₦airaland Forum

oyatz:
Excuse me sir,

What exactly is the benefy of claiming a tribe?

For instance what are the merits and demerits of Ikwerres accepting to be Igbo or be different ethnic group?

I know so many ethnic groups in Nigeria (some are even less than 30,000 people) and they are existing without this kind of claim and/denials.

Why are you a Yari.ba?

EmmaNuella77:
All ikwerres don't understand Igbo
And yes!! we are distinct

Ikwerre are Bini!!! Whether few understand Igbo is completely irrelevant.

Notasyouthink:
We don't even need to fight a thousand times before winning because we have identified our enemies and we know how to handle them.

You people are the ones that really need to change your approach not IPOB.

You are spot on the fact.

flyingpig:
that can't happen in 21st century. Stop adopting political excise which were overlooked in 16th century due to poor media coverage and poor human rights, into the 21st century, not to mention 2020. Like i said, it'll fail in this age.

Pig,

Fence sitters such as you cannot be allowed to sabotage the course of action of the agitators. You can join them in Lagos because it remains No-Man's Land.

KwaraRat:
In Israel, You Will Be Jailed For Preaching About Christ

On Dec. 29, 1977, Christians in Israel and the occupied territories protested a new law passed by the Israeli parliament making it illegal for missionaries to proselytize Jews. Protestant churches charged that the law had been “hastily pushed through parliament during the Christmas period when Christians were busily engaged in preparing for and celebrating their major festival.” The law made missionaries liable to five years’ imprisonment for attempting to persuade people to change their religion, and three years’ imprisonment for any Jew who converted. The United Christian Council complained that the law could be “misused in restricting religious freedom in Israel.”

Nonetheless, it came into force on April 1, 1978, prohibiting the offering of “material inducement” for a person to change his religion. A material inducement could be something as minor as the giving of a Bible. Although the Likud government of Menachem Begin assured the Christian community that the law applied equally to all religions and did not specifically mention Christians, the United Christian Council of Israel charged that it was biased and aimed specifically at Christians since only Christians openly proselytized. Council representatives also cited anti-Christian speeches made in the parliament during debate on the law. Parliament member Binyamin Halevy had called missionaries “a cancer in the body of the nation.”

The next year Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef, considered a political moderate, issued a religious ruling that copies of the New Testament should be torn out of any edition of a Bible owned by a Jew. Israeli scholar Yehoshafat Harkabi wrote that he was disturbed by “these manifestations of hostility-the designation of Christians as idolaters, the demand to invoke the ‘resident alien’ ordinances, and the burning of the New Testament.” Observed Harkabi: “Outside of the Land of Israel Jews never dared behave in this fashion. Has independence made the Jews take leave of their senses?”

Desecration of Christian property and churches—arson, window breaking, burning of the New Testament—had long marred relations between the two communities. A small but fanatical group of Jews wanted no Christians, whom they considered fallen Jews, in Israel. This virulent strain of prejudice had been present since before the Jewish state was founded.

For instance, after the capture by Jewish forces of Jaffa on May 13, 1948, two days before Israel’s birth, there was desecration of Christian churches. Father Deleque, a Catholic priest, reported: “Jewish soldiers broke down the doors of my church and robbed many precious and sacred objects. Then they threw the statues of Christ down into a nearby garden.” He added that Jewish leaders had reassured that religious buildings would be respected, “but their deeds do not correspond to their words.”

On May 31, 1948, a group of Christian leaders comprising the Christian Union of Palestine publicly complained that Jewish forces had used 10 Christian churches and humanitarian institutions in Jerusalem as military bases and otherwise desecrated them. They added that a total of 14 churches had suffered shell damage, which killed three priests and made casualties of more than 100 women and children.

The group’s statement said Arab forces had abided by their promise to respect Christian institutions, but that the Jews had forcefully occupied Christian structures and been indiscriminate in shelling churches. It said, among other charges, that “many children were killed or wounded” by Jewish shells on the Convent of Orthodox Copts on May 19, 23 and 24; that eight refugees were killed and about 120 wounded at the Orthodox Armenian Convent at some unstated date; and that Father Pierre Somi, secretary to the Bishop, had been killed and two wounded at the Orthodox Syrian Church of St. Mark on May 16.

