₦airaland Forum

laudate:
Hmnn...interesting. It is said that Onitsha came from Benin kingdom, etc. Even Nri is said to owe its ancestry to Igala people. Yet, you come here claiming different things. As far as I am concerned, it is other tribes that gave you your kings, so show them some respect, pls!

You still need to tell us where your ancients came from, oh!

Too slow tomorrow come and tell me you're not Yoruba
You'd ve claimed that all Igbo kings came from outside instead of stopping at Nri and Onitsha
Its a fact that onoja went from Nri to establish Idà and moreover Nri ruled a religious empire of which the Bini king was one of its adherents
I don't know where the ancients came from.. Still researching on that!

disumusa:
[s]pls ibo dont corrupt or stained yorubas, this is an attemp to gum body, we dont want you and yoruba did not annexed any of your land i.e warri,edo are not your land[/s].

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laudate:
Hehehe .... una no go kill person with laughter for here!

But wait o...what happened to that proverb, Igbo enwe' Eze (i.e. Igbo have no kings?)

If they had no kings, when did they suddenly start building empires? Who ruled over those empires?

You didn't understand that proverb.. The presence of kings in western Igbo land, Onitsha, Arochukwu,Nri should tell you otherwise.
What that means is that everyone is a lord to himself and his wife and children.and even though kings maybe present, they'd not dictate to you how you run your life.
As for the ancient Biafran empire, it was ruled by the first men or the ancients, whom were known in their native tongue as Ndi Gboo(the ancient ones).majority of present day Igbos descended from those ancients with the remainder coming from outside.

aljharem:
Too much igbo(weed)

Op I am awori from Lagos and I am Yoruba. I don't know where you got the notion that awori egun are not Yorubas.

Everybody knows you're not.. Isn't it the famous aljharem again?

azzima:
i never heard of igbos crying for secession during GEJ's time but once they lost by going all out even more than GEJ's Ijaws, they started talking about Biafra. Confused sets!

Continue weeping about the Igbos

helpee:
I am yoruba but so far I am very disappointed that this Govt is actively promoting ethnic marginalisation of Ndigbo. Igbo didn't vote for APC fine. A democratic Govt should by now make them see reason why they made a mistake by embracing them in his Govt. They said they want Biafra. You said no yet you are marginalising them in their own country. Obama made one of his opponent vice president and the other opponent became secretary of state. So far buhari has only be vindictive. Like it or not, he will divide nigeria faster than radio Biafra if he continues to play his arewa ethnic card.

Brother don't bother yourself that much
The youths of Igbo land know Nigeria has no future for them..that's why majority are crying for secession while the ones who can leave the country are leaving.
Everybody shouted that Jonathan was corrupt.. But that same GEJ was rated higher by TI than buhari or OBJ.
Buhari has confirmed the reservations we had about him so its good we don't expect anything from him

ArodewilliamsT:
Major Nsude, Col Festus Akagha, Col Conrad Nwawo, Col Mike Ivenso, Col Achuzie alias Hannibal the ruthless,Gen Effiong, Gen Ojukwu.

Great Biafrans!


I swear if war comes again, i rather die in war than go back to Liegeria.

Major general Aleksandr Madiebo,GOC Biafran army

ChinenyeN:
Oh okay. I get where you're coming from. I appreciate the explanation. I actually agree with you. The only difference is that what you perceive to be a restriction, I perceive to be a healthy vacuum.

As I see it, the power behind literacy or writing is its capacity to both reflect and influence spoken language. To the best of our collective knowledge right now, there exists no term for 'mountain' among the Igbo languages. However, the vacuum created by lack of lexicon can by quite easily filled by compositing the characters for 'hill' and 'grand'. The meaning is decipherable, and the corresponding, spoken expression can be easily rendered across the Igbo languages without stressing over orthography or standardization. I have in fact already used this composite character once before in communication with someone else.

The character for 'ocean' is also a composite of the characters for 'body' or 'body of' and 'grand'. In essence, the character for 'ocean' transcribes as 'grand body of [water]'.

In my honest opinion, the current character set for Nsibidi is off to a good and very solid start. Aside from that, you can't solve every issue for everyone everytime. Sometimes it is both more practical and beneficial for solutions to develop on their own and as a consequence of active use.

