₦airaland Forum

alj harem:
at topic u are right

igbos and southern nigeria needs to unite.

You're now giving Igbo people advise?

oludashmi:
Gbam!
You have said well.
This boy, you are here again . . .which one be Benue-igbo? Very soon you will have Yoruba-igbo, Hausa-igbo, Fulani-igbo, Kanuri-igbo and the list goes until you have Ghana-igbo, Saudi Arabia-igbo. . _hisses . . .

Since when did Benue become an ethnic group like Yoruba? What language is Benue?

Edo - Okpoho Ika - Okpoho

omonuan:
Andre Uweh: I can tell you that no responsible Ika man that is worth his salt would say that he is not Igbo. Currently, the acting governor of Delta state Sam Obi an Ika man would not come out and say he is not Igbo. Ifeanyi Okowa, Nduka Ogbaigbena, Cairo Ojugbo, Jim Ovia of Zenith Bank fame would not deny Igbo. 

I can tell you though that Anioma people for centuries considered the term "Igbo" derogatory because it was used to refer to slaves by them .  From this perspective, Anioma people do sometimes say that they are not "Igbo."  It is pertinent to say that prior to contact with Europeans, the modern Igbo people did not see themselves as one.  I doubt that they collectively called themselves "Igbo."  However, ethnically Anioma is as Igbo as Owerri, Ngwa, Ikwerre and Etche, Ohafia, Abiriba although our origins may be diverse.

Ndi ma ali a bia! Ezioku ki ku ro! Osolobue dozima i o!

MShittu:
I never hear about [size=18pt]tourism in Naija[/size] anymore. What's the situation?

[size=78pt]CHINEKE HA HA HA HA HAHAH!!!![/size]

chyz1:
Asaba Igbo:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5f7OYrertM&feature=related[/flash]


Ukwuani Igbo:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6_2NZC-u08[/flash]




Way different from each other and understanding each other word for word in their on dialects highly unlikely!

I'm more convinced that (a good amount of) the Anioma branched off the Igbo surrounding the Imo.

ifyalways:
Binis are more linked to the Yorubas when u look at the cultural pratices btwn the 2 groups.IMO
I have however heard the story of Eze Chima (Onicha) migrating from Bini.The Obi of Onitsha and Oba of Bini attires and regalia are almost same.

The Obi of Onicha dresses more like the Eze Nri. The one that dress like the Oba is the Eze Ogba. Umu Eze Chima also includes Agbor and Umunede, etc.


[center]Obi of Onicha
[img]http://www.nyu.edu/dental/nexus/images/fallwinter2005/nigeria3.jpg[/img][/center]

[center]Eze Ogba
https://www.onelga.com/images1/oba1.gif[/center]

PhysicsQED:
Lol @ that. How so? I remember in a thread where you were arguing with tpia, she said Binis were basically Igbos and you countered that actually they were basically Yorubas. Of course you two were both wrong. It doesn't necessarily follow that because two groups that are close together and have some similar features that there was even any mixing of them in the past (if that is what you were "hmmm"ing about)

Sorry, are we missing something here. Are we aware of the Umu Eze Chima group that left Benin and the fact that several Igbo towns have ancestors that are from Benin. I don't believe that the Edo people were not mixed with Igbo somehow or that the city of Benin did not have immigrants yet the kingdom once stretched over both Igbo and Yoruba land and beyond. The culture is what tpia was talking about, and the Benin Empire was more aligned to the ways and culture of the Yoruba and they have a lot of cultural similarities which isn't as strong between Edo and Igbo.

[quote author=tpia@ link=topic=545927.msg7102026#msg7102026 date=1289223550]which whale has a white underbelly? Certainly not this one.

find out which type it is and only then can you know what colour it's underbelly is supposed to be. This isnt a fish nah.


the skin colour is normal [dark blue] and doesnt show any sign of the rot you're talking about.


the exposed blubber could be because somebody cut away the skin- those look like knife marks.

yes, there's sand on the beach. What's your point?

even living whales are covered with barnacles and bite marks from past battles so i dont see what the big deal is.

i guess you've never seen an animal slaughtered and dressed before hence your squeamishness.[/quote]Could you people stop comparing rotten whale meat to well slaughtered, well cooked and well prepared meats that we've all seen being slaughtered every Christmas (and may have slaughtered ourselves)? The underneath of whales is white, the blubber. If you don't have a problem with people eating something that can cause a health pandemic (some of them are still claiming to have hurt stomachs) than that's fine, but it does not change the fact that that is dead rotten meat that was not killed by humans, well not for consumption and not immediately before cutting it apart. I guess most are in the crowd that believes that disease spreading doesn't happen among Nigerians because they are somehow stronger than everybody else only because they don't know of how many health problems Nigerians actually suffer. Again, the whale is rotten. That's dirty.

