₦airaland Forum

ThatFairGuy1:
Lopsidedness.

Thank God your senses were returned to you enough to modify and delete the rubbish statement you made about Igbos being leeches.

When we say most Nigerians hate Igbos but pretentiously act otherwise, you call it victim's mentality, how did this harmless and unrelated statistic become centered on Igbos ? I guess you have a simple mind well let me inform you.

The statistics didn't report that Yorubas in Lagos generated this or Fulanis in Kano generated that. It gave figures of which a lot of human factors contributed to. Even in Lagos, Dangote Group owned by a Northerners generates the Lion's share of the plate.

SE having a relatively lower IGR isn't tantamount to parasitism because there is no proven correlation in that regard. And this status is resultant to numerous factors including corruption, prevalent business model in the region, low compliance amongst others.

To conclude, every state in that list aside Lagos , receives more from the FG than it generates, making them all leeches (in your context) , some bigger leeches than the rest (likely where you categorize).

I firmly believe that if some states in SE begin to collect the FG's share of revenue, a handout won't be necessary because I clearly remember a time when Anambra was the only state operating on zero debt.

Modrov:
Why did Wike sack the contractors collecting waste?

Nigeria governments are always trying to cut costs in the wrong places. Instead of cutting costs from the top of society, politicians salaries and superfluous agencies they rather take food out from the mouth of the bottom of society

Moferere:
Should we (Yoruba) because of our affiliations with Warri Kingdom say that Delta belongs to the Yoruba nation?

Illiterate Peoples of Biafra (IPoBs) over to you.

Ooboyy you sound bitterred and baterred. What is Delta but a geopolitical creation of the hijacked Nigerian FG. Who is making claims Ijaws or their land or any one else, are they property to own ?
What Igbos will never ceases to insist is that we are of the same stock with certain groups in Delta State with certainty e.g Anioma and the feeling is mutual.

You can go ahead and cry on the mountains but I know the average Yoruba man dreads, the unity and rise of the old Eastern region, certain enough to displace and offset the status quo with Lagos and SW in general. Sorry.

Gettat

OfoIgbo:
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BKayy
bobowaja

Here is yet another attachment from Dr. Balfour Baikie's book

Let us hope they don't ban me now.

His types are deficient in History.

bobowaja:
The issue of opobo and bonny people should be laid to rest. It belongs to the Ijaws.

First before you shout Yoruba awedu eating afonja, you should understand I am a full blooded Yoruba man. No need to remind me.

Secondly, I love history and I won't like seeing revisionists articles flying everywhere on the forum.

To the matter. I think ijaws are to be blamed for this flaw. They broke the first rule of survival which is self preservation.

There is something called acculturation in their culture. It is an act of baptizing of stranger into their folds. And in this case, pepple house, which was the ruling house.

Opobo was acculturised into Ijaw way of life and made to benefit from the house inheritance.

According to town culture, heritage is not by birthrights but by who is capable to rule the house. Jaja was capable, though there was a in-house civil war when he was made to rule the house, but he won decisively. This marks the beginning of his exploits.

The Ijaws followed him as their ruler. And during the palm oil boom (palm oil also known and red oil). Jaja has already taken control of the water ways and creeks for trading with the Europeans (his sagacity and business acumen can't be overruled). This sole act gave him some form of monopoly over the new trade in the creeks, he was the sole exporter to the UK in rivers while still maintaining holds on who trades what along the water ways with other European countries. He was wealthy so does the city he built from the ijaw followers.

A source from premiumtimes: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/155532-general-minimah-opobo-ancestry-burden-history-eric-teniola.html

This will later put him into trouble with the Queen, as the UK was so greedy to the extent that she wanted to trade directly with the merchants which they did after sentencing jaja to banishment in Accra (present day Ghana). Jaja himself was instrumental in conquering Ashanti forces (but let's not deviate from the topic).

The palm oil boom brought about large numbers of Igbo in the hinterlands into bonny (it must be corrected that though some were slaves but most Igbos that came during the oil boom were free born not slaves). They came with their cultures and way of lives in such numbers that threatened the indigenous people. Instead of ijaw to take control, they decided to hide some vital part of the community from them like languages etc... But this backfires as Igbo became the largest spoken language in the area in just matter of years (the indigenous people also adopted the language).

Another source (oral interview): http://asirimagazine.com/en/opobo-chronicles-from-genesis-to-revelation/

It should be noted that this is not the first time indigenous people will adopt other people's language, clothings, names and other cultural values. Example is Akoko Edo in present day Edo state. Most of the towns and villages are very fluent in Yoruba language, they adopted the Yoruba language and some part of cultures. Even some of their towns have Yoruba names, but they are not Yoruba - they are edoic group. Another example is ijaw in present day ondo state. Most of them speak Yoruba fluently and adopt the names, typical one is Omoyele Sowore.... He is an ijaw man who could be mistaken for a Yoruba man. Apart from those, there are some far Edo towns in etsako east local govt like okpella etc that have Yoruba names and also speak the language fluently, that doesn't make them Yoruba. The current ruling house in Ilorin all bears Yoruba name and speak Yoruba fluently, that doesn't make them Yoruba... They are Fulanis! The itsekiri adopted their clothings from Bini, that doesn't make them one.

