₦airaland Forum

aribisala0:
Abiribas hunted and sold "Igbos" as slaves for centuries

You seem to embrace fallacy more than factual facts. I guess Yoruba people are colorful story tellers. They simply can turn a mere wrestling match into a momentous war. By the way, how many people were the so-called Abiriba to hunt the mass people of Igbo? There is no cowardice in Igbo man. Abiriba is a tiny part of Igbo people.

BigBashiru:
The real price of something is N750 but due to no change its priced at N1000. You buy 30 such items per month. Your loss is N7500. Same with N500 note. The real price of something is N400 or N450 due to no change its made N500. You lose money when you buy 40 such items per month. You lose N2000

What do you mean by "Due to no change"? Are there no smaller dominations of Naira in circulation?

IkwerrePikin:
What is the meaning of “Ibo” In Israel where you igbo migrated from? How come no igbo bear Israeli names?


Aka = Oka, [Oka abreviated from Okaro (Okao) meaning first. Leader, head]. Oka also represent fighter/warrior in Benin. Okuo is war in Benin. Oka Okuo, Okakuo (War leader, commander). Oka na Aka, (Aka n'aka) means war commander from Aka or Oka of Ogbelaka. (Please check Ogbelaka street in Benin on google – Ogbelaka is an area in Benin probably Aka domain or settlement in Benin).

Akalaka (Akanaka or Aka n’aka) is warlord from Aka district in Benin (Ogbelaka). Owan will say Okakuo-si-Oba. Akalaka in Edo dialect of Emai also means, an acrobat or one who knows all tricks of acrobatics. If you check the etymology of the word...an acrobat in those days means the same thing as one who understands all the tricks of war. Akalaka. Same spelling. AKALAKA ALSO MEANS A GLASS CUP IN BENIN LANGUAGE

Akaluoka, Akaluoba or Okaluoba means Oba army commander, defender or Oba warlord, which Benin will write “Okakuoba”. Akaluoba is Okakuoba in Benin.

A fact cannot be probably. When I got to point of probably, I stop reading the junk. The true tellers do not have good memory.

Mikehot: oil aside they still won't divide, how would their landlocked desert get access to seas and shipping ?

From Sokoto to Lagos could be the same distance from Sokoto to Cotonou in Benin Republic. Arewa Republic would have built two railway lines and laid pipe from Sokoto to Cotonou.

YouAreFinished:
As if you know me
What makes you think it's insignificant compared to the value that the average white man you ask same question creates

Shut up your putrid mouth. No human being is either blue, green, white or black. Anybody who refers to human being as white does not have any value.

YouAreFinished:
How is the Nigeria of 1960 better than today

At least, It had good roads, a person can travel at night without fear, there were railway lines across of the Nigeria, pipe born water in every city, no police or soldier molestations and most societal decadences were not rampant as seen today.

The founding fathers of Ohanaeze included Ikwerre, Ogba and be Ndokwa, Ika or Ekpeye. I am for ostracizing individuals or groups which deny their Igbo tag. However I do not agree on the painting with one particular brush.

GodWrites:
Never in my life did I imagine that I'll be doing this, I mean, writing about the small dark in Nigeria - Abia State.

This small state, located in the south eastern region of Nigeria is allocated more than 70 billion naira annual, yet still lack back amenities such as electricity, pipe water, i better not talk about the road.

The last time I traveled to Abia, it was during the last Christmas holiday. I needed to visit my siblings, as they were the only relations I have. Also, I wanted to explore.

I enjoyed my trip, but I wouldn't forget how abia state greeted me. When I entered the capital state of Abia State, I was greeted with utter darkness.

The disfigured tower that seems to have seen better days, had something best described as a damaged but flicking light that exposes 'welcome to abia state' sent chills down my spine.

For a moment, it was as if I've entered an alternate dimension, cause even the atmosphere felt strange.

This is the chill you get, when power is being circulated around by corrupt past and present governor.

Okezie Ikpeazu said he was in Bondage, and that was the reason he didn't perform in his first tenure. He has been reelected, but what has he done?

There is no industry, factory, or big business that can employ the youths over there. The only viable job for the youths is timber. If you're lucky to be a sales girl or boy, you wouldn't earn more than #10,000 a month.

Instead of developing abia state, they are looting the allocations, no proper accountability or transparency.

Orji Uzo Kalu who was convicted of looting billions of naira, and even sentenced to serve in years. But look at him, out in months and the populace doesn't know why or want to know.

This state needs saving. It's killing dreams. I couldn't survive two weeks in Umuahia, the capital of Abia state.

I need electricity to work, and they lack it. It's affecting small scale businesses. I made some research and discovered that the expenses on fuel alone runs in millions to keep a standard fast food restaurant running.

