The story did not add up logically. Jacob and moses are centuries apart. And so is christianity and the jihadist. It is absurdity brought foward when people of southern nigeria will always want to be identify with fugitives from foreign land. History estabished the fact that these foreign fugitives met people on ground. War more than any other factors had been the reason why people were displaced in history. And because we have rely much on creation acount of middle east, reasoning have been discarded on begging questions. How can we explain why subsahara africa is the home of world dark people? We may never know how we get here, but our children should be proud of here like the black americans are proud to be americans.

Warris this ?
No be Israel again ?
Abeg i no be Egyptian joor.
As far as am concerned, we all fell from the sky. Lol.

Confused man.... Egypt ko, Turkey ni..

the christian bible is marred by historical inaccuracies and distorted representations of our past, many questions are left unanswered, yet people claim they are rooted to biblical upshots. bunch of confused monarchs.
this was how they gave up our traditions and cultural heritages and were brainwashed to embrace the european and arab religions. today they don't even know who their real ancestors were, all they know now is isaac and jacob. the lost generation of Africa.

that red cap chief is high on drugs and alcohol. The igbo's never originated from anywhere, we've been across the niger since creation. God specially created and kept us there.

Zedric: Though the man appeared to show off his knowledge of the bible, there are things that just didn't fit;
1) Is he saying that Jihad started in Egypt?
2) is he saying that the isrealites stayed peacefully in Egypt b4 they finally realised they were slaves?
I think he knows the origin but not the turn of events that led to that. Igbos are from Egypt, Yorubas from Mecca, waiting for the Hausas to come and prove their origin if they can

Most accounts say that Bayajidda
came from Baghdad, traveled across the Sahara, and
arrived in the Kanem-Bornu Empire, where he
married a local princess. Tensions with her father, the
king, forced him to flee; leaving his wife in Hadejia,
where she delivered his first son, he made his way to
Gaya, where he had the local blacksmiths forge him a
knife. With this knife and his sword, Bayajidda
proceeded to the final point on his journey, the city of
Daura, where he slew a serpent that had been
terrorizing the townspeople. In gratitude for this
heroic deed Magajiva Daurama, the local queen,
married him. He had one child, Bawo, with Daurama,
and Bawo's own children are said to have gone on -
together with a child of his first wife - to found the
seven Hausa states. While some scholars believe that
Bayajidda was a historical figure, others hold the
view that he did not actually exist, but is instead a
personification of a group of immigrant people from a
more or less distant region.

overhypedsteve: you must be a very foolish igbo man foe saying this, every tribe seeks to unravel the mystery behind its origin, the fact that we the igbos have a controversial theory, does not mean we shld stop researching, i am now thinking of even going to egypt and sudan(seat of kush,black dominators of ancient egypt) to do my own research, #wemustknow

Goodluck on your search bro. While your mates seek ways to progress humanity at large,you seek a history you will never know!
Bon voyage and sorry if I hit a nerve bro. Am really sorry.

Nice one!

ICHINONYE: [b] Jacob wrestled with one of the angels and the angel told Jacob that from now, you are Israel. So, Israel – the children of Jacob – were subjected to slavery and they prayed to God. God answered their prayer and then, there was an exodus.

They left Egypt and these children of Eri, Gad were part of the exodus. They arrived at a big sea and when Moses struck the water, the sea divided into two and they were able to pass through. Though, there was a calamity as the Pharaoh of Egypt at the time used his chariot to chase them so as to take them back. You know fully well that God did not allow Moses to enter the Promised Land.

When they came to River Jordan, that was where Moses handed the covenant over to Joshua. Now, the responsibility of guiding the Israelites was then on Joshua. That covenant placed in the River Jordan was very significant because God told Joshua to remove 12 stones from that river and those 12 stones represented the 12 tribes of Israel.

Now we are talking about the 12 tribes, we are talking about the tribe of Eri because Gad was the tribe that begat Eri. After suffering, some of them went back to Egypt and they were so tempted by the difficult position those Islamic Jihadists pulled on them.

The children of Eri refused to be converted to Islam and they ran away from Egypt to Nnubia and to other places. Each area they went, these jihadists kept on conquering the places. Nnubia was another parallel empire to Egypt as they had Nnubian Pharaohs and Egyptian Pharaohs that fought several wars. After the wars, Nnubia became extinct and later turned to the present Sudan nation.

That was the area where Eri and his devotees stayed and after the fall of Nnubia, they had to take off again and started moving down south, looking at a place where those jihadists won’t attack them. They became refugees and the children of Eri later arrived at a placed called Jutkom, southern part of Kaduna but presently in Taraba State.

