₦airaland Forum

Curious345:
SW again..

I have noticed that out OF EVERY 10 IGBO GIRLS IN YORUBALAND , 7 are dating Yoruba boys and 4 end up marrying Yoruba men.

not like am against it, but you gotcha watch your back ... Huhn

See maths......

Out of every..... 10
7....... +4.=====10

chrisxxx:
It is quite ridiculous that Yorubas through Tinubu would lead the ouster if Jonathan in 2015 and expect votes from same Jonathan in 2023. People forget easily.

Mad cow disease comes to mind


What goes round comes around!

Cama is a bitch

Only in the Zoo

Asgard73:
Bro fear politicians with this kind supporters.. they’re die hard.. like Buhari supporters in 2011.

Foll zombies at your own peril....

Where are those sai Barba trekkers now?

Another set of clownish zombies on the prowl again.

Mtchwwwww

potent5:
Op, your phone number don finish? You for add more na including your NIN, BVN, DOB, etc.

Lol

MICHEALADEX:
Inter tribal marriage dose not pay Igbo women especially when divorce sets in.

This lady no well.

She just want to come back to ffk as there's no life out there.

No attention anymore like she use to get from ffk

And trust my Igbo brothers, no one will ever marry her rightfully again knowing where she's coming from.

Gbam.

Chioma, Assurance Pls take note!

duro4chang:
E pain you? Ki ki ki ki ki! Hungry bloger.

NO, he is not hungry blogger. I did visit his blog!

He is only being productive, and the world better claps for productive people than back to back consumers.

I hope this helps?

Analysis paralysis

Nonpartisan1:
If Buhari by any chance of an excuse, released that terrorist murderer called Nnamdi Kanu without him accounting for the Hundreds of souls he ordered killed in the South East, i would hate Buhari from that day till the end of the world.

I am non partisan by the way.

For mismanaging Naijas economy and mortgaging the future of unborn children through senseless jawbreaking loans, you won't hate him ba?

Otellectuals!

headSmasher:
In which cage? he didn't do 0.0000001% of what kanu nnamudi did, and your elders led by a 94 years old man that could bearly walk went to Abuja to beg for him

Which implies MNK is a great man. A wise old man in the skin of a middle aged man.


All hail Biafra

FirefliesSun:
I am so mad right now. I am so confused.
Today around 5:30, I had to visit my friend to pluck hibiscus flowers.

One thing led to another while at the flowers, I saw my friend's mother making eyes/wink and pouting to my friends husband. He just smiled back although he noticed I saw it but the mother didn't.

I can swear they are having a fling and it's shameful. I don't know how to tell her. I am just here, very confused and bothered. Even if I wanted to tell her, how do I even start?

You deserve a brain resettling slap from behind!

Hwba!

TundeWX:
" the Ugandan government waived international immunity in the agreement it signed to secure the loans, exposing Entebbe International Airport to take over without international protection."
Can you imagine
Who does that? ?!!!

Ask Rotimi Amechi

The person who snapped and the person who posted this online deserve to be sued!

Icouldhave:
I give up

The struggle won

The pain won

Am weak, I can't fight no more.


I miss been rich, I hate been poor.

But I give up

I can't fight no more



I might kill myself tonight.


The tears is dripping from my eyes

As I type


The struggle won

I totally disagree with you.

A million healthy sperms struggled to be in your stead but you won back then!

Where are those sperms now?

You want to chicken out after starting a journey of victory over millions of competitors?

You did it before, you can do it again.

From your writeup, you can write and read, but millions can't. You have a smartphone, data and NL account but millions don't as well!

You are pretty wrong cos you are not worse off. You only need to change your circle of connections.

Yes you can.

Igbo adage: A daughter that knows not how to treat dad well, will never know how to treat husband well.

Nwa ada na-amaghi nna ya alu, agaghi ama ka-esi alu di ya.

Iseeee


All I see is a well groomed daughter!

Malory:
Tonto Dike's toto don suffer. Imagine different types of dicks hammering her from all corners. I think it's time I go and collect my own share of the cookie. I must sign the attendance register

The message is clear :

Shey u get moni?

Annabelle12344:
I'm just worried. That he's going through pain emotionally.
I wish he could be fine and happy as usual. because I'm happy with my man whom I'm getting married to.

I can bet my last coin on the fact that though your story says you never had intimate fling with him, your heart says otherwise.

Men, I mean real men don't keep deep opposite sex friends just same way goats don't stay safely with yam in same room.

This I have seen!

ChrisKels:
Other Igbo settlements in Ịbaji include:
* Uchuchu Anaọcha
* Uchuchu Anapịtị
* Echọwa which they now corrupted as Echeño
* Ọbale,
* Omabo, etc.

These places are said to be originally farmlands of the Odeke people.

The Ịbaji live and connected to the Ogurugu and Ụzọ Ụwanị in Enugwu State and even share common boundaries with them.

There are three major clans of the Echọwa now called Echeño. These clans are:

* Ịkana
* Olugo and
*Nyagba.

The village called Ụmụọnụra in Echeño Ịbaji originated from Ezeawụrụ. Some clan migrated from Ifite Ọka (Awka) and settled there in Echọwa which was one of the farm settlements of the Odeke people who have root and bloodline with the Agụleri. Their oral tradition and citation during festivals say it all.

These Igbo communities in Ịbaji also connect to the Anam people of Anambra, then extend to Ịga, Ugbela, Ahịa of Ụzọ Ụwanị Enugwu State and Ojo Ogurugu in Enugwu State as well.

These communities lived together because there was nothing like state or territory. They interacted. They are bloodlines until statism happened and they are carved to the north central.

