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YesDaddy1:
Bia nwokem, I resemble shinonso for ya aiz??
Dey play!

https://www.nairaland.com/7861048/terrible-thorough-flogging-igbo-taliban

na ur papa Them dey flog him bum bum so

YesDaddy1:
Nwokem, I'm not intelested in ur mother's name, inugo??
#2_much_info.

you no dey shame say ur papa na him be dey drug daddy grin grin my tell you dey truth go hustle oh or poverty go kill all ur generation,no be 30k agbado dey give give u go feed ur children

YesDaddy1:
Let them be playing.
As I dey like this (2:47pm) I dey enjoy light pa-pa-ra-pa!

Ajaero of NLC OLC (Obidient Labor congress) cannot ground d activities of 250 million Nigerians bcus of d beating he received at the hands of his brethren in IMO state, impossicant!

see ur house be like where them dey rear pig
Poverty wan finish ur generation so

yarimo:
Labour party and PDP are not ready for any election, parties of fake news and violence

just like u always act as the watery sperrm of ur father

okoro:
Another IPOB terrorist down

foolish mad dog like you,u are a watery sperm of ur father

Bhella5:
If he wants to die let him die nothing will happen. Stop beating your chest 💪 hian! No be everything be Nzobu nzobu

hell will be lose on all all ur generation,you will be wiped out completely

MTNnews:
You should be coughing on your foolish Igbo father's grave while he rot in the deepest part of hellfire.

ur father that has been bleeped in the ass by the devil in his grave

CoronaVirusPro:
America said same in Afghanistan! How is it going!

You have no idea about our mindset and ideology. It might take long, but victory is guaranteed.

terrorist spotted

seeme2:
Anything to make Igbo man wail is welcome. As e dey sweet us e go everly pain them.

same way ur wh0re mum was Fvcked in the a55 by ur fulani masters

MTNnews:
You should be coughing on your foolish Igbo father's grave while he rot in the deepest part of hellfire.

is better to die and be buried in my Igbo grave than to leave and stay in ur rabbit infested,rotten,maggot filled wh0re mother's t0t0

MTNnews:
The joke is on your foolish Igbo head.

To debunk this your claim one just need to wait n watch at either Ojuelegba or Abraham Adesanya n watch how many Ekene dilichukwu GIG Peace Agufore Ifesinachi Okeson GUO Young Shall Grow etc that will be dropping Igbo destitute salvages slaves from Ipobland to come n slave their souls away in this same SW the OP is talking about

I cough on ur grave

MS2471:
Insha Allah what you wish me is the portion of your entire lineage

Amin

is already happening to ur generation with ur dead god

MS2471:




Still trying to understand why Peter Obi people now support genocidal apartheid


They are saying kill women and children in Igbo land because of Nnamdi Kanu, Simon Ekpa and Ojuckwu


They shout crush them, they are human shield

Abeg FG should start another round of python dance and kill civilians in SouthEast .

Just like boko haram will kill your father and rape ur mother

FreeStuffsNG:
O pari.

Now those who ignorantly claimed it is a leisure Yatch and that it was ordered by the administration of President Bola Tinubu can bury their heads in shame.

It's a naval training/operational vessel that belongs exclusively to the Nigerian Navy, its purchase predates this current administration that took office on May 29.

When Asiwaju Tinubu was the Governor of Lagos state, the state of aquatic splendor for 8 years, he never got a Yatch, it is impossible for him now to require a leisure Yatch now he is President and spends most of his time in the land locked Abuja.

It's just a no brainer that the opposition and LP mob are ignorant and made a complete mess of the opportunity for an intelligent and diligent feedback on the recently passed supplementary budget. Check my signature for free stuffs!

mumu na children u dey talk too

Neckpresser101:
Facts and figures



He didn't add Igbo ukwu arts


First bronze makers in west Africa are Igbos


We were fvcking awesome craftsmen

No be lie

benuejosh:
Where is the person that said Obi will win today.?

Labourers can now go ahead with propagandas. We are ready for them now.

Labourers have yet again Laboured in vain.

And for us the Batist, if you're asked why we're not celebrating, tell them we are not noise makers, that even before the election we were quiet and working quietly. We are the silent majority.

Tell them WE ARE NOT NOISE MAKERS. WE ARE NOT EMPTY BARRELS.

oya go buy fuel 120

panpan:
Climate change may have its science, but it has become more of a propaganda tool by certain international groups who want to use the issue to control nations.
What has been going on in a few places around the world has been more of geological manipulation and climate control.

