₦airaland Forum

Madmohamed1:
Haha Nigeria is finished they promised to take over Nigeria soon.

Ndi igbo what are we still doing whit this people

How can I be using the same passport whit terrorist and Fulani we are not the same and we can never be. God forbid

Shut up and stop using style to preach your whataboutism in the south east. North can allow Islamist turn their cities and villages to Afghanistan that is their business, but any IPOB terrorist trying to replicate their Taliban in Igboland will get it hot like late Ikonso and Dragon.

mrksquare:
Always quick to resort to insult. The imprimatuer of weakness in argument.

Well, I shouldn't dignify your type with a response that can't have a decent conversation

Have a nice day.

https://m.facebook.com/notes/lets-speak-ibani/a-short-history-of-the-ibani-language/236835676403097/?_rdc=1&_rdr

You mean Finima-Ibani which was adopted as the language of Bonny Island, instead of the aboriginal Ndoki spoken by the people of Grand Bonny.

BKayy:
Ijaw people have deceived the entire Nigerians for decades. How did they manage to make over 100m people believe that Anna Pepple was Ijaw.
Chai, ignorance is a disease

They successfully achieved that decades of lies because the Igbos after the war became afraid to challenge the revisions due to fear of not to being seen in the bad books of the northern led federal government. Remember the Igbos just came out of the civil war and had to remain civil in order to be accepted fully.

However, we owe it to our generation to keep using facts and historical evidence to burst these lies of Ijo ownership of Bonny and Opobo. Igbos founded and owned these communities. However, the coming of the Ijo migrants who were first brought in by the Portuguese and later Dutch sailors change a lot. Bonny, Opobo, Kalabari and Okrika which were Igbo lands embraced Ijo culture. While the language of Kalabari changed to Ijo, Okrika was altered to a great degree. But Bonny and Opobo with roots from Ndoki kept her language and origin, and embraced Ijo culture which was the dominant culture in the Niger-Delta creeks as at then.

This is just the beginning, there are more to come to IPOB demolition of the eastern economy.

Graysons:
I hope that Eastlink clown is reading this

Even before Tonye aka Allen made his comment, I’ve already told the thread that Ada George becoming Governor and the abandoned property to which Okrika and Ikwerre shared are the things Okrika benefitted from Ijo. I didn't really go deep until now that you mentioned Tonye’s comment. However, in that benefit brought bad division among the Okrika caused by the Ijos.

Okrika for one is a multi-cultural and multi-lingual tribe of Igbo and Ijo but united by the Ogan Kingship. And Ogan themselves are Igbo originated just like Amakiri. However, Okrika population was swelled by Ijos.

Now Okrika had no business being dragged by Ijos into both her powergrab and landgrab shenanigans during and after the civil war. But they finally became the group Ijo used to claim part-ownership of Port Harcourt and domination of old Rivers politics.

Aside from benetting the most from Ijo rulership, it was also in Okrikaland Ijo cemented their headquarters, but it was altered as Isaac Boro died in Ogu Bolo in the hands of Black Scopion, leaving that mandate to young Diette-Spiff to handle.

So aside from elevating Ada George as Governor, the following are the benefits of Ijo support on Okrika.

1. Introduction of cultism culture to Okrika land just as they elevated in Ikwerre. Dey Bam and Dey Well is a street cultist slang originating from Okrika.

2. Entrenchment of huge division and brother hating brother in Okrika land.

3. The Tuboniju and Kalonju caste that is tearing Okrika today was Ijo gift.

4. The chieftaincy crisis and betrayal syndrome in Okrika are another gifts from Ijo help.

5. Okrika land is notorious for blood spill by brothers against brothers. Infact people die more during election period in Okrika land than any time.

6. The hatred by Okrikans on Kalabari is still Ijo gift. Although Kalabari had always had a penchant to subdue her neighbours in olden days time all for trade monopoly, the modern era renewed that rivalry as Ijo backed Okrika over Kalabari due to the later’s pro-Igbo support during the NCNC eastern region days. Kalabari was even against Isaac Boro and Biriye’a NDC but faced much hostilities from the two group when the federal troops conquered their land. That's why an Okrika man will rather die than support Kalabari for Governor or even those from Bonny. Their attitude of only us in the Riverine must be Governor have made them to consistently sell the rights of the Riverine communities to the Ikwerre.

skybeauty:
[s]This media campaign against IPOB will soon fade away like the others. Before the Civil war the media lied that Ojukwu caused the war out of selfish interest. They sold the story all over the world but today the truth have finally come out that Ojukwu only wanted restructuring, something that would have benefited the entire South. Today this people are using fake account to cause division and hatred within IPOB but like other propagandas, it will fade away and the struggle will continue[/s].

