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Ikaeniyan0:
Pressure has continued to mount on the Pan-Igbo group, Ohaneze Ndigbo to shelve its plan to hold the 2017 Igbo Day in Rivers state.

This time the Youth Wing of the Rivers State Elders and Leaders Council has petitioned the Inspector General of Police IBRAHIM IDRIS urging him not to approve Rivers state as the venue for the Igbo Day celebration.

The council in a statement jointly signed by the President EZE MILLER and the Secretary, LAWRENCE IBIAYEMIE said the choice of Port Harcourt against any other city is offensive.

MILLER said the September date for the event is also a wrong timing following on-going developments in the South East region.

The Council also called on the management of the University of Port Harcourt not to allow Ohaneze use their facilities for the celebration.

Our correspondent reports the River State of Police Command, the DSS, Civil Defence Corps and the Vice Chancellor of the University of Port Harcourt were copied in the petition.

Meanwhile; the Secretary General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, UCHE OKWUKWU has maintained that the Igbo Day poses no threat to Rivers state.


http://www.todayfmlive.com/news/item/6840-2017-igbo-day-rivers-groups-kicks-against-plans-to-use-port-harcourt.html

Do you have sense at all? Rivers State is not entirely igbo and the move to stop igbo day celebration is raised by all ethnic groups in Rivers. How does this relate with the topic? Igbo groups in Rivers are well represented in Ohaneze

Ikaeniyan0:
what did he tell Wike?

Wike is an Ikwerre man, till today, he has not denied who he is, a proud ikwerre man.

Ikwerre is not Igbo. It's because of you igbos arrogance the Ikwerres will never allow you igbos celebrate any Igbo festival in any part of Ikwerre land.

In 2017 when Ohaneze wanted to hold Igbo day celebration in PH, the Ikwerres rejected the celebration on any part of Ikwerre land, they told your people to carry Igbo day celebration to Igbo land in the landlock south east

You are very phoolish. PH is Ijawland. Ikwerre doesn't own PH, they don't have much oil, they don't have access to the sea. Ikwerre land is of no strategic importance to Igbos. Ikwerre are the ones attached themselves to other Igbos groups in Rivers State. They are trying hard to upgrade their sense of importance by being too loud about igbo denial as if anybody gives a fvck about them

Ikaeniyan0:
You're not an ikwerre, stop speaking on behalf of the Ikwerres. This is the same way IPOB pigs were behaving rudely in oyigbo before they were massacred.

Wike said boldly live on TV that he's not an Igbo man but an Ikwerre. No king from Ikwerre land challenged him neither do the Ikwerres drag Wike because they know they are not igbos

It's Igbos like you that love attaching yourselves to the Ikwerres

I hope you know oyigbo is not ikwerre.
You are just talking like typical ignorant yorubaman who thinks all igbo groups in Rivers are ikwerre. Even within in Ikwerre Wike's Obio/Akpor are fake. They the fake igbos within ikwerre. They are ones ones who pronounce Umu as Rumu. The real ikwerre in Ikwerre LGA are pure Igbos, it's those fake inferior Obio/Akpor miscreants that make too much noise, dragging other Igbos in Rivers state

No nation can tax itself into prosperity. Yoruba understanding of the economy doesn't go beyond taxation

Ikaeniyan0:
Stop derailing the OP thread with your unnecessary pictures jawe.

Back to the topic. The Ikwerres are really proud of their Benin history

There are many Igbo towns with well known and verifiable "Benin history" and ikwerre is not part of them. Also note that so call "Benin history" has nothing to do with their igbo ethnicity.
Oguta in Imo, Osomala, Onitsha, Ozubulu, Orifite in Anambra all have clear history of Benin returnees joining them. So the ikwerre Benin story is useless, though it's fake but even if true it's still useless

Abufo:
Bros............take a digital handshake, in fact i doff my hat for you.......you too much! Your assertion was concise as it was precise! Please educate the funtional illiterates that populate nairaland! Ndigbo are largely republican and will definitely not provoke if Ikwerres want to even join the zulus politically but to twist history and facts is what really gores.................

