₦airaland Forum

Exactly these people are even the ones itching to be joined with the East because the Eastern Nigeria is one of the most progressing and developing region

Iyobaba:
I don't see anything wrong here provided the people of those states agree they share the Ibo identity.
I hope the Ibos will accept the outcome of any referendum and all the people decide.
It's actually a good idea, this will put to bed the notion of they don't want us to leave.

Said they should rehabilitate kanu and the rest..... with nigeria money lol

ariesbull:
It's not expansion.. the headline is mischievous it is inclusion of all Igbo speaking villages in 13 states of Nigeria from Kogi to Edo

The representatives to all these Igboid people preferred to remain under PANDEF umbrella

Why is Ohaneze now crying ?

Why are they angered and refusing to accept the decisions of the minority Igboid people in the SS?

onuman:
Non consensual amalgamation of 1914.
Non consensual Constitution of 1999.
Non Consensual political structure of 36 states and Abuja created by Northern military dictators, who proliferated 20 states in the old Northern region but left only 17 states in the two southern regions. One gave rise to 20, while 2 gave rise to only 17.
Land mass or population figures is never used as yardstick when creating new federating units in a country formed by different regions.

If 1914 is wrong, then why is the colonial drawn map of eastern Nigeria sacrosanct ?

Land grabbing

God Bless Federal Republic of Nigeria

Thread for sophisticated banana lovres to wankk and foam uncontrollably

They should just keep their Biafra away from Edo State and the South South. Here is the map of the Benin Kingdom in 1580 by the Portuguese before the British came and created Nigeria. The Igbos in Asaba are settlers that came over from the East.

These people and greed is like 5&6

Maintain your little dot and stop trying to bring other people into your clan.

We in Edo, Rivers, Cross river, Kofi and avenue are not Igbos and can never be Igbos.

If they are not issuing communique in Abuja, they are celebrating 50 years Anniversary in Lagos.

Why not Anambra? Impossible because they are under the bed on Mondays.

Why not Ebonyi? Because they are not original Igbos.

Why not Imo? Because they hate the governor.

When your life is good and beautiful,you will never have time for another person but these sophisticated people have been spending all their lives on the easterners and eastern matter for years,chai!!!!!?

It does nothing but shows how "good" their lives dey o


When you think you are doing others,what you don't know is,you are doing yourself big time....

Nobody gat time for poor people or people who ain't progressing...but people only look at and get jealous of people who are progressing and are far better than they can ever dream to be in life 😁😁😁😁



Now look @ gigabyte below 👇👇👇 and see how he's forcing himself to laff at himself over what ain't funny one bit
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FSBoperator:
The representatives to all these Igboid people preferred to remain under PANDEF umbrella

Why is Ohaneze now crying ?

Why are they angered and refusing to accept the decisions of the minority Igboid people in the SS?

INDIGENOUS IGBO AND IGBOID COMMUNITIES OUTSIDE THE SOUTH-EAST

The Igbo cultural and linguistic landscape of Nigeria extends beyond the five states officially grouped in the South-East.

Outside Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo, there are communities in neighbouring states that speak Igbo or Igboid languages, trace their ancestry to Igbo-speaking populations, or maintain strong historical and cultural connections with the wider Igbo world.

This is particularly evident in Delta State's Anioma area, parts of Rivers State and Igbanke in Edo State. Other communities in Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Kogi and Benue are also cited in historical and community sources, although some classifications are more contested and should be treated separately.

1. DELTA STATE — ANIOMA

Delta contains the largest and most clearly documented concentration of Igbo-speaking communities outside the South-East. The Anioma area covers nine principal LGAs: Aniocha North, Aniocha South, Ika North-East, Ika South, Ndokwa East, Ndokwa West, Oshimili North, Oshimili South and Ukwuani.

Oshimili South

- Asaba
- Oko
- Okwe
- Umuaji
- Umuagu
- Ogbe-Ogonogo
- Umuagu quarters and surrounding communities

Oshimili North

- Akwukwu-Igbo
- Illah
- Okpanam
- Issele-Azagba
- Ebu
- Atuma

Aniocha North

- Issele-Uku
- Idumuje-Ugboko
- Idumuje-Unor
- Obior
- Onicha-Olona
- Onicha-Ugbo
- Obomkpa
- Ezi
- Issele-Mkpitime

Aniocha South

- Ogwashi-Uku
- Ubulu-Uku
- Ubulu-Unor
- Ubulu-Okiti
- Egbudu-Akah
- Nsukwa
- Ejeme
- Ogwashi-Afor

