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Interesting connection. Undeniable.

I appreciate your effort to find connections with the cultures around the Igbo people but it is not an Igbo word. I am from Kalabari in Rivers state. we call our king Amayanabo , three words Ama - yana- bo . Ama means“town or Land” , yana means “ own or owner” and bo means “ person” .

I wonder how Asaba 🤔 so close to onitsha but some one from 100km away is claiming they are not brothers and sisters. Fear this enemies of igboland.

Igbo is not a name or identity applicable to all groups as it is not a general name but a name only given to you by your parents and not a classification done using standard or appropriate consensus methods. In other words you are not telling history but false history, you are only spreading a false lopsided igbo propaganda with impressions and notions from your own mind and ego. Yorubas dont call itsekiris yorubas because its not applicable to them and not a generic classification based on consensus . Go and do a proper research or documentary or branch out to other things entirely if history is not for you

Igbos the attack you got from the ikwerres is just a childs play. You will soon get what will finally seal broken ties completely with your Neighbours. Who are you calling igbos.

Hmmmnn I pity members of you igbo group. If you can't finish something do not ever try starting it. Claiming another mans land as igbo land

Very interesting connection...

Wait. I don't understand. Are the Ijaw in charge of politics in Rivers? Who are the stakeholders and politicians that deny people jobs because of their Igbo name? Like I'm genuinely concerned and confused at the same time. In a state where Igbos are majority, how did Igbos allow this to happen? Hmmm.

The Ibani people are of Ijaw ethnic group who live along with the Igbo speaking people in the Bonny and Opobo areas of Rivers State, Nigeria, on the Atlantic coast. Bonny town is the tribal seat of the Ibani which is located on the bight of Bonny River. Ibani language is spoken predominantly by residents of Bonny and Opobo. Igbo is also widely spoken amongst the people and considered a general language. [citation needed] Bonny's development was also shaped by the tribe's close interaction with European traders.[1] The Kingdom of Bonny was a major trading center[2] from the 16th century onwards; initially trading in slaves, its people were later known for the exportation of palm oil and palm kernel.[3] The indigenes of the Bonny and Opobo kingdoms are collectively known as the Ibani people.[4] The Ibani language is widely spoken. Historically, Bonny engaged in several wars against its nearby rivals, such as Elem Kalabari, Obolo people or Andoni.[5] Some Ibani settlements include: Finima, Abalama, Oloma, and Kuruama.[

Story of King Jaja In his youth, Jaja was kidnapped from Igboland possibly by Aro's[3] and sold into slavery. He was then brought to Ijawland thereafter. As was customary amongst the Ijaw, Jaja earned his way out of slavery after serving his master for a number of years. At the death of his master, he took charge of the trade and went on to head the Anna Pepple House merchant faction of Bonny. Under him, Annie Pepple absorbed other trade houses until a war with the Manilla Pepple House led by Oko Jumbo compelled Jaja to break away to establish Opobo Kingdom (26 miles east of Bonny) in 1869.[4] "Oko Jumbo and Ja Ja were looked upon by every one as being the rulers of Bonny."[5] Opobo came to be a prominent trading post in the region's palm oil trade. Jaja barred entry to European and African middlemen, effectively monopolizing trade, and by 1870 was selling eight thousand tons of palm oil directly to the British. Opobo also shipped palm oil directly to Liverpool. Despite his trade rivalry with the Europeans, Jaja sent his children to schools in Glasgow and enlisted whites to staff the secular school he built in Opobo. He barred any missionaries from entering Opobo.[6] At the 1884 Berlin Conference the Europeans designated Opobo as British territory. When Jaja refused to cease taxing the British traders, Henry Hamilton Johnston, a British vice consul, invited Jaja for negotiations in 1887. Jaja was arrested on arrival aboard a British vessel; he was tried in Accra in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) then exiled, first to London, and later to Saint Vincent and Barbados in the British West Indies.[7][8] His presence in the West Indies was alleged to be the cause of civil unrest, as the people of Barbados, of African descent, were upset at the poor treatment of a King from their homeland.[4] In 1891, Jaja was granted permission to return to Opobo, but died en route.[9] Following his exile and death, the power of the Opobo state rapidly declined.[4] In 1903 the King Jaja of Opobo Memorial was erected in his honour in Opobo town centre. The grave of Nigerian Prince Waribo, son of King Jaja of Opobo is in the churchyard at St Laurence Parish Church, Frodsham, Cheshire. Prince Waribo was sent to Frodsham to be educated at Manor House School. He died from inflammation of the lungs on 21st April 1882. There are 2 white arrows indicating the way to the Prince's grave. One at the entrance opposite the Ring O,'Bells and the other further down the pathway showing the direction to his grave. It has no headstone but there is an inscription on the edging stone. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaja_of_Opobo

