supportnija: Op, I think your opinion is not arguable, me personally I like igbo people, almost every race, tribe like Igbo, the only problem Igbo have are themselves, Igbo hate other tribes that is not theirs, Generally, I can confirm to you that people like them and they must try to work on themselves..
Yet Igbo people want to leave Nigeria and its silly ethnicities but the haters refused. They have even fought a war to keep Ndigbo in Nigeria.
ruggedtimi: opobo yes have Igbo roots cos of king jaja, they speak igbo and answer ijaw names. But bonny they are ijaws.
You are very delusional. You are one of those Ijaw miscreants who think amayanabo is Ijaw. Ama Onye Anabo is a person who lives on offshore and his compound is routinely swept by the boat people in order to have access to the land. It is same with Amaikiri, Opu obu, Nda nkeukwu, Ubani, Azumiri, etc. The foolish Ijaw prank was staged in October 17, 1913 when one foolish Ijaw chaff, Daniel Kallio, staged a rogue land signing at Old Saka Creek to confuse the Igweocha land signing between Diobu chiefs and British.
RobbStark: There are no ibos in rivers state. Nigeria will never break up on ethnic lines and even if it does, know this and know peace. Kalabaris, okrikans, bonny, Opobo, and the other LGAs of Ijaw extraction are nothing but one entity. .
Like I always say, your noise ends here in Nland. No inch of Ijaw territory will be ceded to you fu...kers
Boat people do not have territory. The only territory the boat people can claim is a leaking boat.
Ariani: That's the true history of Izon. They were described by the Portuguese as the "people of jos". Ijaw claim to originating from Nigeria is hinged on indigenous tribes like Obulom, Udekeme, Ogbia, etc they met on ground and linked themselves with. But all those indigenous groups have languages fitting into the indigenous YEAII language of Southern Nigeria or the Cross- River cluster language group. Whereas Izon language sticks out like a malignant cell with no link to these groups.
You could not be more correct with the bolded. The people the Portuguese called "People of jos" were not Ijaw but people who lived along the river banks in the delta.
paramakina202: We can't condemn Lugard for giving us a name and still choose a name given by Portuguese sailors,how then are you better than Nigerians? Moreover we hinterland Igbos have no direct connection to Birth of Biafra since those who live by the Coast of Biafra said they are not interested in forming a country with us.It is like the Serbs of Serbia retaining Yugoslavia after the disintegration of that country or Russia retaining USSR as her name after the colapse of the union.It does't make sense.Biafra only makes sense when all the people of old Eastern region are involve.Opugo that suggested that name to Ojukwu is from Bayelsa and him people say they no do again,why must you continue with it even when we nolonger have access to the birth of Biafra as a ressult of Ijaw pullout from the union?
The current and stupid so-called democracy practiced in Nigeria should be swept away. The so-called governors are becoming autocratic and seemed to assume the position of demigod. It is very silly for any government to issue order on entity he/she has no control. Obiano you can run risky of ordering Anambra State workers to report to work but individuals you have no say about their salary. Obiano, you are just a dumbass fool.
BKayy: Explain to me how IPOB created chaos by asking for the dignity and rights of all Ndigbo in general and other people of Old Eastern region? No, explain to me because you seem to know more about Ndigbo, Igboland and old East than me living in it
Please do not respond to the craps posted by basement fools. Nigeria is not called basket of fools for nothing.
paramakina202: Ijaw does not own Rivers state their territory start and end in Bayelsa state. Igbos are indigenous people in both Rivers and Delta state.
Also included are Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, Benue, Cross River, Edo and Kogi State.
WesternOligarch: Even the igbos know their boundaries is within the 5 state dot. All what you see online is empty bluster.....let them vent.
Please be very careful of your wishes. Remember Yoruba land is conquerable. Yoruba have lost more real estate in conflict with other ethnicities than any group in Nigeria.
Nwanyiogwashi: Now that Anambra state is officially an oil producing state, in few years time our brothers from 5-6 indigenous local government of bayelsa state will start laying claim to those communities as part of ijaw land , like they're claiming ukwu local government of abia state and Ohaji/Egbema local government in IMO state as ijaw land . What dry gin people can not do does not exist
udele1: Some people say Igbo's love money and will do anything for money.
