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Tjra:
Ooni is 100% wrong on this.

Igbos and Fulanis actually have same ideology, migratory/nomadic culture, hotblooded/easily angered, fair skin complexion, same shape of head, Tit for tat view of life (mosaic law just like jews), persistency, ruggedness, superiority complex, etc. and most definitely share same ancestral links.

The only difference is one embraced Islam and cattle rearing while the other Catholism and trading.

Yorubas have nothing in common with Igbos. We only share ancestral links with the Binis.

Igbos are not fair in complexion! Beside Yoruba won more land than Igbos during the dark days so you dont say Yoruba has inferior complex,Yorubas are just more intelligent than the rest of the tribes.

tishbite42:
Funny as it sounds, the man is saying the truth
But the current socio-political climate won't allow his musings to sink into the heads of the people
The Igbos should work on themselves
The Yorubas should work on themselves

Where is the truth,is it his claim that cola nut don't grow in Igbo land, that Igbo get it from Yoruba land?




We have no Link with yorubas

[quote author=CoronaVirusPro post=130833186]Igbos are descendants of Jews.

Even though Netanyahu tries to deny, it can not be wiped off history.

Yoruba’s gave Igbo the South-East which they presently claim as home now.

A day will come when they will go reclaim their land in Israel, and so shall a day come when their tenancy will expire and Yoruba’s will reclaim the South-East.

I guess by then lagos would have been swallowed by the lagoon and the erosion in the EAST would have been taken care of by TILUMBU!!.😜🤪

lastmessenger:
He said kolanut grow only in Yoruba land and thats afat lie. Kolanut grow very well in the east as well

That's how they always lie.



They will never leave their region but will confidently telling what happening in your region

MightySparrow:
I watched a TV presentation where an igbo local historian claimed the same thing.

I don't really know which of these.
All of at the south of Niger share common origin.

In fact, Ifá Oracle and Afa in Igbo, Nupe, Igalà, Ebira.... is a common deity worshipped by all.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vTtJaAuSEg?si=O-Liw5j15wDP3e0V

There are four episodes in the series. Try and watch all. Bloggers, especially enthusiasts with no knowledge of history are causing damage to our existence.

If you continue to listen to this Nna Menh guy, you will be so CONFUSED about history.

He claims he knows history and continues to force Niger Deltans with similar languages to be Igbo( lol).

Stay clear from his channel or pages!

Slytiger:
Kabiyesi, you are wrong. The Igala (a yoruboid tribe like the Itsekiri) conquered the ibos. That's the only relation we have with the ibos.

That's why some Ibo words are actually borrowed from the Yoruba.

E.g.
Ibo - Yoruba - english

Ewu.— Ewurẹ. — Goat.
Torotoro—. Tolotolo. — Turkey.
Ọnu.—Ẹnu. — Mouth.
Nti.— Eti. — Ear.
Agba.— Agbon. — Chin.
Imi. — Imu—. Nose.
Iba. —Iba. — Fever.
Gbọrọ. — Gbọ.— Hear.
Okute - Okuta - rock/stone
Nso nso—. Osuosu—. Menstruation
Atọ.— Ẹta.— Three
Gini. —Kini. —What
Ala—. Ilẹ.— Land
Mmiri.— Omi.— Water
Okute.— Okuta.— Stone
Afufe. —Ifufe. —Wind
Oyi.— Oyi. —Cold
Ọka. —Ọka. —Corn
Ebe.— Ibi.— Place
Afa.— Ifa.— Divination
Ulọ. —Ile.— House
Olisa.— Òrìṣà.— Deity
Uru.— Ere. —Gain
Ọgbọ—. Ẹgbẹ.— Age-mate
Oru—. Ẹru. —Slave
Onye—. Eniyan.— Person
Akpa—. Apo.— Bag
Akpati.— Apoti—. Box

Well said.

