₦airaland Forum

shizzle11:
We are cool bruv. Truth is people like him have natural phoebia for the SE, dont let his offensive comment get to you to an extent that you make uncontrolled emotional outburts, else you will help him achieve his aim. From the tone of his voice you can sence his attacks stems from his frustration and pain against the Igbos and does not represent the opinion of the Ukwuani people.

Thank you bruv. Its only wise to be careful with people like that dolt who have sinister motives of creating divisions among Igbos in the south East and Igbos outside the SE. Such is their grand plot for making such divisive utterances. Wisdom demands that we should be mindful of how we interprete and react to their comments so as not to fall for their bait, bearing in mind that his myopic and warped opinion is just a personal one cos he is speaking only for himself. Also not forgeting that the real enemies of Ndigbo (yo....) are listening, lurking by the corner waiting to taunt us and make jest of us with their usual gabbage like 'your brothers are denying you bla...bla...'thereby encouraging people like him.

I am not disputing that the fool is an Ndokwa/ukwuani person cos the truth is that there are a few sell outs like him who will always exhibit their iddioccy and stewpidity which is in their nature. Good enough thou, his ilks represent only a minute population and at the end of the day their opinion will not count when it matters.

@Emmysoftyou, you have spoken well. Those who truly know where they belong will not deny their allegience, not minding the senselessness and inane utterances of an irritating few. Those people you mentioned truly know they are and where they belong unlike for some confused fool who decided he prefers to be suffering from identity crises.

in my place you are the type that we call the son of his father...when a man is called the son of his father its an honor and i think you deserve that title....you made sense ab initio and you still make sense now


but our people also said that one finger that dips hand into palm loil touches the whole community. yes you might be the true son of ukwuani but these bastards like victor is a disgrace and the annoying thing is that the other tribes sees him as igbo..thereby tagging everybody from there confused...


my brother,ezigbo ogo m your on the right path

AndreUweh:
Ukwuani, Ukwuala, Ukwuana, Ukwuali etc is no other group than Igbo.
In the formation years of Igbo Union, Ukwuani leaders such as Hon Frank Oputa and Hon Oki played active roles in this organisation. The Ukwuani then clearly identified with their Igbo kins.
  The Nigerian crisis of the late sixties did not help matters. Some began to question their Identities, others came up with ideas of making Ukwuani a distinct ethnic group,  while some still maintained their Igboness.
  But lately Igbo consciousness is high in Ukwuani areas. It is interesting to note that at the last Ohanaeze organised Igbo day in Owerri 2009, most of their Obis were in attendance. I have also seen increasing numbers of Ukwuanis here in Nairaland identify as Igbo or Delta Igbo.

Now , on the reasons why the Benins donot have a record of Ezechime , there are many possible reasons for that. In those days many people fled from Benin and it was not possible for the Benin people themselves to keep tract of people who left there. The Ezechime group was just one out of so many emigrations from the city. Another reason was the crime Ezechime was accused of. He was said to have assaulted the Oba's mother who had trampled on his farmland. You cant expect the Benin people to remember such an event considering the kind of glorification they give the Oba and members of the royal family.
ON THE USE OF " UMU ''
The prefix " Umu " was after assimilation. It was not as if they were known by that prefix from the beginning. It was just a natural process of evolution from Edo speaking to Igbo speaking. Even in Agbor , the Obis come from a community with the same prefix. All Obis come from Ogbe Umudein. The title of Dei is definitely not of Benin origin. All these come to show that our people despite the Benin origin of many of them became Igbo speaking with time. It will also become more Igbo sounding because it will more convenient for such descendants to pronounce it as such. Amongst the Umuakashiada, the name would would have probably come from Akasiada which is Edo sounding. Also donot forget that later Igbo groups began to settle with them such as the Asaba people in Ezionum and the Awkuzu people in Obiaruku.