I believe that there is a limit to what we as Igbo's can do for money, but i never imagined that people will be ready to sink an entire tribe and region for financial gains.
Looking at where IPOB is taking Igbo's, and how Igbo's are fast loosing relevance in this nation is worrisome.
Our people say " oke afa, n'egbu nwa nkita". This means big name kills a puppy. It means people can praise you to your death.
People of other regions praise igbos for being bold and outspoken, and we keep bragging to prove them right. While we do all the noise making, creating enemies for ourselves, they are busy positioning themselves to take our place in the nation.
Today UK is an enemy of Igbo's, kenya is an enemy of Igbo's, US is an enemy for selling arms to Nigeria, Ghana is an Enemy, Israel is also an enemy for not saving our saviour.
Then Nigeria is our greatest Enemy. The SW has produced president and are warming up again. SS has produced and is warming up again, Igbo's say IPOB WORLDWIDE LIMITED, is going to divide Nigeria for them and bring Biafra .
ENDSARS protest took place, lagos quickly managed the situation to protect the image and economy of the region.
IPOB continued burning police stations, killing police and army in igboland, while we watched and hailed.
Fulani killed igbo and also killed Yoruba's. The Yoruba's came together formed amotekun and backed it by law.Knowing fully well that the consequences of an armed group without backing by law is death.
IPOB gathered and armed criminals, armed them without any laws.
Imposed them on igbos and threatened to kill any other security outfit backed by law in igboland.
They claimed ESN was formed to protect igboland from intrusion. Since the forming, no single fulani casualty, Only igbo casualty.
They opened the prisons and released criminals in igboland to create more insecurity. But claimed security of igboland is the aim of ESN.
One begins to wonder how, releasing criminals into the society brings security. It becomes clear that ESN is an armed wing setup by IPOB to subdue Igbo's and increase revenue.
Today Rivers and Lagos state are fighting for VAT to improve the economy of the state, and automatically the regions.
IPOB is doing is doing opposite, shutting down economic activities in the SE and destroying igbo lives and businesses.
When you ask what was achieved by sit at home, they insult.
Ask them what igboland has gained from IPOB, they insult.
If nothing is done about this IPOB cancer, Igbo's will be refugees and parasites in Southern Nigeria.
Efewestern: Okoro is an ancient Edoid word for man. It is used by almost all groups influenced by Edo. Ilaje, Isoko / Urhobo, Itsekiri etc make use of okoro.
examples
Okoro - Man/boy Okoro-tie/Okotie - Short man Okoro-Odudu/Okorodudu - Black man
I can't give a translation to Okorafo, maybe it's wrongly spelt.
pfadom: Who afflicted Naija with this mediocrity? For someone like Ademola Adeleke to be relevant in anay political space is an indication of how doomed or better still unfortunate the society is.
Yet you voted a junky such as Muhammadu Buhari for president of the shithole called Nigeria, not once but twice. You are the unfortunate in the society.
PlatGurGongo: If Nigeria must end, we need each other. Yorubas, Igbos, Middlebelt and Niger Delta all together. Defending one's land is not enough in these days.
Middlebelt people are not the only ones who have made mistakes in the existence of Nigeria. We all have.
It is all about time. Nigeria does not look where people can need each other for anything.
PlatGurGongo: A HEARTFELT LETTER TO PLATEAU STATE INDIGENES FROM A SON OF THE PLATEAU.
This letter is primarily directed towards we the Indigenous people of the Plateau, especially the youths of the Plateau, because it is very obvious that we do not have elders anymore. Even If such elders exist, they have decided to adopt the strategy of cowardice for reasons best known to them. Hence we the youths have to take our destiny into our own hands and ensure that we do not fail our own children just as our parents have failed us. It is hightime we the Indigenes of the Plateau, those whose ancestors have lived on the Plateau for thousands of years tell ourselves the truth. And not just to tell ourselves the truth alone, but this time around to take concrete steps and actions based on this truth. It is now very clear even to the blind that there is a sinister agenda against not just the Indigenous people of the Plateau but the entire Indigenous people of the Plateau-Gurara-Gongola region, the larger Middlebelt region and Southern Nigeria.
