We the agbor people are from igbo and Biafra land my father tells me agbor is igbo don't change it I am 36 years old my father have tells me we agbor from igbo no going back
You are doing a fantastic work... Just that SOME OF MY IGBO brothers and sisters in ANIOMA delta state are such a huge disgrace. AS for those of us who believe that we are IGBOs, we are indeed so PROUD of it.
@@diokparaazuokechukwu4207 Not Nsukka but Enugu Ezike. A man by name Eseke migrated from Agbor general area to Enugu Ezike and the people he met on ground gave him the top of the hill to settle in. Enugu Ezike people speak like Agbor people such as greeting " Alua".
Delta Igbos are Igbos. There is no doubt in my mind. Other cultures surround us, but we maintain our similarities with the Igbo’s in language, tradition, and culture.
@ Ndubuisi, thank you so much for your comment, you really said it all "That second man was presenting himself as learned, but his illiteracy was revealed in its starkness during the interview."1
I love that your question! "How can you be part of who you are not?" That second man was presenting himself as learned, but his illiteracy was revealed in its starkness during the interview. This Ika dialect is somehow related to Owerri dialect. It appears to be a mixture of Owerri and Ọmambala/Ọka dialects. They will say,"Ọ́nwà wụ ụmụ m". In my community we say,"Nnwọọ bụ ụmụ m". They will say;"Alị Ika rị mma" Owerri people will say,;"Ala Owerri rị mma". Ika,;"Efa m wụ......." Ọmambala",Afa m bụ....." Owerri,;"Aha m wụ......"
You just don’t want to accept the truth. You can be part of something that you are not. If you are half white and half black, you can be part white and not white. I know this explanation maybe too complicated for you. Igue festival is Benin, the obi of Agbor is Benin and he has said it himself. Osadebe(Osadebame), Ovia, Okowa, Obaigbena, Ogomudia are all Edo origin names not Igbos.. I know Biafrans and Odua people want to claim what’s not there’s. It’s painful when the people themselves tell you their origin is neither Igbo or Yoruba but Edo(Benin) 😅 this Ika man just named all is villages they all sound Edo to Benin. Yes Ika speak Igbo that does not make them Igbo. Just the way this interviewer speaks English does not make him an English man. Mumu people
@@edoeugene8749 my Edo people we love you guys, there is no need of arguing. The people are even saying it that they are Igbos,it only Obi of Agbo that is confusing himself, I don't know what he took. Every Igbo community has some basic cultures that identify it as Igbo, Agbor People have those cultures and they are even saying that they are Igbos.
I am not debating with you. I have respect for any young historian. You should be asking the right question: What is their origin, and what is their historical connection with the Benin people. Your questions are too surface. You keep repeating language similarities ,market days, kolanut,etc. Ask deep question. Please,take a lead from your brother in Benin and see how he goes about his interview with people who say they originated from Benin Kingdom. Debate with him in your channel.His name is Mr. Imasuen Izoduwa.. He goes straight to the traditional head of the town. ua-cam.com/video/Cp_9lczye90/v-deo.html
@@edoeugene8749 my brother, the names of the villages and communities in that area indicates that they have Igbo ancestry. Names such as: Idumuesa,Akumaazi,Umunede,Owa-Oyibu,Abavo, Igbogili,Ute-Ohaeze, Agbor etc,all these are Igbo names showing that they have Igbo ancestry. There is another Agbor in Nnewi Anambra State. And as a matter fact, they call king Obi which is Igbo word, other communities in Anambra State also call king Obi,such as, Nnewi,Ojoto,Nneobi,Oraifite,Obodo,Nkpor, etc but Bini People call king Ọbá. There is no need of going to ask the traditional rulers because some of them doesn't know history, being a traditional ruler is not a guarantee that you must know history, being a traditional ruler is one thing knowing history is another. In addition some traditional rulers like to play politics with matters of ethnicity. That's why you can readily hear the truth from an ordinary person than from a traditional ruler.
NNAAMEHNTV, THANKS SO MUCH FOR GOING TO AGBOR. Since you came from mbiri in imo state I will like you to go to mbiri close to umunede too, Na beg I dey beg you ooooh God bless you bros
😀Nna Mehn!! I had to subscribe after watching this video but have been sharing your wonderful work. 🤣@ When you asked him if they serve people roasted cassava during New yam festivals!!
Ika is igbo, I’m from ika south anioma delta state, the problem here is that most people fails to understand the difference between language and dialect/tribe, if you go to abia state they have their own dialect same goes for an mbaise man in imo state, same goes for an izza man in enonyi and same goes for an ikwerre man in rivers state, nobody is asking you to throwaway your dialect but try and learn how to speak the centralized igbo language, go to the northern part of Nigeria they’ve found a way of introducing the hausa curriculum into their educational system and also made it compulsory for northers to speak hausa too. Like the saying goes “all igbos are king” na here the wahala pass come because nobody wan gree learn from him brother, everybody dey form I too know. Ohaneze needs to do something about this and unite all igbos from the east to south and even to some northern states I.e benue.
I like the unity and the information, some of them are ignorant, and some of us from the mainland Igbo are not well informed about them too, but all I know is that we're One family undivided. But the mainland Igbo states should try to organise igbo general day with all, that will elevate the understanding and cooperation with them more easily. Udo dili ümü igbo nilë nä'ahä Jesus isëëë 💪💪💪
The tall man in glasses reminds me of the image of an American deportee who lived in America for about 25 years and was deported back to Nigeria empty handed and he goes about the village speaking high grammar and telling the villagers about New York and California. He looks and he is lost. "We are part of Igbo, but we are not Igbos". Gowon and the Fulanis, it shall not be well with you for this your master act done in 1967 to divide and conquer the Igbo race.
Nnaa Mehn, you brought tears to my eyes by analyzing and educating us about our ignorance. I have a question for you. Who planted the seed of deceit among you?
It is disappointing that some of their elders are not helping matters. Their monarch has now changed his title from Obi to Dein, very soon his people will forget that there was a time their king was known as Obi and that will increase their identity crises all the more.
@@melvinspack8541 lol, as if you didn’t hear what the old man who spoke first said. As if you didn’t hear your current governor say he is Igbo. 😂 you can only deceive yourself and not us or the north.
I am from ika owa alero and I tell u with facts that I am an Igbo man. sometimes when I see some old people who does not know where they came from baffles me
Chi go zie nwannem I don’t understand why someone speak same language with me same name with me and also culture with me and also deny his origin such a shame
I know you have done research, and you know the places to go to interview. But I'm interested to see if you go to Ubulu-Uku, Iselle-uku, umunede, Igbodo, and Ahoada east/west local government.
Don't know if it's the osogo .but check out OU travel and tour. About the isobo. Cross River. Pls I urge nna mehn to check out this video. Because u re our mouth piece.its so shameful that ohaneze didn't reach out to this people. And also check out comments. They are bounded with ebony state and enugu. Even in terms of language etc
Please this goes beyond illiteracy and ignorance bro, it's called identity crisis, so many of them is highly educated but behaved that primitive with identity crisis, what about their Ikah monarch who came and changed everything that can traced them to Igbo identity, he removed Obi and introduced a different name entirely, he banned all the traditional titles holders from using red caps and the questions is who is deceiving who, yet the elders allowed him to do that nonsense, imagine a small boy monarch
@@leonardorjioffor6683 illiteracy has a role here ! U mentioned a young monarch , u also mentioned educated people yes you are right but wen I say educated people, I meant people with the knowledge consciousness of dia history example Benin ife kingdom. Hope y got me right 💯
Our own brothers talks like they from another planet,God forbid! Well done brother. Anyway I can help in my little way to further this unification movement,pls let me know.
God bless you good Brother,i like your way of unifying igbos indeed Heaven and Earth will reword and bless you,i hope Oha na Eze knows about your good work, see the way you are smiling and demonstrating more Grace to your life.
