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joseph1832:
I see. Now I see why the senator is pushing for the creation of Anioma state. I once watching him on Channels Politics Today, saying his senatorial district has 9 LGA.

he is pushing not just for Anioma state but for it to be part of the south east and some ignoramus will be here trying to reclaim their lost heritage

DeLaRue:


Yorubas are not Olukunmi because 'that's what they call them in Delta'.

As a word, Olukunmi has been part of the Yoruba lexicon from time immemorial.

It means My Friend.

In places like Owo, and I think may be Okitipupa, in Ondo State and a few other places, till today, you refer to your friend as Olukunmi. People from these places don't instinctively use 'ore' as those from Oyo, Lagos, Ekiti etc do.

It is no coincidence that the Itshekiri and the Olukumi's migration from Yoruba land originated from or ed through Owo.

lol the olukumi people are yorubas but they first settled at benin first na the nonsense wey dey happen for benin make them migrate east ward my own is i been an anioma man we dont want the olukumi to be a stumbling block against our anioma state creation oo abeg they have been peacefull with the surrounding igbos

BadBradley:
As is Yourba land and Hausa land. The country cannot be divided..

And there's no multiethnicity in Anioma as the name suggests it's over 95% Igbos. Olukumi is swallowed, having noovsl government area to themselves.

They speak both Igbo and internally speak their olukumi language when indoors.

They have been absorbed

thanks you jare my great grand mother is 4rm olukumi the funny thing is this people currently are more igbos than yoruba now although they are yoruba of ancestry or decent but have been fully acculturized to be igbo even the oloza wear akwa ocha 😂😂😂😂😂 all this wont stoo the creation of aniomas state and they should not be a stumbling block to the people who hosted them and welcome them

zero8zero:

Igbo has 5, they're a minority in Delta. You can't tell me about a place I know.

lol we have 9 and i am an anioma man and a proud igbo man 4rm delta state😂😂😄😄

Lezzlie:
I know you can't trace your lineage and I can understand your angst and frustration.

But let me begin your radical therapy
1.Aniocha North,
2. Aniocha South
3. Ika North-East
4, Ika South
5, Ndokwa East,
6 Ndokwa West,

Olukumi boy
7 Oshimili North,
8 Oshimili South
9 Ukwuani.
Olukumi boy with no trace.

Una be land grabber na, I no blame una. Aniocha North & South do not belong to Igbo. Ika are not also Igbo.

peterincredible:
lol we have 9 and i am an anioma man and a proud igbo man 4rm delta state😂😂😄😄

Who dash you 9, Igbo are minority in Delta.

Lezzlie:
he is pushing not just for Anioma state but for it to be part of the south east and some ignoramus will be here trying to reclaim their lost heritage

Sit down on Nairaland, let ipob be deceiving you

Slytiger:

Itsekiri and Olukumi Form Alliance, Share History, and Celebrate Cultural Exchange

Discover the two Yoruba groups in Delta State, uniting to strengthen bonds through shared heritage and cultural collaboration.

The two Yoruboid groups in Delta State who have Yoruba ancestral roots.

The dynamic Itsekiris of Ugborodo, Ogidigben, Ode Itsekiri, Ureju, Omadino, & the historically irrepressible Olukumis of Aniocha North LGA in Ugbodu (Ugbodumila) near Issele Uku the LGA headquarters, Eko Efun otherwise called "Ukwunzu" and more in the Anioma or Delta North area of Delta State.

zero8zero:

Una be land grabber na, I no blame una. Aniocha North & South do not belong to Igbo. Ika are not also Igbo.

they belong to Yoruba
It’s actually Oluwaniocha

DeLaRue:


Yorubas are not Olukunmi because 'that's what they call them in Delta'.

As a word, Olukunmi has been part of the Yoruba lexicon from time immemorial.

It means My Friend.

In places like Owo, and I think may be Okitipupa, in Ondo State and a few other places, till today, you refer to your friend as Olukunmi. People from these places don't instinctively use 'ore' as those from Oyo, Lagos, Ekiti etc do.

It is no coincidence that the Itshekiri and the Olukumi's migration from Yoruba land originated from or ed through Owo.

You really explained the migration patter. You are gifted.

Goodvibes007:

Reno is Itsekiri. He just calls Yorubas Olukumi as that's what they call them in the Delta area. In Benin Republic, they are called Anago.
In Togo, they are called Ife Ana.
In Sierra Leone/Gambia, they call them Aku people.