From your stream of thought, it is safe to say that you wrote the most backward piece of crap in Nigeria. There is no part of Nigeria which can boast of 24hr and 365 days of electricity, potable water supply and network of good roads. Nigeria is shithole and backwater country. These labels on Nigeria did not come as result of Ikpeazu as the governor of Abia State. Ikpeazu maybe a bad governor in Nigeria but the above crap failed to make correct deduction in the matter.

southsouthking:
[b]One Nigeria [/b]kor, 2 Nigeria Ni.

Your forbearers fought for it. Please turn any anger in you onto them.

November1857:
Zamfara Gold belong to Zamfara state, while Niger Delta oil is being share as National cake !
Niger Delta must take thier destiny into thier hand by controling thier GOD given resources.
Northern parasite must stop depending, relying and controling our resources full STOP !

David Ejoor was a dunce.

If the southern Nigeria tends to behave stupidly due to the actions of southwestern region, the northern Nigeria has no such intention. If the crude oil was struck in northern region of Nigeria, Nigeria would never materialized and the silly crap known as "One-Nigeria" would not have a chance in hell.

Umahi does not have nationwide political value. He join APF or APC, I do not give a ratass.

Wike's father was a Bini man who abandoned his mother and eloped to Bini never return to Port Harcourt.

gidgiddy:
Ikwerre not being Igbo all depends on the Ikwerre you meet. An Ikwerre man and former Governor, Chibuike Amaechi, will tell the whole world that he is an Igbo man. Another Ikwerre Governor like Wike will say he is not Igbo


Meanwhile, an Ikwerre man called Uche Okwukwu is Ohanaeze Secretary general while another Ikwerre man called Elechi Amadi wrote a book to say Ikwerres are not Igbos


Its for Ikwerres to go and sort out whatever ethnic crisis that has engulfed them

The same Elechi Amadi enlisted into Nigerian army as Igbo. He ran from Kaduna to Enugu in 1966 as Igbo officer. He became the vice principal of Asa High School under Onwuma as Igbo. However when Elechi Amadi sneaked back to Nigeria after the fall Igweocha (Port Harcourt), he remembered he was not Igbo.

It is now left with people Obio\Akpor LGA to dispute if they are not Igbo as Wike had publicly said. Rebisi people have already indicated they not Ikwerre and not part of the shenanigans some Ikwerre peeps tend to chase.

Davash222:
Nwaike =. Child of strength.


What’s the meaning of Nwike in ikwere language?

Nwabuike = Child is strength

modsfucker:
That's one sensible Igbo man there. Only the wise would know the damage IPOBs are doing to the Igbos reputation, as well as their seemingly elusive quest for Biafra.

Sensibility goes to the trash as shown in the above junk. IPOB is not exclusively Igbo organization. Therefore one wonders what form of common sense that will allow non-thinking fellow to arrive at the above submission. Only dumbass fools will equate the IPOB to Igbo. These malnourished fools have not for one minute indicated the damage Boko Haram had accrued on Hausa, Fulani, Kaunri or Nupe. Even though IPOB is a kindergarten pupil compared to Boko Haram.

seunmsg:
An Igbo man with self respect and iron balls. I will forever respect Dave Umahi for this decision.

It’s such a shame that PDP is even considering giving its ticket to a northerner ahead of an Igbo person despite the huge sacrifice of the region to the party. The biggest shame however goes to Igbo people who see nothing wrong in denying the zone the party’s presidential ticket in 2023. It’s totally unthinkable that these set of Igbos intend to support another Fulani man in 2023.

Hopefully, Umahi’s move will awaken the consciousness of the zone. The believe that the zone can’t be relevant except by licking Atiku’s corrupt ass must be changed. Enough of behaving like conquered people.

What a shame if I may ask? There is nothing such as "Ahead of an Igbo person" in contestable politics. What matters is a win-win formula. I repeat, any Igbo person who hunger for the presidency of the shithole called Nigeria should be shot. It is funny a Yoruba person worried about political gains of Igbo person in Nigeria. Please worry about your Asiwaju Tinubu.

TroubleMaker47:
You call Umahi bad rubbish because he left PDP?
But to your peanut brain, Okezie of Abia is the best thing to happen after jollof rice!

Dear God
Please bless this fellow with wisdom!!!

Shut the hell up!! Umahi is nobody.

Haywhysat:
This is because, at the start of the war, it was mainly between the northern troops and the Easterners.

Igbos weren't fighting yorubas and hausas weren't fighting yorubas.

No wonder JAMB seemed humanly impossible. At the start of the war, it was Nigeria and Biafra (Defunct eastern region). The war started on July 6, 1967, Lagos garrison organization made of mainly Yoruba had already arrived in Midwestern region where it commence recruiting of Ijo, Itsekiri and Urhobo peeps. The Adekunle and Lagos garrison used Midwestern region as a springboard to launch attack on eastern region on July 12, 1967. By the August 4, 1967 the military governors of western and Midwestern regions have publicly declared their support and allegiance to Nigeria and Gowon.

