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Akponmfet:
This is exactly why we roundly rejected your proposal to include us in your useless Biafra, people from your tribe have no respect for others and all you do is try to monopolise everything.
Ino.

Do you know that the famous "Aba Women Riot" of 1929 actually originated from a Market called Ukam Market in Ikot Abasi and so many women lost their lives in the killing ordered by the Colonial Division Officer in Ikot Abasi,
do you know that it was an Ikot Abasi woman that led that riot?
do you know that no Woman actually died in the street of Aba and that female traders in Aba only did a sympathy walk?

Sadly; Aba ,is more popular in the glory of that History because we just don't care
Even the mock graves of the 500 dead women in Ikot Abasi is not worth a tourist site to be promoted.

theFilmtric:
Yoruba
Oya let's see
Don't disgrace yourself
We are not mates

theFilmtric:
Stop decieving yourselves
Nsibidi wasn't Igbo

They were basically naked

The first historical man(homo sapiens) were hunter gatherers
Are they more intelligent than the present mostly farming man?

This thread is full of propaganda

Casham:
I've got a lot of things to fault these points you raise, but it won't matter in the end. I only wish this Biafra thing will be actualised in my lifetime. I don't see it happening though; the whole thing about the Biafra thing had been got wrong already. But Nigeria as a whole needs to be broken into at least four different countries. But for now, Biafran agitators are going about it in all the wrong ways. I don't even take them serious. But this your attempt, despite been laced with all the typical IPOB falsehood and propaganda, is a step in the right direction. Nigeria is not a failed nation, and we will be better together. But with the way each people are propagating hatred for all other people, separation is our only deserved punishment. We all don't deserve Nigeria. We are not worthy of this great nation.

Chigator:
So has Mazi Nnamdi Kanu become the pivot for your argument against BIAFRA.

BIAFRA is way bigger than Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
We know it and he knows it. If MNK is the reason you are against BIAFRA freedom then know you have failed from the beginning.

The death of our fathers in 1967/70 has not stopped us from sacrificing our lives with courage and conviction for our homeland.
BIAFRA will be acheived at whatever cost. Take that home.

MalcoImX:
Forget about me. You should counter these Igbo scholars of international repute.

Are they also not qualified to speak on the matter.

Professor Kenneth Onwuka Dike, points out that these ethnic groups of Nigeria, like the Igbo are recent formations, this is almost completely ignored, because it goes so much against the grain.

In a book written with Felicia Ekejiuba, titled, The Aro of South -Eastern Nigeria, 1650-1980: A Study of Socio-Economic Formation and Transformation in Nigeria, published in 1980, they brought out that:

... it is often forgotten, or merely mentioned in the footnote, that Igbo is a modern ethnic category which many of the constituent groups have only recently and often reluctantly accepted as their ethnic identity, often on political and administrative grounds.

Monogamy:
I am not against any region seceding from Nigeria, but before you dash me clothes, I must see your wardrobe.

How are those region demanding for a new country fairing when it comes to development?

Shokoloko:
Good question. It's the white man that decided to name it Igbo-Ukwu for ease of reference as they did not know what Igboid clan or community formed those arts.
If they have involved Igbos in the naming of that artefact it would have been more accurate to call it Anambara-Ukwu not just Igbo-Ukwu

MalcoImX:
One cannot argue since those artifacts were carbon dated. However, much is desired to convince many on how these artifacts were attributed.

The word "Igbo" has been proven by Igbo and non-Igbo historians to be not of distant origin. As this article showed, the Igbo were a union of disjointed groups, some of whom were reluctant in accepting the term, or even considered it offensive to their original identities.

My question is, if the word "Igbo" was of recent usage and was considered pejorative by some referred to as Igbo then, how could ancient arts of people who hardly called themselves by such name be called "Igbo Ukwu" and attributed to the Igbo people?

MajorLeaguePlay:
And you think the ones from other tribes don’t have generations of foreign born citizens loyal to their ethnic group? You feel your the only ones? All you guys are doing is exposing yourselves and finding less sympathizers because when you make a claim and others refute it, neutral observers go check the truth and always find out you lied— for example, Nnamdi Kanu is now being described as a “violent extremist” by people who don’t have a dog in the fight.

theFilmtric:

Very predictable
What are your brothers still doing in thier millions in the West and North?
And is it the UK man that doesn't know his left from right that will lead you?


I repeat
We will solve it together

theFilmtric:
I repeat
No one is going anywhere yet
We all caused this mess
And you guys are a major part of the decandence
We'll all solve it

No running yet

Biafraworld:
If Allah be for you, you will become a suicide bombers over night....

mrfreestuff:
Tribal and religious bigotry won't help anyone. Go and read about a Nigerian of Yoruba extraction called Femi Oke who runs her own live program, The Stream, on Al Jazeera.
She is far ahead of Asher and had once been what Asher is today in same CNN over a decade ago. Asher is a news caster and correspondent, she is still a newbie at that level ,she is yet to have her own program like Oke or Richard Quest.
Now imagine Oke, using her global platform to disparage and run down Nigeria. She will never do that because she loves her fatherland. You can't build anything on hatred for other people and not especially Nigeria you still carry its passport if you have one. Zain is still a learner near Femi Oke yet the Yoruba did not misrepresent her Nigerian-ness.