IPOB is a terrorist group, nothing like media war against them. It serves the Lawyer right. When he was coming out to defend escape prisoners and thugs, didn't he know it would get to this?

chrisxxx:
As I have always said and I repeat again
The difference between an Igbo man and the Fulanis is a lack of opportunity.

Big clown. This is how you fail exams. So IPOB should be equated for Igbo? Why don't we equate Ikwerre with cultism?

IPOB were proscribed by the SE Governors before operation Python dance by the federal government. Every reasonable Igbos have disowned them long ago. Majority of Igbos made it clear that IPOB don't represent them . Only failures abroad, drug pushers, touts and cultist support them. But dafts like you will always block your ears because you want to trash talk those bigger than you.

IDENNAA:
Oga , stop embarrassing yourself. Ofe Ora is cooked with ede and Imo/Abia doesn't use ede. They cook with achi which makes the soup watery unlike us.

Onugbu is cooked with ede and we all know you guys don't know how to begin to cook Onugbu...Onugbu is Anambra kponkwem due to ede.

Anambra never used to cook ji mmili oku....its Imo and Abia culture. We feed our nursing mother's ofe nsala which we use yam as thickner. Everybody knows Imo love watery soup like your ofeowerri. Anambra people are famous for our thick soups.

Of course , you know we own ofe akwu , nkwobi and isi ewu.


My wife is constantly teaching Imo and Abia women how to cook " ofe Anambra" according to them. That's how I know you guys don't eat what we eat.....lol

Imo and Abia cook ofe Owerri, Ukazi and Utazi....i have two Anambra guys who married to Imo ladies and usually mock their wives Imo soup.

Uziza might be rare in our areas but we will always cook our food the Anambra way. We don't cook ofe Owerri or Ukazi soup because we don't fancy them....every Igbo mama put cook Anambra soups.

You don't have to drag everything,bro. Give Anambra some credit .... We are blessed people in many ways which all Igbo gain from.

Lol, Chai. Just laughing my eyes out. Keep it up. How do I have a feeling that you're a lawyer in real life? This bros and drag.
Let me allow you win this one. Cheers

IDENNAA:
In fact , Ofe nsala originated from Omanbala areas , the Anambra riverian areas and Asaba Delta state....Its Anambra because it's cooked with coco yam. Any soup cooked with coco yam belongs to Anambra because with love our soups to be very thick.

Cc.Eastlink

Imagine the boast. How many communities in Omanbala cook soup with Cocoyam? Even the Uziza leave does not grow in that axis. Maybe you are mistaken Nsala soup from pepper soup called Ji miri oku given to pregnant women. Yam pepper soup is what pregnant women eat not Cocoyam.

Now listen.
Ofe Ede
Ofe Oha
And Ofe Nsala are mainly cooked from Ikwerre, Aba to Orlu up to Anambra south. Nsala is even celebrated in Orratta as a festival.

The soup that dominates Omanbala is Ofe Onugbu. Oha and Uziza leaves and seeds are rare in Omanbala/Aguleri.

Origin of King Pepple’s Name. Gotten from Pepper.

https://books.google.com.ng/books?id=9E_zDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA86&lpg=PA86&dq=king+pepple+from+pepper&source=bl&ots=fGTkP8XETD&sig=ACfU3U3KYZCi8LewH_2n4RAw0jGOPy_3Xw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiTm7emosjyAhXxA2MBHVIxCf0Q6AF6BAg1EAI#v=onepage&q&f=true

King Pepple a great leader of Bonny was revered by the English sailors he traded with. In fact it was recorded that he grew up partly in England, and when he became King was given princely regards by the British monarchy.

King Pepple himself was of Igbo origin and had already informed a few Journalist that both himself and his people originated from Igboland. However, the goal of this thread is to prove that Pepple was gotten from Pepper and not Perekule as claimed by the Ijaws.

