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Goodvibes8:
My girlfriend is a Banker at GTB (not a contract staff). I just love her unconditionally. I thought she was different from other ladies. My girlfriend is cheating on me with an elderly ugly man.

She switched off her phone for 2 days, since on Tuesday. The first day I noticed, I was scared for her safety because she don't behave like that.

I called her very close friend and she said she haven't heard from her too but I shouldn't worry that she's fine.

Then I knew something was fishy. I live in Ogun state, so I went to Lagos early this morning as at 4:45am hoping to see her at home before she go to work.

When I got to her house, I saw her neighbor (she haven't seen me before else she would have lied to me as well) so I asked after my girlfriend and she said she has not been around since on Sunday.

In my mind, I was like since Sunday? Well, I know since last week, she has been acting strange. I noticed she's always quick to discharge me whenever we're on call.

I just went straight to her office at ikeja. I met with a security man and i asked if miss Lydia (not her real name) has come to office this morning? He said no but she will soon come afterall work starts by 8am and it's just 7am.

I just sat inside my car looking angry and curious. As at 7:25am, a car dropped her. I came down from my car immediately to approach her.

I was like so this is the ugly slowpoke you have been staying with since on Sunday that made you switched off your phone abi? She even have guts to ask what am I doing in Lag?

This is a girl I have never cheated on her before. Despite I am good looking, dark and tall with a good physique.

I don't know what to do. I'm heart broken . She hasn't even call me till now. This is a girl I have sacrificed a lot for.

Ebelelivinston:
My guy,I have I lady I love o deeply that am ready to do anything for her.I disflower her,yet she has a sugar daddy that does anything for her,am happy she's not billing me because am struggling too,am angry she's cheating on me with this old man,but I wont and will never let her go simply because,I rather stay with a devil i know than the angel I don't know.

bomb24:
okolo means roosting in your language and not curlew.

The founders of bonny were Ngwas/Ndoki by origin...

A curlew in Ndoki/Ngwa dialect is called ugoloma....u can now sink it into your ogogoro soaked brain...

We are still waiting for you to deposit a document from neutral observers' of bonny people claiming to be of ijo origin...

Ekealterego:
Ehya, Cry well so that the google algorithm can show how dimwitted you are. Go on, make a fool of yourself and put your Low IQ on display.

Xbobtage:
Watching two nigerian tribes claim superiority is like watching watching two people with down syndrome and each trying to claim they are the smarter one.

Since both Opobo and Bonny share a great deal of igbo and ijaw heritage why cant the people of both towns be allowed to celebrate their hybrid culture and origin. How fair is it for them to completely throw away one...Why try to rewrite their history just so you can say they are ijaws when we all know its not. They can be both Ijaw and igbo and be loved by others, just like the swiss are french and german...Why create an enemy out of igbo people by trying to erase the igbo history of the place.

And to correct you, an igbo friend of mine years ago told me Ama means city centre in igbo language.

I had a short relationship with a Bonny girl two years ago, and when I asked her about what her opinion of what she was is, she said Look Im a rivers girl, and when I said but rivers is not a tribe, she said, I have heard some people say that Bonny is ijaw, but I am from Bonny, not finima or others, calling me Ijaw is not correct, if you dont want to call me a Rivers woman, then call me a Bonny woman. So you see, she didnt accept that she was Ijaw, but she didnt say she was igbo either. I swear on the life of my children that the above bolded sentence is truly what happened. I have also met an Opobo pastor who tried to explain that his people are ndoki people and ndoki are not really igbos and when asked if he was ijaw, he said NO. But he runs an igbo church with only igbo/ikwerre congregation, giving visions in igbo language etc

At OP, why not state your facts without insulting an entire tribe of people, and I can tell you that not all ijaws agree or want a confrontation with igbo people over territorial issues, actually most ijaw people dont want that.

bomb24:
Wailings of Alabo-aka mumuribo.

confused Imp So it no longer okolo-Ama? All of a sudden the "Ma" Prefix In the okolo now means fly and no Longer Ama as u earlier indicated and placed more Emphasis on...

