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temmytanny: i love fb lik mad cos it has reunited me wit old pals of 20yrs and more.while most of u are busy lookin for women,i make money by advertisin my works to my over 1000 friends and friends's friend all 4free....the only issue i av is the xposure of my profile to FBI and CIA bt stil i av no skeleton in my cupboard

+10000 thank you that's the reason why facebook surpassed all others it reconnect proper and facebOok has been a miracle in ma life to get back to old school pals which I run tins wit till today

temmytanny: i love fb lik mad cos it has reunited me wit old pals of 20yrs and more.while most of u are busy lookin for women,i make money by advertisin my works to my over 1000 friends and friends's friend all 4free....the only issue i av is the xposure of my profile to FBI and CIA bt stil i av no skeleton in my cupboard

+10000 thank you that's the reason why facebook surpassed all others it reconnect proper and facebOok has been a miracle in ma life to get back to old pals which we run tins wit till today

Obiagu1: [img]http://newsmailonline.files./2010/10/picture-1222.jpg[/img]

Bros you read in the earlier post igala traditional attire has lost its occurence in the people today due to religion and other forces but that does not mean the tradition is lost never ok if you believe the type of clothes worn in this pics are only worn by hausas what about the auchis in edo north and also some yoruba dress dis way ok all is due to muslim influence ok the late attah was a muslim so he has dis turbaning and he has been ruling also the ochi idoma also was turbanned except the tor tiv because the islamic jihadist was not able to enter tiv land and force islam on them.
And let me tell you the southern igalas also wear red cap just as you igbos or aniomas do wear ok the same infact igalas close to anambra do wear it

Wait wait dem never do award for this year headies or even nominate dem don dey give wizkid award for next rated what kindda rubbish is all dis fucking people , so they are trying to compensate him now just because he did not win any ever since haba nigerians mr ayo weetin na only wizkid dey nigeria Pls he should no longer be nominated for next rated anymore.... Ojoro headies yeye award

SamAfrik: Nairaland gaining!
Facebook dropping!

Look at this birdbrain how can you compate facebook with nairaland na who know nairaland apart from nigerians hiss

Look facebook is the best social media ave ever used I don't give a Bleep if its fallen in shares with amerrica dat one na america wahala am just an end user and I use it to acomplish my aims ok see una mouf no be small boy mark zukerberg create am and it made him facebook forever and twitter is only for jokers I know dat

You see americas problem gunfire by youth , innocent lives gone that's is mainly carried out by white americans ,

Micheal moore said it in his best seller -the stupid white man -

" The problem of this world is caused by the white man "

Shame white america

teminoni: Plz, ignorance is not an excuse. Because u don't believe in illuminati or because u have not seen proof of it, doesn't mean it does not exist.

-Firstly, illuminati is simply worshipping the devil for worldly riches. it has been in existence even since the time of Jesus. As Jesus was tempted by the devil to bow down to him (devil) and get the world and all its glory.

-2ndly, people sinning now 'can/might' still be forgiven on judgement day as long as they believe that Jesus is the risen son of God and they repent of their sins (adultery and so on). But when u know Christ alrdy, and u believe in him, but then turn around and start worshipping the devil and u die without confessing and repenting, then it is very likely that u'r going to hell.

-3rdly, Free mason is different from illuminatti. Like I said earlier, ignorance is not an excuse. If u don't know about these things, please go and do some research.

-4thly, I know there are many atheists here who don't believe in Jesus, devil, heaven or hell.. Well, we all have a right to believe in anything we want. But don't say cuz u can't see it or cuz there is no proof of it that means it does not exist.

Well for ur 4th statement who told you that place exist since there is no proof so you can just believe things like hell or heaven and not everybody that don't believe in hell or heaven are aethiest ok and lemme clear you illuminati is the highest chain when you are a freemason its like a pyramid from lower to the apex ok

Well na now wey him don die dem dey remember am shit shame to kwara state also to oyo state also infact why would he be remembered with a golf course ....na wa for nigeria ooo can't they build a statium and name it after the legend or rename an existing stadium or even a boulevard

Well nigerian soldiers are too angry and they believe they are above the law , this is a country where police can fight nave and army can start a fight with police they all hate each others and instead of work hand in hand ,I have witnessed several clashed between police and army officers.

