₦airaland Forum

foladara777:
Jesus!! How many times do I have to repeat this?? The UK is not a federal structure... D definition of a state is in itself a legal expression... Amma repeat this question for the umpteenth time... Gimme a federal country that allows component parts to leave at will

chukzyblingz:
Useless thread. That's not the history of Agbor. We don't have anything to do with Omini or Aguleri. Please Igbos should respect themselves and stop Tampere with our history

CSTR2:
Russia has just rolled out s-400 systems in Syria and stationed their airforce permanently there. I doubt if there are going to be any talks after that.
The US has sworn to get Assad removed, unless Russia is already to backpedal there is nothing to be said.

CSTR2:
The pentagon has war-gamed any potential invasion of Russia with and without NATO. And NATO involvement is needed as a direct proximity staging site for any invasion of Russian mainland The US has over 700 military bases and presence in most international waters on earth, so I am sure even without a joint NATO project, they have Russia as surrounded as possible.
Yes, Obama has not being forceful as I would like in dealing with global terror but saying the US sponsors terror is just[b] UNTRUE[/b]. Yes, the US may have made mistakes but never as a direct intention for terror.
Hilary Clinton will win and her foreign policy thrust is already clear, which is why the Kremlin is skirmish. They would rather prefer Trump.

CSTR2:
LOL.
The Yanks are coming for your Ruskie asse$. Only a matter of time anyway. Russia is already surrounded by NATO forces, and their only recourse now is to go fortify their homeland and make it inpenetrable.
With Hilary winning the Presidency and her current tough posture at the last presidential debate regarding Russian activities in Syria and Ukraine , a World war is upon us.
There cannot be two captains in a ship, and My money is on America to win.

shigothang:
Am talking of migration ,and not those that were merged away from their to other zones.

shigothang:
And how many ibo's were loivoing int the west then ? And maybe u don't know there large numbrs of yoruba's that settled in the north ,even before the ibo's started migrating up north and other regions .

shigothang:
READ CONFESSION OF HAROLD SMITH ON NIGERIA'S POPULATION.

False counts in the 1950(s) till d recent time and probably did that in the 1930(s) as u ve stated .The British gave d North numerial advantage followd by the easterners,since they found the West as intelligent and a very progressive group .They had to deny them leadership and a real sense of belonging by not declaring the actual figures (The numerical strenght of the West) in order to spite them of leadership position.

Cuche:
Penny wise Pounds foolish
Mr Obi and his smart ways
Who do we hold responsible for these paintings called road construction? I could remember when the outcry was much about the shoddy works by the contractors, because many believed that the project costs were sufficient to deliver some measure of quality.
Mr Obi assured a gathering of Anambra people that the contract included maintenance costs for like 10 years and that any contractor who does a bad job will come back to it at his own personal cost. Sweet talk!
Some of the contractors said they could only do the job the amount that eventually got to them could manage, they hurriedly dismissed the issue of maintenance at their own personal costs.
I think what Anambra people should do now is to plead with Obiano to take the issue of maintenance of these roads seriously if possible create an agency for it, with a fraction of the budget for works going into it.

darlingtonNYIG:
Mr Globe16 or whoever you are. Stop wasting your time on Peter Obi coz the man is far ahead of you in a million years. What you should be doing is trying to sell that Aguleri drunkard for a second term which is practically the most difficult job you have now.

shobenward:
a civil war fought with machines and guns ,gun powder was even outdated in that war compared to an ethnic squabble between a tribe fought with cutlass and the rich few that could afford Dane guns. Anyway I'm not saying that their population stagnated but it gave other tribes the natural advantage and basically a head start

shobenward:
My goodness when they say people in Nigeria have selective amnesia there's a truth to it. A certain tribe lost over 3million people during a particular civil war and before that there was a progrom against that same tribe on the north where the news then was that virtually every member of that tribe residing in the north were wiped out in retaliation for a certain coup the few survivors ran back to their land without their properties. Take note Nigeria's population was barely reaching a100 million then one can now begin to imagine the percentage of their total population that was lost.

