₦airaland Forum

Spy360:
Which one is force? I travelled to Benue and met a community speaking Igbo. I asked them they said they are Igbos. I went back to my history of early Nigeria Eastern region and found out they were part of it and were only carved out by the military.

Whoever is using force is the ones trying to break the Igbo community. I didn't force them to speak Igbo.

lol.

Benue people were never part of any Eastern region. U don't know history and u are laying claim to be an expert at it.

Those people u claim speak Igbo possibly migrated there a long time ago and they settled there. There's a Yoruba community in Delta state(I think they call them Olukumnmi or something like that). They migrated and settled there a long time ago; it doesn't mean they are indigenous to Delta na.

Back to Efik, what exactly are u using to back ur claim up that they were ever Igbo?

Ihebu4chelsea:
I dont even think any igbo person wants to be associated with ibibio or efik. Disstroy stop disturbing yourself. What spy is saying is just History. Una never reach to answer igbo, The difference is Clear

Spy is actually not saying anything according to history. Which history book did u read Efik are Igbos originally ?

DissTroy:
He's a mischievous nitwit. They have begun the aggression then when I and others counter, they play the victims.

Imagine people in the hinterlands who nobody knew and were scattered across countless settlements with no united or defined leadership claiming everyone called us then. Even the Portuguese and first Europeans needed us to go get them for the (inhumane) interaction with the outside world they first had.

You were the oppressed and never the dominant ones. Was it not Ijaw, Itshekiri and Ibibio manhunters who invaded you and sold you off? Inhumane in retrospective but it happened, so how come you claim out of your anus that all tribes down the Niger were called Igbos? In your hinterlands nobody came to except during the slave trade to hunt and capture?

Wasn't it relatively recently their language got written? When Ibibio-Efik and others had been documented for years before that?

He just wants to start and argument and rewrite history. Well, it's a weekend. Let's have it. But let's remember who started it first.

While I don't subscribe to name calling in this discourse, I agree with u that spy is trying to rewrite history that was never written. He does not have any historical data or information to rely on to claim Efiks and other people in the South South and Middle belt are Igbos.

Maybe he has a point that the Igbo speaking parts of Rivers and Delta were originally Igbos but for the other South South states I believe he's just capping.

Spy360:
African ancient history is not documented but when you look at similarities in culture and traditions you have your facts. I have just used the Ekpe society as an example.

The Otukpo people in Benue speak Igbo, I understand them. Same as the Kwale people in Delta. You can Google Igbo people in Kogi state.

My point is the term Igbo is very generic and in reality is not limited to the five Eastern states

Speaking a language does not mean anything at all. An Otukpo man will never agree with u his ancestors were Igbo because none of their historical records account for this Igbo origin u are trying to force on them. Igbos may have migrated to different parts of the country, but it doesn't mean they are indigenous to those places.

I find it disturbing that an Igbo person will try to force his history or culture on other people.

Spy360:
Yes.

On what authority are u saying this? which history book are u quoting?

I also saw u mentioned Efik as being Igbo; how? U mean the Efik don't have their own history of how they came into being a group of people distinct from the Igbo's?

Spy360:
Almost all the ethnic groups in the SE Nigeria are Igbos. The thing is that, Igbo is a very general identity with numerous variants. Before the civil war, most of those communities consider themselves Igbo. It was the Nigerian government in the bid to weaken the people and use the divide and rule tactics broke the Igbo people apart and made some deny their heritage for a morsel of bread.

I am Owerri for example. My dialect is almost the same as Ikwerre. I cannot understand a man from Enugu or Abakiliki. But Enugu is Igbo and Ikwerre think they are not.

The Igbo cultural set cuts across Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Delta, Benue, Edo, Kogi [/b]etc.

Are u saying their are indigenous Igbo people in Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Benue, Edo and Kogi? Or what exactly are u saying in the bold part of ur statement?

iamoyindamola:
Furies(french)

https://driveseed.org/file/O3hHtVRirQ

Thanks. Make I sharply run am

liveLongNprospa:
Was he part of those that went to Dubai last year? 👀

He actually went to Dubai

But I don't know on whose bill he went there

afrodoc2:
No be today. Nigeria Customs became corrupt before Nigeria Police.

