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bigfrancis21:
Olaudah Equiano, more properly spelt natively in Igbo as 'Olauda Ikwuano'.

the guys family has been discovered and his name is

OLAUDA EKWEALUO

he's from isieke in Anambra state of Nigeria

its an Igbo not Nigerian thing...if its Nigerian, then other ethnic nationalities would be practicing it

seriously I don't understand
what are Igbos doing in non Igbo states? or is it part of the Nigerian govts plan to balkanize Igbo land?
just as oyigbo LG should be returned to Abia is the same way these Izzi tribal lands should be returned to Ebonyi.
Rivers should also give up ONELGA to Imo and Anioma states.
the FG should ensure that arbitrary demarcations are reversed to reduce tensions between the people.

walemoney007:
u can keep on rantin,i dont giv a dam about all wot u wrote up dia.bonny and opobo are ijaw land.if u dont lik dat,u can kill ursef

mtschewww!!
who get your time kwanu?

xharder:
check this out

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don't mind the meddler that can't mind his biz

walemoney007:
what i know is dat wen Nigeria divide opobo and bonny will b part of ijaw republic

there are two things... what you know and what's obtainable.what you know is your opinion which I'd conveniently ask you to shove up your @rse kos no one gives a damn about it. when Nigeria breaks up,this is what would happen
1]unification of areas where Igbo language is spoken..this includes bonny and opobo in rivers;igbanke in Edo;legbo and other areas west of river cross in CRS;izzi tribal areas in Benue;omambala areas of kogi
2]resistance by our imperial army of attempts to meddle in our affairs. I'd not be surprised at a war between us and yolobas due to the propensity of yolobas to meddle in Igbo affairs.
believe whatever you want, but this is what will happen

walemoney007:
ilajes in ondo are yorubas,only d apoi and arobo are ijaws.and d pple of apoi in ondo speak mainly yoruba but dey r ijaws.but what i want u to know is dat bonny and opobo are bot ijaw land.

what you want me to know or what's obtainable its obvious all you've been doing is parading lies and half baked truths all in your bid to prove that Igbos lack access to the sea.
anyway agaghim asi gi kwusi ida apari nihi na o n'enye gi obioma mana no matter how you twist it,the fact still remains the fact and that won't change.the people are Igbos,speak Igbo and in the case of opobo,attend ohaneze meetings as part of rivers state delegation.
the port of Bonny was a place used to export Igbo slaves to the new world. 85% of Igbo slaves passed through bonny so you can see what am talking about. when slavery ended,the yet to be exported slaves settled in bonny,retaining their lingo kos their Igbani masters refused to teach them ibani.when Jaja left to form opobo,90% of people who went with him were Igbos. so you've seen how those areas came to be Igbos and Igbo speaking. the case is different in okrika(wakrike) and kalabari kos even though they bought Igbo slaves, they simply indoctrinated them by teaching them the kalabari and okrika lingos,marrying the females and adopting the males into the war canoe houses that bought them.that's why we don't see kalabaris and okrikas as Igbos unlike the case with bonny and opobo.

walemoney007:
if Nigeria divide,ijaw wont b part of biafra,forget about all dis una luk alik.

of course no Igbo wants ijos in an Igbo only state. ijo lands extend from ilaje in the west to bonny river in the east.nobody is interested in those lands..the lands between the rivers bonny to the west and Imo to the east belongs to ogonis,andonis and Igbos. the map I posted up there explains everything.

walemoney007:
were in my post did i sat am ijaw,hav lived in both bonny and opobo,i will say it again,dey are not ijaw

that's the moment of truth!!
Igbo is spoken in the two cities and the people are ethnically Igbo!! with even an Igbo dynasty ruling opobo.
don't because you yolobas despise the Igbo that you'd come here to write shyt about us.and if you noticed, 3/4 of rivers people are polyglottic..speaking their lingo together with Igbo so with that sword you've strapped, unstrap it and do seppuku with it

the Biafran war has made my nation a net-exporter of women to other Nigerian tribes... to the extent that westerners prefer coming down south for Igbo maidens
anyway I've already started saving for the matter.. kos if my Dad could pay for my mum and they're still going strong, then its a big shame on my part if I can't pay for my wife.
our ladies are virtuous.. that's why you pay a lot on their head
biko umuada Igbo anyi nara num mmicha onu nari a !!!

walemoney007:
bonny and opobo are not ibo lands,bonny and opobo are ijaw land

continue dreaming!!
when you're through with dreaming, stop dreaming wake up and strap your sword!!

abdulwastecx:
No president want a divide nation... You guys wanted to leave the federation nation the wrong way. I am condoning the actions of Yakubu government and ojukwu that leads to the death of innocent 2 million igbos....but this is the time to move on.