My brother am Agbor but the second person I can say he do take something you for ask him to mention his children's name am from Agbor my name is chinedum and we are one
The idea that agbor is not igbo was gowon creation and that was what was taught by all of us growing up. There has to be a sensitization. We are all igbos
truth is, for many of us from Delta state our parents told us we are not Igbo many of them said we are from Benin. my mum is from Ugboko and my dad is from Asaba. but I feel like this was just a quarrel between our forefathers and they decided not to have anything to do with them. truth is we cannot forget our language, our names and our dialect. we speak Igbo also my name is Chukwudi and all my brothers and sisters bear Igbo names. so I really don't know why our parents are denying being Igbos.
They speak the same language They celebrate yam festival like us The same 4 market days like us The same traditional customs Anyway you can lead the horse to water but you't force it to drink
That is your place ooh as for my place we do not practice the same culture nor speak the same language go ask your grand father make eh tell you your root
The first and the third person spokes the truth but the second person is totally confused he doesn't know what he was saying God bless you my dear brother you are doing a very great job May God bless you for this your great job keep it up
I love what you’re doing. It is good to unify all Igbos. All these ignorance are as a result of colonialism and the civil war separated us more by the creation of the states. If Biafra comes we will have our brothers and sisters back to us. Then we will have complete unification. Keep doing what you’re doing, it is bearing fruits.
Nnaa meh TV thank you am from ika but ika north east local government area Ute Okpu kingdom .. the ika people of Agbor are destroying our ika culture the whole of ika land is Igbo right to part of bini igbanke
Ika is a mixture of two dialects (Igbo and Benin). While there're elements of Igbo culture and tradition in Ika way of life, we shouldn't neglect the other part of their culture/language (Benin tradition) that's not Igbo because there are Ika people whose lineage are Benin. It becomes bias and unfair to tag a tribe by virtual of some their dialect/culture without considering the other part of their culture that is not Igbo. Even the core Igbo tribes deep down their heart don't acknowledge the Ika people as full-blooded Igbos, so why the pretense here?
Ikaland is Igboland, Igbo from rivers, Anambra, Abia, benue, kogi etc listen, understand and follow ika tv but bini person less than 2 kilometres doesn't understand anything. If you go to local markets all over Ikaland what they speak is a dialect of Igbo intelligible to over 70m Igbo without interpreter. Ika people answer local names given throughout Igboland. The names of their villages and towns are Igbo. Less than 1% of the migrant bini population of Ikaland cannot change the narrative. All ika traditional rulers from time immemorial had been Obi, until ikechukwu the current one changed it to dien. Is obi bini?
I liked your comment by smashing the like button but I will agree with that the greater Igbo population do not accept Ika people as Igbo, we do but for the fact that some people of Ika do not accept themselves as Igbo but now I have to come to understand why they do so. From what I learnt from the Omu of Anioma and other people from the rivers, is that some originated from Igbo while some migrated from Benin. This is why some will not accept that they are Igbo. I've learnt a lot
@@Chris-oe1xx Mind you there was western Igbo, mid-West Igbo, Bendel Igbo and now Delta Igbo. Before the war, Chief Denis Osadebey was the leader of Igbo Union in western Igbo and later formed Anioma which comprises all Igbo communities in Delta North which has 9 local governments. The Igbo tag has been there from time immemorial, Obi of Agbor ,Obi of Aboh, Obi of Ununede, Obi of Onitsha etc, no Oba.
Tv presenter come to Benin city you heard the first man said they have lgue festive go and verify in Benin city, I know you will never .what I ask you now please Tv presenter go to Anambra and ask who are the Originally Anambra people or who formed it .Benin have for market day's.
That name Ohaneze Ndi Igbo is so rotating, they are corrupt politicians thinking for their selfish interest and their deepest pockets not for the collective interests of the Igbo. May God bless and protect this young man who take this hard job upon himself searching for their cousins,nieces, uncles,aunties and relatives because blood is thicker than water
NNAA MEHN TV, God bless these Agbor people that you spoke with for acknowledging that they are Igbos. But I would like you to confirm if Ubiaja people, or Esan (or the Esan people) have any Igbo connection or heritage. This is because, some time ago, the current Oba of Benin attested to the fact that some of them are of the the Igbo heritage (for example the Benin people had an Oba called Eweka, and others). This happened when Nnamdi Kanu spoke with him (the current Oba of Benin) about the Igodomigodo people of the ancient times of the current Edo people.
@@martinpower4911 if you know the history of onitsha then you will know that the agbor igbanke ukwuani people are not ibo, go and find out more about eze chima who is one of the founder of onitsha
@@mujoco5246 you be mugu!! Eze chima is edo to you abi? There’s a video this brother made an elder explained the history of onicha, go and watch it, I think it’s when he went to asaba
GREAT BENIN -EDO 4 MARKET DAY'S DAY'S OF THE WEEK 1 EKEN 2 ORIE 3 OKUO 4 AHO THESE ARE THE 4 MARKET DAY'S NAME PRESENTER I BELIEVE YOU BE CONVINCED BY THIS .
How Igbo is Ika? Quoting Uguru (2010/2015)(UNN linguistics professor) verbatim, "Ika phonology differs from that of standard Igbo and other Igbo dialects and that is why the study of Ika has been of major interest to Igbo linguists in recent years.{Williamson (1968) noted earlier that Ika and Ukwani are linguistically different from other Igbo dialects} .Here, we discuss the nasal and nasalised sounds existent in IKa.These include consonants and vowels". Uguru ( 2010) reports that Ika, though not an Edoid language, has all the typical Edoid vowels, even when all do not exist in all the affected languages.Edoid Languages such as Bini, Urhobo, Isoko and Degema have many vowels (seven to ten) ail of which can be nasalised."Ika has nine-vowel system including schwa.Further, Ika has nine nasal vowels; standard Igbo and other dialects of Igbo have no nasal vowels.The existence of many nasalised vowels in Ika confirms our earlier hypothesis that this dialect might be sharing certain features with Edoid languages which tend to have many vowels (Azazi,2005).Ika, like some inland East Igbo dialects also manifests consonantal nasalisation.In the inland East Igbo dialects, there is only progressive assimilation of nasality ( left to right), in Ika there are both progressive and regressive assimilation of this feature, a confirmation that Ika is linguistically different from other Igbo dialects.In 2010, the Holy Bible (New Testament)was translated into Ika. There have been moves to grant Ika a language status,as seen in the assignment of a unique reference code to Ika: the ISO language code to Ika is ISO:639-3 ikk, while that of Igbo is ISO:639--3ibo" (Wikipedia,2004). Further details are contained in the cited published articles below.(Nasal vowels in Ika: Transcription.Journal of West African languages xxxvii2(2010); IKa.Journal of the International Phonetic Association, July 2015, both by J.O Uguru) Comment.Ika only shares vocabulary with Igbo(without Igbo linguistics as noted by professor Uguru above) .Ika has Edoid linguistics,Bini culture,Bini traditions and Bini customs. Ika having close contacts with both Igbo and Edo is reminiscent of the scenario recorded by Google (2023) of loss of 573 indigenous Languages {8 in Nigeria, Wikipedia (2023)} by speakers after embracing dominant languages,thus resulting to contact with non-indigenous Languages.NOTE:Igbo scholars have produced intellectual papers on Ika studies for public guidance.Those who still discuss Ika ignorantly are wasting their time.
Thanks my Brother, for your quest to unite Igbos. I will advise you to listen to the traditional rulers. they are the custodians of their history. if we go by the methods you are using, our children will soon claim that they are English because our languages are gradually giving way to the English language. The Agbor people are Ika or Aka people The Ika people have existed for at least 1000 years before Onitsha was founded. the Ika or Aka people, are people of their own. the Word Agbor came from Edo word Agbon which mean LIFE that's why the Agbor people say life began in Agbor.
Chai, the man on black glass that was interview is still suffering from brain damaged as a result of the bloody Civil War between Nigeria and Igbo’s tribes…The old man criminally denied his original tribe while his current Gov Okowa recently / openly identified as Igbo son….Nnaa Mehn TV, continue…
There is something they call Assimilation by association. Just because we share boundries with other tribes does not make you come from ther. Because we share boundries with benin does not make me a benin man
Nnaa mehn jisi ike o nwanne m. The first man be like why asking me it’s can’t you see that it’s very clear that Ika people are Igbos. Then the tall guy is very very confused unfortunately. Wow God bless the last man I love the he was flowing with you in our precious language.
