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When Okowa was there what did Anioma enjoyed? Anioma is an acronym and scam.

It's obvious you don't know history. Read harder.

Igbo means slave in Ukwuani, go and verify yourself. Ukwuani cannot be what they forbid. There was no Igbo until the oyibo people called your people Igbo when they heard from Ukwuani phrase, "onye Igbo". Stop harassing Ukwuani people with your Igbo mentality

IGBOPROMISE1:
I laugh when i see the mindgames you Igbo-haters deploy on nairaland to further your anti-Igbo agenda! I keep on hearing this same word 'force...force...force' from you meddlesome lot! Can you tell us in plain english how Ndigbo or the south-east are 'forcing' anyone to be what they're not? If anything, it's you lot that are forcing them to deny their Igboness, Igbo heritage and Igbo kinsfolk across the Niger! You do this out of pure and unbridled hatred, envy, meddlesomeness, and a desire to try and sustain your perceived 'superiority' over the Igbo! Your sick obsession with anything Igbo is what drives your insanity!

Did Ojukwu include the Anioma in the Biafra secession?

In Ukwuani, Igbo means s.lave, so Ukwuani couldn't have been Igbo. It was the colonialist that created Igbo from Ukwuani language. Ukwuani doesn't have any heritage with Igbo.

Ukwuani is not sub Igbo. It's disrespectful to Ukwuani to say that.

Igbo is in the east not in Ukwuani.

mysticwarrior:
They speak Ukwani which is a sub dialect of the Ibo language and Urhobo, they have very powerful and dangerous charms, they also worship monitor lizard which they do not kill or eat. If person tell you say he come from orogun give am chance o.

Osa Ajie ajie, Ndiom. oteofe nio.

As a Ukwuani person, I'm speaking out to correct the misconception that the Ndokwa people want to be part of the proposed Anioma State in the South East region of Nigeria. The truth is, we don't want to be part of it. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the National Assembly should ignore the bill sponsored by Sen. Ned Nwoko.

The Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC) and other proponents of Anioma State have been trying to bully and coerce us into joining their proposed state, but we refuse to be intimidated. We have our own distinct identity, culture, and history, and we won't let anyone erase that.

We're not interested in being part of a state that's being forced on us without our consent. We want to maintain our autonomy and self-determination, and we won't let anyone take that away from us.

The OYC and their allies need to respect our decision and stop trying to manipulate us into joining their proposed state. We're not pawns to be used in their political games. We're a proud people with our own dignity and self-worth, and we won't be treated like second-class citizens. OYC threat is sign of what Igbo will do us when they have the apparatus of power.

So, let's set the record straight: the Ndokwa people do not want to be part of Anioma State. We're happy with our current status and we won't be coerced into joining a state that we don't want to be part of. Let's respect each other's differences and move forward in peace and harmony.

Isiegwali

The recent article "Ndokwa, Ukwuani and the quest for Anioma State" by Nosike Ogbuenyi (www.thecable.ng/ndokwa-ukwuani-and-the-quest-for-anioma-state/amp/) raised several concerns regarding its biased language, selective representation, and lack of diverse perspectives. As a commentary, I would like to address these issues and highlight the need for a more balanced approach.

Firstly, the article's language is often derogatory and dismissive when referring to the Ukwuani (Ndokwa) people, perpetuating harmful stereotypes and creating a negative tone. Additionally, the selective presentation of historical events and facts reinforce his harmful stereotypes.

Furthermore, the article primarily features the views o Aniocha (Enuanu) people, marginalizing the voices and experiences of the Ukwuani (Ndokwa) people. This creates an incomplete picture of the situation and perpetuates harmful stereotypes.

Moreover, the article assumes a homogeneous identity and experience among the Ukwuani (Ndokwa) people with Igbo, disregarding their diverse cultures, language, and histories. This lack of acknowledgment and respect for diversity reinforces divisive identity politics.

The article also appears to have a political bias in favor of the creation of Anioma State and the placement of Ukwuani ( Ndokwa) under the Southeast zone, presenting a one-sided view of the issue. This bias is further exacerbated by the lack of objectivity and balance, perpetuating harmful stereotypes and reinforcing divisive identity politics.

