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Ihe eji abu igbo ehika

OdenigboAroli:
Well,there is absolutely no trace of Aro settlement in Onicha,Obosi,Nkpor, Umuoji,Ogidi,Oba,Abatete,Nkwele Ezunaka and other surrounding towns. To be honest,you will be hard pressed to find Aro traces in Anambra central,much more the north. I don't know where that postulation originated from but it obviously lack evidence.

Well I will believe you ....

OdenigboAroli:
I did not tie Arochokwu together, They said from the Article thae EZE CHIME was an Aro man that sourjened and you know the footprints off Aro in Igbo and South South Historical settings cant be erased or wished a way, he was on a reverse migration and he founded many towns which include some parts of onitsha not all, when he came back from benin unlike how people say that onitisha are benin, which is blatant lie. These were igbos on reverse migration, JUST LIKE LAGOS IGBO COMMING BACK FROM LAGOS will you say that those igbo are yoruba...NO


What part of Onicha was founded by Aro ?
This is very crazy!!!

Lol.


I feel that there is an ARO settlement in otu...they might give their

nathawoniyi:
Igbo or no Igbo,we are all human being that need better life,it time to stop ranting about the past,focus we need now and prayer to support the incoming government to deliver,Nigerian deserve the best and this can be achieved when we forgive one another and forge ahead with singleness of heart.God bless Gej ,GMB ,God bless Nigerian

You cant face the future without the past

Ibrahim28:
I pray for the day when nigerians will stop seeing tribe as a developmental factor.....i pray for the day an igbo man will be a governor in sokoto and a hausa man to be a gov in anambra n a Yoruba man to be a gov in delta and on and on.....dats 1 nigeria

Wrong prayer point


Pray for the day igbo will leave in your mosque

Chiwude:
You are the one acting as a fool here. Where did you read she represented Ibibio areas. Thought you started this thread. Didn't you read in your post that she represented Aba constituency in the Eastern regional house of representatives. She is Efik by tribe according to what we were taught in our history books. Her Mother is an Efik princess while the Father is Igbo.

if her father is igbo she is igbo

EUROBOMBER:
Ike gwuru nwanem.

Madu ka ana aria


Anybidy comes and talk

biafransoul:
Eurobomber, jiri e nwayo. I don't know why you should complain when you are not a registered member. More so, I noticed that you are being .......... Are you still one of us or you have 'changed'?

What


As an igbo membership is automatic

If people like iwuanyanwu are there then ohaneze lost credibility




what are they saying about igbo in edo kogi benue and equitorial guinea

EUROBOMBER:
Sunnybobo3

Tonychristopher

Buddahmonk

Customized13

Oneeast.

OH..YOU STILL CLAIM THAT, PLEASE GO BACK AND READ MY POSTULATION ON AWORI AND MIGRATION PATTERN FROM IFE


THANK U

absoluteSuccess:
Have you found what Idu, Mota and Magbo means? If not then you need to know you lack the grasp of the simplest iota of Yoruba history. I am Awori, and we say of ourselves awa l'omo Isedale Yoruba: meaning 'we are the scions of Yoruba founders'. I am of the 'Owun Olowonrin'. Check out Awori history, our principal deity is Oduduwa, which has been from time in our custody. That is why we are called 'omo Olofin' not omo edo.

Wetin concern me



read my footnote

I said it and you proved it


Lol

MrPresident1:
Nigerman1 is the hypocrite that sees the mote in others' eyes but never sees the beam in his.

Is Edo monolithic? Is Edo not made up disparate peoples? Is Edo not a political association?

I have little regard for people like you and him.

Academic approach to History...SMH, Have you ever wondered why history is couched in arcane language?

Naff off Mister!

This isnt a dickk measuring contest, I have been reading NigerMan1: and his approach to issue is matured and accademic so why use Yoruba is superior, in what aspect


Thank you..i know you will call me names

MrPresident1:
We are hiding under the political term Yoruba right?

Tell us which Edo you are, abi is Edo 'monolithic'?

The Edo political association is on frontpage. Tell us which Edo you belong to

https://www.nairaland.com/2299497/list-all-edo-dialects-where.