[s]Having a land locked south eastern Nigeria withouth south southern states of rivers, bayelsa and cross river state will be suicidal to the igbos.
Your land is not good for agriculture
Your population is way too much for the tiny land mass in the east and you have 1/3 of your people living in other regions in Nigeria[/s]umunna, nwa a bu abdulwastecx n'atu asi n'enweghi isi na odu

I have been to the east and I am currently serving in port harcourt...Nigeria problem is not diversity but lack of knowledge, corruption and laziness.

about middle east.....google is ur best friend, check to confirm my data

frater, look at the map of Igbo land with its 26 prefectures and tell me whether its landlocked??
stop all those lies you're peddling to justify our being with you in this unfruitful Union. the SE and Igboid SS can do just fine. if we could survive the 30 month blockade despite our huge sacrifices and lack of allies,making technological advances inspite of that shyt..I definitely think we Igbos need to be separated from the hell that's Nigeria

abdulwastecx:
Istreal doesn't have the largest per capital income in near east.

Istreal per capital income: $37, 000
Qatar per capital income : $99, 000
kuwait per capital income : $45,000
united arab emirate : $65, 000

As you can see Istreal is not the country with highest per capital income in near east ( middle east).
Dont give me that stories that those other countries are oil producing nations. ...we all know that istreal is an extension of Europe and north America in middle east, most of her economy is down to America and European aids in technology and military.

Back to Nigeria, igbos are not that technically sound as you assert...Nigeria is relatively a very poor country with large shortage in technical, engineering and scientific labour force because of our poor engineering/ technological and scinestific education. Nevertheless, igbos are very industrious hence they dominate the informal sector of small retailing, importation of substandard product from china for quick bugs....

You need much more than that to developed.
who dominate the banking sector in Nigeria?
who dominate the construction industry in Nigeria?
who dominate the oil and gas industry in Nigeria?
All these are dominated by technically sound people and they are not igbos....

its good I've gotten you where I want you to be.leave the Igbos to go and fend for themselves. they're not getting anything from Nigeria so there's no need to remain in the federation
I'd not be interested to debunk those lies you posted about the near Eastern state of affairs but just know that oil has done no nation having it any good.

abdulwastecx:
it is not that simple my friend... a country dont developed because she can produce 2.1million barrel of crude oil for Indian, american and British market. A country developed by refining the crude into finish product like petro, jet fuel, cooking, gas, heavy diesel, kerosene, other peyro chemical product and gas which is then used to generate cheap electricity for industrial and domestic use.

The question is how can we transform this oil into product that will create job, wealth, standard of living and technology. instead of selling this crude at open market for $65 per barrel? You need brain, you need education, you need a government that is serious about science and technology not division.

in Niger state alone, we can generate about $10 billion from rice farming, milling and packaging. thousands of jobs can be created and so many people can be gainfully employed.
We you go to other northern states like kaduna, nasarawa, taraba, benue etc all we see are arable land that can lift so many people out of poverty, create raw materials for industrial use etc.

south western states like ondo ( my dad home state), oyo, ogun, ekiti, osun etc aso have so many things to offer. ..we can be great in diversity.

Back to your assertion, [s]I think south eastern will suffer more if we disintegrate simply because the region is too overcrowded and lacks meaningful arable land for agricultural productivity[/s]

you need the North as much as the North need the south for access to the sea

stop talking nansense!!
no matter how much gold and silver a place has,if the human capital isn't developed, then that place is as good as backward. despite for example the lack of oil in the Jewish state, Israel has the highest standard of living in the near East.
Igbo land is blessed with human capital development so she can stand alone..with our ports like PH and bonny on the bonny river;opobo and ibaka on the Imo river nothing can stop our growth.
lemme tell you, its stup1d to continue living the British dream when its evident that its no longer useful to us

is that guy still disturbing??
for clarity purposes, the script nsibiri is an Edzhaagham creation... purportedly taught them by Adakas(baboons).I don't know why that mgboko who probably has never left kalabar would be causing nuisance here.the developer is doing it for the benefit of Igbo land..but that doesn't mean it could be used solely by the Igbos. it could be used to create an nsibirosphere ,an area where the Igbo, mgboko, ejaagham and other nations in the cross river basin would use the modern script to enhance cultural exchanges and polyglottism.
I hereby call on the Igbo language committee in Enugwu to provide the necessary support the developer needs and it ensure its adopted as our concurrent lingual script with Latin

waternogetemeny:
Just a little move and Ibeto will up-stage Dangote. We got that move, my Brothers let us work as a team again.


Igbo Kwenu! Anambra Kwenu, Abia Kwenu, Imo Kwenu, Enugu Kwenu, Ebonyi Kwenu, Anioma Kwenu!


Igbo Kwenu! igbo kwezonu!