BUT PLEASE WAIT A MINUTES, LETS BE VERY LOGICAL HERE...WHERE DO UKWUANI SPEAK IGBO AND USE IGBO TERMS LIKE UMU AND EZE AND YET THE CLAIM BENIN BUT I AM YET TO FIND ANY BENIN LINGUA FRANCA IN THERE, THANK LORD I HEAR BENIN A BIT DUE TO MY SOURJOURN THERE AND MY WIFE IS UKWUANI BORN IN BENIN ALSO ...NOW WHY IS THERE NO BENIN LINGUA FRANCA IN UKWUANI, CAN SOMEONE TELL ME ONE, THAT WILL BE A POINTER TO THEIR BENIN ANCESTORY


NOW AFRIKAANS SPEAK A KIND OF DUTCH IN SOUTH AFRICA, THEY ARE DUTCH SETLLERS THAT INTER MARRIED AND YOU WILL SEE THAT IN THEIR LANGUAGE ...THATS IS A FACT.... AND WE ARE TALKING CONTINENTS AWAY NOT POLES AWAY LIKE BENIN UKWUANI

NOW LOOK AT AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEA;AND THEY HAVE ENGLISH SETTLERS AND MOST ARE FELONS THOUGH, YOU CAN SEE THE DISTANCE YET THEY SPEAK ENGLISH,

NOW IN EQUITORIAL GUINEA YOU HAVE IGBO THAT MIGRATED THERE CENTURIES AGO EITHER VIA SLAVERY OR BUSINESS THATS WHY YOU GET SOME PARTS OF EQUITORIAL GUINEA SPEAKING IGBO

NOW GO TO AMERICAS YOU WILL SEE YORUBAS AND IGBO DECIENDANTS THAT HAVE IGBO AND YORUBA CULUTURE AND YOU WILL SEE A MIX OF THAT IN THE LINGUA LIKE ORISHA FOR THE BRAZILLIANS ETC AND IN CUBA AND AMERICAS U GET PLACES THAT IS CALLED ISUQUATO AND OTHER IGBO VILLAGE NAMES, THOSE ARE AVAILABLE TILL TOMORROW


NOW WHY IS UKWUANI CASE SO DIFFERENT..I AM DEEPLY SO ASHAMED OF THESE UKWUANI PEOPLE, NOT THAT THEY ARE OF ANY IMPORTANCE BUT THE FACT THAT THEY ARE DISGRACING THOSE THAT BEAR OUR NAMES AND CULTURE,

NOW BENIN IS JUST POLES APART FROM UKWUANI YET YOU CAN NOT SEE BENIN CULTURE, LANGUAGE OR IDEOSYNCRACIES IN UKWUANI, WHAT DOES THIS LET YOU KNOW

SOMEBODY IS EITHER LYING OR FOOLING HIMSELF HERE...

AS I SAID BEFORE



LET THE KING OF ABOH,AGBOR OR UKWUANI COME OUT AND SAY THEY ARE N IGBO, THEN WE WILL THEN TREAT THEM AS STRANGERS AMONGST US BUT THE KINGS KNOW THE TRUTH SO THEY ARE SILENT

NO WONDER IT IS SAID THAT EMPTY VESSELS MAKES NOISE

Why are we making this an issue ..I personally married and ukwuani lovely babe and during the track we never had issues with language just us ndi onu nuo that's the term for whole igboid group are the same

When their traditional rulers or Eze comes and tell us that they are not igbos then I can take them serious but none has come out

So who am I to believe these urchins and never do wells here

Now go and weed your marijuana farm

Ndi ogo m

Blackvampire:
Hey am from ukwuani a ..and my father said am delta igbo..we even have an obi in my town ..obi of etoi..utag bunor...i don't knw why some of my people like living in denial...when ever i travell to the west or the middle belt part of nigeria am always called an igbo person...we are even fighting for anioma state self

Its only an ignorant child points to the fathers house with left hand

My brother you have spoken well and look well at those ukwuani claiming Hausa they are sons of exiled felons from Benin land

The snake child will always be crawling you know

Now fuccckk offf

pweetyz:
Uhmm..hi nl ladies..something's been bothering me for a while now and i want to get it off my chest
do you all throw up on the first day of your period or am i the only one experiencing this??
this started when i was 13..on the day i see my period..i'd throw up a little..i didn't have period cramps then though

fastforward to last year..i started having severe period cramps and would throw up every thing i eat on that day..the pain only reduces when i throw up..if i don't eat anything..the pain would be so bad and i'd keep trying to throw up out of reflex buh nothings gonna come out till i eat something
don't know what caused this sudden transformation..its so bad as i have to throw up at least 3 or 4 times
was wondering if this is unique to me or if others out there experience it too
i'm 16 now bdw

thanks

Your just approach menopause ..early menopause so try born kids

.heed to my advice and thank me later

How can this man insult yorubas calling their gods dirty and then barbarian ..I don't want to talk about the minorities there cos they re insignificant


Well let's watch and see

naijaking1:
Foo.oolish and ignorant southerners and christians like me who think Aliyu Gwarzo is not smart should have their own thinking checked for accuracy, because for all I know and see, the man said it like it is. Truth hurts, and yes it does.