Churches were again desecrated during the 1967 war when Israel captured East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza, completing the occupation of all of Palestine. On July 21, 1967, the Reverend James L. Kelso, a former moderator of the United Presbyterian Church and long-time resident in Palestine, complained of extensive damage to churches adding: “So significant was this third Jewish war against the Arabs that one of the finest missionaries of the Near East called it ‘perhaps the most serious setback that Christendom has had since the fall of Constantinople in 1453

Above is one of the most idiotic and ignorant conjectures I have ever read on this forum.

This is a courageous step in right direction.

Dalby:
Is Donald Trump seeing it
He will not be happy hearing this...
Only Trump fighting everyone...
This really great news for Africa and indeed Nigeria...

Above crap is a typical stream of thought that can only come from a Nigerian.

afroniger:
This is fantastic news! Shame on the Americans and their conniving 'Uncle Toms' within the bank that were trying to derail Adesina's sterling efforts and performance at the organization.

There is no shame on anybody or "Uncle Tom". It is very normal to request a probe.

BigSarah:
I am an ikwerre indigene the only native language I speak is igbo ,my name is a typical Igbo name, my traditional attire is a typical Igbo attire.. I’ve no ancentral link to Benin either the republic or the kingdom..

“If ikwerre is Benin and Benin is Yoruba, safe to say ikwerre is Yoruba. Ikwerre speaks igbo , so igbo is Ikwerre and igbo is Yoruba”...This is ikwerrepikin logic , his account was created may 2020 to be a nuisance..

You are just a fresh air. However the stance you posited in the above post should be lectured on the so-called Ogbako Ikwerre. The dumbass organization has been the source of this silly madness that Ikwerre are not Igbo. The so-called Ikwerre is nothing but 3 LGAs in Rivers State.

Spiff20:
One day we'll do roll call. If you know you align with igbos hands up if you don't, move to this side. All those that align with the Igbos will be given villages in the 5 states to choose from then the rest will just remain in Port Harcourt. Las Las na so this shit go end.

The bold has been the else while cornerstone of the idiotic slogan, "Ikwerre are not Igbo".

ajokebelle:
Go to bed, it's past your bed time.

I thought you were already in bed with, I guess, Ikwerre.

EBMedia:
17-Year-Old Girl Who Went Viral For Repairing Heavy Vehicle Forklift Gets FG's Scholariship (Photos)

IgbereTV reports that the 17-year-old Popoopla Esther who went viral on Saturday, July 25, for repairing a forklift is now a lucky girl after the Federal Government promised to sponsor her.

A Twitter user @ThepreciousAda who said her dad saw the girl at work posted in a series of tweets:





Later on, the Nigerian federal government through the minister of youth and sports, Sunday Dare, on Monday, July 27, said the federal government will give her a scholarship. Sunday asked @ThepreciousAda to quickly share her contact details for the facilitation of the scholarship.

Below is his tweet confirming it:



https://twitter.com/ThepreciousAda/status/1287670104424173568?s=19

See pictures of the girl below.

https://www.nairaland.com/attachments/12012601_img20200728061538_jpegee4443bd5dcd7fe5095d5ee98088aab9

The only thing which is wrong with the picture remains her attire for the job. She should have worn a denim bib and metal toe leather boot. I have already fallen in love with this young girl. A fallen wrench can cut off a toe. Why Nigerians are always try to throw paper academia to professional session?

sanctity454:

The problem I guess is opening the road soon after the asphalt was laid, didn't give the asphalt time to cure, which caused some portion to depress when heavy vehicles ply on it, it's a small engineering problem.

Not true bro!!!! In developed countries, roads are plied while the asphalting is still going. A lane is opened immediately completed while the next lane is asphalted. The problem I saw from the picture of the post is adequate compaction or lack thereof. Solid road compaction process starts when the laterite is poured and onward to asphalting of the road.

asha80:
Hope uzodinma certainly going the way of rochas ..portharcourt road just near owerri girls that has supposedly been reconstructed just under two months now undergoing maintainance

There is nothing wrong in road maintenance. If the intensity of the road maintenance is very high and regular, I say it is in good direction.

