vanbonattel:


where did ijebu igbo come from, no be igbo men?

OsoDupe:
lolz, this people sha, how is Igbo(bush) and Igbo(IBO) connected?

logica:
Apparently some Igbos are eager to fit into the Yoruba narrative and history; even if it means they are referred to as "bush people".

OsoDupe:
lolz, this people sha, how is Igbo(bush) and Igbo(IBO) connected?

dayohope1:
They want to teach us our language. They want attachment by force just the way they they merge SS/SE in write-ups. When did Igbo (bush) and Igbo (SE) mean the same thing? Just like saying Otu (in Yoruba meaning a poor performer) means the same thing as Otu (in Igbo meaning figure 2)

4chi:
The writer of this trash is sick in the head. Prince chima ko, prince china ni! Pray what exactly is this Igbo fixation with Yoruba history? Typical of most primitive people, yeeboos have formed the penchant for FABRICATING their history.they even got some sort of pseudo intellectual fraudulent support from the likes of "prof" catherine acholonu whom the gods recently deleted from existence due to her persistence in fabricating and redecorating the "history" of a clearly primitive African tribe. At a time,the fool was all over the diaspora creating confusion and ascribing some sort of funny relationship between Igbo and Yorubas. The height of it was her linking ijebu Igbo to Igbo land conveniently ignoring the fact that Igbo in Yoruba simply means deep jungle or marihuana in modern lingo.

Try as much as you can, it is settled fact that you guys were and are village dwellers with no monarchy,no empire, no urbanization ,no notable historical personality,no notable war fought(your arse was whooped in the only one you fought in modern times), no developed religion or spirituality like the ifa corpus in yorubaland etc prior to the arrival of the whiteman.

Listen up all you ibo wannabes, the Yorubas have absolutely NOTHING in common with you apart from the useless green passport we are forced to carry..May the thousand Orishas of ife make the ground very slippery for all who engage in latter day "ibo made" history

macof:

Francis this is why I tell you to be careful what you read from the Internet

1 . Yarriba was first used by the Malians, Hausa don't even know where they got it from. Katunga is what they call Oyo(so the records say)
2. Oyo never lived among Hausas
3. The indigenous people of SW Nigeria were not known by one name
4. In what way is Egba synonymous with Igbo? Do you (or the writer of this message you quote) even know what Egba means?
5. When Oduduwa first confronted the "Ugbo" oranmiyan wasn't even born
6. Obatala = King of White cloth(Oba ti Ala). .not king of the land (Obi Ala)
7. Every yoruba society has Ogboni not just Egbas. Ogboni began in Ife
8. Egbas and Ugbo - Ilaje are different people
9. Moremi had nothing to do wit Oyo. .she never came from Oyo so why would she return there
10. Egba don't fight wit masks

babyosisi:


Yes
Bush people who inhabited the bushes while the sophisticated town people used seared iron to draw 3 hashtags on each cheek

macof:
Lol So ibos are the true inhabitants of Ile-Ife

U guys just like disturbing Yoruba people, wat concerns Igbo in Moremi's story to the lost Hebrews? aren't they Hebrews again? They now Ifes

This claim can't be taken seriously
It's totally false

babyosisi:


Yes
Bush people who inhabited the bushes while the sophisticated town people used seared iron to draw 3 hashtags on each cheek

Emirofsambisa1:


Otu or Ofu in Igbo means 1. Two is Abuo

Bottomline is that we are all somehow related but bigotary won't let many see it

cbrass:


Abuo in Yoruba means the younger one. The people of Lagos that speaks the bastadised Yoruba call it aburo

bigfrancis21:


You are merely repeating stories that have been told to you. A simple DNA test on a sample of 50 random egba males from abeokuta and the oluyares will solve the issue at hand.

I posted a DNA test result previously, on page 2 or so, of an Ijebu Igbo lady whose father happened to be 35% Igbo, and having an Igbo mother herself, she turned out to be 65% Igbo, and 25% Yoruba in her genes.

With the rate of marriage of Igbo women by Yoruba men, the Igbo gene is effectively being injected into the Yoruba gene pool, and in no near time, the Yorubas will be said to have partial Igbo ancestry, while the Igbo general genetic make-up will still remain pure.

logica:
Na by force to insert yourselves in Yoruba history? Why don't you go discover yours? Yoruba's told a story mentioning a certain "bush people"; una say na una. Yoruba say no be una; una no wan gree. Na una sabi the story pass the teller na?

absoluteSuccess:
The need to forge alliance with Igbo makes you reduce Lagos Yoruba to bastard Yoruba. Has that made abuo in Igbo to mean abuo in Yoruba? Eni tara 'le e l'opo.

alablec:


You get time for this dreamer op; the 'ugbo' the history refers to is with the sound 're' 'mi' not Igbo, 'do' 'do', as in igbo. in Ekiti, Ijesa, Ife, etc dialects, Yoruba 'i' means 'u'. Yoruba language is highly tonal, so the op and his likes could confuse 'igbo' - bush, 'igbo'-hemp, 'Igbo' - group, 'Igbo' - headbutt with 'Igbo' - ethnic group. Igbo originated from pygmies and Igalas, the later with Benin rulership of present Anambra and part of imo gave them the related words with Yoruba, okuta-okute, eji-ejima, omi-miri, imu-imi, apa-aka, etc.

otiigba1:
I also heard from a Ghanian friend, the ashanti people also originated from ILE IFE is this true? Does this mean that they could also be igbos?

royalcatier:
Ghanaian today and Chinese tomorrow, you ibos will always hide behind anyone and then turn around and say you are far from being cowards.

royalcatier:
This is an impostor, Ghanaians have many problems, history of Nigeria isn't one of them.

royalcatier:
Just imagine yourself in the middle of a thread where Ashanti are claiming to be the Aborigines of Accra or Ga's heritage.

cbrass:


Yea it's true but trying to take sides is what baffles me

cbrass:


You are a Ghanaian and you are interfering into what you know Nothing of.

MannyAgyeiK:
I am an Ashanti and I can say on authority that this is false. The only ethnic group which mentioned Ile-Ife in its history are Gãs, the current owners of Accra, Ghana's capital. Ewes, also, mentioned, once, being in Ketu in Yorubaland, until hostility by Yoruba invaders made them move.

cbrass:


First of all am quite shocked to hear this , Although I have never been to Ghana but am not sure anyone speaks olukumi or Yoruba over there, then how could you say "the Yoruba invaders " how can Yoruba be an invader in their land, it's most likely those Gas came to invade yoruba land and were sent packing since they were not yorubas or am I wrong

ghostofsparta:
All these analyses about tribes, languages and ethnic origins all over Nairaland are just people interpretations.

The truth can only be gotten from Ifa.

Ifa lo mo itan gbogbo idale eya.

Ifa knows the origin of all race, ethnicity and tribe.