BiafIntel:

Just shut up. You are not even from Akwa Ibom. I have many family friends there and the Ibibio and Anang are related to the Abiriba and Arochukwu people who are Igbo. You are nobody to create division amongst us. The days of your useless nigeria divisionary tactics are gone. History abounds today that Even the Efik migrated to where they are today from Igboland. Go and blame Mazi Nnamdi Kanu for opening our eyes to reality. We know better today and the people of Akwa Ibom and Cross Rivers are found in both Abia state and Ebonyi state and vice versa. Read a bit here about Efik people and shut up once and for all.





https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efik_people

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Infinite fool that don't know about his history wants to tell me history.
You this good for nothing criminal, land grabber and hypocrites.
Arochuwkw, Abriba and Afikpos if they like can join with us and merge, the Nris can go join with their Igalas kins but you this idoit and your useless IPOB will never see the core AkwaCross people in that useless Biafra of yours.
Anytime you are in AkwaIbom or CrossRiver listen to the radio stations and come tell us if the people wants anything to do with Biafra
For you own good and fellow IPOB rats don't you dare mention Biafra in any part of AkwaCross

We share the same secret societies called the Ekpe and Okonko secret societies

Ekpe, also known as Mgbe (Ekoi language: leopard), is a Nigerian secret society flourishing chiefly among the Efiks, Bahumono of the Cross River State, the Ibibio, the Uruan and the Oron of Akwa Ibom State, Arochukwu and some other parts of Abia State,

3. 'Okonko' Cult as a Cultural Practice

‘Ekpe’ or ‘Okonko’ as it is called in Ikwuano is not a
deity, but a cult which has gained prominence and
influence over the people’s socio-cultural, political and
religious lives. From oral tradition, ‘Ekpe’ society came
into Ikwuano through their neighbouring community, the
Akwa-Ibom State, (according to Elezu). That is why in
Ikwuano, the president of the society or cult is called ‘Akan’
or ‘Nna Ekpe". ‘Akan’ is an Ibibio language and
non-members are not allowed to know the meaning of
Akan, hence this is dreaded and no one cared to ask why.
Even the members cannot explain its meaning hence it is
one of the secrets of the cult. The Akan who is believed to
be possessed by the spirit of the ancestors does not come
out in the day to avoid being seen by “Okpo” a non-initiate
or common man. [6]
The history behind the importation of this cult into
Ikwuano, according to Richard Mgbugbo, was that “in the
very early days, our people and our neighbours, the Ibibio
people, were fighting and killing themselves, yet we were
still intermarrying with them. One day, one of our sons
whose mother came from Obiakpo in Akwa-Ibom visited
his mother’s kinsmen, without knowing that a war had
broken out between us and his mother’s kinsmen. Obiakpo
people had lost many people in that war. On the warrior’s
arrival at home, it was a day when the ‘Okonko’ people in
their place were meeting. The Ikwuano boy came out and
was recognized by one of the warriors and they wanted to
seize him, his uncle in whom he visited saw that he could
not stop them so he made the boy to run into the ‘Obi
Okonko’ and crossed the “Omu”. (Fresh palm frond) By so
doing, he became a member and they could no longer kill
him while the rite of initiation was done for him by his
uncle. When he completed the processes, he returned to his
village and narrated the story and his people said, if that
will end our constant war with them which our
inter-marriages have not been able to stop, let us go and
initiate ourselves. From that time, the constant
boundary/inter-tribal wars seized until the Nigerian civil
war that opened a new wound across that boundary.

https://www.hrpub.org/download/20190630/SA2-19610629.pdf

BiafIntel:

Your opinion is irrelevant. The opinion of millions of Ibibio, Anang, Efik, Oron, Eket, Bahumono, and others are what matters and are subject to a referendum to decide where they want to belong. Whatever trash you or any other buffoon stutters here on nairaland is gibberish. Only a referendum will decide. We can not let down all those millions from Ibibio, Anang, Efik, Oron, Eket, Bahumono, and others by leaving them behind.

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Who wants anything with your useless Biafra, are you mad?

nsiba:
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Infinite fool that don't know about his history wants to tell me history.
You this good for nothing criminal, land grabber and hypocrites.
Arochuwkw, Abriba and Afikpos if they like can join with us and merge, the Nris can go join with their Igalas kins but you this idoit and your useless IPOB will never see the core AkwaCross people in that useless Biafra of yours.
Anytime you are in AkwaIbom or CrossRiver listen to the radio stations and come tell us if the people wants anything to do with Biafra
For you own good and fellow IPOB rats don't you dare mention Biafra in any part of AkwaCross