GEJ TILL 2019

we MUST never leave the western Igbos behind

macof:
True but the differences are much more than the similarities. Efik/ibibio is one culture, Igbo is another
And Nsibidi has it's origin in the Efik/Ibibio Ekoi/Ejaagham culture

it belongs to them and not Mgbokos...it doesn't mean anything in mgboko but means cruel writings in ekoi.the cross river Igbos borrowed it from the ekois,renamed it to nsibiri and spread throughout the cultural area called ALA IGBO

Herald47:
please don't get it twisted,nsibidi was originated by the aros(igbo),efik,ibibio,ejagham and some of the other ethnic groups in cross river state,so don't link it to rivers state

don't mind him..telling lies when the andonis knew nothing else apart from canoe making. the nsibiri is peculiar to the Igbo, mgboko and Ejaagham peoples... nations of the cross river basin.

nakamora:
Don't be deceived 40% of the population in IMO,Anambra,Ebony,Abia & Enugu are non-Yiibos.Yiibos population in other zones is insignificant, besides they will all return to the SE during election.Any effort spent on them will yield an insignificant result. Even GEJ has just realised this, so he is trying to use few anti-yoruba/gluttons to gather few votes from undescerned electorates.

products of Nigeria's failed system

OboloMAN:
We are not against the Development Of the Nsibidi, the only issue is how it is been projected as an Igbo ideology.
We applaud the guy doing this project, if he really wants to develop the Nsibidi he should come south and learn from the custodians of the Original undiluted Nsibidi which are currently the Ekpe Societies of the Efiks and Ofiokpo Societies of the Obolos(Andonis).

By so doing we will welcome his project the same way we welcomed english. It is only Myopic to brand the Nsibidi an Igbo Initiative.

story !!
the owners of nsibidi are the EJAAGHAM.
miss meiya,which ethnic nation are you from?

notobs:
This is the problem of Igbo people - longer throat! since when did igbos practice Ekpe? Nsibidi is the language of Ekpe. and Ekpe only exist with the Efiks of cross river and ibibios of Akwa Ibom. You can only decieve those who are not in the know.

You cannot steal a people culture no matter how much you try Ekpe and its sacred practice and Unique language Nsibidi has existed for centuries and will outlive this usless revisionist, Igbo people have not yet learnt their lesson on overextending their reach,This was why the civil war was truncated because of the over grab of the igbos!

this is pure unbridled jealousy from mgboko peeps!!the script belongs to the ejagham who called it nsibidi.the Igbos adopted it and called theirs NSIBIRI.
let the guy finish developing the script for Igbo and the Igbo language committee in Enugwu adopts it as a concurrent script to Latin, I'd now see what you'd do.
I don't know why so why some people when they hear anything about Igbos, their ears stand at attention!!

saaedlee:
My Friend stop decieving yourself, Nsibidi has its heritage from "efikekoi" and not Igbo

better

ikweremilitant:
if you are senseable you wil nt pray 4 gej to die.cos we can nt guarantee a free country if that happans.

eww nwannem m onwem achoghi ka o nwuo mana ihe onye amuma YHWH kwuru gbasara oga Yona edochaghi anya..seriously I'd prefer the cesspit breaking up to the 4 winds than oga Jona kicking the bucket.
the next thing am waiting for is an allied invasion of northern Nigeria on the pretext of curbing BH

OP its very essential you find your roots kos just like a plant,anybody without roots can't grow.
Igbos as a nation are tied to the land that's why no matter where they go,they come at certain/specific periods to pay homage to the land.
and moreover from your post it seems you're eyeing the babe for nuptial things.. so better pay attention to omenala and odinaala things

bitterpenis:
Some prophecies have come to pass but I don't understand "if Jonathan goes ahead to contest he will be president but he will not finish is term" Jonathan will survive impeachment" "president Jonathan is the last PDP president" "APC will claim victory but the court will give it to Jonathan" why are the prophesies conflicting on Jonathan?

it simply means that Jonathan would die before his 2nd term expires and just like Alexander the great, his party PDP would weaken till its destroyed and taken over by a new party.
it can also mean Jonathan would resign and hand over power to an interim/military govt.this is the milder form...
choose anyone.. history merely repeats itself

Slonge2:
first of all, i assumed you were igbo because the line you used is a trademark line used by the igbo bigots on this platform.

Also, we don't love the hausa's, we're just looking after our interest. You know that, the long standing bickering and animosity between we and the igbos cant seem to make us agree on anything, and majority of the SS are cultural and socially more related to the igbos than us, so if we form an alliance with the rest of the south and our relationship with the SE deteriorates, there is a high probability that the SS and SE will liaise against us thereby leaving us to roast both politically and influence wise.

then its expedient you stop bickering with the Igbos so that the south can be united once more or better still ask to be included in the north so that the real south knows how many they're

Niger delta is simply bayelsa,rivers and delta and the main ethnicities there are Ijo,Igbo and urobo/isoko.any other state or ethnicity claiming ND is there for the money

Igbos are spread over Nigeria,Kamerun,Equatorial Guinea and Gabon but I don't think that's our biz
OP how oga Bongo matter take consign you?