Info For Y'all Idoma People: Ancient Warriors, Practiced Hunters Too I Of The Almost Artistic Ethnic Grouping Inwards Nigeria
The Idoma are ancient practiced warriors as well as hunters as well as peace-loving Idomoid ethno-linguistic grouping of the larger Niger-Congo linguistic communication spot unit of measurement residing at the lower as well as western areas of Benue State inward Nigeria. Other Idoma groups tin live found inward Cross Rivers as well as Nasarawa States inward Nigeria. The Idoma people are considered to live 1 of the most artistic ethnic grouping inward Nigeria with their sons as well as daughters enjoying massive successes inward the Nigerian amusement industry.
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Within the overall painting of the Nigerian amusement industry, it is neither preposterous nor farfetched to assert that the Idomas are 1 of the most gifted as well as productive people around. The myriads of stars of Idoma source inward damage of character as well as quantity, as well as their the contribution to the Nigerian showbiz sector is indeed immeasurable.
Behold the whorl telephone telephone of Idoma entertainers.
INNOCENT UJAH IDIBIA (2FACE)
Tuface Idibia is non a Disney creation but a self-styled pop sensation, a music shooting star who made the global recognition as well as artistic success via a defining vocal entitled: African Queen, a honey vocal eulogizing beauty of the African woman.
Tuface Idibia
That tender moxie stormed the showbiz podium with his kinsman, Blackface as well as Faze of the defunct Planthsun Boiz over a decade ago. He went platinum inside 2 years. Since then, the Implication crooner has non looked back. And he remains yet 1 of the biggest music artistes to emerge from Nigeria.
He’s from Okpokwu LGA.
GABRIEL OCHE AMANYI (TERRY G)
He started out inward the theatre of God, but later pitched his tent with the House of Ginja.
Terry G took the nation’s showbiz manufacture past times stormed a few years dorsum with his Love You Sexy single.
Born Gabriel Oche Amanyi to the spot unit of measurement of Deacon as well as Deaconess Amanyi of Ogbadibo LGA of Benue State.
Each stage of his music career comes with a yell –ranging from Mr Bling Bling to Swagger Master, Ginja Ginja as well as instantly he calls himself Akpako Master, a name, which only him could explain.
The cerebral music producer-cum-singer has carved a niche for himself as well as his burgeoning career inward the music sector, having produced for top artistes inward Nigeria as well as beyond. Prolific Oche has continued to win plaudits as well as encomiums from music buffs due to his inventiveness as well as sparkling attitude.
The chap has effectively distinguished himself from every other artiste inward Nigeria with his form of music, outlandish costumes, style as well as stagemanship.
He’s the encephalon behind hitting songs such as: Pass me Your Love (Ay.com) Naka (Ortise Femi), Aye Po Gan (Ill Bliss) Incase You Never (2Shotz) as well as amidst others.
Gabriel Oche Amanyi, Idoma native
The Free Madness crooner has sure established himself as a strength to reckon with inward the country’s music habitation front.
Ask him why he left gospel - which was his firstly honey - for secular as well as he would tell yous “For me, I would receive got been doing gospel but nosotros just receive got to create a living. That is why I went secular.
“God understands that it is just for me to create a living otherwise, I soundless receive got a soft spot for Him inward my heart”.
The caput honcho of House of Ginjah is no uncertainty a homo of his ain style.
Terry G, Idoma man
GARUBA AUSTINE AHMEDU (BLACKFACE NAIJA)
Following the dissever of the defunct Planthshun boyz, piffling or nada was heard from Blackface, the 3rd vocalisation of the trio. Augustine Ahmedu was born inward Obalende Area of Lagos inward 1974. The instrumentalist who hailed from Akpa has been away to re-organize himself.
His hitting tracks include: Hard Life, Eneme.
Augustine Ahmedu aka Blackface Naija is an Idoma man
BONGOS IKWUE
He’s the acclaimed begetter of the Idoma amusement industry.
Groovies music exponent, Bongos Ikwue is no uncertainty the successor of the musical tradition initiated past times veteran forbears inward Idomaland.
Born inward Otukpo, Benue State, Nigeria, on June 6, 1942. In 1956, he attended St, Paul’s Secondary schoolhouse inward Zaria, Nigeria, where his friends called him “Forge” because he was ever making upwardly (forging) as well as singing his ain songs. In 1962, While at Okene Comprehensive Secondary School, he formed a grouping called Cubana Boys with 2 other immature boys, after which he headed off to the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), also inward Zaria, Kaduna State, where he studied Business Administration.
While inward ABU, he created his ain band, called UniBello Brothers as well as also sang inward a folk group, which was made upwardly of academy lecturers during which time, a chemical scientific discipline lecturer, Mrs. Harmony taught him some Irish Gaelic songs. In 1967 he founded as well as headed the Groovies Band, which became extremely pop inward the 1970’s through to the 80’s.
Many honey him for his soulful, folksy songs, the most pop of which includes: Cockcrow At Dawn, Still Searching, Amen, Otachikpokpo as well as a host of others. His dedication to his music was obvious due to the high character of the albums he churned out, as well as due to the sheer elegance as well as the electrifying release energy of his alive performances, where the band was ever on key, as well as the instrumentalist himself was ever truthful to every note. His mightiness to rest on the right annotation is an indicator of his hard piece of work as a musician.
He started to focus to a greater extent than on the habitation front, where has a lovely wife, Josephine; as well as 5 children, 4 girls as well as 1 man child named, Oyankeke, Elamei (Omei), Jessica, Onyewu as well as Igoche, inward that order. He is a devoted begetter as well as enjoys singing inward the fellowship of his children. Bongos would oft telephone telephone 2 of his daughters, Omei as well as Jessica, to sing inward the presence of guests.
He of late clocked seventy years.
Bongos Ikwue, the Godfather of Idoma music
JOEL
Joe El got signed on Kennis music label some few months dorsum as well as it’s so interesting to know he is fast becoming a household name.
His firstly unmarried title I no take away heed is currently rocking the airwaves both on radio as well as TV stations across the country, but what would baffle 1 most is the similarities this fresh talent shares with African King of Pop, 2face Idibia.
Joe El is Idoma music star from Nigeria
According to findings, Joel discovered that apart from the fact that he has a facial await just precisely similar 2face, they receive got almost the same vocalisation texture, hail from the Idoma ethnic grouping inward the Southern component of Benue State inward cardinal Nigeria. And lastly, His beingness signed on 2face’s quondam tape label (Kennis Music) inward which 1 would think all this is far beyond mere coincidence.
With all the features Joel shares with 2Baba, He’s also capable of shaking the world, similar him.
ENE LAWANI
Former beauty queen, Ene Maya Lawani hitting the global limelight inward 2004 when she was crowned Miss Nigeria. The longest serving beauty queen inward the country.
Before instantly the ex-queen kept a depression profile for years, until she bounced dorsum with the launch of her exquisite headgear called ‘Ene Maya’.
The Ene Maya Collection is a combination of caput wraps, scarves as well as accessories And ever since her profile has been on the rise. She has continued to dazzle everyone with her stunning look, flawless pare as well as powerful wearing clothing sense. Not only that, she has also acquire the living promotion of her brand. No thing what Ene adorns, she volition ever compliment it with her turban headgear, which stands her out.
ENENCHE PETER OBONYILO (ENENCHE COMEDIAN)
Enenche Obonyilo is an outstanding comedian, MC, motivational speaker as well as social activist who has performed at several shows as well as other high profile social functions such as Nigeria National Comedy programme, Nite of a grand Laughs, Weddings, birthdays, church building programmes, Radio as well as Tv shows.
The Chemistry graduate of Benue State University, Makurdi is fast becoming the darling of the comedy sector.
His natural sense of humor is mixed with the flavor of a learned intellectual who observes daily human struggles as well as lifestyles as well as convert them into tum fierce jokes that leaves his fans inward the province of euphoria as well as sense of joy as well as hope.
His major influence is the belatedly Martin Luther King Jnr who was an advocate of social jurist as well as equality. He tin recite from A-Z Martin Luther King Jnr’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
Born inward Dec at Yaba Military Hospital, Lagos after the civil, Enenche attended St. Francis College, Otukpo as well as Benue State University, Makurdi.
On how he found himself inward the comedy sector, he said: “I genuinely started performing right from my firstly twelvemonth inward secondary school. When I left secondary school, I genuinely wanted to study Medicine. I said so that I would non study whatever other course of study fifty-fifty when I was offered Bio Chemistry inward UNIMAID. Benue province academy gave me Biology patch Ilorin offered me Anatomy. All these I rejected. I eventually took upwardly an offering at Benue province academy but I was soundless pained that I could non acquire the course of study I wanted. So on the nighttime of the matriculation, I refused to wearable the gown. On the nighttime of the matriculation in that location was an trial on campus as well as I was invited to do a joke on stage. That was the starting point. From there, other fellowship presidents on campus would invite me for programmes as well as I would attend. I ended upwardly putting smiles on their faces. I found passion as well as a platform of facial expression inward comedy patch I was inward the university. My comedy started on the streets of Makurdi especially at church building organised programmes. Enenche became a household yell inward Makurdi. Like a joke, I found myself inward the Night of a grand laughs inward 2004. This was because of a programme I performed inward at Abuja where I impressed Klint the Drunk who thereafter linked me upwardly with Opa Williams who picked involvement inward me. Since then, it has been glorious only that with every platform in that location are ever unique challenges.”
He hails from Okpoga inward Okpokwu Local Government Area.
