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JANK23H:
I have screenshots of SE Alabo Clement Brown press release.In it they stated clearly their Ijaw ethnicity and chided Asari Dokubo to act responsibly being an Ijaw himself.

The Igbos here have claimed many times that Ijaws only became prominent in Bonny and Opobo after the Civil war.However,the history of the Brown chieftaincy house clearly stated the contrary.Had Omuso not spoken Ibani to the king during his routine check of slave ships,he won't have been saved.

The Igbos here are just too desperate,and it's irritating.That rejoinder was written by a phony group who are trying to be politically correct for their own selfish gain. The screenshots from Bonny people confirms.

I'll still go back to Captain Pereira's mention of the Rio Real and his confirmation that the Jos were the inhabitants, stretching westwards all the way to Brass river and the Forcados.

So what does Omuso speaking Ibani has to do with anything?
the Ijoid language of Bonny is a language Bonny Igbos Learnt from marrying Ijaw women and other interactions with Ijaws, that other Hinterland Igbos couldn't speak.
So it was a very good way of separating a Bonny Indigene who can speak both Igbo and the Ijoid language, from an Igbo slave from Igbo hinterland who could only speak Igbo.
It by no means meant that Bonny Aboriginals were Ijoid speakers.

Finally.
The people are beginning to see the light.
Bonny greatness was because of her attachment and connection with her fellow Igbo speaking brothers in the hinterland who provided the article for trading, be it slaves or palm oil.
Good that people are beginning to wake up from Alagoa and Ijaw propaganda post civil war that sort to erase their Igbo legacy by relegating it to a slave heritage, rather than a foundational one.
This shows that our work here on NL has not been in vain.

KosiGee:
Most of these videos don’t do the towns much justice.
Legendary Power Mike was from Neni…

SIMS Electronics is also from Neni.

Mikel Obi is also from Neni.

Neni bu Oke mba.

Anambra has always been a torchbearer for the Igbo people.
Good one.

realestate99:
what if the country is run like the music industry or the tech sphere? what will happen? The problem I have with most people from the other side of the Niger is they think like they are running on an outdated operating system........bunch of kids in Adult body, #lukakugeng, always lamenting.

And will happen if it's run like the music industry, with Lagos power reduced by opening up other ports and spreading multinational presence.

OP is mad

He spoilt what could have otherwise been a good thread by falling into the Igbo divisive games of Nigerians.
He was singling out our Ebonyi brothers to tarnish.

OP, for this, you have even done worst to Ndiigbo than than UGM and IPOB sit at home madness has done.
You are worst than the people you intend to castigate.

Ifele megbu kwa gi.

owobokiri:
Typical Afonja inbred claiming ijaw/Niger Delta..
I watch as serious folks respond to you as if you are what you claim to be.
They don't know you're one ogbomosho mutant, posting hate from a dingy brown roofed wet hole in Odualand..
Very treacherous bunch of parasitic interlopers..

On IPOB.
I think this is why I miss Kanu. He wouldn't have dabblled into this lazy topic this way. It's obvious that the fulani government is trying their hands on devide and rule and the imposed leadership of the jaw congress are willing puns as usual.
The best approach would have been to avoid them. Ignore the rabble rousers. Let them wail..

Could be that Mefor decided to drop this message because of the desperate antics of the fulani imposed leadership of the INC. Apart from this, there is no reason for this disclaimer! Some people only talk up their quest for freedom once IPOB starts talking. If IPOB stops talking, they stop talking too..

No Fulani is instigating Ijaws.
You guys should stop already.
Ijaws are acting on their own.
Let them be and stop this already.

IGBOSON1:
Dude, if you weren't thickheaded, you'd have realised i'm implying that those you claim to be 'Ijaw' who remained behind in Rivers State when Baylesa was created ARE NOT IJAW! I never said they are Igbo! Besides, Rivers State is comprised mainly of Igboid groups like the Ikwerre, Ahoada, Obigbo, Opobo, Bonny, Egbema and Ndoni, so those you erroneously claim to be 'Ijaw' in Rivers do not make up half of the states population!

Boma , a Kalabari guy openly denounced being Ijaw on National TV.
You will hardly see any Rivers person whose sustenance is not dependent on Crude oil politics of INC and IYC, claim to be Ijaw.

