₦airaland Forum

CSTR2:
You have not answered my question since yesterday.
Who are the ''founders'' of the land that should claim these territories after the over 99% igbo population has left to the SE?

Enahi:
I have answered your question since yesterday, go through the comments I wont repeat myself

CSTR2:
I didn't find it on any of my mentions.
Please repeat yourself.

gimakon:
No need of ranting who's ibo and who's not. Like I do tell people, ibos are very proud and wonderful people am happy am ibo.
Let them claim yoruba, let them claim edo,let them even claim they are angels on earth, ibo man day chop belefull
The more you fellows continue to escape from being ibo, the more you continue to detoriate , because we ibos can never, will never and won't even ever go down. God has blessed us that almost every business done in Nigeria is done by ibos. So we don't need you people who come here and make noise that you are not ibo.

Ndi ibo, ana m ekele unu... chineke gozie Ndi ibo ibe m. kele nu Jehovah nihi n'odimma na ndu gi... gaba n'ihu!

Enahi:
Lol you so crazy, I ain't repeating myself am done with y'all

Enahi:
Because you are very daft and dumb you couldn't answer my question. I repeat do you Biafrans plan to cut off the territories you leeches are occupying in other States to add to your Biafra? Lazy as* mofos feeling funky, you aren't ready to get Biafra yet when you are ready we will know. I will personally make sure your Biafra start and ends in the East, you just don't know the power of mobilization do you? I will treat all your fuckups.

xtrorse:
Edo people have nothing to brag against Igbos.
Igbos have warned you repeatedly to stop coming online to seek unnecessary attention and to spew trash as if you're that important.

Cease hiding behind Niger-delta or SS to rant carelessly.

It's pathetic, shameless and futile to hide behind Niger-delta to be able to have your say!

You're sorely afraid that your numerous atrocities, treachery, backstabbing, greed, laziness, thievery and collusion in the Asaba massacre will catch up with you sooner than your ever imagined.

Stop creating unnecessary attention as if it is possible to compel an adult into an unwanted friendship or union. No matter what's seriously biting you lots you should try not being childish in your reasoning

FYI, the Igbo's quest are not for traitors, saboteurs or backstabbers, but for the hardworking, determined goal-getters!

This is a free world and so you are entitled to freedom of association. You are are free to merge yourselves with Yoruba, Urhobo, Itsekiri and any other interested ethnic group of your choice. 

Edo people should leave Igbos out of their misery!

It's in vain to come online disguising as appointed spokespersons for Niger-delta to attempt to quench the call for self-determination.

Channel your negative energies towards consolidating your OduaArewanistan republic where you're most needed as slavish subjects.

Your desperation is getting out of hand already.

laudate:
Nkóghérí onye ápárì bu onye àghùghò, nzuzu kpóró iyi! 

laudate, the hypocrite and the first-class delusional degree holder, you've been taking overdose Panadol for someone else's headache and now you've ran out of stock. 

You mischievously try as much as possible to hide your sentiments and bitterness towards anything that has to do with the Igbos/IPOB by wearing a toga of objectivity. 

It's time you stopped being unnecessarily bitter about Igbo affairs. Direct your negative energies towards OduaArewanistan republic where you're most needed as slavish subject. Cease displaying your cowardly, double-faced mien, and unsuccessfully defending the atrocious acts of your forebears against the Igbo Nation.

Just to help your paranoia, check the Phensic on your medicine shelf, it will go a long way in calming your strained nerves on Biaf...

AreaFada2:
You really don't get it. Most people talking here not even Benin people. But historic vassal anger against Benin is always obvious on threads like this. Sure a former imperial power should expect that. Britain has to live with it for example.

Benin won many wars in its time and were quite used to dictating terms of surrender to defeated lands.
So in 1897 defeat, Benin knew the consequences.

By 1914, Benin had agreed with the British to give up ex-vassal lands. One of the conditions for restoring the monarchy in fact. So nobody is claiming anyone. To what use is claiming Anioma? Absolutely none.