CHRIS MORGAN
Chris Morgan is a multi-talented gospel singer, songwriter, composer, as well as performer with a telephone telephone from God to embark on the journeying of restoring truthful worship to the trunk of Christ.
He is the encephalon behind “WORSHIP ON THE HILLS OF AFRICA” a vision that is dedicated to raising people to worship God inward spirit as well as inward truth.
The Orokam-Born Benue State vocaliser is no uncertainty an accomplished music minister, whose songs are filled with the divine presence of God, with keen lyrical depth as well as inspiration as well as a keen message of promise for our generation. Morgan has also ministered on the same platform with keen international gospel Singers like: Ron Kenoly, Lionel Peterson, Dr Panam Percy Paul as well as Donnie McClurkin. Since stepping into the gospel podium, the Ifeoma crooner has maintain to carve a niche for himself inward past times mark the offset of a novel worship tendency inward Africa.
His pop tracks include: I do, Often As I Breath, Adakole, Ifeoma, Arabaribiti as well as amidst others.
The Abuja-based gospel artiste is happily married to Queen Eunice.
Idoma homo Chris Morgan as well as his Abuja-based gospel artiste is happily married to Queen Eunice.
MONICA OGAH
After a long wait, emerging songstress as well as winner of MTN Project Fame West Africa Season 4, Monica Ogah of late launched herself into the music marketplace past times releasing iii singles entitled, ‘Below’, ‘Tomorrow’ as well as ‘If to Say’.
Idoma star, Monica Ogah
The singles from the stables of Goretti, her official management receive got been receiving, volume airplay on many radio station across the country. Below, techno-laced, bass-thumping position out was produced past times J Sleek, patch If To Say was produced past times veteran producer, Tha Suspect.
In Tomorrow, the magnificent vocaliser inward her linguistic communication (Idoma) says ‘come rain, come upwardly shine, it is good with her.’ The track, which was produced past times Tee-Y Mix strikes a resemblance with past times Project Fame West Africa winner Chidinma.
Idoma lady. Monica Ogah
SUSAN PETERS
Delectable actress, Susan Peters is fast becoming the darling of painting buffs inward the Nigerian motion painting manufacture globally known as Nollywood. Since her emergence inward 2002, the slim-built thespian has dazzled inward several chart-busting flicks.
Idoma-born Nollywood star Susan Peters
Although, born as well as raised inward Kano, the Ado-born Idoma trouble concern woman-turned-entertainer has continued to opened upwardly novel vistas for herself as well as budding career, since her relocation from the due north to south, inward pursuit of her dream.
The self-acclaimed Duchess of Idoma is as a scriptwriter as well as interior decorator with several high profile jobs to her credit.
The 3rd kid of a spot unit of measurement of 8 children was brought upwardly nether strict surveillance of her parents. Her begetter was inward the military machine as well as her woman parent owns a shop. Due to her military machine background, Susan grew upwardly inward many parts of the province as well as speaks the iii major Nigerian languages (Hausa, Ibo as well as Yoruba) fluently.
She attended Airforce Nursery as well as Primary Schools as well as FGGC Wuse Abuja. She also studied Computer Science at Asman English linguistic communication School as well as graduated inward 1998; so farther studied Tv as well as Film at Video Waves And Camera Film School as well as graduated inward 2002. At school, she came out as Best Overall Female inward her class. After an excursion with her classmates, she began auditioning for acting jobs amongst other Nollywood projects as well as started acting inward 2002, the same twelvemonth that she graduated.
She started modelling as good inward 2003 as well as has appeared inward many advertisements. From billboards to TV commercials, Press ads, Handbills as well as many more, including BAT (British America Tobacco) For West Africa Billboard, Fidelity Bank Billboard, Bank P.H.B billboard, Golden Penny Pasta Billboard, U.H.F Long life Milk Billboard, Haemeron Blood tonic Billboard, Airport Branding, Finbank TVC as well as Press, amongst others.
JOHNSON AGADA (MANEX)
Ace painting producer/director, Johnson Agada is 1 of the few painting practitioners that has helped projection Nollywood, specially the Idomawwod painting sector inward a positive means to the populace through every of his production.
Idoma man, Johnson Agada
He has over the years been responsible for a long listing of blockbuster movies such as, Ugboga K’ole, Imlanyi K’Ole, Ina Gajuche, Ohe Kole Owoicho, amongst others.
He’s from Agabha, Otukpa inward Ogbadbio LGA.
ENE MILITEX OGIRI
Fair-complexioned Nollywood concealment goddess, Eneh Militex Ogiri is a strength to reckon with inward the painting industry, globally known as Nollywood.
Idoma native as well as Nollywood actress Ene Miltex Ogiri
She’s been the encephalon behind some chartbusting flicks such as, Sound of poverty (1 as well as 2), Bloody Tussle, My Last Enemy, Before the Rain, et al.
PAMELA PETERS
Omada, Eneh or Ihotu are the in all likelihood appellations that would come upwardly to one’s take away heed in 1 trial her yell is mentioned. Fast rising Nollywood actress, Pamela Ochanya Peters is fast becoming a household yell inward the painting sector, subsequent on her debut inward Izu Ojokwu’s directed Iva nigh a decade ago. The budding actress has beingness able to proved to painting buffs as well as pundits that she’s on course of study as far as amusement inward Nigeria is concerned. Since stepping into the showbiz, Pamela has continued to dazzle her teeming fans inward both English linguistic communication as well as indigenous trail-blazing flicks, which enrolled her inward the category of Best Idoma Actress inward the Idoma Artistes Award Nite (IDAAN).
The Olahimu-born-Otukpo Benue State effervescent as well as charming actress who is also vice president of the African Oasis Entertainment believes that it is ameliorate to neglect at what yous honey doing than the other means round.
He hitting movies include: Adah, Ihotu, Ochanya, Ole, Iva etc.
Idoma girl, Pamela peters as well as Nkem Owoh on set
ALICE AYEGBA
Scrumptious as well as charming Nollywood actress-cum-model, Alice Ayegba firstly warmed her means into hearts of many painting lovers inward 2007, when she firstly starred inward a lather opera entitled, Out of Control inward Jos.
Idoma girl, model, author as well as actress Alice Ayegba
Ever since, the sparkling weeping thespian cum author has continued to thrill painting buffs, especially her teeming fans inward many char-bursting flicks –both English linguistic communication as well as indigenous with over xx hitting movies to her credit.
With a shapely trunk that many would conk for, the fast rising ebony from Orokam sure has an border over most of her contemporaries inward the make-believe industry.
Interestingly, her most challenging role so far is the monster hit, Agaba Konya, (Female Warrior) a painting directed past times award-wining Nollywood director, Moses J. Okpe.
Her hitting movies are: Agaba K’Onya, Ochanya, Ole, Ondu Aje, amidst others.
JANE ODOH
Down-to-earth painting star, Janet Ameh Odoh is an actress to lookout out for inward the painting industry. The thespian who hailed from Owukpa, a suburb of Benue has carved a niche for herself as well as burgeoning career.
Idoma girl, Jane Ameh Odoh
The role interpreter became a household yell after her wonderful role inward St. Godwin Ochola’s directed Ada (The Helpless Orphan) some a few years back. She is the initiator of the Miss Idoma beauty pageant.
ADA AMEH
Ada Ameh, is an inspirational lady, who refused against all odds to live relegated to the dorsum spot or plough into a recluse after having her kid - Gift Ameh - at the tender historic menstruum of 14.
Undeterred past times the pains of unmarried parenthood at that age, Ada never gave upwardly promise despite the fact that she was non privileged to receive got formal education.
Inspirational Nollywood actress Ada Ameh is Idoma womwn
This has given her the zeal to select upwardly the challenge as well as assist ladies as well as guys, who receive got fallen victim of the gild as well as been driven out of schoolhouse into prostitution amidst other ills. Interestingly, the Idoma, Benue State indigene, who was born as well as bred on the streets of Ajegunle, has embarked on a mission to assist those who necessitate her assist urgently as well as more.
Her hitting movies include: Aki Na Ukwa, Domitila, I Belong, Witches, Phone Swap, Chop Money, Adah, Ihotu etc.
DIRECTOR ABEL SUCCESS EREBE
After recording box business office hitting with his trail-blazing flick, Black Night inward South America, Nollywood ace producer as well as director, Success Abel Erebe, is laid to tempest the painting marketplace with yet an other painting entitled: Osuofia inward Brazil.
World-class moviemaker as well as Apostle of the Most High started out with the likes of Chris Morgan as well as Godshiled Orokpo. His hitting movies include: Black Night is South America, Brazilian Deal, Osuofia inward Brazil (in view)
Abel Success Erebe as well as his cinema crews at Brazil during the filming of Osuofia In Brazil
Godwin Ochola
Call him the “Golden Boy” of the Idoma painting manufacture as well as yous wont live wrong. Workaholic filmmaker-cum-actor, Godwin Ochola otherwise known as De Black remains a grade as far as the Idoma amusement manufacture is concerned.
Ochola who is head-honcho of the Otukpo-based St. Godwin Productions has stared as well as directed chart-bursting movies such as Ada, Ihotu, Ofu, Ochanya as well as Ondu Aje et al deserved the honor due to his perfect interpretation on roles as well as characters.
