To all Ibos on this forum.
Would you people accept being called Ikwerre people? We have no problem with you saying you are Ikwerre. However in a very strong term: The Ikwerres are not Ibos.
You people have always claimed that Ikwerre disassociated themselves after the civil war. You are correct! Even Nigeria as a country got liberated from the clutches of your overbearing dominance after the civil war. The appendages of your attempted colonization of Ikwerre people and at large the Niger Delta people still litter around. In our courts you were the magistrates, lawyers and everything. As an Ikwerre man you could be stoned and lynched for speaking your dialect in Port Harcourt City before the war my dad told me. We had no choice than the Hobson's choice of pretentious oneness. Come to the street of Port Harcourt and see streets named after our 'colonial masters' the Ibos. You could hardly find a street named after an Ikwerre man. Do you own Port Harcourt? You maligned us, subjugated us and the most demeaning was changing our community names. All Rumu to Umu, Nwo to Nwa and so on. We could take same revenge the Hausas took on you people if we had the wits for our brilliant sons and daughters you people killed prior and during the war.
It was no surprising the Ikwere people and Niger Deltans welcome with tumultuous joy the liberation and arrival of the Nigerian soldiers during the war.
Our language are similar to some extent and I will tell you the reasons. It is only the diluted Ikwerre languages of the Obio/Akpor LGA and Port Harcourt LGA that have some distant similarities due to inter-trading and inter-marriages. Emuoha LGA and Ikwerre LGA have a lot similarities with the old Bini Kingdom. These two LGA are closer to yours in terms of land border, incidentally their words sound Binin does it not ring bells to your ears that Ikwerre is not part of you?
Do you know that Ibo language was compulsorily taught and learnt in schools in present Rivers State before the war? Was it same practice in your region? This goes a lengthy way to prove that you cant teach a people their language. You only teach people a strange language. This is to prove we (Ikwerre) are not Ibo. We are not xenophobic, we welcome you people to the Ikwerre Ethnic nationality if you would want to claim our nationality.
Elechi Amadi may your humble and enlightened soul rest in peace. You only wrote, put in writing what our parents told us verbally for posterity and record purposes in your 'Sunset in Biafra'. Believe me as well the sun has perpetually set in Biafra.

So because "Rumu" is "umu" and "Nwo" is "Nwa" in Ikwere language in relation to Igbo is what makes you people distinct? That small difference in dialect? These Ikwere people are crazy it seems. Even their Ijaw and Ogoni neigbours consider them pure unadulterated Igbos but are they are concerned about what Igbos think? You speak a dialect of Igbo, you have an Igbo surname but you are not Igbo? Some of these Ikwere are just attention seekers all because of Porthacourt. The OP is saying that Federal soldiers liberated them during the war but he did not add that before the war, the were getting 67% of the proceeds of their resources. After the you were ' liberated' they got zero, they are still begging for 13% in Nigeria. Nice liberation indeed. Slaves, to this day, some of them don't know it was all about their Oil. Same Oil they no longer control.

slaves on the loose

Igbo language is taught in the five igbo states of the south east,does it mean that they are being taught a strange language?

If you want to claim hausa for all i care you are free to,nobody cares.

Ikwerre being igbo does not put food on anybody's table.Any way,the last time i checked,the president of Ohaneze is an "ikweere man"

The first coup in the country that generated all these bad blood was tagged an igbo coup, but was actually spear headed by an Nzeogwu,whose people today equally say they are not igbo,but the igbo paid the ultimate price.

If we only know that 90% of the Northerners we refer to as Hausas, are only Hausa in language,we will stop blaming Britain and applaud the political smartness of the Northerners.

Another rabid dog on the loose.smh

As an Ikwerre man you could be stoned and lynched for speaking your dialect in Port Harcourt City before the war my dad told me.

The average Ikwerre man is so intellectually lazy and incapable of rational thoughts.

