₦airaland Forum

Abagworo:
A ride from Amaraku to Orlu is like a ride inside one megacity with many suburbs. Every village in that axis is surprisingly urbanized.

How far is Nkwerre from Orlu?

ephemm:
Snowden has used up all of his intelligence info

He's now cooking up stories to seek attention or relevance.

Nobody has any proof that Osama actually died except what they told us. So, i wouldn't be surprised that he's alive.

OneNaira6:
Ezeagu have never once said anything negative about Anioma. Ezeagu have never once speak ill against Anioma. I can't say the same for Afam4eva and Agbaworo.

And please don't try to defend them again. They are both mischievous. Afam4eva is even better. Agabworo is the worst and I'm shocked you honestly defending him. Abagworo have never defended other Igbo excluding his Rocha's pay master. The dude tries on multiple occasion to pity several igbo groups against each other. Abagworo is toxic. He's exactly as chino.

The problems is that i try to be objective. I'm not a forcefull person and as much as i believe every group in Delta North are Igbo, over the years, my fight for these people have waned as i don't want to be seen as being forceful and land grabbing like they call it. That's why i usually advocate for an economic integration that includes just the Igbos of the SE for the time being because those in Delta state are kinda hindered by being lumped in a state with other groups. I'm passionate about every part of igboland be in the SE or delta state. I'm particularly more passionate about the Aniocha and Oshimili areas but getting less concerned about the Ika and Ukwuani areas to be sincere. I'm just tired of the back and forth.

DANILSA:
No, he only grew up there.

So, where's he from?

ApcSucks:
He's not an ngwa man

He's from Isiala Ngwa.

isn't that wetheral?

Lordave:
Exactly!

Any lawyer that tries to take up this case will face a fierce spiritual resistance from the villagers, he might not be able to pass faeces for 3 months.

That's if the story is true.

No wonder he's looking for a lawyer on the internet. The ones he met in real life must have refused to enter any battle with villagers. The guy dey find person wey im go use as buffer.

Ikpeazu has so far achieved more than theodoore orji achieved in 8 years but i've always felt that Alex Otti will be a better fit to turn Abia state and especially Aba into a modern hub. His CV is too bogus to be ignored. And Btw, he also an Ngwa man, so that should not be an issue.

Lordave:
Why didn't his father sell one of the lands and treat his disease and hunger?

The land in the village that is worth billions of naira is it Kubwa village or Garki village? Is the land in Central Business District?

My brother, if the villagers won't let him sell the land just because of envy, then it's not his land.

Lol...Maybe it's acres of land. If the owner of the land couldn't sell it to treat himself, then it's almost impossible for someone else to do so.

onenaira3:
Afam4eva and Agbaworo hates Anioma. Did you not know that?

I don't know why the rest of SE on NL do not work to shut those two up. They try to create more animosity between SE and Anioma than any other person on here excluding that ijaw clown

Dude, why would you say that?

Una don start. Wetin dem call Mikel that year again? Victor Moses? The moment Nigerians start hyping anyone, that's when their careers begin to take a nose dive. Evil spirits.

Ill like to learn more about this Njiko carnival. Oguta is also a good location.

If someone has even 0.5% of surviving, then the person should be given a chance and nobody has the right to decide who lives or who dies except the dying person explicitly requests for Euthanasia.

Energito:
Have you been to any IKAland before?if you have not just shut,because you are part of i hear it from nairaland.ika is igbo.get that

Why do you people like lying to yourselves?

All the losers are on Olamide's side. None of them won nada

Wetin you come find go the award? Stupid braggart.

sanmibukunmi:
but why are you just realising that now your kinsman ruled for Six good years and never did I hear of igbo marginalization.....but now you people are shouting when we are barely 8 months into a Hausa man's government. a Hausa man you people didn't vote for. a man you are not shy to show your hatred towards and you are shouting marginalization.... common man. as a matter of fact, I saw a post from 2011 about yorubas then complaining about marginalization and I saw your comment. stop trying to play motivational speaker for me here. let's leave hypocrisy and work together then the country will be good for all of us.

An Ijaw man is my kinsman? I noticed your flair for idiocy when said that Igbos started crying marginalization after Buhari won. If anything, Igbos are connoisseurs of marginalization gospel. No be today.

nduchucks:
I don't think we have any such controversy to speak of among Hausas or Yorubas. As an example, Yorubas in Nigeria typically have states of origin located somewhere in the Southwest. They all speak and understand Yoruba while some speak different dialects in addition to Yoruba. An Ijebu person or Lagos person will agree without any controversy that he/she is Yoruba. The same applies to the Hausas.

