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Obiedun:
It doesn't matter. Richard Mofe Damijo is an urhobo man but he bears Itsekiri'name

Gbajure:
Correct. But the Ọba and ruling house of Bini are Yorubas directly from Oranmiyan, a true son of Ogun, and step grandson of Odùduwà.

The Ijebus ruling house are also directly of Odùduwà blood but not all Ijebus

Putindbutt:
But you can see them here identifying with their ancestral kinsmen and not ibos. The fact that people are your neighbors doesn't mean they have to be ibo, that's why you are coercing SS minorities as ibos.

zero8zero:
Anioma is multi ethnic and multi cultural. We have igala, Urhobo, Olukumi, igbos, Agbor, Ika etc are part of Anioma.

Gustavowhite:
Nobody is coercing anybody,am sure you cant even differentiate an uche from there and another from Igbo mainland,you guys that even call Benins “omo ibo”

zero8zero:
Social media has lied to you that Anioma is Igbo. Go to Anioma communities in Delta and cure your ignorance, stop arguing with me.

ProudlyLagos:
you can direct your grievance to the ikwerres, who have consistently Denied being ibo I even had this conversation with my ikwerre friend yesterday while have some drinks and he told me they are not Igbos but their ancestors migrated from Benin and they were married to ibo women but itesekiris on the other hand have never denied their Yoruba heritage even though we no send them weather they chose to identify with us or not

Obiedun:
It doesn't matter. Richard Mofe Damijo is an urhobo man but he bears Itsekiri'name

IyfeNamikaze:
lol.... You don't have an Ikwere friend, no dey lie for here. I have bursted your lies on this matter way too many times and you still go around spreading ignorance all over the place.
Most Ikwere identify as Igbo, in fact they have an Igbo group comprises of Ikwere, ogba, Etche etc that categorically identified as igbos and Warned mischievous elements like you to stop peddling false information that they aren't.

Konquest:
@abagworo,

Don't spew heavy disinformation here. Your totally embarrassing and FALSE narrative right ABOVE will NOT be tolerated. I've done a lot of advanced reading on the history of the Olukumis since the 1980s right till date so I know a lot about them. I started noticing a high rate of hate speech, disinformation and expansionist agenda coming from some young posters online from the east of River Niger in the year 2010 who threatened to chase the Olukumis off their own Olukumi ancestral lands. By the grace of the ancestors, the over 80 million strong Yorubas worldwide will resist this by any means necessary! NOBODY should ever openly threaten anyone like these paid ipob troll farms are doing because they have Yoruba, Benin, Esan, Ibibio, Isokos, Igala, Ikwere roots in the expansionist agenda being propagated online.

You that your ancestors migrated to Oguta in the current Imo State, how would you feel if somebody came up like you have done in your post to say that they are NOT Oguta owners? As for the Olukumi's, the Aniocha people you alluded to NEVER accomodated them. Aniocha North and other parts of Anioma (or Delta North) is an ethnically diverse place in terms of origin as confirmed by Reverend Father Kinirum Osia. All Olukumis used their Yoruba names in the past BUT with time due to acculturations, they picked up Edo names and Iboid names in addition to their Olukumi names. This is why the king of Ugbodu or Oloza (Oloja) is known as HRM Ayo Isinyemeze. The iconic 1985 under 17 FIFA soccer star, Nduka Ugbade ALSO comes from Ugbodu. They speak their Olukumi dialect of Yoruba and it's clearly understandable to those who listen well. Zeal of music group "Style Plus" too is an Olukumi and many Olukumis occupy significant positions in business, government, the armed forces, tech, etc.

The Olukumi's were the FIRST EVER to settle in their lands centuries back NOT on any Iboland.
There were different waves of migrations into what is now called Anioma today including Agbor, Issele Uku, Olukumi lands, etc, of Yoruba people from Yorubaland including USEN (a Yoruba town with an Oba Oluogbe Ii in the current Ovia South West LGA of Edo State), Benin, and Esanland not just Owo. The Yoruba connection with the Royal Palace lineage in Benin via USEN (Afelogiyan who was Oranmiyan's older biological brother was the FIRST EVER traditional ruler of USEN many centuries back and they proudly claim Ile Ife as where they come from) and USEN plays a strong role in the coronation ceremony of every Oba of Benin. There are videos on YouTube showing USEN indigenes of Edo State affirming their Ile Ife and Yoruba ancestries.


Infact the Ugbodu people (located close to Issele Uku the Aniocha North headquarters) who are one of the Olukumi groups share direct boundaries with the Esan people of Esanland. It was through Esanland that the came into their current location. Nobody accomodated them and you will NEVER here any of the neighbors of the Olukumi's make such a very dubious comment. It's only Ibos from the east of the river Niger that have been spreading that terrible disinformation that will be crushed.