We are aware of the difficulties associated with heterogeneity/diversity in Africa today. Civil wars and more wars. Biafra just 45-48 years back. Boko Haram, Cassamance problem, rebels in Sudan, Lord's Resistance Army, etc.

We want to remain relatively homogeneous. Infact, a small independent Benin Kingdom of about 2 million people would be brilliant. Though very unlikely.

If Benin is so bad as you insinuate, I wonder why there are so many Aniomas in Benin. I even have some as tenants.

People should carry their anger and bigotry elsewhere and park well.

NOTE: I know people hardly read these days, but please read the book written by Olaudah Equiano also called Gustavus Vassa The African.

Published in 1789 titled "The interesting Narrative of The Life of Olaudah Equiano. He was a freed slave who became an anti-slavery campaigner. In his book, he identified himself as "a citizen of Benin Kingdom and of Ibo tribe".

doublewisdom:
Soon they will tell us Akwukwu- Igbo was originally Eweka- Edo.

CSTR2:
C'mon, you know we agree to humour each other. Don't break my heart now.
I seriously just want to know who you think the founders of those territories are.
I want to learn a thing or two.

laudate:
Yeah.... I heard about this. Did you also read about the massacre of civilians at Abudu, during the civil war??

Enahi:
You must be very stupid and daft, are you going to cut off the areas occupied by you leeches off those States and add them to Biafra? I repeat y'all migrated to those areas and when its time for you to go off you go. Are you scared of been treated like strangers and outsiders? You cant lay claim to what's not yours.

Your failed Biafra dream has made you people desperados, you have spread yourselves allover Nigeria in a desperate attempt to claim territories.


Lets watch how you leeches hope to add other States to your nonsense. Off to the East you go, you are not wanted.

onenaira3:
Why are you wasting your time asking that enahi fool to give you answer to something she pulled out of her @shawo @ss. When the fool told you asaba and co belongs to another tribe beside us that live there, that's when you should have known you're talking to a dimwit. Rather than actually go to school and learn history, she decided to be spreading her leg for old @ss Italian men. Abeg stop wasting your time. The only thing she's good at is sucking d1cks. If you want to talk to a smart chick with good head on her shoulders, there are several of them on NL but that one you are talking to isn't one of them.

IGBOPRINCE:
yu re silly too.ye parasite, Let me correct you. You evil children of ewedu.
Point of correction, we spread all over nigeria, so that we can make our money in every corners and environment of nigeria. Since you people re blind to see how good you can make your money from your home.

That s why we buy all your lands and turn it to no man's lands after purchasing it with our money. Lol

And that s why we re not poor, we re rich o only one igbo man can feed the whole of your tribesmen.

My take.

Enahi:
You are mad, you mother and sisters are prostitutes. Are you sure you know who your real parents are, I think you need to do a DNA to ascertain if you werent sold to them because that's what your women are known for.

Your useless old women that cant find Men to marry them because of greed for money.

How many babies has your sisters sold after sleeping with various Men?

You people are cursed including your women, I wonder how a woman will reach menopause before she is 30. Its only in Igbo land such things happen, no wonder Ibo Men prefer Ibo ladies that are in their early 20s for marriage. You people are seriously cursed.

Enahi:
You are just crazy, what money are we talking about here? You mean money you got from drug trafficking, baby selling, rituals and fake products? Tell me what the fu*k is good about you people? Nothing

onenaira3:
Why are you wasting your time asking that enahi fool to give you answer to something she pulled out of her @shawo @ss. When the fool told you asaba and co belongs to another tribe beside us that live there, that's when you should have known you're talking to a dimwit. Rather than actually go to school and learn history, she decided to be spreading her leg for old @ss Italian men. Abeg stop wasting your time. The only thing she's good at is sucking d1cks. If you want to talk to a smart chick with good head on her shoulders, there are several of them on NL but that one you are talking to isn't one of them.

gimakon:
No need of ranting who's ibo and who's not. Like I do tell people, ibos are very proud and wonderful people am happy am ibo.
Let them claim yoruba, let them claim edo,let them even claim they are angels on earth, ibo man day chop belefull
The more you fellows continue to escape from being ibo, the more you continue to detoriate , because we ibos can never, will never and won't even ever go down. God has blessed us that almost every business done in Nigeria is done by ibos. So we don't need you people who come here and make noise that you are not ibo.

