₦airaland Forum

Adaure4ever:
Excuse me, do you think that I am against Igbos leaving this country? NO Way.
I am just advocating wisdom in living in Nigeria till we get our self determination.
You guys should stop being emotional.
Social Media is powerful and I am doing my little part in defending Igbo interest and crushing the negative Igbophobic stereotypes that are existing in this country.

castrogee:
I owe you a kiss. Ada baby, to be honest I wept the day I visited Lausanne in Switzerland. I tell you the truth Africa will never recover. do you know that the population of Switzerland is just a little above 7million? Yet even Americans are dying to visit that country. They have the highest salary in Engineering in the world and currently one of the Highest Per-Capita Income, currently I am vigorously pursuing for a work there. To even think that their entire landmass is not up to the size of Anambra state made me sadder.

In all honesty, we Igbos are just wasting away with this nonsense called Nigeria. Tell me what Good the yoruabs or Hausa have been to us? You heard recently that Anambra exported vegetables worth over $5million now tell me again, is anambra state a non-fertile land? So why do we need this so called One Nigeria. Please Pardon me for my too many questions, I want some one that will give me concrete reasons not based on anecdotes why we Igbos need to stay in this damnable republic.

Adaure4ever:
I pray and seek for a Well developed Igbo Nation. But can we achieve that when we hate one of our own?
What exactly is Okorocha sin?

medpren:
Shikena! They think Igbos come to lagos because they love yorubas. Following their warped logic Hausas are in Ama Awusas scattered all over SE because they love Igbos and Chinese are in lagos because they love yorubas. This people funny no be small.

joborskill:
No yoruba man will cheer the death of an igbo. We are not wild animals. Stop peddling lies

castrogee:
I don't know how many times we will hammer dis message into you people's skull. De last thing on the mind of an Igbo man is the presidency. Igbos by nature could care less about politics, we are gifted in business, hard work and intelligence, these alone are more than enough for us. What we care now is getting our Biafra which as things stand now we are etching closer it. We are heterogenous in all its leanings, we have a mono religious background, we've a definite geography, we've a range of fundamental beliefs like the sanctity of life, we believe in one man one wife, i.e. We practice monogamy, so what in the world do we need an aliance with the Yorubas whom according to our judgement are the most confused tribe in the world.

The Yorubas are neither Christians nor Muslims, they are neither polygamous nor monogamous, they are always divided - you can check their voting patterns to understand what I mean. To be honest I see no reason why an Igbo man will ever dream of having anything remotely to do with Afonjas.

babyfaceafrica:
OP....I will say and keep saying ,this NL rabblings by both tribes is a mirage.They do business daily with each oda,date each oda,nack each oda and get married on weekends nairaland is used to measure real life ,you will be misled my bro.I just come here to enjoy myself when they throw tantrums at each oda.

Igboid:
Kalabari and Okrika are like Ogba and Ikwerre, while Kalabari and Okrika are Ijoid, Ogba and Ikwerre are Igboid. You can't compare Kalabari with Ijaw, you can only compare them to Ijaw groups like Nembe in Bayelsa and not the entire Ijaw. You can only compare Ogba and Ikwerre to Igbo groups like Ngwa, Enuani, etc, and not to the entire Igbo nation.

Your use of Spanish and Italian languages to compare the Igbo and Igboid groups show your ignorance, for a start, Spanish and Italian languages all descended from
the old Latin language of the Roman empire that reigned over those parts of Europe and are rooted in Roman empire imperialism, hence they are called Romance languages.

At no point did the Igbo colonize Ogba or Ikwerre people and administered them using Igbo language, like the Romans did in Italy and Spain and Portugal at any point in history.
Ogba and Ikwerre were not the only groups in Eastern region, the Ogoni, Andoni, Ogbia, are smaller groups than Ogba and Ikwerre but non of them are Igbo speaking today, yet Ndiigbo traded with them for years too, So the lies of Igbo forcing Igbo language on previously non Igbo speaking Ogba and Ikwerre in Eastern region or Ikwerre and Ogba becoming Igbo speaking because of pre colonial trade with Ndiigbo cannot stand the scrutiny of facts.
Usomini, Igburu and Egi dialects of Ogba are all totally mutually intelligible to an Igbo man with good grasp of Southern Abia and Imo Igbo dialects.

No, it was named Umuokoro because it was written in central Igbo and not Ikwerre dialect, and Rumu is same as UMU as both means " Descendants" or "children", House in Ikwerre is "ORO" and not "UMU".

It was the policy of the Eastern region to name major roads after major towns in the region. If you come to Aba, we have PortHarcourt road, Brass road, Opobo road, Aba- Owerri road, Ikot Ekpene road.
That a road In PH was named Owerri road means nothing.