Additionally, the article overemphasizes the issue of zonal placement, creating a distraction from the more significant issues of marginalization and underdevelopment in South East.

In conclusion, the article requires a more balanced and nuanced approach to represent the diverse perspectives and experiences of the people involved. It is essential to acknowledge the difference and issues of the debate, respect the diversity of the Ukwuani ( Ndokwa people), and present a more objective narrative to foster greater understanding and respect among our diverse communities.
#Ukwuani is not Igbo.

To which Audience? Buhari want to form OBJ, he doesn't have the mental capacity.

The stupidity of this message is high.

Anyim Pius wasn't a serving Senator during GEJ regime, neither was he a Senate President.

Those you mentioned got appointment as minister as required by the constitution from state of Origin.

Are you saying Ihejirika was not qualifed to be COAS?

Why don't mention other minister from SW,NW,NE,SS,NC.

You must be very bittered fellow. I know you are hungry, go and look for garri to soak this morning.

OPONU, ODE OSI. ASIWIN.

GreatBoss:
Igbos only voted Jonathan because he gave Igbos all the main offices in Nigeria like the way Buhari gave Northerners.
I'm Ijaw and I know what I'm saying.
They were only voting for their jobs.

Minister of Finance Ngozi Iweala Igbo
Minister of Aviation Stella Oduah Igbo
Senate President Anyim Pius Igbo
Chief of Army Staff Emeka Ihejirika Igbo
Minister of Petroleum Diezani Madueke
Ijaw marrying Igbo

Minister of Power Bath Nnaji Igbo
The offices are so much that they are too numerous to mention



And all the 5 South East States combined is 508 km² smaller than Kogi State and you expect all these people to not duty their people to support GEJ when Nigeria was in South East Control under GEJ even when GEJ is Ijaw.

Boomerang!!!!

Wahala for Oleibu of Borgu lagoon.

Nothing to say for now until July 15.

Oleibu will not cross confluence bridge at Lokoja.

Hyyyyym

Alagba, that road Federal government road. Wike is not responsible for that road. That road is supposed to be under Fashola's ministry. How they moved it to Niger Delta ministry is still misery.

Please, don't call wike on this.

At the start of 2013, Rimasauska registered a company in Latvia called Quanta Computer, which is identical in name to that of a Hardware manufacturing company from Taiwan. A bit suspicious, right?

Then, over a period of two years, he repeatedly sent invoices (complete with fraudulent stamps, signatures, and a very large amount of corporate and legal jargon) to google and Facebook for products from his fake company that he had never sold. Sounds like a pretty stupid idea. Surely a company with some of the best legal and financial minds would just discard these fake invoices?

Well, as you probably guessed, they did not. Seemingly without questioning it, two of the biggest tech giants around transferred millions and millions to Rimasauka. He’d keep sending them fake invoices, and they would always pay up. Eventually, Rimasauska racked up a lot of cash, taking $23 million from Google and $99 million from Facebook.[b][/b]

He didn't stay rich for long though. Almost inevitably, people soon caught on to him, and he is now spending five years behind bars for wire fraud.

People will always associate financial fraud with large scale, complicated and elaborate schemes — perhaps hacking into servers, or stealing confidential documents. But the interesting thing about this case is it shows that huge companies can still fall victim to such simplistic methods.

Thanks for reading!

culled from https://www.quora.com

Okowa is Igbo? I dey laugh.

wingmanIII:
Funny you. Atiku brought ihedioha to prominence. Ihedioha was Atiku's press staff. Just like Odili brought up Amaechi same Atiku did to ihedioha. Ihedioha only met Tambuwal in the lower house
Sorry to say, but Atiku is like a 2nd god to ihedioha.
My point is: Ihedioha is closer to Atiku than even Tambuwal

This is how to know pre "99 anylyst.

Thanks for informing the uninformed.

UKWUANI: AN ETHNIC PEOPLE AND LANGUAGE.

