For people like us who are hirsute - very hairy, tissue paper never really does the job. We have to wash everything off with water because, for us, hair grows everywhere. EVERYWHERE.

Even face wipes don't do the job of cleaning our faces and sweat since we have a lot of facial hair so water to the rescue, again.

Maybe it might work for people with no body hair.

sageb:


I wonder what Youths see in Shallipopi's songs.
No good lyrical content

In a twisted way, it's good they showcase who they are so people like us can filter who we get personal and intimate with (especially for the females amongst them).

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Attended a reception last weekend. Got there before it began. Soon enough my table was filled with a bevy of ladies - ladies in the loose sense. Music began blaring before the couple walked in and my stereotype of almost all of them with overly-made-up faces screaming "If she no sûck o..." was spot-on.

...except the lady on my left who was more reserved. I knew who I was going to turn on the heat with flirting with. Turns out she's a lawyer who took up fashion designing, made the bridal train's outfits, and is highly in demand when I checked her out on Facebook that evening.
It made sense that she wouldn't sing along to "If she no suck o..." since she makes her own money decently.

A little conversation with one of the "If she no suck o " crew in front of me and she couldn't be really straightforward with what she does for a living while making TikTok videos singing along at intervals so I let the conversation tail off. You could tell what she believes in.


But that's just a small instance where a billion instances exist to corroborate it.

If you don't believe in it or it doesn't resonate with you, you won't sing along to it.

Fraud and/or cultism apologists are definitely attracted to that kind.

#SayNoToCultism is trending and back as a topical issue.

When DissTrôy complains about shit and negatively impressionable music, somehow the Shalli-whatever nitwit slips in Akwa Ibom out of nowhere into the conversation to deflect from the point because snide and brainless remarks are the hallmark.

You sing "Men mount" and other such songs championing fraud and cultism, and even declare yourselves as ambassadors of such music then complain about cultism.

You are the reason cultists talking on rhythmic beats are bold enough to be so brash and uncivilized since they know they have adherents amongst you. You stream such songs, attend such shows, and follow and engage with such crass fellows across social media.

Yeah, "It's just fun".

You are the reason cultism and fraud are being made to seem cool. It's your fault!

WhoDeyHause:

Of course shallipopi is no match for omah lay. My stanship for shalli won't make me go that far. See my post on this last e

I've already reiterated he's watery lyrically as most of his songs are the ones created to just give you a "good time" but same way people like you hate it is why others like it, just like our different sports teams and our candidates during elections, maybe cause I've been in the streets for some time I don't know plus he's bini
I don't deny his lyrics don't also have an influence just like artistes of old but there's also a way you're trained either at home, school or place of worship that'll you have a mind of your own when it comes to certain things. Also not everyone has the mind to do act on certain stuff. Shallipopi isn't the first to sing about vain stuff and surely he won't be the last.

Completely random question: Do you by any chance like big polos/ t-shirts, with cross bags - black crossbags, slides and white socks with shorts to booth? And white airpods too?

WhoDeyHause:

One man's meat is another man's poison egbon. Shallipopi might not be a lyrical genius especially in English but we his fans that understand the street lingo therein like am like that because we understand music is much more than lyrics especially in a competitive industry like ours. Even your faves have bad or controversial songs.


You were rating omah lay the other day so you must and are still jamming to soso take my pain away.

Nobody is talking about what they drink or smoke. It's about the quality of music.

I don't want to risk starting another argument but comparing Stanley to the Whatever guy is like comparing VVD to Maguire - just because both of them play for top clubs and are starters doesn't make them equals. But let's not get into that argument.

Wetin be soso abeg? Weed, Igbeaux. I'm sure you'll be probably be huming it while combing your bear bear. Me sef dey hum too sha. Almost all of them that are popular both international and local each have controversial or senseless songs that have hit the airwaves. Most egbons here listened to all them 2pac, jigga and co, are they in the streets looking for oops with guns up and down or selling drugs in the dark corners?
Baba influence or not who wan spoil go spoil so leave our Pluto presido for us.

Considering I actually did this listening to Omah Lay's and Oxlade's playlist before heading out for the event, you are crazy.

