₦airaland Forum

Ekealterego:
Brother, forget Ohaneze. Do you agree that MNK has done more for the Igbo consciousness in the past 4 years than Ohanaeze have done since their existence? IPOB can only do so much; we all must play our part... I don't care attitude; after all, it is not my clan that caused this in the past... Do you know how many people burdened with an identity crisis that MNK cured? Neither you nor I knew there were Igbo communities in Benue until MNK started his mission. Many knew nothing about those groups in Cross-Rivers until recently.

I believe MNK is listening... You can see that the latest ESN movement into those communities in Benue to save them from the impact of the Fulani Herdsmen they have been complaining for years will create this type of awareness... Other groups thinking of intimidating them will think twice because they will understand that a strong force is behind them... Each group or territory will take a different approach.

On the Bini and Igala expansion, it Is also happening on the Yoruba side too. You could see they laid claim of a whole Lagos, that even the Oba of Lagos was dancing along until he was seriously cautioned...

The Bini are not expanding into Yoruba territories. They know the Yorubas have better organized leadership and intelligentsia than Ndiigbo do. Their main target is Western Igbo because they sense leadership vacuum and negligence in Igboland.

The Yorubas also had the advantage of centralized origin story of Odua to fall back on . We don't have such.

Many of us Igbo nationalists knew of Benue Igbos, Isobos(Cross River) Igbos and even few villages in Kogi before IPOB was born. So I don't see how IPOB can take credit for that. What IPOB and MNK has tried to do was suppress Igbo ethnic consciousness why claiming that all ethnic groups in Eastern region are imaginary ethnic group he called "Biafra" that existed before Nigeria.
MNK once even said that he is not Igbo, that he is Biafran. Personally he is not different from Zik who was engrossed with Nigeria identity while Awo and Saraduna worked hard to strengthen Yoruba and Northern identity. For while MNK and IPOB are busy brainwashing Igbo youths to accept a non existing brotherhood with these minorities, the minorities leaders are working aggressively to strengthen their own tribal identities by expanding into Igbo territories while making it obvious that they would not accept the Biafran identity IPOB and MNN are brainwashing Igbo youths with.

I see no difference between MNK and Zik and IPOB and NCNC.
While AG was strictly a Yoruba party and embraced it happily. NCNC was interested in wearing the toga of pan Nigerian even when the North and West saw them as Igbo party.
IPOB is the new NCNC, MNK is the new Zik, Minorities are our new Yoruba/North.

Funny how history repeats itself if not unchecked.

Ekealterego:
You do not have to insult anything IPOB and MNK. Can you imagine what the one-man mopol have done or how much he shook the foundations of the country. Even those Igbos in the diaspora and outside of Alaigbo have taken more pride in the Igbo identity, and there is a strong Igbo consciousness than any other time only rivaled by the Ojukwu war era...
I personally will go for a monoethnic country because that would be the best; however, I will not mind one or two smaller alliances... Others are sceptical about our sea power if you but I believe that just like Austria and Czech we have access to the sea through Azumini. Biafra is in a similar situation with Austria and Czech; though they both seem landlocked, they have access to the sea via their river.

You can also contribute and educate those IPOB members wisely...because of MNK, many Igbo youths have seen the need to unite rather than waste precious time on inter-clan or inter-state bickering. ...
Do you know that because of MNK even the Ndoki and Oyigbo you are mentioning have had a stronger Igbo consciousness. I understand your anger and your assertion that the Igbos are bending over to be fuuucked in the assss by the minorities.
However, I disagree that it started with MNK or IPOB; it was there in Jonathan's era when many Igbo adopted Jonathan as a son, even at their own detriment.... Either way, it Is time to fight back... My cousin is still fuming right now as the expansion has been taken to Bende.

Ndoki is so vital to future Igbo country that any serious Igbo must be deeply concerned by any plans to introduce identity crisis there.

You spoke of Czech republic and their access to the ocean through river Danube. Ndiigbo has that option through Ndoki. IMO river opens into the Atlantic through Ndoki. IMO river has its source and tributaries all from waters in Igboland which means we fully control the upstream and volume of the river.
This is unlike River Niger which is going to shrink in volume once Niger Republic are done with their Dam project. And worst still, too far from the sea coast and so will cost a lot to dredge unlike the IMO River at Ndoki which is just few Miles away from the Atlantic.

The Ijaws know this. That's why they are battling hard to at least introduce Identity crises and Igbophobia in those areas and make things difficult for us in the future.

