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proeast:
You're totally ignorant!
Opobo people bear Igbo names and do virtually most things Igbos do culturally and they share a mutually intelligible language with us. However, on the other hand, they have absolutely nothing in common with you guys except your ridiculous attempts to force yourselves on them during the time of old Rivers.

Opobo people don't bear Ibo names,
Ibim or Ibiwari is not Ibo name.
Preye is not Ibo name.

So why are Opobo and Bonny people compulsorily learning Ibani Ijaw in primary and secondary school, and not Ibo?

All Ibo rants, end here on Nairaland no where e reach.
Go claim Ijaw land, physical and not on Nairaland.

BKayy:
Bloody liar. Who said so?
Which language did he say it with?
Bring the video or call the persons name.

Alagoa was able to dance in his stupidity because at that time Ndigbo were more focused with rebuilding but now, we have you peoples time

Alagoa is even from Nembe that you guys are saying they are also Igbo.

AdakaBoro8:
tell me just one compound in those places that is named in igbo language?
all the compounds in those places are given Ijaw names.....
the thrones are called AMAYANABO an Ijaw name for throne and not eze or obi....
amayanabo mean owner of town.....
so why will an igbo throne be given an Ijaw name amayanabo?

Amayanabo means owner of town in my Kolokuma too.

BKayy:
Please which Ijaw person made a non Ijaw King?

Go find out.

Eastlink:
So a 419 idea brought up by Prof Alagoa should be implemented in Bonny/Opobo all in the name of reviving a language that was never theirs. Didn't you hesr that the indigenes refused their Children from going to the scam schools while continue teaching them Igbo at home.

If Ibani (the Kalabari dialect) should be revived, then look no further to Finima and the rest migrant communities with roots from Kalabari. And if Bonny people are wise, they should discontinue the idea of forming one people with those who seek to relegate Bonny indigenous language for a foreign one. Finima, Kalaibiama and the rest should learn to speak Ndoki and not the other way round. Bobby should push for the revival of Igbo language which used to be the major language spoken in the Island before the devilish move by Ijos from Bayelsa during the civil war.

Ayebapirinye in Ibani Ijaw.
Mean what God gave.
It's same thing in my Kolokuma dialect in Bayelsa.
Or did you forget that Ibani people say their ancestors came from Isedani in Okoloba town in same Kolokuma clan that I came from.

Eastlink:
Let me throw you the question.
Tamuno as a name in Okrika is recent. Okrika, Bonny, etc have a name for God and only copied that name from Ijos.
Priye is Ijo and has no meaning in Okrika or Bonny.
Dokubo is bored by people mostly from Kalabari with deep root in Igbo and has no meaning in Ijo.
Ibiwari is Kalabari and has no meaning in Ijo. Those from Bonny and Okrika bear it due to links with Kalabari.

Keep deceiving yourself, I'm from Kolokuma central Ijaw in Bayelsa state, same place with Isaac Boro.
Ibiwari that Opobo speak of, means the Foundation, or even house that I asked for, in my Kolokuma Ijaw.

EILTD:
You summarised everything.

Osondu is part of the influx of Ibo that came, and has made the Ibani-Ijaw leaders, made Ibani-Ijaw a compulsory language that all must study, in primary and secondary schools, in all the Bonny-Ijaw clan towns, and all the Opobo-Ijaw clan towns which numbers atleast 70.
In number.
and they never learn Ibo in schools.

Odingo1:
You are missing it, the names you are mentioning are Ijaws living in those areas. The original occupants speak Igbo and bear Igbo names. There are Ijaws that have integrated as part of those communities but they are minority. Have you been to Bonny Island, Okrika, Ubani and Opobo, tell yourself the truth, they all speak a kind of Igbo dialect but they can claim Ijaw if they want.

Okay, so why are they teaching Ibani-Ijaw in Opobo and Bonny Primary and Secondary schools, instead of Ibo
And they made the Ibani-Ijaw compulsory in all the schools.

If it's not for the kind heartedness of Ijaws would they have made a total stranger King over them?
They even gave him Ijaw wives, that bare his children.
Once Ijaw acculturate none Ijaws, to become Ijaws, they give that person 100 percent equal rights, just like every other Ijaw.
Even the ones selling my family land today, and are even embezzling the money at times, and are my cousins, were actually, from Ukwani that my great grandfather brought them from,
Even my father met the Ukwani people that were still visiting them.
But today, if someone want to do anything on our family land, they will be contacted, and I'm happy about it because they are already acculturated Ijaws, for over 100 years.
And they are never ever ever ever seen as strangers, equal rights with every other person.
Same with other Ijaw areas too.

Odingo1:
Stop writing nonsense about Igbos, which Igbo person care about what is happening those areas. The truth is that Ndoki,Okirika, Ubani, Opobo all speak a dialect of Igbo and bear Igbo names. They are free to side with Ijaws if they want but they don’t speak Ijaw or bear Ijaw names, they are just like Ikwere and Epkeye in Rivers, Ika and Anioma in Delta. Igbanke in Edo, they are speak Igbo and bear Igbo names.

Is Ibim Ibiwari of Opobo Ibo name?

Is Dokubo of Kalabari Ibo name?

Is Piriye of Bonny Ibo name?

Is Tamuno of Okrika Ibo name?

Go claim Ijaw land physical, and not on Nairaland.

The Ijaw tribe have a spiritual culture of making none Ijaws, to become Ijaws.
That was how they made 12 years old Jaja the slave boy as Ijaw.
And as he left Bonny and was going to Opobo, all his loyalists and their families, that went with their leader to form Opobo, were from the Ijaw town he was leaving.

Any ibos that want to claim Ijaw land, should focus their strenghts on doing it physical, and not on Nairaland.

BKayy:
Physical?
That is like creating problems where there is none.
Like we Ndigbo should go and tell "Osondu" in Opobo with Igbo Language that he is "no longer Ijaw" when he never said that he is one but "Igbo" when his name is literally Osondu.
Lol. Mind you, in all of this we will be doing it in Igbo Language.

Wouldn't that make us appear like mad people?

You people are the ones doing it online. Distorting people's history that's why our brothers are putting a stop to it before it becomes serious

Like our people say "Wepụ aka enwe na ofe tupu ọ wọọ aka mmadụ"
The people from the place you are claiming get the Proverb I dropped but you. You are the stranger here so get LOST

The Present Ijaw Youth Council Chairman, Eastern Zone, (Rivers, Akwa-Ibom and the Aminadokiari Ijaws,)is from Opobo.

His name is Ibim Ibiwari.

You are correct.
They will be posing as Ijaws and writing nonesense that Ijaws are not Ijaws, saying it's Ijaws that said it.
Go and claim Ijaw land physical, and not on Nairaland.

The whole 5 South East States put together, is just 30 kilometer bigger than Oyo state.
Kogi state is bigger than the whole 5 Southeast state put together.
Kogi is the 13 smallest state.
Oyo is the 14 smallest state.

BKayy:
Even all of Ikwerre, Port Harcourt, Warri and half of Imo State?
Lol. Make I no talk

Illiteracy is a curse. That map only carry areas of those under Ijaw Youth Council and Ijaw National Congress and the Lovers of Ijaw Nation Organization.
Or don't you know that Bayelsa alone with 10,773km² is 673 km² bigger than Imo and Anambra state put together.
IMO 5300km² Anambra is 4,800km² put together is 10,100km²
Bayelsa is 10,773 km².
Kogi state alone, is bigger than the 5 Ibo state put together.
Landlocked dot circle little Biafra Republic

Great job!!

Self determination map, showing Ijaw Republic areas.