Is there anybody from northern states of Nigeria whose father did not come from either Niger or Chad?

ajailer:
Envy and tribalism is a disease of the soul. Purge yourself from it first before I can take your words seriously.

There is no envious or tribal disease in my response. Nobel Prize is not the end point of the world as many folks have dropped the Nobel Prize into the trash can.

sapientia:
FG will send in the military to kill them all.

Bro you could not be more correct. Certain fools in northern region of Nigeria are allowed to carry guns such as AK-47 openly while southerners cannot even carry machete.

ajokebelle:
I'm not going to exchange tribalistic banters with you. Go to the playground and look for a kid to drag words with.

This is silliness in hypocrisy. You were already neck deep in a tribal playground with this quote: "Most Ikwerre's I know get pissed off when you call them Igbo". Most Nigerians are pitiably delusional.

kingzizzy:
You mean like an Ikwerre man such as Chibuike Amaechi who says he is Igbo? Or an Ikwerre woman Tonto Dike who says she is Igbo? Or maybe Duncan Okechukwu(Duncan Mighty) who says he Igbo?

Remind us again which Ikwerre denied being Igbo and the one that accepted to be Igbo

Actually, "Ikwerre is not Igbo" is slogan designed by northern Nigerian elites, Yari.ba and Ijo to drive the mother hen away so the chicken is easy for picking. All this crap points to abandon property and Port Harcourt is Ijo land. However the rogues have hit a wall as Ikwerre and Rebisi Diobu folks have resolutely claimed Igweocha with all forms of legality.

ajokebelle:
Most Ikwerre's I know get pissed off when you call them Igbo.
It seems even Wike denies the fact that they are Igbos (not totally sure though)..

Says by a Yari.ba.

ajailer:
I doubt if you will be able to achieve a quarter of what Kongi has achieved in your life time OP. So why the hatred?

Could it be because Achebe was not honoured with a novel prize and Kongi was?

Hatred is your soulmate OP.

The so-called Nobel Prize was a joke and oppressive tool. After Chinua Achebe critical response to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness in 1977 as idiotic display of racism, the committee of so-called Nobel Prize whose father of racism in Joseph Conrad has been hammered by Achebe turned around in 1986 and awarded Nobel Prize in literature to a playwright named Wole Soyinka as a slight against Chinua Achebe. It very funny nobody outside Yari.ba land knows Wole Soyinka as writer talk less a novelist.

Only a dumb African put more worth on the so-called Nobel Prize which has become a tool of oppression. People from solid countries have out rightly rejected the crap. I know that Achebe would have equally trashed it.

I shall give Nnamdi Kanu all forms of moral support in pursuit of his dream for Biafra. However, I shall join the foot soldiers in actualization of Republic of Igbo Land. A nation of Igbo must be placed on the world map.

Tranquill:
Do your Biafra and leave the "so called South South" alone. The situation would have been worst if Biafra had succeeded under Ojukwu with the arrogance and greedy nature of the Igbos.

I was not born before the war but I followed him closely, listened to his utterances and watched his conducts
Ojukwu would have been one of the worst dictators on earth and would have killed countless number of people with different views and opinions. He was very arrogant and selfish.
I have met some people from Nnewi who are happy that Biafra failed because, even when he came back and before the Bianca issue, he busied himself sleeping about with married women and breaking homes.
Ojukwu was very close to Abacha which made Abacha release his family properties seized by the federal government to him. A selfless leader would have told Abacha that unless he releaesed the properties of other Igbos that were also seized and compensate the Biafran soldiers, he would not accept. Ojukwu did not mind but was even sidelining his own siblings. Faced with two evils, Ken Saro-Wiwa made the better choice. May his soul rest in Peace.