And I must tell you that being Yoruba actually means being superior, Biblically speaking. The concept of Omoluabi which everyone who calls himself 'Yoruba' automatically subscribes to derives from the Bible. The agglomeration of tribes under the banner of Oduduwa is the Church of the living God, and Jesus Christ, the Head Omoluabi of the universe, is the chief cornerstone.

Go into the world and multiply, was the command. Multiply and give birth to your own kind, give birth to more omoluabis. I doubt if you understand me though, there is a reason history (and truth) is couched in cosmology, cosmogony, mythology, and maybe fables.
It is so that only the worthy will find it out. In the hands of the unworthy it becomes a bitter raging fire, consuming from the inside, just like it is doing to you. And yet, it is only to the snippets that you have been allowed.
Saying history is merely an intellectual or academic assignment suggests to me that you are very unworthy, because if you are, you would be awed by the wisdom of the forebears, you will point the way, and not attempt to destroy the world.

Yoruba is superior.

Tell us which Edo you are.

Few years ago, I could remember those days they gathered at Ojota and had a carnival or jamboree in the name of subsidy protest and I laughed, I wonder and I keep wondering what sort of people that run this country. How can we be running welfares system and knowing full well how dishonest, disgruntled and disenchanted we are as a country. This subsidy is a scam, the country is in hands of few subsidy cabal, they call the shots be it in political and economic space. To me the best thing is to let the market forces which is demand and supply determine the price, availability of fuel. But NO we want freebies, welfares etc.

It does not make economic, logistic and logical sense that the cost of PMS will be the same thing in Lagos, Maiduguri, Zamfara and PH . Where do you factor logistics, overhead cost and other factors. Men nigeria and our managers are screwed. This is elementary economics
AS WE CONTINUE THIS SUBSIDY MADNESS SO DO WE LEAVE OURSELVES IN THE HAND OF FEW CABALS AND OVERNIGHT BILLIONAIRES? THEY WILL DICTATE OUR ECONOMY AND POLITICAL SPACE, MERITOCRACY AND MARKET SYSTEM WILL BE DUMPED

This welfares socialist ideology was what BUHARI rode to presidency with, he promised that he will pay jobless youths #10k and old people 5# then give primary school two square meals daily. Now people are awed and happy but it didn’t move my, why? I was waiting for how he would achieved that utopian magic by giving me or us credible empirical and verifiable explanation so ‘we’ voted so they say but not critiquing intellectually. I wish the new government luck and we as a country should know that demand and supply with market forces dominate a capitalist market and we are in capitalism ..so the earlier we get used to these principles the better for us.

As of now, we are stuck with subsidy be it in fuel, fertilizer and other things, we should allow competition and this is also applicable to cement and energy. We have to think, think think before we act.

kingstony2k:
Monitor lizard- is ulor/uloh-ngwele aghuli is alligator

Asi


I know what I am saying

Neanna

To be frank I know that most villages in nnewi axis with igbo ukwu and some part of imo state bordering anambra have this python reverence

When I was a kid my mum from igbo told me how most anambra villages were interwoven but I was barely 12 then now she is late and that history gone


I think we should look at this ...I won't want my kid to lose that history on the alter of civilization

How I wish there will be an indept research on igbo villages endorsed by ohaneze


Nwanne to be frank I dont know that idemili link but what i know somehow anambra clans are interwoven


Maybe


I am banking on your wealth of knowladge

Handsomegod:
@Tony. Python is also a totem in Nnewi south (Your locality)? Are u guys related to Idemmili people and is that reverence an extension of same as observed in Idemmili?
I read Achebe's Arrow of God more than 15 years ago and i was enchanted by those deities he mentioned in that classic re Eze Idemmili,Ezeulu,et al.Do you know their legends or the legends of any of such deities like Omaliko Abatete and Ulasi Okija et al because i know that these deities were not only factual but were part of our ancestors' existential reality at a time. Please share with us if you do. Others who know these are also invited.
I currently have an extract of late Professor Acholonu's work "They lived before Adam" where she established beyond doubt that Ndigbo are the progenitors of this earth and the drivers of civilization and spiritual knowledge much more than what we have today.It is sad to note that the poisoned chalice of a knowledge thrusted on us by the colonialists has so damaged our sense of identity that we even question and doubt our very existence except seen with their own lenses.
Kindly share all you know. Udo diri gi.

