olisaokere: I am from Delta State.Ogwashi ukwu precisely.I speak igbo,i have an igbo name.My elders from the same lineage all had igbo names and surname.Our Igboness has never been in doubt...I am proud to be igbo...If you are truly from Asaba,you will know that ANIOMA is a Coinage used to identify igbo speaking people of delta state from the local government in delta state and to seperate them from other ethnic groups like ijaw,itsekiri,urhobo and the rest.these local government includes Aniocha,Ndokwa,ika,oshimili and OMA was added to make it have a meaning ANIOMA (GOOD LAND)...There are many notable sons and daughters from this region(ANIOMA also referred to as western igbos) who are proud of their roots.The likes of Late Ambassador Ralph Uwechue incase you never knew was one time President General Ohaneze Ndi Igbo.Notable persons like Ngozi Okonjo Iweala and many more others have never denied their origin...Recently During a BBC interview with the billionaire Ned Nwoko who is also from the igbo part of delta state,He categorically stated that he is igbo.Omu of anioma from Okpanam in one of the videos posted on her facebook wall,you will see her praying for biafra land,prayed for igbos in the south east and south south.She wouldnt do that if she is confused about her igboness.Ngozi Okonjo Iweala in a publication stated that she was hated in Aso rock Because she is igbo.Again clearly you can see she knows her roots.incase you dont know,Her father was the OBI of Ogwashi Ukwu.You claim you come from Asaba,Did you watch the interview the Obi of Asaba Prof.Chike Edozie granted the BBC??if not search for it and hear what he had to say about the asaba massacre during the war.
In as much as we have some individuals who claim not to be igbo(even though deep down in them they know they are igbos) from this region,but i can authoritatively you that majority of our people are proudly igbo..its evident in igbo groups both home and abroad as all igbos irrespective of the geopolitical zone are bonafide members.Over the years our people from the igbo part of delta state have been flaunting their igboness
we know your type..we always refer to your type as individuals having identity crisis.in case you have not,please read this book written by the OBI OF IDUMUJE UNO HRM CHARLES ANYASI "ANIOMA:RESOLVING IDENTITY CRISIS" i recommend not just you but everyone reading this post irrespective of ethnic group.By the way Idumuje Uno is in the Aniocha North LGA of delta state.and the Author is a custodian of the Kingdom.If he thinks he isnt igbo,he wouldnt have come up with that book..
What Pius Anyim said isnt out of place if you ask me as we are talking about geo political zones here.If you give south south a position,equally south east should get irrespective of the fact whether its igbo person from south south..Sadly after the civil war,the nigeria government made sure igbos are scattered or lumped with other non igbo states.
I hope you get the point now.
God bless you brother but me mindful of most impostors here... many of them aren't even Igbo but come here to sow seeds of discord among brothers with fake accounts, I've busted lots of them here before.
privaldo: Yes, I have noticed the level of distrust among both sides. The Igbos from the South South feel those from the South East would want to dominate them, and those from the South East feel those from the South South are lesser Igbos. I hope to bridge that gap in the nearest future to build one strong Igbo race in Africa and all over the world.
We can start now by creating a social networking interface to have an open discussion between the SE and SS Igbos, the years of bad blood needs to be resolved. I can create a networking site and then we can go from there.
