₦airaland Forum

ChinenyeN:
I don't believe I said anything, or made any reference of the sort.

I wish I could beat the Igbo into you.

Look past your village and your clan and see how Igbos are uniting.

ChinenyeN:
Yeah. . Kudos to them.

Yes, they deserve it more than your precious Aba State. Once we get Anioma State and cede the Igbo communities in Benue State to us, everything will be well.

They might as well put tolls, because it seems like a toll to me a couple hundred naira here and there. I have no problem driving from Umuahia to Owerri, but going from Umuahia to Aba and Aba to Port Harcourt is HORRIBLE!

Aba girls are beautiful, but they are dangerous o! My first girlfriend hailed from Aba and she was a baaaddd girl.

What my forefathers couldn't do, I definitely plundered parts of Ngwaland.

No wonder there are so many people I encounter from Anambra. That state is densely populated. Go anywhere and you will find an Igbo from Anambra.

ChinenyeN:
Igbo Enwe(ghi) Eze, and that's the truth. No blame me if this is how Ala wanted it.

Your forefathers heads would have been used as our foot stools if the British did not stop us!

abadaba:
He rarely starts a thread. But when someone else does, he loads it with his Clanish Ngwa rubbish.

Gbam!

RichyBlacK:
We own Abia State

You are not lying.

Yoruba and their juju!

ChinenyeN,

Really? Are you really asking that question? I do not like you, because you are clannish. You add ammunition to the enemies of the Igbo. You cause disunity. No one cares if you are Ngwa. You are still Igbo. (Your people came down from Owerri) And to make matter worse, you are trying to carve up Abia State.

An Igbo who has never been to Igboland. . . I think we all know what that could possibly mean.  

Onlytruth:
There you go again. Make up your mind dude.

He doesn't speak on behalf of Ngwa.

ChinenyeN is not to be taken seriously. He has never been to Igboland. He has not even been to his village so why should any Igbo listen to him.

I still find it strange that at his age, he hasn't been to Igboland.

ChinenyeN:
I wonder what I did wrong to deserve such treatment from people who want to call me "Igbo", but yet, treat me like an Ijo. . .

Stop it now! I never heard of an Ngwa say that he is not Igbo. Now they may want Aba State, but they never say they are not Igbo. The Ngwa will always be part of Abia State. To be honest, I wish Abia was a part of Imo.

ezeagu:
Why not? How big is Enugu compared to that map? Ngwa is half the size of Abia.

That is a lie. What about Omuma, Asa, Ndoki, Ika, Okun & Ofaha, Otoro, Isuogu and Ukana? Ngwaland is not the entire southern half of Abia.

ezeagu:
Well, that's insulting, Ngwa could probably fit 20 Nnewi's into it with space left. The land size is quite big, big enough to be a state.

Map is here:

http://books.google.com/books?id=2ITAF9_hlIQC&pg=PA18

Ngwaland is not big enough to be a state. These Ngwa! My Aro ancestors knew what they were doing when they attacked Ngwaland.

ChinenyeN,

You seem to be Igbos weakest link on NL. You always go against the majority of the Igbos on NL concerning a united Igboland. You try to divide us and act like your small clan is its own group. And other groups use your words to attack us.

ikenwan:
I haven't heard enough of what I like to call "deep Igbo" (Igbo spoken by very old people without any English words) to understand all the words in these songs. I think if they were speaking rather than singing, it would be easier to figure it out of course LOL. The disadvantages of a living language that exists as a dialect continuum. :/

Deep Igbo is very hard to find in Alaigbo unless you go into the villages where our elders are. My grandmother would always speak Igbo and would not even speak English. I don't even think she spoke English. And she would tell us to only speak Igbo to her.

Nwa Aba 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHfcKCTIB64&feature=related

OMO IBO:
^^^^
A curious but genuine question: Have you ever lived in Nigeria??

I am starting to wonder this as well. She doesn't act like she was raised in Naija.

The world is ending!!!  