Again, the jihadists visited them and conquered the place and they kept moving towards the Nile basin. They preferred moving on the river basin where they could always get food and water.

They later arrived at the first confluence of River Niger and Benue and wanted to see whether they could live there, but the jihadists came and conquered the place.

In their movement towards the southern side, they arrived at another confluence. This confluence was the tributary of River Niger and Benue known as ‘Ezu na Omambala’. When Eri and his devotees arrived at this place, dressed in Usman Dan fodio kind of regalia and were so tired, they tried to settle there.

Though this area was every small and there were no commercial activities there, they decided to stay there. But they did not settle at the front water because of their previous experiences of attacks. They moved five miles inside the region of the confluence and settled in the interior.

They were only four in number and they cleared a small space and started life there. They named the place Eriaka, meaning the home of Eri. Eri begat children there and assimilated the people living around despite their civilised exposure.

Already, the first question posed to Eri by the people living there was: “Who are you?” Actually, there was difficulty in language but when the question was thrown, Eri answered them, ‘We are Igbos’.

http://www.today.ng/news/ndigbo-originated-from-egypt-jacobs-son-is-the-father-of-nri-monarch/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter [/b] below is the Pic of His Majesty, Eze Obidiegwu Onyesoh, MFR, the traditional ruler of Nri kingdom

this is total bullshit

phayvoursky: Na wa o.

Igbos are from Israel, Igbo are from Egypt, Igbos are Jews. where are we from sef?

Very soon another man will come up with Igbos are GERMANS.

exactly, bunch of confused people. the red cap man did't even know if jacob truly existed, or not. this is the effect of religious indoctrination.

I thought they migrated from SOMALI

dnawah: we dey there and everywhere already.no country in the world way,igbo no dey and marry and get pikin there.if we come back 9ja no go enter us o!

Hehehe, good 4 una @least una wan become world power, ni?

Chinaimporter: [size=18pt]My respect to his royal majesty but i would put a basket on my face as i say he is very wrong.The true origin of the igbos lies in the sumerian city of ur near the site on ancient babylonia.the igbos establist the ubaid dynasty headed by the great igbo king meshanepada who built a ziggurat in honor of the great god nnanna(also called nanna in sumerian and sin in akkadian) who asked the igbos to migrate to other part of the world to spread civilization in the then young world. Igbos then invented the first alphabet called the cuneiform and left babylon under an igbo family called the Akadians who where the ancestors of modern arabs,Ethiopians and jews through a former sheperd of igbo orign called abraham.
The igbos then migrated to perisia which they civilized and gave her first royal dynasty and their god called Ahura mazda(i hi ura mu aza gi meaning he who answers me in my sleep)
From there they went to ancient egypt where they civilized and gave her first pyramids and also sent a delegation th civilized the barbarians in the north called the greeks.it should be noted that some of the greatest greek men where igbos eg aristotle(erie asi tolu uto), pythagoras(bia ta ara) achilles( aku ili) etc.
The igbos also enslaved the isrealites in both babylonia and Egypt and after they got tired of the city life they migrated to eastern nigeria while civilizing the Nubians, yorubas,fulanis etc on there way.it should be noted that oduduwa and bayegida were all igbos in oduduwa case yoruba legend holds that he is a fair man from the east. The igos are not desended from jews or egyptians rather thses people are all desended from the igbos and and unbiased historical evaluation would prove that [/size]

lolllzzz. Yeh,my tommy o. I haff died oh...
Bia ta ara, hahahahahahaha.
Epic comedy I must say!

Must people adjust their history to fit the bible? Scientist has proven that human existed million of years ago and Africa was the birth-place of mankind.

Ppl shud kip kuming up wit difrnt researches 4 scrutiny. Its beta dan the dude dat fell frm d sky. And 4 those those who read only d title n comented trash, note dat isrealites lived in egypt for centuries. Eri was an isrealite born in egypt, dats wat he was saying

frleopardo: that red cap chief is high on drugs and alcohol. The igbo's never originated from anywhere, we've been across the niger since creation. God specially created and kept us there.

