napoleon77:

So you are my brother?

YelloweWest:

We married into and married from Igbo. We traded with Igbos and had other relationships.
I don't know exactly how we took on Igbo names but for the mere fact that we say we are not and don't ever want to be Igbo, isn't that enough??

I expect you people to say these are not Igbo communities and not try to claim us by force!

Ikechukwuni6:


He's ijaw claiming ikwerre. When caught due to a past comment he made stating that he is ijaw before morphing to Ikwerre, he immediately transformed to Ikwerre/ijaw mixed. The coward is pure ijaw denying his tribe.

napoleon77:


Is Ndoni in Ogu Bolo or Okrika? The thread is about Ogu Bolo/Okrika and you claim we are Igbo clans and make a reference to Ndoni?

majekdom2:
you see, you are a regular unintelligent Nigerian that lack debating skills. You just contradicted yourself. You said I have an English name because I may have had relationship with the British. But does it make me a British. Simple, those names are there because the rivers people had a relationship with the ibos. You find more ibos in Rivers State than other ethnic group because of th location. Does this "relationship" make rivers Igbo?? there are loads of individuals with British first name and surnames in Rivers because of the relationship they had with oil explorators... does it make them British. Are you sure you aren't having a mental disorder??

YelloweWest:

Ndoni in Ogu Bolo and ndoni community here odili is from are not the same

lezz:
In Delta North, there's a very tiny community , oral history says they emigrated from Yorubaland. They are not up to 1/10th of the population but they speak their dialect and bear names similar to Yoruba despite the prevailing majority of igbo-speaking community in their mist.

So what is your language and names before the Igbo intermingling?

folarinmiles:
Anywhere afta ondo state in the South is Igbo to me

MultiCEO1:
Igbo is a nation. Ikwerre, Ika, Nkwerre, wawa, Ngwa, etche, Igbere, etc are all tribes in the igbo nation. I am an Igbere man from Abia state. you are Ikwerre from rivers. If you are not Igbo. I am not Igbo. If you claim Ikwerre, then I claim Igbere.
Igbo has over 200 dialects with Abia state alone having more than 30.
A dialect becomes a language if it loses mutual intelligibility with the mother tongue. Ikwerre has not lost that. Igbere has not lost that. That mutual intelligibility in the Igbo language which ensures that an ikwerre man or Igbere man from the interior can fairly understand the 'central Igbo' or the igbo language of a real cosmopolitan city without aid or requiring interpretation even if he can only speak his dialect is what makes and leaves us all Igbo. You can hardly understand my dialect if you ate not from my place. Same with an ikwerre man. But the moment I step down to the central Igbo language, the confusion will be settled. This can't be if an ikwerre, Ibere, igbere, waka or nteje man goes to the north or south.
Meanwhile, Ijaw is Ijaw. Ijaw is not an ethnic group in the Igbo nation, same with many other tribes in old eastern region.

Ikwerre, Nkwerre, Igbere, Ibere are all tribes in the Igbo nation.

MultiCEO1:
Igbo is a nation. Ikwerre, Ika, Nkwerre, wawa, Ngwa, etche, Igbere, etc are all tribes in the igbo nation. I am an Igbere man from Abia state. you are Ikwerre from rivers. If you are not Igbo. I am not Igbo. If you claim Ikwerre, then I claim Igbere.
Igbo has over 200 dialects with Abia state alone having more than 30.
A dialect becomes a language if it loses mutual intelligibility with the mother tongue. Ikwerre has not lost that. Igbere has not lost that. That mutual intelligibility in the Igbo language which ensures that an ikwerre man or Igbere man from the interior can fairly understand the 'central Igbo' or the igbo language of a real cosmopolitan city without aid or requiring interpretation even if he can only speak his dialect is what makes and leaves us all Igbo. You can hardly understand my dialect if you ate not from my place. Same with an ikwerre man. But the moment I step down to the central Igbo language, the confusion will be settled. This can't be if an ikwerre, Ibere, igbere, waka or nteje man goes to the north or south.
Meanwhile, Ijaw is Ijaw. Ijaw is not an ethnic group in the Igbo nation, same with many other tribes in old eastern region.

Ikwerre, Nkwerre, Igbere, Ibere are all tribes in the Igbo nation.

MultiCEO1:
Igbo is a nation. Ikwerre, Ika, Nkwerre, wawa, Ngwa, etche, Igbere, etc are all tribes in the igbo nation. I am an Igbere man from Abia state. you are Ikwerre from rivers. If you are not Igbo. I am not Igbo. If you claim Ikwerre, then I claim Igbere.
Igbo has over 200 dialects with Abia state alone having more than 30.
A dialect becomes a language if it loses mutual intelligibility with the mother tongue. Ikwerre has not lost that. Igbere has not lost that. That mutual intelligibility in the Igbo language which ensures that an ikwerre man or Igbere man from the interior can fairly understand the 'central Igbo' or the igbo language of a real cosmopolitan city without aid or requiring interpretation even if he can only speak his dialect is what makes and leaves us all Igbo. You can hardly understand my dialect if you ate not from my place. Same with an ikwerre man. But the moment I step down to the central Igbo language, the confusion will be settled. This can't be if an ikwerre, Ibere, igbere, waka or nteje man goes to the north or south.
Meanwhile, Ijaw is Ijaw. Ijaw is not an ethnic group in the Igbo nation, same with many other tribes in old eastern region.

