Eastlink:
Have been reading your poems and to be honest they're dope. So what kind of poetry do you do, sonnets or rhymes. I write poems too that's why I'm asking.

01Mysticdon:

quote me for beta tin biko eh

Eastlink:
You and which people. Oga calm down and learn to speak only for your Egi people, don't include us in your denials. We (my people and our good neighbours nde ndoni) are proud Igbo's. We don't do the denial shit. Proud Igbo's we are, proud Igbos we've always been.
Proudly Okwuzi,
Proudly ONELGA,
Proudly Igbo.

christopher123:


But who cares....we just wanna dominate you economically this is

Ariani:


I don't understand! it's not yet ripe to be plucked.

You speak for your Ogba people? Fair enough. As long as you don't assume to speak for Ndoni and Egbema.

Eastlink:
Wow! Its rare to find someone from my LGA here on nairaland. How are you my guy?

Ariani:


Nwanne, as an Ogba guy, you can only speak for Ogba, and not for the Ndoni and Egbema people.

Igboid:
"Leave the Niger Deltans alone, many of them don't have the capacity for strong reasoning. The average Northerner uses them like rags. Simple antics by them and they fall like morons. Make no mistake, I am not even in support of Biafra, I am for true federalism, an arrangement that would allow everyone control what they have and develop at their own pace and pay tax to the federal. For as long as I remember, that has also been the position of the Igbo political class. But can you tell me those who have mostly opposed it? Those who are still deceiving them because of their lack the capacity to reason. Some even say they want Niger Delta Republic, but the only time they mention it is when Biafra is mentioned. Their friends in the North will tell them that Igbo want to dominate them or are after their oil, which is just stupid for any person with proper sense. As it is, 85 percent of oil wells in their place belong to the North and South West and these are the people who easily tell them that Igbo want their oil. They fight the Igbo to protect the oil which they don't even have, and believe me, without the support of the Igbo, even the 13 percent derivation they enjoy now would have been elusive. But even more importantly, they should be reminded that oil is now a bygone commodity, its price has crashed forever because as soon as it gets beyond $45 per barrel, the US will flood the market with Shell oil. Therefore, the only thing that can save the Eastern region is the opening up of the area for trade and commerce by opening up the ports. Lagos is richer than most geopolitical zones today mainly because of the ports, and as it is, because of their little mindedness, you often object when Igbo business men push for the opening of the ports in the East because some stupidly think they are their enemies. Come to Lagos and see what is happening, little mind will always kill some of them".

Igboid:


What do you mean by being close to the Igbo? Are Igalas not close to the Igbos in Anambra? Do they speak Igbo language as first language? Are Idomas not close to Igbos in Ebonyi and in Benue state? Do the Idomas speak Igbo? Are Igbos in Abia not neighbors to the Annang and Ibibios? Do the Ibibios and Annang speak Igbo? Are Igbos in Oyigbo not close to Ogonis in Tai LGA, do the ogonis speak Igbo.

The problem of you Igbo denials is mainly ignorance.

Igboid:


You are from Ogba, your anti Igbo stance is expected, but is not shared by the Ndoni and Egbema in the same
ONELGA with you.

ibitzbarlow:


The way we throw unsubstantiated figures/statistics about in the public domain is worrisome. Rivers State has 23 LGAs of which about Nine (9) could be said to be truly Igboid, viz: Etche, Omuma, Ikwerre, Obio-Akpor, Emohua, Port-Harcourt, Ahoada East, ONELGA and Oyigbo. These LGAs contribute about 2, 639, 283 people to the 5, 955, 153 population of Rivers State (source: www.rsiec.rs.com). This is only about 44.32% of the state's population.

As for the regional Government politics, you are right about the bulk of Rivers State being part of Owerri Province. That was for administrative exigencies. Remember we also had Ogoja province then which today is not even the equivalent of a State. However, Rivers Province was created in 1947 from Owerri Province (created in 1906).

Igboid:


Your calculation is wrong. Using the last official census ( 2006 census) figures, the percentage of the Igboid population is actually 52% approximately and not 44% like you wrote: http://www.citypopulation.de/php/nigeria-admin.php?adm1id=NGA033

mekuzi09:


Egbema and Ndoni are proud Igbos, Ogba are ancient Benin ass lickers.

OjukwuWarBird:


Keep quiet. That is completely an Igbo cap.

If you guys are not igbos, go find your caps, attire and never speak our language or traces of it again.

When last did you see Ijaws, Annangs, Idomas, Igalas, Isokos etc bordering the Igbos wear Igbo attires or bear Igbo names and practice Igbo cultures

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