I'm angry with MNK and IPOB because they like to curse Zik for his role in promotion of one Nigeria project while leaving Igboland vulnerable to other two big ethnic groups, while IPOB are doing same thing to Igboland with their useless multiethnic Biafra with these aggressive expansionist minorities.
And like Zik left Ndiigbo disadvantaged against the other two, so will IPOB with this senseless multi ethnic Biafra leave future Igbo generation shortchanged.

SlayerSupreme:
Some of these arguments majorly arise because of one reason. People are dumb in Nigeria. How can someone in his right senses even attempt to spin an Ijaw origin for Ndoki. O wrong naw. People are so stupid. The second reason this things happen is politics and greed. A peculiar reason this happens to us Igbo is that we were too soft with the useless tribes surround us. Hence, any vagabond can write anything today.

When our director is licking their anus, what do you expect?
Nature abhors vacuum. We left those border Igbo speaking communities defenseless without building cultural garrisons there by ensuring potent presence of Ohanaeze Ndiigbo there through community projects and interventions, the minorities who are looking to swell their own numbers are trying their own luck. Can you blame them? Blame lack of political and strategic thinking/leadership in Igboland.

Can Ohaneze Ndiigbo president name up to 3 communities in Ndokiland?

SlayerSupreme:
Some of these arguments majorly arise because of one reason. People are dumb in Nigeria. How can someone in his right senses even attempt to spin an Ijaw origin for Ndoki. O wrong naw. People are so stupid. The second reason this things happen is politics and greed. A peculiar reason this happens to us Igbo is that we were too soft with the useless tribes surround us. Hence, any vagabond can write anything today.

When our director is licking their anus, what do you expect?
Nature abhors vacuum. We left those border Igbo speaking communities without building cultural garrisons there by ensuring potent presence of Ohanaeze Ndiigbo there through community projects and interventions, the minorities who are looking to swell their own numbers are trying their own luck. Can you blame them? Blame lack of political and strategic thinking/leadership in Igboland.

Can Ohaneze Ndiigbo president name up to 3 communities in Ndokiland?

Ekealterego:
Igboid... They are now carrying their expansion into the hinterland... They must have a very strong sponsor.

Look at Igbere, in far away Bende LGA.. hundreds of kilometer away from any territory, that is what Ijaws are claiming.... My cousin whose mother is from Igbere showed me this and was truly very furious. This is what the Ijaw people did on Igbere Wikipedia page, before you know it, the Ijaw youth wing will go visiting the king bearing gifts. CC: Bkayy

They see no resistance whatsoever from us. So they are becoming more and more daring.
What do you expect?

It is what it is.

hedonister:
Why's Nsukka in the list? There's no such thing as Igbo denial in nsukka. Like it doesn't exist. As far as Ndoki is concerned, it will shock a lot of people that when you go to Ndoki, there's little or no denial there. It's some mischievous people that try to make it seem as if Ndoki people are not proud Igbos. I agree that Ika and Ukwuani are gone but we must be decisive in Enuani and people from that axis who are proud Igbo must stand up and be counted.

Yes! There is none yet. But an Igala group known as "Ane Igala" has been making visits to local kings in Northern Igbo communities in Northern Enugu(Nsukka area) and Northern Anambra( Omabala area) claiming to be rekindling ancestral Igala relationship with them.

This is how it normally starts. We should be snuffing these things out in their bud and not wait for them to grow.

There should be active Ohaneze Ndiigbo presence in these border Igbo communities to ensure these aggressive expansionist minorities don't induce identity crisis in those places.

I had already highlighted how Ohaneze Ndiigbo can make their presence known in those communities.
No child should grow up in those communities with any shred of doubt about their Igbo identity.

melodyogonna:
Nwokem zuzufu ebea. What/ who is stopping you from forming your own group and doing something about it?

Continue eating minorities faeces and drinking their urine while they aggressively make incursions into Igboland.

Obalatule:
A house built on sand cannot stand, ijaw igala bini and the rest are building sand castles

You are living in denial.

Never underestimate the power of mass brainwashing.

BKayy:
This was how the one of Western Igboland started.
For those that are new to the game. The one of Onitsha and Oguta in core Igboland was sown by the useless man called Nnamdi Azikiwe.
The most useless, idiotic half baked educated illiterate to ever come out of Igboland

Yeah.
But that's now in the past. Ika, Ukwuani are gone. Enuani, Ndoki, Nsukka are now the battle ground.

What will our generation bequeath unborn Igbo generation?
A proudly Igbo Ndoki or an Ndoki deep in identity crisis because we failed to nip the cancer at the bud?

What would it be?

SlayerSupreme:
Ipob is useless? See Otellectual.

INC and IYC are working hard to instigate identity crisis in Ndokiland.

Tell me what IPOB have done about that?

