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Bellfun:
Good! Now you too can lay claim to the throne vy reason of your mom! ...oya na...

lol... You just wan put me for trouble ba....

khalids:
Who compiled this.......So the south west does not have ethnic groups....

i tire o.. was busy looking for mine till i saw it summed up in 'yoruba'. what a flawed compilation

Smellymouth:
Nope.. Proudly hausa

alryt. 4rm k.d too nt hausa though

Junior66:
They are Igbos in Kogi. If you no know ask. Come to Kogi lets go and see dem.

I an right in Kogi and an indigene at that. Which part of Kogi state are the indigenous Igboo? Is it Akpanya in Igalamela? Any Igbo person you meet there is a settler. At Ete in Olamaboro LG, any Igbo man you meet there is a settler for business too.

Abajosax007:
lol... You just wan put me for trouble ba....

Trouble bawo?... We'll have a "His Royal Highness Abajo..the saxist 1...

AK6464:
Bros, Benue is where I grew up, yes few Igbos own properties here and there, there is no Igbo settlement in Benue, they all travel back home for Christmas

Wch part of benue did u grow? Did you grow up in all the local Govt and you know all d communities.?

TheRealAdonye:
Not complete..

There are way more.


Mine isn't even there.

Nna, Awards?

Bellfun:
Trouble bawo?... We'll have a "His Royal Highness Abajo..the saxist 1...

hahaha.... I no want o

urhobo wado....................

Ekpeye of Ahoada West Rivers state is not in the list, I declare the list incomplete

184

Number 39 is not from niger , is from kwara north.

eshietIntrepid:
Strength in are diversities, but on a second thought all these ethnics groups in one country and u expect peace.

Honestly I think nigeria should be divided .

Go and bring your KNIFE to divid it

greatjoey:
I an right in Kogi and an indigene at that. Which part of Kogi state are the indigenous Igboo? Is it Akpanya in Igalamela? Any Igbo person you meet there is a settler. At Ete in Olamaboro LG, any Igbo man you meet there is a settler for business too.

Akpanya people are native Igbos. The people of Akpanya speak Igbo as first language, and not Igala except they travel out of the town. The natives are Igbo Christians but there are many Igbo settlers there who are Muslims who converted to Islam and migrated from other areas to the tow due to religious freedom there.

Also, the people of Eke Avurugo (Afulugo) in Kogi state speak Igbo as first language. The village of Odolu is bilingual in both Igala and Igbo.

Yes, there are native Igbos in Kogi state (in Igalamela and Ibaji LGAs). Let us learn to keep facts straight.

Visit this thread if you need more information: https://www.nairaland.com/3443446/igbo-speaking-communities-kogi-state

FisifunKododada:
Incomplete: there is a Yoruba group in Delta state. FACTS ARE STUBBORN MUTHAFVCKERS

They are Igbos now.

Op your list is yet to be completed is better you edit it then add Kakanda

Abuchiski14:
Is Benue an Igbo State too?, pls throw more light. Mean while you have done a good job.
Highly educating.

slysteel:
Stop arguing their are igbos in benue,some of you just stay in lagos and know nothing about your state,that's how one anambra boy was arguing that they don't have igala people in anambra,their are even idoma and igala in enugu too.

Yes, they are called the umuezeokoha people spread across 4 LGAs of Benue state and speak an Igbo dialect similar to that spoken in Ebonyi state. They number up to 1 million people.

Wailings of a forgotten Igbo clan
Antiquities often suggest that Olaudah Equiano, first emancipated Nigerian slave and writer some two hundred years ago, may have hailed from this enclave. But far from sufferings in the hands of slavers like Equiano, Pa Alo’s pain stems from the seeming total abandonment of his clan and clansmen by the authorities.

“Our children have not been immunized over the years, let alone have we seen polio eradication programme. Our women do not even know what a hospital looks like when they are pregnant because there are no hospitals to attend and yet we have up to 32 polling units.

“We have even called for more polling units because we are more in number, more than the present one but the government refused. At the recently concluded confab, there was nobody to speak for us,” the octogenarian lamented. Wailings of an Igbo community over marginalization may not be strange.

In fact, since the ending of the civil wars, people of the South East extraction have railed against being shortchanged whether the claims are real or imagined. But Umuezeokoha’s case is peculiarly different.

Traditionally, Igbos are mainly the original settlers in the South East and some part of the South-South. But the Umuezeokoha are Igbos of the North, having as much as four local governments in Benue State. namely Ado, Oju, Okpoku and Obi, residents in these local councils are ethnic Igbo and collectively known as the Umuezeokoha people. There are over one million of them spread across the four local government areas.

Before the Nigerian civil war, they lived a happy and meaningful life, mingling freely with their kith and kin in the state. But today, things have fallen apart for them. Instead of the joyful songs, they were used to, they now sing dirges.

The Benue Igbos are not happy over what they perceive as deliberate neglect by successive government, both state and federal.

For them, the belief is that the entire four local governments should be excised from Benue and joined up with the rest of their kith and kin in the South East. Ironically, the people share the same Benue South Senatorial Constituency with Senate President, David Mark.

By origen, however, Umuezeokoha Community, share kinship with Ezza Ezekuna, kindred are found. According to the President, Benue Igbo Union, Mr. Nweke Cedrick Ifeanyi, his people are wallowing in poverty and neglect and are often denied democracy dividends, including obtaining local government identification letters for employment in and outside the state.

