₦airaland Forum

Slytiger:
“Igbanke Nor be Bini”
https://guardian.ng/news/ohanaeze-ndigbo-hail-igbanke-community-for-embracing-igbo-roots/

Betanaija42moro:
That is the real going back to the root.

ehikwe22:
These Igbos are comedian. Paid Azuka Okah to organize a group called Akiko Uwa, hired actors, publicise it on the Internet and claim it's Igbanke people

They're all over social media debunking it. Igbanke has always insisted that they're not Benin by ethnicity. They've always insisted that they're Ika. The Igbo expansionist movement led by Nna Meh TV, Spirit Almighty and the rest contracted Azuka Okah and formed the akiko Uwa group which They've used for propaganda for a few years now. There's lots of sponsorship coming from certain Igbo people and Ned Nwoko was also involved. We've infiltrated their groups and I have a lot of information into what's actually going on. Expansion and access to the sea in eventual biafran independence. They're willing to go to any length to achieve their dreams. We the indigenous Ika people are watching and we'll act proactively because we won't permit anyone to play politics with our identity

SmartyPants:
Who are you to speak for Edo people??

Igbankes came as visitors and they are free to go back where they came from.

SmartyPants:
We see you. We know what you are. You are waating your time.

ehikwe22:
These Igbos are comedian. Paid Azuka Okah to organize a group called Akiko Uwa, hired actors, publicise it on the Internet and claim it's Igbanke people

They're all over social media debunking it. Igbanke has always insisted that they're not Benin by ethnicity. They've always insisted that they're Ika. The Igbo expansionist movement led by Nna Meh TV, Spirit Almighty and the rest contracted Azuka Okah and formed the akiko Uwa group which They've used for propaganda for a few years now. There's lots of sponsorship coming from certain Igbo people and Ned Nwoko was also involved. We've infiltrated their groups and I have a lot of information into what's actually going on. Expansion and access to the sea in eventual biafran independence. They're willing to go to any length to achieve their dreams. We the indigenous Ika people are watching and we'll act proactively because we won't permit anyone to play politics with our identity

Danzakidakura:
Yaribanza ritualists will not be happy about this.

Creditalerts:
Igbanke is a lost ika speaking kingdom under Agbor delta state before boundary adjustment took them to edo state. They are not igbos

clefstone:
Igbo as an ethnic group is a concept created as a result of colonialism. Igbo is not a race/tribe/ethnic group but a language spoken by a people of diverse origin and culture that live in a contiguous geographic space

agulion:
. No is not like that you know we have two types of the Yorubas, so is the other Yorubas the once with wicked dot in their forehead that causes problem for the real Yorubas

Cmanforall:
You go wait tire

unless, maybe, when an Igbo president emerges

ehikwe22:
These Igbos are comedian. Paid Azuka Okah to organize a group called Akiko Uwa, hired actors, publicise it on the Internet and claim it's Igbanke people

They're all over social media debunking it. Igbanke has always insisted that they're not Benin by ethnicity. They've always insisted that they're Ika. The Igbo expansionist movement led by Nna Meh TV, Spirit Almighty and the rest contracted Azuka Okah and formed the akiko Uwa group which They've used for propaganda for a few years now. There's lots of sponsorship coming from certain Igbo people and Ned Nwoko was also involved. We've infiltrated their groups and I have a lot of information into what's actually going on. Expansion and access to the sea in eventual biafran independence. They're willing to go to any length to achieve their dreams. We the indigenous Ika people are watching and we'll act proactively because we won't permit anyone to play politics with our identity

LadyExcellency:
Ndi Anambra or Imo (colonial creation) is not a tribe/clan of Igbo nationality. The Ngwas, Aros, Owere, Nankas, Orlu, Afoikpo, Wawa, Obosi, etc, are people that make up Igbo ethnicity.

Zulu11zulu:
The people of yeruba land should stay away from what did not concern them the Edo and Bini people know igbanke people are igbo but yeruba will Cary the matter for head like if is their business.

VinnyBaba:
It is bcus of the Closeness between Oba Erediawa and the Dein of Agbor's Father in the 1970's.

And perhaps the Geographic closeness b/w the two kingdoms.

Ika Language have NO similarities with Bini.

omozu1:
My dear ask the Dein of Agbor where they are from
He should be in a better position to say
I am too sure he will tell you they are from Benin.

SmartyPants:
Who are you to speak for Edo people??

Igbankes came as visitors and they are free to go back where they came from.

wink2015:
Igbo Presidency Will Be Difficult With This Kind of Negative Publicity about Igbo expansionist behaviour.