Please let's choose our words carefully. The high Chief should be respected. I carried out extensive research and discovered that the Igboman has a lot in common with the Jews to suggest he is a Jew. I want to concentrate on Hebrew words that mean the same thing in Igbo language. 1 remove consonants from some Hebrew words, you will. get the same meaning in Igbo language. eg Bethel; remove th and you have Be El which means house of El in both languages. 2 Kolu means voice or neck in Hebrew. remove the consonant k and you are left with Olu which means voice or neck in Igbo. other words are ADA first daughter in Igbo, MAZ Hebrew, MAZI Igbo meaning Mister in both languages. JEREMIAH means who will go for me? Igbo says 'je re m ya' meaning Go for me. ISAIAH means he has answered. Igbo says I za ya meaning you have answered him or her. I can write a whole book on that. Next time I have the chance, I shall write on cultural similarities.

garyaustin: Please let's choose our words carefully. The high Chief should be respected. I carried out extensive research and discovered that the Igboman has a lot in common with the Jews to suggest he is a Jew. I want to concentrate on Hebrew words that mean the same thing in Igbo language. 1 remove consonants from some Hebrew words, you will. get the same meaning in Igbo language. eg Bethel; remove th and you have Be El which means house of El in both languages. 2 Kolu means voice or neck in Hebrew. remove the consonant k and you are left with Olu which means voice or neck in Igbo. other words are ADA first daughter in Igbo, MAZ Hebrew, MAZI Igbo meaning Mister in both languages. JEREMIAH means who will go for me? Igbo says 'je re m ya' meaning Go for me. ISAIAH means he has answered. Igbo says I za ya meaning you have answered him or her. I can write a whole book on that. Next time I have the chance, I shall write on cultural similarities.

The hebrews descended from the igbo's then.

This story didn't just add up. Talking about Eri the son of Gad and grandson of Jacob coming to Nigeria two. Centuries ago is like you are simply dreaming. Is it thesame Eri who live more than and died more than 3000 years ago? Next topic please

Nonsense.

Damyion: What is this one saying again?

You can't understand cos you are a typical African man

i no fit shout.

Dem don Born am d tym we Migrate from Egypt

All tribes, languages and people originated from Babylon during the construction of Tower of Babel. End of story

Igbo folklore believes that the whole black world originated from Igbo area. I don't know how these people would allow white men to distort their brain to this level. This King is trying to twist the culture of his ancestors. Well, all Igbos are not of same stock. Some are of same origin as Ibibio/Annang/Ejagham/Ekoi others are of same origin with Edo, others are same with Ijaw, others with Igala and Idoma, some with Yoruba etc. This Eze obviously belongs to the Igala stock of Igbos.

immediate i read "two centuries ago" at d begining of his answer i stopped. Chronologically errorneous with a difference of 3.5 to 4000yrs.

victorazy:

Yes! Everything in Africa started from Egypt.
Yes! Even the bible said it that "they complained to Moses that they were living well in Egypt than in this desirt"

There may be truth in what he said cuz even the red Igbo caps are being wore in Egypt.

No, not everything Africa started from Egypt. Egypt itself started from West/Central Africa

EMMASON125: Myth about Oduduwa:
Some claim he landed with the head and that made him go psycho. This explains the genes that have been transferred to his offsprings like Becomerich, Musiwa and Bkbabe.

Others like Strangerf claim he was let down from the sky with a chain. I tend to beleive this aspect as only criminals and mental patients are likely to be put in chains. This explains why Oduduwa's children always tend to dip their hand in the public till among other crimes; Tafa Balogun, Adenika Grange and Bode George being recent examples.

Yet others claim he was among Lucifer's squad that was cast down from heaven for plotting a cup against the Almighty. Little wonder they have always participated in failed coups. Ask General Diya (the weeping general) or Awo (who committed suicide cos his coup plot was exposed.

And what concerns Oduduwa with your history
Confused soul
Don't go and trace ur history

Eri from Egypt, since 3000BC yet he arrived igboland in 1000AD
Igbo people na wa o

So mumugerians are Egyptians now hahaaaaaa deluded madaphuckers

1) Is he saying that Jihad started in Egypt?
2) is he saying that the isrealites stayed peacefully in Egypt b4 they finally realised they were slaves?
I think he knows the origin but not the turn of events that led to that. Igbos are from Egypt, Yorubas from Mecca, waiting for the Hausas to come and prove their origin if they can[/quote]

Zedric: Though the man appeared to show off his knowledge of the bible, there are things that just didn't fit;
1) Is he saying that Jihad started in Egypt?
2) is he saying that the isrealites stayed peacefully in Egypt b4 they finally realised they were slaves?
I think he knows the origin but not the turn of events that led to that. Igbos are from Egypt, Yorubas from Mecca, waiting for the Hausas to come and prove their origin if they can

[quote author=Zedric]
yorubas has been in existence b4 oduduwa cme..just that oduduwa is our hero.ok?

Is quite unfortunate that our traditional rulers are misleading us. Pls u better go to the late HRH igwe Osita Agwuna's grave and ask for forgiveness . maybe is only Agukwu people that are from EGYPT please, not the rest of umu nri