Historical background of Igbos in Benue Mr. Nweke said the Igbos in Benue State; particularly those in Ado, Oju, Okpoku and Obi Local Government Areas were in existence before the advent of Christianity in Nigeria. But since then, he lamented, they have not been recognized by successive governments both at the state and federal levels in both Ebonyi and Benue states. He believes that Umuezeokoha people’s plight must be as result of their refusal to lose their identity as Igbo.

He draws parallel with the Ikwerre people in Rivers State who insist that they are not Igbos despite cultural and linguistic affinity.. Umuezeokoha community is in the present Benue state and comprises of over 300 villages of Igbo speaking people.

Ado, Oju, Okpoku and Obi are local government areas that are part of the newly proposed Apa state, which the Idoma have been calling for. The plan is to add the Apa as one of the states in the South East so as to equate the zone with others with six states each. But the people recall a time when things were not the way they were.

“Before independence and the Nigerian civil war, which lasted for about three years, we used to experience government attention to the extent that the missionaries then established one local primary school at Umuezeokoha community which comprises over 300 villages of Igbo speaking people at that time.

The school was generally accepted by our elders then and we did witness medical attention. “But after the civil war, we in the entire 300 Igbo-speaking villages in Benue State have been dumped by the Nigerian government,” further explained the president general of the tribal union. He further went on that it is worse for those in Benue South Senatorial District. “We have never experienced any government attention, let alone a project from the local, state or federal governments up till date.”

The Igbo Union President also disclosed that a place with a population of over one million people has no designated political ward, no councillorship representative neither at the local government level nor at the state government level despite their voting population.

He said even Senator David Mark and Governor Gabriel Suswan have been winning all their elections in the area. Mr. Nweke also narrated how their children die in large numbers because of lack of immunization, which he said they have never witnessed since the return to democracy.

He also painted a gory picture of how they were swindled of N6,000 each for insecticide treated mosquito nets, which were given free to neighbouring communities by the federal government. “We are lacking so many things, including a health centre, political ward, good roads, good water, and electricity.

There is no salary earner in our place to the extent that the mosquito treated insecticide nets given freely by the federal government was sold to us at the rate of N6,000 each. Some even paid without claiming it till date,” Nweke said. “All our roads are narrow; we do not have any motorable road in our area at all, last time when we visited the local government chairmen and complained about the issue of selling mosquito nets to us, what they said was that the era of mosquito nets had come and gone.

This attracted exchange of gazes, and the question whether we are still a part of this country. Imagine as we are in this dry season, we hardly see water to drink, wash and cook, talk less of taking a bath. Before we see water to do something, one has to trek up to 30 kilometres to a place where there is unpurified dam water. In this place, you must queue up in a line before it will get to your turn,” he said.

Another member of the community, Chief John Nwali also narrated the ordeal of the people in the hands of successive governments in the state, adding, “Sometimes we do lament whether we are different from other human beings created by God. Some of them that claim to be natives of the state mock us by telling us to wait for benefit from government only when the Biafran nation which we fought for comes into reality.”

http://nationalmirroronline.net/new/wailings-of-a-forgotten-igbo-clan/

Bellfun:
Your mom is from Odolu... That's good,i hope they'll have a peaceful selection from within...i don't wanna see a repeat of what happened after the time of Oba.D.O.Aka...

That's cool. What languages do Odolu people speak?

eshietIntrepid:
Strength in are diversities, but on a second thought all these ethnics groups in one country and u expect peace.

Honestly I think nigeria should be divided .

I don't think so. Can't you see the number of ethnic groups. We will continue to divide for a long time because some people will still not be satisfied.

bigfrancis21:
They are Igbos now.

Will you sharrap ur mouth

WinningSun:
izzi, Ezza, afikpo no dey there.

Afikpo is part of the igbo nation. I am Igbo

AK6464:
Watch your choice of words pls

Meaning? If you wanna live in fear, do it with your village people

Mine 117. Great anetuno's!!!

Nice one guy!

Cross River state have the highest ethnic groups in Nigeria.
''Quote me any day''.

WinningSun:
they are not igbo. they have their distinct Language.

Sorry dialect... I'm Ijebu, a Yoruba.

371, wow.

No wonder there's always turbulence in the country.

Where is Ikwerre ?

giles14:
according to Ndi afonja there is no Igbo in delta ,river, c.river ,a.ibom,Benue,kogi,bayelsa,Edo.
heritage bank y u wan give did pple heart attack

No Igbo in Akwa Ibom

Ournaija:
Calm bro,

I have met indigenous Igbos from Benue state even Kogi. I didnt`t believe it until I researched. Do you know that there are Igalas in Anambra state. Try and know your country.

you are right about that Benue part. Igbo's villages are in the border areas btwn Enugu and Benue and thus stretches out to benue

DRPMJ:
No Igbo in Akwa Ibom

There is. In Ikanafun LGA.

bigfrancis21:
There is. In Ikanafun LGA.

Be delivered from land grabbing in Jesus name

This list is wrong where are the igalas of enugu and anambra, and when did Gokana become a different tribe from Ogoni, this heritage bank people must be smoking something