₦airaland Forum

ObikeNkem:
Benue state and insecurity be like 5and 6

Benue state and bloodletting be like toto and prick

Benue State and ad extra judicial killings be like biafrans and crime

Benue state and violence be lilke ........

ObikeNkem:
Lagos has left the other part of Nigeria alone. How I wish we Igbos can be creative and innovative in Governance as the Yoruba's, but it is impossible. The Yoruba's are a thousand years civilisation ahead of we Igbos.

The last time I travelled home to Igboland, I was shocked at the level of backwardness, primitiveness, poverty, and underdevelopment in Igboland. My home state of Ebonyi has only one tarred road - the road leading to the government house in abakaliki

ObikeNkem:
You omitted Ogun. There is a very big Shoprite Mall at Ogun, immediately after the Sango toll gate. Btw, what is the essence of this infantile thread?

fratermathy:
Good! So when Okafor was begging Urhobos to observe the sit-at-home, whose initial order was he following?

ObikeNkem:
Shut up your amala and ewedu smelling mouth you this afonja coward. Uhrobolnad belong to we Igbos and there is nothing you afonja can do to stop we Igbos from going back to biafra.

Ikpu Nnegi

fratermathy:
How would I know? Do I speak Igbo?

fratermathy:
Biko means please in Urhobo. e.g

Biko kemi ukedjere na ==> Please give me that spoon
Biko kpeki da demu vwo keme ==> Please go to the market and buy me some stuffs
Biko bieche na gbe ==> Please close the door

I understand that it exists in Igbo too but this is purely Urhobo and Urhobo is not an Igboid language. Urhobo is an Edoid language and that word originated from Edo into Urhobo.

fratermathy:
Biko is pure Urhobo. Dunno if it means anything in Igbo. If you don't know something, simply ASK!

fratermathy:
Don't you guys have anything better to say than your normal "afonja" rhetoric? Look at how you and your ilk have succeeded in marring the Igbo name on this thread. Do you really think any sane person will go through this thread and still want to be a Biafran?

In Urhobo, we will say "Oghene biko kemi'roro". I hope you guys get wisdom! For your own sakes and that of your cause. Don't spoil the image of other Igbos with your hateful and spiteful comments.

9jakool:
What oyel? you mean the very small amount found in the SE? It's not enough to satisfy my oyel hungry belle. Last I check, even Ondo produces MORE oyel than the entire SE.

EvilUnityBeggars:
That is how to trap an Afonja

One Star bottle for you

EvilUnityBeggars:
If you have being following my comments, you will see where I posted that all SS and SE tribes are slaves who have no control over their resources

Igbo and Ijaw people have recognized this fact that is why they want out of the federation

9jakool:
If Igbos aren't slaves, why are their oil wells under the control of their Hausa Fulani masters.

Logic my friend, use it when you speak.

fratermathy:
If asserting my independence and saying I don't want to be in the same country with your likes makes me an afonja then so be it, I am an afonja! A proud one at that. I'd rather be an afonja than be an IPOB youth filled with with so much pain and bitterness.

vayne:
its her kind of reasoning that made women to be relegated to the kitchen.

EvilUnityBeggars:
Hausa Fulani people control the oil wells of the Urhobos because they are slaves

Slaves have no control over their oil

Amarabae:
These guys are wild, undiplomatic, insultive, emotional, illogical etc.
How will you conduct referendum on the land of a people who never asked you for one?

fratermathy:
Your king? Urhobo king?

I never knew Igbo had a single king. I also never knew Urhobos had a single king as well.

Pertaining the initial post. The writer was asking Urhobos to respect the IPOB-instructed sit-at-home order. So I will ask you this simple question now:
Was it not IPOB that asked all Igbos to sit-at-home on May 30th?

Amarabae:
you are still calling them slaves?
Your Abuse and intimidation can not make them change their mind.

fratermathy:
I came across this laughable plea from IPOB online and as an Urhobo, I found it laughable and delusional. I'll express my sentiments under the post.