Another misguided stream of thought from a goofy soul. I had expected you to write leave Ogoni alone. Who appointed you the loudmouth of the so-called south-south? You either lied about following Ken Saro Wiwa closely or you are just another hangers-on. Did you know that Saro Wiwa usurped the same Shell BP scholarship meant for another less privileged Ogoni kid?

Mraphel:
Oba is Yoruba yet Yoruba aren't saying Bini people are Yoruba.

Eze may not necessarily Igbo

You probably forgot that alleged Bini Prince brought Obaship in Yari.ba land. Which Igbo Prince allegedly introduced Ezeship in Ikwerre land? Most Nigerians are dumbly clueless about their surroundings.

DonXavi:
This is Kenule Saro Wiwa, self acclaimed Ogoni social activist

His perception on Igbo, Ojukwu, Biafra and the creation of Rivers State.

See and pay attention to his "emergency" list of friends

He was killed in 1995 by General Sani Abacha

I'll allow you to make your thought from this
............

AWO AND THE CREATION OF STATES
By Ken Saro Wiwa (1987)

I am a Khana. The Khana along with their cousins, the Gokana, Tai and Eleme have, since 1947, been grouped as Ogonis, in the Ogoni Division. Today, the Khana and Gokana are in the Bori Local Government Area, the Tai and Eleme are part of something called Otelga, a hybrid Local Government consisting of the Okrika Ijaws, the Ndoki Igbos and the Tai and Eleme. We belong to Rivers State.

The Ogoni number about 500,000, which makes me an extreme minority in a Nigeria of one hundred million people. The first secondary school in Ogoni country was established one hundred years after the first secondary school in Yorubaland, the CMS Grammar School in Lagos (1858). These two facts alone, in the first instance, establish my pitiable plight.

I am unfortunate to be a Nigerian. I would rather not be, but I am doing my level best to be one, and a good one at that. Being a Nigerian means that my brother Nigerian of the Bura ethnic group in Borno State has been told that I am a "Southerner," equal to the Yoruba or Igbos who are numerous, well-educated and are after the jobs which the "northerner" ought to have. I wander, therefore, through the Federal Civil Service and am lost in the competition between "northern" and "Southern" Nigerians, between the Igbo and the Yoruba, between the various clans and religions of the various peoples of Nigeria, between personal ambition and greed. I am lost. I cannot truly answer the name Nigerian. [...]

I was a graduate student when the cataclysmic events of 1966 happened. Apart from my revulsion at the needless murders of the innocent, nothing upset me more than Ojukwu's dishonest formulations and his attempt to kidnap the Ogoni, among others, into his Igbo empire called "biafra." I knew that he pinned his hopes of the economic viability of "biafra" on the oil of the Ogoni and the Ijaw. I rebelled. I became Secretary of a small committee which met nights in Port Harcourt and issued a communique calling on Gowon to create a Rivers State by decree.

When, by sheer quirk of fortune, this happened in 1967, I abandoned family and caution, crossed the fighting lines and found myself in Lagos. There I became a member of something called the Interim Advisory Council of Rivers State and, subsequently, Administrator for Bonny.

I returned to the war front and struck up friendships with gentlemen like Sani Bello who comes from Kontagora, Akinrinade from Ife, Obasanjo from Abeokuta, Yakumu Danjuma from Takum, Dan Ato, now deceased, from Bida. I had reason to hope that my nightmare as an Ogoni in Nigeria was about to end.

With the war ended, and as a Commissioner in Rivers State, I soon found that the Rivers State for which I had fought did not end my nightmare. In the first place, oil money from Ogoni country (as well as Ijaw country) was being carted away to Lagos, leaving the Ogoni illiterate and backward.

This is anti-federalism. Worse still, the Ijaws were taking their frustrations out on the non-Ijaws of the State. For the Ijaws along number more than the eight other ethnic groups in Rivers State put together. Though historically disunited, the Ijaws find unity when it comes to lording it over the non-Ijaws. The Ijaws will want to perpetuate this. Today, there is not even a Commission from my Local Government Area in the Rivers State Cabinet such as it is. My dilemma as an Ogoni is not about to end.

