totorimi:

Onitsha a city full of themost deadliest criminals, bad roads and dirty surrounding how can they still be having Ofala festivals how will visitors coming for the ceremony get there. What about their safety. It is a shame how we abandon the main issues and pretend that all is well. What is Ofala with out a good ambience and security of lives and property. I think the peopl of Onitsha, their Obi, their governor and their president should all their people should go an bury their faces in shame for inviting the whole would to go through the horror called Onitsha to come and watch Ofala. Is it the deadly potholes we are going to see or is it the madness at upper Iweka a major gateway to the eastern states. Nigerians stand up and demand for your right. Yes it is your sweat, your taxes, send away all mediocres in leadership position. Enough of useless exultation of mediocrity. What is Ofala without a good ambience. Or is it that after the Ofala inside Obis palace, visitors will go back and wade through gullies and potholes. Enough of the insult to the Nigerian psychy and the embarrassment to the whole world.
Given this ceremony would have beena great tourist attraction but the inability of the rulers to make Onitsha a place of attraction has made it a disaster. Please show me something else.

NRI PRIEST:

I am really proud to see the cultural gallance of my people turning some hateful people insane. . . This tradition originated from the ancient "NRI KINGDOM",but the onitsha people have come to glomourise it. . . It reminds me when we use to attent the "ICHI OZO NA IYOM" ceremony in my hometown UMUOJI in IDEMMILI NORTH. . .Nostalgic indeed!
I think ANAMBRA state has the most attractive and elegant culture in IGBO land.
If you have ever been to OZO title taking of a wealthy person,then u will never know how graceful the Igbo cultures can get,especially ANAMBRA's own! Thats why I tell every ONITSHA man who claims BENIN ancestry to drop all the tradition they borrowed from the most ancient "NRI KINGDOM" and do exactly like the BINI's. I think most of ONITSHA culture originated from the IDEMMILI IGBO axis which was an offshoot of the MOSt SACRED NRI KINGDOM!!

strangest:

nahh you are dead wrong, Onicha Ado n'idu has nothing, absolutely nothing to do with the Nri people or idemmili, Onicha Ado are descendants of Eze Chima from Benin kingdom, Towns that we share things in common with include Onicha Ugbo and onicha olona, Our kinsmen that dropped along the way while we migrated, Very happy to be from Onicha,

NRI PRIEST:

@AK47mann,what do you know about the history and culture of the NRI KINGDOM as it relates to the Idemmili, Onitsha and the Delta north Igbos. . . If you know Onitsha man very well you figure the have low self esteem!!!
They call fellow Igbos "nwa onye Igbo" out of mockery,yet the culture,life style,land and their beautiful attire originated from NRI. . .I wonder why they dropped the BENIN attire and the YORUBA-BENIN demonic OGBONI fraternity and borrowed the ever ellegant Igbo tradition!!
Ifele mewuo onye Onicha obuna silu na fa bu ndi bini!!

totorimi:

Onitsha a city full of themost deadliest criminals, bad roads and dirty surrounding how can they still be having Ofala festivals how will visitors coming for the ceremony get there. What about their safety. It is a shame how we abandon the main issues and pretend that all is well. What is Ofala with out a good ambience and security of lives and property. I think the peopl of Onitsha, their Obi, their governor and their president should all their people should go an bury their faces in shame for inviting the whole would to go through the horror called Onitsha to come and watch Ofala. Is it the deadly potholes we are going to see or is it the madness at upper Iweka a major gateway to the eastern states. Nigerians stand up and demand for your right. Yes it is your sweat, your taxes, send away all mediocres in leadership position. Enough of useless exultation of mediocrity. What is Ofala without a good ambience. Or is it that after the Ofala inside Obis palace, visitors will go back and wade through gullies and potholes. Enough of the insult to the Nigerian psychy and the embarrassment to the whole world.
Given this ceremony would have beena great tourist attraction but the inability of the rulers to make Onitsha a place of attraction has made it a disaster. Please show me something else.

NRI PRIEST:

Even the Igbo spoken in the ONITSHA,ANAMBRA axis is IDEMMILI IGBO tongue. . .ONITSHA PEOPLE need to stop feeling ashamed of who they are and embrace their lineage. . .its funny when somebody who has taken the OZO title, ODU title,AGBALANZE title and still says they are from BENIN!!! Its so sad and shameful !!!!! I wish they never spoke Igbo like the Igala people of northern Anambra,never have the rich and glamorous OZO title,never had the OTU ODU female chieftaincy tittle,never had the AGBALANZE OZO wealthy title,never had the NDI ICHIES. . . I regret that the ingrates borrowed our IDEMMILI traditions and still deny being IGbos. . .!!

chino11:
Onitsha is one of the cities with earliest civilization in the entire SE/SS with the coming of the Europeans.

NRI PRIEST:
I think ANAMBRA state has the most attractive and elegant culture in IGBO land.

afam4eva:

That Onitsha people cam from benin does not make them benin people. It just means that they once occupied the benin territory just as benin people once occupied the lagos territory.

ak47mann:

pls guys let enjoy our obi ofala abeg