₦airaland Forum

Odenigbo Aroli: Odenigbo Aroli=Nri Priest.
Aji,I know the origin and the history of my people(Nri),hence no body can sell bu.ll s.hit to me. Igbos had kingdoms and not empires like the hausa and yorubas had and am sure you know the difference there. I know everything from the arrival of Eri to when the white man came and defiled the rituals of the MOST SACRED NRI KINGDOM ! So, dont worry about me cos I know our history very good.

Ok Nri, I see your point. I guess it is different perspective.

jambogini: Am so much happy to see this innovation, i hope one day the ibos wold emulate such carnival to the south east, it is very fresh and unique and attractive. I love lagosians although am ibo. More grease to ur elbow

We love you too, whether Ibo or anyone, we are all lagosians.

deandavid: my guy u too talk jor, the argument is, that wig in d first place is foreign to africa, keeping it till now is like an act being inferior, but since others have started dropping it, i dnt suggest we do same,dat ll even prove we r more like robot or follow follow. So i ll sugest,we rather africalize it, bring a bit of african or nigerian concept or culture in2 d attire. Bt mr lawyer u r sounding like 1 of those guys that choose to study law,cos of d dressing and the so called "prestige". My learnd friend, nigeria legal system is a failure, ther isn't any prestige.

thank you

I love the Ijaw culture, very nice.

God bless the Ijaw Nation

God bless Nigeria

mimifonwon: Thanks alj-harem, thanks for not taking offense to my reply. And the professor teaches at Northwestern university in evanston,il. Anyways thanks for the video, and yes i concur on your thoughts about all of us being mixed up tribally. Because we come from a patriarchal community we rep our father's people, and the mother's people dont count. My granddad married from yoruba to calabar, and all his children are said to be igbo because his igbo, only recently do people add their mother's ethnicity when referring to themselves. But yeah thanks alot.

No problem my sister

Mimifonwon, the thing is that most of the dialect are dying as you would observe. Unlike the east, the west dialect are fast dying thus people make things up.

I would give you an example. Awori and Egun dialect are now rare dialects. Reason because of the colonisation of mostly Ibadan people of which we have now adopted.

When you go to the western part of the country, unless you are from the royal family, the chances of knowing your dialect in this day and age is quite slim.

Ok for example most people don't know Egun dialect is divided into 2 major groups

The Eegun which is the one found in Lagos

The Eegun-Ajase which is found in Benin

Both of which Yoruba dialect, although the benin Eegun is much more closer to the dialect you hear everyday.

Ok again let me use the Ijebu (your father's side) it is divided to groups as well of which Itsekiri (delta) is part of.

Another one is the Olukumi which is found in delta state is also close to the Ife dialect. Are you getting what I am driving at ?

Cultures have mixed down the years and now are dying to form more unifying language rather than breaking down to dialect. I am from a royal household in Lagos thus breaking down dialect and asking which is Egun, which is Egba which is Ijebu etc is a wrong thing to do because yes the older generation might still be holding on this petty things as "my dialect" but the younger generation understand better.

Identifying dialects have a profound effect in dividing thus we chose not to talk about it.

mimifonwon: Thank you all, and alj-harem am not confused at all about my identity, please do not affront me, all i did was ask a question- for he or she who askes questions never get lost. I am igbo by mother (ngwa specifically), and yoruba and fulani by father. I speak the three main naija languages( my mom and dad forced us to learn them). Anyways the professor was the one that got me thinking about the egba thing when he said egbas were igbos-I have never heard of that before, and havent ever heard egba dialect, a friend referred me to the first video, the other video was just for fun. But if anyone can Help -please write simple greetings in egba for me. and oden, thanks also, i understand ya.

I am not affronting you, If I sounded rude, I apologise

Do you mind giving the name of the professor and the university you met him. My sister we have a lot of confused people.

Egba have the Owo people who we can say are similar to the Igbos. Obasanjo is an Owo-Egba.

I would give you a proper Egba dialect video now so you can compare to the first video you posted.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN6cD4NhiRE

^^^^^^

LOL My brother it is not possible for you to be pure "Nri-Igbo" absolutely no way.

