₦airaland Forum

Bialegend:
Lol, this is funny by you. What other meaning does "Niger" have other than "River" as you mentioned. All the names you mentioned were derived from peoples, things and places names, yet you didn't bother to read this part of my comment that says and i quote.

Kobojunkie:
How do You know I am not ibo myself?? roflmao!!!


Anywho, I know a lot of ibos myself and rarely is BIAFRA brought up during discussions on how to move things forward in Nigeria. I can tell you that over the past 10 years alone, I have never really heard much of biafra from any of the ibos I have met( and I have met a lot of them here), apart from the occassional trip down memory lane and what not. Even online, it seems nairaland is where the mention is prevalent.

Trends in Nigeria itself seem to bolster that belief that this is just a dream harbored by a minority and not really effective way to win over the minds of the people even to this day.

Kobojunkie:
How do You know I am not ibo myself?? roflmao!!!

dnex:
@Ezeagu

the richest nation in the world which we hail as the most democratic has Rhode Island which is clamouring to leave the union called the USA, yet  they won't print passports or mint currency first.

Kobojunkie:
Bubbling is one thing but being majority is another. Just cause Nigerians hate the way things are in the country DOES NOT IMPLY the majority are READY FOR CHANGE. In much the same way, the fact that you say this is BUBBLING ON THE INSIDE does not make BIAFRA a POPULAR idea. When we start to see and HEAD of actual calls for it from the majority and we start to see people ACTING to make it a reality, then, and only then, in my opinion, will we say it is even a REAL dream.

Loosing a million of my people demoralize me? You mean in much the same way Nigerians as a whole loose millions to hunger but never really work to see things change?? lol   

Dude, the average omo ibo/omo amala/omo fura is more concerned about he can make more money for himself. Don't tell me that we are more concerned now about those who are dead in that country? Heck, we don't even remember those who were killed in riots and fires only months ago. 

KnowAll:
Biafra is synomynos with the english word " Failure" . If u fail an exam u have just Biafred it.

Biafra can also be used intermittantly with word " Kolo " as per kolo mental, reason been that the head of massob printed biafran currency,  I bet even his wife will not touch that money with a barge pole let alone Igbo people. Secondly he launched the Biafra passport yesterday yet he will be going to visit president Obama in Ghana by travelling with a Naija pali. If that is not a nutter, then what can ever be, the guy should be strapped in a bed in "Aro"  mental hospital and the  key thrown away.

becoomrich:
Ezeágu i disagree with you. I have gone thru some of the words. they are mostly Yorubas word. It was assume that gullah where from that area many years ago. Those who came to the conclusion before were wrong.  but when you look at the culture and the words they are yorubas.  Most of the Gullah words are yoruba word. they may have just some few word that do not look yoruba. but they are not igbo word. but most of the words in Gullah are yoruba words.

becoomrich:
Look at this picture, this is one of the things Gullah were know for. The yorubas are know for this. The igbos do not do this. It is Yoruba culture. even if you go to Gullah island today. they would tell you weaving basket is gullah culture like the yoruba.

Kobojunkie:
I know this is for real. I may not have the stats to prove it but I base it on the fact that in the last 20 years, the Ibos have not called for Biafra in the same voice that they did back in the years before and after the civil war.

This is also based on the fact that Ibos today mostly vote for candidates who offer them the idea of a better Nigeria and not the idea of a better Biafra or a Biafra. Prove me wrong if you can.

LamidiObi:
the north will keep ruling u mumu south people.

Kobojunkie:
those with the BIAFRAN dream remain a huge minority,

dnex:
I'm trying to find meaning and understand my agitated brothers and a gang of psychopaths just decided to start trailing and stalking me all over the place.

Kobojunkie:
ok. What makes nigeria a fake NATION?

becoomrich:
michelle obama  is Gullah

This are words in Gullah ,  are they not Yoruba word.

English ------- ---- Yoruba ------- ---- Gullah
Kolanut ------- ---- Obi ------- ---- Obi
creator ------- ---- Oduduwa ------- ---- Oduduwa
Ogun deity ------- ---- Ogun ------- ---- Ogun
medicine/drug ------- ---- Ogun ------- ---- Ogun
Stone ------- ---- Okuta ------- ---- Okuta
Lord ------- ---- Oluwa ------- ---- Oluwa
God ------- ---- Olorun ------- ---- Olorun
head of babalawo ------- ---- Oluwo ------- ---- Oluwo
war ------- ---- Ogun ------- ---- ogun
water ------- ---- Omi ------- ---- ------- ---- Omi
Today ------- ---- Oni ------- ---- Oni
head ------- ---- ori ------- ---- Ori
Praise name ------- ---- Oriki ------- ---- Oriki
Orisa deity ------- ---- Orisa ------- ---- Oresa
Obatala deity ------- ---- Obatala ------- ---- Obatala
Oya deity ------- ---- Oya ------- ---- Oya
Osun deity ------- ---- Osun ------- ---- Osun
twenty ------- ---- Ogun ------- ---- Ogun

Kobojunkie:
Ok . . . I will bite!

What exactly makes a country fake? Why is Nigeria a fake country?

mafioso:
You asked for it now you have it, those are your Biafran brodas who suffered during the War

or you want see your Family own too

Kobojunkie:
A Fake Nation? Name one NON-FAKE nation you know of today.

asha 80:
Have you caught the banning flu

Bialegend:
My brother, this question is just like asking what is the meaning[b] nigeria, Britain, America, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica[/b] and so on and so fort. Does this names have meaning? No, they don't, but they are used to refer to  places and the inhabitants of such places located in particular places of the world. Biafra as name was derived from the "Bight of Biafra" which is an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean on the Western African coast bounded by South Eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.

The American Heritage dictionary states that the name Brazil is derived from the Portuguese and Spanish word brasil, the name of an East Indian tree with reddish-brown wood from which a red dye was extracted. The Portuguese found a New World tree related to the Old World brasil tree when they explored what is now called Brazil, and as a result they named the New World country after the Old World tree. The word brasil is cognate with French brésil, Old French berzi and bresil, Old Italian verzino, and Medieval Latin brezellum, brasilium, bresillum, braxile. The many Latin forms suggest a non-Latin, non-Romance origin, as in an East Indian term.

Kobojunkie:
tired minds looking for the "supposed" easiest way out of having to do what duty demands of them.

joyblinks:
@ezeagwu.

see as u dey critisize.

wether slave trade or not. that hat no fine for ur eye? if u say e no fine, then check ur eyes well

because the hat even fine, better pass that one wey Igbo people dey wear with fowl feather.