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[quote author=paddy_lo link=topic=499389.msg6597802#msg6597802 date=1282179044]Anambra and Lagos is inherited


[color=#000099][b]men i leave for naija this yr. . . .ill be in Abuja for christmas God willing. . .re-connecting with old contacts

and making new ones. . . .

minimum age for house of reps is 30yrs. . .

so in a couple of yrs i'll be ready. . .
[/quote]And why would someone allow you to enter their circle?

If you not part of a circle, then you will not get a piece of that cake.

dayokanu:
Pls I am interested in where you got this your facts from

Are you doubting the number of Igbo people in the U.S?

Everyone knows that. Igbos have been coming to the U.S. since Zik picked an American university over a British university. While Yorubas were more inclined to go to the UK.

You even have 3rd Generation Igbos living in America.

komando:
Don't mind the cantankurous Nigerians: you did right by posting a friendly topic. But apparently polite discuss is way beyond a lot of our people. Suffer their intolerant spirit in peace my young man.

If the North won, why didn't our southwest brothers help there southeast brothers?

Eziachi,

Thank you for telling her. There are more Igbo people in the United State than Yorubas. You will find more Yorubas in the UK than in America.

paddy_lo,

Over my dead body will you get in politics before me! 

ChinenyeN:
Some of you apparently do not understand how annoying you sound, constantly shouting "Simply Igbo. Period!" Just leave the Ikwere alone, and stop forcing this identity issue. It is not a must for them to identify like others have. Goodness. Abi di rest of Igbo go dai off without Ikwere? A begi. Focus on more pressing matters.

Sharrap Ngwa small boy! We already know where your clannish sef belongs.

Kobojunkie:
I have heard similar stories but care to describe what you mean when you say "these women go crazy"

They go crazy. Bring a Nigerian woman to America and she starts acting like an akata woman. Igbo women are the worse. They start stressing us Igbo men like no other. Do not make an Igbo woman get more money than you. She will not let you get a good night sleep!  

Wives can stress their husbands, but in moderation! Igbo women are known to go to the extreme.

Instead of focusing on the tribe, I  have heard this problem ocurring with other immigrant families. Especially African families.

From my discussions with my brothers, it seems like once they bring their wife from the village to America, these women go crazy. And they stress the men out.

I remember my cousin had a heart attack at 35 years old because his wife kept on saying that she made more money than him as a nurse. Just emasculating the man in front of their children and family.  

paddy_lo,

You are not lying. My father cannot wait to become emiritus.

He already built his house in the village like all Igbo men do. But I think he is going to retire to Calabar where we have another home.

But to be honest, I think it is the stresses of American life on immigrant families. My family had its trouble in which my father had to get used to American life. Drinking and such. . .

Ileke-Idi,

I haven't been posting tribalistic post. Actually, I have been supporting Yorubas and Africans in general against people who say we are inferior.

And I have been defending Nigerians concerning South Africans. Kind of makes it hard when I have a Yoruba trying to mock Igbo men. Don't you think?

You see that Ileke-Idi started the tribalism in this thread.

I always told people she is a closet tribalist. Just that she doesn't mind if an Igbo man such as myself getting into her cookie basket.

[quote author=Igwe-1 link=topic=498954.msg6596897#msg6596897 date=1282168184]Enugu wants to Harness its coal potential but it is capital intensive. They have been begging the Federal government to intervene but the politics of tribalism will not allow our officials to make the prudent decision. What of oji river power station that has layed dormant since it was bombed during the war, a station that supplied the whole of southeast with uninterrupted power in the 60's. Our Federal government is full of inferiors with no real vision for the country and the people. We need better and honest leaders. I think the Enugu state government to should start finding private investors or raise the money themselves, and so should other states that have seen the same treatment. Coal supplies china and the US majority of their electricity and we have high quality coal in our backyard but cannot figure out a way to make it work for the people, What a MESS,[/quote]You have spoken the truth!

