spearman:


You lie. Hear it from the Obi himself.
The people of Onitsha are from the Benin Empire (Edo Kingdom).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrxQKyPh7I8

Is that what the Obi of Onicha said in this interview ? You are unbelievable. I am sure you dont understand Igbo but suddenly you want to translate Igbo to Ndigbo

sotall:


No , I added India, Indonesia, and Malaysia prisons where your kinsmen are on death penalty for doing drugs.


Go back to history, we the Edos are greater than you igbos. Its a fact. The records are there.


Its the British that gave you red caps if not, your igwe will be in the bush roaming aimlessly.

Lol,E pain am

Baba,there is nothing special in you as a bini people,you can’t use your bini-nese to take money from the bank,your bini ancestors didn’t even invent shit
Everytime bini bini bini,like say na una discover the Moon
So what’s special about you?

agadez007:
Lol,E pain am

Baba,there is nothing special in you as a bini people,you can’t use your bini-nese to take money from the bank,your bini ancestors didn’t even invent shit
Everytime bini bini bini,like say na una discover the Moon
So what’s special about you?

See as jealousy wan kee you and your fellow kinsmen.

You hate all the hype we the Edos have been getting.

Why our ancestors built enviable civilization, yours were in the bush roaming with monkeys.

End of discussion here as i have schooled you and your kinsmen.

sotall:


See as jealousy wan kee you and your fellow kinsmen.

You hate all the hype we the Edos have been getting.

Why our ancestors built enviable civilization, yours were in the bush roaming with monkeys.

End of discussion here as i have schooled you and your kinsmen.

Jealous of what exactly,I should be jealous of the people that their ancestors invented Train,electricity,plane etc
Those are the people I should be jealous of,not some black people running around one Oba that couldn’t defend himself and got banished to die in Calabar like a common fugitive

Talk another thing please

agadez007:
Jealous of what exactly,I should be jealous of the people that their ancestors invented Train,electricity,plane etc
Those are the people I should be jealous of,not some black people running around one Oba that couldn’t defend himself and got banished to die in Calabar like a common fugitive

Talk another thing please

Oh! You are envious of the best civilization that West Africa had before the whiteman came

Envy no go kee you ooo.

Go and check what the whitemen wrote about Edo the first time they came. We were organized. They compared Benin City to Europe as at 14th Century.


But let me ask you..what about your people?

Where were they?

Just roaming aimlessly inside Bush with monkeys.

And once in a while we usually come to raid your villages and kidnap your people and sell to the whiteman as slaves.

I read a report that the word "Igbo" is derived from Igala word for slaves. You guys were nothing but slaves.

sotall:


You have no point again!

Now is to come and rant and say una too small.

Two years to what?

Need i remind you it was the British that gave you the Kings you now call Eze?

When they came you guys were roaming in the bush and they had to give the sellouts amongst you their red headwarmer to use as your identity.

Now everywhere you go, your chiefs and kings go everywhere with a red headwarmer given to them by the British.

If othet tribes in Nigeria are talking of history, you guys should go and sleep cos you got nothing worthwhile to talk about aside roaming in the bush with monkeys.

We even had your people as our slaves and sold many of you out.

If you need me to tell you your history, i will be glad to spill it here.

Yes you're right Igbos didn't have kings because we believed in egbe belu ugo belu which means representative government where people bring ideas together instead of one person deciding everyone's fate
Igbos are individualistic

So royalty is now you count civilization? What an illitrate!Hahaha

What are we practicing now?

Is exactly what Igbos have always practiced

Which is representative Confederation of communities

Very decentralised government like we have now in Nigeria

Your oba power is confined to his 18 LGA noise makers

If federal government want they'll will remove him

Igbos were fvcking ahead of thier times


We read and write in Akagu
Did binins read or write in thier local language?

We made the first iron smelting in Nigeria


We made the first bronze works outdating every others


We made pyramids in udi Enugu State


We had dates and times


We circumcised while your people are going about with uncircumcised gbola


Overated people of 18 LGAs


And yes it took British 2 years to scatter Arochukwu confederacy because it was decentralised

KwuoteYourFada:

Yes you're right Igbos didn't have kings because we believed in egbe belu ugo belu which means representative government where people bring ideas together instead of one person deciding everyone's fate
Igbos are individualistic

So royalty is now you count civilization? What an illitrate!Hahaha

What are we practicing now?