Why is this different with "Igbos"?

It's because those controversies are not present in Yoruba and Hausa lands that's why I said we should use their definition. It's also not right to say Yorubas are located in the South west. What about the ones in Kwara and Kogi?

The reason why it's different with Igbos is that You benefit more from the Nigerian state of you're not Igbo and that's why some Igbo I'd groups will go to any length, even insult Igbos to prove their none Igboness. And they have reasons on why they're not Igbo. They will tell you that they're not in the South East but South South. They will also tell you that their dialect is different from that of Igbos as if Igbos have only one dialect. If all these does not work, they will tell you that their people migrated from Benin. Like I said, it depends on which part of the divide the person you're asking belongs to. All over the world ethnicity is determined by similarity in language and culture.

nduchucks:
I ask without prejudice, what makes a person an Igbo?

Would somoeone knowledgeable enough be kind enough to shed some light on this question. There seems to be a controversy on this issue; a controversy which should not be ignored.

There's no definite answer to this. It depends on what you want to believe. An Ikwerre person who doesn't want to be classed as an Igbo person will have a different definition from someone who believes Ikwerre is Igbo. It depends on which side of the divide you belong. I think the best way to go about defining Igbo hood is by tdefininf what it means to be Hausa or Yoruba. You as an Hausa or Northerner, how do you determine who is Hausa?

sanmibukunmi:
There is gold in ilesha and it is not been tapped too. ajaokuta too has been abandoned.....Nigeria is messed up but you ppl are just compounding more problems by saying you are the only ones suffering in the country...

It's people like you that get it wrong. Igbos have never said that they're the only one being marginalized but they're speaking for themselves. As much as Nigerians irrespective of tribe are marginalized, that of Igbos is on another level. You can keep denying it to yourself all you want but the truth is there to see.

Quantico wasn't bad. I like films with a lot of suspense. Can't wait for season 2.

HopeAtHand:
@bolded. They are in Obio clan of Obio/Akpor LGA.


For an Ikwerre to grasp the dialects of all clans, one must rily be versed in Ikwerre. An Igbo trying to live amongst us will need an interpreter.

Years ago during NYSC it Akwa Ibom, an Enugu guy attempted to listen to the conversation between me and an Ndele guy. After the conversation we asked him what he understood, he replied he didnt understand a single word. I womder how we can be of same ethnicity when we cant communicate in one language. Language is primarily for communicating.

That one set dey but that's not a cogent reason. While driving in traffic, I heard a hawker speaking a language and I asked him which language that is and he said Igbo and I swore that there is no way that can be Igbo. It was actually the dialect spoken by either Ezza or Izzi(can't remember which exactly) of Ebony state. Even though I couldn't pick a word, maybe I didn't pay attention enough. But that doesn't mean they're not Igbo. We seem to define Igbo by what is known as central Igbo which is similar to what is spoken in Anambra-statelight-nationeconomic-political-power and some parts of Abia and Imo state. If you hear my dialect, you'll probably think I'm not Igbo too. That's why some of my village people who have never left Enugu find it kinda hard conversing with Igbos from other states.

I've gotten some lessons on Ikwerre. No wonder when I used to attend the Deeper life retreat at Rumudara, they used to have different interpreters for different parts of Ikwerre. But based on my experience, I've never come across any Ikwerre person that does not understand Central Igbo though speaking fluently is a different thing. Even in my village, a lot of people struggle to speak central Igbo to Non Nkanu or Wawa people.

Please can someone create a thread on the different parts of Ikwerre land and what their dialects sounds like and the similarities with some Igbo dialects.

BTW, where do you group Elimgbu/Rumukrushi under? Which lGA?

Hopeathand Abagworo Ezepromoe

Eastlink:
On point broda. Nairaland have really taught me so many lessons. With the strong fort have built in this forum no one dare talk ill about my area. Cos am ready to whip any motherfucker that runs his mouth about my ethnicity.
Proudly Egbema,
Proudly Igbo.

Madoo

cheruv:
Stop grasping at straws brother
Emefiele and Kachikwu are from different parts of Anioma so which one is partly Igbo and full Igbo
Look at Ijo parts of SS and remove your eyes elsewhere

Grasping at straws indeed. I'm surprised they didn't give the excuse that Buhari is playing politics like they did when Amaechi opened his own mouth in Aba and called himself Igbo. These people will always dance the macabar dance to defend their bias.