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prettyH (f)
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You are the owner of the site, all power belongs to you. So do what u want.
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nicetohave (m)
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Now what am I supposed to do to a thread like this? No matter what I decide on this thread someone is going to lecture me about ihow wrong I am.  you need more lectures on how to be an administrator, thats what you need. |
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Z4M4eva (f)
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Well I think the Ibos are pretty kool people...they are humans just like Yoruba's, Hausas and all other tribes...although I am not Ibo...I am yoruba but yeah I think they good  |
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Freewilly (f)
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Now what am I supposed to do to a thread like this? No matter what I decide on this thread someone is going to lecture me about ihow wrong I am. I feel for you.....LMAO it must be hard to be an administrator with people like me around huh. |
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Oyinhoney (m)
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419 hehe   ....Ibo guyz r also cute well some of em... |
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loriann (f)
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one nigeria but i reallu dont like the igbos they feel they r too smart.and thats grouse
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ldollier (f)
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one nigeria but i reallu don't like the igbos they feel they r too smart.and thats grouse
 you have issues |
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snazzydawn (f)
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hisses @ this thread!!!
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twinstaiye (m)
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ibo means I Before Others
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ghettochyk (f)
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r u igbo, mr. webster?
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chinani (f)
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ibo means I Before Others
that might be clever in another universe. but since it is IGBO not IBO, the er, joke, falls on its face. again friends, for emphasis, it is IGBO not ibo. ibo is what people who know nothing call us. you smart abi? good, then it's IGBO. by the way, it's not YOURUBA is it? nope. didnt think so. but it's nice to check.  |
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larger_20 (m)
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As a typical igbo man who made As in his WAEC IGBO and do occasional English Igbo translation here in states for pay,
First of all, Igbos dont feel they r smart, but we are too proud of how charp or how clever we r especially when it comes to doing business. The diffrence b/w Igbo and Ibo started in 1981 during the formation of Igbo izugbe. Igbo Izugbe is the association incharge of developing Igbo languages. My Igbo teacher in high school is a key member of this association. He is about 70 years now.
Unfortunatley for the igbos, our languages are not complete so we borrow words from other people including the yorubas, hausas and from ENglish (bekee)
The Original pronouciation of the current ("igbo") is Ibo or Igbo. Some Igbo people call it "Ibo" before 1981 while some people call it "Igbo" but after the formation of the Igbo Izugwe in 1981. There is a need for the Igbo people to have one word for each thing. Hence, the igbo people researched on the linguisic of the people and decided the best fit to the Igbo lingual is the pronounciation by the people of Abia State. Hence the common and generally accepeted Igbo language is the Igbos of the abia state people.
WAEC is very strick with this notion so that if u write igbo in any other form apart from using the Igbo izugbe formation, u will fail the exam. In addition for people who care, while some people call it ibo is becasue they dont understand the "mkpi" at that time.
Just like a white person cannot pronounce "gb" so they adopted "b" like the white men and call it that way. Even in that Igbo, most people dont know how to pronouce "gb" and its just changes in accents we see even in developed countries, not withstanding, anyone who grew up in abia state can tell the diffrence when he speaks with other igbo speakers born in Onitsha or some other part of anambra state
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Jakumo (m)
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Rigorous data collection and analysis will one day confirm what many who are familiar with the Igbo tribe already know, namely that in any academic or intellectual setting, the Igbos as a group stand head and shoulders above most of Nigeria's other indigenous tribes.
There is no disputing the fact that a significant majority of the most powerful scholastic minds ever to come out of Africa happen to be of Igbo extraction, though the reasons for this cognitive edge will probably continue to baffle geneticists and remain shrouded in mystery for a long time to come. Before anyone cries foul, there is not a drop of Igbo blood in this writer's veins.
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biggjoe (m)
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hotangel and wesleyAna, are just being who they are. Their childishness was too much that they do not realise when they r off the line. imagine that. What do u expect from them. they forgot that many their people are known for laziness and thats why everybody thinks Igbo people are greedy. Plz try and differentiate between greed and shrewedness. They will make 10,000 naira from monday to friday and spend 12,000 naira on party during the weekend. What a people!
Thats why we will continue to progress and they will continue hating. We are taking over everything right before their eyes and the only thing they can do about it is having fun with igbo characters. The only thing which they use to do better than the Igbos is now out of their hands. Education. Go to our universities today. we have taken over from them but they wont see it because they are too lazy and we have some money to make. They are languishing in poverty, most of them, but they wont see it. How many family in Igboland is wretched today. you can count them. But they think we are greedy. Our governors are gradually transforming our states but they wont notice because they believe that their is political decay in ourland. Can someone tell them that after political and economic decay comes development. Ngige in three years transformned Anambra. Chimaroke is doing his bit, im not talking about Kalu. These people, lazy people, they wont see us come!
