₦airaland Forum

J12: Why do Enugu and Anambra people call "leg" okpa instead of ukwu?

manny4life: The strength is "Ike" strength, "Nga"(a place like prison) if I'm correct

Ikenga is a prison like place of strength, although I may be wrong about the myth but it does signify like a staff of office or perhaps a deity.

Again, this is my own definition



Ah, I see eze Odumchi has answered the question, abeg ignore my own translation..

J12: What does Ikenga mean?

donroxy: @ Eze promoe and Manny4life
Daalu,Nwokem!!

So,I read on this thread that there is no plural form of noun in Igbo!!

I mean;

my man=Nwokem
My men=Nwokem

is d above right ?

ChinenyeN: I'll keep saying it. People are simply crying more than the bereaved.

manny4life: Please, can someone direct me to where this constitution is because I personally want to read it. You know I don't have my reading glasses on, so perhaps I missed it.

manny4life: Abeg can you guys post the FULL Constitution here please, I mentioned that in my post.

I want to read it, and particularly, see the definition of being Igbo.

oily Yoruba: I'm really amazed at the way certain Igbo sons bring confusion amongst Ndigbo by disrespecting the Eze.... Dochris999 and advocate666, wait for the next election for the one that brought our Eze is over. Eze Odumchi, I've read your stand regarding Biafra and how you feel it relates to Ndigbo, but I think you missed the point I was trying to make when I refered you to www.radiobiafralondon.com. I just wanted you and our people to understand the importance of the media. Right now, Ndigbo have no media and I don't think those Igbo who are anti-Biafra should shy away from that site because of the word 'Biafra'. I will also implore Ndigbo to study the current rants against the COAS, Gen. Ihejirika and note how the northern and Yoruba media are using this to instigate hatred against the Igbo nation. This was thesame thing they did in 1966. I got this info from radiobiafralondon. Do we let these murderers repeat their evil on us again in 21st century? Again, my brothers, this not just about Biafra, rather it's about having a medium through which our people can be informed of impending or imminent danger.

PointB: I think/suggest we should make available the document of the reform to all. Going back to the tread will start another back and forth proposal. However, the document we have, no matter how imperfect should be able to serve us, pending another review. There indeed many other things to attend to rather than going back to that thread.

I think leadership of Eze Ndi Igbo Nairaland can bring a closure to this lingering issue, by 'unveiling' the document.

9ja_I_hail: Eze i agree and disagree in some of your points above, but i would like not to throw blame on my eze in public (NEVER). Most of your points above is correct and over valid while some are really unnecessary.Eze i suggest you should start paying more attention in politics section because your present has been very scarce on the politics section.Though i have been very busy lately but i tried as much as i can to utilize every chance i have to check on politic section and know if there is any new update from Eze.Eze there are many things that need to be done rather than debating on Biafra/igbo cause.Eze permit me to inform you that Biafra/igbo debate shouldn't be the first step in your administration hence you know the level of controversy and division such debate can cause withing umu igbo.

Brothers/sisters, Umu igbo in general can we stop reading meanings in everything our Eze says? Eze odumchi is a human just like u and i,so far he haven't said or do anything that warrant name calling or whatever anyone may think he represent. Let us take sentiment aside read his post with plain mind you will realized what he is saying is really needed in Igbo nation. My advice is we should stop expecting that our Eze will always speak 100% what we want to hear or read. Even Dim Ikemba Ojukwu who most igbo held in high esteem has some mistakes, likewise our former premier Eze onlytruth sometimes wasn't 100%, but these two great former leaders always display great leadership qualities that covers up their mistakes. Please let us rally round and give our Eze the maximum support and correct him carefully when he made mistake but don't correct him in public.

Umu igbo nde ewo nuoo.

ogugua88: [size=13pt]Your reply dey. E wena iwe [/size]

ChinenyeN: Ngor-Okpuala says we.

some-girl:
ha, ha nwa

manny4life: Nna, I know you're the cultural expert, how this one take pass you?

Nsogbu adiro...

Abagworo: Hope you are aware that Bekee is a corruption of Dr. William Balfour Baikie who visited Aboh in the 19th century.

Malawian: so "our eze" does not feel like he can lead his people to freedom. how interesting. i dont know about being "canned".

advocate666: This is the problem we had with the ogugua girl. Certain positions require careful choice of words, but you two seem to act as if you represent only yourselves. Which you actually do infact because I can never resort to using your type of language when talking about my own people.

advocate666: I am very hurt by your choice of analogy. Is that how you see your people? As canned fish?

Malawian: rubbish. that is not the igbo cause. fyi, the igbo cause is guaranteeing our children the status of freeborns. the only thing was that ojukwu's war was a little too early.

ogugua88: [size=13pt]Yes nna. Part of the reply is sitting in my drafts folder lol. I'll go finish it [/size]

pazienza: Eze,you mean you guys say 'akubekee' for coconut,instead of 'akuoyibo' in arochukwu?

pazienza: Yea,you are right,bekee became the central igbo. You are really versed in igbo things,yea, oyibo appears older,especially that akuoyibo(coconut),it's the same thing even in imo and abia,one would have expected them to call it akubekee.