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Maxdiamond:
Check your email you use to register for the application. They must have sent you the link for the online test there.

I checked now and saw it. Village people. Well, I finally did the test even though it was past the approved 4pm, submitted but didn't see my score.

I knew it will come to this. The cries of calling on UN, ICJ, Amnesty, Britain and US to come to the aid of a terrorist.

Where are the IPOB Ekuke noisemakers? Thank God nobody in Igboland is ready to stick their head for a stubborn and mannerless Supreme Leader.

Hiploko:
They should have stated it. Lets call tthem out on social media

Those people are daft. Who knows if this test is just a formality as the supposed intakes know themselves already. Application someone sent since January 2020 it's now them dey do online test. Funny country.

Favourflavour:
I got a message this evening for the test but no mail was sent as contained. What do I do?

The same applies to me. Got an sms on Monday but haven't seen an invite email. And yet I’m scheduled for test today.

Hi, please I was scheduled for an ICPC test today. I got an sms last week notifying me of the test but up till now haven't gotten an email link. Please how did you guys got yours?

Abagworo:
The largest Igbo clan is Isu by virtue of how Igbos were traditionally arranged. Afikpo is Isu as well as Ohaozara, Isuikwuato and all the Isus including Igbuzor in Delta State. Isu is more than half of Igboland. Ngwa is the largest in present day political arrangement having more than 7 local governments and Mbaise is an artificial formation created in 1943 by colonial masters

Egbema is Isu and an admixture of Oru. But we are basically Isu. 7/10 of Egbema communities trace their origin to Isu and 2/10 Oru and Aboh (Aboh can still be considered as Oru looking at how them, Oguta, Ihiala, and Ogba have the same source, while 1/10 of us are Oratta.

mbahdi:
58 and old like dis.nigeria dey try

It’s obvious you are still a kid. Pray you don't suffer the kind illness that woman suffered. Go ask the meaning of Cancer. She's a survival.

theTranscriber:
loyal to what?

I can see that the Igbo false feeling of superiority is ingrained in the DNA

Enjoy your one Nigeria

Nothing like false superiority. Awo penchant to lead at all cost made him have several issues with his comrades. Awo regardless of his administrative acumen saw himself as first among the rest. He never had the patience to be a follower or even accept criticism.

Zik was the first person he had problems with. Akintola and Balewa were next, and later Obasanjo, Shagari and Abiola. We can even add Babangida to the mix as well. While Abiola used his Concorde newspaper to demystify Pa Awo, Babangida was ruthless.

When Zik was loyal to Herbert Macaulay the south spoke in solidarity. The moment Awo broke out from the NCNC to challenge Zik’s leadership and form his tribal AG, the north took centre stage. Had Zik had the attitude of Awo, trust me it would have been hell on earth. Akintola vs Awo war would have been child’s play. But as a nationalist, Zik was just the big brother who had to allow his younger brother have his way.

This is just the Op’s opinion. Please do not put Awo and Zik in the same basket. Zik towered above his contemporaries and was in the same boat as early pan-African nationalist. Zik not becoming Prime Minister was Nigeria’s loss.

Awo was supposed to be loyal to Zik, the same way Zik was loyal to Herbet Macaulay, but stubbornness to lead at all cost made him break up the southern alliance which made Zik go up north to form alliance with those he had no business with.

Who and who makes up this Ijaw nation, when GEJ himself is from Ogbia ethnic nationality. I bet pidgin English was used during the meeting of brothers? What happens to Izon language?

Nothing, life will move on as if nothing happened.

zoedew:
[s]Azikiwe was a fox! Ojukwu knew that for sure! Show me five politicians who faithfully followed him and would do so with the benefit of hindsight. The man lived for himself! He bred the likes of the shameless Nwafor Orizu whose PhD was good for unhooking the VC’s Secretary and 419ng entire communities[/s].

IPOB Ekuke, yet since Zik's demise none of your shameless business men leaders could lace his shoes. It was the same Zik who rebounded Ndigbo back to the centre just after 10 years Ojukwu your god bungled the civil war, sending us to political relegation.

Is it still not a shame that since the death of Zik in 1996, no one including the jugganuts of Ekwueme, Ojukwu, Okadigbo, Nwobodo, Nzeribe, Anyim and Kalu etc could bring Igbos back to relevance. These ones where there when outsiders formed the useless MASSOB group and couldn't do anything. Most of them are still alive watching how PDP keep dribbling them from the coveted seat despite their years of servitude to the dead party.

