₦airaland Forum

Osagyefo98:
Alex Egbonna sounds Igbotic though Efik.


Congratulations Mr Alex on your victory.


Over to second Inec called Tribunal.

He's from the part of Cross River that shares border with Ebonyi state where Igbo is also spoken.

2metrelaurie:
I'm from BENUE, there is nothing North about BENUE
Hausa make less than 2% Muslims make less than 5%

So, in your mind, North means Hausa? You need to get yourself educated.

MayorofLagos:
Even if you add MB to them for bonus they are still in minority. I don't know how we got bamboozled for so long into believing that South is minority. I dont know how it happened, but let's wake up with the new knowledge and do the right thing.

We should be fighting for some level of autonomy in the name of regionalism or something similar where the center will not have so much power over the constituents. To that end, i don't care whether the north has more power or not as long as it doesn't carry much weight. Because as it is currently, the south is at the mercy of the North.

I don't get. Are you conveniently separating the Middle-Belt from the North? What exactly do you people understand when you hear north?

majamajic:
do u know in England , Arsenal is battling relegation ?

Athletico can't battle relegation in next 100 yrs

So, that's your idea of competition? The fact that Arsenal is battling relegation (which is a blatant lie btw). TF?

majamajic:
bet that it's either Barca or Real Madrid till next 100 yrs

That's competition right there.

I thought they said the EPL was the most competitive league in Europe. How's it that Liverpool already won the league since December.

Bolustical:
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What's your business in this Amotekun of a thing?

I'm just amazed it's Igbos that are talking more about this Amotekun everywhere.

Even we that are directly affected by it are taking it calmly.

Please face your region.

Igbo must sha enter the matter. face your ogas up north and stop deflecting.

I don't get...

Where do motorists buy the e-tags from?

ChinenyeN:
You've been on NL long enough to have witnessed others ask me this question. Let us not repeat history for the sake of repeating it. I have maintained an active presence on Igbo- related matters, both social, cultural, lingustic and political. Your memory of me should provide you the answer to your question.

And i've been long enough not to decipher hat you keep driving at. It always seems just like the Ikwerres, you don't think Ngwa people are Igbo or should belong to the Igbo umbrella, yet i see you up in Igbo issues and topics. I think it's high time you made it clear where you stand.

ChinenyeN:
For someone who is supposedly an enlightened Igbo, you sure make foolish statements at times. So now tell me, is Ngwa not proper Igbo? You think statements like this would make me any more willing to adopt Igbo as my ethnic identity? This is the sort of nonsense you Igbo nationalists and Anambra-centrists love to do.

Yes. You’re correct. I do not see Ngwa as a subgroups of Igbo. It is a separate ethnic consciousness of its own for me. Why else is it that we as a group have yet to join World Igbo Congress? Why else is it that we as a group don't actively participate in "Igbo day"? Why else is it that we as a group are not active supporters of IPOB and even made our stance clear in 2016 and 2017? Why else did we Ngwa end up having bloody clashes with Biafran soldiers even while the war was ongoing? Even to this day, in as much as we would favor a disintegrated Nigeria, many of us, wonder if Biafra is the right choice for us. However, it has not affected our willingness to want to work toward the dismantling of the unfortunate state of Nigeria.

My reason for saying all of this is to bring reality to your doorstep. It was not long ago that people like you were treating Ngwa as some backwater, "not real Igbo" community. You think Ngwa people have forgotten, just because we've generally moved on? No. We haven’t. Now, people like you are here treating "Igbo" as a monolithic entity, and we are all supposed to just happily go along with you on that?

It doesn’t work that way. People like you want to play this Nigerian politics game as an all-or-nothing or zero-sum game. People like you want to create a forum, but silence anything that doesn't further your monolithic ideas and agenda, even if those who you silence are willing to work with you, despite the fact that they may not agree on everything.

