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Culture / Re: Delta Igbo, Bendel Igbo: What Does That Even Mean. by sonya4all(m): 1:48pm On Nov 11, 2012
@ngo,you are really frustrated.Start learning.
Culture / Re: Delta Igbo, Bendel Igbo: What Does That Even Mean. by sonya4all(m): 8:47am On Nov 11, 2012
@one naira,you are not communicating,just keep saying what you want to believe as well as your igbo(n) cohorts..Abuse all you wish,majority of ikas are proud of their identity,agbontean is a example of that,am from umunede,and am from ileje quarters,proudly ika,as well as other quarters that makes up the ancient kingdom of umunede.....Peace out.
Jobs/Vacancies / Re: NDDC Calling For Apitude Test by sonya4all(m): 12:20am On Nov 05, 2012
Some of you guys are just funny,imagine u are going for an interview,and u expect the company to pay your transportation,u need to see the thousands of people that applied for this test,then u wont be bold to mention transport..
Jobs/Vacancies / Re: NDDC Calling For Apitude Test by sonya4all(m): 9:40am On Nov 04, 2012
@olowen,its not by force to attend the interview you hear?
Jobs/Vacancies / Re: NDDC Calling For Apitude Test by sonya4all(m): 2:39pm On Nov 03, 2012
Sorry guys,i happen not to have visited this section thats why most of your questions were not replied on time,they do not actually request for that slip,.Infact your main password into the gate is the text messages sent to you by nddc,just show them and go in,also your original credentials are required,people had to travel back home,no matter their destinations to get it,then wrote their exam d next day,thats just the grace they would give you,the question are cheap,but i tell you,they are things you probably believe are kids maths but might not get them,50 in number, 30mins. i dont know the cut off.Those that wrote wats ur score,.I hope ur questions are settled

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Sports / Re: Sorry, We Are Not Nigerians’ Say Williams Sisters. by sonya4all(m): 7:16am On Nov 02, 2012
Claiming people and tribes are typically of the IGBO's,i wouldnt be surprised if the question was popped by an igbo man..Imagine afam4eva talking,dats how they are trying to claim ika tribe as igbos....
Culture / Re: Delta Igbo, Bendel Igbo: What Does That Even Mean. by sonya4all(m): 10:39am On Oct 27, 2012
@andre..Im not surprised because its typical that an igbo tribalistic blindness has struck you..If not you would have seen who threw the insults first... I guess you did see when he called himself an idiot..Keep it up..Anioma activist. rubbish...
Culture / Re: Delta Igbo, Bendel Igbo: What Does That Even Mean. by sonya4all(m): 9:20pm On Oct 26, 2012
Your entire generations are idiots... Like i said before,i will repeat,i dont argue with a feeble mind..If you need history lessons go back to your community school..@one naira.,you are the true difinition of confused being..Go and learn summary...
Culture / Re: Delta Igbo, Bendel Igbo: What Does That Even Mean. by sonya4all(m): 10:47pm On Oct 25, 2012
@igbo boy...I dont argue with a feeble mind.
Culture / Re: Delta Igbo, Bendel Igbo: What Does That Even Mean. by sonya4all(m): 2:33pm On Oct 25, 2012
@abag, ika has difrnt dialeats as well as igbo does... Palour in my area is obunuh,while perhaps agbontean's place is ibere....
Culture / Re: Delta Igbo, Bendel Igbo: What Does That Even Mean. by sonya4all(m): 8:00am On Oct 25, 2012
Its really amazing,now the igbo guys now refer to agbontean as ika man and no longer igbo man.Lol.. Thats what we want we dont care about the E.-curses ,just respect our choice of freedom and identity.,@nwaebon, you are realy doing great with the ika words,thanks for the ika word for window(uroroh),it got me a prize... Do not think you are alone in your dogged stance on your identity... god bless you..Ni ika ri nma...
Culture / Re: Delta Igbo, Bendel Igbo: What Does That Even Mean. by sonya4all(m): 10:22pm On Oct 23, 2012
Nwaebon ye meye ke......Pls i need the word for window,its a prize winning question....Alua.