Ndi ibo, ana m ekele unu... chineke gozie Ndi ibo ibe m. kele nu Jehovah nihi n'odimma na ndu gi... gaba n'ihu!

emmydeep:
Lies ! Never can anybody seize Properties belonging to the ALMIGHTY IGBOS.

Let them try it and see.

thiagoneves:
Chambers Dictionary (William Geddie, ed. 1962) says: “A nation is a body of people marked off by common descent, language, culture, or historical tradition: the people of a tribe.” However, S.O.L. Amadi-Nna (1993) avers that: “A tribe is a group of clans under recognized chiefs and usually claiming common ancestry. Ikwerre can therefore not be a clan but a tribe. The Ikwerres claim a common ancestor. Ikwerre is an independent small tribe.” In the words of K.O. Amadi (1993), “Traditions suggest that Ikwerre is a nickname given to Iwhnuruọhna people…..They have ever since regarded themselves as a distinct group and have happily come a long way in their struggle for self-identity as evidenced by the recognition of their language as one of the Nigerian languages.”

Amadi-Nna (1993) added that: “The Ikwerres are a small but distinct tribe. The Ikwerres have distinct linguistic, social and cultural traits and formations that distinguish them from other close neighbouring tribes like the Ijaws and the Ibos. Majority of the Ikwerre settlements have their roots traceable from the old Benin Empire.” Iwhnurọhna people descended from  the ancient Bini Kingdom. The name of the grand ancestor is Akalaka. Their relations in Rivers State are Ekpeye and Ogba people. The reigning Oba of Benin when Akalaka, the ancestor of Ihruọha (later called Iwhnurọhna) fled was Oba Ewuare (Ogwaro). Akalaka, a member of the Benin royal family, fled in the 13th century on allegation of plotting assassination of the Oba. He died in 1462. Iwhnurọhna his third son settled east of the Sombrero River by 1538 AD, as detailed below.

Chief N.M.T. Solomon (2004), native of Ikodu Ubie in Ekpeyeland, in his narrative draws heavily from the now authenticated written historical records delivered by various informed sources including “Eketu (Weber) of Ubeta, assumed to have lived for over two hundred (200) years as the oldest man in all Ekpeye, Ogba and Iwhnurọhna (or Ikwerre), at that time (and) was asked to narrate the history and customs of Ekpeye people” as unfolded in his lifetime. Here is what he said, which has been validated by the accounts of the current generation through responses to our questionnaires and direct interviews thereby increasing our level of confidence on the data:

Ekpeye, born in Benin, was the first of the three sons of Akalaka. While in Ndoni, he married a second wife to gain the love and favour of the people. The new wife gave birth to a son, which he named Ogba. Akalaka was still in Ndoni when his first wife, the mother of Ekpeye, gave birth to his third son called Ihruoha (Ikwerre).

Similar historical fact by J.N. Olise (1971) averred that: “Akalaka, a member of the Benin royal family, fled with his wife from Benin to Ndoni, a community located close to the River Niger, to save the life of his new born baby (Ekpeye) … While at Ndoni, Akalaka took a second wife. … Akalaka had two sons, Ekpeye – born to him by his Benin wife, and Ogba – born to him by his Ndoni wife. According to F.E. Otuwarikpo (1994): "After the death of Akalaka in 1462 AD, his two sons, Ekpeye and Ogba had conflict, which compelled Ogba, the younger son, to move northwards where he founded Ohiakwo (Obigwe) and settled with his family. Ekpeye who remained at Ula-Ubie had seven sons – Ubie, Akoh, Upata, Igbuduya, Ekpe, Awala and Asa. The last three sons – Ekpe, Awala and Asa – crossed to the other side of Sombreiro River (present day Ikwerreland and settled there since 1538 AD.” He added that: “Ekpe migrated to present day Rumuekpe and spread through Elele (Alimini), Ndele, Rumuji and part of Ibaa. Awala migrated to present day Isiokpo …” 

