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Arysexy: We are not talking of fish nd crayfish sellers in idumota, those that control container loads of fabrics there are who?

That is just mean. you fried that nigg@. Damn. Now that is just f2king mean.
Make i go sleep sef b4 una kill me with laughter

hotwax: Thats the spirit. We are all a nation. And not one tribe will feel, he is the one feeding rest. Niger deltans dont make noise and Nigeria is surviving on oil money.

Our point is, in Nigeria, all ethnic groups are important. Lets stop racism and tribalism.

I have been arguing on this thread for the past 1hour. It is not because I am a Yoruba man and siding with Yorubas. I am fighting Tribalism. This is one country. Everybody is important. Everybody has the right to land, trade, own shares, properties anywhere.
Nobody is anybody's boss, we are all humans, africans, Nigerians

He thinks he's fighting against tribalism? ROTFL. So in other words, you are fighting yourself. Wow. Lol

onila:

pray for me

me no wan go back to that nonsense country

Lmfao. Reminds me of my parents. The same threat my dad used when i was acting up in school. constantly fighting and constantly getting suspended. I remembered when my uncle phone home and told my dad "he got suspended again", The next thing i know the phone is handed to me and my dad blowing up my ear saying "why am I'm wasting my money to school you aboard. I'll bring you back to Nigeria. you are wasting my money blah blah". damn, I kinda miss my hs days for some unknown reason. Funny enough I hated my dad using that threat but ironically it's the same threat i use on my sis when she acts up or whenever i feel like making her cry. I usually just tell her that i bought a ticket for Nigeria just for her. show her a fake ticket i made and the next thing i know, she's balling her eyes out, begging to stay, promising she'll behave. Lmfaoooo. Onila don't worry. Trust me, I've gotten that threat so many times and still do that I can confidently tell you that your parents are just pulling your legs.

Arysexy: Remind me d tribe that bears such name as Chudi Elumelu

Yoruba nah. LMFAO. didn't anyone tell you they own delta? Lol

Anyway, una should ignore them with that ish. They just doing what they've been pathetically trying to do.

As for topic, suswan or whoever didn't need to tell us this. it's a well known knowledge hence till this day i think the Igbo community are being stup1d investing first in this shithole of a nation and secondly investing outside of their hometown. The SE disgust me the most cause they do it a whole lot worse than us.

sonya4all: foolish slowpoke. when did ika speak for you lazy people. brainless fool.ika speaks for herself not other anions tribes. ozuor

SHUT UP villager and don't mention Asaba and Ogwashi in here ever again. Know your place. Poverty ridden, nothing but shame people.

olisaokere: Even the Obi of Ogwashi Uku,Prof Okonjo(Father of Ngozi Okonjo Iweala) is a proud Igbo man who is about Igbo Unity.He has categorically stated that the Ogwashi-uku(Ogwa Nshi Ukwu) is from Nri in Ananmbra state.All those people with self inflicted identity crisis,You are on your own.

I know. My grandmother is from ogwashi uku. Why u think i got mad when those pathetic losers started dragging us into their dance of shame. When ika thinks they can speak for ogwashi and asaba, then it's official I've seen it all. The villagers want to become the voice of their superiors

Idun'oba ehis:
Ika people dont need any link or any site to tell them who they are. Imagine that one faking things about wizboy. @Sonya4luv
Wizboy is from Idumu Iba, Ileje Quarters, Umunede.

You can deny it all you want. Tell yourself it's a lie as long as it helps you sleep at night. Wizboy on the other hand is very proud of who the f2k he is. I saw it with my own two Godgiving eyes

tonychristopher: [b] Asagba of Asaba: why some Igbos denounce their heritage

........The chairman of the lecture, Obi Edozien, re-emphasised this point: “we Igbo people are one. We must stop fighting over irrelevancies and emphasise the essential.”

This point arose out of the tendency among Igbo people to regard some groups as not “real” Igbos on basis of dialectal differences. It also exists in the form of clearly Igbo-speaking people with Igbo names and cultural patterns declaring themselves as “not Igbo” but ethnic minorities.

This is very rampant among Igbo groups in the South-South zone who believe that by so self-declaring publicly, they would be more acceptable among the real minorities and allowed to take their places as ethnic minorities.

Experience has, however, shown that this self-delusion hardly ever produces their desired results. Whenever the push comes to the shove, the real minorities remind them that they are Igbo people who are out to take what belongs to the minorities through the back door.