From all Earlier documentation of Bonny history, was pointing to the original founders of Bonny to Come from Ngwa/Ndoki Land; which In their dialect a curlew is called "Ugoloma."

Like i always say okolo means Roosting in Ijaw vernacular and not curlew, so what is the word for curlew in Ijaw?

Jaja's name remains jugbo jugbo fem. we have an overwhelming prove for that...

U lost out bro!

Eastlink:
Lol , I’ll give it to you. You try small for Igbo. But note, Opu can also sound Okpu but with same meaning. It's similar to Ibo and Igbo. While Ibo was the pronunciation in the past, Igbo becomes the norm due to Igbo Izugbe script. Opu and Okpu takes same shape. But while Okpu is used mainly in the South-East, Opu is used more by those of us in Rivers state. Hope you grab now.

RobbStark:
Truth and pure truth you have posted.
They want to rewrite the history of my ibani people but they have failed since from web they started.
Ask them to show you just one person from bonny n Opobo who have claimed to be Ibo.
They will run away.
Come to think of it, is there no blander that is from bonny who wud come n say he is Ibo.
Always they meet someone who claim to be from Okrika, bonny, Opobo, kalabari who said they are not Ijaws.
Very funny set of people.
I am from Opobo n I am Ijaw.
I am from Cookey-Gam War Canoe house in Opobo.
How am I Ibo.
Delusion of the highest order from the dotians

Ekealterego:
Eh! I hope you were not having a conversation with yourself while high on kaikai.

Slayerforever, Ofoigbo, Eastlink, Igboid, Pazienza, Bkayy, 9pluto, Malwian, Thicksharon, IDENNA
Just in case you want to update your library with more ethnographic work from later 1800-1905. Here is another ethnographic work completed by Darker in 1905 and published by Oxford University Press. He travelled around and did a thorough analysis.

Here is an excerpt on OPOBO.

CALEB1590:
Hello romancelanders, doctors and nurses in the house. I need you all to take me through dz with your professional thought.

I met this girl in November of 2021, asked her out and she gave in. We started our relationship life without sex up untill 7th January of this year. We had sex on 7th January and today her scan result shows that she is 10weeks and 2 days pregnant.

Please docs and nurses in the house, considering when i had sex with her and how old the pregnancy is, am I the father of the child? NOTE; I have accepted it, but I want to be sure that I ain't gotta father another man child.

Ekealterego:
Slayerforever, this guy is simply saying we should follow Fraudfessor Alagoa contortions of Amandokiari LOL. The brothers that Alagoa saw in his vision. LOL.
So we should not believe in documented history.

Alabo7978:
you talk about scholarly inclined and you still revel in the first expedition reports?
when you were writing your project, were you refrensing 1950's report??
John Clarke and Merrick whom were missionaries discovered the Oru DIALECTs and saw it to have affinity with that of new calabar, brass, ibani, okrika etc.
smith and baikie too began to later figure out the affinity.
Sigismund Koelle on his book Polyglotta Africana' also took note of it, and by 1880s the Oru(ijoid) Languages were grouped.
later on, linguist such as Gerrit Dimmendaal, Kay Williamson, Roger Blench, Paul hair in the 1900s already grouped the Oru Languages yet you clowns keep jerking on the old expedition.

and did I hear you say opu means big in igbo and not relating to ijoid Languages?
opu means big..there are names like Opubo, opu-alaikio opubigamabiri, opu-wari, opu-alabo, opu-kalango, opuamakuba(the first priest of Bonny) and so many other opu's

big in Igbo are odi'ukwu or vuri'ivu or nherin'nne or nnukwu but you say in your language oputabiye is someone with a big heart, LMAO. una dey try for lies o, even the devil is shocked!
someone with a big heart isn't it nnukwu-obi (nnukwu-big obi-heart) or obi-di'ukwu.
and you know say I Sabi Igbo you get mind dey lie for me.
brother man I am highly dissapointed in you.

Eastlink:
Lol, I suppose you are still rambling despite the Igbo language tutoring. Now look below to see how Oru, Brass, Engenni etc are different from Ijos.

