₦airaland Forum

aribisala0:
Ending the slave trade.
This meant a glut of slaves that were freed suddenly in a population that had developed an evolutionary reproductive strategy to cope with unceasing slave raids
A land that is victim of slave raids regularly is not "LARGELY PEACEFUL"
We see a boom in Nigeria population generally over the last 50 years because more children are surviving because of vaccination not fertile soil

Did They arrive yesterday? Did the soil suddenly beocme fertile. to result in a boom in population
Why no boom 500 years ago

Truth is the soil is red and clayey it is not that fertile and even it is that cannot explain a sudden population boom
iboland is not up to Akwa/Cross land

Don't be silly.
https://www.nairaland.com/5875972/1952-nigeria-ethnicity-census-result

IGBO SLAVES AMONG THE ITSEKIRI?

So yesterday, an Itsekiri fellow on Facebook made the interesting claim that his people had many (emphasis on 'many') Igbo slaves. He went further to say that some of the descendants of these Igbo slaves still live in Delta State, and speak a hybrid language which he refused to mention. In the interest of intellectual discourse he probably should have mentioned it, and given interested parties the opportunity to verify or debunk the claims.

As far as the ethnic backgrounds of slaves in Itsekiri land is concerned, this is what the historian P. C. Lloyd wrote in his paper, "The Itsekiri in the Nineteenth Century: An Outline Social History":

Lloyd wrote: "A further change in Itsekiri social structure during the century was the development of domestic slavery. At the turn of the century the king held a large number of slaves, but the number owned by the chiefs is not known. The kingdom must have exported at least a thousand slaves annually. But with the decline of the slave trade, the supply did not cease, and slaves were integrated into the Itsekiri economy. Thus of Jakpa's 5000 people, Burton estimated that 600 - 700 were slaves of Diare. Olomu's slaves were variously numbered at 1000, 3000 and 4000.

"The slaves were never Itsekiri, rarely Ijoh. Most were Urhobo, often being men and women expelled from their communities for serious offences and sold in the riverside markets. Some were given to the Itsekiri as pledges for debts. The Itsekiri usually equate the price of a slave with a puncheon of oil. They assert that they never went to a war to capture slaves, though a favourite method of settling a debt or a quarrel was to seize a man's slaves. Other slaves came through the trade routes from Benin and Yoruba country where they had been captured in inter-tribal wars. Nana's most senior slaves were Ologun, a Yoruba, and Sagay, a Benin."

*Sagay is very clearly a corruption of the Bini name Osagie.

So there you have it. Itsekiri's slaves came primarily from the Urhobo; secondarily from the Yoruba and the Bini; and sometimes (though rarely) from the Ijọ. These are the people in the same geographical area as the Itsekiri and the people with whom they were involved in regular interactions. But our Itsekiri friend went over the heads of his neighbours to look for slaves among the Igbos located farther away.

I was going to just laugh at the story and go on with my business, but I realized there are Igbo people who may not be informed enough to see that this man lied through his teeth, hence my decision to talk about it here.

Good morning. ☕

Reno is mad obviously. He needs to change his supplier.

So Iweka, Iweegbuna, Iwenwa, Iweogu, etc,all Igbo names from root Igbo word "Iwe" meaning "anger" are Bini words?
Ikenga the Igbo society of uprightness is a Bini invention?

Many are mad in Nigeria, few are roaming.

I don't blame Reno. This is the result of Anioma years of licking Bini ass.

Sincinnati:
IPOB might not be behind the attacks but NK put little or no efforts in denying involvements.

Nnamdi Kanu is not wise for 1 bit, he’s obviously been set up by the evil fulani government and he sheepishly fell for it like a chaos monger he actually is.

Nothing is more sacred on this world than human lives, and when one is being accused of killing his own people and people of other groups like NK was accused, you’d expect the person to take drastic measures in proving his innocence unless he’s guilty as accused.

So far so good, NK did not present a vehement denial of the accusations and neither has IPOB taken any serious steps in doing so or exposing the people actually behind the killings.

I mean, it’s very easy for IPOB to do, they’re majority in the East, they know the terrains like the back of their hands, they could have deployed ESN to counter the UGM as a point in proving their innocence.