This phenomenon was evident in 2006 when former Governor Peter Odili of Rivers State (who loved to call himself a “Rivers man,” as if Rivers State is a tribe) was running for president. Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark openly declared Odili an Igbo man, arguing that the South-South president that the minorities have been agitating for was not meant to go to “an Igbo man.”

Given this situation, there has been an increasing shift of paradigm. Many Igbo groups, especially in Delta State, have decided no longer to play the masquerade. The Obi of Asaba, Professor Edozien, actually laid out conditions he believes will cement Igbo unity permanently.

Obi Edozien then called on the people of the South-East zone to support the creation of Anioma State and another for Igbo-speaking people of Rivers State to make for seven states, all of which will be lumped together in one zone or region.
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I love Asagba. You go live long Obi. Your wisdom and your strength would pass on and cherish for life. See him talk. This is why I spitted at the monkey that tried to use him for his pitiful disgusting tatics. Asagba is one of the few men I know working really hard for the unity of our people and some slowpoke wan use him to tear his hardwork apart. #spit on that guy again.
Anyway, what a wonderful speech. Encore

muyiwah666: ......
wat other stat do u need?..the name,igbo is enough for u now..lol..but seriously speaking,go to d states where it is cultivated,u will be suprised that the owners of d farms are always people frm south-east or south south...this is no excuse i may say becos the south westerners are suppose to censor what is planted on their lands since they are the landlords...i know this becos i am frm Ekiti State..telling u this before u start asking me for statistics...lol

LMFAO. The usual denial and trying to blame others. Typical!!! Na wa for una ooo

How many weed did you smoke before you logged on NL today to post this? eeh don't lie ooo. NDLEA is right there to measure am. Dem dey for speed dial, I go call am.

ooooooooooooh so that's why. See eye opener.
No wonder. That explains so f2king much. Eeh so that's why this nigg@s talk to themselves on here, why they create so many alternative IDs, etc. Eeeh so dem high finish and enter NL to craze am. Okay ooo. It explains a whole alot. Thank you NDLEA

olaheavy1: Honestly, I blame SEUN OSEWA for indulging the Yiiiibos unnecessarily. Right from the onset, Seun has given a soft landing to the cannibals from the East. I remember when AJISAFE used to spank the Yiiibos' stinking arises - Seun had to ban that gallant Yoruba e-soldier (who did online to the Yiiibos what Benjamin Adekunle did to their forefathers in Biafra) for life!
Nairalanders know that I, Olaheavy, is able to singlehandedly finish off every Yiiibo destitute on Nairaland forum, but the Yoruba traitor, Seun Osewa, will not permit me to do so. He and hisYiiibo employees like "Afamfornotbhing," "Sexkillz," et al keep hiding my rebuttals and sometimes taking me off the air. Seun needs to remember tha,t unless he moves to the Yiiiboland with the gorilla-looking neanderthals from the Bight of Biafra, when the "poo" lands it will definitely smear his body - because he's now been marked as theYiiibo-loving, Yoruba traitor from Kwara state!

And to the cave-dwelling Yiiibos from the accursed East, keep on building and acquiring properties in our Yorubaland, we shall soon descend on you. The Boko Haram justice being crrently meted out to you would be a child's play when the time comes. And it will be very soon.

How is Seun advocating for Igbo or anyone else other than Yoruba. Every crime an Igbo man makes hits the frontpage but any crime a Yoruba makes, are hidden in anyway him and his moderators can think of. For example, the topic about an oba molesting a girl never made the front page; if the predator was an igwe, the sh1t would have hit the front page before anyone can say "hey".
Anytime an Igbo or anyone insults Yoruba, our ban last a whole lot longer than una. Any attacks against yoruba gets the "hidden" button, while Igbo or even minority SS groups do not get that privilege. All pro ACN/APC comments hit the front page while pro GEJ does not. All anti ACN/APC gets hidden faster than the speed of light while anti GEJ topics makes the front page.
Leave Seun alone cause that nigg@ is on your side.

BinghiNya: Do a head count, yoruba men have married more of your women than our women have married your men cos they crave our cocks and we could afford the bride price. You attend more of our schools than we do at yours, our men are your church overseers et al. Igbo eloronu eyin omo ale ojukwu oya pe toro na tolo o , na egg we go take send una to biafra, oya make una start the gobe we own the land, we know how. To wipe off the igbo tribe off the face of the earth danwo lobiya okere. Tomode badari sapa apa a pa, omode ba darisoroko iroko a ko, arigisegi to segi ori ara e loma fiko

Na who crave una cock? See wet dream masking this nigg@'s reality. lmfao. U no dey shame that una are running away from your women and stalking igbo girls finish. u no dey shame

The story of the grasshopper and the ant. While the ant spent his summer days collecting food for the winter, the grasshopper lazied about. When winter came, the grasshopper tried to eat from.the ant's food collection. In other words, the lazy grasshopper tried to eat where it did not sow.