How exactly could the above happen without a single recorded documentation of it by local and foreign print media?
How exactly is that possible? Do all Igbo people speak same dialect? Which dialect of Igbo was forced on Ikwerre? Oguta dialect of Nzimiro? Onitsha dialect of Zik? Ohuhu Umuahia dialect of Okpara? Idemili dialect of Achebe? Ehugbo dialect of Ibiam?

Does it even occur to the Ikwerre that Igbos speak in distinct but closely related dialects, that Igbo Izugbe is an artificial language created for Igbo language studies only but not spoken by any Igbo clan?


If you have any bit of rationality and any iota of logical thinking, you would know that your parents were pathological liars, and that no such things as lynching an Ikwerre man in PortHarcourt for speaking Ikwerre dialect occured.

Igbo got many dialects, Ikwerre is one of the dialect.

Any Ikwerre man that says he is not Igbo is a victim of 'divide and rule".

Ikwerre dialect is even more closer than some Igbo dialects. When a typical Ohafia/Igbere man speaks his own dialect, I hardly understand them at all.

jmoore:
Igbo got many dialects, Ikwerre is one of the dialect.

Any Ikwerre man that says he is not Igbo is a victim of 'divide and rule".

Ikwerre dialect is even more closer than some Igbo dialects. When a typical Ohafia/Igbere man speaks his own dialect, I hardly understand them at all.

You will only understand to some extent Ikwerre spoken in PH. Ikwerre of Emuoha will sound Greek to you to you.

firstly i am quite suprised by people who believe this dude is from ikwerre(nwodiele),as a rivers guy i put it to the op that he is extremly naive and stuppid. 1. Ikwerre lga is much more related with southern imo state dialect than phalga or obio/akpo, dude have you heard of elele,isiokpo,chokochoko etc? This are all major towns in kelga(ikwere lga) and as an oyigbo man i understant their dialect more than diobu or rumueperikom dialects, coming to emohua, it is only southern emohua after ndele clan(rumdele) that has a dialect closely realated to kalabari,especially communities along emohua-kalabari road. 2. On the issue of spoken languages, no body,i repeat no body will tough you for speaking any igboid dialect in PH,whether ogba ndoni(omoku),ngwa(aba),orlu,ndoki(oyigbo),owerri etc. Infact na shame go make you not to speak you dialect...

I understand ikwere language clearly just like every other distinct igbo dialects and this yeruba boy is here causing unnecessary division.

Come to the street of Port Harcourt and see streets named after our 'colonial masters' the Ibos. You could hardly find a street named after an Ikwerre man. Do you own Port Harcourt?

Again this is coming from the same stream of irrational thinking and baseless accusations.

Streets are named after those who were the first to acquire lands in such areas or/ and are usually the first to buy land from the street and hence bought such rights from the city planning community, all a person needs to is be wealthy enough to pay for a land and the rights.
Street can also be named after high profile persons who one way or the other, contributed to the General development of the city or brought honour to the city via great accomplishments.

My best friend have the street they live in GRA Enugu named after his Father, he told me that they were the first to move into that part of GRA and that his father bought the right to be named after the street from the Enugu state urban planning department. Mind you that my friend is not from Enugu state.


Your Ikwerre fathers didn't have PH streets named after them because they didn't pay for the naming right from the city planners, and they were selling rather than buying lands in the area.

Not all Igbos were able to get streets in PH named after them, only the rich and the accomplished were able to.

Your parents lied to you to cover their inadequacies.

joeprince23:
firstly i am quite suprised by people who believe this dude is from ikwerre(nwodiele),as a rivers guy i put it to the op that he is extremly naive and stuppid. 1. Ikwerre lga is much more related with southern imo state dialect than phalga or obio/akpo, dude have you heard of elele,isiokpo,chokochoko etc? This are all major towns in kelga(ikwere lga) and as an oyigbo man i understant their dialect more than diobu or rumueperikom dialects, coming to emohua, it is only southern emohua after ndele clan(rumdele) that has a dialect closely realated to kalabari,especially communities along emohua-kalabari road...