Unfortunately, the federal government has submitted to this climate change propaganda.

no it is not,am a Town planner,we are not feeling climate change in Africa compare to advance countries....the main thing is that the earth is in grave danger if the impact of climate change is not stopped,it will lead to massive destruction by earthquake,landslide,desert encroachment,flooding,wild fire,etc

EcoNews:
Bigotry as ruined the Nigeria society and I doubt if we can ever find redemption again.

If it is not tribalism or bigotry imagine the vast multitude of academicians professors from the East and a dullard with nothing in his head like Peter Pandora. Obi is who over 90% of Igbos chose to vote ?

I have to say I gave up on Nigeria the moment I saw that over 6 million voted a complete dullard with empty skull out of religious or tribal sentiment. It is indeed a shame.

If you are Igbo n your children have WAEC result with CREDIT n Distinction in English n Mathematics yet you carried yourself on election to vote someone who could barely pass the Examination out of bigotry I pray that every aspect of your life is assigned to candidate with such performance when more credible alternatives abound.

Seun mydd44 obinascopy nplfmod pls to frontpage.

same way u are a wasted sperm of ur fathers generation

osazsky:
Ipob fools they should get a life.. stupid programe

Son of a fvcking wh0re that's what you are

BentizilL0:
Tell Israel to stop kidnaping Palestine children and people, Israel is the aggressor here...

We've been here watching Israel doing that every other day, you occupy the little land that remain for Palestine after collecting all their land, do you expect them to clap for you for killing and occupying their land??

Nothing concern me with Islam, the Palestine have the right to live just like Israel too.. It's double standard to support what Israel is doing to Palestine but cry holocaust when it's done to Jews...

We're not fools here, it's great injustice and robbery...

one terrorist spotted

My Response to His Royal Majesty, Ooni of Ife About His Speech that the Igbo Race Migrated from Ile-Ife.

I am Maazị Ogbonnaya Okoro, an Igbo linguist and cultural advocate. I read from the Vanguard News published on 8th October, 2023 about the Ooni's speech on history, with a claim that the Igbo race migrated from Ile-Ife. It is a good attempt to speak about the correlation between the Igbo and Yoruba which the verifiable evidence could be traced to the fact that both have linguistic similarities and features to an extent, and belong to the same language family which is proto-kwa, grouped under Niger-Congo phylum.

First and foremost, the Igbo race is diverse. The Igbo were sojourners and travelers who lived in different places for years and contributed to the economic development of any place they found themselves.

I understand that angle he is coming from as regard the Ife case. In Igbo Studies, it's called Igbo recoil. The Igbo who lived in different parts, especially the western part of today's Nigeria, trying to move back home. Some had a stop at Benin. Some continued their journeys and stopped at different places, down to Ọnịcha Ado and other Igbo hinterland. The case of Eze Chima who moved out from the Benin and founded many places in Anịọma and present Ọnịcha Ado is related to the same Ife story.

Now, about the Igbo race, they didn't migrate from Ife in its entirety and settle where they are now. Some sojourners who still travel till date always return home, some don't at all, they live there and multiply. This is why the argument about Ile-Igbo as Ooni posited as evidence to prove Igbo rootedness in Ile-Ife is not enough to show the Igbo race migrated from there.

Let's start with some historical and archeological facts about the Igbo.

Smelting of iron in Igbo land for instance began prehistorically. From the artefacts found in Leja in Nsụka, smelting of iron in that place was backdated 2000 BC. The first recorded iron smelting site in the world. This was even long before Europeans knew about iron smelting. The Igbo have seen road and existed in Igbo land.

Apart from Leja, other places known for iron smelting prehistorically include: Opi, Akụ, Obimo, Ọbụkpa, Owere Elu etc. These communities are in Nsụka only. We are yet to talk about other areas.

The historic nature of the Igbo wowed the western world in that they have to try everything possible to hide some information. Archeologists have dug out various artifacts regarding the Igbo in various places and I see no reason to doubt those who say that ndị Igbo bụ ndị gboo. Meaning the Igbo are the ancient people.

Talk about Nsude pyramid in Udi that backdated the Egyptian pyramid.

Talk about blacksmithing of Nkwere and Ọka. Nkwere makes gun which earned them the motto and slogan: "Nkwere Ọpiegbe". With blacksmith, Ọka produced gun known as "Awka made" by some persons. The Igbo used it for hunting not for killling.

