ACM10:

Come o, did u claim that you were born in UK?



I swear with my 2 balls, my monthly salary and mama and by the amadioha shrine, that you have never crossed the gate of Ajegunle. Your Written English is too poor for someone who spent part of his life and mingled with the native English speakers in UK.
I'm beginning to think that you have an underlying psychiatric disorder. You can fool everybody, but you can't fool me. I would have ignored you, but you pushed so hard on your Ikwerre claim that you activated my sensor. So I set about to investigate your claim.
BTW, "o bialu be onye a biagbuna ya" was one of Igbo wise saying spoken to me by an Ikwerre woman whom I met in Bayelsa. I hand-picked the comment to test your Ikwerre claim hoping that you can easily translate it. But you failed woefully. Thereby exposing your fake azzzz.

ACM10:

You love to argue senselessly. All these while, I haven't seen you support your argument with raw fact. Yet, you are ready to tear down someone's evidence. Can we have a peep into your evidence? Why should you use "I believe"? Say it the way it is and provide an evidence to support your claim.

ACM10: I was at Yenogoa early this week on a working visit. I was actually invited by a colleague to participate in a procedure. I spent 24hrs at Yenogoa. I was in a hurry to get back to Enugu in time that I rejected all their offers for refreshment. It was whenwhile I was waiting to board a bus to Enugu that I noticed how hungry I amwas. I havehad to dash to the nearest restaurant. Inside the restaurant, I met 3 ladies who seemsseemed to be in their late 20s and early 30s. Since I was unsure if they are were Igbos. I opened started a conversation with them in English, they responded with pidgin English. I later settled to gulp down their well-prepared delicacy of Akpu and Onugbu soup. While I was eating, those ladies were chatting with an Anambra-type of Igbo dialect. I interjected by remarking that I thought that they were Ijaws. I proceeded to ask which part of Anambra they came from. To my utmost surprise, they told me that the are from River State. So I inquired further by asking them about which place in River State is an Igbo-speaking area. They proudly responded with "Ikwerre". I was so amazed to say the least. The lies I get here from Alj harem, Dayokanu, etc is that there is no Igbo speaking part of River State. There are many Igbo speaking parts, from Ahaoda, Elele, Mbiama, etc. I asked the ladies "why do Ikwerres deny their Igboness?" They responded by telling me that they feel so ashamed by the action of their elder who denies such.
I was also amazed by the way the residents of Yenogoa speaks Igbo as if it was their lingua franca.

ACM10: Many posters has done so much justice to this topic that there is little or nothing left for me to add. SO WHY NOT SHUT UP

(Bi)polar disorder , just like its name sounds HOW DOES IT SOUND
is a psychiatric disorder that straddles STRADDLE You no go kill person
between two poles/phase.
Rep. Jackson was recently diagnosed of bipolar disoder you mean diagnosed with NOT of
and is presently on treatment.

We have:
Bipolar I and Bipolar II disorders.

Bipolar I disorder includes episodes of both mania(very elevated mood) and major depression.
Bipolar II disorder includes episodes of both hypomania(elevated mood, but not as severe as in mania) and major depression.

Conditions that predict bipolar disorder include:
1. Depression characterized by psychotic symptoms or psychomotor retardation.
2. Mania or hypomania after antidepressant drug therapy.

Lithium is the drug of choice in treating mania. Lithium is used to control aggressive behaviour and enhance the activity of antidepressants.
Anticonvulsants such as carbamazepine and valproic acid are also used to treat mania.

P.S: Electroconvulsive therapy(ECT) has no place in the management of mania. But it can be used in severe depression when other modalities has YOU MEAN HAVE failed!

aribisala0:

A LEVEL DOC
Am I dreaming or did you just criticize somone for bad English
You
Everyone knows you are an ARTILLERY GENERAL WITH your endless shelling. I even wonder since you know so much about PH,were you born in the area known as "ARTILLERY"

From now on you are no longer ACM but GENERAL ACM

Please,do not derail;You are constantly veering off topic.







I present GENERAL ACM GOC NAIRALAND ARTILLERY CORPS

aribisala0: Ah !!
the GENERAL's
Aide de Camp!
Kedu ?
Ke the General?

NRI PRIEST:

We have heard you....Now,you can move on.

aribisala0:
Tell your family to move on or even move in front of a trailer with no brakes

vislabraye: I've observed what the poster is saying. While I served I know a fellow corper who speaks Ibo very well and socializes with them. But when an Ibo corper got into trouble I told him" what will you do about ur brother?" He said "I'm not Ibo, I'm Ikwere." It was ridiculous hearing it.