Check link below
https://books.google.com.ng/books?id=9E_zDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA86&lpg=PA86&dq=king+pepple+from+pepper&source=bl&ots=fGTkP8XETD&sig=ACfU3U3KYZCi8LewH_2n4RAw0jGOPy_3Xw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiTm7emosjyAhXxA2MBHVIxCf0Q6AF6BAg1EAI#v=onepage&q&f=true

BKayy:
Anna People House was never Ijaw.
Liars.
Everything about Jaja was Igbo. Both the buyer and the seller.
The seller was from Oguta and the buyer Anna Pepple was also Igbo.
Read towards the end of the report from the British slave trader Captain Hugh Crow of Liverpool that witnessed everything.

I quote "The King of the new Calabar, in the neighbourhood, and PEPPLE, King of Bonny, were both Eboe"

You’re right. New Calabar is Kalabari which was led by Amakiri (Amachree) another King with Igbo origin. Pepple, the King of Bonny got his name from Pepper. Pepper in a British journal I read online explained his Igbo origin as well as that of his People to a Journalist.

The aim of this evidence to to burst the lies that Pepple went by the fraudulent Ijaw name Perekule. Bonny indigenes were the first Nigerians to live as citizens in England. King Pepple was even brought up in England and was given princely respect by the whites.

See link below.
https://books.google.com.ng/books?id=9E_zDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA86&lpg=PA86&dq=king+pepple+from+pepper&source=bl&ots=fGTkP8XETD&sig=ACfU3U3KYZCi8LewH_2n4RAw0jGOPy_3Xw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiTm7emosjyAhXxA2MBHVIxCf0Q6AF6BAg1EAI#v=onepage&q&f=true

christistruth01:
Both belonged to the Ijaw till today

Jaja was a former Igbo Slave of the Anna Pepple Ijaw house who rose to become the King of Opobo

Anna Pepple is still Igbo house. Pepple himself is Igbo. Pepple was given the name by the English sailors because he traded in Pepper. Jugbo-Jugbo is Jaja’s Bonny name with Ndoki origin. It's was given to him at Ndoki before he was taken to Bonny.

Maobichek:
You know the truth that all Igbos are not IPOB members and are not in support of IPOB. Thank God you mentioned him talking trash; Joe is free to attack IPOB but insulting Igbos and his many other sins against Igbos is his fear now and not necessarily IPOB. To him, all Igbos hate him because of IPOB but that assertion is pure lies.

He should stop abusing Igbos in a bid to be on the good book of non Igbos. Let him face IPOB and stop seeing all Igbos as IPOB, thank you.

Yeah, I bet he’s sober and might have learnt from his past.

Wow, I got rescheduled as well. Wrote the test but couldn't get my result. I guess our complaint was addressed.

Who told you Ofe Nsala is peculiar to Anambra state? Did you do any research to arrive to this.

A welcome development. It's obvious every failed politician is chasing clout with Jos crisis.

If Igbo political elites are the most stupid, then Ijaw political elites are the most useless. Two can play the game.

Gerrard59:
[s]No Igbo man or any from Igboid groups (Amaechi et al) can be the president as long as the country remains one. I do not why Igbos are fixated on a position they will never get[/s].

Ijaw hoodlums opening useless thread while the IPOB mumu’s are liking the comments.

Anago55:
[s]I was one of the advocate for Igbo presidency 2023, but you see that thing? No Igbo man merit that seat. They are all sellouts. Shame on all the so called Igbo leaders. I am crying for that little girl

I swear to God I am not participating in Nigeria election again especially one that will elect an Igbo man as leader. Igbo leaders shame on you all

If eventually That girl is locked behind bars, I will never respect any Igbo leader again[/s]

And you think presenting GEJ to take Igbo slot will work for you?

ablejesus26:
This leaders are big time f ups, but Igbo will rather have them than an occultic group that possess a threat to our existing profiles as Democrats �.
There can never be an over stretched bell ringing on voting and handing over power to credible hands.

I disagree with the SE leaders on many things,but I stand with them on their stand regarding the occutic ipob.

Supported.