Last but NOT least, Anioma is made up of people of multiple ethnic ancestries from centuries back from the Igalas (who are also Yoruboid because 65% of words in Igala are derived purely from Yoruba language and Igalas partly have some Yoruba, Edo, Wukari migrant ancestries according to a 2017 Punch interview granted by the Attah of Igala, Michael Ameh Oboni which can still be read online), Yoruba, Bini-Edo, Esan-Edo, Nri descents in different Anioma communities. Anioma is NOT culturally monolithic and CANNOT be claimed as Ibo. Reverend Father Kinirum Osia who hailed from Obamkpa in Aniocha North ALSO granted several powerful interviews where he condemned the attempt by Ibos east of River Niger to disrespect Anioma folks by claiming that Anioma is Ibo. What is even the etymology of the name Ibo? It's just a name that was adopted by the British Colonialists about 150 years ago BUT gained traction after 1900 to describe the different distinct groups of people such as the Ngwa, Owere, Oka, Mbaise, Oguta, etc, into a collective umbrella. That's how the concept of an Ibo tribe evolved with the White man and the coming of the missionaries such as Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther who as a trained linguist and clergyman wrote the FIRST EVER book in Ibo language entitled: "Isoama-Ibo: A Primer" in 1855 based off of his experience of writing the FIRST EVER Yoruba alphabet, dictionary and books in 1843. Prior to that, these subgroups of what is now called Ibo didn't call themselves as Ibos until much into the 1900s.

Unknown to the younger ones and the uninformed, the term IBO (Igbo) has it's ORIGINAL origins and was ONLY used in a condescending or derogatory sense by the ethnic neighbors of those in the Ibo (Igbo) interior as a term to describe "slaves or bush-dwelling" people who engaged in cannibalism and there are advanced history books that I will attach BELOW as evidence. The Igalas [who captured Ibos as slaves and sold them to the people of Aboh which was a major slave port now in Delta State] called Ibos (ONIGBO), the Benin-Edos used the term "IGBON" meaning slaves to refer to Ibos, the Asaba folks used the term "ONYE IGBO" as a term of contempt as well because East of the river Niger was the primary source of slaves.

success1smyn:
Some of you need help really, Delta North is Igbo and nobody's denying that. Let anyone identify with whoever they want. Olukumi is actually a pure Yoruba word meaning my close friend.

zero8zero:
Delta North is not only Igbo. There are several tribes in Delta North.

zero8zero:
Ignorance at its peak

Gbajure:
And pls tell us who Binis are?
Not Edos that Yoruba call Ados but Binis

ProudlyLagos:
I don’t have ikwerre friend? Pls who is this nonentity? Have you met me before to come to that conclusion? You can keep deceiving your low inferior self with your forced attachments with people who have consistently rejected you 😂😂😂😂

Even ameachi in the last arise interview stated clearly, that majority of ikwerres don’t identify with ibos, it is on the internet you can clear your doubt since you lack shame, you can continue to deceive your poor self😂😂

IyfeNamikaze:
This is utter nonsense! At what time did igala capture Igbo? Which part of igbo did they capture? Where were the igala during the Aro confederacy that existed had existed for more than a hundred before the Brits came and dismantled it?

This stupid narrative of Igbo being slaves to igala and inheriting their name from them is a concocted story that can only be found in the stables of Reno Omokry

Pay attention to the points he raised here. I once made a tweet about this and most of you came for my head. pic.twitter.com/UR0pX2j30l

— Anambra 1st son (@UchePOkoye) May 11, 2024

IyfeNamikaze:
here from the Ikwere, ogba, Etche etc

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/02/group-says-indigenous-igbos-in-rivers-part-of-ndigbo-ethnic-nationality/

IyfeNamikaze:
wait I used to think that RMD was Yoruba

Zeebuy:
The day the Igbo parts of Delta held a ceremony to rejoin their Igbo folks, these Yoruba people were jumping all over the thread, saying all sorts of rubbish. Did you not see that thread?
You guys are funny o, are you now land-grabbers? That's what your tribesmen called Igbos on that thread

Zionmdde:
Don't really like doing this but let me ask
Isinyemeze and atuwatse from delta are from yoruba groups
But ifeanyi from delta and amaechi from rivers are not from Igbo groups.

Hope you can help me explain better though

Zionmdde:
Still does answer why majority of ikwerre names have igbo meaning. If we go by your logic, in 30yrs time, there will be thousands of yorubas whose name and surname are Igbo names?

