IGALA VS EBIRA: THE ETYMOLOGYCAL AND SCIENTIFIC TRUTH AT HAND IN THE OWNERSHIP OF AJAOKUTA AND LOKOJA-BY MOMOH YAKUBU
IGALA VS EBIRA: THE ETYMOLOGYCAL AND SCIENTIFIC TRUTH AT HAND IN THE OWNERSHIP OF AJAOKUTA AND LOKOJA-BY MOMOH YAKUBU Research Paper Presented at the Academic Elite of Ebiraland online Conference Lecture on this day of 21st June, 2020. PREAMBLE: History is the available information about the past to guide us in the conduct of the affairs of the present and assist us in restructuring the future. History, however, does not lie but humans lie in giving account of their own history (Khalid Yasin, 2005). In the same vein, Nelson Mandela opined that a man without the sense of history is like a man without eyes and ears. MIGRATION AND SETTLEMENT: We urge the readers of this article to digest this with an open mind as students of historical facts.To this ends, putting sentiment aside, both oral tradition and written records collaborated one another that the ancestors of Ebiras around Niger-Benue confluence hailed from the Ancient Jukun Kwararafa kingdom. The Ebira pe