Ya
Igbo is an agglutinative language.. and I've taken time to study his script and I found to be agglutinative too
Igbo now has no nkowa okwu(dictionary) and I see his efforts as laying the foundation for one..that's why I implored him to increase it to at least 2000 characters.
With the kind of people Igbos are,I see nsibiri being borrowed to write other tonal languages in Africa, just as hanzi was borrowed to write Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese and some other far Eastern languages.
Am already learning how to write it..you know memorizing the nsibiri for different terms even from what I see on Biafran sites,some are suggesting that upon independence, nsibiri would replace or supercede Latin as the premiere script for Igbo language.

Pandishi!
When the time comes,our men and tanks would march forward to victory

laudate:
You LIE!!

How come every Awori man bears a Yoruba name, then? Where are these Yoruba people, sef? Let them come here & expose Cheruv's lies....

I don't need yorubas I need aworis here..They're subjects of the king of Bini so are different from yorubas.

disumusa:
nonsense and nonsenstical. You rule over sw as how? Or yoruba extend their kingdom to your territory and instal oba of benin and olu of warri, including ogba egbema. These ibos like taking sugar to make them self happy.

Including also the obong of calabar
I quoted someone's research and you're here talking nonsense

omololu2020:
u keep rantin as if biafra was in d same league as d oyo empire,benin kingdom etc.

Why should they
When Biafra was established around 2500BC your progenitor was running around naked in the celestial realms. Even Nri which came 1500years after the fall of the Biafran empire was still senior to Oyo and Bini by 200 years.
So you see its not possible to compare civilizations with an almost 2000year difference

omololu2020:
u are a fool for typin dis nonsense.pls tell me d name of d ruler of ijebu-igbo.....only eguns are not yorubas.aworis in lagos n ogun,ijebus in ogun n lagos r yorubas

Kwusi I bum asummiri biko!
Are you the only mad person we've to attend too ?
What did you say again?

omololu2020:
ibos lik u keep screamin biafra.do u even know biafra was not an ibo word,it was a word used by d portuguese.d biafran map u are showin us was drawn by europeans.

Before would it be drawn by Yorubas
Simply appreciate the map and lend your support to Nigeria granting independence to these 'pesky' Igbos.

laudate:
Why are you so ignorant? Has any of those people ever told you that they are NOT Yoruba??

Ya
I've heard it severally from different aworis..they detest the fact that you hinterlanders come and take away everything they've.

laudate:
Direct your question to the Yoruba people, because I can't speak for them. But I have worked in all those areas where Egun, Awori and Ijebu-Igbo people live and none of them have ever denied being Yoruba. All their names, customs, marriages, naming ceremonies, proverbs, ethos, traditions and norms are Yoruba. Their languages are merely dialects of Yoruba language.

You are the only one claiming that they are not Yoruba, and honestly, your ignorance is appalling!

That's why experiences are different.. The ones I've worked with at times decry the fact that their 'supposed' Yoruba brethren discriminate against them kos they feel they're not real Yoruba

basilo101:
Lol, same way parts of delta and rivers are speaking igbo and having igbo names and cultures, wit d above coment u hv accepted dat dey r igbos

Stop those frontal attacks.. Look at my replys to them on this issue and take a cue

laudate:
Very funny, the Ijebu are not Yorubas according to you.

They just bear Yoruba names, wear Yoruba outfits. conduct their marriage, naming ceremonies and festivals according to Yoruba tradition, uphold Yoruba customs and traditions.... yet in your small mind, they are not Yoruba.

Hehehe....keep deceiving yourself and exposing your ignorance.

That they bear Yoruba names and do all those Yoruba things you listed doesn't make them Yoruba. Its just like the Taiwanese and the Chinese,the Monegasque and the French or the Saudis and the Yemenis.
They're not the same bro!

laudate:
Guy, this your dream of territorial expansion will fail, oh! People from Igbanke, Ika and some other areas in your map have consistently denied being Igbo. So why are you annexing their territories in your map??

Just as you annexed the ijebus-igbos,aworis and eguns to your territories

bigiyaro:
and some group of biafruads r here tryin to useless wat diz fine babes risked dia lives n beauriful faces for.

They "risked" their lives by dancing on the dlcks and 3rd legs of every senior officer in their formations

miky:
They fought for the unity of NIGERIA and spilled their blood yet some suckers want to divide the country like that? be ready to spill your own blood

Yes
Let's spill blood again
Germany spilled blood in WW1 and had an unjust peace. She spilled blood again in WW2 and had the desired peace.
We're ready to spill blood again to avenge the souls of the patriotically departed

Duru1:
What history does the poster want to rewrite? Do you think that certain person(s) have monopoly on historical facts? Please just shut up your trap.

