₦airaland Forum

But the same Tinubu is toying with foisting an old serial loser with WASC on the electorate as president. Irony.

It's apparent Yoruba land is all battle ground states. Intetesting!

Eziachi:
Boko Haram is not an army but band of rag tagged criminals.
Biafra was a sovereign state of an organised vuniformed army with properccommand and control structure and a head of state and a real and practical commander in chief. Not theoretical command in chief.
Don't insult us Biafrans.

My friend sit down. This is a conventional war with an enemy that is capturing territories.

This is the first war-time Nigerian Head of state to visit the war front.
Gowon refused to visit his soldiers in the battle field of Biafra against Awo's pressure on him to do that even though Ojukwu was then fighting at Oguta.
Jonathan has done it, braver than a professional General. Impressive!

humblesteve:
1. Buhari killed Ben ogedengbe by a death penalty for a crime that didn't carry death penalty when he committed it.

2. Buhari doesn't attend the Federal Council meetings yet collects his allowances. Mr. Integrity indeed.

3. Buhari canceled former Governor Jakande's metroline and forfeited the $50 million paid for it by the then Lagos State Government

4 Buhari used Violence to stop the September 1985 National Conference of the National AssociatIon of Nigeria Students.

5. Buhari jailed Tai Solarin and denied him his asthma drugs simply because he campaigned against military rule and for democracy.

6. Buhari Jailed Nduka irabor and Tunde Thompson for writing a truthful report which embarrassed his Government

7. Buhari raided respected Papa Awolowo's house and seized his passport so he couldn't travel out of the country. Was he also corrupt?

8.Buhari threw Former vice President Alex Ekweme in jail even though it was proven that Ekweme never stole any money.

9. He jailed honest and respected pa Adekunle Ajasin.

10. He jailed Fela Kuti in I984 for singing against the dictatorial tendencies of his Military Government

11 Doctors, remember that Buhari banned the Nigeria medical Association (NMA)

12. Buhari stopped Ooni of Ife for traveling abroad simply because he visited the holy land of Israel in 1984

13. He broke up press conference of ASSU in 1984 and detained four of their executives

14 He jailed Beko Ransome Kuti who only demanded for the release of his brother.

Nigerians must be careful what they wish for!

Keep sharing to keep Nigeria democratic and free from oppression.

Good memory update.

barcanista:
Dead on Arrival! No one is stopping anybody from collecting their PVC

Please, i don't have your time.

This is a welcome development. INEC must not disenfranchise the masses based on INEC's own incompetence. Imagine a zone in the South which posted over 7million registered voters having less than 60% PVC collection. Suspicion and fraudulent theories thrive under such circumstance and rightly so.

Jonathan, the good thing you'll ensure for yourself and your supporters is the collection of the corresponding PVC's in your strong holds. The ratio of registered voters to PVC collection in your bases are nothing to write home about. If this is not sorted out, i'll advice you postpone the election.

Some people have English language comprehension problem. 20% of a certain part of the country does not mean 20% of the population of Nigeria. We shouldn't type before we think, it's the other way round.

NoreenUG:
see how dumb ur value system itself is?
Pazienza simply trolls u ppl on the internet. are u going to compare that with amaechi (the most prominent man in ikwerreland) kneeling and kissing our feet because he understands truly that ikwerre ppl are numerically and socially irrelevant? because if u are, then u are even far dumber than i thought.

take a trip to the US and see ur brothers fighting tooth and nail to be igbo once they see an igbo diaspora cultural group. So if u feel embarrassed about the few here, then u might just commit suicide when u see the thousands outside.

i will say it again, that ikwerre ppl are useless to us, and anybody making u feel important on nairaland is merely trolling ur gullible sttupid asss.
How many strong indigenous companies are owned by ikwerres? How many banks do u own? How many industries have u built? Don't ur ikwerre ppl quickly drop their "ikwerreness" once it comes to hustling for roles in nollywood movies in enugu? i laugh at u.
Embarrassment is ur middle name, and it will follow u to ur graves.