Hear this and allow this sink into your brains O great youths of the Plateau. O great descendants of the ancient Nok civilization and Kwararafa Kingdom. Nigeria as a country has not just failed you, but it never cared about you in the first place. This may be hard for some of us to accept, but the truth they say is bitter. Nigeria as a mere geographical expression and not a nation in the real sense has always been programmed from the beginning by the colonial masters to primarily cater for the interests of the Hausa-Fulani Muslims and secondly, people affiliated to the presidency and political leadership at a particular political dispensation.
Some of us were not born in the year 1993 when the first Jos crisis took place, others were young and did not understand what was happening. Then that of 2001, 2004, 2008 and 2010 took place. Ever since 2010, the enemies decided to change their strategy since they realized that they have failed through open street-to-street confrontations in the urban centers. Then they adopted the new strategy of expand and occupy the rural areas. This we first witnessed in 2010 with the Dogo na hauwa massacre where hundreds of people who were mostly children and women were massacred in cold blood. Since 2010 till now, hardly does any week or month go by without dozens of defenceless villagers being massacred in their sleep.
The Indigenous people around Jos urban have been the primary target of these people as we have seen these attacks occur most frequently within LGAs surrounding Jos city like Riyom, Barkin ladi, Jos south, Bokkos, Bassa and most recently the rural parts of Jos north LGA. This should clearly help us understand that the agenda from the first Jos crisis of 1993 has not yet changed, the only thing that changed was the strategy, tactics and nomenclature. Then it was called Jos crisis or Indigene/Settlers crisis, now it is called Farmers/Herders clashes. It also comes in other forms such as Bokoharam, ISWAP, Bandits e.t.c (several heads of the same snake).
Unfortunately, it seems like the enemies of the Plateau have successfully outsmarted we the Indigenes, because most of us decided to never look beyond our ethnic identities. Not until recently, many of us ignorantly said to ourselves "Ai wannan rikicin Yan Berom da Fulani ne, Ba ruwan mu.". However, before our eyes, the attacks shifted from the Beroms to the Ron people in Bokkos, then Irigwes in Bassa and now to the Anaguta people in Jos north LGA. While we were busy arguing and accusing each other's ethnic groups, these strangers have been consolidating their foothold on the Plateau. Meanwhile our brethren from Southern Kaduna are also experiencing exactly the same issue. Over there (Southern Kaduna), they started with the Asholio/Kagoro people in Kaura, then they moved to the Ninzom/Numana people in Jema'a/Sanga axis, then to the Adara people in Kachia, and now recently to the Atyap people of Zangon Kataf LGA.
Can't we all see that these people absolutely love it when we fragment ourselves into smaller groups per LGA while they themselves unite amongst themselves all the way from Nigeria to Niger republic to Senegal to Mali to Mauritania to Cameroon??
My beloved Plateau people, let us take a good look at the Southern Kaduna people for example. In terms of culture, history, languages, origin, social and religious values, we are exactly identical with these people. If you put a group of Plateau and Southern Kaduna people in a room, not even we ourselves can be able to identify who is from Plateau or Southern Kaduna. Southern Nigerians and the Hausa' fulani muslims can never differentiate us. Even we ourselves can only differentiate ourselves when we see the tribal names. And what if the people are using names like SAMSON ISHAYA or ESTHER YOHANNA? Then it becomes absolutely impossible for us to differentiate each other. However, In spite of these glaring similarities, we never hear of any regional synergy between Plateau and Southern Kaduna people. Even for we the Plateau Indigenes to come together under one umbrella and voice to radically fight for the integrity and progress of our people becomes a problem and a pipe-dream.