Mind you am not very interested in whether anyone is igbo or not. It doesn't in anyway affect my life. I am targeting hypocritic souls here on NL. They are angry when ikwerre man was made head of ohaneze group but are celebrating because two groups had a friendly outing

CyrusVI:
Ikwerres are coming out to deny their Igbo link, Itshekiri and co are coming out to affirm their Yoruba connection

How many times have you seen any Yoruba group lay claims to anything Itshekiri. No one is even asking them to unite with their SW counterpart

You, on the other hand, you become angry whenever others deny being Igbo

You cant decide for another group

Konquest:
Leave Reno Omokri out of your rants and get your historical facts right. This pure historical information is from advanced archival materials I've been privy to from different credible sources for decades now as as a well-read and internationally well-traveled man. Reno himself doesn't always get his FACTS right (especially when he is not in the best frame of mind due to stress or fatigue), BUT as a UK-educated lawyer, he MUST be commended for always apologizing whenever he is wrong and he indeed does a damn good job of presenting a logical sequence of FACTS and events backed by rock solid sources for further verifications.

Second, the screenshots of the internationally respected and advanced books on the Igala conquests of parts of what is now called Iboland and the derogatory origins of the name Ibo (Igbo) denoting a slave of the bush area or ONIGBO in Igala, IGBON in Benin-Edo and ONYE IBO (IGBO) to the Onitsha and Asaba folks were CLEARLY ATTACHED to my NL post which you quoted. Take the time to read through those book screenshots again.

Third, just so you know, I have decades of advanced historical knowledge (before many here were even born), so, I ONLY provide accurate historical information backed by credible EVIDENCE and book sources and NOT assumptions like these unschooled young posters and propergandist do online. It is what it is. Read More on the Igala Conquests of Northern Iboland right up to the Asaba area right BELOW

VIDEO of Catholic Bishop: Attah of Igala Conquered Northern Igboland (Nsukka) All The Way To Asaba
=>https://www.nairaland.com/8089723/catholic-bishop-attah-igala-conquered

=>

Pay attention to the points he raised here. I once made a tweet about this and most of you came for my head. pic.twitter.com/UR0pX2j30l

— Anambra 1st son (@UchePOkoye) May 11, 2024

Ibo-Igala Wars
=>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igbo%25E2%2580%2593Igala_wars


Fourth, the Iconic book, "The Igbo-Igala Borderland" [written by an American academic who taught at University of Nigeria, Nsukka back from the 1960s to the 1970s] whose book cover screenshot I also ATTACHED earlier to my post ABOVE CLEARLY states that:

"When, in the late eighteenth century, the Igala CONQUERED the indigenous Igbo, they gained and held social control through monopoly of certain..."

=>https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Igbo-Igala-Borderland2


The Igala conquests and colonisation of Northern Ibo areas of Northern Enugu especially Nsukka including parts of Anambra (and Northern Delta State) ALSO led to people from these conquered area being sold as SLAVES. The Igala war machine during the Ibo-Igala Wars didn't extend to other parts of what is now the South East.

=>https://www.facebook.com/nigeriahistoryupdate/posts/igala-colonisation-of-northern-igbo-communities-1450-18th-centurythe-igala-mega-/

Fifth, again, the screenshots of the advanced book sources I ATTACHED CLEARLY state the accurate and ORIGINAL etymology of the word Ibo (Igbo) which has condescending and derogatory connotations as used by the neighbors of the people now called Ibo unknown to some younger Ibos today who have NO knowledge of the original meaning which means SLAVE or OUT CAST from the bush. This is why the Igala call slaves "ONIGBO," the Benin-Edos used the term "IGBON" and the Asaba and Onitsha refered condescendingly to those in the Ibo interior as "ONYE IBO" (IGBO) because East of river Niger was source of SLAVES for them before 1900 and even well after 1900. Igala being a Yoruboid language (with 65% mutual intelligibility with Yoruba language) has the pure Yoruba word "IGBO" in the word Igala word "ONIGBO" which means bush or forest in Yoruba BUT further means a "slave got from the bush" in Igala hence the derogatory name for slaves, "ONIGBO."



The name Ibo (Igbo) as used to describe a tribe east of river Niger had NO positive connotation of ANY kind at all! Ngwa, Owere, Awka, Mbaise, etc, were the names used by the subgroups to individually describe themselves until the advent of the missionaries and the British Colonialists who began to officially use the same condescending term "Ibo" to describe all the interior tribes that now make up the Ibo tribe of today. It's all a British Colonial creation. These FACTS are CLEARLY emphasized upon in the historical archives.