His movie, Ada was crowned the Best Idoma Movie of the twelvemonth 2011
Godwin Ochola as well as some Idoma actress
PETER OTULU
Evang. Peter Owoicho Otulu as an accomplished Christian singer, songwriter, instructor as well as cleric. His mission is "to create an environs for the manifest presence of God". His form of music style is 1 of jubilant praise as well as private excellence on local musical instruments. He is 1 of the fathers of Idoma amusement industry.
Idoma icon Peter Otulu an accomplished Christian singer, songwriter, instructor as well as cleric.
GODSHIELD OROKPO
Known for his pop album, Ahama no checho released a few years back, ace gospel vocaliser as well as cleric, Godshield Orokpo is a talented vocaliser whose mission is to restore battered destiny is currently working circular the clock to launch himself dorsum into the music ministry.
SUNNY OKWORI
Ace Nollywood director, Sunny Okwori is 1 of the few directors that knows his onions inward the Nigeria’s motion painting industry; otherwise known as Nollywood.
The Efekwo-born Orokam Beneu State painting manager is no uncertainty a strength to reckon with inward the make-believe industry. He is a skilled producer, manager as well as cinematography who has amusement running inward his blood. His contribution to the manufacture stands him out as a 1 of the grand masters of the painting sector.
With over xx movies to his credit, the workaholic director-cum producer has as made a grade on the painting platform, having spent over 2 decades as a moviemaker, Okwori has been an instrumental to major productions such as Sound of poverty, Shackles of Death, Ghetto Language, Ehi (Idoma) Ofu (Idoma) starring Ogboji Abraham Ogboji, St Godwin Ochola, Janet Odo as well as amidst several others. As head-honcho of Eftown production as well as president of the Idomawood, a platform created for all Idoma moviemakers, the success of Nollywood today cannot live mentioned without calling his name, he would also live remembered as 1 of those who enacted the alliance betwixt the Republic of Ghana painting industry, Ghollywood as well as the Nollywood.
ALEX VERA
Alex Vera is a immature as well as talented fast rising gospel artiste as well as 1 of Nigeria’s top emerging songstresses.
The fair-complexioned vocaliser has been gaining a lot of plaudits as well as applauds from music buffs ever since she released her latest singles, Kocho as well as Beat Again.
Idoma lady Alex Vera
Born as well as raised inward Kano, the crooner no uncertainty has so much to offering the music world.
Amazingly, her foray into the music manufacture is already giving critics the vapors as 1 of the most exciting as well as original woman individual singers-cum-songwriters on the scene.
IMELDA ADA OKWORI IMELDA J
Award-wining dancehall queen, Imelda Ada Okwori otherwise known as Imelda J inward her was of late unveiled to the populace past times her outfit..
Her firstly unmarried was My Love For You produced past times OJB Jezreel, who also featured on it. The vocal won her an honor inward 2010.
She followed it upwardly with Show Me on which she featured One By One crooner, Side 1.
Show Me increased the visibility of her create as well as encouraged her to do more. Now, determined to ascension to the top, she has dropped the video of Fosoke, her song, which has been making a buzz on radio as well as the inter-net. She also released iii novel singles, Love Magic, Go Ahead as well as Together As One featuring Mike Okri.
The promising singer-cum-actress launched her debut album inward 2010 inward Makurdi, majuscule of her state.
Idoma girl, Imelda J
BEN ABAH ADOYI
When inward bring upwardly of Nigeria’s promising immature singers, it would live condom to say yous had skipped if yous did non create bring upwardly of the inspiring, dope ministerial, Aterre, existent yell Ben Adoyi Abah.
He began to pencil downward his ain songs as well as developed an shrewd sense of lyricism. He started recording his ain music few years ago, but perfectionist tendencies prevented him putting them out. The Ugbugbu-born hitting maker stands the jeopardy of succeeding 2face.
Christine Acheini Ben-Ameh
Few years after winning the highly-competitive Nokia First Chance Music talent hunt, Christine Acheini Ben-Ameh is out to create a dissimilar inward the showbiz industry.
The charming as well as dazzling songstress after launching herself into the music marketplace with her debut studio effort, Life Under Construction few years dorsum is non resting on her oars. Her attention-catching vocalisation conveys messages of love, hope, strength as well as triumph that mesmerizes listeners.
Born Oct 12, 1986 at the William Harvey Hospital, Ashford, Kent, England, (with her twin brother, Jude) to a medical-doctor father, Dr. Benedict Abakpa Ameh as well as a infirmary administrator mother, Mrs Felicia Ameh. Her begetter runs the El-Shaddai Specialist Hospital as well as her mother, the Children Charity Home, both inward Makurdi, Benue state.
Origins of Idoma people (Scholarly view)
The history of Idoma origins as well as ethnicity is possibly the most complex aspect of the people’s pre-colonial history. Idoma is the yell past times which the people of Idoma ethnic grouping designate themselves, as well as are addressed as such past times their neighbours. Idoma is also the yell of the linguistic communication of the grouping as good as their land.
Idoma dancers
The earliest exertion to study the Idoma anchors their origins as well as ethnicity on the Akpoto (or Okpoto). This is an ethnic grouping that is presently extinct. According to a pop view past times S. Crowther inward 1854, an ethnic grouping designated the Akpoto in 1 trial occupied most component of the solid ground instantly inhabited past times the Igala, Idoma as well as Igbira. Although the identification of this grouping as well as the actual nature of their human relationship with the Igala, Idoma as well as Ebira is soundless beingness studied past times researchers, evidence exists to back upwardly their antiquity inward the Niger-Benue confluence area. For example, Armstrong argues that largely arising from the relatively broad application of the Akpoto nomenclature inward this full general area, it is possible that a kingdom and/or people known past times that yell in 1 trial existed. This sentiment is farther reinforced past times J. N. Ukwedeh’s declaration that the Akpoto should live perceived as an autochthonous group, which gave nativity to or played a fundamental role inward the formation of modern Igala, Ebira as well as Idoma societies. Then too, the evidence gleaned from the oral traditions of the Igala, Ebira as well as Idoma ethnic groups showed undoubtedly that the Akpoto were the earliest inhabitants of the acquaint locations of these peoples.
The people reject the nomenclature as derogatory, insisting that it was the Igala of the Ankpa part that were known as the Akpoto as well as refer to themselves, their linguistic communication as well as solid ground as Idoma. It should live emphasised that patch what is specially derogatory nigh the term Akpoto soundless remains unclear, it would appear to receive got stuck to the people inward the Eastern marches of Igalaland inward the part of Ankpa. This is inward improver to the fact that amidst those sections of the Idoma who sometimes describe their origins to places inward Igalaland (those Erim refers to as the ‘Western migrants’), the usage of the term Akpoto to pull them as well as their linguistic communication appears to receive got persisted until comparatively recent times.
On the footing of the inward a higher spot analyses as well as inward the context of the evidence that is presently available, whatever may live said nigh the Akpoto phenomenon, its spot inward the legend of origins of the people as well as the evolution of their ethnicity to a greater extent than oft than non may good live conjectural. One certainty tin withal live risked as well as that is: the term ‘Akpoto’ may good live of a geographical application describing a kingdom of that name. This kingdom must receive got covered the entire expanse presently occupied past times the diverse ethnic groups inward the Benue valley region. The people of this kingdom must receive got also been known as well as referred to as Akpoto. But that this yell persists till appointment betwixt the Idoma as well as the Igala could good live an choice explanation of the depth of wide-ranging contacts as well as inter-mingling betwixt them. For, as Erim has sufficiently demonstrated, inward the course of study of their migrations into their acquaint location, some Idoma kindred groups sojourned as well as cohabited with the Igala inward Igalaland. This dot also finds back upwardly inward Ochefu’s conclusions that the greater component of acquaint Idoma homeland was originally occupied past times the Akpoto who over the ages were assimilated past times other groups including the ancestors of the Igala, Idoma as well as Ebira migrants. What follows from all these propose that it is possible the Akpoto were either a proto-ethnic grouping which gave nativity to the Igala-Idoma-Ebira ethno-cultural complex or inward fact played an of import role inward the evolution of these polities.
Another perspective associates the ancestral homeland of the Idoma with the Sahara region. Expressed past times P. E. Okwoli, this sentiment claims that the Idoma, Igala as well as Ebira ethnic groups in 1 trial occupied an expanse somewhere inward the Sahara region. He farther maintains that these ethnic groups were compelled to vacate the Sahara part for the Savannah sub-region next the desiccation of the Sahara 26 This perspective on Idoma origins as well as ethnicity has been attacked for its obvious weaknesses. In the firstly place, it appears to live an isolated sentiment on the source of the Idoma because it has non found credence with scholars on the subject. Furthermore, inward improver to its failure to propose whatever specific geographical expanse inward the Sahara part which the Idoma occupied, it has non been corroborated past times the oral traditions of the people regarding their traditions of origin. Moreover, the exponent of this sentiment did non cite his sources for possible assessment nor did he give whatever hint as to how he reached his conclusions. This makes it real hard to essay the veracity as well as authenticity of his propositions. This suggests that he is only trying to link the origins of the Idoma, Igala as well as Ebira to those Nigerian ethnic groups who claim they migrated from Republic of Yemen or Mecca inward the Middle East. This theory of Middle Eastern source has withal non been able to stand upwardly up to the tests of linguistic, ethnographical as well as archaeological investigations of scholars inward recent times. Some of these are revisited inward the subsequent analysis.