Radoillo:
Tony has already done justice to my people's beginnings. To add more to it would be superfluous.

Although I might add that we are not found in two local governments, as the link claims. Awka Town is only located in Awka South LGA, along with Nibo, Nise, Mbaukwu and Amawbia. Awka North LGA only took their name from us, but Awka Town isn't part of it. Actually sha, non-Awka people from both LGAs often introduce themselves as 'Awka people'.

But I am interested in hearing the story of the Ogbaru communities. No Ogbaru person in the house?

Agu ....i have a way of admiring your submission ...I lived in mbaukwu pre science ..can I know the reason why they dont kill tortoise..we nnewi south don't kill python


Now where is okeipku and Asadike

OKOLI IJOMA OF NDIKELIONWU

Sometime in the mid-18th century, a young Awka boy, from the Ogonogoezi kindred of Enuifite village in Ifite-Awka was kidnapped by men from the neighbouring town of Amantogwu, and sold to a prominent Aro trader from Ibom Village. The boy’s name was Ikelienwu. The Aro trader who bought him was Ufere Mgbokwa. Ufere Mgbokwa (a childless man) raised Ikelienw? as his own son, and the boy grew up to be a notable ‘Ar?’ trader in his own right. He founded a settlement known today as Ndu-Ikelienwu, probably the first Aro colony in what is now Anambra State. The ruling line in Ndu-Ikelienwu traces its descent directly from Ikelienwu. Okoli Ijoma was a decendant of of Ikelionwu resulting that when Awka cought him during the war of Ada and Awka. Awka could not kill him because of his Awka blood.

Eze Professor Chukwuemeka Ike, Ikelionwu XI of Ndikelionwu, a Direct Descendant of Ikelienwu of Ifite-Awka. Noted writer of fiction. (Most notably, 'The Bottled Leopard', 'Expo 77' and 'Potter's Wheel'.) According to Amanke Okafor, ‘The blood descendants of Ikelionwu recognized that they came from Oka and whenever, any of them died, who was a male, his widow came to Oka to perform the final Ajana funeral ceremony. This was performed for them by the Head of Umuezeoshie family of Ifite-Oka.’

The legend of all times, HRH Lord Okoli Ijoma, who succeeded his father Ijoma Ike as his first son and the heir to the throne as king of Ndikelionwu. He was a fearless war lord ruling over the entire town in now known Anambra state from 1856 until the British conquest of the heartland in 1896. Story has is that Okoli Ijoma is immortal, fearless and defiant."No blade can pierce his skin". He could predict the future; many of his subjects rely on him for their protections. He was sought as far away by Awkuzu (1885), and Achalla (1889) which were beleaguered then.

HIS FIGHTS:

Ose Okwudu at Onitsha derived its name from Okwudu Ocha, Okoli's flutist, who the story goes spent seven days on that location employing all possible device with his flute to goad his master to proceed on his self assigned attempt to lock horns with an allegedly powerful Oba N'Iduu. The River Niger constituted to an unanticipated impregnable barrier forcing Okoli Ijoma to return home with his mission unaccomplished.

HIS LEADERSHIP:

Okoli Ijoma lived in a two story house in Umuochu Village around 18th century, built with local material and held a law court in a circular building (Ogbagburugburu) which was an architectural masterpiece and first during his time. HRH Nnama of Nibo was the deputy chief judge of legendary "Omenuko" court headed by HRH Okoli Ijoma. Both of them became friends and in-laws. Okoli Ijoma presided over the dispute over who was the first traditional ruler (referred to as 'Ezeike') of Nibo between Umuanum and Ezeawulu villages. The ruler of Ezeawulu village was His Royal Highness Oke Ezekwe/Ezekwem while that of Umuanum was HRH Nnama Orjiakor-Eleh. HRH Nnama Orjiakor Eleh was the ruler of Nibo before the coming of the British and was granted a Royal Warrant in 1896 by Her Majesty Queen Victoria of Britain together with other southern Paramount rulers such as HRH Onyeama of Eke, HRH Ojiako Ezenne of Adazi, HRH Kodilinye of Obosi, HRH Onwurah of Awka, Obi of Onitsha, HRH Agwuna of NRI and HRH Ukpo. HRH NNAMA was appointed the President of Awka Customary Court of Appeal (1898-1945), He also served as a Judge in the Provincial Court of Appeal for Onitsha Colonial Residency covering the Niger Provinces (what is now known as Anambra and Enugu States). HRH NNAMA was deputy judge in the Omenuko Court presided by the legendary Okoli Ijoma ruling over the old Awka province involving over 100 towns.