Yeah, I know say Customs corrupt. In fact, among the paramilitary agencies na Customs officers dey always make money pass; some of their wives are always selling rice, frozen foods and ororo

seankafor:
na so d matter be, so many things dey happen for background for this obodo naija

The guy even dey claim say custom boss get trailer wey dey load rice for seme

Yet wey boarder closure no favor go dey defend Buhari's closure of boarder online and Newspaper stand.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Olamide hail the guy for one of him songs

I even think say e dey into music[/color]

No he's not.

He's just one of those socialites u know that live beyond their means but u really can't place ur hand on what brings them that much money. I know he owns IBD international hotels in Ilaro and Abeokuta, but I don't think those hotels could make him enough money to be spraying K1 and dem Pasuma constantly.

Emaprince:
With zenith you can simply link by dialing *966*nin# and follow the prompt. It's simple.

Gtb provides a means to link online too.

Zenith na hypertension bank, I no dey use them at all and I don't envy those who use them cos na so so complain everyday about their network

seankafor:

In these @fijnigeria videos, IBD Dende, the most notorious smuggler in the South West, can be seen threatening to kill a Customs officer who seized his smuggled goods.

The officer he would have harmed had he not been restrained is an Assistant Superintendent of Customs.

Some… pic.twitter.com/rJUoa2NP5P

— 'Fisayo Soyombo (@fisayosoyombo) March 1, 2024

Omo !

When a friend of mine who graduated from IIaro polythechnic told me this IBD Dende is a well known smuggler around Ilaro and its environs ; I never really believed him. Because what is generally believed is that IBD Dende is a hotelier .

I guess it all makes sense now. The hotel business is just a front for the main smuggling business .

Chai! See him name dropping the current comptroller general of customs as his guy 🤦‍♂️.

This country is gone! I'm sure nothing will happen to him for charging at the customs officer and almost assaulting him. Seun Kuti go just dey watch the video dey shake head when he remember how he was arraigned for the policeman he assaulted . Maybe Seun go set ringlight and camera on the matter today sef

iamoyindamola:
But na bipolar them call am

Na mental disorder na

iamoyindamola:
A man that respect a woman will never allow or go out with her naked
There is nothing left again to cover
Bar money, kanye is suppose to be yaba left patient left to be roaming the world freely

I honestly thought the woman was like that(Nudist)

Kanye get mental illness, but people dey see am like say he's woke or dares to be different

Iamoyindamola thanks, I don download am. I guess has just one episode out for now; na weekly things be that

Ibunkun1:


Omo this Shogun is good o. Just two episodes and I'm hooked already

I've not started shogun sef . I will watch over the weekend.

iamoyindamola:
That guy no too wise
Na why him papa no like am, i miss pastor snoop

His mum likes him cos he brings home money

iamoyindamola:
Blueraydick
Black mafia family is dropping today

I don miss big meech and his rash decisions

GloriousGbola:
I did my nin for mtn and glo via the app
I did my gtb nin via web
Stanbic nin online
Zenith nin via app

My only worry is that the online processes may be compromised especially as I did not get a confirmation email / message.

Most Nigerians esp outside lagos choose the manual route. I was telling someone the other day that I pay every artisan (even the woman I buy fruits from) with transfer and the person was saying impossible.

I was also curious there was no feedback from the online portal, but I'm giving them benefit of doubt sha.

I also pay almost everybody via transfer or POS. I've never liked the idea of moving around with cash above N20k

iamoyindamola:
Have linked my alat account, gtb is stressing me
That bank have been shitty for years i wonder what happened to them

I was at union bank this morning to challenge them say I no see any message o, before they will go and freeze my account unannounced. They told me that If I don't get message, then it means I don't need to do any linking.

iamoyindamola:
Na starz get am i will look for link

Abeg just sama me the link

Amigoss:
Lots of identification processes,Zero functional database....linking and updating bvn,pvc and nin every fvking year,another identification process will be out in no time soon....

Crazy thing is some people opened their accounts with bvn and nin,why are they linking what is there already...

So how people not in naija going to walk into the bank or MTN office to link Nin,🤡🤡

. Stanbic allows us to do the linking online . Some banks like access expects one to walk into their branch and be doing paper verification at this age and time

iamoyindamola:
Blueraydick
Black mafia family is dropping today

Choi! On what platform are they dropping it ?

