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Ngozi123:


Lmao. Ikechu1 was right about you. Please, nobody take this poster seriously. LMAO.

IF WE HAVE AN EXPERT ON ONITSHA MATTER HERE, IT IS NGOZI123.

vicenzo:
Had to correct this falsehood and misrepresentation of facts.

Marseille was conquered by the Julius Caesar, the Roman emperor, and today, the language we know as French is a corrupted pidgin version of Roman language.
The language Marseille speaks today is a result of subjugation and invasion by Romans.

Greeks again were invaders and Empire builders that invaded and ruled Egypt, likewise Alexandria. They were never the majority in Egypt and their language naturally had to give way for those of the Arab early invaders who were then natives of the land.

All the examples you gave, were all built on invasion and Empire building where by the language Of the Empire builders swallowed those of the invaded, or where those of the invaded swallowed those of the empire builders who were in small number and had to assimilate into the language of the invaded.

Questions for you:
Was there ever an Igbo empire in the past?
At what point did this Igbo empire invaded non Igbo speaking clans in Western Igboland today and turned them into Igbo speaking enclaves.

IGBO HAVE NO MILITARY AND NOT KNOWN TO INVADE ANY COMMUNITY.

THEY MAINLY SETTLED ON UNINHABITED LAND.

I DONT KNOW WHICH PART OF UNINHABITED THAT REDBONESMITH1 FAIL TO UNDERSTAND.

THE ONLY WAY TO GO INTO LAND INHABITED IS THROUGH WAR, UNLESS HE KNOWS OF A WAR THAT WE DONT KNOW IN ANIOMA.

HAS HE EVER WONDERED Y IGBO MIGRATED WEST RATHER THAN CONTINUE DOWN SOUTH OR EAST INTO THE EKOI AND EFIK GROUP AREA?

THOSE AREAS WERE INHABITED BY BANTU SPEAKERS.

THE GUY IS VERY IMMORAL AND LACKS DECENCY.

HOW CAN U BE BEST FRIEND WITH UR EX AND U VISIT HER AND UR ALWAYS TOGETHER AND CALL EACH OTHER FAMILY.

IS HE TALKING TO KIDS.

HE IS COUPLE WITH SARAH AND COOL WITH HER SLEEPING AROUND WHILST HE SLEEPS AROUND.

JUST BECOS HE IS COOL WITH THAT DONT MEAN KILLZ IS.

KILLZ SHOULD BE THANKING GOD HE GOT OUT ON TIME, WHO KNOWS, RAPMAN WOULD HAVE FATHER ALL HIS KIDS HAD HE MARRIED SARAH.


AS FOR SARAH AND MUNACH, ONLY GOD KNOW HOW THEIR TOTO GO BE BECOS ASHAWO WORK GO DON SCATTER THEIR YANSH KPATAKPATA.

Redbonesmith1:
Not an easy question to answer.

First, we take our traditions quite seriously. Our traditions trace us to many different cultures, not just Igbo. As a result we tend to feel that calling us Igbo is over-simplifying our identity.

Also, in the olden days Igbo for us meant the people across the Niger. The name also has for us a negative connotation, but I don't want to get into that.

Really? Na wettin we do all l of una Ooooo! please tell!

cheruv:
I don't particularly like it when ignorant folks make sweeping generalizations... What's 90%
Moreover their case is a case of reverse migration.. They went to Idu earlier before the 15th century and had to remigrate when Ewuare(r1440-1473) started his madness. That's why almost all of them have identifiable Igbo names from ezechima to akaraka...compare their case to that of the ishan who left in the 14th century or the Urhobo/Isoko who left in the 11th century during the Ogiso period. You'd see that unlike the Igbo remigrants, the Ishan and Urhobo have clear Edoid names.
Moreover, the Igbos who came out from Idu met already existing Igbo populations West of the Ohimiri river...all they did was to impose Bini political systems on those already existing Igbo populations, aside the political systems every other thing in Anioma is Igbo

OR THE POLITICAL SYSTEM MIGHT HAVE BEEN IMPOSED IN THE 15TH CENTURY DURING COLONIALISM.

see wat igbo people are building in Lagos and Abuja. Nestoil Tower, Victoria Island, Lagos

We want dem to do all this in the east, as the example set out by Doctor Maduka above.

