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Often and on you keep hearing most ladies nowadays giving themselves the title of being a FEMINIST... I believe this term is being abused currently buy incorporating foreign beliefs that can cause break down of our African family values and result crisis that will never augur well with African conservative society... Am an advocate for women's right and equality but also an ardent believer in gender roles as nature meant it yo be.. So it bothers me so much when current understanding of feminism by most ladies dt consider themselves enlightened, to be meaning that gender roles such as changing of diaper, cooking and other house chores can be done by any partner... Dis is appalling and connotes a serious breach in our African family values and society at large... Our women should desist from this, that it subsists in American and Britain doesn't me it can subsists here cos our both cultures and values are way too different.

Whatever he is or believe, is in his pocket ...i only kno when the chips are down the chicken must come yo Roost...

ruggedized1:
You don't seems to get the point. Igbo is Igbo from Anambra to Enugu to Imo to Abia to Ebonyi to Asaba etc but the point I am making is that Anambra on it's own is a monolithic state despite being an Igbo state. We still have our uniqueness in culture and language which we would not want any outsider to interfere with. Thank you

U failed again cos am an anambrarian and there is nothing so unique about us that makes us more special than other igbos of any extraction.... Keep fooling urself thinking u can divide Pple united by God... U will find out as a loser that u have been boxing a bag of nails... U can only try... Gudluck in ur fool Hardy adventure... Dis will be my last audience to u.

Ruggedized and OMANBALA congrats u guys tried but you failed woefully cos we igbos we know who we are... We are one indivisible Pple bonded by blood, language and culture and above all brotherly love...

Tell your benefactors and sponsors that the adventure they sent u guys on was a fool hardy one and has met a dead end... Igbo will flourish wether in IMO, Anambra, Ebonyi , Enugu,cross river, delta or even Edo... We r one Pple and no Bini illegal immigrant can Arrow our oneness.... Congrats once again cos u failed

[/quote][quote author=gerg post=54321726]Yes. HASTY SPECULATIONS. Everything about the Igbos is hasty speculation. History to the Igbos is about speculations, postulations and theorems. Propapanga, lies, fabrications and concoctions. Facts means nothing to you guys.

Please read well I never said hasty SPECULATION rather hasty CONCLUSION. I did the honourable thing by acknowleging am wrong at that. But the fact is that you are blinded by your no just course Hatred for Igbos... And in the process u see yourself as the mouthpiece of Ika pple and therefore anyone that dispute u becomes a history distorter, fabricator, concoter and propagandist...

You talked about fact and which I believe u know but chose to be blind to it.. Ika Pple as is very well known has Pple of Bini and Igbo origins... And the former being settlers who are fleeing the harsh Benin empire and therefore seeked asylum among the Igbo speaking aboringes of present day ika areas... That assimilation of words across the two Pple happen over years does not mean that every ika person was once a Bini person who got igbonised along the line.. Dt sounds so funny and the argument doesn't hold any water even to the lamest individual... I continue to ask this question how can a language influence another language and the influencing language wipes out 80 percent of the influenced language to become dominant... Dts really silly...

Most of u dt are always quick to point out dt ika is not Igbo are only the Bini settlers in ika and are distinguishable with your Bini surnames... Ika Pple with Igbo surnames even though may not be overt about being Igbo like an Anambra man will be knows in his heart dt hebis Igbo... I have one I employed recently, her surname is Mgbakor which in Igbo means "gathering" and another by name ijeamaka which means "beautiful journey"... They are from Agbor and I converse in Igbo with them even though one can clearly see Thr central Igbo isn't so refined but that is understandable because of Thr long distance proximity from the main Igbo cluster of southeast.. But the fact remains that we understand what each other is saying! Most of u ika of Bini origins knows all dis things but chose to shut this Pple up and assimilated them into Bini fold because of Thr close proximity to Bini than igbos of southeast.

Be dt as it maybe, am not one of those who are on nairaland to do anything to convince ika Pple dt they r igbo or not... I just stated what I watched in a documentary which I now understand i misunderstood and have recalled it.. You can be whatever u want to be , it can't stop igbos from moving forward...