Idoma origins as well as ethnic identity receive got also been related to the Igala. This sentiment sees the Idoma as beingness of Igala extraction, itself believed to live a sub-group of the Yoruba as well as thence distinct from the Okpoto. According to this thesis which was made pop past times W. B. Baikie, before 1500 Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 D, both the Okpoto as well as the Igara (Igala?) occupied separate territories some the Niger, the quondam on the East as well as the latter inward the West of the Niger. However, past times nigh the firstly decade of fifteenth century, the Igaras were driven East of the Niger where they settled amidst the Okpoto. The Idoma, according to this view, are a hybrid of the Igara as well as Okpoto fusion 27. This sentiment appears to propose that the Okpoto as well as the Igala were originally Yoruba speaking as well as the acquaint Idoma ethnic grouping is a synthesis of the two. This sentiment gets reinforcement from lexico-statistical evidence, which grouped the Idoma, Igala as well as Yoruba nether the Kwa sub-unit of the Niger-Congo spot unit of measurement of African languages. It must receive got been on this footing that Erim concluded that the Yoruba ingredient inward both Igala as well as Idoma cultures cannot live completely ignored.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 variant of this perspective holds that the Idoma, Igala as well as Yoruba formed the same social complex inside the upper Benue part until nigh 6000 years agone when this grouping disintegrated. According to this hypothesis developed past times R. G. Armstrong as well as based largely on glottochronology as well as lexico-statistical data, this proto-society had the same invention of time, worshipped a host of local gods as good as observed similar taboos as well as totems. What follows from this is that the proto-group spoke a mutual linguistic communication but with the split, its members dispersed into dissimilar regions where today they beak dialects of the
proto-language. Thus, the spatial distribution of the people concerned would appear to stand upwardly for to the length of the menstruum of separate developments.
Scholars of Idoma history receive got identified some pitfalls inward this invention of Idoma ethnicity. Erim, for example, reasons that it is non solely right to synthesise fragmentary evidence as pertains enormously complex historical developments with honour to Idoma origins, gild as well as civilisation 30. He points out that available evidence does non back upwardly the linguistic declaration espoused for the Idoma, for on the contrary, indications are that the ancestors of these groups receive got come upwardly from diverse sources as well as directions. This makes it analytically as well as historically impossible to lump every ethnic grouping as deriving from the ‘Idoma tribe’. On his part, Ochefu points at the methodological defects inherent inward lexico-statistical information as well as the grade of valid inferences that tin live drawn from anthropological linguistics 31. Notwithstanding these criticisms, Armstrong’s controversy that a proto-Yoruba-Igala-Idoma gild gave nativity to the Idoma soundless remains, past times as well as large, valid.
So far, what nosotros receive got been trying to do is to acquaint ourselves with the variegated perspectives on Idoma origins. It is clear from the inward a higher spot analysis that scholars are to a greater extent than oft than non not agreed on the origins of the people. However, on the footing of these divergent views a position out of conclusions tin live drawn from which a clearer perception nigh the origins of the people could emerge. The firstly of these is that available linguistic as well as archaeological information receive got shown the antiquity of homo inward the Benue valley. Archaeological evidence for example, indicates that iron-working peoples inhabited the Middle as well as Lower Benue valley some 2,500 years agone 32. Similarly, ethnographical as well as anthropological surveys receive got proved
that the entire Benue valley was a keen cultural watershed for a multiple African peoples 33. Indeed its rich natural endowments coupled with its accessibility attracted many peoples, with the implications of the preponderance of multi-ethnic social formations inward the area. Available anthropological, ethnographical records as good as oral traditions of the peoples receive got attested to the fact that the Yoruba, Igala, Ebira as well as Idoma ethnic groups were the earliest inhabitants of the Middle as well as Lower Benue valley. But as Ochefu rightly argues, nosotros cannot say whether these 4 distinct groups were hitherto a proto civilisation group, as Armstrong would receive got us believe. What is withal in all likelihood is that intensive cultural, social, political as well as economical interactions betwixt these groups tended to blur truthful ethnic and/or linguistic identities. Given the recent advances inward historical genetics, possibly a genetic mapping as well as analysis of the peoples of the middle as well as lower Benue areas volition assist clarify the extent of their relationships as well as differences.
Arising from the inward a higher spot is a instant point, namely, until comparatively recent times, the give-and-take ‘Idoma’ was only a linguistic as well as non an ethnic appellation. While diverse speakers of this linguistic communication had before the thirteenth century consolidated themselves on the Northern banks of the Benue as well as were recognized past times both the Arab as well as European worlds, others were scattered on diverse locations inward the Middle Benue, an expanse identified as well as referred to as Apa. The dot thence is that, the evolution of an Idoma ethnicity began only inward the sixteenth century when a configuration of both centri-fugal as well as centri-petal forces compelled the people to vacate their Apa ancestral homeland to diverse places inside the lower Benue. How this happened is what nosotros instantly plough to inward the analysis that follows.
The Idoma unanimously describe their traditions of source to Apa (Beipi), tentatively associated with a one-time majuscule of the legendary Kwararafa confederacy, which before the fifteenth century was nether the Abakpawariga. That a confederacy known as well as referred to as Kwararafa in 1 trial existed inside the Benue valley expanse has been asserted past times several leading scholars36. Similarly, that the Idoma were 1 amidst the many ethnic groups of the confederacy is a fact that is non disputed 37. All Idoma traditions of source concord that they left Apa because of the growing province of insecurity arising from constant warfare both from inside as well as without the kingdom. It has been suggested past times some scholars that next her defeat inward the hands of Ali Ghaji (1476-1503), Kwararafa could no longer give a goodness trouble concern human relationship of herself. Indeed the era of decline had laid in, as well as this coupled with the dynastic tussles associated with dominance of the Jukun on the corridors of power, aggravated the already confused situation. The resultant of these processes was the disintegration of the Apa gild as well as thence the offset of the volume migrations of the Idoma as well as other ethnic grouping similar the Igala as well as the Ebira, etc.
From evidences gleaned from the oral traditions of the people as well as supported past times available documentary sources, past times the offset of the sixteenth century, the Idoma had begun to spread out over large areas of the Lower Benue, mainly South of that river. The resultant of this pattern of migration was that, over time, they became thinly dispersed over much of the territory instantly inhabited past times the Tiv, the Igala as well as the Ebira as good as the Idoma. Erim dated this firstly moving ridge of Idoma migrations to betwixt c.1535-1625. According to him, the Ugboju, Adoka as well as Otukpo constituted this category of Idoma migrants. These migrations continued until the belatedly eighteenth century when the Tiv began their vigorous force into the Benue valley. The arrival of the Tiv impacted tremendously on the Idoma during this period. For example, it disrupted the peace as well as silence that was gradually evolving. According to Erim, the outcome of this was the collapse of the evolving ‘new’ Apa (or what he calls Apa I)
That Tiv migrants easily displaced the Idoma is a fact that could live attributed to a position out of factors. In the firstly place, the people were politically fragmented compared to their Tiv neighbours. Furthermore, they were numerically smaller than the Tiv. This is inward improver to the nature as well as grapheme of the migration procedure itself, for as O’kwu correctly observes, the Idoma were thinly spread over fairly extensive territory 40. The resultant of all these is that the people position upwardly a feeble resistance to Tiv encroachment, hence their displacement from ‘Apa I’. The pressure level of Tiv migrations was such that they entrapped an Idoma-speaking group, the Etulo, who did non displace chop-chop enough. Isolated from the main trunk of their Idoma kinsmen today, they shape a coterie of non-Tiv people inward Katsina-Ala, the view of modern Tivland. On their part, Doma as well as Keana also lost much of their territory as well as were progressively pushed farther North from the river Benue.
Another moving ridge of migrations from Igalaland moved Westwards into modern Idomaland. These migrants spot Apa as the habitation of their ancestors, but nevertheless debate that after their divergence from Apa at an before date, they migrated to parts of Igalaland. They were withal shortly compelled to acquire out that spot for parts of Western modern Idomaland because of the political upheaval as well as confusion that resulted from the increased influx of migrants into the expanse as well as the rather explosive political province of affairs of the time. Erim has contended that the bitter struggle which characterised political dominance inward the Igala State with headquarters at Idah sent numerous migrants fleeing Eastward toward Idomaland betwixt c1685-1715 41 . Today these migrants shape the essence of Western Idoma districts such as Otukpa, Orokam, Ichama as well as Edumoga. O’kwu reasons that these constitute the instant category of Idoma migration, for amidst the people, it is this instant migration that is remembered giving the impression that they are Igala past times origin.
By nigh the finally quarter of the nineteenth century, the procedure of the consolidation of novel territories inward which they found themselves had been completed. This consolidation was withal at the expense of other numerically smaller ethnic groups similar the Igede, Akweya as well as Ufia on whose territories the Idoma settled. While the Igede were pushed towards the Eastern fringes of the Idoma territory, the Ufia as well as Akweya were encircled past times the Idoma as well as today constitute bilingual micro-nationalities inward the view of Idomaland. The dot nosotros are trying to position across hither is that past times the terminate of the eighteenth century, the Idoma ethnic grouping had firmly established themselves on their acquaint location. Ochefu aptly puts it this way:
By the terminate of the eighteenth century, the procedure of incorporating social, political, religious as well as economical ideas that had been transmitted from their ancestral homeland with those that they had acquired during their (several decades of) migrations, as well as the adaptation of these ideas to their novel environment, had past times as well as large been completed.
As nosotros shall after see, this procedure was most thorough inward religion as well as politics as reflected inward the norms as well as values of the people, as good as their populace sentiment generally.