Some SW members needs to get a job. if they can't find one, they need to create one like those traders. Taking style to steal. SMH

And this is the man they want us to vote as president. May evil wishes die. To think this is the kind of person Rochas and Amaechi wants us to associate with. may thunder fire who bore am. Evil wishes no go prosper lie lie. That Fashola is like a mini dictator. A man that cares little about the poor until he needs them for something. A clear act against the Nigerian constitution and yet he still remain in office. Only in Nigeria. everything is backwards. If GEJ was the one that did this, fashola's people and ACN even would have been on him like chicks on rich old men.
Anyway, this type of thing is kind of expected. There is no way fashola can tax those deportees so of course he sent them out. His longer throat no go reach their pocket. Anambra gov should do the right thing and snatch that free lands they gave those yoruba people after their whining and begging and give it to the deportees. Simple solution.

arcbabe: Sharaap there You are the one that needs to grow up not Texas. Cowgirl. Get a life and stop comparing som1 age here if you don't have anything reasonable to say please fork off this thread. Go and baby sit that your 14 yrs old sister and stop making noise here Grow the hell up

See cheerleading. Are you her lover or what? Ndoo for exposing your lover's childness. it wasn't a secret you know.

Lmfao @ this wowo girl opening mouth and drawing attention to herself when I wasn't paying mind to her. Really? ROTFLMFAO. Girl, you've gotten enough clowning on this thread alone to last you a lifetime so I ain't going join. too easy of a target anyway. To think i even felt sorry for this girl. Lmfao, no wonder they've been clowning and beating you blue. you leave yourself open for it.

Texas.Cowgirl:
Was it me? Even if it was me, did I ask Miss Bayelsa to be subjected to extremes criticism by your people just because Imo lost?

Must a 50 years old woman act like arugbo? Just because you're in your late 30s does not excuse your acute tribalism......keep acting like a child that got his candy taken away by texas cowgirl.

The candy sweet sha....who buy am for you? Seun? Ndoooooooo

E go better.......tell your 14years old sis to stay away from village igwe

am I the only one that trying to make sense what this post says or how it correlates with what i wrote. SMH

Acting like a kid when grown ain't cute. SMH. Well Goodluck with your life; na you sabi how u wan live it.

Joselyn.

Omotola looks better than her in the picture but in real life, that girl can't drink, bathe or even smell the beauty joselyn oozes.

Texas.Cowgirl:
I create one? Damn you guys give me more credit than Im owed. I must be omnipotent to be able to control pipu's actions I.e kidnappers, drug lords, Okija rituals etc

You consider yourself in your 20s? Grandpa, I guess there aint no arugbo in Nigeria too

Like I said, something is seriously wrong with you too. Na the same food we chop na, ode lol

Who started the Igbo, Igbo, Igbo calling on a thread? was it you or did someone clone your ID? The sh1t is clear as daylight and doing azonto for all to see.

Grow the F2k up; acting like a teenage for someone in her 50s ain't cute. you're a grown @ss woman for Godsake. Learn to act like the rest of your agemate on this forum. Even my 14 years old sis had an argument with you on this forum. SMH. Grow up

And that's my take on this. whether you like take the advice or continue living and giving the younger generation reasons to have zero respect for you. E no concern me

Texas.Cowgirl:
Since you're not a saint, consider yourself a hypocrite for pointing out the bad in others.

You clearly have no conscious of your bigotry towards Yorubas so keep hush and let the game continue.