In little time we will repeat wat was done in Dubai.

ianSweet:
I think u should speak for yourself o.
A lot of igbo elites will never be able to leave Lagos. Igbo wealth there is too much, that is why u hardly see these elites agitate for Biafra. Abuja is becoming another interesting place for igbos, there properties there are growing in the millions every day.
What if at the end of the day, all the minority groups refuse to go with Biafra including Anioma and Rivers igboid groups? Will u guys go with the only 5 South-eastern states and form a landlocked extreme densely populated republic?

That is just it, the main reason we want Biafra is to stop Igbos investing in far places like Lagos and Abuja. It is not too late and this is the right time to do that. We want all igbos to return to the east and help develop our land and actually live on the land. Igbo land is big enough and wen we demarcate it and set out areas to build cities, towns and villages(suburb and rural areas) the benefits are endless.

We dont want our people in far away Lagos and Abuja anymore. We have land. Igbo investment in Lagos remains the private property of their owners.(likewise Abuja) Nigerians own property in Ghana and UK but dont share country with them.

Nigeria is going to be over populated anyway, with the way muslims marry 4 wives and have many children. Already, Hausa-Fulani populations are slowly taking hold of the SE and spreading SS from the middle-belt.


On Ebira muslims, they will be a minority alongside Igala muslims. Muslims are always peaceful wen in the minority, that is if they request membership, as they presently are not included. People can apply to join with short term membership and if they find the country suitable they can apply for longterm membership. We will not force anybody to join or stay as u are free to leave and things will be done properly unlike Nigeria.



PIC BELOW: Biggest Medical Research Centre in Africa Completed in Anambra.(In his village) This is wat happens wen they return home, their villages start to look like Cities and then wen we actually map out areas to build a modern global city, u realise their was never any need to be in a country with the North and South west in the first place.

ianSweet:
Southern Cameroons, yes they were once part of Eastern Nigeria, they chose to remain in Cameroon while Adamawa chose to join Nigeria. I think that idea may never work. I have never heard any southern cameroons claiming to want to rejoin Nigeria or Biafra. I know they are being opressed in Cameroon for being english speaking but their agitations are hardly heard of.

I think u should speak for yourself o.
A lot of igbo elites will never be able to leave Lagos. Igbo wealth there is too much, that is why u hardly see these elites agitate for Biafra. Abuja is becoming another interesting place for igbos, there properties there are growing in the millions every day.

If there is any middlebelt group that will join u igbos, it certainly cannot be Ebira. Have u ever been to Okene? Islam has so much affected ebiras to the extent that many ebira muslims are fanatics and extremist, almost like hausa-fulanis and these people do not like u igbos.

What if at the end of the day, all the minority groups refuse to go with Biafra including Anioma and Rivers igboid groups? Will u guys go with the only 5 South-eastern states and form a landlocked extreme densely populated republic?

That is just it people dont like Igbos but cannot say one thing that igbos have done to them but u lot love the HausaFulani.

As for southern Cameroon, see the article below.

Nobody can hold us hostage, if u lot feel happy in Nigeria den u can continue with Nigeria, we will definately leave without all of u if that is ur choice.

For ur information, Igbos are not landlocked, ever heard of Opobo Island in Rivers? That is Igboland. It is almost certain that if we exit, AkwCross will automatically go with us.

Those guys are the only groups that are completely comfortable with Igbos and trust them. I have never heard dem talk about domination.

The rest of u are totally brain washed by the Nigeria Biafra war igbo domination propaganda and that is y many of u ended up fighting on the wrong side only to start apologizing later.

UNITED REFERENDUM DEMANDED IN SOUTHERN CAMEROONS, BAKASSI, NIGER DELTA AND BIAFRA
AFRICA, PRESS RELEASEBY NEWSRESCUEMARCH 29, 2014
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Mar. 30, 2014

scflagThe Government of Southern Cameroons (GoSC) condemns the continued arrest of independence activists by forces of La Republique du Cameroun (LRC) in Southern Cameroons. Further, the GoSC questions the recent actions of the Nigerian government in abandoning the Bakassi people to criminal powers in Yaounde and the Nigerian government’s mistaken policy of harassing and detaining self determination activists in Biafra and the Niger Delta.

The GoSC continues to assess the unfolding human tragedy in this region with sorrow and renewed determination for the formation of a united front as proposed by the Biafra Zionist Movement’s President, Mr. Benjamin Onwuka, earlier this month.

The actions of the Camerounian occupation forces have had consequences beyond the borders of Southern Cameroons and have created a humanitarian crisis in neighbouring Nigeria as displaced citizens flee for their lives.