I love what you are doing keep it up you have a big dream and am in love with that dream Igbos must come back to one United people regardless of locations, States, or dialect. And we must teach our children about the Igbo vast rich dialects from ika, echee, nsuka, mbaise, ohaafia, ukwuani, owerri,umuahia, obosi even to the island of opobo and beyond.
Wonders of Davis, pls Opobo no follow 4una matter. Opobo is not Igbo pls. Unless u want 2 erase d history & name JUBO JUBOFEM aka JAJA of OPUBO. Maybe u want 2gv us new names, identity bcos so far JUBO JUBOFEM or OPUBO r not Igbo names. Culture, tradition etc r not Igbo. Thnx
@@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767 Who Opobo epp? After Boro killed some of your kings, it instilled fear and trepidation into the psychy of your people. The world know that Opobo was founded by Mbanaso Ozurumba(King Jaja of Opobo from Amaigbo). So we are not looking for anybody to be Igbo. We have survived the worst and we are fully back. What we are doing is just because we know the pains of genocide and other crimes against humanity that triggered denials and self-abnegation. This is in addition to oil boom and subsequent marginalization which made some people to see Igbo identity as an invitation to be marginalized even to the extent of not gaining admission into schools or gainful employments.
@@chukwumachizobaaniekwe4636 Y did his name change frm MBANASO OKWARAOZURUMBA ? Y didn't we com 2meet history of MBANASO of AMAIGBO? Rather we hv JAJA of OPOBO. Y ? His Igbo name & town isn't known. JUBO JUBOFEM & OPUBO r Ijaw names. In Igboland MBANASO wud hv bin tagged outcast. There's nowhere in Igboland dat a slave frm a different tribe, not evn a fellow Igbo o. It's not lik he's frm Nsukka or anoda Igbo clan. But a total stranger, frm a totally different tribe, & a slave 4dat matter, where in Igbo land will u ppl allow him freedom 2 intermarry & mix frely with d general population of freeborn & royalty? Where ? Not 2talk of bcoming a king. Jaja was ENCULTURATED by Ijaws dat's y his Igbo name Mbanaso was replaced with an Ijaw name JUBO JUBOFEM. D OPOBO he was king of, he didn't establish OPOBO alone. Jaja along with 14 other WAR CANOE HOUSES founded OPOBO. D name OPOBO is still an Ijaw name, d town was named in honour of d head of d WAR CANOE HOUSE wich JAJA was adopted into. Jaja was king but he NEVER founded OPOBO on his own. He didn't go anywhere 2import Igbos 2 populate OPOBO. Jaja alone does not supercede his whole IBANI family dat adopted him, not 2talk of d 14 other WAR CANOE HOUSES who r IBANI ppl. U ppl hv no idea about our history, u just jump in, 2abuse & talk trash. Jaja founded Opobo therefore OPOBO is an Igbo kingdom. So wot stopped Jaja frm having his Igbo name Mbanaso? Y didn't he gv d kingdom an Igbo name, maybe small Amaigbo, second Amaigbo, Umumbanaso or any Igbo name? Y did he name d kingdom an Ijaw name, if he had nothing 2do with Ijaw? Una go dey talk rubbish, showing ur ignorance everywhere. Igbo ppl evn among Bini, Igbos in Delta, everywhere they hv their Igbo names, titles, culture & traditions. 4 market days, New Yam Festival, etc. Wot culture or practice does Opobo hv dat is Igbo ? Igbos didn't even used 2hv kings, until recently. Igbos practiced OKPALUKWU System not monarchy. Bonny always had monarchy, kings, evn b4 Europeans arrived. Opobo is an offshoot of Bonny Kingdom so d tradition, culture, evrytin is d same. As at wen Bonny was practicing monarchy, no Igbo clan had monarchy. U don't talk about somtin wen u know nothing about it. Shut up wen it coms 2 Opobo, Bonny ,IBANI issues.
U say 4 market days indicates Igbo, yet u r mentioning Opobo in ur other comment. Does Opobo follow 4 market days? Or our AMAYANABO is an Igbo title? We don't know anytin about Obi, Eze,Igwe, Dein etc Does Igbo practice WAR CANOE HOUSE ? Opobo doesn't know nothing about New Yam Festival. Our names r not Igbo. D list is endless bro. Opobo isn't Igbo
@@all3049 Y r u mentioning OPOBO ? If u r not obsessed with us, will u keep mentioning us ? Or r u jobless too lik u say I am? Or u r not young, u r old & hv nothing else 2do but dwell on Opobo matters? U say Igbos had no king till recently but Ijaws hv always had kings. Bonny had a king b4 Europeans arrived. Opobo had a king frm d very inception centuries ago. So can't u see dat our culture & practices r not d same? Leave Opobo & Ibani alone. Face other Igbos who started denying Igbo after civil War, not Ibani or Opobo pls.
@@all3049 U r a mad man 2 include Opobo in ur Igbo map. Who is embarrassing himself here? U who want 2enforce Igbo on Opobo or me who knows my history & identity? Oboribo !
Anyways NNameen thank you so much for doing this. Please befor you let them out of you sight, tell them there is nothing like ibo people etc Tell them they are ibos!!!!
Just discovered the osogo people in cross river.they speak with exactly ezza dialect. I know will we soon visit them to hear from them. But the amenities there is so poor
As a non igbo,,I once had a friend whose name was Chibuzor, whenever we say he is ibo,he would say he is not,and it really got me confused even till today.
You know a people by their names, language, culture and tradition. All these are same all over Igboland and ikaland. Go and watch ika tv, what they speak is a dialect of Igbo, they don't have another language. Igbo never colonised any tribe. The only less than 5% variation is called dialect in language. Every language has dialects. Hausa and Yoruba have various dialects.
Fulani man in Niger 🇳🇪 know he is Fulani Yoruba man in kogi know he is Yoruba but igbo man in across Delta across river said he is not igbo he is ika but his name is Chukwuemeka Ifeanyi my question is this why you don’t have your language and your kids you give them ika names ?😊
NNAA Mehntv ,This interview is contradictory to the attitude of Igbos towards ikas. Recently ,after the appointment of the current CDS ,Gen Irabor ,an Ika man ,the media was awash with his unanimous rejection as an Igbo appointee by Igbos including ohaneze officials.Thier contention is that Irabor is not Igbo name l Right here in my library is a work on Igbo history by Igbo scholar who ascribed Ominije ancestry of Bini root to Agbor people. is he right?.let us together examine the activities of Ika ancestors.They established Ika communities with sustainable model ( Bini nomenclature inclusive) of Bini organized society consisting of community layout into ogbes and idumus, kingship system made of Bini kingship offices, Bini igue religious festival and common taboos ,etc . This is not East of the Niger community model. While great Nnamdi Azikiwe was addressing Igbo assembly in Aba in 1949 ,he stated that there was no record in African history that any part of Igbo land was conquered by African invaders.Ikas couldn't have been conquered Igbos as insinuated by those who do not have knowledge of history.The question is ,why are ikas not speaking Bini? Historians are aware that language can never tell tribal identity in some cases.Examples are to be discussed subsequently. International Languages services (2022) notes that 573 out of 7000 spoken languages on the planet have become extinct.8 of such tribes that lost their languages were recorded in Nigeria(Wikipedia,2022) These tribes now speak the languages of other tribes as well as answering their names.ILS ( 2022) states that extinction occurs when a dormant language appears on the scene.Dorminant Swahili language, native only to coastal Kenya and Tanzania,and littoral islands, adopted as official language in 1960, is currently spoken in over 13 countries with many of their respective tribal languages at extinction risk due to decreasing number of speakers .Edo indigenes of Akoko Edo area of the state speak Yoruba and also answer Yoruba names .Ika communities posses VERIFIABLE historical evidences including symbols for the identity of the home tribes outside SE from where the ancestors migrated into Ika land.This by extension indicated they spoke non -ika languages which later became extinct before the emergence of ika language. A reminant of the original ancestral language is Oza which is still spoken in parts of Ika --south.In-- the above cases the spoken languages are divorced from the ancestries. Is Ika a dialect of Igbo? According to Uguru(2015)(Igbo prof at UNN) Ika possesses unique linguistics which is distinct from common linguistics of Igbo and it's dialects. Uguru (2015) added that the unique linguistics which is absent in Igbo and it's dialects is reflected in the translation of the Bible into Ika language. Again ,Ika has unique multilingual vocabulary consisting of it's lexicon, words from Igbo,Bini esan, The international linguistic code of Ika is:ISO language code:639- 3 ikk, which is separate from that of Igbo and it's dialects:ISO language code:639-2 ibo( Google,2022).Note that Igbo dialects have the same linguistics and language code with Igbo which conforms with the definition of a dialect of being specific form of a language. on the other hand ,Ika differs from Igbo in linguistics, language code and in part vocabulary content.But both have part common vocabulary , connoting similarity.Please Note that linguistic coding,like botanical nomenclature ,is international practice and has nothing to do with the 'divide and rule'' local politics. When Biafran soldiers occupied Mid West in the wake of the civil war many defenceless Ika civilians were killed in Ika land. Were Igbos East of the Niger killed by the same Biafran soldiers? The expression 'Ika igbo' which is a linguistic misnomer is used for expansionist motive ,The same applies to this exercise.
