₦airaland Forum

correctyourself:
Only in Nigeria you hear things like this, not the white people that brought religion to Nigeria me

Una Weldon o.

Uglyojuku:
That is your consolation song while you wallow in poverty.If you can buy up anywhere,your region would be developed.
Only Ibadan has more infrastructures and more developed than the entire SE Igboland.
If you can mention 20 Igbo billionaires with the websites of their businesses,I will agree that Igbos are almost as rich as Yorubas.
Mind you,Yoruba have more than 100.

ProudlyLagos:
for where? Bad market, even the ones that they built, are they living there? Go to SE and see empty properties occupied by reptiles….they have all migrated to SW the real estate capital, that’s why it is an achievement in SE to own property in Lagos and Yorubaland

AdolfHitlerxXx:
Reason am nah.

If you are told to invest in pit lat. Rine .... will you ?

No one wants to invest in barren lands.

Our lands are treasured for a reason. Yours isn't. Unfortunately

AdolfHitlerxXx:
Is it by force to comment?

I laugh at how grown men cry over something inconsequential.

You guys have been bleating for years to Seun. He's refused to change it. It's his forum. So what can you do to change that ?

Seun is even lenient. If I owned Nairaland, all of you will receive tribal marks just to comment.

And the writer will have bad handwriting

manuelkel:
so before I comment I have to become a Muslim 😂 and speak against others, you see the problem with Islam.

Ikaeniyan0:
The only reason I still subscribe is because of premier league and UEFA champions league. In fact, the only time I switch on the TV is when I want to watch football

SensualMan1:
Lol. Tinibu will finally reduce u people to the point where u count number of grains per bag for comparison.

EvilMerodack:
So that Identity is what they carry around till 2025. So, a mere verbal denouncement done 700years ago is stronger than their blood and cultural ties?

Rest please


No one can forcefully redefine a group of people. If they dont identify as something, they are simply not that thing

aribisala0:
Ikwerre people do not practise Osu caste system one of the many evils found in traditional Igbo life

aribisala0:
What does this picture prove ?

What is your point?

I also know that most text before 1960 used Ibo not Igbo today many Igbos do not like and resist being called Ibos

What does that prove?

When Things Fall Apart was first published Achebe wrote Ibo NOT Igbo what does that prove?

aribisala0:
Can you explain please

IGBOPROMISE1:
Why bother responding if you have nothing but conjectural claptrap, revisionism and lies to post!? Is it just because you're obsessed with trying to give the false impression to naive and easily led observers (esp' ndi south-south...awa oyel dem) that Alaigbo is 'just your 5 landlocked states'!? Why are you so invested in trying to limit the territory of Ndigbo?

Dude, it's not news that a lot of sub-Igbo groups and other ethnicities in the Niger Delta pre '66 were carping on about 'domination' and surprisingly they're still on it till today even after aligning with outsiders (the hegemonic alliance) to sabotage the secession effort! Their shortsighted efforts was all aimed at trying to impress the ruling hegemony so they could be made the 'dominant' ethnicity/group over the Igbo in the region! Today, and with the benefit of hindsight, their children and grandchildren can see how hasty and shortsighted their decision was to ally with the enemy! Their lands have been polluted, their coasts eroded by the unforgiving Atlantic, and their oyel and gas resources plundered by those who claimed they were coming to 'save them from the 'dominating Igbos'! As their coastal towns are being eroded and falling one by one into the sea, their 'liberators' are using their God-given resources to get on the Forbes richest list and 'conquer' the Atlantic as they sand fill and recover previously eroded parts of their city and build a billion dollar coastal highway to service and improve their regions economy! Meanwhile the naive groups of the Niger Delta still think Igbo, that last produced head of state in 1966, is their problem, and the Igbo amongst them think that by denying their Igboness they can ingratiate themselves with the hegemonic alliance and show they're 'loyal serfs'!

You know there's no major ethnicity or grouping in Nigeria that doesn't have at least one sub group within it accusing the other of 'marginalisation', 'domination', and in some extreme cases, attempts at 'annihilation'!? Even within the old Anambra state, there were accusations by one sub Igbo group against another, ditto in Yorubaland/south-west and the Hausa-Fulani/north! So you have no case mate! More so when we realise that the said Willinks Commission you referred to absolved the Igbo of the 'domination' accusation labelled against them at the time!