Ogede, Omi, Ifa, Ewa, Egungun, Omo/Oma, Ogun in the Yoruba language mean EXACTLY the same in Igala language (Ogede, Omi, Ifa, Egwa, Egwugwu, Oma, Ogwu)... and in English, these words mean plantain/banana, beans, masquerade, child, medicine or war, etc. There's a lot more words that connect the Yorubas and Igalas culturally and linguistically than with the Ibos (Igbos) who got a few words into their lexicon from majorly the Igala boundary settlements of Anambra, Delta State, or Enugu within the last 500 years. The Binis too definitely contributed some of the Yoruboid words as well. In fact, in Onitsha in Anambra, Asaba (Ahaba), Okpanam, Illah, Ebu all in Delta North of Delta State, the masquerades are called "Egwugwu" which is a Yoruba-derived word for "Egungun" or masquerade! "Egwugwu" is just a dialectic spelling of the Yoruba word "Egungun."

These words found there way into the Ibo area East of River Niger via the Igalas (who have part Yoruba ancestral lineages and hence Igala language is also classified as a Yoruboid language and this is further corroborated by the Attah of Igalaland, HRM Michael Ameh Oboni in a 2017 Punch newspaper interview which can still be accessed online where he stated that Igala came into existence as a result of the FUSION of migrants from Wukari (Jukun area) who moved along the River Benue and at the River Niger confluence in the Kogi State area, the met with a significant number of Yorubas and Edos to form the Igalas of today. Idomas also have historic and cultural relations with the Igalas. The Yorubas and Igalas are cousins because Yoruba bloodlines partly exist in Igala hence the similarities in language.

To be honest, this particular Ooni of Ife, though a successful international businessman and real estate investor is NOT well informed and is highly deficient about historical events despite the FACT that the University of Ife (now called Obafemi Awolowo University) has great scholars in history and archaeology who can guide him properly. When he speaks, he ends up making historical errors by trying to connect Ile Ife in Yorubaland with Ibos East of River Niger who are totally different people.

It's the Igalas (who have part Yoruboid roots) that had direct contact with the primitive bush people East of River Niger via the Anambra, Delta and Enugu States axis who the Igalas and Edoid groups of Edo and Delta areas refered to DEROGATORILY as ONIGBO (or Igbo) by Igalas, Igbon by Edos and derogatorily called "Onye Ibo/Onye Igbo" by Asaba and Onitsha folks in the 1800s right to the periods after 1900) meaning "bush people" because they were seen as the sources of slaves and also outcasts who lived in primitive bush environments and engaged in cannibalism or eating of human flesh.

These can be further gleaned from the screenshots below from credible archival historical sources.

Cc: @sharone21, Tjra, Femi4, MightySparrow, Afrojuju2017

Powersurge:
Why did you bring Ugbo into this discussion.

The Ooni knows what he was saying. He was referring to Ndigbo. Not Ugbo.

The Obi of Onitsha has confirmed the historical connection between Yorubas and Igbo before. Forget Nnamdi Kanu's children online.

The Ugbos are part of Ilajes and their king is Obateru (owner of Obat oil. The richest king in Africa).

There was no ambiguity in Moremi story. She was a traitor to the Ugbos and a heroin to the Ifes.

We don't have anything in common with you yorubas.



Deal with that.

forgiveness:
What is lie? Is your forefathers not Adam? Abi you fell from the sky?

But Yorubas forefather oduduwa Felled from from sky

Omoluabis will never be related to drug traffickers and baby factory merchants

Meaning Yorubas are Israelites too

As election don dey draw closer naw, this story teller is wonderful

lastmessenger:
He said kolanut grow only in Yoruba land and thats afat lie. Kolanut grow very well in the east as well

How can that oba or whatever his name is presume that kolanut doesn't grow in the east?? Where did he get that from?

When i was growing up back then in my home town in ichi ekwusigo l.g.a Anambra state to be precise, there's these Kola nut tree that grew in our backyard that was doing really well back then.

The ooni needs to be mindful of whatever he's saying to avoid careless misyarnings.

Tjra:
Ooni is 100% wrong on this.