This dogo trenchi didn't touch the core of the matter. You know a people by their names, villages and town meanings, culture and tradition.How come an Igbo person from Abia state over 100 kilometres hears and interact with an Agbor person whereas someone in Edo apart from Igbanke people couldn't do so. The first time I entered Agbor, I went to the local markets and even attended church on a Sunday I never needed an interpreter because they speak a dialect of Igbo that 97% similar to other Igbo dialects. In my hotel, I listened to ikatv and understood all their programs. Less than 1% of bini escapees from the ruthless Oba who settled in ikaland will not change the narrative, ikaland is Igboland and ika people are Igbo. Igbo didn't deny Gen. Irabor but wanted someone from Southeast geo political zone. Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa who's Igbo is representing South South geopolitical zone. Any community that operates 4 markets day calendar, celebrates new yam festival, ifejioku,okparaukwu patrimony is Igbo.
@@chijinduchizoba7194 Edo has Four market days and also celebrates yam festival infact Igue festival(yam festival) of Edo people is the most renowned worldwide so Mr man quit your cheap lies and propaganda!! IKA IS NOT IGBO !!
Political divisions have actually affected how some not-well-informed people identify themselves. The tall man is a bit confused. You can't have same tradition, language and customs by chance. It is either it is your origin, acquired or imposed on your people.
One question. Today the Fulani speaks Hausa, they bear Hausa names, they use Hausa culture and traditions, are they Hausa or Fulani? I’ll wait for your answers here..
This guy is doing a great job what I found out was that some Igbo people both young and old ones was misleaded to believe that their not Igbo that ideology make no sense 🙄
@@veritas2048 you’re living in poverty and also threatening someone better than you funny 😄 you’re nothing to be compared with any igbo all this urobo people that came to igbo land for a better life
To be honest my brother, these older generations are the ones causing these nonsence! I mean how can you speak similer, bear the same name, practice the same religion and say you are not an ibo speaking person? Imean all these inferiority complexes should stop!!! I am anibo speaking man period. Thank you my brother for bringing this issue to the the limelight🙏🙏🙏 Imagine this people saying that they are from delta state🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣mtchewwwww!!!
This guy deserves some form of award by Ohaneze for doing their job for them 😊
Seriously, ohanaeze is a bunch of greedy people who have little or no interest in Igbo people as a whole but their selfish interest
we need to come together and abolish that ohaneze ndi nzuzu
Well said brother. He is honestly doing their job for them!
Ohanneze is a business association
Award from the Igbos not from Ohaneze.
My brother I'm from Owa Oyibu and we speak Igbo lovely language and also proudly IGBOS, keep it up God bless you.
Which LGA
Ika- north east
@@ndubuisiezeoye2099 At Ika North East Local Government Headquarters.
@@ndubuisiezeoye2099 ika North East local government area of delta state
@@chasosi8836 Thanks. Are you from Owa Oyibu?
AM FROM AGBOR WE ARE IGBO PERIOD
Can you tell how you originated from Igbo
These people are the most dishonest of all
@@valentineprince906 How can he tell you how he originated from Igbo while he is Igbo and in Igboland.
@@valentineprince906 he is not Igbo,we Igbo reject all of you south South...we reject you
You are not from Agbor
We are one up up igbo I'm from agbor I'm proud of igbo
We the agbor people are from igbo and Biafra land my father tells me agbor is igbo don't change it I am 36 years old my father have tells me we agbor from igbo no going back
You are doing a fantastic work... Just that SOME OF MY IGBO brothers and sisters in ANIOMA delta state are such a huge disgrace. AS for those of us who believe that we are IGBOs, we are indeed so PROUD of it.
😂😂😂😂😅 that man beating around the bush to accept their origin. But others accepted out right. Is still progress bro. Thank you
The man on black glasses is something, nawa🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
We are igbo simple as abc we are Ika we are igbo
Yesss ooo ika is igbo we are igbo
God bless you, I'm omambala guy from anambra state I speak omambala dialect I'm an igbo we are all one
I have a Friend from Umunede and he identifies himself as an Igbo man.
Agbor and Afikpo in Ebonyi had the same dialect no different. We are one Igbo people
Not Afikpo but nsukka .. Nussuka of Enugwu state
@@diokparaazuokechukwu4207 Not Nsukka but Enugu Ezike. A man by name Eseke migrated from Agbor general area to Enugu Ezike and the people he met on ground gave him the top of the hill to settle in. Enugu Ezike people speak like Agbor people such as greeting " Alua".
@@francisanammah1127 his name was not Eseke but Ezike Dienyi.. he was an elephant hunter.
YOU IBO PEOPLE NEED TO STOP THIS MADNESS. WE HAVE NO BUSINESS WITH YOU. LEAVE US ALONE
@@veritas2048 i am from anioma delta state i am my families are igbo
Delta Igbos are Igbos. There is no doubt in my mind. Other cultures surround us, but we maintain our similarities with the Igbo’s in language, tradition, and culture.
@ Ndubuisi, thank you so much for your comment, you really said it all "That second man was presenting himself as learned, but his illiteracy was revealed in its starkness during the interview."1
Nnaa Mehn deserve award for his good work, let's embrace unity among the Igbo within and outside Nigeria
They think Biafra war is not yet over, they don't want to fight.
You're right, maybe they are afraid they think they will be killed if they agree they are Igbo
I love that your question!
"How can you be part of who you are not?"
That second man was presenting himself as learned, but his illiteracy was revealed in its starkness during the interview.
This Ika dialect is somehow related to Owerri dialect. It appears to be a mixture of Owerri and Ọmambala/Ọka dialects.
They will say,"Ọ́nwà wụ ụmụ m".
In my community we say,"Nnwọọ bụ ụmụ m".
They will say;"Alị Ika rị mma"
Owerri people will say,;"Ala Owerri rị mma".
Ika,;"Efa m wụ......."
Ọmambala",Afa m bụ....."
Owerri,;"Aha m wụ......"
You just don’t want to accept the truth. You can be part of something that you are not. If you are half white and half black, you can be part white and not white. I know this explanation maybe too complicated for you. Igue festival is Benin, the obi of Agbor is Benin and he has said it himself. Osadebe(Osadebame), Ovia, Okowa, Obaigbena, Ogomudia are all Edo origin names not Igbos.. I know Biafrans and Odua people want to claim what’s not there’s. It’s painful when the people themselves tell you their origin is neither Igbo or Yoruba but Edo(Benin) 😅 this Ika man just named all is villages they all sound Edo to Benin.