This is wrong. It's still one of the few platforms we can use our naira cards to transact with on international platforms since it does direct Forex conversions.

Getting dollars to pay for services is going to get even more difficult.

BlueRayDick:


I don't think it's about the bolded . Maybe I can't speak about other tribe music , but I can tell u there were Yoruba musicians who had lewd lyrics in their songs while we were growing up .

The Fela that everyone celebrates today was a weed smoker and nudist. My dad told me most parents actually didn't want their children to go to African shrine to watch Fela . A lot of girls never turned out good the moment they entered Fela shrine.

Yet Some of our parents as would go there in their youth to watch him live . Those same parents still raised children they were strict enough to raise well despite their own vices as young adults . In fact Jimi Disu today is a 60 smithing year old veteran journalist and social critic, a grandfather who has kids he trained up to university level . He always mentions it on his radio programmes how he was staunch fella follower who frequents Kalakuta wella .

Obesere wasn't blasted to us 24/7 as kids, was it? It was regulated. Either at the random Owambé down the street or occasionally on radio.

Now there's a deluge of shit music available on demand and 24/7 to impressionable kids.

We didn't have a forced message which mocked going to school or reading culture and casualized everything. Same era where quizzes on NTA, Cowbell and Milo educational competitions were the norm? Where Who Wants To Be A Millionaire was the thing?Where it was cool to be book-smart.

We never had the "All way na way" mentality which is prevalent now. That's what Gen Z and Gen Alpha are being force-fed with now. Yet we blame them for the environment we created.

WhoDeyHause:

Who God has blessed No man can diss.troy.
Even for akwa ibom MEN MOUNT

LOL. You assume my location always even when I barely ever post about my location or itinerary. No, it wasn't in Akwa Ibom. And I'm currently not in the state.

And, yes, you can listen to shitty music all day if you like, and songs which troll or mock the intelligentsia or impresses young girls they have to "suck" and "fúck" to get the money as that's the way, but complaining about Gen Zs having that mentality is hypocritical - we taught Gen Zs those values.

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And I pointed out Shalli-whatever of the thousands of songs played, including Mercy Chinwo's, because I know it would trigger shit music lovers. It worked. Predictable lots.

TrebleChamp:
Our kids of today are more interested in playing Sportsbetting, rather than read to learn anything. You see kids as young as 10year old holding betting slip in public, and you just wonder what this country would be like say in 50years...

We champion questionable characters like Shalli-whatever as role models, blast "If she no suck..." from loudspeakers at every party, including wedding receptions like the one I attended today, ridicule academics or the intelligentsia with quips like "Who e help?", and accord a crass, uncultured, and unread boy with money from any source more respect that 50 poets and economics scholars put together then we expect the younger generation to read? To what end?

Put up a post on your Facebook profile dissecting any of Charles Dickens' or Dan Brown's novels then watch almost all your Facebook acquaintances avoid it, then post some comedy skit of some girl twerking. Sit back to compare the engagements.

Millennials who are elder siblings and to Gen Zs and have them as niblings are just at fault. Late stage Millennials particularly.

immortalcrown:
Impressive.

Almost 16k per student.

But are there only 48,797 WAEC candidates for this year in the state? If no, how will the poorest ones be identified and made the beneficiaries of this fund?

Since 2007 under Godswill Akpabio, primary, secondary, and WAEC for students in public schools are free. And it's a punishable crime for the administration of government schools to demand any tuition or WAEC fees.

Free pre-tertiary education has been mandatory for 17 years now in Akwa Ibom. Nonnegotiable regardless of who is in power.

joseph1832:
not all of us bro. Some Nigerians are still very loyal first to Nigeria... though they are becoming more and more fee, because of they way many tribal bigots behave.

A couple of years back, I would never have even believe there's anything like tribalism in Nigeris, until I experienced it, first hand. They didn't even make any mistake of hiding it, they threw at my face.

Quantifying that demography of unflinching patriots to "few" might be more like it, man. The history of Nigerian sociopolitics is proof enough.