HIS DEATH:

Okoli Ijoma was at the peak of his power when the British where trying to consolidate their holding on eastern Nigeria. Nibo was the first town to capitulate to British army. HRH Nnama sent an emissary to Okoli Ijoma briefing him how mighty strength and arsenal the British battalion has got. And that Nibo war council has decided not to wage a futile war but to surrender. Okoli sent a "flag-staff" message to his friend wishing him well but vowed that he rather die than be ruled by any other king; be it white, red or black. He kept preparing for war. After the bloody massacre of Agulu town warrior, Okoli Ijoma, an immortal war lord still fiercely fought the British, he successfully held out against them, but he only could reign for a year. Then British split

Ndikelionwu into two; Umuochu and Ndikelionwu when they could not dismantle Okoli after he won them at Ikpa with bees. Having resisted for a year and Having left with nothing to fight with, Okoli dressed up in his royal robe, sat on his royal throne and put himself down after drinking from a royal cup, and kept his word (not to die by human blade). But before the British could arrive Umuochu, Okoli Ijoma was gone. He was buried in Umuochu in an underground castle still sitting on his throne. Umuochu was later united with Ndikelionwu during Ike Mbonu's regime.

http://www.awkanasoenwe.org/history-of-okoli-ijoma.html

Ogidi has a very rich history that dates over 450 years. The founding father of the town, Ezechumagha (born c.1550) married Anum-Ubosi and they had a son in 1580 named Inwelle. Inwelle married and had a son in 1611 named Ogidi (meaning strong pillar because he was a great warrior). Ogidi had 2 wives: (i) Duaja whose children were Akanano, Uru, Ezinkwo, Umu-Udo, and Ama-Okwu; and (ii) Amalanyia whose children were Ikenga, Nne Ogidi, Uruagu and Achalla Ogidi. After the migration of five of his children, the remaining four sons (Akanano, Uru, Ezinkwo and Ikenga) formed the present Ebo Ino (four quarters) of Ogidi.

History has it that Umu-Udo migrated to present day Umunya (in Oyi Local Government of Anambra State). Ama-Okwu was either sold off into slavery or got integrated into other parts of Ogidi, especially Odida in Ikenga. Nne Ogidi was married off to Agulu and is a thriving village in Agulu. Uruagu migrated and settled in Nnewi although present day Uruagu Nnewi people deny any claim with Ogidi, and Achalla Ogidi (a great elephant hunter) migrated to present day Okija (derived from Oka Ije Achalla Ogidi).

Of the four sons who stayed back in Ogidi, Akanano had 2 wives. The first wife had Ire and Abo, while the second had Ezi-Ogidi and Umuru. Uru (born c.1643) had 8 children: Ntukwulu, Ajilija, Adazi, Umudoma, Uru Ezealo, Uro Oji, Umu Anugwo, and Ogwugwuagu. Ezinkwo had 2 sons: (a) Ogidi-Ani who had Ogidi-Anu Ukwu and Ogidi-Ani Etiti; and (b) Nkwelle Ogidi who had Ezinkwelle and Uru Owelle. Ikenga had 2 wives: (a) Aghaluji Ejebe Ogu who had Obodo Okwe and Anugwo; and (b) Ezenebo who had Nanri and Odida.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogidi,_Anambra