On the footing of the inward a higher spot analyses nosotros create the next conclusions on the origins as well as evolution of Idoma ethnicity. Our firstly observation is that the people receive got been involved inward migrations from the Apa cradle land, which brought them to their acquaint location. These migrations were quite a complex affair as well as stretched over nearly 2 hundred years. This makes migrations an of import aspect of their pre-colonial history. It is of import to annotation hither that both the historicity as well as location of Apa receive got evolved inward the context of the people’s belief as real. Thus this makes Apa, inward A. M. Adejo’s view, ‘… a spot (that is) larger than life, existent but also invested with myth’. The instant observation is that, the people moved out of Apa inward the legendary Kwararafa kingdom after its collapse non as a cohesive trunk nether a unmarried leadership.
The migrations had been inward waves nether separate leaders. In the legends, these leaders are referred to as both the founders of the diverse clans as well as their chiefs. This meant at to the lowest degree 2 things: (i) these clans, for the most part, were independent of each other, as well as (ii), judging from their contemporary populations, the clans must receive got been real pocket-sized inward size during the menstruum of their migrations. This scenario must receive got accounted for the relative ease with which the Tiv displaced the people from ‘Apa I’. Similarly, it must receive got accounted for the thinly dispersed nature as well as grapheme of the people’s village pattern throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth as well as nineteenth centuries inside the Benue valley.
Our finally observation is that, the people did non locomote far their acquaint location at the same time. In fact, the village procedure continued until the finally quarter of the eighteenth century. The implication of all these is that the people made contacts as well as interacted extensively with several Nigerian ethnic groups during the menstruum of their tortuous migrations from Apa to their acquaint location as well as when they finally settled. These historical considerations possibly explicate the fact that the contemporary Idoma gild consists of a heterogeneous position out of populations, mysteriously speaking the same language.
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https://haftshappenings.blogspot.com/search?q=version1Within the overall painting of the Nigerian amusement industry, it is neither preposterous nor farfetched to assert that the Idomas are 1 of the most gifted as well as productive people around. The myriads of stars of Idoma source inward damage of character as well as quantity, as well as their the contribution to the Nigerian showbiz sector is indeed immeasurable.
Behold the whorl telephone telephone of Idoma entertainers.
INNOCENT UJAH IDIBIA (2FACE)
Tuface Idibia is non a Disney creation but a self-styled pop sensation, a music shooting star who made the global recognition as well as artistic success via a defining vocal entitled: African Queen, a honey vocal eulogizing beauty of the African woman.
Tuface Idibia
That tender moxie stormed the showbiz podium with his kinsman, Blackface as well as Faze of the defunct Planthsun Boiz over a decade ago. He went platinum inside 2 years. Since then, the Implication crooner has non looked back. And he remains yet 1 of the biggest music artistes to emerge from Nigeria.
He’s from Okpokwu LGA.
Tuface, Idoma man
GABRIEL OCHE AMANYI (TERRY G)
He started out inward the theatre of God, but later pitched his tent with the House of Ginja.
Terry G took the nation’s showbiz manufacture past times stormed a few years dorsum with his Love You Sexy single.
producer Amanyi Oche Gabriel a.k.a Terry G, Idoma homo from Benue State
Born Gabriel Oche Amanyi to the spot unit of measurement of Deacon as well as Deaconess Amanyi of Ogbadibo LGA of Benue State.
Each stage of his music career comes with a yell –ranging from Mr Bling Bling to Swagger Master, Ginja Ginja as well as instantly he calls himself Akpako Master, a name, which only him could explain.
The cerebral music producer-cum-singer has carved a niche for himself as well as his burgeoning career inward the music sector, having produced for top artistes inward Nigeria as well as beyond. Prolific Oche has continued to win plaudits as well as encomiums from music buffs due to his inventiveness as well as sparkling attitude.
The chap has effectively distinguished himself from every other artiste inward Nigeria with his form of music, outlandish costumes, style as well as stagemanship.
He’s the encephalon behind hitting songs such as: Pass me Your Love (Ay.com) Naka (Ortise Femi), Aye Po Gan (Ill Bliss) Incase You Never (2Shotz) as well as amidst others.
Gabriel Oche Amanyi, Idoma native
The Free Madness crooner has sure established himself as a strength to reckon with inward the country’s music habitation front.
Ask him why he left gospel - which was his firstly honey - for secular as well as he would tell yous “For me, I would receive got been doing gospel but nosotros just receive got to create a living. That is why I went secular.
“God understands that it is just for me to create a living otherwise, I soundless receive got a soft spot for Him inward my heart”.
The caput honcho of House of Ginjah is no uncertainty a homo of his ain style.
Terry G, Idoma man
GARUBA AUSTINE AHMEDU (BLACKFACE NAIJA)
Following the dissever of the defunct Planthshun boyz, piffling or nada was heard from Blackface, the 3rd vocalisation of the trio. Augustine Ahmedu was born inward Obalende Area of Lagos inward 1974. The instrumentalist who hailed from Akpa has been away to re-organize himself.
His hitting tracks include: Hard Life, Eneme.
Augustine Ahmedu aka Blackface Naija is an Idoma man
BONGOS IKWUE
He’s the acclaimed begetter of the Idoma amusement industry.
Groovies music exponent, Bongos Ikwue is no uncertainty the successor of the musical tradition initiated past times veteran forbears inward Idomaland.
Born inward Otukpo, Benue State, Nigeria, on June 6, 1942. In 1956, he attended St, Paul’s Secondary schoolhouse inward Zaria, Nigeria, where his friends called him “Forge” because he was ever making upwardly (forging) as well as singing his ain songs. In 1962, While at Okene Comprehensive Secondary School, he formed a grouping called Cubana Boys with 2 other immature boys, after which he headed off to the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), also inward Zaria, Kaduna State, where he studied Business Administration.
Bongos Ikwue the acclaimed begetter of the Idoma amusement industry
While inward ABU, he created his ain band, called UniBello Brothers as well as also sang inward a folk group, which was made upwardly of academy lecturers during which time, a chemical scientific discipline lecturer, Mrs. Harmony taught him some Irish Gaelic songs. In 1967 he founded as well as headed the Groovies Band, which became extremely pop inward the 1970’s through to the 80’s.
Many honey him for his soulful, folksy songs, the most pop of which includes: Cockcrow At Dawn, Still Searching, Amen, Otachikpokpo as well as a host of others. His dedication to his music was obvious due to the high character of the albums he churned out, as well as due to the sheer elegance as well as the electrifying release energy of his alive performances, where the band was ever on key, as well as the instrumentalist himself was ever truthful to every note. His mightiness to rest on the right annotation is an indicator of his hard piece of work as a musician.
He started to focus to a greater extent than on the habitation front, where has a lovely wife, Josephine; as well as 5 children, 4 girls as well as 1 man child named, Oyankeke, Elamei (Omei), Jessica, Onyewu as well as Igoche, inward that order. He is a devoted begetter as well as enjoys singing inward the fellowship of his children. Bongos would oft telephone telephone 2 of his daughters, Omei as well as Jessica, to sing inward the presence of guests.
He of late clocked seventy years.
Bongos Ikwue, the Godfather of Idoma music
JOEL
Joe El got signed on Kennis music label some few months dorsum as well as it’s so interesting to know he is fast becoming a household name.
His firstly unmarried title I no take away heed is currently rocking the airwaves both on radio as well as TV stations across the country, but what would baffle 1 most is the similarities this fresh talent shares with African King of Pop, 2face Idibia.
Joe El is Idoma music star from Nigeria
According to findings, Joel discovered that apart from the fact that he has a facial await just precisely similar 2face, they receive got almost the same vocalisation texture, hail from the Idoma ethnic grouping inward the Southern component of Benue State inward cardinal Nigeria. And lastly, His beingness signed on 2face’s quondam tape label (Kennis Music) inward which 1 would think all this is far beyond mere coincidence.
With all the features Joel shares with 2Baba, He’s also capable of shaking the world, similar him.
Joe El, an Idoma man
ENE LAWANI
Former beauty queen, Ene Maya Lawani hitting the global limelight inward 2004 when she was crowned Miss Nigeria. The longest serving beauty queen inward the country.
Idoma beauty queen Ene Lawani with 1 of her dazzling caput roll known as Ene Maya
Before instantly the ex-queen kept a depression profile for years, until she bounced dorsum with the launch of her exquisite headgear called ‘Ene Maya’.
Ene Lawani, Nigerian beauty queen as well as Idoma woman
The Ene Maya Collection is a combination of caput wraps, scarves as well as accessories And ever since her profile has been on the rise. She has continued to dazzle everyone with her stunning look, flawless pare as well as powerful wearing clothing sense. Not only that, she has also acquire the living promotion of her brand. No thing what Ene adorns, she volition ever compliment it with her turban headgear, which stands her out.
Idoma girl, Ene Lawani
ENENCHE PETER OBONYILO (ENENCHE COMEDIAN)
Enenche Obonyilo is an outstanding comedian, MC, motivational speaker as well as social activist who has performed at several shows as well as other high profile social functions such as Nigeria National Comedy programme, Nite of a grand Laughs, Weddings, birthdays, church building programmes, Radio as well as Tv shows.
The Chemistry graduate of Benue State University, Makurdi is fast becoming the darling of the comedy sector.
Idoma-born as well as Nigerian comedian Enenche Obonyilo Peter, popularly known as Enenche D Comedian
His natural sense of humor is mixed with the flavor of a learned intellectual who observes daily human struggles as well as lifestyles as well as convert them into tum fierce jokes that leaves his fans inward the province of euphoria as well as sense of joy as well as hope.