As if something is not wrong with you

Difference between me and you, I don't start neither do i go looking for one, you on the other hand starts and create one if u can't find one. Read, Understand, Analyze and Learn from it. Grow the he11 up. Imagine my shock to learn what your age bracket is. you are in your late 40s going to 50s yet you stay on NL arguing with nigg@s in their 20s and less. don't you have any shame. Grow up

Like i said, there is something honestly wrong with una especially you.

ochongonoko: had to correct your notion on the youruba thingy...


apart from thinking that ALL YORUBA folks on this forum are tribalist, you made a decent comment which i knda support. Just a few TRIBALIST can NEVER amount to the WHOLE yoruba tribe. It's only the bigots that are invloved in this shameless E-war. I disagree on the yoruba part


also i think you cant be too sure that both girls wont GO FAR in MIss universe competition and co. Nobody expected agbani to win MISS WORLD when she did the unthinkable


i wish them both success

Agbani had the looks, the skintone, the height and the weight. I had a feeling she was going to win. Agbani looked like a model and still looks like a model. Anna and miss.imo lack some of those attribution. Anna has the weight and a tiny bit of the look but not the height and her skintone is a disadvantage. miss imo has the height, the weight, a bit of the looks and skintone. Unlike Agbani, both girls are ordinary looking, nothing spectacular. That's how I analyzed it, i don't think they would go far. If they do, well I'll stand corrected.

nadia_SA: Shem.. Free the babe abeg.. She was joking miss imo is gorgeous.. Imo state doesn't produce ugly people oo..
Arcbabe is cute too just that its not right calling other people Ugly ..

Arcbabe left herself open for the insult. This is NL, she should have known better. I agree with you though, they should stop clowning her.

Texas.Cowgirl:
Who da heck is this sylva nukka you guys keep mentioning?

Ps your post history and your anti-Yoruba sentiments aren't hidden, dear

google is your friend.

And where did I mention myself or claimed I've been a saint to una. Last I checked, my post focused on the MBGN una started.

Like I said something is seriously wrong with you people.

Seriously what is wrong with yoruba people on this forum? For whatever reason people are complaining about the outcome of the crowning so Yoruba decided to turn it into an ijaw vs. igbo thing. SMH. comical enough, they failed miserably.
I wonder is this not the same tribe that whined for years over the amount of igbo girls that won MBGN? Is this not the same tribe that've cried and disturbed everyone that MBGN used igbo girls to represent their states? SMFH. Now they trying to form saint on this new situation

When Agbani Darego won did anyone complain? when that calabar girl won last year did anyone complain? when munachi won, everyone complained including igbo. when sylvia nduka won, everyone complained. when that ugly igbo girl, Ngozi odalonu, represented Nigeria in Miss universe, everyone complained. Anna Banner is not the first winner that people complained about and she is not going to be the last.
Honestly, there is something wrong with the yoruba people on this forum.

Anyway, the bayelsa girl looks decent to me. I don't get why people disagree with her crowning. In my opinion, she looks like a regular Nigerian girl and a decent looking one at that. Granted she's not miss.world material but think about it, out of all the past winners is she the first that didn't look the part? Give her break jor, other than agbani and chinyeye, the rest of MBGN past winners were just like her.

As for miss. Imo vs miss bayelsa argument, my take is that based on the natural everyday pics posted already miss bayelsa looked better than miss. Imo. Based on the crowning pics posted, miss. Imo looked better than miss bayelsa. Hmm. Either way, both girls wouldn't go far in miss.world and miss.universe contest. Both girls are too ordinary looking. Miss.Imo would go a little bit farther than Miss. Bayelsa because of her height and dark skintone but neither one of them would bring back the crown so una need to quit the argument.

bigfrancis21: Igbos Of Delta State And Crisis Of Identity
(Conclusion)