ThickSharon123:
What you are saying is wholly different. The white men at these period of Bonny, Okrirka and Opobo were neutral in their apporachm in fact they either did everything for the King or Queen, according to reports I heard in the 1880s it was King George or so who ruled, and he was a mad king.

The world was stereotyped at some point, so when the English and Europeans found that they weren't the only ones living in planet earth, they wanted to take as much documentation from this lands. And any distortion of information can bring death. So these explorers and professionals were meticulous in their approach when requiring information.

They'd supplied them all the things they needed to stay on these lands for at least years and more to make their full research.

Now, the question, how did the so called white man you say know more about Bonny and Opobo kings rituals at that given period. He even jotted down the plague which almost eliminated Ijaws, if not for the help of the Arochukwu, or the Bonny queen's death, which is well documented even till date. And so many detailed stuff. The rituals, the cultural practices. I beckon you sit down and read the book to make your unbiased notion.

That said, what would Bonny and Opobo, or even Okrirka gain if they'd tried to know more about them. At least the ancestors of these city states knew about the white men becuase they'd told them everything. But the Bonny and Opobo and the likes where truthful and proud of who they were and rightly claimed being Igbo or Ebo as the white man corrupted it. They didn't mince a word.

So, what fallacy are we seeing here. Is the fallacy from the ancestors of Bonny and Opobo or Okrirka or the white man who was simply doing his job documenting all he saw.

I trust Igbo people if they'd seen this before you, or if these old documents was more about Ijaw and all. Igbos wouldn't even force theirselsves on it. They'll simply let it pass.

But the attention came when most Bonny and Opobo claimed they were Igbos, although divided. And they spoke Igbo. IJAWS quickly lambasted such groups telling us not to listen to them that those are either foreigners of the land or slaves. But it don't add up. That is when we began to make our research and thank God for the internet archives we found it.
Alagoa made his book in the early 70s or so becuase he thought the internet would never be, or he never predicted such a time. But the gods of Bonny and Opobo are angry even God is angry himself and had to intervene. Who knows it may be becuase of these things that the land of Bonny and Opobo and the likes aren't prosperous as they are meant to be. Things do happen spiritually too. Ijaws are trying to bring a curse upon the land, and that isn't fair. So, I've said much do settle down and make inductive and deductive reasoning on this, and you will find the answers yourself.

bomb24:
Alabo- aka mumu-ribo

Opobo is opobo and was never called Opuba-ama. opubo - Ama only exist in the average brain of a low Iq Ijaw Irritants, wallowing in.abject poverty in bayelsa state.

Lol dumb ass, Okolo means roosting in your Language not mine. A curlew is called Ugoloma in Igbo Language..confused bat.

And again how could my Ancestors with rich cultural heritage borrow words from Ijaw Low Iq Neadarthals that has no historical relevance and rich culture who solely existence rest on the shoulders of my ancestors to survive. cultural thieves.

Ama is an Igbo-word borrowed by the uncivilised ijo creek rats. u better deal with.


Ama towna in Igbo land


Isu-Ama
Ama-Igbo
Ama-ife
Ama-nfuru
Ama-asaa
Amapu-Ntigha
Ama-ise
Ama-itolu

E.t.c

U could have also disputed jaja of opobo's name Zombified aminadokaria Idiot!

bomb24:
Load of bullshit.

1) Ama means town In Igbo Language. e.g Amaigbo, Amaifeke, Amandugba E.t.c

2) A curlew bird is called ugoloma in Igbo and besides okolo means roosting in Ijaw language and not curlew bird.

3) it is opobo and not "opuba-Ama" jagba jantis.

3) The original name of jaja of opobo is jugbo jugbo fem and not jubo juboga

Eastlink:
Lol, Oru languages. You mean the Oru that is older than Ijo and closer to Igbo or another Oru. I suppose you think say na laymen dey here. So where are your references? Alagoa

Second, a person who don't understand Asusu Igbo cannot tell what he doesn't know. But I’ll teach you for free. In Udaume Igbo, there some words with same written form but with different pronunciation and meanings.

