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KaptainAfrika:
When did Akwa Ibom people become engineers? That's the last thing that comes to my mind, when I hear Akwa Ibom, if you know what I mean. But wait, no church has collapsed in Cross River State...

Another escapee from YABA LEFT! Get back into your cell.

Hmm, they should jubilate small small because the next pay day na January ending ooo.

You must be a dunce to make such such a statement, first of all, how sure are you that the mother is from akwa ibom. Secondly, is this the first child abandoning case you have seen in Nigeria? Girls(because they are no mothers) all over Nigeria are abandoning babies everywhere and you are here calling out akwa ibom. Cheap people like you always find the easy way out whole reasoning.

oboy3:
Akwa ibomites are too backward for my liking

Every child to them Na witch.

A TREE CANNOT MAKE A FOREST, NO MATTER HOW BIG THE TREE IS. OBIJACKDON CAN ONLY DO SO MUCH.

Op, This boobs na Slippers aka SOUTH SOUTH boobs.

When will Fasola ORDER IMMEDIATE construction of CALABAR IKOT EKPENE HIGHWAY?

What is wrong with this silly old man, the economy is in shambles, Nigeria is rudderless and his main problem is ekeremadu? The earlier they realise that they themselves are the MAIN PROBLEM of Nigeria right now the better.

squanta:

Height in this sense is inconsequencial though I beg to disagree with you, I'm 5ft11" and I'm an Akwa Ibomite.

You get time answer fooools.

JESUS is GOD ALMIGHTY. He came in the flesh to shed blood for all mankind to redeem man to himself. Blood of animals was not good enough to take away the sins of the world. This is a great mystery. This is whom Jesus is to me.

Don't call them NIGER DELTA millitants just call them MILLITANTS.

Don't call them NIGER DELTA millitants just call them MILLITANTS.

HungerBAD:
Akwa Ibom Again?

Wrote about this State weeks ago,and their penchant for killing.

Interesting, so when did the act of one useless foooool become the acts of all indigenes of that state?is it because it's akwa ibom?do you make these cynical remarks when you see crimes committed by your own brothers. Nigeria has a long way to go with tribalism!

Jumoke...beauty without brains!

A lot of comments here have really got me laughing. It is true that there is a correlation today between the school fees and the quality of education but there is what I call an optimal fees. The relationship is like a straight line graph with a positive slope indicating that the more money, more educational value added but the somewhere that line flattens out indicating that irrespective of the amount of money added there is no corresponding educational value added rather what Iis added is shear luxury. Sorry to say most of these schools fall into these categories.

Most of these schools heads are entitled to holidays abroad twice a year with their families, who do you think sponsors that? The students themselves from time to time are taken for excursions abroad, who pays for that? Most of these schools need to hire police security vans with hilux vans to escort these kids school buses to and fro from school, someone has to pay. Even in common sports competitions, they take these kids to play with the likes of man utd and Chelsea fc junior teams, I am not joking here, someone has to pay. So my brothers and sisters if you look at some of these things, they are just shear luxury and have little impact on the students ability to perform.

Now let me give you my experience with one of the students in one of the schools listed. The secondary school boy was sent by his school to come do what they call industrial attachment (IT) in our company-of course the boys father and my boss are friends so it was an easy ride and he was sent to me for mentoring, so I first decided to have a chat with the boy to know where to start. To my chargrin, I discovered the boy didn'tt know who Nnamdi Azikiwe, Awolowo, Belewa are!!!!! I decided to find out why by asking him whether they offered history, he said yes but they do like the history of cuba, dominican republic, world war 2 etc and I asked him don't you do nigerian history? He said No! ......brothers and sisters we have a big problem on our hands, to be continued. ......

christemmbassey:
da there is no need to insult ourselves. Any real Cross Riverian/Akwaibomite who was born befor the creation of Akwa Ibom State knows who is 'owo Efik', 'owo-Oron' or 'owo Ibibio' We also know that the worst insult/abuse to an Efikperson or Oron person is to refer to him/her as 'owo ibibio' even an ibicio person will be offended . so the OP has commited the worst crime by this thread, he is lucky this is an online forum.

I get you but someone here started the name calling and abuse which wasn't warranted at all. The OP summarised researches on the history of the languages in that region and surmised that they all came from one source- a fact that has been established over and over again by other researchers (foreign and local), then all of a sudden someone who has ulterior motives became very flippant and started raining abuses and curses on whom he considers his enemy. I didn't just get that!