Culture / Re: Delta Igbo, Bendel Igbo: What Does That Even Mean. by sonya4all(m): 6:33am On Oct 23, 2012
@agbontean..Pls whats ika word for window....
Sports / Re: Nigeria Vs Liberia (6 - 1): AFCON 2013 Qualifier On Saturday October-13-2012 by sonya4all(m): 4:14pm On Oct 13, 2012
If you are in abia state,tune to B.C.A. They are showing the match..Naija 1. And still presing for goals.15mins playd
Culture / Re: Delta Igbo, Bendel Igbo: What Does That Even Mean. by sonya4all(m): 5:23pm On Oct 02, 2012
@olisa,how old are you..10 ?.I dnt have your time.
Politics / Re: No Govt Official At Aba Independence Day Schools Marching by sonya4all(m): 5:02pm On Oct 02, 2012
@afam4eva..Who told you that i hate igbos....Pls stop that asumption.
Politics / Re: No Govt Official At Aba Independence Day Schools Marching by sonya4all(m): 10:08pm On Oct 01, 2012
I wonder why someone should blame the teachers for instilling patriotism to their student,in oblivion that the gesture wouldnt be appreciated by the government..Whether salaries are paid or not,today shouldnt be a day to cry over that because its a national sacrifice for the country on her independence,who says the state govt shouldnt be blamed? Was he not the one that appointed the transition chairman? You needed to have seen the sad faces of the kids..And i heard the same thing happnd at the ABA stadium..And for those saying they are afraid of kidnappers,they should know that no such thing happens at Aba again,after the death of osisikanku..I think its just neglet.

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Politics / Re: No Govt Official At Aba Independence Day Schools Marching by sonya4all(m): 7:23pm On Oct 01, 2012
Their motor spoil for ke.,..Lol...Why did the mod edit or modify the SAD mood i wrote before the topic...?
Politics / No Govt Official At Aba Independence Day Schools Marching by sonya4all(m): 3:44pm On Oct 01, 2012
It was really a big surprise and sad moments for all the schools that came to the osisioma ngwa l.g.a ABA marching/independence day ceremony,as not even a single govt official was at the secretariat to take the salute nor welcome the school children...Under the scorching sun the students waited in anticipation to dish out all the marching techniques they have been practicing at their schools(including my students) for the chairman,but was disappointing to hear that no govt official was around,hence the ceremony wouldn't hold.....Its really sad and annoying the way ABA Is neglected by the abia state govt.....

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Culture / Re: Delta Igbo, Bendel Igbo: What Does That Even Mean. by sonya4all(m): 9:37pm On Sep 27, 2012
@olisa keep spewing rubish...Am umunede,and proudly ika...So is all my idumu at home proud of their identity and refer to igbos as igbon(slaves)......Swallow acid if you have a problem with that,and stop making it seem like he is not talking about all the ikas.
Politics / Re: Anioma Group Congratulates Delta Acting Governor Of Igbo Extraction by sonya4all(m): 9:17am On Sep 09, 2012
The same emeka,wrote this about ika...I wonder where the igbo propaganda is emanating from.... Mr imbecilic.... That word has been over used by you..Update your vocabulary......

April 1st, 2011 | Author: Emeka Esogbue
6In “the Punch” publication of November 27, 2006, a statement was issued by the Benin Traditional Council in Benin in which the Oba of Benin,His Royal Majesty, Omo N‘Oba N‘Edo Uku Akpolokpolo reportedly “dismissed insinuations that the Igbanke people in Orhionmwon Local Government Area of Edo were not Benin but Ika”. This statement was officially signed by Chief S. O. Obamwonyi. In order words, the revered Beninmonarch was officially claiming Igbanke to be Benin and not Ika. That speculation is simply a poignant one for the history ofthe Ika people presently lumpedin Edo State, South-south, Nigeria. Unfortunately, for political reasons the history of the Ika people is set to be rewritten in what has become a common episode in the nation.
