BolaAdeyemo:
Story dosent add up abeg,amebo is just a made up slangs,,how Awvebo and amebo take resemble?

You this it doesn't add up?
Why not? It resembles a whole lot. Like the post indicated, there are Urhobo dialects that use 'Amebo' instead of the more widely used 'Avwebo' too. And don't just try to pronounce 'vw'(or vb) like English because you'll miss it since it's a single consonant in Urhobo and most other Edo-Speaking languages.
The difference is the replacement of the consonant 'vw' with 'm' in this case. I've found this difficulty common also with my Yoruba friends, sometimes they just pronounce it as 'w'. Such that, Urhobo names like Rukevwe become pronounced as Rukewe, Oghene becomes Ogene etc. If you have any friend who happens to be a good Urhobo or Edo speaker, you can understand better if they explain to you in spoken terms.

naptu2:


Other nicknames that were names of characters on The Village Headmaster include:

A gossip is known as Amebo.

A bald headed or close-shaven person is known as Gorimapa.

An Igbo shop owner is known as Okoro.

And people still use Chief Eleyinmi's catch phrases like, "immediate effect and automatic alacrity", "nonsense and ingredients", etc.

Thanks for the video you shared. Justice Esiri also played a role in this movie.

JKisOK:
The word AMEBO is purely Esan language in Edo State. It has the same meaning as the Urhobo simile, i.e. favourite wife in a polygamous marriage.

You can't claim exclusivity. Amebo is used by some Urhobo tribes like the Okpe, Uvwie around Warri and others like Esan you pointed to. Just that the larger number of Urhobo dialects use 'Avwebo' which is quite difficult for most non-Urhobos to pronounce, hence Amebo is more often used.
Again, you will notice there is a striking linguistic resemblance between Esan and Urhobo languages if you observe well, why not? They both belong to a larger language family anyway. So I understand your point but it doesn't discredit the post.

Probz:
Where else?

Okay then. Certainly, some of the consonants common to the languages of Edo-Speaking people may not be exclusive to those languages, but just more common with them than others.
Thanks for the info anyway.

Orobo2Lekpa:
Interesting but not correct.
Amebo was a character in a TV programme from the 1970's called Village Headmaster. She was the village gossip. The character was played by Ibidun Lawson

The word Amebo as used to ascribe to a gossip came from this character in the play

It appears you don't understand the post then. Before the play(which further popularised the name) was broadcasted, the name already existed and had a cultural background which I have exposed in the post. It was from the cultural background that the name was used to give the portrayal in "The Village Headmaster".

HajimeSaito:





Even after the advent of Christianity, polygamy is still common in Urhobo culture.

yes, but not as much as pre-colonial and colonial times. The widespread practice of Christianity by our people have surely reduced it to a large extent.

fratermathy and Efewestern welldone o. I greet you guys.
Help me mention some others like Onuwaje and co.
lalasticlala abeg do something.

Probz:


Awka use vb.

Awka in Anambra?

Avwebọ (or Amebọ as it's pronounced in some parts) is an Urhobo word meaning favorite wife in a polygamous home, the least favorite being referred to as 'Avweorọvwe'.

In Urhobo culture, where polygamy was common before Christianity, the favorite wife (Avwebo) of a homestead, is loved and desired by her husband for various reasons such as beauty, submissiveness, good culinary skills or other desires qualities.

The Avwebo was looked up to not just by the husband but by the extended family and even the community, with high expectations. It was her duty to ensure that everything is in place for the husband and she was expected to be friendly with her husband's family, friends and community and try not to fall out of favour with them.

Due to the high social expectations invested in her, such a woman would normally always go out of her way to try to please everybody with the husband at the helm. Some of the things an 'Avwebo' would normally do more than the others apart from spending more nights with the man of the house include washing Oga's clothes, cooking most times, being in charge of the hospitality for oga's guests, sharing thoughts with the Husband etc. Hence she has the ears of the man of the house and will be the first to report whatever must have transpired in the compound or community while hubby was away including the misdeeds of her mate's children.

'Avwebo' was also fond of breaking the news first and telling people around the negative things she must have heard about them from others in her efforts to be in their good books.

Why "Amebo" for gossip in Nigeria parlance?

The Urhobo people metaphorically do refer to people especially females with a holier-than-thou- attitude or those who will always talk about everything that happens, sometimes to the point of exaggeration as 'avwebo'. As a result of this, other Nigerians started using the word too when referring to a notorious gossips and the name spread gradually starting from Lagos.

Peter Ikogho also gave an interesting account about this matter in an earlier post.

"... Coming to Amebo being refered to as a Gossip is a fallout of the role played by Veteran Actress Mrs Ibidun Allison in the now long rested Soap Opera/Drama series -The Village Headmaster(NTA Series) of the middle 1960s up to early 1980s - where in her effort to please everyone in the Community became a gossip/local News carrier."