The actions of the Nigerian government towards peaceful self determination campaigners is misguided even as the Nigerian armed forces fail to protect its citizens from massive terrorism by Boko Haram extremists in the north.

Therefore the GoSC calls for two immediate actions:

1. A united front by all self determination campaigners in Nigeria and Southern Cameroons.

2. An internationally supervised referendum within six months to determine the future of the region.

The solidarity of the Biafra, Bakassi, Niger Delta and Southern Cameroonian peoples for economic and political self determination is resolute and enduring.

The Government of Southern Cameroons takes up the call for unity by all organizations in the regions including: MASSOB, BZM, MEND, MOSOP, OPC, SCNC, SCAPO, SCYL the Bakassi Boys, and BAMOSD.

Long Live a Free Southern Cameroons – Justice and Liberty for the People of Bakassi!



EB SIGTHE GOVERNMENT OF SOUTHERN CAMEROONS; OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

President GoSC

Secretary General OEAS

Ebenezer Akwanga

secretariat@oeas.info

www.southerncameroonsgovernment.com



Read more: http://newsrescue.com/united-referendum-demanded-southern-cameroons-bakassi-niger-delta-biafra/#ixzz4VTUGVnVD

TO GO SCHOOL SWEET OOOOO!


FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS UR RIGHT. IT IS GOOD TO KNOW UR RIGHT.


BUHARI IS A TERRORIST.

ianSweet:
Well, goodluck, but be rest assured that it would be an impossible task.

The people that should be more concerned are those left behind. Everything they fear would happen to dem.

Igbo was once like them, very trusting and we paid the price heavily, now we are wiser.

U urself said the middle belt is chaos of many small groups that are not united. We want to avoid that.

The yorubas, we would have loved to share country with, if for nothing, at least our properties in Lagos.

But experience have taught us that is a bad idea, we will sacrifice Lagos for the stability we will gain in the long run.

Mind u, there are also negotiation to bring in Southwest Cameroon into Biafra, they also want to leave Cameroon.

There will be more than enough groups to balance Igbo population. We will have written agreement in our constitution on power rotation and also laws to protect minority languages. Unless u have other group in middlebelt u cannot do without. (Ebira are welcomed but they should ask.)

I dont know wat u lot are scared of, becos our intentions are good, not bad.

AS SOON AS IKE COMMOT, SHE FIND ANOTHER MUGU TO SHARE WITH TERRY.

SHE LIKE CHEAT, CHEAT EHN... NEVER BURN BRIDGES OVER HOES.

TERRY NO TRY AT ALL BUT TIV PEOPLE ARE KNOWN FOR SEXUAL IMMORALITY. DEY LOVE TO SHARE WOMEN.

softMarket:
Ikechukwu......sarah of ofili never loved you !


Terry is good in Bed while you are good in giving her money!

REALLY? Y SHE COME LEAVE HIS BROKE ASS?


HOES DONT LOVE ANYBODY. ASHAWO NO DEY LOVE OOOOOO


SARAH HAS PRACTICALLY bleeped THE ENTIRE INDUSTRY IN NIGERIA. NSEW, SHE IS IN NIGERIA LIKE EVERY 3WEEKS.

Redbonesmith1:
I feel like telling you how Yoruboid-Edoid-Igboid are related languages, which are in turn related to Nupoid-Oko-Idomoid, but I know I will be wasting my time because, clearly you do not know anything in the field of African linguistics.

Yoruba's relatedness to Igala (a Yoruboid language) is much more closer than its relatedness to Igbo (a non-Yoruboid language). Just like Bini's relatedness to Urhobo (an Edoid language) is much more closer than its relatedness to Igbo (a non-Edoid language). On a more removed plane, all these languages are ultimately distantly related.

Do you understand this simple explanation?

BRO, I KNOW WE ARE RELATED TO YORUBA AND THE MIDDLE-BELT, BUT THE WAY THEY HAVE TREATED US, IS NOTHING TO WRITE HOME ABOUT.

THAT IS Y WE WILL BE DISTANT COUSINS AFTER NIGERIA. IGBOS NO GO EVER AGREE TO JOIN COUNTRY WITH YORUBA. WE WILL BE TWO PARALLEL LINES THAT WILL NEVER MEET.