Lost in this dreadful nightmare, I went in 1971 to see Chief Awolowo at the Federal Ministry of Finance. There was nothing I told the sage that he was not aware of. He showed me his writings on the issue and bade me seek the mid-Southern State he had proposed in 1966. Thus was the quest for a Port Harcourt State begun. In 1974. When we started, there was no shortage of opponents. To the Ijaws, I became a traitor. [...] The creation of this State would alleviate my nightmare and show Nigeria how much it has robbed and neglected the Ijaws of the oil-bearing Delta.

So, what do I really want? I want a place where my children can regain the independence which was the Ogoni patrimony before the advent of colonial rule and before Nigeria's independence consigned them to slavery at the hands of their neighbours. I want the option of CHOICE. And I am not begging for it. I DEMAND it. And I also want that option for Hauwa Madugu, the 21-year-old Youth Corper in my office. She is a Jenju from Gongola State. So that we can both be better citizens of Nigeria and end our collective nightmare.

From the first sentence, the fool got it all wrong. Khana Gokana and Tai are not cousins to Eleme. Eleme is not and has never being Ogoni.

MetaPhysical:
In these days it is not about force and boots.

A force of just 100 persons with the right tools can shut down North completely.

They will need intelligence, surveillance and counter-intelligence.

There is nothing powerful in North. They shroud their region in mystery and unknown....people are scared of unknowns.... so it appears as if North is one mighty power. Its an empty shell.


Dont you see what bandits have done in NW....including Kaduna and all its military equipments?

Ten years now....bandits....a few thousand rogues....have overpowered NW.

In ME boko has completely subordinated all the Nigerian military might and forced FG to accept defeat. Now they graduate repentant bokos and treat them with honor.


Southerners have become slaves to books....we spent so much energy dismissing culture and rituals and denigrate native instincts. We all suffer collectively.

MetaNonsensical,

You started your post as if you know anything about military operation. However it did not take long before you blew your cover. Who is afraid of the northern region of Nigeria? This is my issue with Yari.ba peeps in Nigeria. They always try to appear clever with their hypocritical slant. Yari.ba have displayed acts of cowardice toward northern region's idiotic shenanigan in more ways than one. I would have foolishly believed you know a thing about boots if you had proclaimed the obvious, thus, Yari.ba are afraid of the northern region of Nigeria.

Crownbefitsme:
A former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, has declared that he sold a bad product to Edo State people in 2016.

He stated that he supported the governorship aspiration of Godwin Obaseki in 2016 to ensure the continuity of his projects and programmes.

Oshiomhole stated these on Sunday at the Government Reservation Area, Benin, while addressing members of the APC.

He said, “Obaseki is MoU (Memoranda of Understanding) governor, but Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu is a man of God, who will ensure good governance in Edo State from November 12 this year.
“I have made my honest mistakes. Only God is perfect. I am now 68 years old. I have come to apologise for the mistake of supporting Obaseki in 2016. I am in Edo State to repair my mistakes.

“Obaseki has abused the trust of Edo people. With our permanent voter cards, we shall punish Obaseki on September 19. Ize-Iyamu will not repeat the mistakes of Obaseki. Ize-Iyamu will take Edo State to the next level.”

Earlier, Ize-Iyamu alleged that Obaseki had not done well in almost four years as governor of the state and had lost focus.

Meanwhile, Ize-Iyamu has received the blessing of the Enigies in the Benin Kingdom.
The event took place on Sunday when the governorship candidate and other leaders of the APC, including Oshiomhole, visited the Enigies at the palace of its President, Edomwonyi Iduozee Ogiegbean, the Enigie of Egbaen, to present the core policies and plans of his campaign manifesto, the SIMPLE agenda.

Enigies are heads of various towns and villages that make up the Benin Kingdom like Obozuwa, Evbobanose, Udo, Okpaihe, Ugo Isi, Obagie, Enyaen, Ugo-Niyekorhiomwon, Uruegbe and Urhonigbe, among others.

https://punchng.com/i-sold-bad-product-to-edo-people-in-2016-oshiomhole/

This dumbass ninny is working very hard to sell another bad product to the people of Benin in 2020.