I wonder if things like this happen in ghana or even. The western world

Haaa dis country na wa ooo hungry dey weller before and jonathan wan top am up with increament of bread ooo boyz go carry gun ooo wat a president +++OOOOO lard

Billyonaire: Illuminati and the allied organizations are mystical enlightenment organization, there is nothing wrong with the question for deeper underlying knowledge of the Universe, these half-knowledged pastors have a way of damning other knowledge based and sentencing anyone to in-existent Hell. There is no Hell Fire.

Thank you bro +10000 and the useless brainwash pastor -10000
You see all this people speaking of hell or heaven are just day dreamin and anticipating a place that does not exist , your hell is on earth and your heaven here ok ,
Pls if I had chance to be in this freemason thing I will because of knowledge and power after all what is my existence on earth born poor and die poor too bad

What Kind Of Dressing Is This? You Wear A Wig As A Dress In Public?

fashion and women gone crazy

Michellin I feel you only promote threads that are mainly igbos yorubas and other majority tribes here I have been experiencing this I posted a thread about the fallen agaba idu attah of igala which is suppose to be in the culture section and it never went to the front page not until the next day I saw the ame topic posted by another person in the politic section and it made the front page why why why. Are you too slow to post

joelala: and who told u they weren't given notice prior to the evacuation exercise? pls next time take time to read other post and get informed b4 busting out ur ignorance.

Ol boy you dey work for fashola well is it right to just evacuate poor lagosians without providing alternatives for them did the community not vote

Andre Uweh: The above threads are brainless. I said that other groups were resettled in Lagos. I did not jump to my group at the beginning.
What a shame that some people will starts some threads without sufficient knowledge of the thread only to allow others to deliberate on it.
It is very shameful.

You said it in ur post trying to merge igbos as a returnee slave that settled in lagos bros and you were proved wrong no vex I beg igbos no dey I beg ok oya sorry

Obiagu1: What would one expect to happen when Igala people dress like Hausas?

For ur information igalas don't dress like hausas we have our own attire its just that trough time it did not follow up with the culture but its a stripe of yellow and black and its just like every african native attire so how does an hausa man dress tell me or is it because the agaba idu the great who has fallen asleep is a muslim - FYI he is the first muslim to be an attah ok and very educated ok yes we know some igalas are muslim but the ones found in southern kogi down to the river niger shores and close to anambra. North are predominantly christain ok

Rabiu Anka: If u like make u go hug transformer northern leaders are brother's keeper. Gawon, Shagari, IBB, Buhari, Gusau, Atiku, , Sambo, Mark, Tambuwal, Useni, Jerry Gana, Ciroma, SLS, El-rufa'i, etc .

I beg no put david mark there he is a middlebelt man ok and @exponential your eyes need eye drop blind cow

Gmail is the best email service in the world Yahoo is a big time loser but as for the sms thing don't think I will subscribe ooo because I already route my gmail to my blackberry and if any email comes in I reply well sms may not need internet sha umm

Haha ol boy well its good sha you were trying to help with your heart that's the heart of a man but no girl will ever go to that length to help a boy like dat they always think all boys are made and its bad for naija gals

But how did this make the front page sef

dagreen14: Guys picture are photoshop,

I hate it when fools like this just come up with the word photoshop evertime if you no dey hear you no dey see road

Do they tell you all this politricians are enemies its a lie on a round table they smile big time to demselves and pop moet and champagne and share money but on newspapers headlines we see stories upon stories

Andre Uweh: @the poster, your emphasis is only on the Yoruba recaptives. History tells us that not only yoruba groups were resettled in Lagos. Make it general please.

Igbos haha this guy is funny ooo na everywhere you must include ur tribe funny guy

PhysicsQED: lol, is that so?

1660s?

Anyway, good article. The Igala kingdom was indeed one of the more prominent states in precolonial Nigeria. But on the Igala kingdom, did they actually defeat the Jukun, and if so, when?

And what was the extent of the "Nupe empire" at its height?

Pls don't ask me I am not here to argue ok

jaybim: dude park well joor... D man has been out of political circles lately cos he's been feeble wit age... Didnt he flirt wit audu durin d later's term as governor? Dont come here n paint him like a saint.. N wat has he really done EVEN in igala land? Do try to b objective n without prejudice. Besides must we all know him? Do u want to compare him wit d likes of Alaafin of oyo or d oba o benin or ooni of ife? Igalas always want to sound like their tribe is mega, u r still a minority, know dat.

