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Jun 25, 2018, 8:38 PM

Igbo people and leaders

Igbos make a fundamental mistake in choosing their leaders. We look for a he or she that had been a governor, minister, senator, legislator, etc, and empower him or her further. But we do not check if that former...

Apr 8, 2018, 11:36 PM

Umu oji: Community which has celebrated biblical Pesach for thousands of years

An Igbo community called Umu oji just finished celebration of ‘Uzo Iyi’(way/road through sea/water). It was at this same clan that I saw my first Sukkot (‘ima ntu’). The name of the just concluded festival Uzo Iyi, tells us the...

Mar 31, 2018, 1:54 AM

Land with the highest number of Seders: Who wins?

For the next seven days, three lands will be competing for one honor. The three lands are Igbo-land, where the biggest Israelite Diaspora calls its homeland since it left Israel thousands of years ago. The second is Israel, the...

Mar 30, 2018, 9:19 AM

Igbo DNA, Israelite DNA

I had my DNA analysed in 2017. I used the services of the company called MyHeritage. When the reading arrived, they had what I knew they would have: clear evidence that Igbos once lived in the Land of Israel....

Mar 21, 2018, 7:21 AM

Remy Ilona’s Poem in Honor of Jerusalem

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the fair city surrounded by hills, by hills surrounded As the Lord of hosts surrounds His people, His people enclose Nestled up in the Judaean hills, oh Land of Judah Scorched by the sun, and swept by the winds of...

Feb 18, 2018, 12:19 AM

Remy’s Vision about How to Kill Anti-Semitism and Anti-Igboism

I understand anti-semitism well, much more than many people in the world because I am an Igbo who has studied both Hebrew, Igbo, and Jewish history. I have also studied anti-semitism, and how anti-semites have targeted the Jewish people....

Feb 14, 2018, 10:00 PM

The Israeli who is telling Israelis about the Igbos

Much took place between the Igbo people and the Jews of the State of Israel, in the few years that the Igbo people led what was near to an autonomous existence within the country known as Nigeria. This was...

Feb 5, 2018, 12:16 AM

They spent time with Dozie Ikedife, and Emeka Eri who is the head of the children of Gad

Historian, Ikechukwu Uchenna Osuji, Hebrew Igbo Nation secretary of religious education, and Barrister Chukwuemeka Obinwugo, secretary of general education of HIN, both undertook two historic tours of Igboland recently. HIN backed the author who is the secretary-general of HIN and...

Jan 30, 2018, 1:17 AM

The Israelite Group that struggles to live in times of the Bible

Recently, a successful Cameroun based Igbo businessman from the richest ton in Africa; Nnewi, was murdered by his wife and his apprentice. The wife and the apprentice were lovers. Unfortunately for the evil pair they were caught by Camerounian...

Jan 28, 2018, 1:07 AM

Israel, Dispersed all over the world..Different experiences!

In the broadest sense, the Igbo, and the Jews are the Israelite people today. Today I was thinking about yet another experience of the Israelites, and how the Igbo, and the Jews responded to it. The experience is dispersion...

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About Me

Remy Ilona is of Ibo or Igbo extraction. The Ibo are among the three largest ethnic groups in Nigeria.He is a lawyer by training, and is also experienced as a historian of the Ibo. He is also an author who has published 6 books about the Ibos and their connections with the Jews and the Land of Israel.He is among the leaders shepherding the Ibos re-emerging Judaism. Presently he is in Miami where he is studying with the famous Professor Tudor Parfitt, and also working as a graduate assistant at the Florida International University, Miami.