Gowon and other northern Christians who have been used by the caliphate for years now agree that Igbos are not the enemy after their own communities have been attacked by the same people who see no reason for their(northern Christians) existence.

All we can say to them and yorubas is good morning

That's all

thewarrior72:
;Lol Abokii fulani calling another tribe barbarians...what an irony


Anyways my question is, what stopped usman dan fodio from exten his jihadism to southeast?

Because igbos are no push covers ask British the wars the fought and how the suffered heavy causality is itvtge aro wars or ekumeku war... maybe read things fall apart to understand Igbo man and lately Biafra war..igbos will fight to finish

British declared indirect rule cos they couldn't rule igbos directly
Nigeria declared no Victor no vanquished otherwise animosities and hostilities will commence

That's Igbo man for you

And beside that we have natural buffers from north first the igalla then Benue so you need to cross these by then we are ready

That's igbos for you

Delta Igbo talk with one voice ...you people shouldn't look at the confused ukwuani people they will flow your ambitions down

I think okowa will make a good governor he isn't confused

You have used your mouth to spell doom for the marriage you have not entered advise is don't bother go. And look for another man simple

He ain't yours

What is wrong with these girls. ..everything foreign Brazilian hair fake breast fake labia now you want foreign wedding to jettison traditional

Keep waiting for that while menopause awaits you

Monkey

I thought that some idiots said that igbos do not have arable lands
Oil isn't good for the health after all

BankoleNco:
Hey guys,
I don't know if this is the right place to post this, but I'd go ahead and post here as it is related to health (depression).
Well, I don't want to bore you with long sermon-esque writings, so I'd skip the fancy stuff and go straight
to the point. I'd be turning 30 mid next year and its really eating me up! I feel depressed and old! Its been
giving me sleepless nights and middle of the night insomnia I wake up 4.00 am for no reason nowadays
and just stare at the ceiling lost in thought and scared as hell with thoughts of being in the twilight of my youth,
knowing I'd have to get married pretty soon, just 10 years away from 40, no more clubbing, no more spontaneous
Saturday drives. The worst part is I spent MOST of my teenage and youth life in self development and didn't have
time to indulge in some most of the activities attached to youthful exuberance.Its paid off, yes! But, I AM DEPRESSED right now!
Did any of you guys currently 30 and above experience same? Would really help if someone said something. *sigh*

Boy you don't need to worry but know at 30 you should be able to cater for yourself you should be able to have a source of income you should be able to be staying on your own ..at that age you should have marriage at your mind

Don't worry we have been there

This is the time to start planning for future

chrisbaba1:
[size=13pt]Igbo, hausa, fulani whoever. we aint praising tribes but individual heroes.[/size]

Is the Igbo minister with his technical knowledge that nipped this at the bud

I know admadmit

chrisbaba1:
[size=13pt]ANYONE WHO COMES HERE TO SAY GEJ DID IT WILL HAVE CHOLERA FOR 3 DAYS!!!!

Big ups to the doctors nd medical staff, health minister, and the Lagos state government for spearheading this fight.

big ups Nigeria[/size]

THEN GIVE IT TO THE IGBO MINISTER

AFTER THEY WILL SAY JONATHAN IS NOT WORKING, WHERE ARE THOSE NEGATIVE MINDED APC... NITWITS

JONATHAN, I GIVE YOU THE CREDIT,
ENEMIES VAN DO THE NEEDFUL, WHICH IS JUST GO AND DIE

ekumeku1914:
Please why all these insults because of identity. we need to learn to respect one another because respect is reciprocal. If the Aniomas or ukwuanis or ndokwas say they are not Igbo, the Igbo must respect their choice and move on. You cant force people to follow you. Spanish and portuguese and Catalonians are a bit mutually comprehensible but do not insist on being the same. The same with german and dutch, and all Scandinavians. This doesn't mean that the ukwuani people do not have love for the igbos or feel closer to them than other peoples. They grew up side by side and are cousins regardless but that does not make Ukwuani Igbo as that does not make Igbo Ukwuani.