Not only Ikwere people, Asaba and some Delta Ibos don't want to associate themselves with the main Ibos. Well, whatever.

vislabraye: I've observed what the poster is saying. While I served I know a fellow corper who speaks Ibo very well and socializes with them. But when an Ibo corper got into trouble I told him" what will you do about ur brother?" He said "I'm not Ibo, I'm Ikwere." It was ridiculous hearing it.

Not only Ikwere people, Asaba and some Delta Ibos don't want to associate themselves with the main Ibos. Well, whatever.

NRI PRIEST:

To me,its quite ok if they don't wanna associate with the greater Igbo nation but lets not twist facts nor rewrite history,so we can cover our shameful insecurities.

Stella Damascus,in an interview she offered some tabloids years ago,stated that her last name was "Ojukwu"(yes,same as the Ojukwu the biafran leader;note that Stella is an Asaba girl) but her family after the biafran war changed the name to her grand father's baptismal name because they thought it will help if ppl don't think they are related to ojukwu nor are Igbo. The war really dealt a devastating blow to the Igbo!

odumchi: This is my understanding of it:

The people known as the Igbo are not a single people. The Igbo people are a nation in the sense that they are a collection of peoples who are related but not necessarily by blood.

Prior to colonization, the Igbo organized themselves on the sub-ethnic level and the basic unit of social and political organization was the village community. In parts of Igboland, large sub-ethnicities formed as many groups of villages commonly identified with each other. This phenomena is found among many groups including the Ngwa, the Ika, the Ikwere, and the Aro, however the largest of these sub-ethnicities (population-wise) is Ngwa.

Most groups of the Igbo country existed in independent communities. They didn't identify with each other on the basis of being Igbo, instead they identified each other based on their communal or sub-ethnic name. For example, in Things Fall Apart the people of Umuofia identified as Umuofia while the people of Abame identified as Abame, but to non-Igbo they were identified as Igbo regardless.

If you went to 18th century Igboland and asked a native what language he spoke, the answer would most likely be 'Igbo'. The reason I say most likely is because it could've been possible that certain groups referred to their speech with the same name as their collective group name. For example, if you asked an Ngwa what language he spoke, it's possible that he would've said 'Ngwa'.

The Igbo, for the most part, have always known subconsciously that the general name used to identify them collectively was "Igbo", but amongst themselves they identified sub-ethnically. For example if I existed in 18th century Igboland, I would've been referred to as an Aro by an Ohafia (Igbo town) native but as an Igbo by a Calabar native.

If you went to a place like Arochukwu in the year 1800 and asked a native to identify to you which neighboring communities were Igbo and which were not, they wouldn't have had a difficult time doing so. In fact, in Arochukwu, we commonly identify everyone east of us as "Ibibio" while we refer to those west of us sub-ethnically. The Efik to the east of us do the same; they refer to themselves on the sub-ethnic level while everything from Arochukwu westward is referred to as Igbo.

Unfortunately, this subconsciousness was not strong enough to make the Igbo peoples band together politically, but nevertheless, there is an Igbo nation.

OneNaira6:

All these pretending on NL  na wa o!! for una.
Austrians and czechclosovakians who speak Germans...are they Germans? Ss people aren't ibos. We aren't dirty!
@OP
Depending on the Ikwerres you speak to. Some see themselves as Igbo, while others do not. Monalisa chindua, Ducan Mighty and Tonto Dike are of Ikwerre stock and all three identify themselves as Igbo; online on NL there's two ikwerre i've seen so far and that is Igboboy and I think Ezeuche is also ikwerre but i'm not sure and they identify themselves as Igbo. They probably have family members whom will agree with them and at the same time disagree with them. The thing is Igbo denial in SS is there but in a limited amount but people over glorify it online thus making it appear as a huge problem when it is not. In SS, the problem is viewed as no problem at all and SE should imitate that belief. Let the few deny as much as they want as long as they don't drag everyone else into.

wildikeman: Becos they know what scums ibos are now... We Deltans aren't ibos pls correct yourself ooo. God forbids. We are Deltans not ibos!!!!! And if we secede from Delta, we aren't joining the ibos. God wouldn't let that! Come through