RobbStark:
Pls tell me the names people of Opobo answer and I will leave you alone.
I am waiting.............

Language alone tho borrowed cannot be used to define a people.

Go read again the culture and ways of the Opobo people.

You know nothing guy

RobbStark:
This their sudden love for the Opobo people just dey tire me.

Even Ogoni that is closest to Opobo, don't claim brotherliness, na Ibo.

They shud continue attaching themselves to people who have nothing in common with them, e go clear soon

SlayerForever:
Take note na Ikwerre boy be that. He's on the fence concerning his identity.

KingOKON:
Your must be extra dumb, so are the above LIES or what?
Up til the civil war that Zik was the highest rank Easterner what did Eyo Ita and the minorities got at Federal level?
Zik even made sure Sir Udo Udoma the most suitable for Attorney General was side step and your here telling Eyo Ita is the topic when I am talking of his "dirty politicking"
You or I who makes the topic here?

KingOKON:
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Garbage !!!
Under Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa who not Hausa or Fulani but a minority tribe from Bauchi state who are predominantly Christian

*President IBO, Senate President IBO( leader of Parliament), Premiere of Eastern Region IBO for 2 consecutive terms

When Ironsi took over

*Head of State IBO
Governor of Eastern Region Ibo
No order tribe from the east was given Federal Appointment only Ibos
The truth is that you only see things from your own perspective the exact way KANU is right now doing

Abagworo:
I wonder the kind of psychological impact the civil war had on Igbos to the extent of creating an anti-progressive stance and self destructive tendency. In the long run Jonathan will realise that it was his romance with Igbos that blinded him from reality of Nigeria at his time and this will also make his kins hate Igbos the more. I am Igbo from Imo State and it seems we do not share much of the self destructive trait with some others. I guess we suffered the most casualty in the Biafran war which has been regretable. We have moved on and believe in trying to make Nigeria work.

Jonathan knew everything to do but chose not to do them because he was blinded by money and hence forgot where he came from. Buhari will do everything Jonathan failed to do like

1) completing the East-West road and Elele-Owerri road

2) 2nd Niger bridge

Most importantly he will create a system that works and will never condole corruption at high levels.

I will love an Igbo country but I do not believe it will work right now as there exists no love among Igbos. Let us try Buhari 1st and see if he can put us on the right track.

God bless Aligbo

God bless Nigeria.

Abagworo:
Nobody has problem with Igbos politicaly in this modern era. The war finished 45 years ago and even though the bruises remain we have all moved on in a united Nigeria. Our alliance should be with justice and not with South-South or North per se. We should align with whatever leads to progress of Nigeria as a nation. I almost gave up on Nigeria but Buhari's emergence has rekindled my hope.

KingOKON:
Take what time, do you have any idea of the dirty politics Zik played against Eyo Ita and the NCNC minorities?
Better be very very careful

KingOKON:
Just like us the Igbos have the Ngwas, Bendes, Afikpos, Nris, mbise, Orlu, Wawas, Akwa and many other clusters that form the IBO group.
The language varies deeply compare to the dialect spoken in Akwaibom down to Southern cross river.
The word AkwaCross predates any movie industry, it is what has been used since the creation of Akwaibom mainly by all former indigenes of CrossRiver living in Lagos, Rivers, Pleateu etc states whenever they have meetings.
In lagos since the 1990s it is a well know group in different part of the state with members my father, uncles being one.

When the Ibibio Union was formed in 1914 or thereabout, there was nothing like Ibibio, Anang, Oron, Eket the merchant of light that were sent on scholarship to Europe were all under the Ibibios umbrella.
The man that introduced the ethnic divide into the AkwaCross region was Nnamdi Azikiwe simply to spite and divide the agitation of the COR( Calabar Ogoja Rivers) proponents, the Obong of Calabar being at the front.

He created Chiefs and recognized them while nothing of such was done in the core IBO areas where the Obi lord over.

Below is just a review of a book I will like you to check out


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https://www.nairaland.com/4469353/unravelling-itu-land-amazing-historical

IjapaTiroko:
LMFAO

Your narrative is hilarious. Both paragraphs.
Chief Awólówò was in prison to be sentenced to death for treason when the war broke out. His imprisonment was a result of an alliance between Northern & Eastern region (& Ladoke Akintola). So you mean he colluded with one of his enemies to fight the other? Then what happens afterwards? Fight the other enemy alone? Yòrùbás don't calculate like that.
We know those who blew up Casino Cinema. And I hope Lagos State Government leaves it as a relic & monument.

Second, Obáfémi Awólówò, an imprisoned CIVILIAN couldn't have struck ANY military deal whatsoever with Odumegu Ojukwu because he has zero control over the military, unlike Ojukwu who had the Eastern Region military under his command. Don't you think a brilliant mind like Ojukwu would've thought about this?
When twisting narratives to favour one's bias, one has to think deeply and not be quick to spew words gambling if it will make sense.
Furthermore, Yòrùbás has experienced over a century of civil war that got so bad that we came under British colonisation. A deep thinker like Obáfémi Awólówò would never have struck a military deal with Ojukwu to come into any plot of core Yorubaland in the name of liberation which would come along crippling Yòrùbáland's peace & infrastructure. (This is the issue I'm having with Nnamdi Kanu).

I rest my case.
You'll get no further replies from me on this thread