Is it pot making? Ishiagụ are known for pottery that's why they are called Ishiagụ Ọkpụite. Is it the textile industry? The artefacts in Uturu will wow you to see that they had been existing in their land and still traveled out for more adventure and business. Are we talking about the Okpoto in the present day Ebọnyị State that believed to be an ancient spiritual people in Igbo land?

Igbo is deep and wide. There were aboriginals and those you refer to as migrants were travelers who returned home.

Let me get back to the argument: Ooni said and I quote him verbatim: "We have good evidence to believe that Igbo race has its roots here in Ile-Ife. There is Ile-Igbo here in the palace which was not a recent creation but has been existing here for decades."

If going by this statement, it means that some ndị Igbo were amongst the early inhabitants and founders of Ile-Ife. Since he said there is Ile-Igbo in the palace which proves his point that the Igbo had a root in Ife, it shows the Igbo were part of the early traditional leadership of the Ife.

Just as he said in his last statement and I quote: "For this and many other reasons, I believe we need proper documentation of our history.".

I agree with him. While we document our history properly it's important we take note of the influence of the Igbo in Ile-Ife as he posited. The entire Igbo race had no common Ife ancestry as the point indirectly portrayed. While some sojourned and founded some places, some were still home, doing their blacksmithing, farming, hunting and other businesses.

To buttress my point, the attached pictures below are the Igbo masquerades in Yoruba land reported by Professor Jumoke Oloidi, a yoruba man and a Professor of History at the University of Nigeria, Nsụka.

In his PhD Thesis entitled: Economic History of Ekiti People in Nigeria, he highlights the
Early Igbo Sojourners in Eastern Yorubaland and how the Igbo blacksmiths took their craft to the Yoruba land.

The masquerade here is the famous Mgbedike masquerade known in the Nri-Ọka part of Igbo land. You could see ichi. British Colonial officer known as Harland Duckworth took the picture at a village in Okitipupa area of the present day Ondo State in the 40s.

The blacksmithing of the Ọka penetrated the Yorubaland and according to Professor O.N. Njọkụ in his book:" Economic History of Nigeria: 19th and 20th Centuries", he states that it happened sometime between 1890s and 1904. But it was in the Colonial era that they began to appear significantly in numbers, around the 1930s for the Yoruba tradition to take notice of their presence.

It was their skill in gun-smithing that enabled the Ọka to penetrate Yorubaland. While Yoruba gunsmiths used nails and riveted their gun parts, Ọka smiths used screws. Ọka guns could thus be taken apart, cleaned and re-assembled.

The best-known of the Ọka smiths in Yorubaland in the 1930s was a certain man called Godwin Okafọ, who settled in Igede Ekiti. Ekiti people didn't even know his name and simply called him Ọka. He brought innovations and enriched the smithing tradition of Igede, just as his fellow Ọka craftsworkers were changing the face of the profession in other towns in Ekiti and beyond.

An Igede Ekiti man called Chief Akande, had this to say about Godwin Okafọ and his 'brothers':

"These Isobos [a name originally referring to Urhobos, but extended to anyone from the Eastern Region] came and began to make heavy duty guns that could kîll 2 or 3 animals at once. They were the first to seriously start producing knives, cutlasses hoes and others in large quantity for sale. Look at Awka [i.e., Godwin Okafọ], he is small in stature but stronger than many around us. He was the person who first started producing short, rather than the usual long, guns here. Not only that, these Awka people performed their smithing activity by producing, for the first time, double-barrel guns that could kîll a whole district if there is war..." (Jumoke Oloidi)

In a nutshell, the Igbo race didn't migrate from Ile-Ife, instead there some Igbo who lived and multiplied in different parts of the country as we have it today. Some returned home. And before colonialism, people lived anywhere they found themselves and contribute to both economic, traditional and political development of the area. The Igbo had great influence because of their nature as sojourners.

References:

1. Economic History of Ekiti People in Nigeria, 1900 - 1960" by Jumoke Oloidi . Thesis, UNN)

2. Economic History of Nigeria: 19th and 20th Centuries by Professor O.N. Njọkụ.

© Maazị Ogbonnaya Okoro
Linguist, author, historian and cultural advocate.

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anonymous1759:


Stop chest beating that’s how you guys said Asaba airport will fall when Anambra airport was commissioned. You can’t compare the population in Lagos to South East if all of you are into trade in the south East who will be the buyer? Lagos state cannot fall their governors are trying everything possible to make it stay Afloat if you like have 4 seaports in south East Lagos will remain the same.

the population of igbos in lagos is bigger than the total population of south west

KillMNKnow:
Obi supporters redirecting their tribunal anger towards yo naira Marley.

wasted sperm spotted