ablejesus26: The Ohaneze and Se Governors will be launching a regional security outfit for Ala Igbo before April ends I tell you dis from a reliable source when the Orlu ballyhoo, rancus and hurry-scurry occurred I called it fake at first but was gobsmacked when I call home to confirm the news
Esn is a good idea but as long as it's coming from dat scammer it's automatically becomes a militant group
[quote author=EdoDefence post=98591945][s]Flatin0 your republic remains online
Land grabber, Anioma is part and parcel of Ẹdo, see as you dey drag them and them dey claim Benin, shame no dey catch una [/quote[/s]
Osanome no be to dey claim empire online, enter any Igbo speaking part of Anioma if e sure for you and tell them they are Edo, na for inside calabash dem go return that your rumpled head back to your Oba . Edo is part of Biafra whether you like it or not, talk too much and we will send boys from just one local government area in the East to wipe out the whole Benin race
EdoDefence: Flatin0 are you with sense at all? No wonder your republic remains online
This Yoruba wanna-be minority man sef wan follow flex At least we get republic, Edo is known for absolutely nothing of note besides cultism, international Libya/Italo ashawo premium connection, witchcraft, and forever been stuck in the fecal matter of Yoruba history as una kukuma no get any history
Common logic has rubbished his arguments. How can you migrate from Benin and leave your language, names, culture, food behind. Aniomas even eat the same food as the igbos. What that means is that the Benins dropped their inferior language, food, culture, names, looks for a superior igbo ones
That's because Edo history is replete with fantasy tales that defies the basic concept of cognitive thinking...I wonder how their irresponsible Oba and his predecessors were able to scam them to believe the rubbish tales they do so well to project. They still can't explain(without drifting into brainless tales) how a people they claim came from Benin and are Benin suddenly lost all possible traces of their Benin roots like language, names, culture, and value systems, is it that the Igbo genes/influence they inherited over a period of time was so strong that they got completely immersed and forgot every fundamental trace of their Benin attributes? for better use of clarity there are Igala people currently that are part of Enugu and Anambra states, despite the fact that they have been largely Igbonized... those Igala people still retain some aspects of their Igala heritage even in the way they speak and in the names they have. I've posited this simple question to all their overzealously dumb historians and they still can't come up with one useful explanation...because they know the truth... but choose to ignorantly grandstand cause they are ashamed to admit they were the grand usurpers of other people's historical legacies, everything about them from their names to their Oba were stolen from the Yorubas who later conquered them.
ablejesus26: 80% wow I am mind bogglingly bamboozled
if that should be the case as you think then Ala Igbo should be on a high level of dishevelment
ipob was proscribed and relegated to social media nothing happened
kanu said there will be no election in Ala Igbo but people still came out to vote even in his hometown Afara Ukwu Umuahia
Ipob is just a sect headed by a scammer and his Esn a militant group dat will be flushed out
Ipob remains proscribed in Ala Igbo
I'm not a fan or member of Ipob, I'm only concerned about the the security of my people from the one threat we all face nationwide... and for that I 100% support ESN. Good luck flushing out ESN, dem dey inside the Eastern forests so go meet them and do the flushing out.... the ones before you who dared it never returned to tell the tale.
Anioma161616: Count me out from conversations with deluded people who set the bar of proof for your claim to be as high as: "if you can not even do time travel then you know nothing". Yet they set the bar of proof for themselves very low.
Delusional igbo supremacists.
Why not go meet the likes of Ngozi Okonjo Iweala and tell her she's not Igbo? you Edo minorities are so damn irritating, the napoleonic complexes you suffer from have sadly clogged your sense of reasoning. Igbo and Edo have absolutely nothing in common, go meet your Yoruba masters who taught you your language, civilization and culture and learn more about your history instead of grandstanding on some imaginary Igbo territory you will never get even in your wildest dreams!
Paying homage to the Oba doesn't make them Igbos you Mo.ron! The Scots, Irish, Welsh still pay homage to the Queen of England, does that make them English? use your brains this fraudulent Edo man
Anioma161616: 1) I think anybody with half a brain would understand just by reading both our comments that you are the one whom is lacking in intelligence, so i will let your comments show this fact themselves, I do not need to accentuate it. 2) Not all lands which are now inhabitated have always been populated. Some of them were part of the forest before. 3) Some lands were inhabitated by an entirely diffrent people at a certain period of time, those people migrated and some other people came to occupy the land, your assumption that the land was always inhabitated and that the people currently on it are direct descendansts from the first humans to live on it is incredibly stupid at best. 4) I don't want to speculate, there are many possibilities for any given thing, that is why I don't pretend to be a time traveler. To the best of my knowledge, Anioma is an edo people just like esan, Afemai, Urhoba, Isoko, Ikwere...