Good

Konquest:

The two Yoruboid groups in Delta State who have Yoruba ancestral roots.

The dynamic Itsekiris of Ugborodo, Ogidigben, Ode Itsekiri, Ureju, Omadino, & the historically irrepressible Olukumis of Aniocha North LGA in Ugbodu (Ugbodumila) near Issele Uku the LGA headquarters, Eko Efun otherwise called "Ukwunzu" and more in the Anioma or Delta North area of Delta State. lol as we speak this people will rather die with us the igbos than to go back to the west and yes they have every right to speak up about there ancestry but they are now igbos and our brothers

Gustavowhite:
they belong to Yoruba
It’s actually Oluwaniocha

hahaha oluwaniocha 😂😂😂😂😂 abeg my belle don dey pain me but anyway it is anioma and it means land of goodness in igbo (such a sweet name) and we are igbos abeg make una rest

Abagworo:


That's how people misbehave as a result of Igbo benevolence. They migrated from Owo and were accomodated by Aniocha people with full citizenship rights and autonomy of existence. Hopefully they will not now claim the autochthonous Aniocha people are migrants.

@abagworo,

Don't spew heavy disinformation here. Your totally embarrassing and FALSE narrative right ABOVE will NOT be tolerated. I've done a lot of advanced reading on the history of the Olukumis since the 1980s right till date so I know a lot about them. I started noticing a high rate of hate speech, disinformation and expansionist agenda coming from some young posters online from the east of River Niger in the year 2010 who threatened to chase the Olukumis off their own Olukumi ancestral lands. By the grace of the ancestors, the over 80 million strong Yorubas worldwide will resist this by any means necessary! NOBODY should ever openly threaten anyone like these paid ipob troll farms are doing because they have Yoruba, Benin, Esan, Ibibio, Isokos, Igala, Ikwere roots in the expansionist agenda being propagated online.

You that your ancestors migrated to Oguta in the current Imo State, how would you feel if somebody came up like you have done in your post to say that they are NOT Oguta owners? As for the Olukumi's, the Aniocha people you alluded to NEVER accomodated them. Aniocha North and other parts of Anioma (or Delta North) is an ethnically diverse place in of origin as confirmed by Reverend Father Kinirum Osia. All Olukumis used their Yoruba names in the past BUT with time due to acculturations, they picked up Edo names and Iboid names in addition to their Olukumi names. This is why the king of Ugbodu or Oloza (Oloja) is known as HRM Ayo Isinyemeze. The iconic 1985 under 17 FIFA soccer star, Nduka Ugbade ALSO comes from Ugbodu. They speak their Olukumi dialect of Yoruba and it's clearly understandable to those who listen well. Zeal of music group "Style Plus" too is an Olukumi and many Olukumis occupy significant positions in business, government, the armed forces, tech, etc.

The Olukumi's were the FIRST EVER to settle in their lands centuries back NOT on any Iboland.
There were different waves of migrations into what is now called Anioma today including Agbor, Issele Uku, Olukumi lands, etc, of Yoruba people from Yorubaland including USEN (a Yoruba town with an Oba Oluogbe Ii in the current Ovia South West LGA of Edo State), Benin, and Esanland not just Owo. The Yoruba connection with the Royal Palace lineage in Benin via USEN (Afelogiyan who was Oranmiyan's older biological brother was the FIRST EVER traditional ruler of USEN many centuries back and they proudly claim Ile Ife as where they come from) and USEN plays a strong role in the coronation ceremony of every Oba of Benin. There are videos on YouTube showing USEN indigenes of Edo State affirming their Ile Ife and Yoruba ancestries.


Infact the Ugbodu people (located close to Issele Uku the Aniocha North headquarters) who are one of the Olukumi groups share direct boundaries with the Esan people of Esanland. It was through Esanland that the came into their current location. Nobody accomodated them and you will NEVER here any of the neighbors of the Olukumi's make such a very dubious comment. It's only Ibos from the east of the river Niger that have been spreading that terrible disinformation that will be crushed.

