₦airaland Forum

BarryX:
You should ask yourself what exactly was your intent in this thread at the first place?

Read the thread title again and answer yourself !

fratermathy:
Keep charging on like a sexually starved ram. Urhobos are not your enemies. When you see your real enemies you can't even utter "pem"! You'll just run to Nnamdi Kanu and beg him to quickly declare Biafra for you.

Iranu.

blues20:
We had an ime-obi discussion today. This morning to be precise; one of the major agreement is to scale down on internet war. I mean e-war. We have to stealthy thread to.... its important. When you create too many enemies, you make things difficult.

fratermathy:
Closely look at the boldened because I know English is your problem here. How does the boldened connote that no Niger Delta group has nothing to do with Igbo?


Abeg park well make I see better people.

BarryX:
And your Igbo is a forward area in all intents and purposes?
Your paradise is sweet, I must confess

Africans will always be Africans

blues20:
Thread with caution... you're fucvking up badly....

fratermathy:
Bro, many of these minority tribes do not actively try to associate with Igbo for reasons which you may have seen yourself on this thread. Most, but not all, Igbos have the deluded sense of grandeur and are quick to pounce and leech on smaller tribes especially when the tribes acknowledge any form of Igboid influence. The Igbide-Isoko case is exemplary.

Most of us have no resentment or bad blood towards Igbos other than the fact that they show their perceived "superiority" ONLY on smaller tribes. Once Yorubas and Hausas open their mouth, Igbos will hide under the canopy of Biafra and cry "they are marginalising us" when they do worse to smaller groups.

Yorubas and Hausas have posted on this thread and NONE has attracted attention as the Igbos have. That says alot...

erico2k2:
The share borders . They never originated from Igbo however you are more than welcomed to share refrences instead of hear say or assumption

BarryX:
I think this idea of Igbide having Igbo ancestry gives you serious heavenly feelings going by how many times you mention it in a Niger-delta alignment discourse.

You have always sang it in your mind that the burst out through your fingers. I'm maternally Igbide and trust me, the history that we have never had it the way your ecstacy realism suggest.

If I were you, I will play down that "Igbide ownership" mentality in public discourse or these people will have no other option than to sever ties if any with the Igbos.

It's appaling already

CeoMYN:
I call South South Niger Delta.
Abeg Igbos we are not you people, be contented with your land.

MrAldrick:
If i slap you sense go enter your head. How many times do we the Niger deltans reject you igbos bfore you accept you have been rejected. Kukuma say Niger deltans are Igbos fool. Proudly Ikwerre

CeoMYN:
Niger Delta Is Not Igbo!

martineinstein:
my guy,stop trying to associate ibos with south south....so,u mean all s/south tribes are ibos except itsekiri??...ui are overly delusional.
The illushi/ozigono of esan south west/ esan tribe are typical esans dat trades with ibos and igalas.this is because they share boundaries with anambra and kogi....as a result,most of dem speak ibo,igala and esan....stop claiming edo state...even delta ibos and edo ibos dont like being calledd ibos

Elijahrona2:
Am isoko n have nothing to do with Igbo. Thank you

soliddust2020:
Kindly tell me the urhobo towns with igbo ancestry. Isoko have a few town with igbo ancestry but most of them are from benin and urhobo, but urhobos migrated from benin. I can tell you the entire urhobo history. Leave urhobo out of your biafra.

LorDBolton:
Smh. See delusion? Igbos that do not even know their history telling us OUR own history? If not cos it's 2016 you will even claim igbos 'own' lagos that many of your ancestors settled here. Mtcheeew

The fact u cannot distinguish between a settlement and owners of a land shows you even a kid who wasn't well groomed.

Even the obi of onithsa cannot open his mouth to say this crap... only GOD can punish the white men who came and released you guys from the captivity oyo, benin and other hausa kingdoms have subjected ya'll to.

Core igbos are black... go and find out the history of the fair skinned ones (they started popping up when the whites came guess u already know y)

AjaanaOka:
Concerning "Ossai", we may be looking at two different names that happen to sound alike.

