Abagworo:
http://www.riversstate.gov.ng/item/1117-chairmen-set-to-develop-ibani-language-curriculum.html

He opined that what it takes to preserve a language include
to teach it in schools, printing appropriate literature books,
and promoting its use publicly and privately.

In his lecture, Amasenibo Eric G. Jumbo listed out the
current threat to Ibani Language which include Commerce
and Christian Religion.

Also speaking, Warisenibo Abinye Morgan Ogolo,
challenged the people of Bonny and Opobo Kingdoms to
make concerted efforts to stop speaking Ibo language.

This will help to rediscover Ibani Language so that it will
take its rightful place despite the damage it has suffered
over the years.

The Chairman of Opobo/Nkoro L G A, represented by the
Council Secretary, Mr. Sunny J. Pepple, called on volunteer
experts of the Ibani language to partner with the Council to
revive the language.

MayorofLagos:
Looking at the entry post to the thread, this was in the year 1912. Some years before that is the land purchase of Ibo territory by UAC and their subsequent amlgamation into the Oil Protectorate to form Southern Protectorate.

Was there any record of Iguocha, Igweocha, Ugweocha, Ugwuocha...or any other Ocha in the territories of the Oil Protectorate preceeding their amalgamation with Ibo territories?


This single piece of history, if found will lay to rest ownership of Port Harcourt.

MayorofLagos:
Looking at the entry post to the thread, this was in the year 1912. Some years before that is the land purchase of Ibo territory by UAC and their subsequent amlgamation into the Oil Protectorate to form Southern Protectorate.

Was there any record of Iguocha, Igweocha, Ugweocha, Ugwuocha...or any other Ocha in the territories of the Oil Protectorate preceeding their amalgamation with Ibo territories?

This single piece of history, if found will lay to rest ownership of Port Harcourt.

Abagworo:


There is no dispute over the ownership of Port Harcourt as it is an Ikwerre city. Are Ikwerres a part of Igbo nation? I don't think so. However there has been an encroachment into hinterland backed by the abandoned property saga by groups previously restricted to water fronts.

naijaking1:


For your information and those of your brothers on that side of the Niger, PH was Igweocha, and Bonny was Igwenga(more like an isolated land)
Any Igbo family with an elder older than 80 or 90 years of age will always describe Igbo cities of Onicha, Owere, Igweocha and Enu'gwu!

pazienza:
Are Ikwerres a part of Igbo nation?

This is a wrong question. As there never existed an Igbo nation, and even now, what we have is Igbo ethnic group.

The question should be: Were Ikwerres once part of the Igbo ethnic group?

The answer is a definite Yes.

Then the second question is: Are Ikwerres currently part of the Igbo ethnic group? The answer is No, even though they are well represented in Ohanaeze Ndiigbo, the apex Igbo ethnic organization.

The third question and most important question is: Will Ikwerres be apart of a future Igbo nation ie Biafra?
The answer is Unknown as of now.

Abagworo:


There is no dispute over the ownership of Port Harcourt as it is an Ikwerre city. Are Ikwerres a part of Igbo nation? I don't think so. However there has been an encroachment into hinterland backed by the abandoned property saga by groups previously restricted to water fronts.

NOBLEDANDY:



Keep deceiving yourself thinking that you can rewrite history with this few Un provable paragraphs...

Anyways enjoy your temporal distortion of history it will only last in Nairaland...
Do go ahead...

MayorofLagos:


Listen, should Portugal lay claim to Lagos and declare ownership simply because it is portuguese language?

MayorofLagos:


Listen, should Portugal lay claim to Lagos and declare ownership simply because it is portuguese language?

pazienza:


Can you pick up my post one by one, then using relevant documents and articles prove that they are historical distortions?

If you can't do this, then I take it you just wanted to quote me, just for the sake of it.

NOBLEDANDY:


Thunder strike your generations there for trying to pay the kind gestures the Igbo nation gave to them with treachery and petty thief...
I was thinking you will open another thread for this...
We have already known this truth...
You people are minority bc you guys migrated...
And Nigeria has given you a shield to bite the finger that fed you...
You know that when biafra is actualized, everything will come to light and you will be sent out...
That's why you are not supporting biafra...
But Devil don punish you bc he knows that biafra will surely come...
And you minorities will be judged for your crimes...
Ungrateful people...
You wan form Niger deltan for another man's land...
God will also punish you there... Idiot

pazienza:
When we say that Aba is an Igbo city, does it now mean that Aba no longer belong to the Ngwas?

Same applies in PH, when we say PH is an Igbo city, we mean that PH belongs to Ikwerres who are Igbo.
So this case of Igbos trying to grab PH is ridiculous.

pazienza:


Nnaa, please can you Post that article again here.

Its time we started playing this game hard and furious.

HopeAtHand:


Lolz@bolded.

Some months ago, this statement would make me very angry but not anymore..Someone cannot sit in Enugu and make me angry in Port Harcourt.