Cowards! Create as many monikers as you like the truth has been established long time ago even by outsiders! This is the worst kind of tribal bigotry I have seen in many years. I can't just imagine how you look like because with this kind of mindset you will be a very grumpy person blaming all your calamities (including bad phone connection ) on the very successful ibibio man.

bulletproof1:
Shut your dirty ibibio mouth ,you parasitic slave .What lesson? You mean the mistake of Oron and Ibeno being included in Akwa ibom by Babangida and now having to feed your ugly ass? Well guess what,your free ride will be over within the next 2years when additional states are created. The only thing ibibios are good at is overpopulation.multiplying like rabbits and doing houseboy and gateman. Idiiot!

Vomit from a delusional fooooool. Ibibios will forever whip your asses where ever you are. New state or not.we will lord over you. You should be gracious to seun for allowing you hide behind your screen to type rubbish. Coward!

LondonCool:


I agree with you that along the course of Efik migration they settled briefly in Uruan before finally settling by the creeks in Old Calabar; but the point is that Uruan people do not speak Ibibio, they speak Efik language (even until now). This means that either Uruan originally spoke Efik before the Efiks arrived there or that the Efiks arrived there with their Efik language and the Uruan people (who are in the midst of Ibibio speaking villages) adopted and assimilated the Efik language of their guests.

My maternal great grandparents are from Uruan. My maternal granddad was the President of Uruan Union in Calabar as far back as the 1960's. Every year(in the 1970's) we use to make annual visits from Calabar to Uruan across the sea through Oron, so I can give firsthand evidence of the oral history of the people of Uruan, they had no links to the Ibibio's at all.

In 1964, there was an Enquiry into the Obongship dispute by A.K.Clark where the oral evidence about the evolution of the Efik language and history was documented.

Your assertion that Efik language was adopted by the Missionaries based on a voting criteria (of one vote) is quite absurd. How would the Missionaries adopt Ibibio language when they did not even have access to the Ibibio hinterlands? Calabar was a coastal state, business and trade was done by the creeks, riverside settlements. Who from Ibibioland welcomed the white-man to their land? That choice between the two languages wasn't even an option.

How many streets in Akwa Ibom are names after Missionaries or White people (even uptil now)? Where in Ibibio history did Ibibio people have interaction with White Missionaries? Even the villages that Mary Slessor visited in present day Akwa Ibom were Efik speaking satellite villages.

The White man did not visit Calabar/Efiks by fortitude. It was a carefully planned voyage. Reverend Hope Waddell was a Presbyterian Church missionary that was sent to Jamaica as a Missionary. In Jamaica they met a young Efik boy who told them about his homeland, Calabar, and about the need to bring the gospel to his people. In Jamaica there is a popular Calabar High School there presently, in recognition of the historical influence liked to the Efik slaves that were shipped there. Rev Hope Waddell got permission to change his mission from Jamaica to Calabar and thats how he came to Calabar. Reverend Goldie and Reverend Hewett spent years learning the Efik language in order to translate the New Testament Bible into Efik.

Why would they need to vote between using either Ibibio or Efik language in Calabar in the 18th century in Calabar ? Nearly all the Ibibio people in Calabar by then (18th century) were either SLAVES or HOUSEHELPS, the political/economic/religious significance of learning Ibibio language or choosing Ibibio over Efik language as the medium to translate the Bible by the Missionaries was non-existent.

Shame shame that you were told lies and you believed it!

bulletproof1:
Shut your dirty ibibio mouth ,you parasitic slave .What lesson? You mean the mistake of Oron and Ibeno being included in Akwa ibom by Babangida and now having to feed your ugly ass? Well guess what,your free ride will be over within the next 2years when additional states are created. The only thing ibibios are good at is overpopulation.multiplying like rabbits and doing houseboy and gateman. Idiiot!

You must be a very dirty boy! As a proud ibibio son i will not join issues with an animal like you. If its too hard for you to take, the Atlantic is at your backyard. Go and drown there.

LondonCool:


You haven't made any cogent point about the Ibibio dialect or the false assertion that Efik, Annang,Oro and Ekit are sub-dialects of the Ibibio language.