Mr man what's ya wahala with what he has done in igala land are you living there or an igalan so why will you know more then the indigenes -before he slept he is the longest living monarch in Nigeria and the most educated ok amongst . Who cares about minority or majority that won't take you anywhere pls read dis

https://www.nairaland.com/993235/igala-nation-prominent-pre-colonial-nigerian-entity

THE IGALA-NATION AS A PROMINENT PRE-COLONIAL NIGERIAN ENTITY.
READ THIS ARTICLE AND TELL US YOUR OPINION
History has it that the igala-kingdom is one of the nine well entrenched kingdoms that existed in pre-colonial Nigeria,with its historical and well celebrated seat of power at idah where tha Atta,Agabaidu cuts the short.History equally has it that the Igala kingdom span from the present day Koton-karfe to Onyedega in Ibaji and its sorroundings which include part of present Anambra north in Anambra state,it also extend to the present day onyagede and north-western part of Idoma land and the entirety of present day Igala-land.
Prior to the advent of colonialism and British particularly in Nigeria,the then existing Nation-states were the Sokoto caliphate,The Karnem -Bornu empire,The greatest Kwararafa Empire,The undefeatable Igala-kingdom,The Nupe Empire,The Oyo Empire,The Benin Kingdom,The oil rich People of present day south-southern Nigeria and The republican Igbo people.in pre-colonial African societies,just like medieval Europe,wars of conquest and liberation were recurring decimal with Nations trying to lord it over each other,the igala-nation was not immuned to this, rather she was engaged with her neighbours at one time or the other,oral history in Igala land has it that the great hausa-nation expandist queen Amina died on the shores of Koton-karfe on the account of Atta’s soldier in an attempt to stop she and her army from entering and infiltrating the Igala kingdom.history also has it that the igala-nation defeated the Benin-kingdom in a fierce battle in the 1660’s where the statue (eju-abeju-ailo)) which is been worn by successive Atta was confiscated as a mark of humiliation of the famous Benin-kingdom.The igala-nation stood tallest amidst the commitee of pre-colonial Nigerian Nations after her historical defeat of the Aku-uka’s army.which mark her absolute independence as a sovereign Nation,she was revered to high heavens till the advent of colonialism .
At colonialism,after her conquest by the British regiment between 1880- 1901,which was achieved after fierce resistant and battle by the then Atta,the Igala-nation became part of what was to be later known as protectorate of Northern Nigeria as a native authority( Igala Native Authority),this singular event mark the begining of a cycle of endless decline in value and prosperity to the Igala-nation and people.it is regretable to note that as a uniting nation-state within the protectorate of Northern Nigeria,the prosperity and development was remarkable and intimidating,she was the richest in cultural heritage and identity,the second richest native authority within the protectorate owing to the booming oil palm trade ( oil was and is still produced in commercial quantity in Igala-land),with the Kano native authority as the richest as a result of the trans-sahara trade.Above all,the Atta ,his kingdom and subject were held in awe and reverence by all the neighbouring entities.
This state of affairs persisted untill the partition of the native authorities into provinces and the subsequent recognition of emerging nation states within the northern protectorate( the Tiv nation having gained her independence from the kwararafa empire was the first to be accorded recognition and empowered by the Huasa-fulani backed colonial masters to weaken the kwararafa empire),at this point of province delineation,the first crack in the unison,might,sense of identity and unity ofpurpoe of the igala-nation and people appeared.in emerging thirteen provinces,a nation with the foregoing status whose existence as a sovereign entity was recognised generally in Africa was considered not consequential enough to be a province,rather a vast percentage of her landmass and people was merged with the relatively unknown okun-yoruba and Ebira to make up the Kabba province with its centre of administration at Kabba while the remaider were cut up in the Oji-river province of present day Anambra State and Benue province of present day Benue state.This act orchestrated by the Hausa –Fulani oligarchy and perfected by the British was meant to checkmate the ever surging influence of the igala-nation and her Kwararafa sister state who suffered similar treatment.
By this act,Idah the centre of igala civilization and seat of power became desolate and decay set in,the igala-nation began to loose her sense of selfpride and identity,her unity of purpose was diffused and a negative precedent of complacency with bad governmental policies and programms set in.The Igala monarchy and her people accepted this act without any form of protest and has ever since lived at the mercy of successive governmental administrations.The protectorate of Northern Nigeria’s capital on her soil at Lokoja (though sold to the Queen of England) was relocated to Kaduna , yet there was no protest,governmental institutions and amenities were been cited without regards to this noticeable entity within the protectorate(which subsequently became Northern Region of Nigeria).
The ugly trend continued through the pre-independence preparation era when the Igala-nation was engrossed in internal leadership sqaubble by the then educated elite who have formed an alliance with the aim of removing the then vibrant Atta Ameh Oboni,consequently,the Igala -Nation paid little or no attention to developmental and resource allocation issues .After this period, sucessive administrations begining from Tafawa Balewa down to Sani Abacha have created states and other minor entity of administration,yet the Igala-nation has been treated with impunity and inattention,she suffered total neglect as the farthest entity from the seat of power in the days of Northern region with Kaduna as its capital city,the State creation exercise of the Gen Gowon era took the Igala-natiion off to Kwara with Ilorin as its capital,there she remained an outsider and played second fiddle roles to people that hitherto rever her.
