₦airaland Forum

brownlord:
If the ND militants decide to take up arms against Buhari government and the people of bayelsa, rivers and creek decide to buy into the militants idea, killing security men and destroying government property while the masses In shield them, there is nothing much Buhari government can do except he intend to declare full war and wipe the entire region.

Like I said here sometime ago, Obama was not there when bomb went off in Boston, but a citizen reported to the security men after seeing the the act on CCTV. Use your head son, to the north they could not deal with a minority president. The propaganda worked, couple with the fact Jonathan refuse to handover the country to OBJ and some cabals which are his greatest undoing.

@freeaGlobe, get over it, your man lost accept defeat and move on.

elego1:
1) Rivers
2) Delta
3) bayelsa
4) Enugu
5) Cross rivers
6) Akwa ibom
7) Nasarawa
Ekiti
9) Anambra
10) imo.
TRUE or FALSE?

stanlomite:
U guys should careful as u talk to anyone who is called man of God...who are like people say to jesus during his crucification that he should save himself because he has been saving other people..be careful

margaritav:
Call it what you want to call it. There are a lot more differences than similarities between the Efik and the Ibibio's, I should know because I am Efik who is engaged to an Ibibio. "mbakara" is Ibibio while "makara" is Efik, both means white people 

KanwuliaJara:
You nor fit read?
Abi any wia you see the word IGBO on NL, ya BLOKOS go begin "spit" ni?

KanwuliaJara:
Hiaaaaaaaahn!!!!!
Ndi IGBO cannot be deported o!

OsiAMBODE take note!!!!
Onitsha bridge don cross THIRD MAINLAND BRIDGE O!

EKO-IGBO bridge!!!!

Adegbodolu1:
I swear this must not stand o!!!

I am getting really angry with my people - our docility and this welcoming, accommodating crap is really making my blood boil.

We have obas and baales and other traditional Yoruba rulers in the area, are they going to be represented by an Igbo man ni?

Adegbodolu1:
Lets get the official result first.

If Yoruba fail to wake up seriously after this, close ranks and take the battle to the Igbos - economically and politically,then I give up.

I hope the foolish Obas, Baales and Yoruba traditional rulers eye go clear after this. When you sell land, you end up selling a lot more than land. You sell your governance, you sell your history, you sell your cohesion and you ultimately control of your existence.

Kai,this is a sad day.

collynzo2:
We have a Fulani man as governor in Imo state.
Can Yorubas do that?

bigfrancis21:
Hele bu Legba wo yo: proper in modern igbo orthography as: he le bu Legba, [e]wo oo = this is Legba, ewo oo.

Coincidentally, 'he' is commomly spoken in southern igbo, where majority of Igbo slaves were taken from, for 'this thing', compared to 'ihe' used in upland Igboland.

Carriacou1985:
The lyrics are as follows:

Gongo banan plantain me wo yo
Ibole Ibole woy yo
Hele bu Legba wo yo

I wanted to know if any Ibo speakers know if this actually comes from the Nigerian Ibo language?
Just curious about understanding my culture better and hope someone can help, any answers will be appreciated.... Thanks in advance

mobutuseseko:
. I wonder what you mean by this, English was adopted in the face of even bigger challenges, they came so few and met us in large numbers but chose to teach us their language and it worked and has further divided us. Who ever said you can't carry out infrastructure while people are learning a new language, guess what they Chinese too have started selling their language realizing the importance and effect it has on one's mentality. Negropean!

GenIgrigi:
**grins** Shut da hell up, so because she is being objective her yoruba origin becomes questionable. LOLS. Like safarigirl said, if some stranger mispronouces words like Onye Ibo/Oyibo, the indigenes may use that mispronouced word to identify that stranger since they had no previous name for him. This is common sense, it happens almost everywhere. Mr quasi-intellectual please stick to your burger-frying and scrapping by to make ends meet.**LOLS**

macof:
These Towns u mentioned have little to do with the western Igbos that use Oyibo "onye ibo" like u say
They didn't refer themselves as Igbo

Have u ever considered that since mostly Igbos under Bini use Oyibo then it must have been a result of Bini influence

SirShymexx:
Ezeagu

Lol. Which is more logical:

- melanin deficient

- or calling Europeans the name they once called you loool.

Bear in mind that Igbos were the last to have any contacts whatsoever with Europeans...use that as a premise to whatever answer you might posit.

No point fighting over a word - but the Igbo theory is just illogical to an history buff lol.

whitecat1:
I'm not talking about what you recently stole from Japanese ok! The whole world already knows that there's nothing original about ibos, always stealing. Even town, culture and words aren't spared!

whitecat1:
Ibo don't have enough parlance historically, they have always stolen Yoruba words and they will continue to do so. Please let them, after all we are speaking and writing english, so there's nothing wrong in ibo language containing even 50% Yoruba words. [size=14pt]Yoruba helped wrote ibo language on paper and taught them how to read[/size], so it's perfectly understandable how they adopted several words from us.

whitecat1:
Ibo don't have enough parlance historically, they have always stolen Yoruba words and they will continue to do so. Please let them, after all we are speaking and writing english, so there's nothing wrong in ibo language containing even 50% Yoruba words. [size=14pt]Yoruba helped wrote ibo language on paper and taught them how to read[/size], so it's perfectly understandable how they adopted several words from us.

whitecat1:
Ibo don't have enough parlance historically, they have always stolen Yoruba words and they will continue to do so. Please let them, after all we are speaking and writing english, so there's nothing wrong in ibo language containing even 50% Yoruba words. [size=14pt]Yoruba helped wrote ibo language on paper and taught them how to read[/size], so it's perfectly understandable how they adopted several words from us.

PHgirl:
Can you point out the element of racism in the employer's request? I don't see any racist shit in what he said.

Aigbofa:
This is not about making anyone special you are simply not making sense.
How come ibos did not originally refer to the whites as oyinbo?
And what did the Binis call the white folks? Olodo.

Vision4God:
Hhmmm. I thnk de ar ryt. Obey der work ethics. & if u cant, back off

pretydiva:
There r millions of pple ready 2 jump at dat offer,if she eventually chose her braids. No sane human wil chose braid over her job

RandomAfricanAm:
Yeah I was really disappointed when this tread started going down with all the random postings. There are some great repository threads here on nairaland and this is/was one of them.