Do you know that if IYC and INC succeeds in this their Agenda, IPOB will no longer be able to exist in Oyigbo. You will be pushed to Ugwunagbo by the now Igbophobic Oyigbo indigenes?

Do you lots reason at all over there? Do you recognize an existential threat when you see one or is the head of your director so deep in the minority anus that he cannot see clearly anymore?

calyto:
At least I know that Benue Zone C does not have indigenous Igbos.
You minorities just look for who to pour your frustrations on except your leaders.
Go and sleep

Yes! Your Senator went to Igbo communities in Benue to play.
Look at this shameless Igede minority. The frustration is yours.
Nothing you do or say online will take those Ezza communities away.
Ezza are usually one of the strongest Igbo clans out there.
They are used to trouble.
If you lots want trouble,they will serve you overdose of it.

Igede are like minority among minorities. You don't have "to say" in Benue state.

goatgoat093:
This is where we should use the ESN operatives to do some dirty work of locating those bastards who call themselves Ezes in our midst selling out and do the needful to them...we seriously need to bring this up in every Igbo cultural groups and associations available out there so we can raise the awareness and act fast (and if need be with violence). Enough is enough of this insult.

IPOB is useless to any Igbo cause.
They are more useless than Ohaneze Ndiigbo they like berating.

While Ohaneze Ndiigbo are blinded by money politics.
IPOB is disillusioned by their utopian and delusional multi ethnic Biafra with these minorities who are more interested in appropriating or at least instigating identity crisis in Igbo speaking territories that share border with them.

IPOB cannot counter them because IPOB is more interested in the eating their faeces and drinking their urine all in stupid bid to woo them into their useless multiethnic Biafra.

IPOB is a big disappointment.

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Because of the failure of Ohanaeze Ndiigbo and all so called Igbo organizations as well as the Igbo political class.
There have been slow and steady aggressive attempt at expansionism towards Igboland by all small but ambitious minorities around us.

The Binis has been doing theirs from Western Igboland with full support of Oba Bini through the. Great Bini descendants vehicle. They have their online warriors infiltrating all western Igbo forums speeding their agenda.
The Igalas under the leadership of late Attah of Igala were doing theirs too.
Through Ayegba they were visiting some hungry autonomous community Ezes and youths in Nsukka areas.

The Ijaws have their eyes fully set on Ndokiland and have been having series of endless parley with hungry Eze autonomous communities and Youths in that end.

How long are we going to allow this go on? How much more do we have to allow our already disunited and small Igboland shrunked more by these minorities before we stage a come back to neutralize them?

What's the role of Ohanaeze Ndiigbo? Do our political class know they will lose more if the Igbo political space continue to shrink further at the hands of identity crisis instigated those places by aggressive expansionist minorities surrounding us?

The part affected most is the Ndoki communities in Oyiigbo LGA of Rivers state.

Ohaneze Ndiigbo did well appointing an Ndoki Son Ambassador Emuchay Okechukwu as the new Secretary General of the organization.

But they need to do more. The Ohaneze Youth branch should be in charge of this project. There should be grassroot sensitization and mobilization of Igbo youths in these border communities such as Ndoki. Ohanaeze should be proactive in stamping their presence in these communities by having regular meetings with their Ezes, doing some small projects here and there in these communities to keep them in line.

Ohanaeze can do things like community water project, and stamp it with a big sign post of Ohanaeze Ndiigbo sponsored. Renovation and equipment of carefully selected public community primary and secondary schools in these communities and as usually stamping a big sign board marking it as Ohanaeze Ndiigbo sponsored project there.
Helping fund their local Christmas community football tournament and making sure the youths know that its Ohaneze Ndiigbo sponsoring it.

A child growing up in these border Igbo communities MUST be made to grow up seeing Ohaneze Ndiigbo sponsored projects all around him.

This should be replicated in those Igbo frontier communities with Igala, Ijaw, Idoma, Ibibio/Annang, Edo.

There have been frantic effort by Ijaw people as represented by INC and IYC to Ijawnize Ndoki people.
I believe this is led by Ijaw intelligentsia and started by Alagoa. The grand prize is the soul of Bonny and Opobo.
They have been sending representatives to Ndokiland, meeting up with some Hungry autonomous community Ezes in Ndoki land and hungry youths in Ndoki. Trying to use money to at least instigate identity crisis in those parts of Ndokiland.

