₦airaland Forum

Hmmmmmm . . . . . . .I know that place well . . . that should secure one more Petroleum Institute (like the one proposed for Delta) and one more positive discrimination scheme. . . . but until the derivation for the Niger Delta is increased, (which is the real crux of the issue), there will be more attacks to come.

Only in Naija

Why are they harassing innocent guys changing money? They will probably try and seize all his money. What of all the Hausa guys changing money in any Lagos market you go to? Are they fully registered? This is a common crime in Nigeria. it is equivalent to paying Rojer to Police to let your car pass. I guess he was making too much for them.

Where is Somze?

dyabman:
so are saying chelsea attack don't have a good attack or what?

No, Chelsea attack don't have a good attack and they give me heart attack when they attack the way they attacked against Liverpool in Champions Leaugue 2007 because they couldn't attack, only defend attacks, but we needed to attack because we couldn't attack effectively, only hit them with long-ball attacks on the counterattack.


Never use attack more than once in the same sentence 

I managed to finish reading my link. . . . . now I know why Igbos and Zaires bare so much resemblance 

The Kwa people came from East Africa and settled the Middle Belt and Northern Nigeria somewhere around 600 BC or so. The Kwa people then split into two groups, the Ooyegbola and the Ugbo. The Ugbo then gave birth to the EFA. Anyway, a few generations before, the ORU people from Sudan had settled in the Lower Niger and the East. The Oru then married and joined forces with the Bantu from Central Africa and East Africa. The Ugbo then moved South and joined forces and intermarried the Oru and The Bantu. Finally, the EFA people came to prominence around 10,000 AD and they mixed with everytribe South of the Niger-Benue confluence including the Ibo.


ORU (Sudan) + EFA (East Africa) + UGBO (East Africa) + BANTU (Central & East Africa) + OTHERS = IBO

Their UGBO ancestors originated from East Africa and settled the
Niger/Benue (North) region in antiquity. Before settling in the eastern
region. . Their ORU ancestors originated from the Sudan and settled the
Lake Chad region then, Nupe region, then Benin region, Lower Niger.
Their Efa ancestors originated from the Niger/Benue (North) region in
antiquity after splitting from the UGBO. Their Bantu ancestors
originated from east and central Africa in antiquity. While others
originated from ancient Palestine. They collectively gave birth to the
Igbo People as we know them today.

Infact, just like I suggested, we all came originally from Sudan. Every single one of us in Nigeria:



If Niger-Congo is a branch of the Nilo-Saharan proto-language, as has been suggested, then it gives credence to the argument that the ancient language differentiation of Africa took place in prehistory in the regions of the Nile-Valley and the Old Sahara grasslands, and not in the vicinity of the Niger-Benue confluence. Since, according to the language studies, Ijo and Dogon branched from the Niger-Congo at a very early stage (5th generation) it demonstrates the relative antiquity of the Ijo and Dogon language groups in time, compared to Yoruba, Igala, Edo and Igbo which formed in the 8th generation. Cultural and language studies of the Ijo and Dogon link them up to the founders of the Ancient Nile Valley Civilisations from about 10,000 BCE. Thus it seems that the language differentiation of Ijo and Dogon from a parent language derived from the Nile-Saharan proto-language, took place in the ancient Sudan in the valley of the Nile from whence the ancestors dispersed to different parts of the African continent. Of course other factors were at play that led to language differentiation, such as the use of specific cultic terminology. What the aforementioned demonstrates is that the ancestors of the Ijos have lived in isolation of the Yoruba, Edo, Igbo and Igala for generations before meeting up again in the vicinity of West Africa (Niger Benue region). If the language differentiation took place in West Africa there would not be a deep time separation between Ijo and the rest of them. Thus the languages were already differentiated before the ancient people met in the Niger/Benue region.

The absence of the anatomical remains of early human beings, and the lack of evidence for stone-age and bronze age cultures in the West Africa region, rules out any claims by a group of people, to be truly autochones or aboriginal to West Africa. All West African peoples migrated to the area at one time or another, from, either North, East
or South Africa, as such, West Africa has been peopled at different times by successive waves of migration from East Africa and North Africa/Sahara region respectively.

Taking the combined evidence of language studies, ancestral tradition, anthropology and archaeology, it is certain that by at least 2000 BCE the West Africa region was being peopled. As to who arrived first is of no consequence as the land-mass is too vast for any one group of people to lay claim to ownership. By 1000 BCE we have the emergence of the Lake Chad civilisation of Daima and the Nok Culture of the Niger/Benue Confluence.

We can also discern a number of ancient peoples who entered the area of the Niger & Benue roughly about the same time. They include the following:

The Ancient ORU People: From language and cultural studies they seem to have been related to the Dogon and the founders of the Great Nile Valley civilisation complex (and possibly the lake Chad complex).

The Ancient KWA People: who seem to have been the founders of the Nok civilisation complex. The ORU and the KWA people belonged to the branch of African people often referred to as Sudanese or Nilotic Negroes.


Lastly the Ancient Bantu: who migrated from East/Central Africa. The ORU people are the proto-ancestors of the Ijos, while the KWA people branched out further to produce[b] the UGBO people (proto-ancestors of the Yoruba, Igbo and Igala) and the EFA people (proto-ancestors of the Edos).[/b] The Bantu and Semi-Batu people were the proto-ancestors of other Nigeria peoples that live side by side with the Major Ethnic nationalities of Southern Nigeria. There were, of course other ancient peoples who were migrating into the West Africa region, but the aforementioned ones serve the purpose of tracing the origins of the Ijos, Yoruba, Edo and Igbo.







http://www.ijawdictionary.com/menu/TheIjoGenesis.pdf

Hmmm . . . those Chinese make Joe Cole look faster than Carl Lewis

Trust Tayo-D to be in here hating on Obama as usual.

It is time these players start behaving themselves. Mobi Oparaku's hairstyle in France '98 was disgusting.

ifyalways:
Bo _ijaw or Gbo _okirika = come

Okrika is also Bo, not Gbo.

Bo wa teke - come let's pray

Bo ye fe - come let's eat

Is this girls names or boys names? I cannot tell you their meanings because unfortunately my parents forgot to teach me Okrika.


For the girls (and some unisex)

Tonye
Sotonye
Nimi (Music, I think)
Iso
Indira
Achase (with what?) (a paraphrase of Achase Tamuno Boma - with what shall I praise the Lord?)
Selema
Ibiene
TamunoIbi  (God is good)
Ibime or Ibiso depending on your part of Ijaw  (I am good or I am well)
Ibilate
Belema
Biebele
Sodienye
Boma   (Praise)

etc, etc. . . more to come


As for hardcore boys names, the ones that always make me laugh are:

Mpakaboari
Wariboko
Sosepriala

Hmmm . . . . this Di Santo sef. It looks like he is determined to take every opportunity that comes his way.