Konquest:
Leave Reno Omokri out of your rants and get your historical facts right. This pure historical information is from advanced archival materials I've been privy to from different credible sources for decades now as as a well-read and internationally well-traveled man. Reno himself doesn't always get his FACTS right (especially when he is not in the best frame of mind due to stress or fatigue), BUT as a UK-educated lawyer, he MUST be commended for always apologizing whenever he is wrong and he indeed does a damn good job of presenting a logical sequence of FACTS and events backed by rock solid sources for further verifications.

Second, the screenshots of the internationally respected and advanced books on the Igala conquests of parts of what is now called Iboland and the derogatory origins of the name Ibo (Igbo) denoting a slave of the bush area or ONIGBO in Igala, IGBON in Benin-Edo and ONYE IBO (IGBO) to the Onitsha and Asaba folks were CLEARLY ATTACHED to my NL post which you quoted. Take the time to read through those book screenshots again.

Third, just so you know, I have decades of advanced historical knowledge (before many here were even born), so, I ONLY provide accurate historical information backed by credible EVIDENCE and book sources and NOT assumptions like these unschooled young posters and propergandist do online. It is what it is. Read More on the Igala Conquests of Northern Iboland right up to the Asaba area right BELOW

VIDEO of Catholic Bishop: Attah of Igala Conquered Northern Igboland (Nsukka) All The Way To Asaba
=>https://www.nairaland.com/8089723/catholic-bishop-attah-igala-conquered

=>

Pay attention to the points he raised here. I once made a tweet about this and most of you came for my head. pic.twitter.com/UR0pX2j30l

— Anambra 1st son (@UchePOkoye) May 11, 2024

Ibo-Igala Wars
=>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igbo%25E2%2580%2593Igala_wars


Fourth, the Iconic book, "The Igbo-Igala Borderland" [written by an American academic who taught at University of Nigeria, Nsukka back from the 1960s to the 1970s] whose book cover screenshot I also ATTACHED earlier to my post ABOVE CLEARLY states that:

"When, in the late eighteenth century, the Igala CONQUERED the indigenous Igbo, they gained and held social control through monopoly of certain..."

=>https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Igbo-Igala-Borderland2


The Igala conquests and colonisation of Northern Ibo areas of Northern Enugu especially Nsukka including parts of Anambra (and Northern Delta State) ALSO led to people from these conquered area being sold as SLAVES. The Igala war machine during the Ibo-Igala Wars didn't extend to other parts of what is now the South East.

=>https://www.facebook.com/nigeriahistoryupdate/posts/igala-colonisation-of-northern-igbo-communities-1450-18th-centurythe-igala-mega-/

Fifth, again, the screenshots of the advanced book sources I ATTACHED CLEARLY state the accurate and ORIGINAL etymology of the word Ibo (Igbo) which has condescending and derogatory connotations as used by the neighbors of the people now called Ibo unknown to some younger Ibos today who have NO knowledge of the original meaning which means SLAVE or OUT CAST from the bush. This is why the Igala call slaves "ONIGBO," the Benin-Edos used the term "IGBON" and the Asaba and Onitsha refered condescendingly to those in the Ibo interior as "ONYE IBO" (IGBO) because East of river Niger was source of SLAVES for them before 1900 and even well after 1900. Igala being a Yoruboid language (with 65% mutual intelligibility with Yoruba language) has the pure Yoruba word "IGBO" in the word Igala word "ONIGBO" which means bush or forest in Yoruba BUT further means a "slave got from the bush" in Igala hence the derogatory name for slaves, "ONIGBO."



The name Ibo (Igbo) as used to describe a tribe east of river Niger had NO positive connotation of ANY kind at all! Ngwa, Owere, Awka, Mbaise, etc, were the names used by the subgroups to individually describe themselves until the advent of the missionaries and the British Colonialists who began to officially use the same condescending term "Ibo" to describe all the interior tribes that now make up the Ibo tribe of today. It's all a British Colonial creation. These FACTS are CLEARLY emphasized upon in the historical archives.

Ttipsy:
lol I don’t understand! The poster bears Igbo name “Uchenna and he’s saying our Oloza
lol 😂

Christlike01:
Reno Omokri is Itsekiri, please!

Abagworo:
That's how people misbehave as a result of Igbo benevolence. They migrated from Owo and were accomodated by Aniocha people with full citizenship rights and autonomy of existence. Hopefully they will not now claim the autochthonous Aniocha people are migrants.

RedboneSmith:
His father is Urhobo. His mother is Itsekiri. In all extant African cultures, paternal descent is emphasised over maternal descent. Thus, rightly, Reno should be Urhobo. Omokri is an Urhobo name, not Itsekiri.

But for some reason, Reno is ashamed of his paternal heritage and clings exclusively to his maternal descent.