Yes Ika speak Igbo that does not make them Igbo. Just the way this interviewer speaks English does not make him an English man. Mumu people
You can be a part of people and not be them. You have Ijaw people in many states.
@@edoeugene8749 my Edo people we love you guys, there is no need of arguing. The people are even saying it that they are Igbos,it only Obi of Agbo that is confusing himself, I don't know what he took.
Every Igbo community has some basic cultures that identify it as Igbo, Agbor People have those cultures and they are even saying that they are Igbos.
I am not debating with you. I have respect for any young historian. You should be asking the right question: What is their origin, and what is their historical connection with the Benin people. Your questions are too surface. You keep repeating language similarities ,market days, kolanut,etc. Ask deep question. Please,take a lead from your brother in Benin and see how he goes about his interview with people who say they originated from Benin Kingdom. Debate with him in your channel.His name is Mr. Imasuen Izoduwa.. He goes straight to the traditional head of the town. ua-cam.com/video/Cp_9lczye90/v-deo.html
@@edoeugene8749 my brother, the names of the villages and communities in that area indicates that they have Igbo ancestry.
Names such as: Idumuesa,Akumaazi,Umunede,Owa-Oyibu,Abavo, Igbogili,Ute-Ohaeze, Agbor etc,all these are Igbo names showing that they have Igbo ancestry. There is another Agbor in Nnewi Anambra State.
And as a matter fact, they call king Obi which is Igbo word, other communities in Anambra State also call king Obi,such as, Nnewi,Ojoto,Nneobi,Oraifite,Obodo,Nkpor, etc but Bini People call king Ọbá.
There is no need of going to ask the traditional rulers because some of them doesn't know history, being a traditional ruler is not a guarantee that you must know history, being a traditional ruler is one thing knowing history is another.
In addition some traditional rulers like to play politics with matters of ethnicity. That's why you can readily hear the truth from an ordinary person than from a traditional ruler.
NNAAMEHNTV, THANKS SO MUCH FOR GOING TO AGBOR.
Since you came from mbiri in imo state I will like you to go to mbiri close to umunede too, Na beg I dey beg you ooooh
God bless you bros
MBIERI is correct name!!!!
😀Nna Mehn!! I had to subscribe after watching this video but have been sharing your wonderful work. 🤣@ When you asked him if they serve people roasted cassava during New yam festivals!!
You know one thing about the ones denying the Igbo heritage,they’re being humbled by their lies and you’ll see the guilt on their face
The result of bini influence in ika ibo south
@@uzopaul871 Wrong, before the Biafra war there was no Igbo denial amongst us or Igbo identity crisis
Am from Agbor, so ashamed with how some of my people are being economical with the truth. Shame.
Civil war consequences
Ika is igbo, I’m from ika south anioma delta state, the problem here is that most people fails to understand the difference between language and dialect/tribe, if you go to abia state they have their own dialect same goes for an mbaise man in imo state, same goes for an izza man in enonyi and same goes for an ikwerre man in rivers state, nobody is asking you to throwaway your dialect but try and learn how to speak the centralized igbo language, go to the northern part of Nigeria they’ve found a way of introducing the hausa curriculum into their educational system and also made it compulsory for northers to speak hausa too. Like the saying goes “all igbos are king” na here the wahala pass come because nobody wan gree learn from him brother, everybody dey form I too know. Ohaneze needs to do something about this and unite all igbos from the east to south and even to some northern states I.e benue.
Good job brother am sharing this with my Agbor friends
I like the unity and the information, some of them are ignorant, and some of us from the mainland Igbo are not well informed about them too, but all I know is that we're One family undivided. But the mainland Igbo states should try to organise igbo general day with all, that will elevate the understanding and cooperation with them more easily. Udo dili ümü igbo nilë nä'ahä Jesus isëëë 💪💪💪
The last speaker speaks my mind- you’re doing great, my brother from another mother
The tall man in glasses reminds me of the image of an American deportee who lived in America for about 25 years and was deported back to Nigeria empty handed and he goes about the village speaking high grammar and telling the villagers about New York and California. He looks and he is lost. "We are part of Igbo, but we are not Igbos". Gowon and the Fulanis, it shall not be well with you for this your master act done in 1967 to divide and conquer the Igbo race.
Shop up your mouth you don't know anything
You are very funny
Nnaa Mehn, you brought tears to my eyes by analyzing and educating us about our ignorance. I have a question for you. Who planted the seed of deceit among you?
the first and last had a smoot speech while the second man was strugling to make any vital point
My name is chuks in igbo language is chukuka is igbo name I know we I come from I am proud igbo ika
Let us all support Nnaa Mehn Tv bcos he is doing very vital job
It is disappointing that some of their elders are not helping matters.
Their monarch has now changed his title from Obi to Dein, very soon his people will forget that there was a time their king was known as Obi and that will increase their identity crises all the more.
Stop saying what you don't know Ika is not Igbo
@@melvinspack8541Nnaa, what makes you think ika is not Igbo?
@@melvinspack8541 lol, as if you didn’t hear what the old man who spoke first said. As if you didn’t hear your current governor say he is Igbo. 😂 you can only deceive yourself and not us or the north.
Another victim of identity crises 😊 who doesn't kw the difference btw a language n dialect
@@tochika3598 I swear people are in denial of their heritage and don't seem to know d difference between language and dialect
I am from ika owa alero and I tell u with facts that I am an Igbo man.
sometimes when I see some old people who does not know where they came from baffles me
Chi go zie nwannem I don’t understand why someone speak same language with me same name with me and also culture with me and also deny his origin such a shame
@@daniel2377 it is the confusion set by Gowon after the war and some people dive into it out of fear and greed to some.
God bless you and God bless Ikaland and the whole Igboland.
Yes ooo, we are igbo
Ika is from the Benin
We the Ika speak Igbo in Ika dialect just like other part in Igbo land. Like oweri language and abakiliki even Enugu it's just funetic .
Chai ....Chinekeeee. I am just impressed with the last speaker
We are same people, God bless Igbo land
I know you have done research, and you know the places to go to interview. But I'm interested to see if you go to Ubulu-Uku, Iselle-uku, umunede, Igbodo, and Ahoada east/west local government.
I love the job you are doing. Please could you provide information on how to donate to this critical project?
If you do 4 market days - nkwo, orie, afor and eke - you are typically Igbo.
Anytime come across ur interview i use to burst to laugh 😂🤣😂🤣 well i don't blame them. Well done comrade for ur work 👏
Don't know if it's the osogo .but check out OU travel and tour. About the isobo. Cross River. Pls I urge nna mehn to check out this video. Because u re our mouth piece.its so shameful that ohaneze didn't reach out to this people. And also check out comments. They are bounded with ebony state and enugu. Even in terms of language etc
"How can you be part of people, u are not " 😊😊😊 illiteracy ignorance is a disease honestly esp from older men who should now better. It's a shame 😪
Please this goes beyond illiteracy and ignorance bro, it's called identity crisis, so many of them is highly educated but behaved that primitive with identity crisis, what about their Ikah monarch who came and changed everything that can traced them to Igbo identity, he removed Obi and introduced a different name entirely, he banned all the traditional titles holders from using red caps and the questions is who is deceiving who, yet the elders allowed him to do that nonsense, imagine a small boy monarch
@@leonardorjioffor6683 illiteracy has a role here ! U mentioned a young monarch , u also mentioned educated people yes you are right but wen I say educated people, I meant people with the knowledge consciousness of dia history example Benin ife kingdom. Hope y got me right 💯
I want to ask.
What's the work of Ohaneze? If they can't unite all Igbos, what then is their importance?
Our own brothers talks like they from another planet,God forbid! Well done brother. Anyway I can help in my little way to further this unification movement,pls let me know.
God bless you good Brother,i like your way of unifying igbos indeed Heaven and Earth will reword and bless you,i hope Oha na Eze knows about your good work, see the way you are smiling and demonstrating more Grace to your life.