By Michael O. Ozah

The article, “Okpe People are Okpe People, Prof Natufe insists,” by Prof. Tony Afejuku which appeared on the opinion page of The Guardian newspaper of September 10, 2021, came as a very interesting read. It raises the issue of true ethnic consciousness and identity among indigenous peoples, in this case, the Okpe speaking people of Delta state.

As a teenager growing up in Sapele in the early 1980s I had always wondered why the Okpe people with a distinct language of theirs appeared subsumed ethnically under the Urhobo umbrella whereas their Isoko kin would not stomach being labelled anything but Isoko.

Prof Afejuku commends Prof Natufe for championing the cause of his Okpe people whose Okpeness inheres in their spoken indigenous language, which he described as the real power of the human beings that constitute Okpe people.

In the course of his article, however, Prof Afejuku did a great disservice to the Ukwuani people whom he referred to ethnically as Ndokwa while listing all the other ethnic nationalities in Delta state. I am certain that Prof. Afejuku did not know any Ndokwa ethnic group in his secondary school days because there was, and still is none. He may be pardoned for falling into this Ndokwa pit dug by some of our misinformed elites and politicians. Ndokwa is the name of some local government areas, not of any ethnic people or language.

The ethnic or indigenous inhabitants of those local government areas are Ukwuani and only Ukwuani. The name Ukwuani is of immemorial origin with etymological meaning in our language, unlike Ndokwa which is a recent meaningless coinage, except for being an acronym for the two administrative districts that made up the old Aboh division.

Ndokwa was invented when agitations against the continued use of the name Aboh to refer to the division was championed by the Ukwuani district. The influence of the Obi of Aboh was becoming overbearing and fears grew that the continued use of the name Aboh to refer to the division would create the erroneous impression that the Obi had suzerainty over all the clans in the administrative division.

A similar fear was raised by some ethnic nationalities in Warri province led by the Urhobo who petitioned that the change of designation of Olu of Itsekiri to Olu of Warri would create the wrong impression that the Olu exercised suzerainty over all the peoples of the Warri province. The agitation led to the rechristening of Warri province as Delta province. Against the Obi of Aboh, agitations in the 1950s swelled from many angles led by clans in Ukwuani district.

The clans of Ashaka, Efor and Ossissa at one time or the other asked to be transferred from Aboh district to Ukwuani district. Ultimately, Aboh district was renamed Ndosimili district as a fallout of these agitations. This was about when the name Ndokwa came into existence, coined as an acronym from the names, Ndosimili and Ukwuani – the two districts comprised in Aboh administrative division in the mid-1950s but it was not to become the official name of the division until 1976, following the local government reforms of that year. All this while, the people of Aboh division which then became Ndokwa local government area identified themselves ethnically as Ukwuani and spoke the Ukwuani language. It is in this light that I see recent references to the people even in official circles as Ndokwa as an aberration and absurdity.


It is in asserting their Ukwuaniness that the people formed the Ukwuani Foundation Union, U.F.U., in about 1937 as their apex socio-cultural body. This body was very effective in protecting the interests and identity of Ukwuani people in the tumultuous period of the civil war. The UF.U. provided leadership that elicited the Ukwuani ethnic spirit across the division.

On July 26, 1974, traditional rulers, representatives and political leaders across Ukwuani and Ndosimili districts of Aboh division met in Kwale town to assert and reaffirm their Ukwuaniness, noting that they are Ukwuani people and speak the Ukwuani language across the division.

Unfortunately, since the invention of the name Ndokwa, especially since its official use as the name of local government, many people have mistaken it for the ethnic name of the Ukwuani. The so-called elite class is even most guilty of this error. Even the Church in Ukwuani land is falling into the error. I hear the Bible is about to be translated into Ndokwa language or Ukwuani-Ndosumili language.

The book of Luke, as a test case, has been translated into “Ndokwa”. An Ukwuani-Ndosumili dictionary is also in the offing. There is a group that goes by the name Ukwuani-Ndosimili Language Development Group. Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther translated the Bible into Yoruba, a known language, spoken by an existing ethnic people of the same name. Why should our case be different? If God were to ask us what language we speak as an ethnic people, can we in all honesty tell him we speak Ukwuani-Ndosimili? Simultaneously, the eastern half of the old Aboh division which has transformed into Ndokwa East local government now see themselves more as ethnically Ndosimili than Ukwuani speaking. But ask them what language they speak and you get responses like Aboh, Ndosimili, Ukwuani, Ndokwa or their respective clan names. Political balkanization has put a knife on the things that held our Ukwuaniness together.