Oga you are spreading misinformation, go and learn about the history. Opobo is Ijaw and most of Port Harcourt. The Igbo came there as result of slave trade, those deem unhealthy were dropped by the white men and these trend continues till the Igbo population increased in PH. Have you asked yourself why most Ikwerre people said they are not Igbos? They are still angry because they were sold as slave. I will really advise you and your viewers to go and read about the history of Bonny and King Jaja of Opobo the slave whom later became King. He was adapted by the Ijaw king of Opobo and he became the crown prince because the King had no heir, the speaking of Igbo in Bonny was highly influenced by Jaja. Just go read before you create enemity between Ijaws and the Igbos. Biafra name was given by an Ijaw man in PH, to tell you Ijaws have no issues with Igbos. This kind of narrative of yours won't help Biafra.

How people will just sit down and claim others as their own baffles me because English is Nigeria's formal Language, which does not make all Nigerians citizens of the UK by origin, Because Francophone African Countries speak French does not make them French citizens, but how someone who went to school would conclude that because a group of people speaks Igbo therefore they must be Igbo, without attempting to find out about their origin and possible contact that led to them speaking Igbo.

Waiting!!!

An eye opener

Ijaws are two small oo, they can't with stand only Abia not to of Igbo in general

This is not all wrong, but Ebonka who was the first Dei was the one who introduced the Dei system into Agbor, he was a worrior who grew outside of Agbor. So it wasn't a migrate from Jews, he brought it into Agbor

Please continue to create awareness on the plight of Akpaya

My grandmother is from Kalabari her name is Tamunosaki and this is a very distorted history Do you even know where the name Kalabari came from? The people you are talking about have their own story of their origin and they will always tell you they are ijaw but you feel the one you are saying is the original history beacuse its suites a particular agenda you have in your mind to annex other people into your agenda even when they dont want to meanwhile you are not even from Kalabari and you think you can tell their history and assume you are totally correct Only you people are claiming bonny,opobo,okrika almost all the sub tribes in rivers state you people are claiming they are igbos even when they have their own identification do you even know what the igbo soldiers did in these kalabari communities during the war go and ask about GO-NIGER festival celebrated by the kalabaris you people are not serious very soon the whole of Nigeria will turn to igbo land since you are so hungry to grab everybody and call them igbo. If you want true authentic kalabari history make research on Professor Nimi Wariboko he is a full blooded kalabari ijaw man stop distorting history to make everything all about igbos.

Nice one bro. I don't see it as central Ìgbò even though that might be an easy name for it if there was not already a named Central Igbo (The one Ida Ward did). I personally call it School Ìgbò or Town Ìgbò.

What is the disagreement between oru and Igbo? Do they identity themselves as Igbos?

What do you smoke?

I am totally uncomfortable with your story. That in a country where you have over 50 million Igbos, you cant speak Igbo freely. Also, why will you people change your name, why. Anyone who bears alien name and speaks Igbo to me is alien. My name is Arinzechukwubuike Anagbogu. Thats my name. Igbos on those areas should should not change their name for anything.

Ijaw is the reason Igbos have ran away from river state and chose Lagos as an alternative business environment. Eastern region is naturally a dubai of it's own but Ijaws have done huge damage on that arrangement of God. Ijaw have not what it takes to develope river state or even their predominant bayelsa state but yet will chose death than to see Igbo people express their freedom in riverine areas.

Why is Igbo the most confused tribe in Nigeria?

There is nothing like CENTRAL IGBO What we have is OLU MBA ND IGBO IZUGBE

Wow, great sharing again. This is so informative, I appreciate. Learning Igbo, I was confused about this, because the Igbo Izugbe I learned in standardization never sounded like what I heard from various Igbos around me, anywhere. Nobody I encountered uses it, not even my parents. So I just figured that Igbos generally understand each other through compromise, so I listened to observe this and found it was true. It's amazing how Igbo of Anambra metropolitan area developed naturally seems to be the most widely understood till today. Although I would argue that the "Central Igbo" used by Ida C Ward still shares more patterns in common with the dialects of Imo State. Though it was not widespread as you said, and it was rather silly in retrospect to base Igbo Izugbe originally on Ward's artificial form, since it was such a limited area. My contention, however, is that I've come to learn that Igbo Izugbe today includes more from Igbo, as it has Anambra, Isu, Umuahia, and various loan words from different dialects.