Just tell amaechi to stop tagging his schizophrenic self with igbos. We have nothing in common with ikwerres.
Have a blessed day.

Ada, welu nwayoo! Ichoziri igbu ya egbu?

Funny turn of events indeed. At the end of the civil war in 1970, the victorious federal vandals led by General Gowon set a pre condition for the Ikwerres to be admitted in the newly created Rivers state. And which was that Ikwerre must renounce their Igbo ethnicity. Led by their highest ranking politician, Dr. Frank Ekeh, the Ikwerres of the former Owerri division did just that.

Now, exactly 45 years after, the Ikwerres led by another highest ranking political office holder, Chukwubike Amaechi, are in a new drama. Today, before another Northern civil war officer, Gov. Amechi has denounced the 1970 affidavit to mean that they are now Igbo.

Amaechi, you're welcome, but not without due respect to other proud Ikwerres that are true to their Igbo roots. BTW, what qualifies someone as an Igbo is not limited to speaking the language. IFE EJI ABU IGBO ERIKA! And GEJ the Ijaw is very much Igbo than you today. Nevertheless, you're welcome.

iyyke:
* I have never seen any school built in his name.
* I have never seen any borehole constructed by him.
* There is no record of any scholarship
awarded by him or for him nor through him.
* I have never seen him use his popularity to canvass for any
charitable work nor any humanitarian
effort, not even at the height of the polio scourge where
other
purposeful and prominent leaders lead the campaign for
immunization.
* No single text book has been donated to any school either
by him, for him or through him.
* Asides from doing nothing, he has not improved himself
since his exit from office.
* No book written, no memoirs, no lectures,
nothing.
* The only thing of note he can point to are his numerous
interviews on the BBC Hausa station.
* He never champion for a university in his state nor has he
ever been involved in any kind of programme to better the
lives of the Almajiris in Daura.
* His entire existence has not lead to any meaningful
development in Daura, yet they say he can change Nigeria.
Doesn't charity begin at home again?
* No wonder he was referred to as being ''perpetually
unelectable''.
* He is not a patron to any organization, group or association.
* No professional body in Nigeria has ever invited him for
their lecture, convention or gala night.
* The only time any known form, body or human assemblage
ever chose him to do
anything for them was when the Boko Haram terrorist sect
nominated him as their spoke person in the proposed talks
with the Fed. Govt.

Indeed, it calls for serious reflection.

hensben:
mr man go read history, asaba is even own by edo people, they were the first people to reside in asaba and the original name is aisaba meaning 'we cant' due to they were not able to cross river niger. ok if you claim its igbo land what's the meaning of asaba in igbo?

I have always blamed the poor knowledge of some of our youths today on their lazy attitude toward reading. Please, read, read, read and read. You'll then argue wisely. Here is the history of Asaba as handed down by my ancestors, in our own words:http://www.asabausa.com/traditionalgovt


Asaba has its origin in Igboland AWKA/NTEJE and would remain so forever

omonuan:
ANIOMA: HER URGENT POLITICAL ISSUES AND THE QUESTION OF UNITY

BY

CHIEF (DR.) JOSEPH NWAGBOGU EGWU

(THE ISAMA OF OBIOR)

​
BEING A PUBLIC LECTURE DELIVERED AT THE RCHID HOTELS, ASABA ON FRIDAY, 26TH DECEMBER, 2014 UNDER THE AUSPICIES OF UMU ANIOMA FOUNDATION ON THE OCCASION OF THEIR 2014 WORLD CONVENTION.

Protocol,

First and foremost, I like to thank the principal officers of Umu Anioma Foundation and the totality of your membership for the honour done me in inviting me as special guest speaker on the occasion of your 2014 World Convention holding today at Orchid Hotels Asaba. Permit me also to formally salute your sense of appreciation for my humble contributions in the on-going Cultural Renaissance under the aegis of the Organization for Advancement of Anioma Culture (OFAAC) for which you bestowed on me the coveted “2013 UMU ANIOMA Spirit of Community Anioma Cultural Renaissance Award”. May the good Lord bless and keep you in your avowed mission to organize, educate and activate Anioma people and promote their general welfare.