AlexReports:
Uncovering The Notable Capacity Impact Of Alex Mascot Ikwechegh, Nigeria Politician, Businessman And Philanthropist

In the history books of Nigeria, which happens to be the giant of Africa, the people of Abia State and the Aba community may have been privileged to produce the first ever youngest politically elected Chairman of a Local Government Area in Nigeria at 28years. The reverberation from the extensive and countless achievements of the Abia State born Alex Mascot Ikwechegh cannot be underemphasized.

The young and vibrant politician, bussinessman, philanthropist and impact-maker, Alex Mascot Ikwechegh, is currently the Chief Executive Officer of GrossField Group, a conglomerate agency that majors in international trade, construction, real estate, property development, oil and gas. The GrossField Group presently homes GrossField Construction LTD, GrossField Energy and GrossField Merchants LTD which are operational across several states in Nigeria, including Abuja, Lagos and Abia State.

As a Philanthropist and Humanitarian, Alex Mascot Ikwechegh has continue to spearhead several campaigns to support humanity and leverage underprivileged persons. Some of his humanitarian activities includes, donations through his Scholarship Scheme, which was established to give underprivileged students in Abia State access to quality education, which has benefited over 250 indigent students in Abia State.

His foundation, Alex Ikwechegh Foundation has carried out several educational support programs and outreaches that has provided relief materials to victims of social, artificial and natural disasters in Nigeria. The Alex Ikwechegh Foundation has also spearheaded medical outreaches, which cuts across offsetting of hospital bills for citizens, visitations and several donations to various homes for motherless babies in Abia state. He has also supported the empowerment of youths in the state, which includes promotion of Aba-made products through mass purchase and donation of Aba-made products during outreaches and programs within and across Abia State.

Other supports by Alex Mascot Ikwechegh also includes his continuous donation of books, sandals, bags, exercise books to schools in several Local Government Areas of Abia State and the recent distribution of free petrol and kersene to Abia state residents, few months ago to mark his birthday.

Haven been described as a perfect blend of inherited riches and self-acquired fortune, with an Inventive and dogged attitude, his development mindset has yet remained unequivocally mounted on progressive engagements for impacts and sustainability for the people of Abia state. Little wonder he was listed among top 50 Most Influential Igbo People In Nigeria alongside Arthur Eze, Elumelu, Adichie, Peter Obi, Chimamda Adichie, Others. Until now, the people of Abia State and youths across Nigeria are beckoning on him to consider returning to politics leadership, stressing that he is a perfect replica of the leaders needed today in Nigeria.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/07/uncovering-the-many-sides-of-alex-mascot-ikwechegh/

With all the looted crude oil and gas money from Nigeria, this fool and his so-called GrossField Group cannot produce a grinded pepper. What a foolery.

I have no iota of respect for jackasses who ride on looted Nigerian wealth.

IkwerrePikin:
Igbo man the rate at which you igbos admire and wish Port harcourt is igbo land is so alarming!

This is not the first time the Oba is saying this, you igbos are so pained. You claim Ikwerre is nothing, but you’re all over Port harcourt, and fighting hard to change Ikwerre history to Igbo.

Hahaha it can’t work brother, let an igbo traditional ruler come out to say Ikwerre are igbos and watch the outcome starting from Port harcourt.

I dey laugh una!

Does it matter how many times a falsehood is told? Is the title of Eze for the traditional rulers in Ikwerre also migrated from Bini? Did someone develop dementia as to forget that Oba not Eze was the proper term?

Gforce2015:
Do you have a choice?....frustrated human being... He can appoint anybody as the head of Igbo or nyamiri kingdom as long as the person Is a Igbo person.....

If you are not pleased, leave lagos to go and settle in your forbidden and moldy region.

Lagos might have been an enclave of Awori people to large extent, Yari.ba peeps. However Lagos was once the capital of Nigeria hence ceases to be the enclave of Yari.ba. The silly appoint was a total waste of time. I guess this Sanwo Olu of Yari.ba descendant is bored as governor of Lagos State.