[/quote][quote author=OMANBALA1 post=54324463]Guy, lets get one thing straight before we can move forward. Rule number one, don't accuse me wrongly. Number two,speak with facts and dont make things up, I hate misinformation and the last part is why I confronted you.

Yes, I am from Anambra and from the lineage on Ụmụnri and that makes me very passionate about Ọmanbala the home of all Ụmụnri and our brothers scattered all over Igbo land.
I didn't come here to cause division but I can't sit while people miseducate and misinform people. If you are not sure of what you are talking about then you need to ask questions, instead of mixing up everything, thereby misinforming the onlookers.

Guy before I reply to ur gibberish I want to make it crystal clear to u dt u r not in any position to say which rules subsists here or which every post that lacks fact...
Just like I said initially u lack manners of a good debater and in blinded haste to uplift the NRI Hegemony and supremacy u becomes so irrational...mind you don't hide behind ur device and think everybody is ur younger sibling u can bully into agreeing with every of ur whims and caprice... Dt u r from umunri doesn't give u more authority or knowledge of Anambra Pple in general not to talk of my own town and its surroundings... I don't want to join issues with you and this will be my last reply to ur chipmunk twaddles.... I made it known in my last reply dt as geographical area widen one don't expect a dialect to still be 100 percent homogenous, for instance in Uga in Anambra bordering Akokwa in IMO they will say "Nwehi" which means "here" while in akokwa the "N" is silent making its pronouciation to be "wehi"... If one don't pay more attention in the pronouciations or if the speakers are fast one may never be able to distinguish the difference... Dis is jus one out of many differences dt comes as geographical area widens but u can't use such difference to say this areas a distinctly different and it doesn't in any way cancels or deny ur Nri dispersing claims which u r exerting much adrenalin to protect...

Don't be the reason this ikas of Bini origins come here to make mockery of us... Face the facts and leave shadows!

[/quote][quote author=gerg post=54318288]Nwawo is not from Edo neither is he an Ika man. Even after you were corrected in the other thread, being an Igbo man, you still went ahead and broadcast your lies. Igbos tell lie not because they don't know is lie, but because the derive a joy in lies and self deception. i

Sorry I retake that post, I just researched, you are correct, he us from onicha olona... I posted both same time... I came to my wrong conclusion base on the documentary the man was saying Igbo officers of Nigeria military stretching from across the Niger to igbanke in midwest WHERE HE AND SOME OF HIS COLLEAGUES ARE FROM HAD TO BACK THEIR BROTHERS FROM THE EAST... Dts how I came to that wrong Hasty conclusion but now I realise he wasn't pointing about igbanke in particular but igbo Midwest in general...

[/quote][quote author=OMANBALA1 post=54310998]Figment of your imagination.
This is nothing but stark ignorance. And I hate when ignorant people try to sound like they are informed. And why did you remove Nnewi from your imagination?

I bet you aren't from Anambra.

See the kind of rubbish division you are causing among same Pple... U simply don't know how to debate an issue... U r full of urself and very irrespectful... Am telling u about the place I come from and u want to school me about that simply because u bear Omanbala in nairaland ... In ur bid to sound credible u have only succeeded in being not difference from that ignoramus calling himself Lasgidiowner... We Anambrarians and IMO are one Pple especially us that wea formerly under old orlu zone , as geograph widens our dialect pronunciation and intonations may deviate slightly but does not garner much percentage to be said to he different from each other!

Akokwa (IMO), obodukwu (IMO) , urualla (IMO), Uga, akpo, achina ,ekwulobia, aguluzoigbo, oko, Nanka, Nkpologwu, igboukwu, ezinifitte(aguata), unubi, ekwulumili All in anmbra speak exactly same Dialect

Late colonel NWAWO from igbanke in present day Edo state in the civil war documentary after the war said dt he was in Britain undergoing military training when the war broke out and had to be summoned back to Nigeria, on his arrival he was told to take soldiers and fight against Biafra but he refused asking them how can he fight his Brothers (igbos), he was imprisoned but was later released by Biafra soldiers wen they entered Benin and he fought on the side of Biafra. In the clip he maintained dt the Igbanke Pple are a sub or a dialect of Igbo Pple and therefore Igbo... Am proud of this man, He is one of the silent Hero's of Biafra!God rest his soul