THE NDOKI

Alagoa is a historian I have respect for, his rich knowledge and talented way of penning his thoughts, he was a skilled writer, he was an Ijaw Nationalist and like many Nigerian historians he gave in sentiments and politics
He may not at first have had designs on the Ndoki, but subsequent developments necessasitated it. You see in his pan Ijaw-ism, Alagoa had released a book detailing Ijaw history and Origins in which he highly exaggerated the Ijaw element in Bonny and passed Bonny as one of the major Ijaw towns, it was not received well in the scholarly world, it was major consensus that Ibani had migrated to their current location from Ndoki and what ever Ijawness there was in Bonny was via assimilation, so how can a people who.migrated from the igbo hinterland be Ijaw, this loophole sent Alagoa back to his burrow where he edited his work and did what Ijaw historians did best, he edited and exaggerated his way through Ndoki history and turned them into Ijaws overnight,

The above was the reason Ijaws are desperate to claim Ndoki.
The soul of Bonny and Opobo lies on Ndoki becoming Ijaw by fire by force.
As Ndoki-Igbos founded those towns.

UNDERSTANDING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ASA AND NDOKI AND THEIR HISTORY AND ORIGIN

The Ukwa homeland in recent years has become a center of dispute, controversy and land grabbing between the Igbo and the Ijaw on one hand and the igbo and the Ogoni on the other.


The Asa, Ndoki and Omuma(now part of Echie) were referred to as Ndi Ukwa by their neighbors to the North the Ngwa, their lands extends into Rivers State and so has been a source of dispute between igbo and Ijaw about the identity of the Ndoki in particular.


THE ASA

The Asa were the first group to inhabit that area they currently reside,
They originated down further South towards the creeks,
the Asa were one of the authoctonous groups related to the Ekpeye(also related to the groups who were also aboriginals of Ikwerre area) and spoke a similar dialect. They were long settled along the creeks and swamps close to the coasts, they were proficient in Forestry and we're skilled farmers and lumberjacks.


The Westward expansion of the Ijaw in the late periods brought the Asa into contacts with the Okirika, they were the aboriginals to the area around Abuloma before the Okirika came. The extension of Tai and Gokana(Ogoni) migration into the region that became Eleme brought them into confrontation with Asa groups.

Ogoni reports that the authoctonous groups they encountered at Eleme were proficient and very successful yam farmers, very skilled in Forestry and had big mounds, they were organized into small farming villages headed by yam kings.

The Ogoni referred to the Asa who were their neighbors as the "Pya Saga" or the saga people,
It means "the slashers" in reference to a particular skill the Asa excelled in, they were very hardworking and good in felling trees and clearing virgin forests which abounded in the area, the ever more expanding Ogoni this enlisted the services of Asa labourers to clear more land for farming and settlement.

The Asa as this shows were proficient in Iron technology but were a peaceful and docile people, they were not warlike in nature.

The Asa earlier had settled the Virgin Forests beyond the Imo River all the way up to where Modern day Aba and Ugwunagbo lies, (The Asa are the aboriginals of Aba South and Ugwunagbo) With Okirika and Ogoni expansion the Asa were pushed up further North towards Obigbo.

Sometime in the 17th century, the Ngwa began a series of land hungry and grabbing sweep Southwards bringing them into conflict with the Asa, that's what brought the Ngwa into the Aba and Obi Ngwa area in the first place, the Asa being peaceful people some migrated but many remained with the Ngwa groups, they intermarried and mingled together especially the groups at Ugwunagbo which are still largely of Asa heritage.
The Asa despite the tragedies went back to what they did best, the Ngwa employed them to clearing forests and creating farmlands and settlements, they called them Ndi Asia osisi (tree slashers) which is how the name Asa came about.

Asa groups extends from Ugwunagbo down to Ukwa West and Obigbo,
They are divided into 3 clans, the Oza, Ipu, and asa, with a 4th clan Ohuru-na-mkporobo which is currently under Ndoki but are Asa people, (Mkporobo came from Asa-Umunka in current day Ugwunagbo)
The Asa dialect is somewhat intermediary between Ikwerre and Ngwa, e.g house is Uro, water is mini, father is teete, and the rest.

THE NDOKI

Alagoa is a historian I have respect for, his rich knowledge and talented way of penning his thoughts, he was a skilled writer, he was an Ijaw Nationalist and like many Nigerian historians he gave in sentiments and politics
He may not at first have had designs on the Ndoki, but subsequent developments necessasitated it. You see in his pan Ijaw-ism, Alagoa had released a book detailing Ijaw history and Origins in which he highly exaggerated the Ijaw element in Bonny and passed Bonny as one of the major Ijaw towns, it was not received well in the scholarly world, it was major consensus that Ibani had migrated to their current location from Ndoki and what ever Ijawness there was in Bonny was via assimilation, so how can a people who.migrated from the igbo hinterland be Ijaw, this loophole sent Alagoa back to his burrow where he edited his work and did what Ijaw historians did best, he edited and exaggerated his way through Ndoki history and turned them into Ijaws overnight,

One thing I give Alagoa credit for is that prior to his Ijaw nationalism, Ijaw clans were equally as crazed with Benin origin as many of the Western Igbo, Alagoa's movement crushed it amongst the Ijaws. You see the Ndoki's equally had a tradition tracing their origin to Benin(albeit misconstrued history) and there is a reason for this tradition you will understand why.
Alagoa in his book states that the Ndoki left from Ijaw land around the Sagbama area to make it to their current location.