Kingcalls:
Replace Arteta with conte.... otherwise this rookie coach go relegate una.... Arsenal don carry their experiment on youngsters enter coach level

You didn't ask yourself why Conte left Inter? I bet you don't know the story behind his leaving Chelsea when the board frustrated his efforts to support him with quality signings after his surprise winning of the league the first season.

Conte has build his CV to a great level and will never join a club that will taints his years of hard work with their administrative failings. So forget Conte and go for Graham Porter — a low budget Arsene Wenger.

Kingcalls:
Why dint Buhari engage Nnamdi Kanu constructively.... I just pity Igbokwe , he is now an outlaw... them go kill am and nothing will happen, person wey don die don die...highest they will arrest some miscreants and level them ipob killers.... igbokwe thinks hausa fulani send am...

Nnamdi Kanu is a low-budget terrorist like Shekau and Fulani bandits and doesn't deserve to be engaged constructively. Buhari is dead according to Kanu, the one in Aso rock doesn't agrees with him.

No one has a right to threaten someone’s life. If you can't engage Mr Joe Igbokwe constructively, sending hoodlums and thugs to harm him shows that you are scared of one man.

Aba has a lot of issues that the no one is talking about. And I ask, between Joe and Theodore Orji, who deserves mob action?

Now let's compare Oga Joe and Abaribe. Why Joe has never held any position in the SE, Abaribe the pretender has held multiple positions since 1999 with nothing to show for it. The only time I remember Abaribe exist is when the topic is about Fulani herdsmen or Buhari in the senate. Or when he put’s on his fake smile and poses for picture with Okezie Ikpeazu both wearing their Onye Dot polo.

Joe only sin is simply acting foolish during his days as APC spokesman Lagos. He might have said a lot of trash talk which didn't go well with many of us. Besides that, Joe has been helpful to a lot of Igbos in Lagos who come to him when they need a political voice. Landgrabbing issues by Omo-onile and also during the Trade fair fracas by Igbo traders with LASG and the Ladipo numerous wahala.

I don't know Joe from Adam, but as a Lagosian I know a lot of issues that Igbos face here and aside from Idimogu in the state house of assembly, no other Igbo has done what Joe is doing for our people. Joe is not a man to beat his chest when he does little things. Doubting Thomases who form part of the IPOB mob can go round and ask.

aainu:
99yrs? still walking straight without walking stick and can kneel at the alter. the wife can also do same. this is social media age. they are not up to what was posted
happy wedding to them

I was thinking I was the only one that saw it.

Imagine, and this Papa knelt down all by himself without any walking stick.

Liebermantic:
Hey, the BIAFRA War was a confrontation between the Igbos and the world..Ijaw used the opportunity to lay claim to independent cities like Opobo, Bonny, Okrika and Kalabari.
You think IGBO people will fold their hands and allow Ijaw of Bayelsa to claim ownership of Bonny and Opobo when History indicated they were Igbos including their kings?
Not possible bro...
Ijaw should focus on Bayelsa State, a state created for them.. Opobo and Bonny should be independent Cities or referendum to be carried out to determine where they will belong

Only these groups should decide where they belong. Currently both fall under one ethnic group in Rivers state. Bonny call themselves Ibani while Opobo call themselves Ubani. And recently some of their indigenes have gone ahead to add Ndoki into that ethnic tripod. Ndoki might agree to other things but are cautious by the posturing of the hands of Esau but the voice of Jacob. The voice here is Ijaw backers from INC/IYC. And this began recently during the militancy period of Yar’adua/GEJ administration. A lot of juicy amnesty and ministry of Niger-Delta funds is being used by the Ijaws to expand their influence in the psyche of these people. And it's working as most of them are told what to do in INC gathering. Like the fake tales of Kolokuma-Opokuma origin. The IYC tells them that Igbo is foreign to them and that Finima Ibani-Egere is their native tongue. INC moles have infiltrated their Facebook groups, telling them to reinforce their Ijaw identity. For instance a lot of them are now told that the Isalachi and Ibolachi greeting is Igbo and should be stopped. Those with Igbo names are told to changed them to Ijaw names. The INC is using her IYC to target the youthful generation. And they seem to be falling for it. Most especially those from Bonny.