Remember Igbo have interacted with the Igala, Edo and Ibibios even Ijaws for thousands of years even before Nri dynasty was formed.

Also Igbos had an empire, go do your research. Don't buy the propaganda.

Go do research on Igbo Ukwu which the oldest I pressume

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HwV2a-lPB70C&pg=PA143&lpg=PA143&dq=carbon+dating+ife+bronze&source=bl&ots=CEmO0LGqdY&sig=ymVJha4-dtnjjFXfh5x4HpRTaqk&hl=en&ei=WkO4TrP_KY6ZhQegnvmfBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=radiodating&f=false

BTW Egun (Ogu), egba, Ijebu etc are al yoruba dialect.

Although there are similarity in the Yoruba and Igbo language

Ok let me use my local dialect(father) for you (Awori)

Other yorubas would call water Omi

we awori (I am a typical lagosian awori) would call it miri(e)

Igbos would say mmiri

Again

I would use (Ogu) dialect for u (Mother)

Ogu would say oya meaning suffering

Other Yoruba would say Iya

so you see dialect my vary but does not change a thing. I really hope this helps.

OP I would be frank with you, I notice you are confused and not sure what or who you are.

The first video is NOT EGBA language but Egun (Ogu)

We Ogu have NO similarity with Igbo in terms of Language and way of life, if they did they would call themselves Igbo wouldn't they.

Egba people speak a dialect very close to Ibadan dialect

I was able to know the first video was Egun because I am Awori-Egun myself. That was badagry Ogu dialect for you in Lagos.

The second video can be liken to Egba dialect.

Now I would categorically tell you that nobody is pure Yoruba or Pure Igbo or even Pure Fulani

We all have mixed up for thousands of years therefore there are overlaps.


I am sure if I check my DNA as well (if such exist) I would probably 60 % Igbo etc but again it is the geography you find yourself you adapt to.

I hope this answers your question. Your prof was drinking palm wine or something before talking to you

Areosapien: Retaaaard

LOL

[quote author=One_Naira]Story story once upon a time.

Tell me more stories dude.

You gotta stop with the fictional story telling.[/quote]nwannem don't be like this na.

BTW you still have not told me how your day was

Areosapien: while i am fully aware of your eagerness to brandish your kuni-kuni and ogbono soup level of intelligence (which you evidently acquired from attending GEJ's newly commissioned Almajiri International Primary School), i would advise you to save your imbeciilic revisionist garbage to yourself, and try as much as you can to crack open your skull and actually research on the powers of a ceremonial president, before gyrating to the internet to post your junk. I dey laugh you hard, aboki, becoz you're not convincing anyone. Do your soul a favor and stop disgracing yourself.



oh, so now you finally agree they are igbo afterall?
psssh! Of course i've been on nairaland to know how you operate, and to put it succinctly - you operate like a faceless coward with a severe case of inferiority complex, who tried to claim every tribe under the son in order to feel accepted. if it isn't igbo, its bini, it's ebira, it's yoruba, it's awori, its etche, it's kanuri. Yes my friend, that is precisely how you operate. And if anything, you deserve to be more pitied than actually laughed at. that is the sad truth



you're evidently a retaaard with the intelligence of a prepubescent child. Read this thread and tell me if it wasn't the Yoruba who started the tribalism only to have his triffling assss walloped without mercy and rightfully so

abeg, you've already got my message. I'd advise you to stay off the internet, since you make a foool of yourself with each post. Stick to manufacturing those beggars and "boko harem cadets" you're all suited for.
Spineless cowards and wretched lepers

Areosapien this one na essay na

DaLover: See someone who claims different tribes here and there trying to pass that attribute to me... if you can ever show me where I claimed anything other than Isoko, then I promise to stop viewing you as a loony boffun....
I am not Igbo, but I will choose Igbo any day day over Yoruba because they keep it real, with yoruba apart from the fact that you never know what to expect.. your back is never secure...you can be betrayed at anytime....An igbo man says he is with you or not and keeps to it...
Surely the Igbos have their vices like all others, but the fact that the average yoruba man looks down on other and is decietfull makes thing very bad....