This is the same mentality that helped destroy Biafra from the inside out the first time around. Yet, here you are ready to repeat history because of your cynicism. I've said it before and I'll say it again. The moment that Igbo people can learn that there can be a political forum without the mandate of a single, monolithic, umbrella ethnic identity, that is the moment when Igbo can start to smell actual success. The moment that people like you stop getting in the way of other groups’ agency, the sooner people can make actual rational decisions for themselves, rather than decisions based on cynicism and fear-mongering.

If people like you are left unchecked and consequently force us into another confrontation that WE WILL AGAIN LOSE, that is when you will learn that support for IPOB and Biafra is truly scant. People like you need to loosen your grips on “Igbo bu Igbo” and “Igbo bu Otu” so that people can together of their own volition. Your one, cynical agenda does not define us all.

A forum ought to be established on something more than the wasted mantra of “Igbo Unity”. Left with you, you would rather that we all die together “maka anyị bụ ndị Igbo". It's not going to happen that way pal. If people do not feel that they have agency, then your efforts simply start and end with the bandwidth you consume posting on NL.

Are you in essence saying you're not Igbo?

Olalan:
The igbos are proud of their culture......hardly would you find a child in a igbo home irrespective of the social call of their parents that can't communicate in their native languages unlike the Yorubas where some when some persons get rich would outrightly tell their kid to only speak English and tag their native language as vernacular

Biggest lie of the century. I don't know why everyone thinks every other tribe has it better than them as far as teaching their children culture is concerned. Igbos actually have it worse in this regard and i say that as someone who has studied the 3 major tribes.

You conveniently left out YEMI ALADE with 9.7 million IG followers.

While i know a great deal of mother-inlaws can be a pain, after analyzing your story, i feel while your mother has her own issues, your wife doesn't come across as a good person. I wonder what attracted you to her in the first place. I want to believe she belongs to the group of women who are already anticipating having issues with their Mother In-laws and go into the marriage with all the machinery for war. I would have said that you should sit your wife down and talk some sense into her but i think it's too late now and also because of how emotional she is with issues. The worst people to talk to are emotionally driven people. There's no way out from this higi-haga, you just need to find a way to manage it by putting your foot down.

Nobody prophesied this one.

Can we pls discuss Enugu.

cindyspice:
You didn't understand the post. That's not what she's trying to do. She meant haters wanted Diane to live under Mercy's shadow.

Okay...i don't even want Diane to live under mercy's shadow. A lot of housemates are still breathing the Big Brother air to stay relevant. it's only a matter of time for the truly talented ones will be separated from the pretenders. Diane seems to me like she'll be one of the most successful if not the most...

dominique:
They desperately want her to follow Mercy around for crumbs but she has changed the narrative and is becoming a force to reckon with.

Someone without fans is currently the fifth most followed PD housemate on IG with 960k+ followers, six endorsements under her belt, partnership with top brands like peak milk and indomie, a production company, a cooking channel about to be launched, make-up line in the works etc. She's on the radar of A list producers like AY, Funke Akindele, Mo Abudu etc. If that's what being a maid is all about even your stink dog would want to be one.

And oh, she'll be co-starring in an A list star studded movie with the likes of Shafi Bello Nino B, Tobi Bakre, Timini Egbuson. Before they say she's copying their fave, the movie has finished filming and currently in post production. Filming took place in December when she was allegedly jumping to Ghana for prostitution. Little wonder neither she, Mercy nor Kim bothered to address the rumours, it was too stupid for a sane person to comprehend.

Throw shades from now till next year, she will never clap back. She's too focused for all that.

Positive vibes only

So, what's Mercy's own here now? We love Diane as much as Mercy and they can both exist at the top. Why try to create competition where there is non.

ckenneths:
Which road is bad that he hasn't repaired yet. Name the road.

Agbani road has a lot of pot holes. The inner streets of Uwani and other parts of ENUGU also have to be attended to.

The Porthacourt express road is unsightly.