Don't mind the gworo eater
I just found out ijebus aren't yolobas..no wonder the other yolobas are persecuting them

ibedun:
[size=18pt]And when did Onitsha become an ancient city?[/size]

[size=13pt]There is no ancient city or town in Igboland,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Truth be told.[/size]

When yolobas are degenerate to this extent,shameless Igbos like egift and eurobomber would come to preach about the merits of one zoogeria

Good fences, good neighbors

All these Igbos living in nonigbo areas of Nigeria should stop shaming us!
Any sensible Igbo should know that Nigeria has failed and nothing can be done about it..don't mind those prophecies of one Nigeria kos the great creator God hasn't spoken to them.
As for uwazuruike..his cup isn't full.when it fills up,he'd be killed by his own members

daniel9202:
He can continue doing press up... and baba one chance keep flying around...like chinchi

Ngwa wuo ya kerozin

Sweetlemon:
Abeg no vex for my SS people. Na those SE people dey drag us enter this thing. Many of us SS people are not complaining about marginalization. If you check, they're mostly from SE.

When I called some tribes slaves on another thread you went hysterical now you're exhibiting those characteristics that define them.
I'd not bother retorting your rants..kos there are Igbos of SS nomenclature. Once they're separated from the other SS vermins like you,that day you'd know the difference between ibo and Igbo

Full blown idolatry!

fulanimafia:
People will continue to miss the way, the harder they try to rationalize the oneness of the Hausa/Fulani.

It is an identity that has been moulded over several dozen generations, and so it will remain for thousands more to come.

The question is, why is the OP so fascinated by our heritage that he opened this thread 4 years ago, and returned to revive it only to spew hatred.

It is surely no co-incidence that he and the original author are both Ibo. What a life

I enjoyed what I read
The Fulani aristocracy is something I admire..that's why I want Nigeria balkanized so that your aristocrats can rule a non Igbo Nigeria without resistance from the stubborn Igbo.
As for those Muslims in Igbo land..when the time comes they'd be either expelled or massacred!

ArodewilliamsT:
I usually laugh at the sophisticated Southern mugus that usually claim 'I don't care where the president comes from". Have you ever heard a Fulani saying 'I don't care where the president comes from' and the Hausas signing off their destiny to be fulani slaves because of religion i pity your generation.

I also laughed when i heard them talk about an Emir of Enugu. That reminds me- Igbo leaders must start paying attention to Ebonyi state. Information reaching us has it that The Fulani muslims are quietly but vociferously capitalizing on the relatively lower literacy rate to convert Ebonyi youths into Islam by luring them with 2million Naira each. They may use these youths to cause havoc as they doing in Hausaland and illorin. Once the Fulani man infects you with islam, you'll start fighing his wars while he sits and reaps the fruits.

We may wake up one day and start hearing Emir of Abakaliki. If our Governors will not do anything about it maybe Nnamdi Kanu will help. We must act now! Please forward this message to Ipob, BZM and MASSOB

cc: EasternLion, Biafranprince, IsrealiAirforce, GenIgrigi, cheruv, pazienza, Arysexy, fulanimafia,

Even though I didn't read the whole piece I've a good idea of what he's saying.
That state Ebonyi needs to be focused on.it shouldn't be allowed to become the black sheep of Igbo land.all Igbos should focus on it and ensure that Islam even if it has taken a foothold would be rooted out!
When the time comes,a Crusader army would be raised that'd cleanse Igboland with the blood of massacred Muslims

fulanimafia:
“People fear what they don't understand and hate what they can't conquer.”

― Andrew Smith

Broz
What do you've to say about these assertions?

Mynd44:
I don't know which God you serve but I am sure it cant be the God I know

If God can tell Saul to wage a genocidal war against Amalek for a sin they committed 400 yrs earlier.. Then its possible he can do what the guy you quoted is ascribing to him.
When Abraham was alive, God said he'd not judge the land of Canaan till their sins reach its full measure(this was around 1900BC).that same God told Joshua to utterly destroy EVERYTHING breathing in Canaan(Retjenu as the ancient Egyptians called the land).this directive came 600 years after Abraham had lived on this earth

carnegiefan:
The man is highly irresponsible.
He deliberately equated Biafra with SE to deceive people.
Some of the fiercest Biafran soldiers of 1967 were from Anioma (SS), and some of the fiercest supporters of radio Biafra today are from Rivers and Anioma (Delta state).

All these is happening kos we've Quislings as governors here in the SE.
To correct the anomaly of 1939,we must launch an online campaign/petition to force the SE governors to unanimously declare Anioma the 6th state.