Is exactly what Igbos have always practiced

Which is representative Confederation of communities

Very decentralised government like we have now in Nigeria

Your oba power is confined to his 18 LGA noise makers

If federal government want they'll will remove him

Igbos were fvcking ahead of thier times


We read and write in Akagu
Did binins read or write in thier local language?

We made the first iron smelting in Nigeria


We made the first bronze works outdating every others


We made pyramids in udi Enugu State


We had dates and times


We circumcised while your people are going about with uncircumcised gbola


Overated people of 18 LGAs


And yes it took British 2 years to scatter Arochukwu confederacy because it was decentralised

Ahead of where?


Read and write what? You guys were roaming inside Bush while other of your kinsmen served as slaves.

And right now all over Southeast you have Eze everywhere.

Where did this Ezes suddenly come from? And who are these Ezes? They were appointed by the British and they started wearing red caps

So you guys suddenly realized civilization comes with forming central leadership.


If you dont know your history let me school you.


It was a Yoruba man by name Samuel Ajayi Crowther that came and translated the English Bible for you guys. You guys didn't have any atom of civilization in you.

paramakina202:


Unlike Lagos where Oba of Bini have documented evidence that they founded Lagos in the case of Onitsha he have no single evidence any Bini man have ever set foot in Igboland.

Nnamdi Azikiwe confirmed it in his book, and it's quite common history.

creativehubb:

Nnamdi Azikiwe confirmed it in his book, and it's quite common history.

No evidence.Nnamdi son of Azikiwe is an Igbo man.

sotall:


Oh! You are envious of the best civilization that West Africa had before the whiteman came

Envy no go kee you ooo.

Go and check what the whitemen wrote about Edo the first time they came. We were organized. They compared Benin City to Europe as at 14th Century.


But let me ask you..what about your people?

Where were they?

Just roaming aimlessly inside Bush with monkeys.

And once in a while we usually come to raid your villages and kidnap your people and sell to the whiteman as slaves.

I read a report that the word "Igbo" is derived from Igala word for slaves. You guys were nothing but slaves.

I didn’t ask for all these Epistles
Just mention one thing that your people invented or are good at

Stop telling me your family history

As far as I am concerned,the bini I have visited can’t be even compared with The Congo talk more of the dirtiest European town

So it’s no longer a Yoruba term,now it’s igala,later it will be mandarin language,make una dey pass am to una self

LET US DECLARE ABEOKUTA, ONITSHA AND SOKOTO AS NEW STATES.

LET US DECLARE ABEOKUTA, ONITSHA AND SOKOTO AS NEW STATES.

ARRANT BIGOTRY AND UNNECESSARY COMPLEX.

creativehubb:

Nnamdi Azikiwe confirmed it in his book, and it's quite common history.

Zik himself have no evidence.

paramakina202:


Zik himself have no evidence.

That is the greatest Igbo man that ever liveth...are you saying Zik, the Political grandfather of alaigbo, the one who signed indigbo into this Nigeria, has no credibility 🤔

creativehubb:

That is the greatest Igbo man that ever liveth...are you saying Zik, the Political grandfather of alaigbo, the one who signed indigbo into this Nigeria, has no credibility 🤔

Zik was a human never perfect.
Eze Chima was never a Bini man.

sotall:

You see you all igbos here are ignorant.

There is no language called Bini.

Its called Edo . And the Sstate is called Edo state for a reason.

And let me remind you, Edo state is bigger than 3 southeast states put together.

You guys are whacked. Im from Anambra, I did my NYSC in Edo State Etsako West. Edo people are not even up to 5 Local governments. Others in Edo State such as Etskako, Igbanke, Owan and Afenmai dont even understand Edo language. Not even Akoko-Edo speaks Edo. The entire population of Edo State does not even come close to that of just Anambra.

