Knowledge9000:


Just by your username, I don't need to respond to you. Ungrateful and envious turd.

Yoruba and their hatred for Ndi Igbo make me laugh.
Your first television station didn't do shit. Igbo produced and acted and marketed Living in Bondage. That movie put Nigerian cinema on the map and took Nollywood to the rest of Africa and the World. Be grateful you live with a people like the igbos in your country. Ewu

Tuntheycr7:

They are not igbos
Frm Umunende, Igbodo, Agbor, Issele Uku, Owa Oyibo and Abavo etc dey all speak Ika language and not Ibo

Ewu, is Ika not Igbo spoken in the Delta? It's actually Enu Ani and it's Igbo language. (): king is called Ikechukwu, his title is nkeobiukwu 1, again Igbo words.
After the fall of Nri kingdom the oldest continuous kingdom in a Nigeria, many igbos moved to and close to bini. Some later came back to Onitsha and Oguta.

aljharem:


LOL aigbofa, whether proto-type or not, it is still obsolete really even in the 1970s

Rather, instead of fighting about Ogbunigwe vs Autonov which to me one is a glorified scrape metal and the other just a cast iron filled with gun powder

I rather see, both groups aka the yorubas and the Igbos exchange knowlege with each other on how to make a better product or suggestions on how the 2 "inventors" could have made there "invention better.

That way, threads like this are more productive don't you think ?

Whomever wrote this idiotic rubbish is an Ewu

YOUNGDICEs:
@babyosisi

igbo is a bad word u should said nymuri is better.

MORE LIKE IGBO PEOPLE COME SHOW YOUR 419 SKILLZ

When will Nigerians learn? You can cry a bucket full of tears, you can be a keyboard gangsta all you want, you can even burn our properties, insult us, we will still rise and shine while jealous ones keep hating loool. Igbo Kwenu! Where's ur village? Beg us to come develop it for you instead of the childish tantrums you're throwing here.

Upper Iweka, Onitsha Anambra.
Enugu was created out of Anambra.
Enugu was the capital of Eastern Nigeria just like Lagos used to be capital of Nigeria.
Many Anambra businessmen relocated to Enugu during Anambra’s chaotic years and they pay taxes to Enugu.
Civility has returned in Anambra and we are on the way up!
Anambra is not just the light of Igbo nation, it's the light of Biafra.
Anyway, Igbo by Igbo.

Standing5:



The way the Vice Chancellors were selected for the twelve new Nigerian universities that were established about six years ago was something unprecedented in the history of university administration--and it was also widely condemned. The new Vice Chancellor for one of the universities, Federal University, Dutsinma, Professor Haruna Kaita, was appointed in February 2016. The normal process for appointment of Vice Chancellors is first to advertise the vacancy. Qualified and shortlisted candidates are then screened by a Council Committee, which sends the three recommended candidates to the general council.

The Council then ratifies the committee recommendation and the list is then forwarded to the President for the appointment of one of the three. This process was not adhered to.

In the case of Federal University Dutsinma, the appointment was made straight from Abuja without due process. Commenting on the anomaly, President Muhammed Buhari, said the government would make amends, but the dubious act was never reversed.

It is a calamity that an indigene of Katsina State was made the Vice Chancellor of Federal University Dutsinma, Katsina State, unlike the remaining new universities that have non-indigenes as Vice Chancellors. Even the constitution of the governing council is skewed:

Dr Maraliyya Zayyan from Katsina State is the Chairperson of Governing Council

The first victim of the scheme was the university Bursar who was duly appointed by the Federal Ministry of Education. He was terminated within five weeks of the Vice Chancellor’s assumption of duty for no cogent reason. His crime, the real reason for his termination, is his religion and state of origin-as a Christian from Kogi State.

The Bursar’s name-Mr Momohjimoh Sadiq-sounds Muslim but he is a Christian. He was promptly replaced with an officer from Katsina State as Acting Bursar. The other appointees soon followed:

Dr Babangida U. Dangani -Katsina State -Chief Librarian

Mr A.D Kankia -Katsina State -Registrar (recently appointed)

Prof. Johnson Fatokun -Oyo State -DVC

Prof. A. Bichi -Kano State -DVC

The Katsina mafia should have been satisfied having captured the key positions. However, they have descended heavily on the staff, intent on sending away the infidels (non-indigenes and Christians) in order to ‘sanitise’ the school. I understand this agenda is not just the Vice Chancellor’s baby project. Some powerful people in Katsina, the Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, and in Abuja are behind him insisting that the ethno-religious cleansing is a task that must be urgently done.