The Igalas have blood ties with northern part of Anambra and Nsukka axis, Ibibio have ties with Arochukwu axis, Tiv with some parts of Ebonyi, Benin with parts of Delta and Anambra. Ikwerre likely with Ijaw (their Benin claim is strange and not verifiable)

Even in yorubaland, Ife and Benin have historical relationship same with Lagos and Benin. Oyo have links with fulani and Nupe. Ijebu is claiming to come from Borno, some Lagos villages are claiming to come from Nupe

Ikwerre are not the only igbo subgroup with historical ties outside Igboland, so their gibberish history is of no use, that's not what defines an ethnic group

This side is core ikwerre, the real ikwerre local government within the vicinity of Elele. No Rumu there. All are "umu"

This axis is probably Eche axis. All Igbos, all "umus"

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DesChyko:
Even this narrative of Benin ancestry have a couple of variations:

👉The first version suggests that Ikwerre was the third son of Akalaka (which is still an Igbo name), the father of Ogba and Ekpeye who migrated from an area in the multi ethnic Benin empire in the 15th century. It is said that Iwhuruohna, the progenitor of the Ikwerre, had seven sons which became the Ikwerre asa.

👉Another version holds that Akalaka migrated with Ochichi who settled at Elele and was the father of Elele, Isiokpo, Egbeda and Omerelu. This Benin theory was rejected by many Ikwerre who are of the opinion that the Ikwerre did not migrate from Benin or descend from one progenitor. The Ikwerre are far larger than the Ogba and Ekpeye groups.

👉The Akalaka legend originally mentioned the Ogba and Ekpeye as the only descendants of Akalaka; the inclusion of Ikwerre has gained ground as of recent time. Ikwerre people do not share any linguistic or cultural grounds with Benin people.

👉The assumption of Benin origin of Ikwerre could also be traced to the wars and raids of the Aboh kingdom on Ogba land; with the help of the Benin officers which triggered a migration of Ogba and Ekpeye people into what is today's Ikwerre land. These people met existing communities there. Rumuekpe, Ibaa, Ndele and the Odegu clan are communities that could have possibly be founded by this migration. A section of Obio clan is said to have migrated from the Aboh (Ukwuani) area of Delta state which was under the influence of the Benin Empire in the 16th century.

I guess it's a case of choose your poison. Personally, I adopt the simplistic assumption that they are Igbo subgroups. They bear Igbo names (to an extent) and I can understand their language (to an extent.) Duncan Mighty is Ikwerre but I understand his songs. Remove the initial 'R' from a number of their places and you have pure Igbo names for places.

The "R" factor is restricted to Obio/Akpor local government and changes nothing, it's just normal in different dialects. Ikwerre LGA have many communities bearing "umu"

Also note, writing name of communities in their dialects instead of general igbo doesn't create new ethnic group. Most towns in SE are written differently from how its pronounced in the dialects of those communities. If they decide to start writing it in their dialects in changes nothing about their ethnicity.
Eg. Abiriba is actually Ebiriba
Afikpo is actually Ehugbo

Pic 1: Obio/Akpor axis with their "Rumu"
Other pics : the rest of Rivers State with numerous "umu" bearing communities

jamesversion:
Wike really touched the Igbos where it really pained them. See you wey no from Rivers state, dey chuk mouth for wetin no concern you.

Which one pain you pass, the Obigbo IPOB drilling or The Peter Obi Tumbling?

Guy, Edo no be Lagos and Rivers no be Lagos. Keep your subservience to your brown roof region. Long ago, Anambra showed the way on how to fight and defeated godfathers and others are following except backwards monarchist from the wasteland.

santaclaws:
Naah, Edo state. She was born and grew up in Ikorodu, but she's not an indigene of Lagos state. I know Ikorodu comes up on Google but she ain't Yoruba.

The attitude that everything in Lagos belong to yorubas is funny.

Yoruba CAF employee handling social media. Everything to them is promotion of tribe. Upon say their tribes no measure up, na to promote language

Raskimonojendor:
Ibo land is a different case. Levels dey to this things.

SAYS COMMISSIONER, who is obviously exaggerating to attract funds. Learn

xoftxoul:
I give it to the north.
Most of their roads are Very good. Although I know that the federal allocation is unfairly and highly given to northern states that contribute little to nothing to the federal government

Very low rainfall in the north

ceejay80s:
Even in igando Lagos, u will see erosion,
Sebi una say na only Igbo own state erosion dey destroy?