His major influence is the belatedly Martin Luther King Jnr who was an advocate of social jurist as well as equality. He tin recite from A-Z Martin Luther King Jnr’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
Born inward Dec at Yaba Military Hospital, Lagos after the civil, Enenche attended St. Francis College, Otukpo as well as Benue State University, Makurdi.
On how he found himself inward the comedy sector, he said: “I genuinely started performing right from my firstly twelvemonth inward secondary school. When I left secondary school, I genuinely wanted to study Medicine. I said so that I would non study whatever other course of study fifty-fifty when I was offered Bio Chemistry inward UNIMAID. Benue province academy gave me Biology patch Ilorin offered me Anatomy. All these I rejected. I eventually took upwardly an offering at Benue province academy but I was soundless pained that I could non acquire the course of study I wanted. So on the nighttime of the matriculation, I refused to wearable the gown. On the nighttime of the matriculation in that location was an trial on campus as well as I was invited to do a joke on stage. That was the starting point. From there, other fellowship presidents on campus would invite me for programmes as well as I would attend. I ended upwardly putting smiles on their faces. I found passion as well as a platform of facial expression inward comedy patch I was inward the university. My comedy started on the streets of Makurdi especially at church building organised programmes. Enenche became a household yell inward Makurdi. Like a joke, I found myself inward the Night of a grand laughs inward 2004. This was because of a programme I performed inward at Abuja where I impressed Klint the Drunk who thereafter linked me upwardly with Opa Williams who picked involvement inward me. Since then, it has been glorious only that with every platform in that location are ever unique challenges.”
He hails from Okpoga inward Okpokwu Local Government Area.
Idoma homo Enenche D Comedian
CHRIS MORGAN
Chris Morgan is a multi-talented gospel singer, songwriter, composer, as well as performer with a telephone telephone from God to embark on the journeying of restoring truthful worship to the trunk of Christ.
He is the encephalon behind “WORSHIP ON THE HILLS OF AFRICA” a vision that is dedicated to raising people to worship God inward spirit as well as inward truth.
Chris Morgan Idoma homo as well as a multi-talented gospel singer, songwriter, composer, as well as performer
The Orokam-Born Benue State vocaliser is no uncertainty an accomplished music minister, whose songs are filled with the divine presence of God, with keen lyrical depth as well as inspiration as well as a keen message of promise for our generation. Morgan has also ministered on the same platform with keen international gospel Singers like: Ron Kenoly, Lionel Peterson, Dr Panam Percy Paul as well as Donnie McClurkin. Since stepping into the gospel podium, the Ifeoma crooner has maintain to carve a niche for himself inward past times mark the offset of a novel worship tendency inward Africa.
Chris Morgan Idoma gospel music icon from Nigeria
His pop tracks include: I do, Often As I Breath, Adakole, Ifeoma, Arabaribiti as well as amidst others.
The Abuja-based gospel artiste is happily married to Queen Eunice.
Idoma homo Chris Morgan as well as his Abuja-based gospel artiste is happily married to Queen Eunice.
MONICA OGAH
After a long wait, emerging songstress as well as winner of MTN Project Fame West Africa Season 4, Monica Ogah of late launched herself into the music marketplace past times releasing iii singles entitled, ‘Below’, ‘Tomorrow’ as well as ‘If to Say’.
Idoma star, Monica Ogah
The singles from the stables of Goretti, her official management receive got been receiving, volume airplay on many radio station across the country. Below, techno-laced, bass-thumping position out was produced past times J Sleek, patch If To Say was produced past times veteran producer, Tha Suspect.
In Tomorrow, the magnificent vocaliser inward her linguistic communication (Idoma) says ‘come rain, come upwardly shine, it is good with her.’ The track, which was produced past times Tee-Y Mix strikes a resemblance with past times Project Fame West Africa winner Chidinma.
Idoma lady. Monica Ogah
SUSAN PETERS
Delectable actress, Susan Peters is fast becoming the darling of painting buffs inward the Nigerian motion painting manufacture globally known as Nollywood. Since her emergence inward 2002, the slim-built thespian has dazzled inward several chart-busting flicks.
Idoma-born Nollywood star Susan Peters
Although, born as well as raised inward Kano, the Ado-born Idoma trouble concern woman-turned-entertainer has continued to opened upwardly novel vistas for herself as well as budding career, since her relocation from the due north to south, inward pursuit of her dream.
The self-acclaimed Duchess of Idoma is as a scriptwriter as well as interior decorator with several high profile jobs to her credit.
Idoma miss Susan Peters
The 3rd kid of a spot unit of measurement of 8 children was brought upwardly nether strict surveillance of her parents. Her begetter was inward the military machine as well as her woman parent owns a shop. Due to her military machine background, Susan grew upwardly inward many parts of the province as well as speaks the iii major Nigerian languages (Hausa, Ibo as well as Yoruba) fluently.
Idoma miss as well as Nollywood star, Susan Peters
She attended Airforce Nursery as well as Primary Schools as well as FGGC Wuse Abuja. She also studied Computer Science at Asman English linguistic communication School as well as graduated inward 1998; so farther studied Tv as well as Film at Video Waves And Camera Film School as well as graduated inward 2002. At school, she came out as Best Overall Female inward her class. After an excursion with her classmates, she began auditioning for acting jobs amongst other Nollywood projects as well as started acting inward 2002, the same twelvemonth that she graduated.
She started modelling as good inward 2003 as well as has appeared inward many advertisements. From billboards to TV commercials, Press ads, Handbills as well as many more, including BAT (British America Tobacco) For West Africa Billboard, Fidelity Bank Billboard, Bank P.H.B billboard, Golden Penny Pasta Billboard, U.H.F Long life Milk Billboard, Haemeron Blood tonic Billboard, Airport Branding, Finbank TVC as well as Press, amongst others.
Nollywood actress, Susan peters is an Idoma lady
JOHNSON AGADA (MANEX)
Ace painting producer/director, Johnson Agada is 1 of the few painting practitioners that has helped projection Nollywood, specially the Idomawwod painting sector inward a positive means to the populace through every of his production.
Idoma man, Johnson Agada
He has over the years been responsible for a long listing of blockbuster movies such as, Ugboga K’ole, Imlanyi K’Ole, Ina Gajuche, Ohe Kole Owoicho, amongst others.
He’s from Agabha, Otukpa inward Ogbadbio LGA.
ENE MILITEX OGIRI
Fair-complexioned Nollywood concealment goddess, Eneh Militex Ogiri is a strength to reckon with inward the painting industry, globally known as Nollywood.
Idoma native as well as Nollywood actress Ene Miltex Ogiri
She’s been the encephalon behind some chartbusting flicks such as, Sound of poverty (1 as well as 2), Bloody Tussle, My Last Enemy, Before the Rain, et al.
PAMELA PETERS
Omada, Eneh or Ihotu are the in all likelihood appellations that would come upwardly to one’s take away heed in 1 trial her yell is mentioned. Fast rising Nollywood actress, Pamela Ochanya Peters is fast becoming a household yell inward the painting sector, subsequent on her debut inward Izu Ojokwu’s directed Iva nigh a decade ago. The budding actress has beingness able to proved to painting buffs as well as pundits that she’s on course of study as far as amusement inward Nigeria is concerned. Since stepping into the showbiz, Pamela has continued to dazzle her teeming fans inward both English linguistic communication as well as indigenous trail-blazing flicks, which enrolled her inward the category of Best Idoma Actress inward the Idoma Artistes Award Nite (IDAAN).
Idoma as well as Nollywood rising star Pamela peters
The Olahimu-born-Otukpo Benue State effervescent as well as charming actress who is also vice president of the African Oasis Entertainment believes that it is ameliorate to neglect at what yous honey doing than the other means round.
He hitting movies include: Adah, Ihotu, Ochanya, Ole, Iva etc.
Idoma girl, Pamela peters as well as Nkem Owoh on set
ALICE AYEGBA
Scrumptious as well as charming Nollywood actress-cum-model, Alice Ayegba firstly warmed her means into hearts of many painting lovers inward 2007, when she firstly starred inward a lather opera entitled, Out of Control inward Jos.
Idoma girl, model, author as well as actress Alice Ayegba
Ever since, the sparkling weeping thespian cum author has continued to thrill painting buffs, especially her teeming fans inward many char-bursting flicks –both English linguistic communication as well as indigenous with over xx hitting movies to her credit.
With a shapely trunk that many would conk for, the fast rising ebony from Orokam sure has an border over most of her contemporaries inward the make-believe industry.
Interestingly, her most challenging role so far is the monster hit, Agaba Konya, (Female Warrior) a painting directed past times award-wining Nollywood director, Moses J. Okpe.
Her hitting movies are: Agaba K’Onya, Ochanya, Ole, Ondu Aje, amidst others.
Alice Ayegba Idoma lady
JANE ODOH
Down-to-earth painting star, Janet Ameh Odoh is an actress to lookout out for inward the painting industry. The thespian who hailed from Owukpa, a suburb of Benue has carved a niche for herself as well as burgeoning career.
Idoma girl, Jane Ameh Odoh
The role interpreter became a household yell after her wonderful role inward St. Godwin Ochola’s directed Ada (The Helpless Orphan) some a few years back. She is the initiator of the Miss Idoma beauty pageant.
Idoma actress Jane Ameh
ADA AMEH
Ada Ameh, is an inspirational lady, who refused against all odds to live relegated to the dorsum spot or plough into a recluse after having her kid - Gift Ameh - at the tender historic menstruum of 14.
