₦airaland Forum

lagcity:
stop yarning trash u don't know. Oduduwa came from wherever he came from and met Yorubas in Yorubaland. We have nothing in common with Arabs!

jason123:
You are unserious. The Obi said where his people are from. Why are you saying they are Igbo (although the Igbos have greatly influenced their culture ) when they are not? What Igbo land? Are you high? Well, whatever mehn. . . .

jason123:
He does not need to say it. Its called an implicit message. But one thing is certain, they are not Igbos and are trying their best to preserve their Olukumi-Owo culture. Olukumi means nothing in Igbo but means my friend in Yoruba. Go figure.

The day a sovereign national conference happen in Nigeria (a honest one), that will be the day people will know the truth.

I'm done.

alj_harem:
since you know that, don't you think that if you hate a yoruba person, don't you think you are only hating your half brother ?

How would you know his mother is not igbo or father igbo ?

We can extend this to the olden days when cultures were not defined yet

Take a look at Jaja of Opobo, if not for documentation, would you know he was igbo in an ijaw settlement ?

jason123:
Well, the Obi, Mr Isinyemeze said this:

You are the funny one.
The Obi has spoken but as I said earlier, it's like you know more than the Obi of Ugbodu himself.

Negro_Ntns:
When you say 'no ethnic groupis pure", can you clarify how you reached this conclusion. How many percent of Yorubas have Igbo roots and through what channell?

alj_harem:
Now it is likely that Onitsha people migrated from Bini. If so then there MUST have been some cultural mixing between them and the BINI/Yoruba.

Right or wrong ?

alj_harem:
Also asaba history DID NOT PUT IGBOS were there from history, get your facts right

alj_harem:
Unity or not, I am not targeting like of u, I am looking for SANE minds to see cultural mixing in present day Nigeria.

jason123:
It appears as if Chyz knows more than the Oloza (Obi) of Ugbodu, Ayo Isinyemeze . The Obi said he is Yorubas but as assimilated Igbo culture, Chyz is saying he is Igbo.

Just wonderful!

alj_harem:
Good post, You are very correct, No ethnic group is pure, I have ijaw blood as well.

My question is why can't many Igbos have yoruba blood, why is it always the other way around.

I am trying to see a common ground for unity here.

The present day Onitsha and co people migrated from the west, Yes No ?

If they migrated from the west then we can put a theory down that Igbos in some sense came from yoruba.

Also there are similarities in words between the modern day Igbo and yoruba

Also we can also conclude the majority of those words similarly used today might have been gotten from the west and they corrupted give that it is a non-tonal language unlike the west.

alj_harem:
It has nothing to do with assimilation be cultural sharing.

I brought out this to stop people in with the misconception that there are no yorubas in delta

there are 3 yoruba clans in delta state

1. Itsekiri
2. Ilaje
3. Olukumi as well.

Assimilation or not got nothing to do with this. It is not that there are tribal conflict because of this, or is there ?

Should be deny the Ezza of benue state just because they are assimilated into the idoma ? No

Also there are Arogbo Ijaws of ondo state, they have right as well.

There are Igbo clans in balysea as well, we cannot deny that fact. mY obsession with then has been stated

Obiagu1:
This is not Igbo culture. I've never heard of it and the story seems false.

Where's the link?

As far as I know, it was cooked up to resemble this.

mbatuku2:
^
Is there some kind of board or organisation that reviews Igbo culture, or better still that can enforce the outlawing of some odd igbo culture?

ping pong:
Na wetin come concern Isoko with Sapele land na?

alj_harem:
Karma is a bi.tch. LOL

jason123:
Zik separated MW from west (fair, if you ask me) why did Ojukwu then declear Biafra when central Igbo was separated from Calabar and co?

jason123:
[b]This man is such a lair! Which mid-westerner was killed in the pogroms up north?! Chei!

dayokanu:
After the Black Scorpion wrecked havoc on the Igbo cities turning them desolate

They made good shooting practice for the Black Scorpion No wonder Ojuku Pick race.

Abidjan straight!!!!

PStylish:
@All especially non SWerners
The OPC is not a mouth mouth organization as most you guys think.They mean every bit of what they say. An average Yoruba man may be a coward but not an OPC member. The OPC is a like a cult formed during the Abacha era and existing to date. Abacha couldnt wipe them out.There is also OPC in the north if you didnt know.
No Yoruba man will ever fight if he stands no chance of winning.We are not daft.We don't like to die like chickens. All those OPC members you see have fortified themselves with all sorts of charm in addition to whatever weapon they carry. No OPC member relies on his physical weapon alone no matter how sophisticated.
Even average Yorubas do not like to deal or have anything to do with an OPC member.

Talking about the OPC's antecedents, let me remind you all in case you have forgotten. Between 1999 and 2003, the OPC liberated Ajegunle from the Ijaws, Ketu/Mile 12 market, Matori,Idi Araba,Oko Oba and Agege from the Hausa-Fulani.
They have massacred the northerners in Lagos in the past and they can do it again.They are only trying to remind all that they are still very much around.The OPC took on the police and army during those periods and got away with it. OPC leaders have been arrested and charged with grave offences time and again and have been released unhurt.