You are not making any sense.
At no point did IPPB or Kanu claim to be UGM.
Why should they have to prove they are not?

Since when has fighting of UGM become the function of IPOB or ESN?

KillIgbohoN0W:
Hahahahaha
Afonjas spinning new stories every 6 hours to assuage the sifia pains they feel.

Yesterday morning was Igboho submitted himself for arrest
Afternoon was Igboho has escaped DSS
Evening was Igboho has been released and heading to Europe

Until the shocker this morning that their commander in chief wept like a baby and was chained to the floor like a rabid dog!!

Now dey don change mouth to Afonjas in Benin Republic fought a helicopter like Rambo.
The only Afonjas in Benin Republic are hungry displaced refugees. Where dem see time abi strength to fight??

Una go come to terms when we share pictures very soon then the tears will start flowing freely.
Calm down...

Bororo man.
These things you people are cooking.
You will eat it and purge.

Onepeople:
And you said you are not a terrorist with this comment?

Of course he is a terrorist.

Zooposki:
There are isoko communities in Bayelsa state. What are you talking about?

Ofoni is Urhobo. But Ijaws don't even recognize that.
Which Isokos are in Bayelsa? Abuetor,Okpokiri, etc.
They(Ijaws) insist they are all Ijawland and that anyone there who doesn't identify as Ijaw is a customary tenant.
You lots think everyone is like Igbos that don't play their cards well?

blues234:
There is an Ika guy that hosts a live program with an Ukwuani Professor on Facebook. I will look for his link and paste it here. Follow that guy and get the truth. Most of what you read on nairaland is far from reality. Go to Onu Ika and also see them standing for the truth. This bini lies is getting debunked daily with facts and figures.

Yes!
The Bini fever is completely dead in Enu-ani as we speak and slowly dying in Ika and Ndokwa land.

I belong to tens of Ika, Ndokwa/Ukwuani and Enuani Facebook pages for past decade now.
I have monitored the trend of events there on this issue.

Nwanyiogwashi:
[[s]quote author=isokomarine post=103906127]I wonder how Anioma can annex isoko land. The War will be very tough. Moreover am from iyede ame isoko community In ndokwa east back and front, thousands of Anioma will never have the idea of returning back home after the conflict [/s] your useless forsaken isoko and your useless urhobo can't even stand Anioma , when your people are done doing business in ndokwa East we will kick them back to your minority land.

Those Isokos in Ndokwa East has no plans of leaving those places o!
Infact they want to expand more and claim more lands.

Una never see anything yet o.

Nwanyiogwashi:
[[s]quote author=Zooposki post=103905826]

Onogbokor is an Isoko-speaking town in the Ndokwa East Local Government Area (LGA), Delta State, Nigeria. Until the creation of Delta State in 1991, it was formerly with the Ndoshimili LGA with headquarters located in Kwale, in the defunct Bendel state. It shares common boundaries with Iyede-Ame in the south, Igeh to the east, Umuolu and Itebiege to the north and Akara-etiti on the west. The town has three quarters: Ushie, Ogbe-ekpako and Ove. Inhabitants of the town dominantly speak the Isoko dialect with few migrant Ụkwụànì speakers. They intermarry Ụkwụànìs, Ijaws and other tribes. As a clan, it has four communities: Ewo-Okpe community, Okporo community, Ewo-eboy community and Obere community (named after a lake that has its tributary from the Niger River). There are migrants from neighbouring nearby communities and pockets of Ijaw fishermen and Hausa petty traders in the clan.

Oral history has it that Onogbokor's founder Edo migrated from Okpe-Isoko and first settled near a lake called Onogbokor some 15 kilometers from the town's current location. After losing his first son to drowning, he relocated to the present location and named it after the lake. The lake is a major source of fish and other aquatic resources for the town's people.

The town can be accessed from Ofagbe or Ibrede by an asphalt road. There is a ferry on the Ase Creek in Ewho-Okarafor by which vehicles can cross, during the dry season, and speedboat and local engine boats through Umuolu from the River Niger during high tide. It can also be accessed through an untarred earth road from Aboh, the Ndokwa-East Local Government Headquarters. The livelihood activities of people are fishing and farming, petty trading and lately timber logging.[/[/s]quote]

Mister man coming to nairaland to write long note won't help and your isoko brothers but creating problem to your brothers that live and do business in ndokwa land,my advice for you is let this your madness end here if not your lazy forsaken brothers in ndokwa land could be kicked out.

