ITbomb:

I beg to differ
Ibibio, Annang, Eket and even Oron speaks dialect of the same language. The difference is just like the Igbo spoken in Owerri and that of Anambra or Aba.

But for Cross River, Ikom and Efik speaks very significantly different languages altogether. It's not a dialect.
Unlike Akwa Ibom, Cross River is really a Babylon of languages

NtoAkwaIbom:


lols.
but u Guys speak Efik rite ? Eket people are not Ibibio, but the fact that we all have the Ibibio/Efik language with which we can converse with all members of the Akwa/Cross.
we hv a sense of brodahood, wen mixed in a country of 270 different languages

NtoAkwaIbom:

oya continue...
thing is u can try sowing ur seeds of discord.. all we will do is to take out the seeds cook it, say grace before meals... and then chop it. no long thing.

ChangetheChange:


The Chinese in their hundreds will flood into that village by tommorow and start illegal mining of those iron ore

Chinese and illegal mining

pazienza:


I'm not from Ikom.

Eket people are Ibibiod.

Ikom isn't. Their language is distinct.

Amberon11:
Throughout history black people have never been able to do meaningful things without the white man. Shameful!

udemzyudex:


I told one of my boss today that, after God it is the white man, he was arguing..

If not for the white man, Africa will still be wearing animal skin

ITbomb:
Good development But my question is always, why waiting for outsiders to come and discover stuff in our backyard when we have research centres with PhDs and Profs.

Imagine our children reading in history books that China discovered iron ore in Cross River Nigeria as if we be mumu

LionDeLeo:
Cross River is is truly blessed with natural resources, not some barren lands.

Long live Cross River state
Long live the Federal Republic of Nigeria

Caustics:
Very bad. I discovered small deposits of iron and tin ore in my backyard when i was 10 years old. what do we have professors and phd holders in this country for?

Amberon11:
Throughout history black people have never been able to do meaningful things without the white man. Shameful!

NtoAkwaIbom:


you are not from Ikom..
you are IGBO, but u claim to speak on behalf of Ikom people to an Ibibio man.

Ikpa u r not fit to do dat..
wen I say dat all part of Cross river and Akwa Ibom state Understand Efik/Ibibio to be able to converse... We the Akwa/Cross people know this.. All other part of Akwa Cross, speak(not fluently) and understand Efik and Ibibio) but the Efik/Ibibio people hv difficulty understanding the other, Oron, Ekid, Ikom dialects.

Amberon11:
Very true. Just imagine telephone, TVs, computers, cars, aeroplanes, dish washers , washing machines, microwave ovens etc, none invented by a black man. All the scientists who impacted the world were all white too. Its a huge shame indeed.

Caustics:
Very bad. I discovered small deposits of iron and tin ore in my backyard when i was 10 years old. what do we have professors and phd holders in this country for?

pazienza:


Not true.
An Ikom man has no reason to learn Efik, unless he personally wants to.

Northern Cross River groups are ethnically distinct from Efik/Ibibio people and did/do crave for independence from Efiks, right from the days of Eastern region.

Their cry for Ogoja state had so far failed to materialise.

They dread the Efik/Ibibio domination, as much as they feared Igbo domination in the Eastern region.

crazysam001:


Because you haven't told anybody since you discovered it and wouldn't tell anyone till now and whoever you told cant and wouldn't do shit about it. That's what you need us for, to know what to do when we find it and not come here bragging about the t.