Efik language is still spoken in Uruan LGA in Uyo. Mbiakong and Idu Uruan are Efik settlements in Uruan/Uyo that still speak Efik. Efik is spoken in Itu ( Akwa Ibom), Ikot Offiong (which was ethnically cleansed and burnt down ) is an Efik settlement in Akwa Ibom, Oku Iboku speak a mixture of Efik and Ibibio, Obot Itu speak Efik.

Efik has never been a sub dialect of Ibibio. Efik has been a WAEC O'Level subject throughout the 1960's-1980's.

When you go to church in your village what Bible do you use? Can you recite or write down Psalm 23 in Ibibio language without using Efik words?

The fact that efik was adopted by the british colonials some time ago through voting in calabar -efik won by just one vote by the way does not in anyway invalidate the fact that their ancestors migrated from uruan in akwa ibom to establish at calabar. I am not just talking, these are historical facts, if you need them I can freely email them to you. Facts written by European missionaries (who have no bias towards anybody) and based their writtings on oral history gathered from all these these ethnic groups who told the gospel truth back then before politics crept in. The OP did a very good research job, I don't think he has anything to gain from stating that ibibio was the name all these groups were known as before the dialectical differences came in.Attacking him because you think otherwise is not decent at all.

naijaguy77:




Are you sick? Since when did Oron people become Ibibio? And since when did Oro language or even Efik language become an Ibibio dialect?

Just consider the following facts:

1) Oro people speak oro language, they also generally understand Efik language but only because the bible was first translated into Efik, so the missionaries used Efik to spread the gospel. Even in the most rural parts of Oro, people can understand efik, but ibibio is some irritating sound that no one relates to.

2) Ibibio is a dialect of Efik, not the other way around. Efik is the main language, it is understood by everyone, Efiks, Oros, Ibibios, Anangs, etc. The Efik bible is what is used from Ikot Ekpene to Ikot Ansa, so I wonder which alternate universe you live in where Ibibio is a language and Efik is a dialect?

3) What are the characteristics of a language, as opposed to a dialect? Efik is studied in university, Efik has poetry and artistic music from Inyang Nta Henshaw to Peter Effiom, plays and playwrights, literary luminaries, Professors of Efik language such as E.N. Amaku, Efik alphabets and etymology. Jesus, what is ibibio? Ibibio is a barbaric dialect of the efik language.

Comparing Efik and Ibibio is like comparing Queens Engligh to Pidgin English, just because more idiots speak pidgin English doesn't make it the language, it is still the sub-language/dialect of proper English.

Maybe becuase you have started getting some oil money (which you don't even produce a drop of oil, oil is produced by Oros, Ibenos, and Obolos) and you are no longer houseboy and housegirl, you think you can come on nairaland and denigrate other people's culture and language? You better think again.

The Ibibios, up until recently, have been something of 2nd class citizens in that region. Because they live in the hinterland (despite being in a predominantly Riverine/coastal region) , they had the following misfortunes:

1) The Efiks and Oros are coastal people and their main commodity during the slave trade era were ibibios. They sold ibibios to Europe slave traders and this led to the generally perception of the ibibios as inferior. Since they had no access to the coast and were mere commodity.

2) During the colonial and missionary era, the Europeans first settled in the coast - Lagos, Calabar, Oron etc. Because of this, Education and Administrative generally went to people from the coastal regions, hence the reason why you find the oldest schools in these areas - Hope Waddell Training Institute Calabar, Methodist Boys High School Oron, St. Patrick's College Calabar, Kings College Lagos, etc. Because of this, the ibibios had no access to Education until the late 20th century. This naturally placed them at a disadvantage to the Efiks and Oros, who are coastal people and had earlier interaction with Europeans, embraced western education early, etc.

Today, you see jokers come on the internet to proclaim a barbaric dialect as a language. Can you tell us even one seminal work done in the ibibio dialect? None. You think a sound is considered a language because it is chanted by numerous monkeys?

What a joke.

The main language of the Lower Cross River Basin is EFIK. The dialects of Efik include Ibibio and Anang. Some related languages to Efik are Oro and Ibeno.

Another mad Efik monkey on the loose. This all you are known for-foul language, animalistic reasoning, fatally delusional with great posseion of the cave mentality. The very decent Ibibio people will forever deal with you and haunt you all the days of your life. Is it not a shame to you that an urhobo man knows more of your history than you? Shame Shame Shame indeed! Don't even think of ranting back because its going to be a waste of time. HISTORY CANT BE CHANGED BY IT.