For instance the Yoruba will keep shouting true federalism all over the place, while the Igbos keep quiet about it, when it came to time to actually support it at the constitutional conference, people like Clark got the shock of their lifes, as the reps from SW openly sided with the North against true federalism....a classic case of denial, deceptive and back stabbing..

chai !!!!!

See lie, anyway what are you today. Ijaw now ?

As for me, ,,,,,, I have told you where I am from, whether you chose to believe na your wahala

really it is about time this thread dies.

All this bad mouth and discrimination would not take us anywhere.

We are fortunate Lagos is the way it is, Please I am Yoruba (Awori-egun) Lets respect the Igbos and stop drumming this to their ears. E gbera ga ko da !

My Igbo brother, please lets learn to respect the indigenes, I know it is hard to respect but please put yourselves in the indigenes shoes and someone claim you are nothing. It is wrong. Lets learn to respect each other sopuru nu onwe unu.

Enough of this already

[quote author=Yeske!]Nothing new now, party don finish.[/quote]Party never finish Nwannem no vex me !!

[quote author=One_Naira]you are misreading me. Im Talking about you

Dalover have always maintained ss as his origin. He's never changed his origin like you've done.
He's never spoken igbo before. Na your lies again.

Im laughing at you, not him. Dont confuse that. You've called every ss you've disagreed with including those known in rea life igbo. Whose nicknamed chameleon on this forum? No be you again.[/quote] Thanks brother, I am humbled o bu ihe oma

Actually he did once can't find it now, probably deleted/edited

I don't understand

Unido seem to be a chinese company,

so is the hydro-power chinese or osun project?

[quote author=Yeske!]You missed the party, where have you been?[/quote]the party is still going on nwannem, maalee and papi are not back yet, lets keep partying

lagcity: I'm cool mehn. Just having fun wit my Igbo brother's that's all. Igbo ppl don't have sense of humor, so i loff to mess with them.

LOL I do that at times when they piss me off.

[quote author=Yeske!]1. Overruled, makes no sense
2,3. Makes no sense
4. Ok
5. Now you're talking
6. Find your nwanne elsewhere, Aregberascal is ACN tiwa n'tiwa.[/quote]NO you are my brother, that is my I call you nwanne[b]m[/b]

Now to the issue

What do you mean it makes no sense ? what is hard to understand in these

1. They are not trying to appease anyone because if so, then I am sure you can call Ijaws and Igbos OverLORDS as well.

2. When Yoruba leaders were protesting in favour of GEJ, were Ijaws their over lords ? I remember back then, people like mostly your people were saying Yorubas were supporting GEJ because of Oil.

3. When Soyinka was in prison for Biafra, was he supporting Igbo overlords ? Yes or No

DaLover: Sorry, but where is the 300m coming from?

YOur oil ? LOL Na wa for craze people full for NL

My be you do not know of Palm oil plantation in Osun and a major export in Nigeria after oil and Cocoa

go figure

^^^^^

Cool down Lagcity

[quote author=One_Naira]da chameleon is back to his desperation again.
Smh and roflmao

Dalover welcome to the igbo tribe. Your dna does not matter, ask beef, hjtax etc of nl and gej, ijaw leader,etc outside

lmfao.

@ Arosapien

Dude you are hilarious.
Dead Funny, I cant stop laughing[/quote]Dalover Igbo today, isoko tomorrow, ijaw now, Ogoni 2 weeks time

He can only speak Igbo langauge

LOL Na real welcome LOL

One Naira my friend, How was your day ?

Areosapien: puhleeez, you would do well to shut the phuck up for your own sake and stop disgracing yourself by calling others liars, because when it comes to lying, your entire race of sahelian pedophiile abokies are the undisputed champions - an ignominy they are eternally consigned to.

Remember when you foolishly claimed it was Azikiwe who imprisoned Awolowo?
Remember when you tried to say anioma wasn't igbo, only for OneNaira, IgboBoy and ejine to put you in your place?
So when it comes to lying, nobody else wears that badge like you unproductive lowlife douchebags.