Abatete is a town in Anambra State in Nigeria. Abatete is bordered by Uke, Ogidi, Abacha, Oraukwu, Alor, Ideani, Eziowelle, Umuoji. It is located in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State. It is made up of four villages: Nsukwu, Agbaja, Ogbu and Odida. Its people are one of the Igbo speaking peoples of Eastern Nigeria. Abatete, like most Igbo communities, has a rich cultural heritage. Okolie Otie was indisputably the ancestral father of Abatete, Umuoji and Nkpor, but his origin is still unsettled. Otie had three sons: Edeogu, Ora and Ideke. Edeogu his eldest son married Mgboko eke, and they had nine sons: Viz, Nsukwu, Agbaja, Isiuzo, Akwa, Azu ogwa, Mputu, Odida, and Ogbu in that order.

Ora married and had a son he named Oji. When Oji had his own son he gave him his grandfather's name. Oji's descendants are known as Umuoji. The first village in Umuoji is Eziora as a reflection of their grandfather's name. Ideke's descendants are known as Nkpor. Edeogu the father of Nkpor. Edeogu the father of abatete proudly referred to his nine sons as (Igwulube-otie-denoting the plurality of his children). Over generation Mbateghete was corrupted to Abateghete and to Abatete with the advent of British rule. Out of nine sons of Edeogu only four survived to form the four pillars of Abatete namely: Nsukwu, Agbaja, Odida and Ogbu. Isiuzo clan had group into a quarter but was driven out of Abatete due to constant feud.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abatete

Ichida
Ichida is one of the ten towns that make up Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State. It is bounded in the north by Adazi-Enu and Nnokwa, in the east by Oraeri, in the south by Igbo-Ukwu and Azuigbo, in the west by Awka-Etiti.

Ichida community has twenty villages namely: Ajani, Dunuebo, Elimehi, Uranudo, Mgbuwa, Umuebo, Ihe, Umuakata, Umuezesue, Nnulukwu, Ubulu, Uhuanaoma, Ezebazu, Udoama, Amuleri, Uhuana, Mgbudu, Umukam, Umuezeonyedi and Umudunuagu.

The exact population of the town is yet to be asacertained, however September, 2002 figure put it at 21,027 people. The majority of the people of Ichida are farmers who reside at home while others are traders who live abroad. The civil/public servants among them live outside the town-at their various places of work.

A version of history has it that when man began tilling the ground, the exercise gave rise to the need for the soil and migration and ownership of land ensued. That it was the migration that made Okotu, the father of Ichida to leave his house in Umuona to settle in Adazi-Enu in a village called Umuabu, and that the four brothers who were great grand fathers of Nebo, Isuofia, Akwaeze and Neni settled in different locations. Ichida settled in Isiube and his other brothers either called Okotu Brothers or Igwulube Okotu namely Adazi-Enu, Adazi-Ani, Adazi-Nnukwu, Obeledu, Amichi, Osmenyi and Ogbodi settled in their different communities.

The current traditional ruler of Ichida is His Royal Majesty, Sir Charles. N Ezeudogu (KSS), the Obi II of Ichida; the current President General is Barr. Kenneth Nwadilibe and the current Woman Leader is Mrs. Victoria Okpala.

http://anaocha-gov-org.lavingtonhillhouse.com/?page_id=250

THE EARLIEST AWKA PEOPLE – ORIGIN AND HUNTING ECONOMY:

The territory known today as Awka has been inhabited by man for several centuries, perhaps for millenia. In the 1930s, stone tools were discovered in the area which belong to the Neolithic stage of human development. It is largely because of the antiquity of man in this area that the ‘core’ Awka people do not have any memory of migration from outside the Awka area; they claim that they have been there from the beginning of time! These first Awka people lived on the banks of the Ogwugwu stream in what is now the Nkwelle ward/village in Awka. How they got there, who their migratory leaders were, whence they came, are all lost in the haze of remote history. We do know that these earliest people consisted of three kin groups – Urueri, Amaenyiana and Okpo – and were collectively called the Ifiteana. ‘Ifiteana’ roughly translates into “[people who] sprouted from the earth”.

The Ifiteana people (i.e., the Old Awka people) were a settled agricultural society. However, big-game hunting constituted a very important sector of their economy. The elephant was their most prized game; its tusk was a very valuable article of trade.