Again, a tribal war is not the same as a war of secession as some on this forum are trying to suggest.The police and army consisting of all tribes including Yorubas will only be peacekeepers.No one is going anywhere.Its one Nigeria until the West is tired of this contraption.

The fact that OPC protested with weapons undisturbed in Lagos says a lot. The fact no other ethnic militia can or will attempt to do what they did in Lagos is chilling and fulfilling to say the least.


Abeg OPC have earned their bragging rights. Give it to them.

dayokanu:
So Igbos were basically picking and choosing as they like?

Thank God for the civil war and ppl like Black Scorpion

manchy7531:
There is a fresh clamour for new states for South East zone. Should Anioma be joined with the South East to make a state or a separate state should be created for Anioma?

[color=#990000]If you notice, part of the effort to make the Igboman a second class citizen is within a plot used in the creation of states. In the creation of states, in terms of population in Nigeria, demographically, the Igbos are more in number than any other ethnic group in this country. I am happy that these states are 36 states. Go to any of these states, outside the indigenes, the next high population there are Igbos. So you don't need an expert demographer to be able assess the situation and know that in population, Igbos are more in number than any other ethnic group in Nigeria, that is one. Then two, when states were being created, Cross River didn't have a population to be a state: the old Igbo territory starts from Obudu-Ogoja all the way Bansara and all those places. Then all the way to Obubra down are all Igbos of Bantu stock. They have a particular facial configuration. Then you get to Rivers State, two third of Rivers State are Igbos and Igboland. But so as to reduce the Igbos in population, deprive them of their original lands, these were carved out and given states. To the Igboman, it makes no difference because, l look at Opobo, King Jaja, he was an Igboman. All these things we know. Midwest was created through the efforts of the Igbos and Zik and the others. After the West walked out on Zik after the elections and many of the Yorubas decamped, so they decided to fight to create the Midwest region. In other words, the Midwest region was meant to be another Igbo region, that is why Osadebe became the Premier of that region. Now the war finally shot up the groupings within the basket known as Mdiwest Region. Ejoor became the Governor of the region. During the period of Aburi, one expected Ejoor and Zik to work hand -in-hand because during the progrom, in the North, they didn't care whether you were Urhoboman, Ishekiriman, Ijawman, so long as you were from the Midwest, you are an Igboman that needed to be killed. This was the situation. But when they were going to Aburi, we the Igbos had confidence that Ejoor would be part and parcel of the programme but when the interpretation started coming, we realised that Ojukwu was standing alone and when we made a request for assistance from the Midwestern Command, the governor there did not respond. The preponderance of civil officers in the Midwest High Command were more than in any other command in Nigeria. We appealed to them and the war was moving steadily to Auchi, heading for Benin. It was obvious that none of the Igbo officers would remain alive if that machinery of war met them there. The rest you had to exercise your imagination, even though at the end of the war, Nigeria accused those officers of treachery.

That notwithstanding, you asked should there be more states, state to Anioma and state to the East. My answer is No! You see, the people that created the states always have an ace under their sleeves. They created six six states, the one that could have balanced these six states they gave one extra to a zone in the North making it seven states, only one zone with seven states while disenfranchising the Igbos by removing them from six states to five states. The only thing that can be done is take Anioma and give to the South East making them six states. And for equalisation, if need be, to avoid that one state skewed the table of states in each zone, give one one more states to the six zones that didn't have so that each has seven seven states. Anioma is an Igbo state.[/color]

Kobojunkie:
^^^ The guy posts links of videos culled from TV airings there,and  you pretend those contain more truth than other tv products. Maybe you ought to be asking yourself the questions you pretend are meant for me there.  

You are the one watching TV . . . why not go ask them yourself? Or na me own the tv wey those video links come from?? sheeshhh  https://images-2.findicons.com/files/icons/1039/manto/128/despise.png

Kobojunkie:
Look at this ADD Conspiracy theorist calling another person dull simply the person chooses not to be as mind_fked as he is. Imagine this troll yet again descending to posting UNRELATED media in order to push his crazy agenda as somewhat sane?

You should learn by now that you rarely say anything new . . . . all you do is reveal how deep down that rabbit hole you have progressed with each post of yours that I am caused to read. Seriously, give it a rest already.

PointB:
'Alechenu' is now the name to watch.

PointB:
Is this the start of his presidential campaign?

smokeweed:
sometimes when i read your column, i tend to wonder if you smoke weed through your poo hole , who do you think your kinds are; super men or wonder men. me be an igbo man, maybe when i become an alien from another planet. Have you ever sat down to wonder why no tribe never wants to be an igbo man its because you have been cursed to be traitors, the good poeple of SS realised this and left your kind. that was 1 of the reasons your kind lost secceeding. like i said go back and read your history. Traitor!