Undeterred past times the pains of unmarried parenthood at that age, Ada never gave upwardly promise despite the fact that she was non privileged to receive got formal education.
Inspirational Nollywood actress Ada Ameh is Idoma womwn
This has given her the zeal to select upwardly the challenge as well as assist ladies as well as guys, who receive got fallen victim of the gild as well as been driven out of schoolhouse into prostitution amidst other ills. Interestingly, the Idoma, Benue State indigene, who was born as well as bred on the streets of Ajegunle, has embarked on a mission to assist those who necessitate her assist urgently as well as more.
Her hitting movies include: Aki Na Ukwa, Domitila, I Belong, Witches, Phone Swap, Chop Money, Adah, Ihotu etc.
Idoma as well as talented Nollywood actress Ada Ameh
DIRECTOR ABEL SUCCESS EREBE
After recording box business office hitting with his trail-blazing flick, Black Night inward South America, Nollywood ace producer as well as director, Success Abel Erebe, is laid to tempest the painting marketplace with yet an other painting entitled: Osuofia inward Brazil.
Idoma homo as well as Nollywood cinema manager Abel Success Erebe
World-class moviemaker as well as Apostle of the Most High started out with the likes of Chris Morgan as well as Godshiled Orokpo. His hitting movies include: Black Night is South America, Brazilian Deal, Osuofia inward Brazil (in view)
Abel Success Erebe as well as his cinema crews at Brazil during the filming of Osuofia In Brazil
Godwin Ochola
Call him the “Golden Boy” of the Idoma painting manufacture as well as yous wont live wrong. Workaholic filmmaker-cum-actor, Godwin Ochola otherwise known as De Black remains a grade as far as the Idoma amusement manufacture is concerned.
Idoma cinema histrion Godwin Ochola aka Golden Boy
Ochola who is head-honcho of the Otukpo-based St. Godwin Productions has stared as well as directed chart-bursting movies such as Ada, Ihotu, Ofu, Ochanya as well as Ondu Aje et al deserved the honor due to his perfect interpretation on roles as well as characters.
His movie, Ada was crowned the Best Idoma Movie of the twelvemonth 2011
Godwin Ochola as well as some Idoma actress
PETER OTULU
Evang. Peter Owoicho Otulu as an accomplished Christian singer, songwriter, instructor as well as cleric. His mission is "to create an environs for the manifest presence of God". His form of music style is 1 of jubilant praise as well as private excellence on local musical instruments. He is 1 of the fathers of Idoma amusement industry.
Idoma icon Peter Otulu an accomplished Christian singer, songwriter, instructor as well as cleric.
GODSHIELD OROKPO
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Origins of Idoma people (Scholarly view)
The history of Idoma origins as well as ethnicity is possibly the most complex aspect of the people’s pre-colonial history. Idoma is the yell past times which the people of Idoma ethnic grouping designate themselves, as well as are addressed as such past times their neighbours. Idoma is also the yell of the linguistic communication of the grouping as good as their land.
Idoma dancers
The earliest exertion to study the Idoma anchors their origins as well as ethnicity on the Akpoto (or Okpoto). This is an ethnic grouping that is presently extinct. According to a pop view past times S. Crowther inward 1854, an ethnic grouping designated the Akpoto in 1 trial occupied most component of the solid ground instantly inhabited past times the Igala, Idoma as well as Igbira. Although the identification of this grouping as well as the actual nature of their human relationship with the Igala, Idoma as well as Ebira is soundless beingness studied past times researchers, evidence exists to back upwardly their antiquity inward the Niger-Benue confluence area. For example, Armstrong argues that largely arising from the relatively broad application of the Akpoto nomenclature inward this full general area, it is possible that a kingdom and/or people known past times that yell in 1 trial existed. This sentiment is farther reinforced past times J. N. Ukwedeh’s declaration that the Akpoto should live perceived as an autochthonous group, which gave nativity to or played a fundamental role inward the formation of modern Igala, Ebira as well as Idoma societies. Then too, the evidence gleaned from the oral traditions of the Igala, Ebira as well as Idoma ethnic groups showed undoubtedly that the Akpoto were the earliest inhabitants of the acquaint locations of these peoples.
The people reject the nomenclature as derogatory, insisting that it was the Igala of the Ankpa part that were known as the Akpoto as well as refer to themselves, their linguistic communication as well as solid ground as Idoma. It should live emphasised that patch what is specially derogatory nigh the term Akpoto soundless remains unclear, it would appear to receive got stuck to the people inward the Eastern marches of Igalaland inward the part of Ankpa. This is inward improver to the fact that amidst those sections of the Idoma who sometimes describe their origins to places inward Igalaland (those Erim refers to as the ‘Western migrants’), the usage of the term Akpoto to pull them as well as their linguistic communication appears to receive got persisted until comparatively recent times.
On the footing of the inward a higher spot analyses as well as inward the context of the evidence that is presently available, whatever may live said nigh the Akpoto phenomenon, its spot inward the legend of origins of the people as well as the evolution of their ethnicity to a greater extent than oft than non may good live conjectural. One certainty tin withal live risked as well as that is: the term ‘Akpoto’ may good live of a geographical application describing a kingdom of that name. This kingdom must receive got covered the entire expanse presently occupied past times the diverse ethnic groups inward the Benue valley region. The people of this kingdom must receive got also been known as well as referred to as Akpoto. But that this yell persists till appointment betwixt the Idoma as well as the Igala could good live an choice explanation of the depth of wide-ranging contacts as well as inter-mingling betwixt them. For, as Erim has sufficiently demonstrated, inward the course of study of their migrations into their acquaint location, some Idoma kindred groups sojourned as well as cohabited with the Igala inward Igalaland. This dot also finds back upwardly inward Ochefu’s conclusions that the greater component of acquaint Idoma homeland was originally occupied past times the Akpoto who over the ages were assimilated past times other groups including the ancestors of the Igala, Idoma as well as Ebira migrants. What follows from all these propose that it is possible the Akpoto were either a proto-ethnic grouping which gave nativity to the Igala-Idoma-Ebira ethno-cultural complex or inward fact played an of import role inward the evolution of these polities.
Another perspective associates the ancestral homeland of the Idoma with the Sahara region. Expressed past times P. E. Okwoli, this sentiment claims that the Idoma, Igala as well as Ebira ethnic groups in 1 trial occupied an expanse somewhere inward the Sahara region. He farther maintains that these ethnic groups were compelled to vacate the Sahara part for the Savannah sub-region next the desiccation of the Sahara 26 This perspective on Idoma origins as well as ethnicity has been attacked for its obvious weaknesses. In the firstly place, it appears to live an isolated sentiment on the source of the Idoma because it has non found credence with scholars on the subject. Furthermore, inward improver to its failure to propose whatever specific geographical expanse inward the Sahara part which the Idoma occupied, it has non been corroborated past times the oral traditions of the people regarding their traditions of origin. Moreover, the exponent of this sentiment did non cite his sources for possible assessment nor did he give whatever hint as to how he reached his conclusions. This makes it real hard to essay the veracity as well as authenticity of his propositions. This suggests that he is only trying to link the origins of the Idoma, Igala as well as Ebira to those Nigerian ethnic groups who claim they migrated from Republic of Yemen or Mecca inward the Middle East. This theory of Middle Eastern source has withal non been able to stand upwardly up to the tests of linguistic, ethnographical as well as archaeological investigations of scholars inward recent times. Some of these are revisited inward the subsequent analysis.
Idoma origins as well as ethnic identity receive got also been related to the Igala. This sentiment sees the Idoma as beingness of Igala extraction, itself believed to live a sub-group of the Yoruba as well as thence distinct from the Okpoto. According to this thesis which was made pop past times W. B. Baikie, before 1500 Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 D, both the Okpoto as well as the Igara (Igala?) occupied separate territories some the Niger, the quondam on the East as well as the latter inward the West of the Niger. However, past times nigh the firstly decade of fifteenth century, the Igaras were driven East of the Niger where they settled amidst the Okpoto. The Idoma, according to this view, are a hybrid of the Igara as well as Okpoto fusion 27. This sentiment appears to propose that the Okpoto as well as the Igala were originally Yoruba speaking as well as the acquaint Idoma ethnic grouping is a synthesis of the two. This sentiment gets reinforcement from lexico-statistical evidence, which grouped the Idoma, Igala as well as Yoruba nether the Kwa sub-unit of the Niger-Congo spot unit of measurement of African languages. It must receive got been on this footing that Erim concluded that the Yoruba ingredient inward both Igala as well as Idoma cultures cannot live completely ignored.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 variant of this perspective holds that the Idoma, Igala as well as Yoruba formed the same social complex inside the upper Benue part until nigh 6000 years agone when this grouping disintegrated. According to this hypothesis developed past times R. G. Armstrong as well as based largely on glottochronology as well as lexico-statistical data, this proto-society had the same invention of time, worshipped a host of local gods as good as observed similar taboos as well as totems. What follows from this is that the proto-group spoke a mutual linguistic communication but with the split, its members dispersed into dissimilar regions where today they beak dialects of the
proto-language. Thus, the spatial distribution of the people concerned would appear to stand upwardly for to the length of the menstruum of separate developments.