This is where you get it wrong ...Spanish Portuguese and catalonians are classified as Latin but for modern useage they are called Iberians ..have you ever heard that word

Finland Norway and Iceland with Sweden are just Scandinavians

Slovakia Romania Poland Czech etc are called the Slavs

Scots Irish England and Wales are called the general name is British simple

The Ishan Benin okada etc are simply the edos we Igbo call them idu or Ado

You should try to differentiate language and dialect

A language is not in any way mutually intelligible but dialect or accent is

In dialect we have accent and regionalism

Why am I educating you anyway

Ignorance is a bliss thought

victor1464:
D aniocha/oshimili people speaks d same tongue as d igbos dats y dey r bin refered 2 as delta igbos.unlike we d ukwuanis who speaks our language in a unique way.it is d only languge we hav and we can afford to drop our languge and culture 4 dat of d igbos."d plantain remains a plantain while d bannana remains a banana",d cocount remains its identity while d palm kernel retains its identity too".I hav no doubt on some of ur proves but i will rather prefer if an igbo man is called an ukwuani man..we d ukwuanis must preserve our history,language and culture.ukwuani is not igbo or DELTA IGBO...even d ekpeyes,ikwerre,ogbia people dont agree dat word..If d word "igbo" means somtin good in igbo language,d ukwuani people rebukes d word because it means somtin bad in our language meanin "slaves". Ukwuani is a tribe take it or live it...... i hav no doubt on some of u proves anyway.i know dat ukwuani language is more linguistically similar 2 Igbo language dan d Edo language just as we hav in any other part of nigeria & d world. The igala language is similar to yoruba but dat dosn't make dem yoruba..althoug there r still some edo words in ukwuani language if u dont know dis.
One tin dat baffles me most is dat d igbos regects bini orgin but d other igboid tribes such as Ukwuani,ika,ekpeye,ogba,and ikwerre people hav it in their history,tradition and folklore dat dey originated 4rm d bini empire..dis simply mean dat both d igbos too r 4rm d bini origin.y r igbos denyin it?? Dis is to tell u dat dis igboid tribes r d real people.d igbos want to impose themselves on us because we r d minority tribes.we cant let dat happen..i hav observed it dat d igbo man hates a bini man.im sure its because of d way dat dey were being maltreated by d anciet bini empires because igbos r very arrogant.dey dont respect peoples opinion.dats one problem wit dem.....;. we d igboids still trace our route 2d bini origin weda they like it or not. I wonda y d igbos r still denying..we d utagba people who r d major clan in NDOKWA land dont hav our history linked or traced to dat of d igbos. we r d core ukwuani people who know our origin..unless those of d late immigrants who settled around d river banks and speak more of igbo...anyway d anioma people r like bothers and sisters no doubt and no one can seperate us....d igbos must accept d bini origin.dats d only way dat we can unite ourselves ..tnks mr.enuani

Ukwuani is not Igbo but please you have made yourself defender of the identity crises now help us cos we are confused here

What is the meaning of ukwuani
What do you call God
What do you call come go then what do you calk land ..what do you call king ..what do you call woman ..what do you call plate ..what do you call food ..what do you call goat fowl etc ...what do you call plate yam cassava corn

I will be interested to know the word for masqurade etc

I will be interested to learn the language

They are not igbos I agree but can you tell me the ukwuani language of these things..then we can proceed accordingly

Ukwuani 101

victor1464:
We d Ukwuanis will neva accept Igbo or delta igbo as our ethnicity.if an ukwuani man wants to bcome a president of Nigeria 2day,it is d same igbos dat will pull him down and say dat he's a deltan & not a true igbo..we d Ukwuani people who ar d largest in anioma region of delta state hav our own seperate Ethnic identity as Ukwuani/ndokwa.it is different 4rm d igbo ethnicity.we hav will carry our destiny in our own hands by ourselvs.our history is as old as d igbo history.SO U IGBOS CAN GO 2 HELL!!!

You no due rest..you have made your point then let others say what you are .. don't be the butterfly that assumes that its a bird .. its no problem but other tribes knows the Igbo

Let me give you a true life story

I met my wife when we I was in Benin and I have never heard of ukwuani and they call it kwale...thought its one funny growl group of people but when we started dating she told me her name was ngozi I was like maybe her mum was Igbo so I let go..she was pretty I must say and she is still pretty... but my urhobo friend a woman Mama Ochuko wanted me to date her daughter possibly marry her but u know we igbos never loved that idea but still didn't know that my wife was Igbo cos we used yo speak English then ..mama Ochuko told me that you left my daughter cos she is urhobo to marry your Igbo sister