Oyibo man where do u belong?
You do not even know where Chokocho is. Southern Imo State is where we have the Awara people who claim everyday day are not Ibo and would prefer belonging to Rivers State. Mugu. Bat calls himself bird.

chrisxxx:

Oyibo man where do u belong?
You do not even know where Chokocho is. Southern Imo State is where we have the Awara people who claim everyday day are not Ibo and would prefer belonging to Rivers State. Mugu. Bat calls himself bird.

you lack intelligence,onithsa people say they want to join delta(anioma),we in oyigbo say we want to reunit with ukwa ppl in abia,afikpo people in ebonyi wants to join abia, and the list goes on and on... This agitation does not have to do with igbos. It is an issue of clans,if you are in a particular state,and those from ur ethnic stock are in minority,you will always want to join state with majority of ur clan. Igbo is not a clan,but ngwa,ikwerre,nsuka etc are clans. Thats why in abia ngwa people are always at loggerhead with other abian,who they call ohuhu,kalabari people refused joining bayelsa state saying they are distint from ijaw,eastern obolo people of akwa ibom are heavely marginalised and they wanna join rivers

There is Brass street in Aba and also Opobo road in Aba. There is Isiokpo street in both Enugu and Owerri. OCJ Okochas father has a street named after him in Enugu and another in Owerri.

chrisxxx:

Oyibo man where do u belong?
You do not even know where Chokocho is. Southern Imo State is where we have the Awara people who claim everyday day are not Ibo and would prefer belonging to Rivers State. Mugu. Bat calls himself bird.

are you high or what
don't drag Imo state to that your identity crises nonsense.
imagine, southern Imo state where I am a native.

for your information mr daft, we southern Imo indigenes regard you Ikwerri guy as lazy bone and not fit to be called Igbo.

you Ikwerre guys are slaves even in your PH enclave.

it irritates me seeing some Igbo guys on this forum associating a royal tribe IGBO with this Ikwerre slaves.

zendy:
So because "Rumu" is "umu" and "Nwo" is "Nwa" in Ikwere language in relation to Igbo is what makes you people distinct? That small difference in dialect? These Ikwere people are crazy it seems. Even their Ijaw and Ogoni neigbours consider them pure unadulterated Igbos but are they are concerned about what Igbos think? You speak a dialect of Igbo, you have an Igbo surname but you are not Igbo? Some of these Ikwere are just attention seekers all because of Porthacourt. The OP is saying that Federal soldiers liberated them during the war but he did not add that before the war, the were getting 67% of the proceeds of their resources. After the you were ' liberated' they got zero, they are still begging for 13% in Nigeria. Nice liberation indeed. Slaves, to this day, some of them don't know it was all about their Oil. Same Oil they no longer control.

Even my village say NWO, not NWA...not only ikwerre....central igbo is NWA...many villages have their tongue....if my friend and his people are talking you won't even understand one word, he speaks isuochi

Not only begging, they have paid with the bloods of their love ones before the so called 13% was given to them. Yet more blood are still being spill till date

frankline5:
I understand ikwere language clearly just like every other distinct igbo dialects and this yeruba boy is here causing unnecessary division.

He is likely to be an Ikwerre guy. Those people are so irrational.

You should join the Ikwerre facebook page and get first hand experience of how the average Ikwerre youth reasons.

You will see all kinds of beliefs that defy logic that these people have.
One of them said that his Choba parents told him that after the Nigerian forces invaded Choba and Igbo people fled Choba deserting their homes and property, that Choba citizens broke into Igbo homes and found in Igbo homes, documents detailing how Igbos planned to rename Choba, impose an Igbo ruler in Choba, and then evacuate Choba people from Choba, to Igboland and replace them with Igbos from Igboland.

The Guy that was saying this is in his thirties o! And he swore that his parents told him the story and that the story is sacrosanct!


You can imagine the level of folly plaquing those people, and how their mind work.


When I asked him for a print version of the said document, he said that there was no need for a print version, that All Choba people testified to this fact, and that the oral version as it were, is good enough evidence.You can imagine the level of mass brainwashing that took place there.
When I pressed more to show me the document, he got angry and started cursing me, calling me names like Isoma, land grabber and all what not. It's really a pathetic situation.