Only a few years back, accusations and counter accusations reigned on the proper history of interrelationsbetween Benin and Yoruba; Modakeke and Ife; Anioma and Igbo; Ijaw and Itsekiri on ownership of Warri etc. The Nigerian people have certainly become accustomed to situations like this. The Nigerianpolitical scientists have sought to know the reason behind claims and rejections of communities and territories andit has been discovered that it benefits nothing other than political reason of adding to thenumerical figure which howeveris short of reimbursement of developments to the people. The history of claims and counterclaims of Igbanke peopleas we shall see here is a peculiar one however, we need to firstly truly determine who the Igbanke are and just how they see themselves.
Contrarily to His Majesty’s assertion, Igbanke is in truth ofIka (Eka) family and sees itself as so. One derivable means of determining the history of a community is how the people ofthat community in question seethemselves. This is explained bymythologies, songs, folklore, traditions, music and cultures of the said group of people. In Nigeria in particular, when several other groups begin to lay claims to any community, there is surely something amissand in the case of Igbanke, theBenin monarch wishes that the Igbanke people who are poised to rejoin their kith and kin in Delta State remain as part of Edo state to complete the population figure of the state as against the people’s collective wish having as they say they have been marginally treated in the state.
Igbankes speak Ika language. Ika shares linguistics with Benin and Enuani speakers. It is also amixture of Benin and Aniocha (Igbo) culture but distinct from either of the two groups the same way Itsekiri, derived fromBenin and Yoruba is distinct andIsoko and Urhobo considered two distinct ethnic groups. Benin’s claim to Ika area including Igbanke can be officially traced to 1936 when the British forcefully subjected Agbor area to Benin, following Benin’s claim that the area wasan indivisible part of Benin Kingdom, following the reactionsfrom prominent Ika leaders advanced to the British on the basis that the people were of Ika stock thus independent of Benin or any known ethnic group, the British had the development reversed and separate warrant chiefs were appointed for the Ika region.
Historically, the (Ekas) Ikas are believed to have migrated fromBenin and first settled in Agborwith their earliest form of language called Bibi (Jacob Egharevba). Much as this history is found tenable as considered in tales and mythologies of the people and supported by names of clans, quarters and festivals of the people, the Ika group has today evolved as a grouping distinct from any ethnic group. The Ika apart from Igbanke, Ekpon and a few other communities are largely locatedwithin two local government areas of Delta State. The area occupies 17.45 square kilometres according to the information found on Delta State Government website in 1999 and has a total populationof about 240,000 people.
According to Onyeche Ifeanyi Joseph, Ika people that include Igbanke comprise of the following:
1. Agbor clan
2. Owa clan
3. Abavo clan
4. Ute-Okpu clan
5. Ute-Ogbeje clan
6 Umunede clan
7. Akumazi clan
8. Igbodo clan
9. Otolokpo clan
10. Mbiri clan
11. Idumuesah clan
12. Orogodo/Boji-Boji
We are further told that:
“The Ika collective group is sometimes regarded as an ethnic group or tribe (Bates 1996; Lewis 1996; de la Gorgendiere 1996; Jenkins 1997)
Bates describes tribe as:
“a decentralized descent-and kinship-based grouping in whicha number of subgroups are loosely linked to one another. There is no centralized system of authority, decision making, or social control, but potential exists to unite a large number of local groups for common defense or warfare. The internal organization is similar inprinciple to that of the lineage or clan. Just how the lineages are expressed and maintained varies from society to society. One system is for two or more clans to see themselves as related, even though each group generally will act autonomously in managing its affairs. However, the sense of common identity can be called into play for defense” (1996: 219).
A tribe can be seen as sometimes containing several independent clans or what Bates (1996) called subgroups that are not necessarily related through shared lineage of descent (Gutane 2001).
Due to political reasons “tribe” or “ethnic group” evokes fluidness in meaning due to unnecessary emotion it enjoys, this is because of the complexities involved in understanding the history of the people claims and counterclaims involved in the arrogation of separate people, a situation that makes it difficult for the Federal Government to truly determinethe actual number of the ethnic groups existing in the nation. Larger groups are oftentending to swallow smaller groups in the context of gaining political balance or importance in the polity.