For Example:
Akwa means
Akwa — Egg
Akwa — Tears
Akwa — Cloth

Opu Means
Opu - To come out
Opu — Crown or cap

Opu ta Ibe ye
A person who comes out to helps his mates

Opu ta Ibe ya na nsogbu
A person who comes out to help his mates from problem. So literally a person with a big heart.

Opu agu
Leopards Cap

Opuamakuba
Opu Ama K’uba— The community crown is greater than wealth.

Eastlink:
If it’s not cock and bull tales, it's a Wikipedia link quoting Alagoa. What else are you Ijos from Bayelsa and Delta bringing to the discuss that we haven't heard before? We’ve not even posted other documents and you are simply shedding tears. What will you do if more roll in here? I suppose you might hide your monikers just as my friend Bishopmagic the apostle of truth. Where is Bishop sef when you need him? I expected his screenshots to be shared to Okrika groups as he promised but can't find him. Can you call his attention here?
As a matter of fact, evidence of tribal origins of all communities in the Niger-Delta was clearly documented before independence. If you lots are scholarly inclined, you could easily get these materials online and learn instead of coming here to expose your shortcomings.

What facts do Ijos have on ground that proves Ijo origin, heritage and claims to Okrika, and Kalabari? Bonny and Opobo looks like a beatdown already due to the unwavering Igbo presence till date despite the Ijo onslaught and shenanigans over time. Even the name you used to defend your false claims on Okrika is obviously Igbo. Okrika is noted to have 3 groups, Igbo the foundation, Ijo the 2nd migratory party and Ibibiod’s from Obulom. Ndigbo recognizes this fact same as the Ibibio’s, except the perennial Ijo militant and landgrabbers known to alter people's history. Even that name the other dude mentioned Opu Okubeye does it sound Ijo to you? Names like Opu Okubeye, Opu Ogalaya, and Opu Ibeye are too Igbotic to deny with roots only found in Igbo. When Bonny history talked about Ukwu the ancestor of the Brown house of Finima coming from Okrika, many of you lots might get confused? But those who study history will not as Okrika clearly has a strong Igbo foundation.

1. Oputaibeye and Opu Ogalanya for instance, is clearly Igbo and surname to folks in Igboland mostly from Rivers, Imo and Abia till this day. For instance in my village, Oputaibeye means a person with big heart amongst his mates. Look at the root of the name to understand, Opu ta ibe ye. Opu also mean a Crown on ones head or special Chieftaincy cap if you look at another ‘Uda ume’ or pronunciation in Igbo.

The truth is that, had Ijos been contented with their kinsmen in the swamps of Delta and Kololuma-Opokuma areas of Bayelsa and write the true history of these folks using valuable sources, do you think Igbos will blink an eye? Who are those you share same language with? You know these folks? Had Ogoni with Saro Wiwa not separated themselves from the Ijo ethnic agenda, Ogoni would have been singing Ijo today just like others after the civil war.

The neutral historians were not daft when they listed tribes like Oru, Ijo, Brass, Ogbia, New Calabar, Ibani, Okrika, Andoni etc as distinct ethnic groups domiciled in the lower Niger? But when you use genocide as played out by Isaac Boro in Bonny, Kalabari, Okrika, Abua, Degema, Nembe, Ogbia, and Opobo etc to impose a forceful Ijo heritage, and also use your political henchmen in old Rivers to impose a fake Ijo ethnic groupings and use your fraudulent historians to forge a fake Ijo history, then you get the result as seen here and in future relations with your neighbours as happening in Warri, Gelegele, Bonny, Port-Harcourt, Yenagoa, Obolo and other areas of the Niger-Delta. Posterity never forgives such historical genocide and karma had its way of paying back.

EastisBae:
The problem with you is that you will write an epistle that is neither here nor there. When you throw everything into the mix, you muddle up everywhere without passing any message accross.

However, from the few I can glean, you mentioned ekpe masquerade as played in Kalabari, and asked whether Kalabari is now owned by Akwa Ibom people. By asking that question, it shows you don't even know the history of Kalabari. Those areas used to be Ibibiod lands before you guys displaced them and took over and that's why some of their culture survived! It's the same landgrabbing attempts you're now making but unfortunately, you won't succeed this time around.