Isoko vs Ndokwa clashes in Ndokwa East LGA cannot end on NL.
It has been happening offline and will only get worst with time, looking at how quick the Isokos reproduce and slow the Ndokwa do.

The Isokos know they can't expand towards Ijawland.
But they see Ndokwaland as a low hanging fruit.

isokomarine:
hope you are a well of the conflict between enugu community and ado in benue state, and you can fight for them keep deceiving the Anioma group

Which Igbo community in Enugu?
Name the community?

Well.
Ndokwa/Ukwuani people have been embracing their Isoko and Urhobo neighbors and in bid to please these neighbors, they have over time become Igbophobic. Pouring hate and venom on Ndiigbo at will even without provocation. Many Ndokwa/Ukwuani people now have maternal relationship with Urhobos and Isokos and have inherited their innate Igbophobia.

I always knew with the way Urhobo and Isoko people are landlocked, with limited land space and an alarming reproductive rate, it was a matter of time before they looked towards expanding into scantly populated Ndokwa lands.

When that day comes, I hope Ndokwa will be strong enough to fight that battle alone. Because obviously, Ndiigbo will not care. We will only observe from sidelines.
The only Igbo group we know in Delta State as things stand are the Enu-ani people.
They are the only group Ndiigbo will go to war for their behalf if they call for our help in such matters.
Others should bear their father's name.

Hon Kingsley OGUNDU CHINDA.

That's an Ikwerre man.

https://www.nairaland.com/956515/16-massob-members-killed-83

Your Brain is not working.

RobbStark:
Point of correction, there was no time the Opobo people of today's rivers state bear Ibo names.
That is a lie from the pit of hell.

The Opobo people are true and true Ijaws. You can say Nigerian troops used the bonny Opobo river routes to enter Ph, don't try and change the real story.
All my life growing up, I have never heard elders from Opobo say they changed names from Ibo to Ijaw. Lies.

Ojukwu the cunt was ill advised to start a war he wasn't really prepared. He lost and ran away like a coward he was.

Now, you want to be writing long epistle of how you dots were betrayed.
Truth be told, you dots were the ones betraying the people of the South South.
War was going on and all you dots were thinking was how to claim Port Harcourt and other places in the south as yours.

Continue lying about Boro and whinning.
We will continue telling you dots the truth of your own betrayal.
Rubbish

Stop writing nonsense.

When Boro entered Bonny and Opobo, the people were speaking Igbo and Boro got angry and lined up everyone of them who would not give up their Igbo affinity and wasted. Even Asari Dokubo spoke of the Massacre that happened in his native Buguma town when Boro troops arrived. His grandfather had to go on exile and vacate his throne because he was pro Ibo/Biafra.

No where in history before 1970 was Opobo or Bonny addressed as Ijaw towns.
If you say otherwise, bring colonial reports that addressed Bonny or Opobo as Ijaw towns.

The Boro story had to be revisited because recently some unscrupulous Ijaw elements has been going about writing stupid long essays about how Igbos betrayed and killed Boro.

When in truth, it was Boro who Betrayed Eastern region, a Region that gave him free education.
He connived with Gambaris to bring mayhem in the region and when his Gambari masters died in Nzeogwu coup, he became more desperate and started causing trouble in his hometown, looting and killing non indigenes and had to be arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment.
History had to be set right! Because when lies are left unchallenged for long, it starts taking the form of the truth.

Sirjamo:
All I know is: Ironsi ordered his arrest for trying to secede, Ojukwu carried out the arrest. Ojukwu later tried to do the exact thing Boro was trying to do.

Ironsi and Ojukwu were two faced hypocrites, you can twist history all you want, everyone knows that Igbo never take responsibility for anything, they always blame others for their woes.

How exactly did he try to secede?
He was more or less causing an insurrection.
Looting the area with his rag tag boys and was arrested.