About ten years ago, the Ukwuani Foundation Union split and from it emerged the Ndosimili Development Union. Then emerged also the Ndokwa National Union which later became Ndokwa Neku Union and claims to be the apex socio-cultural body of Ndokwa people on the same pedestal as the Ijaw National Congress, the Isoko Development Union, the Urhobo Progress Union, the Afenifere, Ohaneze or Arewa. But I fail to see how the Ndokwa Neku Union can be the apex socio-cultural body of a non-existent ethnic people. There is no ethnic people or language known as Ndokwa. Ndokwa is a nomenclature for a modern administrative unit, not an indigenous and autochthonous ethnic people or tribe. Its root lies in the 1950s and 1970s. Ukwuani pre-dates it, is aboriginal, autochthonous and God-given. So Ndokwa Neku Union is operating on a non-existent platform. All the above listed ethno-socio-cultural organizations are attached to known ethnic peoples, not a government creation like Ndokwa. Why should I belong to an “ethnic” group to which my father and forefathers did not belong?


The continued reference to our people and homeland as Ndokwa by some of our misinformed elites, politicians and government is a disservice to our true identity. Ndokwa was never meant to supplant our identity as Ukwuani. History does not tell us so. Ndokwa, an acronym like Bendel, will one day pass away and, when it does, what will become of us as an indigenous people? In fact, one of the three local governments has proudly reverted to Ukwuani.

I call on all well-meaning Ukwuani sons and daughters to pass on our Ukwuani heritage. All ethnic associations parading the name Ndokwa should forthwith drop that name for Ukwuani, our true identity. There is neither Ndokwa language, people nor culture. Only Ndokwa local government. But Ukwuani language, people, culture and history exist way back into timelessness. Ukwuani bu ani eze.

Ozah, a public affairs analyst, wrote from Lagos.

© 2021 GUARDIAN Newspapers. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

As an Ukwuani, I understand you, I a first son, I can feel your pain....,................

Ossai N. Ossai is your father not an uncle, (forget oyibo) reconcile with him, close the gap. Abhor what will bring your family and Ukwuani as a whole to disrepute.

Same in Port Harcourt

Okei Ishiekwene, Ajieh!
I know you were paid to write this.
Your editorial prowess is for sale.
Well done the guguru PR consultant.

Dele Momodu's father na from around Auchi in Mid-western region later Bendel state now Edo state.

That should answer your question bro.

youthsinitiativ:
Wetin concern mumudu for the matter abeg?

Certainly, Kano state will lead the race. I pray that it won't be fatal.

Before this guy got this appointment, he sounded good on traffic update show on Raypower fm (100.5), Abuja, but right now, Mr. Attah Ikharo is no more coherent. Something is wrong with power in Nigeria

Can talk about it? Your website is not working. Do you finance agriculture?

orisa37:
Every Nigerian lies about Age.

No bro not me.
J

Especially Abacha era bro.

Wizywiz:
I did it na...it was common then...anyone who didnt do is definately an indomie pikin

Please tell them bro.

Just imagining Hausa man telling Berom or Eggon man that his oringing is from daura simply because he speaks Hausa and bears Musa

Pearlman:
Spoken language doesn't make you come from a tribe. Igala in Kogi and Ibu in Delta have languages very close to the Yoruba yet they are not Yoruba!

The fact is that you want forcefully annex Ukwuani Land as Igbo land. You people are tired of calling us fake igbo. Oliseuku na kpo gbu.

asuustrike1:
They are fact I observed. These facts have been analysized by my team too. Do you know that some villages share similar names too? Mr man the facts are there so stop this myopic thinking. Probably you bring your own fact to refute op's claim.

Check your history from okpala-uku of Umuebu, there must be something wrong about whom you are.

deltaisgreat:
Am from umuebu in ukwuani LGA and am proudly an IGBO man.