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HRM, Nyeweali of Elele Okiniali Ni Alimini Kingdom, King Marcus O. Woyike JP, officially performed the sacred eating of the 2025 Elele New Yam Festival Ritual.

With the King having eaten the new yam, the tradition is now open for all sons and daughters to partake.

Elele is located in Ikwerre LGA of Rivers state.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1C5fN1aB9N/?mibextid=wwXIfr

God bless the Ikwerre kingdom!

Ikwerre bu’otu

Ikwerre meka o!

Y Dem dress like bini people, do they share the same historical cultural heritage

Yam festival always sweet and interesting in all nigeria states.

Holyfic:
Y Dem dress like bini people, do they share the same historical cultural heritage

Maybe those in the Edo state atire in the picture are confused about their state of origin.

Holyfic:
Y Dem dress like bini people, do they share the same historical cultural heritage

Even the guy above you is using Igbo language rather than bini. I'm curious did Igbo colonise ikwerre people?

Ikwerre are pure Igbos as far as I am concerned. They are even more igbo than Ebonyi

Holyfic:
Y Dem dress like bini people, do they share the same historical cultural heritage

Look very well, them just wear white and red. Just the colour that is similar.

Rivers state is not igbo,accordingto Wike.....story for the gods....politics of tribe,hate,ethnicity and religion have taken Nigeria backwards...so sad.

Holyfic:
Y Dem dress like bini people, do they share the same historical cultural heritage

Benin may be tiny, but many tribes migrated from there. I don't know about the Ikwerres, but I learnt that the earliest Onitsha people migrated from Bini too. That's why Igwe Nnaemeka Achebe wears Benin regalia during the Ofala Festival.

Holyfic:
Y Dem dress like bini people, do they share the same historical cultural heritage

Yes,

Ikwerres are from Benin kingdom in Edo state

Darren95:
HRM, Nyeweali of Elele Okiniali Ni Alimini Kingdom, King Marcus O. Woyike JP, officially performed the sacred eating of the 2025 Elele New Yam Festival Ritual.

With the King having eaten the new yam, the tradition is now open for all sons and daughters to partake.

Elele is located in Ikwerre LGA of Rivers state.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1C5fN1aB9N/?mibextid=wwXIfr

OP be specific, Elele Alimini which is the one you posted here is located in Emuoha local government. The main Elele is in Ikwerre local government.

May the gods continue to give them bomber harvest

Darren95:
HRM, Nyeweali of Elele Okiniali Ni Alimini Kingdom, King Marcus O. Woyike JP, officially performed the sacred eating of the 2025 Elele New Yam Festival Ritual.

With the King having eaten the new yam, the tradition is now open for all sons and daughters to partake.

Elele is located in Ikwerre LGA of Rivers state.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1C5fN1aB9N/?mibextid=wwXIfr

How these people carefully added W to there igbo names needs to be studied. Something really happened along the line why they decided to separate from igbos. Even if Biafra come alive today, they will ask for separation.

I Just wish we will have more countries in Nigeria... Like ikwere, ijaw, igbos, urobo etc

That's how Europe developed and evolved. River state alone is even bigger than Croatia.

ediko5:
OP be specific, Elele Alimini which is the one you posted here is located in Emuoha local government. The main Elele is in Ikwerre local government.

the address on the billboard says KELGA. Which LGA is that?

occfx:
How these people carefully added W to there igbo names needs to be studied. Something really happened along the line why they decided to separate from igbos. Even if Biafra come alive today, they will ask for separation.

I Just wish we will have more countries in Nigeria... Like ikwere, ijaw, igbos, urobo etc

That's how Europe developed and evolved. River state alone is even bigger than Croatia.

Some of you know little or nothing about Ikwerre people, it's their language for God's sake, wetin concern una sef,una Cho Cho Cho, no dey even bother Ikwerre people

God bless them and their land. The use of ada speaks volumes in their efforts to identify with my people - Bini. However, my research and interactions with elders here in Edo does not support their claim of being Bini descendants. That of Onitsha people is verifiable in our history. Ikwerre? Hell no. Anyway, there may be an iota of fact in their claim that no one is aware of.

God bless Bini kingdom.