Ika South

- Agbor
- Abavo
- Owa-Oyibu
- Owa-Alero
- Owa
- Alihame
- Alisimie
- Umunede-related communities

Ika North-East

- Umunede
- Igbodo
- Akumazi
- Ute-Okpu
- Ute-Ugbeje
- Owa-Alizomor
- Idumuesah

Ndokwa East

- Aboh
- Akarai
- Abala
- Ashaka
- Onyah
- Ossissa
- Ibedeni
- Ase
- Utchi

Ndokwa West

- Kwale
- Utagba-Ogbe
- Utagba-Ogbo
- Obodo-Uku
- Ogume
- Ndemili
- Abbi
- Utagba-Uno

Ukwuani

- Obiaruku
- Umutu
- Umukwata
- Ekuigbo
- Oha
- Amai
- Eziokpor
- Umuebu
- Ezeala
- Umuaja

These communities should not all be described as having identical dialects or customs. Enuani, Ika and Ukwuani are distinct linguistic varieties within the wider Igboid continuum. Delta State's official community profile also recognises these linguistic/cultural groupings.

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2. EDO STATE — IGBANKE AND IKA COMMUNITIES

Igbanke

Igbanke is one of the clearest examples of an Ika/Igboid community located outside Delta and the South-East.

The traditional Igbanke settlement is made up of six villages:

1. Ake
2. Oligie
3. Idumodin
4. Omolua
5. Ottah
6. Igbontor

Sources identify Igbanke as an Ika-speaking community and connect its language with the Ika communities of Delta State.

The community also has several traditional rulers, including the Obi of Ake, Obi of Oligie, Eze of Idumodin, Eze of Omolua, Obi of Ottah and Eze of Igbontor.

Other Edo communities frequently associated with the Ika/Igboid borderland include:

- Ekpon
- Oza
- Iru
- Oghada
- Ogbahu
- Ugwu-Eze
- Iyenle

These should be individually verified before being described categorically as Igbo villages.

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3. RIVERS STATE — IGBOID/IGBO-CONNECTED COMMUNITIES

Rivers requires particular care because several communities have strong independent ethnic identities, even where their languages are classified within the wider Igboid family.

Important areas include:

Oyigbo / Ndoki

- Oyigbo
- Asa
- Komkom
- Obeama
- Afa-Uku
- Afam
- Afam Nta
- Azusogu
- Egberu
- Mgboji
- Mrihu
- Obeakpu
- Obeta
- Obumku
- Okoloma
- Okponta
- Umuagbai
- Umuosi

These villages are listed in published Rivers State village records.

Omuma

- Eberi
- Egbelu
- Umerim
- Umuabali
- Umuagwa
- Umuakali
- Umudik
- Umudou
- Umukamanu
- Umunachi
- Umuokwa
- Umuolilo
- Umuoyoro
- Umuroke
- Umusu
- Umuwa
- Umuru-Ofeh

Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni

Important communities include:

- Omoku
- Erema
- Obagi
- Obakata
- Obite
- Obigbo
- Obosi
- Ogbogu
- Okwuzi
- Mgbede
- Aggah
- Ebocha
- Ndoni
- Ogu
- Odugili
- Ugbaja
- Umuigwe
- Umuorieke
- Utu

Rivers records contain extensive village-level listings for these areas.

Other major Igboid communities/areas commonly discussed in the wider Rivers-Igbo linguistic question include:

- Etche
- Ikwerre
- Ekpeye
- Egbema
- Ogba
- Ndoki
- Ndoni
- Obigbo

However, these communities should be identified according to their own preferred ethnic and linguistic identities, rather than simply being labelled Igbo. The broader linguistic relationship is a separate question from contemporary ethnic self-identification.

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4. BAYELSA STATE

Historical/community sources have identified small communities associated with the wider Ukwuani/Anioma-Igbo cultural area, including:

- Osekwenike
- Abuetor
- Eke-Okpokri
- Anibeze

These claims require more careful village-by-village historical and linguistic documentation than the Anioma evidence in Delta. They should therefore be described as communities with reported Igbo/Ukwuani connections, rather than automatically classifying the entire surrounding area as Igbo.

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5. AKWA IBOM STATE

Communities sometimes identified in connection with Igbo/Igboid populations include:

- Ohaobu
- Obuagu
- Ikot Udo Ika

Again, these should be treated as specific community claims rather than evidence that Akwa Ibom generally is an Igbo-speaking state.