Late colonel NWAWO from igbanke in present day Edo state in the civil war documentary after the war said dt he was in Britain undergoing military training when the war broke out and had to be summoned back to Nigeria, on his arrival he was told to take soldiers and fight against Biafra but he refused asking them how can he fight his Brothers (igbos), he was imprisoned but was later released by Biafra soldiers wen they entered Benin and he fought on the side of Biafra. In the clip he maintained dt the Igbanke Pple are a sub or a dialect of Igbo Pple and therefore Igbo... Am proud of this man, He is one of the silent Hero's of Biafra!God rest his soul

[/quote][quote author=chibecan post=54282075]Lol..I am from Aguluzigbo. Same with my own dialect.
now...phaa.
here...noonwa,nkaana,nkaawa.etc.
ofo..who.
coconut..akiyiwe,okuoyiwe.
there..noohu,nooli,nkaanihi.
come here ...via noonwa,bia nkaa.
going to toilet...gbadue Ana(something like..taking a walk to the square or something like that)
If somebody asks after where you are going central Igbo is ebee ka ina-eje?,we say nnei ka ina-eje? or nnei ka I jei?
where are you from...nnei ka isi?.
central Igbo says ebea, we say McBee and so on.

Ya the whole of Aguata LGA, Nnewi south and orumba north and south LGA in Anambra, and ideato north and south, orlu all in IMO speak dt dialect...

I can understand more of ika than Ezza Dialect at first hearing even though I spent much of my childhood in Ebonyi state...

Cire80 and Favour99 ... Same indivisible person ..QED

[/quote][quote author=Favor99 post=54250436]The Ika and Ukwauni are constantly telling you you guys that there not Igbo. But you guys won't listen, you keep forcing yourselves on them even though they are telling you they're not. Just leave them be! During the Midwest invasion of the Biafra war Igbo soldiers were killing and raping hundreds and hundreds maybe in the thousands of Edo people. The Igbo soldiers indiscriminately shot and killed and abused innocent thousands of Edo civilians.

You Bini Pple I font know y u take so much pride in using lies, hypothetical lies to comfort and deceive yourselves.
Currently I have 5 Delta igbos working under me and we all converse in central Igbo here in Abuja wen is solely us and they identify with Igbo... One is kwale by name osemeke... Two are Asaba n u can't even knw until they tel u, u wil tink they r anambra,. ..two are Agbor by name ijeamaka.. And Ngbakor.. .. Let a referendum be conducted Thr today and u Bini witches will be totally humiliated

There is absolutely notin like ika language to someone who isn't Igbo and is sincere cos when u hear the ika dialect what comes to ur mind is dis is an Igbo person days if u r sincere to urself...

Pazienza weldone u r so much on point... You have dealt mercilessly with the twats... I was laffing at how they wea reeling like a drunk from the superior mental blows u r dishing out to them... God bless u bro.

Colonel achuzie and Nzeogwu are all igbo-Anioma... So aso wea abt 7 other high ranking Biafran officers during the war... Infact late Colonel Nwawo is an igbanke or Igbo akiri man and considered himself Igbo, he fought on the side of Biafrans...he was in Britain undergoing military training when the war broke out, he returned to Nigeria only to be asked to fight against Biafrans, in his own words in a television documentary after the war, he asked them " how can I fight against my people" he was imprisoned but later released wen Biafran troops entered Benin... Even after the war in that documentary he maintained his igboness... He is not even from Anioma or ika in delta but his village and hometown is in present day Edo state. ....

Translation

1. Take it easy

2.I will soon sometin sometin you

3.you see! U will soon start shouting like animal

4.who sent u to my house

5.That thing you are doing is not it

6.He loves you

7.I salute u or I send my greetings

#Honesttry

Pple make me laff wen they say igbos include the so called south south cos of oil ... They are bemused in their ignorance... The only reason y other minority tribe are in Biafra Map is simply all of them were oncein the old ancient Portuguese map showing the indigenous people and ethnicities dt made up the Bight of Biafra ... Nevertheless dis ethnicities can voice wea they want yo be and it will he fully respected and dt can only be done thru plebcite or referendum... U can quit ur current cries now and make the noise at the referendums poll with ur votes! We don't wish to Creat another Nigeria with the coming of Biafra , every ethinicty must come voluntarily and not forcefully lumped together as we see in the contraption call zoological republic of Nizooria

Very Nostalgic.. I read all and all African writer series books... #amweeping... Those good old days shld come back!