By Ephraim Adinlofu

Published 09/5/2008 Nigeria
Matters Rating: Unrated

Ephraim Adinlofu
Continued from: Part 1

In 1999, Mr. Peter Okocha { from Ibusa}contributed
financially and campaigned vigorously for the OBJ/
Atiku ticket. In 2003, as a PDP party loyalist, he did
exactly the same, supporting the duo. There was an
unwritten agreement that after James Ibori, the
governorship would be zoned to the Delta Igbo
senatorial district. All eyes were on Peter Okocha
who belonged to the Atiku camp to clinch that
ticket.
Thus when the war of ‘attrition’ between OBJ and his
Deputy started, Peter Okocha, rather than following
the much hackneyed principles that in politics, there
is no permanent friend but permanent interest,
remained loyal to Atiku. That, became his undoing.
He probably thought he was still doing business. So,
OBJ mobilized the state apparatus to make sure that
he did not clinch the ticket. Okocha decided to go
under AC to contest. Prof. Maurice Iwu’s INEC did
another abracadabra on him. He was ‘disqualified’.
His case is still pending in the electoral appeal
court- to be determined by only God knows when,
by a seemingly compromised section of the
judiciary.
Chief Ibori, who benefited from Peter Okocha’s
electoral largesse and support throughout his stay
as governor, did a u-turn and stabbed Okocha on the
back. Overnight before the 2007 charade called
election, a decision was taken that the PDP
governorship race should be zoned to the other
senatorial district while Delta Igbos were to make do
with state Chairman of the party. That was how Mr.
Peter Nwaoboshi became the state PDP Chairman.
The Urhobos, Itsekiris, Izons, Ijaws, and Isokos, aptly
supported by OBJ, ganged up and executed that
coup against us. They rounded it up with the puerile
logic that since we have the state capital, we should
not produce the next governor.
Again in the 2007 election, as a prelude to that
charade, Prof. Pat Utomi { from Ibusa}, whose wife
is from the East, went to OHANAEZE to solicit for
support for his presidential ambition. Chief Orji Uzor
Kalu also went to solicit for his too. A section of
OHANAEZE that rejected Pat Utomi, gave me a
terrible food for thought. One of them, according to
some daily Nigerian newspapers’ reports, hankered
abject adroitly : “Is he really a proper Igbo man?
Look at him, he cannot even speak Igbo properly.”
Others even insinuated that his name did not sound
Igbo. I was shocked to the bone marrow. I couldn’t
believe what I was reading from prominent Igbo
citizens.
Instead of asking the two candidates to present
their programmes and manifestoes, they were busy
hankering on whether one of them is a “proper
Igbo” or not. I was shocked of words. If any Igbo
person does not know the meaning of Utomi, then
that person should take a suicidal dive into the river
Niger.
I guess some Igbos will ask of the true meaning of
my surname - ADINLOFU. An Igbo man ones asked
me in London whether I am a Yoruba man, that my
surname looks like one. I just laughed { even
though my spouse is Yoruba} and politely asked the
man to pronounce my name. He ended up
pronouncing it with all the Igbo-ness and accent
which goes with it. While he was slowly pronouncing
it, the meaning was unfolding before his eyes. He
simply laughed and laughed himself to scorn.
Besides, it is a historical fact writes Emma Okocha of
Izu-Anioma, that when Ojukwu even declared the
Biafran Republic, he never had us in mind. Ojukwu’s
Biafran and its boundary ended at Onitsha, living his
kiths and kin - Midwestern Igbos - to their destiny.
And yet during that pogrom of 1966, most Delta
Igbo officers ran, not to Mid -West or to the West but
to their kiths and kin in the East. The Chief of
Biafran Navy, the late Captain W. A. Anuku, was
from Agbor.
Ojukwu went further to choose Col. Banjo against
the overwhelming preference of Nzeogwu {a then
Mid-Western Igbo officer}, to lead that tactical
assault on Midwest and on to Lagos. Most writers
call it tactical because, the choice of Banjo and his
subsequent antics {Read WHY WE STRUCK 1983 by
Ademoyega} changed and swung the war to the
advantage of the Federal troops. In that assault, Col.
Banjo, who was then assisted by Lt. Col Igboba
{ from Ibusa}, got his assistant locked up in Benin
prison over disagreements on tactics and the way
and manner the invasion was being compromised.
However, while the Biafran soldiers were retreating
from the Federal counter attack, Banjo, Ademoyega,
and coy deliberately left Lt. Col Igboba behind at the
Benin prisons only for the invading ‘British troops’
called Federal forces under the command of Lt. Col.
Murtala Muhammed to stroll casually into Benin
prison, locate Igboba and had him beheaded. That
was the same Igboba who helped General Ironsi to
quell Nzeogwu’s coup in Lagos.
Even in their genuine demand for more Igbo states,
