…Igbo first settlers in Ile-Ife —Igwe Achebe
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It’s either restructuring or referendum —Ezeife
By Dennis Agbo


ENUGU— FORMER governor of Anambra State, Dr.
Chukwuemeke Ezeife, has said that it is either
Nigeria is restructured into six geopolitical zones or
it goes into referendum to decide if the country will
remain as one country or disintegrate.


Ezeife also said the Southern Peoples Assembly,
SPA, will soon meet to take a decision on whether
the people of southern Nigeria will participate in 2019
elections if the country was not restructured.
He went further to pre-empt that it is possible the
people of southern part of Nigeria will boycott the
election if President Muhammadu Buhari’s
administration does not restructure the country
immediately.


In fact,Ezeife gave Buhari’s government an ultimatum to immediately
convene an urgent national summit, which its
agenda, he suggested, would be to adopt a
framework for the inevitable restructuring.
Ezeife made the statement, yesterday, when he
chaired the First Chinua Achebe International
Conference organised by the Institute of African
Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.


At the conference, the Obi of Onitsha, HRM Igwe
Alfred Achebe, said the late prolific author, Chinua
Achebe, would always be remembered by Ndigbo for
projecting the Igbo world view, the history, culture
and cosmology.


Igbo, first settlers in Ile-Ife—Igwe Achebe
Achebe said the Igbo society existed beyond what
Achebe recorded in his books, disclosing that a
recent history book has ascribed to the Igbo as the
original settlers in Ile-Ife and whom Oduduwa met,
other than the present contest between the Ife and
the Ugbo sections in Yoruba land.


Igwe Achebe, therefore, tasked the academia in the
University of Nigeria to conduct further research that
would either authenticate or dismiss the new study
on Igbo origin and settlement.


Most speakers at the opening ceremony of the three-
day international conference freely used Chinua
Achebe’s book entitled, “Things fall apart” to satirize
the present political and economic crisis in Nigeria.
Ezeife said: “Today, the centre cannot hold any
longer in Nigeria. Are we going to watch things fall
apart and allow Nigeria disintegrate?


“Today, all speeches have been going in the way of
referendum. It has come to a stage where it’s clear
that if nothing is done, there will be no more Nigeria.
“My appeal, therefore, is that all hands must be on
deck and all brains at work, otherwise the country
will exist no more. First, there must be restructuring.
After that and we don’t like it ,then any other things
can come .”


Director of Institute of African Studies, Prof. Emeka
Nwabueze, said the conference was a celebration to
honour the sage, Chinua Achebe .
Nwabueze said the institute decided to host the first
Achebe conference since Achebe was a member of
the university community.


He disclosed that all institutes of African Studies in
the world will converge in UNN by November this
year to draw a blueprint on how best to teach African
studies.


Other persons who spoke at the conference included
the former Governor of Imo state, Chief Ikedi Ohakim;
former Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Mrs.
Viola Onwuleri; veteran actor, Pete Edochie, among
others.

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.Land developers international limited.I'm expecting the mythology of how Igbo is the first settler of sokoto and kano too.

-The other time,its benin claiming the owned all southern Nigeria

-Now its Igbo,claiming they own ile-ife..

Afonja(s) are really great.No wonder everyone wants to be identified with them one way other,including a whole Igbo king.

What kind of sensational headline is this
Totally different from what am reading here

South west, South South, South East, North East, North Central and North west. To those Stupid fools that keep on saying there is nothing like south south what do you have to say now?

Eph123 I see war here


The war is fight to finish.



Mynd44 stay around please.

Vanguard and sensational headlines to sell their papers

Kathmandu:
Eph123 I see war here


The war is fight to finish.



Mynd44 stay around please.

Vanguard and sensational headlines to sell their papers

Loooool. Lemme reserve my seat here, off to get some popcorn, will be back.

while I await the arrival of the bashers and the .......

Achebe said the Igbo society existed beyond what
Achebe recorded in his books, disclosing that a
recent history book has ascribed to the Igbo as the
original settlers in Ile-Ife and whom Oduduwa met,
other than the present contest between the Ife and
the Ugbo sections in Yoruba land.

Ayam not understanding o? did he really said so? abi Na me no sabi read? or should I say land grabbing is in their blood

The Igwe was speaking the truth. The Igbo King then was the Obatala who was also called Oba Igbo and Osere Igbo by the Igbo aborigines. Igwe Onitsha is a descendant of the Obatalas through Eze Chima.

Oduduwas will not like this

Some Igbo aborigines remain in Ife today (Oluyare). Some are the Ugbo in Ilaje Yoruba Land. Some are the Owu (Obatala the Oba Igbo layer married Oduduwa's first child, Princess Okanbi Iyunade and they produced the first Olowu of Owu, Ajibosin. The Owu have many settlements today all over Yoruba and Igbo lands). Some are today's Anioma (Onicha Ugbo, Ugbodu, Ogba in Rivers State, etc.).

This book says it all https://www.amazon.com/History-Igbo-World-Ancient-Civilization-ebook/dp/B01K4AIUO8