Illiteracy is a disease. Lol!! Talking incoherently. So Arochuwkw, Abriba and Afikpos are no longer Igbos? The Nris are a diferent Igbos? What a daft fool. Lol!! What is the meaning of IPOB? Ewu, tell us the meaning. Even the tongue/dialect of Ibibio, Anaang, and Efik are far so different, the say way the Igbo dialect of the Nris, Arochuwkw, Abriba, and Afikpos are different, yet all of us are Igbos. Why are you this daft and dumb at the same time?
You finally acknowledged the relationship between the Arochuwkw, Abriba and Afikpos and the Ibibio, Anaang, and Efik, but being under one nation called Biafra is your problem. Who cares about how you feel? Nama brain, the day you understand what referendum means, that very day your burden will lessen. As for now, deal with the fact that THERE WILL BE A REFERENDUM FOR ALL EASTERN REGION PEOPLE TO DECIDE FOR BIAFRA OR NOT.

nsiba:
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Who wants anything with your useless Biafra, are you mad?

99% of Akwa/Cross people everything to do with Biafra. Your opinion is irrelevant.

BiafIntel:
We share the same secret societies called the Ekpe and Okonko secret societies



3. 'Okonko' Cult as a Cultural Practice



https://www.hrpub.org/download/20190630/SA2-19610629.pdf

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So KANU is your history teacher, it is now you know we share value of such

https://www.nairaland.com/5455636/aba-ngwa-abiriba-arochuwkwu-ancestral

Bahumono people

The tribe consists of eight villages, namely Ebijakara (Ebriba), Ebom, Ediba, Usumutong, Anong, Igonigoni, Afafanyi, and Abeugo.They are closely related to the Igbo, Efik, Yakurr, Akunakuna, Ekoi people and Annang people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahumono_people

You can not divide us. You simply can not. Dem never born you.

BiafIntel:

99% of Akwa/Cross people everything to do with Biafra. Your opinion is irrelevant.

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I can feel ya pain and we want you to go to HELL

BiafIntel:

Illiteracy is a disease. Lol!! Talking incoherently. So Arochuwkw, Abriba and Afikpos are no longer Igbos? The Nris are a diferent Igbos? What a daft fool. Lol!! What is the meaning of IPOB? Ewu, tell us the meaning. Even the tongue/dialect of Ibibio, Anaang, and Efik are far so different, the say way the Igbo dialect of the Nris, Arochuwkw, Abriba, and Afikpos are different, yet all of us are Igbos. Why are you this daft and dumb at the same time?
You finally acknowledged the relationship between the Arochuwkw, Abriba and Afikpos and the Ibibio, Anaang, and Efik, but being under one nation called Biafra is your problem. Who cares about how you feel? Nama brain, the day you understand what referendum means, that very day your burden will lessen. As for now, deal with the fact that THERE WILL BE A REFERENDUM FOR ALL EASTERN REGION PEOPLE TO DECIDE FOR BIAFRA OR NOT.

You and KANU will do the referendum in England useless criminals

nsiba:
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So KANU is your history teacher, it is now you know we share value of such

https://www.nairaland.com/5455636/aba-ngwa-abiriba-arochuwkwu-ancestral

What the British and their fulani slaves did to you will fall off your eyes today. My eyes cleared long time ago in 2013 when i started listening to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. You are late to the cake but better late than never. Our relationship is far far deep that nobody born of a woman can divide us. Even the Ibibio and Anaang people have squabbles now and then, but they are still the same blood.

nsiba:


You and KANU will do the referendum in England useless criminals

Your heart is getting bigger. Be careful of cardiac arrest. The bond between Igbo and Akwa/Crossis is from God. You are just a mere mortal and the hatred can easily kill you. You can't blame God, you know.

BiafIntel:

What the British and their fulani slaves did to you will fall off your eyes today. My eyes cleared long time ago in 2013 when i started listening to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. You are late to the cake but better late than never. Our relationship is far far deep than nobody born of a woman can divide us. Even the Ibibio and Anaang people have squabbles now and then, but they are still the same blood.

Go and form your Biafra with Ngwas Bende Nris Wawa Mbise don't just dare show your ugly face in AkwaCross

Yakö people.

Related ethnic groups
Bahumono, Efik and Igbo

Look at the traditional dress of the Yako or Yakurr people. can you tell any difference between them and Igbo? Answer is NO!!!

BiafIntel:
Yakö people.

Related ethnic groups
Bahumono, Efik and Igbo

Look at the traditional dress of the Yako or Yakurr people. can you tell any difference between them and Igbo? Answer is NO!!!