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6. CROSS RIVER STATE

Communities cited in historical/community accounts include:

- Osobo
- Ebom
- Ebiriba

Cross River is exceptionally linguistically diverse, so these communities require individual historical and linguistic verification before publication as definitively Igbo.

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7. BENUE STATE

Communities cited in connection with Igbo/Ezza and related populations include:

- Umuezeokaha
- Umuezeokaha-Oha
- Amaeka
- Umuoghara
- Amaezekwe
- Orizor
- Ezza-related settlements

The Benue–Ebonyi borderland is particularly important because ethnic and linguistic communities do not necessarily follow the modern state boundary.

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8. KOGI STATE

Communities cited in historical/community lists include:

- Odolu
- Onicha-Igo
- Ekeavurugo
- Ebokwe
- Nwajala
- Akpanya

These communities lie within a complex Igala–Igbo/Igboid borderland and should not be described as though the whole area were exclusively Igbo.

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THE IMPORTANT CONCLUSION

This list should not be used to claim that every village mentioned has exactly the same identity.

The stronger historical argument is this:

The Igbo linguistic and cultural world is larger than the five states of the South-East.

There are:

Anioma/Enuani communities in Delta;
Ika communities in Delta and Edo;
Igboid communities in parts of Rivers;
and smaller historically connected communities in other neighbouring states.

Their traditional institutions are also independent.

There is no single monarch ruling all these communities. Asagba, Obi, Eze and other traditional institutions belong to individual kingdoms and communities.

Therefore, recognising a wider Igbo cultural region does not require abolishing local kingships or denying the identity of neighbouring peoples.

It means recognising the historical reality that Nigeria's political boundaries and its linguistic/cultural boundaries are not identical.

Different states.
Different kingdoms.
Different dialects.
Different traditional rulers.
But enduring linguistic, historical and cultural connections.

That is the basis on which a serious conversation about a wider Igbo cultural and developmental region can be built.

ariesbull:
INDIGENOUS IGBO AND IGBOID COMMUNITIES OUTSIDE THE SOUTH-EAST

The Igbo cultural and linguistic landscape of Nigeria extends beyond the five states officially grouped in the South-East.

Outside Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo, there are communities in neighbouring states that speak Igbo or Igboid languages, trace their ancestry to Igbo-speaking populations, or maintain strong historical and cultural connections with the wider Igbo world.

This is particularly evident in Delta State's Anioma area, parts of Rivers State and Igbanke in Edo State. Other communities in Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Kogi and Benue are also cited in historical and community sources, although some classifications are more contested and should be treated separately.

1. DELTA STATE — ANIOMA

Delta contains the largest and most clearly documented concentration of Igbo-speaking communities outside the South-East. The Anioma area covers nine principal LGAs: Aniocha North, Aniocha South, Ika North-East, Ika South, Ndokwa East, Ndokwa West, Oshimili North, Oshimili South and Ukwuani.

Oshimili South

- Asaba
- Oko
- Okwe
- Umuaji
- Umuagu
- Ogbe-Ogonogo
- Umuagu quarters and surrounding communities

Oshimili North

- Akwukwu-Igbo
- Illah
- Okpanam
- Issele-Azagba
- Ebu
- Atuma

Aniocha North

- Issele-Uku
- Idumuje-Ugboko
- Idumuje-Unor
- Obior
- Onicha-Olona
- Onicha-Ugbo
- Obomkpa
- Ezi
- Issele-Mkpitime

Aniocha South

- Ogwashi-Uku
- Ubulu-Uku
- Ubulu-Unor
- Ubulu-Okiti
- Egbudu-Akah
- Nsukwa
- Ejeme
- Ogwashi-Afor

Ika South

- Agbor
- Abavo
- Owa-Oyibu
- Owa-Alero
- Owa
- Alihame
- Alisimie
- Umunede-related communities

Ika North-East

- Umunede
- Igbodo
- Akumazi
- Ute-Okpu
- Ute-Ugbeje
- Owa-Alizomor
- Idumuesah

Ndokwa East

- Aboh
- Akarai
- Abala
- Ashaka
- Onyah
- Ossissa
- Ibedeni
- Ase
- Utchi

Ndokwa West

- Kwale
- Utagba-Ogbe
- Utagba-Ogbo
- Obodo-Uku
- Ogume
- Ndemili
- Abbi
- Utagba-Uno

Ukwuani

- Obiaruku
- Umutu
- Umukwata
- Ekuigbo
- Oha
- Amai
- Eziokpor
- Umuebu
- Ezeala
- Umuaja

These communities should not all be described as having identical dialects or customs. Enuani, Ika and Ukwuani are distinct linguistic varieties within the wider Igboid continuum. Delta State's official community profile also recognises these linguistic/cultural groupings.

