Chino going with your logic we will now tag Gozie Okeke and Njideka Okeke and other countless musicians from Anambra as inferior because they are using the Izugbe langauge?


Whatever happened to your sense.

IzuAgu:
I have friends from Amichi, Osumenyi etc and all of them identify themselves first as Nnewi people until you press further before they say they are from Nnewi south.


ANAMBRA IS A MONOLITHIC STATE



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Even Oliver call them by their individual towns. Only people from nnewi north he call nnewi.

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GuyWise:
Chino going with your logic we will now tag Gozie Okeke and Njideka Okeke and other countless musicians from Anambra as inferior because they are using the Izugbe langauge?


Whatever happened to your sense.

Everything is superiority contest to them. I was a bit surprised with pazienza saying they will be subdued if the accept onitsha tag

GuyWise:
Chino going with your logic we will now tag Gozie Okeke and Njideka Okeke and other countless musicians from Anambra as inferior because they are using the Izugbe langauge?


Whatever happened to your sense.

Chino has never had sense before now

IzuAgu:
Igbo Izugbe? Is that your language in wawa land?

I am saying that wawa people abandoned their dialect to speak smoother and ear-pleasing Anambra dialect lol



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojn4f-kY8kk

I have told you to wake me up when Ohaneze becomes Oraneze.

IzuAgu:
Kedu ife onya n ako ka onye isi mgbaka..lol

Do you know that the first Igbo Bible was written in Anambra dialect, Onitsha precisely?

Look at the most powerful man from Nsukka but he dare not speak Nsukka dialect in public but chose to speak Anambra dialect. Shame Shame.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07qZB0hcExI


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Wake me up when the book of " ihe emere" in igbo Bible becomes" ife emelu. And why onitsha precisely. What happened to monolithic anambra

Chino good nite. Stop turning every topic to dialalect debate. Pidgin igbo is inferior street dialect with no formal usage

I have been following this thread but let me just drop my comment.

I know that the bone of contention of the argument is the addition of another state in the SE. But I suggests that if they want to create another state then it should be anioma state with asaba as the capital.

No need of creating another state in the other 5 eastern state to avoid confusion and identity problems.

Thank you peziena for your contributions in this thread.
Your contribution to the Igbo unity and your comments about the problem and solution facing us as a nation in this country are second to none.

My God bless you!
IBU NWAFOR IGBO

GuyWise:
Chino going with your logic we will now tag Gozie Okeke and Njideka Okeke and other countless musicians from Anambra as inferior because they are using the Izugbe langauge?


Whatever happened to your sense.

They are using Izugbe to sing in Anambra dialects. Isnt Gozie a ffaggot?
Meanwhile, the style of their singing like the words and their context are deeply Anambra. Otimgbodomgbo is purely Anambra. I am very busy guys

basilo101:

Everything is superiority contest to them. I was a bit surprised with pazienza saying they will be subdued if the accept onitsha tag

Did Chino actually say that and if true who was he referring,so, we can tell when people start going crazy.

Why do Anambra people always seem to be the ones ignorant of the dialect diversity. You people are sometimes too dense.

pazienza:


You are right.
I remember they were busy singing Yoruba songs like "Omoge mi" and "Gbedu".
They wanted to be Yoruba so bad to fit into the then overwhelmingly Yorubanized Nigerian music industry.
But it backfired, as they were snubbed of awards they felt they merited, and they started crying of how the industry has been tribalized by Yorubas. Perhaps that was when they started remembering their Igbo roots, as people like Nigga raw, Desperate chicks, Dekumzy, Slow dog, flavour, were already bringing Igbo language to the Nigerian music mainstream.

But damn, Ifunanya and Onyinye were Big hits.

About a day ago, i was all in favour of giving PSquare a few hard knocks for not promoting their Igbo heritage as much as they should. However i'm easing off on them a bit after reading a post on here by someone who i'm suspecting is either one of the twins or their brother Jude for how he was vociferously supporting them.

I'd say that the Nigerian music scene was highly 'yorubanised' some 7 to 8 years ago, and this can be said to be as a consequence of the 'Lagos factor'. But in the last 4 to 5 years, you'd probably agree with me that it's become a bit more equalised and complimentary between the two major ethnic groups in question...esp' with the rise of musicians like Tekno and Davido who have lines in their songs sang in Yoruba and Igbo respectively. Teknos' RARA readily comes to mind here, as well as Davidos' monster hit FALL, in which he used some Igbo words. I reckon a large number of people the world over would have quickly googled the meaning of a few Igbo words based on the lines in FALL: 'nne, they want to spoil our marketi oh', and 'biko, sorry oh baby take hearti oh...sorry oh baby take hearti oh'!

Also, we've witnessed quite a lot of collabos between Yoruba and Igbo musicians of recent; like the one between Phyno and Olamide.

Finally, quite a number of nice Igbo and Yoruba songs have been sung by musicians of the opposite ethnicity. Two good examples are attached below :

BIANU - Tunde and Wunmi Obe (T.W.O) Ft. Floss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC68zSa_r3k

Sunny Neji - Oruka [Official Video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxGkcYbvZU8

ChinenyeN:
Why do Anambra people always seem to be the ones ignorant of the dialect diversity. You people are sometimes too dense.