The Igbo contact that King Dandeson had kick-started through coming to the annual Ahajioku festival seems to have died down as Ohaneze-Ndigbo and other eastern organization seems to be clownish these days. Since Chinua Achebe died, the conference stopped functioning. You don't expect King Dandeson and King Pepple of Bonny to be trying to reconnect back to their roots by sending emissaries to Ahiajoku festivals each time while you don't play your part to counter the tactics of INC.

This might be partly blamed on IPOB. Why you might be suprised? Ever since the rise of Nnamdi Kanu a lot of functional Igbo cultural organizations died. Aka-Ikenga which was prominent in the South-South died and a few other organizations. That because IPOB deliberately distracted all efforts to build up on what was started by notable elders by continue her naked dance in public. IPOB brainwashed a lot of folks into Judaism and other shallow-minded dogmas like Arochukwu’s Chukwu Okike Abiama.

Uneducated historians who formed IPOB intelligentsia followed the part of Kanu the dropout to dish out two wrapper tales and fake Ubiaja gutter stories to landgrab those with no iota of Igbo links into a multi-ethnic Biafra. And they are other burning issues to talk about no one seems interested in except Biafra tales by moonlight stories.

What stops the Igbos from using their platforms to gerrymander like the INC/IYC? Ohaneze youth seems to be a PDP arm with no direction than to collect bribes from politicians. What stops Igbos from going back to the drawing board and re strategize like the Great Benin Descendants and the Igala folks are doing.

If a strong pro-Igbo platform is set up, one that can spread her tentacles into areas with Igbo roots a lot will change. Not preaching Biafra online or any crap by IPOB, but Igbo values, identity and history.

Nationalistic Igbos can actually create a strong Igbo National Congress or revive the Igbo State Union group for this purpose. Give elective positions to those in Opobo and Bonny positions in Igbo cultural organizations. Continue the Ahajioku festival by sending invitations to both Kingdoms, and also send your own emissary to visit these people during their own Nwaottam festival.

During elections in Rivers state, quit the Ikwerre non-interest voting stupidity. A lot of us have Igbo roots and need support not just the Ikwerre. Support the candidacy of a Dakuku Peterside or anyone who identifies with you and tell your town unions to educate their members to go all out to cast their vote with such person. These are the ways to go about it, rather than allowing clowns to distract you in burning issues that needs your attention in present Nigeria.

IPOB is a distraction
MASSOB is a distraction
Biafra is a distraction
Nnamdi Kanu, Simon Ekpa and other future clowns are distractions.
Your focus should be the issues that your race face in Nigeria, providing solution to solving them is a great way to show you’re aware of these things, instead of making noise online.

There are so many things that goes under the bridge that the scam cry for Biafra has blinded a lot of you from seeing. The earlier you lots open you blind eyes from one-way sentimental direction the better. I should not be giving you guys all these tips, but something it pains me to see that the smartest Igbos died before 1999.

oyatz:
First let me thank you for remaining calm and civil unlike most supporters and sympathizers of IPOB.


As someone who is well read, you ought to have known that;

1) There was never an Igbo Empire/Kingdom/Republic before 1914 that included or exercise sovereignity over Opobo and Ibani, so at what point do these cities becomes Igbo cities?

2) These cities don't share boundaries with other igbo towns/cities. It's just like Ghana trying to lay claims to Badagry!

3) There is no way, igbos can just move into these coastal cities , trying to chase away the present Indigenes and rulers of these cities and annex these cities without causing problems and drawing the attention of Nations and Governments beyond the region.
It will cast the Igbos in the mould of the aggressor and Invaders which will be counter productive in the long run similar to the 1990 attempts by Saddam Hussain led Iraq to annex Kuwait which caused the Gulf War-1.

I appreciate your civilily and decorum as well. Maybe a drink or two would be needed in a lush bar on a Sunday in Victoria Island to discuss such exponential matters. Just joking.

But in fairness, Igbos are not known to be empire builders or expansionist. If by chance anyone is claiming lands not native to us, check clearly many of them might be misinformed.

