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SlayerForever:
Did you say Itam!

If you're talking about Itam I know one or two about Itam! Itam today is a general name by Efiks used to refer to non Ibibio tribes in Northern and Central Cross River. If Itam and Otam were the same then in finding them look no further than Northern/Central Cross River state!

One of the tribes there would be the Itam/Otam as recorded.

I don't think this "itam/otam" is necessary at the moment. For now, let's round up Bonny

Chai, this man called Onye Ikpeazụ no get shame oh.....

9Pluto:
Beer parlour gist.

Igboid:
Ogogoro drinkers joint is the source of his claims.

You know them very well.
They took a group picture afterwards for referencing

GreatBoss:
If Ijaw came with the Europeans which time we come get to use Ibo as slaves that we sell to whites, and use others in our houses.

Proof/evidence?

GreatBoss:
Go and claim them physical u liar.
Igbo speakers my foot.

Its like you haven't gotten the message yet.
The time for physical will come.

If you have noticed, the cautious ones ie, Igala and Bini have lowered their volume years ago but a certain scapegoat is shouting "physical"

Don't worry, it is an inevitable something that will come to pass.

iLoveYouToo:
Google the word illiterate

Have you seen him read and write before?
Now, Google the word "busy body"

GreatBoss:
That video was created by ibos.
Go and remove them from all Ijaw socia-cultural organizations they belong, or go and join it if u think it's just for anybody.
Then we will believe u.

LOL
You guys are now like cornered rats.

OfoIgbo:
Here it is nnaa


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onVPhIp6soo

GreatBoss, putingdbutt, Alabo7978 and the other Ijaw boys, come and explain this video.

See the Illiterate that ruled Abia

Ekealterego:
It shows the difference in intellect.

9cloud Here is an account, This is by Captain John Adams (1823). He had a similar account with Crow, detailed but an earlier report on his Bonny exploration.

Ijaw people thought that after the lies of Alagoa in 1972 that all historical records will mysteriously disappear.
They thought that with time nobody will see a trace of Igboness in these groups but here we are, 50 years after, the people of Ubani and Opobo are still speaking Igbo.
They have now found out that it is the language and culture of these groups that brings out questions, questions that when asked, there are hundreds of historical documents to provide the answer that Bonny/Ubani is and have always been Igbo territory.

Now they are desperate. They want to wipe that language and culture but to prove how ignorant they are about history, they don't know that there has never been a successful cultural genocide in History.
If they know of those that are really powerful like Japan and Manchu that attempted it and failed, they wouldn't be wasting their time.
Japan abolished Korean language during Japanese occupation of Korean peninsula and forced the citizens to take Japanese surname but today guess the language ladies watch their Korean love drama in. The same Korea language that Japan tried to wipe right?

These people are just as ignorant as they can be. Especially when drunk as usual.

OfoIgbo:
Why are you finding it difficult to also confirm that the ruling house was also Igbo?

So while the kings of Ubani were Igbo speakers, while the slave merchants there were also Igbo speakers, and while the slaves were also Igbo speakers, you are hellbent on trying to confuse people into thinking that it was only the slave class that were Igbos.

How come those that attacked Diette-Spiff were speaking a Brass language, that could be understood 100% by every Igbo speaker?

How come a more ancient memoir written by Crow, that was decades earlier than the one written by Crowther, not critical enough for you?

Ubani and Kalabari traditional institutions are led by Igbo lineages. This cannot happen unless you are trying to say that the Igbos invaded those areas, and established Igbo kingdoms over the non-Igbo natives. We all know this didn't happen.

You still have to scale the hurdle of Igbo traditional leadership in Bonny, and the fact that Crow's memoirs was more ancient than Crowther's writings, hence more reliable as a source of how things were.

I remember that incidence.
Maybe you should post the video for those that are reading this but didn't know or can't recall.

The Youths were rapping in Igbo while destroying the dudes Palace.

Alabo7978:
The same Horton that told you Nembe was Igbo.
This Ekealterego doesn't have sense.
The igbos have been the darling of the British media ever since the palm oil trade.
Have you seen how these stupid reports are misleading?
9pluto ??
crowther and pepple clearly explained the difference in the dialect Okolo-ama, which is the chief spoken language in Bonny; same language is spoken in Calabari, AND IT IS STILL SPOKEN TILL TODAY.
Now I ask y'all clowns, if that okoloama language is Igbo, why did crowther and pepple said otherwise?
Let us assume they were drunk and made a mistake, can we boldly say the language spoken in Calabari is Igbo too??

They say half knowledge is worse than none. This terminology from Ajayi Crowther was posted here by Ekealterego but you drunks have been carrying it up and down without knowing the meaning.