'Amebo' is more common as against the 'Avwebo' mostly due to the inability of most Nigerians, non Urhobo or Edo speakers to pronounce some consonants like 'vw/vb', replacing it with 'm', though some Urhobo groups pronounce 'Amebo' in their dialect.

fratermathy:
I wish them well. The kingmakers should be just so as to avoid division of the already small Okere-Urhobo kingdom! Urhoboland does not need more kingdoms at this point.

The Okumagbas have seized Okere-Warri for themselves . What happened to the Olodis and Igbogbadus?

It is well!

Do you know If the Kingship has been or was established for the Olodi family(where Okumagba is a part) alone? Also, it may be that the royalty is yet to move away from the Olodis because the first Orosuen was also an Olodi descendant.

I don't want to believe the Okumagbas and by extention, the Olodis, have cornered the Orosuen stool the way we may want to think.

A new Orosuen is already overdue. I wish them well and pray they a good candidate who will not only be a true a and strong Okere-Urhobo leader but will promote Urhobo culture and interests within Warri and beyond is selected as King.

Efewestern:


Ighogbadu family are no match to okumagba , I even know that Prof. Okumagba .. I wish them well

Is it about who or which is match for who or which? Maybe nobody has notably expressed interest from the Ighogbadu family, there are other families like the Oki family that I've not seen their members among the contestants.

emmie14:
Islam teach and encourage violence secretly. Christianity has no secret teachings. Transparency is there hallmark and condemns violence in totality.
Reverend fathers and sisters are human beings. And can chill. Bible never condemn drinking but drunk ens is considered sin. Drinking and getting drunk are different state and feelings. So judge your selves.

God bless you. Drinking alcohol is nothing bad according to Christian teaching. The Pope himself can drink beer if he want to. Yes, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI drank beer in public some months back sef

Tamass:
Movie or no movie if muslims are caught doing this now..they will shout hypocrites,liars and all sort! Since the aforementioned happened to be xtians they will just come here and say end time...let me park well and watch the real hypocrites

Drinking beer is not sinful or bad according to Christian teaching.

onuwaje:

Well my position is indifferent on the subject matter.

But we shud ask ourselves some questions
1. How have state creation improved the state of the geographical space called Nigeria since 1960?
2. Will creation of more states improve thr Current situation of the country?



Even tho i wasn't born during the pre civil war era i still think we shud go back to the regional phase but with alot of amendments and restructuring


Thank you

I agree with a regional arrangement like the old Midwest but even at that, there'll still be sub-regions like divisions or states etc.

Efewestern:


I totally agree with your points, you can't separate Urhobo from isoko and itsekiri, so I think they should allow us get our own state and let Delta north go with SE since they are always crying of marginalization, my point is that this is not the best time for this now.

There is never a best time.
What must be done should be done.

fratermathy:
I agree totally. Without prejudice to the good people of Delta North, those of us in Delta South and Central share more in common and should ideally be the ones to constitute a state, with a capital within the region.

Anioma State should be created and zoned to the SE for equity to reign.

I also agree that the oil companies should move their headquarters to the region. It is simply logical to locate the headquarters of an oil company in an oil producing region.

Very correct. Remember also that Anioma were also advocating for a state alongside us before Delta was created.

As for the location of headquarters, I support it too BUT our youths and leaders have to show that our land is investment friendly. Youth restiveness has been one major reason or at least a major excuse for the Oil companies siting headquarters outside the Delta.

gseph:
you dont actually look like one

Dem no dey write am for face.

edoboy33:
signs of the end time


God is punishing them for their sins

this is just the begining

Sodom and gommorrah treatment will soon fall on them

And you think the Nigerian disease which you're obviously a victim of is not something unfortunate enough? Infact Nigeria is a living Sodom and Gomorrah.

Okay o. Go well and don't forget to come back on time.

Anyone who has checked the names should help analyze abeg.

Akala and Ajimoba... Hmmm

Wow! Interesting. Love above all.

thugtang long time o. How're you doing?

omohayek:

And how do you know any of these people are actually Yoruba in the first place? Just how difficult do you think it is to open a new Nairaland account and claim to be from any part of the country, the planet or even the galaxy? What's stopping me from saying I am a Zeta Reticulan from Alpha Centauri?

The real people to blame are all the gullible id.iots who ignore the statements of well-known Yoruba politicians, writers and activists in support of restructuring and decentralization, but are quick to seize on statements by individual anonymous commenters or unknown "youth" groups as "proof" of what most Yoruba people must be thinking: you pretend Afenifere, Fayose, Fani-Kayode and Wole Soyinka are only speaking for themselves, but need no convincing that "sarrki" and other anonymous "One Nigeria" diehards were elected by all Yorubas as their legitimate online representatives, even though these people probably aren't even Yoruba to begin with!

