How about the Ikas in Igbanke and Orhiomwon, are they given recognition? :/

yesloaded:

Port Harcourt is not 100% Igbo land, Lagos state is 100% Yoruba Land

Lagos is not 100% Yoruba land. There are places in Lagos where Yotuba is not their ancestral language . like Ikoga Zebbe or Sagbokodji for example.

Techdra:


Another dry and totally unrelated mention. The entire South-South states are all multi-ethnic so a language or tribe can't claim dominance or superiority over others.

Asaba is in a Multiethnic state, but I can do everything I want to do comfortably speaking igbo only in Asaba.
Your argument can't hold H2o

opuambe:
port Harcourt is not ikwerre and can never be ikwerre, the greater part of port Harcourt is ijaw(okrika)

Joke of the millenium. I doubt up to 10% of the broader PH region is located within Okrika.

BUSINESSARENAA:
What is this foolishness about Igbo?
Its been obsevered that recently people open very foolish threads just to smite the Igbos.

Imagine the OP? why did you not compare Lagos and Anambra, or Imo in terms of localised tribal dialect?

But exposed your foolishness asking of a state in South South ?

Please leave this foolish Igbo hatred and do something useful with your life.

Biko what is "South South" you this Yoruba man?
There are plenty Igbo regions in the so called 'southern south southerly south', so keep your filthy leprous hands AWAY from this thread!

Foxman19:
The issue I always have with igbo is that of I'm your parents and you are not my parents.

Nobody is parent to anybody, the main point is that we all descent from the same ancestral stock of people. Hence why all our dialects share great degrees of mutual intelligibility. The biggest shrine of Amadioha/Kamalu is somewhere in Rivers state.
Oil politics is really doing a lot of damage to the psyche of some of our people.

Marshalldrezzy:
Wtf
Port Harcourt is never an Igbo state be warned we ain't Igbo....

Exactly my question. Why isn't your Ikwerre language of any importance in the city if you claim to be non-Igbos?

Biafrarep:
Your question is totally illogical. If you truly understand the make up of both cities you won't be asking such question.

Lagos is a homogeneous city surrounded by a homogeneous tribe while P.Harcourt is a heterogeneous city surrounded by a heterogeneous region.

PH is surrounded by Ikwerre, Etche, Egbema and Ndoki lands on almost every side except in the south where it shares border with groups from another linguistic phylla. Bros Port Harcourt is broadly Igboid. you can't pretend like you don't know.
And as the PH metro continues to grow, it is expanding more and more inland towards the igboid parts to the north since there is no space for expansion in the waterlogged southern part.

I have always wondered this question.
Both cities are melting pots. But somehow Lagos has managed to entrench a foundational Yoruba character both linguistically and socially.
In the case of Port Harcourt that can't really be said for the city. I know there is an Ijaw (Okrika) part of the city, but it is quite small, and the greater part of Port Harcourt is basically Ikwerre. The lingua franca for 90% of PH is idgin.
Infact, very soon Oyigbo/Obigbo and Port Harcourt will merge into one. Is this how an Ikwerre-Igbo city is going to ditch it's heritage and become 'identityless'?

A non Lagosian can pick up standard Yoruba on Lagos Island, Ikotun, Agege or Ikorodu in 1 year if they are interested in doing so, but a Nigerian will rarely pick up neither Ikwere nor Igbo after living decades in Port Harcourt? Why?

The Benins are indeed a very scary lot.
very fetish!

blackpanda:


That's what the white man taught u

Nothing to do with that.
White man or blue man apart, can you in ALL HONESTY look at these series of pics posted above, and tell me that it isn't some scary voodoo-like sh!t?
Don't lie to yourself, biko.

this one is just wasting money upandan....

Binidefender:
This is map of ibo and ibibio

Yes, Igbo and ibibio.

I like how the map group cluster of Igbo dialects together according to speaking patterns.
I.e Oguta in Imo and Ndokwas in Delta apparently speak something very similar.
Ikwerre and Etches (Rivers) with Oratta (Imo)
Orlu, Isu, Orsu, Ikeduru etc in Imo

The most surprising one are Ndizuogu, Uturu in Imo and umunze (Anambra), Isuochi and otanzu (Abia) clustering with the Enugu dialects

Reviving this thread of mine.

EternalTruths:
Without census.

Nonsense figure.

But Nigerians like quoting the same old CIA figures that said Igbos are only 18% while Hausa-Fulani are 29% of Nigeria. lolz

The Central Intelligence Agency- CIA, The much quoted American intelligence unit website has made a revision on their website's Nigerian section under People and Society, Ethnic groups as well as Religion.: Updated November 09 , 2018.