Intelligent article. The coming of MASSOB chiefly sponsored by Obasanjo to dwindle Igbo political fortune, destroyed Igbo politically. How the mighty fell, from a politically strategic ethnic group to now cry babies.

Igbo PDP leaders like Kalu, Nwobodo, Okadigbo, Nzeribe etc who elevated Obasanjo in 1999 over their zonal interest were the cause of Igbo political dearth. Alex Ekwueme who ended up as a political lightweight rather than fight gloriously just like Buhari, choose to become subservient to the dictates of the PDP. What stopped the docile Ekwueme from forming a new party to aim for the Presidency, but rather he choose to be boy boy to Obasanjo.

Igbo help birth PDP, but they ended up as used and dump by the bigger boys. 1999-202? will forever be the period Igbos died politically in Nigeria all thanks to the absence of Zik.

NwaEzefuNaMba:
I don't see the possibility of Kanu walking out of prison, neither to work for APC nor otherwise.

The government knows what they are doing. At the right time, they'll set the likes of Dasuki, El Zazakzaki, Metuh, Igboho and Kanu free at the detriment of their support base. Like Kanu like Uwazuruike and like Gani Adams like Igboho. Each are political fraudsters who used a scam movement and blood of the innocent to enrich themselves.

NwaEzefuNaMba:
You made important calls, to kill a follow Igbo youth for not believing in your course
I think some of you will eventually get tired of being stupid one day.

@Udele1 there's no genuine agitation anywhere(not that of Kanu and not that of Igboho)
Infact, it's on record that Igboho is a card carrying member of PDP.

Exactly. Both Kanu and Igboho are PDP card carrying members used to cause instability as APC did with Boko-Haram and MEND.

Anyone who uses human lives to play football will get their reward. Nnamdi Kanu is a full blown terrosist just like Shekau. Both used religion to brainwash their followers, and finally gingered them to pick arms. While Kanu was using his scam Judaism to terrorize Igboland, Shekau was using Islam to wipe out civilians in the North East.

Kanu is now in jail and two things will end up happening. Either he's set free to work for the APC or he get's a life sentence in prison. Igboho might get 30 years sentence but Kanu's terrorism will be his undoing.

udele1:
I asked an IPOB biafran supporter a question in Abuja, and he innocently indicted his leader.

I told him as Nigeria is today with high unemployment rate, if he was a youth corper and was paid 150,000 a month, will he like the youth service year to end? He said NO.

I asked him if he would be willing to give bribe and lie to extend his service duration? He said YES.

I told him that that's exactly what IPOB is doing with Biafra.

Now lets look at the 5 reasons Kanu's Biafra is a fraud.

1) The agitation was silent under a Biafran president Goodluck jonathan. If you did not demand for Biafra under a Biafran, how do you convince the north that your agitation is not politically motivated?

2) Kanu claimed buhari offered him Biafra with 5 igbo states and he refused. He insisted that Niger delta is part of Biafra.

Today they insult edwin clack and wike for saying they are not part of Biafra. You are forcing them into biafra, and telling them they will be free to leave when Biafra comes. People who you bring into a union forcefully, will freely leave?

Isn't that fighting for another Biafra within Biafra?

3) Biafran Agitation is a business. A registered business cant be fighting for the liberation of a people as an organisation. This reflects the picture and the scenario i described above. How Biafran struggle was to kanu what NYSC would be to a hopeless corper receiving 150,000 salary monthly.

He will never want the struggle to end.
But kanu stopped working since he started the IPOB business. All the bills of the FENDI FIGHTER,are paid by the struggle.

Even elon musk, jeff bezos, mark Zuckerberg who are billionaires in dollars still go to work.

His family feeds on the struggle, he is clothed by the struggle. He is living larger than the American billionaires, because they still have to go to work to earn thier money.

At the same time, they are creating employment for millions of youths in their country. In the case of kanu, he does not have to go to work, he is not creating employment, all he does is talk on radio and check balance for alert.


4) Like most seasonal movies, it would be boring for every season to be shot in the same location. So they move the seasons to different countries and cities to make the next season interesting.

