veragistonline:
NTA really should tender an apology to the Akwa Ibom people.



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markfemisgay:

The first governor of central bank was alhaji mai borno. His picture is on the 1000 naira note. Op your post is full of lies and it doesn't worth front page.

Aspireahead:
but when it suits you guys you begin to claim Calabar. start your campaign by telling your numerous brothers in the cross river civil service to resign from their jobs.

Aspireahead:
but when it suits you guys you begin to claim Calabar. start your campaign by telling your numerous brothers in the cross river civil service to resign from their jobs.

mmsen:
I think the mix up has to do with the fact that for years the Super Eagles played their games in Calabar. At least NTA didn't claim "Uyo, Cross River".

Doesn't matter whether it's Uyo or Calabar, they are still two of the best cities in Nigeria.

e13sina:
· Akwa Ibom produced one of Nigeria’s Central Bank Governor – Clement ISONG.

Please read carefully.

oseiwe:
Ibompr is just vexing for nothing. Akwa ibom people like being called calabar, but calabar takes it as an insult to be referred as akwa ibom. The thing is that akwa ibom is still undeveloped with teeming illiterates and backward people, this is 2017 and they still erect mud houses in d state.

1Sharon:
Ppl that kill kids for being witches. Fvck em

carzola:
They should Close down NTA its the worst
tv channel in the world..

i dont know the last time i tuned to see
the disgust called NTA..


And to the rest of Nigeria that feel
tHE CAPITAL OF AKWA IBOM IS
CALABAR.. may you die this year,

I hardly comment on nairaland these days but when I come across such an idiotic post and poster I am compelled to break my silence. Dear, Carzola, you are an idiot sir. You can add slowpoke and slowpoke they all fit. Go back home and tell your parents to retrain you or you won't end well.

Mekanus:
This is one of the problems with anambra man, they always feel that they are superior to others, even their fellow Igbo's. There will never be a united Igbo with anambra in it.

xcommando:
May be because of the believe that akwa ibom speaks calabar language,

Thoniameek:


That's how you'll open your mouth to spit nonsense

Why do biafrans want the akwa ibom people then? If y'all are so great

You Igbos just like to feel superior and that's your problem

xcommando:
May be because of the believe that akwa ibom speaks calabar language,

aniblue:
I'll only take NTA serious the day ChannelsTV goes off air.



Such error is too significant.

Aspireahead:
but when it suits you guys you begin to claim Calabar. start your campaign by telling your numerous brothers in the cross river civil service to resign from their jobs.

markfemisgay:

The first governor of central bank was alhaji mai borno. His picture is on the 1000 naira note. Op your post is full of lies and it doesn't worth front page.

Mekanus:
This is one of the problems with anambra man, they always feel that they are superior to others, even their fellow Igbo's. There will never be a united Igbo with anambra in it.

BanevsJoker:

The post said one of Nigeria's Central Bank Governors. His picture is also on the 1000 Naira note. Where is this so called intelligence of Nigerians? Is it that you can't read, or your brain filters the meanings of sentences to leave you eternally confused?

IbomPR:


Akwa Ibom does not speak Calabar language. Calabar (Cross River State) speaks Efik while Akwa Ibom majorly speaks Ibibio. Yes, some part of Akwa Ibom does speak Efik but the major language is Ibibio.

boostdom:


Keep drawing blanket statements and stereotype over regrettable incidents as if they are ubiquitous in all parts of the state and as if it is not reminiscent of societal ills that are prevalent in any decadent society.

All your seeming rational conscious thought and logical astuteness in the religion section has not delineated you from hooting primates that are primarily run by impulse and who rationalize their baser instincts with a thin veneer composed of equal parts reason and lack of critical thinking.

IbomPR:
On September 1st, 2017, a rather interesting match was played at the Nest of Champions, Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, between Nigeria’s Super Eagles and Cameroon’s Indomitable Lions. Fortunately, Nigeria thrashed the Lions with a four goals to nil score line. The country has since been in high spirits. However, the immediate hosts of the match, the good people of Akwa Ibom state, are hurting.

