₦airaland Forum

Abagworo:
Ohafia says "Ndaa".Umuahia says "Ndaa",Ikwerre says "Ndaa".Owerri says "I mela kp'ole".Mbaise shares with Owerri,Etche,Omuma and Ngwa.Ndoki says "Olia" and Opobo says "Olia".

Interesting, I'm starting to see a bit of migration going on between towns. I like using some of these greetings to different Igbo groups to get their reaction. I said dalu to an Imo person one time I was there and they looked at me like "huh??". They also say "Olia" in Mbaise a lot and Ngwas also use it. Don't let me start with Delta Igbo dialects,lol.

Do Ikweres greet with Kedu also?

Abagworo:
All these people sef wey never travel round come dey yarn opata.

"Ole otu ime" is not Ngwa but SCI.Ngwa says "Ndii otu nnu".

You are correct. "Ole otu ime" is SCI. I think "Ndi otu nnu" is SCI too because I notice mbaise people say "Ndi otu nnu" as well and also, "Ndi otu o wu". I think Imo and Abia greet pretty much the same though. Do ikwerres say any of these?

I would advise Jonathan to start using his senses.After finding out the man's age, I automatically knew then and their that Jonathan is not serious about fighting corruption. Must he continue the "recycling system" that Nigeria is known for? He had better stop trying to base appointments on tribal lines in an effort to please tribesmen of the person he appointed. It is not all about elections.

Ouch!Wey Beaf?

[size=15pt]Fashola blasts Jonathan[/size]

By Our reporter

Thursday, February 10, 2011




Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola on Wednesday replied President Goodluck Jonathan who called South-west political leaders as rascals, saying his comments were completely “unpresidential.” Speaking with newsmen in Lagos Airport Wednesday afternoon, the Governor expressed shock that such derogatory comment came from the nation’s number one citizen, stressing that it clearly showed the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) did not have a reform agenda but mudslinging.

“The office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a very high office and I don’t think that that kind of language coming from the PDP presidential candidate is presidential. But Lagosians will have to make a determination but we are beginning to see clearly the pattern of the candidacy of the PDP candidates who seek to continue to lead this country into poverty, into inefficiency, into insecurity.

And it is interesting that these remarks are being made from outside Lagos , so I hope that when they come here they would be able to call us rascals again. And if we are rascals, it means that some of the other governors they have been presiding over is a republic of rascals. But I leave him to decide his own choice of words. Why should they be worried about our success in Lagos?

If it gives them sleepless night and it makes them uncomfortable, I make no apologies that is why I am in government. But having said that, I think that I have asked myself whether the President is more concerned about who is Governor of Lagos or about becoming President. I think that if the PDP wants to swap candidates for the Governor of Lagos, I will be ready to face him because his candidate is not talking about what he wants to do in Lagos . And I will leave our own presidential candidate on issues that are germane to Nigerians”, he stated.
Fashola, who also took time to assess the PDP-led government of Nigeria for 12 years, pointing out that Lagos appears to have felt the federal presence the least.

He queried: “Why are the federal roads in Lagos have not been fixed? Why do Lagosians not have electricity? Why should Lagosians bear the cost of their own security in spite of the enormous votes for that every year in the federal budget? These are the issues that concern Lagosians and those are the issues about which their votes will be deployed. The Lagos voters will not vote on the basis of luck. I didn’t win this office on the basis of luck, it was won on the basis of very clear manifesto of the ACN, very clear ideas about how to fix this economy, very hard work that we have done since 1999 as a people, progressives who have shown our common touch with the people.

Elections will not be won by resulting to derogatory language and by claiming luck. Elections require those who seek elective offices to focus on the people over who they plan to exercise authority and to communicate to them in a very clear and practical manner how they intend to improve their lot. I think that the PDP led federal government has a lot of questions to answer in Lagos .”

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2011/feb/10/national-10-02-2011-001.htm

RICHIE BOI:
He picked one Dr. Sunny Ugochukwu, a U.S. based educationist and businessman as his running mate.