Some months ago the Vice Chancellor, in agreement with the inner caucus members of governing council of the university, set up the Staff Audit Committee to conclude the ethno-religious cleansing. The membership of the committee is suspect:

Hon. Emmanuel Omah -external member of council from Rivers State -Chairman of committee

Capt. Bala Jibrin -external member of council from Kano State -member

Dr Rabiu Shatsari -external member of council l from Bauchi State -member

Dr Lawal Saulawa -a lecturer from Katsina State -member

Dr Aliyu Mamman -a lecturer from Katsina state -member

The chairman of the committee is a card-carrying member of All Progressive Congress (APC) who has lost the ability to objectively reflect on the events in the University. He is out to carry out the agenda of flushing out qualified lecturers that the former Vice Chancellor, Professor James Ayatse, who had successfully served as Vice Chancellor of Federal University of Agriculture, painstakingly employed.

A tribalist, Idris Ahmed who retired as a Registrar from ABU Zaria was co-opted to advise the committee on how to go about its assignment. He was used as a tool for northernisation of ABU, Zaria when he served as Registrar. Even before the committee completed its assignment, heads began to roll. Technicians, middle level officers have been sent packing. All of them are non-indigene Christians. All these are happening against the background that the new University is understaffed and may not meet the soon-to-be-conducted accreditation requirements.

Those whose appointments have been terminated so far include:

1. Mr. Samter: Maths Dept (from Benue State) - recently completed M.Sc from the UK

2. Mr. Orits Mimke (Delta State): Forestry Dept - soon to finish PhD from UK

3. Mr. John Ogbodo (Benue State): Forestry Dept - On his PhD

4. Mr Osuagu (Imo State): Accounting Dept -On his PhD

5. Dr. David Yongo (Benue State) History Dept -recently completed PhD

6. Dr Q. Amua -he was sponsored by the UK for bench work while doing his PhD in Nigeria. Recently defended PhD

7. Mr A. Zack -He has not defended PhD 6 & 7 Tetfund grant to travel but money was not released on time. So they borrowed money to go. They have since come back. Now money from Tetfund has come, but the VC is not refunding the money to the staff. He wants to terminate their appointments and spends the money. He gave them a letter to go to ICPC with their account details.

8. Dr Richard -President of staff cooperative society, was asked to go to ICPC with his account details. There is no basis for this action.

Appointments of 7 contract staff (all Christian Southerners) have been terminated. Idris Ahmed, it is said, advised that the university is overstaffed and should be pruned. But how come it is non-indigene Christians that are being sent away from a federal university? Can it be true that the new university is over staffed? How come they are planning to advertise positions that are begging to be filled? Why it is that none of the indigenes are affected? Are the touchable and the untouchables not Nigerians?

Many Katsina indigenes-academic and non-academic staff are saucy, many play truancy, but they are accommodated.

The list of those to be terminated is very long, about a quarter of the staff stand to lose their jobs. The Vice Chancellor is not sending away at once in order not to attract attention. They release a couple of letters a week. By this, they stress the staff as there is fear, which is palpable because no one knows who is next. But the indigenes and Northern Muslims move about with no care in the world.

Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is not in place. By convention, the staff of new universities are not to unionise for four years after which they are allowed to join for two years as observers before full membership. Now that they are ripe to join as an observer, no one dares to make the move. Those who are being terminated are leaving without protest while ASUU is not there to protect any staff.

Typical of northern university administration, one finds the university leadership as unserious. Lectures are cancelled for the first two hours of every Thursday to allow all academic and non-academic members of staff partake in environmental sanitation. This results in loss of academic hours for an under staff institution struggling for accreditation of many courses and which harbour enough employees who are paid to clean the environment.

Something must be done to arrest the situation. Government should intervene; that is the only sincere thing to be done.