Most Nigerians' loyalties lie with their tribes first. Since tribal ties are the most topical issues in Nigeria, we are all conscious of our tribal identities and everything in the polity reminds us of it.

BlueRayDick:


This is a wide generalization don't u think ? Not everybody places tribal interests first in all things.

As regards regional politics, the reason tribalism always rears its ugly head is because we actually don't practice democracy like we should in a plural state where u have different people with different interests. When u see a governor who would site most developmental projects in his own region of the state, it is only normal that the people of other tribe fight tooth and nail to have their own son too get the number 1 seat and favour them as well.

The exceptions do not negate the rule.

Just because you and I and others here might be different doesn't make it norm. The Esan sentiments in Edo are the same sentiments in other places - we versus them.

It's even more profound in ethnically diversed states. You are Yoruba from a region which is largely homogenous.

Cross Riverians with more than 100 tribes, Rivers with 10+ tribes and a few others would disagree with you.

BlueRayDick:


E clear pass SLTV

At the end of the day, no matter how cosmopolitan and nationalistic we thump our chests to be, we are all tribal animals fiercely loyal to the interests of our ethnicities primarily. Especially in regional politics.

iamoyindamola:

That one is a lost case if diss.troy can perfectly describe the man nothing again
I hope he gave them token to enjoy the weekend after the speech
His own is to share, our powerful APC man
Btw I wonder what obi will have said in his position

Incognito9:


That stupid man is only good in distributing token to his fellow thieves.

Since he enter that senate, he hasn't deliver a good speech.

He deserve impeachment, sha naija don cast.

He's not going to be impeached. He has a pact with the GCFR.

Forget his line of defense for the shortcomings of this administration - Akpabio is a very good orator. He's far from stupid. Not a bit stupid even. He can turn a crowd of nuns into a mob in two minutes. He's that good. Even his vocal detractors would tell you so.

That he's defending with these gaffes point to one thing - he's being devious and mischievous. He knows what he's saying and doing.

Same thing happens in State Houses of Assembly where the Governors handpick the Speakers of the HOA.

Almost two months ago, I went on and on exposing how fraudulent Aisha Yesufu is, her antics, and how she's been riding the Peter Obi wave and posturing to pilfer money for herself.

A number of persons - TheFlint1 chief of them - disputed it and countered calling me a hater.

Today, she's trending on Twitter as "Hushmummy" with FS Yusufu, a staunch Obidient, exposing her and reiterating the same points I made about her on this thread about two months ago.

Shelve emotionality and you'd see people for who they really are.

DissTroy:


I'm not here to prove anything to you. I'm here to state the facts without any deviation to whataboutism or emotionality. I never do either. I was calling the Black Lives Matter campaign a scam before the leaders were eventually exposed as such. My Nairaland posts are my proofs.

I was already stating the Kwankwaso, Peter Obi, Pat Utomi connection long before it happened right here on this thread.

Reno Omokri has pictures on his website of him preaching in a church he supposedly pastors. Mind of Christ Christian Center. How do I know so much? I can't reveal without giving away too much. Just like the shop picture Aisha Yesufu posted. It's a front.


- Reno Omokri had donations given to the Free Leah Sharibu campaign which he never accounted for.
- Aisha Yesufu and her colleagues had millions donated to the Bring Back Our Girls Movement from around the world which she never accounted for.

- Donations were made to release EndSARS victims in police custody e.t.c. No account till date.

Two of a kind.

There was a debacle about her being in the midst of Labour Party agent mobilization fees. It died down as with any Nigerian scandal.

Don't get personal. This isn't about emotions.

If Reno Omokri had been supporting Peter Obi like Aisha Yesufu is today, you'd be defending him even as I call him out.

DissTroy:


You know what? Screw it! I was going to focus this exegesis on Reno Omokri primarily, but since there's a defender of the scheming Aisha Yesufu, well, let's step into the light.

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Aisha Yesufu postured and maneuvered her way into being in charge of funds to mobilise Labour Party polling agents.

Here she is declaring and assuring them they'd be paid: https://twitter.com/AishaYesufu/status/1629131200815063042?lang=en .