AS FOR THE MIDDLE-BELT WE WILL HELP LIBERATE THEM FROM HAUSA-FULANI BUT THEY MUST BE ON THEIR OWN. WE MIGHT HAVE FORGIVEN THEM BUT WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN WAT THEY DID. PARTICULARLY THE MILITARY MEN AMONGST THEM THAT HELD OFFICE OF INFLUENCE DURINGTHE BIAFRA WAR.

THE IGALA AND IDOMA ARE A DIFFERENT CASE, PEOPLE ALWAYS FORGIVE THEIR BROTHER. EVEN IF HE KILL U.

ianSweet:
I think u igbos are just being selfish or trying to play too smart which will not work.
U cannot just handpick the minority groups you want to go with you to Biafra. It will never work that way. You have go first of all gain some form of regional unity and acceptance through a united system and quality leadership with these minority groups before these minority groups would be able to entrust themselves to you. Nobody would want to jump from the frying pan to the fire.

Do u remember late Maj Gideon Orkar? He was a middlebelter who believed that a united middlebelt and southern Nigeria without the core-north would be a very succesful country and believe me, truly it would have been as we all know that the core-northernerns (hausa-fulani and kanuris) are the ones dragging Nigeria bakckwards in a lot of ways.

If Gideon Orkar's coup had succeeded, be rest assured that hausa-fulanis would have been together with Niger republic by now. Gideon never fought for the middlebelt alone but for both the middlebelt and the south.
A united south and middlebelt is the only cure to hausa-fulani madness and hegemony, believe me. The british empowered these people a lot and as long as they are in Nigeria, getting Biafra will never be possible unless through a very bloody war.

THIS IS THE PROBLEM, EVERYBODY SCARED OF IGBOS, BUT DID THE THOUGHT EVER CROSS UR MINDS THAT U GUYS HAVE GIVEN IGBOS MORE REASON TO BE SCARED OF THE LOT OF YOU?

U THINK IGBOS WILL RISK FURTHER ASSOCIATION WITH YORUBAS AFTER WAT THEY DID IN BIAFRA AND GEJ? EVEN THE MIDDLE-BELT, U THINK IGBOS WOULD BE HAPPY TO SHARE COUNTRY WITH GOWON PEOPLE AND DANJUMA PEOPLE?

WE ARE MORE SCARED OF THE LOT OF U THAN U ACTUAL THINK. THAT IS Y WE HAVE SELECTED A HANDFUL THAT ARE OUR NEIGHBOR AND SHARE CULTURES WITH US. THEY DECIDE WHETHER TO JOIN OR NOT, IT IS NOT MANDATORY.

WITHOUT BIAFRA WAR, NNAMDI AZIKIWE AGREED TO GIVE SADAUNA (AHMADU BELLO) A MAJORITY IN PARLIAMENT, SO THEY CAN AGREE TO BE NIGERIANS. WE ALL KNOW, HOW THAT TURNED OUT. TODAY, IGBOS ARE NOT PREPARED TO TAKE SUCH RISKS AGAIN, WE TOO DEY FEAR.

WAT U DID WITH IGALA LANGUAGE AND YORUBA, COULD BE REPEATED WITH IGBO AND YORUBA.

THERE ARE MANY WORDS IN BOTH LANGUAGES THAT ARE THE SAME.

HERE IS JUST A FEW.

English: Ear
Yoruba: Eti
Igbo: Ntị


English: Nose
Yoruba: imú
Igbo: Imi

English: Stone
Yoruba: Okuta
Igbo: Okute

English: Amen
Yoruba: Ase
Igbo: Ise

English: A Twin
Yoruba: Ejire
Igbo: Ejime/Ejima

English: What
Yoruba: Kini
Igbo: Gini

English: He/she said
Yoruba: Oso
Igbo: Osi

Redbonesmith1:
Boy, go and rest. You asked for a word. One word. I gave you over 40. You come back and say it is few. Do you want a dictionary? Go online or to a freaking library and read about how West African languages are classified, and the constituent languages in the Yoruboid language cluster. In the 21st century, no enlightened Nigerian should still be questioning whether Igala is Yoruboid or not.

WELL, SORRY TO DISAPPOINT U, I AM QUESTIONING THAT CLAIM TO THE LATTER.

WE HAVE SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCES WITH IGBO AND BINI, BUT U DONT HEAR ANYBODY CALL BINI AN IGBOID LANGUAGE DO U?

I INSIST THAT U GO ON YOUTUBE AND LISTEN TO IGALA SPEAKERS AND THEN LISTEN TO YORUBA.