zendy: As a proud Igbo man from Anambra and one who supports the emancipation of Igbos as Biafrans,I will be the last person to enforce 'Igbohood' on the Ikwere people if the don't want it. I believe people have the right to choose who they are. But there are 2 things annoys me about the Ikwere saying they are a "distinct ethnic group" separate from Igbos. The first time I visited Porthacourt in 2000 or 2001, I was in the choba area and was bored and decided to take a stroll. I came across a large gathering of Ikwere youths holding a meeting and I joined to find out what was going on. I forget what it was all about but I remember it had something to do with some staff of UNIPORT but the important thing of interest was that they spoke in Ikwere and I as an Anambra man understood everything they said. Language is one major thing that makes an ethnic group 'distinct' from another so I would like to know where the Ikwere got Igbo from unless they are trying to say that Igbos came and stole their language. The Abakiliki man is 100% unadulterated Igbo but if the Abakiliki man and the Ikwere man spoke their dialects,I would understand the Ikwere man much better than I would the Abakiliki man. Another gripe I have about the Ikweres claiming not to be Igbo is the Ikweres sing a different tune when they are not in Ikwereland. What many Ikwere people do when they are in places like Lagos,Abuja,Enugu that has a large Igbo population is to 'silently' become Igbo because they realise it is in their best interest to be seen as a 'minority' while enjoying Igbo patronage.Using their Igbo names,they blend in with the Igbo majority .That's why you will never see people like Julius Agwu,Tonto Dike and Monalisa Chinda publicly claiming 'not to be Igbo' because they know it's career suicide. The Ikwere man only remembers he is not Igbo when returns to PH but he is not deceiving anybody. We all know what the politics of 'oil' can do.

zendy: As a proud Igbo man from Anambra and one who supports the emancipation of Igbos as Biafrans,I will be the last person to enforce 'Igbohood' on the Ikwere people if the don't want it. I believe people have the right to choose who they are. But there are 2 things annoys me about the Ikwere saying they are a "distinct ethnic group" separate from Igbos. The first time I visited Porthacourt in 2000 or 2001, I was in the choba area and was bored and decided to take a stroll. I came across a large gathering of Ikwere youths holding a meeting and I joined to find out what was going on. I forget what it was all about but I remember it had something to do with some staff of UNIPORT but the important thing of interest was that they spoke in Ikwere and I as an Anambra man understood everything they said. Language is one major thing that makes an ethnic group 'distinct' from another so I would like to know where the Ikwere got Igbo from unless they are trying to say that Igbos came and stole their language. The Abakiliki man is 100% unadulterated Igbo but if the Abakiliki man and the Ikwere man spoke their dialects,I would understand the Ikwere man much better than I would the Abakiliki man. Another gripe I have about the Ikweres claiming not to be Igbo is the Ikweres sing a different tune when they are not in Ikwereland. What many Ikwere people do when they are in places like Lagos,Abuja,Enugu that has a large Igbo population is to 'silently' become Igbo because they realise it is in their best interest to be seen as a 'minority' while enjoying Igbo patronage.Using their Igbo names,they blend in with the Igbo majority .That's why you will never see people like Julius Agwu,Tonto Dike and Monalisa Chinda publicly claiming 'not to be Igbo' because they know it's career suicide. The Ikwere man only remembers he is not Igbo when returns to PH but he is not deceiving anybody. We all know what the politics of 'oil' can do.

Ikwerreboy:


Lier. My ikwerre brothers dont claim igbo identity whether in Nigeria or outside nigeria. We have Ogbakor ikwerre if you dont know. Ogbakor ikwerre U.s, ogbakor ikwerre south african e.t.c, And also in our home country.ogbakor ikwerre here in nigeria.

When and were did Julius Agwu,Tonto dike and Monalisa chinda claim to be igbo? or accept the igbo identity?.
After all
1. Tonto dike ones said he cant get married to an igbo man.
2. Gov. Rotimi amaechi an ikwerre man.(Currently the governor of Rivers state) told President goodluck Jonathan that we i.e the ikwerre/rivers state are not biafra.
3. Awuse an ikwerre man who one's contested for governor in rivers state, was accused of planing to chase all the igbos in rivers state/ikwerre land if he eventually becomes the governor of rivers state.
4. When th igbos in rivers state did there prayer for peace in rivers state and nigeria did we the ikwerres join you igbo? the ans is capital NO.
5. Ikwerres even asked the igbos to pay fine for organizing such a prayer without the concept of the Ikwerres who are in the owner of the land the igbo leave and derived there daily income.I.e Port Harcourt.


Look be very carefull. You know your igbo brothers have invested alot in our land. dont let us chase you people out from port harcourt as fashola did to you pple.
And Note abandon property must still occur again in port harcourt. TELL YOUR IGBO BROTHERS TO LEAVE PORT HARCOURT FOR WE THE IKWERRES AND OUR HUMBLE BROTHER THE YORUBA,IJAW,OGONI, EVEN NORTHERNERS SELF.