There are no Ijaws in Rivers State.

BTW, Bonny and Opobo are Igbo or atleast Igboid.

IGBOSON1:
It’s exactly this cowardly and stupid way of thinking that gives the northern hegemony the liver and confidence to ride roughshod over the rights and sensibilities of ALL southern ethnicities!

All the rubbish we’re witnessing not just in the south, but the entire country, will end the day the rest of you fools see this fight as a fight for the freedom of the entire south and not just IPOB or Igbos!

So if the entire South decide to be slave to the North, why not let it be so?
Why must IPOB use Igbos head to break coconut for the whole Igbophobic Southern ethnicities to enjoy? Who send una? Ubulu unu ezukwalu ezu?

Xbobtage:
Stop inventing stories to suite your skewed narrative and ill intentions.

You have it mixed up. But to educate others I'll help you out. Ijoid klans are some of the last to settle in Nigeria. With the latest resettlement for example being Kalabari to the new and current location in the late 19th century, today they will be calling that Kalabari Land ijaw land whereas the people just moved there less than 150 years ago.

The Annang/Ibibio/Efik People are older to the location than Ijaw people, so how can they be the eroding the local language when they were there earlier. It would also interest you to know that the arochukwu people and a good number of todays abians are actually annang people. The biggest Shrine in igboland during the slave trade era was the Ibini Ukpabi shrine which is an annang/ibibiod/Efik word, and the Annang people are still the kings to this day in Arochukwu.

Obololand was a major slave and slave trader depot for slaves enroute to bonny. The slave traders were Annang/ibibio/Efik, Ijaw, ogoni and ibo and the slaves were mostly ibo. The mixture of these languages is what formed the creation of the Andoni tribe. That is why today if an Ibo man listens to the Obolo man speak. he can find a lot of similar words to igbo just like people who speak Annang/Ibibio/Efik would understand a lot as well. The least input into the Obolo culture and language are the now defunct defraka people who were ijoid.

The Obolo people are a Hybrid clan, a fusion of people who were the most active in the ruling class of the Aro Confederacy which Ijaw was part of but was headed by Annang,ibibio/Efik and Ibo people. Now no one is saying that the their is nothing ijawish about the Obolo People, there are ijaw traits but its the least compared to the other tribes. How can the people with the least trait come and claim the entire land as theirs.

It would interest you to know that the Obolo people also have small traits of Benin origin. Imagine if the Benin people came to claim the whole land as Benin territory.

Mind you as we write, at least 80 percent of Obolo people do not know that their people are being claimed to be Ijaw people online otherwise their WILL be Backlash.

I called my tenant who is an Obolo woman to ask if she is an Ijaw woman and her response was "God forbid". I told her about this article and I believe she will be coming here to put an input. I am sure there is nothing wrong with being Ijaw, Ijaw people are people just like you have anywhere else, But when your people want to Name your new country Ijaw republic and then erase other peoples tribe and languages, that is WRONG!

Even that map is setting you people for a major war with Akwaibom, Igbo and even my clan Ogoni people.

Please which Ananng is King in Arochukwu?

Malawian:
The issue is where does Minority Land start and stop in the South-South? You see how some of these minorities are claiming Igbo people as belonging to their tribes? for e.g Igbanke being claimed by Bini people, some Igbo people in Benue state being claimed by Idoma people, some in Kogi state being claimed by Igala people. Then there is the more important issue of Bonny and Opobo, and i dare say even Nembe. These places will need a referendum otherwise, Ijaw will claim it.

Nope
You don't need any referendum to get those people on board if you do your homework well.
Ewu na-eso onye ji igu!
Take over political leadership of SE, initiate an economic transformation of the region through top notch governance.
Play the power game at the FG level well without sentiments.
Launch an aggressive reunification with all Igbo clans outside SE, they will all come running, once they see you have transformed your region and shown credible leadership and direction!
That's how you unite Igboland.

Not by making SE an economic poor zone and Making her politically powerless in Federal politics by low voting power.

The solution to our problem is not rocket science.