I UNDERSTAND YORUBA AND COULD NOT HEAR A SINGLE WORD IN IGALA. IGALA SOUDS MORE SIMILAR WITH IDOMA.

ianSweet:
I think u igbos are just being selfish or trying to play too smart which will not work.
U cannot just handpick the minority groups you want to go with you to Biafra. It will never work that way. You have go first of all gain some form of regional unity and acceptance through a united system and quality leadership with these minority groups before these minority groups would be able to entrust themselves to you. Nobody would want to jump from the frying pan to the fire.

Do u remember late Maj Gideon Orkar? He was a middlebelter who believed that a united middlebelt and southern Nigeria without the core-north would be a very succesful country and believe me, truly it would have been as we all know that the core-northernerns (hausa-fulani and kanuris) are the ones dragging Nigeria bakckwards in a lot of ways.

If Gideon Orkar's coup had succeeded, be rest assured that hausa-fulanis would have been together with Niger republic by now. Gideon never fought for the middlebelt alone but for both the middlebelt and the south.
A united south and middlebelt is the only cure to hausa-fulani madness and hegemony, believe me. The british empowered these people a lot and as long as they are in Nigeria, getting Biafra will never be possible unless through a very bloody war.

MIND U THEIR IS NO MIDDLE-BELT AS FAR AS THE AREWA ARE CONCERNED. JUST SAYING...

BESIDES, YORUBAS ARE GOING WITH THE HAUSAFULANI, WE DONT WANT SABOTEURS...

Redbonesmith1:
I tried posting links to two articles. Spambot hid my post and banned me. If you still want to see the articles, it has to be by e-mail as Spambot seems to have a problem with me posting links.

You want one word? I'll give you dozens.

1. Two is eji in both languages.
2. Three is eta in both languages.
3. Six is efa in both languages.
4. Eight is ejo in both languages.
8. In-law is ana in both languages.
12. Ear is eti in both languages
14. Hand is owo in Yoruba and Igala
17. Urine is ito in both languages
20. Water is Omi in both languages.
21. Day is ojo in both languages.
25. Flower is ododo in both languages.
26. Farm is oko in both languages.
28. Snake is ejo in both languages.
30. He-goat is obuko in both languages.
31. Fish is eja in both languages.
33. Oil is ekpo in both languages.
34. Kolanut is obi in both languages.
37. Boat is oko in both languages.
38. Hunger is ebi in both languages.
39. Shadow is ojiji in both languages.

The list doesn't end! You should have known this if you had 'researched' as you said.

IANSWEET ABEG CONFIRM THAT THIS IS CORRECT.

@Redbonesmith1, SO 4 UR MIND BECOS OF THESE FEW SIMILAR WORDS IGALA NOW SOUND YORUBA?

MY ADVICE TO U, IS TO ACTUALLY GO ON YOUTUBE AND LISTEN TO WAT IGALA ACTUALLY SOUNDS LIKE.

THEN LISTEN TO YORUBA.

RedboneSmith:
What do you mean 'u share border with'? I am not Yoruba.

If you want to know what Yoruba and Igala languages actually are like, I can send you materials to read for yourself.

Coming to Ozioma, the name doesn't mean 'Good news' in Ebira, the similarity in sound is coincidental.

Does Yoruba share bother with Olukumi in Aniocha. Even the Itsekiri are seperated from mainstrean Yoruba by some Ijaw groups. Yet they speak Yoruboid languages.

Itsekiri and Olukumi are very bad examples.

Let me ask u? How did Olukumi or wateva u call them get into Anioma? That is very suspicious.

As for the Itsekiri, they are Ijaw mixed with yoruba and that is y u get Ijaw groups separating them from mainstream yoruba.

I hope u understand the difference between these scenario and the Igala. Igala is not a yoruboid language, that is certain.

They are not mixed with yoruba.

@RedboneSmith: send me the material or better yet post it here.

Tell me one similar igala and yoruba word? Just one is all i ask.

How do u equate two separate entity that dont even share border as similar?

That is just propaganda and lies.

RedboneSmith:
What do you mean 'u share border with'? I am not Yoruba.

If you want to know what Yoruba and Igala actually are like, I can send you materials to read for yourself.

Coming to Ozioma, the name doesn't mean 'Good news' in Ebira, the similarity in sound is coincidental.

Does Yoruba share bother with Olukumi in Aniocha. Even the Itsekiri are seperated from mainstrean Yoruba by some Ijaw groups. Yet they speak Yoruboid languages.