My brother am Agbor but the second person I can say he do take something you for ask him to mention his children's name am from Agbor my name is chinedum and we are one
This is internet, anybody can claim to be from anywhere
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The idea that agbor is not igbo was gowon creation and that was what was taught by all of us growing up. There has to be a sensitization. We are all igbos
Am from Agbor we are 100% igbos
truth is, for many of us from Delta state our parents told us we are not Igbo many of them said we are from Benin. my mum is from Ugboko and my dad is from Asaba. but I feel like this was just a quarrel between our forefathers and they decided not to have anything to do with them. truth is we cannot forget our language, our names and our dialect. we speak Igbo also my name is Chukwudi and all my brothers and sisters bear Igbo names. so I really don't know why our parents are denying being Igbos.
It was due to civil war, Nzogwu coup was tagged Igbo coup by all Nigerians.
Whoever kicks himself out of a sailing ship should not blame the ship captain for his predicament.
"How can you be part of who you are not"? Such an epic question. Well done my brother, you are taking it back to the roots
They speak the same language
They celebrate yam festival like us
The same 4 market days like us
The same traditional customs
Anyway you can lead the horse to water but you't force it to drink
Lol so right.
Oga we no they practice the same culture.
@@Sushidecreator another man down
@@Sushidecreator i am from anioma delta state i am my families are igbo we do the same things with igbo not yoruba or benin
That is your place ooh as for my place we do not practice the same culture nor speak the same language go ask your grand father make eh tell you your root
The first and the third person spokes the truth but the second person is totally confused he doesn't know what he was saying God bless you my dear brother you are doing a very great job May God bless you for this your great job keep it up
😂 😂 😂 😂 boss you are doing a great job, because this our brothers don go far
You're my brother as well you came from imo State .. you're family kindred is umuamadi
NNAA MEHN , Ask them who installed that 4 markets days in their lands.
and That Igbo language they speak.
I love what you’re doing. It is good to unify all Igbos. All these ignorance are as a result of colonialism and the civil war separated us more by the creation of the states. If Biafra comes we will have our brothers and sisters back to us. Then we will have complete unification. Keep doing what you’re doing, it is bearing fruits.
Nnaa meh TV thank you am from ika but ika north east local government area Ute Okpu kingdom .. the ika people of Agbor are destroying our ika culture the whole of ika land is Igbo right to part of bini igbanke
Dis are the things our leader MNK is fighting for? Nigeria has really deal with ours
Ika is a mixture of two dialects (Igbo and Benin). While there're elements of Igbo culture and tradition in Ika way of life, we shouldn't neglect the other part of their culture/language (Benin tradition) that's not Igbo because there are Ika people whose lineage are Benin. It becomes bias and unfair to tag a tribe by virtual of some their dialect/culture without considering the other part of their culture that is not Igbo. Even the core Igbo tribes deep down their heart don't acknowledge the Ika people as full-blooded Igbos, so why the pretense here?
well said. It would be recalled that they rejected the appointment of the current CDS ,Gen Irabor ,as a non igbo appointee.
Ikaland is Igboland, Igbo from rivers, Anambra, Abia, benue, kogi etc listen, understand and follow ika tv but bini person less than 2 kilometres doesn't understand anything. If you go to local markets all over Ikaland what they speak is a dialect of Igbo intelligible to over 70m Igbo without interpreter. Ika people answer local names given throughout Igboland. The names of their villages and towns are Igbo. Less than 1% of the migrant bini population of Ikaland cannot change the narrative. All ika traditional rulers from time immemorial had been Obi, until ikechukwu the current one changed it to dien. Is obi bini?
I liked your comment by smashing the like button but I will agree with that the greater Igbo population do not accept Ika people as Igbo, we do but for the fact that some people of Ika do not accept themselves as Igbo but now I have to come to understand why they do so. From what I learnt from the Omu of Anioma and other people from the rivers, is that some originated from Igbo while some migrated from Benin. This is why some will not accept that they are Igbo. I've learnt a lot
@@Chris-oe1xx
Mind you there was western Igbo, mid-West Igbo, Bendel Igbo and now Delta Igbo. Before the war, Chief Denis Osadebey was the leader of Igbo Union in western Igbo and later formed Anioma which comprises all Igbo communities in Delta North which has 9 local governments. The Igbo tag has been there from time immemorial, Obi of Agbor ,Obi of Aboh, Obi of Ununede, Obi of Onitsha etc, no Oba.
@@chijinduchizoba7194 We're not Igbos. We have formed and forged our own identity....
You have to be feeling happy you are called Igbo.The great tribe in Africa
This Agbor man is trying to run away from himself. 😂😂🤣🤣
I know the tall guy with glass very well he is from Agbor-obi
Nnamen is a great leader and very wise.
Nna Mehn, your patience is unreal.
Tv presenter come to Benin city you heard the first man said they have lgue festive go and verify in Benin city,
I know you will never .what I ask you now please Tv presenter go to Anambra and ask who are the Originally Anambra people or who formed it .Benin have for market day's.
That name Ohaneze Ndi Igbo is so rotating, they are corrupt politicians thinking for their selfish interest and their deepest pockets not for the collective interests of the Igbo. May God bless and protect this young man who take this hard job upon himself searching for their cousins,nieces, uncles,aunties and relatives because blood is thicker than water
I'm from idumuesah ika and igbo is one
I laughed when this our father said that we make sure we own Nigeria.😂😃😁
This is a very confused man if he is not denying himself. States and LGA has messed him up ,that's if he is being truthful.
That tall man with spec is completely lost. It's quite unfortunate!
He’s a funny man 😂this is the effect of low mentality
NNAA MEHN TV, God bless these Agbor people that you spoke with for acknowledging that they are Igbos. But I would like you to confirm if Ubiaja people, or Esan (or the Esan people) have any Igbo connection or heritage. This is because, some time ago, the current Oba of Benin attested to the fact that some of them are of the the Igbo heritage (for example the Benin people had an Oba called Eweka, and others). This happened when Nnamdi Kanu spoke with him (the current Oba of Benin) about the Igodomigodo people of the ancient times of the current Edo people.
Go learn history very well before coming out to talk rubbish, go to anambra and find out their history
Esan people don't speak Igbo their language is totally different
@@mujoco5246 what about Anambra history??
@@martinpower4911 if you know the history of onitsha then you will know that the agbor igbanke ukwuani people are not ibo, go and find out more about eze chima who is one of the founder of onitsha
@@mujoco5246 you be mugu!! Eze chima is edo to you abi? There’s a video this brother made an elder explained the history of onicha, go and watch it, I think it’s when he went to asaba
GREAT BENIN -EDO 4 MARKET DAY'S
DAY'S OF THE WEEK
1 EKEN
2 ORIE
3 OKUO
4 AHO
THESE ARE THE 4 MARKET DAY'S NAME PRESENTER I BELIEVE YOU BE CONVINCED BY THIS .
The Igbo 4 days calendar are eke, orie afor and nkwo.