Shym3xx:
I'm using my phone cos I'm doing something else on my PC and I can't really access the link you posted. Can you post screenshots like you did in ya previous posts?

Well, I didn't see all these minority groups on the screenshots you posted, albeit I saw Agbor being added to the Igbo population. Ditto what should be Calabar province. So were they to Imo and Ogoja?

Agbor has never been Igbo. It has always had a separate kingdom, just as Bonny, Opobo etc. Ditto a lot of small groups in Delta. Granted there were a lot of Igbo slaves who lived among these folks, and overtime influenced their languages and cultures - that doesn't make them Igbo. Opobo and Bonny are classic examples. And I believe the only reason why they probably added Bonny to Ijaw is cos it's far in Ijaw territory and an Island on its own. But I'm sure most Bonny folks have big Igbo influence on their way of life, just as Opobo and Agbor.

No. Northern Yorubas weren't accounted for on the screenshots you posted. Oyo means: Oyo, Ibadan, and present day Osun. Ekiti/Ondo means: present day Ekiti and Osun. Egba is Egba: Ogun and parts of today's Lagos. Ijebu is Ijebu: Ogun and parts of today's Lagos. Lagos means: Eko and mainland. So, those from Ilorin and other parts of today's Keats and Kabba weren't account for.

Your argument would be legit if you can provide links where these folks were accounted for -without distinct groups like: Agbor, Opobo et al, being part of the Igbo population.

AnambraDota:
[s] Obiano is governor of abandoned projects, he is just a drunkard and a noisemaker. Go to orlu Road Ihiala and weep for Anambra State, go to inner streets in Awada, Iyiowa, Woliwo, Inland Town, Nkpor.

Anambra State is on autopilot currently[/s]

investnow2013:
The problem with his govt is waste!!!. There are a lot of aides Who are of no value to the development of the State!!!! See some of them here dancing why the State is facing serious problems!!!..

Tonymic4life:
I swear I didn't know dis. R u serious?

omonnakoda:
We can see that this are all guess work . What is the population of Owerri TODAY. The fact that something is written in a book by white folk does not mean we do not ask the basis. Simple question. What is the source and basis of those numbers and also the territories described. e,g What did Owerri Mean? Was there no Port Harcourt or Aba.

APCLyingBastard:
I read where a particular northern spokesman claimed that before Alimi appeared in Afonja's Ilorin there was no established leadership that they (Fulanis) where the civilising and administrative force that gave rise to Ilorin Emirate.

Lol.

AirFireEarthH20:
Is there an Emir in Ilorin?

Caseless:
itsekiri, Yoruba are related. Is Benin kingdom not related to Yoruba?

vodutive:
Like I said in one of my opening posts in this thread, if you go back far enough, everybody is an immigrant. Who is an American, who is an Australian? Like I said, the Olu of Warri said publicly at his coronation recently that he is a descendant of Oduduwa. "Olu" is a yoruba word, the only places where kings bear the title "olu" is yoruba land. It stands to reason that considering the proximity (like I said look at the map of Nigeria) it is not out of the ridiculous to see how there can be a connection.

The North is full of fulanis, nobody questions that they are Nigerians but if you read the history, Fulanis only started populating Northern Nigeria between 900 and 1900Ad, they weren't the original inhabitants of northern Nigeria.


Like I said everybody is an immigrant if you go far enough, what if I told you the queen of England is actually German not English?

Warri is nearer to Ondo than Ondo is to Ilorin. Depending on where you beleive the Yorubas originated from (same say Benin, some say Ile-ife) if Benin you could argue that

There are Yorubas in Togo and Benin republic and Ghana, The Ga tribe in Ghana I am told have Yoruba origins ( i was told by a Ghanaian friend I haven't verified) If they can get to Togo they can get to Delta