The Opobos that live in Aba mostly claim to be Igbos and they speak the language just like every other Igbo!

I have shown you articles stating unambiguously that Opobo was uninhabited when Jaja established his kingdom there yet you keep regurtitating myths and legends.

Ama means a habitat or compound in Igbo. That is why you hear villages like Ama-Ka-Ohia which translates to a compound/habitat is greater or more important than bush/jungle.

Okolo is a variety of bird called Curlew in English while the generic name for all birds is nnunu in Igbo! Okolo-ama therefore means Curlew habitat!

Whatever name or alias Jaja took doesn't mean anything, it was his choice and if otherwise, when he founded Opobo, he was already the most powerful and richest ruler in the Niger Delta and would have changed the name back!

Stop clutching at straws please!!

SlayerForever:
The elders in 1800 said they came from Afam Ndoki.

Where does the Opu Okubeye and the other brother come into the picture?

SlayerForever:
You only have a bit of chance to talk because Brass has not become the discussion yet. We have documents in our possession that clearly state that the Brass people and Nembe are Igbos. You have seen the various threads.
Oru is of course Igbo too. Both people have been heavily ijawnized almost beyond recognition but we know who they are.

EastisBae:
You don yearn opata full everywhere, still dey cry on top.

I keep presenting facts to you while you argue with myths and legends garnished with a cocktail of lies

I grew up around these areas, Aba and P.H axis with Opobo situated in-between used to be my base. Former assistant coach of Enyimba fc, King-Jo was married to an Opobo woman and we all used to be close. Opobo people has been celebrating their Nwaotam masquerade festival in Aba since anyone can remember. Ask anyone around Ogbor-hill, Pepple's road and East about Opobo and they will inform you because most of them have been living there since many generations! Aba as a city partly falls within the Ndoki region that extends from Ugwunagbo to Ukwa, down to Opobo and terminates at Bonny! That is why these areas have been engaging in cultural exchange and interrelationships! Recently, Bonny Ndoki aborigines created a new masquerade called Agu n'madu and they introduced it to their Opobo brothers and eventually, Opobo aborigines will celebrate it in Aba in a grand occasion that would be withnessed by all Igbos! Are you now seeing the pattern?

You as an ijaw man from Bayelsa, do you know what Agu n'madu means without asking any Igbo person or checking on Google?

Below are more screenshots about already known facts but you can still regurgitate your nonsense.

EastisBae:
You can keep regurtitating rubbish from your butthole but have it in mind that it won't change anything.

To burst your bubble, everyone agrees that Jaja of Opobo was an Igbo man. Okay, let's even agree with you that he was once a slave who eventually became free and ultimately famous as a free man, what does it change? Was Jaja the only Igbo man in Bonny during his time or were there so many others? Go and read the accounts of the earliest recorded Portuguese, Dutch and English sailors/explorers about Bonny and be informed!

That said, are you even aware that the area called Opobo in present day was uninhabited when Jaja established the kingdom of Opobo with 14 other mostly Igbo families that left Bonny with him? Since an Igbo man (Jaja) established Opobo with fellow Igbos on an uninhabited land which makes them the first settlers, so what's the basis of your argument that Opobo is ijaw land?

It seems most of you are even ignorant of the history of Opobo and Bonny!

Meanwhile, okolo-ama also means a place of Curlew birds in Igbo!

Lastly, talking about hatred, is there any time in history you ijaws have ever showed love to Igbos? Only Ibibio/Efik/Ejagham are the ones that have stood with us in the past and we will care to maintain good relationship with, and not teeth-filing savages who have always been pirates since history. To hell with your love!!!

engrsyer:
Well i wont disagree with you less about the mixing of blood with the Igbo but what i know and which was been confirmed by one senior Okrika chief that i had an historic discussions with, confirmed to me that what i told him the migration of Okrikans was what his father told him after i introduced my self to him as a Bille man in Bonny Island about four years ago.