THE AMAKA:
GOD FORBID! 

We can get closer together!

We were once one. Let us join together.

My state is #12!  

Put us back into Imo State! I dun tire 4 d Orjis!

gadogado,

Too bad your IQ is below average for your people. Dammn shame if you ask me. Because the way you are debating on this thread has been quite lackluster. Read more and improve your debating skills.

Thank you!

asha 80:
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Nothing funny about his dialect.

Ngwa people and their bush accents. Very funny indeed.

Eziachi:
Very true, but I won't classify it as non proper Igbo, just that its their Igbo dialect. In fact if you can understand stand Ngwa dialect, you won't have issues with Ikwerre as I personally find both very similar for some reason.
Believe it or not, my first Igbo accent/dialect is more or less Ikwerre because of childhood/school environmental influence during primary school. You can say that, I spoke what you called proper or central Igbo tongue only when I went to boarding school in Orlu at B.S.C before the war.

I understand what you are saying. My family in Arochukwu used to say that I speak Igbo funny since I was raised in Port Harcourt, but that changed when I moved to the U.S. since the people around me speak a more central Igbo.

Anyway, do not compare this Ikwerre to Ngwa. lol Don't want that boy getting the satisfaction that I can understand his funny dialect.

The Nigerian Civil War was not between the North and the South. It was between the East and the rest of Nigeria, including certain groups who will remain nameless, but fought against their Eastern brothers.

Basically, you can sum up the war as a regional war, because it was not only an Igbo war which people erroneously say, but the Efik, Ibibio, Ekoi and some Ijaw, yes some Ijaw fought on Biafra. Since the name Biafra was coined by a son of Ijawland.

9jaganja:
So you are an Anchor baby?   hahahahahahahhahahah


Don't worry they can't!!!

They were on vacation! Me an anchor baby. . . Naw I was just a pleasant surprise. lol

That is what my parents did for me and all my siblings! 

They better not tamper with my citizenship!

ow11:
True if you add Etche, Omuma, Oyigbo, Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni, Ahoada East to the Ikwerre (Ikwerre, Emohua, Port Harcourt and Obio Akpor). Those other LGAs are NOT Ikwerre and would not call them selves Ikwerre. They can however be classed as Igbo since their language is Igboid.

Even though their dialects are indeed different. I can understand what many of these people are saying even though it is not proper Igbo. Ikwerre is not hard to understand either. It is all IGBO to me.

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=495020.msg6589354#msg6589354 date=1282074023]Ok, now this thread has my blessing to be locked [/quote]You are enjoying this too much. How about I do the same to you like dawgpound is trying to do me! I know how you women don't like anyone poking around that hole.

[quote author=paddy_lo link=topic=498258.msg6589699#msg6589699 date=1282077611]Everybody on nairaland knows kobojunkie is a man now. . .

The f wey u see there na just to confuse,new ppl like u

make u no go make mistake oh. . . . [/quote]How was I suppose to know? I see F at the end of her name, and then I find out this nonsense. Was I suppose to think otherwise?

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=498258.msg6589715#msg6589715 date=1282077705]Is that supposed to deter EzeUche that has been with dawgpound a few too many times?[/quote]Ileke-Idi,

I keep on telling you that if you want me to show you how manly I can be, just ask and you shall receive.

Let IBB sing the right tune and he will have my entire village support.

Until I see Ojukwu holding a rally for IBB, then I will make my pick.

[quote author=paddy_lo link=topic=498258.msg6589641#msg6589641 date=1282077175]kobojunkie na man oh. . .beware. . . [/quote]

Is this true Kobojunkie?

Kobojunkie,

Come here! You have sparked my interest.

The Igbo are the majority in Rivers State. I grew up in Rivers State and I know for a fact that the Igbo are the majority. 

Ikwerre are Igbo. No need to deny that. Port Harcourt is Igwe Ocha, no denying that.