OP YOU DID A VERY INSIGHTFUL RESEARCH, DON'T MIND ALL THESE PEOPLE TRYING SO HARD TO DENY THE OBVIOUS. UNTIL TOMORROW IBIBIO IS THE MOTHER ETHNIC GROUP, OTHERS ARE DIALECTS, RESEARCHERS HAVE PROVEN THIS TIME AND TIME AGAIN. NO AMOUNT OF ABUSE AND SLANDER CAN CHANGE THIS FACT. WHAT IS VERY OBVIOUS TO ME WITH THREAD IS THE FACT THAT THE ORON PEOPLE ESPECIALLY STILL HAVE NOT LEARNT THEIR LESSON AND THEREBY STILL HAVE A LOOOONG WAY TO GO. I PERCEIVE SO MUCH HATRED OF WHICH I CANNOT PLACE MY FINGER ON WHERE ITS COMING FROM. I SUSPECT POLITICS! WHICH IS VERY SAD BECAUSE IF IT CONTINUES THIS WAY ONLY GOD KNOWS THE FINAL CONSEQUENCES.

hector:
@op. Pliz don't mind all these ppl. i am a true son of ibibio nationality. Itu precisely. i commend u for the effort, time, unrestrained energy n submissiveness despite all d abuse. i am so delighted to know how much u cherish the ibibio nation n even going as far as writing about us. God bless u n pliz keep up the gud work. Dont mind this yeye people wen dey nairaland.
I am so ashamed of that one called sonOfmark, i use to think he was saner than he is today. i am disappointed.

@topic. the Efiks, oro, n andoni ppl will never agree to be a subset of ibibio no matter the angle of affiliation u might see it. The reason is not far-fetched, especially for the efiks n oro people, as they purportedly believe in their early civilization n education as compared to the ibibios. this ofcourse lacks credence n perhaps if remotely true doesnt really matter as what is obtainable today. Are they still more educated ? are we still their slaves?

The Ibibio is very proliferative n less rigid attracting more speakers than the other ethnic groups.

The other ethnic groups can claim their nationality as they wish, nobody is forcing anybody. Linguistics has made it clear that the other languages are dialects but they will never agree because of pride n ignorance. Even in unical, ibibio language is what is offered in dept of ling n com. studies instead of efik, so wat are we saying?

They are saying wikipaedia is not credible enough, pliz let them point out any scholarly documented research online that puts ibibio as a subgrp of efik? Efik bible is what the ibibios use, and so wat? Who told them that it is only an ibibio person that must write ibibio history?

shame on all the people insulting the op for taking out time to do wat they coundnt do for themselves. Wicked, backward set of people...

YOU JUST NAILED IT SIR! MOST OF THE PEOPLE CONDEMNING THE OP ARE DOING SO BECAUSE OF POLITICS, WHICH IS VERY VERY SAD. THEY NEED TO REMOVE THOSE POLITICAL GOGGLES AND DO SOME RESEARCH OF WHO THEY TRULY ARE. OP YOU DID A FANASTIC JOB! ANYONE WHO IS INTERESTED IN KNOWING MORE ABOUT THE IBIBIO PEOPLE CAN EMAIL ME, I HAVE LOADS OF MATERIALS TO EDUCATE YOU.

mthewwww, SLIPPERS EVERYWHERE....LOL

bokohalal:

You are limiting an ethnicity by political boundaries and at the same time expanding another due to their spread across political borders. You are loath to applyig the same yardstick for obvious reasons.
How many Ijaw are there in Edo and Ondo states?
How many Ijaws are there in Akwa Ibom and Cross Rivers states?
How many Local governments do they occupy in Delta state?
What is the population of the whole of Bayelsa state?

Very good set of questions. Its like saying English Language has the most speakers. Wrong! Mandarin (chineese) have the most number of speakers (2billion) and counting). English is only most widely (geographically) spoken. Ijaws are mainly in bayelsa, now just as someone asked here" what is the total population of bayelsa state?" Not to now ask about the population of ijaw there then the population of ijaw in other places which will be rivers (ikwere majority) and delta.,for me ibibiod (Majorly in akwa ibom and crossriver) takes the number one spot. Then Ijoid, then Igboid, then urhobo...

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Who else watched HE-MAN MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE? Men I must tell you, its Nostalgic! If you watched this hit like!

You still do not get it. The ibibios DO NOT CARE A RATS ASS ABOUT EFIK AND THEIR SILLY AND INFERIOR LANGUAGE!