Dude, i research these things and i know wat am saying. Okun in Kogi are yoruba but a yoruba person might not even understand everything they say becos the language changed abit.

Igala are not yorubas or related to yorubas or share borders with yorubas. Not even their names or culture is yoruba.

RedboneSmith:
[s]Again, the materials to study both languages are available. This matter is not even open for debate any more. The facts are out. Igala is a Yoruboid language.[/s]

I have better things to do than engage in the crap ur saying. A group that Yoruba dont even share a border with.

Ebira that yoruba share a border with, are almost speaking igbo and answering igbo names.

I hope u know Mercy Johnson name is Ozioma? She is Ebira.

RedboneSmith:
Igala and Yoruba languages are more than similar. They are sister languages. That is a well-established fact. Have you looked at both languages?

Wettin Idoma language go come tell u? Yoruba has no claims or relations to Igala, that falsehood must stop.

Ngozi 123,Ngo, nne kedu nke na-eme nu?

ianSweet:
From what i have studied about my people's history, truly we have origins common with Igbos, but overtime, our Igbo similarities have been heavily diluted by other influences.

Igalas were conquered by Kwararafa kingdom for instance and today almost 40% of Igalas now claim Kwararafa origin including the current Attah Of Igala.
Many Hausas came to Igala land to trade and the spread of islam came and many of these Hausas were absorbed into Igala. Today if u go to Ankpa axis in Igala land, majority of them are muslims and they will tell u that they have hausa origins.
Also, i think Igalas traded a lot with yorubas before the Egbirras came from Kwararafa kingdom and cut igala boundary with yoruba off, this is why igala and yoruba are similar languages.
So, you can see the many influences.

Interesting? Kwararafa conquered Igala? I would have thought, it would be the big bad igbos. lmao

Do u know igbos have never conquered any tribe in its history? That is y i dont know where u people get this igbo fear from.

Nri kingdom was spiritual not military. it did not have army.

Take for instance Igala in Enugu and Anambra, as tiny as they are, nobody conquered them. Igbos see them as their own.

Point of correction Igala and yoruba languages are not similar, that is a lie. Yorubas go around claiming every tribe, u need to be aware of this. Even the Ebira they claim and that was y i posted that video.

If truily the Ebira migrated from the Eastern part to the west, from the way their language is sounding igbo, i am convinced that they might be igbo migrants to the west.

Igala language is similar to Idoma becos the languages were influenced by the same groups, of which igbo is one, but I dont know the other groups at the other end of the northern border.

As for the Hausa/fulani migrant, that is normal, thank ur God dey did not insist that u speak Hausa.

Igbos are not too keen on the language u speak anyway, we are more interested on wat we can accomplish together. We have igbos in Rivers that still answer Igbo names but have lost the igbo language due to mixing. They are the Ikwere.

As for the kwararafa thing, the kingdom is dead and gone and they are not indigenous to Igala, so u guys have to claim ur identity back and that is y u should join the SS/SE to reconnect with ur igbo roots.

ianSweet:
Most South-south and middlebelt minority groups will not choose Biafra because of fear of uncertainty and distrust for Igbos, i can assure you.
Gone were the days when the Eastern region was one and the Igbos so powerful in deciding the fate of neighbouring minorities.
If Igbos will ever win the heart and trust of their minority neighbours, they have to work to earn it. Otherwise i advise igbos to just stick to the South-east if their agitation will ever make sense.

Well, the entire middlebelt is gradually being islamised. The question u ask urself is after that, will their be peace, as it is in the middle east?

The second thing is that, Igbo has more reason not to trust the middle-belt and some SS minorities. The Middle Belt and SS have no reason not to trust the igbos.

As for the fear of uncertainty, once igbo exit with or without the middle-belt and ss, ur matters will get worst, then u guys will understand the true meaning of domination at the hands of the North supported by the South west.

Thirdly, we are not after the middle-belt, we have select those we share culture and religion with and not the entire middle-belt. Yes the Igala and Idoma are the lucky ones. Maybe the Ebira too. I hope they request to join as they are not included.