The match, like all events of such magnitude, was reported on National TV. NTA however, had it that the match was played in Calabar, Cross River State – a rather egregious error for a national TV station. And this little mistake is the reason why Akwa Ibomites are hurting: the fact that Uyo was elided for Calabar, or that Uyo was subsumed under Calabar.

This obvious mistake seems quite a trifle for an entire people to pine over, and it’s definitely something that can be overlooked. But it seems that it has become a norm; at least it has become so commonplace as to be carried on national TV! Since Akwa Ibom was created from Cross River state thirty years ago, and given the relative cultural uniformity of both states, it seems that in the minds of people, Akwa Ibom is yet to exist. So, a lot of people just say Calabar (the capital city of Cross River), when they mean to say Uyo (the capital city of Akwa Ibom). An NTA scrollbar advert during yesterday’s news even said that the match was played in Calabar. But IT’S UYO, NOT CALABAR; IT’S AKWA IBOM, NOT CROSS RIVER.



Even though the people of Akwa Ibom very readily identify with those of Cross River, it is outrageous to see Akwa Ibom through the eyes of Cross River, to put it that way. It’s a slight on the pride of Akwa Ibomites as a socio-political unit.

A state that is 30 years old is not a small state. And even if age doesn’t count, solid personal achievements cannot be ignored.
Akwa Ibom has recorded the following achievements and must be given her pride of place amongst other states:

· The 1914 Amalgamation Declaration was done in the present-day Ikot Abasi Local Government Area in Akwa Ibom State. Nigeria began to exist as a single, even if incoherent, political entity from Akwa Ibom. We have Sir Fredrick Lord Lugard’s residence here, which should have, by now, become a national tourist attraction.

· The famous women’s riot of 1929 which lead to a micro-war against taxation in the entire south eastern region began in Ikot Abasi. The panel that sat thereafter to investigate the matter only did so in Aba. But till today, that riot is still fallaciously referred to as the Aba Women’s Riot.
· Akwa Ibom produced the first Nigeria Central Bank Governor – Clement ISONG.

· Akwa Ibom produced one of Nigeria’s first legal luminaries – Justice Udo UDOMA, first Chief Justice of Kenya.

· Akwa Ibom produced Nigeria’s first Nigerian WWE Boxing Champion – Samuel OKON Peter.

· Akwa Ibom has produced the likes of INI Edo, IME Bishop, Emem ISONG, etc., who are contributing their quota to make Nigeria a country to reckon with in the global movie sphere.

· Akwa Ibom has one of the first Prelates of the Methodist Church – Bishop Sunday MBANG.

· In literature, Akwa Ibom has produced Uwem AKPAN, Anietie ISONG, etc., whose works have won laurels.

· And to add to all these, Akwa Ibom is also the number one producer of oil in the nation
And, for a lot of those who do not know, the Efik people of Calabar migrated from the now Uruan Local Government Area in Akwa Ibom.

Till today, whenever the Obong of Calabar dies, it is an Uruan man that crowns another. The Efik people as we know them today are ethnic children, more or less, of the Ibibio people of Akwa Ibom state.

The essence of this campaign is not to spread bile between these two sister tribes. It is just to set records straight. Indeed, as it is said, you bale the water while it is still at the knees. If such a scandalizing error can be made on national TV, the water has indeed come to the ankle. Every people have the right to self-assertion. Surely any well-meaning Nigerian can understand that, especially looking at our multi-lingual, multi-ethnic nation.

We want Nigerians and indeed the entire world to know that there is Uyo, just as there is Calabar, and that there is Akwa Ibom, just as there is Cross River. We are Akwa Ibomites, not Cross Riverians, and this needs to register in every mind!

We are of the opinion, that NTA should tender an apology to the Akwa Ibom people and we've gone ahead to create a petition to that regard. Sign the petition here, if you share in our opinion>

Join the campaign: #UyoNotCalabar; #AkwaIbomNotCrossRiver. It might not bother you today, but someday it might.