If the Igbos outside SE see any iota of sense in terms of leadership in SE, they will all claim relationship! Onye nwe ego, onwe nwanne! It's not a rocket science. IPOB should stop already.

goaldynboy:
It is obvious you are a Fulani imposter claiming to be an Ijaw person!

A real Ijaw man will not make the noise you are making in this thread!

Ijaws are cool with Igbos!!

Be living in fool's paradise.
Don't go and visit the Facebook page "Ijaw history in pictures" and see things for yourself.

overall90:
You are an idiot.
You think you know everything.
Did you see any where in my post where I said anything about helping the minorities or aligning with them for anything.
The minorities don't want Biafra but always want to join the fray any time any serious issue about Biafra comes up.
Here in this article, the INC says they want to be joined as defendants in a suit that have nothing to do with them.
If not for stupidity, tell me what it is.

I bu ewu gambia.

Leave Ijaws alone.
They only joined the suit because you jellyfishes have them in your ridiculous maps.

Let them be. Denounce them, tell them they are irrelevant to your plans and watch them melt away. They are actually irrelevant. It's brainless IPOB that are giving them relevance.

Concentrate on aggressive unification Agenda of all Igbos in SS. You do this better by gaining Political control of SE and Making SE an economic power House in Nigeria.
People naturally associate with success, power and wealth.
You can't be rendering Ndiigbo powerless in Nigeria by reducing our official number ( No Census in 2006 by MASSOB) and by political emasculation (No Election by IPOB since 2015 with attendant low voters registration) and by Economic sabotage ( reduction of days of economic activities through incessant public holidays for a single man). And the be surprised we are not even getting the support of Igbos outside SE.
Who would want to attach to a powerless people with no economic muscle?

IPOB is as it stands the greatest enemy of Ndiigbo!

Tufia! Are you lots imbeciles? What is wrong with all of you? Ife obu Ara ka obu agwu!

gidgiddy:
The Nigerians would really love your way of thinking, that way Igbos can lose their territories in Delta, Rivers and the lower Benue to Nigeria

Your ways play into Nigerian hands.
Rather than work in Uniting all Igbos from Bonny/Opobo to Benue (Ezza and Izzi in Benue state) together.
You lots are lost in the stupid Multiethnic BIAFRA with Igbophobic minorities, and are ending up losing Igbos outside SE, as they now see us as a people without clue!

Make Biafra a strictly Igbo speaking affair, get involved in SE politics and elect credible leaders, unite Igbos across SE and SS, be aggressive in clamping down any minorities encroaching into Igbo territories. Grow in Nigeria and in future when you want Biafra, you can take it without lifting a muscle.

Simple task any serious organization would undertake but brainless people in IPOB wouldn't understand.

Who did it favor that MASSOB scuttled Census on SE in 2006 and had since left us undercounted and now 3rd behind Yorubas?

Who is it going to favor that we have least registered voters in Nigeria and will as a result have no Political bargaining power in upcoming general elections?

I can see that you brainless dolts are being sponsored by our enemies to finish us kpatakpata!
You constantly work with our enemies to have us humiliated, ridiculed and marginalized, so that you will be able to keep your message of "they are marginalizing us" alive and be able to scam people with "we need BIAFRA as alternative" message?
Are you lots not wicked against your own like this?

It will not work for you guys. Your days are numbered if you continue like this.

overall90:
The stupidity of these minorities is something else.they are just out to cause confusion.look at the way Asari is attacking Nnamdi Kanu.
You remember the ibom republic nonsense the other time, now they are quiet.
If the ijaws really want their republic,why can't they be serious and face the federal government alone the way IPOB are doing.

You are the stupid ones.
Minorities never told you they want to leave Nigeria.
Let them be and stop playing God.
You are weak and can't help yourselves but you want to help someone who don't need your help and never asked for it.

The joke is on you.
You lots (IPOB) are all mad.

gidgiddy:
Ignoramus. The Biafrans are fighting for referendum so everyone can choose where they want to be

You are irredeemable.
You can't fight for referendum for a people who never told you they need one.
Quit being foolish and scamming Igbo commoners.
Minorities never asked you for referendum.
When referendum was done in Britain, it was just for Scotland who asked for it, not was done for Wales or Northern Island.
Catalonia is seeking for their own referendum now. They are not asking for those of Basque or other regions.