Igbos and Fulanis actually have same ideology, migratory/nomadic culture, hotblooded/easily angered, fair skin complexion, same shape of head, Tit for tat view of life (mosaic law just like jews), persistency, ruggedness, superiority complex, etc. and most definitely share same ancestral links.

The only difference is one embraced Islam and cattle rearing while the other Catholism and trading.

Yorubas have nothing in common with Igbos. We only share ancestral links with the Binis.

Since you know better than the custodian of your culture, why are you not a professor?

Tjra:
Yorubas big pass Binis in every way. They need us and not the other way round. Talking about ancestral links has nothing to do with gumbody incase you lack comprehension skills.

It is those who are forcing themselves on Ikwerres that can't stand alone. And we know the reason is due to oil and access to Ocean as their region is a dead and tiny landlocked area

Idiot talking about ocean, do ikwere people have any ocean, even opobo that has ocean with ikot obasi has not come online to talk any nonsense. Which oil does ikwere has? If you mention oil producing towns in rivers, do ikwere comes close. Kalabari, borokiri, bonny, degema, opobo, ogoloma, onne, Abulema and the rest that has oil haven't make noise, na dry land ikwerre go come dey make noise.

franchasofficia:
What I know is that Yorubas came from Saudi Arabia while Igbos migrated from Israel. Igbos are one of the lost tribes of the Jews. It's not as if Israel is peaceful and leading the world like US that we are claiming to come from there but it is what it is, your ancestry remains your ancestry whether good or bad. We are not like Ikwerre people who are.denying their Igbo bloodline just because Igbos lost civil war and just because of crude oil politics and as Ikwerre people claim they came from Bini kingdom, Oba of Bini disputed the lie and said Ikwerre people are Igbo people.



Kola nut also grow in Igbo land. We had one Kola nut tree in my family compound while growing up. So the kola nut story is not entirely true. But I love Ooni and I respect him so much, so I cannot say Ooni is lying, he must know one or two things we none Royals might not know but he needs to research deeper beyond this kola nut story to convince more people about his story.


Maybe Yorubas and Igbos might have shared same family background back in MiddleEast where both tribes migrated from because the Yoruba and Igbo dialect share some similarities in word meanings. And all over Yoruba land, they always have an Ile Igbo this and that, there must something about that.


I know Ooni is not happy with the disunity between Igbos and Yorubas of recent and maybe trying to use this history to calm situation down, and I commend him for that but of the truth, the unity between Yorubas and Igbos today is in the hands of Yorubas to make it work because Igbos have done more than enough for Yorubas to foster unity but Yorubas always repay Igbos with disdain.


Igbos voted MKO Abiola (in 1993, Southeast had just 4 states, MKO won Anambra and lost 3 other SE states to Tofa. But the 3 SE states he lost to Tofa, he got over 40% of total votes cast which means Tofa won him there with very narrow margin despite the fact that Tofa had an Igbo running mate Sylvester Ugo. )

Igbos spearheaded the fight for the release of Obasanjo from jail (go and read about Chris Anyanwu and co)

Igbos voted Obasanjo twice leaving eminent Igbos like Ojukwu and co.

Ogbonnaya Onu collapsed his political structure for Olu Falae to become flagbearer and we then had two Yorubas contesting for President in 1999 yet Yorubas refuse to repay all these.

They forgot all these in 2023 even as their honest elites tried to correct them and remind them of all these.


Igbos without prejudice go to Southwest in numbers to invest and live happily, but Yorubas out of unbridled hatred for Igbos rarely travel to Southeast to invest and live, when they live there due to.work, they refuse to invest or buy lands giving false excuses that Igbos dont sell their land, says who? I have lands in Owerri and Enugu, any Yoruba man interested should chat me for price not staying in Yoruba land and be lying against Igbos whereas we are also looking for people to buy lands in Southeast towns and cities and join us in developing Southeast like we are doing for other regions.