Negodu ala ngwa...lol. I thought you were still busy with the egwu mgbede revival.smh. I was hoping you had learned some civility from Odumchi.

pazienza:


Why does this only happen to Igbo groups. Why are we this too clannish.
Yorubas in Kogi don't behave that way. And Yorubas in SW don't hold tenaciously to their state tags like Ndiigbo do.
The Hausas in NW are same Hausas in NE and NC, No distinction.

It looks like we are always in constant look out for things to hold unto to emphasize distinction from our fellow Igbos. We are too easy to uphold artificial identities.

Look at how Tinubu( from Osun), Ambode (from Ondo) are ruling Lagos, and Aworis are not crying , swearing and threatening the rest of Yorubas. But just Nzimiro mayorship of Ph, was too much for Ikwerres to endure.

I'm beginning to think that Igbo unity project is a waste of time. Maybe it's about time I gave up and spent my time on other useful ventures.

Pazienza, the point you raised is the result of external interests/forces stoking the embers of division amongst Ndigbo for selfish reasons, chief of which are: to maintain their grip on Niger-Delta oyel and gas; to prevent the more vocal and aware Igbos of the south-east from 'infecting' their brothers in the south-south with their ideas; to deny Ndigbo access to the sea; to deny Ndigbo full use of their God-given hydrocarbon resources out of pure hate and jealousy; etc-etc-etc!

The Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani are lucky not to have such malevolent external forces looking to divide them and do them harm like we have, and hence it appears as if they're more united than we are!

arinzeejikonye:
Owerri is equally expanding exponentially.

The use of solar-panels is quite commendable, though i don't know how reliable they are as the main energy source in a huge building like the one shown in the pics!

Also, the last pic shows how we're opening up new areas in our suburbs without the requisite planning to go with it! The drone-shot view in that last pic is alarming in it's show of lack of planning to say the least!

Ebonyi Score card By Hon Francis Agwu.

Watching the YouTube clip, and seeing the before-and-after pics at the beginning, i just had to wonder what exactly other Governors were doing from 1999-2015!

At 7.18, mention was made of the huge recycling plant the state gov't is building that would create wealth out of waste and see the state even collecting waste from neighbouring states to recycle; 7.43 shows the ongoing ecumenical centre, billed to be the largest in the country on completion; and 8.07 shows the stage ongoing construction has reached on the shopping mall which the reporter says was 'designed to be the largest in Africa'.

Anyone else making these claims, and i've have written them off as noise makers, but with this Umahi guy.....for the first time i'm starting to have confidence in a state governors assertions! Lets' keep our fingers crossed!

Clip courtesy of Odii Chinagoro Meshach.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKDtApVLEz4

Additional clip courtesy of SuccalebComedy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm7PCPdv1bo

UdechiHD:
Yes, Yeske is from Anambra and is proud of his Omanbala roots so to say. You guys should stop tagging everyone Afonja.

Bros no need educating or trying to convince them about my Igboness, their denial or afonja and aboki tag doesn't remove a single strand from my DNA of who I am.

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basilo101:

Everything is superiority contest to them. I was a bit surprised with pazienza saying they will be subdued if the accept onitsha tag

Why are you having this unnecessary feeling

Xander85

Ututu oma

Xander85:


The use of solar-panels is quite commendable, though i don't know how reliable they are as the main energy source in a huge building like the one shown in the pics!

Also, the last pic shows how we're opening up new areas in our suburbs without the requisite planning to go with it! The drone-shot view in that last pic is alarming in it's show of lack of planning to say the least!

Yeah Yeah, Adamma hostel in Owerri. With a solar capacity of 115.2KWp, generating 460.8KWh per day, 168.2MWh, and powering about 150 rooms. #SolarEnergy
I have been a fan of of femi from inception, he knows his onions.


True that nwannem, that's nonchalance and lackadaisical on the part of government, proper planning and strict adherence to masterplan should have been considered before demarcations are done preparatory to erection of structures,

Gonna be looking out for urban regeneration in the nearest future.

OMANBALA1:
Negodu ala ngwa...lol. I thought you were still busy with the egwu mgbede revival.smh. I was hoping you had learned some civility from Odumchi.

I guess it is good to be hopeful. Sometimes, that is all we have in life. I'm just waiting for the day you people cross lines and, by your own hands, dismantle the "Igbo unity" you are trying so hard (and so desperately) to defend.

UdechiHD:
Welldone Pazienza! I've noticed b that most of the folks carrying this Omanbala identity on their head are from the Eri/Nri belt of Anambra. They've gone ahead to incorporate the Awka/Agulu and Idemilli groups into this charade. But the good thing is that the Nnewi/Ekwusigo/Ihiala on one hand and the Orumba/Aguata on another hand do not share such myopia, because they are more connected in dialect, geography and heritage with northern Imo. The Onitsha group too seems ready to reunite with the Anioma's and do not connect with Omanbala. But yet, these folks keep pushing this supremacy nonsense of an Omanbala and as well try to change Igbo origin to Nri, trying to push for an end to Igbo Izugbe, and also cunningly trying to make every path of Igboland inferior to Eri/Nri and it's Omanbala myths. But that agenda is already Dead On Arrival! Igbo unity will outlive all the divisive agents in our midst.

Well you also have to thank Nnamdi Kanu for such in which he deliberately allowed Eri/Nri centric school of thought to highjack their IPOP Biafran movement.

InyinyaAgbaOku:


Some erroneously think Enugu villages don't have roads

Enugu state villages have good roads in many parts.