Thats how kanu has been changing the location for every season of the Biafran movie series. First it was israel that would bring Biafra.

Then he moved it to US donald trump to bring Biafra. Now he move it to Ambazonia to bring Biafra.

Guess the location of the next season and win 100,000



5) ESN is setup to protect Igbo's from fulani. Everyone knows that since the setup of ESN only Igbo's have been dying. Igbo businesses destroyed, increased crime, releasing of criminals from prison, increased assassination in igboland. How many fulani casualty? None. Why then is kanu threatening every other security outfit in igboland, if ESN was about protecting Igbo's?

They claim Nigeria is a zoo, and have refused to let them go. But you said you were offered 5 igbo states, but you want to drag the Niger delta who is not willing to go with you along.

You want freedom from Nigeria, but take away the freedom of other Igbo's in the process.

Dont compare IPOB Agitation with yoruba agitation. Sunday Igbohos agitation is purely issue based and in the interest of the Yoruba's. No financial gains or business registration attached. Igboho's interest is centered on the yoruba nation. He will not do anything that brings harm to the Yoruba's.

He will not send yoruba youths to go and kill Yoruba's in the army and police. Knowing fully well that there will be a retaliation and more yoruba youths will be killed in the process. So he can do fund raising to make more money.

He will not send yoruba youth to go and open the prisons and release criminals. Because he knows that it will increase crime in the region and make it unsafe for Yoruba's.

His agitation is focused on issues and not financial gains.

Funny but the truth

richmond500:
just look at the level u have reduced urself to, using one word to attack me.

When I mean core, I am saying I am a true Kalabari man, my ancestral lineage is traced to Kalabari even way back to the 1800 generation

Na just one blunder. I haven't even started you don begin to stammer.

richmond500:
haters will hate, potatoes will potate.

Kalabari is ijaw, Google is ur friend

The Kalabari people say otherwise. Even the Okrika who benefitted more from the Ijaw shenanigans all thanks to how you elevated them to Governorship (Ada George) and how you gifted P/H south to them have suddenly began to assert themselves.

richmond500:
BTW, I am core kalabari

A true Kalabari man won't use the word core. This is where you gave yourself. The Kalabari’s are proud people.

richmond500:
just because one person claim he is kalabari and not Ijaw, u want to believe him?

Google would have saved u this embarrassment

Not just one person, majority Kalabari say the same thing. In the past Kalabari used to be a language on it's own with several dialect. But they got subsumed into the political Ijaw ethnic group who sought to dominate old Rivers state.
Infact in the eastern region, Kalabari was a recognized language that was understood by many riverine folks. Where was the so-called Izon language when men counted as men? The Izon language had to gain relevance in 1974 when Prof. Alagoa who on the payroll of Ijaw led Rivers government went on research to foist a scam language on the people.

richmond500:
hmmmm, so Kalabari, Okrika, Bonny, Bille all stole the Ndoki language?

And since Bonny belongs to Igbo cos they share some similarities with Ndoki it then means Kalabari is also Igbo abi.

Haha, delusional land grabbers

Feed your eyes. There's a thread where a Kalabari man debunked the fake Ijaw claim to his tribe. I’m a Rivers man and every grown up River person knows the antagonism of Kalabari people towards the Ijaw claim. The Kalabari’s kept quiet in old Rivers state but as soon as you landgrabbers were sent packing to Bayelsa, they found their voice. Any wonder why the Kalabari’s vehemently bite your hands when you tried dragging them along but choose to remain in Rivers state.

richmond500:
good, thank God u know this.

Now one thing about Nigeria is cultural diversity, stop thinking all cultures are the same.
Ijaw is a language, while Igbo is a tribe and a language, Ijaw is a tribe and within this tribe, we have different dialects.

I do not expect u to understand sha, u have spend ur entire life in ur shop selling condenced milk, travel out and see the beauty of Nigeria

I agree with you on the bolded. Ijaw is a tribe and a language. But the tribe and language of this Ijaw people is limited to a small area.

htdot:
Ama=town or kingdom in nembe, yanabo mean=my own....
What does it mean in igbo?

Ama as far as I know has no Ijaw root, it was copied from Ndoki and the Oru’s which spread to other Ijaw communities.

Ama - means town in Ndoki
Yanabo - means owner or leader in Ndoki

Now you see what it means.