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All this sentiments all because wanting to attaché by force, so the Nris in Anambra don't share same with kogis Igalas.
Let me warn you very very well, since you are just waking up to history we already know since time immemorial go and tell KANU and fellow IPOB rats if you dare mention AkwaCross in your map or conversation again u will know how far
Nonsense

Onepeople:
terrorists have you slammed your head this morning?

slammed on what?

nsiba:
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All this sentiments all because wanting to attaché by force, so the Nris in Anambra don't share same with kogis Igalas.
Let me warn you very very well, since you are just waking up to history we already know since time immemorial go and tell KANU and fellow IPOB rats if you dare mention AkwaCross in your map or conversation again u will know how far
Nonsense

What a buffoon. Haven't you heard or seen in Biafra map that Igalas are Biafrans? What a daft idiot. You think that Biafra is only about Igbos and AkwaCross people? My fren, go and learn, you talk like an illiterate.

rottennaija:
slammed on what?

On the ground as usual.

BiafIntel:

On the ground as usual.

I am no one's disciple

BiafIntel:

What a buffoon. Haven't you heard or seen in Biafra map that Igalas are Biafrans? What a daft idiot. You think that Biafra is only about Igbos and AkwaCross people? My fren, go and learn, you talk like an illiterate.

Biafra map!
You this great fool, who on earth wants to associate with you criminals?
The fact is in your useless map you can imagine and draw or sort of nonsense, but in reality you stick to miserable pathetic enclaves of 5states outside of that you will die like chickens most especially in AkwaCross

BiafIntel:

On the ground as usual.

what will happened if Akwa ibom people refuse to join this Biafra movement ? ? ?

okeyglm:
carry your beggry attitude leave akwa ibiom. they can never join you ipob. hold referendum today they will reject you.. meanwhile our people in kogi are being deigbonized. they need your preaching not igbophoic momghos. ipob ndi EWU. what effort or thread or evangelism have you done for ndoki clan of bonny who are being ijawnised. ndi ara

This is what Ohaneze should be doing. From avurugo down to odolu to abaji in kogi state.

IPOB can even come in if they buy the idea bc,they have the resources. We need to have a united forum/organization for all Igbo clans in Nigeria. Those who are not interested should be deleted just like we have deleted ikwerre, ogba, and others in rivers state.

YAKURR BE-IBE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND (By Eteng Obono Okoi)
Yakurr comprises nine clans, these clans are Agoi Ekpo, Agoi Ibami, Assiga, Ekori, Idomi, Inyima, Mkpani, Nko and Ugep.
“Loka is the language spoken by the Yakurr people. The language is of the Bantu linguistic family, which is refers to as ‘’the people’’ is a linguistic classification of a group of closely related people languages spoken in the linguistic boundary known as the Bantu line which runs from the South-Eastern Nigeria through Central and Eastern Africa to Southern Africa.
Yakurr has been described by Iwara (1988) as one of the most widely spoken languages in Cross River State with Efik which enjoys the special status of a lingua franca in the state.’’
Yakurr shared their East and Northern boundaries with Obubra, in the West with Abi, and Southern boundary with Biase,
Yakurr, like the rest of other Nigeria nations experienced dynamism in all aspects of life. This point should be borne in mind so that we do not get a false impression of a changeless society.
TRADITION OF ORIGIN
The tradition of origin of Yakurr have remained a controversial issue among historians writing on the above topic. Captain Chessman in his report on Yakurr, and Ayiga clans stated that ‘’it was fairly certain that the Yakurr people first lived near Okuni’’.
Dr. Otu Abam Ubi in his PhD thesis asserted that ‘’the ancestral home of Yakurr was at Lekanakpakpa. Ubi further asserted that Ikom people called Lekanakpakpa Onugi, that information gotten from Okuni traditions confirmed that the Yako were their neigbour at Onugi, that they too migrated from the area’’.
Enang Bassey (1980) who wrote on the tradition of origin of Yakurr also noted that ‘’Lekanakpakpa had been identify to be the Oban hill which is South Olulumo area. He further asserted that Lekanakpakpa and Onugi are therefore likely to be the same thing, but referred to differently by the Okuni and Yakurr people.’’ Enang Bassey and Ubi shared the same idea on the topic. That, Yakurr people migrated from a place called ‘’Lekanakpakpa’’ as a result of a conflict over a violation of burial tradition by Yakurr people. The migration of Yakurr to their present homeland was accomplished in three phases. The first phase constitutes Ugep, Mkpani and Idomi, the second phase constitutes Ekori while the third phase constitutes Nko.’’ But despite all these assertions some questions of many Yakurr people were not yet answered.
The questions are who founded Yakurr? Who founded the first Yakurr dynasty? Who founded the second Yakurr dynasty? Why is the Yakurr traditional political system headed by Obol Lopon who must come only from the Leboljimo Matrilineal family?
Eteng Obono Okoi (2007) in his researched paper asserted that ,Yakurr was founded by a woman called Obia (which literally means” visitor” in Igbo language) a princess from Abiriba in Igbo land who had a misunderstanding with her father over the palace administrative system. She ran out of the palace, and migrated northward and settled at Akpa where she had an encounter with a hunter, she narrated her ordeal to the hunter. They got married. It was this relationship and a conquest they embarked on that formed what is today known as “Yako”. It was princess Obia that formed the first Yakurr dynasty at Akpa. On a Council of Chiefs Meeting at the Obol Lopon palace, when Obol Obia took her seat, her womanhood was exposed to some chiefs. She saw this incident as an abomination against the kingdom. She handed over the mantle of Obol Loponship to her son Ibe.
Obol Ibe started the second Yakurr dynasty. He prove himself as a great leader and warrior, he has won many wars. Those who were conquered during the wars were made to be part of Ibe’s family. He has the interest of his subjects at heart. He was admired by all his subjects and were called and addressed as Yako Be-ibe. It was when Ibe was full of age and on a sick-bed that a misunderstanding between Yako and her neigbours occurred. Weeks later he died. This was what necessitated an attack on Yako. Before the attack, Ibe’s family was dispersed. They migrated to their present home land and continued with their traditional political system that is today still based on Obol-Lopon.