But whether Benin or Sagbama there is one place where the two accounts agree on, the Ndoki left from Oguta and settlements along the Niger, all the areas meantioned such as Ndoni, Atissa, Onya, these are all traditionally Oru-Igbo areas in the past, since they came from Oru (Oguta) they went to Umunoha and from there to Isuama before making it to Imo River, they eventually settled first at Umuagbayi and then pushed up into Annang country around the Azumini River,

The reason for this Benin tradition is very obvious, they came from an area around Oguta with a long standing relationship with Benin, a lot of Benin tales and Benin influence, so they probably went with such tales, but since their trail cannot be traced beyond Oguta, it is glaring that Ndoki are an Oru(Ogbashu) people who went Eastwards from the Niger, any story of their origin from Bayelsa are concocted lies.
The Oru origin of the Ndoki is very evident in their riverine culture despite the fact that they have mixed with Asa, Ngwa, and Annang to produce the blend of culture and language they have today, but the Ndoki remained fearless seafarers, the Riverine was what made them despite living inland to venture to the open seas following the course of the Imo River, it is this sojourn that took them to Bonny Island, where they soon started settling on mass, it is not clear if they met small Ijaw fishing camps already domiciled there or if the Ijaw groups came later, but we equally cannot deny the Ijaw element in Bonny,
However it is worth noting that the Ijaw expansion into the Eastern Niger Delta is pretty recent at least 18th century.

The wading of the Ndoki into the creeks and Open Sea brought them in contact with the Ijaw houses who were expanding Eastwards, cross Cultural exchanges took place with exchange of wives, slaves, goods etc, even Ndoki land served as refuge for Ijaw fleeing their many protracted wars which is how Ijaw influences diffused into Ndoki land,
The Ndoki dominated trade up and down the Imo River(this was before the rise of Opobo) in a much similar way to how Aboh, Ossomari and Oguta ran trade on the Niger. The Ndoki dialect still bears some similarities and names with the Ogbashu at the Niger.

The Nwaotam masquerade originated from Ndoki from there travelled to Bonny and then Opobo... It is still a major part of these three communities.

Ndoki is made up of the following clans, Umuihueze, Ikwuriator, Obohia, Ikwueze, Umuokobo and ika-na-annang (remnants of Annang people from abak and ika who settled in Ndoki) and Oha Obu currently in Akwa Ibom State.

The Umuihueze group which includes the famous town of Akwete is trace their descent from one Ihu son of Eze, they common meeting place was at Obunku and their sacred juju is known as Ogu

The Ikwuriator group settled around the Azumini creeks trace their line of descent from Kwokwo Eze another son of Eze, their common juju or deity is known as Ajamaja

Obohia is descended from iloko another son of Eze.

Ikwueke did not have a common ancestor but comprises of people who came together for a common interest and security,
Their common meeting place was Eti and they had a central juju or deity known as Ariaga.

Umuokobo traces their descent to Okobo one of the original settlers at UmuAgbayi, they do not go to war on Eke day.
Ohanku was founded by Abam migrants while Ohambele had its origin in Ibeme clan.

Ibeme clan which is one of the largest clans in Obi Ngwa are an Ndoki people, they were once under Azumini courts before in colonial times but for some reason in 1945 were carved into Okpuala Ngwa district court and during the creation of Local Governments they were ceded to Ngwa, However they still maintain cultural and linguistic links with Ndoki
Ibeme is made up of four sub clans, Ibeme, Abala, Oberete-Isiala and Abala Nkamiri

Akwete as a town became famous of its textile industry and was famously patronized by most Ijaw towns in the creeks, the cloth they produce is known as akuraku and Ikaki Ibite.

calyto:
Shut up.
All you guys know how to do is to threaten and complain online.
You have an online country and an online voice

ESN was supposed to be an online militia too.