On election day and in the aftermath, the news was flooded with complaints by LP polling agents complaining about not being mobilised and some in the core North even abandoning their duty posts partly due to this and inducements from other parties.

Have we ever done accountability for how much was budgeted and how much was disbursed? No! You want recounts from top-ranking Peter Obi mobilisers who I have been in contact with? Yet we troll Feminist Coalition for evading the accountability searchlight.

Don't get me started. DissTróy never makes claims he doesn't have evidence for. 1 plus 1 would equal 2 always.

This isn't about emotionality. Logic and critical analyses trump emotionality always.

Everything is different and the same.

Right as we were having back-and-forths about the debacle on Nairaland on Friday, within the hour in the nested comments of some random Facebook page, the same arguments and rebuttals were going on. Forced kinship.

I stumbled on the comments minutes ago.

See the third guy forcing the dude who rejected the kinship to accept he's Igbo/Biafra by all means?

Forced kinship and forcefully trying to erase the history of others. When you say, "DîssTroy, personalise your attacks", my response is, 'No, this is who they are. It's their habit, Facebook, in person, or on Nairaland'.

Don't be gaslighted. Defend your identity.

sageb:


Ewet housing estate
Osongama
shelter Africque
Wellington bassey/Barracks road,etc.

@Dis.sTroy please suggest more for him/her.

SixFeetUnder, as an addiction, here are other areas in Uyo to relocate to which meet the criteria of security and reliable power supply:

- Afa Ube
- Calabar - ITU
- Nelson Mandela
- Nwaniba close to Four Point by Sheraton Hotels (outskirts of Uyo)
- Mbierebe

Awesome for remote work. And if you want to find other techies, you'd find them in these areas too.

Good luck and welcome to Uyo in advance, the city of peace, safety, good development, and the next frontier of tech development in Nigeria.

OasisX:


.....Punch reported Abia enjoyed 48hrs uninterrupted power supply. Obidients on X keep praising Alex Otti for 24/7 power supply in Abia State, even though his Administration has nothing to do with the success of power plant.

In reality, real Abians on ground ain't enjoying 24/7 power supply yet. Funnily the power Station has not been fired up because of little maintenance they are carrying out on Turbines.

Why do we lie to ourselves a lot on social media?!

Simple: Because perception is a stronger force than reality. If you can successfully push a narrative, it matters little if reality contradicts the tales you tell.

It was always a propaganda job. 24/7 electricity isn't something you achieve in one day. You need certain modalities in play.

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For example, Ibom Power currently generates 84MW and has the capacity to generate 179MW with a scale-up of up to 700+MW; but the Transmission Company of Nigeria can only take up 32MW to sell to PHED.
Ibom Power has to transmit the rest itself to Ikot Abasi, Mkpat Enin, and Eket LGAs while the rest of the electricity goes to waste because TCN can't take up the generated power.

Now it's seeking modalities to bypass TCN and transmit directly. That's the only way it can give 24/7 electricity to ALL parts of Akwa Ibom, and parts of Cross River.

The whole Abia 24/7 electricity thing was always a propaganda to troll the central government as an opposition party even though it's privately owned; but it has a higher chance of succeeding since it is privately managed.
The next thing would be generating adequate revenue from customers - that's profitability. Would customers pay or be entitled to it? One of the issues Ibom Power Company is tinkering with too. Some LGAs feel entitled to it.

And that's where electricity metering comes in to avoid estimated billing and loss to corruption.


This is the reality. Propaganda is only good for optics. 24/7 electricity isn't something you can do in months. Switching from the national grid itself takes months or longer. Ibom Power had a 2007 headstart but I won't tell you all parts of Akwa Ibom get 24/7 electricity when there's still a TCN middleman as a bottleneck.

But people like Twitter lies and likes. They'd run with lies with no proper understanding.

Nairaland is the highest ranked Nigerian website and has the fastest caching web pages of all Nigerian websites on Google. Don't let anyone get away with lies lest those lies would be regurgitated and spread to reinforce the lies.