Last but NOT least, Anioma is made up of people of multiple ethnic ancestries from centuries back from the Igalas (who are also Yoruboid because 65% of words in Igala are derived purely from Yoruba language and Igalas partly have some Yoruba, Edo, Wukari migrant ancestries according to a 2017 Punch interview granted by the Attah of Igala, Michael Ameh Oboni which can still be read online), Yoruba, Bini-Edo, Esan-Edo, Nri descents in different Anioma communities. Anioma is NOT culturally monolithic and CANNOT be claimed as Ibo. Reverend Father Kinirum Osia who hailed from Obamkpa in Aniocha North ALSO granted several powerful interviews where he condemned the attempt by Ibos east of River Niger to disrespect Anioma folks by claiming that Anioma is Ibo. What is even the etymology of the name Ibo? It's just a name that was adopted by the British Colonialists about 150 years ago BUT gained traction after 1900 to describe the different distinct groups of people such as the Ngwa, Owere, Oka, Mbaise, Oguta, etc, into a collective umbrella. That's how the concept of an Ibo tribe evolved with the White man and the coming of the missionaries such as Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther who as a trained linguist and clergyman wrote the FIRST EVER book in Ibo language entitled: "Isoama-Ibo: A Primer" in 1855 based off of his experience of writing the FIRST EVER Yoruba alphabet, dictionary and books in 1843. Prior to that, these subgroups of what is now called Ibo didn't call themselves as Ibos until much into the 1900s.

Unknown to the younger ones and the uninformed, the term IBO (Igbo) has it's ORIGINAL origins and was ONLY used in a condescending or derogatory sense by the ethnic neighbors of those in the Ibo (Igbo) interior as a term to describe "slaves or bush-dwelling" people who engaged in cannibalism and there are advanced history books that I will attach BELOW as evidence. The Igalas [who captured Ibos as slaves and sold them to the people of Aboh which was a major slave port now in Delta State] called Ibos (ONIGBO), the Benin-Edos used the term "IGBON" meaning slaves to refer to Ibos, the Asaba folks used the term "ONYE IGBO" as a term of contempt as well because East of the river Niger was the primary source of slaves.

peterincredible:
hahaha oluwaniocha 😂😂😂😂😂 abeg my belle don dey pain me but anyway it is anioma and it means land of goodness in igbo (such a sweet name) and we are igbos abeg make una rest

Lol,I done tire for Nairaland,Everybody is now laying claim to Anioma,Igala,Benin now Yoruba
Nothing musa no go see for gate 😂

Gbajure:


Olukumi is pristine Yoruba from Ilé-Ifè the Source. Friends are called Oluku in Ife till today. Olukumi means my friend. So they migrated directly from Ife

The Yorubas of Kogi State right up to the Igalas of Kogi and Anambra States ALSO CLEARLY call my friend "Oluku."

Igala as you know is a Yoruboid language just like Itsekiris (who largely have Yoruba ancestry including some Benin-Edo bloodline through Ginuwa whose mother was from Ile Ife and father was Oba Olua of Benin. The then Prince Ginuwa migrated from Benin on exile due to instructions from the oracle divination with 70 of his lieutenants who were sons of Palace noble men in the year 1480 to Ode Itsekiri an Ijebu community where Chief Lenuwa received him. These folks from Benin then intermarried with the Ijebu (Itsekiri) women the met at Ode Itsekiri an Ijebu (Yoruba) settlement in the current Delta State.

The Itsekiris have majorly Yoruba ancestry from Ife, Ijebu, and Ilaje. The oil and gas-rich Ugborodo, Ogidigben, Omadino, Ode Itsekiri have Ijebu bloodlines. Migrants from oil and gas-rich Ugboland now in Ondo State also migrated over 500 years ago to Ugborodo.
Ureju in Itsekiriland has Ife foundation.

There's also 2 clans from Igala that settled in the midst of the Itsekiris centuries later. They would have felt at home because of the near-similarity in the languages spoken with Igala being 65% mutually intelligible with Yoruba language (hence Itsekiri language which is a subset of the larger Yoruba).

Lol.

Alright.

Shattuck:
not true stop lying pls, Benin isn't yoruba

Ok

peterincredible:
thanks you jare my great grand mother is 4rm olukumi the funny thing is this people currently are more igbos than yoruba now although they are yoruba of ancestry or decent but have been fully acculturized to be igbo even the oloza wear akwa ocha 😂😂😂😂😂 all this wont stoo the creation of aniomas state and they should not be a stumbling block to the people who hosted them and welcome them