Idoma minority like you who has no say even in Benue. What do you know?

zoedew:
Prof Chinua Achebe described the arrogance that rings loudly in your verbiage. This is not about The Igbo ethnic group as it is about your refusal to be better in your perception of others. Don’t play the ethnic card here! It won’t fly!! As Nigerians we seek a better space. I have Igbo acquaintances who are fine and decent folks ranging from a former No.3 in Nigeria to younger professional colleagues with whom I frequently banter as recently as this afternoon.They are past primordial sentiments that has you in its vice grip tending to a choke hold! I have lived in Igboland and would prefer to spend the rest of my days there were my lot not cast where am at presently. The folks I talk about are gone past arrogant, loud and arrant display of self that is more than obvious on your innards. Go get better my friend and free your mind from victim mentality! By the way, be sure that I’ll ignore you should your response be in similar text previous to my extant post.

What is all this epistle for? For telling you the truth that Bob Boniface and not your Fulani man designed Chevrolet Volt?

You would rather have the delusional truth than bear the hurtful truth?
I'm arrogant because I showed you the truth?

Inukwa! I pity the Igbos that have you as friend. Such naive Igbos were those who were killed mainly during the Igbo pogrom in 1966-67.
My grandfather told me about them. The stupid Igbos that stayed away from Igbo Union and made friends with none Igbos and were not aware when others escaped while their none Igbo friends pointed them out to be butchered.

Chinua Achebe spoke about it too when they had to leave Lagos. How supposedly non Igbo friends they had turned against them so easily.

The Igbo will always stand for the truth. If the truth that Bob Boniface is the designer of Chevrolet Volt is hard for you to swallow, you can go hit your head on the wall.

Yes! I remain original untainted Igbo man and I represent all Igbo traits of the yore and I wear them as a badge of honor. Deal with it!

I remember how Ndiigbo were labelled hateful people for telling Nigerians the truth about Buhari, for refusing to bow to pressure of recycling a failed leader. We were ridiculed to no End when Buhari won by those who assigned the ridiculous tag of winners to themselves.

Today, the Igbo has been justified for rejecting Buhari.

TheTrueSeeker2:
Actually sir its 'leave' and not 'live'


As for the narrow gauge project from Rivers to Borno,

Those of us who are security watchers are curious to know how that would impact the already tensed security situation in the South.

The "live" there is correct.

To live with something. eg I can't live with this condition.
You are the one with comprehension issue. OP choice of word is apt. Rivers people can live with the decision of their Bini son Rotimi to connect Rivers state to Maiduguri using outdated narrow guage rails. But they should leave Ndiigbo out of it. We will not live with such deception. Let him find a way to connect Maiduguri to PH without passing through Igboland. He can run it through PH-UYO-Calabar-Ogoja-Makurdi- Jalingo-Yola-Maiduguri.
We(Ndiigbo) want no part of it.

Tranquill:
The way you Igbos appropriate this womans achievement to yourselves makes even her Anioma people to get jealous...Yes she could claim to be Igbo by reason of her marriage to an Abia man but we know that your 'adadioranmas' command the largest population in most brothels in all major Cities in Nigeria. Igbo girls make up over 90% of the prostitutes in Ghana and a very high percentage in Garbon, Cameroon and even Chad. In Austria and Germany, the Igbo prostitutes operate on a different level that is so disgusting even to the most shameless beings.

The Igbo criminals have made every Nigerian in South Africa to become an object of hate and potential target so much so that even the very few decent Igbos feel ashamed to identify as Igbo. The same scenario is gradually building up in Kenya and Ghana. Infact in Ghana today, all the armed robbery cases have Igbo fingerprints. You go to fac.ebook today, it is only Igbos that justify crimes and criminality that one begins to imagine how that your demonic criminal enclave that you want to call biafra will look like because your passport wont get you visa to even countries like Benin republic because of your criminal tendencies..

You as ignorant as an average Ikwerre man. You lots are usually local and hardly travel.

Okonjo Iweala is from Ogwashi-uku. Ogwashi-uku is actually Ogwanshi-ukwu. Nshi is Nri.
The founder of Ogwashi-uku was an Nri prince called Adaigbo who was banished from Nri Kingdom by his father the Eze Nri for sleeping with one of his father's youngest wives. He left the palace with his younger brother who loved him and always followed him around. The Younger brother founded Akwukwu-Igbo, while Adaigbo founded Ogwashi-uku by uniting the Proto Igbo people who had always inhabited the land into a kingdom.
So Ogwashi-uku people have always been proud of their Nri and by extension Igbo origin. They are not part of the "We came from Bini" madness.
The Obi of Ogwashi-uku who was Okonjo Iweala father fought for Biafra as a military officer while Iweala cooked for the Biafran Army.

She comes from a deep rooted and uncompromising Igbo root.
Of course she is Anioma as well as Igbo, just as I'm Idemili and Igbo , just as Jim Nwobodo is first of all an Nkanu and then Igbo, just as Abaribe is Ngwa first before Igbo.
Igbo is a nation made of tribes and Enu-ani( Okonjo Iweala tribe) is one of the many tribes that make up the Igbo nation.

