₦airaland Forum

rlauncher:
Just because there are Igbo speaking peoples in Rivers does not make it Igboland. For your information, there are indigenous Yoruba speaking peoples in Edo and Delta, but that does not make Edo and Delta Yorubaland.

Who are the indigenous Yoruba-speaking people of Delta, and what communities/LGAs do they occupy/own?

ChinenyeN:
I know.. I'm digging out an ancient thread. Anyway, I was reminded of this thread earlier today and I thought I'd come fish it out. Actually, I just came to ask for permission. Ezeagu, would you object to my turning this nice idea here into an actual piece of literature (historical fiction)? Or a series of literature (either a series of novels or light novels or short stories)? Regardless of which, it is clear that there is a lot going on in this story and it will take more than one book to express it all. I just wouldn't like to see this die a digital death. heh.

Go ahead, do the story (or stories) justice.

English is like 50% French. Pointless topic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_French_origin

It's true.

Post moved.

To know where move further.

END THYME?

Tequilah:
The bloody Rhine you mentioned may be hundreds of miles o, but it is still very wide, quite deep and much larger than your Imo & Orashi rivers. The issue is not whether it is hundred of miles long, but if it is navigable for large vessels. Please can you tell us the size of the Imo river and the others you mentioned, so we can compare it with the size of the Rhine?

What are the size of the ports in Imo, New Calabar etc rivers? What is the size of vessel these ports can accommodate? It is not having a port that matters, but the size and capacity of those ports. There are fishing ports, docking ports etc. Even the Calabar river runs through a huge portion of the Calabar, Efik etc areas before it gets to Igbo land. You need to confirm if they would give right-of-passage and thoroughfare to your area.

I have not seen ships plying Imo river, but I have seen ferries, barges and boats. Please let us know when last you saw ships on Imo river. Then you mentioned mangroves. Are you saying that ships ply mangrove areas? Because most mangrove places also have swampy terrains in many parts.

It can be seen that the Imo river still has to pass through Akwa-Ibom before it gets to the sea.

Not the Calabar River, the New Kalabar River running from Port Harcourt, and the comment on mangroves means the whole area is landless, it's just vegetation and water connected to barrier islands. I told you I don't know, you'll have to find out the sizes of the for yourself, according to wikipedia the average discharge of the Imo is nearly twice the rhine and the according to Google maps the Imo at Obete (Igboland) is at least 1000 ft wide excluding mangrove and other vegetation. The Rhine has an average of 1,300 ft, the River Thames for comparison has bridges which are only 800 ft wide and it has carried all sorts of naval ships, the Port of New Orleans on the Mississippi river meets the river at a width of 2000ft, yet this is the river.

https://s10.postimg.org/5czhl7e6x/640px_Container_ship_New_Orleans.jpg

What I know is tankers enter both the New Kalabar and Imo (Ibeno) to a certain extent near Igbo land, all that's left is a bit of dredging. The Onne Wharf is less than 1000 ft in width.

The UN is sympathetic towards access to the sea, there's is no way Nigeria will be supported if it tries to use islands as a way to block Port Harcourt or whatever other port.

dulaman:
i hope is not this girl oh

What a sick thing to post.

nwanlecha, it's a trap between not having Igbo being at a level or being allowed a level where it can be seen as an 'academic' language and having people see the language as not 'advanced' enough to be an academic language.

This guy loves traditional attire.

coolzeal:
Self determination is not a crime according to UN.

A referendum should be conducted.

These Nigerians understand their country is an animal country that's why they keep threatening genocide at every peaceful protest.

mikolo80:
bla bla bla
if you cared to know how to solve the poverty you won't have behaved like illiterate madman. empty barrel with nothing to offer

You actually act like someone with a personality disorder. It's projecting.

mikolo80:
no point arguing with you. you've made up your mind to waste your talents. don't worry to him yin has more shall be added, to him Who has not, even the small he has will be taken away from him. ask blackberry, ask Nokia. don't move forward, stay stagnant.

And what did this comment do for Nigerias poverty?

mikolo80:
name the billionaires that those valiant efforts at cottage industries. I am talking the big boys. north have Dangote, west have folawiyo, east have...

everything to these people is billionaires. Small minded people. Tell me how many billionaires are in Japan or Singapore.