Amadi-Nna (1993) also said Akalaka migrated with his half brother called Ochichi from the area of Benin Empire. Ochichi sons were Ele (Omerele, now Elele), Elu (Elumuoha, now Omerelu), Egbe (Egbeda) and Mini (Alimini, Isiokpo).

The crucial point here, which is of great importance in tracing the joint origin of the ancestors of the Old Ahoada Division (in the Governor Diete-Spiff administration), is the mention of the number of children that Akalaka had, namely: Ekpeye, Ogba and Ihruọha (Ikwerre). It is noteworthy that the pedigree and name of Ikwerre people, Iwhnurọhna, obviously took its root from this original name – Ihruọha. Chief Solomon therefore establishes a very vital historical link, which has been missing in literature on Ikwerre origin that would assume more significance in the discourses of Ikwerre genealogy in the future – the fact that Akalaka was the direct father of Ihruọha (Ikwerre). Iwhnurọhna, in Ikwere parlance, means the face of the community (town, city or village).

Nigerian colonial history records that the name "Ikwerre" was given by the colonial administration when they wanted to acquire the Rebisi waterfront to build the wharf. Using an Ibo interpreter to talk to the illiterate Rebisi (Port Harcourt) chiefs, they asked them: Would you permit us to use the waterfront to build the wharf for ships to berth? And they answered: A KWERULEM, meaning - "We have agreed." What the white-man was hearing was "Ikwerre," so he recorded it in the official gazette that the IKWERRE PEOPLE have agreed for the colonial administration to build the wharf. And since it was the official record of government, the name Ikwerre became the name of the Iwhnurohna people in all official documentations till date.

Similar cases of Anglicization of native names in the Niger Delta region by the colonial administration are Benin for Bini, Okrika for Wakrike, Degema for Udekema, Abonnema for Obonoma, Brass for Gbara sni, Bonny for Ibani, Pepple for Perekule, Ahoada for Ehuda, etc

Even so, “… there were dissenting voices, … who believed that Ikwerre origins lay outside Igbo land, … in the Benin Kingdom of old. It is, therefore, obvious that the interminable debate about Ikwerre origins and migrations including the repudiation of the Igbo tradition is not a phenomenon of the post-civil war period. The controversy, as it were, is not necessarily the product of the present political realities wherein groups which hitherto were seen to have cultural affinities now find themselves in different states or administrative systems.”  -- K.O. Amadi (1993)

The Ogbakor Ikwerre Convention, a cultural organization of Ikwerre people, in a paper presented to the Human Rights Violation Commission headed by Rtd. Justice Chukwudifu Oputa on 10 October 2001, said: “Ikwerre ethnic nationality is not and has never been a sub-group of any other tribe in Nigeria including Ndi-Igbo. There is no doubt that the advent of the British and later regionalization put Ndi-Igbo at the helm of affairs in Eastern Nigeria. This brought Ndi-Igbo into Ikwerre land. In course of time, the Igbo took advantage of their position in the then Eastern Regional Government to grab land in Ikwerre and occupy political positions such as the mayor of Port Harcourt. In the process, Ikwerre along with other minority groups were marginalized and driven to the background.”