Bini people are a minority in Nigeria. May be at some point, the Bini empire was huge and strong, but that was a long time ago, those days are over

Get used to it

gidgiddy:


You guys are whacked. Im from Anambra, I did my NYSC in Edo State Etsako West. Edo people are not even up to 5 Local governments. Others in Edo State such as Etskako, Igbanke, Owan and Afenmai dont even understand Edo language. Not even Akoko-Edo speaks Edo. The entire population of Edo State does not even come close to that of just Anambra.

Bini people are a minority in Nigeria. May be at some point, the Bini empire was huge and strong, but that was a long time ago, those days are over

Get used to it

Are all people in Anambra igbo-speaking?

I said it that majority of you are ignorant and chest beaters. There is no region in Nigeria where the language is homogeneous including your Anambra.

Here is evidence. You can sulk on it.

Revealed! Ijaw father, Onitsha/Benin mother; Azikiwe had not a single drop of Ibo blood in him.

Was Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe Truly an Ijaw Man?
THE UNTOLD TRUTH.
The First Nigerian President Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe ( 1904- 1996) was indeed an enigma of no less order. His towering personality makes him to be the greatest Nigerian ever in history.

But Who was Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe? Who was his true biological father? What if all that the public knows about him was the untold truth? Then there is the raging question of who truly owns a child? Is it the Mother or the Father? Some traditions require that the man has to fulfill his marital obligations to lay claim to a child! But others are lenient in such issues.
In considering the aforementioned posers about one's Fatherhood, let's concede the fact that fatherhood is not just blood, but a responsibility. No one can reasonably lay claim to a child one abandoned only to return years later for the same child, cared for by a single mother. That would be insensitive! That is not morally right.

But the question here is, what if the man was not allowed access to his son because tradition says he should not? What about the culture that says it is not the man but the woman that owns a child if the man failed to perform his marital vows?
In which case, she left with the child and got married to another man who fostered him and trained him to achieve his educational dreams, only for the child to find out the truth that his biological father is somewhere. What would be his reactions? How could he tell that the man whom he thought all his life to be his father was not his biological father? And that his father was somewhere else!

The heart of a woman is truly a deep blue sea of secrets!

That for Zik's Mother to tell him the truth about his origin, the boy had to wait until the time was right. He must know his roots, for that was his spiritual freedom, but he must be trained to accept the fact he had gone too far in the journey of life to return home to his father.
She had told him, the story of her youth, and the love of her life, about that handsome dark tall Ijaw fellow whom she met at Agbere in some decades ago during when both of them were working at the Royal Niger Company. She was a staff, and he was a carpenter. They met and fell in love, and one thing led to another. Then she was naive about her culture and tradition, thinking love was all that mattered in the whole world. She became pregnant but the man was struggling to make it in life and was not ready for a child. A misunderstanding ensued and she left with the pregnancy.

Years after, their paths crossed again at Onitsha where he was a fisherman. But this time she was carrying his baby, and when he saw the baby, he saw a reflection of himself; from the dark colour to his facial features. He apologized and promised to marry her, but she was already married. He came too late.

She had already named him Benjamin, but that was later changed by the boy when he realized the truth about his paternity to ' Nnamdi' meaning ' My father is somewhere'. And that was how Pa Lewis Apam lost the battle of life and his love to an Onitsha man. And so, she left and returned no more. Sadly, that was the last time he set his eyes on his biological son until the boy grew up and became the president of Nigeria.
But God is dynamic in answering the prayers of men. According to the story made available by the family, Chief Ezonbodo in his political journey came across Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, and when he introduced himself as an Ijaw man from Agbere town, immediately their blood bond was rekindled. They were brothers from the same bloodline. Dr Zik sent for his father Chief Lewis Apam, and when Hon. Ezonbodo Ninetry brought the two together, they were indeed identical. Dr Zik saw himself in a mirror as his biological father stood before him.

Thereafter, they became close. The lost relationship between Father and son was restored. Dr Zik in the name of politics visited his Father's place Agbere more than twice and spent a night or two. He took his father to Lagos in his house, most of the time until the man died. He knows his siblings and half brothers, like the great footballer Onyekachi Justice Apam's father who was equally married to an Igbo woman from Abia state. Today, many has mistaken the great Nigerian footballer as an Igbo man, but he is Ijaw by origin, paternally. In his case, his father fortunately had paid the marital vows of his wife, so the children were free to announce their father's name Mr Apam proudly anywhere, even though his name Onyekachi could be misleading as the public most times thought he is an Igbo man.