---

2. EDO STATE — IGBANKE AND IKA COMMUNITIES

Igbanke

Igbanke is one of the clearest examples of an Ika/Igboid community located outside Delta and the South-East.

The traditional Igbanke settlement is made up of six villages:

1. Ake
2. Oligie
3. Idumodin
4. Omolua
5. Ottah
6. Igbontor

Sources identify Igbanke as an Ika-speaking community and connect its language with the Ika communities of Delta State.

The community also has several traditional rulers, including the Obi of Ake, Obi of Oligie, Eze of Idumodin, Eze of Omolua, Obi of Ottah and Eze of Igbontor.

Other Edo communities frequently associated with the Ika/Igboid borderland include:

- Ekpon
- Oza
- Iru
- Oghada
- Ogbahu
- Ugwu-Eze
- Iyenle

These should be individually verified before being described categorically as Igbo villages.

---

3. RIVERS STATE — IGBOID/IGBO-CONNECTED COMMUNITIES

Rivers requires particular care because several communities have strong independent ethnic identities, even where their languages are classified within the wider Igboid family.

Important areas include:

Oyigbo / Ndoki

- Oyigbo
- Asa
- Komkom
- Obeama
- Afa-Uku
- Afam
- Afam Nta
- Azusogu
- Egberu
- Mgboji
- Mrihu
- Obeakpu
- Obeta
- Obumku
- Okoloma
- Okponta
- Umuagbai
- Umuosi

These villages are listed in published Rivers State village records.

Omuma

- Eberi
- Egbelu
- Umerim
- Umuabali
- Umuagwa
- Umuakali
- Umudik
- Umudou
- Umukamanu
- Umunachi
- Umuokwa
- Umuolilo
- Umuoyoro
- Umuroke
- Umusu
- Umuwa
- Umuru-Ofeh

Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni

Important communities include:

- Omoku
- Erema
- Obagi
- Obakata
- Obite
- Obigbo
- Obosi
- Ogbogu
- Okwuzi
- Mgbede
- Aggah
- Ebocha
- Ndoni
- Ogu
- Odugili
- Ugbaja
- Umuigwe
- Umuorieke
- Utu

Rivers records contain extensive village-level listings for these areas.

Other major Igboid communities/areas commonly discussed in the wider Rivers-Igbo linguistic question include:

- Etche
- Ikwerre
- Ekpeye
- Egbema
- Ogba
- Ndoki
- Ndoni
- Obigbo

However, these communities should be identified according to their own preferred ethnic and linguistic identities, rather than simply being labelled Igbo. The broader linguistic relationship is a separate question from contemporary ethnic self-identification.

---

4. BAYELSA STATE

Historical/community sources have identified small communities associated with the wider Ukwuani/Anioma-Igbo cultural area, including:

- Osekwenike
- Abuetor
- Eke-Okpokri
- Anibeze

These claims require more careful village-by-village historical and linguistic documentation than the Anioma evidence in Delta. They should therefore be described as communities with reported Igbo/Ukwuani connections, rather than automatically classifying the entire surrounding area as Igbo.

---

5. AKWA IBOM STATE

Communities sometimes identified in connection with Igbo/Igboid populations include:

- Ohaobu
- Obuagu
- Ikot Udo Ika

Again, these should be treated as specific community claims rather than evidence that Akwa Ibom generally is an Igbo-speaking state.

---

6. CROSS RIVER STATE

Communities cited in historical/community accounts include:

- Osobo
- Ebom
- Ebiriba

Cross River is exceptionally linguistically diverse, so these communities require individual historical and linguistic verification before publication as definitively Igbo.

---

7. BENUE STATE

Communities cited in connection with Igbo/Ezza and related populations include:

- Umuezeokaha
- Umuezeokaha-Oha
- Amaeka
- Umuoghara
- Amaezekwe
- Orizor
- Ezza-related settlements

The Benue–Ebonyi borderland is particularly important because ethnic and linguistic communities do not necessarily follow the modern state boundary.

---

8. KOGI STATE

Communities cited in historical/community lists include:

- Odolu
- Onicha-Igo
- Ekeavurugo
- Ebokwe
- Nwajala
- Akpanya

These communities lie within a complex Igala–Igbo/Igboid borderland and should not be described as though the whole area were exclusively Igbo.