We, Ikwerres already have a sound argument using historical facts that are readily available to show that Port Harcourt was founded by british on Ikwerre ancestral farmlands..That is why we lay claims to it.

Again, Ikwerres already have a sounder argument that we are not Igbos because we have our history as people who migrated from old Benin Empire, fullstop.

pazienza:



This impostor, don't you have shame? Don't you know when to give up?

Ikwerre can have Bini or Brazilian ancestry, that is totally irrelevant to the issue at hand. Onitsha has Bini claims, and was once Igbophobic, but totally Igbophobic today. Birds of the same feathers will always end up flocking together.

Ikwerre can be an independent country like Taiwan is today to China. But it can only be affiliated to an Igbo nation.

If that is given you hypertension, you can as well go and D.

dinachi:
The real land grabbers are the Ijaws who heartlessly betrayed the Igbos during the war and still betrayed them after Jonathans election by declaring PDP an Ijaw party and zoning the presidency to the north. For those of my brothers who believe in Nigeria, allying with Ijaws is a big political mistake. We should only ally with a big ethnic group of similar size and structure like the Yorubas or Hausa Fulani. Ijaws do not have the numbers to be seriously useful to us in national politics. The Jonathan issue is a very big lesson, I hope we have learnt something. Our worst enemy in Nigeria as of today is the Ijaws. They know Portharcourt was an Igbo city and because they know that if it is removed from them , they have nothing left,the come up with theories to deny this truth. Only foolish fools still pay attention to barcanista.

naijapips02:


iguocha or whatever you might want to call was an ikwere enclave.....ikwere town. There are many parts that was brought together to form PH. It's on the document you cited. read it carefully, this time around, with less emotions and more brainpower.

basilo101:

of course its ikwerre land and ikwere is an igbo clan who are wasting time to claim seperate ethnic identity because of oil. there is no serious linguistic or anthropological evidence that qualifies ikwere as a seperate ethinic group. even the ijaws has many subgroups whose dialects are not even mutually intelligible, while ikwere communicate fluently with the SE igbos. Ikweres speack better igbos than ppl of Ebonyi state. There are Igallas in anambra and enugu state, we do not claim their land to be igboland just because they are in SE

pazienza:
[b] The following link leads to Privy Council decision on Port Harcourt and the representatives of ikwerre, Diobu or Port Harcourt and other Division with then Owerri Province.
http://books.google.com/books?id=hoHv7__4TXYC&pg=PA268&lpg=PA268&dq=privy+counci\l+decision+on+port+harcourt/
nigeria&source=bl&ots=FbdqVtjBqP&sig=plBZvCv0CIw-b10\zu5DL5fM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jyycUZraBZTryAHe8IGoAQ&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=pr\ivy%20council%20decision%20on%20port%20harcourt%2Fnigeria&f=false

Other sources are:
University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angelis California

University of California Press Ltd London, England
Copyright @ 1974 by the Regents
of University of California
ISBN: 0-520-02451-6
Library of Congress Card Number : 73-76115
Printed in United States of America

The following are from the above references. They
clearly indicate that ikwerre Chiefs, Ezes, Legislatures and Municipal councilors from time immemorial claim Igbo as their tribe. These ikwerre Legislators, Parliamentarians and Municipal Councilors maintained that they are Igbo as the records indicate. I challenge Mr. Emeka Okala and Dr. M, D. Amadi to produce records with similar information in support of their claims.

In 1922/23 Port Harcourt in ikwerre land became the Capital of Owerri province --- Page 269
Appendix 2, Page 246
Port Harcourt Parliamentarians from 1945 - 1966
Appendix 3 Page 247
Port Harcourt Municipal Councilors 1955 ----
1958
D.D.”Diobu” Nsiegbe ikwerre Ibo Port
Harcourt Division
J.W. Ogbondah ikwerre Ibo Diobu
Port Harcourt Division
Appendix 4 Pages
248---250
Port Harcourt Municipal Councilors 1958 ---
1961
E Aguma: ikwerre Ibo Diobu
Port Harcourt Division
M.W. Dickson: ikwerre Ibo Diobu
Port Harcourt Division
G.P.A. Nwagwu: ikwerre Ibo Diobu
Port Harcourt Division
J. A. Otuonye: ikwerre Ibo Diobu
Port Harcourt Division
R. O. Owuru ikwerre Ibo Diobu
Port Harcourt Division
Appendix 5 Pages
251 – 253
Port Harcourt Municipal Councilors 1961 –
1964
S.W. Atako: ikwerre Ibo
Port Harcourt Division
R. Chikere ikwerre Ibo
Port Harcourt Division
E. Chukwu ikwerre Ibo
Port Harcourt Division
Chief Joseph Wobo ikwerre Ibo
Port Harcourt Division [/b]

NOBLEDANDY:
.

Your post holds no water...
You made nothing out of your points... So deal with it...
Meanwhile whether ikwere are Igbo sub group or not...
I don't care...
Buh remember as far as Nigeria is concerned ikwere are minority to ijaw... Lol