Ikwerre, Nkwerre, Igbere, Ibere are all tribes in the Igbo nation.

lezz:
In Delta North, there's a very tiny community , oral history says they emigrated from Yorubaland. They are not up to 1/10th of the population but they speak their dialect and bear names similar to Yoruba despite the prevailing majority of igbo-speaking community in their mist.

So what is your language and names before the Igbo intermingling?

YelloweWest:

We married into and married from Igbo. We traded with Igbos and had other relationships.
I don't know exactly how we took on Igbo names but for the mere fact that we say we are not and don't ever want to be Igbo, isn't that enough??

I expect you people to say these are not Igbo communities and not try to claim us by force!

MultiCEO1:


Your tantrums notwithstanding, please, talk about Ijaw and stop centralizing by saying Rivers. Portharcourt is 40-50 % Igbo. The Ikwerre, Etche, Omuma, Obigbo etc, are all in Rivers state and the are all tribes in the igbo nation. stop this Rivers is not Igbo nonsense and talk about Ijaw, which of course is an ethnic group on her own. Igbo stretches from Agbor down to Igweocha (portharcourt.) Now you can show me more of my alleged unintelligence.

Brownbarbie97:

I know na ,there are lots of them on this forum .Harbringers of disunity and enemies of progress,efulefus.

leofab:
there is no Ndoni LGA, it's ONELGA.

airsaylongcon:


Typical Yorùbá mentality. And then when it favours Y'all you come and say Itsekiri is Yoruba. When there's a huge number of Yoruba speaking people in Edo state that bear Yoruba names yet Y'all don't acknowledge them as Yoruba. Case in point Tayọ Akpata. Between The boundaries of Yoruba and Igbo there are a vast number of tribes.

lezz:
In Delta North, there's a very tiny community , oral history says they emigrated from Yorubaland. They are not up to 1/10th of the population but they speak their dialect and bear names similar to Yoruba despite the prevailing majority of igbo-speaking community in their mist.

So what is your language and names before the Igbo intermingling?

MultiCEO1:


Your tantrums notwithstanding, please, talk about Ijaw and stop centralizing by saying Rivers. Portharcourt is 40-50 % Igbo. The Ikwerre, Etche, Omuma, Obigbo etc, are all in Rivers state and the are all tribes in the igbo nation. stop this Rivers is not Igbo nonsense and talk about Ijaw, which of course is an ethnic group on her own. Igbo stretches from Agbor down to Igweocha (portharcourt.) Now you can show me more of my alleged unintelligence.

lezz:
Of course rivers isn't Igbo because Ijaw is there as indigenes as well.

Stop speaking in general terms. The only reasons Africa beer names are cultural roots and colonisation.

Ikechukwuni6:


I know.

Ethnic morphing left and right on forums.
I won't be surprised of he turns to another ethnic group next year.

YelloweWest:

Look you guys need to drop this history shìt and deal with the present. After all its not my ancestors that might have migrated from Igbo land that will vote in the referendum!!!
I don't care what names we bare or where we migrated from, the present day Ijaw, Ikwerre, Etche, omuma Oyigbo man etc from rivers state all in one voice or at least the overwhelming majority say they are NOT Igbos! That's what counts! If you want to keep tracing roots pls take it all the way back to the time of Adam and Eve!

TonyeBarcanista:
Andoni is Ijaw, they are both in Rivers and Akwa Ibom states NOT cross River

Brownbarbie97:

It's not !!its a valid question,not everyone is familiar with people and their cultures.The names sound Igbo so what's wrong in asking whether the pple are recognized as Igbo or not ??
You guys always attach tribal issues to everything and let it becloud ur sense of reasoning .i taya for this forum

YelloweWest:

Look you guys need to drop this history shìt and deal with the present. After all its not my ancestors that might have migrated from Igbo land that will vote in the referendum!!!
I don't care what names we bare or where we migrated from, the present day Ijaw, Ikwerre, Etche, omuma Oyigbo man etc from rivers state all in one voice or at least the overwhelming majority say they are NOT Igbos! That's what counts! If you want to keep tracing roots pls take it all the way back to the time of Adam and Eve!

majekdom2:
Language alone does not define a Nation... Oga wake from your delusion

Brownbarbie97:

They change ethnicities like chamaleons.
I wonder what sort of genetic dysfunction that is!!