The meaning is that Bonny assertion that they are from Ndoki is true and the evidence was Okoloma which is in Ndoki, Igboland.

Have any of you bothered to ask Ekealterego what happened after this page?
Or bothered to look for the book?
No, just jumping up and down with the crumbs that fell from Ekealterego's research table like monkeys.
You drunks eh...

"Half Knowledge is worse than none"

Ekealterego:
Okoloma existed before any human dwelled in Bonny. Stop your fables. OKoloma is as old as Ndoki.
Another fable, Tales by the moonlight. Where is this written? We come with fact, you come with myths with no receipts.
See the difference.
Slayerforever, Eastlink (see your Alinsaw Egbema), Newage98, see your Ekpahia (Ekpeye), Bkayy, Igboid.
Let us make reference to a colonial map of Igboland.

You can see Ubani at the bottom

There has never been an Igbo map without Ubani and Opobo.

The second one was produced by the British Government in 1911, three years before Nigeria was amalgamated. Look at the arrow at the bottom left corner and see the date.

Landmack:
Onye Ipob abakeleke terrorist, u go so choke on ur envy . We Anambrarians don’t give a flyn Bleep about u troublesome gala sellers. Stop using Anambra to hide ur low self esteem. Be proud of ur state Ebonyi for once. Abakeleke Miscreant

You are beginning to become obvious as an Afonja or a none Afonja trained in the Lagos sewage pit.
You animals that roam around Nigeria claiming different ethnic groups that their mother's make up to them.
Oga if you haven't confirmed your Afonja heritage, go for paternity test.
Mr "Anambrarian". Very soon your Co animal will come with "Imolite", "Ebonyian", "Abian" or "Enuguan" etc.

Whatever those animal sounds mean.

Mpama that was trained in the latrine of lagos.

Landmack:
Ipob Abakeleke miscreant..read and read this clearly, we are proud ANAMBRARIANS and we will continue to defend our land with all our blood and sweats.

You can only rant and rant on Nairaland abt Anambrarians. When you’re done,u crawl back to the backward shit hole of a state u crept out from with high poverty rate and troublesome gala sellers.

Anambrarian..e pain am

Anambrarian Animal, it is called "Abakaliki" and no matter what you can do, you and your fellow smelly and disgusting Animals called "Anambrarians" can never turn put discord between Ndị Anambra and our kins from Abakaliki.

Do you know why?
Because you need to pass a certain threshold to be capable to manipulate. A threshold that even Nigerians cannot pass talkless of an animal called "Anambrarian"

Landmack:
e pain this one ,see the way he is wriggling like a salty earthworm. I know you're a slowpokke but don't display it blatantly.
It seems you’re gradually getting tired of masking ur envy and jealousy against the progress of Anambra and her offsprings..we don begin sabi who u be. But know it that we will continue to make ur stay here unbearable till u disappear with your evil intentions to the shit hole of a state u crawled out from.

Anambrarians will continue to pour pepper in ur eyes

Ezi Bida

The animals called "Anambrarians" must be very proud of their stupidity to think that a human being will envy them.
Lol, Animals these days sha.

I have have seen, stinky animals, stubborn animals, stupid animals and crazy animals but this particular group of animals called "Anambrarians" fit into all the characteristics I mentioned.

A peculiar animal indeed. "Anambrarians"

Omanambala:
I understand you may disagree with the person you quoted but I beg to disagree with your comment. I find it offensive and repulsive. When you come here , no matter the sentiment , I want you to understand that Anambra people are very prideful and defend their state, jealously. So , show some respect , because being aggressive will not take you far, here.

If your intentions of visiting this thread is to fight Ndi Anambra then you will not go too far. There are some things you got to ignore for peace to rain.

Some persons may refer the people from Anambra as Anambrarians or Ndi Anambra and none is wrong, so be careful with how you address people here.

There is something you need to understand and that is shepherd never fight thei herd.
Just read this your write up and you'll notice something. You don't reason like a human and me correcting people like you is not called "fight" but "discipline"

There is nothing called "Anambrarian".
When someone chooses to identify himself in a way to be like a particular group then that individual lacks dignity.

There are somethings people call you but you shouldn't call yourself that.

The message is not actually for you because I doubt if an animal like you can understand
Its for humans that might read the comment

Sistergal80:
You’re a senseless ediot for this comment. Anambra and her people will continue to rise above you evil lots

And by evil lots, you must mean fools without dignity like you and what you believe in.
If your identification is determined by how European it can sound then I am sorry to tell you the truth "You are not even qualified to be called a fool"

Afonjas will forget that mkpụrụ mmiri was invented for them and start blaming Igbo for no reason.
These people like blaming everybody but themselves.