The igala-nation was again merged with the Tivs and Idomas of the old benue provinc e to make up Benue state in the wake of state creation in 1976,this was not done in response to her agitation,rather it was meant to balance the conditions of creation in favour of the Tiv nation.it should in summarily be stated here that it was in old Benue that the loss of identity and sense of purpose of the igala-nation became revealing.she lost her cultural traits including her attire.(i grew up to see our elders in achi,traditionally weaven dark adire),her festivities have over the years been discredited as diabolic and jettisoned,no rallying point or generally acceptable elderstateman, her values regarded as inferior and her people treated with disdain . The believe in negative spiritualism such as witcraftry and charms were extolled and her people negatively labelled thereto.The end product is that though the Igala-nation has divinely albeit accidentally ended up as the rulling tribe in Kogi state where she was originally encycled and sentenced to perpetual domination by the powers that be,she remain one of the two pre-colonial Nation-State with her jukun brother of the ancient kwararafa empire yet to have a state or a state capital on its soil in a nation of thirty six states including a federal capital territory.she remain the only well populated entity in Nigeria without any form of cultural identity or image(i have visited the office of National tourism development corporation,NTDC on several ocassions on the account of this research to find out whether there is any Igala cultural artifacts with the corporation and why it is not been showcased as those of other nations,but record reveals none),no trace of cultural attire as stated earlier,i have as an Igala activist partook in numerious igala function such as the Ittalo annual festival,Igala-day of Igala Students Association in several schools and more and noticed that why we gather in most of these functions as igala sons and daughters,we are often regretably dressed as either Hausas,Yorubas,Igbos,Niger-deltans and or even the Tivs thus underscoring the fact that we are a people without an identity and as a Nigerian elderstatesman and Hausa fulani apologist Yusuf sule Maitama once rightly said
‘a people without a culture,is a people without an identity.a people without an identity is a people without a future’
This has always been manifest to any preying eye that even in our leadership of Kogi state,our chequered mentality albeit inferiority complex has rubbed off in our affairs,thus we have failed or refused to foist our identity on kogi as it is practiced by other majority in the Nigerian arena(the Hausa-fulani,Igbo and Yoruba’s identity and culture including languages are been foisted on other minorities) while at the states level nations such as the Tivs and Urhobos have given us clue as to how majority tribes identity should be popularised as that of all.I watched on the NTA live broadcast with pity( for myself as an Igala-son,the igala nation and the duo of Drs Ahmadu Alih and late Steven Achema the two illustrious igala sons who have always tried to popularise the igala-traditional attire) the kogi state presidential campaign rally of president Goodluck Jonathan were contrary to established protocol,the president and his entourage including our own son and Governor Ibrahim Idris were all dresed in green-white green agbada as against the traditional attires of the people of the varrious enclaves they visited,this is a testimony of our lack of or lost of identity.
The identity question or challenge staring the Igala-nation and people is equally responsible for the non teaching of the Igala Language in our schools,it is an incontrovertible fact that Nations of the world have ensure the preservation and sustenance of their cultural and identity through effective transmission of same from generation to generation,in recent times,the school system has been identified and adopted as the most effective way of doing same,thus in Nigeria ,Languages such as Hausa, Igbo ,Yoruba, Fulfude, Efik,Tiv and more are been taught in Schools and colleges,i remember with notalgia those days in the 1980s when i understudied Igala at both the junior primary level and the Qua Iboe Church organised Igala classes,it was of tremendous help in consolidating my education foundation.rather than improving on this system by ensuring that Igala as a tribe is studied and taken at the Senior School Certificate Examination,it has been neglected to death with the churches abdicating thereto on the excuse that education is a state responsibility,thus the emerging population of the Igala-nation can barely read and write in their mother’s tongue while those that are or were raised in other parts of the country such as Kaduna,Lagos,kano,Enugu and more were compelled to study and communicate with amazing ease in either Hausa,Yoruba or Igbo.i have met and interacted with numerous Igala sons and Daughters who speak or write Yoruba or Hausa fluently but can hardly exchange pleasantry in Igala hitch free,the argument that these tongues were the only ones nationally recognised while Igala is not cannot hold water as my investigations at the federal ministry of Education and The West African Examination Council have shown that any language can be made a subject of study in Nigeria relevant schools provided the required instructional materials are available,it is worth mentioning here that some pan –Igala organizations have been working on this and the personal effort of Dr Ibrahim Omale ,a foremost igala academics and first Igala rated orator (he single handedly published an igala dictionary amidst several mind bulging igala books which can help in satisfying the FME and WAEC’requirements) is worth commendation and i wish to add that but for the Identity question with the accompanying loss of sense of purpose and direction,the Igala-nation and the leadership of Kogi State can pursue this agenda to a logical end.
In addition to all that has been said,it is equally worth noting that it is only in Igala land that people dont bear their tribal names,they abandon tribal names and pick up engish names for themselves under the disguise of civilisation/westernisation therby generating confusion as to their root,this again is a fall out of the identity and battered psyche questoin confronting the Igala-nation thus igala names are jettisoned for western and islamic names.our own Ojochenemi,Ojochide and Eleojo or Abah,Adejoh and Oguche are left for our Idoma brothers who hitherto were our adoptees but have come to carve a nitche and identity for themselves out of the ruins of our misfortune.imagine an igala named Steven James,Mercy Johnson etc!These has contributed alot in relegating our identity as igala people and nation to the background.
CONCLUSION.
In passing,i wish to state that in my humble opinion,the Igala-nation is one in loss of its identity,values,status and sense of direction.i have sought to unravel the causes of these decline and decay in our once glorious nation and to generate and cross fertilise ideals and strategies of evolving or re-organizing the chequered Igala identtity and regaining her lost pride and dignity.to this end ,i invite comments and suggestions from noble members of project igala.
Ojo ki denyo nwu ane-igala kpai ogbodu-wa (God bless Igala-land and every one of us labouring in this Igala vine yard)