Let me at this point in time crave your indulgence to grant me freedom to speak on Anioma: Her Urgent Political Issues and Question of Unity” in place of “There is power in Anioma Unity” which is in your invitation cards. I have personal reasons for couching the theme this way. The mission of your Foundation, I was informed is “To organize, educate and activate Anioma people and to promote their general welfare” with a proviso “to modify the objectives of this mission from time to time so as to accomplish the most urgent need of Anioma”. Compelled by the burden of this mission objective and worried by the continued eroding influence of aggressive Europeanism, on Anioma Culture, at this critical moment of Anioma political experience, I feel this is an opportune moment to address Anioma’s most urgent challenges with a view to working out modalities for meeting the target goals. The topic is therefore informed by the mood of the moment. Kindly therefore accept my modification of the theme as yours in the hope that at the end of the day, the expectations of the original theme should be met by the new one.



ORIGIN, ETYMOLOGY AND MEANING OF ANIOMA

It is my considered view that a good starting point in this lecture is the examination of the operative word ‘ANIOMA” in order to facilitate the understanding of its heterogeneous historical origins and the concomitant political challenges of the moment.

The origin of the word “ANIOMA” is traceable to our late Legal Luminary and Statesman, Chief (Dr.) Dennis Chukwudebe Osadebey (GCON, Ojiba of Ahaba, the first Administrator and the first Premier of Mid-Western Nigeria), and his political Associates, using his poetic talent to serve a political interest.

Besides, Prof. Emenanjo, a linguist of Anioma extraction, in an attempt to fully explain the word ‘Anioma’ developed a ‘Schema’ and I cannot agree more with him when he has this to say: The word ‘ANIOMA’ whatever is its origin or etymology, name or real, imaginary or proposed state at the meeting place of the sub-groups, Aniocha, Ndokwa, Ika, and Oshimili, a neologistic acronym from the initial sounds in the names of the sub-groups:
‘A’ from Aniocha

‘B’ from Ndokwa

‘I’ from Ika

‘O’ from Oshimili

And finally polished with ‘M’ and ‘A’ to arrive at the Igbo word ‘ANIOMA’ meaning “good land” inhabited by good and peace-loving people, or noun from creative thinking caps of leaders of a political Movement is now used by our friends and foes to designate the area and people in the former Bendel East or the Present Delta North Senatorial District, the territory Sociologists and Anthropologists refer to as the “Western Igbo Land”

The Delta North Senatorial District is comprised of nine Local Government Areas to wit:

1.Aniocha North


2.Aniocha South


3.Ika North East


4.Ika South


5.Ndokwa East


6.Ndokwa West


7.Ukwuani


8.Oshimili North and


9.Oshimili South


The area is a geographical reality. The people and Anthropological and Linguistic reality. Anioma is a mental construct as it is a behaviorist one. A folk-and-blood reality, the term ‘Anioma’ is more elastic and embracing than “Ika Igbo” used sometimes by other Nigerians to differentiate our people from mainstream Igbo. This exercise in folk synecdoche, in which a part images the whole or the whole a part, rarely went down well with our people. The ‘Ika-Igbo’ Dictionary (1907).
Anioma is also more distinct and distinctive, and more neutral and mnemonic than the older labels like ‘Western Igbo’, traceable to the British Colonial Anthropologists like Forde and Jones in “The Igbo and Ibibio-speaking people of South Eastern Nigeria, “West-Niger Igbo in contradistinction to East-Niger Igbo or first Mid-West Igbo, later Bendel Igbo and now Delta Igbo, in tune with the vagaries of state creation exercise in Nigeria.

Anioma means Unity; the unity in diversity. It means homogeneity, the homogeneity in heterogeneity. In Anioma three dialects of the West Niger cluster of macro-Igbo Language are spoken (Enuani, Ika and Ukwuani).