You IPOB people are mentally challenged and only interested in putting Igboland to waste.

Amadioha will punish all of you scammers.

kannex:
Dem even get mind add eastern obolo join self nawao
Obolo people are not ijaw so get that and again let assume that you gain independence how are you going to cut obolo from akwa ibom when obolo is over 177km away from bayelsa i need explanation

They have added Andoni to their Ijaw nah.
And are currently locked in battle for Opobo and Bonny with Ndiigbo.
If they win Opobo, Bonny and Andoni, they can link them all to their main 4LGAs in Bayelsa, as the areas are contiguous.
That's their plan.

mcbreeze:
What made you think you are wise to call IPob senseless? Maybe you just passed your waec you think you have reached. There are Igbo people in kogi and Benue state. I have met them personally, interacted with them. State creation is an artificial creation, so we need our brothers to come with us.

IPOB is senseless for including non Igbos, especially Igbophobic minorities in their Utopia Biafra.

It's either they are stupid, or they are scammers and don't want Biafra actualization to happen.
I'm inclined to believe that for IPOB leaders, it's about scam, they know what they are doing.
While for millions of their foot soldiers like you, it's all about folly!

Weathered:
Kanu is a scam and a fraud. Claiming Ijaw territory is only criminal but a deliberate ploy to carry on a struggle that's not feasible so as to keep milking the daft Igbo population.

You might have a point.
Otherwise, why are they insisting on having minorities who they know will never accept Biafra?
To ensure the movement never succeeds so that they can milk Igbo masses for their lifetime and them tell them that the movement didn't work because of minorities.

IPOB is a scam.

gidgiddy:
Its a good thing if Ijaws want their independence as a separate independent country, its called self determination

Unfortunately for Ijaws, I dont see any seriousness on their part for any independence and this trying to join an existing court case is a good example

If you are really looking for your freedom, you will not be waiting for a court case.

They have never held one rally, they have never protested, they have never done anything beyond talking

I expected by now to see hundreds, if not thousands of Ijaw youths pounding the streets of Yenagoa, Portharcourt and Nembe and shock the world with their demands for independence

But who am I kidding? Its probably never going to happen as they dont have that sort of determination

So you know this and yet you clueless IPOB people keep adding them to your Biafra?
Are you not sabotaging yourselves?

JuanJO:
The can only slow the movement but actualization is very certain.

GOD BLESS ONYEDU MAZI NNAMDI KALU
GOD BLESS ALA IGBO
GOD BLESS EVERY LOVER OF JUSTICE
GOD BIAFRA

I like that you IPOBs are beginning to understand that Biafra can only be an Igbo only country!

JuanJO:
The can only slow the movement but actualization is very certain.

GOD BLESS ONYEDU MAZI NNAMDI KALU
GOD BLESS ALA IGBO
GOD BLESS EVERY LOVER OF JUSTICE
GOD BIAFRA

I like that you IPOBs are beginning to understand that Biafra can only be an Igbo only country! Let the minority baggage go and see this movement grow again.

Ekealterego:
Low IQ bonobo bring forth your evidence.

This is another record from Johnston in the 1800s and Captain John Adams 1823.

Son of an unfortunate retard, bring forth your evidence.
Tell us how we were slaves to tribes we were superior to.

Chai!
You never fail to deliver.

ChinenyeN:
Ignorance. There isn't a single surviving community that speaks anything close to proto-Igbo, so how can you think you're any less "bastard" than we are? The height of hubris.

We even showed on this platform that it is "bastard" lects like ours that actually contribute the most towards reconstructing proto-Igbo. So does that not show that our lects are more authentic than yours? Foolishness. I personally don't believe that, but I'm using it as an example to paint a picture of how dumb your words sound.


Igbo people are so annoying when it comes to accepting the diversity of the region.

See yourself. In your arrogance, you came and regurgitated us migrating from Isu. Igbo historical research shows that Ngwa was settled way before the 15th century, which predates the Isuama migrations that you are even referencing. That aside, the actual oral tradition in the Ngwa-Mbaise area is nfulala, and we considered the Isu to be strangers. Honestly, just shut up now and stop talking about what you don’t know.

Eastlink, Bkkay, Ekealterago, make una come see o.