So if I gather a few people in my village and declare independence for entire Igboland out of the blue sky, and start looting shops and property belonging to outsiders in my village. It would be recorded that I tried to secede from Nigeria and was stopped by Nigerian Army?

Did Boro have consensus support from Ijaw people (commoners) and leaders before he declared his insurrection?

Was Boro not working with Balewa to destabilize the Eastern region before Ironsi came to power?

Is there any evidence to prove that Ijawland was being marginalized in the Eastern region?
We still have Willink commission report, remember?
Boro himself was a product of Eastern region equity in form of scholarship.

What did Boro do to Ijaw leaders like Opigo who were not in support of him?

nku5:
Boro was an agent of northern Nigeria.

There is no doubt about that.
He and Dappa Harold were in alliance with Balewa and Saraduna to do to Eastern region what they did to Western region via Akintola.

DubaiLandLord1:
Why was the stool declared vacant

The previous occupant is now late.

Every village in Ekpeyeland has an Eze.
Everyone there wants to be an Eze.
It's pathetic.

Everyone of them is claiming to be the authentic Owor(Offor) holder.

owobokiri:
They should start by identifying with igbo states closest to them. These boundary calibrations were done discreetly during the military days by very Vicious characters and if not for IPOB activities, most of them would have been lost for ever as their existence seldom registers anymore.... They should be organizing meetings with governments of neighboring Igbo states to get their basic amenities provided because from what is on ground, it's like these vindictive states have turned them into slaves..

They have been doing that for like forever.

That's how they were able to get Umahi to visit them when Fulani Herdsmen massacred them recently.

BiafIntel:
Adaka boro is what anyone can describe as a daft and dumb moronic, jealous little slowpoke that was used and later dumped and rightfully killed by his fulani masters. We Igbos saw fulani and their agenda way earlier before all of you slowpoke nigerians. Come to think of the fact that Igbos made it possible for these ungrateful elements to be getting the 13% oil derivative they are being paid today.

Modern Ijaw nationalism is centered around Adaka Boro hero worshipping.

How exactly do you intend to have Ijaws in your multi ethnic BIAFRA when you don't see their hero as a hero?

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Mugu.
Is Ngige from Ebonyi State too?

BigBashiru:
Godwin Emefiele should have been fired a long time ago. Under his watch 1 naira is exchanging for N500. If Buhari fire him, they will cry nepotism. If Buhari leave him to stay they will say "Buhari is a disaster" that $1 - N500. That guy should be fired whether Igbo or no Igbo but I guess Buhari is just holding on given previous complaints of "nepotistic appointments". Nigerians sha.

Is Emefiele an Igbo?

He is an Ika biko.

[b] We’ve said this over and over again, so many times, and people don’t understand; they don’t want to actually. If you remember, I released Awolowo from jail. Even that, some people are beginning to contest as well. Awo was in jail in Calabar. Gowon knows and the whole of the federal establishment knows that at no point was Gowon in charge of the East. The East took orders from me. Now, how could Gowon have released Awolowo who was in Calabar? Because of the fact that I released him, it created quite a lot of rapport between Awo and myself and I know that before he went back to Ikenne, I set up a hotline between Ikenne and my bedroom in Enugu. He tried like an elder statesman to find a solution. Awolowo is a funny one. Don’t forget that the political purpose of the coup, the Ifeajuna coup that began all this, was to hand power over to Awo. We young men respected him a great deal. He was a hero. I thought he was a hero and certainly I received him when I was governor. We talked and he was very vehement when he saw our complaints and he said that if the Igbos were forced out by Nigeria that he would take the Yorubas out also. I don’t know what anybody makes of that statement but it is simple. Whether he did or didn’t, it is too late. There is nothing you can do about it. So, he said this and I must have made some appropriate responses too. But it didn’t quite work out the way that we both thought. Awolowo, evidently, had a constant review of the Yoruba situation and took different path. That’s it. I don’t blame him for it. I have never done.[/b]

http://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/okonkwo/072301.html
This was Ojukwu take on the .

You can imagine how much more Abia and Imo are still losing,because of dubious ceding of Oyigbo and Egbema to Rivers state by our enemies.

Eden baba

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