My issues with this delusional plea include:

1. The writer couldn't even spell Urhobo well. What he spelt was Uhrobo, not Urhobo. I have met several Igbos lash on others who dared to omit the "g" in Igbo and spelt as Ibo. The fact that someone or a group that supposedly means us well do not even know how to spell the name of our ethnicity is definitely laughable.

2. Urhobos/Isokos HAVE NEVER been a part of Biafra at any point. In 1967, Urhobo/Isokoland was in Nigeria's Mid-West State (previously in the Western Region) and anyone who knows the history of the war well enough knows that the Mid-West was never part of Ojukwu's short-lived Biafra. In fact, the Biafran troops massacred a lot of Mid-Westerners, including Urhobo/Isokos, when they invaded Benin (only Igbos were spared).

3. In the current resurgence for Biafra, Urhobo/Isokos have always maintained their stand. Our apex socio-cultural unions, UPU and IDU, have stated emphatically that we do not want Biafra. We are not Biafrans. We do not want to be Biafrans! This cannot be overemphasised. Apart from our apex groups, many of us have rejected the Biafran cause in the numerous Urhobo-Isoko groups on the social media.

4. Urhobo/Isokos have never been sympathetic to the Igbo cause in any way. In fact, quite the opposite, we have maintained our independence and tilted more towards the West. The average Urhobo man is more at home with a Yoruba than with an Igbo. This doesn't mean we hate Igbos but we simply have more sympathy with our Edoid/Yoruboid kins. This explains the presence of many itinerant and settler Urhobos in Yorubaland, as opposed to Igboland where Urhobo/Isokos hardly venture to. How then can we share a country with people we have no historical, political or cultural ties with? Any Urhobo/Isoko that may be sympathetic to the Biafran cause does so at the personal level and represents his own interest. The voice of Urhobo/Isoko collective interest has been made known already.

5. Urhobos WILL NOT sit at home and do nothing because IPOB asked us to or because Igbos are doing so. It will NEVER happen, today or anytime soon. Such a plea is useless and antithetical to the Biafran cause. Biafrans should aim for an Igboid country and leave Edoid/Yoruboid groups out of it. Urhobo/Isoko is Edoid. Itsekiri is Yoruboid. Even the Western Ijaws which have always been with us tilt more towards the West than anywhere else. How can you want so many dissimilar groups in your "utopia"? Won't it amount to creating another Nigeria when you "drag" uninterested groups to your cause?

I need not tell the writer, IPOB and any Igbo who cares to hear what the answer to this plea would be. The response is not farfetched. Ihwo r'Urhobo guoni Biafra a! Urhobo people are not Biafrans! We may be fed up with Nigeria but we can never leave the devil for the deep blue sea. Igbo is a majority ethnic group in Nigeria and as such contributes to the plights faced by minorities such as Urhobo/Isoko. The Igbo should not absolve itself from the "parasite" status! As far as minorities are concerned, all majority ethnic groups are a threat. Some are much more than some. In this case, Igbos have never done anything for Urhobo/Isokos to trust its motives. IPOB should stop adding us to its agenda or else it'll attract more insults to itself and the Igbo ethnicity. A word is enough for the wise!


Ihwo r'Urhobo v'Isoko, ke mavor owa mlo ota na vwa? Oshe phiyor? Biko vwa me ji tota kparemu me tare na!

wadetaw202:
Since you see it as a good thing, may your daughters get pregnant out of wedlock and may they not know who impregnated them. Stop supporting nonsense if you don't want nonsense to happen to you.

bayinq25:
She's truly "Your sister ".

wadetaw202:
Since pregnancy out of wedlock is good to you, Kay all your daughters get pregnant out of wedlock and may they not know who impregnated them. You shouldn't have problem saying amen to this

dhejykeane:
okay, fine. But be happy for the guy and not the tribalistic crap you posted earlier

dhejykeane:
He didn't deny his wife, he just kept mute about it. They are 2 different things. Also, you don't have to bring your tribalistic afonja or Igbo bla bla bla here. Grow up!