Danjikanbauchi:
walahi you are right. If all the skull mining and rituals killing going on the South West happen in SE ibos would have come together and fight it.

We've done it before.
Have you heard of "Otokoto riot?"
Google about it. That was when Ndigbo chased both ritialism and the ritualists out of this realm but as usual, Nigeria police protected some from the mob.

Igboid:
This is why I hated talks of BIAFRA with minorities as proposed by IPOB.
I was totally against it, which pitched me against my IPOB brothers here.

These minorities aided by Hausa-Fulani and Yoruba, scrambled for and grabbed our coastal lands, in places they couldn't grab, they introduced and continue to introduce strong Igbophobia among the populace to atleast make sure the Indigenous become anti Igbo, they started late in Ndoki, at a time Igbo nationalism had awakened and we fought them to a standstill.
And going by their lack of remorse up till today, you can see that they hope to keep these lands forever and have no plans of returning them back without violence or use of force on our own part.

It's only common sense that we have a score to settle with these lots once we manage to keep Hausa-Fulani and Yorubas who backed and Continue to back them away, and they know it too, which is why despite the rape they suffer under Hausa-Fulani and Yoruba ruled NIGERIA, they will never lash out to them or even attempt secession.

Our work is cut out. Anyone or group talking about a country between us and Ijaws, only exposes their lack of understanding of issues at play here, and cannot get my support.

The truth can't be more truthful than this.
We really have an outstanding score to settle with those Minorities, especially the trio (Igala, Ijaw and Bini)

Landmack:
Go to ur state’s thread and promote ur rejected Ipob propaganda. Anambra state has no relationship with Ipob.
After threatening our pple because of envy. Anambrarians will never forget.

@emboldened, only an Atụrụ calls himself that and it is no surprise that you are one.
So mmeee, mee, meee

Landmack:
Ezombies
Efulefu
Sabo...find some more names to call pls,nonsense!

Bkayy aka Bomb24 aka Sunjai aka et al

Take ur Igbo unity bullshit out of our thread. Where was this same igbo unity prior to the last Anambra elections?
Igbo unity and you were among those creating false threads up and down with ur other trolls threatening the lives of Anambrarians not to come out to vote in competent leaders. Talk of...‘anything u see outside,take it like that’. That was y’all usual lines prior to the elections.

Weren’t u among those ignoramuses screaming and influencing other foolish fools on several threads that no elections will happen in Anambra State?

‘Igbo unity’? and majority of u wanted chaos in Anambra,in fact, y’all wanted the shining light in chaos like ur IMO state. Hell no! Anambrarians are now wiser.
Thank God for our brave Anambrarians who fought hard on SM for the elections to hold and to dissuade pple from staying back out of fear.

If u don’t really like what I typed,pls scroll past. But for ur info,the ‘Anambra consciousness’ has activated fully in the minds of most Anambrarians if u don’t know. This consciousness took full momentum prior to the elections. This is the reality on ground,u may choose to disagree,your business.

To my utmost surprise, In traffic last week, and a woman was screaming on top of her voice in rage to some hawkers ‘Abakeleke na wa nu be unu’. There’s a sudden consciousness in the air,u may choose to insult me and link unknown monikers to me, idgaf. Everybody don begin dey answer their papa name.
Happy raging

God bless our Gov elect..CeeCee Soludo
God bless the shining light
God bless Anambra

This is what Igbo hate looks like.

Mana "eji utu eyi akwụna ụjọ?"
Mbanụ, ọ bụrọ ta ka anyị fụba Hausa na ụta.
You think it is everybody that threat your stupidity with silence? Well, we are just getting started. Peace and Igboness will return to this thread by force.

Lol , Ndị Abia hope you people have seen what sheepishly standing by PDP have caused?

Imagine congratulating the wife of the Governor on her PhD as part of state achievement. Lol, I no fit laugh abeg.

Anyways, it's not like I want to spoil this beautiful moment of self caused mediocrity but I want to remind anybody from Abia reading this my comment that by next year, when Ebonyi state complete her Airport that Abia state will be the only Igbo state (not just in SE) without an Airport.

Goodluck in advance as you people enjoy the mockery from next year .
Next time vote right

Ekealterego:
And you know what? I understand Ngwa 100%, in fact no Igbo man from any corner of Igbo land that will not understand Ngwa, but he willfully write unnecessary twists and self-generated spellings and alphabets to trick you into thinking otherwise.

Here is a very fast Ngwa speaker.


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

She is fond of doing that. Ngwa is one dialect that is too clear to any part of Igboland but to make her balkanization mission take root, she combine unintelligible consonants to trick naive people to think that Ngwá is that distinct.