Till date, their culture is Igbo. They still have four Igbo market days, but then, the mixture with the Ịgala changed afọ to ede especially in the Echeño side but others as Eke, Orie, Nkwọ are in tact.

Their masquerades are Igbo masquerades: They have Ijele. They have Akpaakụ. Ofe nsala is their native soup and they still maintain the name—ofe nsala. They speak Igbo.

But then, there is Ịbaji dialect. It is a creolized language as a result of mixture of Igbo and the Ịgala. Not everyone in Ịbaji is Igbo. Some are Ịgala. They mixed with Igbo and created Ịbaji language. That's why Echọwa changed to Echeño.

Some other unaffected Igbo villages in Ịbaji which are strictly Igbo and now regard as Kogi people include:

* Ụmụọbụ
* Ụmụoye
* Anapịtị
* Nwajala
* Eweli,
* Ubulie-Ụmụeze, etc.

Echeño people of Ịbaji bear Igbo name as Ujumma, Egwuatụ, Ifemere etc. Many I interviewed did not deny their origin.

6. Akolo
The full name of the community is Akolo Ukwueze— indigenous Igbo people community in Kogi State. You can easily access here through Okutu, Nsụka Local Government Area of Enugwu State. They are predominantly Igbo. No migration. Their location had been their ancestral land before they were said to be Kogi. These people are farmers.

Note: I have mentioned Amaka before. The full name of the community is Amaka Okpodu. They are pure Igbo.

Other Igbo communities in Kogi State include:

* Ugwuebonyi
* Ebokwe
* Ọzara
* Amaokwu
* Amadịefiọha
* Amaụfụlụ
* Amaụwanị
* Amankpo etc.

In conclusion, we have seen the effect of state creation as well as the migration of the Wukari people from Taraba state who came down to the lower Benue through Amagede and mixed with others then became what we know today as the Ịgala. They met some Igbo in the land especially those in Ịdah area. The blend and intermarriage has affected both languages to have similarities. State creation has moved some Igbo land to join Kogi. We have pointed out those people who still maintain their language and culture.

But the question is, why is it that the indigenous Igbo carved to Kogi are not even recognised as an ethnic group just as others? There is a ploy to hide this identity and push some narratives. Tales of lies have been told for some to believe that those Igbo living in Kogi are the Ịgala who learnt Igbo language because of their interactions, intermarriage and proximity with the Igbo people. BIG LIE. They know their identity. They have kinsmen in different part of Nsụka. They breathe Igbo. They live Igbo. They eat Igbo. They dream Igbo. They had been in their ancestral land before they were told to be Kogi immediately Kogi State was created.

Even Kogi government knows that these Igbo communities are purely Igbo; could it be the reason for absence of government intervention and development? The Igbo spirit in them help them to create their own world without being totally dependent on government. Nigerian factor has made them to neither feel the presence of Enugwu and Anambra government nor Kogi State government. These territories are like displaced people. But they have decided to make life out of everything. They created their own world and happily living in it. Only Ịbaji area where oil was discovered that government of Kogi State began to drag the territory with Anambra; Enugwu also joined hand. This shows that treasure is priority for recognition of people's identity. That settlement is Igbo speaking part and Igbo land.

Finally, these are indigenous Igbo people who have been in their ancestral land before Kogi was created and they were pushed into it under the Ịgala leadership. They are not Ịgala people who speak Igbo because they are on the boundary side but Igbo people who through Nigerian definition of things carved out of their land to join others for the purpose of divide-and-rule system hidden under state creation..

This history should be preserved for posterity.

I paused!

© Maazị Ogbonnaya Okoro
Linguist, Writer, Researcher and Historian.

Nwoke m, I bu Dimkpa.

Ya gazie

Viva Biafra

Viva Biafra

Timnico:
This boy needs to have the mind of his own, a man who doesn't have his keys can't be free.
Ngige was involved in the elections just that Igbos doesn't like APC because Igbos love productivity and not stagnation.
Mind you I'm an APC member but if you see true talk am nobody go die.

Iseeeeeee

mightyhaze:
These ones dey learn from the one when talk say he no go ever go abroad to receive treatment but has cumulatively spent almost 2yrs out of 5years as president in London hospitals



The one that said he doesn't believe in Nigeria when Gen Abacha was chasing them around with horsewhips ,. But wants to rule Nigeria by all means even if it means sacrificing his own people nko

Forget the gworo chewing junketer who claimed he doesn't know what petrol subsidy means, yet has been subsidising same since 2015!

Zombies are brain dead

proxitaly:
Abia has the capacity to even rival Lagos but leadership has been it's problem. We would rather have wished the two Orjis and the current Ikpeazu were gutter cleaners than governors. And we pay that all future idiots who wish to be governors but have nothing to contribute (just like you) be gutter commissioners in a foreign land

Iseeee


Joe Yorubakwe

Failed Nija system and power merchants.

Abia must be free one day!

Onye tuo vote olaba ugwu awusa

BlackPantherxXx:
Please all become IPOBs and destroy Igbo land.

If you try the nonsense elsewhere, then Nigeria would teach you some manners.

Ask your papa and grandpa about Ojukwu and how he fled to Abidjan in skirts.

And I envy your one nijirya.... hahahahahahaha

When will marouding killer herdsmen be brought to justice?

Is justice selective?

Subsea101:
Useless organization that won't investigate before arresting, only to make a fool of themselves later.

I wonder if these people don't see how similar institutions in other countries operate! Before them come out arrest you, you don finish be that...

Putting the horse before the cart always (Investigation will start after arrest)

Finish ke...


Greet the super corp tailor on my behalf.

Lol

helinues:
Nigeria soldiers have not been responsible before but the question is why did Ipob invite them to SE region?

Flag waving protest that birthed piton dance is invitation to terrorism ba?