I saw a list of Ukwuani names where Ossai (written as 'Osai' in the list) was explained as "He chose me". Now in Ukwuani, 's' replaces 'r/h'. Thus 'oru/ohu' (slave) becomes 'osu' in Ukwuani; 'iru/ihu' (front) becomes 'isu'; 'ora/oha' (public) becomes 'osa'. 'Ra/ha' (choose --- as in ralu ife, 'pick/choose something) becomes 'sa'.

The list also has another name written as Ossai, which it didn't explain but simply said was the name of a deity. I'll come back to the deity Ossai, but it seems that two similar sounding names met in Ukwuani and became confused one with the other so that an Ossai may not know whether his name means "He chose me" or whether he was named for the deity.

Coming to the Nsukka "Ossai", I am 90% positive this is an adaptation of an Igala name. Igala people bear the name "Ochayi". There is a tendency for Igala 'ch' to become 's' in Igbo and vice versa. Thus Igala would call Asaba "Achaba". Igala words like Achogwa and Achadu become Asogwa and Asadu in Igboland.

In that vein, Ochayi becomes Osayi in Igboland/Nsukka. I've come across old books where the name in Nsukka was actually written as Osayi. Ossai is probably only a 'funkified' way of writing it.

Returning to "Ossai" the deity in Ukwuani, it may be interesting to point out that in Osomala there is (or was) a deity called Ossai Anaja Oboli which was said to have come from Igala. This was probably the same deity that penetrated Ukwuani. Thus, it would appear that the Igala "Ochayi" also reached Ukwuani (as Ossai) and accounts for the second meaning of the name Ossai/Osai.

Abagworo:
I was fascinated the day I met one Ossai from Enugu. What's the meaning of Enugu Ossai?

wissed:
u should be lashed terribly and locked up for this false and arrant explanations

elsomm:
Wait a minute, is the father of Ooni of Ife still alive?


If true...that's like an abomination.

Will his father prostrate to him?

OdenigboAroli:
There are more Ossai in Ukwuani than anywhere else in southern Nigeria.

Godemcee:
ode oshi,we're u deaf when s.west representatives were seeking for referendum.
we don't even care bout the oil it has caused. more harm than good,if d s.west don't help ur cause it's all crap.
am sure u from s.east u guys only produce 1.7% oil(abia nd imo)

woodcook:
Up Oduduwa Republic!

AlPeter:
dude you must have a very sad life. Must everything be turn to tribal boasting and bashing with you? Do you even have a JOB? Yours was the first tribalistic comment on this thread and When someone replied you accordingly you start spewing your arsenic and derelict views. Guy go get a job.

Newmanluckyman:
... This is too bad.However, The obigbo's, the Ohaji's and the Egbema's why are they not speaking against the non inclusion of them as an igbo ethnic groups in rivers state? Are the not igbos truly? Do they not know that their supposedly silence on this issue will be a precedence for the future. Where are the leadership of OHANAEZE Ndigbo on this issue? What is the stance of the governor's of the South East on this issue? Where are our cultural experts on this?

Ndigbo will continue to be "POLITICALLY CORRECT" until they loose so much in this country. Enough said!

Abagworo:
If you read my post very well you will realize my suggestion is absolute dissociation. Go take a look at the recently rearranged Rivers State official website how the present Government of Nyesom Wike removed Igbo from the ethnic groups in Rivers State and added Ijaw. In reality there is no Ijaw in Rivers State but there are Igbos inhabiting Oyigbo LGA 99% and 3 Egbema villages in ONELGA. There are Igboid and Ijoid groups with Igboid inhabiting most of the upland and Ijoid inhabiting most of the Riverine. What is the motive behind this removal if not to annex Obigbo or deny the 3 Egbema villages their rights despite being responsible for most of the oil in ONELGA.

Abagworo:
What I've come to deduce is that Ika and Ukwuani people are fighting hard to influence Oshimili and Aniocha people with "Binimania" without success. Since Ika and Ndokwa have a sizeable population of Igbo deniers then Ndigbo should remove them from every Igbo organization. I've personally stopped sharing Igbo ideas with anybody that speaks Igbo but denies being Igbo long ago.