Igbanke comprises of six villagesand all of these six villages speak the Ika language. A recorded version of history believes that the community was founded by farmers from Ishan and Agbor villages who settled in this area, founded the five original villages, namelyAke, Igbontor, Otta Idumodin and Umolua. Oligie village, the sixth village in the Igbanke clan,is claimed by Oligie people to have been founded by Ottor from Benin (Kerr, 1937; Simpson, n.d). This version demonstrates that the community was not a sole foundation of Benin Agbor also plays significant roles in the origin of the community.
From the foregoing, it is difficult to point Igbanke as Benin, when its indigenes do not understand Bini. How His Royal Majesty, the Oba of Beninwill address his Igbanke “subjects” in Bini language and expect messages is a wonder since the people are never Edo speakers. If by proper definition, Edo is the name for the place, people and language of an ethnic group in Nigeria and other Edo-speaking ethnic groups, does this include Igbanke that has only Ika as itslanguage? As we can imagine, Igbanke may only be referred to as Benin if the Great Benin Empire which stretched to Lagos (Eko) and Republic of Benin is still in existence. Still, if we assume that the whole Ika speaking people which Igbanke is branched is Benin, should we by extension regard Umunede and Igbodo as Benin?
The era in which people are regarded and classified in contrariwise to how they view themselves is long forgotten, itis difficult to believe that a history of a people is better known from the outside whereas the people view themselves differently. This is exactly the beginning of social problems in Nigeria and gives room to claims and counterclaims of the ethnic groups by people and other larger ethnic groups leading to confrontations, conflicts, agitations and re-agitations forseparate states in the country.When a group is lodged in states they ordinarily do not consider themselves to belong as a people, culturally, linguistically and historically, thetendency is that they will never become placated. Claiminga group of people who have spoken otherwise for any reason at all amounts to a waste of energy because that agitation will only be temporarily abated but never enduringly repressed as we have seen in the case of Igbanke.
In 1991, Bendel State, in which Benin, Asaba and Delta regions were composed, was split into two that led to the creation ofEdo and State. In Delta State was the Anioma region which comprises of Ika, Oshimili, Ndokwa/Ukwani, and Aniocha people but Igbanke and Ekpon were deliberately and silently denied their lasting natural liberty of joining their Ika kith and kin in the new state and have ever since continually agitated to re-united with their kith and kin in Delta Statebecause as they put it, they have become marginally and unfavourably treated in Edo State where they do not belong. Once again, the dismissalof His Royal Majesty of what hedescribed as insinuation will continue to trouble the region and indeed the Federal Government if the will of the people is ignored, one only prays that it does not degenerate to the extent thatcrisis will erupt before it is addressed as typical to the Nigerian nation.
It is difficult to rewrite the history of the Igbanke, they are certainly Ika speaking people of Anioma and should bemade to rejoin their kith and kin.
Culture / Re: Delta Igbo, Bendel Igbo: What Does That Even Mean. by sonya4all(m): 10:56am On Sep 07, 2012
Igbotic swine....Where and how did wizboy say he is proudly igbo...So simply because he sang in igbo language which is as a result of him residing at enugu now makes him igbo...And am sure you will call me proud igbo because i stay at owerri,how pathetic....Tell me u didnt hear the ika lyrics he used in his music..He even use umunede repeatedly in that song..(owusagi thats the title of the song) so stop claiming nonsense....Its just the normal igbo way to claim any good thing... Non of you have claimed relationship with those two anambra brothers that killed cynthia osokogu,on facebook....@abags, its not your fault...No wonder you have stupendous ignorance of the ika nation...You feel umunede and agbor makes up ika nation...Wake up.