Many Igbos that have investments and properties in Lagos and other places dont live in Nigerja and didn't make their money in Nigeria but for our love for true unity in Nigeria we invest everywhere but still una de hate Igbos unjustly out of fear.


Today a Yoruba man Tinubu is President, he have another opportunity to unite Igbos and Yorubas, but will he do it? Let's watch and see

just for future use

Don't tell me Ooni doesn't understand Yoruba even though he speaks it 🤔 It's Ugbo. Yoruba have several places called Ile Ugbo, such as Ugbo Irunmole. Ugbo is known as forest which is considered as an Orisha in Yoruba land. Yoruba tend to conserve their forest as Orisha.

In fact, Yoruba's Ugbo is Obatala who's Oseremagbo 📌because he was the first primordial Orisha given the task to create the universe before his second half Oduduwa came to complete it. The Ugbo people said to be fighting with Ife were Yoruba people in Ife, for example the Obalufon and others, and also the Yoruba which include the Ekiti, Okun (including Oke Aba and Oworo), Ondo people (which includes Ilaje), Itsekiri (Jekri), and also the Ijebu etc. These were the people fighting with Ife but eventually, everyone settled everything as one big family before Oyo empire was formed.

Meanwhile, it was the Bini and Igala who started calling the slaves under them Ibo or Igbo. It's even found in the old Ibo dictionary which states that Ibo or Igbo means slave. In fact, the Onitsha people refused to bear Ibo or Igbo name as seen below.

Igbo means forest in Yoruba. It was even previously known as Ugbo before the modification of it to Igbo but still known as Ugbo.

Alaafin Corrects Ooni On Historical Claims Linking Yoruba & Igbo

AJE: AN EARLY YORUBA DEITY WITH NO SECOND FIDDLE.
BY ALAAFIN OF OYO.
SCRIPT OF THE LETTER

PUBLISHED IN THE NIGERIAN TRIBUNE ON THURSDAY, 2 MAY, 2019 PAGE 9

In recent time, I have been inundated with calls and even visits to my Palace on a recent Video Tape showing His Imperial Majesty, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, the Ooni of Ife during the Aje Festival in Ile-Ife, Osun State. With all sense of modesty but candour, I cannot recall exactly the number of the video tapes that have been sent to me by well-meaning Yoruba elders and patriots.

(2) In the same vein, the traditional rulers have not been left out of this concern and legitimate worries. All across Yoruba speaking areas of Nigeria up to Kwara and Kogi states, the situation to say the least, has been breathless. Even the Yoruba in the Diaspora; Republics of Benin and Togo, Brazil, Cuba, Chile, Ecuador, United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada etc have also expressed indignation about the current issue.

(3) Initially, my reaction was to stand by my age long resolve, as the king and Head of Yorubaland, not to interfere in the running of the affairs of other Paramount rulers in Yorubaland of which the Ooni of Ife is one. But after listening thoroughly with meticulous assessment and analysis of the tape, I did not hesitate to come to the conclusion that the time for me to interfere was ripe and absolutely expedient less the cherished historical and cultural heritage of the Yoruba is wantonly dragged in the mud. My interference, therefore, is daintily anchored on the sanctity of Yoruba history, origin and custom which I am convinced the said video tape by Oba Enitan Ogunwusi did not observe.

(4) Yet, even in my response, one should be cautious enough against any inter ethnic hostility and malice within Nigerian context, especially between Yoruba and Igbo. But this should not be turned into historical fallacies. I doubt if any Igbo man familiar with the history of his origin will be happy with the fallacious claim that they originated from Obatala.

(5) Also I do not think the Igbo with a record of highly respected origin will feel comfortable after tracing their origin to ancient Israel with lineage to Eri, the fifth son of Gad who was the seventh son of Jacob, who was the youngest son of Isaac, son of Abraham. Eri, the son of Gad was said to have entered the present Egypt, journeying down Africa, crossing the Nile to Ethiopia (present day Sudan) and finally into the present day Enugwu Aguleri (for more details about this see: THE BOOK NIGERIA 2.O. CARAPACE PUBLISHERS NIGERIA LIMITED. Pg 46 ORIGIN OF THE IGBO: OBU GAD (HOUSE OF GAD) ANAMBRA STATE. Khartoum Street, Wuse, Zone 5, Abuja Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria or www.dayoadedayo.com). Certainly, the Igbo people who are proud of their origin will not feel comfortable with any pseudo history that will make them superior to Israel.