Source

This is the exact same thing that Ahmadu Bello tried to do in the north. They called it the northernisation policy. They were busy sleeping while Igbos worked hard and got key appointments, in the end they had to kill 30,000 Igbos in 1966 to end Igbo domination of key sectors in the north (One Nigeria?) today, believe it or north Buhari is a disciple of Ahmadu Bello who's a Fulani like himself, they hold the belief that the Hausa-Fulani must dominate not just politics which they do with British support but everything else from education to commerce. We've seen how far they've gotten Nigeria after 40 years of northern control of politics, now they want to control education and they'll fail just as they have in politics, they want to control commerce too hence ban on forex and import because it will reduce Igbo domination of commerce and Buhari will then try to move or build key commercial infrastructures in the north. Innoson the Igbo carmaker in the east is now struggling to manufacture because of forex.
The northern elites are very confused. After 40 years in power, they stole all the money and still tell us about corruption as if we don't know where IBB and other northern thieves are.

I hope the men who got them pregnant were arrested too.
Women should be allowed to have control over their own womb. They should be provided with a hygienic place to deal with their women issues and men should stay out of it. If you don't want them having abortions don't get them pregnant when you no even readi to become person papa.

This is what Nigerian moral police pastors and imams should be worried about instead of obsessing about what two grown men or women do in the privacy of their bedrooms.

pazienza:


"Machawakwa" in that contest should be " Elusive" in English or so I think.

My mother will always tell me when I was younger: I na fu amachaghali, Okwa mgbe ndi police wudei kita, akpobam.

I see "mmacha" as not staying in one place, trying to claim too clever.

Close enough but it's means more than elusive , it's basically a slang for any behaviour that you don't like so when you're showing yourself thinking you're a bad man, or when a girl is playing hard to get. Phyno is saying that when she's done playing hard to get, him and his guys will still get her.

Joshuaiwe:



They were born in Enugu that was his point we all know phyno and favour are straight from anambra immediately u listen to their music
But illbiss is truly an nkweree boy
And phyno is from Akwa while flavor idk and wait lmao. Mr.raw used to say ABIA
in his music

Flavour is a native of Umunze in Anambra.

Nnunu machawakwa, anyi ga a kuput' ya
It has nothing to do with tying wrapper.
Mmacha is an Anambra slang that means showing yourself as in bragging or playing hard to get.
Nnunu is a slang for chics.
Anambra guys like Phyno, Flavour & co who lived in Enugu usually mix Anambra and Enugu slangs.
Phyno is saying that after the chic plays hard to get him and his guys will still have their way with her with her consent Ofcourse lol.

OreMI22:


Sir,
I don't believe you live in Nsukka or ever lived there, nor are you from Anambra. In any case, that is immaterial.

Someone noted about your penchant for citing false, unrelated silly examples or analogies regardless of what the facts are.

So let me ask you about your example here;
Has Nsukka people ever killed and destroyed properties of Anambra people at any time in their history?
Has Nsukka traditional ruler ever asked Anambra people to vote a certain candidate or be prepared to be killed at anytime in their history?
Has Nsukka people said they are not the same tribe and religion with Anambra people and therefore want them out of Nsukka?
i could go on, but it is indeed a a waste of time.

If the answers to the above is no, why are you bent on making spurious deceptively false analogies and examples?
Why are you eager to pitch Igbos against each other by your futile attempt to portray the hausa or yoruba treatment of Igbo as the same way an Nsukka person treats an Anambra person? Who are you and what is your mission here?

Don't mind the Ewu, I'm from Nnewi and I get on with my Nsukka Igbo brothers and sisters. They don't want to see a United Igbo land.

Lalaland1:
Ifeanyi Ubah pay ur workers their 4 months salary oooo.bikozienu

Is your father a brick layer at the site? How do you know he's owing workers? Hear say or facts? Have you even paid your rent?

ISpiksDaTroof:
The amount he's spending on a "Games Village" couldve been better spent on building rows and rows of CO-OP buildings that could house upwards of 10,000-20,000 families . But as usual, the African man doesn't know how to turn a profit.

So, you just felt like writing rubbish. The sports village will have a conference centre and other income generating arenas. In Nnewi, there are no homeless people. All natives live on their own lands and private houses are built for rent for non natives.

Happy New Yam Festival 2016 to Ndi Igbo worldwide!
Chukwu Gozie Anyi!
Igbo Kwenu!

emmysoftyou:
you re jus another fool,by the time you will know, we re gone..

People like you are the reason why Nigeria will never develop and will remain a British neo-colony.
The Igbos are a people that can turn your village into a city and you're still there crying anytime Igbo is mentioned. If you're upset that Igbos are a great people, then try and emulate them too. If they move Nigeria forward, you'll benefit too. Afterall we know that when Igbos make Nigeria proud, una go claim am but give an Igbo one post una go begin cry, begin cut head, begin burn shops. Very idiotic set of human beings. God bless give us Biafra!!