The Ifiteanas already knew the art of smelting iron ore and fashioning the implements of farming, hunting and, of course, war. Their first and chief god was an old deity called Ọkikanube (usually shortened to Ọkanube). According to the myths of these people, Ọkanube was a supernatural being who came from the sky and taught the Ifiteana people of old the arts of working iron and making medicine. His name Ọkanube means ‘He who is Pre-eminent with the Spear’. He was basically a hunting god and the myths say he showed the people how to hunt with iron spears (ube) laced with medicine, hence his name.

The elephant tusk, called okike, was the symbol of the god Ọkanube. Every Awka compound had this important ritual symbol kept in the family chapel cum reception hall (called the obu). In the fifth month of every Awka year, (that is, towards the beginning of the dry season when hunting started), the okike was venerated and the people asked their god Ọkanube for a fruitful hunting season. The okike was brought from its sacred hiding place and unwrapped. A goat or a chicken was sacrificed and buried in a hole in front of this symbol. Then the okike was re-wrapped and taken back to its sanctum. It won’t be seen again until the next hunting season; it was believed that whoever set eyes on okike before the fifth month was struck with madness.

In the hollow of the sacred elephant tusk, the people stored their hunting ‘medicine’. They smeared the ‘medicine’ on their hunting spears before they set out for the bush. This ‘medicine’ was of two types:
a) The otolo type, which caused the hunted animal (usually an elephant) to pass diarrhoeal stool, until it died of dehydration and weakness; and
b) The ada-ngene type, which aroused great thirst for water in the hunted animal. The animal would then seek for a watering-hole, but would die once it tasted water.

The Ifiteana people believed they received the recipes for both ‘medicines’ from Ọkanube himself.

Awka was once a haunt of elephants. A part of the town is still called Ama Enyi (Elephants’ Quarters), and until recently there was a pond in the town called Iyi Enyi (Elephants’ Pond) where the elephants used to gather to drink and slack their thirst. Over-hunting rendered the poor animals virtually extinct even before the coming of the British colonialists. The last elephant seen in the area was killed in 1910 by three hunters using the ada-ngene medicine.

As elephants became scarcer and scarcer, the god Ọkanube became less and less important, until people stopped worshipping him altogether. The spot where his shrine once stood is marked by a lone spear stuck in the ground. But his memory survived him worship. According to Amanke Okafor, the Ifiteanas called themselves Ụmụ Ọkanube (the children of Ọkanube) or Ụmụ Ọka; and it was from that appellation that the name of the town, Ọka (anglicized as Awka) was derived. A market was also named in Ọkanube’s honour – the Oye Ọkanube (Oye Ọka) market. The Oye Ọka market square was the centre of Awka political life, where weighty matters were deliberated on and important decisions made, until the British Government put an end to its meetings in 1928.


Umunze


The name Umunze was derived from the name of the originator "Nze" meaning the descendant of nze in about 1476 during the time of extreme drought. Nze Izo Ezema was a farmer and hunter from ohafia near Arochukwu in the present day Abia State. He wandered the forest on his normal hunting and on discovering a very fertile land full of arable crops he like it. He went back to his father and told him about his new home and also ask for wives. His father saw his behaviour and equipped him with necessities. He was given a mother shrine that has a stream known as Izo mmiri (The present Izo in the eke izo square) with two wives and a slave to the Izo. He settled first at Akpu Mgbatiri Okpa situated at Umuizo today. His wives were Lolo and Ijendu. Lolo gave birth to 7 sons and 1 daughter and ijendu had only 1 son. Nze being our Originator : Izo being his father's name in Ohafia : Ezema being the family village name in Ohafia.

Lolo gave birth to 7 sons and 1 daughter

1. Nso, the descendants formed Nsogwu

2. Ugwu- Ugwunano

3. Uragu-Lomu

4. Ishingwu-Ubaha

5. Cheke-Ururo

6. Okpontu-Ozara

7. Diala-Amuda.

The daughter was married to an immigrant from Isu in the present day Imo State. He became a neighbor to Nze and now the present Isulo (Umunze treats any girl from Isulo as Ada in any ceremony till today) Ijendu the first wife bore two children;Dara(1st son),who is presently the father and founder of eziagu,a neighboring town,after a family problem.