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Hotstepper (f)
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@biggjoe, great writing, if Nigeria devides 2day, Igbo's can survive and do better than any other tribe in Nigeria, Yorubas r only depended on gov't money, why?
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otokx (m)
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i think they are cool
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ababoy1 (m)
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It’s a pity that a thread I started (and forgot about) in good faith has lowered itself into a circus. What I even find equally mind-boggling (and this is taking into account some of the unwise statements made by some minors here) is this… Now what am I supposed to do to a thread like this? No matter what I decide on this thread someone is going to lecture me about ihow wrong I am. The next time you either delete or modify my posts or that of others, I hope you will have the graciousness to ask everyone what you should do first! |
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babe1 (f)
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Seun, igbo is the language, ibo is the tribe. At least thats what i think.
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ghettochyk (f)
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nope. it's igbo all thru! it's the non-igbos/ english speakers dat try to change it to "ibo". i think it's rude to not get it right. we are "igbo"!! not "ibo"!!! and when we call ourselves in our native tongue, we pronounce it "IGBO" not "IBO"!!!
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babe1 (f)
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I consider myself ibo, you know what i think maybe because am delta ibo, you can't call me delta igbo can you? I never hear that. It is always people form across the River niger that say they are igbo, most delta ibos don't. For real o. I don't think it is rude though because i always say i am ibo. I mean we all do, all my family and our delta ibo friends.
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babe1 (f)
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Hey don't take this the wrong way, that is just how i grew up.
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ghettochyk (f)
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nah. i aint offended, am just saying. people can say their "ibo" but if you pronounce it, thereno mistake, i.e. you aint wrong cus you pronounced it "igbo", it's kinda hard not to pronounce it as "igbo" but i'm talking bout when writing it, the actually spelling really is "igbo" and not "ibo". it's pronounce "igbo" by default, unless it's like a non-igbo or non nigerian person dats saying it and they can't make the sound "gb" as in "igbo" or "gbosa" even wit the word "gbosa", if you ask an american to say it, they'd say "bosa" cus their tongue can't say it like us, get what i mean?
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gigitte (f)
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this thread na real wah.
like people say, you don't know what you've got till its gone.
did our people not say in the fifties, give us our independence, nigeria is going to be great, who better to rule it than ourselves, it is not right for the whiteman to rule us like so for it is marginalization in effect, stop stealing our resources, let us educate our people and greater heights will be attained etc etc etc. wow almost fifty years later look at us, shame
did the igbo people not say, give us our independence, biafra is going to be great, who better to rule it than ndi igbo and co, it is not right that we are ruled by the north whom the british left in the balance of power, we are being marginalized, stop stealing our resources (oil and business acumen and intelligence i guess), let us educate our people and greater heights will be attained. well ojukwu and co believed so much and this that he was willing to fight for it and the rest of nigeria believed so much in nigeria than they were willing to fight for it.
and biafra lost. and they were forgiven by this i mean they were not removed from existence as is the common ocurrence with ethnic related wars.
it pains my heart today to see igbos say that they are being marginalized etc etc etc. sometimes i want to say sorry you guys are just sore losers. after all even tho u can see confederate flags in the US, you don't see such dissension. but then again, i kind of get how it feels to have a dream that you are so sure will have worked and then not to realise that dream and continue to feel frustrated in the current situation.
so as people say, since you don't know what you have till its gone. so also i say, if you want to go, go. if you think you can make it on your own, do it and let us see. so that if you are successful perhaps you can help us too. take your oil after all oil has brought nothing good in the long run. take iweka road and go, take aba onitsha nsukka nnewi and go, perhaps nigeria will be better for it and perhaps you will be better for it. go, so that if there is dissension and nothing seems to work, generations to come will know say that it was you oh, and nigeria and marginalization had nothing to do with it. after all the poor man yearns to be rich without really knowing what it trully is to be rich. go, and if you decide to come back, we got your back, you are welcome.
it is time to awaken from dependency on oil, afterall if there is no more cake, no be bread you go eat?
but do not do as you did during the civil war, do not ask others to go with you oh. after all why should the yoruba man follow you to your country, what is the guarantee that you will not marginalize them as you claim nigeria did. that in fact is my major beef with igbos view of the war. we chose to stay, pele.
me i don't believe in biafra, arewa or oduduwa, or niger delta or middle belt. i believe in nigeria shi ke na
but if you want to go, go.