BIAFRA RESTORATION, MY STUDY FROM THE RIPE AND UNRIPE FRUITS

Suddenly, the quest for Biafra rise again after many years though it wasn't much pronounced and recognized in Nigeria and the world at large because those who took it up again are not Biafrans in Nigeria politics rather the ripe fruits who occupy no political office, who also are not of much public figure,,, took the struggle for the restoration of this nation up once again.

At the early stage; they were called Facebook/social media freedom fighters, Nnamdi Kanu was called a radio noise maker while the Nigeria government called them miscreants and political tugs But little did they know that it wasn't what they thought.

I wasn't and am not surprise over the silence and ghost attitude of the top/well known Biafrans who are successful businessmen and politicians in Nigeria. Many people expected them to voice out and fight for the restoration of Biafra but i didn't expect such.
Know my reasons for that?
SOME FRUITS AT THE TOP WHICH COMFORTABLY ENJOY THE GOOD PLEASURES OF LIFE(even if being regarded and seen as slaves), DON'T BOTHER MUCH FOR FREEDOM.
Those who bother, cry and fight for freedom are those below, the unknown and the common people out there who see and feels the pains of slavery every blessed day and to me, these are those who can fight the battle and conquer. That's why i call them- THE RIPE FRUITS.

Reason why the journey for the restoration of Biafra successfully come this far is simply because those fighting for it are those who need and know the value of freedom.
If you doubt it, hand the struggle for freedom over to politicians and watch how they'll silently destroy and sell it out for selfish interests.

I am and I'll always be proud of Nnamdi Kanu because he truly define and portrayed what the struggle/fight for freedom is.
HE IS THE RIPE FRUIT.

The Parable of the Country

And when the war ended, the victors sat down to share the spoils. One region got the oil wells and the other region got the foreign companies.

The vanquished region got two sets of gifts. While some got £20 each, others got to keep the houses in their own part of the vanquished region belongings to those who got £20.

After six years, those who got £20 started to build multi-storey houses in their part of the vanquished region. One town in the region cornered the pharmaceutical industry, another transportation and automotive spare parts, another town took the electronics and electrical market, yet another took the textiles market and another the building materials market. Now the vanquished control all these markets in the entire continental sub-region and beyond. God indeed blessed his own people and they prospered.

Those who got oil wells and the foreign companies accused those who lost their houses and got £20 of being ritualists. As for those who got the houses belonging to those who got £20, one protested vehemently and was hanged by those who got the oil wells, as most of the oil wells are in that region of the vanquished who got the houses belonging to the vanquished who got £20.

Those who got the oil wells also got to keep power and government, inviting those who got the foreign companies to share the privileges and appurtenances thereof from time to time. They shared the revenue from the oil wells to the exclusion of those who got £20 and those who got the houses belonging to those who got £20.

Because the victors got the government and power, they also created all forms of schemes and devices to enrich themselves and slow the growth and development of the vanquished. They even made these schemes provisions in the constitution.

However, the vanquished who got only £20 still continued to prosper, producing many billionaires, authors, artists, scientists, sportspeople, distinguished professors, erudite jurists, medical professionals, lawyers and stubborn agitators. Whatsoever those who got £20 touched prospered. Like the Hebrews in Egypt, the vanquished are like the Army of Locusts.

Now, those who got £20 want to leave the country. Even the agitation has prospered in its vehemence. But those who got the oil wells and the foreign companies are opposing them.

Remember that the victors have the oil wells and the foreign companies. The victors also got the government and power. The vanquished got only £20 and lost their houses.

Now, what does the victors want? Probably human blood. They drank from over 2 million bodies of the vanquished before the war ended, and they have been drinking periodically even since. They recently drank from over 150 of the vanquished.