Defend your identify and attack anyone who tries to misappropriate your identity - your history is a part of your identity. Your offline and online identities are subsets of you. Defend it. Drag it. And don't let yourself get gaslighted into silence.

liveLongNprospa:


You are giving generic replies to serious questions.
It doesn't work that way.

If you say because you understand kwale then they had or have an Igbo identity, there should be stories or something to atleast tie it all together.

Now I understand that the civil war did damage to the Igbos. From people denying they are Igbos for fear of their lives to those who relocated...

But there should be historical writings before the war was waged against the Igbos.
Not everything can be lost

What the hell is this? What sort of self-victimisation is this? You have always seemed like an apologist seeking validation.

Nobody wagged a War against Igbos during the Civil War. Ojukwu took a side for the Eastern region, Gowon took a side for Nigeria.

We in the Eastern region lost lives, properties and more because we were on the Biafran side. The Nigeria Army rained bombs in Igbo lands and in present-day Akwa Ibom, Delta, and parts of Rivers. There are still testaments to the Nigeria Army bombing in Ikot Ekpene and other places.

The Igbos weren't the only victims. We were too. The Biafra side killed too. There was a siege in Ore and Port Harcourt too. No?

We just learnt to move past it and stop playing victims.

The man who wrote Godswill Akpabio's biography which is on sale wrote a book called "Civil War Child". He's a medical doctor but was in the Civil War when bombs rained in Ikot Ekpene.

Do you know Akpabio's family in his native Ikot Ekpene suffered grave casualties as soldiers for Biafra and as innocent community dwellers too?

When Ojukwu went into exile, it was an Ibibio man who saw the War to the end.

This attitude of claiming Igbos suffered alone while downplaying the contributions of others is another reason why these other tribes in the Old Eastern Region no longer want a part of any such Union in the future.

The Biafran side killed like the Nigerian side. The Biafran side suffered famine and starvation everywhere, in and outside Igbo land.

Nobody waged war on the Igbos. It was a War against and for Biafra. Stop the self-victimisatiom and pity party.

A001:

Abassi, Obasi, Chukwu are starkly different, and they're not titles.

I know where you're heading when you said Chukwu is a title. It's same way Yoruba people ignorantly call Olorun a title and regard him as the same as the Israeli idol, Yahweh, or Arabian idol, Allah.

Colonial mentality

The Ibibios have different Abasi.

1. Abasi Eyong - god of the skies

2. Abasi Ikpa isong - god of the earth (This is supposedly the deadliest and called on for vengeance. Controls Ekpo Nka Owo (the law against adultery) like the case which happened in Delta of a cheating confessed housewife dying.)

3. Abasi eyong mme isong - god of the skies and the earth

4. Abasi ukod - god of in-laws (Ibibio culture requires you to defend your in-laws to death so a man who flees harm from anywhere to his wife's place would be defended to death. No excuses. And if you hurt him, there are repercussions.)

5. Abasi eyeyen - god of grandchildren (Your maternal family are expected to defend you and provide for you with their lives in times of need and hurting you comes with grave consequences. I'm more likely to get way with a bad deed at my mother's hometown than her elder brothers' kids, my cousins. That's the rule. I can't be hurt. Until I do extreme).

6. Abasi ederimbot - god of the universe.

Spy360:

Enugu doesn't sound Igbo to me either.

I am not saying everybody is Igbo. What I am saying is that the modern day idea..

The asinine nîtwît is backtracking now and doing a double-speak.

No, you must stand on your faux neocolonial mandate. All tribes are Igbos. All tribes in Nigeria, including the Cameroons and Congos are Igbos.

Heck! The Japanese have a lot of -chi added to their names. Yep! The Japanese too. The Asian Igbos.

Where else? Let me go check.

Screw it! Adam and Eve are Igbos. Take that, Creationists.

liveLongNprospa:

My issue with you is your inability to individualise your beefs.

Izzou, unlimited, obainojazz, Roland17 are all Igbos if I remember and they have not attempted to do this thing you are accusing all Igbos about because of Spy360 and the other guy.