Culture / Re: Delta Igbo, Bendel Igbo: What Does That Even Mean. by sonya4all(m): 2:06pm On Sep 06, 2012
Afam,whoever calls it delta igbo does that as a result of ignorance on the existence of unique tribes like IKA..And that word delta igbo was coined by igbos in their bid to igbotalize(new word) any thing they have access to... I was going through this thread from the first page and if u afam is being honest enough you wil agree that almost all u need to know about your question has been treated....I said this before and am saying it again..The only igbo guy i respect here is chinenyen..Because he doesnt follow the crowd of deluded people like your keens especially that one that keeps telling people how many posts they have contributed to since they joined nairaland..He knows himself...Though i do have some difrences with chi.,but i like his way..And i pray u follow suit....Thank you..Sorry for my verbal abuse.
Culture / Re: Delta Igbo, Bendel Igbo: What Does That Even Mean. by sonya4all(m): 1:24pm On Sep 06, 2012
@afam..You are the originator of this thread.With a question what does it even mean..And its surprising that you have not till this moment of the topic reaching 58 pages yet known or understood what it means..Are you such a dunce? Even after all the history lessons you have taken here...You are just pathetic...Get a life you igbon...It means that IKA IS NOT IGBO AND CAN NEVER BE.....Now close the thread...Ewu igbo..
Culture / Re: Delta Igbo, Bendel Igbo: What Does That Even Mean. by sonya4all(m): 12:55pm On Sep 06, 2012
Yea your friend that stay at maybe new road ,that migrated from onitsha in 1999.Why wont she be igbo...
Culture / Re: Delta Igbo, Bendel Igbo: What Does That Even Mean. by sonya4all(m): 12:44pm On Sep 06, 2012
@uweh..Which ika man trashed him... All you and ur igbo(n) cohorts do is to counter all the facts my dear brave nwaebon(agbontean) presents here,.Dats silly..Abagworo... I dnt knw where you got yours lies that ika has no oil... My village umunede is a testimony to that lies...My grandpa's farmland til date is cordoned because oil was discovered there..Talking about palm oil..Ika is one of the highest producers of it.Its calld ofigbo.And nt nmanu nri...What about garri,pineapple and even water melon,..Just stop talking nonsense you do not know...Imagine u braging about dirty and delapidated aba city.... Mkpa magbu nnei le nedii.....Ptschw.... Am proudly ika...U can take it from@all all igbo(n) territory grabbers....Peace out...Well done agbontean....
Sports / Re: Nigeria Vs USA (0 - 2) U-20 Women's World Cup Semi-Final Full Time by sonya4all(m): 9:37am On Sep 04, 2012
Naija..I trust u guys...See how all the praises the gals gained in the previous matches will turn to E-curses and hating...Learn to support till the end..They did their best.

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Sports / Re: Nigeria Vs Italy: U-20 Women's World Cup (4 - 0) On Sunday August-26-2012 by sonya4all(m): 9:42am On Aug 26, 2012
GUYS HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT NIGERIAN FOOTBALL TEAMS DO BETTER INFACT WINS,ANYTIME NO NAIJA STATION SHOWS THEIR MATCH ? I sugest NTA or other naija station dont show the super eagles match....Ehn..So them go will...I prefer teletext to heart break...Who suport me...(thinking aloud o)
Politics / Re: Aba: A City Destroyed By Attitude Of Residents by sonya4all(m): 5:13pm On Aug 21, 2012
Well all the blame shouldnt be on the government.... Like the writer said the aba residents can be blamed partly as well as govt who collects 1200 asepa fee..With little or nothing to show for the services such money was collected...Also im somehow surprised that the op..Said he recently visited aba...And its amazing how he knows almost all the spots at aba and their names respectively.... Could it be he is an independ journalist or part of the people gov t.A orji hired to praise him in niraland.... I could be wrong....Prove it.

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Culture / Re: Delta Igbo, Bendel Igbo: What Does That Even Mean. by sonya4all(m): 7:28pm On Jul 30, 2012
alua agbontean. dnt mind the territory grabbers
Politics / Re: Picture Of New Biafra Map Covering PH,CALABER,IGALA,EDO AND IDOMA by sonya4all(m): 9:15am On Jul 12, 2012
U wasting ur time,delta cant join biafra...Lost battle.

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