I probably speak Ngwa better than that yankee raised ChinenyeN with his Americana accent.

ezeuche10:
@seanet02, every body knows that warri is itshekiri, so stop making noise.

Who are you? Do not take my identity.

Aigbofa:
Hope is not completely lost if we continue to have people like you and Chiogo who are not afraid to tell the truth. Let the Ostriches continue to bury their heads in the sand.

You are talking about an Igbo who has never been to the East. He probably cannot speak Central Igbo since he is so clannish and only enjoys speaking and writing Ngwa.

Quick question. Do you know what Ukwuani mean? Any other Igbo should understand. . . Ukwuani is clearly an Igbo name just like Ikwerre.

ChinenyeN:
That's fine and all, BUT, that is YOUR Aro people, not someone else's group. Please keep that in mind.

Yes, it is MY Aro people. The most mixed of any Igbo group yet we claim Igbo. Our own lect includes many Ibibio words.

And just because you cannot understand the Igbanke and Ukwuani dialect does not mean any other Igbo groups can't. I am pretty sure people from Anamabra would understand what is being said.

seanet 02,

Who is claiming Itsekiri?  

We Igbos are not claiming them nor do we want to.

My map is an accurate portrayal of Igboland and it doesn't include Warri. This is not about the Itsekiri. Nor are any Igbo on this thread claiming Warri. To be honest, I thought Warri was part of Urhobo land?

ChinenyeN:
This entire response is part of this Igbo/not-Igbo problem.

Igbo should be broken down to someone whose forebears spoke the Igbo language with similar cultural characteristics. (That does not mean the same)

My Aro people are probably more mixed than some of these people running away from their Igbo identity, yet we still consider ourselves Igbo. In Arochukwu, many people speak both Igbo and Ibibio and have Ibibio surnames.

Aigbofa:
Agreed, but not everyone in those areas claimed as ibo by EzeUche regard themselves as ibo. Is that not right? If they say they are not ibos, why insist they are?

It is not up to them to decide what they claim. If they speak my language, have my culture, that makes them an Igbo.

It is not up for them to decide. If they want to stop being Igbo, they better stop speaking my language and using our culture.

Like the Ikwerre. Many say there are not Igbo, yet they speak Igbo. Well what language should they be speaking? Ijaw or Ogoni? They didn't lose their language.

Onlytruth:
I was shocked by the clarity of Igbanke!
Ikwerre even shocked me more!
I wasn't shocked by Ukwuani.  

Like I said, someone did a job on Ndigbo.

I think it is left for us to undo that job.

Igbanke is quite shocking!  

For a while I did not know that Igbos migrated that far! 2 years ago, I didn't know Igbos were present in Benue State until I met an Igbo whose village is located in Benue State. We Igbos really enjoyed travelling all over the place. And let us not discuss the Aro who migrated into Cameroon!

seanet02:
@EZEUCHE, THE MAP YOU PSOTED IS FRAUDULENT AND DUBIOUS, IF WARRI IS NOT PART OF ITSHEKIRI LAND, HOW COME THE OLU OF WARRI IS ITSHEKIRI, STOP FOOLING YOUR CO FOOLS LIKE philip006

Why should we be concerned with Warri? This map is about Alaigbo. Warri is outside of Alaigbo so we could care less. Once you get past Kwale and Agbo, the Igbo don't care which cities exist outside of Western Alaigbo

Onlytruth:
I can even understand Ikwerre, Igbanke and Ukwuani much much more than Ngwa, Afikpo and even Owerri.


One Igboland.

You can understand Ikwerre, but find it harder to understand Ngwa? 

Afikpo is very hard to understand! I know it is Igbo, but that dialect. . .  I would have though those Igbo people in Afikpo would not claim Igbo the way their dialect is so different from everyone else. Those northern Igbo dialects are very hard to understand. Eastern Igbo is easier to understand while southern Igbo is more pleasant to the ears.

Onlytruth:
Those Aba boys get money.

Try driving from Port Harcourt to Umuahia.

Checkpoints everywhere!