According to them, this is the reflection of Nigeria's ethnic statistics:
Hausa 27.4%
Igbo (Ibo) 14.1%
Yoruba 13.9%
Fulani 6.3%
Tiv 2.2%
Ibibio 2.2%
Ijaw/Izon 2%
Kanuri/Beriberi 1.7%
Igala 1%
Others 28.9%
Unspecified 0.2%

It then goes on to say Muslims are 51.6% of the country, Christians are 46.9 (of which Roman Catholics are 11.2%), Traditionalists are 0.9%, while unspecified are 0.5%
https://www.cia.gov/llibrary/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ni.html

But knowing that this same CIA is the same agency responsible for the much peddled Hausa-Fulani 29%, Yoruba 21%, Igbo 18% Ijaw 10%, Kanuri 4%, Ibibio-Efik 3.5% Figure that was brandished around for a very long time, is it safe to say these new figures are also unrealistic and suspect?
Also the way they seem to be able to arrive at such precise percentages, plus their inclusion of an "unspecified" category seem to suggest that they did some sort of survey? (If they did, then when, where and how did it happen)

Take for example, How Igalas be 1% but Urhobos don't rank?
Hausas and Fulanis together are now 33.7% from 29%
Igbos are now 14.1% from 18%
Yorubas came as the biggest shock crashing down to 13.9% from a previous 21% More than 7% decrease.
Ijaws also went frm 10% to 2% (This one i am not surprised, because trust me, everyone knew Ijaws were not 10% of Nigeria)

The consequence of this is that Hausas alone are now the same population as Igbos and Yorubas combined, without even factoring in the fulanis YET.

What actually happened? Are the new stats more believable than the old one from the same Agency, or are both figures old and new total crap, which would only suggest that this so called agency are just amateurs sitting in some armchair in faraway Washington D.C making wild unresearched guesses? Hmmn.

The Central Intelligence Agency- CIA, The much quoted American intelligence unit website has made a revision on their website's Nigerian section under People and Society, Ethnic groups as well as Religion.: Updated November 09 , 2018.

According to them, this is the reflection of Nigeria's ethnic statistics:
Hausa 27.4%
Igbo (Ibo) 14.1%
Yoruba 13.9%
Fulani 6.3%
Tiv 2.2%
Ibibio 2.2%
Ijaw/Izon 2%
Kanuri/Beriberi 1.7%
Igala 1%
Others 28.9%
Unspecified 0.2%

It then goes on to say Muslims are 51.6% of the country, Christians are 46.9 (of which Roman Catholics are 11.2%), Traditionalists are 0.9%, while unspecified are 0.5%
https://www.cia.gov/llibrary/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ni.html

But knowing that this same CIA is the same agency responsible for the much peddled Hausa-Fulani 29%, Yoruba 21%, Igbo 18% Ijaw 10%, Kanuri 4%, Ibibio-Efik 3.5% Figure that was brandished around for a very long time, is it safe to say these new figures are also unrealistic and suspect?
Also the way they seem to be able to arrive at such precise percentages, plus their inclusion of an "unspecified" category seem to suggest that they did some sort of survey? (If they did, then when, where and how did it happen)

Take for example, How Igalas be 1% but Urhobos don't rank?
Hausas and Fulanis together are now 33.7% from 29%
Igbos are now 14.1% from 18%
Yorubas came as the biggest shock crashing down to 13.9% from a previous 21% More than 7% decrease.

The consequence of this is that Hausas alone are now the same population as Igbos and Yorubas combined, without even factoring in the fulanis YET.

What actually happened? Are the new stats more believable than the old one, or are these people just sitting n some armchair in faraway Washington D.C making wild unresearched guesses? Hmmn.

This man always reminds me of one Dibia like that in our movie idustry

She’s even merciful

Just car damage for having a second family?

Saad sad sad.

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Are you alright?

ihitenansa:
so an arabic word is berra dan ur native oba title?

lol I swear these yoruba muslim nuttjobs are something else.

hitchowoyemi:


Mr acclaimed flat-head, bera say somfn else than display your ethno-religious bigotry. Yorubas are blessed across board. Leave us to worry about our problem while you worry about bringing back uncle Nnamdi KANU that has betrayed ur confidence sir. If the Iwo people accept this development, so be it, otherwise the king is on his own. Hi, Jagaband d-Igbo

Look at this cone head

looool

Afonjas:



Zombie this is how the Fulani traditional leaders dress

Emir in the Middle East don't dress this way

That guy na proper Zombie.
You know Zombies don't realize that they are already Zombies? lol

Interesting