The way some Igbos are damaging the image of the Igbo nation is not helping their political aspirations.

There are Ibibio communities in Abia State, particularly around the Arochukwu area.

The Kings in Ibibio do not call out the Igbos despite the fact that their people are indigenous to Abia state.

Ibini Ukpabi itself was a typical product of the contact situation existing between the Igbo and the Ibibio. According to its social charter it was, in the beginning, a local god of an Ibibio group. Then it was captured by the Igbo slaves of this Ibibio group, who successfully rebelled against their servile status and sought to turn the table on their masters, who chose instead to flee the region. Under the control of these erstwhile Igbo slaves, the Ibini Ukpabi grew in influence to become, according to one authority, the most powerful oracle in West Africa by the nineteenth century

Nigerian history, politics and affairs, Adiele Afigbo.

http://books.google.com/books?id=ez58Dwpa8JcC&pg=PA137/

aswani:
They are different peoples.

ibibiogrl:
Please don't include us Ibibios in what does not concern us There are no indigenous Ibibios in Abia state, our elders left Ibom kingdom after loosing the war. It's just the names which has been corrupted, since they're no Ibibio speaking group left. Example Obot Okon Ita now called Obinkita🤨
Infact the neighboring ethnic groups in Akwa Ibom to Abia state is Annang, they get along with Igbos well, because they share some similar cultures.🤔

SmartyPants:
Who are you to speak for Edo people??

Igbankes came as visitors and they are free to go back where they came from.

wink2015:
[b]1. Historical Settlement:
Before colonial borders, the Ibibio people occupied a much larger area stretching across parts of today's Akwa Ibom State, Cross River State, and some fringes of Abia State.

Particularly around the Arochukwu area, Abam, Ohafia, and nearby regions, there were pockets of Ibibio-speaking groups.

Some of these people were absorbed, conquered, or assimilated over centuries by expanding Igbo groups, especially during the Aro Confederacy period (17th-19th centuries).


2. Specific Places Where You Find Indigenous Ibibio Roots in Abia State
Arochukwu LGA
(Some of the ancestral inhabitants before the Aro conquest were Ibibio.)

Isu and parts of Ihechiowa
(In these communities, there are traditions that mention Ibibio ancestry or early settlement.)

Cross-riverine villages along the Abia-Akwa Ibom border.

However, today most of these areas are politically and culturally classified as Igbo — through assimilation, language shift, and intermarriage over centuries.

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Creditalerts:
Igbanke is a lost ika speaking kingdom under Agbor delta state before boundary adjustment took them to edo state. They are not igbos

Emco1:
It really painful to you, when ever the Rivers state came to their senses and and embrace their brothers. You tribalist will still ask them to go back to where they came from that they are not the originally owner of the land

viodemus:
The igbo lovers that cared to know, already knew that Igbankes and some other clans there (that should do their own research), are true nwafors. They are Angels.



Slavery, especially late arab to transatlantic slavery, really altered the igbo unity. While the civil war, increased the division. Igbos everywhere became an endangered specie. If you were igbos around hostile neighbors, you will be demeaned and forced to renounce your great tribe, and still not absorbed to the haters tribe. Igbos in these hostile areas all over Nigeria , still stay humble and by the grace of chukwu okike abiama, they maintained any culture that they could.



The great Igbo tribe is more than a case study. It is bigger than we all can imagine. The Igbo spiritual connection is like no other tho. Only nwafors have that spirit.


Igbos are indigenous to Igbanke, dem no be visitors looking for refugee status. so may God continue to bless the great people of Igbanke. Your Igbo kits and kin, are with you in all levels. Stay humble, and do what you can for general progress.


Some hole in the brain people up before my post, are using their small local govt tribes to be stretching neck; and supervising igbo division.; so that, they can easily suppress and oppress the igbos.

Just a reminder, igbos no dey claim people wey no be their own. Our own na our own.
Most igbos no hate others, but igbos no dey wake up go claim people. Most igbos view calabar/ibibio/annang/efik/etc as allies. Our sibling na our sibling, that one na God plan.
Any one igbo person from anywhere can lead all igbos in many great ways.


Why is it only in Igbo unity that haters go on sleepless night override. During Ikwerre/etchie/opobo time, dem go overboard, now during Igbanke, dem dey go insane. They want siblings to be estranged to each other. But Chukwu pass dem.

These Igbo oppressors, go as far as telling the igbos that some nwafors, are igala. Can you imagine that? How can Igbos that came back from igala, especially during the war, become igala.

Make everybody chill and mind them business. The Igbos know themselves in Nigeria, for the most part. So, let the great Igbo tribe exist.

Igbos unity is God's plan.