Also Spy360 can you come up with a better claim than just spoken language.
There are places in the middle-belt that speak mostly hausa today but they have no original tribe that spoke hausa.
It just became an acceptable form of communication which they are beginning to regret because the fulani's/hausas are using it to claim that the middle-belt is a part of arewa

Because history and their antecedence on this board and thread have proven they, by default, would join in. Whether with subliminals, passive aggression, or direct head-on dive into the fray, in defense of their tribesperson on any such issue, regardless of whether he's at fault. The first moniker you mentioned particularly.

The only reason they haven't joined in yet like other times is because they don't want to be preempted or predictable since I pointed it out.

And don't try to gaslight me. When they insult Ibibios untriggered, they weren't focusing on me alone. They attacked the whole tribe.

By now you'd have seen this thread flooded with anti-Akwa Ibom jabs, even if it's an individual back-and-forth. Well, since last Saturday, gloves off!

Spy360:

The fact that it irritates you means that there is truth in it.

When I give out such information, it is not meant for anyone to accept or reject. That choice is entirely personal. After all there are many people who have taken up other nationality. My cousins in Canada don't consider themselves Nigerians talkless of Igbo.

Shush it!

You are one of the most fact-checked persons on this thread because you always lie.

You give out incorrect statistics and you get shamed always. You made outlandish claims.

You thought you were going to get away with lies unchallenged but I busted you.

You still have the proving who is the ape man challenge to deal with.. You went tribalistically racist (double prejudicial) so live up to it.


[b] I'd dig up pictures of Igbos walking around naked in barns and hamlets, and I dare you to dig up any of the Ibibios going about everyday business like apes. All in the 1900's.

Deal? Not replying is an answer in itself.

BlueRayDick:




Maybe he has a point that the Igbo speaking parts of Rivers and Delta were originally Igbos

He does. Oyigbo and Obio Akpor LGAs should have been in the South East in an Igbo State.
A small part of Delta too. A tiny part.

See how I can be honest? And these are minority of the minority tribes.

Ikom LGA alone in Cross River has 17 tribes. 17! Just one LGA. And there are 21 LGAs in the state. How can you claim they are yours?

but for the other South South states I believe he's just capping.

That's why hé's insáne. A captured man trying to rewrite the history of his capturers.

Ibibio which stretch far and wide and with a well-documented history which he doesn't have is where he claims are a subset of him.

So, Itshekiris, Urhobos, Ijaws, Binis, Esans and the likes in the South South are Igbos, right?

This trick is exactly what they used during the Civil War to try to shortchange us. Trying to rename Uyo to "New Owerri" under the guise of oneness while trying to relocate their people there. We saw this. Others did and backed out of the failed Civil War.

Continue to turn in your grave, Col..Effiong for not abandoning the War sooner like the Ibibio Union advised. Ikot Ekpene, Ini, Etim Ekpo, Essien Udim and other LGAs suffered casualties for clandestine usurpers.

That's why if you agitate for Biafra in these areas, you'd be shot on sight. On sight!

BlueRayDick:



I find it disturbing that an Igbo person will try to force his history or culture on other people.

They are extremely notorious for this. Extremely.. I stated it during the last back-and-forths here from Saturday to Sunday.

I stated it during the height of the "No man's land" saga pre and ante general elections. I stated the Igbos always trigger others needlessly then play victims. Always!


Notice how it started with Spy360 then Ihebu joined in and by evening all of them would join in. Predictable aggressive lots who bite first, gaslight then play the victims.

Spy360:

The apeman never eat Ofe Owerre. that's why he is bleating like aturu. One day I go carry am enter Mama Owerri restaurant make him taste Ofe Owerre.

Person wey nor get money cannot eat Ofe Ukazi.

You want to go full on self-racism and tribalistic? Well, you asked for it.

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As at 1920, there are still pictures of Igbos walking around naked! Pictured naked in barns and crouching over! NAKED when other tribes were obtaining PhDs and breaking barriers.

Since you want to go low, let's do it.

I'd dig up links to pictures of actual Igbo apemen in the 1900's and you dig up any of Ibibios or the tribes on the coast.

The one who can dig up the pictures wins and the loser deactivates his account.

Deal?