We have other Igbo ladies doing us proud as well. We have Arumma Oteh working at world bank, we have Chioma Ajunwa who won Olympic gold medal, we have Perpetual Nkwocha, Nigerian most decorated female footballer and multiple time winner of CAF women footballer of the year and AFCON golden boot awards.
We have Chimamanda Adichie.

Your non achieving Bini ethnic group has none. The most popular Ikwerre Lady is a high class Ashawo called Toton Dike , who Igbo movie makers gave her fame.

This was how a certain Ikwerre criminal called Orji went to Ghana and committed crime which put the Igbo community there in trouble because it was assumed an Orji is an Igbo.
Go to Rivers state all your youths are lazy and lacking in innovation. All of them are cultists killing each other in the villages and making life unbearable for their aged parents.

You should be ashamed of yourselves. Never have Ikwerre produced a single high flyer in the international Arena, none.

garfield1:
Obaze nko

I'm not very sure about Obaze as it is a name limited to Ogbaru part of Anambra. But it can be given an Igbo interpretation.
Obaze= When the barn collapse.
From Oba= Barn and Zee= collapse.

shiwex:
Still do not understand why they went for narrow guage. We should just have standard gauge all over. Whats the point of building standard guage in west and narrow guage in east

The point is oppression, injustice and marginalization.

The very reason Nigeria will never grow.
You can't have peace where injustice exists and you can't progress without peace.

You build standard gauge for West and North, and fear of God or Allah no judge you, you come to East and start building outdated narrow gauge and tomorrow you come to preach one Nigeria?

We will see.

Owajigarrisson:
Ekpeye doesn't claim to be Bini, Ekpeyes are older than Binis. Go and read U.J Ajugo book for more clarification,he is the biggest Ekpeye historian.
Ikwerre on the other hand only have few people claiming Benin. Ever wondered why Chibuike Amaechi and Nyesom Wike despite being kinsmen from thesame local government had different disposition towards their ethnicity, one claimed he is Igbo and one said his ancestors migrated from Benin, this is exactly how Ali Ikwerre is as at now, I've met thousands of Ikwerre in Rivers State that claimed to be Igbo and I have met thousands who claim that their ancestors migrated from Benin.
Nevertheless, whether Bini or Igbo,Ikwerre is not an Edoid language,it is Igboid just like Ekpeye,Ogba, Ndoni,e.t.c.

The Ekpeye like many riverine Igbo communities like Ogbaru, Ndoni, Aboh, Onitsha, Ogba, all had fallacious inferiority complex driven concocted oral stories of Bini origin handed down to them by weak ancestors who forged those stories out of need to appear exotic before their fellow Igbos.
If you schooled in SE, you will notice same behavior from Igbos who were born and raised in Lagos, who now schooling in SE try to make themselves appear sophisticated before those of us born and raised in Igbo land. These inferiority complex suffering Igbo youths identify themselves as Lagosians and speak Yoruba amongst themselves to appear superior when indeed they are suffering from inferiority complex.

This is exactly what the ancestors of these Igbo speaking but Bini claiming Igboid communities did.
They lived in cosmopolitan Bini in the past and when Bini suffered upheavals, these Igbos returned back home East empty handed except that they returned with their Bini mannerisms and inferiority complex which they try to impose as superiority complex.
They want to retain attachment to Bini because they figure it makes them superior to their siblings who stayed in the rainforests and never went to live cosmopolitan lifestyle in Bini. They passed concocted stories of Bini origin to their descendants who today parrot it about even though they look like fools.

Ekpeye people were claiming Bini origin not long ago. They joined the Bini Franchise called Great Bini Descendants (GBD), they were attending their meetings, meeting Oba Bini.
They thought the Bini were looking for equal partners, until it dawned on them that Bini are merely looking for people to rule over, people to bring under the Dominion of Oba Bini.
The Igbo in Ekpeye that is already used to the idea of Egalitarian society, couldn't accept the subservient role Bini wanted them to play.

So they withdrew from the GBD organization and decided to re distort their history, rather than return to their Igbo root.

So out stepped U.J Ajugo with half baked ridiculous claims he called Ekpeye history where he claimed Ekpeye people are no longer Bini descendants but are now the mother super tribe that gave birth to Igbo, Bini and even Yoruba and once ruled over the three groups.

Makes you pity the Ekpeye people. I mean, the delusion is extraordinary.