For Opobo and Bonny, they were both independent city-states. Both with Igbo and Ijo heritage. Igbo origin and language and Ijo cultured. The early colonial historians had written so much about these groups that even Kenneth Dike who was the first indigenous Nigerian historian wrote his first book about the Niger-Delta states. GI Jones a British expanded on these facts and maintained the same thing — Ndoki-Igbo origin and language but Ijo cultured. Even when the Ijo sponsored revisionist by name Prof. Alagoa tried to change the Bonny/Opobo Ndoki origin by improvising an Ijaw origin, GI Jones sent in an academic rebuttal from London, to which Alagoa had to edit in a later version but this time claiming a reverse migration from Opokuma-Kolokuma to Ndoki.

Any wonder the Igbo-led Eastern region maintained the status quo and their independence by not enforcing any change or land grabbing them into the Igbo ethnic group. The Ibani or Ubani (Both Bonny and Opobo) kept their unique identity until the onslaught by the 52 brigade headed by the late Major Isaac Boro. Genocide and killings was recorded in both Bonny and Opobo and a host of other riverine communities like Kalabari, Andoni, Yeangoa etc. But the likes of Bonny and Opobo got it worst after which they were forcefully made to become Ijaws by threats. Funny enough after the changes were made, the land grabbers still failed to make the people to stop speaking their language. Despite several attempt to set up Finima-Ijaw language (which they called Ibani Egere) in schools, making it compulsory in Bonny and Opobo it still failed.

That singular incident of both Boro and the Ijo rulers of Old Rivers state kept them at daggers drawn with the Igbos and at the appropriate time, it will all be revisited. Currently, the Ijo landgrabbers who carried out that act are now in Bayelsa giving a lot of folks a breather in Rivers state.

oyatz:
Ojukwu who studied History at Oxford University and was a District Officer in the colonial Administration (The equivalent of LGA chairman in the present arrangements ) beforen joining the Military knew better than you.


On what basis will Ojukwu be taking over supposedly 'Igbo territories in Delta, Kogi, Benue, Rivers'? Was he also the Governor of these areas.

It's far easier to dilineate territories for a people based on Geographical landmarks e.g Rivers, Mountains, Gullies and Valleys than trying to create a country for them based on acclaimed historical ethnic homelands because it's difficult to say where the lands of of ethnic group start and the lands of another ethnic group stop. There are always areas of ethnic overlaps that may not be easy and straight forward to resolve.


Byzantium (now Istanbul, Turkey), Cyprus, Smyna, Thessaloniki and Macedonia used to be Greek Territories but today aren't parts of Greece.

The attempts by Adolf Hitler to annex all lands where he thinks German people lived was the primary cause of the WW-2.

Today, German people are in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Leichtenstein and at least 3 other European countries

Ojukwu might have studied classical history but he didn't apply the practical aspect of it during the Biafran war. Gowon who didn't study history had the upper hand than Ojukwu because he took the advise of those who understood better than him. So studying history changes nothing if you don't apply it when it matters most.

To reply you on the points you made. First, the Greek conquered lands and people during the Hellenic period. And so those lands you mentioned many of them were independent ethnic groups who got annexed by another bigger wolf “Ottoman” now Turkey.

Germans on the other hand were never in one territory. Germania was the name the Romans gave to the barbarians who lived in that axis, and after the fall of Rome, there was a free for all landgrab by groups like the Frankish kingdom began by Clovis, the Huns headed by Atila, the Saxons, the Vikings, the Anglo who moved to take Britannia, and the successors of the Franks who apportioned much of present France and some part of Briton, Luxembourg, Italia and Austria to themselves under the holy roman empire headed by Charlemagne but which continued with Kings from Austria.

So Hitler trying to form or revive a single country for old Germania was a dream similar to the Italians trying to revive the Roman empire. Such dream by Hitler would alter the balance of power in Europe. Because there's no way you’ll annex Austria who had already enjoyed statehood, first as the successors of the Holy Roman Empire and second as the Austro-Hungarian empire ruling most of Eastern Europe before the existence of the German Reich. Or Hungary who existed before Hitler. Holland another old Germanic tribe that had formed a single identity called Dutch. Or by annexing some part of France who were rightly Germanic tribesmen as well.

Had Hitler kept to the unified Germany began by Otto Von Bismarck, rather than expand it no mans land, no one who think of dividing them into east or west after their defeat by the allied forces and Russia.