Sunny Udochukwu is actually a spot holder for now.Ribadu has picked Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as his running mate but Tinubu is against it because "she is too opinionated".However, They have until February 15 to substitute Ugochukwu.

Nice move by Ribadu.

Imagine, the President of Ghana makes a national address about corrupt acts found out by recordings.Hundreds of people died in Jos and jonathan can not make one national address about it.smh.

fstranger3:
We are too stupidd to figure it out

With ediots like GEJ as president, the continent is doomed!

Amen to that.

10cirenoh:
^^^^

 Face the issue on ground and leave un-necessary talk here.

Is Jonathan right or wrong?

All jokes aside, the guy is really naive. To make a comment about governors who the people may see as dear to them or their rightfully chosen ethnic representative, it is unprofessional and just dumb in every sense of politics.

Andre Uweh:
Jobless freak, shut up that smelly mouth of yours if you do not have any relevant contribution to make to this thread. Mind you, the thread title is 'Ikwerre names and their meanings'. So get it into your empty skull, Monkey shitt-eater.

afam4eva:
Ikwerres more superior to Igbos, I laugh in Ngwa. Pls Mr Chizzy aka efulefu can you state one reason why you feel ikwerres are more superior to igbos.

ezeagu:
Sea water in head results.

Don't waste your time. Cease to reply.

ChinenyeN:
I've been through that site before, Chyz. I even have it as my browser favorites.

So then you can see that even before those people, who are called Ngwa today were from different groups before they occupied what is presently called Ngwa land. It is all migration. And before the naming of those areas by the gov. who's to say those people all called themselves Ngwa? Unless of course their was once a King of the "Ngwa" people who he and his henchmen went all cross Ngwaland and to people that, "Due to you making it across the river, you are call the Ngwa people".If so, who was that King? The Aros for example is understandable because they had a king. I hope you get where I am coming from.

ChinenyeN:
If I remember correctly, those who migrated and settled at Ngwaukwu were actually large extended families and kinsmen. The lineage heads were brothers and cousins, if I remember correctly. I'll have to go and make sure though.

Check this out,just want to share this page: http://www.freewebs.com/abohmbaiseimage/abohmbaiseimage.htm

You may want to start at the category named Aborigin.

alj harem:
can people see that this man is mad finally

yes yorubas are the most educated in nigeria ,.,, FACT but must he put it there to annoy other groups

what about we igbos that are the best in trading

Nice try Alj haram. Cow herder trying to use divide and rule through nairaland.

10cirenoh:
Who's more civilized between Jonathan (the number one person in the PDP) and Fashola?

Lol, Amaechi? partly yes, but wetin the rest wey you line up so? sullivean abi wetin u call am? do you know what civility mean? Aliyu babangida wetin? hehehehe, you don't understand what civility means.

And please blot out that Akpabio the child witch hunter, the same Akpabio that said child witches are the cause of the problems in Akwa Ibom  


Yes, Oshiomole is not SW, i know but he mostly identifies with the SW Gov (his party people) and not with the SS because of his ideology, you don't expect him to go sit with looters like Uduaghan, Silva and co.

Ok, maybe I'm getting something wrong.What exactly do you mean by civilized?

10cirenoh:
Hehehehe, Jonathan is a chameloen and it won't take time before his real colors start showing, lol

He has used his devilish smile to deceive some chicken brain nigerians to the extent that he now thinks he can say anything.

Like mentor like apprentice

like OBJ like JONATHAN

SHOW ME ANY PDP GOVERNOR WHO'S MORE CIVILIZED THAN FASHOLA, FAYEMI, AREGBESOLA AND OSHIOMOLE, SHOW ME.

Amaechi, Sullivean, Aliyu Babangida, Akpabio. . . And um, it is Oshiomhole not Oshiomole.He is not from the SW but the SS.

Well I happen to agree with Goodluck Jonathan. The president knows best.

jason123:
So take a look at your map and tell me if that sentence is correct? Are the kogis, benues and taraba people igbo?
www.nairaland.com/attachments/69424_Map_of_Nigeria_gif91f77644cd54c4f049fba04016b85198

There is nothing wrong with what I said.

