Heartland F.C. Heartland F.C. Heartland FC (formerly known as Iwuanyanwu Nationale from 1985 to 2006) is a Nigerian football club based in Owerri. They play their home games at Dan Anyiam Stadium. Enyimba FC are their rivals. Until their 18th place showing and relegation in 2016, they were one of two teams in the top flight that had never been relegated. In October 2017, Heartland F.C. won the Nigeria National League Southern Conference to gain promotion back up to the top flight. Founded as Spartans FC, they won the Nigerian championship three years running from 1988–90. . Their first international (friendly) match
Lobi people of the white man in the area. During the twentieth century some migrated into Côte d'Ivoire. The Lobi are well documented for their animist beliefs, which involves regular interaction with ancestral and other types of spirits such as "thila" and "kontuoursi". Interaction with these spirits commonly takes place in a "thilduu" (domestic shrine room), "dithil" (village shrine), and at other places in nature inhabited by spirits. Christian missionaries working in southern Burkina Faso have reported that an elderly man in a Lobi village once renounced the spirits in favor of Christianity by discarding his fetishes in a nearby lake. As