The name Kiriki(Wakirirke) emanated after the people of Ogoloma and People of Okrika(main Okrika) met in bush on their way to market(Fe) for transaction saw theirselves speaking almost same language and understood theirselves the Okrika man now told the Ogoloma man that so you can hear me and the Ogoloma man replied that yes i can hear then the Okrika man now said we are wakirike(meaning we are alike or the same brothers). There are two brothers that found Okrika nation. The Opu Okubeye whom found Ogoloma and the other man which i have forgotten his name found Okrika and which are neigbhours. They all left Okolo-Bille in Central Abua. By then the present name Abua was not in existence but to point out the location of where they were with present location is what i used to tell you. That doesn't mean Okrika migrated out of Abua. Ogonokom is presently in Abua LGA. Same the Ibani man was also there after migrated from Central ijaw to that place.

engrsyer:
I see, so in your history/write up no relationship between Bille and Bonny. Bille and Bonny has no cultural relationship/ties meanwhile both has been aged long best of friends and brothers. Is alright.

At bolded, that history is not correct. Is that what the Okrikans tell the publisher of this historic books? Indeed true history is been buried for centuries what we see now are half baked histories or distorted history. For record sake Okrikans migrated from Akpata Bille(Okolo Bille/Old Bille) in Ogonokom, Centeal Abua in Abua/Odual LGA. Same thing goes to Bille people, Ibani, Nembe people and Ogoloma people all were settled as relatives at that Ogonokom metropolis community which is now a small village and still existing in Abua. I would stop here but if you doubt go and ask questions.

I come in peace.

Bokroma Owu tuwo

Alabo7978:
this is a prove that you know nothing at all.

the first expedition was carried out in the early 1800s and only Igbo words were collected.
subsequent expeditions were carried out by smith, Merrick, Clarke, Sigismund Koelle on his book Polyglotta Africana'.
linguist such as Paul hair, Gerrit Dimmendaal, Williamson kay, Roger Blench etc later took notice of the ijoid Languages.
you are an illiterate, a dullard, a braindead buffalo.

I am a Nembe man and we are an ijoid speaking city state.
even the Alagoa you all condemn is a Nembe man.
my goodness God, grow a brain.
just as the Igbo nation has okija, umuahia, mbaise, akwa, Onitsha etc, that is how ijaw has clans or towns like Nembe, okrika, kalabari Bonny Gbaran, Obolo, Opobo, Akassa etc.

Yoruba has Ife, oyo, Lagos, ijebu etc..

that is what an ethnic nationality is. I thought you are intelligent, but you are not.
to shock you, there is no particular tribe as "ijaw" just as there is no particular tribe named Igbo or Yoruba.
everyone defending ijaw here is spread vast from the various clans. me am a Nembe man.
my God, do we still have dullards in this era were information is easily obtainable?
brother man, ijaw is the name of the nationality, check yourself you no well. there is no particular name of a location known as "ijaw" just as "Yoruba" and "IBO" it is only the name of the nationality.
what is a nation?
a nation are group of people that share same believes, habits, cultural norms, philosophy, Language, history.

all this things I took time to explain won't still enter your head because you are a natural dullard, a braindead one for that matter.

Alabo7978:
mumu.
Igbo people ehn...God forbid...
after the ibibio ruling house welcomed the Igbo batch that came, they conspired to remove him and replacing him with another prince whose mother is Igbo, but the coup was repelled. the igbos invited the akpas from cross river who were enemies of ibibio and they drove the ibibios away.

that was what yoy wanted to do with the okoloama people but they were smarter and more crafty because they learnt the Igbo people Language.

give igbos an inch, and they will want the whole square.
anyways... the ABRIBA and Aro people are cross river/ibibio people and the ubini-ukpabi whom igbos claim is not even theirs.

claimers tufiaa.

EastisBae:
Igbos are one regardless of state creation! Who is slave and who is master? Or you just open mouth to be saying rubbish?! The rulers of Opobo right from the time of Jaja have always been Igbos! The rulers of Bonny since the earliest recorded history by both Portuguese and English explorers have always been Igbos!

The common language spoken in these two places is Igbo, so if any side is slave it is definitely you guys!

SlayerForever:
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BS.

Senomii:
Atleast e no dey dry up pesin to resemble motor park tout, you fit smoke am you go remain fresh till u die
Even rihanna and Jeff bezos dey smoke am,