GloriousGbola:
I really do not understand the thought process behind this. I cannot see anything special the company is doing and even if that were the case a Nigerian company could take the job and outsource that part to bhojohnsons and train teams in house.

There are enough Nigerian owned IT companies that deploy the same IT solutions this air wave is proposing .

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Everybody wan chop, my brother.

Funny enough, this is the same country crying about Forex, and asking why people should be paid in dollars for jobs here.

Then you agree pay $93 million to a company in Nigeria.

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Make we just dey whine ourselves dey go

izzou:
[color=royalblue]You want to encourage employment of locals, and the first job you had was given to an Expatriate?

Nigeria [/color]

Only a naive mind will think a foreign owned company cannot run Nigerian govt streets like Nigerian owned company does.

Right before our eyes P & ID run Nigeria streets with the aid of their Nigerian promoters.

I'm always amused when I see Nigerians blindly defending misteps of government. The only emotion I have at that point is amusement.

iamoyindamola:
Omo even government workers dan troop out everyone dan serious with work
Kai catch my colleague yesterday for ladipo he go cross express road🤣🤣
I am on my way to mock him for office because I dan warn him tire

It actually doesn't make sense crossing an express road when there's pedestrian bridge closeby. If motor jam am, na wahala he go give government. Government go dey pay for cost of hospitalization and embalmment if he died eventually.

We had a retired relative who was hit while trying to cross the express at Ikeja along while he was going for all these pensioners' verification exercise. The wife just called my dad that that the man left home for pensioners' "I am alive" verification exercise and they've not heard from him for 24 hours.

My dad set out to look for him going from one police station to another to report missing person. One thing led to another and after almost a whole day of search he heard a dead body was found around the VIP international wing of the airport.

The theory we later came up with was that the person who hit at Ikeja along was most likely a VIP. He was definitely compelled by people at Ikeja along to take to the hospital and he played along and took the body in his vehicle. Being a VIP who had access to international airport VIP section, he dumped the body there and went on his way. We came up with this theory because there was actually a report of a vehicle hitting a person that match baba's description at Ikeja along same day and the driver took the victim in his vehicle with the intention to take him to the hospital.

Eventually, the family had to pay serious fine to get baba's body released by government at the mortuary where his body was deposited eventually. Since that day, I no dey even reason to cross expressway except there's no pedestrian bridge in sight at all.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]So the company that will collect expatriate levy and chop $95 million for it, is an Expatriate?



Ngongo na Ngongo [/color]

Tinubu just keeps slamming his defenders and supporters in the mud 😂

iamoyindamola:
So emilokan was in Lagos yesterday
Felt like normal day, na person way chop belleful they go hail presido

People eyes don clear na. The last time he was in Lagos for the festivities was when the people shouted Ebi'n pawa to his hearing .

As he no gree do anything about the hunger (things have even gotten worse since that time ) ; people have decided to move on.

Na only online him supporters dey do strong head; offline people have resorted to serious taxing and begging to cope with the hardship

Flashback Friday

This ediot social media handler never declare civil war o now that PMS sells for almost x10 of the N65 price of that year o

liveLongNprospa:
Lmaooooo.
Proper criminal 😂😂

Million dollars ooo not even naira

I don't know who keeps advising Tinubu , but one thing is obvious ; Tinubu and his supposed technocrats are overrated and keep taking one misstep after another .

I just did a google search on the alleged Air wave limited being appointed as concessionaire for the expatriate levy and what I found out is quite embarrassing .

So the air wave limited is an Indian company which will provide ICT solution for collection of expatriate levy in Nigeria . I'm not even concerned about the cost of the contract but I don't know if Tinubu and his advisers care about optics at all.

If u claim the aims and objectives of the expatriate levy is to make sure more Nigerians get jobs that are being given out to foreigners who are expatriates , then why exactly are u giving the contract for the expatriate levy to an Indian owned company ? Shey na ment abi na wetin ? Are they telling us there are no Nigerian companies that can provide the IT solutions for the expatriate levy project ?

This just confirms my suspicion that revenue generation is the motive behind the whole expatriate levy matter and not really care for Nigerian employees