Ikwerreboy: I am ikwerre from omerelu in ikwerre local government area.
My grandfather use to tell me dat we ikwerres came from benin kingdom along side with our two brothers ekpeye and ogba in rivers state and we even share boundary with them. Ikwerre settlements have their
roots traceable from the old Benin Empire when oba of benin oba Ewuare gave birth to Akalaka(third son) with a benin woman(i.e akalaka mother and father all came from benin), Akalaka, a
member of the Benin royal family, fled in the 13 th century
on allegation of plotting assassination of the Oba. He died
in 1462.
Chief N.M.T. Solomon (2004), native of Ikodu Ubie in
Ekpeyeland, in his narrative draws heavily from the now
authenticated written historical records delivered by
various informed sources including “Eketu (Weber) of
Ubeta, assumed to have lived for over two hundred (200)
years as the oldest man in all Ekpeye, Ogba and
Iwhnurọ hna (or Ikwerre), at that time (and) was asked to
narrate the history and customs of Ekpeye people” as
unfolded in his lifetime. Here is what he said, which has
been validated by the accounts of the current generation
through responses to our questionnaires and direct
interviews thereby increasing our level of confidence on the
data:
Ekpeye, born in Benin, was the first of the three sons of
Akalaka. While in Ndoni, he married a second wife to gain
the love and favour of the people. The new wife gave
birth to a son, which he named Ogba. Akalaka was still in
Ndoni when his first wife, the mother of Ekpeye, gave
birth to his third son called Ihruoha (Ikwerre).

read full story: http://iwhnurohna..com/2012/11/a-brief-history-of-ikwerre.html?m=1

Ikwerreboy:


Lier. My ikwerre brothers dont claim igbo identity whether in Nigeria or outside nigeria. We have Ogbakor ikwerre if you dont know. Ogbakor ikwerre U.s, ogbakor ikwerre south african e.t.c, And also in our home country.ogbakor ikwerre here in nigeria.

When and were did Julius Agwu,Tonto dike and Monalisa chinda claim to be igbo? or accept the igbo identity?.
After all
1. Tonto dike ones said he cant get married to an igbo man.
2. Gov. Rotimi amaechi an ikwerre man.(Currently the governor of Rivers state) told President goodluck Jonathan that we i.e the ikwerre/rivers state are not biafra.
3. Awuse an ikwerre man who one's contested for governor in rivers state, was accused of planing to chase all the igbos in rivers state/ikwerre land if he eventually becomes the governor of rivers state.
4. When th igbos in rivers state did there prayer for peace in rivers state and nigeria did we the ikwerres join you igbo? the ans is capital NO.
5. Ikwerres even asked the igbos to pay fine for organizing such a prayer without the concept of the Ikwerres who are in the owner of the land the igbo leave and derived there daily income.I.e Port Harcourt.


Look be very carefull. You know your igbo brothers have invested alot in our land. dont let us chase you people out from port harcourt as fashola did to you pple.
And Note abandon property must still occur again in port harcourt. TELL YOUR IGBO BROTHERS TO LEAVE PORT HARCOURT FOR WE THE IKWERRES AND OUR HUMBLE BROTHER THE YORUBA,IJAW,OGONI, EVEN NORTHERNERS SELF.

zendy:



Your tiny Ikwere Kingdom is going to chase the Igbos out of PH? Have you been smoking something illegal? You can't even chase Ijaws out. You Ikweres can be sneaky. So when you are in Lagos,you shut your
Mouth that you are not Igbo and use your Igbo name and language to blend in because you don't want to be seen as a minority but as soon as you return to PH you will start shouting 'I am not Igbo'!. Do you really think that if Chibuike Amaechi was in Kano and Hausas who are looking for Igbos to kill caught him,he will manage convince anyone he is not Igbo with a name like that? If the Ikweres say they are not Igbo then no problem,but I hope you guys are not saying this just because of the same oil wells that are found in any Igbo state.

dayokanu:



The bolded.

Some m0rons on the edo Thread claimed they can differentiate 2 Southern Nigerian by looks. What could be more id10tic.

Ikwerreboy:



Lier. My ikwerre brothers dont claim igbo identity whether in Nigeria or outside nigeria. We have Ogbakor ikwerre if you dont know. Ogbakor ikwerre U.s, ogbakor ikwerre south african e.t.c, And also in our home country.ogbakor ikwerre here in nigeria.