And that is the Parable of a Country.

From calling IPOB a Facebook freedom fighters to saying they will jam radio Biafra but is still broadcasting today... They say Nnamdi KANU shld come to Nigeria if he is bold enof, he did it n even he'll rally in Aba n they said he can't do it again n he showed them he isn't afraid n they arrested him n now Biafra issue is over... We overwhelmed them wit our protest... They never imagined dt the majority igbos can leave Thr bizness n unite for a course, they were heart broken and frightened... In there capital abuja and Thr court room we continued with our Biafra symphonies and shout of Biafra or death.. They wea shaken beyond limit at our doggedness n bravery but they his their fears NAD send army after army to intimidate us n we kept showing them dt death is just part of what we signed for... They can't stomach it any long wen we released our organogram, from calling us a Facebook freedom fighters they r now arguing with us who would and who would not be in the God divine nation of Biafra... Hahaha how funny they look now, believe me it will graduate from who will and who will not join Biafra to them asking pls can we join BIAFRA! ALL HAIL BIAFRAAA!!! BIAFRA OR DEATH... LET THEM SAY...WE ARE GETTING THR!

Great work IPOB great work! We are appreciating ur doggedness .... Biafra must be Free... The Pple ranting here r just part of the decorations on the road to freedom...they r just part of the insignificant tell tales of the later rain glory of Biafra... IPOB WE LOVE AND APPRECIATE U FROM ABUJA! CONTINUE N BRAVO!

This cire's class r so lame and very laughable and he knows it, I doubt if he is ika... Believe me!, many other tribes envy igbos and fear how formidable they can be if unified... Even Britain knows dis... Wonder less y Pple assume what they r not just for the sole purpose of ensuring dt igbos perpetually dnt speak with one voice

But a Kabba Boy I recently employed said he isn't Yoruba... I saw his surname ADEOYE and told him "so you are Yoruba" without knowing he is from kogi state... The guy assertively stated "I am not Yoruba, Pple confuse my tribe Okun as Yoruba but we are not".. I told him but you are answering Yoruba name and he said yes we have some Yoruba similar names but we are not Yoruba!... I had to stop dat Thr and focus on y he is in my office... But dis really reminds me of the ika, ikwerre and Igbo standoff

Only Fulani girls that has chubby skin tends to be beautiful but majority of them are skinny and shapeless... And they can irritate in their hijabs in hot sweaty seasons especially in far north

Does hausa have fait girls?? I thought the fair northern girls are fulanis especially Adamawa girls... Apart from ijaw girls, Hausa's are the most darkest people on earth .... Which tribe in Nigeria be shuwa Arab??

This argument was raging in my place of work today... Which tribe has the highest number of girls that slays most??..Igbos were having the upper hand in this argument but let's see if dt is true here!

EDo Pple r simply not happy y they wea not included in the Biafra map... I can understand the pain of the thread poster... My P.A in the office is an Edo man, everyyime he will be telling me stories of how they r related somehow yo Igbo, how some of Igbo words r in Thr language, how there village help shelter igbos during the war and so other rabbles... I didn't realise wea he was driving at until he asked one day y is Edo not in Biafra map... Dt they r also Niger Delta... I laffed and told him simply dt they r not in the 15th century old Biafra map and apart from dt they r more culturally affiliated to Yoruba than the Republican Biafra with no history of oligarchy system... He was so bitter and saw my answer as not being worthy to exclude them... Since then he secretly kept antagonising any IPOB and Biafra news... The poster of this thread is simply not different from this my colleague, he is so bittered dt they r not including in the land of the rising sun... He shld jus go and wipe his snivelling nose with the back of his palms...

Crazy speculations.... I wish there is a time travelling machine let's ho back and lay dis speculation so rest... This is the worst of it all so far

Many Edo Pple hate being associated with oduduea origin they rather claim oduduwa originated from Benin kingdom and many history scholars believes this! This causes a huge tension in our camp room during our nysc orientation... An Edo not flaired up and nearly beat up a Yoruba boy dt was telling another Edo guy dt Edo Pple came from Oduduwa!