Diego Simeone would never say that. He's a Messi fan. Ronaldo fanboys just keep pulling silly quotes from their asses to justify their choice.

MESSI remains the GOAT in every ramification.

Barca's biggest problem is coaching and defense.

I don't think it's so much about the fact that the guy is Yoruba. I think it will be exactly the same reaction if the guy was Igbo.

It's also good to note that the parents are evil. What is done is done. How do you go about beating your own pregnant daughter. Evil definitely resides in them.

The police should round up her parents and they should be charged with murder in the first degree.

PDPGuy:
The aviation is now saying the airport will be reopened before Easter...

I heared April.

Biko, Umu Igbo Ibem, let's focus on important issues like we have always done and not be distracted by unnecessary bickering.

naptu2:
No it doesn't. That's why it has a specific topic and according to rule 1, deviating from that topic is derailing. This is the last that I will say on the subject.

If the mods deem certain posts to be off tangent, they will act. It's not in your place to decide what is specific to a topic and what is not of you're not thw originator of the thread. Spyder created this thread with our support and we know why we did so.

naptu2:
https://www.nairaland.com/4463989/pan-igbo-political-economic-forum/622#85524229

Like i said, this thread serves all purposes.

naptu2:
The title of the thread reads The Pan Igbo Political and Economic Forum. There is a Culture Section for cultural issues and there a section for secessionist issues.

These topics are intertwined as someone rightly pointed out. They are all embedded in politics and economy.

I find it strange that you keep talking about secessionist issues even though I'm yet to see one and even though I don't think see how it's unconnected to politics.

naptu2:
Please stop derailing this thread. This thread is about Igbo political and economic activities and it is in the politics section. Stop discussing cultural and secessionist issues here. Cultural issues should be in the Culture Section, while secessionist issues should be in the Ethnic, Racial, Or Sectarian Politics Section.

I will report any poster that derails the thread and anyone that insults other Nairalanders.

No offence but this thread was created to discuss Pan Igbo issues which could be political, social, cultural or economic. Apart from the insults, I don't think anyone is going off tangent.

I have done my research and understand this Igbo business probably better than anyone that I have met especially as it relates to who is Igbo and who is not.

An Identity can be cultural, social or political. Even though when a tribe or an ethnic group is beibg discussed, it mostly revolves around similarity oflanguage and culture.

The unifying word IGBO as we have today never really existed but Igbo people existed. They spoke dialects of the same language and practiced similar cultures. These people includes anyone that calls For Chi/Chukwu/Chineke or anywhere that BIA means come. This includes most of the areas known as Anioma in Delta State and Igboid speaking tribes in Rivers State.

Now, the present denial is all political and that is okay because even the present day south east never used to identify as IGBO. They used to refer to other Igbo groups as Ndi Igbo or other variations. That's shows that the IGBO tag was foisted but later accepted by majority of Igbos.

OMANBALA1:
Are you shocked by this , madam? Cc. Ishilove.
I have watched you on many occasion and your denial of Igbo is not a problem but the hateful passion you bring with it. You speak of Igbo with deep disgust. And for a person who is not an illiterate and prances herself as an intelligent girl I am constantly perplexed by your level of reasoning...its shameful and disgraceful !

While you guys are at it , here is a shocker....Ndokwa are being heavily Igbonized. However, I am not here to preach Igbo unity but in as much as we are distinct from one another that doesn't stop us from working together for a common good.

She doesnt want to be Igbo. Lets let her be. Ndi Anioma that disclaim Igbo do so based on their upbringing. If your parents tell you not Igbo while growing up, almost nothing will change that when you become an adult. He denial of being Igbo by Ikwerre points to this fact. Infact, some Ikwerre people reply the "Are you Igbo" question with God forbid
It shows that the hatred has been planted in them from a very young age.

Is it just me or does it seem that Mercy and Esther avoid each other and are not in speaking terms. It's interesting judging that they were friends in the house.