After the war, marginalisation of Ndi Igbo continued. Denied jobs, denied loans, denied even the wealth they owned before the war, but we are still on top today.
40 years of Hausa-Fulani control and the people of the Niger Delta are impoverished, the North is uneducated and backwards yet they've been in power for 40 plus years. They've managed to produce only one billionaire, if it were us in control for 40 years, we will create over 10 $ billionaires without a doubt.
We are a people who love our freedom more than life itself. We want to govern ourselves, we want to pursue an alternative path towards development, we know that Nigeria is a failed state and can never progress due to how it is structured and also due to the reason behind its creation (To supply raw materials to Europe).
You can have a divorce without hating each other. We don't hate Nigerians if anything the actions of Nigerians since 1953 towards the Igbos has been marked with anti Igbo violence and rhetorics.
Those who oppose our mission and Biafra can not provide any logical backing for their anti-Biafran sentiments.
Let my people go!

Aba women fought the British in 1929, Enugu coal miners refused to work for cheap pay, Anioma palm oil workers refused to work for cheap pay and when the British flogged their Obi (King), they killed the white man and then fought the British for over 10 years in the Ekumeku wars.
So, the British knew who we are! We hate injustice! And we hate being controlled.
That's why the British, Americans & Russians preferred the oil under Hausa-Fulani control. That's why they all backed and armed the Nigerian army. The Nigerian government declared war on Biafra. The Nigerian government dropped bombs on market women, hospitals and schools in Igboland.
The Nigerian government used starvation as a weapon of war in order to reduce the Igbo population to a minority (It didn't work, we are still a majority ethnic group).

The Hausa-Fulani and British puppet called Gowon refused to abide by the accord. He refused to even caution Murtala Mohammed to stop the killing of Igbos living in the north. It became a matter of great injustice, so we collectively decided to leave a barbaric nation called Nigeria and build our own country.
No honest Nigerian have any doubt that we Igbo can build a successful nation and produce great men and women. So, Biafra had so much hope & support.
However, the oil deposits were in Igbo controlled territory. The Cold War was raging in Europe and else where. The superpowers needed free access to oil. The Brits knew that they can not control the Igbos, they learnt from colonial experience..

Nnamdi Kanu is a brave man fighting for what he believes in. He's willing to lose his freedom & life for what he believes in. Cowards do nothing but display their cowardice online. They'll die nameless, Nnamdi Kanu will die a hero just like Nna Anyi Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu.
In Igbo culture, we belief in Ofo (Offor) Na Ogu. Ofo is peace, Ogu is war. So, in all matters our Odinani (Custom) teaches us to always resolve issues in a peaceful manner first and if that fails then we must be brave and fight for justice.
So, in 1966, 30,000 Igbos were massacred by the grand parents of today’s Boko Haram members. Our leader Ojukwu went to Aburi for peaceful resolution, and an accord called Aburi accord was reached.

It might very well be that Mr. Obi’s hands are not clean. However, there's corruption everywhere, the difference is that White man steals and uses it to develop his country, Africans steal and invest it in Europe. Mr Obi invested in Anambra, the state own a 40% stake. Mind you, Nigeria is the 2nd largest biggest beer market in Africa, Oyibo companies are making huge profits from us drinking their beer. But this time, our state will get some of that profit. An Anambra man already controls all the henny and champagne that you pop in the clubs, Anambra state will also make money when you order beer in a bar. I think it's a good investment, and no drinking beer doesn't turn you into an alcoholic.

There were many freed Igbo slaves who were resettled in Sierra Leone & Liberia. There children clearly identified as Igbo and had an Igbo Union as Igbos everywhere around the world do till date.
Ofcourse they as this document shows, thrived and gained wealth in both countries.
Those who are in the business of resenting Ndi Igbo must understand that we are unstoppable as a race.
The Yorubas can claim Brazil if they want and no Igbo would be bothered. But as soon as an Igbo claim anything then that Igbo is questioned, insulted, mocked etc, we will keep claiming while you keep crying. Currently, Igbos contribute 50% of Lagos state GDP, they drive the local economy and have amassed enough wealth and population, in the near future, we will demand Taxation with representation, when we do, you'll cry that we are claiming Lagos, why shouldn't we claim it?