[quote author=tpia@ link=topic=545927.msg7098886#msg7098886 date=1289176316]^^what signs of rot are you seeing because I'm wondering if we're looking at the same photo.

if you eat dried fish, you've also eaten something rotten.

anyway!

instead of all this unnecessary hoopla, what people need to be doing is identify the type of whale it was.

From that picture, I assume it's probably a baleen whale due to the shape of it's head and the dark blue colour.

humpback?

https://www.cosmosmagazine.com/files/imagecache/news/files/news/20090403_humpback_whale.jpg[/quote]Umm, you're looking at this picture right?

[center]www.nairaland.com/attachments/346904_whale_lekki_jpgf8f2446aeaead224f58bc4418e27b0e2[/center]

With all the broken skin and brownish water around, and with the browning of its usually white underneath and the fact that it would have probably been floating around dead for days in polluted water, it is clearly rotten. I don't know what market you shop for stock fish (whale cemetery?), but I only see dried stock fish that was killed by the fishermen in whatever European country it came from, not whale carcass.

It's one thing being dead, it's another thing being rotten.

This is disgusting.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/346904_whale_lekki_jpgf8f2446aeaead224f58bc4418e27b0e2

When did Yoruba women start wearing these head ties, is it a Brazilian thing?

Let it eat them up.

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=478074.msg7096557#msg7096557 date=1289150265]^^^ there's no long hair in the pix.

Anywaz, if black women used to have that kind of long hair, goes to show how westernized products have affected our hair growth  [/quote]This is an older already married lady, but as you can see her hair is long, and it seems like she's halved her hair and then plaited the two sections together to make it stand. That's long. These are the only pictures of women I have found from Old Calabar.

[center][img]http://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=1232503&t=w[/img][/center]

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=478074.msg7096479#msg7096479 date=1289149547]^^^ ok oh.

Is the hair woven in or just wig? Did Nigerian women used to have hair that long back in the days? Or was it just a modernized part of the culture?[/quote]Women used to have hair long (maybe not that long) and the combs are still the same as they were hundreds of years ago. These women probably have their hair woven in.

[center]https://www.cardcow.com/values/images/370166549352.jpg
https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/slavery/images/wooden_comb.jpg[/center]

Spearman is really jobless determined, look at him go.

ifyalways:
seconded
Footprint . . Nzo-ukwu.
joints . . Njiko okpukpu.
to cool . .iju oyi
soft . . nlo(more of anambra)

Wouldn't 'to cool' be 'ife oyi'?

Efik women have the best traditional dress in Eastern Nigeria.

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=478074.msg7096336#msg7096336 date=1289148021]Yea, it looks like borrowed culture tho.
A bit european royalty looking, a bit of edo .
So gorgeous.[/quote]There's nothing borrowed from the Edo or Europeans in authentic traditional wears like this:

[img]https://www.nairaland.com/attachments/346999_005-600x418_jpg1188b8ba4e164e05e6b459e40ed6945d[/img]

The only thing that could be borrowed are the raw materials (fabric, metals, coral).

defemz:
Why are Nigerians so indolent? If truly Phillip Emegwali is not a fraud, why is it so difficult to find any of his acclaimed patents and academic papers on a thorough google search? Nigerian people should wake up and work, build a culture of truth and hardwork and stop building their castles on lies. Academics are very thorough, hardworking and proud people they will never associate themselves with  fraudsters like Emegwali. If anyone still remain doubtful of these allegations, do a google search of when and where Phillip Emegwali became a Doctor or Professor, and also search for his patents and academic publications. These search will give you no relevant results. An academic with no academic papers can only come from places like Nigeria.

A government that put such a man as Phillip Emegwali on its national stamp is a reflection of a decaying and morally bankrupt nation. When there is nothing else to celebrate we celebrate decay. I really don't blame the government.

Why don't you put your words to action and spend your time trying to fix Nigeria instead of trying to attack someone because of the apparent opinion they have of themselves? What difference those it make to your life if Philip Emeagwali claims that he invented the moon? Why is it that all of you have come out to attack a man that has actually accomplished something because of harmless claims, yet your government is stealing your wealth right in front of your eyes. The guy won a Gordon Bell Prize in the 80's the (relevant) world still celebrates him. if you don't like it create your own super computer. Simple!

babapupa:
Many don't give a s/hi/t about all that, it's all about tribe.

You used your fingers to type this thing? You? 

I bet most of you can't even install windows on your desktop.

ChinenyeN:
I read somewhere that Nri and Edo had diplomatic relations in the past. How true is that? and what kind of relationship existed?

I would think that would have been the only option, I don't think they could ignore each other, and there's no way they could have not known about each other.

What is wrong with these people, is there no work?