So your analysis on Igbos is faulty. Ndigbo have no agenda to gather the YEAI groups in the south and middle-belt to form one identity that will be similar to Hitlers landgrab. Ndigbo unlike the Ijo landgrabbers know their territories and are not willing to let them go, whether in Nigeria or in the apocalypse.

oyatz:
Bros, we are in 2021 in case you aren't aware sir.


Right now, the Referendum for Biafra will NOT hold in any part of Rivers State.

The Governor and the elders of Rivers State have dissociated themselves from Biafra.

You will be deceiving yourself if you think that you will jump Imo-Rivers boundaries and over so many non-Igbo territories to Opobo which is the most Southern point of Rivers State to claim the city.

No one is talking about Biafra here. Biafra for one is not an Igbo idea as it didn't include Igbos in Benue, Kogi, Delta, and Edo. It's was mainly an eastern region affair as Ojukwu didn't see the bigger picture and ceded Igbo territories outside the east all in a bid to sit tight as Governor. Records of how he created the puppet Republic of Benin with Igbo territories still there and how he abandoned Igbos in Kogi and Benue to their fate in the north. So when Ijaws, Benin, and Igala began grabbing Igbo lands in their domain with fraudulent revisions, most Igbo elders kept mute as Ojukwu had already ceded them all for his egoistic power play with Gowon.

So Biafra as far as many of us are concerned is dead and buried. The carcass of Biafra is now the food of the lowest rungs of the society. Touts, thugs, cultists, never-do-wells, and failures who seek a way to escape from explaining to their Umunna why they failed as men. Some of them spent years in London with nothing to write home about, before setting up an IPOB company to scam the illiterate maga’s in the South East. You can call these men hyenas or vultures na you sabi.

But in this new dispensation, our focus is playing politics the right way in Nigeria. Get allies just like others are doing. But if peradventure the worst happens to Nigeria, the plan B is never dead Biafra but republic of Igboland, Ikenga republic or any name that identifies with our roots. And that includes every inch, none will be ceded to any tribe. If you observe, you’ll see that many Igbos aren't looking for brotherhood where there is none. All the places most Igbos are challenging have historical documents from antiquity, with backed-up linguistic evidences that even if we go to ICJ, we’ll win the case. But going to ICJ won't suffice because the matter is too less and can be solved with wisdom.

Igbos know their territories and anyone that wants to steal them should ready themselves for hundreds of years of hostilities. That one is guaranteed. The only thing that will bring peace is if everyone focuses on what is ancestrally and natively theirs.

For Bonny & Opobo only them will decide their fate. Their Kings and citizens. Not by INC or Ijo gangsterism which happened with the aid threats and genocide of the indigenes by land grabbing Isaac Boro. This time the story will be different.

EmekaA125:
No need continuing this conversation with you. Ebonyi State was part of old Anambra before Abacha carved it out in 1996. The present status of the state is not bad. No Igbo is more or inferior than the other. We speak one language, culture and identity—IGBO.
God bless NDIGBO.
God bless S/EAST.
God bless MAZI NNAMDI KANU.

That’s how it should be

oyatz:
You don't win war just because you have population but you win wars because you have SUPERIOR ADVANTAGES over your opponents. These superior advantages may include economic power, Superior Technology, population, Favourable geographical factors like access to the Sea and International land borders and above all, DEPENDABLE ALLIES.



If Igbo Republic tries to invade Ijaw Republic in it's attempt to gain coastal territories, think of the possible superior advantages that both sides may have.

Coastal control you mean? Lol! What can Ijaw republic give to Bonny that they lack? Absolutely nothing. I bet you no shot will be fired. Bonny and Opobo will gladly cede themselves to Igbo republic as well as other communities in present riverine Rivers state. This I know first hand.

If you may know, Bonny, Opobo and Elem Kalabari became the dominate ports in the pre-colonial era taking over from Calabar because of her strong ancestral links with Igboland. Their sustenance which began from salt sales to the slave trade and then to palm oil was basically due to business dealings with the hinterland, not by fish sales with Izon boat gypsy’s. And in post Nigeria, the trio will want that economic interest to continue knowing that the benefits outweigh drinking ogogoro with sea dwellers.

Besides the economic benefits of being the sole axis for export and import of goods, the communities will benefit from the numerous gas pipelines from the eastern corridor of which Bonny LNG will need to be sustainable.