TecM0:
He is free to head to court, he is free to ask for ballot recounting but nullifying 4 million ballot casted in 5 States would instantly turn horrible... The barricades and security fence he built around white house won't help him, neither would US secret service

Nope!!! Democrats and the liberal wings do not have monopoly on violence. US democracy does not condone any form of illegality. If those ballots are illegally administered, they should be declared null and void. People who went in-person to cast the votes minutes after official close time were denied opportunity to vote yet ballots that arrived a day or two after the election was concluded, which were illegally post-marked by Democrats, were counted.

smartgenius:
Trump is threading on very dangerous waters by contesting the election results as this could lead to [b]civil war [/b]in America.
What's your take on this?

Trump administration has been under war condition since 2017 ably led by liberals and Democrats. Trump won the election on Tuesday night being November 3, 2020. It is funny the goons who want every ballot counted do not want every ballot verified. In-person voting requires strict verification therefore mail-in ballot should equally receive the same verification. Democrats behave like Africans hence their party tends to attract lazy-thinking Africans. The Democrats and ANTIFA have been on rampage for years under the guise of protest. Now, they will see what protest is all about. By the way, contesting of election results is one of the tenants of US democracy. Al Gore and democratic party challenged the election result in 2000.

Yes and No!!!!

I guess monopoly helped Dangote became whatever he is now faster than possible.

Nigeria is really basket of fools. The so-called leaders in Nigeria cannot be employed as doorkeeper in the nursery school in US. They simply cannot reason to save their lives. IPOB has no intention to destroy Nigeria. IPOB wants to create country different from Nigeria where they can call home. If Nigeria cannot exist without Biafra, the mugu could have simply say so.

chrisxxx:
In those days people migrate across rivers. A particular tribe could live on the opposite side of the river bank. In the case of Oyigbo, Ndoki people who do not even claim to be Igbos leave on both side of the river. The people on the side of the river being where Oyigbo is, which Ogoni people claim ownership of the land, of which they have a Supreme Court Judgment affirming their ownership, belong to Rivers State. The people on the other side of the river, still the same Ndoki people are presently in Abia State. Rivers State could as well cross to claim the land being occupied by the Ndokis there.
It may become a case of hen and egg who came first.

There has never been a land dispute between Ogoni and Obigbo. As matter of fact, Obigbo and Ogoni do not have common land boundary. Afam might have common land boundary with Ogoni or even Iriebe but Obigbo. The term Oyigbo came to existence the moment Obigbo was subjugated under Bori LGA in 1977. The supervisory councilor of Bori LGA who happened to be an Ogoni man instructed the signboard indicating Obigbo to be changed to Oyigbo. There was no statutory law under Rivers State which changed the name from Obigbo to Oyigbo.

In fact, Obigbo and Ogoni had never been in the same province. While Obigbo had mainstay in Owerri and later Aba province, Ogoni remained in Calabar and later Rivers province. There is no ancestral linkage between Ogoni and Obigbo.

Elvictor:
nobody hates the Igbos, my best friend is Igbo who is my coursemate.
the issue here is lets consider everyone equal, equity is what minorities in Niger Delta seek from Igbos. you people are yet to agree to that, as for me am fine with Biafra including all Niger Delta states after all someone from Bayelsa suggested the name .

Do you mean course mate as in the military or police? You cannot eat your cake and have it. I guess the someone from Bayelsa State was the same person you just branded as saboteur from Niger Delta.

Amarabae:
That's my maiden state,
are you Ogoni,Ijaw or an uplander!

None of above. More or less a Yoruba.

Elvictor:
when Niger Delta attempt secession Igbos and Yorubas with Fulani|Hausa clamped down on them, Igbo in their ways of lording everybody immediately started controlling the minorities.
my father even told me how the Igbos were on their necks then, they took the Niger Delta as conquered people and took our lands for themselves.

Fools abound!!!! You fit squarely into the saying that apple does not fall far from the tree.

Racoon:
El-Rufai had said: “Nigeria consists of two countries; there is a backward, less educated & unhealthy northern Nigeria, and a developing, largely educated and healthy southern Nigeria.

We have to speak the truth to ourselves and ask why is it that northern Nigeria has development indicators similar to Afghanistan, a country still at war?.."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/thenationonlineng.net/nigeria-is-two-countries-in-one-backward-north-developing-south-says-el-rufai/amp/

Plain stupidity!!! I guess UAE is also a country with majority of Muslims.

My grandfather said when goat is done eating the yam of his owner, it turns its attention to the yams of owner's neighbors. When Obasanjo who fronted for the northern region elites created cement monopoly by subjugating Ibeto's cement factory, every fool in Nigeria looked the other way. Nothing more will give happiness of my life than disintegration of the shithole called Nigeria.