Most of us Plateau indigenes are not aware that there are at least 5- 6 million Indigenes of the Plateau. This is exactly about the same population of regional ethnic groups like the Ijaws, Kanuris and Tivs. Southern Kaduna people also have about the same population as we the Plateau Indigenes. Put together, that is about 11- 12 million Indigenes. This is more than the entire Fulani population in Nigeria put together and automatically takes the position of the 4th largest ethnic entity in Nigeria (assuming we all identify under one name). Now, imagine by the time we include the Indigenous people of Taraba, Nasarawa, Adamawa, Southern Bauchi, Southern Gombe, Niger east & FCT, Southern Borno, Niger North & Kebbi south to this mixture. That would be around 40 million people, enough to match each of the 3 major ethnic groups, the Yoruba, Hausa' and Igbo in terms of absolute numbers.
For those of you who do not understand these areas I just mentioned, I am talking about the Sayawa, Bachama, Michika, Kilba, Marghi, Bura, Chibok, Eggon, Mada, Jukun, Mumuye, Tangale, Waja, Gbagyi, Zuru e.t.c peoples. These are people who are physically, historically, socially, culturally, linguistically, religiously and mentally the same with Plateau and Southern Kaduna people.
So, my dear Plateau brother and sister, it is up to us to either continue to remain smaller, weaker, fragmented and easily defeated by championing the ethnic interests of our individual tribes, LGAs, villages and clans or we can think wider and start working on regional solidarity, alliances and interests. The ball is in our courts. Take a good look at the kind of national and international attention the Yorubas and Igbos command whenever they come out in one voice or in solidarity on a particular issue. Don't you admire such and wish such privilege for our own people?
Our parents made the very big mistake of believing in the existence and unity of a ONE NIGERIA. This mistake has been our biggest undoing. Our Fathers, Grandfathers, and Uncles died in the Nigerian civil war in their thousands in order to keep Nigeria one. Alas, the same united existence of Nigeria is now being used to destroy us. It is no longer news that the police force and the military openly take sides with our enemies. Hear this out loud o indigene of the Plateau! A country whose security system has been compromised and now serves only the interests of a certain group of people does not deserve your loyalty. I as a bonafide indigene of the Plateau, I personally refuse to be loyal or pledge my allegiance to Nigeria as a country anymore. My allegiance and loyalty only goes to the people of the PLATEAU, the greater PLATEAU-GURARA-GONGOLA region and a proposed KWARARAFA REPUBLIC if and when Nigeria ceases to exist. And I hope you do so too my beloved Indigene of the Plateau, because a man who continues to hold on to a sinking ship will eventually sink with that ship.
If you are a proud son or daughter of the PLATEAU, you read this letter up to this point, you received this letter with a greatful heart and believe in the contents therein, please do well to share it on your wall/pages/groups with your friends and families. You can also like, follow and comment on this page/group PLATEAU- GURARA- GONGOLA as a way of showing your support. Together, we shall overcome!
Written by NOAH KALLAMU Plateau Gurara Gongola.
The bolded is very philosophical. However, the water had passed under the bridge.
isokomarine: Isoko Communities in Bayelsa state, they formed ward 14, constituency 3 of sagbama local government area, most of them are Osekwenike , Abuetor , Ogbokiri-ama , Osifo , Ikpide, Kanan, Anibeze, these communities are called okugbe isoko Kingdom which is being ruled by His Royal Majesty Dr. Frank okorakpo, We believe we conclusively proved to the general public that it was completely mistaken in the allegations, we are therefore disappointed to read from this forum the submissions by the Ndigbo claim over Osekwenike and Abuetor. No individual or group can coerced the Isoko land into igbo self claim territory or any other territories, The isoko nation will resist any attempted to annex any isoko community, the attempt to steal the Isoko ancestral land by any ethnic group. Must stop immediately or such action will be considered as act of war.
There is nothing remotely about the after-Nigeria/Biafra-war ethnicity such as Isoko in the bolded. Osakwenike, Abuetor, Ama-Ogbokiri and Anibueze (Anibeze) have no bearing in the silly Isoko.
InHeaven: Igboland is so tiny that Oyo State is bigger than the whole South East put together.
The Jews refuted their false claim of being of Jewish tribe! Rivers rejected them, so does Edo (Igbanke).