But that was not the case of the Great Zik of Africa. His case was different. He had to consider his society, the Igbo society he had come to be associated with to make his political name and fame. Again, he had to consider the good man who married his mother and adopted him as his son. Again, the larger world that looked upon him as a man with a perfect childhood and upbringing. No, he couldn't handle the controversies. After all, what is life without dignity, without power, without honour?
And he was not a Moses to have traded all these things for merely an origin of birth. No way, let history set the records straight, when I am gone, he must have thought. But to a large extent, it was not a secret. The entire Ijaw leadership knew the story, both home and abroad. He sponsored his brother Chief Ezonbodo Ninetry politically as a first generation politician that he was seen as a demi-god in the whole of Western Ijaw Division.
The Ijaws celebrated their son Dr Nnamdi when he was alive until the day he died. Interestingly that was the lost Ijaw son who became an Igbo man by tradition.

To many, it is no longer relevant, after all, some truths are better left unsaid, especially when it has lost its relevance and time. But what is life anyway, if not to relive the memories we share with our loved ones. Apart from that, like every tribe with their own traditions and cultures, so is the Ijaw man's culture, forbidden him to be part of a secret, merely for the sake of the living who lives in secrecy all our lives. According to the tradition of the Ijaw man, it is a taboo for one to bury a man with his secret. Such secret could be kept, but not when the man has died. For in death, the spirit of man is pure before his Creator, and every other worldly desires are purged, including his many covered up secrets.
Ironically, tradition holds the living responsible for not saying it, for by saying it, you are freeing the soul of the dead from eternal destruction, if you don't the spirit in the life beyond suffers in damnation. Reasons being, that it is only in life that greed, lust of power, envy, and all material things are needed. But in the spirit, when the flesh has given up its grip on the soul of a man, he becomes free. As such, all that's needed is the truth, nothing but the truth- which is Ijo in meaning.

Hence, it is our obligation to honour our blood brother, father, uncle, who in life had taken the effort to be identified with his people the best he could as a human being. He may not be perfect by not changing his foster name, but he was a good man to the Ijaws, and there is no way one can make good and enemy of perfection.

And when he died, the Ijaws in London equally saw a reason to celebrate him as their own in grand style.
Though his silence on the matter was understandable. But think about it, how could the President of Nigeria, the greatest personality with the self appellation ' Zik of Africa' be a man of double origin? That his true full-blooded biological father was an Ijaw man? Of course, that could bring some considerable shame to his public image and ego. Therefore he hoped to carry the secret to the grave. But ironically it was not a secret to his brothers of Agbere town.

Sadly that is the world in which we live, and has been raised, a cruel tradition that denies a father from his son simply because one could not meet up the rites demanded of him. Strangely the life of a man is policed daily by traditions- they over rule our actions and stories.
Strange enough, for one to know that Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe was a son of his mother who later identified his roots with the great ijaw tribe as his paternal home, one could see it through his actions.

The Owele of Onitsha built his University at Nsuka instead of Onitsha. He equally built his beautiful home, the Onuye Haven in his mother's place instead of Onitsha, place of his fostered father. All things point to one direction, he was truly a son of his mother, and in all his life, he knew his father was somewhere. He secretly worshiped him and held that memory dearly to his heart. It pained him to know all these things yet he could not say it, and that made him sad, and such, was holding those grudges against the world.
Interestingly, family sources further confirmed that before the demise of Lewis Apam (his father), Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe directed his father with financial provisions to build a house for him in his home town of Agbere. This was a registration of undeniable acceptability of his kinsmen. As a man of uncommon intellectual stamina and moral fervidness or audacity, the Great Zik of Africa realized that mother's love is Supreme but father's love is a bowel of strength and courage. But unfortunately the house project was overtaken by events.
Culled from the book: 'Heroes of the Ijaw Nation' Author, Gesikeme Akparakata