Point of correction, the Olukumis CANNOT be a stumbling block in the creation of a new state from Delta State BUT all the multiethnic origins of the new Anioma State MUST be properly recognized. Anioma State CANNOT be called an Ibo State because of this FACT and Reverend Father Kinirum Osia from Obamkpa emphasized on this FACT in his interviews. The "akwa ocha" too is just a white regalia common in Delta North just like Western suits or Aso Oke and Kembes are synonymous to Yorubas so would you say anyone who wears them is a White European in the case of the Western suits or a Yoruba in the case of wearing Aso Oke or Kembe. You sound uninformed about some aspects of real history here which shows that Delta North is NOT monolithic in ethnicity and ancestry. I want you to Google the name "Reverend Father Kinirum Osia" and read his online interviews on why he was strongly against Ibos east of river Niger labelling the entire Delta North as Ibolabd because in reality, Anioma is made up of Igala, Yoruba, Benin-Edo, Esan-Edo, and Nri descendants. I've had vast historical knowledge about the Olukumis since the 1980s so you better STOP the disinformation. Real Anioma people I know do NOT say negative things about the Olukumisbbecause they are well-informed and know they ancestral origins of each community in Anioma area. It's ONLY some of the Ibos east of river Niger that spread massive hate speech and disinformation about the Olukumis and other ethnic groups online in an expansionist agenda from paid ipob troll farms. The Olukumis were NEVER hosted by ANYBODY in Delta North or Aniocha North LGA like you WRONGLY stated ABOVE.

The Olukumis [such as the Ugbodu people] were the FIRST EVER to arrive on their land and they are indigenous to that land.

To give you the benefit of the doubt about being from Delta North (Anioma is a fairly recent political coinage in history that came with the Asaba-born Dennis Osadebe and his political friends back in the 1960s and gained usage from the 1970s), I want to know the following about you:

1] First off, which one of the Olukumi communities is your great grand mother from? Is she from Ugbodu which has a much stronger bond to Olukumi Yoruba traditions OR Eko Efun (otherwise called Ukwunzu).

2] Second, which part of Anioma are you from?


Just to be CLEAR, I have a very advanced knowledge of the Olukumis since the 1980s when I started taking a strong interest in their migratory history because of their Yoruba ancestries from different Yoruba communities in Edo (USEN) and Ondo States majorly right into the Old Bendel State (now Delta State). The Ugbodu people came in from Benin via Esanland where they stayed for sometime and finally got into Ugbodu in Aniocha North of today as the FIRST settlers. This is why Ugbodu shares boundaries with Esanland in Edo State.

Last but NOT least, I have read many articles from the traditional rulers and watched video documentaries from the 2 biggest Olukumi communities of Ugbodu (Ugbodumila) and Eko Efun (otherwise called Ukwunzu) and they affirm their Yoruba roots. Ukwunzu is much more acculturated with her Iboid-speaking neighbors but it wasn't so in the past. The Eko Efun or Ukwunzu folks and other Olukumis took part in the Ekumeku Wars as well against the British Colonialists and that led to the British balkanization of what you now politically call Anioma into the Western Region and Eastern Region because Anioma communities such as Onitsha exist on both sides of the river Niger.

Gbajure:


Olukumi is pristine Yoruba from Ilé-Ifè the Source. Friends are called Oluku in Ife till today. Olukumi means my friend. So they migrated directly from Ife

The Yorubas of Kogi State right up to the Igalas of Kogi and Anambra States ALSO CLEARLY call my friend "Oluku."

Igala as you know is a Yoruboid language just like Itsekiris (who largely have Yoruba ancestry including some Benin-Edo bloodline through Ginuwa whose mother was from Ile Ife and father was Oba Olua of Benin. The then Prince Ginuwa migrated from Benin on exile due to instructions from the oracle divination with 70 of his lieutenants who were sons of Palace noble men in the year 1480 to Ode Itsekiri an Ijebu community where Chief Lenuwa received him. These folks from Benin then intermarried with the Ijebu (Itsekiri) women the met at Ode Itsekiri an Ijebu (Yoruba) settlement in the current Delta State.

The Itsekiris have majorly Yoruba ancestry from Ife, Ijebu, and Ilaje. The oil and gas-rich Ugborodo, Ogidigben, Omadino, Ode Itsekiri have Ijebu bloodlines. Migrants from oil and gas-rich Ugboland now in Ondo State also migrated over 500 years ago to Ugborodo.
Ureju in Itsekiriland has Ife foundation.

There's also 2 clans from Igala that settled in the midst of the Itsekiris centuries later. They would have felt at home because of the near-similarity in the languages spoken with Igala being 65% mutually intelligible with Yoruba language (hence Itsekiri language which is a subset of the larger Yoruba).