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NINETOFIVE (m)
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this thread na real wah.
like people say, you don't know what you've got till its gone.
did our people not say in the fifties, give us our independence, nigeria is going to be great, who better to rule it than ourselves, it is not right for the whiteman to rule us like so for it is marginalization in effect, stop stealing our resources, let us educate our people and greater heights will be attained etc etc etc. wow almost fifty years later look at us, shame
did the igbo people not say, give us our independence, biafra is going to be great, who better to rule it than ndi igbo and co, it is not right that we are ruled by the north whom the british left in the balance of power, we are being marginalized, stop stealing our resources (oil and business acumen and intelligence i guess), let us educate our people and greater heights will be attained. well ojukwu and co believed so much and this that he was willing to fight for it and the rest of nigeria believed so much in nigeria than they were willing to fight for it.
and biafra lost. and they were forgiven by this i mean they were not removed from existence as is the common ocurrence with ethnic related wars.
it pains my heart today to see igbos say that they are being marginalized etc etc etc. sometimes i want to say sorry you guys are just sore losers. after all even tho u can see confederate flags in the US, you don't see such dissension. but then again, i kind of get how it feels to have a dream that you are so sure will have worked and then not to realise that dream and continue to feel frustrated in the current situation.
so as people say, since you don't know what you have till its gone. so also i say, if you want to go, go. if you think you can make it on your own, do it and let us see. so that if you are successful perhaps you can help us too. take your oil after all oil has brought nothing good in the long run. take iweka road and go, take aba onitsha nsukka nnewi and go, perhaps nigeria will be better for it and perhaps you will be better for it. go, so that if there is dissension and nothing seems to work, generations to come will know say that it was you oh, and nigeria and marginalization had nothing to do with it. after all the poor man yearns to be rich without really knowing what it trully is to be rich. go, and if you decide to come back, we got your back, you are welcome.
it is time to awaken from dependency on oil, afterall if there is no more cake, no be bread you go eat?
but do not do as you did during the civil war, do not ask others to go with you oh. after all why should the yoruba man follow you to your country, what is the guarantee that you will not marginalize them as you claim nigeria did. that in fact is my major beef with igbos view of the war. we chose to stay, pele.
me i don't believe in biafra, arewa or oduduwa, or niger delta or middle belt. i believe in nigeria shi ke na
but if you want to go, go.
You do not accept that the Igbo people are been marginalized in Nigeria, but you are afraid that If the Yoruba Man follows the Igbo man he would eventually be marginalized, thats not a display of probity huhn!, You people so fxcking hate us and I fxcking like it, infact I love it, that would give us the zeal to desuetude ourselves of Nigeria kapish. |
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gigitte (f)
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lol you're not serious ninetofive. i havent seen any evidence that the igbo man is being marginalized. who is marginalizing him?
and yes what stops biafra from marginalizing yorubas if they followed y'all to biafra. what makes you different from whoever is marginalizing you eh?
nonsense and ingredience.
sha sha, like i like to say, nobody can hate you more than you hate yourself, so keep hating. all these your illusions of grandeur na real wah. everybody fxcking hates you? lmfao
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NINETOFIVE (m)
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lol you're not serious ninetofive. i havent seen any evidence that the igbo man is being marginalized. who is marginalizing him?
and yes what stops biafra from marginalizing yorubas if they followed y'all to biafra. what makes you different from whoever is marginalizing you eh?
nonsense and ingredience.
sha sha, like i like to say, nobody can hate you more than you hate yourself, so keep hating. all these your illusions of grandeur na real wah. everybody fxcking hates you? lmfao
For your information is you the haters that can't live without us not we, se o ngbo mi nsin, lo joko si coner, we love ourselves and we are proud. |
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gigitte (f)
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okay oh my brother. three gbosas for you. afterall the mad man thinks everyone except himself is mad  |
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Nutter (m)
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but do not do as you did during the civil war, do not ask others to go with you oh. after all why should the yoruba man follow you to your country Where did you read or where/when were you told that any Igbo leader ever suggested that the Yoruba form a country with them? As you seem to be so knowledgeable on this issue, enlighten us if you will. |
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gigitte (f)
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correct if i am wrong nutter but i do believe that a huge part of the beef btw yoruba and igbo is the decision of the yorubas to throw their lot with nigeria during the war. it is to my general understanding that ojukwu thought that the yorubas would join him in fighting against the north that was left in the balance of power after independence but they did not. it was in light of this that i said, dont ask anyone to follow you to biafra, because to me biafra has been presented first and foremost as refuge for igbos from marginalization.
if you heard something different please tell since you also seem to be so knowledgeable
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Nutter (m)
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This is a simple enough matter. Please provide your sources for the statement you made about the Yoruba being asked to be a part of Biafra. Talking about the request to the Yoruba to also fight the North is NOT quite the same thing. Is it?
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chinani (f)
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Babe1, I'm confused. Are you saying that you're (a)Igbo (b)"Delta Igbo" or (c)neither?
You have an affinity for the colonized spelling (Ibo) I see. . .
Disclaimer: I'm not into the "delta Igbo" thing. Igbo is Igbo to me.
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