Owajigarrisson:
So when a group of people pay homage,the whole Ekpeye,Ogba and Ikwerre become Bini?
Nigerians don't know history, that's why people make funny insinuations like this.
Do you know that the Igbide people of Isoko claim to have migrated from Akwa in Anambra state,does that make them Igbo and non-Isoko?
Do you know that Opobo was founded by an Igbo man and many Igbo freed slaves who were Ijawnized,those that make them Igbo and non-Ijaws??
What do you have to say concerning the fact that the most respected Ekpeye historian of all time, U.J.Ajugo reinstated in many of his books that Ekpeye has nothing in common with Benin and that they are older than the Benin empire??
Can you give me reasons why there are many Ikwerre men heading different posts in Ohaneze Ndi Igbo?
Can you tell me why Obi Wali, one of the most famous Ikwere men of all time pushed for his people to be included with Igbos?
Can you tell me why there is a place called Rumuigbo in Ali Ikwerre, "Rumu" means children in Ikwerre(Igbos call it umu). So it means the inhabitants are Igbo children!
Can you tell me why according to Isiokpo's oral history, they migrated from Arochukwu in Abia State?

There are millions of things that shows that these guys have nothing to do with Benin,the war and Nigeria's politics divided many ethnic groups and put them against one another, Igbos were badly hit than the rest, that's why you'll see indigenous Igbo settlements in Delta(Anioma),Rivers State(Upland),Akwa Ibom(Ndoki in Ukanafun LGA),Cross River(Igbos in Obubra and Abi LGA) and Benue(Obi,Oji). Fact is if the 42 states as proposed is created,the Igboid tribes should be United under one geo-political zone just as the Yoruboid and Edoid should be,enough of this identity crisis!

Chibudom Nwuche is a prominent Ekpeye politician who has remained Igbo and an important member of Ohanaeze Ndiigbo.
Chibudom successor, Osinakachukwu Ideozu is not Igbo inclined like Chibudom, but I haven't seen any Igbophobic statement attributed to him yet. So my take is that he is neutral on the issue,hoping to pull out the "I am Igbo" card if he finds himself in federal politics tomorrow and need SE vote. After all how can you say that an Osinakachukwu is not an Igbo name?

Other than him(Chibudom Nwuche), I haven't seen any Ekpeye man proudly identify as Igbo post civil war. Of course we know that Ekpeye people were proud of their Igbo identity pre civil war, we have the Willink report where Ekpeye people preferred to remain with other Igbos than be part of COR state. Ekpeye people also stood with Ndiigbo in Biafra war till the very end and never betrayed us, they were made to pay for their loyalty to us in old Rivers as they were highly marginalized.

The Ikwerre and Ogba Igbophobia has rubbed off on Ekpeye people and many of Ekpeye people are currently very Igbophobic.

Kinematics:
Andoni is Ibo?
Blood of Zacharaiah , op you must be on cheap weed.

With Oguta written there is very obvious this nonsense was concocted by someone from Imo State.

Lol! It was by Asari Dokubo.
Andoni is not Ijaw either. They are more of Ibibios.
And yeah, they are not Igbos.

horsepower102:
This is the same issues that is also seen with some groups within Aniomas. The Bini people encouraging them to deny their Igbo identity were the same Bini who were pointing out house to house to the Nigerian Army where Anioma people lived in the Midwest region during the Biafra war.

You are claiming those who you cannot even understand their language as your brothers but those who speak the same intelligible language with them are not.

Nigeria is so messed up.

This whole I am not Igbo game that some igbo clans in the south south are playing will surely backfire.

Of course. That was in the past. The present is that if you deny us, we deny you 100times and humiliate the hell out of you.
No time.

zoedew:
Folks, make welcome Igboid The Nairaland Ancestor! Prof Chinua Achebe was right about you! The arrogant never make meaningful leaders!

This is why Nigeria will remain a failed state.
Because people like you suffer from innate Igbophobia and hate facts.
Look how you veered off road with your little obfuscation attempt.

Is Aliyu the designer of Chevrolet Volt? The answer is No.
Move on!

zoedew:
He did! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Volt

That Wikipedia page was doctored by Odua-Arewa media propaganda machine.
You must be a newbie on this forum because Ndiigbo here had busted the fraud years ago.

The designer of Chevrolet Volt is Bob Boniface.

Aliyu was only a low ranked member of Bob Boniface long list of designing team who took instructions from Bob Boniface as the Director of GM design.

https://www.gm-volt.com/threads/gm-volt-exclusive-brand-new-interview-with-bob-boniface-gm-director-of-volt-design-on-the-production-model-volt.335101/

See the old naira land thread on the fraud;https://www.nairaland.com/2438270/bob-boniface-designed-created-chevy