Goodvibes007:
This is history in the making. Kudos to everyone that made this happen.

Are you from Ugbodu?

Gustavowhite:
The Olukumi shit can’t work,they are already acculturated by their Igbo neigbours and their land is not contigous to Yoruba land,except Yoruba will move them from their ancestral land and near to Yorubaland

you want to use your tribalism to erase a people's history. Yes the Olukumi' embraced the language and culture of their neighbors but it doesnt take away their Yoruba origins. They are olukumi.

Olatundex22:
you know more than the kings ancestors before your grandfather was born abi. What is your business if it works or not.

i just tire for these tribal people and their petty squables

success1smyn:


Some of you need help really, Delta North is Igbo and nobody's denying that. Let anyone identify with whoever they want. Olukumi is actually a pure Yoruba word meaning my close friend.

they have always identified with their yoruba origins. This is not new. Edo, Delta, Kogi are rife with migrant communities

sylve11:
I thought the Itsekiris were originally from Benin?

they are a migrant Yoruba tribe, but their royalty/nobility have Benin blood line from a Benin prince.

Lagos royalty also has some Benin blood line (though massively diluted by marriage over the years) but that doesn't mean Lagos indigenes were originally from Benin

BadBradley:
he is speaking facts. Olikumi are a tiny group in Igbo area in Delta state, having no land or local government to themselves and share no direct border with Yoruba or itsekiri

STOP that trash you are typing there! It's unkind to totally fabricate and distort other people's well-documented ancestral histories.

Even if Olukumis don't share direct borders with Yorubaland or Itsekiriland, the Olukumis share a direct border with Esanland in Edo State in the foremost Olukumi community of Ugbodu in Aniocha North LGA. It was via Esanland they originally came from after leaving Benin into where they are today in Ugbodu.

The Olukumis are indigenous to that part of Aniocha North and are proper land owners (NOT leased or rented) WITHIN Aniocha North. What's WRONG with some of you Ibos from the east of river Niger with all these propaganda and heavy disinformation? You will NEVER find other Anioma or Delta North people making condescending comments about the Olukumis because they respect one another. It's usually these paid ipob troll farms that engage in falsification of history online for territorial expansionism and I've seen online threats by these paid ipob troll farms (which the BBC Global Disinformation Team investigative video of May 2022 EXPOSED for spreading massive disinformation online to trigger ethnic conflicts to destabilize Nigeria) that they will chase the Olukumis out of Anioma. This will NEVER be allowed to happen as we are ready to defend the Olukumis against any threat from any quarters by any means necessary.

It highly IRRESPONSIBLE and dishonest for anyone to say the Olukumi communities from such places as Ugbodu, and Eko Efun (meaning chalk deposit in Yoruba or Ukwunzu) do NOT have their land or an LGA when Ugbodu is NOT far from Issele Uku the headquarters of Aniocha North LGA. Ugbodu even shares direct borders with Edo State through which they originally came from many centuries ago via Esanland after they left Benin. Anioma was like a place where different ethnicities migrated into OR were brought as slaves to be sold by the Benins, Itsekiris, and Aboh. Aboh got it's supplies of slaves from the Igalas who sold Ibo slaves to Aboh now I'm Delta North and refered to these slave by the Yoruboid name ONIGBO which simply was used as a derogatory and condescending name meaning "slaves or outcasts" with is the etymology of the tribal name Ibo used popularly today from after 1900.

I know that some Olukumis indeed settled in a quarter of the community where Tony Elumelu's mother hails (Onicha Ugbo) in the same Aniocha North LGA. But the Olukumis have the own land right in Aniocha North LGA. Period.

monex:


you want to use your tribalism to erase a people's history. Yes the Olukumi' embraced the language and culture of their neighbors but it doesnt take away their Yoruba origins. They are olukumi.

Go and carry them na

Gustavowhite:
The Olukumi shit can’t work,they are already acculturated by their Igbo neigbours and their land is not contigous to Yoruba land,except Yoruba will move them from their ancestral land and near to Yorubaland

Very true looking at their igbo dressing it shows they are already acculturated their location in the middle of delta igbos is a huge disadvantage of them ever reuniting with their yoruba brothers.

zero8zero:

Una be land grabber na, I no blame una. Aniocha North & South do not belong to Igbo. Ika are not also Igbo.

What's their tribe?

zero8zero:

Sit down on Nairaland, let ipob be deceiving you

Is your girlfriend a fan of iPod?

Because I don't see how they factor here.