The statement that Igbo Enwe Eze is arrant rubbish. Ancient Igbos had kings but long before the English cut of King John’s head in order to gain some rights for citizens, Igbo kings already understood that citizens rights must be respected so kings in Igboland played spiritual roles and the citizens were able to participate in the political affairs of their land, that's where the phrase Oha Na Eze came from and that's where Igbo Kwenu came from. In other parts of Nigeria, they practiced aristocracy whereby the King and his friends had absolute power (upper class).
So a King like Eze Nri was a spiritual head who was recognised all over Igboland. Go and read all the accounts of ancient Igboland by people who were actually there and they say the same thing, that is, Nshi (Nri) men with markings of the sun on their faces where the only Igbos who could travel ALL over Igbo land without being harrashed! Who sent these Nri men who served as judges across Igboland? The Eze Nri sent them. They even went as far as near Benin because in places like Agbor, they have Ozo title till today. There were two great power in ancient Igboland, the spiritual power which was in Nri and recognised as such by all Igbos and the commercial power which was at Aro. The Aros saw that spiritual power could be turned into money so they started a powerful oracle which they used to enrich themselves and gain power. But when Aros started engaging in slave trade, all Igbos who were escaping from slave raiders (Ohaofia etc) sent by the Aros all escaped to one particular place... The holy place that they all recognised called Nri which was the only kingdom within Nigeria that never engaged in slavery. The red cap, kingship, title taking, white cloth, Ofo, yam deity, Ofala, cleansing of abomination and bronze casting all came from Nri. The Nri themselves got all these from the Adamma who are the original owners of the land now called Nri before Eri and new settlers came and settled with them. The Nri are not fathers of all Igbos but based on their achievements, they must be accorded certain respects. I'm not from Nri the facts are the facts.

Raymondluv:

Ubochi nta ka anyi achuo na owere nchi, please translate it in english for me thanks

On the day of the hunt, let us hunt by the bush rats route. Basically meaning look for whatever you're after in the right places. Dalu

Eziachi:

If you believe this propaganda, you can also believe also that the earth is flat.
Before Ekwueme entered into politics, he has nil factory to his name but left with a full functioning brewery in Oko.
Before politics he wasn't into hospitality but left with a chain of Modotel hotels built on illegally acquired public lands.
No one can point to me what Shagari acquired in terms of wealth. The likes of Uba Ahmed, Umaru Dikko, Barkin Zuwo and Akinloye suffered more than Ekwueme.
It was the regime through the SMC that locked up the likes of Ekwueme up, and SMC comprises the likes of Buhari, Idiagbon, IBB, David Mark, Bali, Nwachukwu, Gwadebe, Aihkomu etc and not a one man business.

Will you stop talking rubbish! Do you think the Ekwueme’s are cattle rearers? He came from the Ekwueme Royal Family in Oko, Anambra. They have enough money and land! Before serving as VP, he was and still is a world renowned architect. After serving as VP, he ventured into other sectors. Buhari is a religious bigot. Plain and simple.

Olabestonic001:
Dick measuring ba
Seems op did not know that the strength of the Yoruba's lies in the fact that we don't make a noise and the only motivation of an Igbo lies in the fact that they make a noise about themselves being great.
My Igbo woman told me yesterday that the only great thing an Igbo man can do to motivate himself is to make a noise about being a self-accomplished, great warrior which interestingly is viewed with gross disdain amidst the Yoruba's.
As an Igbo man, when you are feeling unmotivated, down, beaten or oppressed, you just need to beat your chest about the fact that you are a superhero, a champion and the greatest. Is this a good way of motivating oneself? I think for the Igbo's it certainly is (if you go to the Igbo community, you will know its a normal thing for a man using bicycle to rant that he's greater than everyone in the society and everyone is cool with such a claim; its just to cool tension).
I think its high time Yoruba's stop taking such rant to heart, its a noise of a notice-me and we just need to respect their noise and ranting since its the only way for them to get motivation. Let's not criminalize their crazy claims again. Let's forgive and accept them. Only history can tell who's the greatest and not our dick measuring tactics. If a man that is having low self-esteem feels by ranting he's greater than you, he will fee better for it, let's pardon him (at least we can help a manage a malady) and let's just face our own problem be our concern not theirs our concern.