the East never count the Igbos in Delta state as
worthy. Their request ought to always incorporate
the demand of our people for the creation of Anioma
State out of the present amorphous Delta State.
After all, it will still be another seemingly full
fledged Igbo State. However, I still remembered
quite vividly that the late Dr. Chuba Okadigbo ones
in while, had requested that the Igbos of Delta State
should be given appropriate hearing in their quest
for Anioma State which would have extricated and
freed us from the strangle-hold of the Urhobos. But
that was a lone support in the wilderness.
There is a need for the Igbos in the East to reach out
to their brothers and sisters across the river Niger.
This is not to say that we cannot stand on our own.
The point here is that there is strength in
number-“Igwe-buike”. The Igbos in the East should
always seize the initiative because of their strength.
They should make it their statutory duty to come to
us and embrace us.
They are our fathers and, like most migration
theories have confirmed about the origin of most of
these communities, we are their children. We may
not be business inclined like them because we are
not cut out for such but we are educated and are
good civil servants. Our word in most cases is
always our bond. Our people are sincere to a fault
and are prepared to fight with anybody for a just
and sincere cause in as much as you don’t cunningly
backslide or sabotage the cause. The causes that
Major Nzeogwu, Pat Utomi, Col Tim Onwuatuegwu,
Dr. Okonjo-Iweala, Col.Nwanwo, Col. Achuzia had
fought and still fighting for, is a testimony to our
strength and character.
In fact to reinforce this view, I want OHANAEZE to
move forthwith, their headquarters to either Asaba,
Ibusa, or Ogwashi-Ukwu. I believed that the closer
you are to us the better. Let us have a sense of
belonging. By this invitation, I am not saying you
should now come and colonise us. I am saying that
we should relate and that there should be a strong
cultural affinity and rapport.
Anybody in the Igbo culture area of Delta state who
is in doubt about his or her Igbo historical
connection, should contact Prof. Nolue Emenanjo, E
xecutive-Director, National Institute Of Nigerian
Languages, Aba, for more explanation and Professor
Okoh, UNIBEN. The late intellectually versatile Prof.
M. A Onwuejeogwu, another Igbo encyclopedist, who
was from Ogboli-Ibusa, and founder of the Nri
Museum, should have been another contact but for
his death.
The intellectual bloc of OHANAEZE should not shy
away from its responsibility. The bloc should pickup
the pieces and do more research work in this Igbo
culture area of Delta state to establish more
historical connectedness and build on such
relationships. The Israelis are doing exactly that all
over the world. When the State of Israel was created,
most Falashas of Ethiopia, were lifted to that state
because it was established that they were Jews. The
Yoruba is doing the same, tracking their Oduduwa
kiths and kin all over Africa and even beyond, as far
as to Brazil.
Besides, this is not a question of whether the people
of Agbor or Ndokwa are disclaiming their Igbo-ness
or have decided or deciding to opt-out, no, it is a
question of research, based on solid historical and
archaeological evidences. I reckoned that all
research should focus on that title of “Obi” which
has been handed over to our traditional rulers from
generation to generation. “Obi”, as the title
designate, is an undiluted Igbo nomenclature. It is
not an Hausa, Bini, Yoruba, Ishan or Fulani
terminology. Apart from the differences in Igbo
dialects, accents or phonetics, and historical
variances in origin, the other common variable for
research revolves around this term and title of “Obi
”.
Flowing from this, and of secondary relevance, is the
Igbo name of their subjects. For Example, the
people of Agbor and Ndokwa bear names like
Isioma, Ngozi,Nwabuzor, Nduka, Chukwuma,
Chukwuekwu, Chukwuka, Ibegbulem,
Nwanyimogor, Nwajei, Obika, Ijeoma, Ifeoma,
Nwaokolo, Nwoko, Iwebelua, Chiedu, and
other names with the prefix-“Umu”. And
“Umu” is a complete Igbo terminology which
means “Children”. Thus “Umu-dein” means
the “ Children of Dein” and there is a street in
Agbor with that name- Umudein street.
It is not an issue of sentiments, emotions and
unsubstantiated trivialities. Almost all the
traditional leaders of Delta Igbo communities
that I’d listed in part {1} hold the title of
“Obi” and not Oba. And if any of them wants
to invoke the anger of the gods by changing
to another title, just because the leader does
not want any linkage with the Igbos, may the
ancestors and IGBOPHOBIA take care of that
person.
In about 1979, I travelled from Agbor to Benin-city
to spend some days with late Prof. Mike
Onwujeogwu, who was then { I think}, either the
Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences or the Head of