War broke the two wives after the death of Nze that made Dara [ The first son of Nze ] to demand absolute control of the kingdom but was waged by the striking force of his half brothers and they conspired and made him leave the kingdom for Agu which is called IKPA according to Umunze dialect. Dara was blessed with many children at Eziagu,he settled at the western part of the area. The slave that came with Nze was blessed and when Nze died, he(the slave) was regarded as the father since he took care of the entire kingdom after the death of Nze Izo Ezema. His aboard became the present Umuizo where the entire Umunze gathered.

These 7 sons settled at different locations which today make up the town known as umunze.

History of Otolo Nnewi
by Onwutalobi Anthony Claret

Nnewi was founded in the fourteenth century, and consists of four Quarters (large villages) and these four Quarters of Nnewi are Otolo, Uruagu, Umudim, and Nnewichi. Otolo, a premiere quarter of the four quarters in Nnewi has been outstanding in all aspect of human endeavors. In it seated the mantle of leadership that governs the other quarters for the past decades. Its central success is figured in commercial trade but not limited to it, as its cultural heritage has always been the beacon of light to other neighboring village.

Digbo, one of the sons of Nnewi, had two sons – Otolo and Ikwuabo. It is a custom in Nnewi that a married woman who has no child belongs theoretically to the woman – husband but practically to the man – the husband of that woman husband. One of the wives of Digbo had no child and she therefore married another woman who gave birth to a male child known as Ukwabo.

Otolo the first son of Digbo had many sons – Enem the first son followed by Nnofo, Eziogwugwu alias Eziegbelu, Diaba whose descendants are generally known Umuzu and Nnangana alias Nganaga. Before Otolo begot these, he himself was one. By Otolo originally is meant the descendants of Otolo. Later as consequent upon the success of Eze Agha, Ezekwuabos came under the umbrella of the name. Later still, Amilibas followed suit and so did the rest at appropriate times. It was in this way that Otolo as a quarter was made up

Otolo is the premier quarter in Nnewi. This is true in terms of population, seat of political power and, apparently even, concentration of wealth. There are facts recognized by the other three quarters of Nnewi. These factors have perhaps influenced it in its attitude. In Nnewi affairs, Otolo conduct is one of a leader and a bully. Otolo people have in them a belief that every Otolo man is infallible. Because of this belief, an Otolo man defends his fellow Otolo men in the face of obvious culpability.

Onitsha I think has so many version and each group will present their version, one thing that cant be erased is Aro position in Igbo land and that of SS, aros are traders and migrant in nature and I think that they must have settled in Onicha if they are scattered in Anambra such as Oko axis Ajalli even my place in Nnewi South, Mu grand father told me that we Migrated from Ndi Ogbuonyeoma in the present day Aro Ndi Izuogu and that cant be devated, I am researching on it, now the onitcha has the Nri roots also via Nri daughter Iguedo and the Igalla roots also all came i nto make onitisha what it is.. Now the research continues

Handsomegod:
@Tonychristopher nwa mama akam di na enu o! Ur exposition was wonderful.Save for a few deferrals here and there,i guess these histories as you presented them were popular versions. Sadly,while am a die hard igbotic,i do not know much about town histories. Can you kindly clear the obvious confusion regarding Onitsha history.One account said they migrated from Benin,while you just gave us their Aro roots.While the Ezechima's theory holds more validity in view of the factual and tangible traces we can still hold on to this day,am totally convinced he was a mystic who went for an expedition to the ancient Benin Kingdom at the height of their splendor but traced his way back when he fell out of grace with his hosts.
@Radoillo (Uzu oka gburu gburu)! This ur signature re "oka erike" cracks me up big time! You once did a wonderful exposition on Awka history and customs here in Culture section? I recall reading and contributing to such lovely history you got there.You can add more flesh to what Tony already did.
@Lilimax.U know the history of ur town, Nri to such an extent? IMPRESSIVE!!
Does anyone know the history of Nawfia in Njikoka LGA? Why do they call themselves "Ibu anyi danda"? Why do they refer to Nteje as "Abogu"? And most especially,why are Oyi people so steeped in tradition and also very stubborn? e.g Awkuzu and Nteje?
While colonialism brought its own benefits,it however damaged and severed the fabric that held us tightly.We lost our God given spiritual base and of course that went with our civilization.
Good efforts brother.Kindly enlighten us more! Odenigbo and Odumchi please come here and do ur thingy! Deme nu!