---

THE IMPORTANT CONCLUSION

This list should not be used to claim that every village mentioned has exactly the same identity.

The stronger historical argument is this:

The Igbo linguistic and cultural world is larger than the five states of the South-East.

There are:

Anioma/Enuani communities in Delta;
Ika communities in Delta and Edo;
Igboid communities in parts of Rivers;
and smaller historically connected communities in other neighbouring states.

Their traditional institutions are also independent.

There is no single monarch ruling all these communities. Asagba, Obi, Eze and other traditional institutions belong to individual kingdoms and communities.

Therefore, recognising a wider Igbo cultural region does not require abolishing local kingships or denying the identity of neighbouring peoples.

It means recognising the historical reality that Nigeria's political boundaries and its linguistic/cultural boundaries are not identical.

Different states.
Different kingdoms.
Different dialects.
Different traditional rulers.
But enduring linguistic, historical and cultural connections.

That is the basis on which a serious conversation about a wider Igbo cultural and developmental region can be built.

But they said they don't want to be under SE larger Ibo umbrella .

Can you respevt their decision

Says who ?

FSBoperator:
But they said they don't want to be under SE larger Ibo umbrella .

Can you respevt their decision

Get back iloron first

gigabyte13:
The dot in a circle people have started again......
They want expansion this time around
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Jokerssssssss

QuantumComputer:
They should just keep their Biafra away from Edo State. Here is the map of the Benin Kingdom before the British came and created Nigeria. The Igbos in Asaba as visitors that came over from the East.

Dont tell us online,go over to Asaba and tell them to vacate the land they occupy that it belongs to the Oba of benin

Na Edo born everybody yet you cramp yourselves into two local Government

Most commenters here have said nothing but only gibirish. Listen, balkanizing Nigerians into regions they ordinarily do not belong will continue to generate issues. River state is Igbo people, argue with your ground father. Then you left some Igbos in Edo, Kogi, Akwa Ibom etc and you expect their people not to come for them?

Hell no, return every language to their rightful places and see all regions agree to the restructuring else nothing works.

Period!

ariesbull:
Exactly these people are even the ones itching to be joined with the East because the Eastern Nigeria is one of the most progressing and developing region

People that said they will rather be under PANDEF which led to your so-called elders staging a walkout out of pure frustration of being rejected.

Smh... Una no just get direction ra ra.

FSBoperator:
The representatives to all these Igboid people preferred to remain under PANDEF umbrella

Why is Ohaneze now crying ?

Why are they angered and refusing to accept the decisions of the minority Igboid people in the SS?

You no be Igbo so how this news take concern you

Tribalism and bigotry can never make you see this type of thread and jump pass

Lol. They are all the same thing from Kanu to Obi.

You cant force people to be part of you. You would have to convince them that they are part of you.

Give us references for

FSBoperator:
People that said they will rather be under PANDEF which led to your so-called elders staging a walkout out of pure frustration of being rejected.

They can be very annoying....I don't know why Igbo issues give the nightmares

SeeWahala:
You no be Igbo so how this news take concern you

Tribalism and bigotry can never make you see this type of thread and jump pass

Angelfrost:
Smh... Una no just get direction ra ra.

But Yorubas that want Kwarans and kogites to join the South West have directions right?

This is a ploy to bring disunity to Nigeria from APC. It is a campaign strategy from aApc to make it seem dat Igbos dont want to be in Nigeria so they could be hated by other regions that won't work this time around. Tinubu must go

QuantumComputer:
They should just keep their Biafra away from Edo State and the South South. Here is the map of the Benin Kingdom in 1580 by the Portuguese before the British came and created Nigeria. The Igbos in Asaba as visitors that came over from the East.

Look at the fake AI map. Lmao

Bini, some Ijaws, Ibos (Nnamdi Kanu minions) and Fulanis are expansionists.

My hometown is in your fake map. I am not from Bini or Edo kingdom.

agadez007:
Dont tell us online,go over to Asaba and tell them to vacate the land they occupy that it belongs to the Oba of benin

Na Edo born everybody yet you cramp yourselves into two local Government

Very soon you will also claim that Igbos are indigenes of Lagos, because Igbos migrated to Lagos.

BATified2023:
Them don dey see say their agulu packaged fraudster no go win so them wan dey use idea go back to bia.........or death.



Clowns

igbo leaders are clowns? Ok na

QuantumComputer:
Very soon you will also claim that Igbos are indigenes of Lagos, because Igbos migrated to Lagos.

I can guess your tribe by this your senseless comment
It’s always your people