Fourthly, their is no history of igbo dominating anybody. Actually it is the other way round and a major propaganda used to divide the SE during the Biafra war. The ijaw and middle belt have apologized for their errors and we have forgiven them and even invited two middle belt groups to Biafra.
http://thebridgenetworkonline.com/they-tricked-us-into-fighting-igbos-during-civil-war-middle-belt-group/

“They Tricked Us Into Fighting Igbos During Civil War” – Middle Belt Group
The Bridge Network August 9, 2016 Biafra, Local, News Leave a comment 1 Views



THE United Middle Belt Youth Congress (UMBYC), a group at the forefront of mapping out the North Central geopolitical zone as Middle Belt has lampooned the north for lining up soldiers from the zone against the Igbos during the Nigerian civil war.

They said the core north easily achieved this by exploiting the command structure of the military and manufacturing fear that Biafra is out to overrun them.

“We know the ignorant years that have passed when we went to war. When they mobilised us to war and told us ‘ah they want to terminate you people. The Igbos are majority and in fact they are coming to swallow you people'”

“A lot of us went to the bush to fight. I know how many families of our brothers that we lost in that war. Not to talk about our other brothers, the Igbos who we went to fight ignorantly.”

The president-general, Abuka Omababa disclosed this during a courtesy visit of the group to The Moment in Ogudu, Lagos recently saying that the hackneyed concept of ‘one north’ was also crafted with the connivance of the British to mislead the rest of the country into believing an existence of a gigantic and awesome ‘north’.

He added that while it was disheartening enough that they were manipulated into a fratricidal war with the Igbo, the Hausa/Fulani ‘were in Sokoto and Kano relaxing and watching the two of us kill each other.’

The group consequently declared that the days they were play-thing in the hands of ‘the North’ are over for good. They therefore extend a hand of fellowship to other ethnic nationality groups in Nigeria saying that ‘without us there is no north; no Middle Belt, no North. If we remove ourselves they are disconnected from Nigeria. So we are the bridge. We have served as the bridge.’

The group said that serial cases of religious intolerance in the north are championed by the Hausa/Fulani who are moulded to perceive non-Muslim practitioners with distaste. They dissociated the Middle Belt from it saying they see others as members of a single humanity rather than with religious or other colourations.

‘Prior to the coming of the British, we were occupying our land. We are democratic. We are freethinkers in our various nationalities. If you see a Langtang family; they may have one Muslim, one Christian and one pagan; they cohabit and you will not know the difference.’

‘Whenever there is riot in the north, it affects us. Our people run like any other southerner. If you look at these youth corps members that were killed, they brought two to Kogi. So, if Kogi is north, then why is north burying their children?’

Though they blamed the British for grouping and lumping them together with the north, they were insistent that the Middle Belt is not north. Thus, they ask for the official regrouping of Nigeria where they are recognised as distinct federating unit.

‘We want our identity to be known. We want to bear our name. We don’t want to be covered again…we have the right to determine our own identity…. And we have decided that we are going to do it legitimately. We want to be officially regrouped as Middle Belt region.

‘We have the Niger Delta that has been officially regrouped. They are minorities in the south like we are minorities lumped into the north.’

They maintain that gone are the days when they are used as a buffer to protect and comfort the north. They did not see any reason why they would only be used by the north to gather votes during election, and food during scarcity but discarded just as soon as the ‘hegemonic’ north is satisfied.

‘Our resources and land remain closed under the northern Nigeria. And what they do is; if it is time to make use of numbers, our population, they say yes we are relevant. After that; no we are no more relevant.’

‘Thanks to the struggle of June 12 which brought President Olusegun Obasanjo to power in 1999. While making appointments he brought General Victor Malu as Chief of Army Staff, Saliu Ibrahim and the rest, then, the north through late Alhaji Wada Nas rose and said that these people do not represent northern interest.

‘It is a clear thing that we do not belong there. We want to be separate people, and so shall it be.’

They went on to reiterate their backing to the evolution of a fiscal federalism where the federating units will control the resources in their geographical sphere.

‘Make the centre less attractive, so that if you are going there, it is for service. We from the Middle Belt, we will pay our taxes. They should leave Ajaokuta for us; they should leave all those gold, columbite, timber and other solid minerals found in the Middle Belt for us to develop our community.

‘What we are saying is that they have concentrated too much power at the centre which is the reason everybody wants to kill others in order to get there. Every region will have to pay tax to the Federal Government.’

Then they upped the ante with some other bold demands.

‘We said we need our own 13 per cent from electricity. We need 13 per cent from Ajaokuta, from solid minerals coming from Middle Belt, even from our food. If you see the level of farm work going on in the Middle Belt, you will see why we agitate for Farming Development Commission to provide modern equipment and health facilities.