NtoAkwaIbom:


no wonder.
You are an Ipob footsoldier, you feel that an Ikom man wants to be More with Igbos than with Ibibio Efik... hahahahahaha.

you peoples delusion is out of this world.
Oron people hv been clamouring for a state too, becos unlike Ikom, Oron people hv been not been fully in the govt, but the region produces most of the oil enjoyed by Aks.
Ogoja state is because Calabar is very very wide, and the Ogoja is very far from the Capital... not for all those ur forked up reasons. there's no single tribe in Nigeria that would love to be in a union with Igbos, because of folks like u, who will love to feel that an Ikom man will love to speak IGBO than speak Efik... An Ikom man does not need to speak or learn Efik... they know it already.. because as brodas and sisters we intermarry..
my cousin is an Ikom man, my dad's young sister married from there..
So bhro, your attempts at sowing some discord between brodas hv failed, an Oron man has more reason to break away from Aks, than an Ikom man from Calabar.. Ikom is mostly as a reason of Administrative reasons.. Oron is because they are politically maligned..

I am an Akwa/Cross streetboy, who got enlightened reading ebooks, I know Akwa/cross because I hv ran most of its streets... I hv played in most of its neighborhoods, Oron, Uyo, Ikom, Calabar South, Ikom, Ibiono... this are my home, anytym anyday.

ITbomb:


More Pics and Source: https://www.naijahq.com/2017/08/massive-iron-ore-deposits-discovered-cross-river-state/

pazienza:


Lol!
Funny guy. And you think I don't know Ikom and environment too?

Keep living in fantasy world.

No one ever mentioned Biafra or Ipob here, you are the one that did.

igbodefender:
They should exploit it as soon as possible. Nigeria needs the foreign exchange.

muller101:
not really. Just that I hate anything deforestation

freshest4live:

If the Governor is wise, he would also seek for help from Nigerians in diaspora experienced in the field, we can't leave it all to the Chinese.

NtoAkwaIbom:


I know ur ilks and what u Guys love doing... Just imagine the height of delusion.. for an IGBO boy to say that an Ikom man feels an IGBO man is more brotherly to him than an Efik man... ikpa you should be necklaced with tire and burnt for that...

that thought is so scandalous... how do u people survive with such delusion ? I know if Kanu tells u Guys dat night is day, u Guys will bliv... imagine an IGBO man claiming that Ikom people love and cherish IGBO people, and will readily stay in the same room with an IGBO man Dan stay in the same community with an Efik man... You guys deserve to be flogged.. lols

Caustics:
STFU.

NtoAkwaIbom:


no wonder.
You are an Ipob footsoldier, you feel that an Ikom man wants to be More with Igbos than with Ibibio Efik... hahahahahaha.

you peoples delusion is out of this world.
Oron people hv been clamouring for a state too, becos unlike Ikom, Oron people hv been not been fully in the govt, but the region produces most of the oil enjoyed by Aks.
Ogoja state is because Calabar is very very wide, and the Ogoja is very far from the Capital... not for all those ur forked up reasons. there's no single tribe in Nigeria that would love to be in a union with Igbos, because of folks like u, who will love to feel that an Ikom man will love to speak IGBO than speak Efik... An Ikom man does not need to speak or learn Efik... they know it already.. because as brodas and sisters we intermarry..
my cousin is an Ikom man, my dad's young sister married from there..
So bhro, your attempts at sowing some discord between brodas hv failed, an Oron man has more reason to break away from Aks, than an Ikom man from Calabar.. Ikom is mostly as a reason of Administrative reasons.. Oron is because they are politically maligned..

I am an Akwa/Cross streetboy, who got enlightened reading ebooks, I know Akwa/cross because I hv ran most of its streets... I hv played in most of its neighborhoods, Oron, Uyo, Ikom, Calabar South, Ikom, Ibiono... this are my home, anytym anyday.

ezeagu:
Nigeria's baboon government has been looking for a reason to dig up this pristine forest and it seems the Chinese have given them one.

MarvelousMe:





This my guy, if you've lived in Calabar then you know that the Efiks view the Ibibios with some kind of contempt and suspicions a bit like the view you hold of the Igbos.
They consider us as nuisance and nothing but trouble makers and and... I'm sure you know the rest. But it doesn't stop us from coexisting and inter-marrying and being brothers

Chukazu:


Are you sure you from cross river?

The cross river I know share a lot in common with South East and Abia state in particular... This is just a seed of discord