I love the way Igboid halted her at inception.

Just look at this

ChinenyeN:
I maala bya agu ta i maa? It's really not that hard, my friend.

Putindbutt:
Ijoh are more relevant as they are the owners of Bonny. Ijohs are not slaves, rather, they are slaves merchants who served as middle men to European agents. The Aros are not exclusively ibos but a mix of both ibo and ibibio origin. The Aros are well known for slave raiding who raided and sold ibos to the ijohs who in turn delivered them in exchange to the Europeans agents. The Aros established a Confederacy over the interior ibo dwellers. They also sold a large number of ibos who were regarded as sacrifices or dedicated to the gods as punishment for their transgressions, markets and settlements were raided to keep a consistent supply of slaves. The Aros had treaties/slave trading agreements with the ijoh coastal dwellers as well as the calabar merchants who operated at Calabar port, which served as another port for ibo slaves. Bonny & Elem Kalabari are both ijaw towns that served as slave ports through which the Aros supplied a large number of ibo slaves.

And, tell us the name of one recorded Ijaw sláve merchant?

You people don't know how to lie.

OfoIgbo:
You are the person to provide these bibliographies, after all you have access to these modern books by Alagoa and the rest.

We also look forward to any pre-colonial documents from the Portuguese, Spanish or any neutral European operators in Ubani, that you may be basing your assertions on.

In this forum, I was able to show translated snippets from Portuguese explorers, written about 550 years ago, to prove that the NRI kingdom was the cultural and religious overlord of Benin empire.

All you need to do, is to provide a few pre colonial documents to back your assertions

She is going to disappoint you. Ijaw people like her only reference Alagoa's lies of 1970 and 1972, nothing more.

ChinenyeN:
From the works of Charles Ogan (1980s), Finapiri (2001), Alagoa & Fombo (1960s) and Nzewuwa (1980s), among others, it is well-established that the Amanyanabo system is a modern monarchy system that first came about in the 17th century among most Eastern Ijaw communities.

Nzewuwa (1983) showed that the House System and a feudal/factional kingship system already existed in the Elem Kalabari area. Kalabari oral traditions and documentary evidence from European traders suggests that these institutions came to be in active practice by the 17th century. Additionaly, Amakiri I (the first of the modern Kalabari monarchs), is recollected as becoming the first "overall Amanyanabo", creating the modern Kalabari dynasty and galvanizing the Kalabari kingdom. This tradition of Amakiri I becoming the first "overall Amanyanabo" suggests the presence of other feudal kings (at least some, not all) going by "Amanyanabo" (Alagoa, 1970s, 2005).

Unlike the series of events/oral traditions of Kalabari, the picture was rather different for Okrika. Charles Ogan (1980s) did a decent job in marking down a chronology for the adoption of both the House System and the Amanyanabo System within Okrika (which Charles Ogan refers to as Amanyanaboship). Charles shows that the Amanyanabo institution did not exist in Okrika prior to its adopted in the seventeeth century. The first Amanyanabo of Okrika (Ado I) was installed as part of the ongoing effort to free Okrika from Bonny's political and economic authority.

Finapiri (2001) researched and collected Bonny oral traditions which credit Perekule as having brought drastic changes to the kingship system in Bonny in the 18th century, in which Perekule was officially proclaimed as the "Amanyanabo", starting the new Amanyanabo dynasty in Bonny. For Bonny, both the House System and the Amanyanabo system were imported between the late 17th to early 18th centuries (Alagoa 1971, Oriji 2011).

Only Ijaw people quite Alagoa and with all due respect madam/sir you have proven beyond both reasonable and unreasonable doubt that you are Ijaw.

Quit the games and come clean as an Ijaw.

BTW, Alagoa and Fombo's work was in 1972 not 1960's like you claimed. Look at your references, none was before the war.
Before the war, nobody from Bonny and Opobo identified as anything other than Igbo. After the war identity crises caused by revision from Minorities is what I call "scramble for Igboland by Minorities"

paramakina202:
That guy is typical Ngwa man they are very clannish.
Read posts from the likes ponpokon another Ngwa nationalist they are all the same.

bomb24, this person I just quoted is still the same person you are talking about.

Paramakina202 is one of their handles.

sunjai:
I doubt if this Landmark is from Anambra state. I have seen his comment in other posts concerning Anambra state and they are not good at all.

Its still Juliusmalema handles.

Lamdmack=globemoney01=Juliusmalema=Osagyefo98=MelesZenawi

Na one evil spirit roaming around the cyber space looking for ways to instigate statism among Ndigbo.