Department of Sociology and Anthropology,
University of Benin. One day, he told me to get
dressed that we will all be travelling to Enugwu-
Ukwu, the wife‘s village. While we were meandering
through pot holes and following some short cuts
here and there and stopping over here and now for
the Prof. to greet his friends and for the wife to greet
relatives, we came to a village called { I think} Isu
or Isu-Aniocha near Awka. I was already fast asleep
in the car.
Then the Prof. woke me up and said. This is Isu,
where the founder of Igbouzo anglicised Ibusa,
migrated from. He then gave me a thorough lecture
of what happened. I was so stunned and
flabbergasted. Since then, that indelible sight and
lecture, even though he has written a book on it
since 1972, has not left my memory.
After the civil war in 1970, my parents decided to
migrate to Agbor. The Obi of Agbor then, Obi
Ikechukwu, welcomed Igbos like wise was the Obi of
Owa. Obi Ikechukwu has a friendly, approachable
and welcoming disposition. By 1978, the Obi, just
like any other Obi and going by the principles and
practice of the patrilineal system, was anxious to
have a son - a heir apparent. Fortunately, his Royal
Highness had one from one of his wives, who was
pregnant for him before he {the obi} died.
It was alleged that the heir’s life was in danger from
other jealous wives and sensing that, the Agbor
Council-of-Chiefs in consonance with perhaps, the
Oba of Benin, decided to smuggle the young “Obi”
out of Nigeria to London, where he lived and studied
at Lewisham college, imbibed western cultures,
MORES and ways of life and came back to assume
his throne in about 2002. Since then, the young
“Obi” has been behaving like the Duke of
Edinburgh.
The Royal Highness should take time to study the
history of his community. He should thrive to do
away with most of his westernised ways. His
subjects are complaining about that. Rumours
have it that he wants to, or has changed his
title from “Obi” to “Dein”. If unchecked by
Agbor elders, then I won’t be surprised if at a
later date he changes to Emir of Agbor .
Although, I learnt from my source that it is a
rumour; however, if is true and it is assented to by
his Agbor Council-of-Chiefs, may the council direct
all their subjects with Igbo names to drop such
names and choose Benin names like Anini or
Osunbor. Enough of this hypocrisy! If in this age
some educated people are still contesting their
culture and cannot make do with profound evidence
before them because of a peculiar phobia of their
own creation, then such a culture is a dead culture.
“A contested culture is a dead culture.”
And this is why I call on OHANAEZE to embark on
further research in this “Igbo culture area” of Delta
state, establish the historical links, migration
trends, patterns of settlement, cultural diffusion,
symbolisms, feast and festivals and their
resemblances, contacts and acculturation in the
whole amalgam and; to try as much as possible, to
harmonise researches that have been done already
and to stand firmly by the synthesized result. There
is a need to focus research on the following
movements in their chronological order as culled in
the late Professor Onwuejeogwu,s book titled: The
traditional Political System Of Ibusa {1972},
namely;
“the Owerri-movement before A.D. 800 ; the Eri-
movement about A.D. 800; the Nri-movement about
A.D. 900 to 1911; the Isu-movement between the
15th and 16th centuries; the Ubulu-movement
around the 17th century; the Aro-movement around
the 17th and 19th centuries; the Idu or Bini-
movement around the 18th century and the Igala-
movement between the 18th and 19th centuries.”
These movements, especially the Nri, Isu, Ubulu,
Idu, Aro and the Igala movements should be of
tremendous interest to OHANAEZE research unit
and this is because these movements seemed to be
the ones which have had profound impact on the
cultures and thought processes of the people of
these communities.
The studies and research should be based on
technique of participant observation. By this, I mean
the researchers have to live with the people they are
studying over a long period of time. You don’t stay
in the USA and London and lift opinionated
articles devoid of any research technique to
claim that you are Urhobo or Benin while your
name is Emeka Okafor.
I believed strongly that If tomorrow the Jews are to
prove that there is a trace of archaeological
evidence establishing consanguinity between Igbo
and Hebrew and as such, have come to lift the
willing Igbos to the State of Israel, as they did to the
Falashas of Ethiopia, I guess those people of Ika
and Ndokwa and some others, who are still in a
state of denial about their Igbo linkage, will
automatically turn around to announce that their
father’s father’s father’s father’s name is NRIJIOFO,
just because they want to migrate to Israel.
Funny world! I rest my case!