(6) I am not aware of any business relationship between the Yoruba and the Igbo until the 19th century, leading to the amalgamation of the Southern Protectorate and Northern Protectorate that resulted into Nigeria in 1914. In other words, we are related as fellows Nigerians who have been enjoying mutual relationship for each other. Culturally, linguistically, traditionally and historically, we are basically different. We have always striven to promote harmonious understanding in our diversities.

(7) AJE Coming back to the origin of Aje – Commerce, the cowry (Owoeyo) had been the Yoruba medium of exchange long before the Europeans came. Hence the decoration of Sekere drum with cowries in appreciation and honour of Aje deity it is to say the least, instructively abominable for anybody, no matter how highly placed to put any tribe above the Yoruba race as far as legitimate trading business is concerned. This is because Aje remains one of the early deities of the Yoruba whose imagery creation is the popular Sekere music played everywhere in Yorubaland.

( Alaafin Onisile 1738 – 1750: Alaafin Onisile was remarkable for his indomitable courage and lion-hearted spirit. He was moreover very artistic, and was said to have made seven silver doors to the entrances of his sleeping apartment. During his reign, the Sekere (Calabash) drum was ornamented, not only with cowries, but also with costly beads e.g. Iyun (Corals), Okun (Stone beads, Benin), Erinla (stripped yellow pipe beads) and Segi (blue pipe beads), strung with silk thread dyed red; all of native manufacture. He was a great warrior and for his exploits was nicknamed “Gbagida! Wowo I’ewon ab’esin fo odi (Gbagida, an expression of admiration), a man with clanging chains (for prisoners) whose horse can lead over a town wall). The History of the Yorubas. Pg.176 by Rev, Samuel Johnson.

(9) Besides, some families in Yorubaland are classified adherents of Aje deity. Some of these families named their children in honour of their chosen deity, i.e. Aje. Such names include: Ajebandele, Ajewumi, Ajifowobaje etc not to talk of those who dedicate time to worship the deity.

(10) It is also a truism that some cognomen, lineage panegyric, such cognomen include: Aje ti so eru d’omo. Yet another is special request and plea to Aje such as “Aje dakun ma na mi ni pasan re ko se nani” and many others like that.

(11) Coming back to modern trade, I make bold to say that it was the imitative of Alaafin who opened the Yoruba to Trans-Sahara trade with West African Countries as early as the fifteenth century. This was especially between the Yoruba and the Hausa-Fulani across West Africa. Trade routes led from Timbuktu in Mali, Goa, Tuareg and Tripoli. Still as far as (Oceanic) Coastal trade was concerned, the Alaafin used the Port of Allada in Wema to control European shippers. “By the middle of the 18th century, when Oyo had grown into an empire in the full bloom of life, Oyo was bounded to the north by the Niger, to the West by Modern Togoland, to the east by its sister Kingdom of Benin and to the South by the Gulf of Guinea, and Porto Novo and Badagry were its main coastal outlets. Dahomey, it may be recalled, became a tributary state of Oyo in 1730 see: Topics in West African History, pg. 90 Paragraph 22 by Adu Boahen, Ph.D. Associate Professor of History, University of Ghana. Published by Longman Group Limited, London 1966.

(12) One other imperative of Yoruba in the pursuit of commerce is that any such pursuit must be legitimate with norms of the society. It is on this note that Yoruba sweat and labour as necessary partners; Yoruba do not encourage cheating and unlaboured wealth. Yoruba work very hard to be wealthy.