The point I am trying to make here is that, people adopting your language, name and culture doesn't change them from who they were... Their identities will still remain intact as their genetical makeup.

Even an heavily biased igbodefender blog here admitted one truth which agreed to heavy migration of Igbo to the ijaw owned town.

Source: https://igbodefender.com/2016/05/16/more-facts-emerge-that-opobo-and-bonny-people-are-mostly-igbo/

To that boy that said he wanted to cry when he heard people speaking Igbo fluently in bonny, you have tears in your eyes. Language is for communication. If bonny is located in the north, they will speak Hausa fluently. In Southern Kaduna alone, there are more than 20 tribes. All of them speak Hausa but still retain their cultural identities.


I am done. You are opened to bash me, but make sure you bring evidences of opposing views. Insults alone won't do the trick.

I don't know what concerns a distant Yoruba man with the happenings and politics of sister states, all once under the old eastern region.

It will interest you to note that the native language of the opobo people is Igbo language with dialectic differences as nuanced as anambra Igbo or ikwerre Igbo.
This is far different from the case of Ijaws living in Yoruba but integrate with the culture. Rather the opobo people are relatively distanced from the core igbo states yet the identity and cultural heritage is preserved.

I have discerned the problem of the average Yoruba bigot. He ( bigot ) fears the rise of the old eastern region area in all ramifications most especially a united political front. This phobia is understandable because their little show organised and hosted in Lagos ( extrapolated to the rest of SW ) as a compensation from the Northern hijacked FG will come to an abrupt end/decline.

Cry on even more than the bereaved but do so at the risk of your own sanity.

Patrioticman007:
Na dem, Dotians..... & fraud are 5 & 6........very soon they will turn it to tribal war, because the criminal is Igbo, that's why they freezed his 19 Billion, forgetting that the fraud money was stolen from, the tribes of the zoo.

Oboyye naso e dey pain you. If you prefer call us bandits, hoodlums, ritualists, those of us with our sane minds and unapologetic spirit ( fortunately a majority by pedigree) will still reject and denouce what is going on in this illconceived contraption.
Crime is ubiquitous and if you fail to see this then you have been defeated by your bigotry. Shame on you

thebosstrevor1:
I have come to realise that it is only Christians and Christian nations that always provoke muslims.

Many Christians know that muslims have their own rules and way of life, their is the sharia law, sharia education and sharia banking, infact Islam is a way of life for muslims, many Christians know that but they will always find a way to promote choas and cause conflict by interfering with Islamic traditions and way of life.

I have never met any muslim that will talk bad about Jesus christ or even try to burn the bible but it is Christians that will try to draw Mohammed picture in a scandalous way to provoke the muslims, burn the bible or talk bad about Mohammed wives, when muslims called them out, they will hide their bigotry and hate under freedom of speech to protect their provoking attitude. Even here on nairaland, you will see anti islam monikers all over the place but you will never see a muslim deface christian dieties, Some of them do it purposely to cause chaos and see the reaction of muslim because they know that muslims are emotional and devoted to their religion.

Another instance is, it is the Christian nation that will invade muslim countries and start preaching democracy to them, when they know, democracy has no relation with the principles of leadership in Islam. As a guise, the Christian nation will steal their oil, put tribes against each other and then kill their children, sisters, brothers , mothers and fathers with bombs, when the muslims organize and decides to fight back, they are called Terrorists.

Many Christians know that Saudi Arabia is the holy land of Muslims and that there are certain way which they behave with their women, men and society at large but the Christians will find a way to provoke the people by fighting for so called women right, human right and trying to cause choas even when the muslim society is at peace with it.

The truth is that you will never see a muslim country trying to influence western way of life but anyway the wars created by the Christian countries in muslim countries is already bringing about subtle muslim influences in western culture. immigration of muslim people from war torned muslim countries to western countries is already culturally and politically changing the west.

Please tell me why the first successors of Muhammad fought amongst themselves. What provoked them then ? It is their barbaric, wary and intolerant lifestyle/religion

thebosstrevor1:
Abeg...i am tired of reading trash.

A 15 years old in the western world has a prototype of his working project.

While one 15 years old in Nigeria put cardboard together, painted it and he is called a tech genius.

Is this not what people do in art class everyday.

The guy is not an engineering talent but an artist and nothing special in what he did.

Please watch the video before bragging in ignorance, the young boy with no formal education made a moving miniature car with sliding seats and doors and a remote controller. If you ever acheived such technical skills without an academic certification then go ahead and rant otherwise stick to your place, a bitter adult envious of a young prodigy or perhaps you're a bigot.