Scholars of Idoma history receive got identified some pitfalls inward this invention of Idoma ethnicity. Erim, for example, reasons that it is non solely right to synthesise fragmentary evidence as pertains enormously complex historical developments with honour to Idoma origins, gild as well as civilisation 30. He points out that available evidence does non back upwardly the linguistic declaration espoused for the Idoma, for on the contrary, indications are that the ancestors of these groups receive got come upwardly from diverse sources as well as directions. This makes it analytically as well as historically impossible to lump every ethnic grouping as deriving from the ‘Idoma tribe’. On his part, Ochefu points at the methodological defects inherent inward lexico-statistical information as well as the grade of valid inferences that tin live drawn from anthropological linguistics 31. Notwithstanding these criticisms, Armstrong’s controversy that a proto-Yoruba-Igala-Idoma gild gave nativity to the Idoma soundless remains, past times as well as large, valid.
So far, what nosotros receive got been trying to do is to acquaint ourselves with the variegated perspectives on Idoma origins. It is clear from the inward a higher spot analysis that scholars are to a greater extent than oft than non not agreed on the origins of the people. However, on the footing of these divergent views a position out of conclusions tin live drawn from which a clearer perception nigh the origins of the people could emerge. The firstly of these is that available linguistic as well as archaeological information receive got shown the antiquity of homo inward the Benue valley. Archaeological evidence for example, indicates that iron-working peoples inhabited the Middle as well as Lower Benue valley some 2,500 years agone 32. Similarly, ethnographical as well as anthropological surveys receive got proved
that the entire Benue valley was a keen cultural watershed for a multiple African peoples 33. Indeed its rich natural endowments coupled with its accessibility attracted many peoples, with the implications of the preponderance of multi-ethnic social formations inward the area. Available anthropological, ethnographical records as good as oral traditions of the peoples receive got attested to the fact that the Yoruba, Igala, Ebira as well as Idoma ethnic groups were the earliest inhabitants of the Middle as well as Lower Benue valley. But as Ochefu rightly argues, nosotros cannot say whether these 4 distinct groups were hitherto a proto civilisation group, as Armstrong would receive got us believe. What is withal in all likelihood is that intensive cultural, social, political as well as economical interactions betwixt these groups tended to blur truthful ethnic and/or linguistic identities. Given the recent advances inward historical genetics, possibly a genetic mapping as well as analysis of the peoples of the middle as well as lower Benue areas volition assist clarify the extent of their relationships as well as differences.
Arising from the inward a higher spot is a instant point, namely, until comparatively recent times, the give-and-take ‘Idoma’ was only a linguistic as well as non an ethnic appellation. While diverse speakers of this linguistic communication had before the thirteenth century consolidated themselves on the Northern banks of the Benue as well as were recognized past times both the Arab as well as European worlds, others were scattered on diverse locations inward the Middle Benue, an expanse identified as well as referred to as Apa. The dot thence is that, the evolution of an Idoma ethnicity began only inward the sixteenth century when a configuration of both centri-fugal as well as centri-petal forces compelled the people to vacate their Apa ancestral homeland to diverse places inside the lower Benue. How this happened is what nosotros instantly plough to inward the analysis that follows.
Idoma homo at Agila carnival
The Idoma unanimously describe their traditions of source to Apa (Beipi), tentatively associated with a one-time majuscule of the legendary Kwararafa confederacy, which before the fifteenth century was nether the Abakpawariga. That a confederacy known as well as referred to as Kwararafa in 1 trial existed inside the Benue valley expanse has been asserted past times several leading scholars36. Similarly, that the Idoma were 1 amidst the many ethnic groups of the confederacy is a fact that is non disputed 37. All Idoma traditions of source concord that they left Apa because of the growing province of insecurity arising from constant warfare both from inside as well as without the kingdom. It has been suggested past times some scholars that next her defeat inward the hands of Ali Ghaji (1476-1503), Kwararafa could no longer give a goodness trouble concern human relationship of herself. Indeed the era of decline had laid in, as well as this coupled with the dynastic tussles associated with dominance of the Jukun on the corridors of power, aggravated the already confused situation. The resultant of these processes was the disintegration of the Apa gild as well as thence the offset of the volume migrations of the Idoma as well as other ethnic grouping similar the Igala as well as the Ebira, etc.
From evidences gleaned from the oral traditions of the people as well as supported past times available documentary sources, past times the offset of the sixteenth century, the Idoma had begun to spread out over large areas of the Lower Benue, mainly South of that river. The resultant of this pattern of migration was that, over time, they became thinly dispersed over much of the territory instantly inhabited past times the Tiv, the Igala as well as the Ebira as good as the Idoma. Erim dated this firstly moving ridge of Idoma migrations to betwixt c.1535-1625. According to him, the Ugboju, Adoka as well as Otukpo constituted this category of Idoma migrants. These migrations continued until the belatedly eighteenth century when the Tiv began their vigorous force into the Benue valley. The arrival of the Tiv impacted tremendously on the Idoma during this period. For example, it disrupted the peace as well as silence that was gradually evolving. According to Erim, the outcome of this was the collapse of the evolving ‘new’ Apa (or what he calls Apa I)
That Tiv migrants easily displaced the Idoma is a fact that could live attributed to a position out of factors. In the firstly place, the people were politically fragmented compared to their Tiv neighbours. Furthermore, they were numerically smaller than the Tiv. This is inward improver to the nature as well as grapheme of the migration procedure itself, for as O’kwu correctly observes, the Idoma were thinly spread over fairly extensive territory 40. The resultant of all these is that the people position upwardly a feeble resistance to Tiv encroachment, hence their displacement from ‘Apa I’. The pressure level of Tiv migrations was such that they entrapped an Idoma-speaking group, the Etulo, who did non displace chop-chop enough. Isolated from the main trunk of their Idoma kinsmen today, they shape a coterie of non-Tiv people inward Katsina-Ala, the view of modern Tivland. On their part, Doma as well as Keana also lost much of their territory as well as were progressively pushed farther North from the river Benue.
Another moving ridge of migrations from Igalaland moved Westwards into modern Idomaland. These migrants spot Apa as the habitation of their ancestors, but nevertheless debate that after their divergence from Apa at an before date, they migrated to parts of Igalaland. They were withal shortly compelled to acquire out that spot for parts of Western modern Idomaland because of the political upheaval as well as confusion that resulted from the increased influx of migrants into the expanse as well as the rather explosive political province of affairs of the time. Erim has contended that the bitter struggle which characterised political dominance inward the Igala State with headquarters at Idah sent numerous migrants fleeing Eastward toward Idomaland betwixt c1685-1715 41 . Today these migrants shape the essence of Western Idoma districts such as Otukpa, Orokam, Ichama as well as Edumoga. O’kwu reasons that these constitute the instant category of Idoma migration, for amidst the people, it is this instant migration that is remembered giving the impression that they are Igala past times origin.
By nigh the finally quarter of the nineteenth century, the procedure of the consolidation of novel territories inward which they found themselves had been completed. This consolidation was withal at the expense of other numerically smaller ethnic groups similar the Igede, Akweya as well as Ufia on whose territories the Idoma settled. While the Igede were pushed towards the Eastern fringes of the Idoma territory, the Ufia as well as Akweya were encircled past times the Idoma as well as today constitute bilingual micro-nationalities inward the view of Idomaland. The dot nosotros are trying to position across hither is that past times the terminate of the eighteenth century, the Idoma ethnic grouping had firmly established themselves on their acquaint location. Ochefu aptly puts it this way:
By the terminate of the eighteenth century, the procedure of incorporating social, political, religious as well as economical ideas that had been transmitted from their ancestral homeland with those that they had acquired during their (several decades of) migrations, as well as the adaptation of these ideas to their novel environment, had past times as well as large been completed.
As nosotros shall after see, this procedure was most thorough inward religion as well as politics as reflected inward the norms as well as values of the people, as good as their populace sentiment generally.
On the footing of the inward a higher spot analyses nosotros create the next conclusions on the origins as well as evolution of Idoma ethnicity. Our firstly observation is that the people receive got been involved inward migrations from the Apa cradle land, which brought them to their acquaint location. These migrations were quite a complex affair as well as stretched over nearly 2 hundred years. This makes migrations an of import aspect of their pre-colonial history. It is of import to annotation hither that both the historicity as well as location of Apa receive got evolved inward the context of the people’s belief as real. Thus this makes Apa, inward A. M. Adejo’s view, ‘… a spot (that is) larger than life, existent but also invested with myth’. The instant observation is that, the people moved out of Apa inward the legendary Kwararafa kingdom after its collapse non as a cohesive trunk nether a unmarried leadership.
The migrations had been inward waves nether separate leaders. In the legends, these leaders are referred to as both the founders of the diverse clans as well as their chiefs. This meant at to the lowest degree 2 things: (i) these clans, for the most part, were independent of each other, as well as (ii), judging from their contemporary populations, the clans must receive got been real pocket-sized inward size during the menstruum of their migrations. This scenario must receive got accounted for the relative ease with which the Tiv displaced the people from ‘Apa I’. Similarly, it must receive got accounted for the thinly dispersed nature as well as grapheme of the people’s village pattern throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth as well as nineteenth centuries inside the Benue valley.
Our finally observation is that, the people did non locomote far their acquaint location at the same time. In fact, the village procedure continued until the finally quarter of the eighteenth century. The implication of all these is that the people made contacts as well as interacted extensively with several Nigerian ethnic groups during the menstruum of their tortuous migrations from Apa to their acquaint location as well as when they finally settled. These historical considerations possibly explicate the fact that the contemporary Idoma gild consists of a heterogeneous position out of populations, mysteriously speaking the same language.
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