“Ise ni Oogun ise
Eni ti ise nse
Ko ma bo orisa
Oro kokan torisa
Ibaa bo orisa
Ibaa bo obatala
O di ojo ti o ba sise ko to jeun”

“Work is the medicine for poverty
Who ever is poor
Let him not worship divinities
Nothing concerns the divinities
He may worship the divinities
He may worship Obatala
It is not until he does a profitable job that he would eat”

(13) The above quotations underscore the fact that the Yoruba are very industrious from the beginning with strong emphasis on legitimacy. We have such wealthy and successful businessmen in Lagos who invested heavily on the education of their children. Few examples would suffice. For instance, in 1884, Obadia Johnson, a Yoruba qualified as a Doctor of Medicine. John Randle, son of Thomas Randle an Oyo man who settled at Aroloya in Lagos qualified as a Doctor in 1888, followed by Orisadipo Obasa in 1891. Sapara Williams became the first Lawyer in Nigeria in 1888. In 1893, Herbert Macaulay, a Yoruba man, became an Engineer and A. Agbebi followed in 1911.

(14) Earlier on a Primary School had been established in 1842 in Lagos by the Missionaries. The CMS Grammar School was established in Lagos in 1859 by T.B Macaulay who is the father of Herbert Macaulay. The Methodist Boys’ High School followed in 1876 and in 1879 Methodist Girls’ High School, 1881 St Gregory’s College, Lagos and in 1885 the Baptist Academy (see J.F. Ade Ajayi “The Development of Secondary Grammar School Education in Nigeria, pg 523.

(15) It also on account of such entrepreneurship backup with distinguished scholarship that the Yoruba established the first Television Station in Black Africa, the first five-star Hotel – Premier Hotel, Ibadan, first Stadium, first dualised Road – Mokola – to State Secretariat, Agodi, Ibadan, first Food Canning Industry, first Skyscrapper – Cocoa House, Ibadan, first farm settlement, First Free Primary Education, free Medical services for school children; all in the former Western Region of Nigeria under the premiership of Chief Obafemi Awolowo. The first African Bishop was Bishop Ajayi Crowther, who spoke twelve languages: English, Yoruba, Ibo, Hausa, Fulfulde (Fulani) Nupe, Kanuri etc, Bishop Ajayi Crowther discovered the first ever Igbo Alphabet ‘ISIOMA’ just as the first Newspaper to be published in Nigeria. These are just a few of the “firsts”.

(16) In summary, let it be stated that Nigeria, despite the multiplicity of its ethnicity has been together in harmony in spite of their heterogeneity. All of us leaders should guide against any utterance that can create an atmosphere of suspicion and rancor among the various ethnic compositions.

IKU BABA YEYE
Oba (Dr.) Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III, JP. CFR, LLD, SAP, D.LLTS, DPA
The Alaafin of Oyo and Permanent Chairman Oyo State Council of Obas and Chiefs
Chancellor, University of Maiduguri, Borno State
Chancellor, Crescent University, Abeokuta, Ogun State
Pro-Chancellor, Keisie International University South Korea Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone.

Wizardslayer:
How can that oba or whatever his name is presume that kolanut doesn't grow in the east?? Where did he get that from?

When i was growing up back then in my home town in ichi ekwusigo l.g.a Anambra state to be precise, there's these Kola nut tree that grew in our backyard that was doing really well back then.

The ooni needs to be mindful of whatever he's saying to avoid careless misyarnings.

Oji tree that we do cut for timbers na him the mugu say Igbos no dey plant kolanut. All these nitwit wey no dey travel go just dey for their brown roof know as tinz be for other places

RichBoy247:
Omoluabis will never be related to drug traffickers and baby factory merchants

Odogwus can never be related to skull miners and head slammers

CoronaVirusPro:
The first migrants of Igbo’s into znigeria have been known to be Jewish. There are artifacts and locations in the South East that buttresses that.

It was the son of Oduduwa ruling Benin that gave the Igbo migrants the land called South-East todays

Igbo’s are one of the lost tribes of Israel with a unique language, and they are not Nigerians.