There's a term for such thinking: it's called confirmation bias, and it's what you get when raging anti-Yoruba tribalists go out of their way to look for "evidence" to support the prejudices they probably imbibed with their mothers' milk, well before ever even meeting any Yoruba people.

Wow! I love this response of yours mehn.

lordkush:
I love this afonja. very nice. pro black





stew alwyas finding a way into all thier foods.
it's an afonja thing sha
but it's all good

thumbs aup bro

But this is sad. Many people are just existing, not living.. Especially among us Nigerians at home and also abroad.
God help us o.

A wonderful duet they made, Sir Juju and Udjabor. So much philosophy and beautiful melodies.
Sleep on, great men.

A wonderful duet they made, Sir Juju and Udjabor. So much philosophy and beautiful melodies.
Sleep on, great men.

Cc
Fratermathy
Evestar200
Efewestern
Onosprince

It is grief that we have received the news of the passing away of a great Urhobo music icon, Sir Juju Debala of Aladja.

Sir Juju, you have done your part, left your mark and made us proud. Sail safely to the other side of the River as you enter the abode of the ancestors.
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Obuile r'Ode, Akpo k'Edefa!


May his soul rest in peace.

Friday, the greatest shock of the century hit the Urhobo nation. One of its finest musical maestro paid homage to the ancestral world.

Sir Juju Debala as he was fondly called by all, was the very first Urhobo artiste to have performed in England in 1948.

SIR JUJU DEBALA: A BRIEF PROFILE (By Prof G.G. Darah & Peter Omoko)


Sir Juju Onojefe Debala is a complex of a miracle, an enigma and dilemma tale. He is similar to the tale of the handicapped child who grows up to be a genius and prodigy. Born blind, deaf and lame, he has emerged as one of the most eloquent and celebrated composer-singer-performers of Africa in the 20th century. Musicologists rank him along with Fela Anikulapo-Kuti of Nigeria and Miriam Makeba of South Africa. From 1965 to 2012, Sir Juju’s musical groups produced over 100 audio-tape cassettes and CDs. He has had more than 2,500 live performances on the average of 50 per year. The group has entertained at spectacular events in Lagos, Ibadan, Ile-Ife, Okitipupa, Port Harcourt, Benin, Ughelli, with hundreds of appearances in the Warri-Effurun metropolis and environs. The name “Juju” derived from the inauspicious conditions of his childhood. For several years he could neither stand up nor walk.


Baffled by this “spirit” child, his father, Ocheria Debala, took him one day in a boat from Aladja to Warri and dumped him at the feet of the great medicine man, Mokunghegbe of Iyara Quarters. On sighting the child, the notable Urhobo healer exclaimed: “OnanaEdjo” meaning “Juju” to express his sense of wonder. The Iyara herbal doctor cured the child of his ailments; he started to see, to talk and, at last, to walk. The name Juju stuck to him thereafter and for good. Sir Juju is the prodigy of his father, Debala, who was one of the first Urhobo musicians to travel to England in 1948 to produce the record, “Sokolobia”. Sir Juju formed his juvenile Adjuya group at the age 13 in 1963. He later joined with Udjabo Okololo, also of Aladja, to establish the “Fashione” genre of popular music for which they are known. Juju and Udjabo are the most elegant duets in contemporary Urhobo musical experience. Udjabo passed away in 1997. About 3,000 lines of the songs have been transcribed and translated. Among the bestseller albums are



Motumolo, Ededon, Indian, Ikoriko, Abamwa, Eduba, Bidofo, Enavwose, Mariere: the Midwest Nationalist, and Ubido: Epic of the Brave and Just. The romantic and love numbers of all time include No Apprentice in Enjoyment; Ogo Me Biko or Ode to a Stubborn In-Law; Rose: My Darling; and Margaret: My Sweet Heart. The sobriquet “Sir” was added to his name by Mr Bricks, the Managing Director of Philips West African Studios in Lagos to distinguish him from Yoruba juju musicians. The group also produced for Emi Studios, Electromat, Decca Studios, Palofon Studios all in Lagos and Iyanda Studio in Ibadan. Their notable contemporaries include Omokomoko Osokpa, Ogute Ottan, J.C. Ogbiniki, Johnson Adjan, OkpanArhibo, America Djalere, Lucky Okwe, Nathaniel Oruma, and Lady Rose Okiriguo.

http://pengician.com/2017/08/urhobo-musical-maestro-sir-juju-debala-passes-on-at-70/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTJgOD5YJrI

Atiku sorry o