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ANYBODY THAT HAVE BEEN TO BENUE KNOWS THAT THE PEOPLE THERE DONT LOOK LIKE NORTHERNERS, THEY DONT DRESS LIKE NORTHERNERS AND THEIR NAMES IS NOT NORTHERN.

THE LANDSCAPE MATCH WITH THE SOUTH AND HOW THEY ENDED UP NORTHERN, ONLY GOD KNOWS.

zombieTRACKER:
Those people are just addicted to the Fulani urine
They can't use their brain again
A look at tuface idibia will convince you

They are bunch of unserious people

THE PROBLEM THEY HAVE IS POLITICAL.

TIV WANT TO CONTINUE TO DOMINATE THE SMALLER TRIBES AND THAT IS Y THEY MIGHT APPEAR STUPID IN TERMS OF POLITICS.

POLITICS ASIDE, THEY REALLY NEED TO COME TRUE TO THEMSELVES, THEY ARE NOT NORTHERNERS.

THEY ARE SOUTHERNERS AND SHOULD BE IN THE SOUTH.

Fake News...

Buhari craze never reach to dare the might of Nigerians.

My beautiful sisters Ngozi123 and Amarabae, let us read ur wonderful contributions, biko nu!

It is a discussion not fight. Tonyebarcanista report to the dance floor.

Nonaira1:
There's no doubt in my mind You're ijaw.

Dude igbo have NOTHING in common with ijaw.
Nada, zilch, nothing.

It's every man for himself. We are getting out of that shithole by ourselves. The rest can do whayever the Bleep they want. We are not ijaw's father, brother, cousin, sister, brother, whatever. We are not related to them at all. Infact being in the same country with ijaw is equivalent to being in the same country with fulani. They'll claim your land your lamds as there's. Go and ask iteskiri, bini, ibibio, and several other ethnicities.
Heck even with in igbo, Go and ask Ndoki and Asa people in rivers.

Abeg leave us alone. I support the whole leaving the shithole but definitely against doing so with ijaw

This is fear talk. Love is greater than fear.

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Daewang:
Ijaw language is ijoid and Igbo language is Igboid so where is the relation? This guy stop dreaming you can never attach your Ijaw race to my Igbo race. You should quit your nonsense.

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quote me, wen u become a man.

As long as some of my Igbo brother refuse to assume the Big Brother role and take the bull by the horn, igbo will remain exactly as the Yoruba want it, held back.

Ijaws are family whether the devil likes it or not.

Mr Daewang are these posters also mad?

Mind u i only just typed igbo and ijaw on google 30 mins back and saw some people had discussed this in 2012.

ezeagu(m): 1:14am On Feb 05, 2012
The Ijaw have an isolate language, just like Igbo and Yoruba are in the same language family, Ijaw has it's own language family called Ijoid (at least according to linguists), so it's not mutually intelligible, in fact some Igbo dialects are not mutually intelligible. I don't know much about Ijaw food, but I'm going to guess it wouldn't be as different as that of the Riverain Igbo. Their attire is almost indistinguishable to the riverain Igbo since its so simple, but that of the upper class differs.

Now the similarity come with the history, society and some spirituality. Much of the Ijaw have been influenced by Igbo culture, most notably the kalabari, Ibani (of Bonny island), Okrika and some other groups I don't know much about. Their dancing is the same as Igbo, and their spirituality is similar (like Egbesu and Ekwensu).

The brotherlyness comes from history, because many Ijaw communities are made up of heavy Igbo ancestry, have many Igbo rituals and some (such as Bonny, Opobo) speak Igbo only. The two ethnic groups (although they were more like ethnic groups family groups) were slowly merging along with the Cross River groups (Efik, Ibibio), and without Europeans there probably could have been some sort of nation formed out of the whole region.

By the way "Igbos" don't claim anything.

Just a few comments from the said thread.

ChinenyeN(m): 4:34am On Feb 05, 2012
A historical, ancestral, economical and political relationship does/did exist between some groups, but politics in Nigeria has spurred nationalistic tendencies that basically hinders the expression of such a relationship.

Daewang:
Why do you continue to do this? You can never see Ijaws trying to attach themselves to Igbos so why should you be trying to attach Igbos to Ijaws. I don't know which of your family members is Ijaw but that will never make Igbos ans Ijaws brothers. Igbos have nothing to do with Ijaws.

U are mad, get help. I dont even know wat ur real ethnic group actually is but I am certain u are not from the east, maybe Benin.

Further, i google searched and found this topic had been thoroughly trashed on nairaland from back in 2012.

The same things i am saying here appear to be wat they were saying then.

Try to be rational and less hopelessly emotional over nothing worth anything. bye!


https://www.nairaland.com/863319/ijaws-related-igbos

LadyGwendolyn:
I wonder where you got this ridiculous notion from... Igbo do not have any similarities with ijaws that would make an alliance successful.
In the first place, anyone that is close to both ethnic groups knows that, both are very stubborn and independent and like the saying goes "there cannot be two captains in a ship". There is no common linguistic or cultural ground that would inspire such alliance....

U are correct, the ijaw and igbos are way too similar, not just strong head.

Ngozi123:
It's only on Nairaland that I hear Igbos speaking about Ijaws. We seldom discuss them in real life.

We must learn to forgive. Ijaws are far better than Yorubas. They are alot like us

Igbo boyz and natural inbuilt home tracker.

They always find their way back home.

Daewang:
I have a problem with you making false claims and making Igbos look like beggars. Is your mother Ijaw? If not why are you so attached to Ijaws? Please stop this.