Get out mad people
How Igbo is Ika? Quoting Uguru (2010/2015)(UNN linguistics professor) verbatim, "Ika phonology differs from that of standard Igbo and other Igbo dialects and that is why the study of Ika has been of major interest to Igbo linguists in recent years.{Williamson (1968) noted earlier that Ika and Ukwani are linguistically different from other Igbo dialects} .Here, we discuss the nasal and nasalised sounds existent in IKa.These include consonants and vowels". Uguru ( 2010) reports that Ika, though not an Edoid language, has all the typical Edoid vowels, even when all do not exist in all the affected languages.Edoid Languages such as Bini, Urhobo, Isoko and Degema have many vowels (seven to ten) ail of which can be nasalised."Ika has nine-vowel system including schwa.Further, Ika has nine nasal vowels; standard Igbo and other dialects of Igbo have no nasal vowels.The existence of many nasalised vowels in Ika confirms our earlier hypothesis that this dialect might be sharing certain features with Edoid languages which tend to have many vowels (Azazi,2005).Ika, like some inland East Igbo dialects also manifests consonantal nasalisation.In the inland East Igbo dialects, there is only progressive assimilation of nasality ( left to right), in Ika there are both progressive and regressive assimilation of this feature, a confirmation that Ika is linguistically different from other Igbo dialects.In 2010, the Holy Bible (New Testament)was translated into Ika. There have been moves to grant Ika a language status,as seen in the assignment of a unique reference code to Ika: the ISO language code to Ika is ISO:639-3 ikk, while that of Igbo is ISO:639--3ibo" (Wikipedia,2004). Further details are contained in the cited published articles below.(Nasal vowels in Ika: Transcription.Journal of West African languages xxxvii2(2010); IKa.Journal of the International Phonetic Association, July 2015, both by J.O Uguru) Comment.Ika only shares vocabulary with Igbo(without Igbo linguistics as noted by professor Uguru above) .Ika has Edoid linguistics,Bini culture,Bini traditions and Bini customs. Ika having close contacts with both Igbo and Edo is reminiscent of the scenario recorded by Google (2023) of loss of 573 indigenous Languages {8 in Nigeria, Wikipedia (2023)} by speakers after embracing dominant languages,thus resulting to contact with non-indigenous Languages.NOTE:Igbo scholars have produced intellectual papers on Ika studies for public guidance.Those who still discuss Ika ignorantly are wasting their time.
Next time,you should go and interview a renowned traditional ruler in the place.
Brother keep it up you are doing a great job
Keep on sharing the video an by so doing we are encouraging him
Thanks my Brother, for your quest to unite Igbos. I will advise you to listen to the traditional rulers. they are the custodians of their history. if we go by the methods you are using, our children will soon claim that they are English because our languages are gradually giving way to the English language. The Agbor people are Ika or Aka people The Ika people have existed for at least 1000 years before Onitsha was founded. the Ika or Aka people, are people of their own. the Word Agbor came from Edo word Agbon which mean LIFE that's why the Agbor people say life began in Agbor.
Thank you bro, those useless south east fanatics won't see that, always trying to join and force people to join them. Is it by force
This is nice video carry on my brother
😂😂cimmentator asked whats de major crop used de festival he said yam. Commentator said thank u😂😂😂mr commentator u need to be a lawyer 😂😂😂
Ika is Igbo 100%
MGBEKE
@@veritas2048mgborie😂😂
Chai, the man on black glass that was interview is still suffering from brain damaged as a result of the bloody Civil War between Nigeria and Igbo’s tribes…The old man criminally denied his original tribe while his current Gov Okowa recently / openly identified as Igbo son….Nnaa Mehn TV, continue…
There is something they call Assimilation by association. Just because we share boundries with other tribes does not make you come from ther. Because we share boundries with benin does not make me a benin man
Nnaa mehn jisi ike o nwanne m. The first man be like why asking me it’s can’t you see that it’s very clear that Ika people are Igbos. Then the tall guy is very very confused unfortunately. Wow God bless the last man I love the he was flowing with you in our precious language.
I know the tall guy with glass very well he is from Agbor-obi
I love what you are doing keep it up you have a big dream and am in love with that dream Igbos must come back to one United people regardless of locations, States, or dialect. And we must teach our children about the Igbo vast rich dialects from ika, echee, nsuka, mbaise, ohaafia, ukwuani, owerri,umuahia, obosi even to the island of opobo and beyond.
Brother keep it up you are doing a great job
Wonders of Davis, pls Opobo no follow 4una matter. Opobo is not Igbo pls. Unless u want 2 erase d history & name JUBO JUBOFEM aka JAJA of OPUBO. Maybe u want 2gv us new names, identity bcos so far JUBO JUBOFEM or OPUBO r not Igbo names. Culture, tradition etc r not Igbo. Thnx
@@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767
Who Opobo epp? After Boro killed some of your kings, it instilled fear and trepidation into the psychy of your people. The world know that Opobo was founded by Mbanaso Ozurumba(King Jaja of Opobo from Amaigbo). So we are not looking for anybody to be Igbo. We have survived the worst and we are fully back. What we are doing is just because we know the pains of genocide and other crimes against humanity that triggered denials and self-abnegation. This is in addition to oil boom and subsequent marginalization which made some people to see Igbo identity as an invitation to be marginalized even to the extent of not gaining admission into schools or gainful employments.
@@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767 my sister nor mind this ayamiri people, trying to change history overnight
@@chukwumachizobaaniekwe4636 Y did his name change frm MBANASO OKWARAOZURUMBA ? Y didn't we com 2meet history of MBANASO of AMAIGBO? Rather we hv JAJA of OPOBO. Y ?
His Igbo name & town isn't known. JUBO JUBOFEM & OPUBO r Ijaw names. In Igboland MBANASO wud hv bin tagged outcast. There's nowhere in Igboland dat a slave frm a different tribe, not evn a fellow Igbo o. It's not lik he's frm Nsukka or anoda Igbo clan. But a total stranger, frm a totally different tribe, & a slave 4dat matter, where in Igbo land will u ppl allow him freedom 2 intermarry & mix frely with d general population of freeborn & royalty? Where ? Not 2talk of bcoming a king.
Jaja was ENCULTURATED by Ijaws dat's y his Igbo name Mbanaso was replaced with an Ijaw name JUBO JUBOFEM. D OPOBO he was king of, he didn't establish OPOBO alone. Jaja along with 14 other WAR CANOE HOUSES founded OPOBO. D name OPOBO is still an Ijaw name, d town was named in honour of d head of d WAR CANOE HOUSE wich JAJA was adopted into. Jaja was king but he NEVER founded OPOBO on his own. He didn't go anywhere 2import Igbos 2 populate OPOBO.
Jaja alone does not supercede his whole IBANI family dat adopted him, not 2talk of d 14 other WAR CANOE HOUSES who r IBANI ppl.
U ppl hv no idea about our history, u just jump in, 2abuse & talk trash. Jaja founded Opobo therefore OPOBO is an Igbo kingdom. So wot stopped Jaja frm having his Igbo name Mbanaso? Y didn't he gv d kingdom an Igbo name, maybe small Amaigbo, second Amaigbo, Umumbanaso or any Igbo name? Y did he name d kingdom an Ijaw name, if he had nothing 2do with Ijaw?
Una go dey talk rubbish, showing ur ignorance everywhere.
Igbo ppl evn among Bini, Igbos in Delta, everywhere they hv their Igbo names, titles, culture & traditions. 4 market days, New Yam Festival, etc.
Wot culture or practice does Opobo hv dat is Igbo ? Igbos didn't even used 2hv kings, until recently. Igbos practiced OKPALUKWU System not monarchy. Bonny always had monarchy, kings, evn b4 Europeans arrived. Opobo is an offshoot of Bonny Kingdom so d tradition, culture, evrytin is d same. As at wen Bonny was practicing monarchy, no Igbo clan had monarchy.
U don't talk about somtin wen u know nothing about it. Shut up wen it coms 2 Opobo, Bonny ,IBANI issues.
Any ethnic group following the 4 market days are Igbos 😂 common sense
U say 4 market days indicates Igbo, yet u r mentioning Opobo in ur other comment. Does Opobo follow 4 market days? Or our AMAYANABO is an Igbo title? We don't know anytin about Obi, Eze,Igwe, Dein etc
Does Igbo practice WAR CANOE HOUSE ? Opobo doesn't know nothing about New Yam Festival. Our names r not Igbo.
D list is endless bro. Opobo isn't Igbo
@@ayebatarijuliapaxagiri2767 opob people have Igbo names.. he went to the main Opobo land, and people have Igbo names ..
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Wich name was Igbo ? I watched his Opobo, Queenstown interview. Wich of d names was Igbo?
@@all3049 Y r u mentioning OPOBO ? If u r not obsessed with us, will u keep mentioning us ? Or r u jobless too lik u say I am? Or u r not young, u r old & hv nothing else 2do but dwell on Opobo matters?
U say Igbos had no king till recently but Ijaws hv always had kings. Bonny had a king b4 Europeans arrived. Opobo had a king frm d very inception centuries ago. So can't u see dat our culture & practices r not d same?
