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TheLawTheLegal:
The same way it pains me to hear Igbo names like Chibuike Amaechi, Peter Odili, Elechi Amadi, Chinda Dike, Ifeanyi Okowa and people classify them as none Igbos because of the useless country that is poised in dividing and ruling us.

Daslim180:
She Is still looking pretty at her present age..... Unlike the "cucumberians'

BakireBulmaker:
It's not the same thing.

For whatever reason, it's the bearers of those names themselves that claim they are not Igbo.

However, northern Yorubas have never denied their Yoruba ancestry/heritage. All they are agitating for now is to be joined to the SW.

Got it

TheLawTheLegal:
Kogi is in the Southwest? What book have you been reading?

[color=#1980BC]Kogi is now the north?

So which states do we have in the middle belt mister legal? [/color]

Kockane:
Back when beauty was not about nudity and immorality but more about the strength of your character and the content of your mind.

Beautiful Okun Yoruba woman.

What pains me the most though is, you will see someone named Oyelude Atinuke yet she will be termed a northerner by virtue of our colonial masters' erroneous geographical classification which no one has bothered to rectify till date.

We okun people are Yorubas and deserve to be classed with our kinsmen in the West, not made a negligible minority in the North!!!

Kockane:
Back when beauty was not about nudity and immorality but more about the strength of your character and the content of your mind.

Beautiful Okun Yoruba woman.

What pains me the most though is, you will see someone named Oyelude Atinuke yet she will be termed a northerner by virtue of our colonial masters' erroneous geographical classification which no one has bothered to rectify till date.

We okun people are Yorubas and deserve to be classed with our kinsmen in the West, not made a negligible minority in the North!!!

TheLawTheLegal:
You failed to understand why some of them refused to be identified as such.

It happened after the civil war. The Igbos became a conquered territory and it was very difficult to be Igbo then - your property were declared abandoned, you were entitled to 20pounds only, no matter how much you had in the bank, you were alienated from the government and military. So some people denied their roots by quickly changing their names.

In the case of Yorubas in the north, nobody would want to be from the north, who has the opportunity of identifying with other tribes. North in Nigeria is synonymous with everything bad - lack of development, extremism, illiteracy and what have you. The Yorubas in the north were merged to kogi in order to achieve a purpose- the expansion of the northern oligarchy.

So you see?

By the way, what is painful in being called a northern as a Yoruba when you guys so much love one Nigeria? Deal with it.

We have a lot of problem in Nigeria, we only care about the ones that we think affect us.

One Nigeria indeed.

solace2013:
When compared to Miss Nigeria 2016, you'll see that we missed it somewhere. unclothedness is a virtue today, little wonder the country is in recession.

EdoNation:
So Kogi has always been in the North!! Norbe tday

SEEDORF441:
She is from kogi, represented north at dat time, how come her name is yoruba name.

naijaboiy:
[color=#1980BC]Kogi is now the north?

So which states do we have in the middle belt mister legal? [/color]

NubiLove:
The Okun people do NOT claim to be Yoruba because they want to avoid being called a Northener... they are actually Yorubas that got separated from the main Yoruba clusters of state starting from a war with the Nupes in the 19th century. The Okun people speak dialects of Yoruba language and also the popular general Yoruba language...

The Okun people's traditions, customs, dressings and culture are exactly like Yorubas... they can still trace their roots to Ile-Ife by oral traditions.

You get it... they have NEVER denied being Yoruba for any reason and have always insisted they should be in a Yoruba state... the other Yoruba groups see them as Yorubas!

PS: I am also a big supporter of fix Nigeria's problem instead of breaking Nigeria up.

BakireBulmaker:
It's not the same thing.

For whatever reason, it's the bearers of those names themselves that claim they are not Igbo.

However, northern Yorubas have never denied their Yoruba ancestry/heritage. All they are agitating for now is to be joined to the SW.

Got it

Niyuu:
Just wondering.... What does unclothedness have to do with recession?

TheLawTheLegal:
Ikwerre, Obigbo, Omoku, Ahoada, all in rivers state, speak variants of Igbo. The Igbo of Obigbo people is clearer to an Enugu person than the Igbo of an Owerri person.

Like I said before, the reason some of them deny being Igbo is that they don't want to be associated with the stigma already placed on the Igbo nation.

I bet you, if the north was not this backward, oozing with violence, and if the South west was not relatively stable as it is now, the Okun people in Kogi will not even remember their root in Yoruba.

Identity crisis is the height of inferiority complex and that is what the Ikwerre people are suffering.

Mind you, the present Secretary general of oha na Eze Ndigbo is an Ikwerre man. Some Ikwerre people like him still have sense.

Paretomaster:
How?.....she is Yoruba, but born and brought up in Kano, thus representing Kano state, so how does that Tag her a Northerner?...

BakireBulmaker:
It's not the same thing.

For whatever reason, it's the bearers of those names themselves that claim they are not Igbo.

However, northern Yorubas have never denied their Yoruba ancestry/heritage. All they are agitating for now is to be joined to the SW.

Got it

TheLawTheLegal:
Ikwerre, Obigbo, Omoku, Ahoada, all in rivers state, speak variants of Igbo. The Igbo of Obigbo people is clearer to an Enugu person than the Igbo of an Owerri person.

Like I said before, the reason some of them deny being Igbo is that they don't want to be associated with the stigma already placed on the Igbo nation.

I bet you, if the north was not this backward, oozing with violence, and if the South west was not relatively stable as it is now, the Okun people in Kogi will not even remember their root in Yoruba.

Identity crisis is the height of inferiority complex and that is what the Ikwerre people are suffering.

Mind you, the present Secretary general of oha na Eze Ndigbo is an Ikwerre man. Some Ikwerre people like him still have sense.

Nowenuse:
She is from Kogi state and Kogi is classified as NORTH CENTRAL!

NubiLove:
If Ojukwu ran away to Ivory Coast like a woman to escape death does that automatically mean every high ranking military man that is Yoruba would run away when faced with the possibility of death

TheLawTheLegal:
There is nothing like middle belt in Nigeria legally speaking, what we have is north central.

We have
1)Southeast
2)southwest
3)south south
4)northwest
5)northeast, and
6)north central.
These are the six geo-political zones in which Nigeria is divided.

Benue, Kogi,Kwara etç fall under north central and that is why the same penal code which is applicable in the northern Nigeria, also applies to them.

I know that Nigeria has a problem and that is why Biafrans will, rightly though, say that Igbo speaking parts of Rivers,Delta, Cross River etç are Igbo and belongs to the Ndigbo.

I can still kindly educate you further.

[color=#1980BC]She is not from the north Oga. And it's funny you think anyone who calls someone an afonja is Igbo.

Educate yourself further instead mister. [/color]

Kockane:
Back when beauty was not about nudity and immorality but more about the strength of your character and the content of your mind.

Beautiful Okun Yoruba woman.

What pains me the most though is, you will see someone named Oyelude Atinuke yet she will be termed a northerner by virtue of our colonial masters' erroneous geographical classification which no one has bothered to rectify till date.

We okun people are Yorubas and deserve to be classed with our kinsmen in the West, not made a negligible minority in the North!!!