Ikwerre Igbo denial thrives on irrational falsehoods made up by their parents, and swallowed hook, line and sinker by their irrational youths.

The Okirikas have driven Ikwerre out of Port Harcourt.

My Igbo brothers,I think this fool deserves to be insulted. I can't belive his Father is that daft. Dragging Imo state into their stupidity. Op is just as daft. His stupidity is messing with my phone

chrisxxx:

Oyibo man where do u belong?
You do not even know where Chokocho is. Southern Imo State is where we have the Awara people who claim everyday day are not Ibo and would prefer belonging to Rivers State. Mugu. Bat calls himself bird.

Chokochoko are Etche people. What exactly is the aim of this your thread?

cc Honourhim,Igboid et all

apcisevil:

Even my village say NWO, not NWA...not only ikwerre....central igbo is NWA...many villages have their tongue....if my friend and his people are talking you won't even understand one word, he speaks isuochi

Not only begging, they have paid with the bloods of their love ones before the so called 13% was given to them. Yet more blood are still being spill till date

You must be from Bende area of Abia or Aninri area of Enugu.
They are the ones that use that Nwo.

Igwe in Bende is pronounced as "Igwo", but for the sake of Igbo Izugbe they still write it as "Igwe".

Ariani:
Come to the street of Port Harcourt and see streets named after our 'colonial masters' the Ibos. You could hardly find a street named after an Ikwerre man. Do you own Port Harcourt?

Again this is coming from the same stream of irrational thinking and baseless accusations.

Streets are named after those who were the first to acquire lands in such areas or/ and are usually the first to buy land from the street and hence bought such rights from the city planning community, all a person needs to is be wealthy enough to pay for a land and the rights.
Street can also be named after high profile persons who one way or the other, contributed to the General development of the city or brought honour to the city via great accomplishments.

My best friend have the street they live in GRA Enugu named after his Father, he told me that they were the first to move into that part of GRA and that his father bought the right to be named after the street from the Enugu state urban planning department. Mind you that my friend is not from Enugu state.


Your Ikwerre fathers didn't have PH streets named after them because they didn't pay for the naming right from the city planners, and they were selling rather than buying lands in the area.

Not all Igbos were able to get streets in PH named after them, only the rich and the accomplished were able to.

Your parents lied to you to cover their inadequacies.

there is a street in owerre aja obosi in Anambra state named after a Yoruba called John akande, he was d first person to build a house there


So that baby op is an azzhole

Mr O.P , Ikwere is a dialect of a language known as IGBO. that is why your names are igbo names because your language is igbo but your dialect is ikwere. Igbo's are hated by other tribes simply because of their intellectual strength, resilience and enterprise. the civil war has come and gone since 1970 yet some folks still harbor the hate. most of the actors of the coupe that led to the civil war are ikwere but all Igbo's bore the cost. After Ibe kachikwu was appointed Buhari asked what else do igbo want? in the head of other tribes ikwere and Igbo's in Delta state are Igbo's. weather you people agree or not Igbo's in the southeast have nothing to loss .if you like deny your root till eternity, it won't change anything. you mentioned oil, people of the southeast ,like you can see since you were born can live without oil. that your oil,will continue to be use by all Nigeria.


Mr Ikwere, people of the southeast are proud of themselves and all Igbo's who know who they are from time immemorial.

I am a proud igbo man,now ,tomorrow and forever.

ezeudu23:
there is a street in owerre aja obosi in Anambra state named after a Yoruba called John akande, he was d first person to build a house there


So that baby op is azzhole

Yes! There is also this Yoruba man called "Adelabu", that have streets in Umuahia and Enugu named after him.

Learnt that the man spent most of his life in the East.

kettle84:
Mr O.P , Ikwere is a dialect of a language known as IGBO. that is why your names are igbo names because your language is igbo but your dialect is ikwere. Igbo's are hated by other tribes simply because of their intellectual strength, resilience and enterprise. the civil war has come and gone since 1970 yet some folks still harbor the hate. most of the actors of the coupe that led to the civil war are ikwere but all Igbo's bore the cost. After Ibe kachikwu was appointed Buhari asked what else do igbo want? in the head of other tribes ikwere and Igbo's in Delta state are Igbo's. weather you people agree or not Igbo's in the southeast have nothing to loss .if you like deny your root till eternity, it won't change anything. you mentioned oil, people of the southeast ,like you can see since you were born can live without oil. that your oil,will continue to be use by all Nigeria.