Amayanabo has it's roots from Ndoki.

richmond500:
na wa o.
This is the essence of youth service corps, u are allowed to go out and appreciate the cultural diversity in Nigeria but u chooses to chase secondary school girls.

Ijaw is a tribe, also ijaw is a dialect.
While the ijaw tribe speak different dialect, [s]there is a particular dialect called ijaw dialect which is not spoken by everyone[/s]

You meant pidgin English. Taa, keep quayet. Tell us the central Ijaw dialect spoken by all political Ijaws. Even the fake Kolokuma-Opokuma dialect stays in Southern Bayelsa and Delta to an extent. No Rivers community speaks that trash. If northern Bayelsa and Nembe which is located in the same southern Ijaw can’t understand the fraudulent central Ijaw is it Rivers people that will understand the scam? Kalabari is a language on it's own, the same applies to Degema, Odua, Abua, and Okrika.

htdot:
I know most ipobs are not smart.
You will tell me the meaning of amayanabo in ibo

Amanayabo is not Ijaw. Pere is the Ijaw version of leader or King. Amanayabo is what Bonny and Opobo called her Kings before Kalabari, Okrika and Nembe copied that culture.

Pray tell us the meaning of Amanayabo in Izon language. But Amanayabo has a meaning in Ndoki.

engrsyer:
Op, that is Bille/Bonny/Nembe jetty caption your information and headline right. It is a jetty reconstructed by Gov. Wike for this 3 Ijaw Kingdoms named Bille Kingdom, Bonny Kingdom and Nembe Kingdom in Rivers and Bayelsa States

Bayelsa boys always trying to drag Rivers state into their childish pranks. Wike constructed it for Rivers people to make use. What concerns Wike with Nembe? Is Nembe in Rivers state? No one ask for your input, na so you run drag Rivers people into your Ijaw stupidity.

Xbobtage:
You have allowed the trolls from Nairaland to get to you, you should already know that most of the people posting here are not really who they claim to be, but rather here to misrepresent and mislead other nigerians, this might be true for yourself as well. But I would like to react to your post on face value and respond constructively.

Assuming you are truly from Rivers State, then you are my Brother, I would assume it to be Okrika as that is the strongest Pro-ijaw clan in our state. After glancing through some of your previous post and noticed you never deemed it necessary to say anything about the recently passed PIB bill, It becomes difficult to understand why you invested so much energy in posting this thread, you have now set up the great ijaw tribe to be insulted by the usual nairaland insult posters. For what reason? that ijaws are not igbos? Even though as an ardent reader of nairaland for almost 10 years I will say its hard to come across a single comment claiming ijaws are igbos, although I agree I have met some uneducated people in real life who would make such dumb insinuations even though they made it in good faith (but it appears even those people are too dumb to even sign up on nairaland as we hardly see such comments here)

But can we blame some people who might confuse the two tribes when some "supposed" ijaw territory is purely igbo speaking (like Bonny), is there any igbo territory that currently speaks ijaw in the south east? I am sure not!

And on a side note Why have all the niger delta producing areas in the country gone shocking mute after this new PIB bill? Have we all been paid off?

Listen, the problem I have with your write up is that after you have claimed that the igbo people are trying to force everyone to be igbo and be in Biafra, you go ahead to make it sound as if Ijaw is niger delta, and niger delta is ijaw and as if Rivers State is Ijawland, I am a Riversman but I am definitely not an Ijaw man and Rivers state is not Ijawland. How can you accuse the igbo people of one thing and be doing it in the same sentence. Ijaw people have allowed their strange competition with igbo people to leave a bad taste (about the minority tribes in SS ) in the eyes igbos who are trying to reach out. How can ijaw people fewer than 2.5million be in competition with people who over 50 million?

All of these madness is why some of us are speaking out so that people do not think we have all gone mad. Our people need alliances right now not burning bridges, if the ijaws believe they are big enough to form a country of their own, and do not give a damn who they poke then stop lumping everyone in the niger delta in your sentences, and ruining it for those of us who want to maintain age old alliances.

Please next time you want speak, speak for your people so that everyone can be sure who is making these sentences. Thank you!

My broda, you hit the nail on the head. What tribe are you from bro? I'm from ONELGA but hardly see most of our guys on nairaland except some imposters forming Riversmen.

Saifullah01:
I don't know if this guy is being brave or naive, but I must say I admire his passion

Omo the guy get mind I tell you.