On the Ogbu nu abali part, I learnt the land belongs to the town's of Oro Ogbum ( House of Ogbum) and Oro Abali( House of Abali) hence Ogbu nu Abali( ie Ogbum
and Abali) for the land shared by both towns Even in Ikwerre, Ogbu nu Abali literary translates to "He that kills in the night".

All in all, I can confidently say that your are ignorant of the issues you attempted to dabble into here.

princesweetman2:
DUDE ,, WHETHER U LYK IT OR NOT ,, IGBO ETHNIC MAP IS LANDLOCKED AND THEY CAN'T ACCESS D CONTINENTAL SHELFS OF NIGERIA WTOUT ENTERING NEIGHBOURING STATE(S) ..

D SOUTHSOUTH IS AN EXTENSION OF D YORUBA RACE AND DEY (IKWERRE) WUD NEVER IDENTIFY WITH THE IGBOS

CHECK D NAME OF VILLAGES IN SS TO CONFAM ..

9inches:
I speak my Anambra Igbo when I go to Ndoni, Rivers state and they understand it well. By the way Ndoni is few minutes (20mins I guess) from Onitsha by speed boat. Makes more sense why Peter Odili had his secondary education in Onitsha.

princesweetman2:
THE REAL MAP OF NIGERIA - ETHNIC

Igboid:
You see groups of people stay in them rooms and start saying things like Igala and Idomas are "Bia****".
And you start wondering these?

1. Have this person actually taken his time to assess the general feelings of the average Igalas and Idomas towards the Igbo and the Bia***** identity

2, Have this person taken time to make consultations from the leaders of Igalas and Idomas towards the Bia**** identity

3. Does this person not know that it is outright insult and provocation to the leaders and people of Igalas and Idomas for him to seat in the comfort of his room and start assigning alien identities to them without first consulting them.

4. Those this person not know that this approach will make for a difficult consultation in the future as the people could already have become strongly Igbophobic due to these provocations and outright disregard to rules of proceedings?

These are the many things wrong with the current Igbo self secession agenda. The agitators assign themselves the title of messiahs on a mission to deliver other non Igbos groups neighboring Igbos, and go a messianic mission of chanting to whoever that cares how those people are being marginalised by Nigeria and while those people are Bia****.

This is really pathetic and has to stop.

Igboid:
Exactly. There is this ignorance on the part of average Igbos, of the sentiments and deep seated Igbophobia amongst minorities in the deep south.

And groups like IPOB are not doing enough to bring this to the knowledge of Ndiigbo, neither are they doing enough to work on those sentiments, they just want to live in fools paradise by pretending that those sentiments don't exist, while they go about drawing imaginary maps and deceiving themselves and millions of innocent Igbos back at home.

I am disappointed in them( Igbo freedom groups) , and I have decided that until they recognize this very fact and take measures to educate the average Igbo youth about these hates emanating from the deep south, as well as fashion ways to correct some of those perception amongst those people through community based awareness and discussion programs, I will no longer support them.

The Igbophobia in the deep south stinks to high heavens, and if not addressed we will only be repeating history should we continue to agitate for self determination, as the Igbophobia of those groups would serve as a very good fertile grounds for our would be enemies that are hell bent on repeating 1966-70 events all over again.

zendy:
I completely understand what you mean. What you have to understand is that the Nigerian propaganda machine had many years since the end of the war to brainwash many of the minorities in Southern Nigeria that their Igbos neigbours were the real enemies. They were told that Igbos want to dominate them and steal their lands. But things are changing. It was an opener for the Niger Delta when Igbos gave their own son almost 100% support in the last presidential elections. They have started to realise that the Igbos are their only real friends in Nigeria. Most of the negative comments online towards Igbos are just Yorubas masquerading as indigenes of the Niger Delta. Like I said, a referendum will clear everything up.

Onenaira1:
Gbam. And the funny thing...the Ijaws are actually the real land grappers. There has not been ONE tribe which reside next to ijaws whom they haven't attacked, killed or fought with over lamd. Hell even on NL.. I saw them trying to rewrite both Ndoki and Egbema history...right in our fucking face.

Honestly, sometimes I look at IPOB and Massob and wonder if they seriously know some of this tribes? I keep saying it. If IPOB insist of including ijaws and co, count Asaba out. I don't want to wake up one day and see ijaws fighting my people and claiming Asaba belongs to them.....maba

Before anyone accuse me of being paranoid, I have argued with one on NL who told me from his mouth that They (ijaws) gave the land we reside in to us...that historically, the land is theirs. According to the mofo, the entire Delta lands belong to them. If one of them have that deluded thought, I won't be surprised if several of them have that thought.

Africonji:
I am with Onenaira1 on this one. Personally I feel including ijaws would be too risky. They are too hot tempered. What if they later start to shout 'igbo domination', and begin to create problems for us?? They have done it before. Let everybody bear their father's name. We can be good neighbors while in separate countries. That is my own opinion.