They argue that the administrative set up, titles and common names have similarities to those of Bini people.
The top four Alusi of the Igbo pantheon are Ala, Igwe, Anyanwu, and Amadioha (or Kamalu); other less important Alusi exist after these, some depending on the community.
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Nigerian politician and educationist Nwafor Orizu is his grandson and the current Igwe of Nnewi, Kenneth Onyeneke Orizu III is his great-grandson.
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Igwe Iwuchukwu Ezeifekaibeya was the 14th Obi of Otolo and is obi of Nnewi kingdom in the present day Anambra state of Nigeria.
In 2009, Igwe represented the International Humanist and Ethical Union at the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights in Banjul, Gambia, where he spoke out on the IHEU's behalf against caste-based discrimination in Africa.
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Igwe was raised in southeastern Nigeria, and describes his household as being strictly Catholic in the midst of a "highly superstitious community," according to an interview in the Gold Coast Bulletin.
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In June 2009, as Director of the Center For Inquiry–Nigeria, Igwe was interviewed on the BBC World Service about the Center's efforts to raise awareness about violence and neglect resulting from witchcraft belief, both in the name of its practice and resulting from fear of magic.
Igwe Umenyiora also built a modern town hall for the people which was blessed by the then Archbishop of Onitsha, His Grace, Most Rev. Francis Arinze)
On July 9, 1904, he became the first Igwe of Ogidi in a ceremony recorded in the Colonial Administrative Intelligence Book and witnessed by colonial officers representing the government of HM King Edward VII of England.