*The fact that Enyimba rants that it is bigger than Barca does not make it true (even if Enyimba convinces itself in such a lie) but during a football match, all the aggression and optimism will not let it survive the onslaught of Barca against its goal posts; Life is judged by result not noise
Yoruba, pls take a note.

Look at this Yoruba fool. Igbos have to remind you of their achievements because Yoruba tribalism blinds the Yoruba from seeing and appreciating Ndi Igbo.
The mere mention of the word Igbo gets every Nigerian interested. Long before we were born, or at least before I was born, a bewildered BBC reported asked the Hausa/Fulani bigot called Ahmadu Bello why Northerners seem obsessed with Igbos, he couldn't give an intelligent answer, he said some rubbish about Igbos being the sort of people that want to dominate everywhere they go. All he could've said was the the Hausa and Yoruba are jealous of the Igbo.
In 1966, the jealous got out of hand and ended in the barbaric 1966 anti Igbo pogrom after which Igbos rejected Nigeria and fought gallantly for their dignity against a combined forces of U.K., U.S. & Russian supported Nigerian military. Yet, our people were able to hold that army off for over 2 years! Nigeria can't even survive small illiterate Hausa Boko Haram terrorists.
In case you don't know why an Igbo man riding a bicycle in the village can say that he is the greatest, I'll educate you, it's because the Igbo is taught from birth that he is an independent person who is equal to all regardless of his status in society. The man on the bicycle might be a palm wine tapper but he works hard and provides for his family so just because your father is rich or even the King doesn't mean you are better than him! That's the difference between us and the rest. An Igbo is not held back by his status at birth, an Igbo is full of self believe and ambition while the Hausa and Yoruba bow before some old men as if those men are God. The Yoruba is lazy and submissive so he can never be like the Igbo, the Hausa is submissive and dull so he can never be like the Igbo.
You come here and say your Igbo woman told you whatever rubbish you wrote, perhaps it's time we ban marriage between our beautiful Igbo women and cheating Yoruba men. Stick to your women and leave ours alone since you Yoruba are the biggest tribalists in Nigeria. Your bigoted leader Awolowo is the father or tribalism!

Wankstar or whatever you call yourself. Look at how your hate and jealousy is making you think like a goat.
There are 3 main groups in Nigeria. Hausa Igbo and Yoruba.
The Igbos are mostly Christains, the Yoruba is either Christain or Muslim, the Hausa the same.
Muslims are against beauty pageants because of the bikini part. That means that in states with predominately Muslim population, girls from other parts are assigned to represent those states. Igbo girls happen to be beautiful and not constrained by religion so they represent these states.
And yes, Igbo girls are the most beautiful in Nigeria. The same goats that cry every time Igbo is mentioned are the same ones that will pursue Igbo women all over the place and beg them to marry them. Ewu

“Nri or Nshi” - evidently the same place, but a different pronunciation of it is a town, which is situated about forty miles to the east, i.e. behind Onitsha… the inhabitants of this particular town are known as “king makers”, in other words, they possess the sole prerogative of conferring the title of royalty in all the Ibo country… they also, it appears, enjoy the privilege of walking untouched and unharmed through any portion of the same… so the Nri family, for the same scared reason, are not only the progenitor but also the priests of the whole Ibo race, as such, high priest, taking precedence over all other fraternities, priestly, social and political.” - The lower Niger and It’s tribes by Major A. G. Leonard (1890 -1906), a Cambridge scholar of comparative religion.
Published in 1906 after spending 10 years studying Igbo land.
When the Igbo farm village in America was dedicated, Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo were contacted and they presented Eze Nri to represent Igbos. There's no superiority contest, it's just Omenani. Igbo Kwenu!

“Nri or Nshi” - evidently the same place, but a different pronunciation of it is a town, which is situated about forty miles to the east, i.e. behind Onitsha… the inhabitants of this particular town are known as “king makers”, in other words, they possess the sole prerogative of conferring the title of royalty in all the Ibo country… they also, it appears, enjoy the privilege of walking untouched and unharmed through any portion of the same… so the Nri family, for the same scared reason, are not only the progenitor but also the priests of the whole Ibo race, as such, high priest, taking precedence over all other fraternities, priestly, social and political.” - The lower Niger and It’s tribes by Major A. G. Leonard (1890 -1906), a Cambridge scholar of comparative religion.
Published in 1906 after spending 10 years studying Igbo land.