This man spoke my mind. Brilliant paper

sonya4all: there is no point educating retards. and if you don't know ebele is short for ebelemi in goodlucks name. and to the silly igbo boy.am from umunede. and wizboy is from ile quarters. and proudly ika.he even used it in his chorus.stop spewing trash. igbon

ROTFLMFAO!!!! It's obvious you've never heard wizboy interview before or even went to any of his concert. Wizboy is proudly Igbo ooo. He's said it on some interview (afam4eva confirmed) and equally said it in his concert, at least the one I went to. Some portions of his concert that stuck to me was the pride he had throughout the concert. In the beginning of one of his songs he said "this is for Nigeria, this is for delta, and this is for Igbo". In the middle of the concert, in effort to get the audience hyped up he said "My people dance, shake your body, umu Igbo get up and shake like we do". He said this in Igbo by the way but I can't write in Igbo. Anyway, after a while, for some reason he said in broken “if na Igbo u be, this music no dey sweet ur body and u no dance, go ask your papa na who be your papa cause you are not one of us. Nigeria where una dey? shake una body." I guess the audience wasn’t that hyped up enough for him or something. During the concert, he left the stage and joined the audience because one of the girls there was getting it. He came next to her, watched her dance for few mins, asked her where she's from and she said imo state, he started dancing and he said "imo state meet delta state umenede" and the girl said "Igbo boys", he replied "yess oo kwenu". I am not one of his fans but his one of the few celebs that came around here. My little sister dragged me to it and I remembered his concert vividly because it was super fun and hilarious. The pride he had for his music, his audience, his Nigerian heritage, his delta heritage and his Igbo heritage was very memorable. Don't speak what you don't know nwoke.

By the way, Of course he'll mention where his from in his song. He's from ikaland after all. Is this how you people come to conclusion who sides with you on the "I'm Ika, not Igbo" stanch? chei... chimooo. That's like listening to lynxx song, eziokwu, and then declare that lynxx does not identify as Igbo because he said in his song lyrics "I'm doing this for the east side, South Side, delta where you dey". Chimooo. Nwoke you funny

The Yerima dude is nothing but a disgusting pig. he's nothing but a man using his religion to hide his pedophilic believes. Any grown man that thinks it's okay to marry or mate with an underage child needs his head examined. Noone stole your childhood while growing up, now that you of age you think it's alright to steal an another person's childhood. SMH. I can't even believe some are defending this disgusting soon to be law.
You pedophiles should go seek professional, psychological and spiritual help. Disgusting pigs

We know USA. you didn't say anything new. I can't wait for Nigeria to divide. I'm so tired of sharing this country with yoruba and hausa/fulani. Hausa/Fulani are not that bad; if only they get rid of their hatred for western education, born to rule mentality, their violence and the recent child molestation BS, too bad all that is now part of them. ooh well. Anyway, I'm praying daily for this nation to divide. By Gods Grace, e go divide.
Yoruba/hausa/fulani go away jor. shooo

Idun'oba ehis:
Its posible that your Oshimili friend doesnt knw the meanin of his name hence the assumption, cos that's what it is. What does Arinze mean in Igbo. Really want to know.

I think Oshimili is derived from the Ika word Ohimin. They always change the letters "F" and "H" in Ika words to "SH" to form their own version but wit same meaning examples include oHimi to oSHimili, okpoHo to okpoSHo, but some simply say Okpoho, eHi to aSHi, aFia to aSHia, oFia to oSHia e.t.c they also change "L" to "R" eg. IRoRo to iLoLo etc. I wil add more if you want.
What is the meaning of ogwa in igbo?

On the 4 market days do you know the people that started using it first? We say igbos borowed bini style of kıngship eg. the ada and eben and style of dressing because it started in our very eye few decades ago. Igbos had traditional sword but definitely not the Ada and Eben. It's reserved for people with royal blood. The igbos don't know what it is that why every tom and harry that take a Chieftancy title wil have it. You can't say who borow from who in acculturation that occured before the colonial era because they were not documented, their was no Chinua Achebe to write a novel on igbo culture then and their was no internet or any other means to cache/archive information.

what a great insult that the likes of an ika, a common villager, would have the audacity to think anypart of oshimili came from them. I honestly do not blame anyone for the insults every boy and girl continue to throw on us on this forum. what a huge insult.

for those that do not know the meaning of oshimili, it's meaning is River Niger. Some say it used to be part of Aniocha that was later carved out. I personally do not agree with that origin, in my opinion, oshimili was in existence since the beginning of time. Though I believe that, i however, cannot fight the other saying. Anyway like i was saying, after the creation, according to my uncle, our ancestors chose the name due to the close proximity of the river niger to us. The word Oshi and mili is part of the igbo language our ancestors have been using for centuries. oshimili have no bearing to ika, benin or whatever else this man just wrote. please noone pay mind to this 1diot. Thank you to those willing to listen

Idun'oba ehis:
Why is Igboboy and you always talking about somebody bringing problem to you because he says the truth? Are you up to something? It's like you have an ulterior motive or maybe you are just obsessed by the igbos.

Do you see any of us speak on the behalf of ika? No, then do us a favor and don't speak for us. Simple. common sense. Because we refuse to join your stupidity, we must have a motive. Well our motive is we don't want you using us for your BS. Stick your grappy hand in your community.