LRNZH:
Loser mentality. You can't be adept in politics with that mentality.

Obasanjo was president Abeokuta stayed crap, Yar Adua was president Boko Haram rose up, GEJ was president the Niger Delta had to be paid off not to burn down, and now under Buhari the same north is basically at war.

Keep the presidency and the false notion of 'sophisticated' politicking when all it is trickery and ethnocentrism.

When someone sees something like this, how can someone have hope for Africa or better yet black Africans?

Fulaman198, I think it's about time they get an indigenous alternative.

Topeakintola:
You need to go and ask Igbos that reside in Ilaro. There are thousands of Igbo there

They will tell you how many fulanis are now fertiliser for our farms.

We don't brag sir

Just tell IPOB to protest and u will see.

You just bragged without proving anything and then said you don't brag. Lol.

Topeakintola:
I dare IPOB to protest in the SW and we can put your assumptions to test sir

Why weren't these arms used against the Fulani militia?

StuntingBlack:
I for one have no problem with their useless 'World Ibo day'. Where the problem lies is when these miscreants try to turn this into a protest. If that is the intention, then God help them try blocking roads on that day.

My advice to the OPC and Yoruba elders is to proactively and secretly intimate some international human rights bodies about the act of provocation these urchins are about to embark on. I think doing this will give us MORE ROOM AND EXCUSE TO REALLY GET RID OF THEM ON A SAD DAY THAT WILL BE FOR THEM WITHOUT ANY CONSEQUENCES.!!!

AshiwajuFoward:
Relax guys. Make Dem try am. We go just torch their shops ni. Sabon gari for Kano still dey burn as we speak. That will be their one way ticket back to Biafra. A lot if them won't be returning to Lasgidi after their Christmas home-visit ritual.

Look at the animals.

pazienza:
Idi n'otu Nigeria di mkpa maka umunne anyi bi obodo ozo.


Ihea ina ekwu esodi ma nchaa! Kedu maka umunne anyi ndi bi na Cameroun, Gabon, Senegal, wdg? Anyi aga eme obodo ndia nile ka ha buru otu tinyere alaIgbo maka umunne anyi ndi bi obodo ndi ahu nile?

OnyeIgbo obula na agaghi ebiwu na obodo ndi ugwu na ndi ofei, ma obulu na anyi weta Biafra kwesiri Ichota obodo ozo kwaga, enwere otutu ndi Igbo bi na obodo di iche iche na adighi n' Nigeria na mba Afirica, ha anwula?

I ma na isi mba Enugu (city) kara isi madu nile na Gabon? Ala Gabon di ka okara ano nigeria. Ihe di ebe ahu wu nani agu na ohia di ndu ndu. Ndi Igbo ne emekari owe ha na ebe ha ne busicha ha na Sharia states. Obodo di ka Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, I ma ndi Igbo ju kwara nga ahu na ndi ebe ahu ne tu madu i banye ala ha. A ma kwam ihem gi kwu kwa, o di kwa ndi Igbo tata ha ne jikere i ga Maidugiri o wuru si Boko Haram nuputuru isi. O bu utube ma o bu iyiuwa ha ka he liri ebe ndi ahu? Ochi!

O dika o di ndi ha na kwu ugwo i bia i kowara ihe governor mere obodo ha, ya bazie ihe politics na nsem okwu soro ya. M na hafu ha maka enweghim oge i tinye onu maka ndi ahu. O wu nani i me ka madu (ndi Igbo) cheta na states ndi a ha ne ji e se okwu di nani afo 20. Enugu na Anambra, o wu si ha wughi otu na afo 1991? Imo ma Abia kwa? Ihe ndi federal government mere ji ke states ndi a a ruwala, cheta na okwu states na ihe ndi a ozo si mgbe ha ne kesa eastern region ka Biafra hafu i bia achi.

Thanks odumchi.

Anyway, to summarise my last post, if some Nigerians can spend millions of naira sending their kids to French instructed schools which French curriculum, Igbo speaking kids can be easily tutored in Igbo instructed schools.