Chyz*:
All you people from across the Niger River, whether you like it or not, are Igbo in every ramification, except of couse the minority tribes such as the Ibibio,Efiks,[size=13pt]etc.[/size] [/b]Stop fighting each other and accept it.You are all the same.If DNA was taken to find out what tribe you are it would say that you are Igbo. Because your community/area name is different from one another,means nothing because it is just that, a community name. You are [b]nwa onye Igbo, accept it and sleep peacefully and stop arguing with one another.

I have always liked Amaechi's approach when it comes to politics.He is always careful of what he says. Amaechi says GJ is "capable of" and not "He will achieve" 20,000mv in 4 years. To add to that he indirectly is giving pokes at the federal government in helping to change plans that would help the power generation and which would enhance other industries.

ChinenyeN:
It still doesn't change the fact that this whole idea of "Igbo blood" is difficult to reconcile with the reality of our heterogeneity. Or, maybe I'm not understanding what you're saying correctly though. I must be missing something. That's the only way this can all make sense to me, because I really don't understand how you can say "the Igbo are heterogeneous", yet maintain the existence of "Igbo blood".

I think i understand where you are coming from to an extent. As for the Igbo being heterogeneous, I never said they were or were not, at least I never used that word(heterogeneous). I find that word to be very dangerous(for lack of a better word).

For the most part, as compared to the Igbo in total.

About the Ngwa as a whole being "homogeneous(I'm kind of uncomfortable with this word too but for the sake of argument I'm using it)", according to your post, it is a No. Remember, according to Ngwa history,you definitely know way more than I do so I'm more that open for corrections, during the migration the once who made it to the other side were known as Ngwa.The other people stay on the other side frying plantain.Now, there in no way all of those people that made it into Ngwa land were all family members. They were regular people from various backgrounds(families) who settled in an area. For instance, the mass migration of New Orleans indigenes to Texas because of the Hurricane Katrina mishap. "Ngwa" is just a name.The language classified is Ngwa spoken in the part of ngwaland beside Ezinihitte,Mbaise may be the same,almost exactly language;however, one is call ngwa language the other is called ezinihitte language. Also, the language spoken in the part of ngwa land by Ikot Ekpene,Akwa Ibom is more than likely nothing like the one I just mentioned. The difference between the two ngwa areas is the same as lets say Isiala Ngwa South and Arochukwu(As one full clan).

ChinenyeN:
It is also reality that our 'groups' are heterogeneous. So, I'm still finding it difficult to reconcile the reality of heterogeneity and the claim that they are genetically "Igbo" (nomenclature irrelevant). Those two remain on two opposite ends of the spectrum. If you believe one, then it makes no sense to believe the other, because the two understandings are not harmonious, unless you actually believe the Igbo to be homogeneous. . . ?

Quite honestly one can only be said to be homogeneous when it come to immediate family. For instance, four children with the exact same parents.Those children are without a doubt homogeneous to one another. Now, lets, same we are talking about them being homogeneous with their cousin, although the parents of the cousin my be from the same tribe or clan, you do not who along the past 300 years may have mixed in(blood) with the parent that was married into the family(lets say the fathers of the cousin and the four children were brothers). As far as tribe goes, I do believe there is an overwhelming make up, better yet orgin(as far as "tribe" goes) that can separate you from another tribe. For instance, the difference from an Arab and Persian, or a Gwari from an Ijaw.


Do you think that the Ngwa clan/people are homogeneous?

ChinenyeN:
Certainly not "Igbo" and "Yoruba". I mean how do you genetically justify that? In fact, how do you reconcile the common understanding that Igbo are heterogeneous, and the claim that they are genetically "Igbo"? Those two understandings lay at opposite ends of the spectrum.

chinenye my broda,let us face the facts.There is no way that you and Ezeuche would not be classified as being from the Igbo "tribe". I think we all know this. No matter how you put it it is reality. I think you do know that there are test that detect tribal affiliation. And about the "Igbo" thing, whether you cal it "Igbo", "letter A", "B", or "C", you both would be found to be from the same group/origin. Group,tribe,clan,area name has no effect on DNA.It's just a name.