Thank you sir for this amazing research, it's so insightful. Please, I have a question. Do you know the exact names of the towns that Ida C. Ward claimed she extracted her Central Igbo from? I know she said she went to the Ezinehite/Ezinihitte group of Igbo between Owerri and Umuahia, but I have not been able to find the names of the towns, because they were not specified in the sources I read. My guess is that she went to what is today's Ezinihitte Mbaise, because that place is literally between Umuahia and Owerri as she described, but I am not certain on this. Please share if you have some idea, or have mentioned it somewhere else. God bless.

They are scared of the federal government.

Nice job, nwánne.

You're ijaw man

Nwanne madu, please if you are doing this kind of video it's good you allow the people concerned to speak too. Don't only explain to us. When u allow them speak people will actually believe

Ohaneze is not doing anything. They should be disbanded and send all the surplus funds to Nna Men TV. He is doing more work than Ohanaze

Igbo is the largest ethnic group in Nigeria. Its the Fulanis that carved ykur people into Kogi. Get them back into igbo land.

Please,y do ikwerre people call other igbos isoma

The ikwerre's refers to igbo people as "isuama" ...why?

These guys are more igbos than we, the names of their town, obigbo, igweocha, isiokwpo, anioma. Obiagu. Isogbo meaning isigbo . God help us the war was really terrible for them

Brother Kachi Amobi, I have watched your videos about Igbo identity on the Riverine Igbo in Rivers and western Igbo of Delta. You are doing a good job 👏 . However, the linguistic relationship between Igbo, Sumerians, Ancient Egyptian, and the Hebrew Israelites is enormous, and you need to have one understanding first on the modern Hebrew language and how it came about. This is because the ancient languages of both the Sumerians and Egyptians are extinct/lost. So, how come we have modern Hebrew ???? I was made to understand that the creators of the modern Hebrew dis that with consonant words alone. This made me investigate the few Hebrew words in the Bible. Example; Ebenezer = Ebe na za ra (Where he answered). I read the story, and I came to understand that samuel was marking a place where they got the victory with a stone. In Igbo Ebe is place/where /location Zara is answer. When you google translate the words, Ebe na za ra = it means where he answered. Sumerians, Ancient Egyptian, and Hebrew spoke Igbo. Yes, they returned to Igbo land after experiencing persecutions from Europe to Asia and East Africa. They returned back to the land of the rising sun, the place the ancient Egyptians called home. Hallelujah = Ha le le elu Ya ( They looked/ look up to Him) 'To look up to' means to show respect, gratitude, etc. Which in turn means praise. Pls google for reference. The consonants for Mary is mry. Amara Ya is the real name of Mary. Melchizedek = Amalachi eze dike Canaan= Oke nna( the portion of the father Abiama) I have over 50 sentences turned into words by the modern Hebrews speakers.

They did that to themselves, thank God am in the Five state. Rubbish.

You are calling them ijaw migrants in their own land?…guy are you alright in the heard?

What is Ijaw land?

Rivers state is igboland what is the long talk about go check the history period.

OGA you igbo people seem to think that you own all the south west. anywhere there is good life seems to be your own. no go find work

Thank God for the past researches that had taken place. Your Anambra/Enugu Igbo is NOT the central Igbo my dear brother. Infact, there WAS NO CENTRAL IGBO as Igboland with its governments and trade, was NOT CENTRALIZED at ANY point in time. So you pitting 'Central Igbo' vs 'Igbo Izugbe' makes no sense. This is either ignorance or low key inferiority complex.

My brother, I would strongly suggest you visit the Ubani people with Nna mehn TV.

Ohanaeze are failure.

Interesting. Am learning

What she is saying is not farfetched. I one travels to Igala mela around Uzo Uwani in Enugu State, it is hard to distinguish between an Igala person residing around the area and an Igbo. This is because the Igala of the area speaks perfect Igbo like any Igbo speaking person.