http://etengo..com.ng/2011/08/yakurr-be-ibe-historical-backgroung.html?m=1

Yakurr people are maternally Igbo related.

An Igbo princess from Abriba Abia State gave birth to Ibe, through a Yakurr man.
Ibe established a dynasty in Yakurr.

It's very easy to appreciate why Yakurr looks phenotypically like Igbos and dress like Igbos too.
We have blood relationship. I would like to see that maintained in form of loose Confederation with Yakurr people in Biafra, of they are open to it.
Additionally, Igbophobia didn't permeate Northern Cross River, the people are reasonable and can be worked with.
If at all we should consider a multi ethnic Biafra, we should consider those minorities in Cross River first and foremost, they are blood.

cc: Daveconsult007

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Igboid:
Yakurr people are maternally Igbo related.
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An Igbo princess from Abriba Abia State gave birth to Ibe, through a Yakurr man.
Ibe established a dynasty in Yakurr.

It's very easy to appreciate why Yakurr looks phenotypically like Igbos and dress like Igbos too.
We have blood relationship. I would like to see that maintained in form of loose Confederation with Yakurr people in Biafra, of they are open to it.
Additionally, Igbophobia didn't permeate Northern Cross River, the people are reasonable and can be worked with.
If at all we should consider a multi ethnic Biafra, we should consider those minorities in Cross River first and foremost, they are blood.

cc: Daveconsult007

I have heard this before from dad while growing up in Cameroon.
We had an Igbo businessman neighbor, my dad was so friendly with him and one day he told us of the story.

Years later, my senior brother followed the man's elder brother to Aba to learn business after 7 years my brother was settled, he's now a major player in Texile trade in Douala.


Many people from my community alongside my brother has benefitted from Ibo trading business after apprenticeship and running businesses of their own.


I admire igbo people and we have a lot to benefit from each other , having maternal roots in Anglophone Cameroon, it opened up my eyes to wider reasons why my peoples both paternal and maternal needs to keep it smooth with ibo folks.

rottennaija:


It will never happen. Akwaibom is not part of biafra and will never be. In fact, Akwa Ibom can be a country in it own.

But why is your mooslim pro-buharri skull pained by the fact that Igbos and Akwacross have never had squabbles?

I know you were almost tempted to claim to be an 'Akwa Ibomite who hate Ibos and love fulani muslims', but restrained yourself because everyone here knows your ethnic identity from the days of GEJ.

LLiKYekoba:


But why is your mooslim pro-buharri skull pained by the fact that Igbos and Akwacross have never had squabbles?

I know you were almost tempted to claim to be an 'Akwa Ibomite who hate Ibos and love fulani muslims', but restrained yourself because everyone here knows your ethnic identity from the days of GEJ.

"You know nothing Jon Snow"

Yes we can remain friends in neighboring countries.

Whiteangel1234:
Feel free to Share your personal Opinion . From close observation and based on historical Facts , I think the people of Akwa Ibom are the closest Ally and friend of the Igbos in the Niger Delta when you are looking at Non- Igboid Ethnic nationality in the South South .

The Ibibio , Anaang , Iron , Eket, Obolo etc
We seems to naturally Ally with Each other , even the Last President of Biafra General Philip Effiong is from Akwa Ibom and Many more .

Even in the Quest for this New Biafra , Unknown Gun men are also rampant in Akwa Ibom just like the South East , in Fact Akwa Ibom is the Only South South States where unknown Gun men also Operate freely

Don't you guys ever free ashamed of opening unnecessary threads on Igbos. Always making yourselves a subject of bashing from other ethnicity..

Sometime I begin to wonder if you guys are really Igbos