Spy360:

Jaja the captured one became King of Opobo.

Why are you so pained?

That's not my business. There are Ijaws here. Let them defend themselves. My loyalty is to the Ibibio people and when you wrongly attribute anything to the Ibibio (and Akwa Ibom by extension), I'd respond.

You can try to troll with a thousand emojis to cover you shame and deviate. The point is stop appropriating.

This is already tribal harassment. If this were that era, you know you would be singing "Kumbaya" in a dingy boat by now.

Ihebu4chelsea:
I dont even think any igbo person wants to be associated with ibibio or efik. Disstroy stop disturbing yourself. What spy is saying is just History. Una never reach to answer igbo, The difference is Clear

You are an dumbo who pops up only when there's a tribal war or seemingly one.

You have non history. No documented one. The closest you had was years after you had been captured and in-roads made by us for the Europeans to get access.

You weren't even organised, had no king, and Village A could go to war with Village B over a bunch of plantain and listened to no one. How then could you have been significant enough for "Igbos" to be the denonym of the many tribes around. Heck! You were in the hinterlands and we were on the coast where everything is.

You needed to come to us, not us to you. And you had to pay homage while at it.

Show us your history. Was it not less than 200 years ago or so when you had contact with British while most of us on the coast had with the Europeans for over 400 years?

Nobody wants to be you. You are the one forcing yourself on us. Stay on your lane. We don't want to be you and certainly not you being us.

Spy360:

You claim to know geolocations and you think calling South South has any meaning in geography? Even common sense knows it's meaningless.

The term was forced on us just to create divisions.

NB
I am not begging you to be Igbo. You can be Viking for all I care. I am just passing historic information. That's all.

Peace

You are mád! Imagine a conquered people who were pillaged by all tribes in the Delta estuary, from Ijaws to Itshekiris to Ibibios claiming we are a subset of them.

You fuckiñg couldn't read and write while we were already lettered for decades. Until you were captured and sold off. Even the most famous one, was a captured man - Jaja.

You'd go fill Wikipedia with histories you imagined then come lie. If I didn't insistently state the 1929 Women Riot happened in Akwa Ibom, posting pictures and more, many of you would still be insisting.

Now you want to claim Nsibidi. On Wikipedia you wrote Ibibio and Igbo, next you'd edit it to add only Igbo. Is there an Ekpe cult which is the custodian of Nsibidi in Igbo land? No. How come you own it?

Same way you force Afang soup which has been an Ibibio cuisine for centuries as yours. Then rebranded it as Okasi.

What is wrong with you people?

Stop the forced kinship. We are not interested. Keep your appropriation to yourselves.

Theflint1:
It'd really be nice if you guys can keep the discourse civil, I see no reason why the discourse can't be kept clean.

It was civil. I answered A001 and deliberately didn't respond to his reply so it won't spark off something.

Only for that whoever-he-is to make crazy claims.

"All tribes down south are known as Igbos "?

He must be mád! This attitude of appropriation is exactly what breeds distrust with others when we should all live in coexistence otherwise.

He must be very mád!

BlueRayDick:


On what authority are u saying this? which history book are u quoting?

I also saw u mentioned Efik as being Igbo; how? U mean the Efik don't have their own history of how they came into being a group of people distinct from the Igbo's?

He's a mischievous nitwit. They have begun the aggression then when I and others counter, they play the victims.

Imagine people in the hinterlands who nobody knew and were scattered across countless settlements with no united or defined leadership claiming everyone called us then. Even the Portuguese and first Europeans needed us to go get them for the (inhumane) interaction with the outside world they first had.

You were the oppressed and never the dominant ones. Was it not Ijaw, Itshekiri and Ibibio manhunters who invaded you and sold you off? Inhumane in retrospective but it happened, so how come you claim out of your anus that all tribes down the Niger were called Igbos? In your hinterlands nobody came to except during the slave trade to hunt and capture?

Wasn't it relatively recently their language got written? When Ibibio-Efik and others had been documented for years before that?

He just wants to start and argument and rewrite history. Well, it's a weekend. Let's have it. But let's remember who started it first.