Professor Godwin Tasie noted that in 1913 the Rt Rev Herbert Tugwell, the Anglican Bishop on the Niger, undertook an experimentation tour of Ikwerre towns and villages assumed to be Ibo-speaking to test the Union Ibo Bible Nso being introduced in Iboland. "Tugwell discovered from the tests he carried out that although the Ikwerre were often regarded  as Ibo… the Union Ibo Bible translation, surprisingly, was not easily understood by the Ikwere." This is obviously why Igbo vernacular was compulsorily introduced and taught in all schools in Ikwerreland before the Nigerian Civil War to the assimilation (i.e. destruction) of the Ikwere language.

This also obviously led to the Rumuomasi Declaration in 1965. " … in their meeting at Rumuomasi in 1965 the Ikwerre had, under the umbrella of a highly promising new body that was to get the Ikwerre together as a people of new and clearer vision, they had declared themselves as a people of the distinct identity of Ikwerre Ethnic Nationality - not Ibo, not Ijo, not anything else but Ikwerre, Iwhnurọhna. This was the historic Rumuomasi Declaration of 1965 (G.O.M. Tasie, 2000). The full implication is that Ikwere people began to assert themselves forcefully as an ethnic nationality of their own and not Ibos or Ijos, and efforts were made to revert to the original Ikwere names for families, villages, communities and landmarks. For instance, there was the change from Umuola to Rumuola, Umuoro to Rumuoro, Umukrushi to Rumuokwurusi,  just to name a few.




T O N Y   E N Y I A,  PhD, MNIM                                                                        
CHAIRMAN, BOARD OF TRUSTEES
IWHNURỌHNA CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
Saturday, 5 February 2011

onenaira3:
LMFAOOOOO. I wonder if they will rewrite NRI history and claim NRI was Benin too. I'm actually waiting especially when the stark illiterate I was talking to earlier stated "was that Igbo attire?" after I posted the obi's pictures. NRI people should watch out cause I think a history distortion is coming there way.

onenaira3:
First I careless about Benin or your history.
Secondly, we all f2king know most of the ppl on this thread are not Edo but Yoruba. Even the OP himself is a f2king yoloba coward with several ids pretending to be Edo. We know that. The buf00n goes by the name mulattoclaro, spanishkid and several other ids like the coward he is and in all those ids I've lost count how many thread the coward has opened specifically on Igbo or Igbo groups. I lost count how many times the yoloba coward used you people to shield himself to insult Igbo.. Last I checked when have you people ever spoke up? When have you even tried to disassociate yourself from it? But when the aftermath comes and you fools are the ones getting insulted like that disgraceful coward South West clan wants, that's when you find your voices and start whinning that Igbo should stop insulting una.

Let me make it simple for una....since you turn a blind eyes when those people use una as shield and don't say shit like ijaws did, the Ibibio did, and even me and rest of anioma did, etc when they tried to use us as shield.. It simply translate you agree with them therefore, the aftermath they wanted is what una would get.

Continue letting the yolova cowards make enemies for una selves. Idk about anyone else but I know me personally I had no Ill feelings towards Edo or Benin people despite i grew up knowing about una history distortion tactics and wtf una did during Biafra war. Hell i had some of una as my friends but After being on NL long enough, I know personally I'm starting to see you people in the same category as I see those South West fools.

AreaFada2:
Well, when you see people subscribe to insults, hate, tribalism and bigotry, it is usually because they have NO knowledge of history. Any history or emperically reproducible facts based on dispassionate discourse and analysis.

I deliberately decided against ignorance and learn at every opportunity. Try it, it's very liberating indeed.

AreaFada2:
Well, when you see people subscribe to insults, hate, tribalism and bigotry, it is usually because they have NO knowledge of history. Any history or emperically reproducible facts based on dispassionate discourse and analysis.

I deliberately decided against ignorance and learn at every opportunity. Try it, it's very liberating indeed.

You often hear some Igbo spitting venom over Biafra and so called betrayal. Benin people were neutral to begin. Anioma people were still in Midwest cabinet and even still privy to meetings of SMC in Lagos. Until Biafra invaded Midwest and occupied Benin.