This talk of 'Igbo domination' is laughable because for one, the Igbo never had a empire unlike what we saw with the Oyo empire in Yorubaland and Fulani caliphate in the north. So talk of 'Igbo domination' is a moot subject! Also, you just need to take a look at the economic status of ethnicities or groups in Rivers that accused Ndigbo of 'dominating' them.....more than 65 years after they were 'liberated' from 'Igbo domination and oppression', can they say they are better off than the Igbo today? Whether by individual achievements or the development of villages, towns or cities, can they say their individual or group efforts have shown them to have achieved more than Ndigbo? If the answer is in the negative, then this is just another pointer to the fact that the accusation of 'domination' was false! Sure they're being dominated today, but it's not by Ndigbo!

I asked for pictoral or video evidence that the Ikwerre villages used the rumu prefix, BEFORE the Biafra war! I didn't ask for conjectural rubbish, outright lies and tangential claptrap, so spare me the bullshit! Also, provide proof that the Ikwerre categorically denied being Igbo before the Biafra war, not accusations of imagined domination which i told you can be seen in ALL ethnicities and groups in Nigeria even till today!

There's this thread on nairaland that i'm searching for in which there was a name tag of a Ikwerre village before the war...i think done by SHELL. They used umu as a prefix, but lo and behold, as i speak with you today, the prefix has been changed to Rumu! I'll see if i can find it!

The one of Ikwerre forming Ogbakor Ikwerre before '66 is neither here nor there! I can equally mention sub Igbo or sub Yoruba groups that had cultural associations before '66, so i don't get the point you're trying to make! More so as we have all agreed that at the time, the Ikwerre were accusing the larger Igbo ethnic group of marginalising and dominating them in Port Harcourt affairs. So Ogbakor Ikwerre could have arisen as a way for them to speak with one voice and better articulate their position as a group! Fair play to them, but i just want them to know that Igbo is not their problem!

aribisala0:
You go explain tire

They are not Igbo

aribisala0:
They are not Igbo
Anyone can say their Husband is this their colleague is that it is irrelevant

They ARE NOT Igbo

In Logic what you are doing is a fallacy called argumentum ad verecundiam
Appeal to authority
Here it is silly and childish as no one will even believe you
It is quite foolish and pathetic really
You need to argue with facts evidence and sources not claiming that your hookup partner is from Ogba or your pastor is from Omoku no one cares about such juvenile stories

The Ogba people have NEIVER identified as Igbo. In fact they refuse to sell land to Igbos

Dronedude:


Elon is a psychopath. He is mentally unstable. Just look at him as Hitler of this time with better intentions. Hitler was extremely intelligent but mentally unstable so is Elon. I'm not surprised. I knew a fall out will happen between him and Trump but I never saw it coming so soon.

aribisala0:
Etche are Igbo The others are not

They do not become Igbo because you want them to be

They simply ARE NOT Igbo

Ikaeniyan0:
I remember when a KG of meat cost a mere #100 in this same Nigeria

Mccullum:
🗑️ Trash.

Thunderfayamods:
Incoherent gibberish!

AguluLiar:
No Ibo in Rivers state

spiSeyi:
Don't be deceived by the media all the power house in the middle east sponsor militia group. But when the media is against you nah your own go loud pass.

spiSeyi:
But Israel have nukes between me & you Iran can fold its arm watching Israel still keeping its nukes. Let the US make sure that none of them is possessing nukes for equity and to avoid double standards

Mccullum:
Entire indeed.. 🤣

Thunderfayamods:
I expected this type of tribalistic comment. Do you know the number of easterners in those schools? Since you want to go tribal.

iHart:
Why didn't they give us the geopolitical locations of these school so we can know the region with the highest exam malpractice

AguluLiar:
You people desperately want this attachment due to abundant natural resources in Rivers

ediko5:
Can you tell me a little more about the bolded?
Because that's where I did my NYSC and they speak Igbo generally - It's even in some Izzi communities that some of their uneducated indigenes can't speak Igbo fluently

crixlight2:
Sure since people are saying they might pick him for the coalition, he need northern votes more than Igbos , he think the north won’t vote for Igbo and Igbo won’t vote for him while Obi is on the ballot.

Mccullum:
Any proves on this information that Saudi advised Iran on nuclear deal with US?

You think Iran is ill-equipped Palestinian revolutionists that Israeli forces over riding any how?

Israel can attack Iran but it'll be a match armed conventional war.