child’s play compared to that of the late Madam Obinna, who died at 88.

Countering the governor, flayed him for stepping into an area he had no jurisdiction, asking him to respect the boundaries or principles of separation of jurisdiction.

The cleric said: “In separation of power, you don’t make laws for the church on how to bury the dead because it’s bound to fail.

“It’s not the duty of the governor to make law on how Christian burials should be done because there are more serious things the government should do. Any law that is impossible to keep or enforce should be considered unjust.”

According to him, the church can only make laws where it has exclusive ecclesiastical powers and not for the government because they remain two separate jurisdictions.

He pointed out that the church made suggestions on how to cut expenses during burial but noted that the choice of celebrants to decide whether to spend hugely or meagrely depended on them.

Earlier, at the mass, the presiding cleric and chancellor of Onitsha Archdiocese, Rev Fr. Dr. Prudentius, Aroh, and Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the last general elections, Peter Obi, said the late Madam Obimma lived a life worthy of emulation.

In his words of appreciation, Rev Fr. Obimma, who is the founder of Holy Ghost Adoration Ministry Uke, said his mother, whose life was deeply rooted in Christ, died on All Saints Day (1st November), noting that heaven had gained a saint.

Rev. Fr. Obimma, the Parish Priest of Blessed Iwene Tansi Catholic Church in Umudioka, Dunukofia Local Council Area, hinted that Madam Obimma lived a life dedicated to the service of God and humanity.

GerogeI:
I agree with Obi of Onitsha.

But more importantly,
There is no thing traditional about igwe's and obi's in Igboland of which Anambra is part of.

They were started by British invaders as a means to subdue the people, Igbo had no chiefs, talk less of warrant Chiefs, nor Kings.

Nze and Ozo were socio political Societies, with Pyramid structures that allowed several people to provide leadership based on their level of title in the society. It is similar to a parliamentary government, with no Prime minister, only the leadership of the House. There morality and court were provided by Nri theocracy through the transfer of Ofo!


Soudo- can we stop deceiving ourselves. Do away with all the Igwes and Obi and replace them with the people's congress (which we have as town unions already) led by three elected persons forming a trinity to be known as Mayor or some igbo name 'Izu'. Trinity so they countercheck each other. Pass a law that establishes them as an extension of the state Government, but synchronize with Local government ment laws by electing them as councillors. This will make for faster more people oriented development, and also force the judicious use of local Goverment funds as they can be shared for community administration by the state Government irrespective of who answers local Government Chairman. You make the non performing Local Govt. Chairmen redundant.

Ournolly:

That's not true.
Nnewi and Onitsha have traditional rulers long before the Whites set their feet in Igboland.

julaion:
you have always been a failed son of ur father

Armaggedon:
governor was not mentioned in the article. Take your ebi m pa wa frustrations to sanwoolu before you'll have course to hate this morning.

perfectsusanoo:
All traditional rulers are as useless as the k in knife. Basking in the 'glory' of their ancestors who bent the knee 4 another 2 keep a chair and bloodline that is insignificant to d progress of human race

MadamExcellency:


We know that Anambra is not a core Igbo State but a hybrid but that does not mean the Igbos aren't one.

Kukutente23:
Igbo don't have Kings
All these warrant chiefs should be dethroned and sent to work as clerks or sanitation inspectors in their respective LGs

Armaggedon:
Soludo was neither mentioned in the article nor the letter.

LottiOk:
Ndibunna nwannem, ya gazerie gi. Dont mind the ipob apologists/members replying you in pain, cos you are exposing their foolishness. Simon ekpa has always claimed that hes a disciple of NK & is even on record that Kanu handed over radiobiafra to him b4 his capture in Kenya. And as a good disciple, he's doing exactly what he learnt 4rm his oga.

They can continue living in delusion that they are a pressure group but Kanu & ekpa's many hate-filled,incitiful,propaganda laced rethorics & commands that are carried out by the beasts they released during the South East endsars riots clearly tags them as terrorist.

Oya ndi nzuzu ipob, come & insult me & call me Fulani or Yoruba Muslim cos that's how Kanu programmed you guys to think whenever you don't believe a fellow Igbo is against una foolish ipob delusional reasoning.

History555:


You are not lgbo. You brought up the thread so as to generate tribal banners. Ever since seun stopped you guys from tribal arguments, you and your likes have been resurrecting old news

Malroux:
Merely looking at Soludo one can easily deduce that he is living a sad and depressed life even though he have everything at his disposal. Man is too sadistic. I pray he doesn't commit suicide one day.