The lects are mutually intelligible. It is therefore evident that diachronically, some Anioma are of Igbo ancestry and synchronically all Anioma people speak Igbo even in the recognized enclaves of non-Igbo ancestry such as the Ezechimas and the Olukumis to cite a few- a process of Igbonization which has created Ethno-historical and Socio cultural problems explained by the present lecturer in his short study on “The Origin of Anioma people of the West Niger Valley”

Again, Anioma is a towering culture and an emerging Micro-polity with abundant material resources and ever growing skilled and productive human capital. And whenever you find so much vitality of the sort packed tightly in a segment of human society as in Anioma’s case, it is evidence of a striking convergence of history, environment, biological stock, psychological traits, institutional patterns, collective will and drive. And now that such as “explosive combination” waiting to be ignited has finally caught fire in the imagination of the world and has polarized the emotional energies of men- either for Love or Hate? The quintessence of their memorable “Culture Civilization”- “Anioma-Consciousness’ encased in an operative framework of Anioma primordial mores, ethnic ethos, social psychology and cultural values has to be pushed to the fore to provide the much needed ‘ideology’ (philosophy of action)- to back the achievement of any political goal.

The thesis posited in the foregoing paragraphs demonstrates the need to also examine the word ‘Culture’ in relation to Anioma as a ‘Collectivity’ and to identify these core elements of this culture for use as pragmatic instrument for harmonizing the discordant voices in ‘Anioma-Consciousness’ for effective response to the Urgent Political Issues in Anioma.

Truncated for relevance.

We all came from somewhere but at the end of the day what defines us is what we 'synchronically' have evolved today. Ife eji abu Igbo erika.
Good one.

BonaVIta:
MAYBE YOU WROTE QUITE WELL, BUT Y0UR PRESUMPTION THAT PART OF AKWA IBOM STATE IS MADE UP OF THE IGBOS IS INACCURATE. DO YOUR RESEARCH PROPERLY BEFORE YOU THROW IT INTO THE WORLD, DON'T CROSS BOUNDARIES WRONGLY.

There are boundary issues in some of the fringe communities and some of your misgivings might stem from such places as this onehttps://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/soc.culture.nigeria/KM67pNMl7G0

omonuan:
You still do not get it! The Igbo are the only people found as natives in all the south south states. The Igbo are not allowed to reside in these states contrary to your assertion. These sates are home to them from time immemorial. They were Igbo before Nigeria was even conceived.

As far as I am concerned, the Itsekiri people are Yoruba but whether Yoruba claims them or vice versa is not dispostive of the discussion about the Igbo. The Edo language on the other hand is totally different from Yoruba. Get it into your brain that the Igbo are the number one tribe in south south. Yes, Port Harcourt is an Igbo town-forget the propaganda and civil war politics. The number one language in port harcourt is Igbo.

My brother you spent all this time lecturing people who would never comprehend the simple anthropology of their "country". You try sha.
These are folks that can't reason beyond Maman Nasir's political boundary of Igboland and Nigeria.

dazey:
Who are we the Niger deltans? my friend speak for yourself. igbos own 30% of lands in Port harcourt and nobody we leave his property for your lazy fools this time around instead prepare with your brothers and sisters to be send back to benin

Abi.....Igbos will settle with the renegades within Ikwerre once and for all. This time under one Nigeria. But however, the trouble makers in Ikwerre are very small....May be Ndigbo will just deploy one local government to do the job. Shoe get size na.

ElekeNtioba:
I'm of the opinion that the Ikwerre ARE NOT Igbos.

Of course, i dont have any physical or material evidence to point to.

But looking at the relations between them and considering how agressive Igbo expansion is, its safe to say dat d ikwerre were originally a non-Igbo speaking tribe assimilated through interactions and inter-marriage.