Written by
Ene’ojo John (Ali Ocheje).

Wizkid change his name he will not be too known anymore pls ol boy stick to that name ok may be till you get 28 ok man pls don't ever think of saying wizboy cos -owusa gi crooner don take am wat about wizbaba

;DSo jonathan don dey ask for credit of 1500 now what type is it MTN or glo maybe etisalat or airtel oga jona e don reach dat level oshionole pls scratch 5K card for am I beg ooo

NRI PRIEST: Now I am confused; Seems like Idoma,Igbo and Igala has more in common than they actually know. Well Vinibabe,aletheia thinks differently. He thinks is an Igala expression for " Great lion" while I think its an Igbo expression for "a great man" or " great masqurade" so you tell me what "Agaba Idu" means in Idoma language. Thanks dear.

Yeah now you see bro and I even heard that the attah of igala's mum is igbo, every igbo man should try know much about his fellow brother the igalas and idomas are you closest brother don't look as if regional shift and politics has made everty thing changed where am from in igalaland we and igbos share so much in common the way we do things you will think we are igbos but we speak igala ok this is due to the fact we share very close borders to anambra and do you guy know that the attah was the very first to be a muslim and the longest reigning monarch in Nigeria -

Yagba east woow am sure its the yoruba speaking part or ebira may be but God created those leaves na make ndlea no dey do like say dem sef no dey take weed oooo

Rest in peace attah. Read more here http://africanspotlight.com/2012/07/attah-of-igala-and-chancellor-university-of-lagos-dies/

Me olu le attah agaba idu proudly igala and shame to anyone that does not know about the great attah because he kept him self from politics and the word agaba idu can be also used by the northern igbos that is to show you that igbos from that area have igala origin especially aguleri community in anambra

Nokia I respect una but well I am not even a chinko fan but I must tell you nokia is scared of TECHNO brand of fones they are comming up strong into nigerian markets have you guys visited techno store and see their andriod ranges of fone
You will clap hand for them

Nokia what else do you wanna produce we have seen it all oooo

Stop beefin chinko na the field is large enough