Igbos are all alone with their hate, anger perdition and sorrow
If land mass is a measure of greatness, Sudan or DRC would have been one of greatest countries on earth. To put it modestly, Oyo State is a wasteful entity.
bobowaja: The issue of opobo and bonny people should be laid to rest. It belongs to the Ijaws.
First before you shout Yoruba awedu eating afonja, you should understand I am a full blooded Yoruba man. No need to remind me.
Secondly, I love history and I won't like seeing revisionists articles flying everywhere on the forum.
To the matter. I think ijaws are to be blamed for this flaw. They broke the first rule of survival which is self preservation.
There is something called acculturation in their culture. It is an act of baptizing of stranger into their folds. And in this case, pepple house, which was the ruling house.
Opobo was acculturised into Ijaw way of life and made to benefit from the house inheritance.
According to town culture, heritage is not by birthrights but by who is capable to rule the house. Jaja was capable, though there was a in-house civil war when he was made to rule the house, but he won decisively. This marks the beginning of his exploits.
The Ijaws followed him as their ruler. And during the palm oil boom (palm oil also known and red oil). Jaja has already taken control of the water ways and creeks for trading with the Europeans (his sagacity and business acumen can't be overruled). This sole act gave him some form of monopoly over the new trade in the creeks, he was the sole exporter to the UK in rivers while still maintaining holds on who trades what along the water ways with other European countries. He was wealthy so does the city he built from the ijaw followers.
This will later put him into trouble with the Queen, as the UK was so greedy to the extent that she wanted to trade directly with the merchants which they did after sentencing jaja to banishment in Accra (present day Ghana). Jaja himself was instrumental in conquering Ashanti forces (but let's not deviate from the topic).
The palm oil boom brought about large numbers of Igbo in the hinterlands into bonny (it must be corrected that though some were slaves but most Igbos that came during the oil boom were free born not slaves). They came with their cultures and way of lives in such numbers that threatened the indigenous people. Instead of ijaw to take control, they decided to hide some vital part of the community from them like languages etc... But this backfires as Igbo became the largest spoken language in the area in just matter of years (the indigenous people also adopted the language).
It should be noted that this is not the first time indigenous people will adopt other people's language, clothings, names and other cultural values. Example is Akoko Edo in present day Edo state. Most of the towns and villages are very fluent in Yoruba language, they adopted the Yoruba language and some part of cultures. Even some of their towns have Yoruba names, but they are not Yoruba - they are edoic group. Another example is ijaw in present day ondo state. Most of them speak Yoruba fluently and adopt the names, typical one is Omoyele Sowore.... He is an ijaw man who could be mistaken for a Yoruba man. Apart from those, there are some far Edo towns in etsako east local govt like okpella etc that have Yoruba names and also speak the language fluently, that doesn't make them Yoruba. The current ruling house in Ilorin all bears Yoruba name and speak Yoruba fluently, that doesn't make them Yoruba... They are Fulanis! The itsekiri adopted their clothings from Bini, that doesn't make them one.
The point I am trying to make here is that, people adopting your language, name and culture doesn't change them from who they were... Their identities will still remain intact as their genetical makeup.
Even an heavily biased igbodefender blog here admitted one truth which agreed to heavy migration of Igbo to the ijaw owned town.
To that boy that said he wanted to cry when he heard people speaking Igbo fluently in bonny, you have tears in your eyes. Language is for communication. If bonny is located in the north, they will speak Hausa fluently. In Southern Kaduna alone, there are more than 20 tribes. All of them speak Hausa but still retain their cultural identities.
I am done. You are opened to bash me, but make sure you bring evidences of opposing views. Insults alone won't do the trick.
The above crap is rightfully laughable. When did the "Boat people" start to won lands? During my green years in Igweocha (Port Harcourt), Ijaw peeps lived on the boat at Abonnema waterside. Their primary job is fishing and closely followed by wood splitting. Did I forget Kai-kai?
Fought with Nigeria during the war and got compensated as they normally do with all sorts of bogus appointments.. They're dropping dead one after the other. But the main evils have refused to die.
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