When and were did Julius Agwu,Tonto dike and Monalisa chinda claim to be igbo? or accept the igbo identity?.
After all
1. Tonto dike ones said he cant get married to an igbo man.
2. Gov. Rotimi amaechi an ikwerre man.(Currently the governor of Rivers state) told President goodluck Jonathan that we i.e the ikwerre/rivers state are not biafra.
3. Awuse an ikwerre man who one's contested for governor in rivers state, was accused of planing to chase all the igbos in rivers state/ikwerre land if he eventually becomes the governor of rivers state.
4. When th igbos in rivers state did there prayer for peace in rivers state and nigeria did we the ikwerres join you igbo? the ans is capital NO.
5. Ikwerres even asked the igbos to pay fine for organizing such a prayer without the concept of the Ikwerres who are in the owner of the land the igbo leave and derived there daily income.I.e Port Harcourt.


Look be very carefull. You know your igbo brothers have invested alot in our land. dont let us chase you people out from port harcourt as fashola did to you pple.
And Note abandon property must still occur again in port harcourt. TELL YOUR IGBO BROTHERS TO LEAVE PORT HARCOURT FOR WE THE IKWERRES AND OUR HUMBLE BROTHER THE YORUBA,IJAW,OGONI, EVEN NORTHERNERS SELF.

omonnakoda:
Abandon property Saga happened in only one place . Not in Lagos ,remind me where was it ....................Could it be Port Harcourt

Let me ask Gugu

eastOFwest:


Guy leave matter, have you lived amongst Ikwerre's before? There's nothing in their demeanour, lifestyle or work ethic that suggests Igbo.

eastOFwest:


You can quite easily say too, that ikwerres are riverine poeple that are close to Igbos and as a result have borrowed some Igbo elements.

Ikwerreboy:
I am ikwerre from omerelu in ikwerre local government area.
My grandfather use to tell me dat we ikwerres came from benin kingdom along side with our two brothers ekpeye and ogba in rivers state and we even share boundary with them. Ikwerre settlements have their
roots traceable from the old Benin Empire when oba of benin oba Ewuare gave birth to Akalaka(third son) with a benin woman(i.e akalaka mother and father all came from benin), Akalaka, a
member of the Benin royal family, fled in the 13 th century
on allegation of plotting assassination of the Oba. He died
in 1462.
Chief N.M.T. Solomon (2004), native of Ikodu Ubie in
Ekpeyeland, in his narrative draws heavily from the now
authenticated written historical records delivered by
various informed sources including “Eketu (Weber) of
Ubeta, assumed to have lived for over two hundred (200)
years as the oldest man in all Ekpeye, Ogba and
Iwhnurọ hna (or Ikwerre), at that time (and) was asked to
narrate the history and customs of Ekpeye people” as
unfolded in his lifetime. Here is what he said, which has
been validated by the accounts of the current generation
through responses to our questionnaires and direct
interviews thereby increasing our level of confidence on the
data:
Ekpeye, born in Benin, was the first of the three sons of
Akalaka. While in Ndoni, he married a second wife to gain
the love and favour of the people. The new wife gave
birth to a son, which he named Ogba. Akalaka was still in
Ndoni when his first wife, the mother of Ekpeye, gave
birth to his third son called Ihruoha (Ikwerre).

read full story: http://iwhnurohna..com/2012/11/a-brief-history-of-ikwerre.html?m=1

Ikwerreboy:
I am ikwerre from omerelu in ikwerre local government area.
My grandfather use to tell me dat we ikwerres came from benin kingdom along side with our two brothers ekpeye and ogba in rivers state and we even share boundary with them. Ikwerre settlements have their
roots traceable from the old Benin Empire when oba of benin oba Ewuare gave birth to Akalaka(third son) with a benin woman(i.e akalaka mother and father all came from benin), Akalaka, a
member of the Benin royal family, fled in the 13 th century
on allegation of plotting assassination of the Oba. He died
in 1462.
Chief N.M.T. Solomon (2004), native of Ikodu Ubie in
Ekpeyeland, in his narrative draws heavily from the now
authenticated written historical records delivered by
various informed sources including “Eketu (Weber) of
Ubeta, assumed to have lived for over two hundred (200)
years as the oldest man in all Ekpeye, Ogba and
Iwhnurọ hna (or Ikwerre), at that time (and) was asked to
narrate the history and customs of Ekpeye people” as
unfolded in his lifetime. Here is what he said, which has
been validated by the accounts of the current generation
through responses to our questionnaires and direct
interviews thereby increasing our level of confidence on the
data:
Ekpeye, born in Benin, was the first of the three sons of
Akalaka. While in Ndoni, he married a second wife to gain
the love and favour of the people. The new wife gave
birth to a son, which he named Ogba. Akalaka was still in
Ndoni when his first wife, the mother of Ekpeye, gave
birth to his third son called Ihruoha (Ikwerre).

read full story: http://iwhnurohna..com/2012/11/a-brief-history-of-ikwerre.html?m=1