I told her that she is kwale I just love her..she said that kwale are igbos and the real name is ukwuani then I was in my mid twenties maybe 25..then to be sure I started speaking Igbo to my girlfriend then she started speaking Igbo also...note this is in Benin far away from Igbo land ..I noticed that she speaks exactly like uguta.. been brought up in IMO state I came to know various dialects from IMO.I asked my uguta friend does he know ukwuani he categorically told me that ukwuani and guitar are kins

Since then we have been best of friends we got married and I have never regretted my ogume beauty just that they plant weed so much and isoko mentality is making ukwuani very complacent but they are Igbo..from our traditional marriage its exactly the same with ours we do not need an interpreter for us to make love

My dear you might say you are not Igbo that's understandable cos there is some immigrants and exiled Benin felons that was exiled to ukwuani and they have the right to say that but do not say all..cos I have seen tons and tons of ukwuani that say they are Igbo here in Lagos . They call them omo Igbo they don't object
.my best neighbour is obiaruku man he doesn't say he isn't Igbo same with ojugbele and oputa....

Its not me that will say your either Igbo or Hausa but other tribes will remind you that

Alusi mee any how agwa ya osisi ejiri pia ya.. that's an Igbo proverb in IMO dialect

Pls note that we have many Igbo dialect

Do you know that we have igbos in cross river state..the present governor of that state is from Igbo cross river imoke and sunny nneji also but you won't see him disclaim that do you know we have igbo in akwa income also...what about Benue

Igbo is an ethnicity not a tribe ..ukwuani Nnewi etc are tribes under Igbo nation or ethnicity

So your free to claim British but remember talk for yourself not for others

When the king of aboh or Eze ukwuani comes out to say they are not Igbo then I can believe you..these ate the custodians of culture not you

You are nobody so your submissions are nothing

Try and be somebody so that you can be taken seriously

That's my submission

phenom666:
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Nwanne madu... Onye Amichi ka mbu

My other moniker is tonychristopher

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Xetima:
Guy, you must not use such words to describe a people. However, like someone asserted, be careful when dealing with the Yoruba man. If possible do not take action before he does. They are good at betraying to show their loyalty. I will stop there and just wish GMB goodluck.

My brother we know them and we igbos nor any other tribes in south will severe work with them they are just bunch if betrayals

Even everyday I see it in real life ..if I start telling you stories about their betrayals

Look at tinubu
Then look at Kayode fan I

So many ..they are always known to talk with both sides of their mouth

That's cowardice

Bankole01:
It is this same Awo who is so respected by many that Obasanjo ridiculed saying he wanted to be president so much it eluded him. Obasanjo and PDP even went as far as pulling down his statue in Ibadan.

20 years after the death of the great sage, people still have nothing but good things to say about him.
Obasanjo is still fighting with his ghost, trying to be relevant. what a shame on the evil one

Why do you call somebody that commuter suicide sage why do you call somebody that is treacherous sage ..do you know the meaning of sage

Obasanjo was correct in his action.
Has his widow died

SLIDEwaxie:
we're sorry abt that. We simply didn't engage in various crimes as you people such that free money could be expended anyhow. Hard earned money will be never expended anyhow you wish.

Go to Marina and tell that to marines

pentagonal:
senselessness is the only hereditary trait pass around in your lineage. you godforsaken waste of conception. pray, tell us about the protest up north. only uncivilized village goat like you ignore nationalistic duties for primordial reasons. the house wanna know how the subsidy contribution sky rocket from some millions to well above trillions in less than year. only brainless doofus losers like y'all animals will keep mute at that brazen stupidity.

Tell me the truth do you know your father
Oh does your mum know who gave her belle ..that's a rarity in your place

No wonder you can not prove me wrong

Can you decompose please

Collynzo26:
Tony Christopher

Who is this one

Bounce

superstar1:
Y

See this loud mouth flat.head.

Were you able to dominate minority tribes just beside you, talkless of your masters -- yorubas.

We are your Lords and you and will remain our slaves, toiling with your blood and sweat for us.

Please go tell your people that they shouldn't be begging me money for parties and faji as they stupidly call it

Don't you people have shame you ask and beg strangers money for party ...money I go use do better thing ..I will give it loud mouthed rascal women

Mtchewwww

So who is on top
This last week I can't even count how many begged me money

You will see an old woman calling me uncle so as to give her money for party
.what a shameless people

Boy run do owo mi DA joor