‘Give us also HYPODEC – Hydro Power Development Commission – which Jonathan has already granted and signed into law but has not constituted the board.’

While tracing the history of their struggle for identity, they say that at great cost their progenitors like Ameh Oboni, David Lot and JS Tarka had kick-started this resistance which people like Paul Unongo had continued.

They say that while they remain in touch with their parent body – United Middle Belt Congress (UMBC) – they are determined to add youthful vigour to it, and facilitate the realisation of their dreams of emancipation from northern hegemony and resource control.

‘The issue of Middle Belt identity started with the late Ameh Oboni and Attah of Igala. At the northern emirs’ meeting, when the Sultan of Sokoto and the rest came, he was told to remove his cap; he said no that the Hausa/Fulani has never been commanders of Igala, and Igalas has never bowed down to them.

‘So they threatened that they will show him where he belongs at the next meeting; he too retorted he will show them where they belong. At the next meeting, they insisted and forcefully removed his cap, from which emanated stinging bees that disrupted the meeting. All the emirs ran away except him. But that is the local way of struggling against the domination of the Hausa/Fulani.

‘Late Dr. JS Tarka and Paul Unongo, because they were educated, brought it to international attention through the UMBC – United Middle Belt Congress of those days. So the struggle for Middle Belt identity has been on.

They added that when Usman Dan Fodio came with a jihad in 1804, he conquered Kastina, Sokoto and Kano but could not conquer the Lantang and the Birong peoples of Plateau. He was also said not to have defeated Taraba when the state comprised Igala, Jukuns and Tiv peoples.

‘He could not conquer us. He could not conquer Middle Belt. So when the British were going they said that these people are difficult to conquer in war, so give them indirect rule system. Co-opt them through the Atta of Igala, through the Gbomgbom of Jos. That is how the British played us to the monolithic north’ the group’s president-general explained.

The Moment’s Editor in charge of daily operations, Martin Azuwike who received the group urged them to continue in the part of non-violent struggle. He said that the nation has so much security concerns which if they resort to violence, Nigeria will have more than a mouthful to chew.

He also said the newspaper will always report their activities with a sense of balance and fairness to others.

ianSweet:
The Attah of igala land may not allow such referendum in Igala land because he will not want anything that will divide his people.
Islam and Christianity is already a huge factor of differentiation among his people. I think Idomas may be in a better position for this.

The people of Igala are not his prisoners and they have a voice. We will be very persuasive on that issue at the right time. We are not leaving the Igala's behind unless they choose to stay behind.

I personally think, going with the SS/SE is the better option if Nigeria continues the way it is. I mean did u see wat happened in Kaduna? How long before the Christians in Igala face similar? They even had the guts to try it in Enugu recently.

OBAMA HAS FINALLY LEFT WHITE HOUSE, BUHARI AND BINTA ARE ON THEIR OWN.


NNAMDI KANU ROCKS.

THIS EBIRA PEOPLE NEED TO BE SERIOUSLY INVESTIGATED. THEY ARE SPOOKING ME OUT.

Wen u google Ebira on wikipedia and u look at the page content, u might think u are looking at an igbo page. There language is too similar to igbo.

Origin of the Ebiras
2 Location and size of the Ebira community
3 Cultural Festivals (Eche-Ozi Ete)
3.1 Eche-Ane
3.2 Eche-Ori
3.3 Ekuechi (traditional masquerade)
4 References

BornStunner1:
YORUBA IS NOT A TRIBE BUT A NAME COINED FOR A UNION OF RELATED ETHINICITIES WHO CAME UNDER ONE UMBRELLA UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF AWOLOWO!!(ife,oyo,egbas,ilajes,ijebus,iwos,aworis, etc)

ITS JUST THE WAY YOU HAVE EDIOD (edo,esan,anioma,itshekiri,ijaw,isoko,urhobo,ika etc)

AND IGBIOD!!

IF YOU SPLIT THE YORUBAS INTO THIER INDIVIDUAL ETHNIC IDENTITIES THEY ARE ACTUALLY A MINORITY TRIBE!!

I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND NOW?

FOR UR INFORMATION BEFORE U CREATE A BLUNDER IJAWS ARE NOT AN EDOID GROUP, NEITHER ARE THE ITSEHKIRI, ANIOMA.


EDOID GROUP ARE ESAN, URHOBO AND BINI.


ISOKO ARE URHOBO MIXED WITH IJAW.