And abeg spare me ur empty revisionist babbles as i get bored reading your incoherent tripe; but just to be clear, please note one thing:

igbo people refused to join you awuf-addicted phaggots in your dead-on-arrival occupy show of id!ocy because they clearly saw the bigger picture and had no reason to congregate and sing "Koombaya" with you leprous animals.

And come June, you will be getting the cold rejection again, because that's what imbeciiiles like you deserve.

as for the rest of your post (which i won't even bother reading), please gather them all in one big funnel, and shove them up your wrinkled, tired anusss.

1. Yes Nnamdi imprisoned Awolowo and Enahoro

2. Anioma or not is really none of my business unless ofcourse Ngodigha and co claim something stu.pid then I would do the same. You are not new on Nairaland political board, you know how I operate.

3. Igbo this Igbo that, I would tell you that Tribalism on Nairaland and all over the internet could have been stopped but your dumb brothers keep saying rubbish to hurt others thus they say rubbish in return.

@ the rest .... I don't understand

It does not even appear to be Osun state project

Am I right Gbawe ?

Gbawe: Alhaji, have you been following issues at all? Go back to page 10 and see how I show 300 million is not 15KW as you and many have blindly swallowed. I am now beginning to wonder if Nairalanders bother to even attempt grasping the core of issues or whether they just pitch their tent partisanly everytime without fully reading and understanding anything.

The original 15KW project was a pilot scheme UNIDO perhaps probably financed to demonstrate the viability of realising appreciable electricity from SHP's.

As things work, the more expensive and substantially more expanded model, facilitated by the success of the pilot scheme, would require far more finance (counterpart funding) and likely deliver substantially more power. UNIDO is United nation industrial development organization. Alhaji, tell me what "industrial development" you or anyone else can achieve with a 15KW SHP a portable generator can produce. Abeg, tell me.

The whole point is that a 15KW Pilot scheme was disgracefully, shamelessly and deceptively depicted as the current hydro-electric scheme Osun is involved with because some, due to the sheer hatred in their hearts, are only interested in maligning Aregbesola and the SW by hook,by crook or by deception.

Alhaji, please read page 10 carefully. My post may be lenghty but try and read it and everything will be crystal clear to you.

Ok Gbawe, how many watts of energy is it generating ? Do you have an idea ?

I can see you are back with your mo.ronic post.

Areosapien: i dey wonder o! From the afenifere crawling and begging the northerners not to secede, to this id!ot in the name of AGBEROsola, i think it's safe to conclude the yorubas are groupies for life! Lmaooo!!!

No Afernifere did not tell the north not to secede, Stop peddling lies like your brothers are doing all over. They said "If the north secede, they would regret it"

Who is the north they are referring to here ? Ibb and co

Igbo people should respect themselves and stop lying

[quote author=Yeske!]The unanswered question still remains; WHY ARE YORUBA LEADERS ALWAYS TRYING TO APPEASE THEIR NORTHERN OVERLORDS?[/quote]1. They are not trying to appease anyone because if so, then I am sure you can call Ijaws and Igbos OverLORDS as well.

2. When Yoruba leaders were protesting in favour of GEJ, were Ijaws their over lords ? I remember back then, people like mostly your people were saying Yorubas were supporting GEJ because of Oil.

3. When Soyinka was in prison for Biafra, was he supporting Igbo overlords ? Yes or No

4. Aregbesola is on his own on this, I don't know where he got this idea from but one thing is certain, THERE WOULD NOT BE ANY MINISTRY FOR NORTHERN AFFAIRS.

5. What the north need now is a revolution to make northern leaders wake up and stop playing with the lifes of Northerners because of power.

6. Please and Please and Pleeeeassse Nwannem, I beg you, don't call likes of Aregbesola "a Yoruba leader" he is not and would never be Insha Allah.

Thanks

Mimiko should make sure Tinubu does not win Ondo state.

The thief want to monopolize power to himself,

If he cannot humble himself and talk to Mimiko/LP to form a collation or something, then he should forget Ondo.

Igbos, always trying to add 9ja delta/SS to themselves. LOL

Oh well