₦airaland Forum

soja01:
Kindly solve this nairalander..

AlexBells:
Only the Ijaws shall we continue to have trouble whether Nigeria divides or not unless the issue of Opobo and Bonny is settled.

AlexBells:
The rest of minorities would have to work with us becuase we stand a better chance to help them.

2elliot:
Thank you! You have written like the true son of your father and as a wise man from the east. I fully support your idea that the two regions be shared between the we the ijaws and the Igbos. That to me, is the easiest way to finding peace as long as this matter is concerned. But again, I expect that the concerned people in the two regions have the sole right to decide whose side they would go. But still, that must come after the real facts have been established, whether they are of the ijaws or Igbos, for the sake of history and posterity.
As an Ijaw man myself from one of the key clans, I find it awkward hating the Igbos; in fact, you guys have been our big brothers watching over us as far as this Nigeria project is concerned. I can only imagine the situation we would have found ourselves if you the igbos didn't exist in the equation. We would have been forgotten identities, subdued by both the monstrous religious and tribal beasts roaming the entire country. Even if no one would admit, I will. Even on the level of political affiliations, or to culture, we have more in common, than any other group of persons or association. And even till tomorrow, this relationship will remain static.
Sadly, the lack of commonsense and hatred pervading the ijaw people towards the Igbos are out of immaturity and as a result of brainwashing. But I do pray, that one day we can really form the needed allegiance to confronted our more common enemies.

EngrKemp:
Lies..
I'm an asawo


Opubo-Ama(Opobo) and Okolo-Ama(Bonny) are one and are ibani people whose lineage is from Opukuo-Ama and Koloku- Ama in bayelsa ijaw state.
King Jaja,the present king has said it in an interview several times.

Igbo is just a language of trade.
A kanuri man speaks Hausa ,Nupe man speaks Hausa etc yet no day will u see hausas come to claim their territory.

Stop claiming people lands

fxmarley06:
it is not everything you will term scam, you might have been lied althrough your life but that doesnt give you enough reason to be deceiving others with your low mindset. Arbitrage business is actually a legit business alright.

AlexBells:
Yorubas can't claim Edo as Edo is older than Yoruba. Yoruba is not a single state what you could compare to Edo is Oyo, Ife, these are the people that came together to form the modern Yoruba as we know, what you could have said is Edo claiming Yorubas becuase Edo is older than Yoruba

If King Jaja was alive to rule any further, all these wouldn't have been an issue becuase if you red his history you would realise that Opobo was only closer to his root, how can you compare Edo a people whose civilisation is older and more refined than any Yoruba civilisation, this arrogance and disrespect is why Benin can't work with Yorubas because you steal their history.

Opobo on the other hand was founded by a man with Igbo blood

AlexBells:
You have to understand that during the time of King Jaja, he was the most powerful Igbo man then, the Igbos in the hinterland could not fight for Jaja because the Igbo Nation as we know today did not exist then.

I expected Bonny to fight for him when he was kidnapped but nothing like that happened and I don't want go go back to that part, Jaja was driven out of Bonny and later kidnapped in Opobo there was no way the smaller Igbo kingdoms that are nearly not reachable back then could have come together and fought for him.

The Igbo as a nation is still evolving and Similar thing that happened to King Jaja is what is happening to Nnamdi Kanu and I hope you get it now that in those days, AlaIgbo did not quite exist but at least there was Bonny and Ijaw but none of you fought for him

AlexBells:
You have spoken well, like I said, we are here for peace. Joseph was an Isreali slave, who rose to the rank of prime minister, many years later, they decided to leave Egypt for Isreal, remember that King Jaja left Bonny for Opobo, Arguably the Opobo is now like the promised land, I'm not trying to make the Jaja family bigger than the rest of the Opobo town but they still reign in Opobo.

If it were possible I could have said deport all Jaja linage to AlaIgbo, we shall welcome them but the issue is that these people already left Bonny which is more like if we talk in your case Egypt to the the promised land of Opobo so what do you do in a situation like this, do you want to deport the Jaja linage to AlaIgbo when they are even of mixed blood and again Opobo speaks Igbo so can we prove that before Jaja and his war houses reached Opobo that there were no Igbo natives, these all calls for peaceful and considerate approach.

It don't also speak good for you to continue classifying the Jaja linage as slaves

deekseen:
Just like history has it that Opobo was not founded or established by the man with Igbo blood. It existed long before the man, and it had its people, practice and parlance.



Now, you are elevating one man (a stranger at that) over a people, over a culture ,over an ethnic tribe. That is not the fairest thing to do.

When the Israelites became slaves in Egypt, and Joseph rose to prominence and influence, Egypt did not become an annex of Israel (neither did it belong to the Israelites because of Joseph). On the day they were leaving Egypt, they left with everything that was traced to their ancestry.

This scenario of a slave becoming a master in a foreign land is just what repeated in Opobo.

There's a limit to what a slave can claim in a foreign land.

Another thing you forgot to address is that the slave with Igbo blood did not bring an Igbo wife into Opobo. He married one of the natives, mixed with them, became part of them. He never made mention of Alaigbo.

Generations later, some people want to go and claim a whole people, a whole territory because of one man.

AlexBells:
and the case now is that at one point and a man with Igbo blood was an Amanyabo of Opobo,

AlexBells:
so what is your proposal for an Igbo Amanyabo whose decendants of mixed ancestry still rules Opobo?

Christistruth00:


The next thing you are going to hear is Opobo and Bonny are no mans Land

At least they have given up on dragging Lagos

SMJay:
I still remember almost missing my first flight to Canada. (Picture on the left)

SMJay:
As I reflect today, here are lessons I have learnt along the way:

abostg:
Ok. Here users can register a maximum of 20 courses/subjects. The first pictures shows 10 has been registered, with privileged to edit and delete. While the second picture shows remaining slots for unregistered ones

deekseen:
Still available.

Akaza:
Location?

tradepunter:
Dominion city That church when I don knack plenty of their girls in the past that I started wondering what they hear in their sermon.

Anyways old things past away, but I will never forget

Brendababy:
I'm really bothered, i don't know how to talk to my boyfriend about this

PresEmeka:
Is this playing
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