I love reading stories of Legends. But my only complaint and remorse is to Ifa. If Ifa could prophecy the birth of Ogedengbe, the Kiriji war and all that, was the great oracle blind not to prophecy the coming of the colonial masters?

Second, it's obvious that during the Kiriji war, the marauding Sokoto caliphate have already established their presence in Ilorin. What is it with naming Ogedengbe "Seriki Meyaki". I know it's an Hausa word, but was there no other title to name a Yoruba generalissimo?

Twakor:
For your information, I am not igbo. I am simply trying to shed light on their origin, because many people mistakenly think they are Yoruba because of the unfortunate incident with their Surname.

Let me help you with more information.

1. Most people know the 4 brothers who play basketball, but people don't realise they are actually 5 brothers, not 4. Their first son was born in Nigeria before the parents travelled to Europe and could not take him with them. They left him in Lagos as a very young child and he never saw his parents again because of their situation in Europe, they were asylum seekers and couldn't travel back to Nigeria, they were stuck there. That boy's name is Francis Ofili (First name Francis, surname Ofili). He finally moved to Greece as an adult after his brothers had made it in the NBA, and in Greece he appended the name Antetokunpo to his name to cement the association with his brothers. Here is a music video of their brother Francis Ofili on their official youtube channel


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paBWk94D6b0

2. Now just look at a list of the official names of all five brothers and their parents below below

Father - Charles
Mother - Veronica
1st Son - Francis (Full name Francis Ofili, this is the only brother that grew up in Nigeria using his real name)
2nd Son - Thanasis
3rd Son - Giannis Ugo
4th Son - Kostas Ndubuisi
5th Son - Alex Emeka

Does the above list sound like a typical Yoruba family to you? A Yoruba family that lacks yoruba names so mysteriously, from father to all the kids. Even their father does not have a Yoruba name? Not even a middle name? Does that look normal to you?

3. There is no video, audio, or picture evidence of their father ever speaking Yoruba or dressed like a yoruba person. But there is plenty of evidence that the man is Igbo. This is a picture of Mr and Mrs Antetokounmpo posted on instagram by their first son Francis Ofili - https://www.instagram.com/p/BmAgCxDBnPH/

4. Unfortunately, their Dad, Charles, Died in 2017, and after his death is when stories of the 5th brother surfaced for the first time. While he was alive, their background was deliberately kept obscure.

5. The reason why they still carry this name Adetokunbo around is because the consequences of lying while seeking asylum is severe, their mother would be in legal trouble in Greece/EU if it ever came out that their original identity was fake, this is the only reason why they still carry that name around and stick to the story. They are not Yorubas, they are Igbos who migrated on false identity to try and get a better life.

6. If you want to learn more about their family (Not what you think you know) Checkout their mother Veronica's instagram - https://www.instagram.com/veronica_ante3443/ or their first son Francis Ofili's instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ofili_official/


Again, I am not igbo and I am not Yoruba. I don't care about tribal anything, I just don't like misinformation

Now the puzzle is finally connecting. Because I was wondering what will make their biological first son Frank bear Ofili. Why will a first son bear Ofili. This shows that Ofili is the real surname of their Father Charles. Among the children, only Giannis has Sina attached as middle name, but the rest all bear Igbo names. Even when their Father died, he was brough home to Onitsha to be buried. Another red flag.

Well, I won't blame them, a lot of Nigerians left this country with someone else identity from the early 90's to 20's. It's just like Mbappe's father who is Yoruba, but had to stick with the Cameroonian links inorder not to raise suspicion in French circles of using another person's passport to migrate to France.

Back to the Antetokumpo's. I knew something was not right when everything about that family pointed to Igbo. I actually went through the Father's pix posted online, not once did he identify with Yoruba roots. Dude was seen in Igbo chieftaincy attires all through. Even the idea of selling CD's and Wrist watches in the streets of Athens, pointed towards Igbo. Do the Yoruba's hawk CD's and Wrist watches on the street?

senatordave1:
The appeal court needs him.the judge really took it personal.ihedioha should stop hiding behind hirelings to sponsor dead cases

I tell you. Ihedioha's desperation to win through the back door is becoming alarming.

IPOB and Kanu have always worked for the PDP. Smart Igbos have known this since 2013.