NigerMan1:
tonychristopher - they will kill you for this. In fact, watch out, your monica has already been marked for future attacks. Why do you think they're attacking me with much viciousness? There was a previous thread some of them (plus macof) made series of DEROGATORY comments about EDO history, and I countered with facts and figures.

Since that day o - NigerMan1 don become 'enemy number 1

Also on this thread, I exposed exactly what you said above and the gates of hell were let loose. In fact macof practically called for the MOD to ' do something' about the 'nonsense' I was writing.

You know what the MOD did? They bump this thread to the front page, a few days later. And the discourse was brought to live again.

Let me add this:

Chief Obafemi Awolowo, took a giant advantage of the term Yoruba to enlarge his political coast via series of psychological propaganda, to build political COLLATERAL for himself. That also explain the major reason those who opposed him in Yorubaland were physically harassed, culturally alienated, politically marooned and traditionally insulted.

It was that period the satanic word "OMO ALE" (meaning Bastard) was 'invented' to attack Awolowo rivals. After this, political assassination was introduced.

Therefore, in the course of 2-3 decades in Awo's trojanic movement, at least 2 generations were born and matured, and were all emotionally and Psychologically FED with the mantra "we're all YORUBA" cliche.

One of the after-effects is that most Yorubas gradually forgot their own roots, peculiar identities, strength, weaknesses, specialties etc and COLLAPSING them into one forceful political entity, but with subtlety, was openly promoted as CULTURE.

NOTE: There were other factors, but digest this for now

Lol

But I am stating the fact

macof:
They leave their dying history and come to destroy yoruba so we can be like them
People without knowledge of their history

History don't die but they are recorded and revisited

This is exactly what I have done

Research and thank me later


One thing is that there are things you can't wish away and one is oduduwa was a Benin prince
Two is lagos was a Benin colony
Three majority of people in lagos are migrants

I rest my case

Another one

Bragging and loudmouth


I think I am done with you Mr.somebody


Why don't you disprove the facts Mr. Somebody

TonySpike:
You think all the junks you posted on this thread makes you an intellectual? I guess the definition of the word "intellectual" has definitely changed if you are indeed one. It's a pity you don't know who I am in real life; if you do, you will know that you don't deserve to be my student because your analytical and deductive skills are very crappy and watery. No wonder you place yourself on a pedestal of delusion.

why dont you open up a thrread on that and we are just trying to dissect Oduduwa fallacy and Benin influence in socio political and historical era...and there is no point sweeping these things under the carpet


have you seen my idejo postulation and what do you have to say

macof:
Lmao

Esan! No wonder
He isn't even Bini

What then is ur business with Awori - Bini connection? Absolutely nothing
if you say Yorubas are divided pls talk about ur Edo people first

Etsako are gradually losing any sign of connection to you lot. ..what wit the islam and Yoruba names they lik to bear now

Try arranging ur burning house instead of trying to divide yorubas

One of the hallmark of somebody that lacks intellectual finese is to resort to abusive words in intellectual debate.


I am sorry if I did quote you

TonySpike:
You are as idiotic as your assertions!

outsiders are not distorting history, Outsiders are straightening distorted history with facts ...these lies has to be purged

TonySpike:
This just the problem with these outsiders trying to distort Yoruba history. How can anyone in his right sense rate Olubadan as one of the foremost Yoruba kings? This is very displeasing and abominable! Ibadan did not become a full-fledged city until circa 1820s, and even then was a military garrison and launchpad base against the Northern invasion. I would really advise you, Nigerman1, to desist from distorting Yoruba history and hierarchy. I don't know the profane points you have been trying to prove, but please stay on your original topic!