ChinenyeN:
For the sake of your gods, SHUT UP already. You Igbo people are annoying.

Chai. I don tey this Ijaw woman was disguising.
Lol!
She was like hiding in plain sight.

aribisala0:
What is my point exactly that is "flawed"?
Do you have evidence for this claim that Ikwerre claim they learnt the language from Ibos?
Now I am not wanting to argue it. It is a very simple yes or no question


If Yes share the evidence if not please stop quoting me because I have no interest in any pointless back and forth

Let me point out to you that it is not MY POINT
I am not a linguist
I am not Kay Williamson the foremost authority on Igbo Language/linguistics who classified Ikwerre as a Language in its own right

Your assumption about "The language" is what is flawed there is no one Igboid language rather there are many.
Ikwerre is not mutually intelligible with the central Ibo language. OPEN THE IKWERRE BIBLE

How much of the Ezza language is understood by other Ibo speakers

What exactly is central Igbo?
Igbo is spoken in dialects.
Ikwerre language is surely intelligble with Igbo clans (Ohaji/Egbema/Ass/Ndoki) they share boundaries with, because the dialects are similar in intonation.

I have lived in PH before and I understood Ikwerre spoken there.
You are not Igbo and you are not Ezza, yet you know that Igbos don't understand Ezza, no be juju be that?

Igbos who are Ezza neighbors, ie Ehugbo (Afikpo), Ishielu (Nkalagu and Ezillo people), Amagunze ( Nkanu) all understand Ezza , because of similar intonation.
It takes an attentive Igbo whose clan doesn't speak Ezza intonation highest two weeks to start understanding everything Ezza people say.
Also Afam has a point.
Ikwerre people have always claimed that the language they speak today is as a result of interactions (marriage and trade) with Igbos.
Which means they lost their Bini language somehow and copied Igbo language of their Igbo neighbors (Ohaji, Egbema, etc), which they subsequently modified to produce what you call Ikwerre language today.

So basically, they owe their language to Igbo language and their language is only but a derivative (a dialect if you like) of the Igbo language.

bahdpersona:
oga shut up jare, if this man had achieved a big feat, you'll be the first to say 'igbo amaka' but now it's the opposite and you're denying him. Be truthful

Go and sit down.
If he had achieved a great feat, Igbophobes like you will be here to support his Ogba people in their ridiculous claims of not being Igbo.
Now he has done bad thing, and his Ogba people are nowhere to be found, while wicked people like you expect Ndiigbo to accept the bad deeds of a people that insult, denigrate and disgrace Ndiigbo in public with their Igbo denial.

Your head dey touch.

Cry all you like, Ndiigbo will not accept to be blamed for crimes of a people who claim Bini and insult Ndiigbo.
Their Bini people should come and claim them.

“The suspect is from ogbokata community in omoku. According to his people, he is 36 years. And His people are fully aware of the development.”https://guardian.ng/news/physically-challenged-man-allegedly-beheads-woman-in-rivers/

This is the original news from the Guardian newspaper.
Chinedu Okoro is an Indigene of Ogbokata community in Omoku.
That makes him an Ogba man, and indirectly a Bini man, since Ogba people claim Bini origin.

Make Bini people come carry their brother. Ndiigbo cannot be answering for sins of Bini people.

TuFab:
Get lost! If he was a best graduating student or anything successful, you'll immediately call him ibo but now you're detaching yourself from him, you're so unpatriotic.
I'm from Rivers and we don't bear such names as okoro here, so stf up and claim your crime as usual.
I'm certain that as we speak rn, another crime is being committed by your people worldwide.

You are the one to get lost.
Ogba people had long claimed not to be Igbo.
You will not see any reasonable Igbo man claiming them.

Ogba, Ikwerre and Etche people are all in Rivers State and all bear Okoro and everyother Igbo names.

Michelle70:
that's not my concern, I am just enlightening u that ikwerres don't bear Okoro, I am not concerned about his tribe as I have read about ritualist in every region in Nigeria, even in the north

You are ignorant and will not take correction.

Ikwerre, Etche and Ogba people all bear Okoro.
Go to any public Ikwerre Facebook page and type Okoro, see how many names with Okoro pops up.