So, if you people are not solely allowed to write our history, it becomes distortion? Really? Through the Portuguese, the Dutch, the French and the English, Benin history and its territorial reaches were pretty well documented. But hey, we gave them up long ago.

But is not the same Anioma that Igbo East of the Niger don't really rally round to create a state for? With them preferring Adada and others?

Surprisingly, an Anioma just became governor of Delta State after 24 years, whereas an Anioma was first Premier of Midwest with full support of Edo people. I still remember childhood family friends from Anioma in top positions in goverment/civil service/Academia in Bendel. The Unukegwos, Ebies, Animeles and more. They did pretty well in Benin and were fully at home.

Enahi:
Jeez why are you barking? Are you sure you are ok.

onenaira3:
First I careless about Benin or your history.
Secondly, we all f2king know most of the ppl on this thread are not Edo but Yoruba. Even the OP himself is a f2king yoloba coward with several ids pretending to be Edo. We know that. The buf00n goes by the name mulattoclaro, spanishkid and several other ids like the coward he is and in all those ids I've lost count how many thread the coward has opened specifically on Igbo or Igbo groups. I lost count how many times the yoloba coward used you people to shield himself to insult Igbo.. Last I checked when have you people ever spoke up? When have you even tried to disassociate yourself from it? But when the aftermath comes and you fools are the ones getting insulted like that disgraceful coward South West clan wants, that's when you find your voices and start whinning that Igbo should stop insulting una.

Let me make it simple for una....since you turn a blind eyes when those people use una as shield and don't say shit like ijaws did, the Ibibio did, and even me and rest of anioma did, etc when they tried to use us as shield.. It simply translate you agree with them therefore, the aftermath they wanted is what una would get.

Continue letting the yolova cowards make enemies for una selves. Idk about anyone else but I know me personally I had no Ill feelings towards Edo or Benin people despite i grew up knowing about una history distortion tactics and wtf una did during Biafra war. Hell i had some of una as my friends but After being on NL long enough, I know personally I'm starting to see you people in the same category as I see those South West fools.

DelticStephEn:
was up bro.
I'm back.
hope you remember me.
Good work you been doing for d Anioma nation.
I Activated my account again after being provoked by some tout here like spanishkid,Enahi,thiagoneves and co

AreaFada2:
Well, when you see people subscribe to insults, hate, tribalism and bigotry, it is usually because they have NO knowledge of history. Any history or emperically reproducible facts based on dispassionate discourse and analysis.

I deliberately decided against ignorance and learn at every opportunity. Try it, it's very liberating indeed.

You often hear some Igbo spitting venom over Biafra and so called betrayal. Benin people were neutral to begin. Anioma people were still in Midwest cabinet and even still privy to meetings of SMC in Lagos. Until Biafra invaded Midwest and occupied Benin.

So, if you people are not solely allowed to write our history, it becomes distortion? Really? Through the Portuguese, the Dutch, the French and the English, Benin history and its territorial reaches were pretty well documented. But hey, we gave them up long ago.

But is not the same Anioma that Igbo East of the Niger don't really rally round to create a state for? With them preferring Adada and others?

Surprisingly, an Anioma just became governor of Delta State after 24 years, whereas an Anioma was first Premier of Midwest with full support of Edo people. I still remember childhood family friends from Anioma in top positions in goverment/civil service/Academia in Bendel. The Unukegwos, Ebies, Animeles and more. They did pretty well in Benin and were fully at home.

DelticStephEn:
was up bro.
I'm back.
hope you remember me.
Good work you been doing for d Anioma nation.
I Activated my account again after being provoked by some tout here like spanishkid,Enahi,thiagoneves and co

IGBOPRINCE:
hahaha..

But guy this write-up go make her vex na..
And if you make her vex, there will be scarcity of open and close.
So go easy with your words on her.

She go outburst you for dis kind tin wey yu yan o

Enahi:
Hehehe you will soon deactivate it again if you don't stop mentioning my moniker.