Leave Opobo & Ibani alone. Face other Igbos who started denying Igbo after civil War, not Ibani or Opobo pls.
@@all3049 U r a mad man 2 include Opobo in ur Igbo map. Who is embarrassing himself here? U who want 2enforce Igbo on Opobo or me who knows my history & identity? Oboribo !
Anyways NNameen thank you so much for doing this. Please befor you let them out of you sight, tell them there is nothing like ibo people etc Tell them they are ibos!!!!
Just discovered the osogo people in cross river.they speak with exactly ezza dialect. I know will we soon visit them to hear from them. But the amenities there is so poor
Serious work dey oo. Dis one taya oo
The same thing a person named "SUNDAY OGOCHUKWU OLISEH" says he's not an igbo man.
Well you can't force people to identify with you, can you?
As a non igbo,,I once had a friend whose name was Chibuzor, whenever we say he is ibo,he would say he is not,and it really got me confused even till today.
The man is right,you just have to ask Benin people about there culture.
I miss my people
We practising things which lseralite do in Nigeria dose it make us lseralite.
You know a people by their names, language, culture and tradition. All these are same all over Igboland and ikaland. Go and watch ika tv, what they speak is a dialect of Igbo, they don't have another language. Igbo never colonised any tribe. The only less than 5% variation is called dialect in language. Every language has dialects. Hausa and Yoruba have various dialects.
Fulani man in Niger 🇳🇪 know he is Fulani Yoruba man in kogi know he is Yoruba but igbo man in across Delta across river said he is not igbo he is ika but his name is Chukwuemeka Ifeanyi my question is this why you don’t have your language and your kids you give them ika names ?😊
NNAA Mehntv ,This interview is contradictory to the attitude of Igbos towards ikas. Recently ,after the appointment of the current CDS ,Gen Irabor ,an Ika man ,the media was awash with his unanimous rejection as an Igbo appointee by Igbos including ohaneze officials.Thier contention is that Irabor is not Igbo name l
Right here in my library is a work on Igbo history by Igbo scholar who ascribed Ominije ancestry of Bini root to Agbor people. is he right?.let us together examine the activities of Ika ancestors.They established Ika communities with sustainable model ( Bini nomenclature inclusive) of Bini organized society consisting of community layout into ogbes and idumus, kingship system made of Bini kingship offices, Bini igue religious festival and common taboos ,etc . This is not East of the Niger community model. While great Nnamdi Azikiwe was addressing Igbo assembly in Aba in 1949 ,he stated that there was no record in African history that any part of Igbo land was conquered by African invaders.Ikas couldn't have been conquered Igbos as insinuated by those who do not have knowledge of history.The question is ,why are ikas not speaking Bini? Historians are aware that language can never tell tribal identity in some cases.Examples are to be discussed subsequently. International Languages services (2022) notes that 573 out of 7000 spoken languages on the planet have become extinct.8 of such tribes that lost their languages were recorded in Nigeria(Wikipedia,2022) These tribes now speak the languages of other tribes as well as answering their names.ILS ( 2022) states that extinction occurs when a dormant language appears on the scene.Dorminant Swahili language, native only to coastal Kenya and Tanzania,and littoral islands, adopted as official language in 1960, is currently spoken in over 13 countries with many of their respective tribal languages at extinction risk due to decreasing number of speakers .Edo indigenes of Akoko Edo area of the state speak Yoruba and also answer Yoruba names .Ika communities posses VERIFIABLE historical evidences including symbols for the identity of the home tribes outside SE from where the ancestors migrated into Ika land.This by extension indicated they spoke non -ika languages which later became extinct before the emergence of ika language. A reminant of the original ancestral language is Oza which is still spoken in parts of Ika --south.In-- the above cases the spoken languages are divorced from the ancestries. Is Ika a dialect of Igbo? According to Uguru(2015)(Igbo prof at UNN) Ika possesses unique linguistics which is distinct from common linguistics of Igbo and it's dialects. Uguru (2015) added that the unique linguistics which is absent in Igbo and it's dialects is reflected in the translation of the Bible into Ika language. Again ,Ika has unique multilingual vocabulary consisting of it's lexicon, words from Igbo,Bini esan, The international linguistic code of Ika is:ISO language code:639- 3 ikk, which is separate from that of Igbo and it's dialects:ISO language code:639-2 ibo( Google,2022).Note that Igbo dialects have the same linguistics and language code with Igbo which conforms with the definition of a dialect of being specific form of a language. on the other hand ,Ika differs from Igbo in linguistics, language code and in part vocabulary content.But both have part common vocabulary , connoting similarity.Please Note that linguistic coding,like botanical nomenclature ,is international practice and has nothing to do with the 'divide and rule'' local politics. When Biafran soldiers occupied Mid West in the wake of the civil war many defenceless Ika civilians were killed in Ika land. Were Igbos East of the Niger killed by the same Biafran soldiers? The expression 'Ika igbo' which is a linguistic misnomer is used for expansionist motive ,The same applies to this exercise.
Well spoken
This dogo trenchi didn't touch the core of the matter. You know a people by their names, villages and town meanings, culture and tradition.How come an Igbo person from Abia state over 100 kilometres hears and interact with an Agbor person whereas someone in Edo apart from Igbanke people couldn't do so. The first time I entered Agbor, I went to the local markets and even attended church on a Sunday I never needed an interpreter because they speak a dialect of Igbo that 97% similar to other Igbo dialects. In my hotel, I listened to ikatv and understood all their programs. Less than 1% of bini escapees from the ruthless Oba who settled in ikaland will not change the narrative, ikaland is Igboland and ika people are Igbo. Igbo didn't deny Gen. Irabor but wanted someone from Southeast geo political zone. Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa who's Igbo is representing South South geopolitical zone. Any community that operates 4 markets day calendar, celebrates new yam festival, ifejioku,okparaukwu patrimony is Igbo.
@@chijinduchizoba7194 Edo has Four market days and also celebrates yam festival infact Igue festival(yam festival) of Edo people is the most renowned worldwide so Mr man quit your cheap lies and propaganda!! IKA IS NOT IGBO !!
Political divisions have actually affected how some not-well-informed people identify themselves.
The tall man is a bit confused.
You can't have same tradition, language and customs by chance. It is either it is your origin, acquired or imposed on your people.
One question. Today the Fulani speaks Hausa, they bear Hausa names, they use Hausa culture and traditions, are they Hausa or Fulani? I’ll wait for your answers here..
Nawa ifure oldeŕthan 18 u should knowhat the fulani aĺsospeak fùlfulde which is non intelligible tothehausa languagetheirhistory is clear
Ahianjoku is the same all over Igboland. It is the god of the farmland and we use YAM to celebrate it.
This guy is doing a great job what I found out was that some Igbo people both young and old ones was misleaded to believe that their not Igbo that ideology make no sense 🙄
Am so sad watching a man denied himself from who he is. This is very sad
God punish nyamiri
@@veritas2048 😢 ma chi have mercy on your soul , if you are igbo but if you’re not igbo maybe what happened to us be your portion and also your family
@@daniel2377 Maybe we need to put another blockade in place.
@@veritas2048 you’re not recognized just a nobody waste of sperm go do something for yourself and get a life bro
@@veritas2048 you’re living in poverty and also threatening someone better than you funny 😄 you’re nothing to be compared with any igbo all this urobo people that came to igbo land for a better life
Go to BOJI BOJI OWA, in Ika north east.
My brother you need to visit ika LGA in akwa ibom we are all one peoples my own LGA we have village Village
We have ikot uzo,ikot ibo,ibahchi
To be honest my brother, these older generations are the ones causing these nonsence! I mean how can you speak similer, bear the same name, practice the same religion and say you are not an ibo speaking person? Imean all these inferiority complexes should stop!!! I am anibo speaking man period. Thank you my brother for bringing this issue to the the limelight🙏🙏🙏 Imagine this people saying that they are from delta state🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣mtchewwwww!!!
The man mentioned lgue festive who own lgue festive is the Benin.