BENARI:
Someone created a thread sometime ago asking if the name Onitsha is an Igbo word.
Well here's the answer to that question;
The Original name of the town is Aniocha and not Onitsha, and yes, you guessed it, Aniocha extend beyond to the other side of the niger river way into delta state. But then you must be wondering; how did the name survive in the Igbo speaking part of Delta State but changed to Onitsha on the other side?

The simple reason is the white man's arrival at the river port. When the white landed at the port of Aniocha(Onitsha) and began his trade with the people there, the best pronunciation he could come up with was something like a-ni-cha because of his accent, and as you know, the man who truely gives the name by which history will remember a person or place is the man who pens the name on paper. By the time the local people could learn to read and write, the name Aniocha had now been written as Onitsha by the white man for some long years. This error is not peculiar to Aniocha(Onitsha) alone, no, it is a very common error that permeates different geographical locations, cultures, etc in particularly Africa and some parts of Latin America. Reason being, we did not have a literate culture of our own which is why we do not have a record of our history before the white came. Some of this errors have been traced and corrected but most remain, perhaps lost in the sands of time.

SLAP44:


Nice analysis,
However, you will hit a brick wall if I tell you to explain if it's the whites that gave these equally ancient towns their names.

Onicha Enugu
Onicha olona
Onicha ebonyi
Onicha ugbo

I think Onicha was the right spelling and pronunciation of the town Onitsha before the whites came and spelt what they liked. There was Aniocha also in Anambra and another in Igbo Delta, so that doesn't count.

SLAP44:


Nice analysis,
However, you will hit a brick wall if I tell you to explain if it's the whites that gave these equally ancient towns their names.

Onicha Enugu
Onicha olona
Onicha ebonyi
Onicha ugbo

I think Onicha was the right spelling and pronunciation of the town Onitsha before the whites came and spelt what they liked. There was Aniocha also in Anambra and another in Igbo Delta, so that doesn't count.

Juliusmalema:



Onicha be it ugbo, olona or onicha ado are one stock of people historically...and same dialectical stock ..ie language.


The other onichas you are attaching, I still don't understand what they are doing there or where they come from.......


As far as history is concerned, they have no business with Onicha ado, olona and ugbo.

SLAP44:


You won't understand the link to those other onicha because you are not Igbo. Your opinion is useless in this debate, go and join a boko haram debate.

Juliusmalema:



Lol ..Trash.

There is nothing understand except that the history guiding them is clear..

My opinion is only on the three Onicha I know, the other two us non of my business.

SLAP44:

Do you think el rufai is a boko commander as alleged?

Juliusmalema:



Lol...Is that all you got?

Your plan to hoodwink people into one name has failed.

Lol

SLAP44:

So you think he is really a commander. What About zulum?

SLAP44:


So you think he is really a commander. What About zulum?

SLAP44:


Nice analysis,
However, you will hit a brick wall if I tell you to explain if it's the whites that gave these equally ancient towns their names.

Onicha Enugu
Onicha olona
Onicha ebonyi
Onicha ugbo

I think Onicha was the right spelling and pronunciation of the town Onitsha before the whites came and spelt what they liked. There was Aniocha also in Anambra and another in Igbo Delta, so that doesn't count.

BeLookingIDIOT:
The igallas own Onitsha

Juliusmalema:



Lol ..Trash.

There is nothing understand except that the history guiding them is clear..

My opinion is only on the three Onicha I know, the other two us non of my business.

BeLookingIDIOT:
The igallas own Onitsha

SLAP44:


Nice analysis,
However, you will hit a brick wall if I tell you to explain if it's the whites that gave these equally ancient towns their names.

Onicha Enugu
Onicha olona
Onicha ebonyi
Onicha ugbo

I think Onicha was the right spelling and pronunciation of the town Onitsha before the whites came and spelt what they liked. There was Aniocha also in Anambra and another in Igbo Delta, so that doesn't count.

UnBanEbenezer:
what is the meaning of igbo Delta?
Where does that exist in Nigeria

acidici:
This is a very interesting topic.

My parent told me that

Onicha Uku
Onicha Olona
Onicha Ugbo and
Onicha Nmili (Onitsha)

were of the same parent. When they became adult they settled down in where they are today in Delta State. But the brothers had a bitter quarrel and this got Onicha Nmili very angry that he decided to cross the Niger river to settle down where Onitsha is today.

I don't know how true this story is, but Onitsha people has similar dialect with the other Onicha's. that is quite different from other typical Igbo speaking people in the core south east.

SLAP44:


Igbo Delta is that part of the country where Murtala Mohammed ordered the execution of over 500 innocent adult males in what is best remembered as the "Asaba massacre"

Juliusmalema:




This is history we all know but the other guy called slap44 or 44slap pushing strange onichas to Infiltrate already known history is the height of mischievousness.

UnBanEbenezer:
keep your history to yourself.
and for the record it's called Asaba which is the present administrative capital of Delta State.
You can call them Anioma people of Delta State, they are of the Anioma Ethnic stock and not Igbo Delta as you wrongly claimed.
Be guided please.

BabaOwen:
Lomfa

Onitsha is owned by the Binis

SLAP44:


You won't understand the link to those other onicha because you are not Igbo. Your opinion is useless in this debate, go and join a boko haram debate.

Blue3k:
Interesting hypothesis can anyone else confirm?

SLAP44:


And Anioma is of the hausa ethnic stock and not Igbo

Do you know that Murtala mohammed killed those hundreds of innocent people because they are Igbos, a people who chewed out his entire battalion at Abagana and crushed him twice at the bridge. His frustrations about Igbos made him kill any Igbo he could find across the bridge.