Secondly, d nature of the Ikwerre is distinct from Igbos. They lack moral fibre, are spineless, and downright lazy. Which explains why the Igbos assimilated them with ease leaving no record whatsoever of their original language.

The reason why they chose to separate themselves is because they are still bitter over the loss of their original identity. Deep down they know they are nothing like Igbos and so are afraid of Igbo domination.

Their defence makes no sense when the Benin man they claimed led them out of Benin was an Igbo by name AKALAKA - Destiny.
Even the Akalaka's father was also Igbo by name IHURUOHA or IHUOHA meaning face of the community or people. All their assertions leads to a dead end. Pity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCyIiyOLV3o


IGBO NDIOMA! BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE!

swezenberg:
I will answer your question when your paid education is enough to defend your claims of those areas mentioned in the article because Igbo language is mostly spoken there.

Your inability to decipher the context of my statement leaves me with no option than to consider you a non conversant.

I'm now convinced you need a paid tutorial on the ethnography of Nigeria. Sorry.

swezenberg:
Go and play with toys. I did not quote you or referred to you. I need intelligent response from adults not kids who can't think of anything but insults on their fathers.

My free education brought me here to rub shoulders with the most intelligent on earth. What has your paid education earned you.

Mister, stop blabbing and answer my question.

Aldrickay:
This is to tell u how nigerians and oda parts of the world hate the igbos.
You pple are nt good pple and u know it.

Take Note: der are no igbos in rivers state if u dnt know.

I am an ikwerre man. In rivers state the ogbas,ekpeye and etche u call igbos are nt igbos.

Ikwerre people organisation (also know as Ogbakor ikwerre) was established before "igbo people organisation" (Also known as Ohaeze Ndi"igbo) if you dnt know.

If ikwerres were igbos anwers dese few questns.
1. Why did the ikwerres refuse to giv u igbos ur property wen u pple returned bak to port harcourt after d biafra war.
2. Why was Ikwerre people organisation (ogbakor ikwerre) established b4 igbo peoples organisation?
3. If ikwerre was igbos why is our tradittion diff frm d igbo tradition?
4. In ikwerre we call the igbos "osoma" meaning Labourers, why so, igbos ans dis.
5. If ikwerres are igbo we do sum ikwerre dnt sell land nd dnt get married to the igbos.

Mr writter u ar stupid for rewriting my history, and God will purnish u 4 dat.

We ikwerre hv neva nd cn neva b igbo.

Port harcourt is Ikwerre land and not IGBO. Read d full history of ikwerre here: http://iwhnurohna..com/2012/11/a-brief-history-of-ikwerre.html

You're points are worthless. You're not convincing, Mr man. What does iwhnurohna stand for in 'ikwerre' that makes it different from Igbo - Ihuruoha. Tell Nigerians here?

swezenberg:
So yorubas can now claim Delta and Edo too because they have ishekiris and lots of Edo people bearing Yoruba names. They can even claim part of Kogi and Kwara too by this article because they are well represented there.

This is where the problem is. The fact you were allowed to reside, execute your biz in a strange land does not give you claim to those lands else you will be asking for trouble. You will only be showing ingratitude towards your hosts' hospitality

You really need to convince me better not with this write up

I'm not surprise. Product of free education. So in your imagination, an Asaba man is what an Itshekiri is to the Yoruba?

omonuan:
Since your tribe do not like money, I pray that God reward the Igbo with money and deny all those that claim that only Igbo love money. May this 2015 bring more money to the Igbo and pauperize those Nigerians that falsely claim they do not love money. All my Igbo brothers let me hear an Igbotic Amen!

Igbotic Amenoooooooooooooo!
Iseooooooooooo!

May God impoverish them well welloooo!

osile2012:
[size=15pt]I have noticed most of my friends and people i talk to prefer foreign rice to our local rice. I try to let them know it is not good for our economy, and a friend asked me if he should eat what he does not like because of the economy.

Do you also prefer foreign rice to ours? [/size]

Ironically, the "local" rice keeps you healthy because of its high fiber content. They release sugar slowly in to the blood stream and thereby keeping diabetes away. While the foreign rice has turned Nigerians more diabetic than ever; dumping sugar into their blood streams.