Bwahahaha! First off, Obalike never revealed that anybody from the towns you've mentioned (Aro or Onitsha) brought him gifts during his coronation. Onitsha might have (Arochukwu certainly not), but it is not on record that Obalike ever said so. I’ll even help you make your case by quoting the exact information Eze Nri Obalike gave Northcote Thomas in circa 1910. Note he said nothing about anybody bringing gifts. He only mentioned 'settling disputes' (which Thomas saw no evidence of), and made vague questionable statements about people (including the Bini) 'acknowledging' him - whatever that means.

“The Ezenri claimed that he had to settle disputes in the
territory that acknowledged him, i.e., as far as Amansi in
the east, Agoleri in the north, Umucuku in the south.
How far precisely he is recognized in the west I did not
ascertain. He mentioned among the towns subject to him,
Asaba, Isele, Agbor, and the land as far as Idu (Benin city),
but I have no evidence that Nri men go nearly so far west.
So far as I could see no disputes were referred to him at all….”

I’m assuming that you’ve seen this quote before, and that you thought ‘Umucuku’ was a reference to Arochukwu. Wrong. In the northern axis, Umuchukwu was (until about 1908) the official name of the town now called Aro-Ndikelionwu in Orumba area of Anambra state. In colonial records of the early period, ‘Umuchukwu’ appears as the actual name of Ndikelionwu. Ndikelionwu people occasionally still use the name. [Although fairly recently another town in that area has officially changed its name to Umuchukwu.]

What Eze Nri Obalike was actually saying there was that Ndikelionwu (not Arochukwu) was among the towns which acknowledged him and in which he settled disputes. Like all rulers Eze Nri exaggerated the extent of his authority. (Imagine saying Benin recognized his authority!) We have evidence (even evidence from traditions collected by Onwuejeogwu within Agukwu itself) that the Aro colonies, including Ndikelionwu, were completely irreverent to the authority of the Eze Nri. I’ve already mentioned the incident between Okoli Ijoma and Ezenri Enweleana. There are more examples of such show of non-recognition of Ezenri’s authority. The Aro-Ndikelionwu overwhelmed Nawfia (an Umu-Nri town) and used their road network to attack the Awka area in the 19th century. Aro-hired soldiers attacked Enugu-Ukwu, another Umu-Nri town, although they were successfully repulsed. Aro-hired soldiers attacked Nteje, an Umu-Eri town in 1891 and they fled to their kinsmen in Asaba. These are not the actions of a people that had any regard for Eze Nri’s authority. You can see some of the traditions mentioned here in Onwuejeogwu’s Nri Kingdom and Hegemony, Dike and Ekejiuba’s The Aro: a case study of state formation in southeastern Nigeria. There’s even an eyewitness account of the aftermath of the attack on Nteje in Isichei’s The Igbo Worlds.

I wouldn’t take an Eze Nri who says Benin was subject to him in the early 20th century seriously if I were you. Apparently every people that came into some sort of contact with his ritual agents were interpreted by him as being ‘subject to him.’ Note what Northcote said, “So far as I could see, no disputes were referred to him at all….”

You are doing a good job. Come back when you’ve found something better than Obalike’s self-aggrandizing words (which in any case made no reference to Arochukwu or many major towns in Igboland.)


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Jedrej and Shaw never set foot in Igboland. Why would you think they would have anything ‘revealing’ to contribute here, beyond making the same mistakes people like Ehret made, sitting in their studies in US and Britain, and writing about something they knew so little about? In any case, can you quote Jedrej and Shaw’s actual words?

Perhaps its time to even place Nri in its right context in Igbo cultural history. Starting with the true nature of their relations with the Adama. And I may do so here on this thread.



I don’t know about elephant tusks. We did make the otonsi for Nri priests, the supreme paraphernalia of their ‘priesthood’. We never made one for Umuoji, though…because they were never ritual agents or representatives of the hegemony. Only the ‘Brahmin’ Nri families in Agukwu-Nri, Oraeri, and the Urunebo quarters of Enugu-Ukwu formed the hieratic elite that defined Nri’s hegemony.