Lagos is a huge slum

athaboi:
Ogun state has continued to be in the news for reasons connected to lack of good condition of living despite having a good economic advantage bcoz of it's proximity to Lagos. Nigerians are the real cause of their problems, they sentimentally vote for fools and expect miracle...

Proximity to Lagos is never a guarantee of good life. Even Lagos itself is shythole except few places.
Good life is exertion of energy to make money, tackling your leaders to bring development closer to you. But a typical yorubaman doesn't care about his dilapidated street where he lives as long as "world class" road is somewhere where the political thieves in his state live

BluntCrazeMan:
What will Anambra People Do??

Anambra people that have been attracting ecological fund from international agencies to tackle erosion while SW keep hidding their own until it's swallowing seven whole communities?

Shebi una don tire to pretend and be deceiving yourselves with Lagos? Don't focus on your states and call your governors to order, be "owning Lagos" from the comfort of your erosion threatened mud house

spagettiluv:
how can you compare a tiny 52km town to Ibadan(3,080 km²) when a GRA should be same size with it.
Isn’t it stupidity from your side ?


Google images from Ibadan

Only GRA is manageable place in Ibadan. Shame. See neighborhood of common people and compare

spagettiluv:
52km plot of land which is not up to aerodrome GRA in Ibadan

Japan is not up to one person's farmland in Niger Republic

spagettiluv:
street view of onitsha

At least there is a street.

spagettiluv:
onitsha below

If this is the worst of Onitsha then it's a paradise

Nobody declare and assert an ethnic nationality for himself. Ethnicities are classified using certain yardsticks. You can decide your country, your state, your zone etc but it's not within your powers to decide your ethnicity.

Austria has never had anything to do with Germany throughout history. While Germany was formeless without any recognized political leadership, Austria already joined the empire of Hungary. Austria and Hungary was together throughout history.
But, Austria was classified as a German ethnicity. They don't want to be part of Germany as a country. They had historical ties with Hungarian empire and nothing with Germany, yet, they were classified as a German tribe.
So why don't we have Austria claiming "Austrian ethnic group".
Austria has never subjected their German ethnicity any debate despite not liking the country of Germany because it's stvpid to do so. Ethnicity is beyond your power to decide for yourself. Linguistics and Anthropological factors decide ethnicities. Not history, not political choices, etc.
If your ancestors came from Benin, good for you. Other Igbos also have their ancestors coming from different places. An Ethnic group are not bound by blood relationship or one government. An Ethnic group is a group of different tribes related by language and culture and geographical contiguity.
The only way ikwerre can become an ethnicity is to eradicate all igbo cultural practices and languages. To corrupt igbo spelling is not enough, the meaning remain the same.

raskymonojendor:
Dino Melaiye did more than that. He was falling up and down the stage.

We are talking about another sovereign country. Stop using this rotten country to judge anything.

Nukilia:
Brilliant! Thumbs 👍 up to NG Eagle for coming back to business. This will help break monopoly of few airlines dominating the market .

No Monopoly in aviation sector, if you can't compete you close down.

FreeStuffsNG:
Hmmm. Awon ti Chinaza who burnt down Lagos, orchestrated the Lekkilies and made an attempt at the life of then private citizen Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu because they knew he would become Nigerian President today.
You have a point sir. They are filled with hate.

Stop diverting attention from Tinubu's cluelessness

BeautifulMind2:
Manestman opened in Onitsha few days ago the very first outdoor 5D LED Screen Billboard in Nigeria.

Entertainment and night life taking shape in Onitsha. What of the Komworld Nnewi?

ASAPFERG:
Lol this inferior anambra man again

How many times are you going to create threads about that unpleasant and unpalatable city called onistha?

Just because you saw a thread about Lagos on frontpage, you rushed to create a thread about onistha hoping it will make frontpage. inferior old man


Oga we are tired of seeing your onistha city pictures..

How many times are you going to create a thread about it?

He has been promoting Anambra on a regular basis. Infact it's Lagos that we are tired of. Lagos is already retrogressing

Too much editing

Man of the people