“The visionary Jakande administration had concluded all the plans to finance the project, putting everything in place for its successful execution. My father provided the legal framework in his capacity as the Attorney –General at the time, and the state government had deposited $50million after securing a $450 million loan at six per cent fixed interest rate for 25 years.

“At the time the project was cancelled the government had paid part of the loan and therefore had no worry about financing the project. But Buhari stopped the project and went ahead to pay another $500million, which was almost enough to complete the project, as fine to the foreign company handling the project for terminating the contract.”



Madam Akinjide, we all know BUHARI is anti progress but some of us have chosen to pretend. If miracle happen and he wins, the Enugu Airport International terminal would be one of the facilities he will roll back just like the Lagos Metro. But the God we worship won't allow that to happen.

olas24u:
Using people sweat to do big man in that fucking country!The lady suffered till death,must have hussled and this bastard with his big fat stomach depriving her of life and financial returns in minus weather.

This man should simply be taken to any of the sharia courts in the north and the same method of death prescribed for him.
Come to think of it, the munster will simply get the more easier way out in the south - hanging - which is relatively a luxurious way to die.

morewealth:
I Criticised Jonathan Nothing Happened, I Criticised Buhari & I Get Death Threats – Sheikh Gumi

A prominent Nigerian Islamic cleric, Ahmad Gumi, said Tuesday he has been threatened for not supporting Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
...
The Kaduna-based cleric raised the alarm on Tuesday in a Facebook post titled, “PDP v APC: It’s Not about Religion.”
He said his children have also been receiving calls from persons who use unknown telephone numbers to threaten them.
“People like me who had all along been critical about the government can longer speak or express personal opinion if it is not in support of Gen. Buhari,” said Shiekh Gumi


Source: www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/173713-ive-received-threats-criticising-buhari-sheik-gumi.html

Mallam Gumi, a leopard cannot change its spot. This is just a tip of the iceberg of what to expect from the wicked tyrant Buhari, if he ever would smell the presidency. Don't forget you're dealing with a die hard coup plotter.

BlaiseJohn:
he is very very RICH..... Don't go there

OBIAGAELI, Bill Clinton's net worth is 80 Million US dollars. A good manager of his resources, just like he did that of his country while in office.
http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-politicians/presidents/bill-clinton-net-worth/

kaura5000:
If it were northerners the headline would have been northerners,fulani,hausa this and that... why are you afraid to say it boldly that this are IGBOS that spoil our image abroad

Imagine the son of a terrorist to muster the effrontery to mention "our image abroad"

If not that he will say the picture was manipulated, this is enough evidence to send the dirty creatures to jail under the new law.

Here is the bad side of the word 'role model!'; a situation where a morally bankrupt low-lifer as Phyno would be catapulted to high heavens because he sang a song. Pity.

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What the elderly said its what we the people of SS / SE have being talking about on Naira land but you guys failed to understand


CORRUPTION IS NOT THE PROBLEM BUT THE SYSTEM

Resource control / Fiscal federalism

Privatization

True federalism eg state police


Are the shortest route to national development.


Thank God in one of the thread

BUHARI PLAN FOR NIGERIA


I explained it in detail


Buhari won't achieve it because he comes from the part of Nigeria that opposes all these things


Finally


I believe this elderly read my comment which inspired him to write to saharareporter








What the elderly said its what we the people of SS / SE have being talking about on Naira land but you guys failed to understand


CORRUPTION IS NOT THE PROBLEM BUT THE SYSTEM

Resource control / Fiscal federalism

Privatization

True federalism eg state police


Are the shortest route to national development.


Thank God in one of the thread

BUHARI PLAN FOR NIGERIA


I explained it in detail


Buhari won't achieve it because he comes from the part of Nigeria that opposes all these things


Finally


I believe this elderly read my comment which inspired him to write to saharareporters