Anyway, online anybody can be hiding behind moniker and be acting.

I will not bring family into this becos then u will say, that is the influencing factor which it really is not.

Fact is Ijaws are Eastern group.

Fact is Ijaw and Igbos share linguistic similarities.

Fact is we have shared history and cultural affinities.

Further, their is the biological aspect. U got entire communities that have existed before British arrived that are IjawIgbo.

There is no where to run bro... Ijaw are your brothers.

GoroTango:
There is no such thing as Biafra, it exists only in the minds of IPOB miscreants

Take note that every other person here are the once mentioning Biafra and IPOB, i the OP never once mentioned either.

In the whole Nigeria, the Ijaws are the only group that reason properly and dat is y Nnamdi Kanu never shy from alliance with dem.

Daewang:
You were the one who first claimed that Igbos and Ijaws are brothers. Therefore the onus lies on you to prove such a claim with evidence.

Do u have a problem with dat?

If u do dispute it.

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Alariiwo:
Shameless unity beggars

You want to leave sh.ihole but still run to Lagos, Kano, Abuja etc. to live.
Why not stay in your Abia, Imo and co. and see if hunger won't kill you.

Nonsense!

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It is not compulsory, u throw urself into every igbo thread like a prostitute.

Daewang:
Provide evidence to what you are saying and stop making baseless and unfounded claims. Igbos have nothing to do with Ijaws.

I asked first.

horsepower101:
Listen. Stop this nonsense now. Igbos are igbos. Ijaws are ijaws. They have their own agenda and we have ours.

Daewang:
Why are you hell bent on making the Igbo race look like beggars? We are not related to Ijaws neither do we need them. Our language and racial heritage are unique, distinct and completely different from that of Ijaws. Biafra is a pure Igbo State just like Israel is a purely Jewish State. Biafra bu nke anyi.

My friend, u either come with facts or stay out of the loop.
Wat is dat u wrote?

U are missing the point here. Even Nnamdi Kanu, will tell both of u off for exhibiting such level of ignorance.

There are people on this earth that u cannot tell apart from igbo and ijaw.

They are not just one or two but entire communities and u say, that is not relevant to anything?


Nna that is madness talk.

Daewang:
Nobody divided us from Ijaws we were never related with them. Biafra is a pure Igbo State.

Wrong! It is time to leave the 1960s Nigeria propaganda and forge ahead.

The historical and lingustic even Biological connectivity between the Igbos and Ijaws cannot be suppress or discarded.

It is just too blatant. So blatant that we had a President and people could not decide if he is Igbo or Ijaw.

cc: amarabae tonyebarcanista

Daewang:
Igbos are not related to any zoogerian ethnicity. We stand alone. Let everyone bear their own cross.

Wrong, we share a rich ancestral, linguistic and cultural affinity with Ijaws. It was Nigeria propaganda that divided us.

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docadams:
We are still on the same page. Insulting as first defence to hide inadequacies. I don't allow myself get entangled with tribal or eligious cobwebs I will let you pass.

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See me see trouble Oooo! Wat exactly is ur problem. Stop running around in circle and say which part of my post is causing u to speak all this grammar.

docadams:
This is how you know somebody who got educated under the Head Bridge Onitsha or Old Park , Enugu. Very uncouth in written or spoken language (be it Igbo or English). Feels so insecure that throwing insults becomes their second nature. Terrible.

I feel your pain Afonja, but Igbo and Ijaw are brothers.(sibling in fact)

Now run along and pretend not to read the part of his post that refered to me as IPOB.

Then again, the person i quoted is not complaining becos he knows it is all banter. Cry on both our behalf, y dont u.

GoroTango:
Why are you insulting him for saying his opinion when Its obvious to everyone that you want to get your hands on his oil rich land?

Let me ask u this question, Y is it dat only u Afonja know i want to get your hands on his oil rich land?

U are the only one that knows dis.

Yet Otedola and Folarunsho are your Afonja brothers and sisters that became rich from NigerDelta oil.

Mind you, states like Abia are in the NigerDelta Axis.

buhariguy:
What kind of nonsense killing is this.?
Buhari must hear this

It is a joke right?

Injustice is very sweet indeed

Lajet:
Some of your people keep on disgracing igbo people always. why must you attached ijaw with Igbo . you mean that Igbo can't stand alone i have never seen any Ijaw person attaching themselves with Igbo. This shameful act must stop. Majority of Igbo people in real world don't care about this Minority group only in Internet we see all this shameful begging of Minority group to be together with Igbo. IPOB failed because of this attach by force

Y must u attach Igbo and Yoruba as in the other thread? U mean Yoruba cannot stand on their own?

TonyeBarcanista:
I am only responsible for what I say and how I say them...But I am not liable nor responsible for the way people interpret or understand my position.

People have right to their perspective and interpretation, whether or not they misunderstand my position is no longer my problem my dear lady. It is entirely theirs!

I won't shut my voice for fear of being misinterpreted... My freedom to opinion I hold so dear


Thanks for your show of maturity Amara, for your sake, I must marry an Igbo wife

Are the Igbo women not your sisters, see as u dey talk like stranger.

cc:amarabae

Amarabae:
i am done arguing with you.
It's a waste of time.
Goodbye

Prove me wrong and i will concur. Dont just say things, prove it.

By tomorrow, yoruba media with their usual tribalistic hate press, will carry one story with the sole aim of causing enmity between the two most vibrant brothers in the south.

The only people that can hold this cess pit of injustice to account.

As strong as America is and big, they ally with the little island called Britain.

Time to restore old friendship and alliance.