Stop quoting me and asking the smae questions.
There's a reason why the only thing Edo history can cling to as its heritage are brainless theories, inane myths, cooked up falsehoods, and folklores/historical revisionisms devoid of common sense. There's also a reason why your people will remain stuck as a tiny one state dwelling minority with only an imaginary empire that will never happen. You have provided no existential and cognitive evidence that Igbos in Anioma are Edo besides the Edo influence they have due to years of interactions, intermarriage and of course inter-relations with their Edo neighbors... suffice to mention no single Anioma traditional leader even in all the videos you stupidly posted proved they said with their own mouths that they are Benin, paying homage to the Oba of Benin was simply because the Benin kingdom as I earlier stated had a sphere of dynasty that influenced parts of the Western Igbos, you're so insufferably daft that all you've done so far is spin and conjure useless postulations and wild theories that still can't explain why the large parts of Anioma speak Igbo, answer Igbo names, and claim to be proudly Igbos. You Benin minority delinquents are so useless that you now want to carry your revisionisms to lay claims to Lagos, but Yoruba people kukuma no dey even waste their time engaging you irritants... I blame Igbos who condescend themselves so low to engage you clowns. Edo state is a piecemeal of Yoruba, Igbo and most recently Ijaw conquest... that's why Ijaws are now rightfully laying claims to Gelegele cause you're not even indigenous to the landmass you presently occupy.
Anioma161616: 1) you are clearly wasting my time and rehearsing questions which i have already answered. 2) there is no such thing as igbo-varaiant, rather there are several different languages which you guys have found convenient to call igbo-variants. 3) "Irabor" is an Edo name (funny you ignored that), Oba is a japanese word (and also an edo word), but the oba of Benin is not japanese, or is he ... there are an infinite number of reasons why people of today were named the way they were named. I tend tp not take that as an argument because it doesn't prove anything. 4) you clearly have nothing to contribute, I believe you know that you are talking nonesense. i shall ignore you from now on.
Just the reply I expected, deflecting as usual into pointless drivels, can't even directly answer a simple question
Anioma161616: Actually, you seems to not be very smart. As I said, I am not a time traveller, I can not tell you something which wasn't recorded by anybody. Also, as I keep telling you, it is very possible that there was no such thing as Anioma people before the creation of Benin ! Also you don't seem to understand that I do not agree with your claim that Anioma people ever existed independently from Benin. To me Anioma are exactly the same as Esan or Afemai or Urhobo...
You're not a time traveler, then STFU if you can't use your sawdust brains of yours to understand the basic concept of aboriginal languages of a people before any external influence(s). How stupid of you to allude there was nothing as Anioma (which is a political nomenclature)... so which people occupied the lands they currently do now? or did those Western Igbos just manifest out of nowhere to occupy those lands? Which people did the Europeans meet? I've met some intelligent Edo people but stop disgracing your entire tribe and lineage with your inherently embarrassing stupidity.
OneTemplate: Lol. So the millions of spare part grease monkeys and street hawking Igbos sef dey "buy up abule" in Lagos.
You Igbos are finished. That you continue bragging after the advent of social media has discredited your 'developer' noise just shows you guys are hopeless.
Without those spare part grease monkeys, you won't have the auto parts to drive your car functionally... be grateful Egbon Rashid . What do we have to say about the milions of Yoruba "Owo mi da" miscreants sprawling out into social nuisances all over the South wastee? I think that's where the main problem lies my brother.
