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THE APOLOGY THAT LOWERS THE IGWE THRONE Written by Mazi Mike Ngozi Osuji The throne of an Igwe in Igbo land is sacred and ancestral. The sacredness of the Igwe Royal stool is therefore, not meant to be compromised by the occupant of the throne for reasons which has the underlining of personal aggrandizement and political shinanigans.  Over the years, criminal elements and charlatans have successfully forced themselves on the  thrones of their ancestors by bribing their way to the sacred throne. In doing so, the eze stool in many Igbo kingdoms remain debased under the rulership of criminals and charlatans. The Eze is on throne primarily as the custodian of the Igbo culture and traditions of his people,  but what obtains these days gives the stools of Igwe out as a throne of charlatans who are there for their own personal gratification.  The Eze stool must not suffer reproach and embarrassment as it were, but the Igwes' meddlesome behaviors in political matters...

THE CAR GIFTS OF SHAME TO THE IGWE written by Mazi Ngozi Osuji Trending now is that Prince Arthur Eze, has gifted the 12 Anambra Igwes he controversially took to Abuja with SUV cars and they are; 1. Igwe of Igbariam, 2. Igwe of Alor, 3. Igwe of Ifitedunu, 4. Igwe of Nawfia, 5. Igwe of Ezira, 6. Igwe of Abacha, 7. Igwe of Owelle, 8. Igwe of Mkpunando, 9. Igwe of Ezinifite, 10. Igwe of Umumbo, 11. Igwe of Eziagulu, 12. Igwe of Ikenga. These are the prodigal Igwes who  left their sacred thrones and allowed themselves to be used as political pawns in the hands of Prince Arthur Eze of Ukpo. Prince Arthur Eze's recent car gift to the twelve scandalous Anambra Igwes is not only a face saving act,  but a clear disrespect and desecration on the thrones of our Igbo ancestors. The Igwe throne is not a political office and must not be belittled the way Arthur Eze has done and continue to do to the sacred thrones of Igbo ancestors. The Igwe as a custodi...

THE BASTARDIZATIOM OF THE THRONE OF IGWE IN IGBOLAND The throne of Igwe or Eze in Igbo land is traditional and ancestral. The Eze stool is meant to be sacred and full of divinity and power. It was the oracle that chose who would be king of his people in Igbo land. The traditional Igbo stool enjoyed unadulterated divinity, and sacrosanctity and power, which had direci spiritual link with the gods. THE IGWE STOOL IS ANCESTRAL AND TRADITIONAL AND NOT POLITICAL The Nze-na-Ọzọ title holders constitute  the king makers whose duty was to prepare the chosen king according to the demand of traditional tenets of the land. A chosen Eze or Igwe was usually subjected to series of oaths,and rituals to prepare him for the onerous task of the Eze or  Igwe stools in Igbo land. A new king could be chosen at infancy according to the wishes of the oracle. Igbo kings were not enthroned by virtue of age, height or wealth but by the dictates of the gods who chooses whoever pleased them i...

THE VANITY OF IGBO PRESIDENCY By Mazi Mike Ngozi Osuji. The word vanity ordinarily means something that doesn't profit anything. Vanity is a moment of profanity and an action that produces momentary enjoyment, happiness or success.  A situation that can give you a fleeting excitement and joy  only to be followed by regrets, pain and trauma.  Comparably, therefore, the idea of Igbo presidency wears the same garb as a moment of vanity in an ordinary atmosphere of human achievement. After the Biafran war of 1967-1970, totaling a whole period of 56 years, the Igbo nation has been systematically sidelined by the rest of the Nigerian nation. The Igbos were denied their rightful positions in the scheme of things in Nigeria, in order words,  they were treated as a conquered people.  There has been an undeniable facts that national conspiracy exists against the Igbo race from producing a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction.  Late Dr.Alex Ekwueme, who founded the G...

WRESTLING THE ANCIENT IGBO SPORTS. The Cultural Sports of Igbo People Written by Mazi Mike Ngozi Osuji Tel: +2348033865418 Email: Osujimichael60@gmail.com The Igbo race as a people are undoubtedly, endowed in almost every aspects of human endeavours and activities. Among the numerous traditional sporting activities of the Igbo race, wrestling is the most prominent and most universal within the Igbo society. Wrestling is a naturally evolving sporting traditional practice of the Igbo race which enjoyed the patronage of all age groups including both masculine and feminine and genders. CHARACTERISTICS OF IGBO WRESTLING SPORTS  First and foremost, Igbo wrestling sports required able bodied men who are breast-chested and studded. The sport is characterized by muscle flexing, intrigues, suspense arms-twisting, and acrobatic body moves. Others, were studs, speed and agility of wrestlers, pushing, mesmerizing legs and hands moves, catwalks carrying up and throwing do...

THE WHITE LAMB IN THE CLOUDS Folktales from Igbo land Written by Mazi Mike Ngozi Osuji Tel+2348033865418 Email;Osujimichael60@gmail.Com Once upon  time, there was a couple who lived in a remote village behind the river nwangene. The man was called Udofia while the wife was known as Ahudie. They lived together in the neighborhood made up of a cluster of hamlets. The people who lived in those hamlets were family, cousins, nephews, extended family  and nuclear family members. The Udofia and Ahudie couple were farmers. They had a flock of goats and sheep. One day the couple made a plan to steal their own goat. After hatching the plan to steal their own goat, they carried out the plan and stole one of their many goats. But the goat they stole was pregnant, and unknown to them it had only a few weeks to deliver. bbb Udofia and his wife also had a large yam-barn. They were reasonably wealthy but at the same time they envied a poor man within their neighborhood...