Mr Ikwere, people of the southeast are proud of themselves and all Igbo's who know who they are from time immemorial.

I am a proud igbo man,now ,tomorrow and forever.

No Ikwerre man was involved in the coup. It was the Midwestern Igbos, known today as Delta Igbos.

Ariani:


He is likely to be an Ikwerre guy. Those people are so irrational.

You should join the Ikwerre facebook page and get first hand experience of how the average Ikwerre youth reasons.

You will see all kinds of beliefs that defy logic that these people have.
One of them said that his Choba parents told him that after the Nigerian forces invaded Choba and Igbo people fled Choba deserting their homes and property, that Choba citizens broke into Igbo homes and found in Igbo homes, documents detailing how Igbos planned to rename Choba, impose an Igbo ruler in Choba, and then evacuate Choba people from Choba, to Igboland and replace them with Igbos from Igboland.

The Guy that was saying this is in his thirties o! And he swore that his parents told him the story and that the story is sacrosanct!


You can imagine the level of folly plaquing those people, and how their mind work.


When I asked him for a print version of the said document, he said that there was no need for a print version, that All Choba people testified to this fact, and that the oral version as it were, is good enough evidence.You can imagine the level of mass brainwashing that took place there.
When I pressed more to show me the document, he got angry and started cursing me, calling me names like Isoma, land grabber and all what not. It's really a pathetic situation.

Ikwerre Igbo denial thrives on irrational falsehoods made up by their parents, and swallowed hook, line and sinker by their irrational youths.

Same Observation when u live with them in real life

u guys and Igbo matter...

chrisxxx:
To all Ibos on this forum.
Would you people accept being called Ikwerre people? We have no problem with you saying you are Ikwerre. However in a very strong term: The Ikwerres are not Ibos.
You people have always claimed that Ikwerre disassociated themselves after the civil war. You are correct! Even Nigeria as a country got liberated from the clutches of your overbearing dominance after the civil war. The appendages of your attempted colonization of Ikwerre people and at large the Niger Delta people still litter around. In our courts you were the magistrates, lawyers and everything. As an Ikwerre man you could be stoned and lynched for speaking your dialect in Port Harcourt City before the war my dad told me. We had no choice than the Hobson's choice of pretentious oneness. Come to the street of Port Harcourt and see streets named after our 'colonial masters' the Ibos. You could hardly find a street named after an Ikwerre man. Do you own Port Harcourt? You maligned us, subjugated us and the most demeaning was changing our community names. All Rumu to Umu, Nwo to Nwa and so on. We could take same revenge the Hausas took on you people if we had the wits for our brilliant sons and daughters you people killed prior and during the war.
It was no surprising the Ikwere people and Niger Deltans welcome with tumultuous joy the liberation and arrival of the Nigerian soldiers during the war.
Our language are similar to some extent and I will tell you the reasons. It is only the diluted Ikwerre languages of the Obio/Akpor LGA and Port Harcourt LGA that have some distant similarities due to inter-trading and inter-marriages. Emuoha LGA and Ikwerre LGA have a lot similarities with the old Bini Kingdom. These two LGA are closer to yours in terms of land border, incidentally their words sound Binin does it not ring bells to your ears that Ikwerre is not part of you?
Do you know that Ibo language was compulsorily taught and learnt in schools in present Rivers State before the war? Was it same practice in your region? This goes a lengthy way to prove that you cant teach a people their language. You only teach people a strange language. This is to prove we (Ikwerre) are not Ibo. We are not xenophobic, we welcome you people to the Ikwerre Ethnic nationality if you would want to claim our nationality.
Elechi Amadi may your humble and enlightened soul rest in peace. You only wrote, put in writing what our parents told us verbally for posterity and record purposes in your 'Sunset in Biafra'. Believe me as well the sun has perpetually set in Biafra.