Anioma161616: 1) What we call Benin today is different from what we called Benin in precolonial days, precolonial map of Benin below: 2) Language similarities exist between Edo and Igbo languages. Also, it is self serving to claim some languages which have some similarities with igbo are actually igbo. No they are languages in their own right, they also have similarities with many other languages. 3) You gues tend to use population effectifs as justification for everything and that is wrong, there are several reasons why there would be similarities between different languages of different people today. For example english borrowed many words from the languages of the nordic tribes. English borrowed words from french and even german... 4) the last time anybody with half a brain tool the language=family theory seriously in europe was in ww2 when ignorant hitler was claiming poland based on the fact some polish people spoke german. The world has grown wiser since, apparently nigerians didn't.
For the sake of clarity, common sense and simplification of facts... You still haven't told us how these so called Edos from Anioma answer Igbo names, speak a clear and undiluted Igbo variance but intelligible dialect of Igbo, dress like Igbos, practice the traditional Igbo 4 market days etc... is that the Igbo genes they "inherited" were far too superior to their original Edo genes that they suddenly woke up one morning and couldn't speak a word of Edo or bear Edo surnames? When I ask Edo delinquents this simple question, they revert to changing the topic or cooking up fallacies just to further exacerbate the crookedness of their bare faced lies.
OneTemplate: Lol. Trust me you will cry if I start taking pictures of your brothers Shinedu, Shukwudi, Shukuma and Shukushuku hawking face-mask and rat poison all across Lagos and posting it online. Delusional mofo.
Egbon Rashid, Shukwuma isn't your problem, Shukwuma is just a product of the Nigerian system of survival of the fittest...so he's using his economic advantage over you to buy up your father's abule... while the Fulani are using the more crude and savage means of conquest by forcefully flogging your Oba's and taken over your lands .. choose your poison wisely!
3) don't ask me what language Anioma spoke before Benin empire was established, t$it is possible that there was no such thing as Anioma people before Benin Kingdom was establihed, anyway I don't have a time machine so I can't answer that silly question.
4) You can't prove something while you take that thing as an assumption. And you are taking your claim of anioma being igbo as an assumption to prove that same claim. Therefor you are not reasoning properly.
5) The fact Anioma traditional rulers practice Benin tradition is actually very significant since the palace is the place in which the tradition of the people lasts the longest. And this clearly shows that Anioma are Edo. It is a very big deal.
The highlighted has killed off the rest of your pointless rants already, so you can't tell me what language those Anioma people were speaking before they came under the influence of the Benin kingdom? don't you see how stupid the whole discourse and argument is then?
solmusdesigns: Occupying brothels and doing street olosho isn't building dynasty
The biggest olosho's in Nigeria are your sisters, that's why you dominate the porn industry in Nigeria. And your men created maagun because of the promiscuous nature of the Yoruba woman. No other tribe came up with maagun except for Yorubas, e get why
aribisala0: When you own your wife you own everything in her? Does a wife take her children to her father's house?
Christmas in Eboeland is a time to showcase acquired civilization like speaking Yoloba and asoebi by Onye Ragos
Thanks to Emeka, your lazy brothers who wake up in the morning to line up in front of his shop to beg for small change can now feed at Iya Mufbau's buka , at least we are not the Fulani forcefully taking over Odua by dismembering your people, flogging your Oba's and raping your women like is the order of that day in Ile Yoruba
OneTemplate: Lol. Threat of Lagoon lasan and all your cowardly leaders in Lagos went to dobale to those who own Lagos.
Fashola shut Ladipo and grown ass men were crying up and down like babies.
Empty noise, to then eat humble pies after, is all Igbos are known for these days. Non more indicative of this empty noise and cowardice than your Oga IndecentStar who fled dressed as a woman after bragging non-stop for days. Lol. You IPOBians are shameless I swear.
From Ladipo to Ajah, Festac, Alaba etc Yeebos have taken over and forced your people back to the slums. Even Hausas now have their own colonies in Lagos. Then the Fulani are taking over the rest of the South wastee... you are slowly but surely becoming a conquered people, soon to be an endangered specie.
OneTemplate: Lol. You are the one with a medical condition it's called inferiority complex mixed with juvenile delinquency. At your age still striking through the writings of others brattishly. Grow up toddler.