Holyfic:
Y Dem dress like bini people, do they share the same historical cultural heritage

The Ikwerres are one of the confused set of ethnic groups in Nigeria.
They bear Igbo names, speak an Igbo dialect, celebrate Igbo festivals...yet they claim their ancestry is from the bini kingdom.

How delusional can that be?

Holyfic:
Y Dem dress like bini people, do they share the same historical cultural heritage

No !
de dress like Anabrarians - in New Yam Festival,
Or are they related to the Incoming ANIOMA State to be?🤪🥳
Where is that joker of a Senator - from Delta sef?
-Somebody that is marketing his 2nd- Term - with a State that can't leaves the floor!
ANIOMA State KO,IJEBU State NI?

Hisroyalbadmeat:
Some of you know little or nothing about Ikwerre people, it's their language for God's sake, wetin concern una sef,una Cho Cho Cho, no dey even bother Ikwerre people

W is ikwere people language? Well, na you know. The R in Umuokoro is also ikwere people language.

Can you explain there meanings?

They should be answering Wikwere na... Why answer ikwere?

Darren95:
HRM, Nyeweali of Elele Okiniali Ni Alimini Kingdom, King Marcus O. Woyike JP, officially performed the sacred eating of the 2025 Elele New Yam Festival Ritual.

With the King having eaten the new yam, the tradition is now open for all sons and daughters to partake.

Elele is located in Ikwerre LGA of Rivers state.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1C5fN1aB9N/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Why is that guy putting on Benin attire? Or are their culture related to Benin? I know say Benin Kingdom touches everywhere around south south east even some Western states historically, but most of our young people won’t accept the fact

thatigboman:
the address on the billboard says KELGA. Which LGA is that?

I don't know when that signage was made or what prompted that. Maybe it used to be part of Ikwerre, but administratively Elele Alimini is in Emuoha.

Even the Ogbakiri in question is in Emuoha close to Kalabari.

[No one from here really cares, we are only interested in unraveling the mystery that links their names, and cultures to that of the great igbo tribe. Imagine the king's name, Woyike which simply means Nwaoyike. The Benin elders says there is no link between Benin and ikwerre people. So where do they come from?? This is when I miss Nnamdi Kalu the most.quote author=Hisroyalbadmeat post=136706974] Some of you know little or nothing about Ikwerre people, it's their language for God's sake, wetin concern una sef,una Cho Cho Cho, no dey even bother Ikwerre people[/quote]

Good for them.

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SQLmastar:
The Ikwerres are one of the confused set of ethnic groups in Nigeria.
They bear Igbo names, speak an Igbo dialect, celebrate Igbo festivals...yet they claim their ancestry is from the bini kingdom.

How delusional can that be?

is new yam festival igbo festival? The entire edo people esan benin afema they All celebrit new yam festival with their local names

See people under occupation by an unconstitutional abberation, no wahala; make wuna continue to dey drink kai kai... kundus to you guys for folding without a fight

jojo1415:
Rivers state is not igbo,accordingto Wike.....story for the gods....politics of tribe,hate,ethnicity and religion have taken Nigeria backwards...so sad.

Wike speaks pure Igbo in his house, I can assure you. He is only deceiving Bulaburudeens.

During one of his interviews on Channels TV, while trying to convince Seun on an argument he said 'Chere' which means 'Wait' in Igbo,he suddenly caught himself and then continued with 'Wait.. wait...wait'.

Only people with sharp ears like us heard it.

The guy is playing politics with his ethnicity and language, so that he can be in the good books of the APC gbamurudeens, many of whom are rabidly anti-Ibo..

Darren95:
HRM, Nyeweali of Elele Okiniali Ni Alimini Kingdom, King Marcus O. Woyike JP, officially performed the sacred eating of the 2025 Elele New Yam Festival Ritual.

With the King having eaten the new yam, the tradition is now open for all sons and daughters to partake.

Elele is located in Ikwerre LGA of Rivers state.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1C5fN1aB9N/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Just imagine how the changed "ONYENWEALI" by casting the "O" and "N" away. All in an attempt to jettison their core Igbo origins.

There Igbo ancestors must have been really pissed off. Very funny

A lot of tribes originated from the great benin kingdom. See their attire