Why is an Umuoji man carrying Nri matter on his head to the extent of having an ‘NriPriest’ moniker? No Umuoji man was ever an Nri Priest. Your Nriness is just as trivial as the Nriness of an Ogboli-Ibusa man, or an Aku (Nsukka) man

Will you shut up! Igbos will never give respect and credit where it is due just so they can put their own village or clan above others. Please let another Eze or Igwe go and break kola nut when it is presented to Igbos in the presence of Eze Nri. Aro stool is only 500 years! Our people recognize Okpala/okpara and there's no way you can leave a 1000 year old stool and pass the kola to anyone else, are you stupid?! Are you following Omenani or omenaenu?
Don't you know the reason the Oba of Benin sent his son to Isele Ukwu?! Read isselu ukwu history and you'll know it was an attempt to stop Nri influence at his doorstep! The Igbos in western Igboland came from Isu and Nri.
Hear someone who was actually there at the time! The Nri were interested in keeping the peace which is why they weren't in the business of abusing people. Ana Nri is a holy land that all ancient Igbos knew about which is why they ran to Nri for safety during the slave trade.
Let's respect ourselves and stop embrassing ourselves all the time while other groups are uniting.
The Aros were abusing their power as priests and were terrorising people! The Nri kingdom banned that evil slave trade that Aro people were engaged in.

“Nri or Nshi” - evidently the same place, but a different pronunciation of it is a town, which is situated about forty miles to the east, i.e. behind Onitsha… the inhabitants of this particular town are known as “king makers”, in other words, they possess the sole prerogative of conferring the title of royalty in all the Ibo country… they also, it appears, enjoy the privilege of walking untouched and unharmed through any portion of the same… so the Nri family, for the same scared reason, are not only the progenitor but also the priests of the whole Ibo race, as such, high priest, taking precedence over all other fraternities, priestly, social and political.” - The lower Niger and It’s tribes by Major A. G. Leonard (1890 -1906), a Cambridge scholar of comparative religion.
Published in 1906 after spending 10 years studying Igbo land.

Now anybody with a heart full of hate and jealousy for the Igbos can visit a cyber cafe and type rubbish.
Someone said Efiks sold us as slaves because we couldn't organise ourselves? I'm sure they sold your brain too Ewu.
Slavery was big business at one point when Europreans wanted free labour, powerful men in the hinterland used violence to kidnap people then sold them to Riverline people who then resold them to the British. All powerful men from Obas in West, Emirs in North and warriors in the south all took part.
As for Igbos not being organised? Our political system was sophisticated. It was government by the people. The people give the ofo to a deserving priest or warrior to be their leader but because we are smart we refused to bow to one person like fools do, every man, young or old, rich or poor had a say in the affairs of state.
Eze Chima was a priest from Nri, he took his trade to Bini, after sometime in came back to Igbo land, his people gave him their ofo and he became not just a chief priest but a King. But being a true Igbo, he knew not to impose his family on the people so the King of Onitsha remains elected. Igbo haters can keep crying and making noise lol. Igbos from Onitsha won't even marry from Bini lol

As they say.. Story for the gods. Cultural influence is not political influence. American influence is global so while a Chinese city might copy an American one, it doesn't mean that America has any political influence in the area, the Chinese can decide to ban all that American influence like the Japanese did before the Meji restoration.
The Igbos in the Delta are politically influence by Nri, that is why they have Obi and Igwe. That is why they have Nze Na Ozo and pay homage to where the ofo of Igbos come from which is Igbo land. Rulers love the trappings of power and glory, they all heard of Bini and its courts. Some even visited and invited some Binis to add prestige to their royal courts the same way a Chinese company hires white Americans to add prestige to their company. Some went as far as copying the Royal regalias of the Bini. But did Bini have any political influence no. The Ekumeku fighters in Anioma carried on fighting the British long after Bini has surrendered. They were fighting to maintain their independence. If they were under some sort of Bini hegemony, they would surrendered too. In places where Bini had political influence you don't need to look hard to see it. In Anioma, they speak Igbo and observe very important Igbo customs with Nri written all over it not Edo. Nri itself is far older than Bini.
Since the Igbos had a sophisticated religious system and renounced priests, it is possible that Nri priests were invited to Bini by ambitious Kings. And when their services were no longer needed, they returned back to the east and the ambitious priests among them like Eze Chima settled in a new place and introduced some of what he saw in the courts of Bini in his own court while retaining his lgbo language and Nri culture like Nze Na Ozo which is practiced from Onitsha to Agbor and many other Igbo speaking settlements.