If you guys are Binis, list the
(1) Bini words in your language
(2) Bini culture in your culture
(3) Bini religion in your religion
(4) Bini dress in your attire
(5) Bini physical appearance in your appearance
(6) Bini names in your names
(7) Bini things in your things.

Zendy Ariani olaitoro apcisevil noneroone joeprince23 niceprof jmoore overall90 frankline5 Pfrb kettle84 atlanticbreeze chukwudi44 dearpreye ndvf ijaw1stson etc

Ask any Igboid group that claims Bini and you see them shamefully acknowledge their Igbo roots.

I did this to my ogba friends. Come see denial of being Bini. So tey shame catch them to talk. My friends immediately begin to dey claim igbos since that day.

Hopeathand ikwerreboy tonyebarcanista truckpusher and Abagworo.

Pls help us to trace the Bini in your people.

EVEN IF I DENY MY FATHER , IT DOESN'T TAKE THE FACT AWAY THAT I AM HIS SON.

SATAN AND GOD ARE NOT IN PEACE YET NO ONE NOT EVEN THE DEVIL CAN DENY THAT GOD CREATED HIM.

Oya Bini people, help us trace the Bini in these people.

Ariani:


No Ikwerre man was involved in the coup. It was the Midwestern Igbos, known today as Delta Igbos.

you can now see it that Igbo's in Enugu and Abia pronounce nwa as nwo just like ikwere. that shows you that dialect is a sub of language. when the coupe carried out by soldiers from Delta happened did Hausa's search for Delta Igbo's to kill in the north? every tribe knows the truth.I am not begging anyone to claim his origin!

Ariani:


Yes! There is also this Yoruba man called "Adelabu", that have streets in Umuahia and Enugu named after him.

Learnt that the man spent most of his life in the East.

Same way there is "Rotibi" Street in heart of old Owerri township. Ndigbo please learn to give others freedom of association. One of our major problems is trying to force others to accept what we want against what they want. It happens at every level in Igboland up to family unit.

Ikwerre has come out as a block to refute links with Igbo nation because they feel better off being Ikwerre the same way Efik is not Ibibio or Isoko is not Urhobo or Esan is not Bini or Kalabari is not Ijaw. Live and let live

As for you OP Ikwerre is a vague Crossriver migrants with Owerri or Uratta as a starting point via Etche to present settlements. Apart from some fringe migratory settlements from Ahoada area nothing links Ikwerre with Benin. No single Benin word, Kingship or nomenclature is in Ikwerreland. If you want evidence of Benin influence in Igboland come to Imo State where you will see such surnames and names as

Iyasara, Adizua, Ossai, Obi/Ovie, Osakwe etc. You can equally check out the Kingship system in Ugutaland which existed long before coming of Europeans. Ikwerre was kingless and decentralised.

Abagworo:


Same way there is "Rotibi" Street in heart of old Owerri township. Ndigbo please learn to give others freedom of association. One of our major problems is trying to force others to accept what we want against what they want. It happens at every level in Igboland up to family unit.

Ikwerre has come out as a block to refute links with Igbo nation because they feel better off being Ikwerre the same way Efik is not Ibibio or Isoko is not Urhobo or Esan is not Bini or Kalabari is not Ijaw. Live and let live

As for you OP Ikwerre is a vague Crossriver migrants with Owerri or Uratta as a starting point via Etche to present settlements. Apart from some fringe migratory settlements from Ahoada area nothing links Ikwerre with Benin. No single Benin word, Kingship or nomenclature is in Ikwerreland. If you want evidence of Benin influence in Igboland come to Imo State where you will see such surnames and names as

Iyasara, Adizua, Ossai, Obi/Ovie, Osakwe etc. You can equally check out the Kingship system in Ugutaland which existed long before coming of Europeans. Ikwerre was kingless and decentralised.

You are still not getting the point.

If they are Bini migrants, let them list the Bini things in them.