They migrated into West Africa through the coastlines of Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon.

They were working for the Ikwerre’s in the Southern part of Nigeria and adopted their language.

Stop smoking weed

Disgraceful mumu king

God forbid olorun o ni je

Slytiger:
Kabiyesi, you are wrong. The Igala (a yoruboid tribe like the Itsekiri) conquered the ibos. That's the only relation we have with the ibos.

That's why some Ibo words are actually borrowed from the Yoruba.

E.g.
Ibo - Yoruba - english

Ewu.— Ewurẹ. — Goat.
Torotoro—. Tolotolo. — Turkey.
Ọnu.—Ẹnu. — Mouth.
Nti.— Eti. — Ear.
Agba.— Agbon. — Chin.
Imi. — Imu—. Nose.
Iba. —Iba. — Fever.
Gbọrọ. — Gbọ.— Hear.
Okute - Okuta - rock/stone
Nso nso—. Osuosu—. Menstruation
Atọ.— Ẹta.— Three
Gini. —Kini. —What
Ala—. Ilẹ.— Land
Mmiri.— Omi.— Water
Okute.— Okuta.— Stone
Afufe. —Ifufe. —Wind
Oyi.— Oyi. —Cold
Ọka. —Ọka. —Corn
Ebe.— Ibi.— Place
Afa.— Ifa.— Divination
Ulọ. —Ile.— House
Olisa.— Òrìṣà.— Deity
Uru.— Ere. —Gain
Ọgbọ—. Ẹgbẹ.— Age-mate
Oru—. Ẹru. —Slave
Onye—. Eniyan.— Person
Akpa—. Apo.— Bag
Akpati.— Apoti—. Box

We are family... there's no need for the strife

agadez007:
To the average Yoruba man Igboland is a desert where nothing grows,I have had this argument with another Yoruba man who said Kolabut is essential to Igbo but it’s only grown in Yoruba land,when we have Oji Igbo?

To be honest most of this guys has been brainwashed to the extent that they now think and see Igbo land as unliveable.

They don't know we have Oji Igbo that has been there since generation immemorial.

If Ooni thinks that kolanut only grows in their yoruba backyards what do you expect an ordinary Yoruba man out there to be thinking??

Oya make we Reason am well well.

gidgiddy:
If the British had not created Nigeria, most Yorubas and Hausas would not have known who Igbos are

Ask the average Nigerian who the Fon ethnic group are, they won't know

But the Fon ethnic group are the largest tribe in neighbouring Benin Republic

The average Nigerian doesn't know them because they are in a different country next-door

It's a lie. SW is closer to the SE than the North. More reason why we have more igbo-Yoruba marriage than any other tribe. Christianity is another factor that bind SW and SE easily compared with the North

TouchNfollow:
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/entertainment/naija-fashion/710163-interview-igbos-share-ancestral-links-with-yorubas-but-many-dont-know-ooni-ogunwusi.html

Do not turn history on its head. Enjoy the parties and the wives. It's all you do and know anyway. Do not lay claim to knowledge that you do not possess.

TreasureJunky:
Story. Story. They don't share anything..

You make me see the wisdom in our going back to our old anthem.

If you hadn't learnt "in brotherhood we stand", you can't possibly "Arise O Compatriots".

PresidObi:
Supposing he does his interview without mentioning another tribe, will it kill him?

Very unintelligent lie there.

Intelligent man, some of your people said you're Jew,some said you're Egyptian, recently another said you actually formed Europe . Sincerely,I pity you people. Nothing, None can ever please you,ewu.

How true is this that kola nut trees don't grow in Igboland I have seen a lot of bitter kola trees in the east.

My uncle use to have a kolanut tree next to my compound.. I am Igbo kolanut grows well we'll in igboland.. the Oba should say what he knows not hear say

PresidObi:
Supposing he does his interview without mentioning another tribe, will it kill him?

Very unintelligent lie there.

Igbos really fascinates the yorubas.